Struggling on how to become successful? How about how to become successful at anything you choose to do? You are not alone, many of us are. Watch the video and you’ll find out why and what needs to be done to be successful.
When the news was full of tales of his financial ruin, Donald Trump talked about feeling like staying hidden at home. But instead, he put on his tuxedo and went to an important gala. Why? Because he knew he could not possibly gain anything by staying at home.
I am sure it would have been less stressful, less embarrassing and far more comfortable to stay home. I am sure many of you have and are doing it now. But you can’t possible gain anything by doing that. (gasp! yep, got to get out that box) You have got to place yourself in a position where at the very least good, productive, profitable things can happen. And they do, if you are out there. Think about it…When things are going their worst, this is the time when you need something good to happen.
So get your butt out the door and network, socialize. Put yourself in the path of something good happening. Opportunity doesn’t always come to your door, sometimes (most times) you have to go out and get it. Opportunity likes to hang out with other opportunities. Soooo: YCDBSOYA.
YOU CAN’T DO BUSINESS SITTING ON YOUR ASS
You can do these things at meetings, conferences, cocktail parties, community events, seminars, etc…I am referring to personal movement and placement. There are newsletters, private clients, books, speaking engagements, radio talk shows, TV, serving on the board of important charities or events, serving others…
What’s important about movement and placement? Discovery. Or more like Discovery of Me. People will discover you, seek you out. You will be come Sought Out. This is marketing by attraction. You, by being out and about, market yourself to others, giving others a chance to get to know you and become attracted to you, others have opportunities that can help you or you can help them.
Now let’s take this a step farther.
Your an Entrepreneur. Let’s use place as a strategy in your marketing system. In place strategy, there are obvious and non-obvious choices and the big breakthroughs come from the non-obvious.
Put yourself in more places than anyone in your category of expertise or service would normally put themselves. Don’t limit yourself. Step outside your box, get uncomfortable. Be everywhere that is relevant, everywhere your ideal customer/clients are and be omnipresent in those environments.
Huh? YCDBSOYA. Put yourself in places where opportunity can occur. Better yet, put yourself in places very relevant to your customers and clients.
Which now means you have to get to know very thoroughly your customers and clients demographics and lifestyle.
What you should do:
Only write articles that you wrote or you have the exclusive rights to.
If you see a good article written by someone else and don’t want to mess it up, go ahead use the article, but make sure you give credit to the real author. You can always rewrite the article in your own words with your own flare and opinions, just make sure you don’t copy.
Otherwise you will have just wasted your time as the search engines will not recognize this as new content. And if you get to carried away with copying without author recognition there is a strong chance the search engines will ignore your site (ban you in some manner). So much for getting traffic.
Deliver in the article body on the promise you made in the article title.
Surprising or not, the title of your article is important. It should contain keywords, your important keywords for the niche you are in. Keywords that are used in the search engines. Then make darn sure that the content of the article is about those keywords. Don’t use high traffic getting keywords to get traffic to your site and then write about something else. The search engines will learn to not trust your site and not send you traffic.
Write content that has value and meaning.
Don’t write content that is so vague and bland you could make a dead person roll over and groan in agony. Everyone of you has come across an article or two that has essentially said absolutely nothing. Or even worse, included common-sense rehashed overly repeated tips or advice. I am telling you now, don’t go there. And you had better not be using bloated words & sentences to simply meet word count minimums. You would be better off not writing at all. Silence can be golden. Brevity is appreciated by all.
Make sure your content is readable.
I really don’t know where the idea that poor spelling and grammar means original home grown content got started. Let me get this straight – it does not. Your readers have got to be able to read it and understand it. Depending on your niche a little bit can be acceptable to absolute perfection is the only thing acceptable or you will lose all creditability. Please check out what is a the accepted norm for your niche.
All the traffic in the world is not going to help you if people can’t read and/or understand what you’re trying to say. If they don’t trust you they won’t buy from you.
Is One Wall Street Won’t Tell You About
I’m certain you’re aware of what’s going on with the “financial crisis” it’d be hard not to be aware of it. And perhaps it’s got you wondering…what’s happening out there, and what lies ahead.
I’m not an economist and don’t care to be and this isn’t the time or place for a big long explanation. However without a doubt it’ll impact us all in one way or another, it’s the degree of the impact that’s up to you.
What I will tell you about today, that most won’t, is that there is only one safe bet and investment that will return to you many times over…
That investment is YOU – that’s right, the investment in yourself.
It may sound cheesy and elementary to you, however, there’s nothing like it.
Knowledge gained, can’t be taken away from you.
Information learned, can be applied to multiple ventures.
You control it, where it goes and what it does.
I will report to you, from firsthand in the trenches experience that those who invest in themselves and in their business are the ones who stand strong and survive tough times, who thrive when others struggle.
I bet you didn’t know that you are a walking store house of knowledge and power. However, both are totally useless if you don’t do something with it. Take Action!
Now, I’m a person of extremes, I talk and live that way – so obviously I don’t mean, you shouldn’t sleep and should work to obsession…
But that NOW is the time to get ahead, to capture Market Share, to Advertise more aggressively, and capitalize on the situation. It’s when things are “down” and others are finding places to hide that you should be working harder to get ahead.
And the same goes for Financial Investments, you know the rich, really rich people and smart investors in Stocks, Real Estate, etc You know what they are doing now…BUYING!
And since you are an Entrepreneur, you’re primary interest and investment is in yourself and your business and when “the economy is down” you’ve got to be BUYING into yourself.
Doing – Learning – Marketing – Growing
More – Faster – Better – Aggressively
Create Your Own Phenomenon!
There is no GOOD or BAD Economy, only Different Economies, requiring different approaches and strategies, all capable of producing opportunities, wealth and income rewards.
So this month, hunker down and start INVESTING in yourself and your business. Take advantage now while others are down and out, worrying about tomorrow…you’re too busy to worry, you’re creating tomorrow.
The 2 most important things you need to equip yourself with right now are:
Positive Wealth Mindset
And
Proven Strategies that work during uncertain times.
It is definitely not what the masses are doing.
Learn about one component you can add to your affiliate marketing campaign that will boost your income by 20% in 24 hours. You will learn the most important factors of this component and exactly how to get sales conversions like crazy.
What is this one strategy? One simple thing… Landing pages. NOT the merchants sales page.
What is landing page? A landing page is a single page on your website that your traffic is sent to upon clicking on your ad or any other sort of contextual link that leads to this sort of page.
The point of this kind of page is to have outgoing links to the merchant web pages through your affiliate links. It’s sole purpose is to promote the respective merchants’ products through your affiliate links to earn a commission.
Landing pages are useful in many ways. Through testing, I have found a simple landing page can boost my sales by conversions 20% or even more. This is because you can use your landing page to take out all of the guess work for the visitor. If you can answer a question for the visitor, without them having to leave your landing page to do more research, you are more likely to convert that person to a sale.
Usually there are two types of landing pages. One being a testimonial type landing page (be very careful with these-new laws in place), the second (and more popular) being a review type landing page.
In this article some of the key components of a review type landing pages that can explode your affiliate sales if optimized correctly.
A good headline is essential on any landing page. A good headline will list a major benefit of the product(s) you are promoting. This gets the attention of the visitor and tells them whether it is worth their time to stay on your page or not. Will it solve their problem.
Headline Example:
‘Discover How You Can Add 30-50 Yards of Laser Guided Precision to Your Golf Stroke’
Through testing I have found that landing pages that target and review 3 to 7 products converted better than promoting 1,2 or more than 7 products. 3 to 7 products keeps your visitor focused. Adding any more products can confuse your visitor causing them to leave your site forever. Less products does not give your visitor enough of a choice and they are more likely to have to do more research (off of your page) to find the best solution.
Brief product descriptions allow you to outline each products pros and cons. If you can Identify a certain con that your visitor is searching for in the products you are promoting, your sales can go crazy.
Some people are visual learners. Giving these visitors a visual representation of your review can drastically increase the click through rate. Also these images are good to break up the monotony of text on your landing pages.
Images should be linked to the merchants sites as prospective buyers often expect these images to take them to the site in which they can obtain the product or service.
Exit points are simply links to the merchants sites that contain your affiliate ID. You should have multiple and blatant exit points so the buyer does not have to search to find the link.
You can include exit points on images, call to action statements, as well as other things on your landing page. The main goal is to make these extremely visible.
A well constructed landing page can drastically improve conversions and boost sales. If you expect to construct an attractive landing page, I suggest either becoming fluent in HTML and/or purchasing an html editor such as Macromedia Dreamweave or outsourcing.
These products are quite expensive, but have a large array of features that you can use to virtually achieve any look or feature on your page.
There’s also a great FREE HTML editor over at NVU. This is nearly as good as anything you could pay for, so if you’re strapped on cash, grab that.
Your landing page need not look like it cost a millions dollars, but rather clean simple and functional. Too many graphics, glitter, animation and obvious sales pushing jargon will send the prospect somewhere else – quickly!
Remember you get 3-5 seconds to catch their attention. So you had better let them know that you have the solution to solve their problem right away.
Sorry for the long absence. Took time out to find something I can do in internet marketing and do well. Took time out to find a guru that gave you ALL the information you needed. In other words I found some non-guru’s that hang in a tight circle and are making good money. They went through the same b.s. and have designed some excellent systems for themselves with ALL the components in it. Now they share it as a course. And more importantly they have real live help and forums filled with people who care and will answer your questions QUICKLY! None of that several days to several weeks crap to get back with ya.
well gotta go.
It will probably be a couple more weeks before I am back. I’ll tell ya about then.
P.S.
Hot DAMN I am making money (right now, nothing to right home about) my websites are starting to rank in google and they are getting good traffic (not stellar yet, but very, very good consistent growth traffic.
FINALLY!!!
Auto Content Cash is Live and Earning Well
It’s not often when a system comes out and proves so many people dead wrong. Alex Goad, Brian Johnson, and Jared Croslow have launched their much awaited Auto Content Cash system, …and this may be by far, the most intriguing product to hit the market in a while…
The fact is, Google has been cleverly disguising a dirty little secret they’d hoped no one would notice. Something so big that would it would simply kill sites as big as Digg and even Google’s very own Youtube if they suddenly changed their “policy”…
A sort of unclose-able loophole Google has permanently exposed itself to… and ironically, with websites it actually owns… The very same loophole Google is using to push their favorite sites to the top of their search engine has now been exposed and exploited allowing those who know how, to generate an incredible passive income – easily and quickly…
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Google will absolutely love you for doing it… But it gets even better. What if I told you that Alex, Brian, and Jared have figured out a way to *automate* the whole process… A completely hands-off formula where you let their secret tools do 95% of the work for you (and it continues day in and day out)…
Here’s the basic core of the ACC System:
Step 1: Spend 35-50 minutes setting up one of these automated niche sites following their exact step-by-step formula and using their proprietary automation tools…
Step 2: Never touch it again.
Step 3: Watch it shoot to the top of Google for your “money keywords” and gain even more rankings and authority as the days and months pass…
Step 4: Rinse and repeat, continually building a huge portfolio of passive income streams with the “secret” kind of websites that Google simply can’t and won’t resist (or else they’d have to question the very existence of some of their most profitable websites)…
This is the kind of once in a blue moon, breakthrough that doesn’t come often and I highly suggest that if you’re not making at least $300 a day online, then you check this out right now:
PS – I took a look inside and the training course is massive. I honestly thought I might have been navigating through a $2K or higher level training course. But, when they told me how little they were charging for it my jaw dropped to the floor… and then I bought it!
You definitely don’t want to miss out on this one… Here’s the link again:
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Don’t get bitten by this business “snake” mistake
by
you live to be a hundred years, with one extra year to repent.”
Legend has it that Saint Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland.
No one would believe a story about how Saint Patrick did Ireland a
favor by importing snakes to infest the Emerald Isle.
Why?
Fear of snakes gives credibility to the the myth that he got
rid of them.
Whether the fear is rational is irrelevant.
One of the most-feared “snakes” that I’ve encountered among
entrepreneurs is a sense of failure based upon expectations of
where they “should be” based upon the apparent success of others.
This is a no-win game because most of the “success” stories are
fraudulent at worst or overhyped at best.
Let me give you two examples.
one website. Based on the traffic stats for the site, if 100% of
the visitors bought from the guru, it still wouldn’t be enough to
support the claims.
launch recently. Yet the guy is broke and has creditors breathing
down his neck.
Don’t compare your business to others based upon earnings claims.
There are too many variables involved for the comparison to be
accurate, including the probability that your competitor is lying
about how much money he’s making.
Here’s a key point. Even if the claims were true, it wouldn’t affect
where you are now. Your success is not dependent upon others’ failures.
Focus on the fundamentals of your business and when you achieve
your business goals, don’t brag about it.
To your success!
-Mike
P.S. Remember that your online business fundamentals include
putting the right legal protections in place. Resources created to
help you do this can be found at this link.
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Google Makes Facebook Pages a Higher Priority for Businesses
Google Gets Biggest Missing Piece in Real-Time Search Puzzle
Google announced via Twitter this week, that public status updates from Facebook are now included in the search engine’s real-time search feature. That means the largest social network in the world is getting play in Google’s real-time search alongside Twitter, MySpace, and others, and these real-time results are often featured prominently on the first page of search results for the hottest queries.
Apparently only updates from Facebook PAGES are indexed, and according to Danny Sullivan, that includes links, status updates, photos, videos shared by page owners (not comments made by the fans). Any Facebook update (from regular user profiles) can be shared publicly, so I wonder why these aren’t being pulled. Results from Twitter and other places aren’t only from branded sources.
This seems to indicate that brands should be getting a good amount of play for Facebook appearances in Google’s real-time search results, and possibly in the real-time search results in general (due to Facebook’s huge user-base). Right now, Facebook isn’t dominating the results, but that is bound to change with it being the largest (by far) social network on the web.
A lot of brands who don’t have Facebook pages in place are likely going to consider this a new reason to create one. Here are some tips for making a good one and promoting it.
This should also lead to Facebook Pages getting more fans, due to the increased exposure. Beware, however, that running a promotion on your Facebook Page may cost you ten thousand dollars, because Facebook’s policy guidelines indicate that you must get written approval from a Facebook account rep. In order to get one of those, you must spend that much in advertising, according to Eric Eldon of Inside Facebook.
Now Google’s real-time search results include (as listed by Sullivan) Facebook, MySpace, Twiter, Google Buzz, FriendFeed, Jaiku, Identi.ca, TwitArmy, Google News links, Google Blog Search links, new web pages, and freshly updated pages. At this point, Google generally only shows the real-time results for newsy/trending topics.
Donald Trump, Dan Kennedy, Branding, and Third Party Credibility
Whether you’re doing business online or offline, you’ve undoubtedly heard of Donald Trump. If you’re into direct response marketing, chances are you’ve probably heard of Dan Kennedy too. What do they have in common? Dan Kennedy likes to name drop “Trump” wherever possible to add third party credibility to himself.
If there is a way to refer to Trump in books, newsletters, or even at seminars, Kennedy finds a way to do it. IIRC, that includes having Ivanka Trump and former Apprentice contestants appear at Kennedy events. What Kennedy has cleverly done is associated his name with “Trump” without paying a fortune in licensing fees to do so. This is indirect brand building that implies “Kennedy = Trump.” Trump’s celebrity builds Kennedy’s brand whether or not The Donald wants to help.
Many properties and goods now have the Trump name affixed to them because the owners of such have paid for the right to use the Trump name. In contrast, Dan Kennedy has paid next to nothing.
This may be a good marketing tactic if you can pull it off without getting a cease-and-desist notice from the lawyer of the celebrity or other public figure whose name you are using to promote your business. That’s a big “if.”
However, there is also the risk of tarnishing your brand by associating yourself with the wrong celebrity or public figure. Here are a few related examples.
Right now, Donald Trump is fighting in bankruptcy court trying to retain a 10% stake in the Trump Casinos in Atlantic City. Trump claims that his name on the casinos are worth that amount of equity. However, Carl Icahn and other creditors argue that the “Trump” name is worth little, nothing, or even has a negative value. After all, if “Trump” meant something as a brand, why are the casinos going into bankruptcy repeatedly? It remains to be seen who will win this battle but the point being made by Icahn has some appeal.
Branding something “Trump” doesn’t make it a success. In fact, a Mexican luxury condo development project that licensed the Trump name recently imploded, leading to lawsuits from unhappy people who paid for homes that will never be built. Trump claims that as the licensee he isn’t responsible for the failure…but it is his name/brand associated with the abandoned construction.
Although he may be laughing all of the way to the bank, brand tarnishing is something else that Dan Kennedy should have learned from Donald Trump. When Kennedy sold/licensed many of his ventures to others over the last few years, he gave up at least some control over how his name has been used in those ventures. For example, there have been questionable sales and marketing practices used in Internet sales pages and emails to promote certain “Kennedy” events. Hidden terms, misleading pricing, and other nonsense.
Giving Kennedy the benefit of the doubt, one could assume that the purchasers/licensees of his business ventures did these things without his permission. But it doesn’t matter. It is Dan Kennedy’s name that suffers.
Whether you’re tying yourself to a particular celebrity to elevate your business’ status or thinking about selling your company to someone who will retain the right to use your name, consider the cases of Trump and Kennedy. If you lose your good name, how will you ever recover it?
With all the new laws and regulations coming out lately and old ones now being enforced it might be a good time to ‘clean up your business’ or get things in order, ya know, the spring cleaning.
Do an annual legal review. Yeah, I know lawyers are expensive, but several hundred dollars is far cheaper than several thousand dollars and your lively hood shoved down the drain. Lawsuits are a kill joy. Talk to your lawyer and make sure you are talking to one who is knowledgeable about your business and one knowledgeable about the internet. Explain your plans, now and in the future and ask about all of the laws you are suppose to be following. Are you complying with them? And don’t forget asset protection. Is your business set up right? Are you paying taxes on your e-commerce? Go down the line and make sure you are toeing it. Take this year and get things right.
Domain renewals. Have them changed to renew in the same month, preferably the same day. Sell domains and or websites you are not using, not really planning to use or not making much money. The same thing with subscriptions and memberships. Do you really use them? Do they really bring you enough value to pay for the monthly cost or your time spent on them, if you spend time on them. Same with other gadgets, if not using it – get rid of it. Clean up your hard drive, get some space back.
Software updates. Once or twice a year make a date to intentionally check for updates for all the software you are using. Make these dates permanent events on your calender. Not all software automatically updates or sends you reminders (that end up in your spam box). Don’t forget to update the email list in your autoresponder. If they haven’t purchased anything in the last xx months or even opened your emails get rid of them. They are costing you money.
Bookkeeping. If you are not up to date DAILY, you are not up to date. You have no control over your business no matter what you think. Make a point to stay caught up and get the reports you should be getting about your businesses finances. Get a bookkeeper and at the least review with her monthly your income and expenses. Get a account or cpa and talk and review with them quarterly about what you want to do with your business and the condition of your finances. Do you have the money to get there.
Time wasters. Quit reading email from people/businesses that you don’t act upon or affect your business. Unsubscribe or block them. If you can’t make social media and web 2.o profitable for you stop using it or hire someone to set it up proper so you do make money with it. If you are not making money with it get rid of it or fix it so you can make money with it. Is it really necessary to tweet about everything you do? Must you see every email? Watch every webinar? Go to multiple conferences every month or year? Spend hours networking in the bar or sorry, I meant clubs? Buy all those upsells that you can’t figure out how to use, have nothing to use them on, or worse, know that you will never use?
Basically, if it doesn’t help you make money get rid of it. If it does not keep you in compliance with the laws get rid of it or fix it. If you don’t have a clue where your business is financially and you can’t tell if a new product will help your business financially – get help NOW.
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