Download Your FREE New Year’s Resolution Roadmap
January 1, 2008
Happy New Year!
I know heading into a New Year can feel exhilerating for some and overwhelming for others.
I have created a FREE report, called the Resolution Roadmap, 12 Steps to Making 2008 Great!
This is the perfect time of year to re examine your Goals and priorities and lay the foundation for creating the best year of your life.
A few words come to mind for creating your best year ever:
Clarity
Commitment
Planning
Momentum
Support
Follow Through
I conducted an extensive study of New Year’s Resolutions among respondents from the USA and 49 other countries and have compiled the Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions for 2008 as well as the top Roadblocks and how to navigate around them so you can reach your destination.
When you download this FREE Resolution Roadmap, you will also gain instant access to special Teleseminars and quick video tips to help you get off to a fast start and stay on track.
http://www.dotcompreneur.com/recommends/ResolutionRoadmap
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Groundbreaking 2008 New Years Resolution Survey
December 14, 2007
As we approach the end of 2007, I am flooded with questions on the subject of New Years Resolutions. They get a bad rap most of the time but for years I have approached each new year with great confidence and determination and have become an expert on how to tap into their extraordinary power to propel yourself into each new year with great momentum.
I will be sharing with you more tips you can use to set yourself up for success in the coming year, but in the meantime, you have the chance to participate in a groundbreaking research project on the subject of New Years Resolutions.
If you have 60 seconds to spare, please answer a few quick questions and complete this short, easy survey. Then look for my follow up next week where I share with you the results as the responses come in from around the world, along with tips that will transform your life in 2008.
http://www.goalguru.com/recommends/ResolutionSurvey
I want to help you advance your Goals with greater ease in the coming year, online and offline.
Thank you and I’ll talk to you soon.
Live Your Dreams,
Jill
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Article Marketing Tip: Don’t Stop Your REader from Going to the Resource Box in Your Articles
December 6, 2007
If you are using Article Marketing to build your list or bring visitors to your web site or blog, one of the most important parts of your article in the article resource box. The resource box is where you get to invite the reader to your web site or blog for more information.
Very few writers know how to craft a prospect pulling resource box. Most do not do it well. The most amazing mistake I see are the article writers that actually stop the reader from ever getting to the resource box.
Sound strange? How do you know you are not doing it?
The 2 Biggest Resource Box Stop Signs
The first biggest stop sign is what I call a “hard end” to the article. By this I mean that you write in a way that the end of the article is way too clear. You might as well put “The End” like in a movie in the way you have worded the article.
The mistake there is the reader gets the message, “Oh, this is over. I’m outta here,” and they are not likely to read further.
What to do instead: Don’t stop the reader, lead them right into the resource box with a soft transition.
The second biggest stop sign is starting the resource box with information about you. This also announces “the article is over and you can stop reading now!”
What to do instead: Save the information about you for the last line of the resource box. Begin your resource box with an invitation to the reader to visit your web site or blog for more information.
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Double Your Business Income by Thinking Like a Customer
November 29, 2007
“You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.” -
This principle was not easy to accept and I fought it for a long time. I was certain that there was no way that my present state was due to the thoughts that I had held. There were too many other reasons why things had gone bad: my ex-spouse, the economy, a client who had wronged me, and on and on and on. Since I was not responsible for the economy then certainly my thoughts had nothing to do with it.
But I was wrong. Like the biblical Job who said, “The thing I feared most has come upon me,” I had also thought myself to the situation I was in.
“I credit one simple concept with getting me started on my journey into self-discovery. After a great deal of study and contemplation, I came to the conclusion that people have in their lives today exactly what they keep telling their mind they want.” - Dr. Walter Staples
It was a moment of great illumination for me! The logical side of me said, “If you and you alone can think yourself into such a mess, then surely you and you alone can think yourself out of it.” And that I did. It was not overnight and it was not easy, but it was a sure thing. By accepting all of the responsibility for where I was, and all of the responsibility for where I was going, I experienced a tremendous joy and freedom. I strongly believed that if I got myself into the predicament, I could get myself out.
I had some great inspiration along the way: three steps to take during “hard time:” by Les Brown
1. Have Faith (didn’t Paul say, “Faith is the substance of things hoped for…”)
2. Remind yourself: “No matter how hard it is or how hard it gets, I’m going to make it!”
3. Have patience and engage in consistent action.
Think like your Customer
Before I tell you HOW to think like a customer who wants to buy right now, let me emphasize one point. EVERY person who is good at this skill has doubled his business profit.
Now maybe you are starting to wonder WHY this skill is so important. Or maybe you are starting to get an appreciation of the skill and wondered why most people have not learned it. Whatever your thoughts, take action and master the skills.
The process involves learning how to…
1. Shut off your own “preconceived notions” and limiting beliefs
2. Imagine what it’s like to be a customer who wants to buy
3. Feel the emotions that this customer is feeling
4. Design your marketing to appeal to these irrational emotions
In fact, when you learn how to do this, you are going to create a marketing campaign that your FRIENDS will not understand, ALL of my friends make fun of my marketing… but I get the last laugh.
And you are going to create a marketing campaign that other business owners would not understand. You can do this type of marketing, and your COMPETITORS would not even catch on to what you are doing or how you are coming up with your high-conversion campaigns, most of them will probably ignore you, because they will think you are making a mistake, which is GREAT for you.
This skill will transform your business
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Emmanuel Sodipo is a consultant managing several successful online businesses you can download a free book at http://www.emmanuelsodipo.com |
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SEO vs SEM - What’s the Difference?
November 14, 2007
Sort Out The Confusion And Start Implementing Them Both!
SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, is actually one element of SEM, or Search Engine Marketing. Search Engine Optimization is the process of configuring, or optimizing your website with the appropriate keywords you wish to be associated with, in a manner that will make it easily “seen” by search engines. Some of the more common SEO tactics include:
1. Having Keyword rich web pages
2. Having Keywords in the title of your pages
3. Having Keywords in your domain name
4. Naming the images in your site using keywords
5. Naming the Alt tags of images using keywords
Search Engine Marketing is the process and the methods used to promote your site to search engines. The most common tools are:
1. Search Engine Optimization
2. Article Marketing
3. Video Marketing
4. Social Network Marketing
5. PPC, or Pay Per Click Advertising
In most of these methods, the idea is to generate high quality, relevant content that is keyword rich and placed on sites other than yours, This content contains back links that point back to your site. Google and the other search engines use these factors to rank you in the search results people enter. The more back links you have from original quality content, the more important and relevant you are to Google’s results and page rankings.
The important parts above are that the back links to your site must come from relevant, original content. If you have used some of the spamming services or link farms to try to build your back links, Google may penalize you and possibly even black list your site.
Back links generated “Organically,” meaning that they are from high quality, relevant content are also very important to Google, whereas Paid advertising - even Google’s own PPC program - does nothing to help you get higher up in the page results rankings.
So now you know. And whether or not you use SEO or SEM, or both, I suggest you do something with your site ASAP. Your competitors are already doing this. How much of an advantage do you want them to have over you?
Want to know how to pull customers to your site like it was a magnet? Send an email to hotsheet@getresponse.com to get your free copy of the Hot Sheet newsletter, full of gotta-know, super effective, results-oriented, tips, tactics and strategies on dominating the search engines using organic search engine marketing methods.
Brian Woeller is a marketing expert with years of proven, practical experience. You can exploit his knowledge and get many great search engine marketing ideas at his website, http://www.WildfireSEM.com
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Are You a DotComPreneur?
September 17, 2007
DotComPreneur: noun, a person who aspires to start, grow or generate an income online; an internet entrepreneur. someone who creates a website or an online business, such as an internet marketer, blogger, corporation, information product creator, webmaster, etc.
The term DotComPreneur was invented in 2001 by Jill Koenig, a Chicago based entrepreneur, in the midst of the dot com bubble. Recognizing the enormous potential and global reach of the internet, online businesses were being launched at a rapid pace, spawning many successful individual entrepreneurs.
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