Power Team Success

Be All You Can Be

2010-09-02T08:15:00.000-05:00

You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life.
~James G. Bilkey

Losers & Winners

2010-08-31T17:17:00.000-05:00

"Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success."
-- Rob Gilbert--

2010-08-29T09:04:00.001-05:00

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
~Les Brown

2010-08-29T09:02:00.001-05:00

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.
~Bruce Barton

Affiliate Marketing Defined Part II

2010-08-23T05:07:00.000-05:00

As you can now see, a network allows the merchant to advertise and promote his/her product or service massively through many affiliate marketers. This allows the merchant to spend time and money developing other products and services.
Affiliates use various forms of advertising to promote your products and services. Where you would only be able to maybe use a couple of methods on your own promotional web site, i.e., you have 50 affiliates using different forms of advertising as opposed to your 2 or 3 methods. While you as an individual are limited to how much you can do in the time that you have to promote your business, a network allows you to employ a vast number of other individuals who are willing to spend their own money to promote your product or service.
It is you, the merchant, who has complete control on how much your charge for your product or service and how much you will pay an affiliate for a sale that becomes the result of their advertising efforts. The affiliate network also offers many benefits to the affiliate marketer. The affiliate marketer promotes the affiliate program(s) that he/she signs up for. The marketer can choose to promote one product or service or to promote several.
Affiliate marketing can and is generating a full-time income for many affiliate marketers and merchants. Affiliate marketing, once it is learned is fairly simple and easy but there is a learning curve. A potential marketer must be persistent in learning the process. This persistence will pay off greatly in the end. The affiliate marketer should research each product or service that he/she intends to promote as well as the program details, i.e., payment methods, payment cycle, minimum commission before pay-out, etc.
In most cases, once the affiliate marketer has sent the potential customer to the merchants web site and they in turn complete the sale the affiliate is then out of the picture. But in some rare cases the affiliate will have to stand behind the product or service. Do your research. The less responsibility, as for the product or service, the better for the affiliate.
The affiliate is still responsible for his/her advertising and promotion campaigns. False claims and misleading advertising can get one into a lot of trouble. Just know the product or service and use the promotional materials that most merchants provide for their products/services. One may have to rewrite or modify these ads so that they don't appear generic but as long as you keep the content relevant and honest you will be alright.
As an affiliate marketer you should utilize every resource that is offered so that your potential for a growing income is maximized. Affiliate marketing is a win win opportunity for both the merchant and the affiliate marketer. If both work together each can profit from the other's efforts. This business model just makes sense. It is a very inexpensive way for one to start his/her own internet business and enjoy great success. The main goal is to generate traffic to the merchant web sites and to make your advertising and promotion campaigns stand out from the others. Now, take that big step! Get started in the easiest form of business today, Affiliate Marketing.

ARE YOU INSPIRED INTO ACTION?

2010-08-20T07:09:00.001-05:00

Good Friday everyone,

I read this story this morning and thought I'd share it. hope you all have a great day & weekend.

ARE YOU INSPIRED INTO ACTION?
By Dr. Brad Swift
You know something that I most enjoy and appreciate about knowing and living true to my life purpose? It's the ability to be inspired into action.
This morning I awoke around 6:30 and lay in bed for a while listening to the singing of the birds outside my window. As I lay there, I noticed I felt odd - a filling leftover from a strange dream I'd had while sleeping. As I became more conscious of the sensation, I decided I didn't want to start my day in such a strange mood, so I continue to lie there but shifted my thoughts from the remnants of the dream to my life purpose.
As I recited my life purpose statement to myself, I began to notice my mood shifting as well. How could I be purposefully, passionately and playfully of service today?, I asked myself, then recalled what I had on my calendar -- the wonderful clients I'm honored to coach, the Purpose Projects that I'm working on with the Coaches Community, the new Coaches Development Program that is targeted to start next week. Within a few minutes, I found I just couldn't stay in bed any longer. The opportunity to live on purpose was simply too compelling.
Once more I was inspired into action by my life and life purpose. Now, this isn't meant to sound like bragging, so please don't hear it that way. I just wanted to share it with you in case you don't find yourself pulled into your life by your dreams, goals and desires. I know it wasn't so many years ago that the main thing that had me get out of bed most mornings was the need to go pee. There just wasn't anything else going on with my life that was all that inspiring or compelling. But not anymore.
Living a life on purpose is amazing, and it all starts with readiness, willingness, and yes, a commitment to clarify your life purpose so that you can begin to live true to it. So, I ask you: What action could you take this week to become clearer about your life purpose? How will you inspire yourself into action?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dr. Brad Swift is one of the foremost experts on the subject of personal life purpose, having founded the Life On Purpose Institute in 1996. An avid student of the human development movement and New Thought, he specializes in life purpose coaching with individuals and groups. He is the author of: · Coaching to Win: Building Your Business by Building Your Team · Life On Purpose: Six Passages to an Inspired Life -- an award winning finalist in the Self-Help: Motivational division of the Best Books 2007 Awards sponsored by USA News. Check out his website www.lifeonpurpose.com or contact him coachbrad@lifeonpurpose.com

Affiliate Marketing Defined Part I

2010-07-29T05:13:00.001-05:00

There have been many descriptions of affiliate marketing floating around but there is actually a simple description that describes this huge internet business model. Affiliate marketing is an arrangement set up between a merchant who is vending a product or service and a sales person (Affiliate) who wants to sell that product or service for a commission. Affiliate marketing is the easiest way for the average person, who has very little or no money to start, to start his/her own internet business.

Affiliate marketing has become more popular in the past few years largely because it is a very easy way for a person to start his or her own internet business with very little initial investment and a huge potential for return on investment. it is good for the merchant because he/she can have a huge team of sales people selling his/her product or service and not have to invest any money on advertising or promotion. Numerous new affiliates fail because they do not inform themselves on what affiliate marketing is and how it works.

Many people have the erroneous idea that affiliate marketing is selling and advertising. Granted, selling and advertising are a essential parts of any affiliate marketing program because without either you don't really have a business. Selling is essential, for without sales you are not making money. Advertising is also essential because without advertising you are making no sales. No advertising, no sales, no business.

Promoting and advertising a product or service is an essential piece of any business but these are only two facets of a complex formula. Affiliate marketing is a lot like a retail store. In essence, the retailer is an affiliate for each product or service he/she sells in his/her store. The retailer allies with the manufacturer of the individual products he/she is selling then spends his/her money advertising "The Store" and individual products in order to get traffic and ultimately, sales.

Some companies will even pay for each guest you drive to their site whether or not they purchase anything. There are two categories of affiliate marketing; there are affiliate networks which are comprised of a collection of affiliates and a collection of merchants and then there are individual affiliate programs that are made up of a merchant and his affiliates. Both function well, the potential affiliate should experiment with both categories to find out which fits his/her personal needs and character.

The affiliate networks are probably best described as the Sams or Wal-Marts of affiliate programs. They present a vast assortment of affiliate programs in one location where the individual merchant may only have just a few affiliate products to choose from. Some affiliate marketers will use a grouping of the two as they increase their labors to more than one affiliate program. The networks do not offer all programs that are in existence thus the fact that you will always have individual merchants out there.

A merchant or affiliate can connect with one of these networks just by simply navigating to one or to all and signing up. When a merchant signs up the network will handle keeping track of all the affiliates and paying their commissions. On the affiliate side, affiliates can sign up for one or many programs right there in one place which makes life for the affiliate marketer much.

The benefits are great. All you do is supply the product or service. The network lists your product or service on its network and affiliates sign up to promote your product or service. A merchant can potentially gain hundreds or even thousands of affiliate sales people in a short period of time. Once an affiliate signs up to promote your product or service it would be a good practice to visit the affiliate site to make sure the topic is compatible with your product or service. This practice will help guarantee additional sales for your product or service.

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3 Necessary Tools for the High Rolling Affiliate Marketer

2010-07-29T05:01:00.001-05:00

What does it take to become a successful Affiliate Marketer? What are the ingredients of an affiliate promotion success story? Is there a shortcut to Affiliate Promotion glory? All these questions play around in the minds of affiliate marketers who need to make it huge in this business.

Although affiliate promotion is touted as one of the simplest and most effective ways to earn money online, it is not as simple as it sounds. The wise affiliate marketer designs every action and executes it the best way they can. They ought to also maximize the potential to earn by utilizing the right tools necessary for a successful Affiliate Promotion business. They have consulted some of the most successful affiliate marketers in the business and below are the top three necessary tools for a successful affiliate promotion business.

Important Tool #1: Your Own Web-site

The most important and indispensable tool in Affiliate Promotion is your own web-site. The first step in any successful affiliate promotion business is building a nice, credible and professional looking web-site. Your web-site is the jump off point of all of your promotion efforts. Thus, you must first build a user-friendly web-site, which will appeal to your prospects and encourage them to click on the links to the products and service you are promoting and make a purchase. Therefore, you must first concentrate your efforts in building a web-site that will cater to what your prospects need.

The most important thing you ought to think about is that all web users go online to look for information, not necessarily to go and buy something. Above all else, make your web-site filled with original, relevant and useful content. People will love articles that are appealing and helpful. Keep in mind that, in the net, content is still king and nice quality content won't only build your credibility, it can also help you accomplish a higher search engine rating. By posting relevant and useful articles, you establish yourself as a reputable professional in the field, making you a more reliable endorser of the product or service you promote. Establishing a nice reputation is a nice step in building up a loyal consumer base.

Important Tool #2: Incentives

Competition is tight in the net world. You must always be one-step ahead of your rivals to make sure that you capture a significant share of your target market. Therefore, you must use every feasible means to encourage people not only to visit your site but also to click and proceed to the sites of the products and services you are promoting. Building an opt-in electronic mail list is one of the best ways to collect prospects. Offer a newsletter or an e-zine. Better yet, offer incentives to your prospects to encourage them to subscribe to your newsletters. You can present free software, access to exclusive services and other freebies that will be helpful to your prospects.

Important Tool #3: Link Popularity

The importance of driving highly targeted traffic to your web-site cannot be emphasized . The all-important web traffic is at the top of the list of the most important entities in the net world. Attracting people to your site ought to be the first step you ought to carry out. Do everything to accomplish a high search engine rating. Link Popularity is one of the factors that search engines use to choose search engine rankings. Therefore, to enhance your link popularity, you must launch an aggressive reciprocal link campaign.

One of the best ways to do this – at no cost at all – is by submitting articles, together with your website's link at the resource box, to e-zines and free article sites. You won't only gain exposure, you will also have the chance to promote free, include a link back to your site. The more sites you submit your articles to, the better your link popularity is. Make your articles original, relevant and useful so that more sites will pick it up and post it.

These are but three of the many tools that an affiliate marketer can use to maximize earning potential. The possibilities are countless and are limited only by your imagination, creativity, resourcefulness and determination. You can always explore other ideas and modify other strategies, which you think might help you become a high rolling affiliate marketer.

Grow Your Internet Business By Mentoring Others!

2010-06-23T21:47:00.001-05:00

Affiliate marketing has been in the Internet industry for
quite sometime now and it is among the most preferred tools
used by many online entrepreneurs today. It is a great
option for those who want to put up an internet business
quickly and cheaply. However, there is still a huge number
of the online community who knows very little or even
nothing about it. And most of the people who have just
discovered this business opportunity usually assume that
they can easily get rich$ over night. Well, they're
definitely wrong.

Accomplishment will not come overnight. Just like any other
worthwhile endeavor, it takes time to build a solid
affiliate business. Success in your home based business will
require you to try different methods and techniques of
marketing before you find what works well for you. It may
command you to sign up for many different affiliate programs
before you find a product and dealer that fits you.

Another misconception that affiliate marketers have 'bout
this kind of business is that they assume they will gain
more if they place about 20 affiliated banners on just one
niche. Well, it will not really work the way you think it
would because once your web site is inundated with too many
banners, it will look like a banner farm and guests will not
be interested and will not even bother clicking on any of
those banners. So if you really want to promote numerous
affiliate programs in your website, make sure that they fits
with the theme and topic of the rest of the content on your
niche. Keep in mind that three or four affiliated links in
your site are enough, depending on the size of the web page.

There are also a few who feel that if they add affiliate
banners to their site, they can receive sales right away.
Possibly they just don't know that affiliate marketing is
all about marketing. If there's no traffic coming to your
site, how can you anticipate any sales? consider that the
more you advertise your affiliate link or the site where the
affiliate links are located, the more click-thru's these
links are likely to receive.

Maybe you are thinking about trying your luck at affiliate
marketing but you have some of the same misconceptions as
have been mentioned here. If this is the case then perhaps
you need to mull over finding a mentor to help you through
the process.

An affiliate marketing mentor is one who is a expert in
marketing and promoting affiliate programs. Many affiliate
mentors are very successful in the field of affiliate
marketing and many, after experiencing this success, have
decided to create their own affiliate programs for others to
use and promote. These affiliate marketers, some times, make
it their business to give their knowledge to those who are
hungry and willing to learn. That is why I created my web
site, Lessons4Success.com and
www.powerteamsuccess.blogspot.com. Over the past few years I
have studied and gathered a lot of information on internet
business and home based opportunities and have been, for the
past year or so, organizing this information and publishing
it on my blog (www.powerteamsuccess.blogspot.com).

naturally, there are generalities and theories that will
always be valid but a mentor who can give you relevant
information about affiliate marketing today is a valuable
commodity. When you become a mentor yourself you should
continue to educate yourself so that you will be able to
give your customers information and training that will make
them wealthy. The more clients that you are able to instruct
to monetary success the more financial success you will
have.

If you want to be prosperous in your own internet business
and affiliate marketing then you should start to develop
certain characteristics. Those traits are tolerance,
perserverance, and a drive to gain knowledge. In the role of
mentor, it will be your duty to push the development of
these characteristics in your customers. Once you have
developed these characteristics it will be easy to teach
them to others. Getting your clients to realize that success
takes blood, sweat, and tears is one of the major hurdles
that you will face but once you get them to understand this
you will succeed in mentoring them to their own success.
determination is probably the most important characteristic
that you can possess. If you refuse to give up and keep
increasing your knowledge and try different methods and
techniques, you will achieve success.

Before you teach your clients to be skilled in all the
marketing and promoting techniques you, yourself, should
become knowledgable in these techniques. You will gain their
trust when you are able to give them the guidance that
works. So, learn, learn, learn. Go to the library, buy
books, cds, video courses, read all the free information
that you come across, then put these into action and record
your own experiences. Everyone's experiences are unique and
this will give you with your own unique information to
impart to others. Being a successful mentor is much harder
than being a successful affiliate marketer. You cannot put a
price on The feeling of accomplishment you get when you help
others achieve their own success. In mentoring, if your
client fails you fail. This is the greatest motivator in the
world, it will drive you to drive your student. Mentoring,
over and above affiliate marketing, is difficult but both
are worth the price you will pay. The amount of success you
can achieve is incredible! So, start now, begin your
information search and as you achieve personal success you
can then start sharing your knowledge as a mentor to others.
I wish you much success in your future endeavors.

How To Continually Grow Your Internet Business Income

2010-06-04T22:11:00.001-05:00

The promise of earning profits without really doing much of anything has enticed a lot of people towards affiliate marketing. But does affiliate marketing really work this way?

As an affiliate, all that is required of you is to simply place the merchant's ad on your website. Then after that, you virtually do nothing but wait for anyone to click on the merchant's ad and later collect your profits. Easy, right? Well, not quite. Many affiliates earn almost nothing from their affiliate programs simply because they do nothing. Remember that affiliate marketing is but another form of marketing, and you'll definitely need to market your merchant's product for you to earn something.

Successful affiliates in any affiliate program simply don't sit there and wait for money to come. Why? Because there is no money in simply sitting and waiting. If you want to be successful in affiliate marketing and if you want to continually grow your affiliate checks, you've got to do something. Think of ways on how to promote your merchant's business and products better. Think of ways on how to induce other people to click on the link or ad provided to you by your merchant. Think of ways on how to make your affiliate sales increase!

So if you're new in affiliate marketing and you try to follow the easy go lucky format that most unsuccessful affiliate marketers follow, then you're definitely on the wrong track. But we're not advising you to stop right there. No. Rather, we want you to take some steps to make your affiliate program work better and gain more commissions for you. How? Here are a few guidelines that may help you to continually grow your affiliate checks:

* Become an expert on your affiliate product.

You can promote your merchant's product better if you know a lot of things about it. To become an expert, the best thing you can do is purchase your merchant's product yourself. This way, you can tell your customers about your first-hand experience using the product. You can even write a testimonial or a personal endorsement ad about it. But if any condition does not permit you to purchase the product, you can at least make a thorough research about it.

* Host your own website.

Or at least have a domain name that is short and easy to remember. You certainly wouldn't expect a visitor to remember a very long and incomprehensible URL. And if that's so, you also wouldn't expect him to visit your website any time soon. That means less traffic for your page and the less chance for your affiliate ads and links to be clicked.

It is also a good idea to create a private website and offer access to it to anybody who clicks on any of your affiliate ads. Visitors usually get interested with these private websites. Private websites also give you a venue to promote your back-end affiliate products.

* Write your own affiliate ads.

Many merchants usually wouldn't mind if you write and design your own ads for their products, for as long as you ask permission from them and present them your ad before posting it on your site. This gives you a greater advantage over a lot of other affiliates who must be advertising the same affiliate products.

* Participate in chat rooms, discussion boards, and forums related to your product.

If you use to ignore them before, then it is time for you to start focusing your attention on them. You can start your own chat or join an existing chat related to your product. You don't have to promote your affiliate product at once, but find the chance to advertise and promote it as you go along. The same would be true for message boards, discussion boards and forums.

* Create a free ezine or newsletter.

Ezines and newsletters are periodical publications whose aim is to inform a group of people about a certain subject. In your ezines and newsletters, you don't always have to promote your merchant's product for this may greatly annoy your subscribers. Rather, find a way to insert your affiliate ads and links on some portions of the letter. Also, don't forget to promote your ezine or newsletter on your website.

These are but a few guidelines on how you can increase your affiliate sales and continually grow your affiliate checks. Sure there can be a lot of other tips that are out there, and if you think they would work, we won't discourage you from following them. What's important is that you be able to find a way to: attract more traffic to your site, induce your visitors to click on the ads on your site, and be able to promote your merchant's products even outside the boundary of your website. If you can do these, there's no reason for you to fail in affiliate marketing.

Create Multiple Streams of Income for Your Internet Business With Affiliate Marketing

2010-06-04T05:31:00.000-05:00

Have you ever heard or read the phrase “multiple streams of income” before? Do you know what this phrase means? For many businessmen, creating multiple streams of income online or offline is one way of securing themselves as well as their businesses in the future. They also believe that it can also save them from the so-called famine effect in the business industry. Once you are engaged in affiliate marketing business, it is advisable if you have multiple streams of affiliate marketing income so that if one of those income streams vanished, it will not upset you the way losing your sole stream would. If you depend on just one source of income and this single stream has been downsized or has lain off, you’ll surely find yourself bankrupted and hopeless. Try to ask the most successful online entrepreneurs, and you’ll discover that they have established multiple streams of online income.

There is a businessman that said and attested that the very first step you must take in creating multiple streams of income is to assess or evaluate your resources. Start by assessing yourself first. Jot down your answers to the following questions: What are the talents, abilities, strength and gears that you possess? Are you gifted with excellent and creative writing skills? Can you do well at sales? Are you good in communicating with people? Are you born with an artistic skill or unique ability that other people don’t have? Through this, you can determine the kind of business where you can possibly excel.

Next, look around and write down your assets and physical resources such as computer, color printer, scanner, digital camera, cell phone, CD or DVD burner. Write these all down because it can be used as a resource. Consider also your friends and family. Find out what do they possess that you have access to. Remember that no man is an island to himself. You can use the talents, abilities, knowledge and resources of everyone you know.

That’s basically the initial step if you want to create multiple income streams. But if you’re already a webmaster or a site owner, you definitely have an edge. Why don’t you join an affiliate marketing business to help you gain extra income out of your own website?

Being involved in affiliate marketing is one of the most desirable ways to make multiple sources of income. It is because affiliate marketing programs come in various shapes and forms. There are a large number of affiliate marketing programs that you can sign on with and start earning money right away. In affiliate marketing, you can make money by promoting and reselling your affiliate products and by recruiting new affiliates. What’s good about this is that you can find a wide array of training materials that can enhance your marketing abilities. In affiliate marketing, you can be sure that there are genuine products to promote and sell and there is real income to make.

Either part time or full time, being an affiliate marketer is an excellent way to create multiple income streams by means of promoting products and services from web merchants. Here, you can get affiliate commissions without investing big bucks in making your own product and without worrying about book keeping, customer support and ecommerce. All you have to do is to promote and resell the products and services in your site and pass on potential customer’s to the merchant’s site.

In affiliate marketing, it is advisable to promote more merchants in your site so that your visitors will have a variety of destinations to choose from. Using multiple merchants in the same site or niche means only one thing – you have multiple streams of affiliate income. There is absolutely nothing wrong with this business strategy because this is one of the best ways to protect your business and expand your horizons. Through this, you can be assured that you will not experience crisis if one of your web merchants closed his/her program.

However, you should choose only those affiliate programs that interest you so that you can effectively advertise and promote them. Don’t ever be tempted into signing up for numerous affiliate programs in the hope that one of them will bring income. Select wisely and don’t be engaged in selling products you know nothing about. Go with the stuff that jives with your enthusiasm; your passion can capture your client by the nose and guide him/her to your affiliate link.

You should also work hard to make your multiple streams of income more stable. You can do this by embracing some strategies and tactics and by developing within yourself, some traits that can help you become successful in any kind of business such as patience, persistence and thirst for knowledge.

Lastly, just remember the adage that says “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.” So that if one of them is lost, you can still have some to make omelets. And what do these eggs have to do with multiple streams of affiliate income? Well, it goes without saying that the more streams of income you possess, the bigger and better your money lake becomes.

Tamara Lowe at Christ Fellowship

2010-05-06T21:42:00.000-05:00

Search Engine Optimization for Affiliate Marketers

2010-04-18T23:22:00.000-05:00

There are no secrets on how to rank high with the major search engines because effective search engine optimizations are now immense.

What is search engine optimization? Before we discuss that thing, you have to understand first how search engines work and a bit of know-how.

Search engines are into providing their users with the most relevant and up-to-date information to match the search term that was used. They are sophisticated pieces of technology which allow users to quickly find relevant websites by searching for a word or a phrase.

Search engine results are useless to users if the information doesn’t relate to the search term, or if the results are old. People expect the most up-to-date and fresh information that is useful to them.

Updating your website everyday and adding some materials will help you get noticed by the search engines. So, if you are going to sell any type of product or service online, you have to optimize your website for the search engines, in order to boost traffic and sales.

It is because over 90% of your business will likely come directly from search engine results. And for that reason, it is absolutely important to optimize your site for search engines for you to have the greatest deals in the entire world.

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process by which webmasters or online business owners utilize strategic copy to augment their website’s status. It is certain that the internet has grown so fast over the years and the competition for the best search engine position has created an enormous market. Therefore, better understanding the fundamental elements of Search Engine Optimization is vital for an online business’ success.

Making use of effective search engine optimization techniques will improve the page rank of your website. There are many tricks that can be used to increase page rank; the most effective method is to provide high quality content consistently. This seems like a simple concept but there are many websites that fail to provide content that visitors find interesting.

Sites which provide content that are interesting, well-written and regularly updated create highly engaged visitors who are more likely to return to the website in the coming days. So, if you can set your website apart from those boring, lifeless sites then do it. You’ll surely have a step closer to achieving high page rank through search engine optimization.

The next significant factor for an effective search engine optimization is to include keywords and phrases within your content. To make sure that you are properly targeting your market, you have to make sure that the keywords and phrases you have on your site are the keywords and phrase that your site is actually optimized for.

The more keywords you use in your content, the more likely it is that online visitors will find your site when they do some research with those words. If you are unfailing with these techniques, then your overall search engine optimization will increase, boosting your page rank.

You should also have to develop a linking strategy as a part of your search engine optimization. Not only does this provide free advertising for your site, but it makes the impression that your site is imperative because of its affiliated links.

For each link that you have pointing back to you, that is another chance for your potential customer to find you. The more inbound links that you have pointing to your site, the higher you will be ranked in the search engines.

Another is to develop a content stratagem. People who get to search from the internet are looking for information. The more information you provide for them and the more helpful it is, the more likely you will be to make the sale.

Writing articles is the most effective way to build up content for your site. When writing articles to post on your site, make sure that you develop a clear means of arranging their content.

You can do this by simply adding a new page to your site. This will allow room for extra articles to be added as you write them, and will allow you to build up an archive of articles which will maintain to draw online visitors.

Make sure also that you have included your archived articles in a directory that is next to the root web of your site so that the search engines will catalog your online articles.

Always keep in mind that search engine optimization methods are important in developing your site’s status. With that in mind, make sure that you write high-quality, keyword rich content and link your site to and from a deliberate family of other sites.

These things will help improve your site’s popularity and coerce increased business through your online activities.

The 3 Easiest Ways For Newbies To Start In Affiliate Marketing

2010-04-18T23:12:00.000-05:00

With the aid of the Internet, you can almost have everything right at your fingertips. With just a few clicks you get access to thousands and even millions of pieces of

information and data on virtually any field of interest. As years pass by, the Internet continuous to effect radical changes in many facets of human endeavors, including

commerce. Experts say that the information space, commonly known as the “world wide web,” grows by over a million pages everyday as more and more people utilize the Internet for

information, education, entertainment, business and other personal reasons. It doesn’t take a business-oriented individual to realize that this phenomenon can bring about sky-

high financial gains. The Internet’s fast-growing popularity in the recent years is surely an opportunity for business that any entrepreneur would not want to miss.

You might be thinking only businessmen can make much money out of the Internet, don’t you? Think again. You too can earn big bucks through the Internet even if you don’t have

products to sell and high-profile and established company. How? That is through affiliate marketing. You might have come across these words over the net while surfing. Affiliate

marketing is a revenue sharing between a merchant and an affiliate who gets paid for referring or promoting the merchants’ products and services. It is one of the burgeoning

industries nowadays because it is proven to be cost-efficient and quantifiable means of attaining great profit both for the merchant and the affiliate and other players in the

affiliate program, such as the affiliate network or affiliate solution provider.

Affiliate marketing works effectively for the merchant and the affiliate. To the first, he gains opportunities to advertise his products to a larger market, which increases his

chances to earn. The more affiliate websites or hard-working affiliates he gets, the more sales he can expect. By getting affiliates to market his products and services, he is

saving himself time, effort and money in looking for possible markets and customers. When a client clicks on the link in the affiliate website, purchases the product, recommends

it to others who look for the same item or buys it again, the merchant multiplies his chances of earning. On the other hand, the affiliate marketer benefits from each customer

who clicks on the link in his website and who actually purchases the product or avails of the service provided by the merchant. In most cases, the affiliate gets commision per

sale, which can be fixed percentage or fixed amount.

If you want to be an affiliate marketer and make fortunes from the Internet, you may follow the following three most basic and easiest ways to start an effective affiliate

marketing program. First is to identify a particular thing you are interested in or passionate about so you won’t be bored and forced to develop your affiliate web site later

on. Focusing on a specific area you know very well will help you bring out your best without much risks and effort. You can add a personal touch to your site and give your

visitors who are possible buyers an impression that you are an expert in your field. In this way, you gain their trust and eventually encourage them to buy the products you

endorse. Next is to look for good paying merchants and products or services related to your interest and create a website. In choosing the products, you must also consider its

conversion rate—the number of visitors-turned-buyers. There are various affiliate networks and affiliate solution providers that can give you info on the most profitable

products and best paying merchants. The key here is, be wise enough to choose the right one.

Now that you have decided where to concentrate, have chosen the products to endorse and the merchant you are supporting and have created your own web site with top level domain

name and reliable hosting, you are ready to promote. This is a crucial task, since it is through this that you would be able to increase traffic to the business website, sales

and of course, profit. In affiliate marketing, it is possible to earn large sums of money in a short span of time especially when you’re endorsing high-priced items. Expensive

products are hard to sell; however, with the right marketing strategies and sales techniques, you can draw visitors to the merchant’s site and make them buy the products. How to

promote the products, though, would need a separate discussion. Continue to educate yourself by reading books or other articles online about the best advertising techniques.

Keep in mind, there is no facile and quick path towards success. Affiliate marketing may seem very tempting due to numerous encouraging testimonies of merchants and affiliate

marketers alike who have benefited from it, but it entails a great deal of hard work and persistence. Likewise, you need to be creative, flexible and willing to embrace new

ideas to market your partners’ products until you find the perfect strategy that works for a specific market that you are targeting. Neither signing up for an affiliate program

nor copying ads and leading others towards the merchants’ site guarantee success yet. Many affiliate marketers fail to understand this, so when they don’t make sales, they quit,

look for other programs and repeat the same mistake. In the end, they conclude that affiliate marketing is just one of those scams on the Internet. Even as you sleep, you can

work your way to great financial success if you employ the right strategies in affiliate marketing. Be creative, be smart, be willing to invest in your business and surely,

you’ll achieve your goals.

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2009-03-29T21:54:00.001-05:00

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YOUR OWN MONEY - MAKING NEWSLETTER

2009-03-27T17:52:00.002-05:00

YOUR OWN MONEY - MAKING NEWSLETTER

Writing and publishing a successful newsletter is perhaps the most competitive of all the different areas of mail order and direct marketing.

Several years ago, there were 1500 different newsletters in this country. Today there are well over 10,000+, with new ones being started every day. It's also interesting to note that for every new one that's started, some disappear just as quickly as they are started - lack of operating capital and marketing know-how being the principal causes of failure.

To be successful with a newsletter, you have to specialize. Your best bet will be with new information on a subject not already covered by an established newsletter.

Regardless of the frustrations involved in launching your own newsletter, never forget this truth: There are people from all walks of life, in all parts of this country, many of them with no writing ability whatsoever, who are making incredible profits with simple two-, four-, and six-page newsletters!

Your first step should be to subscribe to as many different newsletters and mail order publications as you can afford. Analyze and study how the others are doing it. Attend as many workshops and seminars on your subject as possible. Learn from the pros. Learn how the successful newsletter publishers are doing it, and why they are making money. Adapt their success methods to your own newsletter, but determine to recognize where they are weak, and to make yours better in every way.

Plan your newsletter before launching it. Know the basic premise for its being, your editorial position, the layout, art work, type styles, subscription price, distribution methods, and every other detail necessary to make it look, sound and feel like the end result you have envisioned.

Lay out your start-up needs; detail the length of time it's going to take to become established, and what will be involved in becoming established. Set a date as a mile stone of accomplishment for each phase of your development: A date for breaking even, a date for attaining a certain paid subscription figure, and a monetary goal for each of your first five years in business. And all this must be done before publishing your first issue.

Most newsletter publishers do all the work themselves, and are impatient to get that first issue into print. As a result, they neglect to devote the proper amount of time to market research and distribution. Don't start your newsletter with out first having accomplished this task!

Market research is simply determining who the people are who will be interested in buying and reading your newsletter, and the kind of information these people want to see in your newsletter as a reason for continuing to buy it. You have to determine what it is they want from your newsletter.

Your market research must give you unbiased answers about your newsletter's capabilities of fulfilling your prospective buyer's need for information; how much he's willing to pay for it, and an overall profile of his status in life. The questions of why he
needs your information, and how he'll use it should be answered. Make sure you have the answers to these questions, publish your newsletter as a vehicle of fulfillment to these needs, and you're on your way!

You're going to be in trouble unless your newsletter has a real point of difference that can be easily perceived by your prospective buyer. The design and graphics of your newsletter, plus what you say and how you say it, will help in giving your newsletter this vital difference.

Be sure your newsletter works with the personality you're trying to build for it. Make sure it reflects the wants of your subscribers. Include your advertising promise within the heading, on the title page, and in the same words your advertising uses. And above all else, don't skim on design or graphics!

The name of your newsletter should also help to set it apart from similar news letters, and spell out its advertising promise. A good name reinforces your advertising. Choose a name that defines the direction and scope of your newsletter.

Opportunity Knocking, Money Making Magic, Extra Income Tip Sheet, and Mail Order Up-Date are primate examples of this type of philosophy - as opposed to the Johnson Report, The Association Newsletter, or Club-house Confidential.

Try to make your newsletter's name memorable - one that flows automatically. Don't pick a name that's so vague it could apply to almost anything. The name should identify your newsletter and its subject quickly and positively.

Pricing your newsletter should be consistent with the image you're trying to build. If you're starting a "Me-too" newsletter, never price it above the competition. In most instances, the consumer associates higher prices with quality, so if you give your readers better quality information in an expensive looking package, don't hesitate to ask for a premium price. However, if your information is gathered from most of the other newsletters on the subject, you will do well to keep your prices in line with theirs.

One of the best selling points of a newsletter is in the degree of audience involvement - for instance, how much it talks about, and uses the names of its readers.

People like to see things written about themselves. They resort to all kinds of things to get their names in print, and they pay big money to read what's been written about them. You should understand this facet of human nature, and decide if and how you want to capitalize upon it - then plan your newsletter accordingly.

Almost as important as names in your newsletter are pictures. The readers will generally accept a newsletter faster if the publisher's picture is presented or included as a part of the newsletter. Whether you use pictures of the people, events, locations or products you write about is a policy decision; but the use of pictures will set your publication apart from the others and give it an individual image, which is precisely what
you want.

The decision as to whether to carry paid advertising, and if so, how much, is another policy decision that should be made while your newsletter is still in the planning stages. Some purists feel that advertising corrupts the image of the newsletter and may
influence editorial policy. Most people accept advertising as a part of everyday life, and don't care one way or the other.

Many newsletter publishers, faced with rising production costs and viewing advertising as a means of offsetting those costs, welcome paid advertising. Generally the advertisers see the newsletter as a vehicle to a captive audience, and well worth the cost.

The only problem with accepting advertising in your newsletter would appear to be that as your circulation grows, so will your number of advertisers, until you'll have to increase the size of your newsletter to accommodate the advertisers. At this point, the basic premise or philosophy of the newsletter often changes from news and practical information to one of an advertiser's showcase.

Promoting your newsletter, finding prospective buyers and converting these prospects into loyal subscribers, will be the most difficult task of your entire undertaking. It takes detailed planning, persistence and patience.

You'll need a sales letter. Check the sales letter you receive in the mail; analyze how these are written and pattern yours along the same lines. You'll find all of them - all those worthy of being called sales letters - following the same formula: Attention, Interest, Desire, and Action on the part of the reader - AIDA.

Jump right in at the beginning and tell the reader how he's going to benefit from your newsletter, and then keep emphasizing right on through your "PS", the many and different benefits he'll gain from subscribing to your newsletter. Elaborate on your listing of benefits with examples of what you have, or you intend to include, in your newsletter.

Follow these examples with endorsements or testimonials from reviewers and satisfied subscribers. Make the recipient of your sales letter feel that you're offering him the answer to all his problems on the subject of your newsletter.

You have to make your prospect feel that "this is the insider's secret" to the success he wants. Present it to him as his own personal key to success, and then tell him how far behind his contemporaries he is going to be if he doesn't act upon your offer immediately.

Always include a "PS" in your sales letter. This should quickly restate to the reader that he can start enjoying the benefits of your newsletter by acting immediately, and very subtly suggesting that he may not get another chance to get the kind of "success help" you're offering him with this sales letter.

Don't worry about the length of your sales letter - most are four pages or more; however, it must flow logically and smoothly. Use short sentences, short paragraphs, indented paragraphs, and lost of sub-heads for the people who will be "scanning through"
your sales letter.

In addition to the sales letter, your promotion package should include a return reply order card or coupon. This can be either a self-addressed business reply post card, or a separate coupon, in which case you'll have to include a self-addressed return reply envelope. In every mailing piece you send out, always include one or the other: either a self-addressed business reply postcard or a self-addressed return reply envelope for the recipient to use to send your order form and his remittance back to you.

Your best response will come from a business reply postcard on which you allow your prospect to charge the subscription to his credit card, request that you bill him, or send his payment with the subscription start order.

For make up of this subscription order card or coupon, simply start saving all the order cards and coupons you receive during the next month or so. Choose the one you like best, modify according to your needs, and have it typeset, pasted up and border fit.

Next, you'll need a Subscription Order Acknowledgment card or letter. This is simply a short note thanking your new subscriber for his order, and promising to keep him up-to-date with everything relating to the subject of your newsletter.

An acknowledgment letter, in an envelope, will cost more postage to mail than a simple postcard; however, when you send the letter you have to opportunity to enclose additional material. A circular listing other items available through you will produce additional orders.

Thus far, you've prepared the layout and copy for your newsletter. Go ahead and have a hundred copies printed, undated. You've written a sales letter and prepared a return reply subscription order card or coupon; go ahead and have a hundred of these printed, also undated, of course. You'll need letterhead mailing envelopes, and don't forget the return reply envelopes if you choose to use the coupons instead of the business reply postcard. Go ahead and have a thousand mailing envelopes printed. You also need subscription order acknowledgment cards or notes; have a hundred of these printed, and of course, don't forget the imprinted reply envelopes if you're going along with the idea of
using a note instead of a postcard. This w ill be a basic supply for "testing" your materials so far.

Now you're ready for the big move - the Advertising Campaign.

Start by placing a small classified ad in one of your local newspapers. You should place your ad in a weekend or Sunday paper that will reach as many people as possible, and of course, do everything you can to keep your costs as low as possible. How ever, do not skimp on your advertising budget. To be successful - to make as much money as possible with your idea - you'll need to reach as many people as you can afford, and as often as you can.

Over the years, we have launched several hundred advertising campaigns. We always ran new ads for a minimum of three issues and kept close tabs on the returns. So long as the returns kept coming in, we continued running that ad in that publication, while
adding a new publication to test for results. To our way of thinking, this is the best way to go, regardless of the product, to successfully multiply your customer list.

Move slowly, start with a local, far-reaching and widely read paper, and with the prof its or returns from that ad, go to the regional magazines, or one of the smaller national magazines, and continue plowing your returns into more advertising in different
publications. By taking your time, and building your acceptance in this manner, you won't lose too much if one of your ads should prove to be a dud. Stay with the advertising. Do not abandon it in favor of direct mail. We would not recommend direct mail until you are well established and your national classified advertising pro gram is bringing in a healthy profit for you.

Do not become overly ambitious and go out on a limb with expensive full-page advertising until you're very well established. When you do buy full page advertising, start with the smaller publications, and build from those results. Have patience; keep close tabs on your costs per subscriber, and build from the profits of your advertising. Always test the advertising medium you want to use with a classified ad, and if it pulls well for you, go on to a larger display type ad.

Classified advertising is the least expensive way to go, so long as you use the "inquiry method." You can easily and quickly build your subscriber list with this type of advertisement.

We would not recommend any attempts to sell subscriptions, or any product from classified ads, or even from small display ads. There just isn't enough space to describe the product adequately, and seeing the cost of your item, many possible subscribers will
not bother to inquire for the full story.

When you do expand your efforts into direct mail, go straight to a national list broker. You can find their names and addresses in the yellow pages section of your local telephone directory. Show the list broker your product and your mailing piece, and
explain what type people you want to reach, and allow them to help you.

Once you've decided on a list to use, go slowly. Start with a sampling of 5,000 names. If the returns are favorable, go for 10,000 names, and then 15,000 and so on through the entire list.

Never rent the entire list based upon the returns from your first couple of samplings. The variables are just too many, and too complicated, and too conducive to your losing your shirt when you "roll out an entire list" based upon returns from a controlled sampling.

There are a number of other methods for finding new subscribers, which we'll explore for you here, detailing the good and the bad as we have researched them.

One method is that of contracting with what is known as a "cash-field" agency. These are soliciting agencies who hire people to sell door-to-door and via the phone, almost always using a high pressure sales approach. The publisher usually makes only about 5% from each subscription sold by one of these agencies. That speaks for itself.

Then, there are several major catalog sales companies that sell subscriptions to school libraries, government agencies and large corporations. These people usually buy through these catalog sales companies rather than direct from the publisher. The publisher makes about 10% on each subscription sold for him by one of these agencies.

Co-op Mailings are generally piggy-back mailings of your subscription offer along with numerous other business offers in the same envelope. Smaller mail order entrepreneurs do this under the name of Big Mail Offers. Coming into vogue now are the Postcard Mailers. You submit your offer on a business reply postcard; the packager then prints and mails your postcard in a package with 40 or 50 similar postcards via third class mail to a mailing list that could number 100,000 or more. You pay a premium price for this type of mailing - usually $1000 to $1500 per mailing, but the returns are very good and you keep all the incoming money.

Another form of co-op mailing is where you supply a charge card company or department store with your subscription offer as a "statement mailing suffer." Your offer goes out with the monthly statements; new subscriptions are returned to the mailer and
billed to the customer's charge card. The publisher usually makes about 50% on each subscription. This is one of the most lucrative, but expensive methods of bringing in new customers.

Direct mail agencies such as Publishers Clearing House can be a very lucrative source of new subscriptions, in that they mail out more than 60 million pieces of mail each year, all of which are built around an opportunity for the recipient to win a gigantic cash sweepstakes. The only problem with this type of subscription agency is the very low percentage of the total subscription price the publisher receives from these subscriptions, plus the fact that the publishers are required to charge a lower subscription rate than they normally charge.

There are also several agencies that offer Introductory, Sample Copy and Trial Subscription offers, such as Select Information Exchange and Publisher Exchange. With this kind of agency, details about your publication are listed along with similar publications, in full page ads inviting the readers to send $10 or $20 for trial subscription to those of his choice. The publishers received no money from these inquiries - only a list of names of people interested in receiving trial s ubscriptions. How the publisher follows up and is able to convert these into full term, and paying subscribers is entirely dependent
upon his own efforts.

Most major newspapers will carry small, lightweight brochures or oversized reply cards as inserts in their Sunday papers. The publisher supplies the total number of inserts, pays the newspaper $20 per thousand for the number of newspapers he wants his order form carried in, and then retains all the money generated. But the high costs of printing the inserts, plus the $20 per thousand for distribution, make this an extremely costly method of obtaining new subscribers.

Schools, civic groups and other fund raising organizations work in about the same manner as the cash-field agencies. They supply the solicitor and the publisher gets 25% or less for each new subscription sold.

Attempting to sell subscriptions via radio or TV is very expensive and works better in generating sales at the newsstands than new subscriptions. PI (Per Inquiry) sales is a very popular way of getting radio or TV exposure and advertising for your newsletter or other publication, but again, the number of sales brought in by the broad cast media is very small when compared with the number of times the "invitation commercial" has to be "aired" to elicit a response.

A new idea beginning to surface on the cable TV scene is "Products Shows". This is the kind of show where the originator of the product or his representative appears on TV and gives a complete sales presentation lasting from five minutes to 15 minutes. Overall, these programs generally run between midnight and 2 AM, with the whole program a series of sales presentations for different products. They operate on the basis of the product owner paying a fee to appear and show his product, and also from an arrangement where the product owner pays a certain percentage from each sale generated from this exposure.

Newsletter publishers often run exchange publicity endorsement with non-competing publishers. Generally, these endorsements invite the reader of newsletter "A" to send for a sample copy of newsletter "B" for a look at what somebody else is going that
might be of especial help, etc. This can be a very good source of new subscriptions, and certainly the least expensive.

Running ads in the Mail Order Ad Sheets is not very productive, either in terms of inquiries or sales. About the best thing that can be said of most of these ad sheets (and there seems to be a million of them with new ones cropping up faster than you can count them) is that your ad in several of them will let other people in on what you're doing. You will be able to keep track of a lot of the people trying to make a place for themselves in the mail order field.

Last, but not least, is the enlistment of your own subscribers to send you names of people they think might be interested in receiving a sample copy of your publication. Some publishers ask their readers to pass along these names out of loyalty, while others offer a monetary incentive or a special bonus for names of people sent in who be come subscribers.

By studying and understanding the information in this report, you should encounter fewer serious problems in launching your own successful specialized newsletter that will be the source of ongoing monetary rewards for you. However, there is an important point to remember about doing business by mail - particularly within the confines of selling information by mail - that is, Mail Order is ONLY another way of doing business. You have to learn all there is to know about this way o f doing business, and then keep on learning, changing, observing and adapting to stay on top.

The best way of learning about and keeping up with this field of endeavor is by buying and reading books by the people who have succeeded in making money via the mails; by subscribing to several of the better periodic journals and aids to people in mail order, and by joining some of the mail order trade associations for a free exchange of ideas, advice and help.

This is Simply Incredible

2009-03-19T05:11:00.003-05:00

You’ve got questions...I’ve got answers.

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3) No you won’t be joining the mob

4) No you will not be engaging in a counterfeiting endeavor

5) And no...you don’t have to have any experience in web based business to make yourself a whopping success

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Starting Over

2008-05-29T21:10:00.000-05:00

I have had several starting over periods in my life. The most difficult of these was in 2005 when, at age 41, I was laid off from, of all places, a church. It came as a complete surprise in January 2005. I, like most everyone else, had care payments, mortgage, credit cards, etc., and all of a sudden our household income was cut almost in half. I figured that I could find a job in a couple of weeks, four at the most and we would be back on track but that was a bad assumption. We were living in Southwest Michigan at the time and the economy was taking a downward turn. I tried several opportunities but none played out. I wound up driving a school bus (I made more doing that than I could have working at most other jobs in the area in an entry level position). My wife and I had decided to move back home (Georgia) so I drove until the end of the school year and we packed up. We lost the house, van, and had to file bankruptcy. It was the worst time in our lives. We had been in financial hard times before but never like this. I took us quite some time to get over the depression and since of loss. I'll have to say that my faith in God and the support of family and friends is what got us through. We moved back home and my wife and I both got jobs then about six months after getting back and I was laid off again. I was able to start another job without interruption but I had to take a $4.00 per hour cut in pay. It was rough for a while but through continued prayer and God coming through for us financially, we made it somehow. About six months into the new job I received a call from the place I got laid off from and was offered a supervisory position making $2.00 per hour more than what I had previously made. Needless to say, we were on an emotional and financial roller coaster for several years but we have gone through the grieving process and have made peace in our spirits and have learned forgiveness. Through it all I have tried to keep a positive attitude and tried not to worry about the future. I maintain my faith in God and Him having control over my life. Proverbs 3:5,6 is a good scripture to live by;

Proverbs 3:

⁵ Trust in the Lord with all your heart,

And lean not on your own understanding;

⁶ In all your ways acknowledge Him,

And He shall ^£direct your paths.

I hope that if you are going through a valley in your life that you will turn to those around you for help

and put your trust in the Lord, He will truly direct your path if you'll let him.

Have a blessed day,

Ken

Perservering Through Life's Trials

2008-05-25T09:22:00.001-05:00

This entry is just going to be an introduction to what I hope will be an article that will help someone out there. I have faced many trials in life and I know that others have faced more fierce trials than I have but what I want to share in this future post is how I have faced these trials and made it through the valley's of my life. As I said before, I don't want this to come across as a whining session rather, I want to show that you can go through these trials and tests in life and you can come out a better and stronger person. If you wish to succeed in life you must learn how to navigate through your trials (every one will face trials and tribulation in life) and reach the mountain top. Stay tuned and check back often as this post/s will be coming soon.

Have a blessed and prosperous day,

Ken

Happy Mother's Day

2008-05-11T06:41:00.000-05:00

It's been a while since I lasted posted, there's been a lot going on, the most significant of which was the passing of my mother. This will be the first Mother's day without her. It is a strange thing; I think of her often wishing she were still here but also knowing that she is in a better place and not suffering in pain anymore. I have found myself, over the past two months, reminiscing about old times and childhood memories. It is true that time waits for no one and death seems to drive that home harder than anything else. It was just a year ago from February 13th that my wife's father passed away having fought cancer for just a few months. What we've learned from these events is that you must cherish the times that you have, make every minute count. When you get angry or frustrated realize that it's just a small thing and that there are bigger things to work on. It's like the quote says "don't sweat the small stuff". The past three years have been trying times for my family but through it all we have come out all right. Losing jobs, homes, cars, etc., is really nothing as long as you have a loving and supporting family and friends. I've been to the bottom of the barrel (so to speak) and I survived and I know that you can also. When the chips are down, keep your chin up and don't give up because you will make it. Losing hurts, whether it be a game, a loved one, job, home, vehicle, etc., but it's not the end of the world. In the end all these things want matter anyway. What will matter is where your heart is. I'm going to do my best while I'm here on this earth but I realize that I'll take nothing from this world with me when I breathe my last breath. I have settled my heart on the Lord and I'm not ashamed to say it. My faith and trust in Him is what has brought me through all the trials and set-backs in my life and He'll be there for you if you'll let Him. My father-in-law and my mother both trusted in him also and that is what gives me hope that I'll see them again in the life hereafter. So if you haven't made that decision yet, please consider it, you will not regret it. Before I close I want to wish all of you mother's out there a very Happy Mother's Day! To all of you who have mother's or step mother's living, let them know how much you love them today and every day.

God Bless, and until next time,

May your life be filled with happiness and success,

Ken

Here's Why Paying For Your Traffic Is A Smart Move

2007-12-30T16:29:00.000-05:00

Here's Why Paying For Your Traffic Is A Smart Move

There are so many success stories you will hear about businesses making it good in the internet. The troubling thing is, there are maybe a tenfold or even a hundredfold of stories contradictory to theirs. Many have unsuccessfully launched a business enterprise that is internet based but only a handful shall succeed.

Is this through luck? That is even more remote. It takes good business sense and a lot of help and team effort. Most importantly, it is the eagerness to succeed and the determination to learn and the willingness to invest in a lot of hard work and some money.

The Very Basic

Like Neo, traffic is “The One”. Without traffic, all your effort would just go to waste. Every business needs customers, without them you wouldn’t have

anyone to sell your products to. In the internet world traffic is the walk in customer. The more traffic you have the more people would be able to sell your products to.

But like any business that’s in every corner building or in the mall, not everyone that goes in will buy, but the greater of number that do come in to browse your merchandise, the greater number of people that will buy your products. It is a simple and known fact.

But, how do you get traffic, traffic large enough that could make a small percentage of eventual buyers enough to make a good profit. Many big companies generate traffic of tens of thousands a day and a measly ten to fifteen percent actually buys, but that small percentage is enough to provide them with good business.

Many of these success stories get their traffic from paying others. Yes that’s right; you have to spend money to make money. Advertising is the key. The more people that knows that your site exists; the more people would of course go to your site, that’s common sense.

While there are many ways that can get you advertising for free, this do not generate the same high volume as those methods that are getting paid. These paid advertisements include advertising schemes by Google and Yahoo.

The Value of Searches

The search and will be the easiest and fastest medium in finding what a person needs in the internet. Search engines have been very popular because they provide a vital service to many people.

They are free and easy to use. With this popularity, they get many visitors and clicks that they are the most common sites that people go to. It is easy to understand why so many companies would pay to advertise with these search engines.

Search engines provide information to the millions of users that they have each day. They provide links to many sites that a user may be looking for. If yoursites link pop up in the high ranks of the search results page, you get a great chance that they will go to your site. While search engine optimization is a cheaper and low cost way to get your site a high rank, paying for advertisements will ensure that you will be on the top ranks.

When you pay for your advertisements, it is like paying for your traffic. This may sound like not such a good idea, but the payoffs would tell a different story. When you pay for your traffic, you are guaranteed of a consistent traffic flow to your site. You will never go with an empty sales day.

Paying for your Traffic

Usually, you will be charged with the number of hits a link gets when your ad is clicked, this is called pay per click. For some search engines, you will be charged with the number of times your ad shows up when a certain keyword or keyword phrase is searched. It is imperative that you have good keyword content in your ad. There are many tools that aid you in using the right keyword for the right moment.

All the money you spend in paying for your traffic will not be for naught. You will get an impressive boost in traffic which will also result to a great boost in your sales figures. Paying for your traffic would be a really good idea and you will get all the benefits it has to offer.

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How To Generate Traffic Using Only Free Methods

2007-12-13T22:09:00.000-05:00

Putting up a traditional company would of course require a lot of things, to get straight to the point, you need capital. To make money requires money as well. But of course, with the versatility the internet offers, there are many ways you could find that could help optimize the potential of your site or business in generating traffic.

While there are ways to jumpstart your traffic flows, many sites don’t have the resources that others have to generate more traffic for your site. Well, you don’t have to spend a cent; all you need is the proper mindset and a lot of eagerness. You also must have the drive and perseverance to do hard work and research to generate more traffic for your site.

How sweet it is to have more traffic for your site without spending a single cent. Now it’s a sure thing that many sites have articles that offer tips and guidelines in how to generate traffic using only free methods. Because it is possible, you don’t need to speed a single cent, it may take time, to say honestly, I’m not going to beat around the bush with you. You get better chances by paying for your advertisements, but at least you get a fighting chance with some of these free methods I’m about to tell you.

Take advantage of online forums and online communities. The great thing about forums and online communities is that you can target a certain group that fits the certain demographic that you are looking for. You can discuss about lots of things about the niche that you represent or offer. Another great advantage is that you know what you are getting into and you will be prepared.

With online communities and forums you can build a reputation for your company. Show them what you are made of and wow them with your range of expertise about the subject, with that you can build a reputation and build trust with the people in your expertise and knowledge.

You can also make use of newsletters. Provide people with a catalog of your products and interesting and entertaining articles. If you make it really interesting and entertaining, more people will sign up for your newsletter and recommend it to other people. The more people who signs up for your newsletter, the more people there will be that will go to your site increasing your traffic.

Another great idea is trading links with other sites. You don’t have to spend a cent. All you have to do is reach an agreement with another webmaster. With exchanging links, the efforts both sites do will benefit both sites. Every traffic that goes to the site could potentially click on the link of your site and visit your site as well. This works well especially when both sites feature the same niche.

Write articles that could pique the attention of people that have interest in your product. Try writing articles that will provide tips and guides to other aficionados. Writing articles that provide good service and knowledge to other people would provide the necessary mileage your traffic flow needs.

Many sites offer free submission and posting of your articles. When people find interest in your articles they have a good chance of following the track by finding out where the article originated. Include a link or a brief description of your company with the article and there’s a great probability that they will go to your site.

Write good content for your site. Many search engines track down the keywords and keyword phrases your site uses and how they are used. It is not a requirement that a content should be done by a professional content writer. You could do your on but you have to make content for your site that is entertaining as well as informational. It should provide certain requirements as well as great quality.

Generally, internet users use search engines to find what they are looking for. Search engines in return use keyword searching in aiding their search results. With the right keywords, you could get high rankings in search engine results without the costs.

All of these methods and more will drive more traffic to your site for free. All it takes is a bit of effort and extended man hours. Learn all you can about the methods depicted here and you will soon have a site with a great traffic flow without the usual costs that come with it.

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Success Quote

2007-10-18T20:34:00.000-05:00

The trouble for most people is they don't decide to get wealthy, they just dream about it.

Michael Masterson

What Is Ultimate Four and Why Do I Give Them Away?

2007-09-27T07:48:00.000-05:00

A little over a year ago I discovered Ultimate Four; U4 is a group of 4 services that everyone either in business online or who wants to start an online business must have. I say they must have these because, as you will see, these services are the backbone of any online venture.

When I first began my online adventure I searched cyberspace desperately trying to find the "secret" to online success. Of course, there were hundreds, even thousands of sites claiming they had that "secret". Along the way I learned that there are certain tools that you need to make your online venture a success. Besides the obvious, a product/service that someone wants, you will need tools to market that product/service as well as ways in which to keep up with what you are doing.

You get all of this and more with Ultimate Four. I was so impressed with caliber of these services that I purchased the resell rights and I offer them for free. These services together would cost you over $200 per year but I am offering them to you for FREE! Why, you ask? Because I spent many years searching and countless hours surfing trying to find what works and I want to save you that grief by providing these services to you all in one place.

Just go to my website and sign up and you will receive these four services absolutely free. None of your information will be shared with third parties and you will not spend a dime. I know you will be as impressed as I was when you see and experience the services that you are about to receive. Many other internet entrepreneurs are spending hundreds, even thousands of dollars for these same services. Take advantage of my generosity and get started now. Click on this link : http://www.ad-alyzer.com/727/Blog_Post_Sept_27_2007

Building Your List

2006-10-10T09:34:00.000-05:00

Everyone in business knows that without a list of people/businesses to market/advertise to you have nothing. You can have the best product or idea in the universe but if you have no one to sell it to then all you have is just a good idea or a store or garage full of "good" products. But if you add a good quality, targeted list of people/businesses into the mix then you've created a potential Gold Mine. Of course you have to market to that list in order for the sales to start but essentially you have the starting of a wonderful thing.

So, just to reitterate, you need a good list of people/businesses to market your product/service to before you can even begin to see success. I read an article a while back about Robert G. Allen and how he made close to $100,000 in, i believe it was 24 or 48 hours. The key was that he had a list that he had "primed" a couple of weeks before this showdown (he did this on live radio) so when the clock started he shot out emails promoting the product that a majority of the list had expressed interest in and vwalah, instant $$$.

Ok Ken, you say, how do I get this list? Please allow me to expound on some of my experiences before I help you get started on your list.
When I first started trying to sell online I did what most everyone else does and that is I found a product, created a website, then went and put ads in all the free classified sites I could find, listed with the freead sites that flood your email accounts, etc. with no... nada... zilcho response... oh, and don't let me forget... the "free traffic exchanges". These folks say that you can build a business with no money but for the most part that is a myth, a marketing ploy to get your $$$. There are some tools that you can use that are free but somewhere down the line you are going to have to invest some money into marketing and building your list. I'm going to show you, in this article, how to at least get started free

There are some traffic exchanges that work but you have to remember, you have to spend time surfing or they do you no good. And you can get lost in their promotions if you're not careful. Each traffic exchange tries to get you to promote their exchange and that is okay but stay focused on building your list and promoting your "list building" programs; traffic is okay but your list is more important right now.
Here are some good free traffic exchange/lead generation sites to use:

http://www.trafficswarm.com/go.cgi?500413

http://freetrafficbar.com?r=64951

http://www.ListFire.com/50222

http://www.InstantBuzz.com/r/?powerbizmi

This site is a good source for some free online marketing resources I highly recommend getting these tools:

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I hope this helps out. I know I've spent a lot of time and wasted a good bit of money learning how to market online and my mission is to help you learn without all the waste.

Until next time,

Ken Smith
www.lessons4success.com
info@lessons4success.com

The Best Way To Generate Free Targeted Website Traffic

2006-09-07T00:14:00.000-05:00

The Best Way To Generate Free Targeted Website Traffic

If you have a website or you promote someone else's' website as an affiliate, you need to drive traffic to it.

Without traffic, you won't get visitors. And without visitors, you won't make money, sales, get subscribers, etc. What good is a website without any traffic? And if the site is getting traffic, what good is it if it's not targeted traffic?

There are many ways to drive traffic to your site, both free and paid. But we are not going to talk about paid traffic right now. That is a totally different topic and could take hours to cover.

So, back to free traffic. Some ways of getting free traffic to your site is by Search Engine Optimization, surfing for traffic, or getting it passively.

SEO takes time and a lot of work. When you join sites that are surf for traffic sites, you have to look at other members' sites in order to earn advertising credits for your site to be displayed when another member is surfing.

The only problem with this is that although the traffic is free, it is not targeted. Everyone who is a member only surfs for the credit and very rarely even looks at the site, they just minimize their window on their PC and multi-task. So, the traffic is crap and worthless.

Now, let's talk about the best way to get free targeted traffic. It's called Instant Buzz. Instant Buzz is a service that gives you advertising credits as you surf the web like you normally would. What you do is download the toolbar for free, it only takes a minute. Then, you set up your ads in the members area. And bam, you ads are being displayed on other members' tool bars as they surf.

You can also put Instant Buzz ads in emails that you send to your friends. These are called mail space ads. And your ad will get displayed in other members' emails. The last thing you can do is put a hyperspace ad on your website which will help you refer other members.

When you refer other members, you will also get a percentage of the credits they earn which will go towards your ad credits.

If someone likes your ad and is interested in what it says, then they click on it and end up on whatever site it was that you were promoting. Now that's targeted traffic! And it was free.

So make sure you visit the link in the resource box to start driving targeted and quality traffic to your website today. It will only take you a couple of minutes to start bringing visitors to your site.

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How To Make Your Business Survive In The 21st Century Market

2006-06-26T22:13:00.000-05:00

HOW TO MAKE YOUR BUSINESS SURVIVE IN THE 21st Century MARKET

You may be in Mail Order, Direct Mail, an Internet Business or you may be a local merchant with 150 employees or more; whichever, however or whatever, you've got to know how to keep your business alive during economic recessions. Any time the cash flow in a business, large or small, starts to tighten up - the money management of that business has to be on the ball.

Some of the things you can do and should do, include protecting yourself from expenditures made on sudden impulse. We've all bought things or services we really didn't need, simply because we were in the mood, or perhaps due to the flamboyancy of the advertising, or even because of the persuasiveness of the sales person. Then we sort of "wake up" a couple of days later and find that we've committed business funds to hundreds of dollars for an item or service that's not really essential to the success of our own business.

If you're incorporated, you can eliminate these "impulse purchases" by including within your by-laws a clause that states: "all purchasing decisions over a certain amount are contingent upon approval by the board of directors." This will give you a chance to consider any "impulse purchases" a second time after you've had a chance to think about the need for your purchase.

If you're business is a partnership, you can tell whoever it is that attempts to sell you something, that all purchase decisions are contingent upon the approval of a third party. In reality, the third party can be your partner, one of your department heads or even one of your suppliers.

If your business is a sole proprietorship, you don't have much to really worry about because as an individual you have three days to think about your purchase, and then to nullify that purchase if you think you really don't need it or can't afford it.

Especially in times of emergency, be sure that you don't "short-change" yourself on professional services.

Anytime you commit yourself and move full-speed ahead without fully investigating all the angles, and preparing yourself for all the contingencies that may arise, you're skating on thin ice. Regardless of the costs involved, it always pays off in the long run to seek out the advice or experienced professionals before embarking on a plan that could ruin you.

As an example, an experienced business consultant can fill you in on the 1244 stock or Sub-Chapter S advantages. A very simple process, but one with tremendous monetary benefits to businesses.

The 1244 status encourages investors to put equity capital into your business because in the event of a loss, amounts up to the entire sum of the investment can be written off in the current year. Without the "1244" classification, any losses would have to be spread over several years, and this of course, would severely lessen the attractiveness of your company's stock. Any business owner who has not filed as a 1244 corporation, has in effect, but himself off from 90-percent of his prospective investors.

Particularly when sales are down, you must be "hard-nosed" with people trying to sell you luxuries for your business. When your business is booming, you undoubtedly spend more time allowing different sales people to show you new models of equipment or a new line of better-looking supplies, but when your business is down, skip the entertaining frills and concentrate on the basics. Great care, however, must be taken to maintain courtesy and allow these sellers to consider you a "friend," and call back at another time.

Whoever maintains your company's books should reflect your way of thinking, and generate information according to your policies. Thus, you should hire an outside accountant or accounting firm to figure your return on your investment, as well as the turnover on your accounts receivable and your inventory. Such an audit or survey should focus in depth on any or every item within your financial statement that merits special attention. In this way, you'll probably uncover any potential financial problems before they arise.

Many small companies set up advisory boards or outside professional people. These are sometimes known as Power Circles, and once in place, the business always benefits, especially in times of short operating capital. Such an advisory board or power circle should include an attorney, a certified public accountant, civic club leaders, owner/managers or businesses similar to yours, and retired executives. Setting up such an advisory board of directors is really quite easy because most people you ask will be honored to serve.

Once your board is set up, you should meet about once a month and present material for review. Each meeting should be a discussion of your business problems and an input from your advisors relative to possible solutions.

These members of your board of advisors should offer you advice as well as alternatives, and provide you with objectivity. No formal decisions need to be made either at your board meetings nor as a result of them, but you should be able to gain a great deal from the suggestions you hear.

It should be that most of your customers have the money to pay at least some of the money they owe you, immediately. To keep them current and the number of accounts receivable in your files to a minimum, you should call them on the phone and ask for some kind of explanation why they're falling behind. If you develop such a habit as a standard part of your operating procedure, you'll find your invoices will magically be drawn to the front of their piles of bills to pay. Do not be hesitant nor too much of a "nice guy" when it comes to collecting money.

Something else that's a very good business practice, but which hew business owners do is to methodically build a good credit rating with their local banks. Particularly when you have a good cash flow, you should borrow $100 to $1,00 from your banks every 90-days or so. Simply borrow the money - place it in an interest-bearing account - and then pay it all back at least a month or so before it's due. By doing this, you'll increase the borrowing power of your signature, and strengthen your ability to obtain needed financing on short notice. This is a kind of business leverage that will be of great value to you if or whenever your cash position becomes desperate.

By all means, you should join your industry's local and national trade associations. Most of these organizations have a wealth of information available - everything from details on your competitors, to average industry sales figures, to new products, services and trends.

If they give you a membership certificate or wall plaque, you should display these conspicuously on your office wall. You customers like to see such "seals of approval" and place additional confidence in your business when they see them.

Still another thing often overlooked - if at all possible, you should have your spouse work in the business with you at least 3 to 4 weeks per year. The important thing is that if, for any reason, you are not available to run the business, your spouse will be familiar with certain people and situations about your business. These people should include your attorney, accountant, any consultants or advisors, your major suppliers and creditors. The long-term advantages of having your spouse work four weeks per year in your business with you, greatly outweigh the short-term inconvenience.

Whenever you can, and as often as you need it, you should take advantage of whatever free business counseling is available.

The Small Business Administration has many excellent booklets, checklists and brochures available on quite a large variety of businesses. They also have management and financial assistance programs that can definitely benefit just about any small business. Most local universities, and many private organizations hold seminars at very minimal costs, often without charge. You should also take advantage of free services offered by your bank and local library.

You may feel no great need for continuing education courses, but if you learn even one new bit of information that will be of ultimate benefit to you or your business, the little time spent at a seminar or in a night course, will be a wise investment.

The important thing about continuing education courses, but if you learn even one new bit of information that will be of ultimate benefit to you or your business, the little time spent at a seminar or in a night course, will be a wise investment.

The important thing about running a small business is to know the direction in which you're heading - to know on a day-to-day basis, your progress in that direction - to be aware of what your competitors are doing - industry trends and sales figures for businesses comparable to the size of yours - to practice good money management at all times - and to prepare yourself to solve your problems before they arise.

Generally speaking, times are always tough for small businesses. In order to survive with a small business, regardless of the economic times, it is essential that you surround yourself with smart people, and practice sound business management at all times. Be sure that if you are doing well now, you will continue to be successful in the future.

To Your Success,

Ken Smith
www.lessons4success.com
kandtenterprisesmi@yahoo.com
www.powerteamsuccess.blogspot.com
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HOW TO START A BUSINESS IN YOUR OWN HOME AND MAKE BIG BUCKS

2006-06-22T17:01:00.000-05:00

HOW TO START A BUSINESS IN YOUR OWN HOME AND MAKE BIG BUCKS

In these times, it's becoming increasingly difficult to get by or make ends meet with just one source of income. Thus, more and more people are investigating the possibilities of, and indeed, the idea of, starting their own extra-income businesses. Most of these part-time endeavors are started and operated from the comforts and privacy of these people's homes.

Most of these people are making the extra money they need - some have wisely and carefully built these extra income efforts into full-time, very profitable businesses - while some are just keeping busy, having fun, and enjoying life as never before. The important thing is that they are doing something other than wait for the government to give them a handout, to improve their lot in life - and you can do it too!

The fields of mail order selling, multi-level marketing, and in-home party sales have never been more popular. If any of these kinds of extra-income-producing ideas appeal to you, then for sure, you owe it to yourself to check them out. But, these aren't the only fields of endeavor you can start and operate from home with little or no investment and learn as you go.

If you type, you can start a home-based typing service; if you have a truck or access to a trailer, you can start a clean-up/hauling service; simply collecting old newspapers from your neighbors can get you started in the paper recycling business; more than a few enterprising housewives have found success and fortune by starting home and/or apartment cleaning services; if you have a yard full of flowers, you can make good extra money by supplying fresh-cut flowers to restaurants, and offices in lucrative personalized coffee mug business. What I'm saying is that in reality, there's literally no end to the ways in which you can start and operate a profitable extra-income business from your home.

The first thing you "must" do however, is some basic market research. Find out for yourself, first-hand, just how many people there are - particularly in your local area - who are interested in your proposed product or service, and "would be willing to stand in line to pay money for it." This is known as defining your market and pin-pointing your customers. If after checking around, talking about your idea with a whole lot of people over a period of one to three months, you get the idea that these people would be paying customers, then your next effort should be directed toward the "detailing" of your business plan. The more precise and detailed you write out such a plan - covering all the bases relating to how you'll do everything that needs to be done, and when - the easier it's going to be for you to attain success. Such a plan should show your start-up investment needs, your advertising plan, your production costs as well as procedures, your sales program, and how your time will be allocated. To often, enthusiastic and ambitious entrepreneurs "jump in" on an extra project and suddenly find that the costs are beyond their abilities, and the time requirements more than they can meet. It pays to lay it all out on paper before you get involved, and the more detailed you can "see" everything before you start, the better your chances of success.

Assuming you've got your market targeted - you know who your customers are going to be and how you're going to reach them with your product or service offer; and you've got all your cost as well as time requirements itemized - the next thing is to set your plan in motion and start making money.

Here is the most important "secret" of all, relating to starting and building a profitable home-based business - Regardless of what kind of business you start, you must have the capital and the available time to sustain your business through the first six months of operation on the basis of not taking in any money. Most importantly, you must not count on receiving of spending any money coming in from your business, on yourself or for your bills, during those first six months. Any and all the income from your business during those first six months should be reinvested in your business in order for it to grow and reach your planned first year potential for it.

Once you're by that first six months milestones, you can set up a small monthly salary or draw for yourself, and begin enjoying the fruits of your labor - but the first six months of operation for nay business is very critical, so do not plan to use any of that money your business generates for yourself.

If you've got our business plan properly organized, and have worked your plan, at the end of your first year, you should be able to begin thinking about hiring other people to alleviate some of your workload. Remember this, starting a successful business is not a means towards either a job for yourself or a way to keep busy. It should be regarded as the beginning of a business that will grow and prosper, with you as the top dog - eventually, you'll have other people doing all the work for you, even running the whole business, while you vacation in the Bahamas or Hawaii and collect or receive regular income from your initial efforts.

Meanwhile, the best of luck to you in all your extra-incoming building efforts, and may the angels of paradise keep you constantly under their umbrella of smiles and happiness!

To Your Success,

Ken Smith
kandtenterprisesmi@yahoo.com
www.lessons4success.com
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Ken has been promoting Home Based and Internet businesses for over 4 years. He believes that there are so many opportunities available that ANYONE can find a business that they can operate from home. One key element in being success in life and business, Ken believes, is that a person must continually improve themselves. Ken believes that Personal Development is the catylist that will propel one into major success. To read other articles that Ken has written and submitted go to: http://www.powerteamsuccess.blogspot.com, and http://EzineArticles.com/?id=222238. To check the current business that Ken is promoting go to: http://www.lessons4success.com.

Making Money With Give-Aways

2006-06-16T17:25:00.000-05:00

MAKING MONEY WITH GIVE-AWAYS

The guy who thought of giving away free rolls of film every time you have
your films developed at his photo center - is a genius!

You know the rest of the story, and so do thousands other photo centers
around the world who copy this excellent promotion.

STRETCHING DOLLARS

A budget conscious market is always out looking for a free lunch. For
this reason, you can build a marketing system that self-liquidates its
associated cost, distributing gift certificates that offer free this or
free that - all the customer has to do is pay a minimal shipping and
handling charge.

FREE SOFTWARE

In Las Vegas, I met a poker player who sells software he put together for
$29 and higher. To double the volume and reach other markets, he decided to
repackage his software. He gave it a new name, made a new disk label,
and offered it at a ridiculous price:

FREE

To receive the software, all you have to do is fill out the gift certificate
and send it back to him with $8.69 for shipping and handling.

THEY WENT APE! He was giving the certificates to schools, businesses, and
stores who give away the certificates as their own promotional gifts to their
customers. Because the cost to produce and mail this disk is 60 cents, he
was making $8 with every certificate that was redeemed for the free software.

$800,000 IN 27 WEEKS

Take a snapshot of this picture: Say, a total of 1 Million certificates
were circulated. Let's say you paid half a penny to print and distribute
these million certificates. Your cost is $5,000. If you generate a 7%
conversion, you'll earn $560,000.00

NUMBERS GAME

If you give other people permission to make copies of and give away your
certificates, your cost to circulate 1 Million certificates will go down.
But your opportunity to make money remains the same.

1% response = $80,000

2% response = $160,000
3% response = $240,000
5% response = $400,000
10% response = $800,000

THE INTERNET

Now, if you do the same thing on the internet you will see similar results. One thing to note is that with the internet you don’t have the cost of normal advertising and you have a vast array of advertising venues. Here are just a few of the advertising venues that can be utilized:

Classified ads (free and paid)
Pay per clicks (ie., Google adwords)
Ezine advertising
Co-op advertising
Joint Venture advertising…

The possibilities are almost endless! Contact me for help in this area (powerbizmi@yahoo.com) put in the subject line “Help with Give aways” and I will promptly answer your questions.

Another point to consider about going the internet route is that you don’t have to have an actual physical product to give away. Give ebooks, Special Reports, and the like that cost very little to produce or you can put the previously mentioned items on a CD and mail it to the prospect. If you plan to mail the item it should look very professional… remember, your reputation is on the line.

And last but certainly not least, your give away must have value, people do not want junk! Make sure your give away is valuable to the audience you have targeted.

To Your Success,

Ken Smith
www.lessons4success.com
powerbizmi@yahoo.com
www.powerteamsuccess.com

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2006-06-14T14:02:00.000-05:00

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Learn Your Life's Purpose in 20 Minutes or Less

2006-06-12T05:45:00.000-05:00

I recently came across this article and was so impressed by it that I got permission to reprint it in this blog. Please take the time to read it and do the excercise.

Most of us go through life and don't really know what our purpose is, we meander around from place to place, job to job, hobby to hobby, etc., looking for that "right" thing we're supposed ot be doing.

Well, I think Steve Pablino's article will help you find that purpose in life that will drive you to the success you are looking for. Take a few minutes and read this article.

Thanks and have a great day,

Ken Smith
www.lessons4success.com
powerteamsuccess.blogspot.com
kandtenterprisesmi@yahoo.com

How to discover your life purpose in about 20 minutes

January 16th, 2005 by Steve Pavlina

How do you discover your real purpose in life? I’m not talking about your job, your daily responsibilities, or even your long-term goals. I mean the real reason why you’re here at all — the very reason you exist.

Perhaps you’re a rather nihilistic person who doesn’t believe you have a purpose and that life has no meaning. Doesn’t matter. Not believing that you have a purpose won’t prevent you from discovering it, just as a lack of belief in gravity won’t prevent you from tripping. All that a lack of belief will do is make it take longer, so if you’re one of those people, just change the number 20 in the title of this blog entry to 40 (or 60 if you’re really stubborn). Most likely though if you don’t believe you have a purpose, then you probably won’t believe what I’m saying anyway, but even so, what’s the risk of investing an hour just in case?

Here’s a story about Bruce Lee which sets the stage for this little exercise. A master martial artist asked Bruce to teach him everything Bruce knew about martial arts. Bruce held up two cups, both filled with liquid. “The first cup,” said Bruce, “represents all of your knowledge about martial arts. The second cup represents all of my knowledge about martial arts. If you want to fill your cup with my knowledge, you must first empty your cup of your knowledge.”

If you want to discover your true purpose in life, you must first empty your mind of all the false purposes you’ve been taught (including the idea that you may have no purpose at all).

So how to discover your purpose in life? While there are many ways to do this, some of them fairly involved, here is one of the simplest that anyone can do. The more open you are to this process, and the more you expect it to work, the faster it will work for you. But not being open to it or having doubts about it or thinking it’s an entirely idiotic and meaningless waste of time won’t prevent it from working as long as you stick with it — again, it will just take longer to converge.

Here’s what to do:

Take out a blank sheet of paper or open up a word processor where you can type (I prefer the latter because it’s faster).
Write at the top, “What is my true purpose in life?”
Write an answer (any answer) that pops into your head. It doesn’t have to be a complete sentence. A short phrase is fine.
Repeat step 3 until you write the answer that makes you cry. This is your purpose.

That’s it. It doesn’t matter if you’re a counselor or an engineer or a bodybuilder. To some people this exercise will make perfect sense. To others it will seem utterly stupid. Usually it takes 15-20 minutes to clear your head of all the clutter and the social conditioning about what you think your purpose in life is. The false answers will come from your mind and your memories. But when the true answer finally arrives, it will feel like it’s coming to you from a different source entirely.

For those who are very entrenched in low-awareness living, it will take a lot longer to get all the false answers out, possibly more than an hour. But if you persist, after 100 or 200 or maybe even 500 answers, you’ll be struck by the answer that causes you to surge with emotion, the answer that breaks you. If you’ve never done this, it may very well sound silly to you. So let it seem silly, and do it anyway.

As you go through this process, some of your answers will be very similar. You may even re-list previous answers. Then you might head off on a new tangent and generate 10-20 more answers along some other theme. And that’s fine. You can list whatever answer pops into your head as long as you just keep writing.

At some point during the process (typically after about 50-100 answers), you may want to quit and just can’t see it converging. You may feel the urge to get up and make an excuse to do something else. That’s normal. Push past this resistance, and just keep writing. The feeling of resistance will eventually pass.

You may also discover a few answers that seem to give you a mini-surge of emotion, but they don’t quite make you cry — they’re just a bit off. Highlight those answers as you go along, so you can come back to them to generate new permutations. Each reflects a piece of your purpose, but individually they aren’t complete. When you start getting these kinds of answers, it just means you’re getting warm. Keep going.

It’s important to do this alone and with no interruptions. If you’re a nihilist, then feel free to start with the answer, “I don’t have a purpose,” or “Life is meaningless,” and take it from there. If you keep at it, you’ll still eventually converge.

When I did this exercise, it took me about 25 minutes, and I reached my final answer at step 106. Partial pieces of the answer (mini-surges) appeared at steps 17, 39, and 53, and then the bulk of it fell into place and was refined through steps 100-106. I felt the feeling of resistance (wanting to get up and do something else, expecting the process to fail, feeling very impatient and even irritated) around steps 55-60. At step 80 I took a 2-minute break to close my eyes, relax, clear my mind, and to focus on the intention for the answer to come to me — this was helpful as the answers I received after this break began to have greater clarity.

Here was my final answer: to live consciously and courageously, to resonate with love and compassion, to awaken the great spirits within others, and to leave this world in peace.

When you find your own unique answer to the question of why you’re here, you will feel it resonate with you deeply. The words will seem to have a special energy to you, and you will feel that energy whenever you read them.

Discovering your purpose is the easy part. The hard part is keeping it with you on a daily basis and working on yourself to the point where you become that purpose.

If you’re inclined to ask why this little process works, just put that question aside until after you’ve successfully completed it. Once you’ve done that, you’ll probably have your own answer to why it works. Most likely if you ask 10 different people why this works (people who’ve successfully completed it), you’ll get 10 different answers, all filtered through their individual belief systems, and each will contain its own reflection of truth.

Obviously, this process won’t work if you quit before convergence. I’d guesstimate that 80-90% of people should achieve convergence in less than an hour. If you’re really entrenched in your beliefs and resistant to the process, maybe it will take you 5 sessions and 3 hours, but I suspect that such people will simply quit early (like within the first 15 minutes) or won’t even attempt it at all. But if you’re drawn to read this blog (and haven’t been inclined to ban it from your life yet), then it’s doubtful you fall into this group.

Give it a shot! At the very least, you’ll learn one of two things: your true purpose in life -or- that you should unsubscribe from this blog.

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Secrets of Getting Free Advertising

2006-05-26T07:59:00.000-05:00

SECRETS OF GETTING FREE ADVERTISING

The opportunities for getting free advertising for your product or services are limited only by your own imagination and energies. There are so many proven ways of promoting your own objectives without cost that it literally boggles the mind just to think of listing them.

One way is to write an article relative to your particular expertise and submit it to all the publications and media dealing in the dissemination of related information. In other words, become your own publicity and sales promotions writer. Get the word out; establish yourself as an expert in your field, and "tag-along" everything you write with a quick note listing your address for a catalog, dealership opportunity, or more information.

Another really good way is by becoming a guest on as many of the radio and television talk shows or interview type programs as possible. Actually, this is much easier to bring about than most people realize. Write a letter to the producer of these programs,

then follow up with an in-person visit or telephone call. Your initial contact should emphasize that your product or service would be of interest to the listeners or viewers of the program - perhaps even saving them time or money.

Other ways of getting free or very inexpensive exposure include the posting of advertising circulars on all the free bulletin boards in your area, especially the coin-operated laundries, grocery stores, and beauty and barber shops. Don't discount the idea of handing out circulars to all the shoppers in busy shopping centers and malls, especially on weekends. You can also enlist the aid of the middle school students in your area to

hand out circulars door-to-door.

Some of the more routine methods include having a promotional ad relative to your product or service printed on the front or back of your envelopes at the time you have them printed with your return address.

Be sure to check all the publications that carry the kind of advertising you need. Many mail order publications just getting started offer unusually low rates to first-time advertisers; a free-of-charge insertion of your ad when you pay for an order to run three issues or more; or special seasonal ad space at greatly reduced rates. And there are a number of publications that will give you Per Inquiry (PI) space - an arrangement where all orders come in to the publication, they take a commission from each order, and then forward the orders on to you for fulfillment.

Many publications will give you a contract for "stand-by" space. In this arrangement you send them your ad, and they hold it until they have unsold space, and then at a price that's always one third or less than the regular price for the space you need,

insert your ad. Along these lines, be sure to check in with the suburban and neighborhood newspapers.

If you send out or publish any kind of catalog or ad sheet, get in touch with all the other publishers and inquire about the possibilities of exchange advertising. They run your ad in their publication in exchange for your running an ad for them of comparable size in yours.

Finally, there's nothing in the world that beats the low cost and tremendous exposure you get when you advertise a free offer. Simply run an ad offering a free report of interest to most people - a simple one-page report with a "tag-line" inviting the readers to send money for more information, with a full page advertisement for your book or other product on the backside. Ask for a self-addressed stamped envelope, and depending on the appeal of your report and the circulation of the publication in which your ad appears, you could easily be inundated with responses! Note: many mail order pros use this technique, “Free, just pay the shipping and handling”, and receive great responses.

The trick here, of course, is to convert all of these responses, or a large percentage of them, into sales. This is done via the "tag-line," which issues an invitation to the reader to send for more information, and the full page ad on the back of the report, and the other offers you include with the complete package you send back to them. As mentioned at the beginning of this report, it's just a matter of unleashing your imagination. Do that, and you have a powerful force working for you that can help you reach your goals.

Sources of free internet advertising include, opt-in email lists, Free classified sites, link exchange programs, and traffic exchanges. Implementing some of the aforementioned techniques, i.e. free reports and articles, and sending them to online blogs, newsletters, and forums/bulletin boards can increase your success. You must remember that the object of internet advertising is to produce traffic to a particular web site (your own or an affiliate site) where the sale or lead capture is completed. Some of the ones I have used are:

Traffic/Link Exchanges:

JackTenFourty http://www.jacktenforty.com/index.php?referrer=13105

10KHits4UNow (http://www.10khits4unow.com/index.php?affid=4604)

ViralVisitors (http://www.ViralVisitors.com/refer.php?id=53136)

LemmingRun (http://www.lemmingrun.com/refer.php?id=28844)

ViralClassAds (http://www.viralclassads.com/index.php?id=28010)

TrafficRoundUp (http://www.trafficroundup.com/splash/01.php?ref=powerbiz)

ClickAholics (http://www.clickaholics.com/index.php?rid=31758 )

Hitsafari (http://hitsafari.com/newuser.php?ref=powerbizmi)

TrafficSwarm (http://www.trafficswarm.com/go.cgi?500413)

LinkReferral (http://www.linkreferral.com/cgi-bin/linkreferal/adwel.cgi?oldrefid=55424)

Home Based Businesses

2006-05-20T21:22:00.000-05:00

I've been in search for legitimate home based business opportunities for several years. I, like many of you, bought "money making" books, tapes, etc. I joined multi-level marketing programs; Silver programs, travel programs, Amway, Quixtar, EcoQuest, eBay, and information selling programs just to name a few. I had some success with some of the programs but no major success. What I mean by "major success" is doing well enough to quit my J.O.B. and live with financial and time freedom. It seemed as though my search would end with me not having achieved this goal. I went through times of just giving up the search for a while just because of being frustrated that nothing was working. Oh, don't get me wrong, most of the programs would and will work if you have the money, personality to fit, etc. There's a lot of good stuff out there but I have found a match for me and I think what a lot of you are looking for. A program that has a huge market. A program that can be operated totally online. A program that can bring in the money as well as, in the process, developing you as a person; mentally, spiritually, financially, etc. That program is Success University; go to www.lessons4success.com to check it out. The company is only a little over a year old but has already made several millionaires. Deagan Smith built a team of 2500 in eight months totally online. Chris and Julie Chojnowski have built a team of over 700 in just four months. That's almost unheard of in multi-level marketing today. Unlike most MLM's today that restrict online activity and types of advertising, Success University incourages you to advertise in what ever way will work for you as long as you don't misrepresent the company or opportunity. There are even several free methods of advertising and marketing described to allow those on a shoe-string budget to participate. Check out this business for yourself at www.lessons4success.com.

Until next time, never let giving up or quitting be an option.

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

William Shedd