Chelation Therapy As A Prevention

In the previous post I discussed about health care and the problems faced by people who cannot afford it. Now lets look at it from the perspective of those who can actually afford first class health care. Do you think they like falling sick knowing that they will have no problem getting the best medical care there is? Of course not. no one, whether rich or poor, wants to fall sick.

While there is not much choice for the poor, choices are abound for those who can afford it. There are so many things and drugs that they can use to prevent illness and the most common illness in advanced modern societies are lifestyle diseases like heart disease, high blood pressure, Coronary Artery Disease and so on. To prevent the unthinkable from happening, or at least to prolong the process of it happening, most turn to something called Chelation Therapy, which is the use of EDTA to bind molecules, such as metals or minerals, and “chelate”, or remove, them from the body. Simply speaking, EDTA Chelation Therapy cleanses our body of harmful toxic.

Due to the nature and ease of using chelation therapy, this form of health prevention is fast gaining popularity among people who are involved in the rat race and has no time for stressful and long exercise periods. Modern chelation can be done by anyone and at anytime as chelation products come conveniently packed in liquid or tablet form which can be carried anywhere the practitioner goes.

Preparing For The Future

In most advanced countries or should I say, developed countries, health care is well taken care off. This cannot be said about countries that are less developed or what we call “developing countries”. The problem is in these type of counties, health care amenities are also being developed and modern machines and medicines usually cost so high that an ordinary man on the street will never be able to afford them. So they turn to government run hospitals and clinics. Now it is not to say that these clinics are any inferior to private clinics, but only private institutions can afford the best equipments because they are making money from their services.

With this realization, the trend these days in modern developing countries that are nearly on the verge of being considered “developed”, people are turning to health insurance as a investment. These insurance offers good coverage in times of emergency and if you are so lucky as not to get seriously sick for your whole life, you still get to withdraw the money when the policy matures.

Now that is for those who can afford to pay the monthly premiums of such a policy. What about the majority who can’t? What does the future holds for them? Forced savings is one method. The funny thing about humans is they adapt very fast to different situations. If they earn that much, they learn to adapt to a lifestyle that will suit their income. Those who earns more will feel that these people won’t be happy with their meagre earnings, but the truth is they have their own kind of joy and it does not mean going for oversea holidays twice a year. They are happy when they see meat on the table and that is their kind of simple enjoyment which to them is better than taking a plane, flying a few hundred kilometers across the continent and spend 2 weeks lazing in the sun.

With this ability to adapt they force save for their old age. I won’t say retirement, as people in these situations don’t retire. They work until one day their boss reject them. Forced saving is a method whereby you commit a small part of your monthly earnings into your saving account. It is a deposit and forget thing. It becomes a ritual. The amount can be very nominal like say 50 dollars monthly and they brainwash themselves to make themselves believe that their earnings is the amount after the 50 dollar deposit. Say they earn 1500 per month, they discipline themselves to believe that their earning is 1450 dollars and they make good and adapt their lifestyle to that earning. After 20 years, when they are out of a job, they will have 12000 in the bank which will allow them to start a small business. Provided they don’t fall seriously ill in the process of course, but that will be something that is up to the almighty won’t it? We do what we have to do.

Search For Untapped Markets

To succeed, there has to be supply and demand. That is the first rule of business and all those who has been to business school would have learned that. Supply and demand works hand in hand. There has to be ample demand to justify the supply. If there is no or not enough demand, then no one will be willing to supply to that demand. Like wise, when there is a demand, there too should not be an over-supply or else whoever is supplying will be burdened with excesses. When that happen quality of services drops.

Having said that, if we can explore into something that has a demand but there are no one supplying to that demand or there are not enough supply, then we would have strike the proverbial jackpot. A field or trade that has not really taken off in a big way, in my observation at least, is the carpet cleaning business. Compare the ratio of plumbers to carpet cleaners in your town and you will see what I mean.

The fact that this is so is because carpets are not as important as running water. I mean, the carpets are there just as an adornment and we can live with dirty carpets for weeks, but we can’t do without running water for one single day. In that theory, the demand for plumbers outshines the demand for carpet cleaners, which is a good thing as not many thinks of venturing into the carpet cleaning business. It makes it a good niche. There are less competition but with an equally if not bigger market than the plumbing business.

The only promotion that needs to be done in this business is to educate your town folks the importance of having clean carpets in your homes. Play up the health factor to the hilt and explain the methods you use keep their carpets clean. Start a small website like what the San Diego carpet cleaners have done and publicise that site all over town. Remember every household has at least two carpets in their homes and many has fully carpeted rooms and living halls. Imagine the size of the market and that is just your town alone. If you are the only one catering to this market niche, don’t you think you have a winning business in hand?

I hope you get the drift of what I am saying. I am just using the carpet cleaning business as an example. It can be any trade or services that your town lacks. It is better to bet on that than to go and compete with all the big boys who are more established than you in a business that is heavily competed.

Starting Out As An Online Entrepreneur

As the economy dwindles and the cost of living rises, we have to start being adventurous and try out new things or businesses to supplement our income. To start traditional business like a retail store or whatever, you will need substantial capital and time investment. A good alternative that lets you carry on with what you doing, low risk and low capital investment is to start an online store.

Starting an online store is easy and anyone with a little bit of knowledge on how web sites work will be able to start one without much problem. What we are saying here is not the kind of online business which you normally see, that would involve huge capital, manpower and special expertise. We are more interested on a business that we can do as a sideline and which do not need us to spend too much time attending to it. Along this line, the best business we can start online is an affiliate store.

There are many sites that offers affiliate programs that lets you sell that their items on a commission basis. Major stores like Amazon dot com and giant online store, eBay are two of the most popular choice. Both these giant online stores lets you showcase items of your choice in your very own online store which you are solely responsible in developing.

There are programs that will automate the setting up stores for ebay affiliates that will cost less then 100 USD. Consider this as capital investment. The other costs involve will be a domain name that suits what you are selling. This cost about 10 USD. If you already have a hosting account that lets you host multiple domains, then you can save about 200 USD on hosting fees. Else, include this sum into your start up capital. In all you would have spent around 300 dollars. That is a very low start up capital for a a full fledged online business. The program that you have bought lets you start unlimited stores so the next store you start will even cost you less if you have signed up fo an unlimited domain hosting account.

The problem now is to do some promotions and apply SEO to the stores so people looking for the kind of items you sell can see your store when the do a search. This is the hardest part, but if what you sell is very specialize and not many others are selling the same thing, the chances are high.

The main thing is not to expect thousands of dollars in commissions from the stores. Make a modest target of say, 50USD per month for each store. What polished marketers do is they have more than 50 stores. Some who are in it full time have 100s of them. They too know that they won’t make enough from one store, but if one store makes 50 per month, then 50 stores will make them 2,500. That is almost a full time income.

The reason they can manage so may stores is because these stores, once up and running, needs no maintenance. You just leave it there and check on it once a while to see how it is doing.

The Flower Business

One of the most stable business that I have seen that is able to withstand any economic situation is the florist. It may be seasonal, but then again, it may not because flowers are need everyday for hotels, hospitals, offices and many other hospitality businesses. No doubt, boom times are during festive times and Valentine’s day, normal demand on any other days have always been enough to keep the business afloat and viable. Thus it is no surprise that online florist like ProFlowers have been going strong.

ProFlowers supplies and delivers flowers for all occasions with prices ranging from under $40 to over $80. Other than flowers, they also supplies plants like beautiful bonsais and gourmet gifts suitable for any parties or celebrations. Of course their main business is still flowers and flower delivery.

Though Proflowers is a US based company, flowers are can be arranged to be sent to over 70 countries throughout the world through their sister company, FlowerFarm, so there is no excuse of not being able to send flowers to your loved ones if they happened to be out of the country.

Bouquets from Proflower are all tastefully and uniquely arranged as can be seen here. Choices are very varied and ordering is a matter of 3 easy steps. Choose your favorite bouquet, choose a vase of your choice other than the one shown and finally select the date of delivery and to where you want the flowers delivered.