Why Capture Pages Don’t Work Anymore….

“Why Capture Pages Don’t Work Anymore…”

So many marketers are using the same way to market their business. Many people have been told to use a capture page to gather prospects information and drip market to them until they opt out or join your business. By the time the expert marketers use an effective method of marketing and it spreads to the masses, it is only a matter of time before that method becomes ineffective! Standard capture page marketing techniques are old and ineffective for most marketers today because most people have been exposed to this method of marketing for many years and they are desensitized to this style of marketing.

One thing I have examined over the last few years is that the top marketers figure out early on what is working and what is not. Those top marketers figure it out early and ask themselves the most important question that keeps them ahead of everyone else. That question is what is the next method of marketing that will work? Many marketers are followers of those marketers who have been there and done that. On one hand, I think that is very smart, because I never want you to try to reinvent the wheel, but on the other hand there is a point where so many people are using this same strategy, that it doesn’t work anymore. people have been bombarded with emails and are on so many people’s lists simply because they wanted to find out some information, that they aren’t willing to give out their information as easy anymore!

People still opt into a capture pages, but I think they are more selective about who and what they opt into now a days; making the lead generation business harder and harder. If it is difficult to generate leads today, how are the marketers supposed to be successful? First of all, the capture page had better be damn good and I had better be getting something for efforts of putting in my info. I had better be getting something of value if I am going to give you my information. I highly recommend that it be more than just a report or an e-book as that style of marketing has been over used too! It had better be hundreds, if not thousands of dollars worth of free gifts, tools, audios, books and reports before people are willing to give out their info.

There is a brand new system that has outsmarted all the other systems out there and is working like a champ, at least for the next few years until this strategy gets saturated too….and it will, because it works…

If you are ready for the super tip of the year, then go to ProspectBlazer dot com and use that system, but please don’t tell everyone about it. Keep it to yourself if you want this strategy to be effective for a long time!

Sincerely,

Craig Garcia
www.CraigGarcia.tv

 

Insight to the Magic of Believing part 4

Now I am going to share with you some insight.  When I first started to understand and study the power of belief, I started doing amazing things. I didn’t understand how powerful I actually was until I understood what I was doing. When I started studying the power of belief this is when I started exceeding the goals that I had set out to do.  Sometimes in life, we set some outrageous goals.  We set goals for money, family, happiness; whatever it might me….We put some outrageous goals on ourselves. Sometimes creating goals creates a little stress and creates a little pressure. For some people it creates that anxiety feeling when your hears starts beating and you’re a little short of breath and your just like “oh my god what did I just do, and how am I going to achieve this, and I don’t know how, but I know I want this… and perhaps, if I say I want this, then I’m putting myself out there for potential disappointment and I’m scared…  Sometimes you can get a little overwhelmed. I understand that, but in order for you to grow as a human being, you need to be able to stretch. Sometimes when you stretch, it will put a little bit of stress or tension or pressure, or anxiety on you. If it didn’t, you couldn’t grow. A muscle grows by lifting weights or putting stress or pressure on the muscle. Do it enough times in a row, consistently over a period of weeks or months and the muscle gets stronger. It is the same for the brain. The brain is a muscle too! Think about this, if it didn’t put stress, pressure, or anxiety on you, then you would be comfortable, right? IF you’re comfortable, you’re in your comfort zone. If you’re in your comfort zone, how in the world can you stretch and grow? Interesting point right? Let me put it to you this way.

I’ve been a slow reader my entire life. I didn’t realize that I could get better at reading just by reading more. The more I read, the better I get at it, the faster I get at it.  The same thing happens with arm curls, working out, losing weight or stretching the mind. For most of us, we’ve been out of school for so long; we think we can’t learn anymore. The truth is, we never stop learning. Some people just put more emphasis on it than others. Those are usually the most successful people. Those are typically the richest people. Those are most likely the happiest people. Not always, I understand, but as a rule, that is most definitely the case. It is the same thing with business. If you are going to go and put stress and tension on your mind or your muscles, you have to be able to put some kind of anxiety, stress, or pressure on your personal growth…..to grow. Believe in the process and believe in yourself and go for it. You can reach your goals when you believe!

 

“Believe in Yourself” part3

I am going to share with you a couple of scenarios about the belief system and what it means to be able to believe in yourself.  Ladies and gentlemen, even if you have an income goal, it’s really coming down to DO you believe yourself, do you believe in yourself, and do you believe that you are actually saying to the universe?  The first thing you have to do is to be able to put things out there.  You might think that writing goals is corny, but ladies and gentlemen if you have ever studied the laws of attraction or how the universe works, you understand how things in life tend to happen and if you want to call on the universe, the universe will respond.

You can call it whatever you want.  Here is what I know, and I know this to be factual and I believe it 1000 percent with every fiber in my body.  This is the direction that you guys need to follow in order to achieve your goals. You have to be able to put out information. You have to be able to put out a goal, whether its verbally, written, or whether you are just telling everybody you are running into that this is what you are going to do and to make it happen…and when you do this, the universe has a funny way of delivering for you ever thing that you need, when you need it and it will all fall into place.  Every contact, every person, every bank loan, every opportunity….Every tool and every element will be placed at right in front of you when you need it. If your eyes are open to seeing it, you will have everything you need to achieve your goals, as long as you verbalize it and put it out there and most importantly, believe 100 percent in it. If you will stop at nothing and I mean nothing until you get your goal, then the universe will help you achieve this. Will there be speed bumps along the way? Of course there will. This is the universe testing you. Trying to separate you from the rest of the people who would just quit, give up on their dreams and say I tried, but it was too hard, or it didn’t work for me. Those are the ones who never make it. Will you make it? Only if you stop at nothing will you make it. No matter how many times you get knocked down. You matter how close you are to losing it all or quitting, those who persevere are the winners in more ways than one! Your end result is what has to keep you going. Remember it is always darkest before it is dawn. That is the magic of believing.

 

“I Believe” part 2

People have built entities around believing and achieving.  I know couple named Hugo & Roxanne, who have a huge blog, a huge following, and are doing fantastic things because of their belief in becoming successful professional bloggers.  All kinds of doors are opening up because they’ve stuck with it, believed in it and they have been able to brand themselves with Believing and Achieving and that is what makes things happen. When you have an imagination, when you have an idea or concept, its one thing to dream, but it’s a whole other thing to have 100 percent faith in it.  Believing is really having the faith, and saying “I want this to happen.” Let’s say for example, you want to make six figures per year. Let’s just use this as a universal example. You might say, “I don’t know how I am going to do it, but I know that I want it….I know that I deserve it.  I believe that I can do it…I have seen a road map for success to get me there. I know if do a, b, and c, I will make 10k per month, which will put me at 120k per yr, which is reaching and achieving my income goal.  You know that it is absolutely 100 percent feasible, so go for it. Shoot for moon, but it has to be realistic. Meaning, someone before you has accomplished this by doing a, b and c. You can’t just say I want to put a rocket ship on my back and fly to the moon.  There is no road map for that.  They don’t make backpack style rocket ships that put people on the moon yet. Bottom line is, you have to be able to see something happen.  You have to be able to see somebody or something that has already been able to achieve these kinds of results.  IF you know that someone else that has done something, and they have already plotted/written out a road map for you to follow and you accomplish a, b and c, then you will get the final result….

That is how world records are broken. They see that someone can run this fast, or jump that far or swim that fast, then someone out knows that if they can do it, I can do it and maybe even better it. This is the pattern from going from great idea of saying I would really like to have this, to absolutely 100 percent have these things.  I know it….I believe in it, every fiber inside of my body says this is what I want, this is what I’m going to do, and nobody is going to stop me until I achieve what I believe. That is why the power is in the magic of believing…and it is so important.

 

“Belief” part 1

Hi everyone, my name is Craig Garcia and I am going to talk about “BELIEF” today.  Belief is one of the most incredible, most powerful, forces in the universes.  Tonight I am going to share with you a few things I have learned about “Believing in Yourself” and what it has been able to do for me.  You might say, yah, yah “I’ve heard this before,” and I already know this stuff. I know that if I believe in what I can do, then I can do anything” Right? Does this sound like any of you out there? You may know it, but are you practicing it? Ladies and gentleman, the psychology behind it is really most one of the most powerful forces in the universe.  It is so powerful that it has really done amazing things.  I have an audio product about belief and its one of my top selling products, and sometimes I throw it in as a bonus product when you purchase other products from me. We’ll be expanding upon that today. “Belief” is actually going to be one of the chapters in my book. It’s so powerful and so important that I really thought it was important enough to a put it in the book and as an audio product.  Your belief system has everything to do with the determination you have and the outcome you will have in life. It may sound corny to you an you may be thinking yada, yada, yada, but let me just tell you that the conviction you have about what it is that you are selling, what it is that you are doing, what it is that you are servicing has everything to do with belief.  Trust me on this ladies and gentlemen.  When I have 100% belief in what I was doing, amazing things started to happen.

 I’m going to share with you a couple of examples about how belief and what I believed in came to fruition. I was first introduced to the Magic of Believing, by Claude Bristol in a tape I had received from my friend Phil Ramsden… It was actually on a cassette, which tells you how dated I am.  They don’t even make cassette tapes anymore.  He gave me a cassette type called the “Magic of Believing”.  Giovanna and I put it in our little red car, listened to it so many times that we literally wore it out. I was into personal development from an early age. Not having a lot of formal education, I latched onto this kind of higher learning. I thought to myself, why not learn from the people who have what I want. Why not learn from those who have had success and are teaching what they know. I was really into this kind of thinking and had already been studying Tony Robbins seminars and Personal Power tapes. One of my favorites was Tom Hopkins, the great sales trainer, Les Brown, the great motivational speaker along with many others. This tape on your “belief system” was kind of a new concept to me. So I listened to it and listened to it. At this time, when I first listened to The Magic of Believing, I was running my computer company in Irvine, California and had a great thriving business.  One of the things I learned from this is that when the belief starts to come clear, anything that you believed in you can achieve.

 

Tips to Becomeing an Expert (Part 3)

The seven secrets that experts do and how these seven things can help improve your bottom line are: Perfect One Skill, Continued Education, Opinions and Arguments, Simplify, Create Products, Create a Brand and Charge Expert Fees.

 Experts Perfect one skill and are known for that one skill. There are many things experts can do, but they will do one of those skills the best and are usually know for that skill first. I recommend choosing one thing that you are most passionate about. Choose the skill that you are the best at and perfect that skill better than anyone else you know. When you do this, you will then become the authority in the skill you decided to become an expert. When this happens, people will start coming to you for advice, your opinion and your help. This is when you know you are the authority in your field.

Continued Education is critical to your expert status. Every expert I know, every millionaire I’ve ever spoke with is continuing their education on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. You should be doing internet research on daily basis in your field of expertise. This will include reading blogs and articles, listening to podcasts and watching videos or webinars. How many books are you reading per month in area of expertise? It should be at least two books per month. For some of us, that sounds like a huge task, especially when you read slowly like I do. Then maybe, improving your reading skill should be one of your goals. The more you read, the faster you will get. How many seminars are you attending per year? You should attend a minimum of six to twelve per year. First, because of the great content you will receive, but secondly and maybe more importantly, the contacts you will make when attending these seminars. When you are the expert, other experts will be attracted to you for your expertise.

Experts have opinions and can create arguments on a particular subject. If something has been done a particular way for several years or decades, as the expert in your field, create a dialog that may confirm or conflict with the traditional way of thinking or put a new twist on something or improve it. Campaign or claim that as your own and be known for the person that changed it. For example, everyone knows the phrase “Knowledge is Power”, but Giovanna Garcia, the “Imperfect Action is better than No Action” expert says, “Knowledge with Action is Power”. She didn’t re-invent the wheel; she put her twist on it based on years of experience and coaching many clients. She concluded that many people know what they are supposed to do, but don’t because they don’t put any action behind it. Point out what to pay attention to and explain how things might turn out in any given situation and campaign that knowledge.

Explain what things mean in an easy to understand manner. By illustrating a technique in a formula, flow chart or system, you can help people to see and understand something they didn’t before. So don’t be afraid to analyze something, create something that is easy to understand and get out those graphs, pie charts or flow charts. Everyone loves power point these days, so create a power point to explain each point in your field and do it in a way of everyday language. Don’t try to impress your audience by using big words; the point here is to create something simple so that everyone reading, watching or listening can understand it. When you do this, you become the expert in that field as you are the one who can explain it in a manner that is easy to understand and in a way that hasn’t been taught.

Create products from your expertise. Experts write speak, record and package their knowledge. They have products to sell and give away. Experts speak on stage about their knowledge. Experts create e-books, reports, flow charts, books, cd’s, videos about their knowledge. This is a natural progression from becoming a student in your field to an expert in your field. One rule of thumb is to make sure the content you are providing is quality. Do not focus on the quantity of products. While Giovanna Garcia’s motto is Imperfect Action is better than no action, experts do not just put something together to have a product. Experts make sure their work is excellent. People will respect you when your work is great.

Branding is a key essential element that all experts have mastered. The American Marketing Association (AMA) defines a brand as a “name, term, sign, symbol or design, or a combination of them intended to identify the goods and services of one seller or group of sellers and to differentiate them from those of other sellers. Therefore, it makes sense to understand that branding is not about getting your target market to choose you over the competition, but it is about getting your prospects to see you as the only one that provides a solution to their problem. Branding allows you to deliver the message clearly, confirms your credibility, connects your target prospects emotionally, motivates the buyer and solidifies loyalty.

Experts charge expert fees, which is usually more than you would think. If we look at the top five things that experts do to produce income, you’ll realize that all of them are extremely profitable. Speakers can charge anywhere from $2500 to $50,000 for an hour’s work. Experts can develop a seminar business that can bring $50,000 and up for a weekend’s work. Coaching can bring in $300 to $3000 per hour. Consultants can charge $10,000 to $50,000 per customer and take part in a percentage of the improvements of revenues. Product development can bring in millions of dollars and can be sold again and again. Experts get paid well and as you become the expert in your field, your income will increase. So does it pay to be an expert? Absolutely!

Sincerely,

Craig Garcia
www.CraigGarcia.tv

 

Tips to Becomeing an Expert (Part 2)

In this chapter, I will reveal to you the five highest paying skills that I do to create wealth and the seven secrets that experts do to position themselves as an expert to give themselves the credibility of you require to develop the five highest paying skills.

Top 5 Highest Paying Industries that we focus on:

1.       The speaking industry is one of the highest paid expert services in the world. I have been on stage for 20 minutes and made ten thousand dollars and more. I have been on stage and delivered a high value, high content speech and got paid fifty thousand dollars for an hour speech. Some people, such as Former President Bill Clinton, have been paid a quarter of million dollars to deliver a key note speech. Where else and what other industry can pay you that kind of money? I don’t know of another job or industry that pays that kind of money. Getting a high paying gig like that skill and expert have that skill and are the authority in their field.

 

2.       Seminars are another high paying way to generate wealth quickly. People who have put on their own seminars, trainings and workshops and have people come in and learn from you and pay a high ticket price to be in the room with you and learn from you because of your knowledge and expertise in the industry. Making fifty thousand to five hundred thousand dollars is not out of the question for a weekends worth of work.

 

3.       Coaching is another high paying profession that experts do to create wealth. If you are business leader or someone who is great at people development, then coaching is a great high paying career. My wife Giovanna, is one of the best coaches in world and has an unbelievable connection with people. Many people have come from all over the world to coach with her. She does more than just mentor them, but actually coaches them along their career paths. There are approximately 40,000 coaches that get paid anywhere between $300 per hour to $3000 per hour and up!

 

 

4.       Consulting is another highly profitable career path where consultants go into businesses and helping them diagnose how their current state situation is and what their company current situation is like and helping them understand where they could go based on best practices and innovation. This is one of my favorite things to do as I love looking at a business and discussing what to do next and where to go with the business. In my earlier career as a computer consultant, I had the privilege of setting the infrastructure in over 1200 businesses in 200 industries.

 

5.       Product development is extremely profitable. If you create and sell your own products, especially one with a low cost and high profit model is great. For example if you have books, cd’s DVD’s or any kind of informational product where once it is created, the only cost to you is the material, usually a few dollars and it sells for fifty, one hundred dollars or more, then you have a winning formula for high profitability! A simple way that anyone can get started today to create an info product is to interview the top experts in a particular field and record or write about the insight gained from this process. This is compiling data and distributing it and that is something anyone can do today!

 

Tips to Becomeing an Expert (Part 1)

Are you the expert in your field, profession or industry? Regardless of the profession you choose, when you position yourself as the expert, you will be paid more money. In this chapter, I will teach you how to position yourself as the expert, so that you can get paid what you are worth. If you have a specific skill or knowledge base in a specific industry, if you position yourself as an expert, people will recognize your talent and pay you top dollar to gain some of your wisdom. Your knowledge makes you the authority on a specific topic, trade or profession. You must learn to position yourself as the expert and in this chapter, we will discover many ways to help you position yourself as the expert and command top dollar for your services. In this chapter, I will reveal several top paying revenue streams that experts do. For example, authors, speakers and coaches are amongst some of the highest paid individuals in the world and it makes you the expert in your marketplace. In this book, you will learn some of the secrets and strategies from millionaires that have built true wealth, just simply by positioning themselves more intelligently as an expert!

The better positioned you are as an expert, the more income you can demand for your knowledge and service. If you are an entrepreneur trying to better build your company and make it more profitable, my secrets and tips will help you accomplish your goals. I will share with you what I’ve learned over the last 20 years and what others, who have built large fortunes, have learned about being the expert in their field and what it can do for you.

So what is an expert? Webster’s dictionary describes it as a person with a high degree of skill in or knowledge of a certain subject. I describe an expert as a credible authority who has been in a particular field for seven to ten years or more. Experts know what to pay attention to, what things mean, how things work and how things might turn out. In this chapter, you will learn how to become an expert and how you can monetize your expertise, which will get you paid for your insight, knowledge and experience!

Positioning yourself as the expert is extremely important because your income and your influence are directly proportionate to the number of people who consider you the expert! So ask yourself this question. How many people, right now, consider me the expert, the authority, the go to person when it comes to my expertise based on my knowledge and skills in my particular field? If your answer is not enough, don’t worry, because in this chapter, I will help you identify several ways you can gain maximum exposure by branding yourself as the expert. When you do this properly, everything in your life will shift. People, companies, charities, news and media will all start looking to you for advice. Your circle of influence will grow, the respect you command will grow and ultimately, you will be paid what your worth. I’m sure many of you reading this book right now aren’t getting paid what you’re worth for the knowledge and expertise you have. We’re about to change all that right now!

 

7 Characteristics of a Great Leader

What makes a great leader? Are they born leaders? Do they learn to become leaders? Or are they put into situations where the only options are to sink or swim? Are the ones that swim considered the leaders? All these questions and more will be discussed in this blog post.

 

 

 

History demonstrates that the great leaders of the world all have some similar characteristics that they share. The Roosevelts, Gandhis, Churchills, lincoln, Washington, Franklin & King just to name a few, all shared similar leadership qualities. Leaders are like everyone else, but stand up in face of adversity, stay true to character when tempted to stray and have a cause to fight for much greater than their own personal gain.

 

1. Establish a Vision and look forward to see that vision come to life. The vision should unify your team and give them a purpose that everyone channels their efforts into making this vision a reality. A great visionary will have a team, a entire company, a state or even a nation behind its vision because they all realize that when the vision come to reality all will benefit.

 

2. Check your ego at the door. In the words of my good friend Jerry Myers, “Leggo my Ego”. Today’s leaders are humble. The days of the King’s dictatorship reigning over his thrown casting down on people, employees or a nation are long gone. It doesn’t make the leader any less driven, just a smarter approach to lead by inspiration instead of fear. In a company, leaders who do not put the vision of the company their first priority weaken it and become less effective leaders. On the contrary, great leaders put the company’s vision first. As any great entrepreneur will do, their vision and integrity come before profits, knowing if they plot the course and stay true, the profits will multiply.

 

3. Serving others is a critical leadership quality. If you can fill a need and improve the quality of people’s lives, then you are serving a greater cause than your company, your product and your profitability. Ken Blanchard illustrates in his book “Heart of a Leader” that the flock is not there for the sake of the shepherd, the shepherd is there for the sake of the flock. Taking an interest in the team builds great camaraderie and builds trust and open communication which is key when several people are representing your company or products. It is they that must live the vision in order a leader to be successful.

 

4. Take Responsibility means that you acknowledging that you are solely responsible for the choices in business. It is easy to take credit for success, but only a great leader for claim faults. One who owns their actions is one who is respected. A great leader re-charts the course after realizing an attempt has gone astray.

 

5. Lead by Example – Mahatma Gandhi “We must become the change we want to see”. Would you rather follow a leader who is the hardest working person, most dedicated to the vision and holds the highest amount of integrity or would you rather follow someone that says do as I say, not as I do? It sounds so simple and the choice is obvious, but so many leaders have that mantra. Work hard while I play golf, promote the company while I come in late and leave early. Many leaders who have paid their dues have a sense of entitlement and say they have been there and done that. Not the best of attitudes to lead to greatness. The great leaders are still there, still working hard and still have a love and passion for what they are doing and do it because they choose to, not because they have to.

 

6. The most important job of a leader is to have a reality check and realize if the goals and visions of the company, team or nation are a reality. Is there a general lack of progress or is something looming that could threaten the goals or visions? Scott Blanchard says, “The best leaders are the ones who talk about what other people are thinking about and what they’re fearful of and they demystify it. They’re very clear in their approach in terms what they’re going to do about it. This is easier said than done for most leaders, but publically addressing a problem shows the employees or team that you are on top of the situation and it is a concern of yours as you know it is a concern of theirs too.

 

7. Don’t Quit, even when the chips are down and if major setbacks are happening. The one who perseveres are the one’s well respected. No matter what happens, no matter how bumpy the road gets, don’t quit. Persistence is a virtue and keeping your commitment and making your actions consistent with your words is a crucial key component to any great leader.

 

 

Craig Garcia
www.CraigGarcia.tv

 

Educate Yourself to a Higher Income

In today’s economy, there are few jobs to be had with six-figure salaries attached. However, there are careers to be found in a range of fields that can boost your earning power. You can achieve a high income without a doctorate or a law degree. Of course, achieving a six-figure salary will always require hard work and motivation. There are no free rides or successful get-rich-quick schemes. Sometimes continuing your education is the best way to prepare for a new career. Below are some steps that may help you take your current salary to new heights.

Consider the benefits of online education.

 

Online training programs offer an alternative to traditional in-classroom education that can be very appealing for working students. Pursuing an online education, whether it’s an accelerated learning program, a bachelor’s, associate’s, or master’s degree, allows you to study from home, at your own pace, so you can keep your current job while training for a better one. Arming yourself with the skills and knowledge it takes to competitive in this job market, is the most valuable commodity you possess and an employer are willing to pay for those skills.

Believe it or not, when the economy turns down, the economic law of Supply and Demand actually lowers your earning potential. With a higher unemployment rate, the chances of a company finding a qualified applicant who is willing to work for less money than they were before, is more likely when things turn down, than when unemployment is low. One of the best ways to separate yourself from everyone battling for the same position you are, is have more skills, more knowledge and a better work ethic than your competition.

Option 1: Accelerated Learning Facility.

Accelerated Learning is Key to to sharpen your skills

With the power of the internet, there are great online learning institutions that will allow you to gain the skills and knowledge necessary to compete in this global economy with a high unemployment ration. If an employer has two applications in front of them and all things being equal, except applicant A shows a thirst for knowledge and continues to educate themselves, the employer has an easy choice to higher the person who continually wants to learn more, therefore providing more value to the employer who hirers that person.

Option 2: Earn a two-year associate’s degree.
There still are some high-paying careers out there that you can prepare for with about two years of study. For example, court reporters are known to pull in six-figure salaries, and often train for their careers with just one year to 33 months of study. If you’re surprised to see this career on the list, consider that court reporters often take on freelance work in addition to their regular hours to significantly boost their incomes. While the average salary for a court reporter technically weighs in at about $48,000, many use freelance opportunities to top the $100,000 mark.

Option 3: See where a bachelor’s degree can take you.
Train for a career in fine arts, finance, or technology, and find high-paying careers in each area. Art directors average about $83,000 annually, with the top 25 percent earning over $100,000 per year. Many art directors hold a bachelor’s degree in fine arts. Some begin their careers as graphic artists in advertising, publishing, design, or film, and work their way up to the position of art director while proving themselves through experience and hard work.

In the financial sector, actuaries pull in hefty salaries assessing risks and their financial impacts while often working for insurance companies. The mean annual salary for an actuary is $95,420. A bachelor’s degree in mathematics, statistics, actuarial science, or business should offer solid footing for you to embark upon this career path.

If your interests lie in technology and IT, consider becoming a Web systems manager. The mean annual salary for this career is $113,880, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The top 25 percent can earn over $136,000 per year. A bachelor’s degree is a common requirement for IT managers, along with a strong knowledge of computers and management practices. A degree in management information systems may be especially helpful.

Option 4: Looking beyond a bachelor’s? Let education take you higher. If you already hold a bachelor’s degree and are looking to advance within your current field, consider the options that might be possible with a master’s degree.

Becoming an educational administrator can be a great option for teachers looking to advance their careers with a two-year master’s degree. In most cases, a master’s in educational administration or educational leadership is required, as well as related experience in teaching or school administration. A high school principal might expect to earn around $92,000 annually, according to the BLS, while a chief academic officer can earn over $140,000 per year.

Option 5: Look into further career training to get ahead or change careers. Research your potential new career, what further experience you might need, and how to get it. In today’s fast-paced job market, current job skills are essential, especially if your career involves using computers or technology in any way. Many professionals remain at the top of their careers with short educational stints or extra certifications in their fields.

My recommendation is to do what makes you happy and become the best at it and the money will follow. You’ve heard it from everyone from your mom to Oprah: Do what makes you truly happy and the financial side of things will fall into place. While it may be difficult to swallow this notion when you’re about to leap into a career change, you will likely be happy you did.

Craig Garcia
www.CraigGarcia.tv