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Handy List Of 77 Social Bookmarking Sites

shaye richardson — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 10:28:38 +0000

Have you caught the social bookmarking craze? Are you looking for a long list of social bookmarking sites? Then we should have you covered here

Gathering this list and reviewing it did not take as long as I had anticipated. The number of social bookmarking sites available online is staggering. Much effort has been made to select a mixture of high google page rank and high alexa traffic rank social marking sites in the list below.

By no means is this list exhaustive!

This list of social bookmarking sites is presented in aplhabetcial order. It is not listed in order of preference.

What a massive number of social bookmarking sites availalbe for you to check out!

If you visited all 77 sites, you’d have to visit/join 11 per day for a full week just to get through them.

This should help you grow your social bookmark reach in no time.

Shaye Richardson
www.TravelCashSystem.com

p.s why not network with me on MySpace? Find me at; http://www.myspace.com/myspace_entrepreneurs

Or, find me on Twitter at;
http://twitter.com/grnmarketing

7 Steps To Positive Self Talk

shaye richardson — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 10:14:49 +0000

This guest post was written by Evelyn Lim of Attraction Mind Map.

As published on “Pick The Brain”

July 15th, 2008 by Evelyn Lim

Most of us are in constant mental chatter. We talk to ourselves all day long and, unfortunately, this self talk is frequently negative. Often it is tainted with guilt about our past or anxiety about our future. This negativity can destroy any seed of hope that we may otherwise have in striving for our dreams.

Our actions are inspired by our thoughts. If we can change the way we think, we can begin to change the actions we take. It is human nature to seek personal growth; whether financially, emotionally, physically or spiritually. Practicing positive self talk can help us set in motion actions that will bring us greater rewards.

The following are seven steps to positive self talk. By following these steps you will begin to rid your inner conversations of negativity and instead have empowering thoughts.

1. Eliminate Internal Negative Chatter

The first step is one of awareness. It will be hard to make a change to positive thinking without being acutely intimate with the thoughts that run through your mind. Recently, I was amazed to discover deep buried emotions from negative thoughts that I had for fewer than 10 minutes. Without awareness, I would have carried the hurt and anger inside. Awareness helped me to bring them out to the open for me to deal with.

Undoubtedly it will not be easy to make a switch if you have a long history or negative self talk. Your talk became negative over the years due to various factors. For instance, if your first grade teacher repeatedly told you that you were “stupid”, you might believe it to be truly the case. You would find that your inner chatter would often be filled with talk of “I am so slow” and “it is so hard to learn”. If you constantly tell yourself such negative stories, your actions are going to reflect your low self esteem. It will be difficult to get very far if you are always putting yourself down.

A common negative talk involves telling yourself “I can’t”. When you say to yourself “I can’t” or “it is too difficult”, you are creating a resistance. Having such a mental block will prevent you from achieving a task you could otherwise succeed at.

Anytime you catch yourself saying “I can’t…”, turn around and challenge your own claim with, “Why can’t I?” Research shows that most geniuses became the people they are also because of the hard work they put in. So if you would like to be successful, you need to start saying “I can” a lot more.

A great method that I have also found useful is to say “Cancel Cancel” each time I find myself saying something negative, whether in the mind or verbally. The method works if you sincerely have the intent of becoming a positive thinker.

2. Positive Affirmations

Affirmations are positive statements of a desired outcome or goal. They are usually short, believable and focused. By repeating them over and over again, you build inroads into your subconscious mind, opening up the possibility of a new state of thoughts.

An important step when repeating affirmations is that you need to read your affirmations aloud with feeling. The mere reading of the words bears no consequence unless you put some emotions behind them. Of significant fact is that your subconscious mind takes any orders given in complete faith and after repeated self talk. So the daily practice of repeating affirmations is important.

Initially you may be skepticism toward the statement of your positive affirmation. However, if you follow this simple set of instructions your skepticism will soon give way to a new set of beliefs and then crystallized into absolute faith.

3. Positive Scripts

One thing that you may observe is on how easy it is for your mind to build negative thought upon negative thought. The chatter not only does not stop but it spins a drama that traps and limits you.

From now on, regularly do this exercise instead. Spin an uplifting story that runs like a movie script. Some visualization will be helpful. You build on a story with a positive outline. The longer you can tell this story to yourself the better. It is also best if you can make this story one about having all your goals achieved. When you do this, you start to internalize your goals and dreams, as if they are something that you have already achieved.

4. Replace Negative Influences with Positive Ones

It is important that you identify external negative factors in your life which may be holding your thoughts hostage. For instance, your mental state can become toxic by being around friends who are negative. If you are not vigilant enough, you will start to adopt their thoughts as your own. Hence, be alert to what your negative influences are. If they come from certain friends, limit your exposure to them as much as you can. Refrain from discussing your plans with people who will be unsupportive of your dreams and goals.

Instead surround yourself with thoughts and actions from people who will empower you.
From being uninspired and de-motivated, you will begin to feel uplifted and driven to greater self growth. The positive energy that they vibrate will start affecting the self talk that you engage in as well.

5. Present Tense Messages

You may find yourself daunted by the many things you need to do in order to reach your goals. It just seems overwhelming to become the success that you secretly desire for. Your mind gets caught up in an endless stream of worry.

What may be helpful is to concentrate on steps you can take in the present. If you find yourself becoming stuck, stop and say, “What can I do right now?” Change your internal talk from a future anxiety ridden one to one that is about the more manageable present. You cannot control what will happen in the future but you can take the necessary steps now that will build a better tomorrow. Taking the necessary steps require you to focus your thoughts and inner talk on Now.

6. Confront Fears

Fear is often what holds you back from your success. You are scared of taking chances because you fear losing the security that you enjoy now. You try to convince yourself that you are happy in your current state when in fact, you are not. Your self talk may sound positive in your attempt to lie to yourself. But somehow, there is an inner knowing that you are short changing yourself.

Ask yourself what you are afraid of. What can be the worst that can happen? Take a step-by-step approach in breaking down your fears and see if there is any way round to looking at things more positively. When you confront your fears, you will often realize that the worst case scenario is not as bad as you think. In fact, the benefits of change are worth the risk. Your inner talk begins to change at this point.

7. Focus on Enjoyable Moments

It is much easier to have a positive attitude if you focus on the enjoyable moments in life rather than the difficult ones. While there will inevitably be challenges, you need to remember that life consists of ups and downs and the good times are forged through the bad.

So choose to fill your mind with positive images and thoughts. Make it a conscious habit. Simply bring your mind back every time it goes astray in its thoughts. For a start, if you can be grateful for what you have presently, your self talk will also change to be in alignment with one of joy. A state of gratitude does wonders to your psyche.

Conclusion

Replacing self talk from a negative to a more positive one is not going to happen overnight. If your mind has ingrained habits of thinking negatively, it will take some work and time. However, if you find yourself often struggling, unable to achieve your goals and talking yourself down, then you should grit your teeth and commit to the process of change.

By following the above tips to positive self talk, you will experience an improvement in the quality of your life. The rewards are plentiful with greater happiness, peace and joy. Best of all, you feel empowered. With the change in energy, you are more likely to reach your highest potential and achieve success.

http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/7-steps-to-positive-self-talk/

Traffic Exchanges Work, Once You Learn How

shaye richardson — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 04:33:17 +0000

What is a traffic exchange?

A traffic exchange is a membership site designed to share traffic and expose your website to a targeted audience.

How does a traffic exchange work?

Most traffic exchanges are free to join. Once you a member you can ’surf’ for credits or purchase them on the site. If you do not want to purchase credits, then you MUST surf on the site in order to earn credits and get exposure to your website.

When you have credits in your account, your website is the put into the surf rotation and visited by other members of the site. In some instances credit allocation is automatic, and on other sites you have to allocate the credits once earned.

You get to choose the sites you want put in the rotation. Once your site is approved you can then allocate a relevant category to the appropriate viewing audience.

Why Use Traffic Exchanges?

Consider the following desires that ALL traffic exchange users have.

Ever surfer wants one or more of these three essential things;

To Get More Traffic

To Build A List

To Make Money

If any of these desires, form part of the attributes of your target market, then you can successfully use traffic exchanges just like me.

From my own experience, I have learnt to use traffic exchanges to build my personal email marketing list using simple and enticing lead capture pages. The page always offers a free ebook or important information on marketing strategies to entice people to opt-into my funnel.

The Best Way To Get The Most Credits!

Sometimes I purchase credits, and then compliment that by spending 10 minutes a day surfing on a few selected exchanges that get results. (you will find a list of these at the bottom of this post)

By far, the most effective way to earn free credits is to build a down-line on the traffic exchange sites themselves. Whilst this may not seam like an effective way to build your main business in the short term, I look at the bigger picture. If you plan to succeed and plan to be in the online marketing game for the long haul, spending some time building down-lines and hence getting FREE ADVERTISING can only be good for business.

How To Successfully Use Traffic Exchanges

Using traffic exchanges properly is really quite simple.

Once you have set up a fast loading and enticing lead capture page that connects to your list building sales funnel, you are ready to hit the traffic exchanges.

Elite Traffic Exchanges That Get Results

Join Traffic Swarm

Join ts25

Join TopSurfer

Hopefully all that information will help you find more success on the traffic exchanges.

Shaye

www.GRNMarketingSuccess.com

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Social Networking That Pays

shaye richardson — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 11:43:23 +0000

Invitation only option to join this up and coming social network. While in the beta stage, the only way to join this site is via member invite.

With a tricky name and a bucket load of user interactive features, ZenZuu.com has the signs of a successful social networking website.

Some options to network, socialize and promote on ZenZuu

Write a blog
Join groups of interest
Create events
Make friends with like minded people
Upload images
Upload music
Upload videos
Post bulletins
Post classifieds

As you can see from some of the benefits listed above, in many ways ZenZuu is just like every other online social networking site. I have found ZenZuu.com to be an active site of home business owners and opportunity seekers.

Many of the members are MLM’ers who are attracted to the ZenZuu MLM compensation payment plan.

Generally speaking I do not promote MLM as an online business opportunity, and in this case I certainly maintain my stance. While MLM can be an attractive way to suppliment an online income I do not consider it a viable long term way of making money online.

Use this site to make contacts, generate targetted traffic to your website, brand yourself and socialize. Do not focus on using ZenZuu as your main source of income.

Check out my profile on ZenZuu.com

Join ZenZuu….it is free!

6 Tips For Red Hot Social Bookmarking Traffic

shaye richardson — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 03:36:18 +0000

In todays web 2.0 internet era, social bookmarking and social networking are essential skills to master.

I have been using social bookmarking to generate traffic and leads for over a year now and it is one of the tasks, other than content creation that I do every single day.

My top sites to visit include the following;

https://www.propeller.com/

http://www.mixx.com/

http://web2list.com/

http://digg.com/

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Follow are my top 6 Tips for getting the most out of your social bookmarking efforts.

1. Research your keywords before you create your content.
2. Use these keywords as the ‘tags’ as you submit to each site.
3. Always write an original description on each site. It doesn’t have to be too long, just a couple of sentences that contain your main keywords. Try and aim for a least two sentences. If you can come up with 50 original words, that is best.
4. If you plan on being a power social bookmarker use an automation or semi automated service to help you. There are a couple of suggestions below.

5. Utilize the community functions that many bookmarking sites offer. Complete your profile and upload an image. Where permitted always include a link to your website/blog.
6. Create and maintain cooperative networks and friendships with people who have similar interests.

Some places to visit and kick start your social bookmarking automation;
*Online service
http://www.socialmarker.com/

*Software based
http://www.twhirl.org/

Enjoy your weekend!

Shaye Richardson
http://www.GRNMarketingSuccess.com

Global Resorts Network Marketing With GRN System

shaye richardson — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 09:37:03 +0000

If you have been following my blog for a while you will already know that my main source of online income is made by being an independant affiliate for the Global Resorts Network.

Affiliates have various GRN Marketing Systems they can choose from. Use of a GRN marketing system is optional, however I would highly recommend using one unless you are seasoned online entrepreneur who is already well established.

GRN corporate issues notifications when new marketing systems are approved for release to members, so, no matter what GRN Marketing System you choose to use …. be sure it is corporate approved.

Finance A GRN Membership

shaye richardson — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 04:54:11 +0000

The latest improvement to the Global Resorts Network opportunity, is the announcement of soon to be introduced financing option for purchasing a GRN membership.

The company is currently going over the final testing stage to ensure the integrity of the online application and security process. The system will be live very soon, so subscribe to the RSS feed for an annoucement regarding the financing launch.

If you’ve ever considered purchasing a GRN membership in the past but couldn’t afford the full membership cost, then there are happy days ahead. Pre register your interst here, and you will be one of the very first to be accepted for GRN financing.

All the details about the financing terms can be found at this press release.

New Global Resorts Network Financing Option

How To Create Balance In Your Life As A Work At Home Mom

shaye richardson — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:50:12 +0000

6 simple daily steps to getting balance in your life.

Sound good? Easier said that done for the average work at home mom.

If you have just recently started working from home or are considering the option, then perhaps my experience will help you find a balance that works for your family.

Work life balance as a stay at home mom can be a challenge if you don’t pace yourself.

The single biggest piece of advice I can give you is…..be firm in your decisions but flexible and caring in your actions.

A Global Resorts Network Affiliate Marketing Review

shaye richardson — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 05:43:40 +0000

My internet marketing journey began in 2007 with affiliate marketing of PLR products and promoting MLM opportunities. Whilst I enjoyed being a network marketer and running an online business, I soon realised that the MLM compensation plan wasn’t for me.

While I really liked affiliate marketing, I wanted to get paid even when I didn’t sell anything personally. Without creating my own product that other people could sell for me, I couldn’t see how that was possible.

While I was happy to work hard in order to get paid, I didn’t want to work hard all the time. There had to be a way of using affiliate marketing and strategic network marketing in such a way, where I could put in effort today that would pay me in returns for months or even years to come.

Having tried many marketing systems and products online by this time, I knew that I had some hard work to do even finding such an opportunity. There are so many systems out there that make all the promises in the world and while some of them deliver – many don’t….and the ongoing expenses as a cost to your online affiliate marketing business can mean the difference between success and failure.

You see, I wanted to find a business that enabled me to earn large commissions up front, plus a residual income component without having ongoing membership fees/costs. I am also a fan of strategic marketing as it suits my skills and personality. The answer to my problems presented itself in the form of the Global Resorts Network.

GRN is an independent affiliate marketing opportunity, and as such means you can run your own business from home selling memberships. Commissions paid to you for qualified sales are between $500 - $1k per sale. Running an online business and using strategic network marketing techniques is a real possibility with the Global Resorts Network.

Commissions are paid to members on a weekly basis which means there is no long waiting periods between a sale happening and when you get paid.

The cost for joining the Global Resorts Network, vary depending on your choice of membership level. You can get started as an affiliate marketer with GRN for as little as a couple of hundred dollars….right up to $3100. For more information on Global Resorts Network membership levels, go here.

Watch a short presentation here to find out more about the Global Resorts Network opportunity.

I hope you enjoy the movie. If you are interested in learning more about travel destinations with GRN, visit my Luxury Travel World Blog. Go to; Luxury Travel World

Have a great day!

Shaye Richardson
http://www.myspace.com/myspace_entrepreneurs

Ad Surf Daily ASD Cash Generator

shaye richardson — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 02:51:38 +0000

The ASD - AdSurfDaily’s Site Is Down. We Are Not Promoting This Company At This Time

~ The ASD Cash Generator Has Been An Extremely Popular Advertising Program For Over 2 Years with Over 130K Members Worldwide. However, The Site Had Been Receiving Upgrades For A Couple Weeks, And They Are Managing Through A Government Review That Started Recently.

Pending Successful Management & Mitigation Through This Procedural Review, We Can Not In Good Conscience Promote This Program Until Everything Is “Hunky Dory”… That is Our Own Personal Requirement…As We Have Choosen To ‘Wait And See’ On This One

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Bad News About Ad Surf Daily

shaye richardson — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 02:24:23 +0000

As I write this blog post, the situation regarding the temporary shutdown of Ad Surf Daily | ASD by US officials remains unresolved. Almost a month after trading halted and there is little good news on the horizon. But in saying that, the future for this company is not decided, so it is not all bad news about Ad Surf Daily.

As I have had to remove some promotions and update websites as a result of this, I thought I timely to write a blog post on how I’ve structured my business so it’s protected from potential losses of income in situations such as the current one with ASD. I call it my ‘plug and play’ system.

I dare say that it is not a new idea! Without a doubt some so called guru out there has written books about it, so while I do not claim ownership of the idea, I think it makes good business sense and can say I do it and it works. Regardless of what happens with ASD or Ad Surf Daily my promotional efforts and search engine listings for this program will not go to waste in the meantime!

I will do my best to briefly explain how a smart plug and play business structure works and protecting your income and how simple it is to get started.

What is the methodology of a ‘plug and play’ business structure?

Have you ever been involved with a company that closed down ? Perhaps the management made a mistake and did something illegal or maybe the program was a little too ‘flash in the pan’ and the sizzle died? Whatever the reason – as an affiliate marketer, network marketer or MLM you need to be aware that these types of things can and will happen.

My Tips

Purchase a main domain name that is specific to you. It may be a branded domain, such as your name, or niche related for example – tartansocks.com

Use that main URL for your business promotions. Create sub domain’s for advertising and marketing campaigns that forward to your specific lead capture pages and affiliate id’s.

Using this method also has some other benefits. When you create sub domains that frame redirect, your domain name remains intact on the browser address bar. This sends a very professional message to your customers and surfers. Plus, it also serves as a link cloaker and effective ad tracking system.

So why does this work?

This way the advertising, linking, networking, articles, blogging that you do will always be sending traffic that points back to something YOU are involved in and promoting. Imagine what it would be like having to go into every account your have and update or remove systems that you want to stop promoting? Impossible task! Most people wouldn’t even both trying – I know I wouldn’t.

It’s is relatively simple to update a couple of websites in comparison and never miss out on traffic you’ve generated ever again.

Examples

Business portfolio style website

www.TravelCashSystem.com

I have structured this website up as a series of lead capture and information pages all using a personalized lead capture page system and sub domains that frame redirect.

Another place where you can easily create a simple personalized business page is on MySpace. Check mine out for a couple of ideas.

www.myspace.com/myspace_entrepreneurs

Take a little bit of time now to set things up for longevity and long term simplicity and you will reap the rewards.

All the best,

Shaye Richardson
www.GRNMarketingSuccess.com

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How To Write A Press Release In 6 Simple Steps

shaye richardson — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:16:19 +0000

How To Create A Press Release In 6 Simple Steps

Ok, here ’s the deal with all your online marketing efforts…unless you get your content listed in the search engines it may as well NOT be there. Unlisted content is your enemy so aim to ensure that ALL the content you create is crawled by the search engines and indesed. This is also true of your press release writing. This post will teach you “How To Write A Press Release” and “How To Get Your Press Releases Indexed“.

There are few ways to get your press releases into the search engines and this directly correlates to the template you should use to construct your press release.

1. Make sure you write an editorial. This is not a sales pitch.

2. Use Long Tail Keywords. They are very effective and it is basically a long phrase but you have less competition than the more traditional keywords for your niche.

3. Make sure your keywords are in the headline, first paragraph and second paragraph of the press release.

4. Place a link to your main website or lead capture page. If you have a personal website make it known in the press release in the section about yourself. Even use your MySpace profile page if you have one. It creates backlinking….more on backlinking at the end of this post.

5. Proof read it and then submit it to public relations online services. Generally I find if I sleep on it and wait until the next day I pick up more mistakes and tweak the release a little more.

6. If you have a blog, link from your blog to press release (after it’s published of course). Write a couple of posts that directly relate to the information and include the long tail keywords that you used in your press release in the headline and body of your posts.

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The Basic Elements Of Writing A Good Press Release

Title
Subhead
Body
Keywords
Contact Information - Business and Company Contact Details

TITLE

Your title should be keyword rich. Try for the first 5 words to be your keywords you want the press release optimized for. Do some keyword research, to see what people in your niche are most looking for and also buying.

Use good copywriting headlines that you have used in the past, and modify them to fit your situation. Many great long copy style “direct response” sales letters have wonderful titles and headlines which you can modify and borrow.

SUBHEAD

Your subhead should also be keyword rich, repeating some of the main keywords found in the title, but telling a little more info in 2-3 sentences. This is where you summarize what your PR is going to talk about.

BODY

Your body must contain a great story, which makes readers want to read it. It can be short or long, but add relevant keywords and keyword phrases to it which will help optimization. You might want to have your keyword or key phrases
mentioned 4-7 times in your release.

The length of your release should be 100-500 words. Some services take more words than that, but if you can do a power punched release with all the goods in it and make the media take notice, do make it short.

Include the basics in your body which one would find in everyday newspaper articles. Here are a few idea’s…

Who
What
When
Where
Why
How

Tell a story and speak to the news media, don’t sell to them. Don’t make your press release, “Press Release Spam or PRSpam.” Don’t make it an ad and try to sell the product or service in your release. The idea is to make them curious, and want to go to your sites, find out more, where you can collect a lead or make a sale there.

Don’t use words like “You can m’ake money”. Use words like “One can m’ake money…” Speaking in the right “person” makes it legit. Watch how you use, “I said, you said, or he/she said.”

Also ad your website URL in the body if you can, and only if it is relevant.

KEYWORDS

Usually you can select 5-10 keywords, depending on which services you are using, which are the ones you used in your press release content, which helps get you listed for them with Search Engine Optimization, and that will bring you targeted niche traffic.

CONTACT INFO

Your Contact info should be a website. Also include a phone number and company name.

** Read This **

Some companies require approval before press releases can be distributed so be sure you know the terms of your membership before doing press release marketing.

More Press Release Writing HOT Tips

Do a search for keywords similar to yours. Do some reading and homework. Disect how others have written their releases to get more of an idea how to write yours. Most PR sites have a search box, which you can type in your keywords and search the results and writing styles of similar press releases in your niche.

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Where do you submit press releases? Press Release Distribtution

Just simply do an online search.

Here is a list of recommended press releases sources - not all are free

1. www.prweb.com

2. www.i-newswire.com

3. www.1888pressrelease.com

4. www.free-press-release.com

5. www.emediawire.com

This is also a great link for info from PR Web for more details

http://www.prwebdirect.com/pressreleasetips.php

Free Directories

http://www.prlog.org/submit-free-press-release.html

http://www.pr-usa.net/index.php?option=com_ja_submit&Itemid=94

Supercharge Your Press Release Marketing

Take that release and submit them to free press release sites (listed above) Each site will have terms and guidelines, so just read those to find out the requirements as to registration etc…

Once the release is published and live online….

Write a couple of articles and submit them to article directories. Include a link in your article resource box back to your published press release and website.

Write some blog posts that link to your website, articles and press releases. Why does this work? It’s called back linking and power linking. Don’t worry - you don’t need to understand how this linking system works…..it works. Just be sure to use the same keywords to optimize your articles, blog posts and press realeases. The press release links to the main website. The articles and blogs link to the website and the press release. It’s that simple.

Have a blessed day.

Shaye Richardson

http://www.GRNMarketingSuccess.com

Increasing Website Traffic Takes Just 30 Minutes A Day

How Writing Press Releases Will Improve Your Website Traffic

shaye richardson — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 03:55:03 +0000

The one thing all website owners and online business owners must learn to do is generate quality traffic. Press release writing is a great way of contributing to an increase to site traffic.

Whether you are promoting a product, network marketing, MLM or other opportunity, your business can benefit from writing a good press release plan. This post will cover why press releases work at promoting an internet business, plus give some tips for creating your press release marketing plan.

Press release writing is easy once you learn how. Plus it’s a fast and FREE way of promoting almost any product or opportunity. I don’t know about you, but I love free, and whilst not all press release networks publish and distribute at no cost…there are many that do.

Of course there are advantages in aquiring a professional press release service. One of the benefits is the service will distribute your release to a wider audience.

Writing and publishing press releases brands you an expert, and authority in your niche, and also gives exposure to your website domain name. Linking published press releases, to your articles, blog and websites also creates a powerful back linking structure for your nominated keywords…but more on that in the next post.

Another great thing about press releases is they get your URL’s listed all over the search engines IMMEDIATELY. Yes, Immediately. No waiting 1-3 weeks or even 6 months for some submission services. Your releases will get indexed within 24 hours. Period.

When is the Best Time To Submit a Release?

If your press release strategy involves possible publication in newspapers or magazines, try and submit on Thursdays or Fridays depending on how long it takes for the site to turn around the request.

If your main aim for writing press releases is website traffic, then it really does not matter when you submit your press release.

In the next post you will learn exactly how to write a press release, plus how to apply this web marketing strategy to YOUR business. There will also be a section dedicated to “How To Supercharge Your Press Release Marketing” at the end of the next post. It will touch on issues such as powerlinking and bookmarking in relation to press release marketing. It’s good stuff : )

I hope your having a great weekend.

Shaye Richardson

www.GRNMarketingSuccess.com

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Article Marketing – Part Of Any Good Strategic Network Marketing Business Plan

shaye richardson — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 01:52:08 +0000

Article marketing is no big secret. For many years companies have been using articles to promote and brand their business online and in the online media. In the current online market, nothing has changed. Quality articles are a must to showcase your talent and your home business to the online community. So what does article marketing mean and why does it work?

Article marketing put simply, is advertising your knowledge about your business across the internet (or any other media for that matter with the power of viral of the internet and web 2.0) Just one of the benefits is that the world comes to know about you or your business.

If you were to search any article directory online, you will see a selection of content across a wide diversity of subjects. Any business or individual can write and then distribute content in the form of articles freely over the internet or other media via these online directories.

Article marketing websites or article directories, are a great place for you to market your articles. These websites arrange the articles by category and often by business type so that your articles are easily searchable for listing on search engines.

Internet marketing articles for home business operators are one of the quickest and cheapest ways to brand your business and get noticed in your niche. By far the most respected article directory online is EzineArticles.com

It goes without saying, that, only original articles should be submitted to article directories. While it is perfectly ok to write about topics that others also write about, be sure that any contributions you make are 100% original. In general article marketing is also done in order to increase the search engine optimization of your site but today they are even more essential for your network marketing business. This is because the articles you write should contain important keywords applicable to your business to drive traffic and brand you as knowledgeable

Strategic article marketing for your network marketing business is a great way to increase your page rank on the search engines, and gain exposure for your name online, leading to increased traffic to your website and more sales.

For more tips on strategic network business planning and marketing, read this article.

Happy writing.

Shaye

http://www.GRNMarketingSuccess.com

What Happened To ASD, Is It A Scam?

shaye richardson — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 06:30:43 +0000

In short….no body other than those involved really know the full details.

Here is what I do know is true…..there has been a complaint made against the company which the US Attorney’s Office in the District of Colombia is investigating. As a standard operating procedure and terms of the investigation the company has had to cease trading

Image courtesy of www.asdcashgenerator.com

Here is the official website for ASD;

http://www.asdcashgenerator.com/index.php

A colleague of mine informs me that the company is responding appropriately to all requests for information and assistance from the US AO in conjunction with legal advice with a hope to having a speedy resolution to the investigation.

Here is what I am doing….I for one am going to wait it out and am choosing NOT to jump ship!

What if the company is a scam and just taking us for a ride? Well, I think not, but if they are…then I am confident that fair resolution will be found. ASD was not built as a scam to rip people off, but rather on opportunity to share profits with members, so if they have done anything illegal….doubt it was intentional…

What if they are cleared of the charges? WOW what a day that would be & position ASD will be in (and you too if you choose to wait it out)…..to just grow ahead in leaps and bounds. They would have a green light as a legitimate and legal company able to do business around the world….

Until the full facts are revealed about the ASD | Ad Surf Daily | ASD Cash Generator whatever you know it as, the future remains to be seen.

Make it a great day!

Shaye
http://www.TravelCashSystem.com

ASD Cash Generator Review

shaye richardson — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 03:05:18 +0000

For the past couple of months I’ve been a member of Ad Surf Daily or ASD Cash Generator and using it to promote my business and build a list. I made the choice to include this program into my business portfolio for a couple of reasons, but mostly as it offered a low cost way for people to join me in business and have access to my team training and support.

Most of the programs I’ve choosen to join are much more traditional than ASD Cash Generator so I have to say it was a little bit of a risk adding this fast growing program to my portfolio. I bought a domain www.asdcashgeneratorpro.com, and set to work building a website to promote this system.

ASD Cash Generator gives you the opportunity to earn money 4 different ways. You do NOT need to recruit other affiliates or sponsor people to make big money with AdSurfDaily.

You can make money by generating traffic to your site and converting sales.

You can earn money daily from the compounding daily rebates that are paid out to advertisers. The company pays out up to 125% rebates on advertising purchases.

You can also earn money by promoting the system to other website owners and advertisers and telling them about how to advertise their business FREE. Business owners and web site owners can purchase ads and get rebates up to 100% of their ad cost. They can also earn
an additional 25%.

By referring other advertisers through your affiliate link, you are paid 5% up to 10% commission on all ad sales, banner ad sales and ebook sales you make personally. You are paid 3% up to 5% commission on all ad sales and ebook sales made by the advertisers you recommend.

There are also promotions the company conducts which deliver matching advertising purchases as high as 50% of the volume of advertising your referrals make.

A very powerful part of these promotions is that most times you also generate a 25% - 50% matching bonus on advertising purchases from the advertisers your direct referrals bring in (level 2). Most people that analyze this realize just how powerful this aspect can be to your own power of compounding rebates.

Are There Any Other Income Producing Facts To Consider?

Yes. This program can be VERY lucrative for people that understand how the compensation plan and the daily rebates work.

An advertiser may pay a monthly membership fee and reduce the cash out fees, increase referral commissions and decrease the number of sites to view on a daily basis.

The amount of your monthly membership fee determines the number of times you can cash out each week, the amount of your referral commissions and the number of sites you must view each day to receive your rebates.

If you do not pay a membership fee you will be paid a 3% referral commission on all of your personal sales only.

When you pay a $10 per month memmership fee you earn a 5% referral commission on your personal sales and 3% on your second level sales. When you pay a $25 per month membership fee you earn a 7% referral commission on your personal sales and 4% on your second level sales. When you pay a $100 per month membership fee you earn a 10% referral
commission on your personal sales and 5% on your second level sales.

This can mean a tremendous amount of income to you and you decide which is right for you.

You will find a ton of information, facts and more on my ASD site here. Read this first!

Shaye
www.GRNMarketingSuccess.com

Promoting RSS Feeds Even When You Do Not Have A Blog!

shaye richardson — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 04:26:11 +0000

The use of RSS syndication and pinging services is not restricted to blogs alone anymore.

Here is what you do need to know about RSS….

1. If a site displays a RSS feed image then it is being syndicated with RSS

2. RSS is a function being used by millions of internet users and webmaster everyday to share content on specific topics.

3. By pinging your RSS feeds and submitting them to RSS directories, the content that you are contributing online will be spread further and have a larger audience.

Just a few places that you may have content which can be promoted using RSS feeds.

*Articles

*HubPages

Take the feed url for my marketing advice on HubPages…

Eg my feed for HubPages – Author ‘The How To Hub’ –

http://hubpages.com/profile/The+How+To+Hub

Not only can you use the source feed for pinging – but you can also place widgets on your websites and social profiles to get passive traffic that way also. If you’d want to check you’ve got the right RSS feed address go to;

http://www.feedvalidator.org

Now you simply take that feed url and ‘ping it’

A pinging service is just a content distribution network that will boost your feed online.

http://pingomatic.com/

This service will ask you for your blog name and other relevant details. You can submit any RSS feed here so don’t worry that it’s not a blog.

Then your done.

Simple strategies work well and once you get the hang of this you will just love how easy it is.

Have a great day

Shaye Richardson
http://www.GRNMarketingSuccess.com

Tips For Growing Your MySpace Network Fast

shaye richardson — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:18:23 +0000

Here are some easy steps that you can implement to help grow you MySpace network.

1. Use Comments

If someone accepts your offer of friendship, (or you accept theirs) take the time to visit their profile and leave a thoughtful comment. The aim here is to leave a post for others to find. If they notice your comment and like what you have to say, you’ll find people will find you. Hit - Don’t just post a comment like “hey check out my website at …..” make it thoughtful and be positive. If appropriate, post an image or flashing graphic that will catch peoples attention. Always place a link back to your main website/blog/ lead capture page and even generate traffic this way.

2. Have Influential Friends

MySpace Networking

This one is just a matter of rubbing shoulders with the right people. Join popular profiles and network with the influential people in your niche. You will find there are plenty of other people with the time to search through friends lists and find new friends this way. This is also a good way of people getting to know you more. They think, “oh, she liked that motivational speaker too” and you instantly have something in common. Like attracts like and you will find friends requests will come from these simple actions. Choose to spend the time you dedicate to making friendship requests to network with influential personalities.

**Let other people who have similar interests come to you rather than you having to spend the time looking for them.

While you can use friend finder software to search and request friendship - I prefer to stay away from these. My MySpace profile and network took me along time to foster, so the last thing I want is to be accused of spamming and have my account deleted.

Overall, I’ve found. a less time consuming strategy is the most efficient way of growing a network while branding myself on the wider MySpace community.

Get more tips on MySpace Marketing on my training webiste;

http://www.ThanksSweetie.com/

http://www.GRNMarketingSuccess.com

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Increasing Website Traffic Takes Just 30 Minutes A Day

shaye richardson — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:59:04 +0000

Posting to forums is a simple way to drive more traffic to your website.

If you are consistant in your posting and make time to perform this task everyday, posting to forums can bring you targeted traffic and new unique visitors.

Generate Traffic With Forum Posting

Your schedule and traffic generation goals should help guide you towards to amount of action you should take each day. Personally, I choose at least 3 forums to visit each day and make a positive and constructive contribution. This can be done by leaving a reply or posting a new thread. There are some forums that like I prefer to others and will visit each day.

Have a daily schedule of forums to visit so that everyday you are posting to a variety of sites. Using your bookmarks is an easy way to keep this organised. Simply make a folder for each day of the week. Within each folder bookmark the forums to visit that day. That way you can stay consistent with your efforts.

How It Works

To sum it briefly, forum posting works by placing a link in your signature file. If the forum does not allow a link at the bottom of your post, then this method does not work.

Your signature file link should promote and direct traffic to your website. By making posts and comments, you are leaving behind a link for forum readers to find and click on - it’s that simple.
Tips To Optimise Your Posts

Use your main keywords in your title and content. Many forums are indexed daily by search engines and these spiders crawl the content. Search engine listings are made as a result. What does this mean to you? Organic search engine traffic that is targeted for your keywords.

Contribute to discussions on the first page if possible and also respond to long threads that are being viewed by a large number of forum members.

For a more detailed article on forum posting for traffic generation, go to,

How To Post To Forums And Generate Massive Amounts Of Traffic

How I Build My List Using Articles

shaye richardson — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 06:05:43 +0000

While articles are great for traffic generation and link building…..have you ever thought to use them for list building?

Writing articles on your niche topic with links to your newsletter subsctiption page is really no different to article marketing. Except instead of promoting your website in the resource box -put a link to your list lead capture page.

Attraction Marketing - List Building

List building with articles can be a great way to build a rapidly growing and responsive list. With niche related articles you will attract people who are interested in the products and services you are offering. These same people are also attracted to your writing style and the information of that you’ve choosen to share.

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Articles are also an important part of any marketers newsletter and website. Updating your website and newsletter with informative articles will not only attract but retain your current subscribers.

List Communication

Articles are great for list retention. How do articles help build your newsletter list? When you use good informative articles, preferably written by or for you, in your newsletter, you will keep subscribers happy and interested enough so that they will want to stay on your list. This helps to build good relations with subscribers. Also, building a feature in the newsletter to allow it to be forwarded or emailed to their friend will help you to gain a greater more
targeted list.

Articles are great tools for website content. Informative articles on your website will help to draw visitors into your site and encourage sign ups to your lists. You can allow reprint rights for these articles. This will encourage back links, by visitors using the articles on their websites and newsletters. It will also attract more visitors to your site.

If you focus on article distribution, as a powerful promotional tool for your website, over time you will develop a ’stamp’ online and a reputation as an authority in your choosen field.

Consider this, if you write one article a week with the sole aim of list buiding….and continue this for 6 months….at the end of that time, you will have 26 articles published online pointing back to your list subscription page - and that assuming no other website or ezine has picked up your article and published it.

While it takes time to build a responsive list of subscribers. list building should always factor into your home business plan.

If you want to read more tips on list building, read “How To Build Your List In 5 Easy Steps”

Thanks

Shaye

www.GRNMarketingSuccess.com

Make Your Own Free Leads | www.MakeFreeLeads.com

shaye richardson — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:12:19 +0000

Building a business on a budget need not be a challenge. While you may feel like you are starting behine the 8 ball - so to speak- I encourage you to view this hurdle as a challenge that you can only learn from and move onwards and upwards.

My business would not be what it is today without my determination to find ways of advertising for free. Many marketers will tell you that free advertising is not worth wasting your time on and in many respects, they are 100% right. But when it comes to lead generation and attraction marketing, sometimes free is just as good as paid advertising sources.

It was from my own personal experience at buidling my business on a budget, that I developed such a wide range of marketing skills. This hubpage will share with you my top 5 free lead generation tactics and how to apply them to your business.

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5 Ways To Generate Your Own Leads

My 5 favorite ways of generating free leads are;

Forum posting
Information email course or newsletter
MySpace Marketing
Free Classified Ads
Articles & Blogs

The target market for my business lead generation and sales funnel is mainly existing online marketers and entrepreneurs.

I also further target my free lead generation tactics to reach specific groups, eg stay at home moms (like me!) that may be attracted to me and might want to learn about creating their own wealth online. This can simply be done by making specific splash pages for each audience and marketing said landing pages in relevant places.

When I want to put one of my work at home mom splash pages out, I will post it to forums/social groups that attract that type of person.

Read the rest of this article here.

All the best

Shaye

www.GRNMarketingSuccess.com

5 Tips For A Successful Home Based Business

shaye richardson — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:50:45 +0000

In many ways making the decision to start your home business is the easy part, but you only come that that realization when you work out how much effort and dedication is required. Why else would so many home business operators give up or go bust in their first year of operation. But it is not all bad news. There are many practical steps you can take to improve your chances of marketing success.

There are many ways to manage a home business. The tips below give some solid suggestions you can follow to earn improve your chances of earning a income from home no matter what your home business.

1. Set Goals for Success

Setting goals will help you stay focused on what you want to accomplish within your home business. Start with long-term goals for where you would like to be in the coming years and decades even. Next, create short-term goals for daily, weekly, and monthly achievements.

2. Create a Productive and Comfortable Home Business Office

Review your home business workspace. Do you work in a corner of your bedroom where it is so dark your screen lights up the room? Is your office usually the kitchen table? Do you try to work in the living area while the rest of your family enjoys conversation or entertainment? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, you’ll probably need to make some changes.

Create a space that is for work only. If you don’t have a room to separate yourself from the bustle of home life, block the area off with a screen to give a sense of privacy. This can be particularly important if you work at home with young children. The separation of work and home helps to place boundaries. Ideally an office should be just an “office” and nothing else. When you arrive at your office, you’re ready for work. When you leave the office space, the workday is over.

3. Be Organized - Be Organized

Once you have a defined work area for your home business, fill it with supplies and tools to make work easier and more efficient. Choose a desk and chair for comfort and never sit for extended periods. Have shelves and cabinets to help organize your space, especially if you have limited area to work with. Depending on your personal preferences, keep a daily to-do list, calendar, and schedule, prioritize and track tasks.

4. Stay on Schedule

Don’t be tempted to take time off until you have completed your tasks. Keep in mind that every moment wasted today just means more work the next day. If you don’t have a schedule of tasks and discipline yourself to do them….eventually, you’ll be working around the clock and never seem to accomplish anything. For home business success, keep a firm work routine daily. Make a decision within yourself and develop a mentality that generates results. Every hour spent working will help you make money and gain success, ONLY as long as you take consistent.

5. Separate Business from Personal

Once you set a schedule, stick to it. Don’t allow personal tasks to get in the way of work. These can be anything from cleaning the house to visits from friends or relatives to watching television. Take breaks from your computer, but try to avoid getting involved in personal tasks during your breaks. Many women confess to washing dishes, ironing clothes, vacuuming, and other personal tasks while on break from their home business. Personal tasks can cause your mind to be off-focus, and it will be difficult to return to a regular work routine afterward.

Find things to do during breaks that won’t take your mind too far away from work. Take a walk, sit and read a book related to your business. Grab a drink of water and have something to eat. Make it healthy and something will boost your concentration!

Remember that once you have a profitable online business, you can earn money doing what you love most, and spend your personal time doing whatever you want. Your home business can soar to heights never imagined if you stick with these basic ideas. The path to success in a home based business is never an easy one, but stay focused on the long term goal take massive action every single day. Never give up!

Make today count.

http://www.GRNMarketingSuccess.com

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Affiliate Marketing And The Global Resorts Network

shaye richardson — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:06:19 +0000

Getting involved with affiliate marketing is something that you might want to consider as you move into the marketing realm. There are many ways that you can make the affiliate marketing work for you, and the Global Resorts Network is just one of these options.

Research Your Affiliate Business Associates

There are many things that you need to do as you start your affiliate marketing business. The first and most important of all, is, you want to carefully research all of the people that you are getting involved with, to make sure that they are able to help you in the best way that you can be helped. This might require a little bit of time on your part, because you want to be sure that as you start your affiliate marketing you are going to benefit form it. Therefore, you want to take your time and do some research about the other people who will be involved.

Affiliate Marketing Business Model

Then, you want to be sure that you have taken care in setting up your affiliate marketing business, be it as an affiliate of the Global Resorts Network or not. You want to be sure that you have set your business up in such a way that will help you succeed. Planning is very important because if you cannot manage your business affairs you will not succeed. Some of the factors you will need to manage include, business development, budget, advertising, time management etc…

Research The Affiliate Company

The best affiliate marketing programs online are those that are out there are doing work for their affiliates in terms of information, training, proceedures and so on. Plus a legitimate affiliate company, like the Global Resorts Network, is well organized and accessible. Entering into affiliate marketing is something that you want to think about very carefully, because it will help you be able to reach all of your potential as a business owner. Not to mention it will also help you figure out what you will need to do to get your business to the top!

See my business portfolio website at http://www.TravelCashSystem.com

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Building Your Sales Funnel, A Getting Started Guide Part 2

shaye richardson — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 10:12:38 +0000

Welcome to part 2 in the series of building your sales funnel, a guide to getting started. For the previous post in this series please refer to the link at the end of this post.

Add Pulling Power To Your Funnel

We’ve already talked about the necessity to entice potential customers to enter your funnel using items such as e-books, reports and so on, but don’t stop there. Never overlook the ability to produce your own tele classes or tele seminars, delivered over the phone, or even Webinars, taught over the Internet. These require your direct involvement, but allow you to teach many people at once and use the presentations/calls for future training or lead generation.

These formats also allow you to make a great deal more money per hour, and they give your prospects access to you for a lower fee than hiring you one-on-one. These can also be recorded and sold as another product and another means of income.

Review Your Existing Sales Funnel

Take a few minutes right now and sketch out YOUR funnel. Take a look at the different programs that The Global Mentors Team use in our funnel. In order for any business to succeed, you need to take a long look at what you are offering your prospective customer or client. If you only have products or services at the top and bottom of the funnel, you are losing those prospects who would love to join you, but, need the time to work into the high price point opportunity. So what do you do then?

Diversify Your Sales Funnel Flow

By providing products and opportunities at various price points you will increase your chances of someone making a purchase from you now or in the future. In time as your skills grow, you can incorporate multiple opportunities at a similar price point and target market and build multiple streams of income from your original successful design.

Basic Elements Of A Profitable Sales Funnel

Ok, let’s recap what we have learnt so far about the basics of getting started building your sales funnel.

Entice registrations via product giveaways, tele seminars etc..
Create a capture system - a lead capture page
Create a series of follow up messages - use an auto responder such as aweber

Educate and lead people to where you want them to go and in doing so you will build a list and push leads through your sales funnel all at the same time.

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Building Your Sales Funnel, A Getting Started Guide Part 1

shaye richardson — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 06:00:33 +0000

How do I structure a basic sales funnel?

A sales funnel consists of the following elements and systems;

Entice

As much as you might like it, people are not sitting around waiting to join your opportunity or buy your product. You need entice the right person into your online sales funnel system using free offers, reports and memberships just to name a few. See below for a more ideas on what to offer people that is going to make them want to enter your sales funnel for more.

Capture System

You must build a capture system that includes a lead capture page that is specific to you and your business. This capture system should aim to collect information for you to follow up with prospects.

Follow Up

While the capture page has enabled people to opt into your auto responder or follow up system always redirect this same traffic to other websites you are using but using the thank-you page or subscription confirmation nomination that most quality auto responders give you.

Aim to provide valuable & useful information as well as educate them on your products and services. Ensure there is ongoing visibility with a emphasis on branding yourself as a leader, who is reliable and trustworthy. When people stay on your list it is because they want to know more or they value what you have to say. So email them regularly, but do not spam your opt ins with tons of messages and useless offers.

Below are a few ideas on info products that you can package in order to get you started enticing and retaining prospects:

* Books
* E-Books
* Special Reports
* Resource Guides
* Manuals
* Workbooks
* Journals
* Audio (downloads, CDs, or cassettes)
* Video (downloads, DVDs, or VHS tapes)
* Home Study Courses or Tutorials (usually a mix of different types of media)

Not only do these products allow your customer to work into the top tier products and services, but, selling these products on your website gives you passive income. Never knock the input that passive income can have to your ultimate business success.

** That’s money that is automatically flowing into your account.

** Again this gets even better, selling these products didn’t require your working X hours for Y dollars.

** These sales come in 24/7, and you don’t have to be around to make the sale.

** Use the money generated from upfront sales to invest in your business advertising/development.

** A passive income contributes to any ongoing costs, such as auto responder, hosting etc or any other costs your business incurs on a monthly basis.

Read more about getting started building a sales funnel in the next post.

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What Is A Sales Funnel?

shaye richardson — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 06:44:57 +0000

Picture a funnel… it’s wide and open at the top, and tiny and narrow at the bottom. If you are able to visualize a funnel the practical flow of a sales funnel works in exactly the same way.

A sales funnel is simple in it’s construction and aimed at creating sales.

You want to funnel as many prospects and sales into the funnel as you possibly can.

At the bottom of the funnel is your HIGHEST PRICED service or product. And in the middle are in-between levels of services/products and prices. The idea here is to keep people flowing down from the top to the bottom.

The First Step

Is to get people into the funnel. Offer something free, like an ezine, ebook, resource guide…anything that has perceived value. Of course, you don’t want just perceived value, you shouild make sure that there is true value. Offering something FREE is the ideal way to get tons of people into your funnel. When people sign up for these freebies, you get their names and e-mail addresses, allowing you to contact them again.

A Sales Funnel Has A Beginning And An End

At the top of your funnel should be your e-zine. And at the bottom of your funnel should be your Top Tier Direct Sales Product or Service. Using the resources that The Global Mentors Team uses, you will not only have your product/service but, you will also have the products/services in the middle. You may have joined The Global Mentors Team because you wanted to be part of the team and making money, but not everyone who joins the team joins for the Top Tier, some join and work up to those products and services.

Options Within The Sales Funnel

Allow your prospects and customers to have a way to join or purchase on the low or free end and work up into the high price point products/services.

What Will Make People Enter Your Sales Funnel?

Info-Products are a great solution when trying to decide what to offer your prospects and customers. By packaging your knowledge into info-products, you give your prospects the chance to test drive your knowledge and expertise and your product/service at a much lower price. Which fills in the middle of your funnel.

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A Simple Guide To Getting Started With Attraction Marketing

shaye richardson — Sat, 31 May 2008 06:31:18 +0000

The Internet allows users to research almost every detail of any company. This also allows business owners to sell to people all over the world. In order to be successful at attraction marketing you need to familiarize yourself with a few attraction marketing techniques.

Learn about the marketing tools that are available to you on the Internet. This will help you learn how to successfully promote your business. There are many marketing strategies that work — and there are just as many that don’t. It is vitally important for you to research each one so you don’t end up wasting your time.

Set yourself up with a blog

Regularly update it with all the interesting and valuable information about your business so that you can begin to build your audience. Customers may not purchase from you right away, but, you will have planted the seed. It will take more than visiting your website in order to make a decision. Each customer has a different level at which they begin to trust that you are a reputable business and that you are trustworthy.

Advertise, advertise, advertise. Use articles and traffic exchanges to help promote your website. The more your website is visible the more you will be looked at as an authority in your niche. The more links you have online, the more prospects you will attract to your website. You want them to come to you, and if you provide them with valuable information that they can use, your name will get out there.

Attraction Marketing is all about providing valuable information to your prospects, and remember, the more helpful and valuable your information is the greater the chance those customers will be to purchase from you now or in the future. It will take time and determination on your part, but by using the power of attraction marketing you will begin to build your own network.

The Basics of Attraction Marketing

shaye richardson — Fri, 30 May 2008 06:37:32 +0000

Attraction Marketing is providing valuable information to your customers. The more helpful and valuable your information is the greater the chance those customers will purchase from you. It takes time and determination on your part, but by using the power of attraction marketing you will begin to build your customer base.

By changing the way you market, you will see the change in your direct sales. A few years ago you may have only had two out of 10 successful purchases in a given time period. Attraction Marketing has changed all that. Now talk to 10 people and you will have 8 purchases.

Attraction Marketing doesn’t waste your time nor does it waste the time of uninterested customers. You will only be talking to those who have an interest in purchasing from your business. Remember, your customers will come to you now. Implement a system that will allow your customers to get to know and trust you. Give them the ability to contact you. Attraction Marketing gives you the tools to deal with those who are now well informed about your business and ready to make a purchase.

Attraction Marketing can help you to build your customer base and a loyal following. Simply supply them with valuable, relevant information. This lays the foundation and identifies you as a trustworthy company. Think about Attraction Marketing planning in terms of building a pyramid: Each brick represents a key decision. You lay the most bricks in the first row. At each of the next levels you’re building on what you did before. Although you’ll have fewer bricks as you progress from one level to the next, each individual brick becomes more critical. If a new brick doesn’t fit just right, you can easily remove it, reshape it, and then replace it if you have built a solid foundation.

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Hubpages A Review || My Experience With Hubpages, So Far…..

shaye richardson — Wed, 28 May 2008 13:06:27 +0000

About 6 weeks ago I joined Hubpages. I do enjoy writing article and blog posts, so when it was suggested to me by my mentor, I decided to take it on.

I gotta be honest, my motivation for joining was to market myself and my opportunity. But Hubpages is a great place to write plus earn money from affiliate streams (ebay & amazon) & adsense ads.

The site is easy to use and even if you don’t know how to design a page, the simplicity of the point and click, click and drag capsules make hubpages easy for most to get the hang of.

Join Hubpages - it’s FREE.

Hubpages A Real Community

For me, the best thing about Hubpages so far has been the community. The forum is active and supportive and you will find tons of hubpages written by other hubbers telling you how to do it & do it well.

Here is just one example of how active and switched on this community is. A couple of days ago a member posted on the forum about a new social bookmarking site like Digg.

The site was Blogtiser & it launched in March 2008. Now there is nothing particularly special about this site, it is so new it hasn’t even registered a page rank on google or alexa yet. I’m not knocking it either as it is an google ad revenue sharing participant, uses a good script yada yada - the potentials there.

With the membership base of Hubpages registering for accounts & finding each other to network with on Blogatiser, we had a Hubpages domination. Within an hour we had dominated the recently published listings & two full pages of published post were generate in about 12 hours. 4 of my 6 submitted links have been published in under 24 hours thanks to the votes and support of hubbers!

Don’t buy a book on how to use Hubpages! No matter how pretty it looks!

You will find everything you need on the Hubs written by the members themselves.

I write on hubs as “The How To Hub”.

Join Hubpages - it’s FREE.

Are You Up To The Challenge Of An Online Career?

shaye richardson — Wed, 28 May 2008 12:37:19 +0000

Running a home based business is not as easy as many of those flashy sales pages floating around would have you believe.

Being your own boss and having the freedom that comes with a successful home based business, takes a heck of alot of character, gusto, self belief, a willingness and ability to learn…and that’s just for starters.

If you have recently started researching you own home based business, or are planning to start one there are a couple of facts you must know.

You will not earn money overnight - in fact you probably won’t earn decent money for months or even years.
Running a successful home based business is as much about systems, compensation plans etc… as it is about self growth and personal development.

If you are not prepared to live with or work on these facts, then I encourage you to ask yourself this question again…

Are you up to the challenge of an online career?

Learning - an essential step in starting a home based business is training and learning.

Time - a business takes time to develop, run and maintain….are you prepared to do the hard work it takes to get your business profitable?

Dedication - do you have a goal? Are you committed to acheiving your dreams?

Resilliance - FACT, you will get knocked down along the road to success. Are you prepared to get back up again?

Attitude - Do you believe you will get to the top? Do you believe you will make enough money to buy your dream house? You must have faith in yourself and in a positive future in order to create the world you desire.

Personally, I am still learning everyday, even though you probably read my posts thinking….hey, she know’s it all. I don’t. I never pretent I do and the day I try and convice myself that my learning has stopped, better be the day I retire from my online career!

The point of this post is not to scare you off wanting to run your business OR question your involvement in your current business for that matter…..my aim is simple….I want you to ask yourself one question, be honest. Peel back all those layers and reach down deep and ask yourself what this question means to you ……

Are you up to the challenge of an online career?