Green is on my mind
...and it's not necessarily about conserving resources. All of this talk about the recession and everyone losing jobs and not being good little consumers is starting to ruin my holiday season optimism.
The recession, as it is now officially labeled, has not really touched my life directly. Thankfully, since I took 10 years deciding what I wanted to work on for the rest of my life, I chose a career that every business needs—a web site.
Through thick or thin, a business needs a web site. They may even need to focus more on their web site during a recession. Having some of the lowest overhead out there, after a little investment, your site sits out for the world to see and can even make money while you sleep.
This 'recession' reminds me of one of those times when you say to yourself "I thought of that first!" It makes me a little mad at first, but in order to keep myself ever-optimistic about everything, I have to immediately turn the negative into the positive. So, now I'm just laughing to myself.
I hear you saying "Hey crazy, what are you talking about?" Let me get to the point. When you are a 'business person' and one with lots of money, you can't think "I'm an oil woman and I'll stay an oil woman." You should think "I'm rich and I'm going to stay rich."
This is how people keep their money! I'm not an expert on world or national affairs, but from what I gather, the 'going green' trend started gaining momentum about 4 or 5 years ago. If I had billions of dollars invested in the oil industry then, I would have started spreading out into some kind of promising alternative energy industry.
Sure, there are risks. But buying stocks are also a risk, as we have all found out. What if all of that money went into investing in start-ups that were researching or producing alternative energy?
Think about this little tid-bit of information from www.investorhome.com:
If you invested in a variety of start-ups or were involved in an investment club, you would maybe realize returns of 30% plus. If you were really lucky and an investing genius, you may realize returns of 300%. Sure, the higher the return the bigger the risk. In hindsight, you may have wished you took this risk.
Maybe because I do tend to question everything in the media and I don't practice good consumerism I saw this recession, crash, bubble burst coming! Basically, the marketing tactics used earlier this decade created a monster that just ate and ate and ate. Eventually the perfect little picture that was painted in our heads had to be revealed as a fake.
Okay, so now that we have a recession (a need for jobs and credit) and we have an emerging industry (the need for producing alternative fuels) why don't we steer some of our money towards creating jobs in the alternative energy field?
That sounds pretty simple, it's probably not that simple...but I never said I was an expert! But after listening to some of these CEO's talk about why they need to be bailed out, you would think that they have no true grasp of what real people want.
Their trick was to tell Americans what they want. But we stopped listening! When it was their turn to listen they just paid their advertising team to create a new marketing campaign to try to trick us into listening again!
Well, now they are listening or should start ASAP. And I think some politicians are also listening. The fact that our new president has developing alternative fuels towards the top of list, instead of pretending the need doesn't even exist, is exhilarating to me.
Thank Jupiter for some rational thinking!
To wrap this up, I told you so. Mr. Obama, if you want to have lunch some time and I can tell you all of my other ideas, feel free to email me. I could be the breath of fresh air that you are looking for!
The recession, as it is now officially labeled, has not really touched my life directly. Thankfully, since I took 10 years deciding what I wanted to work on for the rest of my life, I chose a career that every business needs—a web site.
Through thick or thin, a business needs a web site. They may even need to focus more on their web site during a recession. Having some of the lowest overhead out there, after a little investment, your site sits out for the world to see and can even make money while you sleep.
This 'recession' reminds me of one of those times when you say to yourself "I thought of that first!" It makes me a little mad at first, but in order to keep myself ever-optimistic about everything, I have to immediately turn the negative into the positive. So, now I'm just laughing to myself.
I hear you saying "Hey crazy, what are you talking about?" Let me get to the point. When you are a 'business person' and one with lots of money, you can't think "I'm an oil woman and I'll stay an oil woman." You should think "I'm rich and I'm going to stay rich."
This is how people keep their money! I'm not an expert on world or national affairs, but from what I gather, the 'going green' trend started gaining momentum about 4 or 5 years ago. If I had billions of dollars invested in the oil industry then, I would have started spreading out into some kind of promising alternative energy industry.
Sure, there are risks. But buying stocks are also a risk, as we have all found out. What if all of that money went into investing in start-ups that were researching or producing alternative energy?
Think about this little tid-bit of information from www.investorhome.com:
A general rule for the breakdown of returns among VC company investments is 40% will be complete losses, 30% will be "living dead," with the remaining 30% generating substantial returns on the original investment. The big winners yield 10 or more times the original investment.
If you invested in a variety of start-ups or were involved in an investment club, you would maybe realize returns of 30% plus. If you were really lucky and an investing genius, you may realize returns of 300%. Sure, the higher the return the bigger the risk. In hindsight, you may have wished you took this risk.
Maybe because I do tend to question everything in the media and I don't practice good consumerism I saw this recession, crash, bubble burst coming! Basically, the marketing tactics used earlier this decade created a monster that just ate and ate and ate. Eventually the perfect little picture that was painted in our heads had to be revealed as a fake.
Okay, so now that we have a recession (a need for jobs and credit) and we have an emerging industry (the need for producing alternative fuels) why don't we steer some of our money towards creating jobs in the alternative energy field?
That sounds pretty simple, it's probably not that simple...but I never said I was an expert! But after listening to some of these CEO's talk about why they need to be bailed out, you would think that they have no true grasp of what real people want.
Their trick was to tell Americans what they want. But we stopped listening! When it was their turn to listen they just paid their advertising team to create a new marketing campaign to try to trick us into listening again!
Well, now they are listening or should start ASAP. And I think some politicians are also listening. The fact that our new president has developing alternative fuels towards the top of list, instead of pretending the need doesn't even exist, is exhilarating to me.
Thank Jupiter for some rational thinking!
To wrap this up, I told you so. Mr. Obama, if you want to have lunch some time and I can tell you all of my other ideas, feel free to email me. I could be the breath of fresh air that you are looking for!
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