In my 65 years I've been a sole proprietor, partner, incorporated, cog-in-the-corporate-machine, entrepreneur, and teacher. I've marketed my art from coast-to-coast and in Europe with personal selling at powwows and art shows. I've had a lot of fun, learned a lot, raised a family, traveled, and played. The Seventh Fire points toward a way of earning your living and being happy, free and independent in whatever you choose.

You can be playfully serious about your business and find success at the same time you find happiness. Why not? I'll show you several ways to go into business and you can use any combination of ideas according to your own interests and talents.

Internet Marketing is one of the easiest ways to do business. The costs can be minimal, especially if you are able to do most of the work yourself. I will show you how to set up an inexpensive web site for your marketing hub. I'll show you how I grew to over 4 million hits/month with a growth rate of over 30% /month, and how you can get into the top 10 or 20 in the search engines.

I can show you how to eliminate debt, whether home mortgages, student loans, credit card debt, or tax liens by bringing them to the professionals who do the work. I'll help you learn how to help other people how to do the same and I'll both get paid. I'll help you set up the web site and market it to the Internet. You're here because I did something right to get your attention. That's Internet Marketing. This website obtains consistently high rankings, especially on Google where most people search the Internet.

There is a well-tested way to reduce interest payments on your mortgage to place more of your house-payment on the principal. This builds equity in your house much more rapidly and can payoff your mortgage in as little as 8 years or even less. This can be done without paying more often or by paying more each month. It simply uses your income more efficiently to accelerate mortgage pay-off. You can use this program to also make money as you show others how they can do the same.

Internet Marketing is also very democratic if you have a few basic skills, something to say, some products that are in demand, perhaps unique or creative, and enough money to invest in a computer to get online. You can use your information, stories, poetry, art, photography, wisdom, knowledge to attract visitors and weave a lucrative business with banner ads and affiliate programs. You can also use your own web site to promote your other businesses whether they are direct sales, service, or network marketing. You can establish your own family charitable foundation and learn how to write grant proposals to fund it.

You can write an e-Book, or several eBooks. They save trees by providing information in digital form and they permit publication of your book without the costs of printing and paper. I'll even give you a program that turns the pages just like a real paper book. You can use your writing ability (or that of others, by permission) to provide content that will draw traffic to your pages so that you can offer them related items at another website. This is called an affiliate program. You get paid when they buy. You can sell almost any product or service provided by others to a global marketplace.

I'll direct you to some of the best advice and expert training on the Internet. I call this Virtual Soaring. The Internet is a Virtual playground where you can do serious work in a playful way. You can learn, communicate with others, and earn money. I've found some valuable Virtual toys to make the web fun and profitable and I'd like to share them with you.

Bring your friends and favorite relatives to the Internet by asking them to be affiliates, selling your products on their web sites. Bring your existing customers into e-commerce with you and strengthen your business ties. And when your business outgrows your web site, you can even buy your own server equipment here. If your email load gets too much, I'll show you an extraordinary automatic emailer program.

You can let great products sell themselves after you know how. You can learn from Derek Gehl and Dan Kennedy, Internet Marketing geniuses.

The Internet is a challenging market but one with great potential for those who are willing to do a bit of study in preparation and learn as they go. One of its greatest advantages is low entry cost. I pay less than $200 for this web site to be hosted for a whole year and I have hundreds of pages. Internet access can be under $20 / month. Without any further costs, other than my time, I have followed a few simple principles to have over 4 million hits / month. Realistically, this is nearly 100,000 visitors each month and I haven't focused solely on promoting that traffic with classified ads or banners.

The trick is to build a web site with the market and marketing techniques in mind. To create a beautiful web site is NOT enough. You might as well scribble on a piece of paper and stick it to a tree. Before you try to create a masterpiece, you need to know how to market on the Internet. Although images make the Internet more exciting, marketing is necessarily verbal, content-driven. You need to obtain good ranking on the search engines and directories, especially those that are used the most. To do that you need to understand meta tags, keywords, and reciprocal links and how to use them most effectively. It might sound pretty imposing, but it's not so difficult. One of the most valuable decisions I made when I began was to get the course called Internet Marketing Strategies from Cory Rudl and Derek Gehl. Before you spend any money on anything else, get that course! It's so full of useful information and practical applications that you can keep going back to it for more and more ideas and business opportunities for years.

To help you get a fast start with the Internet, I recommend using Front Page Editor to help you quickly learn to create high quality web pages. I'm not a big fan of Microsoft, but Front Page is so efficient and effective that I have to swallow the bitter pill and praise this software. A lot of of Search Engine Optimization companies use Front Page because they love how they can do rather complex pages with very little effort. That's how I see it even though I don't take on such large service projects. You have work to do and it is a lot more fun when you can turn it into play with the right tools. Dave Barry at SmartCertify Direct created a free course in using FrontPage. Just register at the following URL: www.smartcertify.com/seo/register-seo.asp

Sometimes you need to know a little HTML (if you insist, that's Hyper Text Markup Language). That's the programming language used to make most web pages. You can go to almost any web site and see how they put it together by clicking on View and going down the drop-down menu to Source. Clicking on Source will give you a peak at what's under the hood. Don't let it disturb you that it doesn't seem to make much sense. You'll pick up a little here and there, probably just when you need it. You can go to my Web-Course to pick up a few pointers now and then. It's just a reference you can keep coming back to year after year.

From beginner to net professional, there's something here for you. I invite you to explore here to find the right tools so you can work as though it were play, so that doing business is part of your learning and growing in body, mind and spirit. You don't need to flap your wings so hard to fly. You can rise on the enormous flow of web energy. You can begin with Virtual Soaring. Come soar with us. Come soar with the White Eagles.

Network Marketing is a very natural way to build a business and a fair and honest way to compensate people for their time, skill and creativity. I'll show you business opportunities that are some of the very best because their products are so good they don't require that you sell, just tell...tell everyone you know about your experiences with the products and the experiences of others. There is great satisfaction in helping people and getting paid for it. The advantage of Network Marketing is that you leverage your eforts by helping others do what you do so that they, too, can earn a substantial living as their own boss. Their success is your success. Teamwork with individuality. And it's probably the most "democratic" way to do business because anyone can succeed if they wish. There is no glass ceiling or discrimination to limit you and your start-up costs are quite minimal or zero.

I do most of my Network Marketing from the Internet using the power of the Internet to inform and educate people. I have succeeded in building a downline in several network marketing companies with products that fit my mission of providing people with safe, natural products that are earth-friendly and cost-effective. More importantly they can provide useful alternatives. In addition of warning people of the pitfalls of life on earth, I can provide solutions. The focus on service and marketing to people's real needs has paid off well for us. Working with my downline is different from most network marketing because I provide ways to make them successful on the Internet.

© 2007, Allen Aslan Heart / White Eagle Soaring of the Little Shell Pembina Band, a Treaty Tribe of the Ojibwe Nation