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Daily Motivation – Every Failure Is A Step Closer To Success

Posted on 18. Dec, 2010 by admin.

People who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.

Experiencing failure is inevitable on your journey to be successful.  Each defeat is merely an installment to victory.

You’ll find that the number of times you succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times you fail and keep trying.  You won’t be judged by the number of times you fail, but by the number of times you succeed.

Failure is nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.

You can’t be a winner and be afraid to lose.

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9 Sneaky Traffic Methods

Posted on 18. Dec, 2010 by admin.

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It’s called ‘9 Sneaky Traffic Methods‘…

If you’re looking to get more targeted traffic to your site immediately, then read this now…

Don’t worry, there’s no optin required, and nothing for sale. Just something cool that I thought you’d like

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Your Friend,
Lawren

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Daily Motivation – The Courage To Begin

Posted on 17. Dec, 2010 by admin.

YOUR DAILY MOTIVATION

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The Unusual Tale Of Mr. Angry UN-Subscriber

Posted on 16. Dec, 2010 by admin.

“PLEASE REMOVE ME FROM YOUR LIST! I have no interest in your offer.”

Yeah. You’re feelin’ fired up!

I know this. Because, if you’ve ever sent out a broadcast to your mailing list, you got that exact same one-line email from some douche.

Makes you feel like shit, doesnt it?

I hate it. I want so badly to just write back “EFF YOU”. Luckily, i’ve been blessed with the longest fuse god ever gave man. So by the tips of my fingers, i manage to hold myself, unsubscribe them manually through gritted teeth and some choice verbal swears, and then i delete that message with passionate disgust so I NEVER have to see it again.

That … is ….

NOT a nice way to feel!

If you get mad, i understand. That email of such few words adds insult to injury.

On the one hand, one of the leads you spent time and money generating, you just found out they didn’t like you. And you’re one more lead down.

Feels frustrating. Especially in the beginning. Because it seems so much easier to lose prospects than it is to get them.

But it’s just OUTRIGHT INSULTING, when some bitter person gets mad and decides to take the time to write an email, choose you as their victim, and intentionally spread their “anger” like a disease.

Woah…chill dude.

What’s with the attitude? Take yourself off the list. I don’t have time for this.

If you’re like me, you make no effort to hide the unsubscribe link. It’s directly after every single email. Other people like to bury their unsubscribe link at the very very bottom of their messages

…but not me.

I even chose the phrasing, “to be removed from this list”. I want people to know that this is the link to click if you wanna be removed.

The worst part is, that those rude and angry emails, make it hard for you to send out your next broadcast.

Have you felt that way before? Where you totally second-guess your whole approach, and wonder if you are really emailing too frequently? Or maybe you should send more free stuff?

Anger turns to hesitation. and then Fear.

What to do?

Well, here’s my take on the whole subject…

If you usually read my posts or you’ve bought anything from me in the past, you already know that the reason you subscribe to my emails is…

My Emails Save You TIME

And i appreciate that and love you for it.

You see, I want to teach you how to be a good marketer like me.

To do that, i have to show you what worked for me. i assume you’re here because you want to draw on my experience. Don’t you believe you can avoid wasting time and money by hearing from me, first-hand about what works and what doesn’t.

So if i say, hey John (or Jane), i tried PPC and it worked.

I’ve just saved you from guessing. You don’t have to go try a million different ways to get traffic. Because if there’s one thing i’m absolutely certain of is that PPC works.

Here i am. Living proof.

My responsibility as a trainer and teacher, at least the way i see it, is not to preach and lecture. It’s to set a good example you can follow.

We all learn better from demonstration and imitation.

So i have to actually DO what i teach and PROVE it works really well. I’m supposed to be my teaching’s own perfect example.

A worked example.

Suppose, i tell you,

“create a squeeze page in this way and collect leads from it”.

I am collecting leads the exact same way. Without any fancy expensive software or employees.

i tell you,

“build a relationship with your list”.

What am i doing in every email i send you? I try to give you value and entertainment to build our friendship.

i tell you,

“educate, sell, and track your list”. I am doing that every time i write to you.

So yes, Mr and Mrs Angry Unsubscriber.

You might not be interested in our offers but there are other people who look to us for leadership.

Did I Step On Your Cat?

Ever notice how the Angry Unsubscriber usually seems genuinely offended that you’re selling?

It’s like they wait around, perfectly content to keep receiving your emails as long as they’re useful, entertaining, and free…but as soon as you have something to sell,

… they think they have an open license to be rude!

I think it’s their sense of entitlement and it bugs me.

Most employee-type personalities do that thing…

Douchebags Are All Around Us

Like I popped over to KFC for lunch yesterday and remembered why i hadn’t eaten there in years. But anyway there was this guy and he was holding up the queue asking the manager to “work something out” for his order. Translation: “give me a discount”. He figured by taking this “big” order (in his opinion) he was entitled to save a couple of bucks from the posted price. Which, if we’re talking entitlement, then KFC has the right to get the full posted price.

And you could see it in his face, that he was one of those guys who would go to work and boast to his buddies about how he saved $3 by out-smarting the just-above-minimum-wage “manager” of the branch. Friggin bully.

Those emails are written by douchebags.

They act as if you should apologise…for stepping on their cat…i mean for selling.

Excuse me?

If i don’t sell, i make no money. And no one will CARE about what i do, since there’s no proof it works. What use is a squeeze page designed this way, or a newsletter written that way, or this keyword technique or that ad strategy….if none results in money?

Why would you want to follow my example if i have no evidence that it’s working or will ever work?

You need to be able to trust my example.

So if i expect you to take my word and use PPC for traffic, then i gotta be the one who:

- took the risk FIRST.

- Tested PPC with my own money when i had very little.

- and proved it makes money

All this, before i could start dishing out advice about it.

…and ya know what else?

It’s my DUTY to keep makin’ sales and money. Because it gives you confidence in ME and confidence in yourself to learn…so you can go forth fearlessly.

When i tell you that i get leads and prospects and traffic from PPC, i’m telling you what works. And you’d be a fool to think that this is a “personal opinion” and to dismiss my advice.

THERE IS NO OPINION ABOUT IT!

I am telling you, i am here today, in a position to teach others how to make money on the internet, because i have done it first. And I know for a fact that…

This Way WORKS.

By Jim Yaghi

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Daily Motivation – Leadership Is Action Not Position

Posted on 16. Dec, 2010 by admin.

YOUR DAILY MOTIVATION

You can contribute in some way to others, no matter how small your talent. You too, can become successful.

No one achieves success without being of service.

Successful people don’t use others, other people use the successful, for above all success is of service.

Everyone has to be someone to someone to be anyone. Service is the essence of success.

Best Regards…

Lawren

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Make Thousands On Auto-Pilot By Simply Blogging!!

Posted on 27. Aug, 2010 by admin.

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I wanted to share with you a system that I joined called “Blog Success”.  I am still an active member in MyLeadSystemPro because I truly believe that it is one of the best marketing systems on the internet.  But, in saying this, I also realize that it will not train you on everything.

MyLeadSystemPro is an online educational and marketing system for those who are serious about using the internet to build a business.  It will introduce you to the various marketing strategies that will help you move your business towards success. Ultimately, it is you who makes the decision on how you want to market your business.

First, you do not want to use every marketing strategy taught.  I suggest you select one, two, no more than three marketing methods and apply them.  These methods should be ones that you think you will like and enjoy because as you learn them, there will be struggles and disappointments; which is typical when learning something new.

I use a number of online marketing strategies to market my business.  They include pay per click, search engine optimization, and viral marketing.  The search engine optimization and viral marketing incorporate blogging.
I am a skilled marketer.  I know how to not only setup a pay per click campaign in Google, MSN, Yahoo, and more,  I also know how to optimize these campaigns such that they are generating high quality leads every day.

I also know how to get a blog or website up and have it ranked in the top ten and often the top five of any keyword I select in just a week on any search engine.  This was not an easy topic to learn, but I can not only do this with a blog or website, but I can also do this with articles, press releases, videos, which is where the viral marketing comes into play.

But, what many new online entrepreneurs; such as yourself, do not know is that once you have mastered lead generation, there is the next step of being able to convert those leads.  A big part of lead conversion is going to be determined by what you are doing in your backend; meaning your autoresonder, your follow-up.  I know many of you have heard that money is in the follow-up and this is true.  But many new online marketers do not understand that it takes knowledge and skills in converting leads.  Lead conversion also correlates with the quality of leads you generate which means targeting to the right prospects.
So, what do you do once you have learned to generate 25 or more leads per day and you still are not making any money?  You have to work on your backend.  This can mean adjusting your email letters that you send out every day from your autoresponder or making adjustments to you websites and blogs so that they generate high quality leads.

Let me first explain what a high quality lead is because when I first got started, I was not sure what this term “high quality lead” meant.  A high quality lead is someone who in very interested in what you have to offer.  If they are truly interested in what you are offering and like what you are giving, meaning the value that you offer by way of newsletters, trainings, etc, they will be more likely to spend money on the various products and tools that you also offer.

So, say for example you have a website that is focused on credit repair.  You offer them, for free, an ebook on ways to repair one’s credit.  Once your prospect has joined your list, you then continue to share value with your prospects on other aspects of credit repair; such as, how to avoid credit score mistakes, how to keep your credit score safe, etc.  But, as you share with them such valuable information, you are also marketing to them products that will help them with their credit.

If done correctly, many of your leads will purchase the various products.  This is how the top online marketers make their money.  Many top marketers have very large lists of prospects that they market to repeatedly.  You definitely don’t want dead beats in your list taking up space.  After all, although it is nice to share helpful information to others, you are, after all, in business, and if no one buys, you have no business because you are not making any money.

So, to enhance my online marketing, in particular, my blogging efforts, so that my blogs are generating high quality leads, I have joined “Blog Success” and I must say I am very impressed and here is why.

Jack Humphrey is well-known as the leader in blogging for dollars. He has taught thousands of people his exact system to bring in major profits from blogging.

Recently, he released a portion of his revenue numbers from 2009 and let me tell you – they  are off the charts! To think his blog is responsible for over $568,076 of revenue is mind-blowing.

Jack has been running a training center called “Blog Success” for nearly 5 years now.  In Blog Success, he teaches all of the exact methods he uses to create “authority blogs” that lead the pack in any market!

One of his students, Rusty Moore, has actually “become a player” in the VERY difficult fitness niche using techniques he learned from Jack.

Recently, Rusty was able to do a product launch that generated over $8000 from a $17 eBook. Rusty’s blog generated ALL of those customers.

See, when you have an established authority blog people in your market trust you for information and they WANT TO BUY your products and recommendations. It’s a proven cycle for profits!
Anyway, I wanted to let you know about Jack’s training center at “Blog Success” and let you know Jack is offering a $1 full-featured trial for just a limited time.

I don’t know how long he will keep the trial option active, but I highly recommend you give Jack’s  training program a try. He’s taught thousands of marketers how to make money blogging and you could be next.

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MyLeadSystemPro is a great system and I highly recommend you joining because it will give you the overall arsenal you will need to build a business and generate an income, but if blogging is one marketing strategy that you wish to implement or are already blogging, but not getting the results you want, then you need “Blog Success”.  It gives you all the tools and trainings that are directed to the specifics of blogging.   Take the full-featured trial.  It only costs $1.00 and see for yourself.

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Advertising Affiliate Marketing Smart

Posted on 25. Aug, 2010 by admin.

Affiliate marketing is about the promotion of products with an online company.  The affiliate will sign up with a company to market their products and services.

Advertising is the means of making a great number of consumers aware of specific products.  Therefore, advertising should be both attracting and appealing to consumers.  If the advertising isn’t appealing enough, it won’t be effective.  If the advertising manages to pulls the attention of consumers, then it’s considered to be powerful.

To generate a powerful and effective advertisement, the affiliate must apply smart methods of advertising.  An example of smart advertising is the re-use of one key concept of affiliate marketing; the harnessing of human resources.  What this means is that an affiliate may tap into the capacities of others to bring more visitors to the website.

The economics involved in making affiliate marketing programs beneficial can be simple, yet unquestionable.  For instance, when a visitor sign ups through a from on the website of an affiliate, that affiliate may earn .50 cents from the company that he’s promoting.  In a single day, he may refer 10 visitors; which is equivalent to $5.00.

Keep in mind, the affiliate may increase his income by utilizing others as well.  The more people an affiliate manages to recruit or get to make purchases or fill out forms, the more money that affiliate will have.

To have a significant increase in income in affiliate marketing, an affiliate can actually do three things.  First of all, the affiliate must search for a profitable site.  Next, he or she will need to connect with companies that are generous to their leads.  Last, the affiliate will need to locate a progressive and rising company online, then recruit affiliates for the company.

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Internet Blogging For Profit

Posted on 23. Aug, 2010 by admin.

If you are looking for a way to start making money on the internet, and you are on a small budget, blogging is a great way to get started.

Blogging has become very popular and it is free.  You don’t need any technical skills to get started.  If you can write, you can blog.

A blog is a simple web page that anyone can setup in minutes.  People use them as journals, diaries, and sales pages, like you will learn to do here.

You many be wondering how you can make money with a blog. The answer is by adding Google Adsense and promoting affiliate products.

You will not make money overnight with this system, but over 2 or 3 months, you can expect to start making some decent money.  Remember, cost for all of this can be absolutely nothing.

You can use Blogger, which is owned by Google.  Blogs are crawled by the search engines regularly, so that they get indexed very quickly.

Getting Started:

It is always best to try and make money from what you know.  It is far easier to write about what you know than try to make money writing about other things.  However, having said that you can find free content on almost anyu subject using  public domains and PLR’s.  You can also use ezine articles and place them as content into your website.  If you decide to use other people’s articles as a source of content, just be sure to include their name as the original author.  You pick a topic that you think would be profitable.

Adsense Research:

Start by finding how much the maximum bid s for a keyword.  Please note that you will not likely get anything close to his value as this is only showing the highest bid.  The visitor may click on lower paying ads.  Also, there are two types of PPC advertising.  They can advertise on the “Search Network” and/or the “Content Network”.  If they don’t advertise in the content network, the ads won’t show on your site.  This is the best information we have, so it will give you a general idea of the kind fo money available for a particular keyword.

You also need to find out the competition for your selected keywords.  This is a bit labor intensive and I will show you a way in another article.

Go HERE and enter the keyword or key phrase that you are targeting for your niche.  For example, if you are targeting “credit card”, you would key enter the keyword into the text box provided.  You want a keyword with over 1000 searches per month.

Now, take those same keywords and go to www.google.com and type “allintitle: keyword”.  This will give you an idea of the competition.

What you are looking for is high monthly traffic with the lowest number of volume or competition.

Once you find a keyword the fits this criteria, this is the keyword or key phrase that will get you listed high in the search engines and give you better results.

Finding Content For Your Blog:

You can find free content for your blogs at article sites.  You must follow the rules outllined in the article site.  Again, this usually means the author’s contact information and links in place.  Below is a list of links to article sites:

http://www.goarticles.com
http://www.articlecity.com
http://members.tripod.com/buckcreek
http://www.Fripp.com/articles.html
http://www.arcanaweb.com/resources/article-directories.html
http://www.articledepot.co.uk
http://www.dotcomwomen.com/free-content.shtml
http://www.valuablecontent.com

You can also use public domain sites, PLR’s, outsource or write your own articles.

Once you have found content, you will need to modify it to fit your keyword.  For instance, if your ideal keyword is “new york car insurance”, you should include the keyword phrase “New York car insurance”.  While you’re doing this, make sure that the content still makes sense.  If not, reword it so that it makes sense.  You should also sprinkle the article with 2 or 3 relevant keywords to the term “New York car insurance”; such as, car insurance, new york, or car, and insurance.

Creating A Blog:

Blogger is a good blog tool to start with.  As you become more advanced in blogging you might want to look into using WordPress.org and getting a hosting service; such as, Godaddy, HostGator, etc.

To get started with Blogger, go to http://blogger.com and create an account.  I will not go into details on using Blogger.  They do have excellent tutorials at http://help.blogger.com.  YOu can play around with it until you become more comfortable with it.
Once you have created an account, create a new blog using your selected key phrase as your Blogger sub-domain.  For instance, if you use car insurance and “new car insurance” was the key phrase we found to fit our criteria during your keyword research stage, your blogger sub-domain would be something like:

http://new-your-car-insurance.blogspot.com or

http://newyorkcarinsurance.blogspot.com

Select a template to use.  Set the Blog title to be exactly as the same as your keyword phrase.  In our example, this would be “New York Car Insurance”.  Create a description that contains the key phrase in it at least once.

Make your first post to your blog using the content you modified earlier.  If you don’t have an Adsense account, apply for one now at: http://google.com/adsense . Apply using the url to your new Blog. Once approved, make sure you paste your Adsense into places where viewers are likely to click, and make sure you blend them in by setting the background color to be the same as the background color of your blog template.

Go to http://clickbank.com , http://cj.com , and http://paydotcom.com and create accounts.  Find affiliate programs for high-quality products in your niche.  Create affiliate links for these products and insert them into your sidebar on the template where it says “Links”.  Periodically, post full update with an advertisement that explains the benefits of a particular product.

Post another piece of private label content every 2 days.  Search formus with related content – qoute and link to pertinent information about your niche.

Insert links to other blogs, related news, videos, etc at the bottom of each post using your key phrase somewhere in teh anchor text of the link.

Get Your Blog Listed On Search Engines And In Top Blog Directories:

Once you have posted your first piece of private label content, inserted your adsense ads, etc, it is time to promote your blog.
Go to http://www.masternewmedia.org/rss/top55 and submit your blog to as many of these blog and rss feed directories as possible.  Some of them may not accept you blog.  Use your key phrase in the title and at least once i the description if you are able to enter one.  This is going to take a number of hours of effort but it will be well worth it.

Go to http://yahoo.com and setup an account.  Add your RSS feed to your “My Yahoo” account as a news feed you want to monitor.

You will need to add RSS beta to your My Yahoo content if you don’t have it.  For more information on how, go to :

http://my.yahoo.com/s/rss-faq.html and add it.

You will now add your blog ito the RSS feed in my yahoo.  To do that, click on edit in the RSS feed section.  Enter your url to your blog.

Go to MSN.com and create an account and repeat what was done for Yahoo.  To do that, enter your blog url and “atom.xml” appended to the end of it where it says, “search for content to add”.

Submit your blog to:

http://submit.search.yahoo.com/free/request
http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl
http://beta.search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx

Go to http://pingoat.com/ and submit your blog.  Remember to use your key phrase in the title and at least once in the description.  Repeat “the Ping” every time you post new content to your blog.

Monitor Your Search Engine Rankings:

Once you have been indexed by search engines, check periodically your blog’s rankings within its niche.  You do this by searching on the key phrase you used for optimization.
If you picked a penetrable niche, you should be able to get onto the first page (at least on Yahoo) within a month, but if not, you will need to:

Search out link partners in your niche and setup reciprocal links.  Simple find high-ranking websites in your niche on Google and Yahoo and offer to exchange links with them.

Now, you can apply what you learned here and use it for other niche blogs.

If you don’t have any private label content to use for your first blog, you can purchase some form Warrior Forum at an excellent rate and there are other resources that you can get them from; such as Niche Empires.

There are lots of tools and other resources that you can use to help with your blogging.  Just keep in mind that building success on the internet, is a process.  Just practice what you are taught and continue to do this and you will see improvement in your results and in your bank account.

Much Success…
Lawren

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How Moms Can Balance A Life Between A Job And A Home Business

Posted on 21. Aug, 2010 by admin.

For most of us Internet entrepreneurs the reality of starting our own work from home business on a full time basis is not a reality.

With financial and/or family commitments a priority, it is hard work to get a home business off the ground and nurture it into a successful money making venture.

Working a job at the same time is a necessity for 99% of us just starting up.

Where do you find the available time? How do you reach a balance between your home, your family, your job and your home business?

These are very elusive questions aren’t they?

Below, I have put together a list of ten exclusive tips to help you and others who are finding it difficult to create a balance of home life and a work from home life.

These are tips and advice should be beneficial in helping you to reach a balance and also to keep your sanity, when at times you find yourself ready to toss the home business aside, as it just seemed too hard to do it ALL…..!

1) Write down a list of main goals you want to achieve with your home business. Eg: Financial freedom, More time with family. Print  out your list and pin it up where you will read it each day. This will keep you motivated and remind you why you stay up all those late nights!

2) Choose a home business that you will put your heart into. If you have the desire to succeed then you will succeed. If you enjoy your home business then making room for it in your life will not be a chore.

3) Set aside the number of hours to devote to your home business each week. Be realistic. You may only have 30 minutes or one hour a day available on a regular basis. If you manage to spend extra hours – well done, and you will feel proud for doing so.

4) Write a weekly TO DO list. One for business and one for home. Be realistic. This will give you activities to work towards. Check them off as you complete them. You will feel a sense of achievement.

5) Establish a separate business work area in the home. If not possible, make sure to set aside time when you have privacy. Your time will be spent much more efficiently with no interruptions.

6) Be patient. A successful home business will not blossom overnight. Be prepared to put in some hard work for the first months to get things up and running. You will see results.

7) Reward yourself. If you have been putting extra hours into your home business take the day off. Spend time with your family and relax. You deserve it.

Enjoy time out. Life can be hectic and overwhelming. Add to that starting a home business as well as keeping a full time job! It is essential to have time out for yourself.

9) Invest in conveniences. For example: For the home business a faster Internet connection or time saving software. For the home an answering machine or a regular cleaner / babysitter. What can be done to free up some of your time and resources.

10) Family comes first. Do what you need to do for your family each day before anything else. They are your life and once they are content, then you will feel okay with spending time on your home business.

I am positive these 10 exclusive tips and advice will be beneficial to you. Please feel free to share them with others.

Success to all working, Internet entrepreneurial mothers!

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Why So Many Fail…The Earning Curve

Posted on 17. Aug, 2010 by admin.

Real quick video I want you to see, it’s about 7 minutes from Stephen (he just released it today) and he goes over a concept called the “earning curve…”

It explains why SO many people fail at making money online…

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