I keep hearing the tagline ‘The Age of the Entrepreneur’ to promote the home based business industry, which, don’t get me wrong, is a great idea, but let’s think about this logically..

Communities often complain that the big superstores are going to move in and close down all of the smaller, family run businesses through their cheaper prices. The age of the entrepreneur is a thing of the past! All families WERE entrepreneurial pretty much by default. There was an array of butchers, locksmiths, barbers etc.. Family run businesses, with entrepreneurs at the helm.. And loads of them!

In 1908, a lovely man named Henry T Ford created his first assembly line for his new automobiles and things began to change. I’m not sure if Mr. Ford is wholly responsible for what happened next but he is the most revered industriallist for a change in production techniques. He, possibly unwittingly, started the age of the employee, which we are still in. He and his droogs were the innovators of creating massive systems with employees doing very small and highly repetitive tasks for hours on end, in order to create maximum efficiency. Something very apparent still today.

It does make me worry when people are proud of their title at work. If they stopped and realised that it is just a verbalisation of which cog in someone’s machine you are, they might not be so proud… Ok, you’re right, that probably is a little unfair, these people do work hard and deserve all the success they get. I am just trying to illustrate the reality of what a job title really is.

So why is there such a demand for employees again?.. To get a big job done?.. Yes, in essence, but it is even more about leverage. As the employer you get to dictate what you percieve to be the value of the employee.. That is called a wage, payable in fiat currency. A wage is the amount that an employer wants to pay you so that he can maximise his profit when he sells the output of his system, it is not the true value of the work that you do nor what you offer the employer. If it was, there would be no profit for the employer, how would he buy his personal luxury goods or second or third home?

I hear you all cry ‘but there is security in being an employee.. At least you can count on the wage to pay your bills each month’. Well the logic is good, but in reality we all know different. How many people have, in essence, had to fund the survival of their employer’s system directly.. By means of a drop in wage? If you think what that really is another way around.. You should still be getting what you agreed to in your contract as means of payment for your services, but the employer wants you to pay him x amount to finance his system.. Do you see what I am saying? Will you get a share dividend in future company profits, when the crisis is over, for your investment in the company? I doubt it!

Sorry, I’m ranting. So… the ‘Age of the Entrepreneur’ is technically over, it all happened prior to the assembly line. But, what I think is far more exciting is the ‘Employee Rebellion’ that is occuring, seeing a vast increase in people searching for the entrepreneur route. We have all been to school and some of us through university, where we are all taught how to become the best employees, but still there is this cultural shift. I love and believe it to be highly empowering for us all!

I have just been chatting on a Forum to a lady called Grace, I have been promoting the use of MSN for her PPC campaigns as she is very aware of how much Google ‘slapping’ is going on, which makes sense in my opinion.

Grace then brought up the point that she believes that she should be on Google because her particular campaign is targetted to the UK, where I live… The first thing that cropped to mind is ‘yeah so… and?’ MSN and Yahoo! operate over here too, but I thought I would have a little research to see what she was implying…

I HAD ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA AT WHAT A GOLIATH GOOGLE WERE HERE IN THE UK! Ofcourse I realise they are highly dominant everywhere, with a ridiculously high market share in all western countries and most of the world over… But what I found for here in the UK was a jaw dropper!

This is where I have to apologise to Grace for my first reaction to her question, I had no clue! (She obviously did tho!)

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I seriously thought the UK was more like the US on dominance!

Check this out… Makes me want to buy a really small place for my next house!! Too cool http://youtu.be/catll-XwVn0

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education” – Mark Twain

Gutted that I missed Omar Briones webinar on Twitter this evening

I’m gonna have to apologise to anyone visiting T4M as I will be sprucing it up somewhat, all th content will still be available but the site may look a lil topsy turvey at some points.. All adds to the fun! lol

A couple of years ago I had the idea of creating slick graphic homepages for people’s web browsers and put a list of popular sites links on the right sidebar. the aim was to be an affiliate of all of the sites, hence earn comissions for all of my hard work creating these pages.

Lo and behold, 2 years later this crosses my path… Similar to my bar napkin idea but far, far slicker! A free widget to give you the cheapest prices it can find for your google search queries, that is supposing that you are looking for an actual item, with the back-end all linked up too!

A great app for anyone who shops on the internet, and also awesome for anyone who wishes to distribute it for affiliate commissions!

To download and  have a look at the app itself click www.comparisonapp.org. There are also the details on there if you want to look into becoming a distributor too (at the bottom).  A great way to promote your affiliate links!

Here are a few tips from Shaun Stenning on writing a great PPC advert

As soon as it was started, it ended… For me that is anyway!! The network marketing structure for iLearning Global is no more lol

We live and we learn!!

Anyone free on Friday, 12 March 2010 in the Shepherds Bush area would be really foolish to miss Melissa W singing at O’Neills.. Great band and awesome voice!! They will be on from 8.30!! Get in!!

I am currently looking for a team of motivated positive people to help others to improve their education and financial status, while doing the same themselves!

Please email me at benny@the4thmarketeer.com if you are interested

I have just been pointed into the direction of this site by a very good friend of mine, plus we are thinking about joining forces to get ourselves up and running! Will report back when I know more