New Rich Report

Taking Financial Inventory

noreply@blogger.com (Hope2BWell) — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 22:31:00 +0000

- By Cindy Diccianni

The last few years have challenged the American public to rethink priorities and focus on long-term planning. Having lost financial ground as far as retirement assets are concerned, people are reevaluating the risk of their portfolios and seeking stability in investments. Many of you may be included in this group and are seeking help to solve these financial dilemmas.

Let's take a moment to consider financial goals for the upcoming year and take an inventory of what you currently have and which direction you need to go.

Your Life Goals

The faltering market and weak economy may grab your immediate attention. But ultimately, it is, or should be, your life goals that drive your overall personal money management decisions. Are you saving the maximum for your retirement while limiting your current expenses? Do you know how much you need to save now to be able to enjoy your retirement in the way you want? Is your current career path meeting your financial needs? What are the financial consequences of a job or career change? Sometimes, the cost of a job change is worth its weight in gold if you are able to have more leisure time and reduce your stress. How will a career shift impact your overall financial picture now and in the future? An important part of quality living is examining what's really important to you and then living your life in congruence with your priorities.

Knowing how you want to live now and in the future will help you design financial goals based on the quality of life you want to have. This may be a good time to seek professional financial planning advice to assist you in designing your financial goals.

Your Objectives

Accomplishing goals requires achievement of established objectives, or milestones, along the way - such as saving a certain amount of money by a certain date. With the downturn in the economy, there may be a new sense of urgency about reviewing your financial objectives. Are you saving enough money to be prepared for unexpected events? Are you investing in a way that supports your life goals? Do you have enough assets with high liquidity so you can access it readily if needed? Is there anything that you want to do in your lifetime that will require a chunk of money and have you started planning the financing for it?

Your Current Portfolio

Ideally, a portfolio should be reassessed, and perhaps readjusted, in response to your changing life goals and needs, not in reaction to current events that may temporarily affect the market or the economy. Most financial analysts believe that the stock market will bounce back in time and they are strongly advising their clients not to sell because of panic in a down market.

However, should you decide to alter your goals, it may be appropriate to alter your investing plan in order to achieve them. Is your portfolio too heavily weighted in one investment area, or is it well balanced so it can weather the inevitable ups and downs of the market? Do you have the right mix of growth and value stocks or funds? Most importantly, are you finding that you are uncomfortable with the level of risk in your investments now that you have experienced "risk"?

Assess Areas for Possible Debt Consolidation

Consider your credit card debt. If you can consolidate or pay off your credit cards, it will increase your monthly cash flow. You will also need to look at how you use your credit cards to avoid continued debt.

Consider your mortgage rate. Is your mortgage interest rate high enough to warrant a new mortgage? Usually a drop of more than 1% signals it's time to review it. If you have equity in your home, you might consider using it to consolidate debt and free up ready cash.

Prepare for Financial Emergencies

Disasters, whether man-made or natural, often strike without warning. Many people have a thin or nonexistent financial cushion to fall back on. As a general rule, you should have at least three months of cash available for bare bones living.

Life insurance is extremely important for family members left behind after a tragic accident or event. This sudden loss of a wage earner in a family can create emotional and financial hardship. Make sure you have enough coverage to insure your family for their future needs without you. Consider the costs of your children's education, your home and life expenses, to determine how much coverage is needed.

Disability insurance, which can be expensive, is often available through group plans with your current employer. Often these plans are not portable (you only have the coverage while you work for the company). Additional plans are available and can be matched to an existing plan for a cost based on your work classification. Disability insurance provides an income to you and your family should you become unable to work.

Healthcare insurance is one of the largest expenses impacting families today. The most important aspect of healthcare insurance is that your policy covers your family for the major medical expenses including inpatient or outpatient hospitalization, physician services and some type of prescription plan.

Prepare for Death

As difficult of a subject as this is, basic Estate Planning is essential in preserving what you have worked so hard for. A recent poll found that roughly six in ten adult Americans have no Will. Even fewer have designated a Power of Attorney or Durable Power of Attorney, or have prepared a Living Will. Estate Plans are essential so that your wishes are carried out in the way you intended. You are a role model for your community. Not only is it important that you do it for yourself, but that you encourage others to do the same.

As you can see there are many aspects to your financial inventory. The best way to live your life with intention is to plan how you will finance it and execute that plan. Reassess your financial plan now in order to safeguard your assets and provide for your loved ones. Give yourself peace of mind knowing your family will be taken care of if you are no longer around. Finally, take a current snapshot of where you are today, set goals for where you want to be and devise a plan to bridge the gap.

About the Author:

Cindy Diccianni is a Registered Nurse, a Certified Senior Advisor (CSA), a Registered Investment Advisor and a Registered Representative with Leigh Baldwin & Company member NASD and SIPC. She is affiliated with Ortner, O'Brien & Ortner Advisory Group, Inc. and co-founder of Nurturing Your Success, Inc. Her passion is assisting clients in creating the financial freedom they dream of. You may visit Cindy at http://www.nurturingyoursuccess.com or write to her at Cindy@nurturingyoursuccess.com. You may also call her directly at (610) 251-9393.

Is GVO The Ultimate Marketers Toolbox?

noreply@blogger.com (Hope2BWell) — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 22:02:00 +0000

When marketing on the internet, sometimes you feel like your head is going to explode! The amount of tools, systems, and services out there will make your head spin which make promises of easy riches when you use them.

Every day, there seems to be another "magic tool" that pops up promising millions of visitors to your site and large sums of money in your bank account....effortlessly.

It can get overwhelming and take focus away from what you should be doing to build your business.

As you know, there are tools out there that not only make your life easier, but keep your business running on auto-pilot for you.

The trick is to know which ones to focus on and which ones to stay away from!

Let's go through the essentials which every top internet marketer depends on a daily basis to run their million dollar businesses...

1) Web Hosting

Obviously, without hosting, the internet would be a pretty boring place to hang out. If you have a domain name, you need a place to host it so others can find you.

Hosting companies out there range from free all the way to over $500 a month for dedicated hosting.

The key is to find a company that provides 99% uptime and also provides 24/7 support in case you ever have a problem.

And of course, just like anything, you get what you pay for.

2) Auto-Responders

Have you heard the phrase, "The Money Is In The List?"

Well, having an autoresponder and building a list that knows, likes, and trusts you is the fastest way to literally pushing a button and having money coming in your bank account... faster than you can say... Hot Biscuits!

The formula is simple.

Create a page that gives something of huge value totally away for free. This could be a free report, a video lesson, an audio interview, or a live webinar.

Then, in exchange for your free information, the visitor will give you their name and email address.

And then the magic happens. You can follow up with them automatically and offer more value and even get them to buy something!

This is all done using an auto-repsonder, all automatically and efficiently for you.

Again, companies providing auto-responders range from $20 a month up to $99 a month.

3) Video Hosting

The internet is all about video. And without some type of video on your website, most people will simply not hang around.

Video allows you to bond with your visitor and create more trust than with just words on your site.

We've all heard of YouTube for sure. But is a free service that is known for pranks, jokes, and music videos the right image for your business?

There's a reason the top marketers host their videos through paid services and you should to.

4) Website Builder and Prospecting System

99% of internet marketers don't have the time and/or the skills to create their own websites or prospecting pages. Trying to learn website design and html code is not the best way to spend your time.

That's where website builders come in. You simply customize your pages with your own video, product info, auto-responder, and you're done!

5) Live Webcasts

The most powerful way to sell is face to face. You get instant feedback and customers can ask questions and get their answers immediately.

Since we don't want to meet all our visitors in person... Webcasts are the next best thing.

We can sit in the comfort of our own homes and present to people all over the world. Product demonstrations, video overviews, live questions and answers, it's all possible with Webcasts.

If you're not using Webcasts in your business, you are missing out on thousands of dollars of sales.

Typical companies charge between $49 to $99 a month and more.

The Top 5 Essential Tools

These are the top five tools that every top marketer uses and depends on a daily basis to make sales on auto-pilot.

And you can too.

Now, you can get all these great tools from different companies and pay between $150 to over $350 each and every month.

Or, you can make the smart decision and get them all from one company and save a huge amount of money.

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Where To Find Top Selling Products And Get More Profits Online

noreply@blogger.com (Hope2BWell) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:18:00 +0000

If you have decided on becoming a clickbank affiliate, then you must have come across the question: how to find the top selling products? The clickbank is a good place to start as it has a large affiliate network where you can purchase products that can be used to build internet business, list the products and offer them for sale through your own affiliate network. Clickbank is free to join and you can select the products by going through their menu.

Select Good Products:

To select the product which you can add to your list of products, you can use the clickbank marketplace tab. You have to search for a particular category of products by entering the relevant keywords. You will see information which will tell you about the product, its sales page and the place to create hoplink. You can use this hoplink to promote the top selling products. With this link, you can be identified on the site. When a customer enters the merchant's site using your link, you will automatically receive the commission when the product gets sold.

For selecting top selling products, these terms may come as a help to you:

Percentage commission: The percentage commission you will receive if a product is sold using your affiliate link. If the percentage commission is 30%, this means for every $100 of sale, you will receive $30 as commission.

Affiliate commission: The actual amount you will receive as commission for that particular product.

Gravity: This shows the popularity of the product in numerical terms. The higher the gravity, the more popular the product is. Being more popular means, you will have lots of competition in terms of more affiliates for the same product.

Referred %: It shows percentage of each product that is referred by affiliates.

Choose Products Based On Information:

Here are some points which will help you choose top selling products on clickbank:

Typically it is advisable to choose a product you have some idea about. If you know more about the product, then it's easier to promote it. You can reach global audiences and you can target the customers who you know will be interested in the particular product.

Select a product which is not the highest but high enough in gravity. This way you will be sure that you have a quality product which is quite popular and that you have competition which is not fierce.

The percentage commission should be not less than 25%. If you select a product which has commission as 40%-50%, then you will benefit the maximum.

Go through the sales copy and the pieces of information clickbank provides about the product. If the product is attractive and you feel like buying it, then probably the product is good and others would also like to buy it.

Choosing top selling products is not a problem. Do some research; take help of online tools and you will become a successful affiliate marketing expert.

Article by: Millard Gibson
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Making Seamless Changes To Keep Customers Loyal

noreply@blogger.com (Hope2BWell) — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 06:08:00 +0000

Organizations today are undergoing massive changes. Changes that include reorganizations, re-engineering, downsizing, mergers, acquisitions, software and hardware changes, new management...and the list could go on and on. We are living in an age of incredible change and instability.

This rapidly changing workplace demands a new level of adaptability on the part of its workers. Old ways of doing things do not work in this changing world. Consider the simple yet profound impact that E-commerce has on business today -- it took the radio 38 years before it reached the "critical mass" of 50 million users. The computer took 16 years to reach 50 million users and the television took 13 years to reach critical mass. The Internet? It has taken 4 years for the Internet to reach 50 million users. If your business is trying to stand still, you will inevitably be overcome by your competition.

Gartner Research finds that E-commerce (EC) is significantly impacting industry restructuring. In the logistics, consumer product manufacturing, transportation, government services, and automotive industries EC will impact marketing, selling, and customer service. In home services, telecom, health care, retail grocery, book selling, office supplies, cards and gifts, retail dry goods, and recreation and leisure industries, EC will impact the structure of product offerings and how the services/products will be delivered. In the entertainment, banking, travel, advertising, electric utilities, publishing, gaming, and stock trading industries, Gartner predicts that EC will restructure the entire industry.

With change, often comes internal chaos and resistance. As a result, the customer may experience confusion and disruption in service and/or product delivery. The Customer Focus is on "How will this change(s) affect me? WIIFM (What's in it for me?)" and "Why are they making these changes?" The customer's Overriding Concern is "Will this simplify or complicate my life?" They will make decisions based on how well your organization answers these questions.

Following are some Customer Service Strategies to keep your customer coming back. It is important to recognize that customer satisfaction is NOT enough in today's competitive market. We need to create customer loyalty. When you are going through change:

1) Help your customers understand the "why" behind the changes. Be clear as to "What's in it for me?" for the customer. Share the benefits to the customer as to why you are making the changes.

2) Make sure you are coordinating and collaborating with other department within your company. Be wary of overlaps and the potential competition that may develop between departments due to the organizational changes. It is very frustrating when two or more different departments all call the customer. The customer very quickly concludes that you really don't know what you are doing.

3) Obtain customer feedback on the change(s). Consider conducting focus groups or surveys of customers to gain their input on potential changes. Invite your key customers to be part of the change process. Ask your customers, "How can we better serve your needs as our customer?" If you ask for feedback, listen and be willing to consider the customer's input.

4) Be proactive in your communication but recognize that many customers don't read your marketing literature. Therefore, increase the various types of external communications you develop. Use newsletters, advertisements, and your website to inform of change.

How are you broadening your customers' understanding and perspective about your change(s)? Customers don't want to switch to another service/product provider unless they must. Make it easy for your customer to do business with you. Be the best in providing a system of procedures and policies and way of doing business that was designed with the customer in mind AND be the very best at providing a style of personal delivery that your competitors cannot match. Capture the heart of your customer by being clear as to how your changes benefit them and you can capture their loyalty.

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How to Create The Ultimate "Social Proof" Blog In 7 Days

noreply@blogger.com (Hope2BWell) — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 02:25:00 +0000

I want to talk to you about how to create an AWESOME "social proof" blog. One that rocks.

And it'll only take 7 days -- or less.

I'm not the biggest blogger in the world. But I think they're a really great told for the right place and time.

I'm going to give you a few secrets of creating blogs that are totally PRO and not amateur.

And how to create a blog that wows, inspires or does the exact job you want it to.

A lot of blogs are cookie cutters. And they're OK for that. But let's talk about the next level.

I call this creating a "social proof" blog, which is an entirely different concept from a regular blog.

A social proof blog is designed from the ground floor up to provide social proof. And I can't even begin to tell you how vital social proof is in marketing.

In the old days, before the new FTC law interpretations in the U.S. you mostly used testimonials. They're still legal but practically castrated.

But testimonials are not and never were the goal. The goal is SOCIAL PROOF. I don't think a law can ever be passed against using social proof.

It's how society works. It's how the human brain works. People look to others for validation of whether or not something will contribute to their survival, replication and prosperity value or not.

In other words, using social proof is a shortcut humans use to do their research. While you could research everything on your own, the shortcut is to take an aggregate opinion from others.

Here's how social proof is hard wired into the human brain.

There was a study done with pigeons (as I recall). You had this male pigeon and some female pigeons. The females didn't have any particular attraction to the male pigeon. Then they put a female pigeon WITH the male and all the other females started showing interest!

This is an actual study that was done. Who has the TIME to conduct such research I have no idea. But it shows this isn't JUST humans.

This social proof thing is literally hard wired not just into the human brain but somehow in the collective genes of mankind.

So how do you use this to create a "social proof" blog? Good question.

The idea is to put all sorts of social proof on your blog. That social proof could be videos of people talking about the RESULTS of your product. Or reviews of it. Or the product in action.

Coming up with these ideas is a fundamental brainstorm activity. I'll write sometime on how to brainstorm. A lot of people don't know.

Anyway, I'm going to show you a blog I'm designing for FUN and a little coin. It's a men's fashion blog where for kicks a few friends of mine and I are going to interview women about what they think of different men's clothes.

It sounds kinda stupid. But it's a great way to meet people to start with. And second, I've done my research on the market and think there's opportunity in it.

So it's a little project for fun and, yeah, I'll probably make some bank from it also. I have a friend in Austin who is crazy enough to do this.

And I think it'll be fun to go around the streets with a camera and film some video. We'll see. Maybe it's a great idea or maybe not. It sure doesn't take long to find out.

And if you have a cool idea, I'll show you here how you can have it up and running in 7 days.

1. Find your theme

The FIRST thing you need for a social proof blog is a great theme.

There are tons of themes but I recommend you get something really nice.

The theme I bought is from Woothemes.com. These are premium themes that aren't real cheap. Which I LIKE because then not a lot of people will be using them.

Look at all these stunning themes they have:
WooThemes

Here's a GREAT example of another wootheme blog:
http://katiefreiling.com/

That is the theme we used for my design. I like this theme because it lets you have VIDEOS on it! This is perfect for interviews.

You could do video interviews with people over skype, record them using whatever software and publish them on your blog. These could be screen capture videos.

It's simply a test of how creative you can be.

Now, Lisa did this design in about 2 hours. And most all of that was figuring out a few weird things on how to expand the header height.

A good designer will figure this out for you. If you don't have one, you need outsourceplan.com.

Anyway, that brings me to step two.

2. Register your domain

I use namecheap.com for this but any service will do. In general, it's a good idea to put your keyword in your blog title.

I didn't.

My blog is called "weeklypeacock.com". The idea is that a male peacock shows it's colors to attract females. This is a fact of nature.

It's maybe a bad domain and I might should have put the keywords in it like mensfashiontips dot whatever. Most of the good keywords were taken.

This is a blog for fun so it isn't like I'm losing sleep over it.

3. Install your blog

Once you buy your totally rocking theme, install it.

The installation part is easy. You upload the files.

4. Get the header designed

You need a good designer for this. Plus, in this wootube thing, you have to insert parameters in the CSS code to change the height and width of the graphic header. Normally you do this is in the header file. But wootube is kinda weird and Lisa had to search for where to do it.

It took her probably 20 minutes to find the picture and do the graphic. And it took an hour to tweak the code to expand the size of the header.

You can hire a designer to do this for you from any of the freelance sites like Odesk.com, elance.com or other places.

5. Set up your layout

Once you get it all installed, there will be layout options in your menu at the left. At the left, it'll say WOOTUBE or whatever the name of your theme is. That is where you choose your options.

6. Create your content

On a social proof blog, this is the FUN part or the challenging part.

What I realized after getting my blog up is that getting people to AGREE to do the videos may not be easy! Hey, nothing is perfect.

If it ends up being too much work, I'll skip it.

But all is not lost. This is PRACTICE for some ideas I have in my real niche which is obviously Internet marketing. Sometimes I like to practice on a fun project that adds a little spice.

That makes going through the learning curve easier.

For content, you could add:

* PICTURES of people in your coaching club having a blast at meetings.
* Skype interviews
* Audio interview transcripts
* Pictures of you having fun with people at seminars you attend
* Pictures of you doing activies

Really, the only limit is your imagination.

My friend Yanik Silver has a cool, subtle social proof blog:
http://www.internetlifestyle.com/blog/

Yanik plays subtle credibility factors very well. For example, social people and people involved in activies are viewed as more credible. People who raise money for charitable events are viewed as more credible. People seen with their family are seen as more credible.

Yanik plays up all these angles.

I recently put a lot of social proof type pictures on my Facebook and they'll eventually make it over to a social proof type blog similar to what I'm teaching you about today.

On Facebook I have pictures of me with my friends in places all over the world. That's good fodder for a social proof blog. Probably I'll use a Woo Theme to create it.

As far as how I'll get the videos on the blog and all that, I cover that in Video Blogging Secrets Revealed

What I wanted to show you here was a little inspiration.

You can see the EARLY version of the blog I came up without videos at:

http://www.weeklypeacock.com

If you're offended by the idea of females being interviewed on fashion opinions, don't go there. There's nothing really offensive but I'm just saying.

I hope this gives you a few ideas about the possibilities for your OWN blog which is the real point here.

You should be able to do this in 7 days or less.

* Installing the blog takes 20-30 minutes
* Hiring the graphic designer takes 30 minutes
* Registering the domain name takes 10 minutes
* There's not too much more to it than that

Marlon Sanders
The King of Step-By-Step Internet Marketing and "The Ambassador of Old School Marketing"

Marlon Sanders helps people with hopes and dreams figure out how to turn those into reality by selling stuff on the Internet. http://www.marlonsanders.com

5 Main Problems You May Be Having With Your Marketing

noreply@blogger.com (Hope2BWell) — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:15:00 +0000

This PDF is an in-depth article that addresses 5 main problems I see you may be having with your marketing:

1. You wanna quit that nasty ol job of yours and think you might be able to do it if you learn about this online marketing deal.

2. You're a greenhorn trying to learn the ropes but can't make heads nor tales of all the promises, claims, screen caps and gurus who pound you with emails.

3. You don't know for sure where to start.

4. You've tried a few things that haven't worked for you .... yet.

5. You're really serious about this biz, probably already making sales, maybe a lot of them, and you're just hoping I give you an actionable piece of info.

I want you to know I personally write my ezine articles and don't outsource them. They're not all brilliant. A few are. But for better or worse, they represent my best thinking at the time.

For the price of admission, that's a pretty good deal.

Happy 2010,
Marlon Sanders

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4 Keys For Building Your List In 2010

noreply@blogger.com (Hope2BWell) — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:04:00 +0000

I am sure you have heard that it is great to have a list of 1,000 people, or, even better, a list of 2,000 people who want to hear from you. What is very important to understand is that the list has to be targeted. A targeted list means that people on your list have to be in your target market. If you have a list of random people who are not in your target market, it is going to be hard to promote your services to them, even if you have a list of 2,000.

On the other hand, if you have a smaller list, but people on the list are very targeted and want to hear from you, you will get much better results.

Now for the secret no one is telling you. It is actually much easier to build a very targeted list than to build a list of random people who don't want to hear from you.

Why? Because if you are building a list of random people, you are trying to appeal to everyone, and you are very unfocused. That is exactly the result that you will get - a completely unfocused, random list of everyone.

When you narrow your message and start looking for your ideal clients to join your list, it becomes much easier to attract people to it. When you know exactly who your ideal clients are, you can reach them in groups, you can reach them on social networking web sites, you can reach them with articles and you can reach them with your blog.

Once you narrow down your focus, you will have a much easier time building your list and your list will be much more responsive to your offers. What could be better than that?

When you reach out to targeted groups with a targeted message, you are going to build your list much faster, and you will not have to work as hard. You will start seeing much better response from your list, because people on your list are actually interested in what you have to offer.

During my no charge call, "Four Keys For Building Your List", I will share with you my own strategies for building a highly responsive list of your ideal clients. Register for the call at

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Here is what you will learn on this call:

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and much more!

The call is in just a few days, on January 21st at 8pm Eastern (NY) Time. If you can't attend, register anyway and you will get the audio recording of the call.

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How To Use Internet Marketing With Blogging

noreply@blogger.com (Hope2BWell) — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:06:00 +0000

Have you ever dreamt of becoming rich using online methods? Then internet marketing with blogging is what you should be are looking at. Here you will find some of the important things you would need to fulfill your dreams.

Niche Market And Traffic

To gain maximum profit, you would need people coming onto your blog from all over the world. You might end up getting nowhere if you don't know how to go about making your blog successful. To begin with, find your niche market. Offer free resources and a wide range of topics for the readers of your site. To promote your product using internet marketing with blogging, try and run more than one blog. This is not a very time consuming task, as you could have other people do the maintenance and posting.

You have to know how to drive traffic onto your site. It is traffic, which will mainly turn the sales into profits. The more visitors you have on your blog, the more are the chances of it getting successful. If your efforts to use internet marketing with blogging are not successful, and you are not able to generate money, then you would eventually stop. Because we don't want this to happen, you have to try all means to optimize traffic on your blog.

Things To Keep In Mind To Get Traffic

~ Increase conversation with your visitors, by writing fresh content.

~ Update your blog regularly and keep adding content on a weekly basis.

~ Keep the content informative, short and sweet.

~ Give an opportunity to people to comment using Stumbleupon, reddit and dig.

~ Maintain a sign up box in the bottom or in the corner block for people to gather more information.

By the above-mentioned methods, you will be able to maintain a profitable blog.

Some Do's

Always remember to use fresh and useful information as part of your marketing plan. Through this, your readers would be able to provide you with more profit. Build trust by keeping freshness, honesty, and professionalism as your key ingredients. A blogger should have strong persuasion power in order to use internet marketing with blogging. You must be able to build an image of the product on the minds of the visitors.

Do have a constant flow of fresh marketing ideas. Your 'comments' section would surely have many new ideas which you can use. Using correct and eye-catching keywords would bring an increase in addition to the traffic. This in turn would also help you climb up in rankings on the search engines. Using internet marketing with blogging is not so difficult after all, if you optimize your efforts.

For those who have concentrated into blogging, internet marketing would seem a quick and easy tool to make income. With some amount of patience and extra effort, even your blog can go a long way in helping you realize your dreams. Go on, try and use internet marketing with blogging and make good money.

Article by: Millard Gibson
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Social Web Media | Outsourcing and Article Marketing

Social Web Media | Product Review: Traffic Resort

The highest converting traffic I've ever seen...

noreply@blogger.com (Hope2BWell) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 04:59:00 +0000

Traffic Resort is a new site that says it guarantees more web visitors and online advertising with very little effort or cost. More importantly, it promises higher CONVERSIONS--signups and sales. So I decided to put it to the test...

My first impression was the site looks professional and clean, with an attractive look and feel. It is easy to read and understand. Joining the site was easy and painless--they do offer 2 upgrade options but they are not required to gain the benefits.

The Members Area is very well laid out and intuitive--I could figure out what to do after only a few minutes and was able to get up and running in less than 5 minutes. Inside the site, you create links and ads--the links you simply enter any URL links you use into the generator and it transforms them into "Traffic Resort" links. You create ads for anything you want to promote using the Traffic Resort Ad Generator, which is very easy to use. You can create as many links and as many ads as you like. And they are organized in a logical way--links are displayed in the order you create them but also your 5 most recent links appear on the main page for quick reference. Also, since the link generator is the tool you'll use most, it is also right at the top of the main page when you login. Very smart!

After you've created at least 1 link and 1 ad you can start to generate traffic. Just use and promote the new Traffic Resort link instead of the original source link you had. Every time the Traffic Resort link is clicked, the page loads followed by a small ad window in the lower right corner. It displays 3 ads PLUS an image with your affiliate link that goes back to Traffic Resort. So if anyone clicks the Traffic Resort image they see the site, and if they signup they become your referral. It's a great viral feature because you can build referrals without even trying to just by using the site.

Now every time the ad window displays (your Traffic Resort links get clicked) you earn credits that get YOUR ad displayed in the ad windows when other members' links get clicked. So the more clicks, the more times your ads get displayed.

And this works virally--meaning as you make referrals into Traffic Resort (either by promoting it or just using it and visitors click the Traffic Resort image on the ad window to join) you also earn ad credits on THEIR link clicks. And this works up to 5 levels deep. So you can create a massive amount of free ad views and web traffic by referring others to Traffic Resort also.

I didn't get to test the full effect of a big downline yet (I just got the tool) but I can tell you the rest of the site works exactly as stated--my links got clicked, I earned credits, and my ads got displayed. Traffic Resort even tracked my results so I know how many clicks and how many ad displays. That was an impressive unadvertised extra feature.

There is one more benefit and feature which might be the best of them all--downline emailing. You can email your downline with offers, promotions, or whatever you like, and here is where Traffic Resort really shines. They took time to make the emailing often enough that it's valuable as a user, but no so often that it's a burden to your downline. But the best part about this feature (and actually the credit earning too) is that it tells you exactly how long until you can mail again. Now THAT's cool.

Overall I have to say I am impressed with Traffic Resort. It is simple yet powerful, and delivers on its promises. Highly recommended to anyone who wants to increase traffic and advertising.

See it and join here:

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Tweets from the Twitterverse

noreply@blogger.com (Hope2BWell) — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:15:00 +0000

Yesterdays tweet with news and microbloggings

* Beat the Recession, Become a Pro Blogger from Home. Train with the Best #1 Training Center Blog$ucess bz9.cc/01PY
* K-Paul's Louisiana Kitchen announces it's annual TURDUCKEN DAY November 25th, bit.ly/YUsGu Wonderful Cajun food.
* Need a job? This news article shows you one that hiring! $87/hour openings available. learn more: tinyurl.com/yl7b5jk
* RT @EvelynWellsMD @RunAsburyPark: @PhytnessMD: @KayfromNJ: @SkinCareDoc: Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. W. Churchil
* RT @problogger New Blog Job: Health/Exercise/Nutrition Writer - Healthy Theory bit.ly/2fViaS
* RT @dealtaker New blog post: Dodgeball on the O-cho bit.ly/2tSXKU
* RT @ColinKlinkert New blog post: Bonus for Elite Members Only
* RT @ColinKlink ert New blog post: Bonus for Elite Members Only www.colinklinkert.co...
* GBG Energy Matrix is out of this world, MA+ Whey Protein, and Weight Management program. Click Company/Products bit.ly/3STrEn
* New biz tools: bit.ly/3xITe8
* BLOGMAIM.COM: Using an Autoresponder to Publish an Ezine: There are many uses for an autoresponder.. bit.ly/2i75iw
* Use this Free Report and System to get clients with Any Business. Social Media training included www.thefundedplan.com
* Your One Stop Shop for Hosting, Bulk Mailing, Audio Conference, Video Producer, Prospecting System...more bit.ly/249e7J
* They've Finally Cracked the Code and Found Out How to Make Money with Twitter just- 4you.com/ogeefb/TTM
* Get the Free Blog to Make Money Ebook and bonuses to begin Earning from Home Blogging. Beat the Recession just-4you.com/ogeefb/JHBS
* Try this Unique System to Shortne/Cloak/Redirect Urls, and use Drop-ins with Autoresponders attached just-4you.com/ogeefb/BZ9
* Manage Multiple Twitter Accounts and Auto Post Too. Increase Your Twitter Productivity w/ Social Oomph just-4you.com/ogeefb/SocOomph
* Bobby james uses this as a member. Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. ihid.us?i=3no
* Need A Job? Hiring Today - Job Requires: Basic Computer Skills Your Own Home Computer. Weekly Pay : tinyurl.com/yeft6pq

Connect with me at goodlifegrspc and/or props4WAH, Take care :)

Is Your Blog Your Best-Kept Secret?

noreply@blogger.com (Hope2BWell) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:54:00 +0000

If only two people know about your blog, and one of them is you, you will not be able to get clients and newsletter subscribers from your blog, it is that simple!

In order for you to get results from your blog, you must blog on topics of interest to your target market and then bring your target market to your blog to read your blog posts.

During the How To Get Clients With Your Blog Teleseminar on November 3rd, you will learn how to get many readers for your blog and how to convince these readers to do business with you.

Here is what you will discover:

- Why the vast majority of professionals who blog do not make a dime from it and how you can buck this trend

- One extremely important mind shift you must make to get clients with your blog

- Three biggest blogging mistakes over 80% of service professionals make and how to avoid them

Register for the call at no charge at

How To Get Clients With Your Blog Teleseminar

During the call I will share with you how I find effective blogging topics, drive traffic to my blog and convert the traffic into clients, without spending a lot of time blogging.

Let me show you how you can have fun with your blog, and get clients from it as well! There is no charge to attend this call, so register now at

How To Get Clients With Your Blog Teleseminar

How To Advertise Online Store

noreply@blogger.com (Hope2BWell) — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 03:47:00 +0000

Recently I received an enquiry from one of our members asking me how to advertise her online store. I thought this is an interesting discussion and thus decide to discuss it in our blog today.

First, here’s her question:

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Hello Kenneth,

Firstly, I want to tell you that your blog is awesome. Its content is extremely rich. I can spend hours reading your posts and I learned many things with.

I’m Emilie To. I have just acquired this online store www.NiceDigitalGoods.com.

My questions are:

1) To take advantage at most your advertising system, do I write an ad for the whole shop or for a single category or for a particular product?

2) As there are 32 categories and over 380 products in the shop, how to determine in what category, on which product it is necessary to concentrate the efforts of advertising?
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Who is your target audience?

As an advertiser or a marketer, the very first question you MUST ask yourself is “Who is your target audience?” or “Who will buy your products?”

(Take a look at her website and see what she is selling www.NiceDigitalGoods.com.)

One extremely common mistake that online store owners make is to think that their target audience is EVERYBODY.

If you are targeting everyone, you are getting no one. Trust me on this!

You mentioned that your online store has 32 categories and 380 products. But seriously, who is likely to buy a dog training ebook from your online store? Someone who wants to train his dog or someone who wants to buy the Master Resale Rights of that ebook?

From my assessment, I feel that your target audience are internet marketers looking to buy MRR (Master Resale Rights) and PLR (Private Label Rights) products for their niche websites.

If so, the answer to your first question would be:

You do not write an ad for the whole shop, single category or a particular product. Instead, you need to write an ad to target internet marketers looking for MRR and PLR products.

What is the Unique Selling Preposition of your website?

Before you start to advertise your online store, you must establish a Unique Selling Preposition (USP) for your website.

Basically, you need to ask yourself, “What’s so special about your website? Why would someone bother to pay attention to it?”

Without a refreshing and attention-grabbing USP, your online store is just another online store started by a newbie who simply install a script and load some products into it. And if I’m a visitor to such an online store, guess what I will say: “DON’T WASTE MY TIME!!”

When deciding on a USP, you need to know what is REALLY a USP. For example, a website selling MRR and PLR products is not a USP. But a website selling such products at $0.99 each may be a USP.

Just to give you some idea, a good USP will make people say: “wow, that’s a great!”.

With that, let me answer your second question:

Forget about the 32 categories and over 380 products in your online stores. You should concentrate your advertising effort is delivering the USP of your online store. You need to tell me people “hey, I’m different. Take a look at me!”

How to get people to opt-in?

I probably repeat this a hundred times, but I still need to say this again… build a list!

This is especially true if you are running an online store.

Look, you may be selling hundred and one things in your online store that people have no need at the moment. But one day, they may need one of your products.

What’s the best way to make them remember you when they need your product or service?

2 answers: Either you keep on spending money to advertise in front of them or get them into your list so that you can remind them of your existence, for free.

Which way do you prefer? The second way of course!

How to get them to opt-in is another challenge. But first, you must make list building your top priority and make sure every visitor is presented with the opt-in offer.

Original post here on LeadsLeap blog

How an internet newbie made $3311.40 in 24 hours

noreply@blogger.com (Hope2BWell) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:04:00 +0000

I just came back from my meeting with Calvin Woon, an internet newbie who made $3311.40 in just 24 hours. I’m going to show you exactly how he did it.

Here’s a summary of how he did it……

The basic idea is he offered a software at Warrior Special Offer (aka WSO) and 100 marketers took up the offer. After some time, he offered a blow out sale (basically a software bundle) to these 100 marketers in his list and made $3311.40 in less than 24 hours.

Sounds simple? No quite because there are a few important factors that contributed to his success. Let me go through the details now:

WSO is a section in the famous Warrior Forum. Many internet marketing experts hang out there looking for cheap but good deals. To make the marketers interested in your offer, you really need to think of something unique. In Calvin’s case, he offered a viral software. To his amazement, many renowned internet marketers took up the offer. Now he has got internet marketing gurus in his list!

What is so special about his viral software? Why are the gurus interested in the software?

Basically, it is a keyword research software. The true power doesn’t lie in the software application but its viral feature. Within the software, he allows the marketers to rebrand 4 banner ads and 2 text ads into the software. And he allows the marketers to give away the software to whoever they like.

Can you see what is happening here?

Imagine you own this viral keyword research software. You rebrand the software with your banner ads and text ads and give this software away to other people. This software will be passed on to hundreds and then thousands of people. Your banner and text ads will be shown to these people every time they use the software. Can you see how viral this can be?

But that’s not all. When these people see the power of the software and want to buy the rebrandable version, which is sold for $37, you will make 100% commission i.e. $37!!

I hope you are starting to see the power of this viral software. That is the reason why other internet marketing gurus are interested in this special offer.

They bought the software, rebranded it with their banner and text ads and distributed it to their list, allowing their list to pass it to whoever they like! At the same time, they kept 100% of the sales of the rebrandable version.

Personally, I think this is a damn smart idea. How I wish I was the one who came out with this idea.

Back to how he made $3311.40.

WSO is a place for you to bait big fish. Once you get the big fish, you have to continue adding values to them. For Calvin, he continues to give his customers free software, just to thank them for taking up the offer. The BIG bait came when he bundled 3 of his other viral software and offered them through a special pricing system. In the system, the pricing started at $37, but after every sale, the price will increase by 20 cents!

See the trick? Either you get it now or you pay a higher price later!

Guess what was the conversion rate for the offer? More than 50% of them bought the software bundle! The gurus were hooked.

Here’s an interesting side story. Calvin launched his blow out sales on the same day and at the same time when Ewen Chia (the world’s No.1 super affiliate) launched his super affiliate membership! Initially, he was worried if that would affect his sales. But guess what, when he launched his blow out sales on 1st December 12pm EST, he was amazed to see that the first sale was from Ewen!! LOL.

Calvin didn’t just stop at the blow out sales. Once the marketers took up the offer, they were offered an upsell package, which is an annual membership which allows them to get 1 brand new rebrandable viral software every month for a year!

Another 50% of them took up this upsell package.

So in total, he made $3311.40 in 24 hours. The entire campaign actually made him more than $10,000.

That’s it. Calvin had no list to start with, no JV partner, no affiliates and was totally unknown in the world of internet marketing. But he managed to achieve this with a simple idea and some smart marketing strategies I’ve shared with you earlier.

Find more topics at the Leads Leap blog here.

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Tweets from the Twitterverse

noreply@blogger.com (Hope2BWell) — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:19:00 +0000

Yesterdays tweets with news and microbloggings

* Power Blog: Nothing To Lose In MLM Home Business: Home business MLM has never been easier these days... bit.ly/W3JzB
* Beat the Recession, Become a Pro Blogger from Home. Train with the Best #1 Training Center Blog$ucess bz9.cc/01PY
* Alex xanders uses this as a member. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. ihid.us?i=3rv
* If You've Got 2 Hours a Day, Guarantee a Financial Miracle, see how she went from drop-out to $80k+ a yr tinyurl.com/ygm9a86
* Will e-bikes be the new 'commuter cool'?: digg.com/d317Jlk?t Great idea, I'm all for it!
* RT @tweetmeme Twitter Launching “Twitter Wine” bit.ly/2pPcLU Love this!
* Great pics of London during the holidays at their Food Market at Coven t Garden is.gd/4mQ5q
* Good news about smoking bans reducing heart disease from second hand smoke is.gd/4mQkN
* Jobless Mom makes $8,673/Month Part-Time Online! Read this special report to see how. tinyurl.com/yhkmbhg
* The recession is over for google they say, how about the rest of us? short.to/twi5
* The weather's so nice this time of year, love this cool time. Chili season.
* New biz tools: Internet Selling, The Russell Brunson Way bit.ly/AfW3f
* BLOGMAIM.COM: How To DRAMATICALLY Increase Your Traffic: Dramatically Increase Your Traffic My inte.. bit.ly/13LTdo
* Providing Benefit to Consumers: EzineArticles.com/?id=2910394
* The Social Factor in Blogging: EzineArticles.com/?id=2910429
* Low and No Cost Google Tools to Optimize Your Campaigns and Improve Your Profits: EzineArticles.com/?id=2937074
* Green Living: Walk This Way for Happier Knees bit.ly/xrhkf
* Green News: BREAKING RESEARCH SHOWS VITAMIN D LINKED TO HDL CHOLESTEROL bit.ly/jwcPH
* We have affiliates in Flushing Michigan. Knowing is not enough. we must apply. ihid.us?i=3rv
* Being sympathetic to other people's feelings can create possib... More for Pisces bit.ly/7KjVp

Connect with me on Twitter at @goodlifegrspc and/or @props4WAH

8 Twitter Networking Tips

noreply@blogger.com (Hope2BWell) — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:34:00 +0000

More and more twitter users are actually taking their Twitter interactions and meeting up in real life. In this post Steph Auteri from Freelancedom (@stephauteri) shares some tips on how to do it.

I find new excuses to create Excel worksheets. I lament the lost art of the cover letter and other forms of traditional business correspondence. I read books such as Peter Bowerman’s The Well-Fed Writer and Allison Hemming’s Work It!, which preach against lazy, Internet-based business practices.

Yet I have been thoroughly charmed by the Twitter phenomenon, and am an out-and-out evangelist in support of using it as a means to further your career.

I didn’t know quite what to do with Twitter until I read a post on Problogger that advised setting Twitter goals. My mind immediately grasped upon the possibilities for promoting my multiple blogs and, since then, I have (I hope) maintained that focus. (Just ignore those tweets that mention Xanax, wine, and my three cats…) It was a happy surprise when it became clear just how much Twitter could help my career in other ways.

Read on for tips on how to use Twitter to take networking from online to in-the-flesh.

1. Use Your Twitter Profile As You Would a Business Card:

Those cards I had done up at VistaPrint are so perfect. They include my name, title, phone number, e-mail address, and website URL and, best of all, they even match my site’s background! I love how they represent the brand I’ve created for myself. Your Twitter profile should operate in a similar manner. Pimp that URL of yours in the appropriate space. Craft a well-written professional description in the spot meant for your bio. Personalize the background also! It will help you stand out from the pack. And then include a link to your Twitter account on every last social networking site you belong to, and in your e-mail signature as well. (Bonus tip: If you want to go all out — and frighten friends and family! — order a T-shirt with your Twitter ID.)

2. Let Your Twitter Feed Be Your (Ongoing) Portfolio:

While I maintain a portfolio on my professional site, I often suspect that no one actually goes there. Even when I include a link in my cover letters. This makes me sad. But nothing beats the immediacy of a tweeted link! I tend to tweet the links to my latest clips, and also point my followers toward the blog posts I’m most proud of. This way, people don’t become overwhelmed by how amazingly prolific I am, or mistake me for a spammer. If this is not a worry, there are Twitter applications — such as twitterfeed — that automatically feed your post titles and links straight to Twitter. Not only will you get a nice bump in traffic from your own tweeple, but followers might find your work so gosh-darn awesome that they retweet it, placing it in front of a constantly growing number of eyes. Who knows what could happen then! I’ve actually received additional writing assignments from those impressed with my already-existing work.

3. Grow Your Twitter Network:

If you’re doing everything right — posting helpful and interesting tweets, maintaining a healthy level of back-and-forth, and seeking out other Twitter users worth following — your network will grow organically. Once you have them there, it’s time to harness their remarkable power…

4. Get the Lowdown:

…by getting the lowdown on things like professional organizations, conferences, and other events. In musing — via tweet — about the pros and cons of joining the EFA, the NWU, or Freelance Success, I received immediate feedback of others’ personal experiences with each. Being able to determine the effectiveness of real-work events and networking groups before paying an arm and a leg, based upon the firsthand experiences of others, can be invaluable.

5. Tweet Yourself Up:

…by advertising your wares. I tweet about the blog posts I’m working on. I tweet about the manuscripts I’m copy editing. I tweet about the articles I’m researching. It makes me sound way productive. Plus, it gives others an idea of where my skills and talents lie. If you happen to tweet a lot about your amazing grasp of the behavioral sciences, or of medical writing, you’ll be the first person people think of when they need a medical copywriter. Or a shrink.

6. Ask for Help:

…by sending out an SOS. It’s been known to happen. People have acquired employment by simply letting others know they were looking for work. But you can start smaller. Ask for input on that blog post you’re working on. Search for interview subjects for that next article (I use Twellow or Twitter Search). Ask all of the tens of thousands of web developers out there why that plugin didn’t work when you did the whatchamacallit to the thingamabobber. There is a world of wisdom out there, just waiting for your call.

7. And Help Others:

Is there a way to measure Twitter karma? Or is it wrong to quantify the ways in which you help others? Either way, I believe karma exists, and the more you help others, the more others are willing to help you. This can mean simply answering others’ queries, making suggestions, or offering your help when a fellow Twitter user appears in distress. Some twitterers go a step further, and create accounts meant solely for charitable purposes. Twestival — which “brings together Twitter communities for an evening of fun and to raise money and awareness for charity” — is just one example (more information can be found here). Another one I’ve recently come across is JobAngels. They define themselves as a movement, in which they ask followers to help one person find a job. Several of the people I’m following have already retweeted their request.

8. Plan a Tweetup:

All of the above has referenced the real world only indirectly, by mentioning actions you can do in the Twitterverse in order to affect your non-virtual life. For my last point, I’d like to mention Tweetups, the happy and inevitable cousin of the Meetup. Rather than waiting for an event to happen, why not plan your own meeting of the (Twitter-based) minds? You can follow tweetup to learn about happenings in your area, or just send a shout-out to your own followers, asking if anyone would be game for taking things offline. While online networking can be amazing in its influence, I often find that nothing beats a face-to-face meeting. Placing a face to a name…being able to talk at length with more than 140 characters…bonding over a glass (or five) of wine or the healing powers of a cup of coffee…all of these things can help you to develop a more concrete connection with someone you’ve only been conversing with online. In marveling over the powers of the Internet, don’t discredit the traditional tactics.

RSS As A Form Of Advertisement And Media

noreply@blogger.com (Hope2BWell) — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 07:46:00 +0000

RSS is a new and rising form of social media these days and has many assets when it's used in advertisement or as a tool for research. RSS is standardized but it can be made interactive and monetized as well.

RSS Feeds are especially useful with article marketing. They fit right into the sidebar of blogs and websites so that the syndicated content of the feed is regularly updated when it's fresh.

When you're writing articles for marketing, you're creating content for the web, feeding the search engine spiders, so to speak. This is the content that is searchable and indexable in the major search engines, or any engine you decide to submit it to. Using RSS Feeds is a secondary way to index and submit content that is searchable in a digital format.

RSS can be searched by title, or tags as well as keywords and topics. You can add the tags of your choice to the article or blog post in the feed. Tag these posts with terms that will be thought of when doing searches. You can get creative because they don't have to be the same as the keywords in the articles.

Gaining popularity with the feed format are audios, mp3s, and podcasts. The equipment necessary is not too expensive and can be found without too much trouble. Just a microphone and the software necessary to listen to the audios, a service that is normally included in the purchase price of computers, mobile phones and PDAs.

Also an up and coming method of advertisement and entertainment are videos that are easily adaptable to the RSS format as well. The video file is simply put into the feed and syndicated as new content the same way as blogs and audios.

On the subject of popularity, there are many people nowadays using RSS readers, or aggregators. My personal choice is the google reader, which frequently features power readers including Thomas Friedman of the New York Times, Arianna Huffington of the Huffington Post, several top columnists from the New York Post, Markos Moulitsas of the Daily Kos, Michelle Malkin of Hot Air, and Chief Political Correspondent of Slate Magazine John Dickerson. The relevant popularity of your own content can be received and filtered through a favorite RSS reader in an up to the minute fashion. The content updates even as it is published because it's in digital format, so it's the know first, and know fast way to get up to date and relevant content.

If you're thinking about using RSS feeds to advertise, then you may want to consider using Feedburner or FeedBlitz services. Here, you can optimize your feeds for maximum interactivity by making them compatible with any reader, more browser friendly, bookmarkable to many social networks, including links to your latest posts on various networks, and intermitently add photos and geotags to the feeds as well.

These feed services enable you to publicize your feeds with banners and widgets, opt for the email subscription rather than the feed reader style, ping several services to notify them of updated content, and give you the options to allow your posts to be reused by readers or password protect your updates also.

Another great feature of feed services is that you can monetize your feeds with AdSense for Feedburner and use other Ad campaigns at FeedBlitz. And of course Feedburner offers statistics to help you analyze your visitors and subscribers or troubleshoot problems with your feeds.

FeedBlitz will allow you to create newsletters and autoresponders to attach to your newsletters that will help automate your tasks of follow up and bring simplicity to completing sales that would otherwise be left undone. You can create surveys with FeedBlitz to maximize your knowledge and help you to research your field. FeedBlitz also offers a sliding scale pricing option for email subscribers only. All the RSS subscriptions remain free.

Once you optimize your feeds, you can submit them to directories that are specifically for RSS feeds. There are a long list of directories and some for other languages, so you can make your choices personally when you search.

Another membership I recommend when using feeds is the Elert Gadget, because they are a Google account so each page you create is an indexable and searchable page in the Google search engine. Each gadget also has a feed, and the option to add an additional feed to the RSS of the gadget. There is an extensive listing of directories available at Elert Gadget and the feeds for the gadgets are updated by the EG staff regularly.

RSS is becoming more of a viable option for a secondary type of advertising nowadays and an excellent means of tracking and analyzing data for blogs, podcasts, videocasts, and more. I've found it quite useful to do research with the reader as well as submit the rss data as new content in feed format.

Never Surrender Your Dream

noreply@blogger.com (Hope2BWell) — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 04:17:00 +0000

Do you have a dream today?

Can you see yourself in one year, three years, ten years?

Far from some pie-in-the-sky hype, dreams are the currency of the Internet.

Many reading these words right now dream of quitting their job and working at home.

Some dream of having a home of their own.

Sadly, some don't dream any more.

But we MUST dream in order to thrive!

From the time that man has been able to record thought individuals and societies have dreamed big dreams.

So what is YOUR dream today?

No matter whether you dream of riches and a luxury lifestyle or of more time to develop deep relationships or ways to serve your fellow man better (or all three!) your dream is your roadmap.

Without it how will you know where you are going?

Recent events have driven home the fact that life is short indeed. Too short to spend it working at a job we don't love.

Listen to these words by Brian Tracy ...

"All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose." - Brian Tracy

If you were my brother or sister, this is what I would say to you.

You must have a dream to make a dream come true.

And you must *never* surrender your dream.

If you are like most people you will spend more time working than doing any other activity. Yet many don't like their work.

If you are in that situation you will be encouraged by the words below.

First things first, I truly believe that ANY man or woman of average intelligence or better can make a full time living online.

It is with that basis of belief that I share, from my experience, five simple keys to help you define your dream and take action toward that dream.

Time is fleeting. Begin now.

Embrace The Change

The Internet really has changed things.

The fact is, jobs exist today that didn't five years ago.

Even though many online marketers would have you think that the word job is a four letter word, there is nothing at all wrong with having a job.

I'm *very* grateful for the people who work with me, and I hope they feel the same.

Whether we work for ourselves or others, we all have a job to do.

The GREAT news is that the Internet has created so much MORE opportunity than before.

Just think, only 20 years ago there were no pay per click specialists, SEO outsourcers, eBook editors or any of the 100 other jobs we can do online.

How does this apply to you?

Start by identifying your skills and what you want to do (more on this in point 2) and then look for that type of work online.

You might start by working for someone else on a contract basis and then move into your own thing.

Or you might just find a partner and form a working relationship that spans decades.

If you can dream it, you can DO it!

Know Yourself

What do you REALLY want?

Spend some time with yourself and think expansively.

If you could do anything, if money wasn't a factor, what would you do?

Keep asking until you find an answer.

When you find that answer pursue it with all your heart.

It might take days, weeks, months or even years before it becomes real. But real it will become if you move toward it with all your heart.

Once you know what you really want you will become an opportunity magnet for the thing you desire.

As you think, so you will become.

Research Your Answers

You will be shocked to discover the money earning possibilities online.

Pick your favorite search engine, start a bookmark folder just for this, and find everything you can about your passion.

Visit forums in the area of your interest and lurk for a while, learning from those who are active. When you are ready announce yourself to the forum and start looking for ways to get active in the area of your interest.

Be Willing To Start Small

You may only be able to commit a few hours at night to your new field because you have to feed the family.

That's OK.

Time is your ally.

And time will prove if your idea will work.

Be willing to work for the chance to learn and soon you will be where you want to be.

Internships work - consider starting there.

Jobs like being a virtual assistant, a net researcher, or doing graphic art for e-Books exist today because of innovative thinkers who found their passion.

Find your passion.

Don't stop until you find (or create) that type of work that both makes you happy and pays the bills.

Who knows, YOU might be the innovator who creates the next online industry.

Winston Churchill said "The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backward so it can breathe without letting go."

When it comes to our dreams we need to be like the bulldog. We must never surrender our dreams.

Because having a dream is a beautiful thing indeed.

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Impossible Is Just A Word

noreply@blogger.com (Hope2BWell) — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:52:00 +0000

Everyone, at some point of his or her life, has dreamed of being somebody special, somebody big. Who hasn't fantasized about being the one who hits the game-winning homer? Who hasn't dreamed of being the homecoming queen? And how many times have we dreamed of being rich, or successful, or happy with our relationships?

Often, we dream big dreams and have great aspirations. Unfortunately, our dreams remain just that - dreams. And our aspirations easily collect dust in our attic.

This is a sad turn of events in our life. Instead of experiencing exciting adventures in self actualization, we get caught up in the humdrum of living from day-to-day just barely existing.

But you know what? Life could be so much better, if only we learned to aim higher.

The most common problem to setting goals is the word impossible. Most people get hung up thinking I can't do this. It's too hard. It's too impossible. No one can do this.

However, if everyone thought that, there would be no inventions, no innovations, and no breakthroughs in human accomplishment.

Remember that scientists were baffled when they took a look at the humble bumblebee. Theoretically, they said, it was impossible for the bumblebee to fly. Unfortunately for the bumble, bee no one has told it so. So fly it does.

On the other hand, some people suffer from dreaming totally outrageous dreams and not acting on them. The result? Broken dreams, and tattered aspirations.

If you limit yourself with self-doubt, and self-limiting assumptions, you will never be able to break past what you deem impossible. If you reach too far out into the sky without working towards your goal, you will find yourself clinging on to the impossible dream.

Try this exercise. Take a piece of paper and write down some goals in your life. Under one header, list down things 'you know you can do'. Under another header, write the things 'you might be able to do.' And under one more, list the things that that are 'impossible for you to do.'

Now look at all the headers, strive every day to accomplish the goals that are under things 'you know you can do'. Check them when you are able to accomplish them. As you slowly are able to check all of your goals under that heading, try accomplishing the goals under the other header-the one that reads 'you might be able to do.'

As of the items you wrote under things I could do are accomplished, you can move the goals that are under things that are 'impossible for you to do' to the list of things 'you might be able to do.'

As you iterate through this process, you will find out that the goals you thought were impossible become easier to accomplish. And the impossible begin to seem possible after all.

You see, the technique here is not to limit your imagination. It is to aim high, and start working towards that goal little by little. However, it also is unwise to set a goal that is truly unrealistic.

Those who just dream towards a goal without working hard end up disappointed and disillusioned.

On the other hand, if you told someone a hundred years ago that it was possible for man to be on the moon, they would laugh at you. If you had told them that you could send mail from here to the other side of the world in a few seconds, they would say you were out of your mind. But, through sheer desire and perseverance, these impossible dreams are now realities.

Thomas Edison once said that genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Nothing could be truer. For one to accomplish his or her dreams, there has to be hard work and discipline. But take note that that 1% has to be a think-big dream, and not some easily accomplished one.

Ask any gym rat and he or she will tell you that there can be no gains unless you are put out of your comfort zone. Remember the saying, "No pain, no gain"? That is as true as it can be.

So dream on, friend! Don't get caught up with your perceived limitations. Think big and work hard to attain those dreams. As you step up the ladder of progress, you will just about find out that the impossible has just become a little bit more possible.

Article by: Millard Gibson

These thoughts are quite inspiring aren't they? I've been reminded of accomplishments, improvements and progress of all kinds while in school at the University of Texas at Richardson. Spending time in the library leads to opening the mind and broadening horizons.

Millard is perceptive in that setting goals involves more than just listing and adjusting your mindset. Prioritizing in categories is very important because you become aware of any boundaries that are evident to yourself, the knowledge is no longer subconscious, but an actual realization.

Learning what your mental boundaries are is the first step in overcoming them. He uses an example of bumble bees well, and I've heard the symbolic relationship to ants used frequently also. Slow, methodical, consistent work pays off even when you don't realize it. The ants example is relevant because ants work, work, work, hard every day and as a result, they don't lack what they need.

Let me give an example of overcoming obstacles. Ever since I was very young, I've had asthma and allergies, needing shots and using an inhaler until I was almost out of high school. If you have asthma, you'll agree that there's always a desire to be free from breathing restrictions and have a constant flow of energy.

I began jogging little by little to increase my lung capacity in the hopes that I wouldn't need long and expensive treatments. My health became my priority so it wouldn't become my main obstacle.

I started jogging just 2 miles at a time, finding I could keep running if I ran a comfortable pace. By my college years I could run 6 miles at a time comfortably. And I was jogging frequently as well as playing basketball at a local gym so my fitness level was good and I still had my asthma to deal with.

I was taking a jogging class, when the assistant track coach asked me if I was interested in joining the Track team at University of North Texas at Denton. At that time, I joined the track team and my weekly mileage increased a lot with frequent days at 8 or 9 miles. Happily, by the end of the season, I had acquired enough placements to letter that year.

The following year, I ran a road race at Fair Park in Dallas, TX when I was about 21 years old. The day was very humid, and if you're familiar with Texas weather, it can be humid with no wind factor at all. I noticed that not many people would try to earn their personal best because of the level of discomfort of running in the heat and humidity.

But I remember encouraging myself to stay with my pace and don't slack off, mentally using this as a testing ground for my own workouts. My thinking was to push harder up the hills and stay consistent in the humidity. Unbeknownst to me, my father picked up my 2nd place trophy in my age group for women. It sat on our shelf with some other medals I won as a reminder to persevere through tough times.

But as Millard was saying, if you'd asked me a year before that race if I could win that trophy, I'd never have believed it myself. On that vein, there are some who simply don't know how to believe they can't do things as well. These are the fortunate that haven't experienced failure yet. For those that need motivation and encouragement, take the time to visualize what your dreams are and turn those negative thoughts around into positive self talk.

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Social Media Mainstreamed

noreply@blogger.com (Hope2BWell) — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 01:36:00 +0000

4 Common Sense Best Practices From SmartBrief

By Rob Birgfeld

My mom has a Facebook page and a Twitter habit. I've been handed business cards with titles like "director of conversation," and Fortune 500 companies including Coca-Cola now have "chief bloggers." It is safe to say that social media has effectively gone mainstream. The next question is: Have mainstream marketers effectively gone social media?

As social media has migrated from the basement to the boardroom, marketing and advertising practitioners are grappling with a strange inversion. It used to be that strong advertising campaigns relied on message discipline and control.

Great Message + Right Reach + Sufficient Frequency = Strong Results

That simple formula doesn't necessarily work in the context of social media. To successfully promote a specific product, service, company, or brand in this brave new world, most marketers face a fundamental paradox: one must cede control to gain access.

SmartBrief is a network of more than 100 b-to-b online newsletters, including SmartBrief on Social Media, an online newsletter and blog dedicated to making "social media" work in the real world. As part of the SmartBrief team, I get to see on a daily basis what's working and what's not in this space. Our company is also fortunate to work with many of the world's leading brand advertisers - from Fortune 500 firms like IBM, Pfizer, and SAP to fast-growing industry leaders. I'm happy to report that while social media marketing and traditional marketing aren't interchangeable, many of the basic rules of good advertising and marketing still apply.

Here are a few of what many people call "best practices" — but what we think are plain-old common sense approaches that can help you capitalize on the opportunities that social media brings.

Common Sense Tip #1: People Are Talking, So You Should Listen

You're not pushing a message as much as participating in a conversation. Social Media is the new type of "focus group." Marketers can track conversation and monitor discussions on social networks, message boards, blogs, and in real-time on Twitter. There is no better feedback than that offered by customers — especially when it is truly social in nature. The caveat here, of course, is that you can't control for self-selection bias as easily with social media or open/viral/public feedback mechanisms as you can with a traditional market research and invite-only focus groups.

However, by participating in ongoing conversations about your company, brand, or product, you're engaging an engaged audience - which makes spreading the word and targeting a motivated audience that much easier. So before launching your next campaign, whether it's online or offline, social media is a perfect test bed. Which marketing message works with your customer base? Which message will catch viral fire and compel likeminded consumers to become interested and potential new customers?

Common Sense Tip #2: Engage

So we've identified the usefulness of the conversations in social media. What next? If you're responsible for brand marketing, it's time for you to engage. Comcast, Dell, Intuit, and Ford have seen tremendous success with customers via Twitter because they have created a dialogue. Marketing in social media spaces can only succeed if the customers can trust the voice of the brand — and that requires a good ear and a level of sincerity that makes some uncomfortable. Those who have succeeded in the space have listened, responded, and acted on what their market is looking for — passing along valuable information to the executive suite. Not only are products and services better for the input, but the customer is empowered and will tell everyone who will listen.

One key engagement decision to consider is: Who has control of your "online voice"? Certain celebrated online brands like Zappos (the billion dollar, online shoe selling darling and recent addition to Fortune's Top 100 companies to work for in 2009) encourage all employees to represent the brand in social media venues from Facebook to Twitter and beyond. Other brands locate their social media voice within a more traditional silo — creating specific positions within the PR/Marketing department.

Common Sense Tip #3: Message Discipline Zero, Message Authenticity 1

In the battle for online hearts and minds, traditional "message discipline" will lose out to authenticity every time. The social media universe isn't a place for boilerplate marketing collateral or regurgitation of a company line. Marketers have to respect the norms of space to be taken seriously.

Be real or, as one pundit put it in describing what he considers the 10 commandments of social media: "Be true to yourself, your company, and your audience. Don't overhype or oversell your products or services. Never deceive your audience with false promises or overblown statements. Never underestimate the ability of your audience to sniff out garbage."

Common Sense Tip #4: You Don't Need to Be Everywhere and do Everything; Target Effectively and Responsibly

This should be intuitive for seasoned marketers. Social media platforms, applications, and communication are blossoming all around us. In the past six months, more than 10,000 new applications for iPhones have been released. That's more than 2 new apps per hour, every hour of every day. Marketers can easily get distracted — building apps, widgets, profiles for the myriad social networks that have sprung forth in a rush to "Web 2.0" glory. Don't be distracted. Identify your spots by taking advantage of new opportunities for market segmentation. Mix traditional platforms with new applications and forums to reach the prospective customers you need to meet your goals.

The basics of return on investment (ROI) still apply, even as the medium changes. This is where SmartBrief lives - at the intersection of two million highly engaged and high-level subscribers organized by industry affinity, interest, and level of responsibility. We often partner with leading associations to produce the right marketing context for our clients and make sure our sponsors and advertisers can reach the audience they need — via e-mail, wireless device, BlackBerry — by e-mail, blog, Web, or widget. We work with our advertising and marketing clients to both understand who we can reach and what we can measure. Clients such as IBM have found value in putting their industry-specific marketing messages in highly targeted, industry-specific online briefs.

In this regard, some smart marketing rules are always applicable. Just ask Christine MacDonald, an IBM marketer focused on "the mid market" segment. "Our marketing has to be executed in a trackable media, so that we can report on responses, leads, and wins, demonstrating a strong ROI for each campaign tactic," MacDonald told SmartBrief in a recent case study on online marketing. "SmartBrief has become an important part of that equation. Its audience is made up of association members, so we can communicate our offerings to retailers versus educators, consultants, or competitors. We can be granular by industry segment and effectively reach the decision-making c-level with our offers."

In other words, the more things change, the more they stay the same.

Rob Birgfeld is the director of audience development at SmartBrief, an online media company and news aggregator that partners with leading trade associations to publish more than 100 b-to-b online news briefs. SmartBrief advertisers rank among the world's leading brands across 20 key industries.

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Getting Quality Links Through Article Directory Submission

noreply@blogger.com (Hope2BWell) — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:03:00 +0000

Search engine optimization is getting more and more difficult by the day. The search engines are evolving at an incredible speed, making it harder for SEOs to rank websites highly. It's absolutely critical to not fall into the trap of following the latest and greatest craze for ranking highly in the search engines.

Things such as cloaking, keyword stuffing, blog spamming etc. are things that worked at one time, but are definitely not something that will last in the long run. Your website will either get banned for doing something like that, or you simply won't get ranked anywhere and your effort will be in vain.

With that said, there are a few tried and true principles that need to be done when optimizing a website. The first of which, is getting quality, 1 way links pointing to your website.

The more quality links you can get pointing to your website, the higher you will rank, period.

While there are many black hat tricks and tactics that you can do for short term gain, I would suggest NOT spending your time on those things. I would focus my entire effort on figuring out how to get other websites to link to yours without you linking back to them. That is the biggest key to ranking well in Google, Yahoo, and MSN.

There are legitimate methods to increase your search engine ranking that will always be effective at not only increasing your search engine ranking, but also at building your credibility in your chosen niche, generating quality leads to your business, and not to mention, getting your name and business in front of lots of people around the world.

Article submission is one of the easiest known ways to get quality, one way links by finding website directories and then submitting your website to them. This can be a very tedious process, but always a very rewarding process at the same time.

You can either submit your articles to these directories manually, OR pay someone to submit your articles to the various article directories which there are hundreds of OR you can use one of the article directory submission programs out there.

Not only would this save you time in submitting your articles, but it could save you an incredible amount of time in just finding these directories online.

While article submission isn't anything shockingly new to the world of SEO, many people STILL don't do it... and for good reason. It takes so incredibly long to do manually.

But the problem up until now has been the fact that although submitting your articles to article directories was an incredible way to increase your search engine rankings, it took one heck of a long time to actually find these directories, and then fill in all of the required criteria for submission.

I highly suggest grabbing an article submission program if you decide to take advantage of one of the easiest ways to get quality, 1 way links to your website.

I can't think of an easier way to get links. Something to be aware of while using this method to get links quickly, it's also important to submit different variations of your articles, to make things look more natural to the search engines. Which is a totally different subject.

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Automate Your Online Business in Five Easy Steps

noreply@blogger.com (Hope2BWell) — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:46:00 +0000

A good friend of mine used to have this saying ... "You've heard that the goal is to work smarter, not harder, right? Well I say the goal is to work LESS!"

Jeff was a wise individual indeed. He saw the Internet as a tool that offers the ability to set up a business that runs, as the gurus love to say, on autopilot.

And Jeff achieved his dream, seeing his online business earn over $250,000 almost completely on autopilot.

So let's take up Jeff's words and see how that looks in the real world.

Here are five ways that you can create an automated business - one that earns 24 hours a day without your continuing involvement.

1. PAY PER CLICK AUTOMATES YOUR PAID TRAFFIC

The beauty of pay per click advertising is that you can set it and forget it.

The key is to create an account with your preferred provider (these days it's usually Google or Yahoo) and establish a fair bid price (what you will pay for every visitor they send you).

Once you have done that, you can tell your pay per click provider how much you will spend and they will keep sending traffic to your site until they reach *your* budget amount.

What could be better than that?

Now you are getting the traffic you need for a price you choose and at the rate you choose.

All you need do now is log in to your pay per click account once a month and make sure things are going well, and make any adjustments you want.

Super easy traffic control. Profitable too!

2. AUTORESPONDERS AUTOMATE YOUR FOLLOW UP

If your site is *wildly* successful, you will convince about 5% of first time buyers to buy now.

But what about the 95% - the ones that don't buy today?

You've got to remind them to return and buy.

And the way to do that is by using an autoresponder.

Email marketing is still the most powerful form of online advertising, and it can begin working for you today!

Just make a list of the top ten reasons why someone should buy from you. Then make each reason into a short email message. Then set up a form on your site (your autoresponder company - like Aweber or SendFree will show you how) and invite people to learn more.

Those who do want to learn more - your best prospects by the way - will get your ten messages over time and be prompted to return and buy.

This is TRUE marketing automation.

If you aren't doing this now, you ARE losing money.

3. RSS AUTOMATES YOUR CONTENT

IF you want a site that is always fresh and new (which the search engines love) and don't want to spend hours creating new content, then you need to know about RSS.

RSS is simply a way to display content from other sites on your site automatically.

My suggestion is to find a good book or article on RSS and learn more if you think that showing fresh content on your site is important.

4. CLICKBANK AUTOMATES YOUR AFFILIATE PROGRAM

Clickbank is a company through which you can sell your product and have affiliates too. Selling through Clickbank is easy and fast.

The best part of working with Clickbank by far is how they manage your affiliate program FOR you. They literally do all the work.

* They provide the form you need to sign up affiliates.
* They track clicks and sales.
* Best of all ... THEY pay your affiliates for you.

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HOT TIP: If you have a brisk affiliate program, you can forget about fresh content, struggling to get traffic, and more. Motivated affiliates will send you all the traffic you need to succeed.
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5. VIRTUAL ASSISTANTS AUTOMATE YOUR SUPPORT

Today there is a trend that is gaining steam called 'virtual assistants'.

In the old days, we had answering services that would answer our phones and take messages. This was a win-win because your phone was answered by a live person and the message got through.

Now fast forward to the 21st century and discover the power of virtual assistants.

These well-trained individuals can do almost any task you need done.

They can ...

* Answer your phone
* Answer emails
* Maintain your website
* Run a forum for you
* Do light programming
* Run a support center for you
* And more

You *will* lose some personal touch by using assistants, but if your goal is to work less, it is a very cost effective way to go.

Should you automate your business to the point where you no longer have to work every day?

Only you can decide how much automation is right for you, and how much you want to personally interact with clients and others.

But a very high degree of automation is possible if you structure your business correctly.

By using these methods you can work alone, make a full time income, and have the free time you want to enjoy life to its fullest.

And THAT is a beautiful thing indeed!

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Tools To Expand Affiliate Marketing?

noreply@blogger.com (Hope2BWell) — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:08:00 +0000

If your affiliate marketing endeavor is successful and you are making a profit, then you should start thinking about how to get the most out of it. As an affiliate marketer, your primary goal is to carve a niche for yourself and make solid recommendations for the products that you affiliate. As your expertise grows and you gain recognition, your sales will surely increase.

If you are earning profits with your advertising, it means that you are definitely thorough with the basics of affiliate marketing. But to expand and grow and to become a successful affiliate marketer, there are a few tools that you have to consider while planning your marketing strategy.

Website: Your main goal as an affiliate marketer is to increase your profits even when you do not own the products that you advertise. So you might think that you do not need a website of your own if you are just advertising someone else's products. Having a website of your own is truly not a necessity in affiliate marketing but if you have one, it is surely going to increase your online affiliate sales. On your own domain, you can set up a simple opt-in form where people can subscribe to your list and cater to their needs. Now with this information, you can build a list of people interested in your products and then find other products to promote to them.

Auto-responder: An interested visitor who has been surfing through your affiliate marketing site has finally found what she is looking for and is about to become your valued customer. The doorbell rings and a friend is at her doorstep with a surprise visit. What a pity as your visitor exits your site, and your sale is gone up in the smoke - unless you've had the foresight to utilize an auto-responder that has captured her email id. Auto-responders are versatile programs that do much more that just automatically answer your email. You can use them creatively and productively to transform a casual visitor into a profitable customer. You can use auto-responders to publish newsletters, distribute your articles, create mailing lists and so much more.

Landing Page: An effective landing page is a very important element in a successful affiliate marketing business. It is a simple website that is specifically designed to collect the customer's name and address. By using the landing page, you can capture the maximum number of subscribers so that you have the chance to convert them into prospective buyers.

Blogging: If you are in affiliate marketing, blogging is one free promotional strategy that can help you in advertising your products. You can use a blog to network and interact with your counterparts and clients in an exchange where you post content and allow them to comment on it. You should have the ability to convince them that the views or recommendations that they're reading are coming from a trusted source.

The tools mentioned above help you to automate the tasks in your affiliate marketing business and leave you free for strategic planning and finding new prospective markets.

Article by: Millard Gibson

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noreply@blogger.com (Hope2BWell) — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 03:58:00 +0000

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noreply@blogger.com (Hope2BWell) — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:30:00 +0000

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