You Have To Love It - It All Free. :-)
1. Build a "101 list". These get Dugg all the time, and often become "authority documents". People can't resist linking to these (hint, hint).
2. Create 10 easy tips to help you [insert topic here] articles. Again, these are exceptionally easy to link to.
3. Create extensive resource lists for a specific topic (see Mr Ploppy for inspiration).
4. Create a list of the top 10 myths for a specific category.
5. Create a list of gurus/experts. If you impress the people listed well enough, or find a way to make your project look somewhat official, the gurus may end up linking to your site or saying thanks. (Sometimes flattery is the easiest way to strike up a good relationship with an "authority".)
*Developing Authority & Being Easy to Link At*
6. Make your content easy to understand so many people can understand and spread your message. (It's an accessibility thing.)
7. Put some effort in to minimize grammatical or spelling errors, especially if you need authoritative people like librarians to link to your site.
8. Have an easily accessible privacy policy and about section so your site seems more trustworthy. Including a picture of yourself may also help build your authority.
*PPC as a Link Building Tool*
9. Buy relevant traffic with a pay per click campaign. Relevant traffic will get your site more visitors and brand exposure. When people come to your site, regardless of the channel in which they found it, there is a possibility that they will link to you.
*News & Syndication*
10. Syndicate an article at EzineArticles, GoArticles, iSnare, etc. The great thing about good article sites is that their article pages actually rank highly and send highly qualified traffic.
11. Submit an article to industry news site. Have an SEO site? Write an article and submit to WebProNews. Have a site about BLANK? Submit to BLANKinformationalsite.com.
12. Syndicate a press release. Take the time to make it GOOD (compelling, newsworthy). Email it to some handpicked journalists and bloggers. Personalize the email message. For good measure, submit it to PRWeb, PRLeap, etc.
13. Track who picks up your articles or press releases. Offer them exclusive news or content.
14. Trade articles with other webmasters.
15. Email a few friends when you have important relevant news asking them for their feedback and/or if they would mind referencing it if they find your information useful.
16. Write about, and link to, companies with "in the news" pages. They link back to stories and blog posts which cover their developments. This is obviously easiest if you have a news section or blog. Do a Google search for [your industry + "in the news"].
17. Perform surveys and studies that make people feel important. If you can make other people feel important they will help do your marketing for you for free. Salary.com did a study on how underpaid mothers were, and they got many high quality links.
*Directories, Meme Trackers & Social Bookmarking*
18. This tip is an oldie but goodie: submit your site to DMOZ and other directories that allow free submissions.
19. Submit your site to paid directories. Another oldie. Just remember that quality matters.
20. Create your own topical directory about your field of interest. Obviously link to your own site, deeplinking to important content where possible. Of course, if you make it into a truly useful resource, it will attract links on its own.
21. Tag related sites on sites like Del.icio.us. If people find the sites you tag to be interesting, emotionally engaging, or timely they may follow the trail back to your site.
22. If you create something that is of great quality make sure you ask a few friends to tag it for you. If your site gets on the front page of Digg or on the Del.icio.us popular list, hundreds more bloggers will see your site, and potentially link to it.
23. Look at meme trackers to see what ideas are spreading. If you write about popular spreading ideas with plenty of original content (and link to some of the original resources), your site may get listed as a source on the meme tracker site.
*Local & Business Links*
24. Join the Better Business Bureau.
25. Get a link from your local chamber of commerce.
26. Submit your link to relevant city and state governmental resources. (Easier in some countries than in others.)
27. List your site at the local library's Web site.
28. See if your manufacturers or retailers or other business partners might be willing to link to your site.
29. Develop business relationships with non-competing businesses in the same field. Leverage these relationships online and off, by recommending each other via links and distributing each other's business cards.
30. Launch an affiliate program. Most of the links you pick up will not have SEO value, but the added exposure will almost always lead to additional "normal" links.
*Easy Free Links*
31. Depending on your category and offer, you will find Craigslist to be a cheap or free classified service.
32. It is pretty easy to ask or answer questions on Yahoo! Answers and provide links to relevant resources.
33. It is pretty easy to ask or answer questions on Google Groups and provide links to relevant resources.
34. If you run a fairly reputable company, create a page about it in the Wikipedia or in topic specific wikis. If it is hard to list your site directly, try to add links to other pages that link to your site.
35. It takes about 15 minutes to set up a topical Squidoo page, which you can use to look like an industry expert. Link to expert documents and popular useful tools in your fields, and also create a link back to your site.
36. Submit a story to Digg that links to an article on your site. You can also submit other content and have some of its link authority flow back to your profile page.
37. If you publish an RSS feed and your content is useful and regularly updated, some people will syndicate your RSS content (and some of those will provide links… unfortunately, some will not).
38. Most forums allow members to leave signature links or personal profile links. If you make quality contributions some people will follow these links and potentially read your site, link at your site, and/or buy your products.
*Have a Big Heart for Reviews*
39. Most brands are not well established online, so if your site has much authority, your review related content often ranks well.
40. Review relevant products on Amazon.com. We have seen this draw in direct customer enquiries and secondary links.
41. Create product lists on Amazon.com that review top products and also mention your background (LINK!).
42. Review related sites on Alexa to draw in related traffic streams.
43. Review products and services on shopping search engines like ePinions to help build your authority.
44. If you buy a product or service you really like and are good at leaving testimonials, many of those turn into links. Two testimonial writing tips — make them believable, and be specific where possible.
*Blogs & the Blogosphere*
45. Start a blog. Not just for the sake of having one. Post regularly and post great content. Good execution is what gets the links.
46. Link to other blogs from your blog. Outbound links are one of the cheapest forms of marketing available. Many bloggers also track who is linking to them or where their traffic comes from, so linking to them is an easy way to get noticed by some of them.
47. Comment on other blogs. Most of these comments will not provide much direct search engine value, but if your comments are useful, insightful, and relevant they can drive direct traffic. They also help make the other bloggers become aware of you, and they may start reading your blog and/or linking to it.
48. Technorati tag pages rank well in Yahoo! and MSN, and to a lesser extent in Google. Even if your blog is fairly new you can have your posts featured on the Technorati tag pages by tagging your posts with relevant tags.
49. If you create a blog make sure you list it in a few of the best blog directories.
*Design as a Linking Element*
50. Web 2.0-ify your site. People love to link to anything with AJAX. Even in the narrowest of niches, there is some kind of useful functionality you can build with AJAX.
51. Validate and 508 your site. This (indirect) method makes your site more trustworthy and linkable, especially from governmental sites or design-oriented communities. There are even a few authoritative directories of standards-compliant sites.
52. Order a beautiful CSS redesign. A nice design can get links from sites like CSS Vault.
*Hire Help)
53. Hire a publicist. Good old fashioned 'PR' (not PageRank) can still work wonders. Andy Hagans now offers a link baiting publicity service.
54. Hire a consultant. Yes, you can outsource link building. Just make sure to go with someone good. We recommend WeBuildPages, Debra Mastaler and, ahem, Andy Hagans.
*Link Trading*
55. Swap some links. What?! Did we really just recommend reciprocal link building? Yes, on a small scale, and with relevant partners that will send you traffic. Stay away from the link trading hubs and networks.
56. In case you didn't get the memo — when swapping links, try to get links from within the content of relevant content pages. Do not try to get links from pages that list hundreds of off topic link partners. Only seek link exchanges that you would consider pursuing even if search engines did not exist. Instead of thinking just about your topic when exchanging links, think about demographic audience sets.
*Buying Sites, Renting Links & Advertisements*
57. Rent some high quality links from a broker. Text Link Ads is the most reputable firm in this niche.
58. Rent some high quality links directly from Web sites. Sometimes the most powerful rented links come direct from sites not actively renting links.
59. Become a sponsor. All sorts of charities, contests, and conferences link to their sponsors. This can be a great way to gain visibility, links, and a warm feeling in your heart.
60. Sell items on eBay and offer to donate the profits to a charity. Many charities will link both to the eBay auction and to your site.
61. Many search algorithms seem biased toward older established sites. It may be faster to buy an old site with a strong link profile, and link it to your own site, than to try to start building authority links from scratch.
*Use the Courts (Proceed with Caution*
62. Sue Google.
63. Get sued by a company people hate. When Aaron was sued by Traffic Power, he got hundreds or thousands of links, including links from sites like Wired and The Wall Street Journal.
*Freebies & Giveaways*
64. Hold a contest. Contests make great link bait. A few-hundred-dollar prize can result in thousands of dollars worth of editorial quality links. Enough said.
65. Build a tool collection. Original and useful tools (and collections of tools) get a lot of link love. What do you think ranking for mortgage calculator is worth?
66. Create and release open source site design templates for content management systems like Wordpress. Don't forget the "Designed by example.com" bit in the footer!
67. Offer free samples in exchange for feedback.
68. Release a Firefox extension. Make sure you have a download and/or support page on your site which people can link to.
*Conferences & Social Interaction*
69. It is easy to take pictures of important events and tell narratives about why they are important. Pictures of (drunk?) "celebrities" in your industry make great link bait.
70. Leverage new real world relationships into linking relationships. If you go to SEO related conferences, people like Tim Mayer, Matt Cutts, and Danny Sullivan are readily accessible. Similarly, in other industries, people who would normally seem inaccessible are exceptionally accessible at trade conferences. It is much easier to seem "real" in person. Once you create social relationships in person, it is easy to extend that onto the web.
71. Engaging, useful, and interesting interviews are an easy way to create original content. And they spread like wildfire.
30 Bad Ways to Build Links
Here are a few link buiding methods that may destroy your brand or get your site banned/penalized/filtered from major search engines, or both.
*Directories*
72. Submit your site to 200 cheesy paid directories (averaging $15 a pop) that send zero traffic and sell offtopic run-of-site links.
*Forum Spam*
73. List 100 Web sites in your signature file.
74. Exclusively post only when you can add links to your sites in the post area.
75. Post nothing but "me too" posts to build your post count. Use in combination with a link-rich signature file.
76. Ask questions about who provides the best [WIDGET], where [WIDGET] is an item that you sell. From the same IP address create another forum account and answer your own question raving about how great your own site is.
77. As a new member to various forums, ask the same question at 20 different forums on the same day.
78. Post on forum threads that are years outdated exclusively to link to your semi-related website.
79. Sign up for profiles on forums you never intend on commenting on.
*Blog Spam*
80. Instead of signing blog comments with your real name, sign them with spammy keywords.
81. Start marketing your own site hard on your first blog comment. Add no value to the comment section. Mention nothing other than you recently posted on the same subject at _____ and everyone should read it. Carpet bomb dozens of blogs with this message.
82. Say nothing unique or relevant to the post at hand. Make them assume an automated bot hit their comments.
83. Better yet, use automated bots to hit their comments. List at least 30 links in each post. Try to see if you can hit any servers hard enough to make them crash.
84. Send pings to everyone talking about a subject. In your aggregation post, state nothing of interest. Only state that other people are talking about the topic.
85. Don't even link to any of the sites you are pinging. Send them pings from posts that do not even reference them.
*Garbage Link Exchanges*
86. Send out link exchange requests mentioning PageRank.
87. Send link exchange emails which look like an automated bot sent them (little or no customization, no personal names, etc.).
88. Send link exchange requests to Matt Cutts, Tim Mayer, Tim Converse, Google, and Yahoo!.
89. Get links from nearly-hidden sections of websites listing hundreds or thousands of off topic sites.
*Spam People in Person*
90. Go to webmaster conferences and rave about how rich you are, and how your affiliates make millions doing nothing.
91. Instead of asking people what their name is, ask what their URL is. As soon as you get their URL ask if they have linked to your site yet and if not, why not.
*Be Persistent*
92. Send a webmaster an alert to every post you make on your website.
93. Send a webmaster an email every single day asking for them to link to your website.
94. Send references to your site to the same webmaster from dozens of different email accounts (you sly dog).
95. If the above do not work to get you a free link, offer them $1 for their time. Increase your offer by a dollar each day until they give in.
*Getting Links by Being a Jerk*
96. Emulate the RIAA. When in doubt, file a lawsuit against a 12-year-old girl. (Failing that, obtain bad press by any means necessary.)
97. Steal content published by well known names. Strip out any attribution. Aggregate many popular channels and just wait for them to start talking about you.
98. Send thousands of fake referrals at every top ranking Web site, guaranteeing larger boobs, a 14-inch penis (is that length or girth?), or millions of dollars in free, unclaimed money.
99. Wear your URL on your t-shirt. Walk or drive your car while talking on a cell phone or reading a book. When you run into other people say "excuse you, jerk".
100. Spill coffee on people or find creative ways to insult people to coax them into linking at your site.
101. Sue other webmasters for deep linking to your site. Well, this is more "hilariously dumb" than it is a "bad linking practice".
** Please Remember This My Friends: Feel it, Believe it, Live it. The Magic Words, "Just Do It" **
The Best
"Starbuck Man"
Randy Flaherty
Starbuckman@gmail.com
Contact: powerman297@hotmail.com
Contact: 320-239-4537
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Friday, August 13, 2010
"10 Tips to Brand Yourself & Your Business Online"
It has often been said we are now in the “Attention Age” and it seems you have less time than ever before to make an impression on a prospective customer.
1. Have a Memorable Name.
If you’re not in business under your own name, select a catchy memorable name. The name doesn’t necessarily have to mean anything it just needs to be memorable: “Google”, “Twitter”, “Bing”, anyone?
2. Have a Memorable Logo.
Get a professional graphic designer to design you a logo that everyone will be able to recognise. Think of any good brand and the chances are that you can visualise their logo – McDonalds, Coca Cola, Levis etc.
3. Have a Memorable Catchphrase.
‘Just do it’ is the catchphrase of Nike. You already knew that didn’t you? Hence why a memorable catchphrase will help your business remain in the back of peoples minds.
4. Use Your Name, Branding and Imagery Across All Social Platforms.
If you’re marketing yourself properly, then you’re going to have profiles for your business on all of the top social websites to help you make money online.
You should have profiles on Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, Linked In, Youtube and others to give potential customers the best chance of finding you.
Keep your profiles consistent with your company blog or website and use the same colours and branding across them all – consistency is the key.
5. And e-mail Signatures, Forum Signatures and Forum / Profile Avatars
Branding doesn’t begin and end with your social media profiles. Use the same images, colours and messages in all of your forum and blog comment avatars and any e-mail messages you send out.
6. Interview Industry Experts
Interview experts in your industry for instant credibility by association and increased brand awareness.
If people see experts are willing to work with your business that puts you, in a strange way, on a similar level to those experts and potential customers will stand up and take notice.
7. Write Press Releases About Your Achievements
Write press releases about the things that your business are doing. These press releases will be picked up by online news channels and help to raise your brand awareness.
Press releases also provide your blog with high quality, authority backlinks which will in turn improve your overall position within the search engines.
8. Write Free Reports & Ebooks
Write free reports and ebooks using your business branding. As long as you provide genuine value in the reports that quality will be associated with your business.
Another tip to get your free report to a wider audience is to use JV Giveaways. There are several new events each month you can participate in and of course, use the same personal image as in your other online profiles.
Remember, you need to be everywhere your potential customers are!
9. Guest Blog on Popular Blogs
If there are popular blogs in your niche that have lots of traffic then you should consider contacting the website owner to see if there are any guest blogging opportunities.
This will give you an opportunity to present yourself and your business to a whole new audience who may not yet have heard of you and is one way a new blog can attract a lot of visitors in a short space of time.
Please Remember This My Friends: Feel it, Believe it, Live it. The Magic Words, "Just Do It"
The Best'
"Starbuck Man"
Randy Flaherty
Starbuckman@gmail.com
Contact: powerman297@hotmail.com
Contact: 320-239-4537
1. Have a Memorable Name.
If you’re not in business under your own name, select a catchy memorable name. The name doesn’t necessarily have to mean anything it just needs to be memorable: “Google”, “Twitter”, “Bing”, anyone?
2. Have a Memorable Logo.
Get a professional graphic designer to design you a logo that everyone will be able to recognise. Think of any good brand and the chances are that you can visualise their logo – McDonalds, Coca Cola, Levis etc.
3. Have a Memorable Catchphrase.
‘Just do it’ is the catchphrase of Nike. You already knew that didn’t you? Hence why a memorable catchphrase will help your business remain in the back of peoples minds.
4. Use Your Name, Branding and Imagery Across All Social Platforms.
If you’re marketing yourself properly, then you’re going to have profiles for your business on all of the top social websites to help you make money online.
You should have profiles on Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, Linked In, Youtube and others to give potential customers the best chance of finding you.
Keep your profiles consistent with your company blog or website and use the same colours and branding across them all – consistency is the key.
5. And e-mail Signatures, Forum Signatures and Forum / Profile Avatars
Branding doesn’t begin and end with your social media profiles. Use the same images, colours and messages in all of your forum and blog comment avatars and any e-mail messages you send out.
6. Interview Industry Experts
Interview experts in your industry for instant credibility by association and increased brand awareness.
If people see experts are willing to work with your business that puts you, in a strange way, on a similar level to those experts and potential customers will stand up and take notice.
7. Write Press Releases About Your Achievements
Write press releases about the things that your business are doing. These press releases will be picked up by online news channels and help to raise your brand awareness.
Press releases also provide your blog with high quality, authority backlinks which will in turn improve your overall position within the search engines.
8. Write Free Reports & Ebooks
Write free reports and ebooks using your business branding. As long as you provide genuine value in the reports that quality will be associated with your business.
Another tip to get your free report to a wider audience is to use JV Giveaways. There are several new events each month you can participate in and of course, use the same personal image as in your other online profiles.
Remember, you need to be everywhere your potential customers are!
9. Guest Blog on Popular Blogs
If there are popular blogs in your niche that have lots of traffic then you should consider contacting the website owner to see if there are any guest blogging opportunities.
This will give you an opportunity to present yourself and your business to a whole new audience who may not yet have heard of you and is one way a new blog can attract a lot of visitors in a short space of time.
Please Remember This My Friends: Feel it, Believe it, Live it. The Magic Words, "Just Do It"
The Best'
"Starbuck Man"
Randy Flaherty
Starbuckman@gmail.com
Contact: powerman297@hotmail.com
Contact: 320-239-4537
"Free Ways To Drive Traffic to Your Web Site"
" It All Free."
You've developed a new Web site. Congratulations! How exciting! Now all you have to do is sit back and watch the business roll in, right? Not really.
Web sites, unlike other marketing tools, have to be publicized. When you write a radio commercial, you pay a radio station to run the ad. When you design a brochure, you give it away. But when you publish a Web site, you must promote it to drive in business.
An excellent way to lead people to your site is to use a specialist. But, even if you hire a search engine positioning specialist to help place you among the Top 10 on Yahoo, there are still many other ways you can promote your site... and they're effective and free!
*Links
A study by the Georgia Institute of Technology (GIT) gives us proof. On one site they observed, 84 percent of visitors came in via links from other sites. Be sure you trade links with as many people as you can. You might consider a "Helpful Links" page on your site devoted to just his purpose. One word of caution—be sure the links are appropriate. Arrange to exchange links with companies that are reaching the same target audience. For example, if you are a lawn care company you might exchange links with a landscaper. Another effective idea to incorporate links into your site is a "Testimonials" page.
We all love to receive "praise letters" on our email. Ask permission to use these as testimonials on your Web site. We should be just as liberal with our praises. When you appreciate a product or service, be sure to write a note of thanks. Mention in the letter that the person (or company) is free to use your kind words as a testimonial if they will simply include your name and Web address.
*Signatures
Another site observed by the GIT indicated 35 percent of visitors were brought to the site via signature files on email messages they received. Often times this feature is overlooked due to lack of knowledge.
A signature file is a feature most email programs (even free ones) offer. You may type in a message and that statement will be added at the bottom of every email you send. This saves you the time of having to type in the message repeatedly. Usually this feature is found under the heading of "Options" in the email program. One note: be sure to include the "http://" before the Web address so a link will be created for people who receive plain text emails as well as html.
*Write Ups
In one instance, 62 percent of visitors came to a site through articles in newspapers and magazines. When sending out your press releases be sure to include your Web address along with other contact information. The same applies for interviews on the radio or public addresses/seminars you may offer.
*Other Ways
The most simple of all ways is to tell people. Mention it in conversation. Bring it up when others discuss Web sites they have visited.
Include your Web address on all your business cards. Make it bold. If your business derives most of its revenue from sales made on the web site, be sure the Web address is on the front of the card.
When printing letterhead, include your Web address. Most Web addresses don't take up much space and can be easily incorporated along with the company's physical address and phone number.
Don't forget to mention your Web site in all your advertising efforts. Whether it be a promotional video, television commercial or brochure, make it a point to position your Web address where it is visible. For radio commercials, include it in the copy. A great way to work it in is when providing other ordering information. For example: "...visit us at 1234 Oak Street or log onto www.ktamarketing.com."
Be creative! Always remember to include your Web site information in everything you do and your efforts will pay off in additional hits!
FINALLY! The first copywriting course that takes you step-by-step through the process of writing emotion stirring, profit generating copy and gives you the LIVE feedback you need to succeed! Get it today—with three FREE bonuses! http://www.copywritingcourse.com.
Please Remember This My Friends: Feel it, Believe it, Live it. The Magic Words, "Just Do It"
"Starbuck Man"
Randy Flaherty
Starbuckman@gmail.com
Contact: powerman297@hotmail.com
Contact: 320-239-4537
You've developed a new Web site. Congratulations! How exciting! Now all you have to do is sit back and watch the business roll in, right? Not really.
Web sites, unlike other marketing tools, have to be publicized. When you write a radio commercial, you pay a radio station to run the ad. When you design a brochure, you give it away. But when you publish a Web site, you must promote it to drive in business.
An excellent way to lead people to your site is to use a specialist. But, even if you hire a search engine positioning specialist to help place you among the Top 10 on Yahoo, there are still many other ways you can promote your site... and they're effective and free!
*Links
A study by the Georgia Institute of Technology (GIT) gives us proof. On one site they observed, 84 percent of visitors came in via links from other sites. Be sure you trade links with as many people as you can. You might consider a "Helpful Links" page on your site devoted to just his purpose. One word of caution—be sure the links are appropriate. Arrange to exchange links with companies that are reaching the same target audience. For example, if you are a lawn care company you might exchange links with a landscaper. Another effective idea to incorporate links into your site is a "Testimonials" page.
We all love to receive "praise letters" on our email. Ask permission to use these as testimonials on your Web site. We should be just as liberal with our praises. When you appreciate a product or service, be sure to write a note of thanks. Mention in the letter that the person (or company) is free to use your kind words as a testimonial if they will simply include your name and Web address.
*Signatures
Another site observed by the GIT indicated 35 percent of visitors were brought to the site via signature files on email messages they received. Often times this feature is overlooked due to lack of knowledge.
A signature file is a feature most email programs (even free ones) offer. You may type in a message and that statement will be added at the bottom of every email you send. This saves you the time of having to type in the message repeatedly. Usually this feature is found under the heading of "Options" in the email program. One note: be sure to include the "http://" before the Web address so a link will be created for people who receive plain text emails as well as html.
*Write Ups
In one instance, 62 percent of visitors came to a site through articles in newspapers and magazines. When sending out your press releases be sure to include your Web address along with other contact information. The same applies for interviews on the radio or public addresses/seminars you may offer.
*Other Ways
The most simple of all ways is to tell people. Mention it in conversation. Bring it up when others discuss Web sites they have visited.
Include your Web address on all your business cards. Make it bold. If your business derives most of its revenue from sales made on the web site, be sure the Web address is on the front of the card.
When printing letterhead, include your Web address. Most Web addresses don't take up much space and can be easily incorporated along with the company's physical address and phone number.
Don't forget to mention your Web site in all your advertising efforts. Whether it be a promotional video, television commercial or brochure, make it a point to position your Web address where it is visible. For radio commercials, include it in the copy. A great way to work it in is when providing other ordering information. For example: "...visit us at 1234 Oak Street or log onto www.ktamarketing.com."
Be creative! Always remember to include your Web site information in everything you do and your efforts will pay off in additional hits!
FINALLY! The first copywriting course that takes you step-by-step through the process of writing emotion stirring, profit generating copy and gives you the LIVE feedback you need to succeed! Get it today—with three FREE bonuses! http://www.copywritingcourse.com.
Please Remember This My Friends: Feel it, Believe it, Live it. The Magic Words, "Just Do It"
"Starbuck Man"
Randy Flaherty
Starbuckman@gmail.com
Contact: powerman297@hotmail.com
Contact: 320-239-4537
** AdSense Tips: Get the Highest Paying AdSense Keywords for Free.**
There is a great tool available that allows you to check out the highest cost-per-click (HCPC) keywords for Google AdSense, allowing you to write content with the highest-paying keywords in mind. It is the Google Adwords Keyword Tool and it allows anybody to view the highest CPC keywords, for free, without having to log in or sign up. It was created to help people come up with new ideas for their AdWords campaigns, but you can use it to see which AdSense keywords will pay you the most so you can target your site's content for high CPC and generate higher advertising revenue. This tutorial will show you how to find these keywords with the AdSense preview tool and how to use that information to increase your cost per click.
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The AdSense preview tool is ABSOLUTELY FREE and is hosted by Google, check it out here. I will show two important things in this tutorial. First we will run a preliminary check against your website's current content to see the highest paying keywords related to your current content. After that we will explore individual keywords to find the very best keyword combinations and phrases so you can write new content (and rewrite old content if you wish) to display AdSense ads that pay much more than your current ads.
Finding the Highest Paying Keywords for Your Current Website Articles
First you need to figure out what keywords Google has targeted for your current website. Then you can use this information to tweak your current content to display higher-paying keyword ads.
1. Browse to Google's Keyword Tool
2. Select Website Content
3. Enter your website URL (you can also enter a specific web page)
4. Click Get keyword ideas
5. Select Show All from the dropdown box
6. Make sure Group keywords by common terms is checked
7. Under Calculate Estimates using Max CPC: select $USD (or whatever currency you use)
8. Enter 100 in the empty box (or the equivelent of $100USD in your currency)
9. Click Recalculate
10. Now the columns below will display the estimated cost per click (CPC) for each keyword!
11. Click the column title Estimated Avg. CPC to sort by price. Click it one more time to sort from highest to lowest.
12. You can now browse down the page to get an idea for which keyword phrases pay the most amount of money
13. Now you can go back to your current articles and rewrite bits of the content, organizing phrases and keywords so they match up with the highest paying AdSense keywords. This will make a big difference, helping AdSense to place similar ads that pay much more instead of low cost per click ads.
14. If you really want to get serious, the ideal solution would be to enter the URL of each article on your website and repeat this process, then rewrite your content to match the highest paying adsense keywords for each page.
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Finding New Keywords That Pay More Than Your Current Keywords
Now that you have a good idea of what your website is currently capable of, it is time to explore new keywords. You'll be able to find keywords and keyword combinations that you aren't currently using to raise your CPC even higher.
1. Browse to Google's Keyword Tool
2. Select Descriptive words or phrases
3. Enter a keyword or keyword phrase into the textbox
4. Make sure the Use synonyms checkbox is checked
5. Type the CAPTCHA word into the bottom textbox and click Get keyword ideas
6. Select Show All from the dropdown box
7. Under Calculate Estimates using Max CPC: select $USD (or whatever currency you use)
8. Enter 100 in the empty box (or the equivelent of $100USD in your currency)
9. Click Recalculate to display the estimated CPC for each keyword
10. Click the column title Estimated Avg. CPC to sort by price. Click it one more time to sort from highest to lowest.
11. {cbauthor}You can now see several keyword phrases, ordered by highest CPC. You can go back and adjust your existing articles to contain some of these higher paying keyword phrases, and use these phrases for content you write in the future.
12. For all future content you write, do a little research with this tool to find the best keywords available before you write your articles. You can make subtle tweaks to your content keywords to drastically increase your CPC and overal AdSense revenue. You can also use this tool to find profitable topics, and base your articles on the higher paying keywords.
Please Remember This My Friends: Feel it, Believe it, Live it. The Magic Words, "Just Do It"
The Best
"Starbuck Man"
Randy Flaherty
Starbuckman@gmail.com
Contact: powerman297@hotmail.com
Contact: 320-239-4537
{google_articles}
The AdSense preview tool is ABSOLUTELY FREE and is hosted by Google, check it out here. I will show two important things in this tutorial. First we will run a preliminary check against your website's current content to see the highest paying keywords related to your current content. After that we will explore individual keywords to find the very best keyword combinations and phrases so you can write new content (and rewrite old content if you wish) to display AdSense ads that pay much more than your current ads.
Finding the Highest Paying Keywords for Your Current Website Articles
First you need to figure out what keywords Google has targeted for your current website. Then you can use this information to tweak your current content to display higher-paying keyword ads.
1. Browse to Google's Keyword Tool
2. Select Website Content
3. Enter your website URL (you can also enter a specific web page)
4. Click Get keyword ideas
5. Select Show All from the dropdown box
6. Make sure Group keywords by common terms is checked
7. Under Calculate Estimates using Max CPC: select $USD (or whatever currency you use)
8. Enter 100 in the empty box (or the equivelent of $100USD in your currency)
9. Click Recalculate
10. Now the columns below will display the estimated cost per click (CPC) for each keyword!
11. Click the column title Estimated Avg. CPC to sort by price. Click it one more time to sort from highest to lowest.
12. You can now browse down the page to get an idea for which keyword phrases pay the most amount of money
13. Now you can go back to your current articles and rewrite bits of the content, organizing phrases and keywords so they match up with the highest paying AdSense keywords. This will make a big difference, helping AdSense to place similar ads that pay much more instead of low cost per click ads.
14. If you really want to get serious, the ideal solution would be to enter the URL of each article on your website and repeat this process, then rewrite your content to match the highest paying adsense keywords for each page.
{google_articles}
Finding New Keywords That Pay More Than Your Current Keywords
Now that you have a good idea of what your website is currently capable of, it is time to explore new keywords. You'll be able to find keywords and keyword combinations that you aren't currently using to raise your CPC even higher.
1. Browse to Google's Keyword Tool
2. Select Descriptive words or phrases
3. Enter a keyword or keyword phrase into the textbox
4. Make sure the Use synonyms checkbox is checked
5. Type the CAPTCHA word into the bottom textbox and click Get keyword ideas
6. Select Show All from the dropdown box
7. Under Calculate Estimates using Max CPC: select $USD (or whatever currency you use)
8. Enter 100 in the empty box (or the equivelent of $100USD in your currency)
9. Click Recalculate to display the estimated CPC for each keyword
10. Click the column title Estimated Avg. CPC to sort by price. Click it one more time to sort from highest to lowest.
11. {cbauthor}You can now see several keyword phrases, ordered by highest CPC. You can go back and adjust your existing articles to contain some of these higher paying keyword phrases, and use these phrases for content you write in the future.
12. For all future content you write, do a little research with this tool to find the best keywords available before you write your articles. You can make subtle tweaks to your content keywords to drastically increase your CPC and overal AdSense revenue. You can also use this tool to find profitable topics, and base your articles on the higher paying keywords.
Please Remember This My Friends: Feel it, Believe it, Live it. The Magic Words, "Just Do It"
The Best
"Starbuck Man"
Randy Flaherty
Starbuckman@gmail.com
Contact: powerman297@hotmail.com
Contact: 320-239-4537
"Top 20 SEO Tips & Guidelines :: Free Search Engine Optimization"
1. If you don?t want too much competition from other SEO?s, choose your keywords precisely.
For example, Instead of keyowrd Loan choose keywords like Bank Loan, Equity Loan, Student Loan, Home Loan etc.
Order of keyword also matter for search engines. Search engine treats ?Loan Equity? and ?Equity Loan? as different keywords.
2. Best seo practice is to get at least one of your primary keywords in domain or sub domain name of your website.
You can use hyphens (-) to separate multiple keywords.
For example: seo-service, seo-guidelines, free-seo each cover two keyords.
3. Get your second or third keywords in your directory name and filename.
For example http://www.hiddentricks.com/seo/free-tips.html is best for keyword ?free seo tips? , ?seo hidden tricks? or "free seo tricks"
4. Keep your webpage free from any syntax error, declare document type at the beginning and validate your HTML and CSS because search engine don?t like pages with too many errors.
5. Give a short Title in of your page in 3-9 words (60-80 characters) maximum in length containing your primary keyword.
Remember it will be displayed in search results so choose wisely.
6. Try to include your most important keyword phrases in heading tags on your page if you can but keep in mind it should not be exactly same as title of your page.
You can use (H1 H2 H3) tag for specifying anything important.
To reduce size of heading use CSS.
7. Specify Meta keywords in heading of document. Limit it to 15 to 20 words. Although not all the search engines give importance but there is no harm doing it.
Search engine like Yahoo still give it importance.
8. Write Your Meta Description tag attractive containing keywords because it will appear on the search engine result pages.
9. Use text for navigation menu instead of using images or Java scripts.
10. Try to include your most important keyword in hyper linked text and text and text that immediately precedes or follows the hyperlink.
Do not use same keyword always use synonyms at few places.
Just like instead of seo, I have use search engine optimization at many places on this page.
11. If you are using images then use ?alt? attribute to describe your image with proper keyword.
12. One of the best webmaster guideline is to submit sitemap of your website to make sure all pages of your website are indexed by search engine crawlers.
13. Keep size of your webpages less than 50KB so it is downloaded fast and visitors don?t have to wait for long.
For good SEO site page size ideal should be 15KB.
14. Try to avoid your content in Flash, frame, images, java script because crawler find it very difficult and it is against seo tips and guidelines.
15. Don?t use dynamic url because it don?t contain keywords so its not search engine friendly.
If you are using any script which shows dynamic pages then make sure at least it should include one keyword.
16. Don?t try to spam and never use methods like cloaking, keyword spamming or doorway pages.
Many seo advices to have multiple domain name and link each other but according to our SEO tips and guidelines search engine can penalize you for this.
Instead of that try to add more quality content to your existing website.
17. Submit your website only once to google, Yahoo, AltaVista and other search engines and open directory.
Don?t use any script or website for automatic submission.
18. If your website contents changes very often then provide visitor with Newsletter and RSS feed.
19. Write articles on website related to yours having higher page ranking and leave your websites link.
20. Get link from other sites related to yours, search engine consider it as vote in your favour.
Please Remember This My Friends: Feel it, Believe it, Live it. The Magic Words, "Just Do It"
The Best
"Starbuck Man"
Randy Flaherty
Starbuckman@gmail.com
Contact: powerman297@hotmail.com
Contact: 320-239-4537
For example, Instead of keyowrd Loan choose keywords like Bank Loan, Equity Loan, Student Loan, Home Loan etc.
Order of keyword also matter for search engines. Search engine treats ?Loan Equity? and ?Equity Loan? as different keywords.
2. Best seo practice is to get at least one of your primary keywords in domain or sub domain name of your website.
You can use hyphens (-) to separate multiple keywords.
For example: seo-service, seo-guidelines, free-seo each cover two keyords.
3. Get your second or third keywords in your directory name and filename.
For example http://www.hiddentricks.com/seo/free-tips.html is best for keyword ?free seo tips? , ?seo hidden tricks? or "free seo tricks"
4. Keep your webpage free from any syntax error, declare document type at the beginning and validate your HTML and CSS because search engine don?t like pages with too many errors.
5. Give a short Title in of your page in 3-9 words (60-80 characters) maximum in length containing your primary keyword.
Remember it will be displayed in search results so choose wisely.
6. Try to include your most important keyword phrases in heading tags on your page if you can but keep in mind it should not be exactly same as title of your page.
You can use (H1 H2 H3) tag for specifying anything important.
To reduce size of heading use CSS.
7. Specify Meta keywords in heading of document. Limit it to 15 to 20 words. Although not all the search engines give importance but there is no harm doing it.
Search engine like Yahoo still give it importance.
8. Write Your Meta Description tag attractive containing keywords because it will appear on the search engine result pages.
9. Use text for navigation menu instead of using images or Java scripts.
10. Try to include your most important keyword in hyper linked text and text and text that immediately precedes or follows the hyperlink.
Do not use same keyword always use synonyms at few places.
Just like instead of seo, I have use search engine optimization at many places on this page.
11. If you are using images then use ?alt? attribute to describe your image with proper keyword.
12. One of the best webmaster guideline is to submit sitemap of your website to make sure all pages of your website are indexed by search engine crawlers.
13. Keep size of your webpages less than 50KB so it is downloaded fast and visitors don?t have to wait for long.
For good SEO site page size ideal should be 15KB.
14. Try to avoid your content in Flash, frame, images, java script because crawler find it very difficult and it is against seo tips and guidelines.
15. Don?t use dynamic url because it don?t contain keywords so its not search engine friendly.
If you are using any script which shows dynamic pages then make sure at least it should include one keyword.
16. Don?t try to spam and never use methods like cloaking, keyword spamming or doorway pages.
Many seo advices to have multiple domain name and link each other but according to our SEO tips and guidelines search engine can penalize you for this.
Instead of that try to add more quality content to your existing website.
17. Submit your website only once to google, Yahoo, AltaVista and other search engines and open directory.
Don?t use any script or website for automatic submission.
18. If your website contents changes very often then provide visitor with Newsletter and RSS feed.
19. Write articles on website related to yours having higher page ranking and leave your websites link.
20. Get link from other sites related to yours, search engine consider it as vote in your favour.
Please Remember This My Friends: Feel it, Believe it, Live it. The Magic Words, "Just Do It"
The Best
"Starbuck Man"
Randy Flaherty
Starbuckman@gmail.com
Contact: powerman297@hotmail.com
Contact: 320-239-4537
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
**SERIOUSLY ** How To Generate Leads And Traffic Flipping VRE"
"OMG"
** Rando… what the hell is VRE? **
** VRE= Virtual Real Estate=Websites. **
In case you don’t know what flipping means: flipping is a term used primarily in the United States to describe practice of buying an asset and quickly reselling (or “flipping”) it for profit (Wikipedia).
You probably have heard of some overnight millionaires make their money from house flipping(real estate flipping), and how day traders make $100,000 in one day of successful day trading.
Hey, you can do the same flipping for profits online too.
People at SitePoint are making lots of money by buying lowly websites, and do their marketing magic to turn poorly managed sites from 1000 visits/mn and $20/mn to 12,000visits/mn and $3000/mn. Then they sell it for $10,000 or even more. The profit margin is pretty high if you think about all the overhead cost they are exempt from flipping VRE.
Now, you’re probably asking…Eric… I’m building my mlm business right now, where the hell am I gonna get extra time to run VRE flipping?
Ok…The title of this article is how to generate leads and traffic flipping VRE”….so its not about flipping sites and turn them into profits, its about finding existing sites where your targeted prospects are hanging out at and buy the site to steal its traffic and leads.
And for many of you who just started in this internet network marketing stuff, it’s probably better to get an existing website that gets free traffic already, so you can be up and running the first day.
Even if you don’t like the design and monetization, you can easily restructure it yourself or hire someone to do it on elance.com. I believe you’re all smart people with good marketing knowledge, you can make it better, or you wouldn’t be reading this article.
TARGETED TRAFFIC is what we want. Not the look of the site. So even a blue ugly website that your dog wouldn’t even want to sniff it, but if it gets targeted 5000 unique visitors a month, then this might just be the site we want to flip.
You can just simply put up an attractive optin form on the side or top of this website and start getting leads. Or you can optimize it and turn it into a bigger traffic magnet. Do some SEO, do some video marketing, or distribute some articles.
Here are 5 simple strategies you can use to flip for more traffic and leads:
1: Look for the site you want LOOK DEEP:
We don’t wanna buy mlm.com or betternetworker.com because even though they are some of the most visited websites in mlm industry, its probably gonna cost you more than 6 figure to close the deal.
Type in some targeted keywords that your prospects might search for on google. Then skip page 1 to page 3, because we want skip those big sites and to search for those low hanging fruits.
You want to find sites that are operated by solo webmasters, or people who don’t take their sites seriously. Look for sites with good content but its just not getting any traffic or not SE optimized. Look for sites that have potentials that you’re confident that you can make it better.
SEARCH DEEP.
The more homework you do, the smarter your decision will be made. And less risk you have on losing your shirt.
""Tip: use http://compete.com http://alexa.com and http://www.semrush.com to decide if this site is worth buying."" Great Stuff..
2. Contact the webmaster:** Once you found the target sites that you’re interested in, start to collect their email address and phone numbers. You can use http://www.whois.net/ to find out who own the websites.
When you contact them, don’t just blatantly tell them you wanna buy their sites. It’s rude.
Talk to them like you’re talking to your MLM prospects. Connect with them first.
You can tell the owner that how you like his website, and just try to get some information from the owner about the site. Then you wanna evaluate the site owner’s interest in his or her website.
And eventually, you will have to tell them that you’re interested in making a deal with him to create a win win situation. Just talk to them like you’re persuading them to join your business, I know you’re good at that. Lol
3. Taking over the ownership of everything:**
Get a contract signed with both parties name and dates. It’s not a must for small sites. But its still safer.
Get the ex-owners personal phone numbers in case you have questions that need to be answered.
After you close the deal, make sure you transfer everything into your ownership including the ownership of business name, domain name, hosting, third party software, wordpress blog, and etc. Ask your webhost if you need help with transferring the site.
It’s better if you already have a webmaster to help you with that.
Remember to change the adsense code or any third party advertisements to your name. J
4. Optimize and get traffic**
Now you have a site that’s already getting traffic.
Firstly, monetize it. You should put up an optin form on every page to build your list quickly. Some adsense ads or affiliate banners could help you make more money from the same traffic.
Secondly, clean up the site. SEO your site using correct meta title, description, keywords format. And configure your external and internal link setting to a SEO friendly version because the ex-owner probably doesn’t have as much SEO knowledge as you have.
Thirdly, drive traffic to your site. Yes, you can use PPC, videos and articles or whatever you prefer to drive traffic to your site. Don’t let the site die. Treat it like you just bought a new house or new office.
5. Rinse and repeat.**
Finally, you improved the site and took it from a plain website to a $10,000/ month information resource site. You can start thinking about the future of this site. Should you keep the site going, even increase more traffic? Or You’re sick and tired of log-in into the same page every day. You’ve got yourself two very rewarding choices.
1. Sell it for massive bucks in your pocket, and pick another site to do the same.
2. Keep running this site as long as it’s providing you food on the table, cars in the garage. You can always hire someone to run the site for you, so you can just chill and smoke a cigar while the site’s making moolah for you.
Learning how to generate traffic the first time is probably not the easiest thing to do in the world. By buying and leveraging an existing site, you can learn while you earn.
Also, you can get SEO benefits from using an old domain. Google likes and trusts old domains more than newly established domains. Plus the amount of time and work to get out of google sandbox(google it) and create backlinks, content, subscribers makes buying an older site very appealing to newbies.
Sites with targeted mlm traffic but no monetization strategies are your best choices of site to start reaping huge rewards right away.
Please Remember This My Friends: Feel it, Believe it, Live it. The Magic Words,
"Just Do It"
The Best
"Starbuck Man"
Randy Flaherty
Starbuckman@gmail.com
Contact: powerman297@hotmail.com
Contact: 320-239-4537 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 320-239-4537 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
** Rando… what the hell is VRE? **
** VRE= Virtual Real Estate=Websites. **
In case you don’t know what flipping means: flipping is a term used primarily in the United States to describe practice of buying an asset and quickly reselling (or “flipping”) it for profit (Wikipedia).
You probably have heard of some overnight millionaires make their money from house flipping(real estate flipping), and how day traders make $100,000 in one day of successful day trading.
Hey, you can do the same flipping for profits online too.
People at SitePoint are making lots of money by buying lowly websites, and do their marketing magic to turn poorly managed sites from 1000 visits/mn and $20/mn to 12,000visits/mn and $3000/mn. Then they sell it for $10,000 or even more. The profit margin is pretty high if you think about all the overhead cost they are exempt from flipping VRE.
Now, you’re probably asking…Eric… I’m building my mlm business right now, where the hell am I gonna get extra time to run VRE flipping?
Ok…The title of this article is how to generate leads and traffic flipping VRE”….so its not about flipping sites and turn them into profits, its about finding existing sites where your targeted prospects are hanging out at and buy the site to steal its traffic and leads.
And for many of you who just started in this internet network marketing stuff, it’s probably better to get an existing website that gets free traffic already, so you can be up and running the first day.
Even if you don’t like the design and monetization, you can easily restructure it yourself or hire someone to do it on elance.com. I believe you’re all smart people with good marketing knowledge, you can make it better, or you wouldn’t be reading this article.
TARGETED TRAFFIC is what we want. Not the look of the site. So even a blue ugly website that your dog wouldn’t even want to sniff it, but if it gets targeted 5000 unique visitors a month, then this might just be the site we want to flip.
You can just simply put up an attractive optin form on the side or top of this website and start getting leads. Or you can optimize it and turn it into a bigger traffic magnet. Do some SEO, do some video marketing, or distribute some articles.
Here are 5 simple strategies you can use to flip for more traffic and leads:
1: Look for the site you want LOOK DEEP:
We don’t wanna buy mlm.com or betternetworker.com because even though they are some of the most visited websites in mlm industry, its probably gonna cost you more than 6 figure to close the deal.
Type in some targeted keywords that your prospects might search for on google. Then skip page 1 to page 3, because we want skip those big sites and to search for those low hanging fruits.
You want to find sites that are operated by solo webmasters, or people who don’t take their sites seriously. Look for sites with good content but its just not getting any traffic or not SE optimized. Look for sites that have potentials that you’re confident that you can make it better.
SEARCH DEEP.
The more homework you do, the smarter your decision will be made. And less risk you have on losing your shirt.
""Tip: use http://compete.com http://alexa.com and http://www.semrush.com to decide if this site is worth buying."" Great Stuff..
2. Contact the webmaster:** Once you found the target sites that you’re interested in, start to collect their email address and phone numbers. You can use http://www.whois.net/ to find out who own the websites.
When you contact them, don’t just blatantly tell them you wanna buy their sites. It’s rude.
Talk to them like you’re talking to your MLM prospects. Connect with them first.
You can tell the owner that how you like his website, and just try to get some information from the owner about the site. Then you wanna evaluate the site owner’s interest in his or her website.
And eventually, you will have to tell them that you’re interested in making a deal with him to create a win win situation. Just talk to them like you’re persuading them to join your business, I know you’re good at that. Lol
3. Taking over the ownership of everything:**
Get a contract signed with both parties name and dates. It’s not a must for small sites. But its still safer.
Get the ex-owners personal phone numbers in case you have questions that need to be answered.
After you close the deal, make sure you transfer everything into your ownership including the ownership of business name, domain name, hosting, third party software, wordpress blog, and etc. Ask your webhost if you need help with transferring the site.
It’s better if you already have a webmaster to help you with that.
Remember to change the adsense code or any third party advertisements to your name. J
4. Optimize and get traffic**
Now you have a site that’s already getting traffic.
Firstly, monetize it. You should put up an optin form on every page to build your list quickly. Some adsense ads or affiliate banners could help you make more money from the same traffic.
Secondly, clean up the site. SEO your site using correct meta title, description, keywords format. And configure your external and internal link setting to a SEO friendly version because the ex-owner probably doesn’t have as much SEO knowledge as you have.
Thirdly, drive traffic to your site. Yes, you can use PPC, videos and articles or whatever you prefer to drive traffic to your site. Don’t let the site die. Treat it like you just bought a new house or new office.
5. Rinse and repeat.**
Finally, you improved the site and took it from a plain website to a $10,000/ month information resource site. You can start thinking about the future of this site. Should you keep the site going, even increase more traffic? Or You’re sick and tired of log-in into the same page every day. You’ve got yourself two very rewarding choices.
1. Sell it for massive bucks in your pocket, and pick another site to do the same.
2. Keep running this site as long as it’s providing you food on the table, cars in the garage. You can always hire someone to run the site for you, so you can just chill and smoke a cigar while the site’s making moolah for you.
Learning how to generate traffic the first time is probably not the easiest thing to do in the world. By buying and leveraging an existing site, you can learn while you earn.
Also, you can get SEO benefits from using an old domain. Google likes and trusts old domains more than newly established domains. Plus the amount of time and work to get out of google sandbox(google it) and create backlinks, content, subscribers makes buying an older site very appealing to newbies.
Sites with targeted mlm traffic but no monetization strategies are your best choices of site to start reaping huge rewards right away.
Please Remember This My Friends: Feel it, Believe it, Live it. The Magic Words,
"Just Do It"
The Best
"Starbuck Man"
Randy Flaherty
Starbuckman@gmail.com
Contact: powerman297@hotmail.com
Contact: 320-239-4537 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 320-239-4537 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
"10 Ways to Generate Leads With Social Media."
** How many leads do you generate every month with social media? If you’re not getting enough leads, today is your lucky day.**
Let’s begin.
1. Create a digital product, write guest posts and offer your product for free in your byline. The product could be an eBook, infographic, themes or any other digital product. Make sure you have your website links in the document. You can also encourage people to share it and put a link back to your site. Tip: A little bird told me that Infographics spread like wildfire.
2. Search Twitter for discussions related to your niche. If there are any questions, answer them with an @ reply and provide a link back to your blog post or any relevant page on your site. This tip doesn’t necessarily grow your traffic but it sure will give you quality leads if done right.
3. Turn your blog posts into slide presentations and upload them to slideshare and scribd. Put your website and social media profile URLs in there so people who view your slides can pay you a visit. This is a cool way of repurposing your blog posts and regaining some value back.
4. Plan a series of Videos and use Tubemogul to post them to the various video sites. Make the videos as interesting as possible. By interesting, I mean enlightening, funny, … something people will remember. At the end of each video, ask people to go to your site and sign up for your newsletter in order to receive new video alerts and other updates from you.
5. Answer relevant questions on Q&A sites like Yahoo Answers, Yedda and Answers.com. Ask people to Google “your business name or any keyword you rank #1 for” and click on the first result. You can post your website URL straight away but do that less often so you’re not seen as a spammy contributor to these sites. One more thing, answer the latest, freshest questions if you want to see any relevant increase in traffic.
6. Post short useful articles on forum sites relevant to your niche and leave a link back to your site.
7. Create an eBook. Take a sample out and make a PDF out of it. Share it on Lulu and Docstoc. At the beginning and end of the sample, provide a link to a page where people can put in their email addresses to receive the full book/report. Encourage people to share it with their friends and colleagues.
8. If you want to rank high for any keyword or phrase, make that phrase your anchor text in your guest post bylines. For example, say you want to rank high for the key phrase, “brand communication”, you use that as your anchor text and put your website link there. The higher the PR of the blog you are posting on, the better your chances of ranking higher. Do this consistently for all guest posts you write and use the same key phrase until you are on page 1 of Google’s search. I am on page 2 of Google right now for the key phrase, “brand communication” and I only used that as my anchor text in just one guest post. When I use it again on a top PR (page rank) blog, I will rank even higher. Try it for yourself. By the way, this is a neat trick I learnt from Brian Clark’s “How to Create Compelling Content That Ranks Well in Search Engines”. Download a copy on this page: SEO Copywriting Made Simple.
9. Answer Questions on LinkedIn. Connect with other professionals. Ask your past customers for recommendations. Jason Falls wrote an article on how to make LinkedIn answers part of your routine so head towards his blog to read about it.
10. Run a survey on your blog, Twitter and Facebook and share the results with other people. Explain the methodology and findings of your survey and publish the results in PDF format and share it on your site and other sites. Send a message @ everybody who participated in the survey on Twitter with a link to the results. You can also contact bloggers in your niche and ask them to share your findings. Tamar Weinberg shows you how to pitch superstar bloggers here: How to Get an Influencer’s Attention.
Phew! That was a short ride. Okay, seriously, you should apply these tips. You don’t have to implement all at once. Bookmark this page, start with 2 or 3 strategies and come back later to try out the other ones. Some may work for you and some may not.
Remember, social media is a lead generation tool and newsletters are your lead collection and sales tools so have your newsletter signup boxes ready to collect email addresses. Prepare some bait for the stubborn ones .
What strategy do you use to build more leads, links and traffic?
The Best
"Starbuck Man"
Randy Flaherty
Starbuckman@gmail.com
Contact: powerman297@hotmail.com
Contact: 320-239-4537
Let’s begin.
1. Create a digital product, write guest posts and offer your product for free in your byline. The product could be an eBook, infographic, themes or any other digital product. Make sure you have your website links in the document. You can also encourage people to share it and put a link back to your site. Tip: A little bird told me that Infographics spread like wildfire.
2. Search Twitter for discussions related to your niche. If there are any questions, answer them with an @ reply and provide a link back to your blog post or any relevant page on your site. This tip doesn’t necessarily grow your traffic but it sure will give you quality leads if done right.
3. Turn your blog posts into slide presentations and upload them to slideshare and scribd. Put your website and social media profile URLs in there so people who view your slides can pay you a visit. This is a cool way of repurposing your blog posts and regaining some value back.
4. Plan a series of Videos and use Tubemogul to post them to the various video sites. Make the videos as interesting as possible. By interesting, I mean enlightening, funny, … something people will remember. At the end of each video, ask people to go to your site and sign up for your newsletter in order to receive new video alerts and other updates from you.
5. Answer relevant questions on Q&A sites like Yahoo Answers, Yedda and Answers.com. Ask people to Google “your business name or any keyword you rank #1 for” and click on the first result. You can post your website URL straight away but do that less often so you’re not seen as a spammy contributor to these sites. One more thing, answer the latest, freshest questions if you want to see any relevant increase in traffic.
6. Post short useful articles on forum sites relevant to your niche and leave a link back to your site.
7. Create an eBook. Take a sample out and make a PDF out of it. Share it on Lulu and Docstoc. At the beginning and end of the sample, provide a link to a page where people can put in their email addresses to receive the full book/report. Encourage people to share it with their friends and colleagues.
8. If you want to rank high for any keyword or phrase, make that phrase your anchor text in your guest post bylines. For example, say you want to rank high for the key phrase, “brand communication”, you use that as your anchor text and put your website link there. The higher the PR of the blog you are posting on, the better your chances of ranking higher. Do this consistently for all guest posts you write and use the same key phrase until you are on page 1 of Google’s search. I am on page 2 of Google right now for the key phrase, “brand communication” and I only used that as my anchor text in just one guest post. When I use it again on a top PR (page rank) blog, I will rank even higher. Try it for yourself. By the way, this is a neat trick I learnt from Brian Clark’s “How to Create Compelling Content That Ranks Well in Search Engines”. Download a copy on this page: SEO Copywriting Made Simple.
9. Answer Questions on LinkedIn. Connect with other professionals. Ask your past customers for recommendations. Jason Falls wrote an article on how to make LinkedIn answers part of your routine so head towards his blog to read about it.
10. Run a survey on your blog, Twitter and Facebook and share the results with other people. Explain the methodology and findings of your survey and publish the results in PDF format and share it on your site and other sites. Send a message @ everybody who participated in the survey on Twitter with a link to the results. You can also contact bloggers in your niche and ask them to share your findings. Tamar Weinberg shows you how to pitch superstar bloggers here: How to Get an Influencer’s Attention.
Phew! That was a short ride. Okay, seriously, you should apply these tips. You don’t have to implement all at once. Bookmark this page, start with 2 or 3 strategies and come back later to try out the other ones. Some may work for you and some may not.
Remember, social media is a lead generation tool and newsletters are your lead collection and sales tools so have your newsletter signup boxes ready to collect email addresses. Prepare some bait for the stubborn ones .
What strategy do you use to build more leads, links and traffic?
The Best
"Starbuck Man"
Randy Flaherty
Starbuckman@gmail.com
Contact: powerman297@hotmail.com
Contact: 320-239-4537
"Weight Problem - Feel Hopeless?"
Can you really do it this time?
If you have a weight problem, it can feel hopeless. The heavier you get and the longer that you've been overweight, the more impossible it seems to be able to drop weight and keep it off. It's hard to believe that this time, it will work. But it can.
Even if you have biological tendencies that make it easy to gain and hard to lose weight, you can be leaner and fitter than you are now.
If you are overweight, there's a good chance you could be making smarter lifestyle choices. To lose weight, you'll have to train yourself to substitute poor choices with ones that will help you drop pounds.
Now is the time to take stock of your behaviors. This first step—a reality check of the eating and exercise choices you make most of the time—may be the most challenging part of making a change. But it's crucial for achieving lasting success.
So, to get ready to follow the Lose 10 Pounds in 5 Weeks plan, here's what you need to do:
Step 1. Take three days of this week to write down everything you eat. This will help you identify your specific eating patterns and spot areas where you can improve. This will be your Baseline Diet Diary.
Step 2. Learn to improve your diet. Read through these Eat Smart tips to get started.
Step 3. One of the simplest ways to squeeze fitness into your life is to walk more. Start the Walk-the-Fat-Off plan; each week has a designated walking program.
If you follow the Lose 10 Pounds in 5 Weeks plan, not only can you start to get in the best shape of your life, you'll feel happier and more optimistic. Eating better will fuel you and give your body the nutrients it needs. Your daily walks will lift your mood and your self-confidence.
The Best
"Starbuck Man"
Randy Flaherty
Starbuckman@gmail.com
Contact: powerman297@hotmail.com
Contact: 320-239-4537
If you have a weight problem, it can feel hopeless. The heavier you get and the longer that you've been overweight, the more impossible it seems to be able to drop weight and keep it off. It's hard to believe that this time, it will work. But it can.
Even if you have biological tendencies that make it easy to gain and hard to lose weight, you can be leaner and fitter than you are now.
If you are overweight, there's a good chance you could be making smarter lifestyle choices. To lose weight, you'll have to train yourself to substitute poor choices with ones that will help you drop pounds.
Now is the time to take stock of your behaviors. This first step—a reality check of the eating and exercise choices you make most of the time—may be the most challenging part of making a change. But it's crucial for achieving lasting success.
So, to get ready to follow the Lose 10 Pounds in 5 Weeks plan, here's what you need to do:
Step 1. Take three days of this week to write down everything you eat. This will help you identify your specific eating patterns and spot areas where you can improve. This will be your Baseline Diet Diary.
Step 2. Learn to improve your diet. Read through these Eat Smart tips to get started.
Step 3. One of the simplest ways to squeeze fitness into your life is to walk more. Start the Walk-the-Fat-Off plan; each week has a designated walking program.
If you follow the Lose 10 Pounds in 5 Weeks plan, not only can you start to get in the best shape of your life, you'll feel happier and more optimistic. Eating better will fuel you and give your body the nutrients it needs. Your daily walks will lift your mood and your self-confidence.
The Best
"Starbuck Man"
Randy Flaherty
Starbuckman@gmail.com
Contact: powerman297@hotmail.com
Contact: 320-239-4537
Sunday, August 8, 2010
"Seriously" **Weight Loss Mistake #1: People Don't Research**
**Weight Loss Mistake #1: People Don't Research**
One of the biggest mistakes that people make when they decide to lose weight is not doing research. Even though it may seem like there is not much involved when it comes to losing weight, there are more details than you will probably ever know. By doing the proper amount of research into your situation, you will ensure yourself of coming up with the best results possible.Smile
You will want to research your own current situation, which includes many different factors. First off, you will want to weigh yourself in order to determine how much weight you want to lose. Think about it; if you don’t know how much weight you want to lose, how are you ever going to reach your goals? Open-mouth smile
After you find out how much you weigh, you will want to look into why you are overweight. Do you eat too much? Do you find yourself eating junk food at all times of the day? Did you stop working out on a regular basis? By finding out why you are overweight you will be able to determine how to best combat your problem.Confused smile
After you are done looking at your own situation, you need to look externally to find ways to better lose weight. This can be the most difficult part of the whole process. There are tons of different weight loss solutions that are available. It is your job to find out which one will work best for you. If you think that you can lose the weight by going on a strict exercise regimen all you will need to do is join a gym.
But if you feel that you need more help than that, you may want to try out one of the many diets that are available. By researching the diets that you can try, you will find out which one you will be able to best follow. Many people think that dieting consists of eating fewer calories. This is definitely true, but there are more ways than one to accomplish this. If you research each diet, and write down the advantages and disadvantages, you will give yourself the best chance of losing weight in the long run.Winking smile
Researching your current situation may not be the most fun part of losing weight. But many people that skip this step find out that they are getting nowhere, and then have to start over at the beginning.
By putting in the appropriate hours of research you will ensure yourself of getting off on the right foot. Don't fall prey to one of this common mistake that people make when they are trying to lose weight. This mistake is easily avoidable, and it will save you a lot of time and aggravation in the long run!http://images.Quebles.com/hotmail/emoticons/1511763.GIF
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The Best
"Starbuck Man"
Randy Flaherty
Starbuckman@gmail.com
Contact: powerman297@hotmail.com
Contact: 320-239-4537
One of the biggest mistakes that people make when they decide to lose weight is not doing research. Even though it may seem like there is not much involved when it comes to losing weight, there are more details than you will probably ever know. By doing the proper amount of research into your situation, you will ensure yourself of coming up with the best results possible.Smile
You will want to research your own current situation, which includes many different factors. First off, you will want to weigh yourself in order to determine how much weight you want to lose. Think about it; if you don’t know how much weight you want to lose, how are you ever going to reach your goals? Open-mouth smile
After you find out how much you weigh, you will want to look into why you are overweight. Do you eat too much? Do you find yourself eating junk food at all times of the day? Did you stop working out on a regular basis? By finding out why you are overweight you will be able to determine how to best combat your problem.Confused smile
After you are done looking at your own situation, you need to look externally to find ways to better lose weight. This can be the most difficult part of the whole process. There are tons of different weight loss solutions that are available. It is your job to find out which one will work best for you. If you think that you can lose the weight by going on a strict exercise regimen all you will need to do is join a gym.
But if you feel that you need more help than that, you may want to try out one of the many diets that are available. By researching the diets that you can try, you will find out which one you will be able to best follow. Many people think that dieting consists of eating fewer calories. This is definitely true, but there are more ways than one to accomplish this. If you research each diet, and write down the advantages and disadvantages, you will give yourself the best chance of losing weight in the long run.Winking smile
Researching your current situation may not be the most fun part of losing weight. But many people that skip this step find out that they are getting nowhere, and then have to start over at the beginning.
By putting in the appropriate hours of research you will ensure yourself of getting off on the right foot. Don't fall prey to one of this common mistake that people make when they are trying to lose weight. This mistake is easily avoidable, and it will save you a lot of time and aggravation in the long run!http://images.Quebles.com/hotmail/emoticons/1511763.GIF
http://images.Quebles.com/hotmail/emoticons/1511078.GIF
The Best
"Starbuck Man"
Randy Flaherty
Starbuckman@gmail.com
Contact: powerman297@hotmail.com
Contact: 320-239-4537
"6 Ways To Create Income With Your Web Site"
6 Ways To Create Income With Your Web Site
1. Sell advertising space on your web site. You
could sell banner or classified ads. If you want
to make more money, sell sponsor ads that get
top placement or the best exposure.
2. If you have enough web space, you could rent
other people web pages. You could also give
them away for f.ree and make m.oney by including
your banner ad on the web pages.
3. Charge people a fee to access part of your
web site. People will pay you m.oney for your
web site content if it's valuable to them. The
content can be ebooks, reports, software, etc.
4. Sell y.our own products or services. They
should be related to your target audience. You
want to be able to take c.redit cards on your
site and deliver your product to them as fast
as possible.
5. Make m.oney selling other people's products
and services through affiliate programs. They'll
give you a link to track all your sales.You could
be paid per sale, c.lick or sign-up.
6. Publish an e-zine from your web site. Have
them subscribe to the e-zine right from your
web site. You could sell classified or sponsor
advertising inside your e-zine.
The Best
"Starbuck Man"
Randy Flaherty
Starbuckman@gmail.com
Contact: powerman297@hotmail.com
Contact: 320-239-4537
1. Sell advertising space on your web site. You
could sell banner or classified ads. If you want
to make more money, sell sponsor ads that get
top placement or the best exposure.
2. If you have enough web space, you could rent
other people web pages. You could also give
them away for f.ree and make m.oney by including
your banner ad on the web pages.
3. Charge people a fee to access part of your
web site. People will pay you m.oney for your
web site content if it's valuable to them. The
content can be ebooks, reports, software, etc.
4. Sell y.our own products or services. They
should be related to your target audience. You
want to be able to take c.redit cards on your
site and deliver your product to them as fast
as possible.
5. Make m.oney selling other people's products
and services through affiliate programs. They'll
give you a link to track all your sales.You could
be paid per sale, c.lick or sign-up.
6. Publish an e-zine from your web site. Have
them subscribe to the e-zine right from your
web site. You could sell classified or sponsor
advertising inside your e-zine.
The Best
"Starbuck Man"
Randy Flaherty
Starbuckman@gmail.com
Contact: powerman297@hotmail.com
Contact: 320-239-4537
Saturday, August 7, 2010
"Top 6 Ways to Drive Free Traffic To Your Website"
"Top 6 Ways to Drive Free Traffic To Your Website"
It's seems the mighty grail of the Internet is capturing traffic that is relevant to our site. Without traffic, we are carrying no real expectations of earning money or customers. When putting your website strategy together, you will need to remember that it isn't just about the site, but what happens next. The traffic, and the conversion of traffic to visitors. If you construct a website to sell products, services, or promote affiliates , with the hopes of generating an income, traffic is of the utmost importance.
Each of these warrant their own article, which I will also do, but to help guide you in general, the following are the top five FREE ways to drive traffic to your website:
1. Signature Files:
They say, "There's no such thing as a free lunch", but by using your email signatures, that simply isn't true. Signatures are those little messages that appear at the bottom of your email. Typical examples are your name, email address, company and position, but in the world of Internet Marketing, this is free advertising.
For Signatures the things you want to consider are:
*
1. Always add a signature because they work great and are absolutely free.
*
2. Depending on who you are sending an email message to, have multiple signatures you choose from.
*
3. Make sure you are including a signature for each and every email, whether it is personal or business.
*
4. Make the signatures work for you. Be aggressive, and if you have a landing page, drive every email to that so you can capture them in your autoresponder sales cycle.
*
5. Only have one link for them to choose from and make them want to go to it.
2. Links:
In Google PageRanks, Google looks at the popularity and keyword ranking of a website in order to determine where it appears in the searches. This could be as great as page 1, or anywhere after that. Most links occur in the following manner:
*
1. Word of Mouth, referrals from friends, promote in the bottom of your email
*
2. Free Link Exchange Program - This is where you go through the Internet in search of appropriate sites compatible to your industry, and offer to list their website, if they list yours. Time consuming, but free.
*
3. Affiliate Links - If you have the type of product that can be sold by others, where they make a percent of the sale, make sure they set up a website link back to your site. They will also have a page on your site with a unique identifier so that the sale can be traced back to them. This is a great way to not only increase your links, but get your product out there faster.
* 4. Purchased Links
* 5. Testimonial Links
* 6. Articles
* 7. Press Releases
The ultimate key with links is you want a site that has content similar to yours, they are credible in what they do, and they are in the same keyword area you are. That way it will benefit extensively.
3. SEO -Search Engine Optimization (SEO) or Keyword Optimization
SEO is a fancy way of saying make sure your web pages, titles, meta tags, and descriptions, and your page content contain the key words you want to appear in for your particular market. When considering your Internet marketing strategy, make sure you optimize your pages for keywords.
Many people rush off to Google and Yahoo and do pay per click campaigns (we'll get into these at a future date), but forget to use the old-fashioned free route of making sure each web page really uses these tools.
I have visited so many sites, and randomly checked to see if they use them, and they don't. This is a missed, free opportunity at 'true rankings' improvement.
Now it can take a while for search engines to start to notice you, and this is where Pay Per Click programs come into play, when you want a fast rank while the search engines start to take notice of you. But if you haven't optimized your page, that time will never come.
Getting your site listed for the keywords you want on the major search engines is a key to receiving the traffic increase.
When putting together the content for your page, remember that content is a major difference to appearing on page 1 or page 15 on the searches. Have your keywords appear as much as you can.
Then make sure your title has a keyword phrase you would enter if looking for your site, and that your meta description is a nice sentence about what your site is (and contains your keywords), and the meta keywords (contains your keywords.) With all 4 of these elements considered, you will have taken a big step in creating a relationship with the search engines.
4. Message and Social Boards - Make posts on relevant message boards and Social sites.
Make sure the posts are informative and not direct advertisements. In other words, post on message boards related to your site and offer the other viewers real advice and information to solve a problem. Make sure you are including a signature on each post that holds a link to your website.
5. Articles
The rule of thumb is create 10 articles for your industry, and get them out there fast. Then you can sit back and wait for the reaction. One of the best ways to promote you, your company, and your products or services is to give information away, with no strings attached. There are hundreds of free article submission sites and ezine lists on the Internet, with tons of sites hungry for free content.
As long as your article provides readers with useful information and are not for the purpose of selling, sites will accept them for publication. In turn, they will then make those articles available for reading--and for publication--for anyone else browsing their article sites. Free exposure for you. Articles have real power when it comes to traffic generation. You can use products such as ArticleSubmitter Pro, or go to each site you want and upload for free.
Then, another little tip is you add your article to your blog. This creates activity at your blog, and another link opportunity, back to your website which should be a landing page.
6. Press Releases - A press release is information supplied to reporters or media that is an official statement or account of an event that is specially prepared and issued to make known to the public.
It is generally done when you have a newsworthy event such as a new product, website, grand opening, upcoming event, new product feature - but whatever is going on, the key is to write about it, and let everyone know through a press release.
The success of press releases comes back again to links. These are a great way to get links back to your site. You don't get the meaty 'author or resource box' that you do in an article, but it can ultimately appear on some really great sites.
Any aspect of your business that is interesting or unique should be added to the Internet The Internet is one of the largest and easiest ways to get news out there, fast. There is a press release format, although each website has their own instructions that you should follow to increase your chances of being accepted, and being successful. When planning your press release, consider the headline, sub-headline or summary paragraph, and then the actual body of the article.
There are tons of free services out there, but a few you can get going with right away are:
www.free-press-release.com
www.prleap.com
www.i-newswire.com
All of the above are free methods of generating traffic to your website. By implementing them, you will have the opportunity to enjoy a surge in traffic, without any cost. Now you just need to convert them with your site.
"Starbuck Man"
Randy Flaherty
Starbuckman@gmail.com
Contact: powerman297@hotmail.com
Contact: 320-239-4537 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 320-239-4537 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
It's seems the mighty grail of the Internet is capturing traffic that is relevant to our site. Without traffic, we are carrying no real expectations of earning money or customers. When putting your website strategy together, you will need to remember that it isn't just about the site, but what happens next. The traffic, and the conversion of traffic to visitors. If you construct a website to sell products, services, or promote affiliates , with the hopes of generating an income, traffic is of the utmost importance.
Each of these warrant their own article, which I will also do, but to help guide you in general, the following are the top five FREE ways to drive traffic to your website:
1. Signature Files:
They say, "There's no such thing as a free lunch", but by using your email signatures, that simply isn't true. Signatures are those little messages that appear at the bottom of your email. Typical examples are your name, email address, company and position, but in the world of Internet Marketing, this is free advertising.
For Signatures the things you want to consider are:
*
1. Always add a signature because they work great and are absolutely free.
*
2. Depending on who you are sending an email message to, have multiple signatures you choose from.
*
3. Make sure you are including a signature for each and every email, whether it is personal or business.
*
4. Make the signatures work for you. Be aggressive, and if you have a landing page, drive every email to that so you can capture them in your autoresponder sales cycle.
*
5. Only have one link for them to choose from and make them want to go to it.
2. Links:
In Google PageRanks, Google looks at the popularity and keyword ranking of a website in order to determine where it appears in the searches. This could be as great as page 1, or anywhere after that. Most links occur in the following manner:
*
1. Word of Mouth, referrals from friends, promote in the bottom of your email
*
2. Free Link Exchange Program - This is where you go through the Internet in search of appropriate sites compatible to your industry, and offer to list their website, if they list yours. Time consuming, but free.
*
3. Affiliate Links - If you have the type of product that can be sold by others, where they make a percent of the sale, make sure they set up a website link back to your site. They will also have a page on your site with a unique identifier so that the sale can be traced back to them. This is a great way to not only increase your links, but get your product out there faster.
* 4. Purchased Links
* 5. Testimonial Links
* 6. Articles
* 7. Press Releases
The ultimate key with links is you want a site that has content similar to yours, they are credible in what they do, and they are in the same keyword area you are. That way it will benefit extensively.
3. SEO -Search Engine Optimization (SEO) or Keyword Optimization
SEO is a fancy way of saying make sure your web pages, titles, meta tags, and descriptions, and your page content contain the key words you want to appear in for your particular market. When considering your Internet marketing strategy, make sure you optimize your pages for keywords.
Many people rush off to Google and Yahoo and do pay per click campaigns (we'll get into these at a future date), but forget to use the old-fashioned free route of making sure each web page really uses these tools.
I have visited so many sites, and randomly checked to see if they use them, and they don't. This is a missed, free opportunity at 'true rankings' improvement.
Now it can take a while for search engines to start to notice you, and this is where Pay Per Click programs come into play, when you want a fast rank while the search engines start to take notice of you. But if you haven't optimized your page, that time will never come.
Getting your site listed for the keywords you want on the major search engines is a key to receiving the traffic increase.
When putting together the content for your page, remember that content is a major difference to appearing on page 1 or page 15 on the searches. Have your keywords appear as much as you can.
Then make sure your title has a keyword phrase you would enter if looking for your site, and that your meta description is a nice sentence about what your site is (and contains your keywords), and the meta keywords (contains your keywords.) With all 4 of these elements considered, you will have taken a big step in creating a relationship with the search engines.
4. Message and Social Boards - Make posts on relevant message boards and Social sites.
Make sure the posts are informative and not direct advertisements. In other words, post on message boards related to your site and offer the other viewers real advice and information to solve a problem. Make sure you are including a signature on each post that holds a link to your website.
5. Articles
The rule of thumb is create 10 articles for your industry, and get them out there fast. Then you can sit back and wait for the reaction. One of the best ways to promote you, your company, and your products or services is to give information away, with no strings attached. There are hundreds of free article submission sites and ezine lists on the Internet, with tons of sites hungry for free content.
As long as your article provides readers with useful information and are not for the purpose of selling, sites will accept them for publication. In turn, they will then make those articles available for reading--and for publication--for anyone else browsing their article sites. Free exposure for you. Articles have real power when it comes to traffic generation. You can use products such as ArticleSubmitter Pro, or go to each site you want and upload for free.
Then, another little tip is you add your article to your blog. This creates activity at your blog, and another link opportunity, back to your website which should be a landing page.
6. Press Releases - A press release is information supplied to reporters or media that is an official statement or account of an event that is specially prepared and issued to make known to the public.
It is generally done when you have a newsworthy event such as a new product, website, grand opening, upcoming event, new product feature - but whatever is going on, the key is to write about it, and let everyone know through a press release.
The success of press releases comes back again to links. These are a great way to get links back to your site. You don't get the meaty 'author or resource box' that you do in an article, but it can ultimately appear on some really great sites.
Any aspect of your business that is interesting or unique should be added to the Internet The Internet is one of the largest and easiest ways to get news out there, fast. There is a press release format, although each website has their own instructions that you should follow to increase your chances of being accepted, and being successful. When planning your press release, consider the headline, sub-headline or summary paragraph, and then the actual body of the article.
There are tons of free services out there, but a few you can get going with right away are:
www.free-press-release.com
www.prleap.com
www.i-newswire.com
All of the above are free methods of generating traffic to your website. By implementing them, you will have the opportunity to enjoy a surge in traffic, without any cost. Now you just need to convert them with your site.
"Starbuck Man"
Randy Flaherty
Starbuckman@gmail.com
Contact: powerman297@hotmail.com
Contact: 320-239-4537 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 320-239-4537 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
THE OPRAH SHOW "10 Practical Ways to Increase Your Abundance"
THE OPRAH SHOW
"10 Practical Ways to Increase Your Abundance"
***Just wanted to share this with you and my followers.***
Have you ever had your abundance levels evaluated? Get your on-the-spot abundance rating with Dr. Robert Holden's Abundance Test, which will help you examine 10 areas of your life—self, relationship, goals, money, receiving, giving, purpose, forgiveness, gratitude and presence. Once you have your score, get the exercises you need to help you get and give the most in life!
Self: I love and accept myself.
Your self-acceptance score sets your "personal allowance" for how much happiness, success and love is possible and how much is "too good to be true." Your allowance determines how much good fortune you can identify with before you start telling yourself "good things like this don't happen to people like me." As your self-acceptance score increases, the more good fortune you will allow yourself to notice, accept and enjoy.
When your self-acceptance score is low, you tend to forget that abundance is natural, and you start to believe that good fortune has to be deserved, earned and paid for. When good things happen to you, you feel guilty, anxious and afraid, because deep down you believe something deeply illegal or blasphemous has happened. You quickly set about "paying the bill" by making sacrifices, working harder, apologizing everywhere, pushing away love, rejecting the joy and sabotaging the success. Thus, for as long as you do not accept yourself, you will always want more than you let yourself have.
Exercise: Self-acceptance feels so good that you should try it at least once in your life! At the deepest level, self-acceptance is the awareness that you are what you seek. The love you hope to find in the world is what you are made of, and the happiness you are searching for is your true nature. Today, be willing to accept the idea that love is here because you are here, and happiness is here because you are here, and hope is here because you are here. Affirm to yourself, "I am what I seek."
Next: The power of connection
Relationship: I feel connected, and not alone.
To feel truly abundant for the rest of your life, do this one thing first: Give up all sense of separateness. Despite how it looks or how you may feel right now, you are not a separate self, you are not an island, and you are not alone. As you let go of thoughts of separateness—described by scientist Albert Einstein as "optical delusions"—your perception changes, and so, too, does your experience of the world. Once you were lost, and now you are found. Grace is at hand. Inspiration is here. All manner of help and support is available to you.
Exercise: If you want more energy, more inspiration, more creativity, more aliveness, more joy, you have to connect. First connect with yourself. Failure to do so will leave you feeling like something is missing in your life. Eventually, you will come to realize that what is missing is you! Next, connect with others. Ask yourself, "Who would I like to spend more time with?" Social studies show that people who invest in a rich "circle of friends" are twice as likely to feel very happy and abundant.
Your abundance score will increase as you extend your sense of connection to include the sun, the stars, the sea and the trees. Too many of us suffer from what author Richard Louv calls "a nature-deficit disorder." Mother Nature offers a perfect holding environment that helps to restore us to our unconditioned selves. Most important of all is our connection with the original energy that created us. In my favorite book, A Course in Miracles, it is written, "A sense of separation from God is the only lack you really need to correct." Amen to that.
Next: Know what you want
Goals: I know what I want.
Contrary to what the advertising copy writers tell us, the goal of your life is not to have it all. Nor is it to have everything. As the comedian Steven Wright said, "You can't have everything. Where would you put it?" Your goal is not just to accumulate. You are not a consumer. You are not here on Earth just "to get." If you think only in terms of "getting," you have clearly forgotten who you really are, and you'll always be haunted by a mistaken sense of inner lack.
Most of the people I meet are not broken, they do not need fixing and there is nothing missing in them. My experience is that they don't need more therapy, but they do need more clarity. In particular, they need to get clear about what they really value. Until we know what our real values are, we will not be able to discern between genuine desires and advertising slogans. The Sufi poet Hafiz put it very well when he said:
"Learn to recognize the counterfeit coins
That may buy you just a moment of pleasure,
But then drag you for days
Like a broken man
Behind a farting camel."
Exercise: Reflect on the statement, "I know what I want." How true is this for you? Sit with this until you are at least a little bit clearer than before about what is the real more you want and why. Your new found clarity will save you so much time, so much energy and so much unnecessary heartache. Notice also that knowing what you want isn't just about "having" and "doing," it's also about "giving" and "being." When you know what you want, you stop wanting more of everything else.
Next: Realize that money isn't everything
Money: I have a healthy relationship to money.
Rich people seldom feel rich. They do not perceive themselves to be rich. In a Gallup poll, the average person judged that 21 percent of people, approximately one in five, are in the "rich" bracket. And yet not even one-half of 1 percent of people put themselves in that bracket. In other words, only one person in 200 can identify with the phrase "I am a rich person." Most people relate to terms like "rich," "wealth" and "abundance" as something you eventually experience when you finally, one day—you hope—enjoy something more than what you have now.
Rich people often feel poor. "When they are asked how much income they need, richer people always say they need more than poor people," writes Lord Richard Layard, the British economist. In his book Happiness: Lessons from a New Science, Lord Layard collated research on the economics of happiness back to the early 1970s. He writes: "Although real income per head (corrected for price inflation) has nearly doubled, the proportion of people who say they are pretty well satisfied with their financial situation has actually fallen."
Exercise: Money is important in life, but if you are to enjoy a truly healthy relationship with money, you have to be clear about what is even more important than money. The real truth is that you can't buy what you really want. True love is not for sale. Real happiness cannot be bought. Peace of mind is not a commodity. To increase your abundance score immediately, try this great exercise: Make a list of 10 things in your life that are priceless to you and that money cannot buy. This powerful exercise will open your eyes to how rich your life already is.
Next: Are you a good receiver?
Receiving: I am a good receiver (in all areas of my life).
Are you a good receiver? Do you drink life in? Do you let people give to you? Can you let the good times roll? When it comes to letting life be really great, what's your threshold? What's your fear?
There are no shortages, only a lack of willingness to receive. Receptivity works on three levels. Level 1 is about being open to what wants to come to you. This openness makes you attractive, in that it helps you to attract great things. Level 2 is about recognizing what is already here. Many of us overlook what is already here because we are poor receivers. Level 3 is about appreciating the natural qualities of our true nature—our secret beauty, our eternal loveliness, our innate wisdom and our human kindness.
Exercise: Take a personal inventory in which you identify at least three ways you limit your own happiness and abundance. Notice how you are depriving yourself of nourishment, inspiration, joy and aliveness. Make a resolution to stop being so mean to yourself. And be willing to let life give to you, so you can give yourself more fully to life. Reflect also on what my friend Dr. Chuck Spezzano says: "When the receiver is ready, the gift appears."
Next: Give unconditionally
Giving: When I give, I give unconditionally.
Has it ever occurred to you that what you are not getting—either from someone, something or somewhere—might be precisely what you are not giving? For example, your boss doesn't motivate you, but do you motivate your boss? Your partner doesn't compliment you, but do you compliment your partner? Your child never listens to you, but do you really listen to your child? Really? You are held back not by what you don't get, but by what you don't give.
Do you ever feel you give too much? If so, it may be that you are blocking abundance by being in a role. Roles are often so unconscious and automatic we often don't notice them until we collapse with exhaustion. So, what roles do you fall into in relationships? Do you ever play "the giver" who only gives and never receives; or "the helper" who suppresses any personal needs; or "the independent one" who never asks for what they want; or "the rescuer" who is always on duty; or "the martyr" who cannot really give unconditionally because they do not really receive?
Exercise: Today, do not think in terms of giving and receiving; rather, see that giving is receiving. Notice the difference between giving from your essence and giving from a role. From your essence, giving is always sharing and the gifts are multiplied. In a role, giving is always a transaction in which someone inevitably loses. When you give from your essence, you notice how you receive as you give, and, thus, you naturally let go of all fear of giving and receiving.
Next: Why it's important to have a strong sense of purpose
Purpose: I enjoy a strong sense of purpose.
The most abundant people I know are committed to a strong sense of purpose. Having a purpose helps you to feel good about yourself. It connects you to something bigger than your ego, helps you to recognize what is truly valuable, inspires you (more than money ever can), opens you up and makes you want to give and to serve in a way that you feel truly blessed. Without a strong sense of purpose, you can still get by, but you might not feel very alive, except for when you go shopping for more shoes and stuff.
Exercise 1: What would you say if someone was to ask you, "What is the purpose of your life?" Notice your response to this question. If you are not clear on your answer, you need to take some time to work this out. If you need some more help on this, I recommend you read my piece, "What Do You Want to Do with Your Life?" The clearer you are about your purpose, the more abundant you will feel.
Exercise 2: To discover the purpose of your life, you have to "let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love," the poet Rumi said. Asking yourself, "What do I love?" will help to clarify what energizes you, what touches your heart and what inspires you. As you answer the call to what you love, you will naturally feel more alive and more deeply engaged with life. You will also experience a greater sense of direction, meaning and fulfillment.
Next: Don't carry grievances
Forgiveness: I don't carry grievances.
Grievances often seem justified at the time, but ultimately they cost too much: They are not worth the upkeep, and they cannot give you want you really want.
The first step in moving beyond grievances is to realize that a grievance is not a solution. It offers nothing of value to you. A grievance keeps you stuck in the past, and until you let go of the grievance, you will keep giving away your future to the past. The good news is that your whole life shifts whenever you give up a grievance. As soon as you let go of a grievance, you move into the present, your life begins to flow again, you are more open, you attract new possibilities and a new story unfolds.
Exercise: Make this your affirmation today: "Forgiveness offers everything I want." One of my favorite lessons in A Course in Miracles begins: "Do you want peace? Forgiveness offers it. Do you want happiness, a quiet mind, a certainty of purpose, and a sense of worth and beauty that transcends the world? Do you want care and safety, and the warmth of sure protection always? Do you want quietness that cannot be disturbed, a gentleness that never can be hurt, a deep, abiding comfort, and a rest so perfect it can never be upset? ... All this forgiveness offers you, and more."
Next: Practice gratitude daily
Gratitude: I practice gratitude daily.
Everyone understands, at least intellectually, that gratitude is essential for happiness and abundance. That said, most of us do not make a conscious habit of practicing gratitude daily. Instead, we reserve gratitude for after something especially good happens. The problem with this is that, because we don't practice gratitude regularly, we often miss all the good things as they happen! Our lack of gratitude gives us only partial sight, and we lack a full appreciation of what is available to us.
Practicing gratitude is really a decision to give up all belief in lack. The miracle of gratitude is that it changes your perception, it changes your brain and it changes your experience of the world. Gratitude is a training in vision that helps you recognize what is already here for you. Gratitude energizes you. Gratitude opens you up. Gratitude makes you attractive. The more you practice gratitude, the more abundant you will feel. Why? Because like attracts like; and practicing gratitude attracts more reasons to be grateful.
Exercise: Your abundance score will increase if you commit to practicing gratitude on a daily basis. To get started, say out loud 10 things you are truly grateful for. Notice what this feels like to hear yourself say it. Are you having fun? Does it feel silly? Any resistance to doing this exercise is really a temptation to keep holding on to your old stories of lack, unworthiness and separation. Keep going. And keep doing it. The gift of gratitude is that it helps you to enjoy your life as it happens, here and now.
Next: Be fully present in your life
Presence: I am fully present in my life.
Our modern lifestyles are so manic, busy and hyperactive that we often have no time to enjoy our lives. In maximizing our efforts to pursue happiness, chase success and accumulate wealth, we miss out on life as it happens. We are so focused on "going" and "doing" and "having" that we settle for getting through the day instead of living and loving each day. Life becomes such a blur and the busyness is so chronic that it is almost impossible to locate ourselves in our own lives. We hope we might catch up with ourselves some time in the future.
Every authentic school of wisdom and spirituality teaches you that now is the most abundant moment of your life. They all agree that now is an eternal treasure chest dripping with everlasting gifts of peace, inspiration, grace and joy. And since time began, spiritual teachers have taught their students to "be here and now," to "enjoy the moment" and to "seize the day." And every spiritual student has repeatedly disregarded his or her teacher's wisdom—at first.
Exercise: One way to be more present in your life is to stop "doing," "going" and "having," and pay more attention to "being." How does this work? Well, you can start right now, by deciding "to be" more of what you want to experience. For example: If you want more love, be more loving; if you want to receive more, be more open; if you want to feel more abundant, be more grateful; and if you want to enjoy your life more, be more present.
By being more of who you really are,
you manifest more of what you really want.
Not sure how abundant you are? Take the abundance test!
Robert Holden, PhD, and his innovative work on happiness and well-being have been featured on The Oprah Show and Good Morning America and also in two major BBC documentaries, The Happiness Formula and How to Be Happy, shown to more than 30 million TV viewers worldwide. He is the author of the best-selling books Happiness NOW!, Shift Happens! and Success Intelligence. His latest book, Be Happy, is published by Hay House. Robert lives in London with his wife and daughter.
Is your life abundant? What do you need to do to feel more abundance in your life? Share your comment below.
Keep Reading More from Dr. Holden:
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10 scientifically proven methods to increase your happiness
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How to be happy—even when times are tough
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Eckhart Tolle on the Beauty of Today
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Starbuckman@gmail.com
Contact: powerman297@hotmail.com
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"10 Practical Ways to Increase Your Abundance"
***Just wanted to share this with you and my followers.***
Have you ever had your abundance levels evaluated? Get your on-the-spot abundance rating with Dr. Robert Holden's Abundance Test, which will help you examine 10 areas of your life—self, relationship, goals, money, receiving, giving, purpose, forgiveness, gratitude and presence. Once you have your score, get the exercises you need to help you get and give the most in life!
Self: I love and accept myself.
Your self-acceptance score sets your "personal allowance" for how much happiness, success and love is possible and how much is "too good to be true." Your allowance determines how much good fortune you can identify with before you start telling yourself "good things like this don't happen to people like me." As your self-acceptance score increases, the more good fortune you will allow yourself to notice, accept and enjoy.
When your self-acceptance score is low, you tend to forget that abundance is natural, and you start to believe that good fortune has to be deserved, earned and paid for. When good things happen to you, you feel guilty, anxious and afraid, because deep down you believe something deeply illegal or blasphemous has happened. You quickly set about "paying the bill" by making sacrifices, working harder, apologizing everywhere, pushing away love, rejecting the joy and sabotaging the success. Thus, for as long as you do not accept yourself, you will always want more than you let yourself have.
Exercise: Self-acceptance feels so good that you should try it at least once in your life! At the deepest level, self-acceptance is the awareness that you are what you seek. The love you hope to find in the world is what you are made of, and the happiness you are searching for is your true nature. Today, be willing to accept the idea that love is here because you are here, and happiness is here because you are here, and hope is here because you are here. Affirm to yourself, "I am what I seek."
Next: The power of connection
Relationship: I feel connected, and not alone.
To feel truly abundant for the rest of your life, do this one thing first: Give up all sense of separateness. Despite how it looks or how you may feel right now, you are not a separate self, you are not an island, and you are not alone. As you let go of thoughts of separateness—described by scientist Albert Einstein as "optical delusions"—your perception changes, and so, too, does your experience of the world. Once you were lost, and now you are found. Grace is at hand. Inspiration is here. All manner of help and support is available to you.
Exercise: If you want more energy, more inspiration, more creativity, more aliveness, more joy, you have to connect. First connect with yourself. Failure to do so will leave you feeling like something is missing in your life. Eventually, you will come to realize that what is missing is you! Next, connect with others. Ask yourself, "Who would I like to spend more time with?" Social studies show that people who invest in a rich "circle of friends" are twice as likely to feel very happy and abundant.
Your abundance score will increase as you extend your sense of connection to include the sun, the stars, the sea and the trees. Too many of us suffer from what author Richard Louv calls "a nature-deficit disorder." Mother Nature offers a perfect holding environment that helps to restore us to our unconditioned selves. Most important of all is our connection with the original energy that created us. In my favorite book, A Course in Miracles, it is written, "A sense of separation from God is the only lack you really need to correct." Amen to that.
Next: Know what you want
Goals: I know what I want.
Contrary to what the advertising copy writers tell us, the goal of your life is not to have it all. Nor is it to have everything. As the comedian Steven Wright said, "You can't have everything. Where would you put it?" Your goal is not just to accumulate. You are not a consumer. You are not here on Earth just "to get." If you think only in terms of "getting," you have clearly forgotten who you really are, and you'll always be haunted by a mistaken sense of inner lack.
Most of the people I meet are not broken, they do not need fixing and there is nothing missing in them. My experience is that they don't need more therapy, but they do need more clarity. In particular, they need to get clear about what they really value. Until we know what our real values are, we will not be able to discern between genuine desires and advertising slogans. The Sufi poet Hafiz put it very well when he said:
"Learn to recognize the counterfeit coins
That may buy you just a moment of pleasure,
But then drag you for days
Like a broken man
Behind a farting camel."
Exercise: Reflect on the statement, "I know what I want." How true is this for you? Sit with this until you are at least a little bit clearer than before about what is the real more you want and why. Your new found clarity will save you so much time, so much energy and so much unnecessary heartache. Notice also that knowing what you want isn't just about "having" and "doing," it's also about "giving" and "being." When you know what you want, you stop wanting more of everything else.
Next: Realize that money isn't everything
Money: I have a healthy relationship to money.
Rich people seldom feel rich. They do not perceive themselves to be rich. In a Gallup poll, the average person judged that 21 percent of people, approximately one in five, are in the "rich" bracket. And yet not even one-half of 1 percent of people put themselves in that bracket. In other words, only one person in 200 can identify with the phrase "I am a rich person." Most people relate to terms like "rich," "wealth" and "abundance" as something you eventually experience when you finally, one day—you hope—enjoy something more than what you have now.
Rich people often feel poor. "When they are asked how much income they need, richer people always say they need more than poor people," writes Lord Richard Layard, the British economist. In his book Happiness: Lessons from a New Science, Lord Layard collated research on the economics of happiness back to the early 1970s. He writes: "Although real income per head (corrected for price inflation) has nearly doubled, the proportion of people who say they are pretty well satisfied with their financial situation has actually fallen."
Exercise: Money is important in life, but if you are to enjoy a truly healthy relationship with money, you have to be clear about what is even more important than money. The real truth is that you can't buy what you really want. True love is not for sale. Real happiness cannot be bought. Peace of mind is not a commodity. To increase your abundance score immediately, try this great exercise: Make a list of 10 things in your life that are priceless to you and that money cannot buy. This powerful exercise will open your eyes to how rich your life already is.
Next: Are you a good receiver?
Receiving: I am a good receiver (in all areas of my life).
Are you a good receiver? Do you drink life in? Do you let people give to you? Can you let the good times roll? When it comes to letting life be really great, what's your threshold? What's your fear?
There are no shortages, only a lack of willingness to receive. Receptivity works on three levels. Level 1 is about being open to what wants to come to you. This openness makes you attractive, in that it helps you to attract great things. Level 2 is about recognizing what is already here. Many of us overlook what is already here because we are poor receivers. Level 3 is about appreciating the natural qualities of our true nature—our secret beauty, our eternal loveliness, our innate wisdom and our human kindness.
Exercise: Take a personal inventory in which you identify at least three ways you limit your own happiness and abundance. Notice how you are depriving yourself of nourishment, inspiration, joy and aliveness. Make a resolution to stop being so mean to yourself. And be willing to let life give to you, so you can give yourself more fully to life. Reflect also on what my friend Dr. Chuck Spezzano says: "When the receiver is ready, the gift appears."
Next: Give unconditionally
Giving: When I give, I give unconditionally.
Has it ever occurred to you that what you are not getting—either from someone, something or somewhere—might be precisely what you are not giving? For example, your boss doesn't motivate you, but do you motivate your boss? Your partner doesn't compliment you, but do you compliment your partner? Your child never listens to you, but do you really listen to your child? Really? You are held back not by what you don't get, but by what you don't give.
Do you ever feel you give too much? If so, it may be that you are blocking abundance by being in a role. Roles are often so unconscious and automatic we often don't notice them until we collapse with exhaustion. So, what roles do you fall into in relationships? Do you ever play "the giver" who only gives and never receives; or "the helper" who suppresses any personal needs; or "the independent one" who never asks for what they want; or "the rescuer" who is always on duty; or "the martyr" who cannot really give unconditionally because they do not really receive?
Exercise: Today, do not think in terms of giving and receiving; rather, see that giving is receiving. Notice the difference between giving from your essence and giving from a role. From your essence, giving is always sharing and the gifts are multiplied. In a role, giving is always a transaction in which someone inevitably loses. When you give from your essence, you notice how you receive as you give, and, thus, you naturally let go of all fear of giving and receiving.
Next: Why it's important to have a strong sense of purpose
Purpose: I enjoy a strong sense of purpose.
The most abundant people I know are committed to a strong sense of purpose. Having a purpose helps you to feel good about yourself. It connects you to something bigger than your ego, helps you to recognize what is truly valuable, inspires you (more than money ever can), opens you up and makes you want to give and to serve in a way that you feel truly blessed. Without a strong sense of purpose, you can still get by, but you might not feel very alive, except for when you go shopping for more shoes and stuff.
Exercise 1: What would you say if someone was to ask you, "What is the purpose of your life?" Notice your response to this question. If you are not clear on your answer, you need to take some time to work this out. If you need some more help on this, I recommend you read my piece, "What Do You Want to Do with Your Life?" The clearer you are about your purpose, the more abundant you will feel.
Exercise 2: To discover the purpose of your life, you have to "let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love," the poet Rumi said. Asking yourself, "What do I love?" will help to clarify what energizes you, what touches your heart and what inspires you. As you answer the call to what you love, you will naturally feel more alive and more deeply engaged with life. You will also experience a greater sense of direction, meaning and fulfillment.
Next: Don't carry grievances
Forgiveness: I don't carry grievances.
Grievances often seem justified at the time, but ultimately they cost too much: They are not worth the upkeep, and they cannot give you want you really want.
The first step in moving beyond grievances is to realize that a grievance is not a solution. It offers nothing of value to you. A grievance keeps you stuck in the past, and until you let go of the grievance, you will keep giving away your future to the past. The good news is that your whole life shifts whenever you give up a grievance. As soon as you let go of a grievance, you move into the present, your life begins to flow again, you are more open, you attract new possibilities and a new story unfolds.
Exercise: Make this your affirmation today: "Forgiveness offers everything I want." One of my favorite lessons in A Course in Miracles begins: "Do you want peace? Forgiveness offers it. Do you want happiness, a quiet mind, a certainty of purpose, and a sense of worth and beauty that transcends the world? Do you want care and safety, and the warmth of sure protection always? Do you want quietness that cannot be disturbed, a gentleness that never can be hurt, a deep, abiding comfort, and a rest so perfect it can never be upset? ... All this forgiveness offers you, and more."
Next: Practice gratitude daily
Gratitude: I practice gratitude daily.
Everyone understands, at least intellectually, that gratitude is essential for happiness and abundance. That said, most of us do not make a conscious habit of practicing gratitude daily. Instead, we reserve gratitude for after something especially good happens. The problem with this is that, because we don't practice gratitude regularly, we often miss all the good things as they happen! Our lack of gratitude gives us only partial sight, and we lack a full appreciation of what is available to us.
Practicing gratitude is really a decision to give up all belief in lack. The miracle of gratitude is that it changes your perception, it changes your brain and it changes your experience of the world. Gratitude is a training in vision that helps you recognize what is already here for you. Gratitude energizes you. Gratitude opens you up. Gratitude makes you attractive. The more you practice gratitude, the more abundant you will feel. Why? Because like attracts like; and practicing gratitude attracts more reasons to be grateful.
Exercise: Your abundance score will increase if you commit to practicing gratitude on a daily basis. To get started, say out loud 10 things you are truly grateful for. Notice what this feels like to hear yourself say it. Are you having fun? Does it feel silly? Any resistance to doing this exercise is really a temptation to keep holding on to your old stories of lack, unworthiness and separation. Keep going. And keep doing it. The gift of gratitude is that it helps you to enjoy your life as it happens, here and now.
Next: Be fully present in your life
Presence: I am fully present in my life.
Our modern lifestyles are so manic, busy and hyperactive that we often have no time to enjoy our lives. In maximizing our efforts to pursue happiness, chase success and accumulate wealth, we miss out on life as it happens. We are so focused on "going" and "doing" and "having" that we settle for getting through the day instead of living and loving each day. Life becomes such a blur and the busyness is so chronic that it is almost impossible to locate ourselves in our own lives. We hope we might catch up with ourselves some time in the future.
Every authentic school of wisdom and spirituality teaches you that now is the most abundant moment of your life. They all agree that now is an eternal treasure chest dripping with everlasting gifts of peace, inspiration, grace and joy. And since time began, spiritual teachers have taught their students to "be here and now," to "enjoy the moment" and to "seize the day." And every spiritual student has repeatedly disregarded his or her teacher's wisdom—at first.
Exercise: One way to be more present in your life is to stop "doing," "going" and "having," and pay more attention to "being." How does this work? Well, you can start right now, by deciding "to be" more of what you want to experience. For example: If you want more love, be more loving; if you want to receive more, be more open; if you want to feel more abundant, be more grateful; and if you want to enjoy your life more, be more present.
By being more of who you really are,
you manifest more of what you really want.
Not sure how abundant you are? Take the abundance test!
Robert Holden, PhD, and his innovative work on happiness and well-being have been featured on The Oprah Show and Good Morning America and also in two major BBC documentaries, The Happiness Formula and How to Be Happy, shown to more than 30 million TV viewers worldwide. He is the author of the best-selling books Happiness NOW!, Shift Happens! and Success Intelligence. His latest book, Be Happy, is published by Hay House. Robert lives in London with his wife and daughter.
Is your life abundant? What do you need to do to feel more abundance in your life? Share your comment below.
Keep Reading More from Dr. Holden:
Not sure how happy you are? Take the quiz!
10 scientifically proven methods to increase your happiness
6 exercises to find your life's purpose
How to be happy—even when times are tough
MORE TOP STORIES
Take Action! 10 Ways to Increase Your Happiness
Dr. Robert Holden shares 10 ways to make yourself happier.
READ MORE
Take the Abundance Test
Here's your chance to take a test that not only gives you an on-the-spot abundance rating, but also gives you 10 practical ways to start increasing your abundance right away.
READ MORE
Eckhart Tolle on the Beauty of Today
Best-selling author Eckhart Tolle writes about the beauty of living in and celebrating the present moment.
READ MORE
The Object of My Affection
Martha Beck's advice to help you avoid and deal with the narcissists in your life.
READ MORE
The Best
"Starbuck Man"
Randy Flaherty
Starbuckman@gmail.com
Contact: powerman297@hotmail.com
Contact: 320-239-4537
Monday, May 17, 2010
"The Law of Cause and Effect in Daily Living"
Might find this very helpful,By Laura Silva Quesada
Live Consciously and Take Responsibility for Your
Outcomes.
The Law of Cause and Effect basically states that
for every movement of energy such as in a natural
happening, or a human thought that takes the form
of an image, feeling, desire, belief, expectation or
action there is a corresponding effect. For this
reason the Law of Cause and Effect influences
every aspect of your living experience. To
determine why your living experience is of a certain
quality or why something has come into your life,
you simply need to discover what causes preceded
the effects. If and when you like the effects you are
living with then you keep the causes. If not, then
you change the causes so as to create a different
effect.
In order to make the most of the Law of Cause and
Effect, you must live consciously and recognize that
you are the creator of your own reality. This
concept is not fully accepted by those who insist on
pointing the finger of blame at everything and
everyone but themselves for their less than
desirable circumstances. "Victims" of circumstance,
while living unconsciously, will do their best to
disprove the Law of Cause and Effect with their
own personal experience by angrily saying such
things as “I work hard every day and look where it’s
gotten me,” not realizing that their anger and
negative attitude has kept them from getting the
long desired promotion. The fact that negative
attitudes never lead to positive outcomes no matter
how hard you work hopefully leads to the following
realization:
The causes that lead to your personal living
experience must be holistic in nature.
Causes that lead to positive effects must
contain elements of a healthy Spirit, Mind,
Body and Emotions.
The Law of Cause and Effect incorporates other
subjective laws such as the Law of Attention that
basically states where your attention goes energy
flows, or what ever you focus on will expand in that
direction, good or bad. The Law of Karma is similar
to the Law of Cause and Effect in that it basically
states that what we send forth to the Universe
comes back to you. In other words what goes
around comes back around, or you reap what you
sow. Think wisely.
Those in need of emotional health, healing,
maturation and/or expression may find themselves
achieving it only to realize the necessary work
ahead of them in mending and amending the many
effects that were caused by the thoughts, beliefs
and behaviors of yesterday, last year, or what may
seem to be of another lifetime. The good news is
that it is worth the work. Having a sincere desire to
mend and heal the effects caused by the “Past,”
and doing so, will lead to future positive effects and
a more positive living experience.
The first place to start in becoming more conscious
of the role the Law of Cause and Effect plays in our
lives is in becoming more conscious of your
thoughts. Your thoughts are the one thing that
affects every thing else in your life. Thoughts take
many forms and have an attractive mechanism that
attracts energy to it. The energy then manifests
according to the thought be it in the form of a fear,
fantasy, choice, desire, belief, behavior, outcome,
etc. This is why it is said that if you dwell on
something long enough, and put enough
passionate energy into it, then the effect is that it
can, and will become your next reality.
Many of your thoughts lead to immediate effects.
Being more conscious of the quality of your
thoughts, and their effects, enables you to quickly
alter undesirable outcomes. In many instances, by
simply thinking of a more appropriate thought you
can immediately create a more desirable outcome.
Think before you speak. In other words, pause for
the cause by thinking of the outcome you desire
instead of blurting out words based on unprocessed
fears, anger, or emotions. When you feel compelled
to speak out without thinking it through, PAUSE,
take a deep breath, and simply tell yourself, “Relax
– What’s my outcome,” then picture the outcome
you desire and begin to move in that direction.
There is no rush. You don’t have to speak out
immediately nor do you have to act out
immediately. It is often best to remain quiet in order
to think of the best, most resourceful response,
behavior or plan of action.
"What to Do"
1. Pause.
2. Take a deep breath.
3. Say to yourself mentally
“Relax – What’s my
outcome.
4. Picture the desired
outcome.
5. Create an Action Plan.
6. Begin to move in that
direction.
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Live Consciously and Take Responsibility for Your
Outcomes.
The Law of Cause and Effect basically states that
for every movement of energy such as in a natural
happening, or a human thought that takes the form
of an image, feeling, desire, belief, expectation or
action there is a corresponding effect. For this
reason the Law of Cause and Effect influences
every aspect of your living experience. To
determine why your living experience is of a certain
quality or why something has come into your life,
you simply need to discover what causes preceded
the effects. If and when you like the effects you are
living with then you keep the causes. If not, then
you change the causes so as to create a different
effect.
In order to make the most of the Law of Cause and
Effect, you must live consciously and recognize that
you are the creator of your own reality. This
concept is not fully accepted by those who insist on
pointing the finger of blame at everything and
everyone but themselves for their less than
desirable circumstances. "Victims" of circumstance,
while living unconsciously, will do their best to
disprove the Law of Cause and Effect with their
own personal experience by angrily saying such
things as “I work hard every day and look where it’s
gotten me,” not realizing that their anger and
negative attitude has kept them from getting the
long desired promotion. The fact that negative
attitudes never lead to positive outcomes no matter
how hard you work hopefully leads to the following
realization:
The causes that lead to your personal living
experience must be holistic in nature.
Causes that lead to positive effects must
contain elements of a healthy Spirit, Mind,
Body and Emotions.
The Law of Cause and Effect incorporates other
subjective laws such as the Law of Attention that
basically states where your attention goes energy
flows, or what ever you focus on will expand in that
direction, good or bad. The Law of Karma is similar
to the Law of Cause and Effect in that it basically
states that what we send forth to the Universe
comes back to you. In other words what goes
around comes back around, or you reap what you
sow. Think wisely.
Those in need of emotional health, healing,
maturation and/or expression may find themselves
achieving it only to realize the necessary work
ahead of them in mending and amending the many
effects that were caused by the thoughts, beliefs
and behaviors of yesterday, last year, or what may
seem to be of another lifetime. The good news is
that it is worth the work. Having a sincere desire to
mend and heal the effects caused by the “Past,”
and doing so, will lead to future positive effects and
a more positive living experience.
The first place to start in becoming more conscious
of the role the Law of Cause and Effect plays in our
lives is in becoming more conscious of your
thoughts. Your thoughts are the one thing that
affects every thing else in your life. Thoughts take
many forms and have an attractive mechanism that
attracts energy to it. The energy then manifests
according to the thought be it in the form of a fear,
fantasy, choice, desire, belief, behavior, outcome,
etc. This is why it is said that if you dwell on
something long enough, and put enough
passionate energy into it, then the effect is that it
can, and will become your next reality.
Many of your thoughts lead to immediate effects.
Being more conscious of the quality of your
thoughts, and their effects, enables you to quickly
alter undesirable outcomes. In many instances, by
simply thinking of a more appropriate thought you
can immediately create a more desirable outcome.
Think before you speak. In other words, pause for
the cause by thinking of the outcome you desire
instead of blurting out words based on unprocessed
fears, anger, or emotions. When you feel compelled
to speak out without thinking it through, PAUSE,
take a deep breath, and simply tell yourself, “Relax
– What’s my outcome,” then picture the outcome
you desire and begin to move in that direction.
There is no rush. You don’t have to speak out
immediately nor do you have to act out
immediately. It is often best to remain quiet in order
to think of the best, most resourceful response,
behavior or plan of action.
"What to Do"
1. Pause.
2. Take a deep breath.
3. Say to yourself mentally
“Relax – What’s my
outcome.
4. Picture the desired
outcome.
5. Create an Action Plan.
6. Begin to move in that
direction.
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Saturday, April 10, 2010
" Home Based Business Opportunity Work At Home Job? "
When considering whether you need a website for your work from home business, think about what the purpose of your site would be. A business website can be used to conduct many different types of businesses.
Gathering Information
A website can be a great place to gather information because you have access to, literally, a whole world of people who can respond to your site. Potentially billions of people. If your business is gathering information locally, you probably do not need a website, but if you're looking for information from others outside your community, a website can be a useful tool for your home based business.
"Disseminating Information"
If you are in the business of offering information to others, a website on the Internet is a great vehicle for doing this. Estimates are that 1.175 billion people use the internet daily. Yes, that's 1,175,000,000 people on the Internet every day. And many of them are looking for information. They have questions and are looking for answers; they want information about topics as diverse as medical issues, recipes, genealogy, jobs, government, history, travel, news, people, sports, etc. They are looking for information on just about every topic imaginable (and probably some you couldn't begin to imagine). A website lets you make your information available to any number of people without regard to where they are located.
If you start an Internet business and have products to sell, a website opens your business to the world. People everywhere have access to what you are selling. If you have a store in your community, your potential customers are just those people who live reasonably close to your store. But if you open a store on the Internet, everyone is a potential customer.
"Digital Media"
If you're selling digital media, the Internet is the place to be. You could sell digital media without a website (e.g., on eBay), but most people selling digital media do have a website. Digital media can take many forms. If you are an author but you haven't yet interested an editor in your work, sell it on the Internet. Your story or book doesn't even have to be printed and bound. It can be in the form of a .pdf file (a .pdf file is a computer text file that cannot be modified), and what you're selling is the file. Your customer can either read it on the computer screen or print it on their printer. If you have a software application to sell, you can sell it in the form of a file to be downloaded to your customer's computer.
Selling Subscriptions or Memberships
The Internet is a great place to have a business that is soliciting memberships or subscriptions. Many businesses lend themselves to members joining and getting together online (e.g., in a forum) to discuss the topic at hand. You'll need a website to have an online business with members.
These business areas are only the tip of the iceberg, but they should give
you some idea of when websites are needed to start an online business.
When considering whether you need a website for your work from "Home Business", think about what the purpose of your site would be. A business website can be used to conduct many different types of businesses.
"Home Business"
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Gathering Information
A website can be a great place to gather information because you have access to, literally, a whole world of people who can respond to your site. Potentially billions of people. If your business is gathering information locally, you probably do not need a website, but if you're looking for information from others outside your community, a website can be a useful tool for your home based business.
"Disseminating Information"
If you are in the business of offering information to others, a website on the Internet is a great vehicle for doing this. Estimates are that 1.175 billion people use the internet daily. Yes, that's 1,175,000,000 people on the Internet every day. And many of them are looking for information. They have questions and are looking for answers; they want information about topics as diverse as medical issues, recipes, genealogy, jobs, government, history, travel, news, people, sports, etc. They are looking for information on just about every topic imaginable (and probably some you couldn't begin to imagine). A website lets you make your information available to any number of people without regard to where they are located.
If you start an Internet business and have products to sell, a website opens your business to the world. People everywhere have access to what you are selling. If you have a store in your community, your potential customers are just those people who live reasonably close to your store. But if you open a store on the Internet, everyone is a potential customer.
"Digital Media"
If you're selling digital media, the Internet is the place to be. You could sell digital media without a website (e.g., on eBay), but most people selling digital media do have a website. Digital media can take many forms. If you are an author but you haven't yet interested an editor in your work, sell it on the Internet. Your story or book doesn't even have to be printed and bound. It can be in the form of a .pdf file (a .pdf file is a computer text file that cannot be modified), and what you're selling is the file. Your customer can either read it on the computer screen or print it on their printer. If you have a software application to sell, you can sell it in the form of a file to be downloaded to your customer's computer.
Selling Subscriptions or Memberships
The Internet is a great place to have a business that is soliciting memberships or subscriptions. Many businesses lend themselves to members joining and getting together online (e.g., in a forum) to discuss the topic at hand. You'll need a website to have an online business with members.
These business areas are only the tip of the iceberg, but they should give
you some idea of when websites are needed to start an online business.
When considering whether you need a website for your work from "Home Business", think about what the purpose of your site would be. A business website can be used to conduct many different types of businesses.
"Home Business"
"Expert insight"
"More Great Products"
"Strike It Rich"
"'Superstars"
"Mint hikes"
"Numismatic News"
"Expert insight"
"Seen On TV"
"FREE TRAINING"
The Best,
Randy Flaherty
http://www.numis1.com/flaherty
Contact: powerangels7@hotmail.com
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"Independent collector Representative# 7049"
"7 Lessons In Successful Self-employment"
"7 Lessons In Successful Self-employment"
I have a new love -- and it's not a man or a house or a car. It's an edgy Showtime television suburban satire, "Weeds", in which Mary Louise Parker plays a widowed soccer mom, Nancy Botwin, in a fictional subdivision of Los Angeles called Agrestic. Nancy struggles with the sudden death of her husband from a heart attack and agonizes how she'll support her family in their upper-class lifestyle. Not having any discernable job skills, Nancy discovers the lucrative income in being the local neighbor pot dealer.*~
The show is quirky, irreverent, and raunchy. The dysfunctional family dynamics are hysterical, especially when her unemployed pot-head brother-in-law, Andy, arrives on her doorstep. Her interactions and affection for her supplier, a black ghetto family headed by matriarch Heylia James, and Heylia's unwed pregnant daughter and ne'er-do-well son, Conrad, are a stark contrast to her daily life in Agrestic. And, the broad social and political statements that are constant undercurrents in the series are really just right on the money.*:
This show is a big shift for me -- I'm probably the only person my age who's never done any type of drug -- so admitting I love a show about a pot-dealing suburban mom is strange, I admit. What's most fun for me to watch is Nancy's development as a entrepreneurial businesswoman who's going to do what it takes to be the most successful weed dealer in Agrestic. There's not alot of difference between Nancy and me in the quest to build successful businesses, except that my business is legal, of course, and I don't have to dodge bullets in drive-by shootings at my supplier's house.*
Here are some great lessons on building a business from suburban pot mom Nancy Botwin:
1. Fish where the fish are. Due to her friendship with her accountant, Doug Wilson (played by Kevin Nealon), and his group of friends, Nancy quickly realizes that Agrestic is a wonderful market for her product. She finds a great source of pot and is easily able to sell it, as her upscale target market is eager to buy and can easily afford her prices.*
Lesson: Know your target market. Are they male or female? What age group? What industry? What socio-economic group? Where do they hang out on- and off-line? What do they read? To what groups and associations (real and virtual, personal and professional) do they belong? How much money do they make? Can they easily afford your product or service?*
2. It's all about benefits, not features. Doug discovers a cheap source of medical marijuana in a clinic in LA and thinks he's discovered a gold mine. However, in order to use the clinic, he has to get a prescription for medical marijuana from a shady physician and then drive an hour into the city every time he needs a refill. Nancy offers him the opportunity to buy the same stuff locally, without the drive, and no prescription needed.*
Lesson: People do business with you because you can help them solve a problem. They care little about how you solve it (the features of the solution). They just want you to make the problem go away so that they have one less thing to worry about (the benefits of doing business with you).
3. Understand the needs of your target market. Nancy takes a trip to LA to check out the medical marijuana clinic, and discovers a sheer cornucopia of pot, available in more varieties than she'd ever imagined. This visit makes her realize that she's buying the bottom-of-the-barrel weed and gives her supplier a list of the "good stuff" that her clients really want. Then, to give her clients a better high for their buck (and enable her clients to hide their marijuana use), she begins to package the pot in various baked goods that she makes in her home kitchen. One client cleans her out of baked goods in one visit.*
Lesson: Give your clients what they want, not what you think they need. Many service business owners head into the marketplace and have no idea if they offer a product or service that the public wants. Or, they offer what they think is good for a client rather than what will solve a client's pressing problem. Do your market research to understand the needs and problems of your target market.*
4. The failure of most businesses is due to undercapitalization. Nancy's personal expenses are exceeding her income, and she approaches her supplier, Heylia, to give her inventory on credit. Heylia laughs in her face, but after Nancy begs, she's permitted to hock her leased Land Rover and multi-carat wedding ring with Heylia to get the quantity of pot that she needs for the week.*
Lesson: Being self-employed is a financial roller-coaster ride. Have financial reserves in place before you start your business so that you can pay your bills until you begin making a profit. And, if you come up short of cash, try negotiation with your suppliers or vendors for more favorable payment terms.*
5. Slow and steady wins the business growth race. Nancy becomes heady with her sales success in her suburb and begins to eye other markets so she can make even more money. While on the local college campus seeking a tutor for her son, she realizes the campus is a ready-made market for pot and is initially very successful in capturing that market. However, what she doesn't realize is that she is treading on another dealer's territory (one of the campus security officers), and in a mock arrest on campus by this officer, she loses about $15,000 worth of inventory. When she tells Heylia what happened, Heylia just laughs and tells Nancy she's been "jacked" by another dealer, and that's the price she pays for trying to grow too fast.*
Lesson: Great success in your business will make you want to conquer the world. However, quick expansion without proper planning makes many a business owner go belly-up. Plan for the growth of your business, and include that growth in your business plans and vision statements so that it's a natural evolution of your business.*
6. To be successful, you need your family's support. Nancy tries to be an "moral" pot dealer and refuses to sell to children, or permit anyone working for her to sell to children. In the same vein, she tries to shield her children from the true nature of her business, not wanting to set a bad example for them (see the irony in this series?). However, secrets are hard to keep from teenagers. In an act of rebellion, Silas, her 15 year-old son, tells her he doesn't have to follow her rules any longer, throwing in her face that she has no right to tell him what do to since she's selling pot. When she tells Andy, her brother-in-law, about the situation, Andy tells her that Silas is just angry with her because she has lied to him about how she's making money.*
Lesson: Deciding to run your own business can be the quickest road to divorce or family alienation. Keep your family updated on what's happening in your business, especially if you run a business that's going to keep you away from them on an ongoing basis. Family rules, structure, and expectations may need to shift for awhile, and the more that you family can be a part of creating that change, the healthier and happier you all will be.*
7. The Lone Ranger didn't ride alone. As Nancy reviews her life lessons in entrepreneurship during Season 1, she realizes that it's hard work running a business by herself. She invites her accountant and attorney (two of her best clients), her brother-in-law, another dealer, and son of her supplier to gobusiness with her and help her grow her territory and make it all work.*
Lesson: You're great at the core service you provide to your clients, but you can't be good at everything, nor should you try to be. Create two lists, one of what you love to do, and the other of what you hate to do. Do what you do best (and love to do) and delegate the rest to your support team. Spend your time more profitably looking for opportunities rather than wasting it on tasks that you can hire out much more cheaply and efficiently than by trying to do it all yourself.*
By:Donna Gunter
I came across and found this article that might be very important to help out your personal development!
Seriously
The Best,
Randy Flaherty
http://www.numis1.com/flaherty
Contact: powerangels7@hotmail.com
Contact: 320-239-4537
"Independent collector Representative# 7049
I have a new love -- and it's not a man or a house or a car. It's an edgy Showtime television suburban satire, "Weeds", in which Mary Louise Parker plays a widowed soccer mom, Nancy Botwin, in a fictional subdivision of Los Angeles called Agrestic. Nancy struggles with the sudden death of her husband from a heart attack and agonizes how she'll support her family in their upper-class lifestyle. Not having any discernable job skills, Nancy discovers the lucrative income in being the local neighbor pot dealer.*~
The show is quirky, irreverent, and raunchy. The dysfunctional family dynamics are hysterical, especially when her unemployed pot-head brother-in-law, Andy, arrives on her doorstep. Her interactions and affection for her supplier, a black ghetto family headed by matriarch Heylia James, and Heylia's unwed pregnant daughter and ne'er-do-well son, Conrad, are a stark contrast to her daily life in Agrestic. And, the broad social and political statements that are constant undercurrents in the series are really just right on the money.*:
This show is a big shift for me -- I'm probably the only person my age who's never done any type of drug -- so admitting I love a show about a pot-dealing suburban mom is strange, I admit. What's most fun for me to watch is Nancy's development as a entrepreneurial businesswoman who's going to do what it takes to be the most successful weed dealer in Agrestic. There's not alot of difference between Nancy and me in the quest to build successful businesses, except that my business is legal, of course, and I don't have to dodge bullets in drive-by shootings at my supplier's house.*
Here are some great lessons on building a business from suburban pot mom Nancy Botwin:
1. Fish where the fish are. Due to her friendship with her accountant, Doug Wilson (played by Kevin Nealon), and his group of friends, Nancy quickly realizes that Agrestic is a wonderful market for her product. She finds a great source of pot and is easily able to sell it, as her upscale target market is eager to buy and can easily afford her prices.*
Lesson: Know your target market. Are they male or female? What age group? What industry? What socio-economic group? Where do they hang out on- and off-line? What do they read? To what groups and associations (real and virtual, personal and professional) do they belong? How much money do they make? Can they easily afford your product or service?*
2. It's all about benefits, not features. Doug discovers a cheap source of medical marijuana in a clinic in LA and thinks he's discovered a gold mine. However, in order to use the clinic, he has to get a prescription for medical marijuana from a shady physician and then drive an hour into the city every time he needs a refill. Nancy offers him the opportunity to buy the same stuff locally, without the drive, and no prescription needed.*
Lesson: People do business with you because you can help them solve a problem. They care little about how you solve it (the features of the solution). They just want you to make the problem go away so that they have one less thing to worry about (the benefits of doing business with you).
3. Understand the needs of your target market. Nancy takes a trip to LA to check out the medical marijuana clinic, and discovers a sheer cornucopia of pot, available in more varieties than she'd ever imagined. This visit makes her realize that she's buying the bottom-of-the-barrel weed and gives her supplier a list of the "good stuff" that her clients really want. Then, to give her clients a better high for their buck (and enable her clients to hide their marijuana use), she begins to package the pot in various baked goods that she makes in her home kitchen. One client cleans her out of baked goods in one visit.*
Lesson: Give your clients what they want, not what you think they need. Many service business owners head into the marketplace and have no idea if they offer a product or service that the public wants. Or, they offer what they think is good for a client rather than what will solve a client's pressing problem. Do your market research to understand the needs and problems of your target market.*
4. The failure of most businesses is due to undercapitalization. Nancy's personal expenses are exceeding her income, and she approaches her supplier, Heylia, to give her inventory on credit. Heylia laughs in her face, but after Nancy begs, she's permitted to hock her leased Land Rover and multi-carat wedding ring with Heylia to get the quantity of pot that she needs for the week.*
Lesson: Being self-employed is a financial roller-coaster ride. Have financial reserves in place before you start your business so that you can pay your bills until you begin making a profit. And, if you come up short of cash, try negotiation with your suppliers or vendors for more favorable payment terms.*
5. Slow and steady wins the business growth race. Nancy becomes heady with her sales success in her suburb and begins to eye other markets so she can make even more money. While on the local college campus seeking a tutor for her son, she realizes the campus is a ready-made market for pot and is initially very successful in capturing that market. However, what she doesn't realize is that she is treading on another dealer's territory (one of the campus security officers), and in a mock arrest on campus by this officer, she loses about $15,000 worth of inventory. When she tells Heylia what happened, Heylia just laughs and tells Nancy she's been "jacked" by another dealer, and that's the price she pays for trying to grow too fast.*
Lesson: Great success in your business will make you want to conquer the world. However, quick expansion without proper planning makes many a business owner go belly-up. Plan for the growth of your business, and include that growth in your business plans and vision statements so that it's a natural evolution of your business.*
6. To be successful, you need your family's support. Nancy tries to be an "moral" pot dealer and refuses to sell to children, or permit anyone working for her to sell to children. In the same vein, she tries to shield her children from the true nature of her business, not wanting to set a bad example for them (see the irony in this series?). However, secrets are hard to keep from teenagers. In an act of rebellion, Silas, her 15 year-old son, tells her he doesn't have to follow her rules any longer, throwing in her face that she has no right to tell him what do to since she's selling pot. When she tells Andy, her brother-in-law, about the situation, Andy tells her that Silas is just angry with her because she has lied to him about how she's making money.*
Lesson: Deciding to run your own business can be the quickest road to divorce or family alienation. Keep your family updated on what's happening in your business, especially if you run a business that's going to keep you away from them on an ongoing basis. Family rules, structure, and expectations may need to shift for awhile, and the more that you family can be a part of creating that change, the healthier and happier you all will be.*
7. The Lone Ranger didn't ride alone. As Nancy reviews her life lessons in entrepreneurship during Season 1, she realizes that it's hard work running a business by herself. She invites her accountant and attorney (two of her best clients), her brother-in-law, another dealer, and son of her supplier to gobusiness with her and help her grow her territory and make it all work.*
Lesson: You're great at the core service you provide to your clients, but you can't be good at everything, nor should you try to be. Create two lists, one of what you love to do, and the other of what you hate to do. Do what you do best (and love to do) and delegate the rest to your support team. Spend your time more profitably looking for opportunities rather than wasting it on tasks that you can hire out much more cheaply and efficiently than by trying to do it all yourself.*
By:Donna Gunter
I came across and found this article that might be very important to help out your personal development!
Seriously
The Best,
Randy Flaherty
http://www.numis1.com/flaherty
Contact: powerangels7@hotmail.com
Contact: 320-239-4537
"Independent collector Representative# 7049
Friday, March 5, 2010
" It's official: An asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs"
Mars Asteroid! An asteroid named 2007 WD5 is to have a 1-in-75 chance of hitting Mars, the fourth planet from the sun in our solar system, on January 30, 2008.
If the asteroid with a length of an Olympic-size swimming pool (about 160 feet across) does hit the red planet, the impact of 2007 WD5, which travels at a speed of 28,000 mph, with Mars, will blast a crater half-a-mile wide, said Steve Chesley, a member of NASA's Near Earth Object office at JPL in Pasadena.
Its a must read about Numis network!
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Coins
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Have you ever found a coin that “couldn’t be?” A coin with a date that doesn’t appear in any catalog? A coin that you are positive is a rare pattern that will make you a millionaire?
"2009 Ultra High Relief $20 Gold"
An unscientific poll of my mail suggests that you aren’t the only one. Counterfeiters and jokesters produce them for varied reasons, but the fact remains, the catalogs are almost always correct and wishing your Coins to be rare is an exercise in futility. Hopefully you haven’t gone as far overboard as some collectors who have spent hundreds or even thousands of dollars in a vain effort to prove that they have a genuine rarity.
"financial freedom"
Here’s a sample: “I have a 1903-dated Lincoln cent. Is this a pattern?”
Sight unseen, I have to say, “You undoubtedly have an altered or counterfeit coin. There were no patterns for the Lincoln cent at that time.”
“I’m enclosing photos of my 1890 Barber quarter. I can’t find it in any catalog. Can you help?
"Earn Money"
Your 1890-dated Barber half dollar undoubtedly is an altered coin, so it would have no value other than bullion. There is no possible way that a die could—or would—have been altered at the Mint to produce just one Coins.
"Create Wealth"
My guess would be that it probably was a 1900 date originally. It may even be a counterfeit, but either way it is technically illegal to own, trade, sell or even give away, so it should be turned in to the Secret Service. You can do this by turning the Coins in at a local bank that is a member of the Federal Reserve System.
"Ground Floor Opportunity"
How about the future? “I have a coin that has a date one or more years from now (or several years before or after a series began or ended). How valuable is this?”
Very likely it has no value. There is no way a Coinscould be struck, even accidentally, with a 1998 date in 1994, so it is undoubtedly an alteration or a fake. To produce a Coins with such a date at the Mint it would be necessary to make a hub with the date, make a die and then strike the Coins, actions involving several dozen people.
"Create Wealth"
Obviously a profitless conspiracy of that magnitude just to produce a single coin that you found in circulation is completely unbelievable. Thus, your Coinsis worthless, and technically illegal to own since the date has been altered.
"Ground Floor Opportunity"
“I have a 1967-D cent. Where can I sell it, and what is it worth?
"Compensation Plan"
If your 1967 cent has a D mintmark, it would have to be an altered Coins. The U.S. Mint stopped using mintmarks on all coins with the 1965 issue and they were not resumed until the 1968 coin production. Since all dies are manufactured at Philadelphia, the punch would not have been available to the Denver Mint and certainly none of the engravers at Philadelphia would have risked their job making a clandestine die. It’s simply not possible that such a coin was struck.
“Wasn’t there a flurry of altered Buffalo nickels back in 1980 that had a mintmark embossed on them?
A quantity of Buffalo nickels, most dated between 1913 and 1926 were altered in this fashion. Once the fakes were publicized, the source dried up, but not before at least one 1909-S V.D.B. cent was similarly faked. Some of the Coins may have gone into collections, so the coin edge should always be closely checked for signs of tampering.
Reeding on a modern cent never happened. Hence the following question:
“What’s the story on the reeded 1937 U.S. cents and nickels?”
This used to be a frequent question. Three hundred sets of the Coins were reeded, possibly by a Mint employee. The reeding was done after the coins were struck and probably outside the Mint. The work was not authorized by the Mint, and constitutes an alteration of the coins. They were altered after being struck, using at least three different knurling tools.
"SPECIAL DEALS"
The statement stands—there are no genuine Mint product modern reeded cents or nickels—of any date. Here again the problem is that a large conspiracy would be necessary to produce two reeded collars and match them with existing dies.
"Real Value"
Sect. 331, Title 18, U.S. Code, prohibits “fraudulent alteration and mutilation of a coin.” One such fraud is involved in changing the diameter of a coin to that of a larger or smaller denomination, so that it could be used in a vending machine, telephone, etc. This includes grinding cents to dime size. So, too, a false date fits this part of the code
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Have you ever found a coin that “couldn’t be?” A coin with a date that doesn’t appear in any catalog? A coin that you are positive is a rare pattern that will make you a millionaire?
"2009 Ultra High Relief $20 Gold"
An unscientific poll of my mail suggests that you aren’t the only one. Counterfeiters and jokesters produce them for varied reasons, but the fact remains, the catalogs are almost always correct and wishing your Coins to be rare is an exercise in futility. Hopefully you haven’t gone as far overboard as some collectors who have spent hundreds or even thousands of dollars in a vain effort to prove that they have a genuine rarity.
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Here’s a sample: “I have a 1903-dated Lincoln cent. Is this a pattern?”
Sight unseen, I have to say, “You undoubtedly have an altered or counterfeit coin. There were no patterns for the Lincoln cent at that time.”
“I’m enclosing photos of my 1890 Barber quarter. I can’t find it in any catalog. Can you help?
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Your 1890-dated Barber half dollar undoubtedly is an altered coin, so it would have no value other than bullion. There is no possible way that a die could—or would—have been altered at the Mint to produce just one Coins.
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My guess would be that it probably was a 1900 date originally. It may even be a counterfeit, but either way it is technically illegal to own, trade, sell or even give away, so it should be turned in to the Secret Service. You can do this by turning the Coins in at a local bank that is a member of the Federal Reserve System.
"Ground Floor Opportunity"
How about the future? “I have a coin that has a date one or more years from now (or several years before or after a series began or ended). How valuable is this?”
Very likely it has no value. There is no way a Coinscould be struck, even accidentally, with a 1998 date in 1994, so it is undoubtedly an alteration or a fake. To produce a Coins with such a date at the Mint it would be necessary to make a hub with the date, make a die and then strike the Coins, actions involving several dozen people.
"Create Wealth"
Obviously a profitless conspiracy of that magnitude just to produce a single coin that you found in circulation is completely unbelievable. Thus, your Coinsis worthless, and technically illegal to own since the date has been altered.
"Ground Floor Opportunity"
“I have a 1967-D cent. Where can I sell it, and what is it worth?
"Compensation Plan"
If your 1967 cent has a D mintmark, it would have to be an altered Coins. The U.S. Mint stopped using mintmarks on all coins with the 1965 issue and they were not resumed until the 1968 coin production. Since all dies are manufactured at Philadelphia, the punch would not have been available to the Denver Mint and certainly none of the engravers at Philadelphia would have risked their job making a clandestine die. It’s simply not possible that such a coin was struck.
“Wasn’t there a flurry of altered Buffalo nickels back in 1980 that had a mintmark embossed on them?
A quantity of Buffalo nickels, most dated between 1913 and 1926 were altered in this fashion. Once the fakes were publicized, the source dried up, but not before at least one 1909-S V.D.B. cent was similarly faked. Some of the Coins may have gone into collections, so the coin edge should always be closely checked for signs of tampering.
Reeding on a modern cent never happened. Hence the following question:
“What’s the story on the reeded 1937 U.S. cents and nickels?”
This used to be a frequent question. Three hundred sets of the Coins were reeded, possibly by a Mint employee. The reeding was done after the coins were struck and probably outside the Mint. The work was not authorized by the Mint, and constitutes an alteration of the coins. They were altered after being struck, using at least three different knurling tools.
"SPECIAL DEALS"
The statement stands—there are no genuine Mint product modern reeded cents or nickels—of any date. Here again the problem is that a large conspiracy would be necessary to produce two reeded collars and match them with existing dies.
"Real Value"
Sect. 331, Title 18, U.S. Code, prohibits “fraudulent alteration and mutilation of a coin.” One such fraud is involved in changing the diameter of a coin to that of a larger or smaller denomination, so that it could be used in a vending machine, telephone, etc. This includes grinding cents to dime size. So, too, a false date fits this part of the code
"Get in now, before they do ..."
"Obsolete Currency"
"generate 100+ leads per day"
"Obsolete Currency"
" NEWLY LAUNCHED."
"International expansion is already in the works."
"Proven, system-driven business. Just plug into our systems"
"Top Industry Leaders are already getting positioned" Get in now, before they do ...
"
The Best,
Randy Flaherty
" To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan... believe... act! "
http://www.numis1.com/flaherty
https://www.shopnumis.com/flaherty
http://www.numisnetwork.com/flaherty
http://bit.ly/brmZPS
Contact: powerangels7@hotmail.com
"Independent collector Representative# 7049
http://numis297.wordpress.com/
Contact: 320-239-4537
"Independent collector Representative# 7049
Monday, March 1, 2010
"Numis Network, Why Is Everyone Flocking To Gold And Silver? "
Numis Network, Why Is Everyone Flocking To Gold And Silver?
"As Seen on TV"
"Ground Floor Opportunity"
"Compensation Plan"
"Numis Network" has been popping up rather quickly and if you are on the internet for any amount of time you will end up seeing someone promote this business. Why has "Numis Network" taken off so quickly and what is all this buzz about? It seems like most internet marketers tell everyone to take caution when it comes to a new MLM company, and even I am guilty of that.
The product is the major focal point of this company. No other company has ever sold graded silver and gold Coins in the MLM industry. There are many people saying that this kind of business has been tried and failed before. Well, do not what they are saying confused with Numis, because those companies are not the same. The coins that Numis sells are professionally graded Coins. They are not a bullion coin, which the price is based solely on the metal content. Rather, the value of these Coins are based on the metal content plus the condition, collector demand, and rarity of the coin.
This is such a milestone in the MLM industry and Numis is paving the way for the success of thousands of people. If you '' Seriously" think about money is the perfect product. The United States government used to back the currency by gold and silver. If you look at the value of the US dollar compared to gold you will see a dramatic drop in that value in the early 1970’s when President Nixon decided to not allow the value of the dollar to be directly related to the value of gold.
So why is gold and silver the perfect product for network marketing? Well, let’s just compare this to many other products being offered in the network marketing industry. Most companies sell a juice or weight loss product, but the fact is that these are consumable products; when they are used they are gone. On the other hand, gold and silver are collectibles. You can retain these products for years and decades to come. Over that time, these products will tend to increase in value.
All of this is not to say that the consumable products in network marketing does not contain any value. In fact, most of these products truly are good and provide many health benefits. The fact is; however, that people get involved in network marketing to make money and what better product is there than to sell money itself.
Be sure to get your position in Numis locked in to create massive wealth in your business. You will not be sorry because even if you never sponsor a single person you will still enhance your wealth by the purchase of gold and silver. Get in now!"Create Wealth"
"Create Wealth"
"Gold Coins"
"Ground Floor Opportunity"
"Compensation Plan"
"Why Networking Marking?"
"NGC"
"PCGS"
"NGC PF UC ER American Liberty Series"
"NGC PF70 Ult Cameo"
"Liberty Coins"
"NGC MS69"
"SPECIAL DEALS"
"Real Value"
Thank you,
Make it a great day!
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Numis Business Presentation
Join Founding Partners Chris Kent & Jake Kevorkian for this exciting 20 minute overview of the Numis Opportunity.
816-410-7493 ID: 517467#
Randy Flaherty
http://www.numisnetwork.com/flaherty
Contact: powerangels7@hotmail.com
Contact: 320-239-4537
"Independent collector Representative"
ICR#7049
"As Seen on TV"
"Ground Floor Opportunity"
"Compensation Plan"
"Numis Network" has been popping up rather quickly and if you are on the internet for any amount of time you will end up seeing someone promote this business. Why has "Numis Network" taken off so quickly and what is all this buzz about? It seems like most internet marketers tell everyone to take caution when it comes to a new MLM company, and even I am guilty of that.
The product is the major focal point of this company. No other company has ever sold graded silver and gold Coins in the MLM industry. There are many people saying that this kind of business has been tried and failed before. Well, do not what they are saying confused with Numis, because those companies are not the same. The coins that Numis sells are professionally graded Coins. They are not a bullion coin, which the price is based solely on the metal content. Rather, the value of these Coins are based on the metal content plus the condition, collector demand, and rarity of the coin.
This is such a milestone in the MLM industry and Numis is paving the way for the success of thousands of people. If you '' Seriously" think about money is the perfect product. The United States government used to back the currency by gold and silver. If you look at the value of the US dollar compared to gold you will see a dramatic drop in that value in the early 1970’s when President Nixon decided to not allow the value of the dollar to be directly related to the value of gold.
So why is gold and silver the perfect product for network marketing? Well, let’s just compare this to many other products being offered in the network marketing industry. Most companies sell a juice or weight loss product, but the fact is that these are consumable products; when they are used they are gone. On the other hand, gold and silver are collectibles. You can retain these products for years and decades to come. Over that time, these products will tend to increase in value.
All of this is not to say that the consumable products in network marketing does not contain any value. In fact, most of these products truly are good and provide many health benefits. The fact is; however, that people get involved in network marketing to make money and what better product is there than to sell money itself.
Be sure to get your position in Numis locked in to create massive wealth in your business. You will not be sorry because even if you never sponsor a single person you will still enhance your wealth by the purchase of gold and silver. Get in now!"Create Wealth"
"Create Wealth"
"Gold Coins"
"Ground Floor Opportunity"
"Compensation Plan"
"Why Networking Marking?"
"NGC"
"PCGS"
"NGC PF UC ER American Liberty Series"
"NGC PF70 Ult Cameo"
"Liberty Coins"
"NGC MS69"
"SPECIAL DEALS"
"Real Value"
Thank you,
Make it a great day!
" To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan... believe... act! "
Numis Business Presentation
Join Founding Partners Chris Kent & Jake Kevorkian for this exciting 20 minute overview of the Numis Opportunity.
816-410-7493 ID: 517467#
Randy Flaherty
http://www.numisnetwork.com/flaherty
Contact: powerangels7@hotmail.com
Contact: 320-239-4537
"Independent collector Representative"
ICR#7049
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