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Michael's : school essay
I remember the time when I caught my first large- mouth bass. The weekend started off great. I was packing my bags for a trip to my favorite destination. I was going to my country house on Bear Pond in Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey. It was on a hot weekend in July, in 2009. I went with my mom, uncle and my great uncle. We were going to the country to put the boat in the water and start fishing for bass.
We got there and the pond was sparkling. It was a beautiful day and the weather was clear and sunny. We arrived at 10 in the morning. I saw the house up on the hill and was ready for a great weekend. I couldn’t wait to get the boat out from under the house. My uncle John had the battery charged already. We got the oars out too. The boat is a red and blue rowboat that seats about 4 people. We finally got the boat down to the water. We took it down the driveway that is filled with soft green moss and some gravel. It was time to get the boat in the water.
The water was cool but not too cool. It was going to feel good because it was so hot. I was so happy to go out in the boat. The boat slid easily over the rocks on the shore and into the shallow water. There were 2 red canoes and a sailboat out on the water already. The pond looked so beautiful. My mom packed a lunch and drinks for the day. All of us were going out on the boat to go to the island we go to have fun fishing and swimming. We call the island Blueberry Island because there are so many blueberry bushes on it. My uncle used to fish on this pond his whole life. My mom and him came to this house every summer when they were kids. I had my fishing rods and my tackle box ready.
As soon as I stepped foot on the rock of the island I casted my fishing rod. I used minnows and lures. The bass in this pond can be very big. Me and my uncle went up to the rocks to cast away from every one. I started with lures but nothing was really happening. The minnows were just what the bass were looking for. They started biting like crazy! My uncle caught the first one and then it was my turn. It happened and my line started to run. This was it! I had a bass on the line. It was mine! The bass was strong and a fighter and my line was out far. My uncle had the net ready and got it out of the water. I was so happy and kept on fishing for the rest of the day. After a while we all went swimming to the island across from where we were. We had a wonderful day!
We went home around 4:00 because it gets cold on the water late in the day. We went home and then had a barbeque. I got so sun burned that day too. I didn’t put enough sunscreen on. I know now that minnows are better than lure to use to catch bass. It was the best fishing trip ever because I caught my first large mouth bass.
Michael
I had fun with this one eddie
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Hello I am a Large-Mouth Bass. I am a fish and I live in a pond. My pond is surrounded by enormous green trees, boulders and some structures that aliens live in. I don’t really know where my pond and it doesn’t matter to me. I have everything I need right here. I am 14 inches and I weigh 3 pound. I love eating minnows, frogs, lizards and worms.
I remember one time when I was just a baby bass it is one of my worst memories. I was swimming around with my friends and all of a sudden I saw a hurt minnow. I thought about lunch so I swam over and ate him. When I started to swim away something went through my lip and started to pull me towards the shore. I tried to go the other way but it was no help. When I got to the shore there were the aliens! They took me out of the water and took the thing out of my lip. They looked at me and then I saw bright lights and then they threw me back in the water. That was a scary time. I remember another time when I was a little older and I was swimming with my one friend. We were by the boulders by the shore because it is cool there during the day. Out of the blue the aliens were jumping in all around us! We didn’t know which way to go. They kept jumping in from every direction. Then they were almost hitting us. We finally got away from the aliens.
I feel absolutely ecstatic about my pond. There are deep canyons in the middle where I can stay during the summer. There are fallen trees where I can hang out with my friends. My world is my pond. This is the place to be. Sometimes new fish come in to the pond from other ponds and everyone says this is the best. I am a big strong bass and I am at the top of the food chain.
There are two important things I have learned from my experiences. First I have to look at what I want to eat before I eat it. I need to make sure that it doesn’t have anything in it. The other thing is to make certain that I stay clear of the ALIENS!
My son Michael who is in the 8th grade Wrote this essay for school. I enjoyed it so much I thought you would to.
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"Some people believe that network marketing really doesn't work. To put it lightly, they're WRONG. I am going to take the next few minutes to explain to you why network marketin will always work so that the next time someone takes the time to tell you that network marketing doesn't work you explain to them how misinformed they truly are.
Here is why Network Marketing will ALWAYS work:
Even in a strong economy people will ALWAYS need supplemental income: The truth is most people live pay check to pay check. They aren't able to buy the nice things that they want for themselves and their families. There is and will always be a constant DEMAND for more money. Network marketing is a
simple, part time and low risk way for full time workers to fill this need. To put it simply, as long as people need money network marketing will ALWAYS be there to fill that need.
People will ALWAYS want freedom from jobs they don't enjoy:
Despite what you may think, there are people out there that truly don't enjoy their job. They go to work because they have to and not because they want to. Network marketing offers a promise of true financial freedom. The ability to leave the 9 to 5 working world. This freedom will ALWAYS be to tempting to pass up.
People will ALWAYS want more free time to do with as they please:
Did you know in a past poll conducted by Money magazine that 64% of American men and 68% of American women polled said that if they had a choice between more money and more time off they would choose the time? People covet their free time. Network marketing offers the promise of working from home and making your own hours. Again, the opportunity to create free time will ALWAYS draw people to network marketing.
Conclusion:
As long as people crave time, moeny and freedom network marketing will ALWAYS exist.
The next time that someone tries to tell you that network marketing doesn't work you know that they couldn't be more wrong. All you have to is ask your accuser 1 of 3 questions:
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The Dirty Truth About Network Marketing That you Must Know and Understand If You Ever Want to Succeed"
Here it is: On the surface, network marketing companies appear to be thriving communities of consuming customers all happy with the product that they are consuming and they really are, but what drives that community of thriving consumers has
absolutely nothing to do with the product itself.
Let's think about this statement.
Let me ask you a question: Why did you decided to get started in a network marketing business?
You don't have to say anything out loud but answer this question in your head right now to yourself.
I guarantee you answer is somewhere along these lines "Well, I started my business because I wanted to make some extra money and who knows maybe even become financially free."
Am I right?
Well let me ask you another question now.
When you prospect and talk to leads about your business what do you talk to them about?
Most likely you try to stick to the corporate script which inevitable ends up with your prospect asking you questions about your network marketing companies products or services. And by the end of the conversation you've lost control of
the call and both you and your prospect end up confused (usually get somewhere between details about your companies product or service and the compensation plan). You get of the phone and hope that my some grace of god your prospect you paid $5 to confuse will decided to join your business. Likely story!
Here's why: Successful Network Marketing has NOTHING to do with selling your prospect on your product at ALL! To the contrary, the only thing that you should EVER talk to your prospect about is the same thing that got you sold on your companies business . . . More Money and Financial Freedom!
You see network marketing is built on financial hopes and dreams and honestly, if you're looking for business builders to recruit into your organization your prospects hopes and dreams of financial success are the only thing that you should speak to them about, so they can sell themselves on it.
As an illustration of this principle think about the
situation this way, if you had equal amounts of your
company's product in one hand and money in the other which do you think your prospect would choose?
The top money earners know the answer to that question and that's how why make all there money!
Here's the other shift in perspective that you're going to have to make if you want to have ultimate success with your business and it's simply a logical continuation on the point just discussed.
What you think of as your company's product is NOT its real product at ALL! Do you think your network marketing company's product is its moon juice or long distance service? If you do you're very wrong.
Continuing on from my last point, remember your network marketing business will not grow if you just push product it will only grow if you sell people on their financial dreams.
So if you think about it, your company's real product is it's sales training and marketing system. The better your company's marketing system is able to help you generate sales the better any more quickly you will be able to reap the financial benefits of your business.
To extend this point further, eventually you'll want your downline to do all the work so you don't have to.
The simpler and more effective the marketing system plus the strong the training your company provides the easier your system will duplicate.
If you want to think about it in its most simple form, your company's real product is its duplicability.
If you find a system that is easy to duplicate and you can have your prospect "sell themselves" on their financial dreams you will have a highly successful network marketing business.
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There are many things we as marketers can do in order to enhance our business and increase our profits. If we aren’t doing everything we possibly can to make the most out of our businesses, then we are leaving money on the table, right? It’s not rocket science and it certainly isn’t difficult to understand.
This report is going to discuss 10 important, and possible crucial facts/ideas that if implemented, will increase your business as well as your profits.
Here they are:
1. PRIORITIZE
The first tip for enhancing your business and increasing your profits in 2010 that I would like to share with you, is that you must ‘prioritize’ when you are working or conducting your business. This can be done in a lot of ways and in a lot of different aspects.
For instance, what is a bigger priority, hanging out on the Warrior Forum’s Main Discussion section, OR writing an article (or two or three!) to promote your website, product or services? Obviously the latter should be a higher priority, but which one do you often choose to do instead? An article can be written in anywhere from 15 minutes, to an hour. Even I find myself spending anywhere from 10 minutes to several hours on the forum when I could be doing much more for my business. (Not that the information on the forum doesn’t help your business, because it very much does!).
This is just one example of something you can do to prioritize your TIME better. You can also prioritize other things just as strategically. You can prioritize which projects or tasks you will work on first and in order of importance.
One problem that many marketers (and Warriors) face, is checking their stats or email much more often than needed, which takes them away from important tasks that should be getting done.
2. ADD A NEW MARKETING TECHNIQUE TO YOUR ROUTINE
This tip is an extremely effective one. Let’s say you have 4 main marketing methods that you use to promote your business. Just as an example, let’s say those 4 methods were:
1. Pay-Per-Click Advertising (PPC)
2. Classified Ads (Craigslist, etc.)
3. Social Network Marketing
4. Blogging
This is an excellent group of advertising methods to combine and implement.
But, what if you were to add another marketing method in there, such as article writing for example. That would make it 5 methods instead of 4, making your new ‘article marketing’ method encompass a whopping 20% of your advertising!
That means you can add a lot of business and increase your profits by a significant amount by adding new marketing methods to your existing campaign.
You can add more than one method for even better results. There are many marketing techniques that are great to add to your repertoire, like:
- SEO
- Link Building
- Article Writing
- PPC
- Blogging
- Social Network Marketing
- Classified Ad Marketing
- Offline Marketing (Business Cards, Flyers, Car Magnet, etc.)
- Offline Newspaper Classified Ads
- Answer Board Marketing
- Video Marketing (YouTube Marketing, etc.)
- Building a List
- Landing a JV
- Email Marketing
- Forum Marketing (Other than IM Niche)
- Outsourcing
- Etc.
There are more, but I am sure there are at least ONE of the above things that you are not doing at all, or not doing enough of.
If you add one or more of the above marketing methods to your existing marketing efforts, I guarantee you will increase your profits and enhance your business over this next upcoming year.
3. START OUTSOURCING
Every successful person and/or corporation is involved in outsourcing of some sort. Usually, this is the very key that allows them to achieve the level of success that they do. If the owner of the Ford Motor Company had to make all the cars himself, do you think the company would be where they are today? The fact that they can outsource their work to enough people, who know what they are doing, makes them able to reach the success level that they desire.
You’ve heard the term, “Two heads are better than one.” This rings true in a lot of aspects of life. It’s kind of like that will outsourcing. If you can write 5 articles a day, that is great. However, if you can write 5 a day, and outsource another 5 articles per day, then that makes it 10 articles a day, instead of 5.
That just DOUBLED your marketing efforts right there, so as I said in the title of this report…You will increase your profits and enhance your business if you implement these tips. If you DOUBLE your output, you will have DOUBLE the results. Imagine if you outsourced a lot more often, or on a broader scale. Also, outsourcing will allow you to use the millionaire mindset of knowing that there are people out there who can do a better job than you can when it comes to certain tasks or skills. So instead of competing against these people, hire them!
Think about it, if you outsource a sales letter to a TOP sales copywriter, chances are that your product offer will convert A LOT more than it would if you wrote your own sales copy, or looked for a really low bargain. WIth excellent copywriting, an offer will tend to convert much better and sell many more copies — which again, enhances your business as well as increases your profits.
4. GET INVOLVED WITH VIDEO MARKETING!
If you have not yet gotten into video marketing yet, this is SERIOUSLY the time to do so. Again, this is something else that can also be outsourced or done quite easily by yourself, at home. YouTube.com is owned by Google and everybody knows how fast your video gets indexed by Google for a specific keyword(s), and the traffic that a single video can generate.
If you are thinking that there is NO way that you can get involved in video marketing, because you just don’t have the skills, equipment, or money — Baloney!
If you’ve ever filmed a friend or family member with a digital video camera or one of those camcorders from the 1980s, you can be a video marketer.
Basically, you can use a simple digital camera that has video capabilities, or you can borrow one from a friend (I am sure someone you know has one!). You can even ask them to help film you and get them in on it.
All you have to do is talk for a few minutes about whatever niche market you are in. You can give away tips, advice, or give a product review for a product that you are promoting. It can be either a product or service that you created, or one that you are promoting as an affiliate of course.
Putting the KEYWORD that you are targeting in the TITLE of the video is the best way to get your video listed on the search engines (Google) the fastest and highest ranking. There are also keyword tags that you can input in the ‘tags’ section of your video. It is very easy to get a FREE account with YouTube.com and it is also very easy and FREE to post as many videos as you like! This is a very powerful marketing tool right at your fingertips, and it’s free.
Additionally, once you post a video to YouTube, not only will you receive traffic to your video from YouTube surfers, but also from Google searchers…But you will also be able to place the video in your website. They give you the embedded HTML code for you to simply ‘copy and paste’ into your website and/or blog. This gives your website the power of video — without costing you a dime! You are surely leaving money on the table if you do not get involved with video marketing over this next year.
This tip has served as yet another way to enhance your Business and increase your Profits in the coming year(s).
5. GOING OFFLINE
This is a method that I myself have only recently gotten involved in. You would be surprised at how well this actually works, for MANY online niches. The ones that work best are:
- Make Money Online Opportunities
- Work from Home
- Weight Loss
- Travel
- Health/Fitness
- Beauty
There are quite a number of ways you can market your online business, offline. A very basic way is to have business cards made with your website address (URL) on the card nice and big. Leaving these business cards in the appropriate places (provided you have permission) works wonders!
For example, if you have a website that is in the ‘make money online’ niche, the best places to leave your business cards would be next to things that have to do with money. Next to the scratch-off lottery tickets at a convenient store or gas station is an excellent place to put a stack of cards that says “Make Money Online, Work From Home” or something related and more specific, such as “Earn $500 from Home!” and of course have your website URL nice and bold.
This can generate a lot of website traffic that you may have NEVER got if you hadn’t put business cards in these key places. The weight loss niche is also a hot one. You can leave business cards at ice cream shops, burger places, gyms, spas, gas stations, convenient stores, etc. and get a great response as well.
Besides business cards there are: Flyers, Car Magnets, Signs, Newspaper Ads, Television or Radio Ads (can get a little expensive, but can also produce excellent results). Getting a local radio station to mention your URL and a brief description or sales pitch for your site can get you a lot of business and be very much worth a couple thousand dollars.
You can get as creative as you want with offline promotions. You can do direct mailing, put little signs in the ground where there is a lot of traffic (similar to the campaigning signs you see around everywhere only advertising your site). It is important that you do not break any city, county or federal rules and laws in your marketing efforts so always do your research as to what is allowed and what isn’t.
6. ADD A NEW INCOME STREAM TO YOUR BUSINESS (NEW NICHE)
There is more than likely a niche that you have not yet gotten into or have been wanting to get into for a while, but are procrastinating out of fear of failure, or any reason for that matter.
Well, I guarantee that you are not involved in every single profitable niche. So, the question arises, “Why not add another profit stream to your business if you can?”
I personally can’t think of a reason why not to, can you?
Let’s say you are in the IM niche and the Weight Loss niche. You may be leaving money on the table by not getting into another hot niche right now, such as holiday gifts, or a completely new niche that will be a permanent income stream, like Acne or Fitness.
Breaking into a new niche can be easy, or it can be difficult depending on how YOU make it. Getting into the acne niche (just as an example), can be as easy as putting up a site or blog about acne. Write several articles or product reviews about acne and acne products. If you cannot do the research and write articles yourself, you can again, outsource them for as low as $4 an article for good quality articles. You can then place Google Adsense ads on your site as well as affiliate links to products that are of good quality, deliver what they promise, convert well and pay good commissions. 60-75% is the norm nowadays for most eBooks and software that are sold through marketplaces like Clickbank.com.
Once you have a site/blog set up with articles/reviews, Adsense and affiliate links, you are good to go! You can promote your new niche site via PPC, or you can write articles (or have them outsourced again) and submit them to EzineArticles.com or any other major article directory. It’s anywhere from 5-10 hours worth of work to get it going, and it can cost you little to nothing and you will have a new revenue stream that will potentially bring in long term revenue.
This tip will also surely enhance your business and increase your profits in the coming year(s), provided you take action and implement it fully.
So what if you fail? That is what business and being successful is all about, trial and error. Successes and failures, there is no such thing as a perfect world. And most of the time if you pick a good niche follow your goals and stay focused you will succeed.
7. PROSPECT
You cannot achieve more success, earn more money, or anything of the sort if you don’t seek out the opportunities and then grab them! There is a ton of prospecting for you to do from now and until you retire. Prospecting can come in many forms, you can do it small scale and seek out clients locally and on places like the Warrior Forum, who need services or products that you can offer them. Or, it can be done on a larger scale where you look to land some JV’s (Joint Ventures) or invest in a business, find new niches, etc.
Prospecting can land you one extra deal this year, or it can land you 1,000 extra deals! How’s that for increasing your profits? Even if you successfully obtain one client or make only one sale as a direct result of your extra ‘prospecting’ you will enhance your business and increase your profits.
Go out there and see what’s hot — and what people want. It’s very easy to stick with what you already know and are routinely doing on a daily or weekly basis. But, if you take the time to prospect a little bit, and pretend like it is the beginning of your online career again and you are super enthusiastic about all the fresh opportunities and money making ideas that are surrounding you. You will surely find a thing (or two) that will lead to a long term income and profit stream.
Remember, we’re beefing up your business here, I am not saying to do these types of things all the time. But once every year or couple years is a good time to update, upgrade and take your business to the next level, no matter how small or large your business is.
Prospect for new clientele, prospect for new business ideas — Prospect.
8. THE ‘DOUBLE’ EFFECT
This is something I like to call the ‘Double Effect’ and it is a theory/technique/strategy that I use to enhance my business and increase my profits every couple years.
The Double Effect can be applied to many different circumstances, for instance, let’s talk about it on a smaller scale for a moment. If you write articles to promote your website and it is working very well for you, what could you do to double that success? Simple. Outsource the exact number of articles that you write, so if you write 5 articles, outsource 5 articles and now you’ll have 10 articles. This will mean that your efforts, as well as your traffic, as well as your PROFITS, will double.
Okay, so even if they don’t double per se, what if they improved by 150%? That would still be MORE profit in your pocket at the end of the day. You don’t even have to outsource or pay money to get double the work done sometimes. You can write the whole 10 yourself instead of just writing 5, or you can have a friend, family member or significant other help write for you as well, provided you give them a little bit of training.
What else could you do in your online business world that could DOUBLE your profits?
Can you come out with two videos instead of just one?
Can you market to 2 niches instead of one?
Can you charge double for one of your products or services instead of possibly selling yourself short?
Can you possibly (with the help of some outsourcing) pull off two launches instead of one this year?
Can you put up a website AND a blog instead of just one or the other?
Could you possibly double your PPC Advertising budget, or raise it by any %?
Any of the above tactics would either double your profits or increase them significantly, so there is no reason to ignore the magical potential of the ‘Double Effect.’
I personally have my fiancee help me write articles. If I were to write only 5 or 10 a day myself, I would be at a certain level. But since she also writes that many each day, my efforts are doubled, my traffic is doubled, my response is doubled and therefore…my PROFIT is doubled.
Again, it isn’t rocket science, but it works and it is a perspective that you should try to embrace.
What if you took it even further and made a ‘TRIPLE EFFECT’? That would take a little bit more outsourcing, or tripling the amount of hours you work to accomplish, but triple the income doesn’t sound bad to me. Most people don’t DO that much work online, so doubling their efforts or even tripling their efforts wouldn’t really be that difficult to do. For a more advanced marketer, maybe doubling a few things here and there such as the amount of articles submitted per month or the doubling the price of a product — while adding a bonus to compensate of course.
9. GET WITH THE TIMES!
It is 2009 and drawing closer and closer to 2010. We were supposed to have flying cars by now, but instead we have iPods and eBooks. Well, it’s pretty advanced compared to even 15-20 years ago, heck even 10 years ago! A lot of internet marketers stick to what has made them money ‘in the past’ or they follow a business model that worked for somebody else, ‘in the past.’ What matters is right now. If a new product comes out tomorrow that sweeps the nation and everybody MUST have one — your job as a marketer is to go out there and market it! Why would you stay back and market beepers or pagers, when iPhones and BlackBerries are the latest and greatest?
When Craigslist was the hottest thing around, I wrote a report about how to advertise effectively and ethically on Craigslist. It sold like hot cakes, because the topic was hot. Most of the time, Amazon.com and eBay.com will be selling the latest and hottest products on the market and therefore you can get a piece of the action by promoting these items as an affiliate. Even the greats have to ‘Get with the times’ every now and then. Listen to great music artists like Paul McCartney. His hits always fit in with the style of the current time. In the 60’s he was writing “She Loves You, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah!” and in the 80’s he was writing “Silly Love Songs” and “Ebony and Ivory” which are very much 80’s style music. Getting with the times is an essential part of your business — online or off — and it will most certainly result in your business enhancing and your profits increasing.
Here are some things you can do to ‘Get With the Times’ as far as your internet business is concerned:
- Get into video marketing
- Use Web 2.0 techniques
- Make your site look modern!
- Be involved in social networks (twitter, etc.)
- Have video on your site, as well as new looking Web 2.0 graphics
- Sell Products that are popular NOW, in the current time (day, week, month)
- Follow the latest rule changes so you can keep up with effective SEO techniques (A lot of people use very outdated SEO tactics that don’t work anymore).
- Use LSI Techniques when doing SEO for your site or when writing optimized articles, etc.
- Build a list of opt-in subscribers using a squeeze page
- And anything else that is new, groundbreaking, effective, creative and profitable!
10. LEARN A NEW SKILL THIS YEAR
By learning a new skill (that there is a demand for of course), there is no way that you will not increase your profits in the coming months and years. Personally, I think that copywriting is the best skill you could possibly learn, or at very least brush up on. If you can write effective sales copy, not only can you make a lot of money by writing the sales letters to promote your own products or affiliate promotions, but you can also charge an arm and a leg for your sales copywriting services.
If copywriting is to time consuming of a venture for you to get into, or you are not interested in it at all, there are many skills you can learn that can make you money right on the Warrior Forum itself, or on other Freelance websites as well as offline — such as:
- Web design
- Article writing
- Graphic design
- SEO Techniques
- LSI Techniques
- Learn some Time Management skills
- .PHP, MySQL, HTML, Java, Flash, Ruby on Rails, or any of these related skills are highly sought after and pay very well
- How to create your own product
- How to land a JV
- And again, anything creative that you can come up with!
Whether you learn the new skill to use solely in your own advertising campaigns or so that you can sell your services — you will profit highly from acquiring one of these skills. If you learn the skill to use for yourself, you will save a ton of money on outsourcing, therefore your profits will have increased. Or, if you learn the skill in order to sell your services you will also (obviously) profit greatly from that route.
Take article writing for example. If you learn how to do this simple skill, you can profit in at least 3 ways that I can think of off the top of my head:
1. Writing articles for yourself to promote your products/services, etc.
2. Saving money by not having to outsource
3. Selling your article writing services for even more profit
You will leave money on the table again if you don’t learn a new skill this year. How many times do we leave money on the table on a daily basis? Think about it. All these extra nooks and crannies that we can squeeze profits and long term income streams out of can really add up to a lot, and make a significant difference in the success of one’s business.
CONCLUSION
It is clear that we can all enhance our business and increase our profits in one way or another, no matter how successful or unsuccessful we have been in the past. The past is over and done with. What matters is the present, which is what shapes the future. The future is important because it determines where we will be in a year, two years, five and ten years down the road. Will you be happy? Healthy? Wealthy? It’s up to you in a lot of ways.
This report explains clearly, how you can enhance your business and increase your profits over the next year(s) and if you implement even ONE of the tips in this report, you will increase your profits. As a matter of fact, even if you just re-sell this report once or twice or give it away in exchange for an email address in order to build your opt-in list you will have already profited from this report and have ‘increased your profits’ in a way. Taking action is always the most important factor in the end, no matter how great of an idea or plan you have in mind.
I wish you all the best of success!
Sincerely,
Gerald Picher
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How To Get Re-Tweeted
Author: Laura Roeder
October 26th, 2009
Today I’m going to tell you how to craft your tweets for the holy grail of twitter – retweets!
WHY am I getting worked up over reweets? What’s the big deal?
They are a big deal because
retweets are the #1 best way to rapidly accelerate your list of followers on twitter. Yes, much better than those junky “get 10,000 followers overnight” deals because:
1. Many of those deals will get you BANNED from twitter which kiiiiiind of defeats the purpose, don’t you think?
2. Those deals by nature get you a bunch of RANDOM people that could care less about you or your business. Everything I teach is about getting *targeted* followers who love your stuff and are actively raising their hands to build a relationship with you and your business.
OK sorry about that little diatribe . . .
Anyway the nature of retweets is people are putting YOUR twitter name in front of THEIR list, which can quickly multiply exponentially! Let me walk you through the math . . . one of your followers retweets your message that has 500 followers (a pretty low number on twitter, I won’t even go into the common situations where you hit the jackpot by getting retweeted by someone with a follower list of 10,000 . . . or much MUCH more).
3. of the people on their list (that don’t even follow you!) with 500 each ALSO retweet the message.
Your message (which can very well be a promotional message for your business) has just been placed in front of 2,000 people in the blink of an eye! Many of whom are discovering you for the first time! This happens ALL the time on twitter. (Search @lkr on twitter and you’ll see that I’m retweeted almost daily.)
OK so how does this gain you TARGETED followers instead of the random junkpile that other methods deliver?
The simple beauty of this is that people only choose to follow you if they have some interest in the message that they saw retweeted. So you’re only adding people to your follower list who have already had a “free sample” of you and want more. Pretty cool huh?
- Laura
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Dr. Vinay Goyal is an MBBS,DRM,DNB (Intensivist and Thyroid specialist) having clinical experience of over 20 years. He has worked in institutions like Hinduja Hospital , Bombay Hospital , Saifee Hospital , Tata Memorial etc.. Presently, he is heading our Nuclear Medicine Department and Thyroid clinic at Riddhivinayak Cardiac and Critical Centre, Malad (W). The following message given by him, I feel makes a lot of sense and is important for all to know The only portals of entry are the nostrils and mouth/throat. In a global epidemic of this nature, it's almost impossible to avoid coming into contact with H1N1 in spite of all precautions. Contact with H1N1 is not so much of a problem as proliferation is. While you are still healthy and not showing any symptoms of H1N1 infection, in order to prevent proliferation, aggravation of symptoms and development of secondary infections, some very simple steps, not fully highlighted in most official communications, can be practiced (instead of focusing on how to stock N95 or Tamiflu): 1. Frequent hand-washing (well highlighted in all official communications). 2. "Hands-off-the-face" approach. Resist all temptations to touch any part of face (unless you want to eat, bathe or slap). 3. *Gargle twice a day with warm salt water (use Listerine if you don't trust salt). *H1N1 takes 2-3 days after initial infection in the throat/ nasal cavity to proliferate and show characteristic symptoms. Simple gargling prevents proliferation. In a way, gargling with salt water has the same effect on a healthy individual that Tamiflu has on an infected o ne. Don't underestimate this simple, inexpensive and powerful preventative method. 4. Similar to 3 above, *clean your nostrils at least once every day with warm salt water. *Not everybody may be good at Jala Neti or Sutra Neti (very good Yoga asanas to clean nasal cavities), but *blowing the nose hard once a day and swabbing both nostrils with cotton buds dipped in warm salt water is very effective in bringing down viral population.* 5.. *Boost your natural immunity with foods that are rich in Vitamin C (Amla and other citrus fruits). *If you have to supplement with Vitamin C tablets, make sure that it also has Zinc to boost absorption. 6. *Drink as much of warm liquids (tea, coffee, etc) as you can. *Drinking warm liquids has the same effect as gargling, but in the reverse direction. They wash off proliferating viruses from the throat into the stomach where they cannot survive, proliferate or do any harm. I suggest you pass this on to your entire e-list. You never know 20 who might pay attention to it - and STAY ALIVE because of it.
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I think we have all asked the same question at one time or another.
That question is …
“What does it really take to succeed online?”
If we listen to the emails and websites we read, we hear many strong opinions.
“Create your own product” they say.
“Do joint ventures” says another.
“Pay per click advertising is all you need” says yet another voice.
And they always make it sound so much easier than it really is, while loudly proclaiming that their way is the only way. And yet we know that cannot be true.
So … what DOES it take to succeed online?
While I will not pretend to have all the answers, I will share openly what has worked (and is working now) for me and my clients as well.
Experience has proven that focusing on these seven basics will yield results, no matter what market you are attempting to reach or product you are promoting.
1. YOU MUST HAVE A WEBSITE TO SUCCEED
It used to be that email was enough. But today you need a website. It is incredibly ironic that this vital beginning step is the step where so many people fail.
Creating a website can be hard if you don’t know how. But there is a solution, and that solution is blogging.
Using Blogger.com, you really can put meaningful content on the web today, and do it free.
If you have ever struggled to create a website, if you have been confused by HTML editors and all the technical mumbo-jumbo, try blogging today.
2. USE EMAIL TO FOLLOW UP
This is probably the #1 piece of advice I give clients, and it works almost every time.
The logic is undeniable.
If your site is wildly successful, over 90% of first time visitors will not buy on their first visit!
How are they going to remember to return to your site, when there are billions of sites online, many of which are probably your competitors?
You must remind them to come back. You must woo them back with enticing offers and give them solid reasons to do business with you. And nothing does that better than email.
If spending money is an issue, you can create a follow up system free at SendFree.com
3. LET THEM HEAR YOUR VOICE
There is no doubt about it … content is king. People come online to find answers to their questions and solutions to their problems. When your site is the one providing those answers and solutions, people will buy.
But first things first – people have to find your site. And that means getting listed in the search engines. And getting listed in the search engines means providing new content as often as you can.
I suggest adding content to your site every day, or at least every week.
The great thing here is that you don’t have to write it! If you can write your own content, by all means do that. People love to hear from other real people, much more than they want to hear from some slick marketer. If you can’t write, or just don’t want to, then look for resale rights products that offer articles.
Using Google, just enter this search phrase. “resale rights” + articles You will find lots of sites offering pre-written articles that you can use as content on your website.
4. BE COMMITTED
Here is a huge mistake that is made over and over again by very well-meaning people. They join a program, try making it work for six or seven weeks, then quit when things don’t happen as quickly as they were lead to believe.
This is an understandable situation, but one that will lead to failure every time.
The fact is, success takes time. Just as you would not expect to open a pizza shop in your town and become an overnight success, so too you should not expect immediate success online. It can happen, but it is rare, no matter how many say they have done it.
The key here is to do your homework before committing to any program or business. ‘Doing your homework’ includes asking questions, hearing from people who have succeeded with the program, getting wise counsel from people you respect, and taking the time to think it through.
Once you find a product or program you believe in, make a commitment to stick with it until you have tried everything possible to succeed. That commitment will take time to accomplish, and you might just find that an extra month or three of hard work is the key that unlocks the success you desire.
5. EXPAND SLOWLY
There are many ways to make money on the Internet. There are even more ways to advertise or promote a product or program. And that wide variety of choice is often the downfall of many a well-meaning person who is new to the ways of the Internet.
The best advice here is to choose one or two methods of marketing, and get a deep knowledge of what to do in each before moving forward.
One way to do that is to make a list of all the possible ways you could use to promote your offer. Then number the list, making #1 the method you think would be most likely to succeed. Learn all you can about that method, moving on to your second choice only when you feel you have mastered the first tactic.
Doing this will help you save money, sell more products, and help you become an expert at marketing online, which will give you the power to sell any product to any market any time you want!
6. DEVELOP SALES RESISTANCE
This might sound odd coming from a guy who sells things online for a living, but it’s a big one. So big, I almost made this number 1!
If you and I were to count how many products we have bought in the last 12 months that are going unused now, we might get downright depressed!
It’s a fact, Internet marketers know how to sell. Their sites know how to get us to take action now, and boy do we buy. We buy things we don’t need, and sometimes we buy the same thing over and over again!
The way to develop sales resistance, and keep more of your money in your pocket where it belongs, is to ask questions. Here are four questions I ask before buying anything.
1.Do I really need this now?
2.Do I already own it, or own a similar product?
3.What problem will this purchase solve?
4.What is my specific plan for using this product in the next 24 hours?
I believe that we should buy what we need to succeed. Be that information, or a service, or a product to sell, you simply cannot make money without spending money. But spending wisely is a must!
7. BE REALISTIC
We touched on this in point 4, but it’s worth another look. My friend, sites that say you will earn $10,000, $20,000 or more in the next 30 days no matter what your current level of experience is are lying to you.
We live in an amazing time. The Internet has opened new possibilities to anyone with a connection and a burning desire to succeed. And that is a wonderful thing, one that will literally change our world.
But it takes skills and time to succeed online, and there is no getting around that.
Can you make a living online? For most people, the answer is yes. But that yes must be tempered with the knowledge that it takes work, certain skills, some startup money, and time to succeed online.
If you are realistic, it can work.
The seven secrets revealed above have passed the test of time, working for people on almost every continent and in every economic circumstance.
Let me encourage you to take these seven secrets and make them your own. Take time to choose what you want to accomplish online, then take action today using these seven secrets as your guide.
Henry David Thoreau said “If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
Nowhere is that statement more true than on the Internet. Create a solid plan and follow that plan and this year will be your best year ever!
Article by Charlie Page
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Automate Your Online Business in Five Easy Steps
(c) Charlie Page
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A good friend of mine used to have this saying ...
"You've heard that the goal is to work smarter, not
harder, right? Well I say the goal is to work LESS!"
Jeff was a wise individual indeed. He saw the Internet
as a tool that offers the ability to set up a business
that runs, as the gurus love to say, on autopilot.
And Jeff achieved his dream, seeing his online business
earn over $250,000 almost completely on autopilot.
So let's take up Jeff's words and see how that looks in
the real world.
Here are five ways that you can create an automated
business - one that earns 24 hours a day without your
continuing involvement.
1. PAY PER CLICK AUTOMATES YOUR PAID TRAFFIC
The beauty of pay per click advertising is that you can
set it and forget it.
The key is to create an account with your preferred
provider (these days it's usually Google or Yahoo) and
establish a fair bid price (what you will pay for every
visitor they send you).
Once you have done that, you can tell your pay per
click provider how much you will spend and they will
keep sending traffic to your site until they reach
*your* budget amount.
What could be better than that?
Now you are getting the traffic you need for a price
you choose and at the rate you choose.
All you need do now is log in to your pay per click
account once a month and make sure things are going
well, and make any adjustments you want.
Super easy traffic control. Profitable too!
2. AUTORESPONDERS AUTOMATE YOUR FOLLOW UP
If your site is *wildly* successful, you will convince
about 5% of first time buyers to buy now.
But what about the 95% - the ones that don't buy today?
You've got to remind them to return and buy.
And the way to do that is by using an autoresponder.
Email marketing is still the most powerful form of
online advertising, and it can begin working for you
today!
Just make a list of the top ten reasons why someone
should buy from you. Then make each reason into a short
email message. Then set up a form on your site (your
autoresponder company - like Aweber or SendFree will
show you how) and invite people to learn more.
Those who do want to learn more - your best prospects
by the way - will get your ten messages over time and
be prompted to return and buy.
This is TRUE marketing automation.
If you aren't doing this now, you ARE losing money.
3. RSS AUTOMATES YOUR CONTENT
IF you want a site that is always fresh and new (which
the search engines love) and don't want to spend hours
creating new content, then you need to know about RSS.
RSS is simply a way to display content from other sites
on your site automatically.
My suggestion is to find a good book or article on RSS
and learn more if you think that showing fresh content
on your site is important.
4. CLICKBANK AUTOMATES YOUR AFFILIATE PROGRAM
Clickbank is a company through which you can sell your
product and have affiliates too. Selling through
Clickbank is easy and fast.
The best part of working with Clickbank by far is how
they manage your affiliate program FOR you. They
literally do all the work.
* They provide the form you need to sign up affiliates.
* They track clicks and sales.
* Best of all ... THEY pay your affiliates for you.
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HOT TIP: If you have a brisk affiliate program,
you can forget about fresh content, struggling to
get traffic, and more. Motivated affiliates will
send you all the traffic you need to succeed.
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5. VIRTUAL ASSISTANTS AUTOMATE YOUR SUPPORT
Today there is a trend that is gaining steam called
'virtual assistants'.
In the old days, we had answering services that would
answer our phones and take messages. This was a win-win
because your phone was answered by a live person and
the message got through.
Now fast forward to the 21st century and discover the
power of virtual assistants.
These well-trained individuals can do almost any task
you need done.
They can ...
* Answer your phone
* Answer emails
* Maintain your website
* Run a forum for you
* Do light programming
* Run a support center for you
* And more
You *will* lose some personal touch by using
assistants, but if your goal is to work less, it is a
very cost effective way to go.
Should you automate your business to the point where
you no longer have to work every day?
Only you can decide how much automation is right for
you, and how much you want to personally interact with
clients and others.
But a very high degree of automation is possible if you
structure your business correctly.
By using these methods you can work alone, make a full
time income, and have the free time you want to enjoy
life to its fullest.
And THAT is a beautiful thing indeed!
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Government says bloggers must disclose payments from ad companies and celebrities will be held to account for promotions.
By David Goldman, CNNMoney.com staff writer
October 6, 2009: 9:06 AM ET
Do you expect to be better off financially in 2010?
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The Federal Trade Commission is going after bloggers, celebrities and tall tales in the first revision of its rules for endorsements and product reviews in nearly 30 years.
The new guidelines, which go into effect Dec. 1, are designed to adapt to a new world in which blogs and social media Web sites such as Facebook and Twitter have quickly become go-to destinations for consumers to get an opinion about a product.
One existing FTC rule, which states that product reviewers must reveal any connection they have with advertisers, was extended to bloggers. Companies will often distribute free products to bloggers for their review, and sometimes advertisers offer payment for a product endorsement. The FTC said that endorsements on blogs appear to be "word of mouth," but that is not always the case.
The new rules also make clear that celebrity endorsers of products must reveal their relationships with advertisers when making endorsements if they are pushing a product on a blog, social network or television talk show.
The FTC also targeted testimonials in ads that aren't typical results for a product. For instance, many weight loss supplement ads will show people who have used the product and have lost large amounts of weight, with a disclaimer at the bottom that reads "results not typical." Under the new rules, the company must disclose the results that consumers should usually expect.
The existing rules carry a fine as high as $11,000 if product endorsers and reviewers don't comply.
http://money.cnn.com/2009/10/06/news/companies/ftc_blogger_advertising_rules/?postversion=2009100609
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Why You Should Never Use Coupons Or
Shop At Wal-Mart If You Want To Get Rich...
I've been debating whether or not to write this email for about two weeks now because I know that quite a few people will wrongly be offended by it, and that my inbox will be flooded by derogatory responses.
Then my new issue of Perry Marshall's Newsletter arrived in my mail box, and I changed my mind...
Here's the introduction to his newsletter:
"You know what's wrong with the internet?
Smart people and stupid people get equal airtime. And since stupid people tend to shout longer and louder than people who have acquired wisdom and judgment, ignorance usually prevails.
Stupid people proudly step forward and identify themselves. They self-select. As soon as this newsletter issue hits the streets, people who are angry about this newsletter and this irrelevant first section which "obviously has nothing to do with marketing will send nasty emails and cancel their membership. This naturally weeds the stupid people out of my Renaissance Club." - Perry Marshall.
Perry's point is that you should never stifle the growth of the wise minority for fear of loud reprisal by the ignorant majority. With that said, here is a very basic, very simple message on the surface that will contain deeper meaning for those who get it...
I hate shopping at Wal-Mart . It makes me sick to my stomach, but the important part is why... (And if you're going to read this, you need to read the entire page).
For as long as I can remember, I've had a burning desire to achieve above average financial prosperity... To have the million dollar home on the lake, the cars, and the ability to do anything, or buy anything I want. 100%, pure freedom.
But it's not just about material goods. Money gives you the freedom, options, and power to have a large and positive impact on society through charity, education, and reform.
Because I have such strong feelings and emotions attached to the desire to achieve wealth and success, I have equally strong feelings of repulsion for poverty and weakness.
Most wealthy and successful people share this repulsion.
Why?
Because they are consciously aware (unlike the majority of society), that thoughts, ideas, and attitudes are real things, and that they are contagious.
You will adopt the ideas, beliefs, and mindset of the people you spend the most time with (including the people found on TV, in books, or on tape), which will lead you to make similar decisions, which will lead you to assume a similar life and lifestyle.
Rich people know this, and they know that a person's mindset is fluid. It's always changing with the ideas and interactions it comes into contact with on a daily basis.
This is why rich people protect themselves from everything associated with struggle and poverty.
Ever wonder why they live together in walled communities closed off from the rest of society with massive gates? Ever wonder why they shop at expensive boutiques, fly first-class, stay at $500/night hotels?
Ever wonder why most of them belong to "members only" country clubs?
Is it because they want to enjoy the finer things in life? Well sure. But that's not the only reason.
They want to protect their minds from the thoughts of poverty and struggle that are held by the rest of common society because they know that all thoughts are contagious, and they have a burning desire to live un-common lives.
The rich get richer because they only invite and interact with other prosperous people.
The common man sees this behavior as "stuck-up" and "snobby". The rich simple see it as an unfortunate necessity, as I do.
That's why I never shop at Wal-Mart. Have I? Yes. But just walking into that store makes me physically uncomfortable. My stomach turns.
I feel that way because I associate that store and the people who shop there with struggle and poverty.
The entire company is designed around the concept of "saving money" and pinching pennies.
It's a physical monument dedicated to thoughts like...
"I only have this much money, so I need to save as much as I can."
"The economy is crashing, so I need to guard what little I have."
"I can't afford it..."
"We're on a limited budget."
That kind mindset is a disease voluntarily held by people who go through life as victims.
They are subservient to their boss, to economic times, to prices, and to money itself.
Money has the power, and they are lucky to acquire and save any that comes their way.
The rich think differently.
They believe and accept that they have the power to change and shape their lives as they wish. Money doesn't own their lives, they own the money. They have the power.
The difference between these two mindsets can be summed up like this...
Someone with a poverty mentality says, "I can't afford it".
Someone with an abundance mentality says, "How can I afford it?"
The more you start to think like the rich, the more appearant this mindset will become to you. One day, you'll walk into Walmart and you'll literally FEEL what I'm talking about.
You'll feel like you're out of place... Like you've walked into a club or restaurant where you're the one person who doesn't belong.
Now I know that there are a lot of people out there reading this who DO shop at Wal-Mart and are saying, "that's easy for you to say Mike. You don't have a family of 4 to support and you're not struggling to get this home business thing off the ground anymore."
Well I have shopped at Wal-Mart and I have been as low as anyone. When you're pawning your DVD collection to eat as I have, you've basically hit the bottom.
But the difference is that even during those times, I have NEVER been comfortable shopping there because in my mind, I was different. I didn't belong in that store. I didn't share the same mind-set that the rest of the people in there did.
I have nothing against saving money when you're struggling. I was there. But I do, and will always wage war against a poverty mentality.
Whether or not you shop at Wal-Mart is not important. Everyone starts from the bottom and does whatever they have to do. Whether or not you are comfortable and happy shopping at Wal-Mart is where your personal truth is found.
If you don't have the feelings, desires, and aspirations to separate yourself from the crowd of Middle America discount shoppers, then I don't know why you're even on this list.
To take this attitude of abundance vs prosperity to another level, I've also adopted the following habits:
I never use coupons and I never accept coin change from a purchase. If my bottle of water costs $1.75, the cashier gets $2.00 and keeps the 25 cents.
Why?
Because I NEVER focus on pinching pennies. I focus on MAKING MORE.
I constantly hold an abundance mindset, and these two habits are a physical expression of that mentality that I have held even when I was making $1,500/mo as a waiter. It's a message to my subconscious mind to always see life through a lens of prosperity.
If you find yourself thinking more about saving money, than making money...
If you have trouble seeing yourself as a leader instead of an employee...
If you're not sure how to make that transition from a poverty mentality that limits you, to one of abundance that leads to wealth.
And it isn't some "rah-rah" feel good speech. The information is based on the genetic behavior patterns that determine whether you're a "beta" in life, (like an employee), or an "Alpha" leader.
If you want to be successful and wealthy so you can have a positive impact on your life and others, you MUST become an Alpha because there's no such thing as a "rich beta." They simply do not exist.
Best,
Mike Dillard
take care. eddie 
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This gives us something to think about with all our new electronic technology.
GPS
A couple of weeks ago a friend told me that someone she knew
had their car broken into while they were at a football game. Their car
was parked on the green which was adjacent to the football stadium and
specially allotted to football fans. Things stolen from the car included
a garage door remote control, some money and a GPS which had been
prominently mounted on the dashboard.
When the victims got home, they found that their house had been
ransacked and just about everything worth anything had been stolen.
The thieves had used the GPS to guide them to the house. They
then used the garage remote control to open the garage door and gain
entry to the house. The thieves knew the owners were at the football
game, they knew what time the game was scheduled to finish and so they
knew how much time they had to clean out the house. It would appear that
they had brought a truck to empty the house of its contents.
Something to consider if you have a GPS - don't put your home address in it. Put a nearby address (like a store or gas station) so you can still find your way home if you need to, but no one else would know where you live if your GPS were stolen.
MOBILE PHONES
I never thought of this...
This lady has now changed her habit of how she lists her names
on her mobile phone after her handbag was stolen. Her handbag, which
contained her cell phone, credit card, wallet... etc...was stolen.
20 minutes later when she called her hubby, from a pay phone
telling him what had happened, hubby says 'I received your text asking
about our PIN number and I've replied a little while ago.'
When they rushed down to the bank, the bank staff told them all
the money was already withdrawn. The thief had actually used the stolen
cell phone to text 'hubby' in the contact list and got hold of the pin
number. Within 20 minutes he had withdrawn all the money from their bank
account.
Moral of the lesson:
Do not disclose the relationship between you and the people in your contact list..
Avoid using names like Home, Honey, Hubby, Sweetheart, Dad, Mom, etc....
And very importantly, when sensitive info is being asked through texts, CONFIRM by calling back.
Also, when you're being text by friends or family to meet them somewhere, be sure to call back to confirm that the message came from them. If you don't reach them, be very careful about going places to meet 'family and friends' who text you.
*PLEASE PASS THIS ON
*I never thought about the above!
As of now, I no longer have 'home' listed on my cell phone...
eddie