Rahimah Sultan's Internet Marketing Diary

2012-02-06T17:45:00.000-08:00

Internet Entrepreneurs Are Not Opportunity Seekers!

Internet entrepreneurs will pounce on viable income opportunities and that's for sure but they possess attributes far different from the typical opportunity seekers! Whereas some are merely looking around online for ways to earn an income the true entrepreneur chooses in most case to make it happen and is therefore more self motivated!

Here are 3 attributes that tend to set these 2 'business seeking' profiles apart in their quest to earn an income online!

Vision

An entrepreneur typically creates or develops their own vision based upon an interest or even a long held passion! On the other hand those looking for income opportunities are not that closely bonded to the direction they may take as long as it provides a way to earn an income for them! Where one may 'birth' an idea and therefore has a deeper attachment to it, the other is content with capitalizing on the creativity or ideas of another person! For them it is simply 'show me the money' and it goes no deeper than that!

Passion

As we 'hinted' at above true entrepreneurs are usually motivated by their interests or passions whereas opportunity seekers are simply looking to make money! Now money is a big motivator and there is no doubt about that but this type of motivation can lead people in many directions regardless of what the opportunity is built upon! Passion makes people more 'loyal' to their efforts thus making it easier to stay self motivated without changing direction based upon earning potential! Also not to be overlooked is that the quality of the service and/or product tends to be higher when there is passion involved!

Commitment

As indicated however vaguely above a person with passion is obviously more committed to what they are doing regardless of the financial rewards! On the other hand those seeking income opportunities tend to migrate, and quite often, from one opportunity to the next! This does not allow for them to necessarily establish any roots or a high degree of expertise in any chosen field which doesn't serve their customers all too well!

True internet entrepreneurs tend to take a specified direction when trying to earn an income online based primarily upon a passion or vision as discussed above! What sets them apart from people merely seeking income opportunities is they are more self motivated and possess a much greater focus and commitment towards their pursuits! In the end it all comes down to a true entrepreneur 'makes things happen' while those seeking money making opportunities are for the most part following up on the ideas of others!

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

TJ Philpott is an author and Internet entrepreneur based out of North Carolina. To learn more about how internet entrepreneurs and opportunity seekers differ and to also receive a free instructional manual that teaches valuable niche research techniques for your online marketing needs simply visit:http://blogbrawn.com

2012-01-29T18:00:00.000-08:00

Getting Traffic to Your Blog - All About Blog Traffic Exchanges

By Jason DeVelvis

If you’ve been into Internet Marketing for a while, you probably remember the old traffic exchange programs and the banner exchange programs. Things change fairly fast on the Internet, and now there are blogs and blog traffic exchange programs. If you have a blog, and getting traffic to your blog is important, than you need to know about blog traffic exchanges.

First, blog traffic exchange programs work much better than the old traffic exchange programs did. If getting traffic to your blog matters, getting set up with one or more of these exchange programs is vital – no matter what your niche market is. This will considerably increase your readership very quickly.

However, there are some blog traffic exchange programs that really aren’t worth joining. Participating in a blog traffic exchange program does take time. In some cases, you will be able to purchase your credits, but in order to get the traffic without paying for it you will be required to visit other member’s blogs. This typically gets you one visitor for every two blogs that you visit – and the visitors that come from blog traffic exchange programs are not targeted. This means that there is no guarantee that the visitors coming to your blog from the program have any interest in what you blog about.

If your blog is highly specialized, meaning that it is a very specific niche, you probably won’t do well with blog traffic exchange programs. However, if your blog is of general interest, meaning that it isn’t specific to any particular niche market, blog traffic exchange programs may work very nicely for you when it comes to getting traffic to your blog.

Blogazoo at [http://www.blogazoo.com] is one blog traffic exchange program. However, there are many steps you must take before you can register your blog. For instance, you must visit ten other blogs before your blog will be listed. You must register to use the program. However, there are many features at Blogazoo that will be useful to you if getting traffic to your blog is what it is all about for you.

If you’ve been into Internet Marketing for a while, you probably remember the old traffic exchange programs and the banner exchange programs. Things change fairly fast on the Internet, and now there are blogs and blog traffic exchange programs. If you have a blog, and getting traffic to your blog is important, than you need to know about blog traffic exchanges.

First, blog traffic exchange programs work much better than the old traffic exchange programs did. If getting traffic to your blog matters, getting set up with one or more of these exchange programs is vital – no matter what your niche market is. This will considerably increase your readership very quickly.

However, there are some blog traffic exchange programs that really aren’t worth joining. Participating in a blog traffic exchange program does take time. In some cases, you will be able to purchase your credits, but in order to get the traffic without paying for it you will be required to visit other member’s blogs. This typically gets you one visitor for every two blogs that you visit – and the visitors that come from blog traffic exchange programs are not targeted. This means that there is no guarantee that the visitors coming to your blog from the program have any interest in what you blog about.

If your blog is highly specialized, meaning that it is a very specific niche, you probably won’t do well with blog traffic exchange programs. However, if your blog is of general interest, meaning that it isn’t specific to any particular niche market, blog traffic exchange programs may work very nicely for you when it comes to getting traffic to your blog.

Blogazoo at [http://www.blogazoo.com] is one blog traffic exchange program. However, there are many steps you must take before you can register your blog. For instance, you must visit ten other blogs before your blog will be listed. You must register to use the program. However, there are many features at Blogazoo that will be useful to you if getting traffic to your blog is what it is all about for you.

BlogClicker at http://www.blogclicker.com is also worth consideration. You visit other member’s blogs to earn credits. For every two visits to other blogs, you will receive one. You can also purchase credits instead of visiting the other blogs. Two other blog traffic exchange programs are Blog Crowd at [http://www.blogcrowd.com] and Blog Exchange at http://www.blogexchange.com.

The best blog traffic exchange program available today is Blog Explosion at http://www.blogexplosion.com. Like other blog traffic exchange programs, Blog Explosion is free to join, and only one account is allowed per person. However, you can add multiple blogs to your account. You can refer new members and earn 10% of the traffic that they earn. Blog Explosion has full statistical reports that you can view, and many member features and tools.

At Blog Explosion there are monthly contests with free visitors as prizes, there is a monthly traffic lottery, and the Battle of the Blogs. You can also win daily mystery credits. There is a member’s profile directory where members can find blogs of interest, chat rooms, a Podcast directory, and a knowledge directory. You can even rent your blog space to other members. This is why almost 30,000 bloggers choose Blog Explosion over the other blog traffic exchange programs. Remember if you are trying to build up a readership for a niche blog, blog traffic exchange programs may not work well for you.

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2012-01-22T14:49:00.000-08:00

Getting Into the Blogging World

By Javier Garcia

From some years back weblogs (or simply "blogs") have become one of the most popular ways of online publishing and communication. While still most of them have no commercial purpose, blogs as a makerting tool (or even as a business by itself) are increasing its presence on the Internet.

WHAT ARE BLOGS?

Though there are different approaches to weblogs, they can be defined as web sites where users post entries (news, articles...), updated frequently and normally reflecting the thoughts of the blog's creator. Those entries (posts) are typically listed in reverse chronological order (the most recent entry on the top).

Most blogs allow visitors to leave their own comments on the diverse entries or even references from other blogs (trackbacks). This communication between different blogs and bloggers is one of the main factors involved in the fast growth of the so-called "blogosphere" (the whole community of blogs) and its current influence.

HOW A BLOG CAN HELP YOU?

Blogs are constantly creating new business opportunities. While some time ago blogs were almost an exclusive territory for non-professional bloggers sharing their thoughts, experiences and ideas, currently small and large business have a wide presence in the blogging world. There are a number of potential benefits of adding a blog as part of your marketing strategy or as a business model:

Blogs spread information: Blogs allow you to publish information instantly and frequently, and the conversational nature of blogs will help you spread that published information. Not only your visitors will read it, but also other blogs will reference your content through reviews, news, comments... and will link to your site, allowing other Internet users to access that given information. In addition, your blog can capture the attention of the media, which frequently uses the blogs for source material.
Blogs give you feedback: Most blogs allow readers to comment on your posts or link to them (and notify your site) on their own blogs. This is an automated mechanism that provides you instant feedback on any issue. You can know what your readers think of you (or your product/service/company) almost in real time.
Blogs build you a reputation: Always you provide useful and honest content, a business blog can help position you as an expert in your niche. Blogs can be considered as a platform for expressing your knowledge, expertise and experience, so they are a powerful tool for building you a solid reputation.
Blogs are marketing tools: Blogs are a useful and low-cost marketing tool as they improve the awareness of your product/service/company and strengthen the loyalty of your customers (readers). The word-of-mouth will provide you a way into audiences that couldn't be reached efficiently in any other way.
Blogs are an easy content management system: The ease of use of blogs as a content management system (CMS) will allow you to forget the programming and the design of your web site and will also help you reduce costs. You can create your blog using free blog hosting services like Blogger or run free software like Wordpress on your own web hosting (preferable for business blogs). In both cases you can adapt the appearance of your blog through free professional-looking templates (themes). This makes creating and updating web sites faster, easier and cheaper then ever.
Blogs are search engine traffic generators: Lastly search engines have been driving their efforts to reward rich-content sites, due to the great amount of poor-content sites built with the only purpose of generating revenue with advertising. As blogs are generally based on valuable and original content, they are specially appealing to search engines.The linking structure inherent in blogs is another determinant in the equation. As other blogs reference your web site articles, they will link to them. Moreover, comments and trackbacks frequently include a link back to the blogger's site. Because incoming links are one of the most important ranking factors in major search engines, it's obvious that blogs are great platforms to generate search engine traffic.

Original article published by Javier García: Getting into the blogging world [http://www.monetizingtheweb.com/2006/03/14/getting-into-the-blogging-world] in Monetizing the Web

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2012-01-09T19:24:00.000-08:00

How To Make Money With Blogs
Maureene Reidy

Short answer? Yes, it is still very possible for anyone to make money with blogs. In fact, there are more ways than ever to do so...

The beautiful thing about blogs (or even just online marketing in general), is there is an almost endless supply of topics that you can write about.

There's just one important thing to remember, when trying to make money with blogs:

Although, yes, people may search for what you decide to write about...some topics are more profitable than others. Other topics may even be better to pass up, altogether.

For example, a fitness blog will very easily blow past a site dedicated to how to knit sweaters for your cat.

Obvious? Maybe. But some people insist on sticking only to their passion.

The best thing to do would be to make a list of topics you're interested in and then work your way down that list until you find a niche you can write about.

Here's the basic criterion for choosing a topic, when trying to make money with blogs:

1. Your market is social. They aren't afraid to comment, interact with other members, etc.

2. Your market is passionate. Really, this is "marketing 101"...but it's worth repeating.

3. The topic you're writing about gets a worthwhile amount of traffic.

What you'll consider "worthwhile" really depends on the niche and your ability to market within it. In other words, your term might only get a low amount of searches per month, but if there is a high-ticket product to promote then you may still be able to do significantly well.

4. Your market isn't afraid to spend/invest money, especially online.

The topic is one you won't mind having to create regular content for.

By taking those things into consideration, it's very likely that your original list of topics and ideas will decrease in size.

Still, it's better to do your research up front and actually be able to make money with blogs you create, as opposed to just writing your heart out and hoping to see a few bucks trickle into your bank account!

Of course, the real question is...

How Do You Actually Make Money With Blogs?

Honestly, I think it would be best to dedicate an entire post to show you specific options I've found to monetize your content. After all, I mainly wanted to write this article to address the fact that it is still possible to create an income with blogs.

But, for now, here is a basic list of ways to monetize your blog:

1. Membership Blogs

Having your own membership blog is essentially like having your own online magazine!

You can either choose to charge for access to all the content, or ask users to create a paid subscription for access to additional parts of the site.

2. Automated Advertising

Some marketers make money with blogs by making certain terms clickable in their content, which then directly link to a related affiliate product.

For example, clicking the link above will take you to a great site that lets marketers of all experience levels earn extra money online with blogs.

3. Paid Advertising

Once your blog gains popularity, you can charge other companies or product owners to advertise on your site.

You've probably noticed already that a lot of people make money with blogs by using ads, such as banner ads.

Sometimes, however, these banners may have been provided by affiliate programs and only earn the blogger money when someone clicks through and buy.

On the other hand, selling advertising space is great, because you only have to worry about hosting the ad itself!

4. Affiliate Programs

We've already touched on this one.

Basically, any of the major ways to monetize blogs (like above) can be used specifically for promoting affiliate products.

Some affiliate programs even allow you to earn 100% commission for each time you drive traffic and make a sale!

Really, there are many different ways you can make money with blogs. As I mentioned above, maybe I'll create a post specifically about the different resources that you can use.

About the Author

Maureene Reidy is a "50 something" mom of 3 happily married and on a mission to help the love of her life semi-retire so that she can spend quality time with her family. Her mission is help others succeed by teaching how to make money online using the 'Empower Network' home based online opportunity and would love to teach you how to make money online the easy way.

2012-01-02T10:36:00.000-08:00

Are You Committing These Social Media Mistakes?
by Darren Olander

When used properly, social media can be very effective medium to help you grow your business. You will want to proceed carefully, however, and make sure that you avoid committing these social media mistakes to get the most benefit from this strategy.

Failing to Plan Your Social Media Strategy,

Simply being aware that social media exists is not the same thing as using it effectively. Before you venture into using Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites, spend some time working on them to get a feel for how they are used. It's a good idea to look at how top performers in your niche are using these strategies so that you can adopt similar tactics yourself.

When you plan your own social media strategy, you want to set out in advance how often you'll use these resources. You will also want to have a general outline of what type of information you will be providing to your readers and followers online. Having a guideline to follow will help you stay on track and use the sites appropriately as a business tool.

Lack of Focus on Your Target Market

If your goal is to use social media sites to grow your business, you want to make sure that you're appealing to your target market. Simply posting on these sites and hoping that your target market will find you is not enough. You will want to figure out where your target market is hanging out online and take steps to engage them directly.

Not Posting Often Enough

Part of your overall social networking plan must be to post regularly. Think of these sites as a way to have a conversation with your target market. To create an effective presence on them, you will need to be talking regularly. Keep in mind that Internet users have very short attention span and you need to show up at the party regularly if you want to be remembered.

Failing to Respond to Questions or Concerns Promptly

Once you have the chance to engage with your target market or existing customers, make sure that they're not being ignored. One way to drop the ball on using social media to market your business is by failing to respond to people who get in touch with you. You want to make sure that any questions or concerns are dealt with in an appropriate and positive manner.

Keep in mind, too, that your posts on social networks can be viewed by others. You have the potential to bring in new business by the way you conduct yourself online. Your posts may be the first opportunity for potential customer to get to know your business, and you want to make sure that you are presenting it and yourself in the best possible manner.

The successful use of social media is an effective way to reach out to potential customers and grow your business. Make sure to avoid these social media mistakes, and you'll be well on your way to reaching your goals.

About the Author

Darren Olander is dedicated to teaching others how to create a success online through internet network marketing strategies. He is a site owner, article writer, coach & marketing consultant enjoying the benefits of working full time from home. You can learn more about him at DarrenOlander.com

2011-12-25T19:52:00.000-08:00

My Tongue-in-Cheek Article Writing Advice
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I thought I'd try my hand at something different to end the year.

I awoke at about 6:42 am Christmas Eve. I had a thought… hummm.. ominous or should I say promising, especially since it was so early in the morning. My thoughts generally disappear by the time I get out of bed and hit the floor running!

Of course, the thought probably occurred because I went to bed thinking about needing to write a blog post, which kind of proves that if you ask for resolution to a problem just prior to going to sleep, your subconscious will work on it for you and most likely come up with a solution, although it might not always be so immediate.

The thought….

What about taking a subject already posted and writing an article that’s the antithesis of it, sort of.

Thought number two was, how the heck am I going to do that!? You know one thing always leads to another.

Well, I got up, and surprisingly, the first thought stayed with me, and I began to think it was doable. My brain went off on its own tangent.

So, here goes my experiment. It’s now Christmas evening, and my subconscious has been mulling over thought number one all day, I’m sure. You know the subconscious never takes a break.

A short while back, I posted an article to my blog titled “3 Ways to Refresh Old Topics.”It was authored by someone else.

The author references a particular axiom. I’ve used my own version of it, all my adult life, when I’ve been asked “What’s new?” I’ve always replied, “Nothing. We just haven’t discovered it all yet.”

So, on with point one.

Author: “Update Your Topic for the Current Season or Year”

Me: Backdate your topic for a past season or year? I and the Baby Boomers might be able to relate. I and numerous others pre-date the Boomers. :-)

Author: “Women's magazines have been doing this for years. The types of stories tend to be along a few themes which have proved popular with readers…

…articles around a broader theme, such as the Holiday Season. The stories may focus on decorating techniques, preparing special meals, shopping, budgeting… some way to hook the reader's interest by making it relevant to something which reflects a question or a concern they are currently dealing with.”

Me: Update to my “backdate” – Avoid large shopping malls and stores like the plague, especially on Black Friday!

Author: “Use a News Story to Capture Your Reader's Interest”

“… use current events as a lead in to whatever you would like to share with your reader… makes your niche content timely and interesting… can be a great source of statistics and other information… to refresh your old topics.”

“… sharing the results of an annual survey… discussing which person or company won an award…. a great lead-in to a topic… immediately provides your audience with something new to consider and you can follow up the first paragraph or two with some further information to flesh out the topic some more.”

Me: News flash. At present, my news story and current event is getting this blog post finished. I have no statistics to back up my tardiness—procrastination? Now, there are statistics for that, I suppose, although I can’t put my finger on any at the moment.

Author: “Find a New Angle”

“When you are updating your content or website, resist the urge to reinvent the wheel…. You already have a bare bones topic… what if you considered your topic from the point of view of different age groups, men v. women… people living in different part of the country…”?

“Get Google Alert updates… get email updates and RSS feeds…. They will give you some different ideas about how you can share information about your niche topic… other people's content on the same topic can open up new avenues to explore with your own marketing.”

Me:I’ve found a new angle—an antithesis experiment.

In summary, I think it’s good to try something different in order to keep the creative juices flowing. Speaking of juices—I have had nothing to drink today other than water and coffee. So this article comes from the mind of the all present me.

Do comment on this article if you’re so inclined.

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2011-12-17T18:53:00.000-08:00

Ppc Advertising Rates Are On The Rise - Here Is How To Deal With Rising Costs
Gen Wright

It is one of the most effective and highly proven marketing tools of modern businesses. Under any circumstances, business owners and managers need to make strategic decisions in the face of increasing PPC advertising rates.

PPC marketing is an extremely effective and important business tool for those who are engaged in internet marketing campaigns. It allows for a more focused marketing activity that helps improve the quality of traffic that is driven to your web site. PPC marketing is one of the core activities when you are looking to generate more leads and raise the revenue of your internet business. It provides a perfect platform by which you can link up with possible clients and deliver the sales pitches for your products or services.

Business owners and managers who are not adequately familiar with the nuances and dynamics of PPC advertising may get into a lot of pitfalls and miscues and end up wasting precious company resources. Surely, you do not want to give a fortune on a marketing tool without making a proportional benefit in terms of higher sales revenue.

Managing the cost of your PPC marketing campaign is closely tied up with the quality score of your PPC ads. It is extremely important that you put all the necessary elements that will generate the most number of clicks on your PPC ads. Suffice it to say, you need to create a relevant and appealing PPC ad so that you achieve higher CTR. In this way, you will be able to obtain better ad rankings and lower click cost.

While landing page and use of keyword are important variables in the determination of the quality score of your PPC, the CTR is easily the single most important variable that you must focus on.

In order to achieve this end, you need to consider the following practical PPC advertising tips:

* Incorporate keywords in PPC ads - It is important that you incorporate the keywords that trigger your PPC adverts. Google search engines will automatically highlight these keywords in the search engine result page. It effectively advertises familiarity on the part of the reader as you are using the same keyword that is familiar to your possible client.

* Use appropriate CTA in your PPC ads - This is a basic requirement for an effective PC ad material. You need to use call to action phrases and words to elicit the wishd response from your target readers and possible clients. This will surely help improve the CTR of your PPC ads.

* Put more emphasis on the freebiesArticle Search, special promos and deals in your PPC ads - These entitlements are important to support your sales pitches and follow through with your effort to get readers to click your PPC ad material.

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2011-12-07T20:26:00.001-08:00

5 Steps to Get Targeted Traffic To Any Website5 Steps to Get Targeted Traffic To Any Website
by Frank Breinling

Getting traffic to your website is the basic goal for anybody who owns a website. However, there is a difference between targeted and untargeted traffic that is vital if you want to make any money from your website. Targeted traffic is the ultimate end game of website owners, and what you need to do to get this traffic can be summed up in five easy steps.

1. Do your research. You really need to make sure you plan your approach so that everything can go as smoothly as possible. Make sure you find out as much as possible about the niche your website is in, and take a look at the websites that are doing well in this niche. It may help you to note down what some of the popular keywords around the topic are, as this will come in handy a little bit later in the process.

2. Write quality content on your website’s niche. Articles are very effective at adding interest to your website, and they also show up quite a lot in search engines, so you have the opportunity to become a really popular website. As an added bonus, as long as the articles are related to your website, your traffic is going to get more and more targeted.

3. Search engine optimize your entire website. Search engine optimization, or SEO for short, is the easiest and cheapest way of driving targeted traffic to your site. Those popular keywords you may have noted down will now become useful. Insert these keywords into your content, and search engines will start to consider you as a more reliable source and will list you higher up. This allows more people to find your website and boosts up your incoming traffic, whilst at the same time making it more targeted.

4. Build up outgoing links. What this means is to put in relevant links to outside websites in your content. The more of these links you put in, the more trustworthy search engines are going to consider you, and the higher they’re going to index you. Make sure those links are trustworthy themselves though, because if they are links to dodgy websites, you are going to lose points in the eyes of search engines.

5. Build up incoming links. This is more difficult to do than building outgoing links, but it can still be done. The best way to do so is to participate in forums and other such things, and post a link to your website where you can. You could also build relationships with other websites, and maybe even create partnerships, so that you can help each other out with link building.

And at this point, you should have a steady stream of targeted traffic going through your website. Hopefully, now, your website can be making you a good amount of money. There are a lot of other things you can do to build targeted traffic, but these simple steps can get your website out there, popularized, and making money.

Frank Breinling is a recognized expert in generating targeted traffic to websites. Find out fantastic ways of generating traffic with his FREE REPORT about generating traffic, his newest Project Twitter Traffic Explosions.

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2011-11-30T17:23:00.000-08:00

"I Can't Do It""I Can't Do It" by Margaret Paul, Ph. D.

"He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an indisputable law." - Henry Ford

Have you ever noticed how often you say, "I can't"?

"I can't lose weight."
"I can't find my soul mate."
"I can't find a job I love."
"I can't take care of myself."
"I can't heal this shame."
"I can't get myself to exercise."
"I can't find my passion."

When I was little, one of my favorite books was "The Little Engine that Could." For those of you who don't know this children's book, it's about a little train engine who was given the job of pulling a very big load up a hill. As it was pulling the load, it kept saying, "I think I can. I think I can. I think I can." And, of course, it did.

As a three-year old, this little book impressed me very much. I memorized it and read it over and over. I integrated "I think I can," into my thought process, and every time I was challenged, I would say "I think I can," to myself. Like the little engine who could, I never gave up on something that really mattered to me. Fortunately, "I can't" didn't become a part of my language.

With many of my clients, it's a different story. "I can't" seems to be deeply entrenched into their language. In the work I do, I help people learn how to heal their shame, how to take emotional responsibility by learning to be loving to themselves and others, and how to connect with a personal source of spiritual Guidance. Very often, my clients say things like, "I can't take care of myself. I don’t know how." "I can't connect with my spiritual Guidance. I'm not capable of this." "I can't remember to be present with my feelings." "I can't speak up for myself - it's too hard." And, as Henry Ford states in the above quote, as long as they choose to believe this, they can't. They prove themselves right every time.

I wonder if you would be willing to try an experiment. What might happen if, every time you hear yourself say "I can't" you consciously turn it around and say, "I can!" If you did this often enough, you would change your way of thinking, and in changing your thinking, you can change the outcome of your efforts.

Fortunately, another thing I learned very early in my life is that it's okay to fail. To me failure only means that I need to try harder and learn more. Failure never means that I am stupid or incapable. While I've had plenty of failure in my life, it never stopped me from saying "I think I can," which is what enables me to keep going until I succeed.

From 1998 until 2010, I worked on creating a major software program, called SelfQuest. During these 12 years I had many failures and disappointments, but never once did it occur to me that I would not succeed in creating the program of my vision. It was vitally important to me to create this program that I knew would be a huge help to others, and I knew that nothing would stop me. Even when the programmer disappeared with all the work, I knew in my soul that it would all work out. And it did. After finding an incredible new programmer, the original programmer resurfaced and gave us everything we needed to complete it.

No one succeeds without failures, and no one succeeds by saying "I can't". Try reading "The Little Engine that Could" and integrate this into your mindset!

Margaret Paul, Ph.D. is a best-selling author of 8 books, relationship expert, and co-creator of the powerful Inner Bonding® process - featured on Oprah. Are you are ready to heal your pain and discover your joy? Click here for a FREE Inner Bonding Course, and visit our website at www.innerbonding.com for more articles and help. Phone Sessions Available.

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2011-11-22T16:54:00.001-08:00

How Can You Benefit From Mobile Marketing In Today's Online World
by Wolf Krammell

What is mobile marketing?

Mobile phone or cellular phone market is a multibillion dollar industry which is ever growing. With such a huge market for potential customers, mobile marketing or marketing techniques exclusive to mobile subscribers have gained immense popularity in the recent past.

Mobile marketing involves communicating with potential customers over mobile phones via text messages or sending a marketing message which allows the customers to be part an advertising campaign.

What are mobile websites?

Most modern day mobile phones or 'smartphones 'as they are called are capable of doing just as much as what a laptop or a portable computer can do. These devices come with advanced connectivity features that enable them to connect to a network (wireless Internet). Because of the increase in use of mobile Internet users, many websites that are specific to mobiles have been developed and most of them are marketing websites designed to provide marketing information to potential customers on the go.

Mobile marketers usually send links to mobile subscribers via a text message and this directly leads to the user visiting the mobile website. Websites specific to mobiles are smaller and contain less animation than their PC based counterparts but marketers add flair to such websites so that users are captivated and driven to purchase the product or service being marketed.

What are the advantages of mobile marketing and mobile websites?

The biggest advantage of mobile marketing and mobile websites for advertising is that they provide instant connectivity with users at all times. Most countries have mobile to population ratio well over 100% meaning that any marketing message sent to a mobile subscriber is more likely to be converted to sales than traditional modes of advertising such as email marketing.

Mobile marketing would also be cost effective as compared to making one-on-one calls and frequency of such advertising can be varied as per changes in trends. Mobile websites and marketing information can be quickly updated and requires minimal manpower for effectively implementing changes which results in potential customers getting more updated information. Creating an interactive mobile website is much more cost effective than a traditional website and this can help in better utilization of time and energy of support personnel.

Mobile marketing techniques including mobile websites are more likely to get better responses as texts as well as links are viewed at least once when the receiver is free and if found interesting potential customers might also share this information with a circle of friends or like-minded people resulting in better views and sales.

This kind of revenue for the manufacturer or service provider would be completely free of cost.Better brand appreciation, targeting geography-specific audience and generating loyalty among existing customers are all additional benefits of mobile marketing using mobile websites.

About the Author:

Wolf Krammel is a writer on topics like responsiveness to mobile marketing, in terms of its impact on purchase ... features enhancing the acceptability/ utility of mobile marketing/advertising. More information mobile marketing, mobile websites

2011-11-14T20:41:00.001-08:00

3 Free Website Marketing Ideas - Easy And Quick

Copyright © Rahimah Sultan

Marketing on line is not cheap. You can spend an extreme amount of money on Pay Per Click (Google Adwords) and thousands of site-targetted dollars (AdBrite), and you can spend thousands just buying text links from individual sites. I know. I've spent so much money on advertising.

But, free is my favorite form of marketing. I like anything free, especially if it helps my websites make more money without increasing my advertising costs.

Here are three quick and easy ways to market your site at no extra cost.

1. Free Business Cards

Free business cards are a staple. The best part is they are free! You can leave them everywhere and give them to anyone. When I get them in the mail, I start using them wherever possible. And, that is everywhere. Be imaginative!

2. Link Exchanges

Link exchanges are a great way of spreading Page Rank, and also of sharing visitors. If people like a site they will bookmark it. After they read what they want, they will go to the site that you link to. So, you get the visitors, and share them through a link exchange.

3. Business Card Networking

When you get your business cards, use them to network with other people. Every time you meet someone, hand them one of your free business cards. Then ask for one of theirs in exchange. If they don't have one, be sure you mention what you do, and let them know your website address.

Free business cards make a great networking tool if you put them to use. Do not forget, they are free, and should not be used sparingly. Use them in any situation you can think of. People will take them home and visit your site when they pull them out.

Use these three free website marketing ideas to get visitors to your website, and you will not only be more successful, but you will spend less of your hard earned money on marketing!

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2011-11-06T13:43:00.000-08:00

The Best Place To Submit Articles

Greg Secrist

In this day and age, many internet marketers are finding it harder and harder to find place to be able to submit their original content. While there are still many article directories that accept original content from registered users, the key is knowing where to find them. In order ot make this easier, let's go over the top three article directories to use if you are serious about getting more traffic to your site. Submitting to article directories to get back links is an essential part of getting internet traffic. Since the latest Google Panda update this last spring, article directories that accept non-original content were severely penalized. This penalizing also discounted the value that the links from these directories passed on. Here is a small list of a few directories that continue to thrive, as well as accept 100% original content.

1. Articlegather.com - PR 2 - This site is growing fast as it is run by a team that truly care about giving their authors SEO value. It is free to register, and they have a really fast turn time comparatively speaking when compared to the week it can take over at ezinearticles.com

2. Articlesbase.com - PR 6 - Great site for submitting articles, and it is FREE to register as well. They are very fast when it comes to getting your content approved and if it doesn't get approved, they will tell you what you need to do to fix it.

3. Thefreelibrary.com - PR 7 - This is a one time opportunity as you must get the article right the first time. They do not allow for article revisions, so make sure to take your time.

Each of these directories have a few simple things in common. Each only accept original content and actually monitor what gets put on the directory. This helps Google, as well as other search engines to trust the content, thus giving the directories a high PR rating as well as giving your back links alot more authority. Now you don't have to be frustrated by wondering where to submit content. By submitting to these directories, you will be able to drive traffic to your sites.

Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/online-promotion-articles/the-best-place-to-submit-articles-5364044.html

About the Author:

Post your content on the best place to submit articles. Submit to an article directory that has fast turn times.

3 Ways to Refresh Old Topics

2011-10-28T22:22:00.000-07:00

Author: Darren Olander

Have you ever heard the expression that, "There is nothing new under the sun"? If you are looking for new ways to refresh old topics, you are going to have to put your Thinking Cap on and find a way to give them a different treatment so that you don't get stuck in a rut. Consider these suggestions for keeping a topic you have dealt with in the past relevant in the present.

Update Your Topic for the Current Season or Year

If the basic premise for your niche hasn't changed, find some way to update it to make it more current. Women's magazines have been doing this for years. The types of stories tend to be along a few themes which have proved popular with readers.

For example, the magazine may run articles around a broader theme, such as the Holiday Season. The stories may focus on decorating techniques, preparing special meals, shopping, budgeting, etc. Each year's stories have an element which is meant to make them timely for that particular year. When you are looking to update your own website content or blog articles, find some way to hook the reader's interest by making it relevant to something which reflects a question or a concern they are currently dealing with.

Use a News Story to Capture Your Reader's Interest

One way to update your content is to use current events as a lead in to whatever you would like to share with your reader. This strategy immediately makes your niche content timely and interesting, but news stories can be a great source of statistics and other pertinent information which you can use to refresh your old topics.

Sharing the results of an annual survey or discussing which person or company won an award is a great lead-in to a topic. It immediately provides your audience with something new to consider and you can follow up the first paragraph or two with some further information to flesh out the topic some more.

Find a New Angle

When you are updating your content or website, resist the urge to reinvent the wheel. If your niche topic is truly an evergreen one, use this fact to your advantage. You already have a bare bones topic to work with, but what if you considered your topic from the point of view of different age groups, men v. women, or how people living in different part of the country could relate to it?

Get Google Alert updates on specific terms that deal with your niche topic. You can get email updates and RSS feeds that have relevant results. They will give you some different ideas about how you can share information about your niche topic with your audience. Viewing other people's content on the same topic can open up new avenues to explore with your own marketing.

Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/marketing-tips-articles/3-ways-to-refresh-old-topics-5346591.html

About the Author

Darren Olander is dedicated to teaching others how to create a success online through internet network marketing strategies. He is a site owner, article writer, coach & marketing consultant enjoying the benefits of working full time from home. You can learn more about him at DarrenOlander.com.

The Importance of Privacy on Facebook (or any other Online Network)

2011-10-20T20:35:00.000-07:00

Author: Maria Elena Duron

Social networking sites have definitely changed the way people connect with each other, both online and off. Though some still believe that the best connections you create are those in the physical world, others have embraced Facebook, Twitter, along with other social sites, as a way to build relationships and communicate with people.

Today, instead of calling up all your friends to invite them to a party, you can now simply invite them all on Facebook with just one fell swoop. If you want to impart some exciting news, you can simply tweet about it and you can have hundreds of your friends responding to it in an instant.

Social networking sites have even changed the way businesses work. More and more companies are using their Facebook page to promote their brand and serve as part of their customer support department, and many are using Twitter to keep their clients updated about the latest news, deals, and offerings they have.

But there is one thing you should be careful of when it comes to social networking – your privacy. Though you may not really care what you reveal about yourself since you consider it a form of self-expression, this may just come back and bite you on the back in the future. And do you really want most of your personal information revealed to the world, such as your civil status, your sexual preference, and even your birth date?

Most social networking sites offer different privacy settings for its users. Facebook has recently made some improvements on its site, making it easier for users to choose what they want to share and which people they want to share it with. This has led to some people speculating that this is to compete with the Google+ Circles feature, which most users have been raving about.

Actually, Facebook has had these settings even in the past, but they just recently made it easier for people to use and understand. But this recent update by Facebook and the popularity of Google+ Circles has really made it evident that privacy is very important to many people, even in the online world.

People want to control what they reveal to the public and what they reveal only to their friends. Honestly, do you really want that picture of you looking sloshed to be seen by your boss? Or what about that update that you just skipped work to play hooky? But even more than these things, most people like knowing that they can control who exactly sees their information, updates, posts, links, pictures, videos, and so on. Doesn't the idea of someone randomly stalking your page to see your pictures and updates sound incredibly creepy?

This is why it's very important that you review all the privacy settings of all your social media accounts. With Facebook recently updating its platform, you need to make sure that the settings you have in place are still what you want them to be – you can't really be too sure that this recent update hasn't messed up the current settings you have.

Here's a rundown of what you can do on the current Facebook site: On the upper right corner of the site, there's a small arrow next to the word "Home." Click on it, and a drop down menu will appear, and there's one row that says "Privacy Settings." Make sure to review what your default is set to, to ensure that you still have the settings you want and that you're not inadvertently revealing private information.

The recent update has also made it easier for you to choose which privacy setting you want for any content you plan to put up. Each post has a dropdown menu on the side that offers you three basic privacy settings to choose from: public, friends, or custom. With custom, you can choose specific friends, as well as what degree in your network you want your update to be open to.

Honestly, the online world is so vast, that it's very important that you know how to protect yourself and the information that's revealed about you online. With stalkers, stolen identities, hackers, and others out there, there's a lot that can potentially be dangerous , so you really want to make sure that your privacy settings are set the way you want them to be.

Don't be complacent when it comes to your privacy. Make sure that only the things you want revealed about you are out there. Truly, when it comes to social media, the best thing to remember is actually not to post anything that you don't want the world to see. Because even if you make the update for your friends only, you can't really predict if your friends will share that information with other people, since you don't really control them. The only thing you really have control over is what you choose to post online, so remember to always think before you post.

Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/social-marketing-articles/the-importance-of-privacy-on-facebook-or-any-other-online-network-5322000.html

About the Author

"Maria Elena Duron, CEO (chief engagement officer), buzz2bucks | a word of mouth marketing firm, is skilled at making networks "work" and harnessing powerful online and offline buzz, she facilitates online visibility services and word of mouth coaching and workshops – taking companies and professionals from buzz-worthy to bucks-worthy, http://buzz2bucks.com."

2011-10-13T22:22:00.000-07:00

Internet Marketing Guide - 4 Content Marketing Miscues

Internet marketing campaigns revolve around 3 things - search engine optimization, social media and content marketing.

These marketing efforts are referred to as pull strategies. These are the marketing efforts that are designed to "pull in" your target clients, instead of pushing them to make favorable buying decisions.

The oft-repeated adage in Internet marketing - content is king - remains as relevant as ever. After all these emerging developments and shifts, the content of your Webpage remains to be the lynchpin of Internet marketing. Search engines scour the pages of your Website to assess if such pages measure up to the search query. On the other hand, your target readers will follow the content of your blogs, whitepapers, articles, etc. in order to get a clear picture of the product or services that you are offering.

This means that you need to generate quality content to build your reputation online. You have to exert extra effort to show that you are a trusted and reliable source of information. Thus, if you want to hit the jackpot in your Internet marketing campaign, you have to work on your content.

There are 4 common pitfalls that you must avoid in your Internet marketing campaign. These are the following:

Inadequate Fresh Content

Fresh content is the lifeblood of content marketing. This may appear to be a perfect case of redundancy. How would you perceive a blog site where the latest post is already a few weeks old? Blogs that are generally stagnant are considered by readers as fairly useless and won't waste their time reading through the content. You are losing out on the opportunity to rank well at Google since each of the posts in your blog can target various keywords and these can help improve your online presence.

Connecting with the Wrong Audience

Follow the basic rule in marketing - profile your potential clients. You must monitor who are reading your blog posts regularly. Carefully assess if you are missing out on some earning opportunities from other segments of the market. Determine what your priorities are. Do you want to build your reputation as an expert in a particular field or niche? Or do you want to share information with your target clients? You must also get a good grip of the online behavior of your target readers and find out what they are looking for when they browse the Web.

Coming Off as a Hard Sell

You will surely mess up your Internet marketing campaign if you treat your content marketing as your medium in selling your product or service. You have to remember that your primary objective is not to sell but to market your product or service. You are into content marketing to "help" your potential clients. Your readers will surely not appreciate it if you sound a bit too "promotional" when you provide content for your blog.

Producing Content without Promotional Value

On the opposite end of the spectrum, you should find ways to promote your product or service without going overboard and appear to be a hard sell. Learn of the "stealth" techniques so that you can get the desired response from your readers. When you produce a great article or white paper, you can get positive response from your target audience. This puts you closer to your main objective of developing a potential business through higher CTRs. Make yourself visible on the Web. Get those posts on your social profiles, company newsletters and social bookmarking sites. Of course , don't forget to put share buttons on your blogs so that your target audience can republish or link to them.

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For more resources about internet marketing check out Choose Income program. There is also a great program called Niche Conqueror that can be very successful.

2011-10-06T20:26:00.000-07:00

Learn to Turn both Negative and Positive Events into Success

Author: Andrew Horton

It is not possible or even desirable to live a one sided life, where everything just goes smoothly, without any challenge. The early Chinese cultures recognised that it was impossible to experience anything from only one perspective, many thousands of years ago and introduced the concept of Yin and Yang to help people understand and utilise this concept to their advantage. If we lived only one sided, positive lives as depicted in a popular movie a few years ago, there would be little incentive to expand and grow. It is very often the very challenges that cross our paths that highlight new possibility or force us to stretch ourselves onto new planes of development and growth.

After accepting this universal law and understanding that most of the stress we face in our lives, is a direct result of our unrealistic expectation that everything should just go smoothly and that nothing should cross our path to challenge or stretch us. We have discovered a tool that will allow us to live a life that is filled with far less stress and we are able to explore any challenges far sooner, discover the opportunity they hold or unlock the learning they bring. I have asked many people that have attended one of my presentations, whether they are better or worse off after facing any challenge. After sufficient time has passed and they have learnt all they can learn from the process of overcoming any challenge, they have become more and in every case they have attracted more into their lives. Everyone I have asked this question, has unanimously stated that challenges were always one of the best things that happened to them.

So what are you waiting for, expect challenges, plan for them and search and discover the opportunities that each challenge holds, as quickly as possible. You always get to choose how you respond to any challenge that crosses your path, so the sooner you choose to learn from any challenge and to discover how to turn them into an opportunity for you to become more, as a result of the challenge, the faster you will attract the success you desire and deserve.

After accepting this universal law and embracing all the benefits that this new understanding will bring, it is time to add one additional tool into the mix. Find a way to bring a little more Yin or a softer approach into your life. Stop expecting to be able to outsmart, outwit and outdo everyone around you. Accept that we are all part of the same whole and the more we learn to co-operate and work together the better the results we will enjoy.

Work to build great personal relationships, become an effective connector and build as many support structures around you as possible. This softer approach in which you are always looking for ways to help others get what they want, supporting as many people as possible, will see you have exactly the same reflected back to you. Take sincere interest in other people's lives and strive to connect with people on a deep level, where there is always mutual benefit to be had by all parties.

It is time to get out of your head and to begin to trust your gut. As you learn to trust your intuition, you connect and support people the right people, who will support and assist you in return, you have discovered a pathway to master your life. It is time to accept that we cannot live a one-sided positive life only and that if we cultivate and demonstrate more yin energy, compassion, sensitivity, insightfulness and connection, with everyone around us, we have created a solid foundation for building the future we desire.

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About the Author

Hi my name is Andrew Horton; I am an inspirational Speaker, Master Teacher, Radio and TV Host, Global Traveler and Author. My area of focus is in the field of human behavior, expanded awareness and enlightenment. I travel the planet constantly researching, learning and seeking ways to unlock the mysteries of the human mind. I delve into the inner workings of the universe, always looking for ways to understand my role in making things better and contributing to the improvement of the human experience. Please visit my website to sign up for a daily inspirational message by following this link Daily Inspirational Message. This is your daily call to action, a reminder to do things better each day. Visit my website at http://www.andrewhorton.co.za

The Top 10 Ways to Build Backlinks

2011-09-29T16:37:00.000-07:00

Author: C. Rambo

Backlinks are incoming links to a website or a webpage. They are also commonly referred to as incoming links, inbound links, inlinks and inward links.

Why are backlinks so important?

Backlinks are the most important factor for determining a website's search engine ranking. The number of backlinks is an indication of popularity – the links themselves are synonymous to votes. The website with the most votes is the most important, and these websites rank higher on organic search queries in Google, Yahoo!, Bing and other search engines.

The backlinks themselves must meet several criteria. The links must be placed on relevant pages that hold a good search engine rank. Also, search engines do not just care about the number of backlinks, but how these links were achieved. If a website builds too many backlinks within a month, for example because they used a backlink purchasing service, then the search engine may discredit these links and the importance of the website because the backlinks were not created organically.

For these reasons, the quality of backlinks is more important than the quantity of links.

One of the best strategies to achieve more backlinks is a geometric link building strategy that requires a website to gradually build backlinks over time. Listed below are the top ten ways to attain more backlinks in order to improve the website's overall page rank and SEO.

1. Website Directories
Submit company information and website URL to online directories. These sites typically offer two options: users can submit basic information for free, or create an enhanced listing for a low monthly or annual cost.
2. RSS Directories
Submit feeds to company blogs and websites to RSS (Really Simple Syndication) directories for free or at a cost. Directory visitors can explore blogs and articles in specific industries and niches.
3. Press Release Distribution Sites
Submit news articles and press releases to free and/or paid news distribution websites. Depending on the website, services can include distributing articles to every major news site and search engine on the web, and giving detailed analytics of the press release.
4. Article Marketing/Article Directories
Post articles and other content to these sites for more exposure, credibility and targeted traffic. A membership is typically required (for free or at a price).
5. Build Company Blog
Create a company blog (if it does not exist already) and publish more content and posts. This will increase the probability of the articles being reiterated. Also, notable individuals could be interviewed in order to build readership.
6. Blog/Forum Commenting
Comment on blogs and forums that are relevant to a niche and have good page rank. Add a backlink in the signature line. Make sure that the website allows URL posting in the comments.
7. Guest Blogging
Offer to write free content for a website that is relevant to industry. In exchange, add a backlink in the byline of the article.
8. Social Bookmarking Sites
Utilize bookmarks that reference and share online resources on social media and other bookmarking sites. These communities allow people to discover and share content relevant to their interests.
9. Testimonials
Write testimonials for clients, suppliers and other collaborators and ask them to post it to their websites.
10. Joint Ventures/Partnerships
Ask friends, acquaintances, partners and the like to post the backlink URL to their webpage. Be sure to offer to reciprocate the favor.

Collectively, these ten recommendations will create an efficient and effective backlink building strategy. It is important to differentiate the links; use deep links that navigate to other pages on the website apart from the homepage. The most important takeaway concept is that quality beats quantity. Create backlinks that are relevant to an industry or niche. In the long-term this will boost search engine page rank.

About Modern Mail

Since 2004, Modern Mail has maintained strong capabilities in its three divisions: integrated direct marketing, collateral management and transaction processing. Based in Newark, Delaware, the company utilizes multiple channels to deliver cutting edge campaigns to its clients that increase both response rates and return on investment. For further information, Caitlin Rambo can be reached by way of email at caitlin.rambo@modernmail.com, or visit the Modern Mail website athttp://www.modernmail.com.

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3 Cutting-Edge MLM Lead Generation Secrets the Guru's Won't Tell You about!

2011-09-22T18:13:00.000-07:00

Author: Tyler Pratt

Have you been searching around looking for the secrets to network marketing lead generation? Well your not alone, and this is the reason lead generation companies make huge profits from selling leads. Why would these lead generation companies not just take the leads and build a huge downline in an mlm company? Because they make more money selling the leads to desperate business owners or new people looking to build a downline in there own mlm company.

Companies that sell leads are never any good because they are sold way to many times and are not targeted. You may have seen the commercials on TV that show people making all kinds of money online and then ask you to call a phone number. People will call in and give there information. This is a new lead and will be sold out to 20 or more people. Then this poor person who is looking for an opportunity gets hammered by 20 marketers all trying to get them into there opportunity. And all the leads sold are never targeted, they are usually home based business seekers and those are not the Network Marketing leads you seek.

So what is the answer to generating quality leads. The answer is very simple and may be a surprise.

I'm going to give you 3 simple online marketing techniques you can use today to generate more leads for your business.

1. The first is to create your own blog. This will be your central hub for training others looking for success in network marketing. You can build your blog using wordpress and have an autoresponder on the sidebar collecting leads. Put together a small "how to" pdf that you will then give away for Free in exchange for a name and email. The back end autoresponder will then send out other training materials to your new leads. This will help you build a relationship with the leads and hopefully you can then present your opportunity.

2. The second marketing technique is to write articles and send the traffic to a lead capture page. Setup your articles to give out tips and other marketing secrets instructing people to click on the link for more information. Articles are very popular with search engines because its valuable fresh content. Search engines will then rank the articles high targeted keyword searches. If you give high quality information in your article then people will want to visit your page and enter in there email. This will give you a constant stream of high quality targeted leads.

3. The 3rd marketing technique to generate leads is with video marketing. Videos a great way to show others that your a leader and truly do care about there success. After you get done writing your article go create a video with the information in that article. What this does is capture those that may not want to read your article and will then watch your video. In the description of the video add your link back to your lead capture page. If your video is of high quality, giving huge value, people will have no problem entering in there name and email for more information.

I'm not sure if you noticed this but all 3 of these marketing techniques are FREE. You get to generate all the leads you want without spending one dime. And all the leads are targeted, so when you call them they are ready to join your opportunity.

If you want Big success with your primary network marketing company it requires first branding yourself and lead generation. Learn to become and Alpha Networker and build your MLM downline faster both online and offline.

Get online training to help you Sponsor more Reps is now available with Tyler Pratt

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2011-09-14T18:03:00.000-07:00

7 Ways To Stop Procrastinating

Author: Amuro Wesley

Let me ask you a question. Are you a victim of procrastination? Do you often find yourself putting off or delaying things that you should get done immediately? Though you may draw comfort from the fact that there are others like you, you must realize that you need to stop procrastinating if you really want to achieve success in life. Here are 7 ways to help you stop procrastinating.

1. Plan Out Your Daily Must-Do Activities

By doing so, you will have a clearer mind of what you should and must do before taking action immediately.

2. Prioritize Your Activities

Other than planning, you need to prioritize your activities by starting with the most important ones and ending with the least important.

The general rule of success is that 80 per recent rewards usually accrue from 20 per cent or more effort on the most important tasks.

3. Estimate The Time Required For Each Activity

Avoid underestimation as you may not have enough time to do every task well. Likewise, avoid overestimation for that may leave some activities unattended without enough time.

A realistic budgeting of time is a must. Time allocation is a skill that is acquired with experience. So keep reviewing and revising your time schedule as you progress.

4. Organize Your Life

Organizing your life helps you to avoid spending your precious time on things that will benefit you on long run.

Remember that indiscipline causes confusion and even chaos in life.

For instance, leave your personal belongings of daily use like your glasses, your clothing, your mobile phone, laptop etc in the same place. By doing this, you do not need to waste time looking for them all over the place.

Also apply the principle of doing work first and then taking time for pleasure and relaxation later. This is not just what you and I should do but also what all successful people do.

5. Start Working Bit By Bit

You may see a mountain initially. But mountains can be moved. Especially if you move just a small stone from it. Though you know you cannot move the entire mountain at once, do not be overwhelmed by the immensity of the task before you. For that will put you off.

Just begin by taking one small step and you will invariably accomplish your goal.

6. Put First Things First Early In The Day

Remember procrastination grows into a habit every minute. Begin your day by focusing on the most important task needing to be done.

7. Learning To Cope With Anxiety, Depression And Stress

Keep yourself fit.

Not just physically but mentally. Learn and practice appropriate relaxation exercises like mediation.

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Discover how you can unlock your full potential and take it to new soaring heights the same way Adam Khoo did with his Neutro-Linguistic Programming or NLP here.

2011-09-06T17:12:00.000-07:00

The Advantages of Having A Great Domain NameAuthor: robertcorinadam

Think about the first thing that you notice when browsing through listings of search engines. What is the first thing you notice about the website you are about to click on? The page layout, content, images? That's unlikely ? we are most likely to look at the domain name and title of the web page before clicking on the link, so that we can filter out the junk websites from what we are actually looking for.

There's a reason why websites such as Google, Amazon and Facebook all receive millions of hits per day. Is it because their owners put in a lot of time and effort into the company? Yes, certainly; but one of the other reasons is due to the unique and catchy domain names that their creators bought for them. The success of a new website is based on a few factors, one of which is the relevance and uniqueness of the domain name.

Dare to be different and get noticed

Education domain names do not have to be part of the same regurgitated nonsense. We've all seen domain names that lack creativity and are very bland, and really want to see domain names that tell us exactly what the website is about. By telling your users exactly what you are going to offer (advice on education, employment opportunities within schools, financial aid for education, school reviews etc.) you can maximise your level of exposure on search engines. Simple search engine optimisation and a good domain name can lead to your website becoming ranked much higher than if you did not spend the extra money securing that desirable domain name.

It's an investment - truly

You really need to think about your domain name as a crucial investment for your business. People can spend hundreds of pounds on the website layout and employ content writers for thousands of pounds per year, but the reality is that if your domain name is not up to a good standard (perhaps uses a free extension host or a cheap one unrelated to the country of origin) then you are spending the money on a layout and content for nothing ? it's the domain name that will secure you visitors!

Coming across as a professional can be very difficult for a completely online business. You have very few tools at your disposal to show that you are a credible business, but one of the most effective ways to do so is through securing a good domain name. Education domain names that have clearly been engineered to save money (using a low-level extension) or lack originality can be detrimental to your credibility.

Self perpetuating marketing tool

One thing that you should remember is that domain names will not cost you a lot of money once you have secured it for your site. The renewal price of your new domain name is usually fairly low (especially compared to the expensive server web hosting) when compared to its effectiveness at bringing visitors and custom. A domain name as an investment is crucial if you bear in mind the other factors that you will be spending money on, potentially reaping you fewer visitors. With a combination of reliable hosting, a good domain name and good knowledge of search engines, you can guarantee business.

Education domain names offer a great opportunity for getting a domain name that is specific and desirable. Domains with the words 'degree', 'teaching' and 'school' can help to tie-in with the keyword search engine optimisation that you can employ with your website to really boost the number of hits that you receive one thing that you should never underestimate is the power of what a domain name can do for your business.

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2011-08-26T21:16:00.000-07:00

6 Great Tips Writing Articles for Readers
Author: fred holt

Are you a writer? Would you like to increase the effectiveness of your articles? Are you feeling unsure about your audience or your ability to reach them? In order to build self confidence, the more you know, the more you can grow.

The clearer you can be about your reader and your message, the more widely your work will be accepted. So, will you take a few minutes and make some notes (either mentally or on the printed paper.)

Who

Who are you writing for?

Who is your target audience?

How do they learn information?

What

Is the problem they want they are having?

Do you want them to feel?

Action do you want them to take after reading the article?

When

Will your piece be out before, while, or after the problem occurs?

Can you tie the article to a national event to get more coverage?

How

Can you help them solve that problem?

Empower them to solve their own dilemma.

Assist them to identify with the article

Trust you and want to build a relationship?

Where will they be reading it?

Online, article, blog, post, forum

Offline print magazine (national or local)

Side bar, opinion page

Why

Should they believe and trust you?

Should they agree/disagree with you?

Should they buy from you?

Why

Should they believe and trust you?

Should they agree/disagree with you?

Should they buy from you?

Fred Holt, M.A. (English) from University of New Jersey, specialized in teaching content writing, business, and technical communication. He is skilled in MLA, APA, and Chicago manuals of style. His work included writing, editing and proofreading Seo writing and write articles. He has also written many other documents, including resumes, application letters, bibliographies and also buy articles service.

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Fred Holt, M.A. (English) from University of New Jersey, specialized in teaching content writing, business, and technical communication. He is skilled in MLA, APA, and Chicago manuals of style. His work included writing, editing and proofreading Seo writing and article writing services. He has also written many other documents, including resumes, application letters, bibliographies and also buy articles service.

2011-08-15T20:30:00.000-07:00

Niche Research - Essential For Success
Author: Rachel Marx

Whenever you create a website or blog, the first step is always niche research. Not only is it the most important step in the process, it's also one that you cannot change once you've created the website. If you choose a bad product to promote, switching it with another product is relatively easy to do. The same can't be said for the niche. When performing niche research, there are a few criteria that you should keep in mind. Failing to follow these criteria can render a campaign useless or yield very low profits at most.

Is It Really That Vital?

In short, yes. If you have ever created a website where you had followed all the steps correctly, had it ranking well on the search engines, and wondered why it wasn't generating the profits that it was supposed to, then there's a good chance that you didn't do niche research properly. It can be very easy to overlook this step, since most people tend to focus on building their website and then getting ranked highly for their keywords. Once their site gets some traffic, they wonder why it isn't converting. The likely reason is that the niche within their website is not one where there are lots of "buyers." Niche marketing can be tough to figure out, but it does get easier with experience.

So How Do You Do It?

When performing niche research, there are a few characteristics that the niche should have:

It should be an "evergreen" niche. Avoid short-lived niches that are trends or fads.
Make sure that there is a large enough audience or your site will suffer from lack of traffic.
Try to target a niche with a passionate audience. Niches with highly passionate visitors are more likely to generate money.
Don't run from competition. In fact, competition can be a good indicator that the niche is profitable.
Ask yourself the question, "How can I make an offer?" Avoid niches where you cannot think of a way to make an offer to your visitors.

If you do niche marketing research with these points in mind, you are much more likely to find a market that is profitable. When you do your keyword research, you should also be using long tail keywords, which are more targeted. Depending on the type of keywords you choose, conversions can be very low or very high. In general, you will want to go for "buyer" keywords or any keywords that are clearly seeking to solve a problem. I personally find that using software can help a lot with researching your niche and keywords, and cut down on a lot of time. My favourite software for niche research is Niche Finder, which is an excellent application. It gives you just enough information, unlike some software that tend to overload you with (unnecessary) information. When you search for a keyword, it will return an extremely helpful list of long tailed keywords related to your search query. You can tell exactly how competitive a keyword will be with this software, which has saved a ton of time and headache. Regardless of whether or not you use software for niche research, you should still devote a reasonable amount of time to it - the results that you get back from good niche research will be tenfold.

Concluding Thoughts

By now, it should be clear that niche marketing research is crucial to the success of your website. This is one of the most important decisions that you will make for your campaign. Once you pick your niche, it cannot be changed after you've built your site. Focus on picking potentially profitable niches with a large audience. Niches where people are trying to solve a problem or where there is a lot of passion are usually the ones that make the most money. Once you've done niche marketing research properly and selected a profitable niche, you will have taken the first step towards success.

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2011-08-06T10:40:00.000-07:00

5 Ways to Get Better Response From Your Email Messages

by Darren Olander

Email marketing messages are still one of the most effective ways to reach your audience. Despite the rise of social media, industry wide reports show that email marketing is dollar for dollar one of the most effective ways to move your leads from warm leads to buyers who are ready to purchase from you. If you're currently using email marketing and are less than impressed with the results, it's time to do an audit of your messages and your strategy. By making a few important tweaks to your campaigns and messages you can get all that there is to get out of email marketing practices.

1. Make sure that you have a complete follow up sequence once new people join your list.

Email marketing is all about building relationships and there's no better time to do that than right when someone new joins your list. You should be sure to have at least seven follow up messages for new subscribers. Seven messages give your audience enough familiarity with you to be memorable. It will also give you the opportunity to show off your value as a source of information.

2. Work on your subject lines.

Your open rate is one of the biggest indicators that your email marketing messages are getting through to your intended audience. The biggest way to affect your open rate is to make sure your subject lines are engaging and interesting. For example, if you send out a weekly newsletter use a subject line that hints at the content of the newsletter rather than "Newsletter #22."

3. Give a bonus now and then.

Keep your email list members on their toes by sending out a special bonus now and then. Be sure to emphasize this is the subject line in order to get them to click open. Not only will it endear you to your list members, but it will also train them to open your emails more regularly. By sending occasional bonuses - like special discounts, reports and ebooks, you can increase your open rates and clickthroughs.

4. Be consistent.

Sending regular messages helps your audience get to know you. They'll come to expect your messages and you'll be able to get better open and response rates. There's nothing worse than sending a message out once and then dropping out of sight for several months. When you do decide to send more messages after a break like that, your audience may not remember who you are or why they signed up for your list. An autoresponder sequence can help with staying consistent but after the sequence is done, you need to have a plan to follow up regularly.

5. Ask them what they'd like to read.

Giving your audience exactly what they want to read is a key part of getting them to open and respond to your messages. Conducting a survey will give you important insight into the type of information your audience wants to read. Use the results of the survey to help you create stellar content and special bonuses that speak directly to the needs of your audience.

2011-07-25T21:15:00.000-07:00

Deadbeat Super Affiliate - Can You Make Money With Amazon?

By: Cortney Yoder

Deadbeat Super Affiliate may sound like an odd name for a product and it may not seem apparent exactly what the content of the training is from the title of the course. The creator, Dan Brock, is an affiliate marketer who generates a lot of money on the Internet. By creating different income streams that in many instances run on autopilot, he lives a lifestyle that is maybe the inspiration behind the name of the course. Amazon's affiliate program is the primary focus of this course and how you can make money as an associate.

Basically, the reasons you can earn commissions as an associate of Amazon are rather straightforward. If buyers are doing a search at Amazon's site, in many cases they are searching to buy and if you can place yourself into that ordering process, you can make comparatively good commissions. If you send someone to Amazon, this should not trigger any concerns with consumers because their website is a household name. It should also not be too hard to identify a niche to generate money from because there are so many goods available in their marketplace.

Since there are so many items and niches to promote, one of the harder things to do as an affiliate is to select the right ones to promote. Luckily, Dan came up with a system as to how you can do this to ensure you generate a nice income with your selections. There are videos that demonstrate to you how to accomplish this and you will see him going through the Amazon marketplace for the right product. One objection people sometimes have with the Amazon affiliate program is the dismal commission rates. Nonetheless, it is the actual cost of the product you should consider. You will be helped to decide on a market by the measures Dan shows you.

So the initial part of the training is all about which goods to promote and keyword research. Now that you know the products you wish to make money from, it is time to discover how you actually do this. The starting point of registering a domain and finding a web host is perhaps something you already know how to do. Nonetheless, the way to pick out your domain is crucial so it is recommended that you do watch all the steps. The websites you are going to create are basically Wordpress blogs which you are shown how to do although once again this is may be something you already have experience of.

The web site you put up will obviously need content and here Dan will show you everything you need to know about the structure of articles for your web site. Articles are based on the work you did earlier in terms of product keywords. The last phase, is then to begin getting valuable links back to your web sites so that they start ranking in the various search engines.

This is an extensive course taking you from researching your niche to creating your websites to maximize sales. Written notes with useful resources accompany the videos and to elucidate important points.

There are a lot of opportunities to earn commissions with Amazon and Deadbeat Super Affiliate can show you how.

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2011-07-17T19:18:00.000-07:00

What Is Social Media Marketing?
Author:
Socialfactory

If you fall into any one of the following categories, like:

the ones who don\'t know much or anything about social media,
the ones who are interested but don\'t know how to use it and
those who don\'t believe in the value that a social media strategy can bring to any site or business

you must read this article to know how big a deal is social media and the enormous benefits of social media marketing.

Social media is information content created by people using highly accessible and scalable publishing technologies that is intended to facilitate communications, influence and interaction with peers and with public audiences. This is typically done via the Internet and mobile communications networks. Today this practice is being enjoyed by executives and professionals for brand exposure and marketing.

Do you make these mistakes to market your brand or services?

Use Yellow page ads that cost thousands of dollars, yet bring in little new business?
Spend money on direct mailers that also have limited results.
How about money spent on print advertising. How effective is it?
Are you spending lots of money optimizing your website but still have little traffic.
Spend money on Pay Per Click Advertising Campaigns, with limited results.

Can you improve your business if you know:

What is being said about you.
What your customers think about your product or service.
What your customers really want.
What your competitors are doing.
How to stay up to date with the latest trends and developments.
How to make your business more profitable.

Nothing provides a better return on investment than having a network of people raving about you and it doesn\'t matter what product or service you sell. So let\'s have a look onto the benefits of social media viral marketing.

The value of Marketing through Social Media Channels

Social media marketing is the process of promoting your site or business through social media channels and it is a powerful strategy that will get you links, attention and massive amounts of traffic.Social media marketing is an engagement with online communities to generate exposure, opportunity and sales. The number-one advantage is generating exposure for the business, followed by increasing traffic and building new business partnerships. It is a powerful strategy that will get you links, attention and massive amounts of traffic.

What are the benefits?

It\'s natural. No doubt you get natural links, your website is exposed to a large number of people. This differs from paid advertising which has overt commercial overtones.

It\'s defensible. Social communities can be a great source of web traffic on top of any traffic you are already receiving from search engines. While you can\'t easily increase your search engine traffic, social media traffic can be very easily controlled through strategic marketing.

It\'s low-cost/high returns. Costs are limited to only time and perhaps the expenses involved in hiring a freelance programmer/designer. The benefits will often exceed the cost. It would take you thousands of dollars to buy many links; social media has the ability to give you that for free.

It complements other efforts. Social media optimization and marketing is usually community-specific. It doesn\'t interfere with any other methods of getting traffic to your website. It can and will fit perfectly with an advertising campaign targeting other websites or search engines.

There is no other low-cost promotional method out there that will easily give you large numbers of visitors, some of whom may come back to your website again and again. If you are selling products/services or just publishing content for ad revenue, social media marketing is a potent method that will make your site profitable over time.

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2011-07-06T20:58:00.000-07:00

Advantages Of Twitter Advertising For Business

Author: Steve

The concept of twitter advertising means online product promotion. It is just one of the many social networking sites that are gaining popularity to every businessman all over the world. The fact that every update input on a twitter account is limited to only 140 words signifies concise thoughts, short comments, and catchy advertising. There are clients who are not inclined into reading long ads thus, the shorter the ad the better.

The very basic advantage of the social network compared to the other modes to promote a business, is that it has a global market. Businessmen situated from one area can promote their company products worldwide. This only proves that social media platforms are an efficient marketing tool especially for marketing personnel who have hectic working schedules.

The fact that these sites are an open forum makes it more beneficial to foster conversation from one end of the globe to the other end. The degree of connection between the prospective customers and the business company is necessarily elevated to a higher degree. Although, a given account can limit the number of people whom it wishes to connect, this does not alter the fact that people will eventually follow every business ad they like.

As a social networking site, one can effectively facilitate speedy and quick advertising rather than dialing the telephone numbers of every client and sending emails to all potential buyers. The process of doing telephone calls and emailing can be more expensive and time consuming than posting an update in the tweet box. Besides, marketing experts cannot possibly have all the numbers and email addresses in the world only promote a newly developed product.

Announcing grand business events like special sales and big discounted sales is best done in social platforms. The need to update a and post to an account regularly is very important in order to keep the followers all the time. Customers have the tendency to look for fresh updates. When they are used to seeing new posts, they shall keep track on it.

There are times that business managers need reset their appointments to another schedule because of work exigencies. In order not to disappoint the people expecting the meeting, your user account can be used to inform them about the changes made even up to the very last minute. It becomes certain then that all concern is able to read such changes.

Both owners and business managers on the go can perfectly make use of their twitter accounts to monitor, instruct, guide, and update their personnel wherever they are. In like manner, confidential employees and high ranking workers can always communicate with their managers on urgent matters such business decision-making. This promotes open and quick communication between and among parties.

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2011-06-29T18:33:00.000-07:00

How to Write Powerful and Niche Relevant Articles in Less Than an Hour

What follows in this Article is a simple “Step-By-Step” formula for writing powerful niche relevant articles in less than 1 hour. It might take you a little while to get to grips with it, but once you've got the hang of it and got yourself over the learning curve, you will be able to produce keyword rich, search engine optimised articles at the drop of a hat. I say this from experience, because I used to be terrified about the thought of writing an article, but, once I understood and applied this formula, I found that they seem to come together quite easily now.

The benefits of writing articles far out-weigh the fear of having to write them, so when reading this article, keep an open mind and ensure you understand it thoroughly, if you have to read it more than once, then so be it.

Writing articles is very powerful and in my opinion, the best way to build trust and credibility with your brand, and within your niche. If people see you as an expert then your views and opinions (expressed through your articles) are seen as valuable pieces of information. So, without further ado, let’s go to Step 1.

Step 1. Targeting Your Audience.

The first thing you need to establish is which audience (target market) are you trying to reach. This is critical to the overall outcome of your article and what actions your reader/customer is to do next, once they’ve read your article. So, make sure you know who you want to target.

Step 2. Your Attention Grabbing “Headline”/"Title".

The "Headline" is probably the single most important step/part when it comes to writing your article because this is what’s used to “entice” your potential reader/customer in to read your article. Let’s use the “Headline” for this article as an example:

"How to Write Powerful and Niche Relevant Articles in Less Than an Hour"

Notice how the main benefit you’ll receive from reading the article, is all contained within the title, this is an absolute MUST, as this is what you want to convey to your potential reader/customer.

Step 3. Explain Your Position Regarding the Article Topic.

This next step is where you Clearly and Completely introduce your article with a couple of sentences that explain your position on the topic contained within the “Headline” of your article. At this point make sure you don’t leave people hanging, but, at the same time, don’t hand them the keys to the store either. Give them the "sizzle" not the "steak" Take a look at how I started out this article as an example.

Step 4. List off the Main Points you Want to Cover.

This is where you list off your main BULLET points. You don’t have to come up with a lot… IT really depends on what you INTEND TO COVER.

Step 5. Elaborate on each point you wrote down.

After you’ve finished writing down your main bullet points, the next step is to elaborate on each of them with a couple of sentences.

Step 6. Finish With a Conclusion.

You’ve established who your target audience is, You’ve created your attention grabbing “Headline” to entice your readers, and you’ve bulleted and elaborated on your main points with a few sentences. Now… it’s time for the “Conclusion”, put simply, your “Conclusion” is your chance to tell your readers why this article is important and to get them to take action.

Step 7. Put Together a Compelling “Resource Box”.

Your “Resource Box” is where you put your copyright info and website contact information. There are many styles of resource box layout so, a good idea is to visit some article directories and have a look at other articles to see how others are putting their resource boxes together or have a look at mine at the end of this article, up to you.

Well, there you are, “How to Write Powerful and Niche Relevant Articles in Less Than An Hour”.

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2011-06-23T19:44:00.000-07:00

Blogging is booming. Look who's blogging... and why.

By Dr. Jeffrey Lant

I feel lucky to be alive and on the cutting edge of what is fast becoming The Age of Blogging... and you should feel the same way.

And if, by some chance, you don't know what a blog is and how it works for your benefit, you are lucky again; I'm going to reveal the true importance of blogs and some key observations on how to derive maximum benefit from them.

Why blogging is sweeping the 'net and the globe.

Consider this.

The history of machine publishing begins in 1454 with the preparation of what became known as the Gutenberg Bible. It took over a year before finished copies were available. This was thought to be -- and was -- a great advance; hitherto books had to be copied by hand, a process that resulted in many errors, of omission and commission.

Printing the Gutenburg Bible was a laborious process; as a result today just 21 copies are known.

Over the centuries publishing developed.

Books were easier to print... there were many more publishers to print them (thereby increasing the number of opinions and points of view available).... and in due course publishing advanced to where books could be universally distributed and available.

But all this, important as it was, was as nothing compared to the most signal advance since Gutenburg himself.

This is the blog.

A blog is the publishing marvel which enables any person anywhere to post and distribute any message they want any time they want. It expunges the middle man, called the publisher, from the publishing equation and enables the new publishers -- you! -- to set their own agenda and make sure that their message is written just so... and distributed worldwide within minutes.

The implications of this development are staggering. Until just the other day (in historical terms), to get your message out to the world, you either had to persuade a publisher or his designated representative (an editor) to publish your article... or you had to establish your own publication with all the expense and uncertainty that entailed.

These days the process is radically different.

Subscribe to a blogging service. Write your message. Update your message as necessary and desirable, even daily.

And, always and forever, keep building your subscriber lists so that more and more people see what you have written.

No longer must writers cringe like Uriah Heap before publishers; you, not they, control your content and can shape and refine it to the satisfaction of a single individual -- you! This has never happened before in the history of mankind and is an event of the highest significance for our species as a whole and the crucial availability and distribution of information.

So, who's blogging?

Powerful institutions are not always known for their ability to move quickly, understanding change and working at once to use such change to their advantage. But the advent of the blog has caused many to leap into this brave new world. One of many examples is Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley, Archbishop of Boston, Massachusetts, a prince of the Church, beloved of the Pontiff.

O'Malley has become one of his Church's "go to" guys in the pedophile priest scandal and its related sexual issues. Like other Church leaders, I suspect O'Malley has been grievously unhappy about the constant drumbeat of terrible press his beloved church has attracted. You can imagine his eminence's eyes popping as he learned about the blog and grasped its implications. He probably jigged about his office...

O'Malley no longer needs to submit to the impertinent, probing questions of pesky reporters and their insistent editors. Instead, he can shape and nuance his message just the way he wants it, to the very last comma. This is an unadulterated benefit for O'Malley... though not necessarily for truth since those pesky reporters authority figures do not like... are the means of digging, digging and digging some more; now they would be, to a significant degree, cut out of the process. The O'Malley's of the world can breathe easier.

Recently (June, 2011), O'Malley used his blog to deal with a nasty issue that had parishioners of every hue very angry indeed. A liberal priest (no, not a tautology) had announced a "liturgy to commemorate Boston Pride 2011," an annual celebration of the city's gay, lesbian, and transgendered community. Conservative Catholics were enraged, many of them blogging their anger.

This, then, had the result of having the mass "postponed" (church-speak for "it won't happen until hell freezes over, if then"). This, of course, had the predictable result of angering the liberals... and causing their blogs to erupt in a frenzy of vituperation.

What's a poor prince to do?

In years past, his eminence would have been forced by the hostilities of his brethren to go before the media and submit to questioning. That is not a thing princes like to do; in fact they abhor this profoundly irritating and degrading event of lese majeste'.

Now they blog... now no one ever sees them sweat... because they no longer sweat at all!

O'Malley, thanks to his growing proficiency as a frequent blogger, dealt with this more than tempest-in-a-tea-cup when HE wanted, how HE wanted... his blog carefully nuanced to his liking. In due course, working behind the scenes, with the message completely his without having to bother with reporters, the matter was solved.... at least this time.

Not as smart: the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams.

Whereas Cardinal O'Mallley got the point about blogs and their utility, the Archbishop of Canterbury, senior cleric in the Church of England, did not. In the most recent (June, 2011) issue of the "New Statesman" magazine, his grace lashes out at the Conservative - Liberal Democrat coalition, which came to power 13 months ago. Williams was appointed in 2002 by Labor Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Willams, way behind the technology curve, missed a grand opportunity not merely to get his message out to a worldwide audience far larger than the readership of a single magazine, but to grow his list (something no serious blogger can overlook).

He opted for the traditional paper method... and that instantly limited the effectiveness of what he had to say. Had he, instead, set up a blog and posted his message there... his readership would have exploded and he would have added a host of new readers to his blog... where he could have worked early and late to convert them to his often irritating point of view.

His grace will learn, however; he really has no choice. No "leader" of any kind does. For all, for each, it's "blog or atrophy and die." The same applies to you... which is why you must blog today, tomorrow, forever, or create your own irrelevance and obsolescence, a state of affairs you would really not relish.

About the Author

Harvard-educated Dr. Jeffrey Lant is CEO of Worldprofit, Inc., providing a wide range of online services for small and-home based businesses. Dr. Lant is also the author of 18 best-selling business books.
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2011-06-15T16:09:00.000-07:00

How to write the kind of blog copy that turns readers into fans who cannot live without you!

by Dr. Jeffrey Lant

This is an article for people who want to be smart bloggers! Bloggers who change lives! Bloggers who get people to sit up, take notice and say, "Wow! That guy is right! That guy is on the money!" Bloggers who don't just want readers...

... but fans who sit next to their computers waiting for your next blog post.

In this article I am going to show you the secret to becoming a producer of "must read" copy.... and becoming, in the process, a person who goes way beyond having readers... instead creating fans.

400,000+ words in the last year.

This article celebrates achieving a "personal best" goal for me... a goal I challenged myself to make one year ago.... and which I have, with the publication of this article, now achieved. I wanted to see if I could write at least 400,000 words of copy in 365 days; not just drab, undistinguished, pedestrian copy either, but copy that's timely! Intellectually distinguished! Lyric! Insightful! Yes, the kind of copy that stops people worldwide in their tracks and forces them to sit up! Take notice! And pay attention... because they just couldn't bear to miss a single word!

And I am pleased to tell you that this is precisely what has happened! My blog, where you can find all my articles, now generates millions of hits and a stream of gratifying comments from people worldwide who feed my ego and make my day.

This is me!

And it can be you!

1) Tell stories.

The greatest communicators on earth -- Jesus! Abraham Lincoln! Mark Twain! were story tellers. They used the power of stories to make things easy for their audience to understand... and to drive home their points, no matter how difficult and complicated.

You must become a story teller, too, not just a finder and disseminator of facts. Facts alone don't move people. Mere facts don't capture minds. Facts, no matter how important, don't touch hearts. But stories do... they always do... and that is why your blog posts must rely on stories that capture people and leave them begging for more...

2) Today's successful article starts with yesterday's motivating "heads up".

If you want readers today, titillate them yesterday. You see, the power of yesterday is to entice readers today.

People will only be moved to the extent that you move them. If you want readers tomorrow... the crucial process of exciting them starts today.

"Tomorrow! A story of love! Power! Treachery and despair! A story that will move you! Outrage you! And, if there's a tear in you, cause it to fall! All coming tomorrow to a computer near you!"

This'll get 'em!

3) Write short sentences where every word counts.

Thanks to the marvelous technical tools writers have nowadays, most don't write; they "typewrite", in the withering phrase of Truman Capote. He was masterful, and he knew that writers could kill their points, their stories and their readers by pouring out too many words and sentences straining to digest them.

Don't make this mistake.

Look at the sentence length in this article... short, punchy, easy to take in at a glance...

Your sentences should move accordingly.

Moreover, prune your articles mercilessly. A sentence that exceeds just a few words is a sentence smothering itself. And dead sentences will never move live people.

4) Short paragraphs give a story the air and space they need.

Today's readers are restless readers. They are overwhelmed with information... but have the same number of hours in a day as Caesar. In short, they are looking for a reason to put your copy down... never to be picked up again.

Short paragraphs and airy lay-out forestall this tragedy.

Look at this article... short, often real short, paragraphs with pages that look inviting, easy, not prolix and hard.

Contemporary readers demand ease... and if you don't give it to them, they walk... fast.

5) Make your people real, not caricatures.

The reason volumes of commentary don't work is because its authors create card board characters. They then laud the characters they like and demolish the ones they don't. Not only is this unfair... but it makes for lousy copy.

What distinguishes the best commentary is the way you handle people whose opinions you may not only dislike, but actually abhor. Do you give them the courtesy of presenting their point of view fairly, objectively, honestly... or do you want just a cheap shot that not only misrepresents the people you're writing about... but proves you're a writer not worth reading?

This point is worth elucidating because it's one too many commentators miss.

One reason writers like writing commentary is because it turns them from word peddlers into gods, omniscient, all-powerful, always right, never wrong, with the ability to access every human heart and brain at will.

Such people of course become insufferable in short order.

Your job as a commentator is to be sure you have done everything possible to ensure that all the people you write about are presented without prejudice, honestly, completely, with sincerity and with care.

This does not mean you necessarily agree with their positions or actions. It means you intend to give your readers the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth... even if you strenuously disagree.

Only when you have done this can you in good conscience and to best effect proceed to your opinion. Because only if you have allowed even your most pernicious characters their say... can your say be meaningful, insightful, and worth reading.

Use these recommendations.

The best commentators can have enormous influence... which is why you must use your commentating position wisely, not least by producing copy that moves your readers, with every word you write.

These suggestions will help.

By using them you will produce copy -- starting today -- that changes your readers' outlook, opinion, point of view, one apt word at a time. When you do this not only will you have a legion of readers, followers and fans.... but you'll deserve them!

About the Author

Harvard-educated Dr. Jeffrey Lant is CEO of Worldprofit, Inc., providing a wide range of online services for small and-home based businesses. He is also the author of 18 best-selling business books.
Republished with author's permission by Rahimah Sultan
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2011-06-07T20:30:00.000-07:00

It's time for your bonfire of excuses. Reflections on getting out of your own way, seizing success today

by Dr. Jeffrey Lant

One way and another I have been in business for, what, over 40 years.

I have created and run businesses, right up to the present.

Taught thousands of business students of every age.

Written 18 business books and thousands of business articles.

Had a nationally syndicated radio program on business.

But you get the point. Having now established, I trust, my bone fides, I am going to have my say about why so many people who say they want to be entrepreneurs will never, ever succeed in business.

Hint: it's something millions of entrepreneurs do daily that keeps them firmly amongst the also-rans.

It's the matter of excuses. The better you are at making them, the less good you are at making money and the less success overall.

Thus, today I want to propose a new and absolutely essential project for yourself... retiring your characteristic excuses, one at a time, and then burning them in the most important fire of your life, the bonfire of excuses.

First, hear what you say and perceive how deeply ingrained excuses are in your conversation.

Language is made up of building blocks, starting from letters of the alphabet, through words, phrases, etc. By the time we're adults most of us have long since stopped paying attention to the building blocks of communication; we talk, we hope others listen to what we say because we're not listening to it ourselves. Why should we? We know what we mean, right?

Your first task today is to put yourself and your daily attempts to communicate under a microscope. To root out excuses you must first know you make them. Are you aware, for instance, how often you blame lack of time to invest in your business for your failure get ahead?

This is a classic excuse, with innumerable variations.

Here excuse means to cite as a cause for failure or inaction an event, person, or thing which in point of fact has absolutely nothing to do with the matter; to excuse yourself from responsibility and provide a spurious reason for lack of progress, growth, success. In the process you deceive all and sundry; most importantly you deceive yourself.

Let's look at one crucial area where your facility with making excuses is killing your profits and growth: ad copy. When was the last time you reviewed each and every ad you're paying good money to run? I bet it's been a long, long time (if at all). Instead of reviewing your ads, keeping track of all your responses and profits, knowing how much these ads cost, and then retiring the losers, you instead say "I would have done it, but I was too busy."

This is, of course, rubbish.

The long and short of the matter is that you

1) didn't budget time;

2) let lesser activities take precedence, in part because you were slothful and they were easier;

3) therefore let unresponsive, unremunerative ad copy continue without a plan for reviewing, removing, re-doing.

If you are to stop and permanently eradicate from your business life the crippling excuses which are so damaging to your success, you must be willing to see yourself as the clear problem... and do what it takes to radically change your ways.

As regards the above matter of reviewing ad copy, you need to scrutinize your current daily activities (how many hours did you say you took for "breaks"?) and ruthlessly drop the activities which aren't paying and rigorously substitute those that either save you money, make you money, or both.

"I don't have the money."

Think of the machines, the personnel, the training, the marketing and advertising, the research and development your business requires. It can be, and for many is, daunting.

Thus when asked why you have an outmoded computer or Internet services, etc. you offer without thinking that you "don't have the money". More rubbish.

The truth is you most likely have not reviewed each and every dollar you spend, to determine (with the most severe scrutiny) just where it all goes... and, taking the matter one step further, to where it ought to go.

Thus, your knee-jerk response, offered over and over again, is that you lack the funds.

"My computer is old, but I just don't have the money..."

"My delivery van needs to be traded in for a new one and the correct, updated advertising information painted on it, but I just don't have the money..."

"I know I look like a homeless person, but I just don't have the money for suitable clothes..."

Each and every one of these commonly-used excuses spurns the truth in favor of this very popular excuse. And so, daily, you hobble your business... by your own failure to review your situation, see things as they are, and make the necessary decisions accordingly. You don't need an excuse... you need a psychiatrist.

Why do you do it? Whatever your reasons, excuses are anathema... the bane of business success... the root of diminished expectations and realities.

Fortunately, you can start the necessary changes.... today!

You now have a choice: to continue making excuses, passing them off as facts when they are anything but... or ruthlessly eradicating them, from this moment. Some of you, through inaction, will keep your current situation; making excuses, not money.

But if you're determined to grasp maximum success, you'll thank me for this necessary wake-up call and follow these steps to the letter:

1) As stated, review what you say and how you say it.

2) Don't create excuses which attempt to pass off as facts your faulty suppositions, unproven deductions, and general inaccuracies.

3) Put the harshest light on what you do and say; determine whether it makes you money, or not, and reform accordingly.

4) Beginning today, now, keep a pad with you at all times, and as you hear yourself making an excuse, any excuse, write it on your pad as a configuration of words due to be expunged.

5) Try to remove at least one excuse from your speech every day. As you do so, write the inhibiting phrase on a page. Then take it out to your barbecue and burn it.... burn it completely, thoroughly, until absolutely nothing is left. This marks your transition from excuse maker to problem solver. You are already on the heady road to... MORE of what you want, rather than excuses for what you didn't have and could never get under your old regime. Happily, you are about to be a better and a richer person. Let me be the first to congratulate you.

About the Author

Harvard-educated Dr. Jeffrey Lant is CEO of Worldprofit, Inc., providing a wide range of online services for small and-home based businesses.
Republished with author's permission by Rahimah Sultan
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2011-05-30T17:53:00.000-07:00

There is only one thing worse than not achieving a goal and that is achieving it.

by Dr. Jeffrey Lant

Are you a goal-driven individual?

First, do you regularly set goals for yourself?

Do you then plan just how you'll achieve them... and once having planned your work you work your plan?

If this is you, congratulate yourself. You are literally one in a million and the world is your oyster.

In theory.

People who set goals... people who achieve goals are a precious minority of any community, for-profit, or not-for- profit organization.

They are the people who live the celebrated epigram, "Lead, follow, or get out of the way." When they lead, they perform the leader's task with efficiency, organization, and, yes, joy.

When they follow, they listen to the designated leaders, making sure they know their task, then doing it.

It is a thrill and a privilege to know such people, not least because they create an environment conducive to success.

Why then have I said that there is only one thing worse than not achieving a goal... and that is achieving it?

In this article I shall make clear the problems that afflict the special people, the performance oriented people, the movers and shakers. Keeping successes coming, greater successes, important successes, more magnificent successes is never inevitable. And here's the rub, just because you were successful today, by no means ensures you will be successful tomorrow.

Indeed, the world is awash in one-time successes who once were the center of attention, the golden boy or girl. They had what everyone else wanted... but having didn't mean keeping. That proved to be not only elusive... but, after a time, impossible.

There is nothing sadder than listening to an individual once undeniably successful... now talk and live exclusively in that past; the success they had was fleeting and its continuing absence noticeable and glaring.

I am here to ensure that you do not become that sad individual, the person for whom the calendar always says yesterday.

1) Successful people aim for a sequence of successes, not just successful episodes and incidents.

Review the history of the prevalent "once-upon-a-time" successes and you will see that their success was limited to a particular time, place, and thing. It was isolated, unique in their experience, non-recurring. The situations of successful people are radically different.

They do not succeed one or twice and live off their decaying laurels forever; instead, they aim to have success after success after success, until the very idea of failure is unthinkable.

2) Successful people see life as a gigantic planning opportunity; an unequalled opportunity to bring home the bacon time after time after time.

The successful lead lives where what they do and how they do it is always linked to the master plan that they have worked on for their entire lives. No incident can be viewed in isolation, because every incident is a step towards larger goals and greater successes. For such people any success is nothing more than a step to ever greater success.

3) Successful people analyze what went right and what went wrong in each success they attain. Every success is not a conclusion, but a necessary learning opportunity.

By definition successful people place each and every success under a microscope giving it a full and complete scrutiny. Successful people study success; it is in fact their constant endeavor to turn each success into a learning laboratory.

4) Successful people have a succession of goals. Moreover these sequential goals are written down, regularly reviewed and updated... and always represent more challenge and responsibility. For the successful, life is a step ladder, never a sofa and easy chair.

Do you have such goals? Are they written down? Do you constantly consider just what goals achieved today mean in terms of more substantial goals and achievements tomorrow? As successful people grow and mature they become masters of such questions and answers.

More things successful people do.

5) Successful people are all about the future. They focus is on now, of course, because it is in this now they must learn the essentials of success and achieve each individual success.

But successful people always keep an eye on the future. They focus on what they want in that future, vividly aware that what they do today and how well they do guarantees the future of their desire.

6) Successful people make mistakes.

There isn't a person alive who doesn't make errors of commission and omission. Successful people know that reviewing today's errors ensures tomorrow's victories. And as it is victory they want and insist upon above all, each error is analyzed, understood, turned into part of the primer on success.

7) Successful people are not defensive.

The characteristic response of the unsuccessful to areas where they have erred and need a different, improved response is defensive. Such responses will be of the "no one told me. I'm innocent. It's her fault, it's her fault" variety. These responses are a clear indication that the person in question has little or no idea what successful people say in such circumstances.

"Thank you for pointing this out to me. I have made written notation of what you want."

Bingo, with such a response you are no longer defending the indefensible, you are instead turning an error, a misunderstanding, a questionable act into a valuable learning experience. 8) Successful people keep journals, diaries, etc.

So long as you live you can become a success story all your own. One thing you need is the most detailed and thorough notes about yourself. Remember, every single thing you do either assists success... or retards, even destroys it. That is where detailed personal journals are mandatory.

In such documents, you put yourself under a keen scrutiny which never ends and which must be both complete and honest.

The extent to which you fail to have and keep such personal information is the extent to which you are prepared to jettison intensely valuable information... and all the successes which might have hinged on their existence and use.

9) Successful people thank the people who helped them.

Successful people are people who are beneficiaries of constant assistance from parents, other family members, teachers, clergy, coaches, etc., a process that only ends with death.

Successful people feel privileged to acknowledge and recognize the hard work and sincere assistance provided by many, many others. Unsuccessful people feel diminished by such help; not enhanced by it.

The avoidable tragedy of The Void where there are no new goals to take the place of old goals achieved.

The worst thing that can happen to a person who wants true, continual success is to finish a goal... and not know what he/she should be doing next. As indicated above you must always have goals that go beyond even the most major goals you are working on now. There must never, ever be a gap... for that is an opportunity for losing track of your objectives and becoming directionless.

Now that you have read this article with its admonitions and recommendations, you will never have this problem. With clockwork regularity you will always conclude a goal, knowing just what major goal follows.

Your job is to turn the achievement of success into an unrelenting, never ending system. And now you know how to do it.

About the Author

Harvard-educated Dr. Jeffrey Lant is CEO of Worldprofit, Inc., providing a wide range of online services for small and-home based businesses. Dr. Lant is also the author of 18 best-selling business books.
Republished with author's permission by Rahimah Sultan
http://SureFireSuccessNow.com
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2011-05-21T11:36:00.000-07:00

Top 25 Search Engine Optimization Companies

The Internet is filled with so-called marketing experts and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) agencies. It's a speeding train in a changing marketplace. Some agencies have kept up to the times by integrating social media strategies, others haven't.

The SEO world has evolved rapidly in recent years with social media quickly gaining a much stronger foothold than most experts originally thought. . Social media was once believed to be a waste of time by many, SEO experts now realize the power of social media to reach new markets and generate new revenue opportunities. Paid search and mobile applications cannot be ignored and have changed the SEO landscape. It's a relatively new field of expertise constantly in flux. As experts learn more clever ways to improve site ranking, the major search engines react by updating their indexing procedures. Just recently Google announced major changes to how they index sites in direct response to what they call content-farms that create skewed search results.

Here is a compiled list of 25 Search Engine Optimization Agencies who will create and manage your SEO campaigns.

Spend some time at these sites, you will learn a lot and can make a comparative analysis.

1. WeBuildPages.com
2. SEO.com
3. bluegrass.com
4. fathomseo.com
5. OrangeSoda.com
6. icrossing.com
7. 360i.com
8. SEOLogic.com
9. Blurbpoint.com
10. SEOInc.com
11. MainStreetHost.com
12. crexendo.com
13. bestrank.com
14. vastvision.com
15. iProspect.com
16. ThinkBigSites.com
17. ThesearchAgency.com
18 BigMouthMedia.com
19 7Strategy.com
20. evisibility.com
21. 97thfloor.com
22. FreshRank.com
23. PrimeVisibility.com
24. 1stonthelist.ca
25. slingshotseo.com

SEO is not a task for the faint of heart. It takes time, money and a lot of patience to build a successful SEO campaign. Large companies hire staff just to create online content for social media sites.

For those of you without deep pockets, there are a number of do-it yourself software programs many of which are used by professional SEO companies. If you have the desire and time to learn, you can create and manage your own SEO campaigns. Training companies like Worldprofit Inc., offer software, guided instruction with live and video training on SEO and other online business strategies. With access to the best resources, you can get really good at it for your business purposes, then offer these services as a consultant. SEO experts and Social Media Content Managers are and will continue to be a highly paid profession.

About the Author:

Sandi Hunter is the Director of Website Development at Worldprofit Inc., where small and home-based businesses learn how to profit online. The company offers a free Associate membership.

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2011-05-14T13:08:00.000-07:00

What to do when your computer crashes. It will you know!

by Dr. Jeffrey Lant

It happened yesterday... "it" being the most frustrating thing that can happen nowadays...

"it" being the one eventuality absolutely certain to throw off your day and ensure you fall behind...

"it" being the event guaranteed to change you from someone calm, reasonable, the nicest of people, to a mad person whose blue words could make a sailor blush.

Your computer crashed... and you wondered what in God's green acre you had done to warrant such a malady and imprecation. It just wasn't fair...

That's what the computer crash does... and certain too. One of these days you are going to have "the crash"... the only real question is: will you be ready for it?

What every boy scout knows... be prepared.

Cambridge, Massachusetts satirist Tom Lehrer wrote a song (1953) when I was in first grade, a million years ago. It was called "Be Prepared!". I thought of it for the first time in years yesterday as I surveyed the most important machine in my life just sitting there, non functional, turning me from an acutely productive member of society to drone, in an instant.

"Be prepared! as through life you march along. Be prepared to hold your liquor pretty well, Don't write naughty words on walls if you can't spell".

Yes, I thought of Lehrer and his rollicking, rather sophomoric, school boy humor yesterday... as my world came to a screeching halt. Lehrer at least made me smile... Lehrer, that is, and the knowledge that I was prepared for The Crash. Here's how you can be prepared too and actually smile as you resolve one of life's most aggravating and irritating problems.

1) Make sure you copy your files.

The most avoidable problem when you work with computers is to lose files because you have not copied them in an organized, consistent fashion. This must be done completely, regularly -- not intermittently, casually, whenever you get around to it. That's the wrong way for sure, completely unsystematic.

Instead, as I write articles like these, I make a copy of each paragraph as I write it; to do less would be to turn me from copywriter into gambler. And there is absolutely no need for that. To write is silver; but to copy is gold.

2) Print out details of key data you will need when (not if) your computer crashes. For instance, I have in my computer a list of vital telephone numbers. That's just the thing you'll need when your computer crashes. Make sure to print out a copy (from time to time, too, so that you have readily available the most current details) and have it easily accessible.

3) Get an external hard drive. You just plug it in, back up your data, and then continue with the work at hand. It's affordable. Most people and businesses can get by for one in the $100 price range. That's peanuts compared to the actual and psychic costs of replacing data lost because of inadequate protection and preservation. Oh, yes, it's light weight and portable, too; easily connected to any computer where you have data to be copied.

4) Peruse notes of previous computer crises. You do have them, don't you?

Problems occur; the same problems may recur. Are you ready to solve them? You are if you wrote down the problem last time and clearly indicated what you did to solve it. These notes are vital, given the fact that the problem you have today may not recur for months, even years. Your notes, therefore, are necessary. Never assume you will remember the problem and what you did to solve it. As soon as you have a free minute after your computer is up and running, record the solution. This solution should not be left in the computer alone where some future crisis renders it inaccessible; you must print this and keep it in an off-computer file.

5) Don't sit in front of your computer and fret. That won't help.

One of my father's favorite expressions was "a watch pot never boils". Now I know what he meant... to sit in front of a non-functioning computer will only increase your unhappiness and discontent. Instead, if your computer remains on the fritz, turn your attention to other useful things you could be doing whilst you're waiting for help (see below).

If you spend as much time as I do on your computer (easily a consistent 12 hours a day), some other things in your life are bound to be neglected. Make "crash day" productive in other ways. I used the extra time to research a future article and while the computer on which I planned to write it was down, I made considerable progress, thereby infusing some necessary uplift into this "what a revolting development this is" situation. 6) Have a trusted computer consultant at the ready.

As soon as I knew yesterday's computer crisis was beyond my admittedly limited technical skills, I placed the necessary call to my computer consultant Justin Lyttle of Help Desk Services, Hanover, Massachusetts. I received what I have always received from Justin for many years: his prompt, full attention and (despite the fact it was Friday afternoon) the promise he would solve my problem promptly. This he did... arriving at about 6:00 p.m., getting down to business at once, solving my multi-part problem. Within an hour the problem was solved, I was back online, and Justin was on his way.

People like Justin Lyttle are a find. A critical component of what makes you and your business (including your computer operations) successful is ensuring you have just the right competent and sympathetic people like Justin on your team. Never wait to find them until you are frantic. Remember your Tom Lehrer and be prepared; ask business people from your neighborhood who they use... then call up to introduce yourself. Do ALL this before the pressing need arrives.

Last words.

Days of computer crisis are never pleasant, especially if you are technically challenged like I am. Still, if you follow these recommendations you'll get through them as comfortably as possible. Oh yes, just one more suggestion: keep ice cream in the refrigerator. It helps while away the time and makes you feel better until reinforcements arrive. Ice cream is like that.

About the Author

Harvard-educated Dr. Jeffrey Lant is CEO of Worldprofit, Inc., providing a wide range of online services for small and-home based businesses. Dr. Lant is also the author of 18 best-selling business books.

Republished with author's permission by Rahimah Sultan
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2011-05-07T12:06:00.000-07:00

What you need to know and do to be a GREAT blog publisher!

by Dr. Jeffrey Lant

Have you noticed that blogs are popping up online everywhere? Yes, blogging is the phenomenon of the age. You just need to know how to profit from it. These suggestions will help.

1) Be clear on your objective.

The people who are successful with blogging, that is the people who are making money from it, all are very clear on what they are writing their blog to accomplish. If you're writing a business blog your objective is crystal clear: you blog to profit and for no other reason.

Too many (particularly new) blogsters have mixed objectives. Sure, they want to make money but, perhaps even more (and dangerously) they write to get their share of the limelight.

Don't make that mistake.

When you're in business your blog exists for one reason and one reason only: to put money in your pocket, as quickly and substantially as possible.

2) Never forget the deal you have with your readers.

People who run successful (that is to say money-making) blogs never lose sight of the implicit deal they have with their readers, viz.

Publisher: I will email you information of value and consequence. I shall also send you (in the same issue) ad copy for your earnest and honest consideration.

Reader: So long as you email me superior copy, I shall do two important things: I will read this copy, and I shall also (at least) glance at your ads.

This is the basis for a mutually satisfactory relationship.

3) Understand your role as a publisher.

Publishers become publishers for two major reasons: because they have something important to say and want to influence the world AND to make money. Thus in every issue you must offer superior content...and prospect-centered ad copy. The key here is keeping this equation balanced.

If you run nothing but superior content, your readers may be delighted... but you'll make no money and, in short order, give up the enterprise.

If you run nothing but (or even too many) ads, your reader will immediately get bored...and punish you not just by trashing your current issue but trashing all future issues without even a glance.

Publishing, then, is all about balance.

4) Study the great publishers and their empire-building methods and procedures.

The minute you have a blog, you have become a publisher... and the minute you become a publisher you become a card-carrying member of the greatest professional association on earth: publishering. Now you are part of a grand tradition. Make it a point to understand what that means by studying the great practitioners of your business. This includes people like Gutenberg and his Bible (1455)... Canadian Lord Beaverbrook who seized English newspapers the better to manipulate ministries and imperial politics and his tenacious rival Viscount Rothermere... and the great publishing families of America whose names alone remind us of what publishers can do to generate wealth for themselves while shaping the course of a great nation starting with William Randolph Hearst...

The Taylors of Boston... the McCormicks of Chicago... the Chandlers of Los Angeles.... and their counterparts in every significant city on earth.

You, you!, are now one of their number, and I can tell you this about such people, they were all, to a person,

* big thinkers

* people who meant to shape events, not just witness them

* determined to have their point of view not just seen but dominant.

The small, the trivial, the inconsequential and insignificant had absolutely no place in their publications or their lives. These are the people, your professional ancestors, it behooves us all to study and emulate.

These were people of amazing, irrepressible energies and imaginations. They didn't moan and groan about their "work", the time it took, the sacrifices they had to make to do it. They were grateful for the opportunity to create vehicles of wealth and influence, thrilled to get up each and every day and set about their work, stamping the world with their mark... and eager, too.

Is this how you approach the business of your blog? If it isn't, re-examine your reasons for creating and publishing a blog and once you have done so absorb these home truths about the business:

* Say something significant in every issue. We all want to "make a difference" with our lives. When you're a with-it publisher, this is easy to do. Make it clear that yours is a blog designed to make this a better world; there is no higher calling than that.

* Always ask your readers to respond. "Bribe" them, if necessary, to do so... offer them something of value that induces them to respond quickly and meaningfully. Such people become your best customers.

* Publish to a schedule. The best way to blog is daily. If you aspire to significance and substantial rewards no other schedule should even be considered.

* Talk directly, frankly to your readers. Be for them what every great publisher must be: a candid, direct, honest to a fault advocate of humane and progressive change. Publishing, you see, is never merely about transmitting information; it is about seizing minds and changing lives... about throwing down gauntlets and taking up causes... and always informing, motivating, energizing, enthusing and transforming.

Make today the day you rethink and recreate your blog.

The most stimulating game on earth is influencing others and so shaping the world you want. This is the gift all (good) blog publishers get... but you get it if and only if you focus on providing people with blog posts of interest, significance, and value. Nothing less can or should be set before the most important people in your business life: your blog readers.

From now on, focus each day on what you want to share with them; what you know that can change and improve their lives... and how you will present it to them for maximum impact and long-lasting effect. They must see you for what you are: their great and valued friend and counselor, operating through and touching their lives in your blog.

When you are producing a blog of value and influence, your entire outlook on life shifts; no problem is too big, too oppressive, over powering: problems are merely challenges which you can help your readers surmount and conquer, one step at a time.

You see, publishing, all publishing, is about the business of improving lives. That is what publishers do; that is what you as a publisher must do... with your ever-improving and life-transforming blog the vehicle to hand. Do this and the golden benefits of blogging, not least the systematic and continuing improvement of lives, will all be yours.

About the Author

Harvard-educated Dr. Jeffrey Lant is CEO of Worldprofit, Inc., providing a wide range of online services for small and-home based businesses. Dr. Lant is also the author of 18 best-selling business books.

Republished with author's permission by Rahimah Sultan
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2011-04-22T18:27:00.000-07:00

Advice on what makes business blogs work by three who know: George Kosch, Sandi Hunter and Dr. Jeffrey Lant.

by Dr. Jeffrey Lant

Today , April 19, 2011, is a special day for the three members of the Worldprofit blog writing team. Today we completed writing 200 business blog articles, a project which began in June, 2010. The response to these articles has been nothing short of spectacular, so we decided to discuss the reasons why this has occurred and what it means for you and your business blog.

1) Be clear on the objective
.

We are focusing this article on blogs created by businesses. Their objective is simple: make money. No business blog should ever be created which has some supposedly "better" purpose. It's easy to forget this purpose; it doesn't take much to unfocus a blog. That's why we suggest posting this message prominently in your office: "It's the money, silly." A variation of this message helped Bill Clinton (a notoriously diffuse individual) from going off theme and was influential in putting him in the Oval Office. This message will also work for you.

2) Designate a good writer to produce your blog's content.

Business blog copy must be clean, clear, accurate. That means designating a writer with business writing experience. An experienced copywriter is perfect. They know how to write copy that sells... which is just the copy you need.

3) If you cannot find a copywriter, become that copywriter yourself.

Successful copy is based on just 4 important words:

YOU GET BENEFIT NOW.

The "you" is your reader, the person you need your blog copy to motivate to contact you.

"get" is there to remind you that copy is always about what the reader (your past, present and future customer) gets from you.

"benefit" is the specific thing they get from each article you publish.

"now" is when you want the reader to respond, reminding yourself that there must always be one or more offers in each blog issue, such offers being intended to stimulate the immediate reader response which must always be your objective.

4) Master search engines.

Writing business blogs means finding and using a never ending supply of data, information, research findings, quotations of note, etc. Blogs eat up lots and lots of information.

This means becoming expert at finding pertinent data from search engines. Surprisingly we discovered that many business blog writers do not use and therefore do now know how to ensure best results from search engines. That problem must be recognized and overcome ASAP.

Successful business writers know how to write articles with data "holes" in them, "holes" they can quickly fill by accessing search engines... without ever leaving the computer. Given the fact that not so many years ago, business writers had to use specialized business libraries, a cumbersome process at best, search engines have made all the difference in getting important data quickly and easily, all at your fingertips.

5) Always have a lead article, the focus of each individual issue.

We have found in practice that each blog issue should be anchored by a major article. The length we recommend is 1,500 words.

This article should be divided into two distinct parts; first, the actual content itself. Second, pertinent follow-up details which advise your reader what is available, its benefits, and how to get it. These follow-up details are crucial and must follow each article. (See below for an example.)

How long does it take for such an article to be researched, written, edited, etc.? Obviously that depends on the amount of research you must do, how quickly you find it, your own skills and speed as a writer, etc. However, we have found that this "anchor" article takes on average 4-8 hours.

6) Always have a "new uses" feature.

You've all heard the old adage, "sell the sizzle, not the steak". That's why you need a "new uses" feature. Select any of your products and services; then provide at least one detailed blog article on how to get the great results from its use. Remember, people buy products too achieve results; the more practical uses you detail, the more sales you make.

7) Always include customer testimonials, particularly testimonials that provide details on what individual customers did and their positive results.

Customer testimonials work. Thus, make sure you always include one or more in each blog issue. And always make a point in each blog of asking your customers to provide more.

8) Have a "new product" feature... and, as above, ensure the copy focuses on what it does, that "sizzle" again.

Remember, blog copy is about making money by generating reader inquiries and sales. Your readers are glad to read about new products to the extent that the copy introducing them focuses on what the customer gets.

9) Set and keep a fixed blog publishing schedule.

Your readers should expect to see your blog, like clock work, on a published schedule. They should be trained to look forward to it and respond. But if your publishing schedule is erratic, unpredictable, then your reputation will not be enhanced and your sales will definitely suffer. Ouch!

Once you've set the schedule, treat it religiously.

10) Always include a very special offer in every issue.

Make it a truly spectacular offer... one available to blog readers only.

Position this offer prominently. It is, after all, eye-popping.

Last words.

Blogs in general and business blogs in particular are here to stay. Businesses without them are businesses that suffer, having thereby circumscribed sales and growth. Make sure that isn't you.

One last piece of advice: Make your blog fun read and ALWAYS easy to respond to. If you follow these instructions, your blog will steadily grow in importance as a readily available source of customers and profits. As we can tell you from personal experience, what blogs deliver will truly delight, excite, and enthuse you. A steady stream of new customers and enhanced profits tend to do that.... Get started today and see for yourself.

About the Author

Harvard-educated Dr. Jeffrey Lant is CEO of Worldprofit, Inc., providing a wide range of online services for small and-home based businesses. Dr. Lant is also the author of 18 best-selling business books.

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2011-04-11T17:32:00.000-07:00

The Concept Of A Free Home-Based Internet Business
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Can there really be an Internet business that is free? We are taught all through life that nothing worthwhile is free, and that holds true for almost everything in life, especially for business. That doesn’t mean that there are no free home-based Internet businesses; however, there are other costs involved that are not start up capital. In any business advertising is necessary to make people aware of its existence. There are sites that offer free advertising, but you may wish to choose advertising that is more effective, depending on the concept of your business and what you hope to gain from it.

There are many free home-based Internet business opportunities available, but you have to consider more than cash outlay when you use the term “free.” Even if the capital expenditure for start up is non-existent, and you locate some free advertising sites that work well for you, you are still expending your time and energy to develop the marketing plan and doing the advertising. Though it’s indirect, the time involved is still a contribution to the business operation. After all, you are not making money during the time you spend developing a client base and advertising your business. So, although you’re not spending money, you will have to wait longer for the income to start.

Before getting involved in a free home-based Internet business, you must understand that a “free” business may not be the one that is going to allow you to earn the kind of money you desire. So, if you are looking to replace your full-time job and if you want a business that is going to provide you with financial freedom, it will be well worth your while to invest some money. If you are not willing to do this, then you are not serious about building a profitable business.

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2011-03-30T21:25:00.000-07:00

Does your dead dog smell? Reflections on marketing myths and realities from one who knows.

by Dr. Jeffrey Lant

In the days when I taught university level marketing, I set my eager-beaver students a task.

Write a classified or space ad... and report on how it draws and what you did to handle any responses you received. In short, this project, like my teaching in general, was never merely theoretical, detached from reality. It was real! Vital! Truthful... and often, as a result, jolting. In other words, your class project either made money... or it didn't. Much more than your grade depended on it.

The scene of the crime...

All my students were adult practitioners, that is people who were already employed in professional positions or worked in home-based businesses or on the Internet. These were people who had a strong and pressing interest in mastering marketing. These students came because they needed to learn the ins and outs of marketing... or else. To such people one had an obligation, a sacred responsibility, to speak honestly, speak candidly, and address their real world concerns.

And I did.

On one occasion, a bright professional woman (I had lots of them in my classes) had the task of presenting her classified ad to the class... explaining why she wrote the ad she wrote, where she ran it, what the results were, how she followed up the respondents, and (and it was the all-important and) how much money this ad generated.

In other words, it was all real-life stuff.

She wrote her ad, as instructed, on the chalk board, the better for us to see the words which would shortly be shown as either golden, or dross. Then I became the Joe Friday ("facts, ma'am, just the facts") of the marketing drag-net.

"When did you start running this ad?" (Specific date required.)

"Where do you run this ad?" (Specific publication or venue required.)

"How many responses did you get?" (Specific number required.)

And then the kicker...

"How much money did you make... after deducting all actual costs of running the ad and responding to respondents?" (Exact dollar figures required.)

The lady squirms...

Now the moment of high truth and full disclosure had arrived. What had started as merely a class project had become for the person reporting a matter of life and death. The ad copy, you see, would show whether she had mastered the marketing essentials that either produced bucks... and all that those bucks could buy... or not.

Everything was riding on what she reported. And she knew it...

Bad, bad, tormentingly bad.

I an inveterate reader of body language, and this student's was typical of those who wish they were in any other place on earth rather than here, the cynosure of every eye in this most unrelenting of classes. Of course I knew she was squirming, mulling over how to disclose and deliver facts which (from that all important body language) were sure to be uncongenial. So... along with every member of the class.... I waited to see what the lady would say and do.

And we waited....

Then, at last, she admitted the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth... and it wasn't pretty. She had run her classified ad six times... had not had a single response... and, of course, and worst of all, hadn't made a single penny.

Now, the lady, this aspiring marketer, stood before her classmates.... abashed, humiliated, at rock bottom, a total marketing failure.

Then I told her the first essential truth of marketing: does your dead dog smell? And does it, day by day, smell worse... until the nauseating stench overpowers everything else?

The ad copy you produce is like a dog. Its job is to go out, your servant, finding and bringing home what it captures; the quarry that sustains you and gives you comfort, even excess.

No dead dogs do this... neither do ads which fail to produce responses.

The student began to get the picture.

Her ad hadn't pulled and yet she continued to use it, paying good Yankee dollars to do so.. despite the fact she KNEW the dog was dead, stinking.

Why had she done this?

First, because she was sure, absolutely sure, Her Ad Was Brilliant, the stuff of legend... she was invested in the words... certain that given a chance they would produce the desirable results; aged to perfection, like a fine vintage.

But that is a huge mistake... and now she was willing, and the entire class with her, to find the essential nubbin of truth, that made everything she had done worthwhile.

1) Marketing copy doesn't improve with age. It either works at once, immediately, or it never works at all. Dead dogs never become quick and agile again... they just stink the more.

2) ALL marketing copy, at ALL times must be evaluated, starkly , by results and nothing but results.

3) You must never, ever re-run marketing copy without knowing its previous results.

4) The entire business of marketing is about writing copy, testing copy, evaluating the results produced by this copy, then tweaking the copy to improve it and your overall results.

Marketing is and always will be an action sport... it is not for the slothful, lazy, or unassertive.

More tips

** Never, ever become invested in, beguiled by the marketing copy you create. It either works (producing responses and money), or it doesn't. Success isn't everything here... it's the ONLY thing.

** Never re-run ANY marketing copy until you are certain it works; that is, until you have money in hand.

** Trash your erroneous but deeply felt belief that you can find marketing copy which is so good, so responsive that you never have to change it, never have to do anything else with it than run it and reap perpetual rewards.

Such copy doesn't exist, never existed, and will never exist.

Marketing is the most active sport in the world. Those who win at this sport, and the rewards can be staggering, are, to a person, people who are bold, active, engaged... not sleepy-heads hoping against hope that they will find and eternally profit from a few magic words artfully strung together. Those words have never been written.

Thus, energize yourself for the marketing you must do today, for if you want the rewards of marketing you must master and remain focused on and dedicated to the unrelenting truths of marketing.

Otherwise you are hunting with a dead dog... a dog that will never produce results. It will simply stink to high heaven. And that will never do.

About the Author

Harvard-educated Dr. Jeffrey Lant is CEO of Worldprofit, Inc., providing a wide range of online services for small and-home based businesses. Dr. Lant is also the author of 18 best-selling business books. He is happy to give all readers, 50,000 free guaranteed visitors for attending his live webcast today.

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2011-03-23T21:10:00.000-07:00

How to research and write the cleanest, clearest, most persuasive blog copy on earth -- fast, too!

by Dr. Jeffrey Lant

Millions of people worldwide are waking up to the fact that they are going to have a blog -- no ifs, ands, or buts. That a blog -- a personal marketing and communications device -- is no longer a luxury. If you expect to stay on the cutting edge of the 'net, you're going to be a blog publisher, or else.

If you've accepted this fact, you're on the right road. If you haven't, you're already a dinosaur... but let's, for purposes of today's discussion, suppose that you have decided to produce a blog... and want the results to be superb, meaning to create a blog that's timely, well-written, persuasive and that delivers the cash, too.

Here are some key recommendations to produce this necessary result:

1) The most effective blogs are published on a regular, announced schedule, not just when you feel like it.

This point should need no discussion... but it does. One of the major problems I see in my work with blog publishers (I write their articles for them) is that these folks still see the business of blogging as something casual, episodic, to be done when and if they have the time.

Whoa!

That's completely wrong. Blogs, like every other periodical on earth, must have a regular date and time they will be written and released. This gives your readers something solid to hold on to, to look forward to. You want your readers to know that you are a person of deadlines and schedules; someone they can rely on.

Stop thinking of your blog as something you can do whenever you feel like it, catch as catch can. Is this how you want your customers, your readers to see you? Not if you value their business.

2) Resolve to say Something Important in every issue of your blog.

When you see most blogs, you have to wonder why their "publishers" ever got out of bed to do them. Trivia! Drivel! Published so that their publishers can say they have a blog... rather than to say something timely! Significant! Motivating!

Now hear this: if you're one of these myopic blogsters, you're sabotaging your success. Blogs work because they deliver useful information that informs, persuades, excites and enthuses your readers... just the way all great publishers have from the very first day of the very first publisher.

Publishers present stories that lift up the readers.... and do everything in their power to create, develop, and maintain the crucial link between publisher and reader, creating prosperity for both.

3) Create the all-important blog article idea file.

Visit my office in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and you see an assembly line for the creation of intellectual property. The first crucial link in this production process is the article idea file. It's a must.

Start with a pair of good scissors and the most important newspaper in your area. Supplement this material with the most important newspaper(s) in your country. Add other specialty publications to this list, publications which follow developments in your given field.

Go through these publications regularly and cut out articles that contain information of value and interest to your readers. Make sure every one of these articles is dated... then file for future use. As you become more and more proficient at your essential blog business, you will realize the crucial significance of this article "compost heap"... and you will make it a key part of your day to add to it by wielding your scissors and cutting out the crucial story ideas and information you need.

4) Each Monday, brainstorm the articles you will need for the week.

Post your draft titles and the date you intend to do them. Remember, your blog should have a format; your articles should fit into this format. My articles, for instance, (including this one) are 3 single-spaced pages in length, about 1,500 words. A lively, timely article of this length and substance anchors your blog and gives it "heft", the feeling of importance and "must read" value.

5) Do a subject search in the major search engines.

To gather necessary background information and to see what others may have said on the topic, use the search engines assiduously. This is vital. Search engines not only post critical information on any given topic, but tell you when this information was posted. In tracking a developing story, such data are vital.

6) Always, always, always search Wikipedia (founded 2001).

Frankly, for blog publishers and researchers of every kind, Wikipedia takes the cake. As a very active blog content writer, I can confirm that I visit it every single day, and not once either. You will, too -- if you want your articles to be informative, grounded by fact and not just your opinions.

7) Write your article copy.

Articles, as noted above, should be of a particular length and format, just like various departments in other publications. These should be written in the second person ("you").

Paragraphs should be limited to 6-8 lines for easy readability; line length should be limited to 10-14 words, again for easy reading. If you bury your readers under a mountain of intimidating text, they will repay your efforts by.. skipping the arduous task you have assigned them.

8) Edit, proofread, post.

Your blog copy production line should be chugging along nicely at this point. Now's the time to polish with the finishing touches that transform a good article into a great one.

Read your article aloud. This will help you determine whether your sentences are balanced, or not; your construction difficult to comprehend, or mellifluous.

Make sure you have checked your spelling and any facts of which you're uncertain. Proofreading is a must for your credibility and the value of what you've written and will present to the world.

To conclude the production process, post the article on your website and in your blog. You are not merely a blog publisher, you are, better, a publisher, part of the great tradition. Enjoy a moment of joyful reverie, but only a minute. After all, your next deadline already looms, and you must and shall be ready.

About the Author

Harvard-educated Dr. Jeffrey Lant is CEO of Worldprofit, Inc. providing a wide range of online services for small and-home based businesses. Dr. Lant is happy to give all readers, 50,00 free guaranteed visitors for attending his live webcast today. Dr. Lant is also the author of 18 best-selling business books.

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2011-03-15T16:16:00.000-07:00

Four things successful business people will do today... that you won't!

by Dr. Jeffrey Lant

Friend, let's get one thing straight from the get-go. Successful people are going to do things today that you won't. Read this, and you'll discover what they are.

1) Successful people don't just let today happen.... they plan for today... yesterday!

What did you do before you left your office yesterday? If you're successful, you planned your success for today, determining your clear objectives and laying out the documents, materials, and other things you need.

In other words, you knew what you'd need, and you had it readily at hand so you could, without special effort, pick up first thing today what you so carefully planned.... yesterday.

Organization, a constant focus on time management and efficiency, not caffeine, are what the successful bring to the table. They cannot and do not consider yesterday concluded... until it is organized as the spring board to a successful today.

2) Email a stupendous offer just before you leave your work.

Want to walk in tomorrow to sales? To lots of great prospect leads?

Then email a terrific offer BEFORE you leave.

Most people, bushed, fatigued, tired, upon leaving their offices are contemplating the pleasures of the rest of today. But not the successful.

Successful people are mad keen on organization and efficiency... and constant bank account pleasing cash flow. They know that today's dollars are the result of yesterday's offers. Successful business people force themselves to stay, no matter how tired they are, no matter how pleasurable the day's forthcoming events, until they have crafted the stunning offer that ensures cash flow throughout the hours they are not present.

This offer must be a lollapalooza... the best yet.

As I write, much of the United States, much of the rest of the world is mired in an anaemic economic recovery that is, at best, just limping along.

Yet, by staying focused at all times on the main event, successful business people will flourish and achieve even the most ambitious of business and financial goals.

The key is having cash readily at hand.... and the means to generate more.... at will.

This means offers, better offers, the best offers, never-ending offers.

Because you will be tired at the end of the day, craft your end-of-day offers earlier. To ensure that it delivers the big success you insist upon, shape that offer when your mind is fresh and your abilities keen. Aim to make your offer better than you have ever made before; aim to make it a stunner, head turning, a cash gusher.

What the most successful business people know is that cash is king, especially when other people, people who do not have and do not use such offers, don't have it. If you focus as on your #1 Priority the shaping and constant sending of eye-popping offers you will have the cash, and thus the freedom, your less focused and clever colleagues lack and will always lack.

3) Call three prospects who have been hanging on the fence, uncertain about buying, and tell them you have the talking turkey offer of all times... if they will act now.

Offers come in many shapes and sizes... but one thing they all have in common is the "act now" factor. Offers to work must have deadlines... and the very best offers mean prompt, immediate response... no dithering allowed.

Most people, you see, even most business people, dither, offering excuses when decisive action is called for. In fact most people are not decision makers; rather, they are decision avoiders. The offer is made for such people, for only a truly superior offer will get these torpid ones to act at all, much less act on your speedy schedule.

Now, be honest. Did you, before leaving your office yesterday, call at least three people with a special, once-in-a-lifetime, knock 'em, sock 'em offer?

Or did you just turn off the lights and lock the door?

Want money?Then outline a "for my best customers" offer... and call them to discuss it. (You may also use email to send the offer... but never expect such an email to close the deal. For that the phone is the key).

Pick up the phone, I say, and, upon reaching these prime (if delaying) prospects, verbally embrace them, "Mary, you and I have been in contact for many years. I was thinking of you and wanted to make you a spectacular offer. Have you got a minute?" Then deliver the offer of offers, tellingly delivered, resoundingly delivered, convincingly delivered. This is a Special Offer.... for a Special Person. Deliver it accordingly.

4) Select 5 customers and give them a special unexpected gift.

People have always liked and will always like to get presents. It makes us feel wanted, warm inside. The most important people in your business are your customers; we all know that. However, what have you done lately to warm the cockles of their hearts? Not much, right? Change that today.

Pick a few customers, 5 is a good number, and give them a special gift, report, some free product, any kind of emolument... something that says simply, honestly, "I value you!" Then send it out.

Your customers will be pleased, gratified, impressed. No wonder. In our busy world, too few take even a little time to do the right thing; that thing that identifies you as a quality individual, well deserving of such customers. Out of the enhanced good will such valued offerings engender will come business, lots of business. You deserve it.

Are you going to be the business success you say you want?

You now know what to do. The question, therefore, is whether you will do it,and when.

24 hours from now, as you reflect upon this day, you will know just how successful you will be, based on what you have (or have not) done. It won't take any longer than that to see how well you're going to do. You see, now as always, the success you get (or forego) will be upon the actions you take and how well you do them. In short, it's all about you.

Bon voyage.

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Harvard-educated Dr. Jeffrey Lant is CEO of Worldprofit, Inc., where small and home-based businesses learn how to profit online. Attend Dr. Lant's live webcast TODAY and receive 50,000 free guaranteed visitors to the website of your choice! Dr. Lant's is also the author of best-selling business books.

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2011-03-08T20:14:00.000-08:00

Seven things you must NEVER say to yourself if you want MAXIMUM business and personal success

by Dr. Jeffrey Lant

You've heard it and said it since you were a kid: "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me." That's definitely true if you are the recipient of the words... but absolutely wrong if you are the sender. You see, language completely defines who you are, what you will do, and the level of success you can achieve. If "you are what you eat," it is also absolutely true "You are what you say."

That's why I've identified 7 key phrases that are holding you back, 7 phrases which you must IMMEDIATELY eradicate from your speech as they threaten your success!

1) "I'll do it tomorrow."

Want success? Then understand that "tomorrow" is the enemy of "today." How many people do you know who have a "manana" mentality, always willing to put off until tomorrow that which could so easily be done today.

People who succeed in life are people who do today what can be done today, never allowing themselves the luxury of postponement. These words, then, must be the first to expunge ... and never allow your brain to think. "Carpe diem" must forever be your guide.

2) "I'll make do."

Now hear this: successful people never "make do." Making do is for people who have convinced themselves that they will be happy with less. This, of course, is the direct opposite of what truly successful people think, say, and do.

To the successful, "making do" means imposing restrictions on who you are and what you could achieve if you made achievement, rather than its opposite, your objective. No great thing, no worthy thing, no meaningful or awesome thing has ever emerged when the person in charge said these words. So banish them at once from your vocabulary; if you keep them you will surely get the less you say satisfies and nothing more. Is that what you want?

3) "I'm a survivor."

Initially this may seem positive, but upon further thought you will come to see how invidious this phrase really is. No successful person is merely a survivor; such people do not merely continue to exist (which is what survival means). Instead, they ascend beyond mere existence to the superior state of flourishing.

Thus, instead of touting the mere ability to get by, give yourself a better objective by saying: "I am not merely a survivor. Instead I flourish." (Note: Floreat Etona is the motto of England's most prestigious and influential school, the school that has provided generations of leaders. Let the slogan work its magic for you, too.)

4) "I'm fixing to do it."

Take a close look at these words.

They do not say "I am doing it."

They say "I'm thinking about getting around to doing it."

Now, it should be obvious that truly successful people don't brag about how they are "about" to do something. No, indeed. These people, the people we want to be like and emulate, are people who are masters of "do". And you must be, too. Drop "fixin" from your vocabulary forthwith.

5) "Working on it."

Here's another deceptive phrase which makes non English speakers scratch their heads in bafflement. The phrase, you see, seems to mean one thing, but actually means quite another.

"Working on it" means the complete reverse. It does not mean that a thing is being attended to, completion in sight. It means, instead, that the thing in question is not being attended to, has not been started, and that no completion date can be seen because none has been set. Oh, my!

"Working on it" is a phrase beloved of procrastinators, the slothful and slow-walkers worldwide because it gives them cover for the work they are assuredly are not doing and the success they will not achieve because of it.

6) "It's good enough for me."

This potent phrase has destroyed success for millions worldwide, generation after generation. Success means constant application, work, a vivid striving after success and the thrill that comes from having achieved it.

By contrast, the minute you utter the word "enough" you have signalled an end to absolutely everything necessary to achieve success, including success itself.

"It's good enough" could hardly be worse for your aspirations, strangling success in its cradle and leaving you with crumbs. "There is nothing quite so bad," wrote the insightful Oscar Wilde, "as that which is good enough." This is why you must banish this corrosive phrase at once. Only the good can be good enough for you!

*7) "I could never do that."

Are you one of the legions of people who use these killer words? Be advised: success cannot flourish in this inhospitable terrain.

People who demand success empower themselves by creating an environment where the goal of success is never undercut by the words they use and the thoughts they think. For such people, the keynote is positive potential, not instantaneous death by your own hand.

You see, if you say you cannot do the thing in question, then most assuredly you will not achieve that thing. As Henry Ford, master of the practical, the richest man of his time, rightly said: "You think you can. You think you can't. Either way you're right."

Last Words

Success at the best of times is generally difficult to achieve. Why, then, make it even more difficult by sabotaging yourself, diminishing success by empowering failure? Your thoughts, your words are your realities. Negative words, restricting words, words that sabotage rather than improve and inspire must be rooted out and destroyed.

YOU must create for yourself an environment where the total focus, including every word you utter, facilitates achievement and does not handicap it. Start by eradicating these 7 invidious phrases, replacing them with those that enrich, improve... and never impede. At once, your trek to success becomes decidedly easier. Yes, you are on your way!

This astonishing phrase is dynamite, a sure-fire indicator that the person who thinks and utters it will have the most meager portion of success. In short, it undermines, sabotages and otherwise strangles the very possibility of success.

What stimulates success is the keen desire to be better, to have better, to live better.

About The Author

Harvard-educated Dr. Jeffrey Lant is CEO of Worldprofit, Inc., where small and home-based businesses learn how to profit online. Attend Dr. Lant's live webcast TODAY and receive 50,000 free guaranteed visitors to the website of your choice. Dr. Lant is the author of 18 best-selling books.

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2011-03-01T19:11:00.000-08:00

How to get thousands and thousands of responses to your blog... and what to do when you get 'em.

by Dr. Jeffrey Lant

Of course you already have a blog, right? You are, I mean, on the cutting edge of the Internet, yes?

Well, if you are still blog-less today is indeed your lucky day, because I am going to show you right here, right now how to use your blog to get not a few but a positive avalanche of the best prospect leads on earth. And the great thing is, you can start today, this very minute.

Now affirm and reaffirm this: when you're in business, running a business blog, the objective is and always will be to generate terrific prospect leads... and follow them up to make money.

It's easy to forget the objective when you're publishing a blog which can all too easily be seized by the shear joy and vanity of seeing your name in print. Folks, if you need lovin' and crave adulation get a dog. They give unqualified affection. But don't subvert the purpose of your blog.

Nothing sells itself, absolutely nothing.

I have amongst my marketing students some of the very brightest people around... and when they make a mistake, I know the pedestrian run of mankind and marketers are making it, too, in spades.

One of the most rooted errors of these folks is the pernicious, invidious notion that their blog and its contents will sell themselves; that what they are promoting and selling in their blogs needs no introduction, nor powerful words of recommendation; it's good enough on its lonesome.

In a word: rubbish! In two words: complete rubbish!

Dear friend, there is nothing in this world, not the policies and messages of presidents, popes, and sovereign kings; not the very finest example of the most potent of salubrious medications; not the safest swiftest modes of transportation.... absolutely nothing sells itself.

Once you have realized this essential truth of business, you enter a new, higher level of commerce and marketing... for you are now a puffer in the Great Age of Puffery.... and your daily objective is clear: to puff better, more artfully, more carefully, more successfully than any other puffers on this planet. He (or she) who puffs the most, the best, reaps the most.

Thus, say you intend tomorrow to publish a jim dandy article on some subject of note and significance. The duffer puffer, the one on the bottom of the marketing heap, merely publishes the article, with this unvoiced sentiment: "Here's the article. Make of it what you will. I can't be bothered to tell you why you should read it... perhaps I don't even know."

And some dare call this marketing.

Now, try this instead...

(puff the day before you publish the article.)

Tomorrow, you readers have an incredible gift coming. I persuaded internationally known author and commentator Dr. Jeffrey Lant to let me have, in advance of publication, his latest article. It details the truth about the relationship of Snow White with those with-it guys, the 7 Dwarfs. You won't believe what one of the most perceptive commentators around has discovered about Snow... and those Dwarfs. Can you say 'Happy.' You certainly will tomorrow...."

With these fast-moving words, you are keeping your audience, your present and future customers all, on the very edge of their seats. You want them in a pother of anticipation and excitement about What Happens Next. You, cleverkins, are ascending in the crucial business of puffery; selling the sizzle, not the steak. And you're frolicking all the way to the bank.

Remember, puffing is not something occasional or episodic. It is not merely one essential thing in marketing; it is the essential thing and it must be regarded accordingly... from this moment on. Let me make this point absolutely, crystal clear:

If you want to sell a product, you must puff it.

If you want to sell your service, you must puff it.

If you want a person to read your blog, you must puff it.

If you want that same person to read an article in that blog, you must puff it.

Get the picture?

A few more hints

Your puffs must appear prominently in your blog, at least 1 at the top of the first page.

They must be short, enticing, action oriented. They must radiate a single imperative message: Look at all you get, look how delicious it is, grab it, grab it now...'

Here's another example.

"Wow! I'm ecstatic to tell you that I've snagged another one of Dr. Lant's superb articles. Yesterday nearly 400 of you smarties emailed me with your thanks, congratulations, and sincere appreciation for his last insightful article. Now I've got another for you. Stay tuned... you'll have it in just HOURS. Make sure to email me at once with your reactions and compliments... it's another winner!!! You can reach me by email (email address here); cell phone (number here)... or land line (number here.) And I want to hear from each and EVERY one of you!"

You must get on with the essential business of puffing each and every day, without exception, that you want money.

And, I guarantee you, that as you improve in your puffery, you will improve your prospect responses, dramatically.

And your bottom line? Why that will improve, too, and dramatically so if and only if you follow up each and every response, as quickly as possible, with a special offer. In other words, thank the respondents, thank them as soon as possible... and always give them a thing (or two) which makes you money. Thus are you benefited as you benefit your fast-responding prospects.

There are many things, of course, which factor into consummate blog success. They include

* having good content, interesting, practical, timely;

* publishing according to a schedule, never missing a deadline;

* writing directly to your readers, always using "you";

* keeping every word of text short, peppy, upbeat,

* and, always and forever, every single day, puffing.

Because if you don't puff, if you do not encourage, recommend, admonish, excite, and motivate you are leaving the crucial act of marketing in the hands of those least able to discern for themselves what to do. That decision must be yours. You and only you must advance the necessary reasons for acting as you want them to act. That crucial aspect of marketing belongs to you... and you must do this every time you want results. Like today.

About The Author

Harvard-educated Dr. Jeffrey Lant is CEO of Worldprofit, Inc., where small and home-based businesses learn how to profit online. Dr. Lant is also the author of 18 best-selling business books.

Republished with author's permission by Rahimah Sultan
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2011-02-21T21:16:00.000-08:00

How to stay focused and make money on days you DON'T feel like it!

by Dr. Jeffrey Lant

Did you lay in bed this morning unwilling, unable to get up? Did every fibre of your body demand more time in the sack? Was it a struggle to open an eye... and get up?

Sure enough, if today wasn't like this, some of your many tomorrows will be. You need to be prepared for such inevitabilities... because they can and will occur and can and will sabotage your ability to make money. Here are some suggestions that'll help you rise and shine... suggestions I use myself when getting up and getting going are most decidedly NOT my first priority!

1) Create a "to do" list before you go to bed.

The key to making tomorrow organized, efficient, and profitable is what you do today. Make it a rule before you retire for the night to draw up a clear, clean, specific "to do" list. Write it, read it over, put it next to the bed... then turn off the lights.

While you're sleeping your subconscious mind will be busily at work helping you organize and implement the items on your list. Even when your body is screaming for more sleep and all the creature comforts it can get, the brain -- and your crucial "to do" list -- will be helping you get up and at 'em.

2) Take a cold shower.

The British empire, the largest the world has ever known, was practically built on a cascade of frigid water. Its young men, pillars of the imperium, were shipped off to prep schools and immediately subjected to the jarring temperatures which will work for you as well as it worked for them. Don't stand there and debate.... turn up the cold tap and plunge! You're about to be invigorated, rejuvenated, primed to run your empire.

3) Do some exercise.

Are you huddling in a corner of your kitchen, hands gripping a cup of joe, comfy in your bunny slippers? Whoa! This isn't helping getting your act together. You need some brisk, bracing exercise... the kind guaranteed to send vital oxygen to that all- important brain.

Put the steaming liquid down and kick up your heels... or quick-step around your back yard or up and down your street. With every step your brain will exult. The key isn't coffee... it's oxygen. Move bristly and infuse it where it must go for maximum good.

4) Give yourself an easy, immediate success.

Don't feel like doing anything? Then give yourself an easy, immediate success. This should, of course, have been indicated on your "to do" list. Before you go to bed be sure to post on your list an easy thing, a thing that will start today's sequence of successes. Once begun, as we say in New England, is half done.

What could this "easy" thing be?

It could be calling a long-time customer to get a nice re-order or following up with a new customer to whom you've already sent a proposal and quote.

One success engenders another. Even a small success is sufficient. Start successful, remain successful. It all begins when you least feel like it.

5) Put on your head phones and engage with some stirring music.

Still need help getting into gear? Go to the play list on your computer and choose something rousing. What? You don't have such a play list? Start it today. I can assure you, you are going to need it. Here are some of my sure-fire upbeat selections, guaranteed to get you going:

Wake up Little Suzie by the Everly Brothers (most appropriate, don't you think?)

Think by Aretha Franklin.

Natalie Cole's version of Pink Cadillac, and

J.P. Rameau's always motivating Tambourins I-II from Dardanus.

Your list may well be different from mine; the important thing is to have a list you can access at once. Turn up the sound... and move your body. Your uplifting selections are moving you towards another successful day.

6) Visualize what you'll get when you turn this day into a success.

All too often we work without conceptualizing why. We work today because we worked yesterday. This is not nearly good enough.

Remind yourself just why you're working and what special thing today's successes will help create.

In my case, for instance, I have a pile of auction catalogs stacked high next to my computer. I motivate myself on days when such motivation is needed by looking at the things I want from auctions coming up quickly. Getting myself focused and together is a precondition for maximum acquisition. Visualize success; then do what's necessary to achieve it.

7) Still not alert and moving? Then take the day off formally and properly.

Like most people these days, you are working more and longer than either your parents or grand parents. We are the most leisure-challenged generation ever.

The plain fact is, you may be unable to get up and resolutely face the day because you're just worn out. If so, take the day off... sleep in, sleep properly, sleep, relax and goof off without guilt. You'll be the better tomorrow if you take what is necessary and do not regard it as an indulgence but physical need. Enjoy!

About The Author

Harvard-educated Dr. Jeffrey Lant is CEO of Worldprofit, Inc., where small and home-based businesses learn how to profit online. Attend Dr. Lant's live webcast TODAY and receive 50,000 free guaranteed visitors to the website of your choice. Dr. Lant is also the author of 18 best-selling business books.

Republished with author's permission by Rahimah Sultan http://SureFireSuccessNow.com
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2011-02-14T19:00:00.000-08:00

These Landing Page Mistakes Will Cost You Sales! Know Them. Avoid Them!

By Sandi Hunter

A landing page is a powerful way to generate leads for a product, service or company. Landing pages are a far more effective way of getting leads than promoting your website.

To get those Leads your Landing page must adhere to these sure-fire rules of marketing. Here's what you need to know to get the maximum results from your landing pages.

Most Common Mistakes

1. Boring headline.

Your headline must POP off the page with motivating words that will get the viewer's attention. You want to get their attention then draw them in to keep them reading. Headlines should be bold, easy to read, colorful and make an IMMEDIATE eye-grabbing impact.

2. Too fancy.

Fire your designer if they rely heavily on graphics and flash. Even video is sometimes not appropriate. You do not need your landing page to match your website. Landing pages do not need to be animated, blinking, jumping or annoying. Simple is best. Your Landing page has one purpose, and one purpose only - to generate a lead. It should be colorful, eye catching and use compelling rich copy.

3. No focus.

Effective landing pages are focused. Focused on purpose (lead generation) and focused on telling the reader exactly what they get and why they need to act now. Don't include any reason for distraction on your landing page. Make your marketing message ultra-clear.

4. No Offer.

If you want to generate a lead you MUST include an offer . People don't give away their contact information unless you give them VERY good reasons to do so. Make your pitch, and make it a great one - something for free, include a bonus, an incentive - something of value.

5. Forgetting about who the Landing Page is for!

Your Landing Page is for your Viewers. Yes, it's to market your company or product, but the page itself is about the viewer. Yes, your potential customers don't forget this. View your Landing pages from THEIR eyes. Is it obvious what you are offering? Is your offer enticing? Is your page focused or is it annoying to the point of distraction. Respect the experience and impression of your viewers. Make sure the page is not too long, the fonts are appropriate, the graphics not overdone and your opt-in form is quick and easy to complete.

To conclude, here is an Easy 1-2-3 Formula for creating effective Landing Pages.

1. Start with a powerful benefit-laden attention-grabbing headline.

2. Follow with compelling copy that motivates ACTION. Here is what you get, here is why you need it, here is how to get it RIGHT NOW!

3. Opt-in Form. Conclude with an easy to complete, simple form requesting contact details, being sure to list the bonuses/offer included. If you can add a value to these bonuses it makes your offer even more appealing.

Final words: Everything on your landing page should focus and compliment these things; simple theme-related graphics, well-written punchy copy, an irresistible offer, and an opt-in form. Your goal on a Landing page is to get the lead!

About the Author:

Sandi Hunter is the Director of Website Development at Worldprofit Inc., a Canadian company specializing in resources for small and home based business.

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2011-02-06T11:20:00.000-08:00

Article Writing and Submission to Directories—A Mini Lesson

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Article writing, article marketing, is a very good method for getting targeted prospects to your websites. However, there are some common mistakes that people make before submitting content to directories.

They focus on getting backlinks to their sites from directories as opposed to giving good content that helps their readers, and they don’t maximize the promotional opportunities of article marketing.

You shouldn’t just plan for your article to be accepted by directories for the sake of a backlink, but to be used by publishers/webmasters who search the directories for website content. Don’t underestimate the potential that this can have on your promotional efforts, as many of these publishers may have hundreds of regular visitors who could view your article.

Even if a poorly written, non-informative article does get into a directory the potential , for being picked up by webmasters looking for beneficial content is, decreased. You want to get massive exposure from submitting a quality article. Then, that article will not only generate links back to your site from the article directories themselves, but it will also generate links from any sites that publish it from these directories.

Writing and effectively marketing your articles helps you position yourself as the expert in your field. So, take advantage of this fact by providing relevant keywords in strategic places throughout the article. Search Engines love article content. If yours are good and distributed properly, they can spread virally.

Your articles can later become content for newsletters, blogs and online networking groups or you can combine them into an eBook or info-product that can be sold or given away for your prospects contact information. You can also use them as free giveaways to those who purchase your products.

Remember, the main reason for writing an article is to inform your audience about a particular subject. It takes time, skill, and effort to write and effectively use articles. That’s why many people won’t do it. But, if you’re looking for an advantage, this is a way to share your knowledge and to draw prospects to you.

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2011-01-29T20:45:00.000-08:00

Superior blog content makes you money. Here's how to write it like a pro.

by Dr. Jeffrey Lant

Blogs have swept the Internet. EVERY smart person either has one or is working hard to create one asap. This means you!

I'm here to deliver the blog content you must have and are (right now) clueless about creating. Let's dig in and solve that problem right now.

A blog is not a soliloquy, a tirade, or a soap box.

A blog is a conversation started by you. And like all conversations it takes two to tango.

Sadly, most people are lousy conversationalists. They do not converse, back and forth. Rather, they talk at people, mistaking the fact that they are pumping out words to beat the band for a keenly felt desire to hear what the other person has to say. These are selfish communicators... and they can never produce the results you must have to make your blog worthwhile.

Blogs work because they are interactive... and this means creating content that gets results while always urging your readers to respond.

But let's be honest with each other. You're not at all sure how to write blog content that'll do what every blog must do: generate leads and make money. Isn't that about the size of it?

For make no mistake, there is ABSOLUTELY NO point in creating and publishing a blog that doesn't generate good leads and make you money, every single day.

To achieve this objective RSVP must become the 4 most important letters in your profit alphabet.

Repondez s'il vous plait.

1) Always talk to your readers in the second person; always speak to them directly with an implicit or explicit "you". Your reader must know you are talking to her, personally, directly.

2) Make it clear you want to hear from your readers. Readers of your blog need to be told, often and clearly, that you WANT to hear from them; that you are standing by to hear from them... and that hearing from them, now, is the one essential you must have to make your day.

3) Make it easy to respond to you. Include your land line phone number, cell, skype, email, etc. If you want responses, make it supremely easy to respond to you.

4) Keep the tone of your blog intimate, as if you were having a private conversation with your best friend. People always want to know secrets and revealing information, especially about you. Oblige them.

5) Publish reader comments in your blog. What's one tried and true feature that's sure to rivet the full and immediate attention of your readers? Put their name in your blog; their name and any interesting and constructive comments they have made.

Hint: if a blog reader criticizes you, print the criticism... and your (always) cool, calm and collected response. People love reading such exchanges... and your stature is sure to grow by showing your readers how well you handle them. Ole!

"Content is king," saith Bill Gates... and he surely knows.

Billionaire Bill said, many years ago, that online "content is king." Truer words have ne'er been spoke. The key is knowing how to get it.

Start with a pair of scissors.

Each day I sit down with the publications I receive, including the Boston Globe, New England's paper of record. Over my Cheerios I proceed to read... not just for immediate information but for topics of interest about which I can write blog content.

Such topics are easy to find, ranging as they to from current Congressional high jinx to the faux pas of kings and presidents; from economic prognostications to items of human interest and insight.

If you want to run an effective, useful blog, keep such publications -- and scissors -- near at hand.

The wire services are key.

All day, every day the essential, usually unsung heroes of international incident and instant communications -- the wire services of the Associated Press, Reuters, etc -- pump out the factual information every single commentator on earth relies on and must be grateful for. In short, they do the grunt work that enables you to appear at all times knowledgeable, intelligent, omniscient. Without them such poses would be fatuous, ridiculous., unsustainable.

Similarly, check places inhabited by news junkies like me; you know, the major search engines and, always, CNN, Fox News, etc. Remember, a blog is a place of commentary... and commentators (with you now amongst them) must ALWAYS have something on which to comment.

Another hint: you need to open an "idea" folder, into which you can file, on a regular, daily basis, all the good subjects (funny, tragic, infamous, informative) that come your way. Never rely upon memory. Remember your scissors (and for online information your printer.) Gather this information and put it away. For this is the pure gold of the commenting business, and of your so well informed blog.

Timely blog posts; timeless blog posts. You need both

All blog content falls into two main categories: timely and timeless.

Timely means things of the moment; actions, events that are breaking news. You must be on top of these stories with valuable content and timely comment. Your aim must always be to be in advance of the developing story... at the very least on top of the current news cycle. This can easily be done on the 'net... if you stay abreast of story developments, as reported in the spots inhabited by news junkies and blogsters like you.

But all your posts need not be timely; much invaluable content can and should be timeless -- meaning it can be used and reused... again and again -- either as is, or updated. Such "evergreen" content has always been the friend of folks like us with a deadline... and the need for immediate content... but not an idea to be had. We rely on such worthy content, as on a good friend. (By the way, this article goes firmly into that category... for it has legs and can be read -- and published -- with profit for years to come.)

Your blog is your future

Right now, yet again, the Internet is being reshuffled. Those with blogs of consequence are emerging as the very sovereigns of cyberspace. Believe me, you wish to be amongst them... for to them will fall all the loaves and fishes.

These remarks will help. Print them, save them, savour them, for they come from an old hand at this fast-moving business.

About the Author

Harvard-educated Dr. Jeffrey Lant is CEO of Worldprofit, Inc., where small and home-based businesses learn how to profit online. Dr. Lant is also a syndicated writer and author of 18 best-selling business books.

Republished with author's permission by Rahimah Sultan
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2011-01-21T17:13:00.000-08:00

Massive Passive Income: Does Autoblogging Really Work?

Autoblogging is quite a hot topic these days in the Internet Marketing social circles. In case you have not heard all of the recent buzz and are scratching your head about what autoblogging is, it's a method for creating blogs in a 'set it and forget it' kind of way that have plugins in place to automatically post content daily. This essentially takes much of the labor out of creating unique content and posting daily or even every few days. But, the question of the moment is, does autoblogging work? Can you really generate a ton of passive income just from setting up these little niche blogs and then leaving them to fend for themselves?

Here are some things that you might hear about autoblogging:

Autoblogging is nothing but a scam
Most likely written either by folks who have tried it and failed, or who simply dismiss the concept out-of-hand because they firmly believe that the only way to blog is by creating unique content daily.

Autoblogging is your gateway to untold Internet Marketing riches
At the other end of the spectrum you might here claims that autoblogging is your ticket to riches and fame. Those messages are most often promulgated by those who are selling an autoblogging product.

The truth about autoblogging
Somewhere in between the idea that autoblogging is a black hat scam, and the idea that you can auto-blog your way to untold wealth is the truth that falls somewhere in between those extremes.

With autoblogging you use automated plugins that grab content based on your keywords from RSS feeds, article directories, your own stash of PLR content, and videos. You are aggregating all of this content and presenting it under your chosen category along with adverts that would appeal to the particular audience that you are targeting with your content.

You also need the tools and technology to make setting up and maintaining multiple blogs simple and straightforward. Wordpress is the perfect platform for your auto-blogs because it allows you to host multiple, individual blogs with their own domain names on a single installation of the Wordpress software on your server.

Autoblogging has many moving parts, so it's good to have a proven system to follow to help ensure your chances for success. Trying to patch together a solution and work through trial and error on your own can cost you valuable time and money.

If you follow a proven system and if you are willing to invest some time, thought and strategy on the front end, you can set up an empire of auto-blogs that will generate a healthy stream of passive income for you.

If you are serious about getting started building your own autoblogging empire, you must check out Massive Passive Profits, which is a mass deploy autoblogging format that completely automates the creation of Wordpress multi-user blog and feeds them with tons of content.

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2011-01-14T10:30:00.000-08:00

Ted Williams, his golden voice, and the cost of second chances.

by Dr. Jeffrey Lant

Millions of people worldwide are now familiar with the first "feel good" story of the year. Here are the facts.

Ted Williams was one of a small army of panhandlers with a plum spot along a well-traveled Ohio highway. You know the type, camouflage jacket, scruffy to a degree, odoriferous.

All these folks carry handwritten signs with their message of special pleading, a message designed for maximum pathos and heart-rending effect. Ted's said, in part, "God-given gift of a voice."

Through a tip, the Columbus Dispatch paper heard about Williams and, on a slow news day, sent a reporter to hear this phenomenon say something, anything. It didn't matter what.

Finding Williams wasn't difficult. Like most homeless people, his habits were pretty consistent. After all, there's no place like home, even if you're domiciled in a cardboard box under the interstate.

Ted, an affable fellow, was glad to oblige.... and so he made like the radio announcer he used to be and did the "Coming up at 10 pm tonight...." kind of voice overs, where intonation is everything.

The effect was immediate, electric, the real mccoy, and thanks to the Columbus Dispatch and Utube it went viral, fast -- the bedraggled Williams and that oh-so-perfect voice.

In the way of these things, stuff started to happen for the big-smile Williams right away. He immediately went on Ohio radio and the "Today" show.,(where he cried when discussing the mother he had neglected for so long.

He got job offers and expressions of initial interest from a host of companies and organizations including the Cleveland Cavaliers, the National Football League, the Oho Credit Union League, and ESPN, to name a fraction. Kraft (the cheese people) didn't just offer... they paid him good American greenbacks to do a voice over that only increased his renown and appeal.

There was even immediate speculation that Ted would be invited by the President of these United States to be his personal guest at the upcoming State of the Union Address. There Ted would be mentioned by name so the president could launch a telling phrase in his honor and derive the satisfaction of benevolence.

Ted was eager, grateful, overwhelmed. In an instant the people of America had shed their grace on this man of the streets. It was picture perfect... heart warming... a made for tv movie.

A handsome down and outer who cleaned up well

his golden voice

generous America taking him to its bosom

a soul redeemed

kudos and self-satisfaction all round.

And all in a couple of news cycles.

The reality, of course, was different... gritty, complicated, not quite so perfect but utterly predictable. Ted Williams at 53 was a man with a past.... booze, drugs, women... and a host of people who had Something To Say about this man of charm and irresponsibility.

His 90 year old mother stepped forward and had her say-so. Her voice was resolute, too... she looked the camera squarely in the eye and said her piece. Ted had done well in the military, had a good job, a solid life and had thrown it all away, inexplicably on drugs. He was long gone and seldom called; when he did he wanted something. Always to take, never to give. Each call fed her disgust.

In this woman there was a true hint of steel and substance. Old, but not elderly... she had no qualms about saying what she had to say. It was clear she'd been thinking about Ted and all he did wrong for many, many years. Her focus was where it needed to be: not on that golden voice... but on the man who shucked off his responsibilities to find fulfillment in something his mother could never understand or approve. Yes, there was steel in her voice, not just precise articulation and distinct diction.

Then there was his ex-wife Patricia Kirtley. Twenty three years ago he had deserted her and their 4 girls... and a 5th child he had with another woman. Kirtley, in the best tradition of strong black women, weak black men, had brought them all up throughout difficult days and lonely nights... when this partially blind woman of poise, grace, and determination had decisions to make, problems to solve all without the man who should have been present, helping, understanding, comforting.

She says, mildly, the kids feel "some resentment" about a father in the area but so focused on his own needs that he was never there for any of them. If they only felt "some resentment" they were rare children indeed. Rage would have become them better.

And had this long-gone father called Patricia and in that deep baritone now known to the world offered her and his life neglected children even some of his new found riches and promising future?

What do you think?

He had other fish to fry, places to go, people to meet, a golden future sustained by that golden voice. Old hostages to fortune, ex-wives, ex-girl friends, children, mother. They were all part of the past... with no claim to his future.

Ted, after all, was the darling of the media... a likely guest of the President of the United States, a spokesman for that most American of meals, mac and cheese. He had a future in which there was no place for his past.

And so, today, while Ted's smile and famous voice circle the globe in story after story, picking up speed and viewers as it proceeds, Ted's mother and former wife (now with 16 grandchildren) will go about the business of their lives, keeping hope and family alive and together. And they will do it, as they have done it, without Ted and his never-to-be forgotten voice.

About The Author

Harvard-educated Dr. Jeffrey Lant is CEO of Worldprofit, Inc., where small and home-based businesses learn how to profit online. Attend Dr. Lant's live webcast TODAY and receive 50,000 free guaranteed visitors to the website of your choice! Dr. Lant is also the author of 18 best-selling business books.

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2011-01-11T13:19:00.000-08:00

Article Writing and Submission to Directories—A Mini Lesson

Copyright © Rahimah Sultan
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Article writing/article marketing, is a very good method of getting targeted prospects to your websites. However, there are a couple of common mistakes that people make when submitting content to directories.

They focus on getting backlinks to their sites from directories as opposed to giving good content that helps their readers, and they don’t maximize the promotional opportunities of article marketing.

You shouldn’t just plan for your article to be accepted by directories for the sake of a backlink, but to be used by publishers/webmasters who search the directories for website content. Don’t underestimate the potential that this can have on your promotional efforts, as many of these publishers may have hundreds of regular visitors who could view your article.

Even if a poorly written, non-informative article does get into a directory the potential, for being picked up by webmasters looking for beneficial content is, decreased. You want to get massive exposure from submitting a quality article. Then, that article will not only generate links back to your site from the article directories themselves, but it will also generate links from any sites that publish it from these directories.

Writing and effectively marketing your articles helps you position yourself as the expert in your field. So, take advantage of this promotional fact by providing relevant keywords in strategic places throughout the article. Search Engines love article content. If yours are good and distributed properly, they can go viral.

Your articles can later become content for newsletters, blogs and online networking groups or you can combine them into an eBook or info-product that can be sold or given away for your prospects contact information. You can also use them as free giveaways to those who purchase your products.

Remember, the main reason for writing an article is to inform your audience about a particular subject. It takes time, skill, and effort to write and effectively use articles. That’s why many people won’t do it. But, if you’re looking for an advantage, this is a way to share your knowledge and to draw prospects to you.

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2011-01-04T20:06:00.000-08:00

Wicked Cool: The hubris and high jinks of Captain Owen Honors, United States Navy, sometime captain of the USS Enterprise.

by Dr. Jeffrey Lant

Let me introduce you to a cool dude, cute too, who knows how to party and had the perfect place to do it. I'm talking about U.S. Navy Captain Owen Honors, only just relieved as commander of America's only nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the proud USS Enterprise.

Honors, who never met a camera he didn't like, a man determined to please his crew, liked to spend his week preparing videos -- starring, guess who -- Captain Owen Honors, 49 year old Top Gun pilot and decided off-color video star.

Honors had at his disposal the very best video equipment generous U.S. taxpayers could buy. His effects were right up-to-the-minute, like having three separate screens in which (guess who?) appeared as three different (all cool) characters. Wow!

Honors, each week determined to outdo himself on week-end XO nights (when his latest videos were shown), somehow found time in his very busy days. The USS Entereprise, after all, was deployed supporting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. A man of dedication, energy, imagination he somehow found the time to work on video ideas, plots, film venues, and a dazzling array of really cool outfits perfectly tailored. This caring captain was determined to give his eagerly expectant 6000-person crew the very best . He certainly did, particularly in 2006-2007 when his bold ideas and still bolder presentations took the Enterprise by storm and riveted every eye on the ship. What, they all wondered, would their daring executive officer, then Captain Honors do next?

They never had long to wait.

There was that hot video when their cutting-edge commander simulated masturbation at his desk. As Paris Hilton would say, "That's hot!"

What about the never-to-be-forgotten episode of two naked guys soaping each other off in the shower. Honors was a nut for saving water... and wanted to drive home the point with eye-popping visuals. And, to be completely politically correct, he did the same scene with two of the women of his crew.

There was more, much more since Honors was an indefatigable guy with an unceasing appetite for more and better; ambitious videos of which he soon became the master with the help of designated members of his command.

There was the anal probe episode... and all the "fag" plots, pratfalls and plays. That commander... what a cut-up.

There were the in jokes, like writing "little XO" on his you-know-what. It was hilarious, pure camp, what a guy.

And just think, he did it all while on deployment in not one, but two war zones. How did the guy do it, inquiring minds wanted to know.

Alas, there was irritating criticism from small minds.

It's hard to imagine... but disgracefully true... that there were members of the Enterprise crew who found their commander's hard work and dazzling results offensive. Small minded, picayune, uptight... these folks made a fuss and criticized the coolest guy in the fleet. This rankled with Honors, for he was working so hard. Why his bravura video on the "f-bomb" was pure poetry. Really, who could object?

In a rare outburst, this commander of poise and sensitivity lashed out at his anonymous accusers: "Over the years I've gotten several complaints about inappropriate material during these videos, never to me personally but, gutlessly, through other channels." Gutless, indeed! If there'd been a plank aboard the Enterprise, Honors would have been well within his rights to put the snivelers on it.

Instead, he opened one of his last videos with these mild, entirely justified words: "This evening, all of you bleeding hearts... why don't you just go ahead and hug yourself for the next 20 minutes or so, because there's a really good chance you're gonna be offended."

That's the man in a nutshell, empathetic, soft spoken.

Still one of these snivelers (probably gay), not yet identified by name, took (inexplicable) offense... go figure... sending the (to him) offending tapes to the Navy Inspector General.

Where all hell broke lose.

Despite the fact that Owen Honors was well-known throughout the Navy, despite the fact that he had a high visibility command; despite 3,400 flight hours in 31 types of aircraft... despite a chestful of bona fide awards and medals... the Navy moved expeditiously because it knew it had a real hot potato on its hands.

Navy media releases quickly went from "the videos were intended to be humorous" to "inappropriate"... to the announcement Captain Honors was relieved of his command as the Navy initiated, behind the scenes, the steps required to cashier him from the service he loved and had served throughout his life. My how the mighty had fallen!

Certain Navy personnel and those persons wedded to the good old days of fag baiting and the humiliation and degradation of women, predictably launched a campaign to save the Captain and his wayward views. They tried to convince by asking what was the big deal after all; the views advanced in the Captain's high tech videos were commonplace, nothing to write home about, the way "everyone" thought.

Exactly.

This is why the Navy Department is to be commended on taking (reasonably) prompt action to lance the infection and proclaim zero tolerance for mocking good sailors, their sexuality and gender.

The Navy is moving fast now to get just-suspended Captain Honors out of public view, to bury this still young officer with talent and skills to burn and ensure that he becomes the complete non-person, He is, after all, a total embarrassment... the story breaking at the worst possible time, as the Navy shows that it can, with good humor and in good order, nimbly move into the post "don't ask, don't tell" era.

There is, the Navy signals, no place in this new order for Captain Honors, once absolute lord of all he surveyed. Such a man so powerful and so lacking in judgement is now an inconvenient artifact of an age and state of mind the Navy wants firmly, irrevocably behind it.

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2010-12-28T17:35:00.000-08:00

The great secret of business success: The MORE you GIVE AWAY, the richer you get!

by Dr. Jeffrey Lant

Want to use your business to get rich? Of course you do! Then why aren't you giving away more?

Counter intuitive though this thought may appear, it contains the key truth of business success: the more you GIVE AWAY, the richer you get!

How much did you give away yesterday? How much the day before?

Right this minute, with the worldwide economy in the doldrums and likely to remain so for some time, millions of business owners are scratching their heads for ideas on how to spur crucial sales. All sorts of ideas, from the daft to the expensive, are being advanced.

Yet the solution to getting more sales is plain: Don't just sell your customers something, dazzle them with everything you will give them in addition to the actual product or service they pay for.

Focus the customer on an absolutely stunning offer

Look at everything you sold in the last few days. Were your customers buying products... or were they motivated by offers packed with additional benefits, benefits you were giving away as inducements to motivate faster sales?

In other words, did you make sales because you gave away one thing after another, which made purchasing the items in question an absolute no-brainer?

Start by brain storming what you can give away

Most businesses have NEVER made a systematic effort to determine just what they can give away to induce more sales faster. This, however, is key and must be done at once.

Go through every single product and service you offer. What can you give away:

* more of the product or service * free delivery * free shipping * discount coupons for future sales * a special limited time offer * service and support

Get the picture? Before you can fashion high-octane offers, you must develop a list of EVERYTHING you've got and can give away to motivate more present and future sales.

Study other people's offers and give-aways

The great thing about being in business is that paying attention to what other businesses are doing (and not just competitors either) can benefit you every single day. Thus, wherever you go, review what companies are doing to get your business; can you use or adapt them to your success?

Develop a "give-away" mentality.

Business, you have been told, is all about closing sales, in other words about "working" the customer. If you buy into this point of view, you're in for a lifetime of drudgery and hard work. STOP IT!

Instead, consider yourself in the business of crafting spectacular bonus offers that enable you to make sales the very easiest way: by so exciting customers about the freebies and great offers they get that they'll do anything to get them! Doesn't this sound a whole lot easier and more fun that "closing sales"?

Start today, review today, improve today

Right now you're probably still trying to get your head around the concept that the more you give away the richer you'll get. Fair enough. But don't wait because of that to get started.

Today is the perfect day to start... as well as the perfect day to review what occurred AND to make improvements (like giving away even more).

You see, as long as your objective is maximizing your wealth ... you're in the business of increasing the amount you give away and enhancing customer motivation. And if wealth is your goal, you must do what it takes to become a world-class expert in giving away, giving away, giving away. Because that is the sure-fire way to get wealthy.

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2010-12-21T18:42:00.000-08:00

'I wonder who's kissing him now.' Marine Commandant General James Amos' inconvenient jeremiads on 'Don't ask, don't tell.'

By Dr. Jeffrey Lant

The winds of change are blowing through the military establishment. It is clear that openly gay service personnel are an inevitability and that "Don't ask, don't tell" is on its way out.

These days Defense Secretary Robert Gates, a man trusted by both political parties and the service chiefs, has a message for them all: if we are to manage the end of "Don't Ask, don't tell" the way we want it... we had best act quickly before the civilian courts step in and tell us what to do. Change is inevitable, he says, but handling it our way is not.

Right now, various judges, their itchy fingers and intrusive court orders at the ready, are giving the military time to sort out their own house. But the clock is ticking... ticking.

Secretary Gates reminds all that "Don't ask, don't tell", that invidious, unconstitutional, discriminatory policy that has kept military gays locked firmly in the closet since the Clinton Administration is moving inexorably into the scrap heap of history's lousy ideas. He aims to be on the right side as inevitability unfolds.

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen knows it, too. He's on board with the new political realities as are all savvy officers who can see the way the wind blows.

But, conspicuously brand-new Marine Commandant James Amos is not. To the increasing embarrassment of the military establishment, General Amos has become a fountainhead of notoriously unpersuasive insipidities on the subject:

One by one, the panjandrums of the military have thrown in the towel and taken up the new party line, admitting that gays (imagine!) have been serving, are serving and will serve in every service with distinction... what is the big deal, after all?

General Amos, new kid on the block, Bourbon-like, has learned nothing and forgotten nothing. Bourbon-like he has now become the problem... and you know what happened to these clueless French monarchs.

If his military brethren have weakened and strayed, he most assuredly has not. Why just the other day he uncorked this sour vintage, designed to frighten Marine parents everywhere:

"I don't want to have any Marines that I'm visiting at Bethesda (Naval Medical Center) with no legs be the result of any kind of distraction."

This, of course, is demagoguery of the worst kind... seeking to support an outmoded policy through fear mongering. It defines the man's approach to this issue. If he cannot have victory, he can at least have the last word. (But there is that in him which feels that even now, against all odds, he can still have victory. After all he is a Marine... and that is enough.)

Should we abolish "Don't ask, don't tell," he emphasizes, your Marine son, who needs to focus on winning the engagement and staying alive, could well face and would have to respond immediately to unwanted sexual advances from deviate members of the corps who could use war to get sex. Thus, instead of moving against the enemy, your comely lad would be distracted... even unto the ultimate sacrifice.

"I wonder who's kissing him now."

In 1909 America danced to and hummed along with a catchy Gilded Age pop tune, "I wonder who's kissing her now." This lilting waltz, with changed gender, now appears to be running through General Amos' fetid mind:

"I wonder who's kissing him now, I wonder who's teaching him how? Wonder who's looking into his eyes? Breathing sighs! Telling lies! I wonder if he's got a boy? The boy who once filled me with joy, Wonder if he ever tells him of me? I wonder who's kissing him now."

Fascinated, revolted, the licentious scene is painfully clear to the general. As the enemy's attacks intensify, as the enemy moves in, as your son's full concentration is earnestly required... he has to fend off an amorous corpsman intent on nookie instead of self-protection... and victory. Oh, my.

Imagine, they sleep together. The general cannot forget.

The Marine Corps, unlike other services, houses a pair of people in a room, collegiate style. This, they say, promotes "unity." Perhaps, as the general worries, too much so. Here's what he said in November, 2010 in a statement that alerted the politically sensitive to the problem they faced in General Amos:

“There is nothing more intimate than young men and young women and when you talk of infantry we’re talking of our young men laying out, sleeping along side of one another and sharing death, fear and loss of brothers,” General Amos said. “I don’t know what the effect of that will be on cohesion. I mean, that’s what we’re looking at. It’s unit cohesion, it’s combat effectiveness.”

It's buncombe.

The general says, and no doubt believes with all the power of the last pterodactyl, that men of a certain sexual orientation will during combat do things other than everything they can to stay alive. Does anyone else concur with this lapse of insight and intellect?

Let's be clear: men, women, gay, straight during combat they will all focus on staying alive, then on achieving the objective. Sexual orientation does not change this truth one iota.

As a result, basing his case on a rancid fallacy, this general of antiquated views and big mouth lumbers on, embarrassing the president, the military establishment, and every thinking Marine; all of them with gay friends and colleagues and absolutely no problem serving with them worldwide.

Then what of General Amos? So newly installed, he has already committed political hara kiri, still walking and too much talking, but of no earthly consequence. The Marine Corps deserves better. Fortunately, in due course, as General Amos keeps talking, they will get it. For such a man with such views has besmirched Semper Fi. And that will never do.

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2010-12-11T15:53:00.000-08:00

A Review of Steven Johnson’s Total Traffic Annihilation

If you’re looking for an in-depth treatment of free traffic generation methods then you should invest in Total Traffic Annihilation. I recently had the opportunity to enjoy a preview of this course, and the eBook alone makes it worth your while—it contained 114 pages of focused, step-by-step methods that were presented as a total marketing plan.

I especially enjoyed the sections on blog comment marketing and forum marketing. These sections really helped me understand the right way to use those tools and the strength of what they have to offer. I’d avoided them in the past, feeling as though they were somewhat artificial, but Total Traffic Annihilation showed me they did not have to be.

While I’m not certain all 28 of the strategies presented in the eBook are good fits for my business I was impressed to have so many options to choose from. Every one of the options was covered in a clear, understandable way that will make them easy for me to implement in the future.

The new software package also offers some exciting applications. For example, it allows me to specify RSS feeds to pull content from. It then automatically uses this content to create posts in the categories I specify. I enjoy having a way to comb through article directories for this freely available content. It even allows me to create a site that appears to have been around for awhile through the clever use of back-dating. My site doesn’t look at all automated as a result, which I appreciate given most people’s opinions of automated blogs.

That’s not to say the course is perfect. I found some of the information duplicated things I have tried and found ineffective in the past, such as submitting to directories like DMOZ. I would have liked to have seen some more in-depth troubleshooting in this area because I’ve simply never found success there. It may simply have been that my sites were a poor fit for the directories or because I was impatient.

All in all, however, I would happily recommend this course. It should be especially helpful to anybody who has struggled with getting enough website traffic. After all, no traffic means no sales, making this course the potential investment of a lifetime.

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2010-12-04T13:27:00.000-08:00

The lubricious dreams and lurid fantasies of Senator John McCain

The decrying goes on and on and on… ethnicity, religious belief and now the continuing saga of gays in the military. Here’s one author’s take on the latter.

To be blunt, Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) is making a fool of himself around the issue of gays in the military. His comments before the Senate Armed Services Committee the last few days have been an embarrassment, to himself and to the nation. In brief, his argument goes like this: 'We don't want 'em, we don't want 'em, we don't want 'em, see?'

McCain, of course, is on the wrong side of what is rapidly becoming a total and complete non-issue. As McCain should know (though he was a notoriously lazy student) the tides of history are determinant. And history is rapidly wrapping up the details on this issue.

Gays will serve in the military (as they always have from the time of the first army on this planet).

Gays will deliver good service. Many will be wounded. Many will die. Some will be dismissed... but dismissed for poor service, not bedroom gymnastics.

Gays will marry their same-sex partners in weddings which will feature snazzy uniforms and an arch of sabres. One day one such veteran will be Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff... and she and her partner will get an engraved silver salver from the president on the occasion of their 50th wedding anniversary. They may even be designated the "People of the Year" by Time Magazine. Stranger things have happened.

Any sensible person can read these tea leaves. They are clear, certain, irrefutable.

So, why is Senator McCain so adamant? There is surely something going on here, something more than meets the eye. Could it be… Continue

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2010-11-30T16:56:00.000-08:00

Rules to blog by, for blog publishers and readers

by Dr. Jeffrey Lant

Maybe HE likes all the hubbub.

But will you?

The calm of my Cambridge, Massachusetts neighborhood was punctuated the other day by student protestors outside Harvard University's Science Center. There 1960's wannabees chanted "Harvard, Harvard, shame on you, honoring a racist fool."

The cause of this mayhem was Professor Martin Peretz and his latest blog post on his The New Republic website: "But, frankly Muslim life is cheap, most notably to Muslims." It was more than enough to stir up a reaction from the politically correct, who live to chant and picket.

They shouted... they taunted... they heckled... and HE, owner of The New Republic, the subject of so much fuss, got valuable, eye-catching full-page publicity in The Boston Globe, New England's paper of record.

Bingo!

One of America's most experienced provocateurs had succeeded, yet again, in using his blog to get even more publicity for his "take no prisoners" opinions.

Martin Peretz' blog had done its work and done it well.

Will yours? It most assuredly will... if you understand the true purpose of a blog, run it accordingly, and learn to be a responsible blog publisher and blog reader. Here are recommendations to assist you.

Bogs MUST be honest.

The purpose of a blog is to give ANYONE ANYWHERE in the world, whatever creed, class, station, nationality, or political position, the opportunity to be heard on any subject
whatsoever.

Thus, your task as a blogger is to open yourself up... to tell the truth, straightforwardly, honestly, bluntly. The blog is, first and foremost, about you, its publisher and focus. To write anything other than the whole truth, so help you God, is to demean the medium -- and yourself.

If you are new to blogging, you'll find this kind of openness difficult, challenging. Most people grow up adept at masking their true opinions. For fear of what the listener may say or do, we moderate and water down the way we really feel and what we say.

That will never do on a blog where truth is called for at all times.

Now, you may think you are a straightforward, honest person but blogging will show you soon enough that you, like all social beings, are considerably more adept at masking how we feel, our true views, rather than telling them.

In the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird", for instance, there is an incident that makes this point lucidly, succinctly. Atticus Finch is walking with his children past Miss DuBois' home. She is a notorious termagant and scold. Does he say that to her? Certainly not.
He lifts his hat cordially, saying "Good afternoon, Miss DuBois. You look pretty as a picture." Scout, his young daughter, says just loud enough "You notice he don't say a picture of what." Miss DuBois just catches a few words and wants to know what the impish Scout has said... but Atticus Finch is a wise man, a gentleman and knows the value of good relations, over the strict, unyielding truth. He lifts his hat again and moves his children along. Most of us would do the same.

But bloggers cannot. Bloggers must opt for candor, honesty at all times.

The more honest YOU are, the more reactions you will get. Take Professor Peretz, for example. Given that he is an experienced blogger, I take him at his word, when he writes his latest anti-Muslim diatribe.

Others, who feel differently, will abhor and detest what he has written... and propose such sanctions as having a speaking engagement at Harvard cancelled. But this is wrong.

Voltaire, that very clever fellow, said it best:

"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it."

Unfortunately, sanctimonious members of the Academy (usually the least intelligent on campus) have forgotten their true calling: facilitating free speech, not suffocating and penalizing it. Blogs, then, do the work academicians should do (the reason they are given tenure to do), but are now too often emasculated, self-protecting and lazy to do.

Thus, when you write, the objective is always to achieve Harvard's ultra clear motto: "Veritas", the pure and always unsimple truth.

Write regularly, consistently.

One of the major problems with most blogs is that they are not regularly produced. Remember, whatever else a blog may be it is also and always the story of your life. It is a window into your thoughts and occupations. Blogs must therefore be regularly undertaken. Don't start it.... unless you mean to do it.

Write regularly and consistently, being always aware that the first day you do not feel like writing your blog is the very day you must be sure to write it... or risk the ending of your blog altogether.

The more honest you are, the more and stronger reader reaction you should expect.

When Professor Peretz posted his incendiary opinions about Moslims (a subject on which he writes often), I suspect he knew that tea cups in Cambridge and beyond would be rattled. What's more, being a true provocateur, he probably relishes the instant, insistent responses of those he has provoked. He might not like being followed through Harvard Yard by hecklers... but he cannot truly have been awfully surprised by such a response. Relish, rather than alarm, was most probably his reaction.

You, too, need to reach this level of reaction and response as you achieve greater candor and honesty in your bog. Because as my grandfather used to say, some damned idiot is sure to protest; the stronger the opinions rendered, the stronger the response from those disagreeing. (He would have been a great blogger, grandfather Walt would have been.)

Prepare for the reaction... expect it... ignore it.

Blogging is one of the jewels of the Internet... treat it with care and consideration.

Millions and millions of folks have come and gone on this planet without leaving even a foot print in the dust. To our chagrin and detriment, we do not know them in any way at all. But blogging has changed all that, not merely for the potent and celebrated... but even
unto the lowest among us. At last they have a place for their opinions...not matter how alarming, uninformed, and (to the rest of us) silly they may be. And this is a very good thing... for our job is to cherish the bloggers, protecting and defending them, even at their most reprehensible and loathsome. And that includes you, too, Professor Peretz, as you sit in comfort and security here in Cambridge, spewing venom. I defend to the death your right to say it... and blog it worldwide. Defending you, I have done the right thing, while taking joy from the fact that every hostile word you blog drives down the certified circulation figures of your moribund rag, The New Republic. In the end the marketplace , not censorship, will determine your fate. So blog on....

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2010-11-23T17:25:00.000-08:00

Massive Passive Income: What is Autoblogging All About?

Autoblogging is simply a methodology for automating blog content. Traditionally, when you set up a blog you then either create the content by hand yourself, or you hire a freelancer to create the content for you. Either way it is both time consuming or expensive. But with autoblogging and the Massive Passive Profits system, you simply set up the blog once, set up the automated content stream and the blog updates itself on auto-pilot generating passive income for you while you focus on doing other things.

But isn't autoblogging a 'black hat' technique that will get your site banned? I can hear you asking that question and I will tell you that if you set up your blogs properly following a proven method such as Massive Passive Profits your sites will not get banned and you will finally start generating some real passive income from blogging.

What is Massive Passive Profits? It's a mass deploy autoblogging format that automates the creation of Wordpress multiuser sites and content. No longer do you have to sweat about your sites getting banned, and Wordpress multi-user platform saves time and effort of logging in and out of and maintaining multiple blogs. With this elegant solution, autoblogging becomes a complete no-brainer and you are free to point and click to create and launch new blogs on the fly and watch your bank account grow as you add new blogs.

With autoblogging your blogs will generate income in much the same way as a traditional, hand written blog, but because they are so quick to set up, and effortless to maintain you can focus on generating a large quantity of blogs and on generating traffic to those blogs.

You would begin by doing your keyword research to find profitable niches, install Wordpress, add then follow along with Massive Passive Profits to set up your niche blogging empire.

Now bear in mind that these are not going to be pretty, award-winning blogs that you'll be inviting your family members to visit. What you will be doing, is gathering up and providing useful content around your chosen topic to your blog visitors that are searching for information on your topic. You?ll choose ads and CPA offers that will appeal to those visitors and eventually these blogs will start generating cash for you automatically.

Setting up an autoblogging empire does not take a lot of time or effort, and once everything is set up and humming along you can move on to other projects while your little blog farm continues to produce month in and month out.

So, if you are willing to invest just a little bit of time to set up the Massive Passive Profits system you will soon see lifestyle-altering income streams flowing in from you ever growing autoblogging empire.

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2010-11-16T17:40:00.000-08:00

Pension Tips For The Self-Employed

"Hello, I'm from the government. I'm here to help you." Ordinarily, these words have a chilling effect on the self-employed, knowing as we do just how ironic they can be. However, every once in a while they are true and advantageous. This is the case with the tax-deferred pension options the U.S. government makes available to the self-employed, people like you and me.

1) Do YOU have a pension plan? It's crazy not to!

The sad fact is, a MAJORITY of the self- employed don't have a pension plan. Survey after survey documents the fact that millions of people -- each of whom wants to get old (it beats the alternative) -- are NOT using their business and the pension guidelines to arrange for a comfortable retirement. This is madness.

Don't wait another minute to do the necessary. Call your accountant today and listen carefully as he presents your pension options. Make sure you take notes and question him liberally until you really understand what you can do.

2) Be clear on how much you can invest in your tax-deferred pension account.

Your accountant should give you a precise figure to invest. Keep it close at hand. Knowing this figure, and doing what's necessary to achieve it are both crucial to your long-term comfort and security.

3) Know the next pension deposit deadline.

Ideally, you should deposit the full pension amount at the time you file your federal taxes. If not, your accountant should give you the date (generally six months after you've paid your taxes) that you can still pay into your pension plan. This date is VERY important

4) Once you know the figure you can deposit into your pension plan, make
achieving it your #1 goal.

Say you are authorized to deposit $5,000 into your tax-deferred plan. Say you have until September 1 to do so.

First, you want to deposit this amount in your pension plan just as early as possible. Today if possible. Why? Because you want to put time to work for you. All things being equal, it's better to make your pension payment on April 15 rather than September 15. It gives the funds just that much longer to grow. This makes a great difference over time.

5) Treat your pension payments like a bill, your #1 bill.

Most people pay into their pension accounts after they've paid all their other bills, when there may or may not be anything left. This is a mistake.

If you are unable to pay-off your pension balance at tax filing time and must make (say) monthly payments, then ensure you make these payments the very first thing each month, before you've depleted your available cash.

6) Cash windfall? Think pension!

Made a big sale? Had a bit of luck? Got some extra cash? Think PENSION!

Remember, deposit into your tax-deferred pension account as SOON as you can, and if a bit of extra cash comes your way pay off what you "owe" your pension account.

7) Pay your pension fund in advance whenever possible.

Had a good year? Made some extra money? Already paid the maximum into your pension account? Then deposit some more! The future is, by definition, murky and uncertain. That's why if you can deposit more, you should. Take any extra funds you can spare and make an early deposit into your pension fund. When a rainy day comes, you'll be glad you did!

8) Look but don't touch!

When that rainy day comes and you need extra cash, you may think longingly about the funds in your tax-deferred pension account. DON'T!

You must regard your pension funds as sacrosanct, not to be touched until commanded to do so by the federal regulations governing access and withdrawal. If you withdraw them now, you will ordinarily pay a hefty penalty. What's more you lose the benefits of time... and jeopardize the comfort and security of your golden years. Find another way to get the funds you need. Don't dip into this till.

Conclusion

We all hope to get old, but to get old without security and comfort is to be in a most unenviable situation. Use your business -- and the tax-deferred pension options provided by government --, to ensure your old age is as ample as you deserve and desire.

Harvard-educated Dr. Jeffrey Lant is CEO of Worldprofit, Inc., www.worldprofit.com where small and home-based businesses learn how to profit online. Attend Dr. Lant's live webcast TODAY and receive 50,000 free guaranteed visitors to the website of your choice! Republished with author's permission by Rahimah Sultan http://www.SureFireSuccessNow.com>. Check out Mobile Monopoly -> http://rsultan.mobimonop.hop.clickbank.net

2010-11-08T18:18:00.000-08:00

5 Unexcelled Ways To Kill Your Business!

by Dr. Jeffrey Lant

The key to increasing your business profits is to get your existing customers to buy more faster. The key to this is simple: Make SURE what you do is fostering this vital relationship… not killing it.

Once Upon A Time…

The other day, I called what its owners think of as Boston’s “premier” silver business. You know the kind: in business since “my grandfather served your grandfather,” all simpering, condescending, and (fatal) above the doing of “business”. Their motto: “Business is inherited, never earned”, a tried and true prescription for dwindling profits… and ultimately a “business to let” sign in the window.

Lucky for you this owner’s self-defeating behavior inspired this article. As a result, even though the folks who inspired this article may not be saved… you will be!

1) Be personable and enthusiastic when you
speak with your customers

Is this “elementary, my dear Watson,” as Sherlock Holmes would have said? Absolutely not. Instead of presenting a bright, chipper persona, too many business owners and their representatives appear above your mere business, which they approach with disinterest, disdain, even dismissal. What’s worse, the higher you go in the hierarchy, the more of this you may see — and hear.

Your job, however exalted, is to give the customer a comfortable and serene experience. Your business is never merely about what you do; it’s always about how you do it, including the tone and temperament with which you approach each customer… the necessity to be pleasant even if you don’t feel like it.

2) Return Phone Calls

There is nothing that so infuriates customers (and rightly so) as failure to return calls in a prompt, professional manner.

In this scenario, the customer calls and leaves a detailed message which is then..,
ignored. Result? With every passing moment, the customer gets more and more indignant… while your chances of repeat business melt.

Cure: return EVERY pending call before the end of business EACH DAY. If necessary, put a note on your computer: “I cannot leave until every customer call has been returned.” There would be a lot less (justifiable) indignation all round if this was the rule. Make it yours!

3) Keep The Customer Updated

Rome wasn’t built in a day… but I bet Caesar Augustus was regularly updated on progress. If it was good enough for the Caesars, it ought to be good enough for you.

Thus, instead of making your customers chase you down for (usually rushed and inadequate) progress reports, be pro-active. Before you leave your office EVERY DAY, call or e-mail reports. These should include commentary on the most important pending items, especially those which may be most troubling and of greatest interest to the customer. Doing things this way, providing reports when least expected, make you the kind of business person people most like to work with.

4) Live Within The Budget — Or Promptly
Explain Why You Can’t

Want a sure-fire, unbeatable way to kill even the longest standing customer relationship? Then over spend a budget… and don’t bother to tell your customer beforehand, much less explain matters clearly.

Everyone is touchy about money. No one ever has enough. Thus, keeping your customer
scrupulously up-to-date on financial issues, especially where increased expenditure is necessary is vital. As soon as you have the facts, inform the customer. Where the sum in question is significant, call; otherwise, a prompt email will do.

The point is: it is the customer’s right to have this information in a timely fashion. And it is your responsibility to provide it… or else!

5) Thank Early, Sincerely, Tangibly
Have you ever watched the way some business people “thank” their customers for their life-(and profit) — making business? No eye contact, perfunctory words, a palpable wish to get it over — and you out — ASAP. Yikes!

Maybe this customer was difficult; maybe you’re just having one of those days when the milk of human kindness turns sour. Even so, you owe it both to customer and your prosperity to thank her properly. If you can do it with true sincerity so much the better; if not, simulate until you can.

More, whenever possible give your all-important customer a “little something” extra, the more so if you have not followed the crucial steps above. People like bonuses. Add one whenever you can.

Last Words

We all want repeat business. It’s the life blood of business success. Many people wrongly think that all you have to do to get it is be good at what you do. WRONG! You must attend to the “little things”, the things I’ve discussed in this article. After all, as the song says “little things mean a lot.” Your customer must always be treated with the greatest possible care and consideration. Empathy is required.

… which is why I decided to pass on taking my business to the silver smith mentioned above. He didn’t earn it.

About The Author

Harvard-educated Dr. Jeffrey Lant is CEO of
Worldprofit, Inc., www.worldprofit.com where
small and home-based businesses learn how to
profit online. Attend Dr. Lant’s live webcast
TODAY and receive 50,000 free guaranteed
visitors to the website of your choice! For details
on Dr. Lant’s 18 best-selling business books,
go to www.jeffreylant.com

2010-10-30T14:44:00.000-07:00

Flower power. You never need a special reason to use it. Now will do just fine.

by Dr. Jeffrey Lant

I was at the grocery store the other day; you know, the Shaw’s Market at Porter Square, Cambridge. My helper Aime Joseph was doing his usual efficient job of unloading the groceries onto the conveyor belt. I was holding the flowers so they wouldn’t get crushed.

A tired looking lady was at the cash register, a woman…
Flower power. You never need a special reason to use it. Now will do just fine.

2010-10-21T19:03:00.000-07:00

Why your company must have a designated nudge to achieve maximum results.

by Dr. Jeffrey Lant

Did you know your company has a open position which needs to be filled at once?
The absence of this person is costing you money every single day. That’s why you cannot wait another minute to fill this vital post.

To help understand what this position is all about, let’s start at the dictionary:

Nudge (nuj) v. nudged, nudging. v. t. To touch or push gently as with the elbow, in order to attract attention, convey a meaning, etc. v.i. To give a nudge. n. The act of nudging; a gentle push as with the elbow. Norw. nugga, push.

Frankly, I think the original Norwegian ("nugga") has it right: push. The nudge is your company’s designated representative to push employees and associates for more and faster results.

Why you need a nudge

Let’s face it, you’re human. You try to set goals. You try to reach them in the time provided. You try to do more and better, right?

But somehow you fall behind, miss deadlines, bobble opportunities, trip and crash when you should be sprinting ahead. Isn’t that about the size of it?

Which is why you need a designated nudge.

In a nutshell the job of the nudge is to

* check progress on existing projects and objectives

* ask how you are getting on with what needs to be done

* remind you what needs to be done and when it must be done

* offer incentives for achievement

* make it clear what happens when achievement is not forthcoming

And, in general, spur, motivate, challenge, chide — and push.

The nudge must be organized, efficient, focused, indefatigable, with a thick skin

Only a person of the utmost efficiency, clarity and organization can be a nudge. After all, a nudge who falters and fails is hardly going to make a success of the position, much less deliver the benefits you have every right to expect.

Beyond such skills, the nudge must be a person who, above all, has a thick skin and who doesn’t take things personally.

Nudges are often regarded as people butting in where they are not wanted…
perfectionists in an imperfect world… annoying, interfering, pests; in short not the most welcome of creatures.

That’s why two things are absolutely necessary for the successful nudge: a thick skin and immunity for whatever they say.

The necessity for immunity

A nudge by definition pushes other employees… and must therefore be protected from the comments and reactions of all employees.

Consider this typical situation:

Nudge: Mary, as you know your monthly sales figures are a little off. What are you planning to do to get back on track?

I guarantee you that Mary is not likely to be very happy when the nudge drops by with this message. However, that is the nudge’s job: to get Mary back on track ASAP, to enable both Mary and the company to achieve their clearly understood goals.

Mary may well be inclined to respond with a "get out of here. I am fully capable of handling this matter myself" comment.

But she cannot and must not.

The nudge’s job is to remind Mary of what needs to be done, when it needs to be done, what Mary is doing to achieve the objective, and to give Mary all appropriate help and directions, right up to and including warnings and admonitions.

The nudge is constantly in motion and may appear anywhere, at any time.

By definition, a nudge cannot be a stationary object; the nudge must constantly be

* connecting with employees * reviewing their progress * making suggestions * focusing employees * recommending what must be done and when it must be done.

The nudge must be supremely well organized and must have a clear daily "to do" list.

This means

* knowing who must be contacted today

* calling and emailing such people (including follow-up e-mails after all meetings).

* re-focusing employees, tweaking, adjusting, reminding.

The nudge is a creature in constant motion…

* prodding Joe

* complimenting Neal

* chiding Sally

being clear on what each needs to achieve… and working with each and all to achieve those objectives.

Start today

There isn’t a company on this earth which wouldn’t be better off having a designated nudge on staff. That’s why you must start today.

* Review the nudge candidates you have. Who is best equipped to contact each and every employee and representative to improve results?

* The nudge must be in constant communication with employees AND with management.

* The nudge’s conduct and mode of operation must be reviewed at regular intervals. Remember your Lord Acton: "power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely." You must ensure that your nudge doesn’t develop arrogance and "big head" problems, which can easily occur without periodic intervention and oversight.

Review the nudge’s results

A nudge who understands and is good at this job is a godsend to any company. After all, nudges are clear on what is likely to deliver better results:

* allowing employees to go their own ways without regular oversight and reminding, or

* having to report progress (or lack of same) to a designated representative whose task is to get people to produce more in a designated period of time?

Obvious, isn’t it?

And so we come back to the original Norwegian word "nugga", meaning push. The nudge is your company’s secret weapon, who by simply showing up and pushing and prodding employees will achieve better results day after day.

Cherish nudges, for they are a source of endless benefits to you and your organization. Far too many employees are slow, slothful, disorganized, inefficient. Apply the magic of the nudge to the solution of these problems and deficiencies. The results will most assuredly please you!

About The Author

Harvard-educated Dr. Jeffrey Lant is CEO of Worldprofit, Inc.,
www.worldprofit.com where small and home-based businesses learn how to profit online through automation. Attend Dr. Lant’s live webcast TODAY and receive 50,000 free guaranteed visitors to the website of your choice! For details on Dr. Lant’s 18 best-selling business books, go to www.jeffreylant.com

2010-10-12T17:14:00.000-07:00

How To Start Your Own Online Home Business
Author: Joel Broughton

If you want to start an online home business it's actually very easy to do. You can use a 4 Step Process to make sure that you do not fail. Worldwide there are literally 1000's of people that are starting a simple online home business, and now you can too. But what is the best online home business for you?

You can easily find the best online home business that suits your needs, personality and level of commitment if you are willing to just spend a little time and energy. As you were reading this article another person, somewhere in the world just started a new online home business. So, it's really not that tough for you to get started. You just have to first decide to do it, then take action.

Are you committed to yourself enough to succeed?

Most people that fail in a home business do so because they just don't realize WHY they wanted to start one in the first place. So let's take a few minutes right now to decide why you want an online home business. Do you want to travel? Do you want a huge bank account? Do you want that beachfront mansion and hot girls (or guys) chasing you?

Grab the keys to your Ferrari and let's take a drive down to the simple 4 Step Process that will help you get started. You can truly choose to live the lifestyle you want, once you decide why you are doing this in the first place.

This 4 Step Process has been used by 10,000's of people to successfully go from working full time at a job they hate, to owning a successful online home business. Let's get started:

Easy Action Step 1: Do you want a Business Coach or are you going to do all the research yourself? It's a lot of work to start a home based business online, so it's probably a good idea to find someone that can help you.

Easy Action Step 2: What do you want to sell? Yes, you will need a product or service to make your business work, but don't worry, with the power of the Internet, you won't be selling your products door to door, you just have to put them online.

Easy Action Step 3: Does anyone actually want to buy your stuff? This is the most important question to ask yourself as you are getting setup. If nobody wants you stuff...don't try to sell it to them. Okay?

Easy Action Step 4: Get started. There is no time like right now to get your website setup and start your marketing campaign. Set your own hours, but make sure you put in lots of work getting started, or your new business will never get off the ground.

Simple enough?

This is just an outline of what you need to get started, but the most important part really is whether or not you are willing to take action to get started. Most new online home based business owners get stalled just trying to come up with a product or service to sell. So why frustrate yourself with this? Locate a successful business mentor online that is willing to help you get an internet home based business up and running and just plug into what they are doing with them. Creating a partnership is easier than you think.

Get started right now in your own online home business and don't look back!

Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/business-ideas-articles/online-home-business-tips-how-to-start-your-own-online-home-business-3206505.html

About the Author

Joel Broughton is a Home Based Business Coach and Loving Dad of 4. If you want to Start an Online Home Business you can learn how as his website: http://www.JoelBroughton.com

2010-10-04T17:53:00.000-07:00

What to do when your customer says "NO!"

by Dr. Jeffrey Lant

It's sad, but it's going to happen to you today: a prospect is going to say no to your offer. That, however, is NOT important. What is, is knowing what to do when ithappens. That's what separates the men from the boys; the business people who will profit from those who won't!

1) Prepare for the decline

People who succeed in business do not expect every single prospect to purchase what they're selling immediately, effortlessly. No way!

Instead, they anticipate that while some will buy, many will not. Their job is to anticipate those declines and to prepare in advance what to do when they get them.

2) Write down every potential objection you
will hear. Then answer them.

The worst possible way to handle an objection is spontaneously, on the fly. To render the best reply, you must consider the best reply, crafting, improving it as you go.

Face it: some people are going to decline your offer. You should be prepared to respond immediately when it happens. This means brainstorming all possible objections... and coming up with the best, most telling responses. Your use of these responses must be swift and sure. There's no time for improvisation when your
sale hangs in the balance!

3) Ask customers why they've declined your offer.

Successful business people, people who get rich from business, are never daunted by hearing "No!" from a customer. They see this response, however adamant, as nothing but a milestone on the way to making that sale. Successful marketers know that any "no" means "tell me more", not "go away, get lost."

4) Ask why

The first step upon hearing the customer decline your offer... is to ask why.

Treat "why" as an essential tool in making the sale. The minute your prospect starts telling you why... you are on your way to a certain sale because the very act of answering this question means the prospect is willing to work with you to reverse the very answer they've just given you! Thus asking "why" is essential to getting to yes.

5) Listen carefully

While your customer is explaining why she declined your offer, LISTEN. The natural tendency is to barge ahead, overwhelming the customer. This is a mistake. Instead, ask the customer why she declined; then give her the time and courtesy to listen to her response without any interruption whatsoever.

6) Make sure the customer understands your original offer.

By asking the customer why she has declined your offer, you may discover that she doesn't really understand what you are offering. If she doesn't, present the offer again, making sure the customer understands absolutely everything you are offering and its substantial value and utility.

7) When your initial offer is not enough

If you have presented your offer clearly... if you feel the customer understands it but is still not willing to bite, it's time to IMPROVE YOUR OFFER!

Now hear this: before you ask a single customer for a sale, you must brainstorm every single thing you can offer prospects to induce them to buy.

You must NEVER try to improvise an offer when you are speaking to a customer. Instead, you should have at your finger tips the extra goodies you can offer a customer, goodies that will make the sale without breaking the bank!

"Ms. Prospect, I see you want to get our widget... and I want you to have it. I'm going to improve my original offer to make sure you get it! Let me show you what you can get if you purchase today!"

8) When money -- or lack thereof --is the problem

Be prepared to hear from customers over and over again that money is the problem. This may or may not be true. Your job is to be prepared either way.

Ask your customers if they would purchase your product if they had the money. If they say yes, then your job becomes improving the offer until the customer understands it would be foolish not to buy. Improving the offer may well induce the customer to 'fess up and buy... or risk losing the terrific offer you have made. Improve the offer and in a minute or two people who have just told you they're broke will magically "find" the funds. With improved offers, this happens time after time!

Note: make it clear to your prospect exactly what this improved offer contains. Also, be sure the customer understands that this is a limited-time offer and that it cannot and will not be repeated. Make sure the customers understands; this is essential in ensuring acceptance of this offer!

9) When lack of money really is the problem

Of course, some people -- particularly in our difficult economic days -- really are broke. They need a different approach. For this situation, too, you should have planned in advance. Can you offer

* improved payment terms
* readily available credit resources (like
those at www.paypal.com )
* details on how to secure a pre-paid credit
card, etc.

In short are you ready to be helpful when your interested, but cash challenged, customer is ready to act? That's mandatory... if you want this sale!

Turning a no into a yes is what determines your business success!

Let me be blunt: you cannot achieve maximum business success and the profits that go with it unless and until you can turn no into yes. Therefore, mastering the steps in this article is essential to your maximum well being.

Thus, start today. Never let a prospect go until you have exhausted every approach to securing his business. Treat this as a great game, a game constantly testing your skills and ingenuity; one with the greatest possible benefits to both your customer and yourself. For you, hearing the word no only focuses and concentrates your efforts. After all, YOU are prepared for this moment. You know what to do and when to it. You are more determined to make this sale than the prospect is to decline it. As a result, this is not just a sale you will wish for; it is a sale you will get!

About The Author

Harvard-educated Dr. Jeffrey Lant is CEO of
Worldprofit, Inc., www.worldprofit.com where
small and home-based businesses learn how to
profit online. Attend Dr. Lant's live webcast
TODAY and receive 50,000 free guaranteed
visitors to the website of your choice! For details
on Dr. Lant's 18 best-selling business books,
go to www.jeffreylant.com

For more articles by Dr. Jeffrey Lant go to http://www.JeffreyLantArticles.com

2010-09-27T16:38:00.000-07:00

Achtung! Internet readers beware! People are deliberately misleading you online. Here’s why…

by Dr. Jeffrey Lant

Psst…….. Michelle Obama is a lesbian who brings
adolescent girls to the White House and Camp David!

Hillary Rodham Clinton seduced Tom Cruise at her
private chalet in Russian River, California! Bill Clinton
is never invited there!

President Obama has moved over $4 billion of your
taxpayer dollars to Switzerland where he has a secret
bank account!

Hot "news" like this can be found any hour of the day
online… as one "insider" story after another, each more
scintillating, titillating, and scurrilous than the last
catches fire online and captures your attention.

Problem is, every single one of these "hot insider facts" is
not only wrong, but is deliberately invented (like the ones above)
to suit the purposefully invidious and always selfish and self-serving purposes of the poster.

The question is: why are so many people all over the
world perverting the Internet by posting deliberately
erroneous, always hurtful, and completely false "information"?

Let’s take a look…

Maladjusted kids with too much time and Internet savvy

Did you ever make a prank telephone call when you were
in grammar school? I did… and I suspect most of you did too.
Now, however, the pranks are not directed at one person,
but at millions. And the Internet is so configured that one
maladjusted kid sitting in his basement in Kalamazoo can
(within minutes) prank the whole world. To pimple-faced
Johnny who’s a wash-out with the chicks, this is a thrill that
just won’t quit. Unfortunately, the viruses he invents and
disseminates, the misinformation he circulates are very
real and cause, as he wanted, maximum dislocation and
harm. He’s the man!

With malice towards all and charity towards none (pace
Abe Lincoln)

We live in the era of the empowered haters where daily
people as psychotic as Hitler and as malevolent as Stalin take
center stage. These people are hooligans on speed.
Shunned themselves, they are determined that the
successful of the world shall answer to them….or else.
In the "real" world, such creatures have limited influence
even if they turn into uni bombers, stalkers, and those who
(with cunning and skill) reduce their own pain by inflicting it
on the great of the land… or merely on an unfortunate soul who
happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Now the
socially inept and clinically dangerous have scope for their
inadequacies.

For such people the Internet is a dream come true….
because now, without leaving their homes, they can
hurt, really hurt, brutally hurt people who have neither
heard of them… nor offered so much as an offending
word. The empowered hooligan doesn’t care… to hurt
is his objective and if he determines to hurt… he has no
need whatsoever to justify the heinous act. He hurts, therefore
he is.

Misinformation as pay back

Got into an argument with your brother-in-law lately? Got
cut off on the turn pike and wrote down the license plate
number? Chastised by your boss in front of your colleagues
(never mind that he was right). Got blown off by the waitress
you made a pass at? You want pay-back, and you want it
NOW!

Voila! The Internet’s at hand. Post! Publish! Hurt them…
feel vindicated, powerful, happy. Such commentary, posted
by the vengeful daily, floods the Internet. These comments are
invariably abusive, misspelled…and anonymous. You want
to hurt the boss all right… you want to show that girl to be
sure… but hold the name with the mayo. Cut them down to
size… but never,ever tell them who you actually are. Hurt and
hide, the coward’s formula through history.

"Expose" your competitors by riding in on your white
horse

This is a biggie. In business? Got successful competitors?
In a hurry for success? Then use the Internet to besmirch
your competitors. Make up "confidential" information about
them. Pose as the readers’ friend… let them in on the "secret"
about your competition. What matter that every word you
post is made up…. when YOU can benefit from the lie. Paint with
broad strokes: use innuendo, suggestion, go for the big lie.
Poor as you are, hiding behind email and anonymity, you
have license to prevaricate.

This format is used regularly by people in a hurry, by
the corner cutters, the self-appointed "truth tellers",
and by people with an axe to grind. They know that
online they can not only appear to be virtuous but
ride to the top of the search engines on the coat tails
of their well-known competitors. Such messages are a magnet
for the gullible and the credulous, for people whose "business" is to
manipulate the lazy and uniformed from whom they conjure money without compunction — and then disappear, the privilege of the harlot throughout the ages.

Bait and switch

Back in the good old days of mail order there was a famous
ad that ran

SEX

Now that I’ve got your attention, let me tell you
about our terrific air conditioners.

A variety of this ad is launched daily on the net
which is why ads like the one with Hillary Clinton above
are created. Sex, as every marketer knows, sells. And
the more licentious and lubricious the better, no matter
than the message is false from start to end.

Reader Beware!

Today you will be the recipient of online lies, smut, and
vulgarity. That is why today you must be chary and cautious
about what you choose to believe and the judgements you
make.

* Ask yourself whether what you are reading is likely.
If the claim is outrageous and exaggerated, it is unlikely
to be true.

* Is the claim signed? Is someone willing to take
responsibility? If not, it is hearsay and rumor in which
case who is benefiting from it?

* Has the person attacked been given the chance to
respond… or is the claim advanced by one person who
attacks… but will not let his victim respond? Fairness is
never in the repertoire of the irresponsible.

* Is there a clear beneficiary for what is being written?
Is this person assailing because they will benefit thereby?
Below the surface of seeming honesty, there is always
avarice.

* If the claim is attributed, does that person have anything
to lose? Established persons and institutions are responsible
at least in part because they have much to lose by being
irresponsible. Those with nothing to lose can make
the most irresponsible claims with impunity… and so they do.
That they do is a sure sign of their insignificance and
unaccountability.

Consider the source

When I was growing up in Illinois in the ‘forties, my
father had an expression: "Consider the source." When
some comment or rumor reached us, he’d say these
words. I now think of them often as I, like you, receive
the filth and lies deliberately disseminated by those who
may be Internet savvy but are bankrupt in all other ways.
My advice to you is to ignore, beware, and in all cases
consider who is benefiting from the lies, misrepresentations,
and fabrications before us. When they cannot touch us,
the perpetrators y shrivel and die, fulminating still but powerless
and pathetic.

About The Author

Harvard-educated Dr. Jeffrey Lant is CEO of
Worldprofit, Inc., www.worldprofit.com where
small and home-based businesses learn how to
profit online. Attend Dr. Lant’s live webcast
TODAY and receive 50,000 free guaranteed
visitors to the website of your choice! For details
on Dr. Lant’s 18 best-selling business books,
go to www.jeffreylant.com

2010-09-17T17:42:00.000-07:00

Recognizing and celebrating your company's unsung heroes
by Dr. Jeffrey Lant

Right now in your company there are "unsung heroes"
whose quiet dedication and, yes, devotion are keeping
you in business. These are the people who

* don't complain
* are present for work on time
* gladly help out as necessary
* are selfless and always focused on the good of the
business and its employees.

Every business has such people.

Every business relies on them.

Unfortunately, these fortunate businesses often
take such jewels for granted. That will never do.

1) Identify the "unsung heroes" of your company.

The better you know your employees, the easier
selecting your "unsung heroes" will be. When you
come to think about it, you'll know right away who
has done much for you and is deserving of special
recognition.

2) Have a classy recognition event.

Bringing in a couple of pizzas and saying some
nice words about the employee/s in question may
be ok for ordinary "thanks", but when an "unsung hero" is
being celebrated that is most assuredly not good enough.

3) Say it with silver

For hundreds of years, important occasions have been
celebrated by the presentation of silver objects. Why?
Because silver represents value, permanence, and
something splendid to show family and friends.

Such objects must ALWAYS be sterling (not plate) and
must ALWAYS feature a celebratory inscription:

"For (name) for exemplary service since (date).
From your friends and colleagues at (name of company.)
(date of presentation.)

4) Include a check

Whenever possible, you should also present your "unsung hero"
with a check for at least $1000. Remember, you are recognizing
one of the keys to your success. Reward this valuable person
accordingly.

5) Hold a recognition event

Remember, for the person you are honoring, whatever you
do will quite probably be unique in her life. Thus, if you do
the thing, do the thing right. This means holding some kind of
recognition event. In our busy times, luncheons are recommended.

Have it at a local restaurant with a function room. Make sure to
get your hero's name on the facility's calendar of events .

6) Invite your hero's family and friends

Again, remember that this event will quite probably be
unique in your hero's life. Thus, make it a point to invite
family and friends to attend. Let them see in what regard
you hold the honoree.

7) Get the day declared in her honor

Every public official from the President of the United
States down has the ability to help you recognize your
"unsung hero." How?

At least 30 days before the event send a letter to

* the governor of your state, or

* the mayor of your town, or

* your state representative or state senator.

All of them have resplendent certificates readily available
into which they can insert wording provided by you.
If you ask them to attend your event to present the
certificate themselves, they may well do so! This
provides an extra level of importance.

Note: if the service of your "unsung hero" has been
particularly noteworthy, do not hesitate to write the
president. You may well get a telegram or letter or, even,
(it happens) a phone call from the president himself...
and that would surely make your event notable!

8) Take lots of pictures. Post them on your website.

This is the moment for all shutterbugs. The more
pictures you take, the better. Post them prominently on
your website.

9) Deliver heartfelt, gracious, sincere remarks.
Don't stint on the compliments.

Talk from the heart about this person and what she
has done. Remember, she has been one of the reasons
for your success. Now is the moment to say so with
grace, felicity and warmth. Be sure to record your
words and give these, too, to your star.)

Last Words

We all mean to take the time and trouble to publicly
thank and honor the good folks who keep our company
going. But life has a way of getting away from us. That's
why you need to make honoring your heroes a matter
of priority and importance. They have served you well.
Now do what is called for to recognize them for all their
services. It is right and proper.

About The Author

Harvard-educated Dr. Jeffrey Lant is CEO of
Worldprofit, Inc., www.worldprofit.com; http://www.worldprofit.com; where
small and home-based businesses learn how to
profit online. Attend Dr. Lant's live webcast
TODAY and receive 50,000 free guaranteed
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on Dr. Lant's 18 best-selling business books,
go to
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2010-09-08T16:28:00.000-07:00

Online Business Internet Marketing Computer - Online Business Internet Marketing Computer Strategies

Author: Internet Marketing Expert

Online Business Internet Marketing Computer

Those seeking to build an online business using internet marketing computer strategies should begin with a specific end goal in mind. And that end goal should be the complete (or complete as possible) automation of your online business. There are indeed some internet marketing computer strategies one can employ that require less work and generate somewhat equal results in the short term, but you should be planning for the long-term; and long-term success requires content rich sites with a long list of subscribers.

Let's look at two examples of online business internet marketing computer strategies. Both will use affiliate marketing and both will generate roughly the same amount of money, but one will require less work.

The first method is one that requires less work: writing articles to promote a product through an affiliate program. The articles are distributed to different directories and provide a link either directly to the product's website or automatically redirect people to the product's website from one's own domain.

The second method also uses article marketing in the same manner, except the articles link back to a website or blog with a lot of unique and relevant content, as well as an opt-in form that builds a subscriber list. Online Business Internet Marketing Computer

So, the second method clearly requires more work than the first method, but both are essentially promoting the same product and will essentially make the same amount of money. In fact, the first method may even make more money initially because the customers do not have to go through a series of complicated steps to reach the affiliate product's website.

But don't be fooled by the ease of the first method. Sure, it will make money and can be useful. But over time the usefulness and search engine popularity of your articles will wither away, leaving you only a limited period of time from which to profit. You would then be required to re-do the article writing process all over again for the same product or other products.

If you would have taken the second method, you would have built up a long list of subscribers to whom you can easily offer affiliate links, as well sell your own products to. Your website will also last a much longer time, with a lot more content. And your content-rich website will develop a community which you can continue to profit from over the long-term. Eventually this kind of situation becomes self-sustaining and automatic, requiring very little time.

Therefore, the situation at the beginning of the process seems to have reversed itself. The person using the first method will have to start another round of article writing to generate his revenue stream all over again. But the person that built the content-rich website developed a community around a large amount of relevant content that provides him a foundation from which he or she can easily promote new products with little work. Online Business Internet Marketing Computer

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2010-08-29T15:11:00.001-07:00

YOUR money is in THEIR pocket. What you have to do to get it out!

by Dr. Jeffrey Lant

I’ve taught marketing for more years than I care
to remember. The biggest challenge is getting
students to understand how marketing works.
What is it? Why do you need it? How do you get
the biggest return?

To answer these questions, I came up with
a simple image that works wonders: YOUR
money is in THEIR pocket. Do you want it to
stay there… or do you want to get the funds
into YOUR pocket?

Bingo!

Light bulbs start going on around the class
room as one student after another "gets it."

Of course they want to get their money out of
that pocket. We’re ALL clear on that. The
discussion then shifts to how to get it out…
and how to do it FAAAST!

The Pivotal Role Of The Offer

"Try this," I say to the class: walk up to someone
on the street and ask them for $50. Will you
get it? Unlikely. Instead be prepared for dirty
looks and worse. "Asking," I say, "ain’t getting."
The students nod their heads knowingly. They’ve
been there… done that.

"Ok," I say. You guys get this. Then why don’t these
folks, at which I show them one marketing
communication after another (Yellow Pages ad,
brochure, direct mail letter, etc.) where supposedly
savvy business people spent good money doing
nothing more than saying "Here we are, here’s
what we have."

"That," I say "is not marketing. It’s just telling…
not selling." If you want to make MONEY… YOU
must motivate people to part with the bucks.

Offers Get People To Move

What gets people to buy is offers, offers, and
more offers… saying, in effect, I’m prepared
to give you

* this

* and this

* and this

IF and ONLY IF you take action now to
get what I’m selling.

"What," I ask the class, "is more likely to get
you to respond: just saying here I am, here’s what
I do." OR saying

"I’ll give you one hour free for every three hours
of my service you book."

All knowing, the students say "people will act faster
if you give them MORE." Now it’s my turn to nod
sagely. "Bingo," sez I.

Brain storm offers all the time… because you will
need an offer EVERY day you want to empty
prospects’ pockets and move that money

I ask the students what days they want to profit
in their businesses. They look quizzical: "Well,

EVERY day," they say.

Another "Bingo" from me.

"So, if you want to make money EVERY day…
then when do you need to make offers?"

ANOTHER "Aha!" moment for my budding
marketing masters. The idea is beginning to
sink in that EVERY day you want to move money
from your prospects’ pockets is a day you must
make offers.

"Make offers," I say, "every day you want to
make money." And I write "Money means daily
offers" on the chalk board.

Open A "Swipe File"

Where can you find marketing intelligence, great
offers that produce the bucks? In the marketing
communications of people who live or die by marketing.
And where do you find these? Everywhere!

If you want to move money from other people’s
pockets into yours, start collecting and studying
marketing communications. Open a "swipe file,"
and pop in marketing communications that work.
Make this a daily endeavor. When you see ads
that work for others, adapt the copy for your
profitable use.

Don’t Stop!

Marketing is like breathing. Stop doing it and
you die. Finish any day by selecting the offer
you’ll use tomorrow. Start each day by reviewing
how well yesterday’s offer pulled. Note these
results for future reference; winning ads should
be repeated; ads that wilted must die.

One more thing: see marketing as a great game,
a game that takes everything you’ve got. Embrace it!
Enjoy it! If you don’t, your money will stay in THEIR
pocket and that’s just not acceptable!

About The Author

Harvard-educated Dr. Jeffrey Lant is CEO of
Worldprofit, Inc., www.worldprofit.com where
small and home-based businesses learn how to
profit online. Attend Dr. Lant’s live webcast
TODAY and receive 50,000 free guaranteed
visitors to the website of your choice! For details
on Dr. Lant’s 18 best-selling business books,
go to www.jeffreylant.com

2010-08-21T16:32:00.000-07:00

5 Things you MUST do to build a profitable online home business.

A few remarks from George Kosch, Home Business Bootcamp Instructor at Worldprofit.com

1. Make a 100% Commitment - This may sound like it’s simple, but allow me to elaborate. If Worldprofit’s home business is your chosen way to make money online, then let this be what you will be working with 100% of the time! You’ve purchased a Worldprofit Silver or Platinum Membership now digest it thoroughly and commit to this and only this right now! Review your Worldprofit Member area so you know all that is included and all the ways you can make money using the Worldprofit system.

The Worldprofit Home Business Bootcamp Training works! All of our Top Sellers are Bootcamp Graduates. If you get stuck and need assistance, submit a Help Request to our Support Team. Either myself, or a member of our Support team will help you as much as possible in getting through your particular issue. Ask any one of our long time committed dealers, and they will tell you that we always deliver, and even though I am EXTREMELY busy, I will find time to help you. That’s why I do the weekly Bootcamp Training LIVE so that you can see exactly what I do, and ask questions as I show you the steps.

2. Focus! – I can’t say this enough it’s that important. I am known for saying, “stop looking for the next best thing.” Internet marketing is full of offers that promise you the world. The problem is that you are inundated with these offers day in and day out, am I correct?

The big secret to Internet marketing is to find something that works, and duplicate it. That’s it! As we have already determined, Worldprofit’s Home Business Bootcamp works if you apply what we teach you consistently. Rather than spending your time jumping from one thing to another, why not concentrate your time and focus on a proven system from a company that has been here over 15 years.

3. Don’t Get Distracted!! - This is another one of my statements that our Members are probably sick of me saying. You have no idea how simple of a concept this is, but so many get it wrong!

What I mean is, stop reading and responding to e-mails that have nothing to do with your online business. Stop going to forums and allowing them to take time away from your productivity. Don’t get me wrong, forums can be a great source of info, however, too many people would rather surf forums than take action on their business, don’t be one of them.

The bottom line here is that you need to stay away from things that are pulling your time and energy away from what you are supposed to be focusing on, your Sniper and/or online career.

There is also a time and place for e-mailing, which brings us to our next topic…

4. Write Down a Daily Schedule - Before I started out online, I was a Captain in the Canadian Air Force and trained students to fly high performance jet aircraft. The last thing you want to do as a Jet Pilot is not pay attention to time or to get distracted! In a jet, managing your time and focus without distraction is a matter of survival but it’s no different than running your business. In this case though it’s what you need to do for your business to not only survive but flourish! The Military taught me the importance of self discipline, decisiveness and commitment. I apply these skills to my online business every single day. See the value of these traits in yourself and apply to your daily work ethic.

Print out your own daily schedule. The idea here is to list your tasks one-by-one in order to maximize your time and above all maximize your productivity.

Do you remember the distraction topic above? Well, there have been online studies that say that doing the wrong things (like forum surfing, checking e-mails, checking your ClickBank sales every 5 seconds, etc.) can take from 30 – 60% of your daily time away!

Imagine that you have 3 hours a day that you have designated for working on your business. According to the statistics above, you can cut your “work” time in half or even more, just by being distracted. Your 3 hour work day is now an hour and a half!

Get the picture? Being productive with the time you have designated is more than half the battle!

5. DON’T QUIT!! - This point can not be over stated! I can give you so many examples of people that became a Worldprofit Silver or Platinum Member who then quit before they even gave our system a chance. These are the people you will find on forums complaining about every single product that they bought and have failed with.

Do you know why you don’t see people who are making big money online on forums (or rarely?) Because they are busy making money, that’s why! They are using their time efficiently, they are focused, and they are NOT distracted, which further proves the points above.

Now back to the part about not giving up. It is absolutely imperative that you are tenacious with this business or any other you decide to be involved with.

I can absolutely guarantee you will succeed with Worldprofit’s Home Business Bootcamp as long as you DON’T QUIT and consistently apply the skills I teach you.

Conclusion: Worldprofit Silver and Platinum members login to access George’s weekly training. Non-Worldprofit Members can get a free Associate Member account to find out how to get in on this free training every week. Go to http://www.Worldprofit.com

2010-08-10T15:50:00.000-07:00

What to do before you leave your office… that ensures business tomorrow!

10.08.2010 | Author: admin | Posted in Business Tips, Jeffrey Lant

Bushed? Had a long day? On your way out
the door for a little liquid refreshment and some
R & R?

Not so fast! You’ve got tomorrow’s business to
think about today and some crucial tasks to
perform before you leave. Whether you do them
and how you do them determines just how
successful tomorrow will be.

1) Report to customers with pressing concerns

Like everyone in business, you have certain
high-ranking customers… certain high maintenance
customers… and those who are both. Before you
leave today, call and bring them up-to-date on
their affairs.

Can’t reach them right away? Leave a detailed
message. Make it as positive and soothing as you
can. Make it clear that you are on their case
doing your best.

2) Try to connect with that elusive prospect yet again.

Have you been trying to reach that will-of-the-wisp prospect?
Try again right now. Successful people work longer
and harder than the average. Show this prospect
just how enthusiastic and interested you are. Call
them again now; e-mail if you fail to connect by
phone. People like to work with eager beavers.
This extra effort on your part indicates you are
one of the best.

3) Send an e-mail that will generate leads and
sales.

An excellent time to e-mail your prospects is
on your way out the door. Why? Because it’ll
produce for you while you’re doing other things.

Want to return in the morning to a handful of
prospect leads and sales? E-mailing before you
leave will deliver… especially if you make a
particularly good offer for immediate response.

4) Update your telephone answering machine
message.

Most people never think of their answering
machine message as a marketing communication…
but it is. Keep yours up-to-date with a spiffiIng
offer… an offer that gets the prospect to stop
in his tracks, listen… and call to hear it again
and respond.

Whatever you’ve got that prospects will see,
listen and respond to is marketing… and thus
needs your focused consideration and an
offer that motivates.

5) Mend a fence

Everybody has one business (or personal)
relationship that could be sunnier. Don’t leave
your office today until you’ve e-mailed a
friendly message that mends a fence. Make
it short, sweet, upbeat. Don’t rehash the
past; make your message forward looking and,
above all, positive. Do this even if you’re the
aggrieved party. Secure the future by
graciousness now.

6) Revive a languishing proposal

Every proposal that one makes in business
isn’t going to secure a positive response. Some
will wilt. Use the time before you leave to see
whether you can revive at least one.

Make this note short, positive…. forward
looking. Ask whether there has been any further
update since you were last in touch. Suggest a
meeting, in person or on the phone. In short,
let the person you’re contacting understand that
you are ready, willing and able to help them out!

One More Thing: Look in the mirror and SMILE!

Ok, you’re a little more tired than you were…
but what matters that compared to the successful
day you’ve had… and the even more successful
day you’ve positioned for tomorrow?

In short, smile. You’re a go-getter, someone smart
in the ways of business and human relations. When
you return tomorrow after such an ending today,
you’ll see just how much that means towards your
bottom line. Ole!

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2010-07-30T10:18:00.001-07:00

Using Free Autoresponders For Your Home-Based Business

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If you’ve checked the cost of autoresponders that are available online, you may have decided to search for and to use a free one for your home business marketing needs. Using free autoresponders is acceptable in certain situations, and in the world of Internet marketing, any autoresponder is better than not using one at all!

Your first option for a free autoresponder should be the one that comes with your webhosting account – if you have a webhosting account. These autoresponders can easily be set up through the control panel of your website, and they don’t contain advertisements from the autoresponder company or webhosting service. If you don’t have a hosting account, or your hosting account doesn’t include autoresponders, you have other options.

There are many free autoresponder services to choose from. These services are free, because the company makes their money by placing a small ad in each message that your autoresponder sends out. These ads may appear at the top of your auto responses or at the bottom, depending on which company you use.

Many paid autoresponder services also offer a free version, which may or may not include ads in the outgoing messages. These lighter versions of the paid autoresponders typically don’t include many of the powerful features of the paid versions. If you don’t need the more advanced features, for your home-based business, this is a great choice.

Most free autoresponders have a limit on the number of subscribers you can have. Many people start out with the limited free versions and then upgrade to the paid versions once their list numbers exceed those limits. Many marketers don’t feel that the expense of the autoresponder is warranted until the list that they are building is turning a profit. From a business standpoint, this makes sense.

As the owner of a business or home-based business, you are the only one who can decide whether you need a paid autoresponder service or if a free one will do. If your list is small, you can accomplish everything you need with a free autoresponder. But as your list grows, you should definitely consider upgrading.

However, having the small ads that the free services place in the outgoing messages may be a problem. They could compete with what you’re trying to sell, and may even pose a problem even if they don’t directly compete with your product or business. You need to make a decision depending on what you are trying to accomplish with your autoresponder.

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2010-06-20T18:27:00.000-07:00

5 Things You Should Do When Your Customer Buys (if you want more business in the future!)

by Dr. Jeffrey Lant

You SAY you want more business and the money
that comes thereby. But unless you do these 5
things, you’re just whistling "Dixie".

1) Smile & Say Thank You

Do a little survey. For the next few days, take a
look at how you’re treated in the various stores
you patronize.

When you buy do you get a radiant smile from
the check-out clerk and a warm thank-you? Or
is the action meagre and perfunctory; or even
absent altogether?

The warmth of the thank you, the brilliance of
the smile are indicators of just how much you
value this customer and desire his business.

P.S. Whenever possible, use the customer’s
name. "Thanks so much for your business,
Mrs. Smythe. We do it appreciate it you know!"
And be SURE to make eye contact. This is
essential.

2) Hand the customer a bonus coupon.
ALL businesses live or die by repeat customer
business. That’s why you need to give each
customer a bonus coupon,
First, make the bonus a valuable one, nothing
cheap and insubstantial for your vital customers,
please.

Second, make sure the bonus coupon has
an expiration date. Remember, offers work
because they are meaningful in value… and
because they expire.

Third, hand this valuable gift to the customer
and deliver with a smile!

3) Offer to carry the customer’s purchase
to her car.

Want to make an especially good impression…
the kind the customer will convey to her
social circle?

Then carry her purchase to her car!

This courtesy may not always be possible;
you may be the only one in the store, for
instance. Very well. But don’t throw the
baby out with the bath water. If you cannot
always offer this special courtesy, do not
for that reason never offer it.

And, remember, in offering this special
benefit, don’t stint on the accompanying
smile… or customer’s name.

4) E-mail the customer a thank you and
bonus offer.

What should be awaiting your valuable
customer when he gets home? A terrific
bonus offer e-mailed at once!

Speed here is everything. That offer should
be e-mailed right away. The speed with which
you send this bonus offer will be a clear
indication to the customer of how much you
value her business.

You’re able to achieve this result if and only
if you have created one or (even better) more
offers before you need them!

It goes without saying that you must have
the customer’s e-mail address. You do request
it from every customer, don’t you? Semper paratus
is not just a motto for Boy Scouts.

5) If your product runs out, make sure to e-mail
the customer when you’ve estimated he will need
more. THAT is your moment to appear supremely
customer-centered… and put more money in your
pocket, too.

Say the average customer uses up this product
in 60 days.

E-mail a bonus offer 30 days before renewal is
necessary… then 15 days… and 7 days. Make
SURE you include a special offer with every
e-mail and make sure this offer has a clear
expiration date: like 5 days from e-mailing.

Last Words

As every smart business person knows, your
success (and comfort) derive mainly from one
source: your customers. Right now you SAY this…
but you may not run your business properly to
derive maximum profit from customers. This article
should help. Read it! Print it! Live it! You will
start seeing the pay-off at once!

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