I want to make sure that our customers that may have some sort of physical impairment in their upper body, arms, and/or hands and fingers know about the use of Speech Recognition Software, and in particular, Dragon Naturally Speaking.

This enables you to simply put on a headset and speak into the mic while your words get dictated into your WordPress post editing area, OR into a text file (.txt). I don’t recommend using Dragon Naturally to dictate your words into a Microsoft Word document, because when you go to copy/paste the content from the Word File into your business blog it can sometimes ruin your blog appearance. I recommend just dictating your speech into a basic Notepad file. A file that has a .txt extension on it. Then copy/paste from that file into your blog post editing area.

If you are using a Mac you can buy the Mac Dragon Dictate software for speech dictation.

Once you have purchased and installed your speech recognition software on your computer the program will guide you through the training process, and this simply requires you to read aloud some literature (they give you some reading material choices) so the software learns how you speak and perhaps your accent if any.

The MORE you use the dication software, the more accurate it gets. Nowadays DNS (Dragon Naturally Speaking) is extremely accurate “right out of the box” and you will be amazed at how much content you can create with this tool. Furthermore, after you have used it for awhile you will get very used to it, and the software will REALLY start to know every nuance of your speech patterns.

I answered an email with one of our customers this morning that is close to the same age as me, and I’m 47 years old as I write this today.

He is very excited about the business blog that we created for him, and he has even purchased the extra articles from our writing team, so he gets a 1000 word article on his business blog every week for a year, instead of every two weeks. He is very excited about the possibilities for his online business.

So I answered with this;

Yes. That is exactly how to treat your business blog. It is KING, and will remain your main focus at first. There isn’t very many business blogs focused on your product niche, and it’s a solid model.
 
I always suggest the our customers focus like a laser on their business blog for at least a year or more until it really starts to take off. THEN they start to see how they succeed and how it all works for them. After that you can move on to other business blogs and begin creating multiple streams of income.
 
The amazing thing about the Internet is that there is NO ceiling for those who take it seriously. You have the potential to create more and more income, and literally, money is being made while you sleep at night.
 
A perfect example is this morning, when I checked my Adsense account. I woke up at 7:30 Calgary time, and we had already made $72.32 and that was made when I was sleeping.
 
NO JOB will ever do that for you, and no pension plan either. A solid online income is like the perfect pension plan that can grow even when we’re older. When we’re both in our 70s and 80s we can still be growing our income, so we are never fixed. My parents have to live on a very tight budget because my Dad only has his Canada and company pension.

I come from an employment background in manual labor and I would watch the older mechanics who were close to retirement, and saw how their poor bodies had suffered from decades of manual labor. Their backs, their knees, and all parts of their bodies were so often beat up from all the years of hard work. They moved allot slower than us younger guys who were 20-30 years away from retirement. This is what I LOVE about making money online and with the Adsense program.

When you have a business blog, or business blogs, you can write from the comfort of your own home, and create a growing income without having to stress your body any longer. I have a client who is 72 and in a wheel chair, and he works from home on the business blog we set up for him here at TBB. He makes between $2500 and $3000 a month from Adsense alone now, and it’s almost as much income as his Canadian pension and company pension combined. He is not poor, and he has the EXTRAS that most retired people don’t have and never will have.

He can treat his children and his grandchildren as much as he wants, and he can afford to go south to Palm Springs every year to get away from the winter months as well.

This is just one example of how powerful an online income is, and it’s very exciting when bloggers start to see their hard work pay off. As long as someone has a computer and an Internet connection, they can create a life long, growing income from their online business. All they have to do is get comfortable writing on their blog, and make their writing a passion. The rewards are massive.

Here is a good article on James Martell’s blog about how an online business can be so great for seniors who are retired. James was my mentor in the very early days of our online business start-up.

Write Posts on your Business Blog while Physically Disabled

If you happen to be physically challenged for whatever reason, and you are in a wheel chair, but you can still use your hands to type, then you will be in fine shape to type on your computer to create your posts. But, if you have a disability with your upper body that prevents you from typing all together, or typing at a reasonable speed, there is a possible solution for you. You can install speech recognition software on your computer so you can dictate your content using a low-cost headset and mic.

You can pruchase a headset and boom mic from Best Buy or Wal-Mart, Target, etc., and train your speech recognition software to fully understand your voice. This can really speed up your writing in a dramatic way.

Even if you are not disabled in any way, using this kind of dictation software gives you the ability to produce a ton of content quickly. Please read more about speech recognition software here.