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Teachers and trainers wanted to develop (from scratch or using existing materials) lesson plans, worksheets, online lessons, slide shows, Powerpoint presentations, and other digital teaching materials. If it’s something you use in the classroom and it’s in a digital format, we’ll likely be interested. All topics, all grades . . . from K through adult education and professional development in the corporate world.  We will buy outright ($10 to $1,000, depending on item) or offer 65-75% royalty if you choose to sell your materials directly through us.  InfoSource has been in the online learning business since 1983 and serves teachers, schools, and professional corporate development throughout the world. For more information about our company and this project, send email to mwerner(AT)InfoSourceLearning.com (use the @ symbol in the email address, of course). Please provide your school district or organization name and location.

Also, check out the TeachMarket site for other ideas for teachers/trainers to earn supplemental income.
 

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If you know of a blog written by a teacher or trainer, would you be kind enough to drop me a note, or leave a comment here?

We’d like to give him or her a little exposure and interview them at our TeachMarket site.

Anyone?

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At InfoSource Learning, where we do online education, we’ve added a new service for teachers to help them learn how to earn supplemental income after their teaching day is over.

This service is called TeachMarket.

Now, here’s how you can get a freebie from Dream Jobs To Go:

Step 1.  Check out TeachMarket and see what we’re up to.

Step 2.  Leave a comment here with any site, blog, newsletter, or ezine that you know about that focuses on this same thing — helping teachers earn supplemental income.  So, a competitor to TeachMarket.

Step 3.  Make sure to choose a book from the Dream Jobs To Go site and include your choice in the comment.

I look forward to hearing from you.

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I’m doing some market research for a new division we’re cooking up at InfoSource, Inc.

So, hoping you can help.  I’m looking for blogs or ezines written by teachers or trainers (any subject, any level).

Do you have something to recommend?

I appreciate your help.  Contact me via the Comments section here or send me an email at mwernerATInfoSourceLearning.com

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If you have a job opening that’s close to anything we write about in the books at our sister company, Dream Jobs To Go, we’d be delighted to post information about it here, at no charge to you or the applicant.

Step 1.  Check out Dream Jobs To Go to see if there are any titles that match what you offer.

Step 2.  If there’s a bingo, send your job announcement to my attention at blog@dreamjobsdialog.com and Job Opening in the subject line.

Holler if questions.

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I’m compiling a directory of career advice/job sites, and will share the finished product with you here.  (I’m not including resume and job-posting sites such as Monster or CareerBuilder.)

To qualify for the list, the site must be a blog and it must be focused primarily on helping people find jobs or develop their careers.

Do you have a career site you visit regularly?  If you do, would you please be kind enough to drop me a note at blog@dreamjobsdialog.com or leave a Comment here on this post?

Please send me the blog’s URL and a brief comment as to why you like it.

Thanks much.

Michael

 

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If you’ll give me a tip, I’ll give you some exposure.

Here’s the deal:  Send me an interesting website link, blog, book reference, resource, or related item that relates to jobs, careers, motivation, or success, and I’ll give you a brief write-up here on this blog or in the Dream Jobs Dialog newsletter put out by Dream Jobs To Go.

Send me the link (to blog@dreamjobsdialog.com) along with a 2-3 sentence bio of yourself, your work, or your site.

If I use what you send, you’ll get some exposure.

Sound like a good swap?

Let me hear from you.

Adios,

Michael

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I’m looking for a very special person.

Someone with a proven track-record in business, with a strong focus on web-based marketing.

Would also be helpful if this person has a strong personal and radio or television presence.

One of my other companies, InfoSource, Inc., is in the online learning business.  We develop and market online courses and learning systems for companies, government agencies, and commercial operations around the world.  Much of our focus is on teachers and students in the K-12 arena.

We have an idea to spin off a new business to market some of our products directly to individuals.

We will supply all of the infrastructure (systems, products, online ecommerce engines, and the like) but we need an extremely motivated, business-experienced, and Web-savvy partner to pull all this together.

This is a business opportunity and NOT a job.  (We’re not creating a new job position, we’re creating a new business and we need an EXPERIENCED pro to run it.)

We can also supply some funding, and we will negotiate revenue share.  Again, though, this is not a job with salary, benefits and all that sort of stuff.

If you, or someone you know, are intrigued with this opportunity, please contact me directly at mwerner@howtomaster.com.

 

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I didn’t figure I’d ever get a chance to write an article that combined astrology, my favorite quotation about sticking it out, my home town, and how to find your dream job all in one spot, but now’s that time.

Talk about being in the zone!

One of the biggest challenges for all of us who are trying to find our life’s work are the laying-awake-at-night-3:00 a.m. moments when you’re filled with self-doubt and wondering whether you’ve got what it takes to make the changes in your life that will get you to where you need to go.

It’s during these times that I read motivational literature and review my rather vast collection of keep going quotes and stories.

My favorite quote on the “determination is everything” front is from Winston Churchill (I’m an amateur historian of World War II and the homefront in England) and it’s really quite simple.  He said:  If you’re going through hell, keep going.

Makes sense to me.  Who’d want to be in hell any longer than necessary?  Don’t languish and feel sorry for yourself, just keep moving forward. 

So, it was with a bit of surprise that I came across the following in a recent issue of the Santa Fe Reporter, Santa Fe, New Mexico’s alternative weekly paper.  I live and work in Santa Fe, one of my favorite spots on the planet, and what I enjoy the most about the place is the sheer and incredible variety of people that live here.  Not only is Santa Fe filled with an incredibly diverse population of Native American, Hispanic, and Anglo peoples, it’s one of the country’s most artsy-fartsy places so there’s always something interesting to see, do, and taste.

Reading the Reporter each week is one of my favorite see-what’s-going-on-about-town pastimes.  And, it’s through the Reporter that I first came across Rob Brezsney and his really fun-to-read Free Will Astrology column.

I’m not sure I’d admit in public to being an astrology believer, but I read horoscopes any way (don’t most people?) and am probably like the atheist who prays . . . just in case.

I’m a Virgo, so the column that Brezsny wrote today really hit home, and I’ll copy it here:

“If you are going through hell, keep going,” said Winston Churchill.  Let that advice be your inspiration in the coming week, Virgo.  But wait:  Before you jump to conclusions about what I’m saying, know this:  Your tests and trials will be far, far less hellish than the ordeals Churchill faced as he led England through World War II.  It’s true that you may feel a bit tortured in the heat of the moment, though.  So don’t you dare slow down to feel sorry for yourself or scream at the chaos-makers.  Keep plodding forward, secure in my assurance that you’ll cross the border and exit out of the infernal regions well before you’re exhausted.

God, I just love this guy — he’s a sure Top5er, as anyone who can weave in one of my favorite historical figures and his quote into my own horoscope has my attention.

Stay the course, Dream Jobbers, and don’t give up, never give up (okay, another tip-o-the-hat to old Winnie).

And, check out Brezsney whenever you can — the guy’s a hoot.

And, let me know what quotes get you through your own 3:00 a.m. willies.

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