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The Success Formula For Information Marketing

June 24, 2011 By cbessent Leave a Comment

If you are going to build a successful information marketing business, you are going to go through several phases. You are going to try lots of different methods to get leads and convert them, to create information products, communicate, advertise, promote and maintain good customer relations.

I think it’s important for me to mention here that I have already felt your pain. I have been through the struggles you are going to face as you start an online business. I wasn’t successful overnight-not by a long shot.

I can’t emphasize enough that, when I started out, it was just me sitting in my bedroom. I lived in trailer then. Seriously, it was just a little trailer, maybe 500 square feet of living space. I can remember that when I moved into that trailer, it was hard for me to come up with the rent for the pad it was on. I think it was 5 a month, and the first couple of months I had a hard time swinging it.

But I had my little desk right next to my bed, and I had a computer.

I had never built a web page. I didn’t even know what pay-per-click advertising was. A friend of mine showed it to me.

At that point, I had never written a book. I had never published an information product of any kind. I had never done any of this stuff. What’s more, I didn’t have access to any of the amazing free and low-cost tools that are available right now to build your information marketing business. Nobody showed me how to find niches that work or how to publish my information products.

What I’m trying to communicate is that I understand what it’s like to be at the beginning and not have all this success around me. So when I give you a blueprint for success in information marketing, it is based on hard-earned experience.

I don’t take it lightly, and neither should you.

So here’s the basic outline. My “money making” formula is based upon what I like to call the Three Pillars.

Customers + Content + Conversion = Info Marketing Success

Number one is the Customer pillar, which is everything you do to get leads, to drive traffic, to get people to come to you web site and opt-in and do things like that.

Number two is your Content pillar, which is comprised of your information products and services, the things that you actually sell to people, the things that carry your information to your customers.

Number three is your Conversion pillar, which is everything that you do to get the visitors that come to your web site to then convert and buy things. This pillar includes things like your e-mail newsletters, your sales letters, and so forth.

Any success you achieve in information marketing must include all three pillars. You can’t leave one out, and there are no shortcuts. Just like a stool with only two legs cannot stand, neither can an information marketing business succeed without solid customers, content and conversion.

Neil Asher (http://www.neilasher.com/freestuff.htm) has built five multi-million dollar companies from zero, including one he took to million in sales in under two years. He has created and sold successful franchises in England, Italy, Ireland, Australia and South Africa. Visit his web site for access to 17 FREE videos, 6 FREE books and two hours of audio training, revealing “How To Make BIG Money Selling Information Products On The Internet…Even If You Don’t Have A Website And You’ve Never Sold Anything On The Internet Before.”

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How to be a Successful Blogger

June 24, 2011 By cbessent Leave a Comment

Blogs can be a very marketable and very profitable tool if used correctly. Profiting from blogs is just a matter of grabbing the attention of an audience and not doing any actual salesmen selling. In this article you will learn the 13 most essential steps to successful blogging.

1) Where to start?

You should begin your blog with a free blog hosting service such as Journal Home or Blogger. Starting with a free blog hosting service allows you to begin blogging instantly without having any advance knowledge of scripts, hosting, or programming. It allows you to focus on your content and not the internal maintenance of the blog. The best benefit of starting with a free service is, in the case your blog doesn’t become successful you do not lose any money or are you left holding the bill. The great thing about a blog is that they are organized in chronological order, your latest entry is displayed first. When your blog traffic grows greatly and you are ready to upgrade to your own domain then you can simply make your last blog entry the announcement of your “move”. Simply add a last entry stating that your blog has “moved” and type the new blog URL address. Which directs visitors to your new blog site, keeping your following, without a major inconvenience to anyone. Upgrade as you need to…but only when you need to!

2) Niche

A niche is a targeted product, service, or topic. You should first decide on a product, service, or topic which interest you. Choose an area which you can enthusiastically write about on a daily basis. You can use keyword research services like Google Zeitgeist or Yahoo! Buzz Index to find popular searched topics. It does NOT matter if your topic is popular as long as there is a audience for your topic and the topic is precisely focused then your blog should be successful. Anything can be considered a niche as long as it has a target audience no matter how large or how small the audience is. A blog about your cat can be a niche or a blog about the species of the cat family can be a larger niche market, if there are people who are interested in hearing about your cat or the species of the cat family…you can even choose to build your audience for a market which an audience does not exist, but first you must build your blog.

3) Update Daily (nothing less)

This step is a must and not a suggestion. Updating your blog daily not only keeps your blog more interesting to readers, but it also gives your blog fresh content on a day to day making it more appealing to search engines. Not updating your blog on an occasional holiday or one day here and there is understandable to most, but missing days at a time or weeks is unacceptable and will most likely result in your blog being unsuccessful. To keep your blog traffic and retain your visitors interest it is a must to update your blog daily with multiple entries. You should try to update your blog everyday with at least 3 or more daily entries. The best way to accomplish this is to set aside 1-2 hours a day for tending to your blog and adding new entries. It may even be wise to schedule a set time which you dedicate to your blog each day. Give yourself work hours and treat your blog as a job, what happens if you don’t come to work for days or weeks…you lose money or worse you get fired! Same applies here…if you don’t update your blog for days or weeks you’ll lose visitors.

4) Traffic

It’s no secret. You must have traffic to profit from blogs. There are numerous ways to build traffic. Paid advertising, free advertising, viral marketing, search engine marketing, RSS/XML feeds, and word-of-mouth. You should always use your blog URL address in the signature of your email, forum discussions, message boards, or any other communication media. You should submit your blog URL address to search engines and blog directories. You should submit your RSS/XML URL feed to blog ping services like Technorati, Ping-O-Matic, and Blogdigger. You should confidently share your blog with family, friends, co-workers, associates, and business professionals when it relates. Many blogs can be considered as a collection of articles, for this purpose you should submit your blog entries (those that are valuable and lengthy articles) to content syndicators like GoArticles.com or ArticleCity.com. Once submitted your articles can be picked up and published by others. The trick is to make sure you include your Blog URL address in the “About the Author” passage. What this does is create link popularity and backlinks for your blog, when someone picks up your article from the syndication then publish the article on their website the “About the Author” passage is included with each publication and the link you included is followed, crawled, and indexed by search engines. Imagine if your article is popular enough or controversial enough to produce 10,000 publications across the web. The search engines is bound to find your site in no time with that many publications and credit you a authority on the topic, in return increasing your rank on search engines. The small effort of writing a well written article is rewarding. You should try to write at least 1 full length article every week for syndication and submit your article to at least 10 article syndicators.

5) Track Your Blog

How do you know if your blog has traffic? Just because no one is leaving comments doesn’t mean your blog isn’t growing. Many visitors do not leave comments but they are returning visitors. I know it sounds crazy but with blogs people are more interested in what “you” have to say! Many visitors do not comment their 1st, 2nd, or 3rd time. Some do not comment at all, but are active daily visitors.

Tracking your blog does not have to be overly sophisticated usually a simple free page counter like StatCounter.com or Active Meter will do the trick. Install (copy/paste) the code into the html of your blog template and start tracking your visitors. Its better to use a service which gives you advanced traffic analysis, such as keyword tracking information, referral information, and search engine information. Visitors, returning visitors, and unique visitors should be standard for any page counter service you choose.

6) Listen to Your Audience

When using the proper page counter you should begin to see how others are finding your blog and if through search engines then which keywords are being used to find your blog. If constantly your blog is being found by 1 or more keywords then focus your blog around those keywords to make it even more powerful. When writing entry titles and entries use the keywords as often as possible while keeping the blog legible and interesting.

7) Multiple blogs

Use multiple blogging accounts to attract more people. This means you should have a blog with JournalHome.com, Blogger.com, LiveJournal.com, Blog-City.com, tBlogs.com, etc. The more blog accounts the better. You can copy/paste from 1 blog to all others. Having different blog accounts is like having a publication in different newspapers. This enables you to attract more visitors and this also increases the chance that 1 of your blogs will be in the search engine results for your focused keywords.

8) Short & Concise

Aside from the lengthy article a week for syndication and publication your blog entries should be short & concise (if you can help it). Sometimes there are exceptions to the rule and you have no choice but to blog lengthy entries, but try to avoid this as much as possible. You do not want your blog entries to become hours of reading. Visitors like to easily find information and skim through your entries. It is good to be detailed and provide useful information, but do not include useless information or run away sentences that veer away from your topic.

9) Digital Art

Try to include non-advertising graphics, pictures, photos, and art in your blog entries. Not too much. Once a week is fine. Graphics can sometimes bring your blog to life. Of course, the content of the blog is the most important aspect and you do not want to overshadow your content with graphics, but displaying graphics can add a bit of spice to the blog. Be choosy about your graphics and make sure they fit your entry topic. You should add content with the graphic, at least a caption. Original graphics, photos, pictures, and art is recommended.

10) Keep it Personal

A blog is most successful when it is kept personal. Try to include personal experiences which relates to the topic of your blog entry. Stay away from the business style of writing. Write with a more personal style and use first-person narratives. Do not write any of your entries as sales letters, instead share product reviews and personal endeavors.

11) Interact With Your Visitors

You now have the traffic you deserve. You should begin interacting with your visitors. Create a regular theme such as: “Monday Money Tip” or “Picture of the Week” which entices your readers to look forward to each week.

Give your readers advance notice about a product, service, or topic which you are going to review and then talk about later. If the President was scheduled to give a speech then in your blog you should state that you “will discuss the speech and give your opinion after the speech airs. Comments will be appreciated”.

Try your best to find exclusive information that not many have. Do not disclose any confidential or secret information which is deemed illegal or can potentially get you into trouble, but try to get the scoop before everyone else does. Such as: If your blog was about Paris Hilton (the socialite) and you had a blog entry about “Paris Hilton Getting Married” then it would be interesting to your readers if you had a actual picture of Paris Hilton engagement ring. Give your best effort to dig and search the internet for exclusive information and you will possibly come up with something useful. Your readers will appreciate this and they show their appreciation through word-of-mouth referrals. Imagine how many readers will tell their friends, family, and others about information they only can find at your blog.

12) Make Money

Once your blog has gained some real momentum and your blog traffic is increasing then it is time to start thinking about turning your traffic into profit. You should use contextual advertising, like Google Adsense or Chitika. Contextual advertising is usually text links which use the content of your blog to publish targeted ads on your blog. The payout is usually based on a pay-per-click model, meaning for ever click an ad receives you are paid a small percentage of the profits. In addition to contextual advertising it is good to also use graphical advertising such as: BlogAds.com, Amazon.com, MammaMedia, or General Sponsored Advertising.

13) You’re a Professional

You’re a professional now! What are you still doing with that free blog hosting service? It is time to upgrade to a domain hosted solution. You need to get a web host and choose a domain name for your blog then check its availability. Select the blogging software you wish to use, such as: Squarespace.com, WordPress.org, MovableType.org, etc. When you have your new blog domain setup and ready for traffic then it is time for you to announce your move on all your previous blog accounts. Your last entry to the blog should be a “move” announcement. The title should be “Moved” and the blog entry should state something like “Old Blog has been moved to New Blog please follow and bookmark this link for future reference.This way all returning visitors and new readers should not have any problem finding your new blog domain.

At the level of a professional blogger you may want to team up with 1 or more other bloggers. This will create a more interesting and more powerful blog. The old saying “two heads is better than one”, more authors mean more advertising and exposure because each author will have a vested interest in the blog. The idea of a team blog is to make it profitable and rewarding for all authors, while continuing to target the blog topic and keeping the blog interesting for visitors.

Following these blogging techniques should make your blogging experience much more rewarding. There is no guarantee that your blog will become popular or a household name, but the effort should at least put you one step closer. Making money online is not an overnight experience like many may think, but making money online is definitely a foreseeable possibility. As well, growing popularity on the web is not an overnight experience, but through time, dedication, and persistence you will be rewarded with all the royalties of blogging.

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Negotiate Successfully Using Within Information

June 24, 2011 By cbessent Leave a Comment

When you negotiate and you have ‘inside information’, do you recognize when or the way to use it? There is an undervalued force that speaks, but makes no sound, a force which will’t be seen, however one that can have a nice impact on any negotiation. It’s a force that may be used to strengthen your negotiation position. It is a force which will be used to ferret out statements that aren’t truthful, during a negotiation. That force is ‘inside information’. It differs from ‘insider’ information, however used properly, it will be just as advantageous.

‘Inside information’ could be a term I’ve coined as data you gather before and during a negotiation that can be used at strategic points within the negotiation. It’s data gathered legally from sources that are uncovered as the result of the analysis you are doing before negotiating.

Recently, a true estate investor friend of mine sought my recommendation on a negotiation state of affairs she encountered. She was in the method of creating an provide on a property that had listed for .a pair of million. The present owner stated he had made 1,000,000 greenbacks worth of upgrades to the property and therefore the ‘real worth’ was worth a total closer to million. When the property’s appraisal, the price at which comparable properties sold for in the world, came back, the property was valued at .nine million.

The owner of the property failed to grasp my friend had received the knowledge displayed within the appraisal and therefore, he was still trying to tout the property’s worth as .2 million. My friend asked the owner if he may lower the value of the property and also the owner indicated he could not at that time.

My friend had many pieces of ‘within information’.

1. She knew the property had been on the marketplace for more than a year.

2. She knew the owner was getting terribly anxious to sell.

3. She knew the appraisal of the property was valued below the asking price.

4. She knew this housing market was more than doubtless visiting a see a continuing decline in property values.

I instructed she let a week or so pass and then contact the owner again. Within the follow up conversation, I instructed she give the owner statistical info showing where property values were in his area a year ago, where they are these days, and where they might be a year from now. I additionally recommended she let him grasp that she knew what the appraisal was for the property. She followed my suggestion and a few weeks later, she bought the property for .75 million.

As I stated at the onset of this lesson, ‘within information’ is different than insider information. I make that distinction to spotlight the actual fact that you should not feel badly about using ‘within info’; it’s data that you gather as the results of doing all your due diligence before and throughout the negotiation process. It is not info gathered from an illegal manner or source.

How then do you establish when to use ‘inside information’? You ought to invariably contemplate the subsequent factors as an indicator as to the timing of using such data …

1. Build a determination as to the believability of the knowledge you have got before using it. In some cases, with some negotiators, you can do more hurt than sensible by introducing information that’s not believable, even if it’s verifiable.

2. Assess the worth the knowledge can have on the overall outcome of the negotiation. Some negotiators will become rigid and immobile when presented with information that is drastically counter to their position.

3. Use ‘inside info’ as a positioning tool, if you wish to let your negotiation partner grasp that you’re conscious of a lot of than he could think you know (Watch out not to display the knowledge in a very manner that might be perceived as threatening. Depending on the timing of its use, you’ll be able to either enhance or break rapport).

After you negotiate, be less distracted and a lot of determined to succeed in the goals you have set for the negotiation. If the overall goal of the negotiation is value the hassle you undertake to achieve a successful outcome, use the ‘within data’ you have at your disposal. Do not be bashful regarding using this tool as an aid. If you’re concerned regarding how you will be viewed, don’t show, nor use all the information you have. Do what you can, with what you have to justify the end result of the negotiation in your mind. If you use ‘within info’ correctly, you will build yourself and your negotiation partner feel sensible regarding the result of the negotiation … and everything will be right with the world.

The Negotiation Lessons are …

? When negotiating, if you’re negotiating against a shifty negotiator, use ‘inside info’ as a method to ‘keep him honest’. Do not disclose everything you know at one time.

? Verify what sort of information will best inspire your negotiation partner. With some negotiators, arduous, verifiable statistical info will move them nearer to your position, while others might be motivated to move to your position, as a result of ‘everyone else is doing’ what your information indicates.

? Continually remember of the impact ‘within information’ would possibly have on the negotiation and create certain your information is valid. If it’s not, you’ll lose credibility and positioning in the negotiation. If you cannot somewhat predict what the outcome may be as the result of using the knowledge, take care how you interject it into the negotiation.

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Tips to Make Your Freelance Business Success From Home

June 24, 2011 By cbessent Leave a Comment

Are you depressed of 9 to 5 jobs? Start early from house, travel in peak hour traffic, and working for long hours together. If this is you, then here comes right solution for you.

Take an immediate action to step into freelancing profession. You can make freelancing business success from home. But it is necessary to follow job ethics while you work from home.

Here there are ten compulsory tips which must be followed by all freelancers to make prosperous freelancing from home:

Choosing the Best Freelancing Website:

      Competitions are growing day by day. It’s mandatory to choose a best freelancing website which suits your career. For example, if you are talented in writing, you must choose freelancing website which provides extraordinary writing freelance jobs. Prepare your profile specifying your skills and start posting it in freelancing website. Target projects based on your specialization and work from home blissfully.

2.Build Freelance Network:

      You find many new businesses when you enter into freelancing. Though you work from home, building a network is mandatory for progressing in freelance jobs you do. You can attract clients only by Communication. Give your business cards to them. Make yourself always reachable to contact about new freelance project. Respond to e-mails you get from clients, as you become notified person. Clients may get frustrated and give up your work to someone else when you are not responding properly.     

3.Self Evaluation:

Evaluate yourself by analyzing your past work experience. Hence you can rectify it in future. Self evaluation is must for all freelancers to win heavy competition. List and study your strength and limitation to be aware of you in businesses. This leads to happy freelancing.

4.Good Communication with clients:

    Effective communication with clients makes you understand the project easily. Ask doubts regarding your project to get clarity of work. Suggest your ideas to make best outcome. Make sure that you avoid family interfering into your work. Have a separate phone line dedicated for talking with clients. Keep your work phone away from children and other members of family. This maintains professionalism of job you do.

5.Make Your Office Room look Pleasant:

      A good working environment makes you to love your job and amplifies your work ability. Have a comfortable desk and chair in your work room, since you are going to spend most of the time in it. Don’t make your room messy and untidy. Get rid of all excess stuff that is cluttering up the workplace. Avoid using your work room as multi-purpose room and dump other things in it. Having a dedicated office makes you relaxed in long working hours.                  

6.Maintaining  strict time line:

    Some freelancers may have a problem of separating work with rest of life, since they work from home. To avoid this, follow strict time line for work. Take off at week end and work for rest of the days. Don’t work at late hours of a day. Fix timing according to nature of project you do and your mind set. You can take one day excuse but don’t repeat often. This may lead to heavy work load at the day of project submission.

7.Concentrate on Small Clients Also:

    If you are fresher, just starting your career in freelance jobs then it is advisable to work under small clients. You gain skills by working for their projects. Include your works in profile after completing it. Many big clients may hesitate to provide job for you since you are new comer to this field with no experience. So it is merely waste of time to wait for big clients to offer project for you. Grasp small opportunities and build your career.

8.Take the Work Which is Up to You:

    If you are well versed in writing skills, then start bidding for writing projects like technical writing, ghost writing, content writing etc. Don’t simply bid for other projects in which you are not specialized. This may spoil your reputation among clients. As a result they neglect you as bid winner for future projects.

9.Equip Yourself by Being Aware of New Technologies:

     There are many software products available in market within affordable price. You can use those to learn latest online marketing techniques. Client will not hire a freelancer having skills of outdated technologies. They want their project to be done only based on new resource. Be willing to learn, in order to gain more projects and win the competition. 

10.Have Financial Discipline:

    It’s advisable to have separate bank accounts for business and personal use. Once you get payment after completing a project, deposit it on your business account. So it becomes easy to maintain record of your allowance for doing freelance jobs. By this approach you get job satisfaction.  

These are some of strategies to make your freelance business success from home. To know more about home freelancing, visit <a href=http://www.greatlance.com/>www.greatlance.com>

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Home Business: Successful Secrets to Earning at Home

June 24, 2011 By cbessent Leave a Comment

Not surprisingly in today’s sucky economy, more and more women are looking at starting their own home business. Successful work at home moms have motivated others to try their luck at providing for their families while working in the home, something that can be extremely challenging and just as rewarding.

What does it take to make this arrangement work? Well, there are a few things you should keep in mind.

Stay focused. Not everyone is able to focus when they have kids fighting all day in the kitchen, people calling to ask for favors and errands to run. In order to run a real home business, successful business people realize that they have to treat it like a business. That means finding blocks of time when you can really concentrate on what you’re doing.

Outsource. While this might not be possible in the beginning, once you have started to earn, you should look at outsourcing the most repetitive areas of your job. This will save you time and money, since you will then be able to focus on more delicate areas of business that only you can do.

Keep organized. It won’t work to have your toddler scribbling on your annual reports, or your business cards crammed into the fruit basket. You will have to be organized enough to present a professional appearance, something that is very important in home business. Successful entrepreneurs often find that they have to have a separate space for their home office, where they can keep everything business related.

Get help. Sometimes you are going to need a hand with kids, meals or cleaning. Very few work at home moms are able to handle everything 24/7 without a little help. Asking your husband to take the kids to the park on a sunny Saturday so you can get some work done can add a lot of productivity. So can arranging play dates with other wahms, so everyone gets an afternoon or two off a week.

When it comes to running a home business, successful work at home moms will find that it’s necessary to stay on top of things, be organized and most of all, to stay focused on their goals. Working from home can be very difficult, but it is also great to skip the daily commute and to be home with your children.

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Business Success

June 24, 2011 By cbessent Leave a Comment

Many people start out with the intention of setting up a business to make it a success. There may be a variety of reasons for starting a new business – making some money might be one, but there are other reasons as well such as the challenge, the desire to take responsibility and control of your own future and so on. Perhaps the primary reason why people don’t start businesses is because they’re afraid that they’re going to lose their money and for good reason. 99 percent of businesses started by people absent business experience fail within the first two or three years. It’s because they don’t know how to succeed. They haven’t the least idea how to make a business successful. They may have an idea for a product or service, but they don’t know all the things that they need to know to run a successful business.

There are certain tips to learn about business success.

Develop inner network:

Entrepreneurs practicing the art of business success know the power of networks. They take the time to identify and build relationships with key peers, mentors, and advisors. This inner network provides support, direction, and an increased number of people to support.

Be bendable accept with hub value:

It’s a given that your plans and strategies will change as time goes on. This flexibility for rapid change is an inherent advantage of small over large business. However, no matter the pressure for immediate profits, do not compromise on core values.

Humble honesty:

Business success requires the ability to know your strengths and weaknesses. Being open and honest about yourself and your business creates growth as an individual and as a company. Don’t spend time developing weaknesses. Find help for weak areas, enabling you to focus on strengths.

Make timely decisions:

It’s okay to use your intuition. Planning and thought are good. But procrastination leads to missed opportunity.

Adaptability:

Business success requires the ability to adapt to changing situations. Nothing ever goes as planned. The world of business is full of surprises and unpredicted events. Using the habit of adaptability allows business owners to respond to conditions with the ability to change course and act without complete information.

Believe:

You need to believe in yourself, in your company, and that you will be successful. This confidence is contagious with your employees, customers, stakeholders, suppliers and everyone you deal with.

Finding a better way:

Productivity is the foundation of business success. Formulate the habit of finding a better way to make your business more productive. This will create more time to focus on the critical issues that drive sales and profit. Productivity can be enhanced by technology, automation, outsourcing, and improving business processes.

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Successful Online Dating Tips

June 24, 2011 By cbessent Leave a Comment

Internet dating is always reaching new highs in use and success rates. People who are new to dating on the Internet may be befuddled as to how to go about the process and what to watch out for along the way. A few successful online dating tips will get you started.

1. Explore several online websites before choosing one to use. There are many options for matchmaking services, and they are not all alike. Read their rules and use policies. Read the information on how it all works. Then, decide which you like best.

2. Consider using a social networking site to do online dating. These sites are free. They allow you to increase your circle of friends and acquaintances so that you are meeting new people online frequently. You can get to know people you might want to date by the posts they make to the site.

3. Wherever you post your profile for online dating, make it interesting and positive.

To get a better idea of what works, read other profiles and notice the words, phrases, and sentences that make you take an immediate dislike to the person posting the profile. Then, notice the profiles that invite interest and excitement. Choose your words wisely when you make your own.

4. Never lie on your profile. You do not have to tell everything you know about yourself; in fact it is important for safety that you keep personal information to yourself. However, putting up a photo that is five years old, claiming to be single when you are married, or saying you are a millionaire when you are not are all bad ideas. They just lead to trouble in the end.

5. Post great profile photos and analyze the profile photos of others. You want to look your best your own best that is, not someone elses best or the best of the 10-years-ago you. Choose a photo that makes you look the most alluring. When you look at the profile photos of others, try to determine if the picture looks old (someone might be trying to fool you about her age), or dark and grainy (someone might be trying to hide his identity on the web so others will not know he is dating). Avoid such dishonest daters.

6. Communication for online dating is very similar in some ways to face-to-face communication. You still need to be courteous. It makes you seem more likeable if you show interest in the other person, in this case by asking questions or making positive comments on their profile. When you send that first personal email to start the dating process think of what you would say to her in person. This is one of the most successful online dating tips.

7. In any case, your successful online dating tips will most likely end in a date between you and another person in a location where you both can go. It is important to follow the online courtesy and communication with respect and interest when you both get into the same physical space. You will be more successful at online dating relationships if you remember that the eventual goal should be a real-life one-to-one relationship that you can conduct offline and in the future.

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Can I Be A Success Online? Part 1

June 24, 2011 By cbessent Leave a Comment

So you want to make your money online now huh? Great. There are plenty of ways to do it. AutoSurfs, MLMs, form-filling/surveys, Affiliate Marketing, HYIP’s and the good old fashioned way: Your own product on your own website.

I’ll explore each of these ways in the course of this series. So if they sound like gobledy gook to you now, fear not. Its estimated that every day over 250,000 people make the decision to start earning money at home on the Internet. That’s a lot of people who don’t have a clue what these terms mean either. Everyone’s got to start somewhere.

For most people, a reasonable course of action when choosing an online business, is to bring up their favourite search engine (if they’ve even got one yet) and type the words “work from home”. The number of sites that come up when you enter such a term on Google alone is 1.9 Billion. Compare this with “find a job” (425 million) or “new career” (458 million) and you get an idea of where Internet Marketers are directing their efforts.

OK. So the good news is, if there’s plenty of supply you’ve got plenty of choice. But how do you go about choosing the one thats best for you? How do you know which one of those 1.9 billion work from home ideas gives you the best chance of success? Lets face it, you could live until you’re five hundred and you still wouldn’t have read them all.

And perhaps you’ve got your own idea, perhaps you’ve used The Internet enough to have identified a niche area, a business idea you want to exploit. Either way, you’re entering new waters and its best to be prepared. Even if you’re convinced by your own idea, it is still adviseable to watch, and even join, one or two of the work-from-home offerings so you can learn about the ways in which business can and can’t be done online.

There is a methodology I teach which helps people decide on which way to turn, if indeed they should turn to any of them. It uses a simple set of questions, no more than 5 in each set, and as long as you are honest to your core, your answers will steer you in the right direction.

The first set is 4 quick questions that you should answer without giving too much thought to. Just read them each and give the first answer that comes into your head – give your instinctive answer.

It is important to be instinctive because once you’ve embarked on your online career, it will be your instinct that will direct you. Don’t take time theorising about what you think the right or wrong answer should be, just give the true answer. That’s the only way you’ll get a useful result.

These four questions should be answered in order with a score between 1 (minimum) and 5 (maximum). No zeros. Write your answers down and keep them safe.

Here they are:

1. How computer literate am I? (Not at all – 1. Exceedingly – 5)
2. How is my self-discipline? (Terrible – 1. Excellent – 5)
3. How positive is my outlook on life? (Miserable – 1. Excellent – 5)
4. How much can I afford to fail? (I can’t – 1. It really doesn’t matter – 5)

In part II we’ll analyse your results and move on to the next stage in the process. In the meantime, enjoy researching and see if you can get a good feel of what’s out there.
 

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Can I Be A Success Online? Part 2

June 24, 2011 By cbessent Leave a Comment

Too many people venture online without understanding which type of Internet business they are best suited to. They either go for the first one they come across that promises early wealth, or, having viewed a few options (without gaing any real insight on what exactly each one will deliver), they hurl themselves at several simply because they can’t make a choice.

Both of these strategies is dangerous. The first, because any site that promises pots of cash early with very little work is nothing more than a scam (1000′s of people have lost money to these schemes) and the second because if you try running too many ventures too soon you’ll spread yourself thin and be unable to devote necessary time to a single opportunity.

There are many legitimate ways to make money online and discovering which one is best for you is an excercise well worth taking some time over.

In part one of this series you posed 4 questions to yourself:

1. How computer literate am I? (not at all – 1, very – 5)
2. How is my self-discipline? (bad – 1, excellent – 5)
3. How positive is my outlook on life? (terrible – 1, bright – 5)
4. How much can I afford to fail? (Can’t – 1, Doesn’t matter – 5)

And answered each of them with a score of 1 to 5 accordingly.

These four simple questions were carefully worded and directed at understanding not necessarily *which* business you should go for, but whether indeed you should look for an income online at all.
No matter what you’re told by all the get-rich-quick sites about how easy it is to make a residual income on the Internet, or how your life will change as soon as you become a member of their program, there will still be the necessity for some input from you. In fact a lot of input from you – a lot more than they ever let on in their sales copy.

Once you are signed up therefore, and you have experienced your first few sessions working on your new ‘opportunity’, you will then go through a period of disillusionment as it finally dawns on you that alot more work is required than you originally thought, and alot less income is forthcoming than you were promised. Many people give up here, or go and find something else and the whole process starts again.

You can save yourself this heart-break and inconvenience by being honest with yourself at the start. Just take a moment to write down an answer those four questions. (each one should be a number from 1 to 5). Do it now before you read on.

So, lets see whether you should be pursuing an income online after all. If you scored less than 8 then you shouldn’t even think about it. With a score this low, you will definately not have any success online and you’ll be wasting valuable time if you try. With a score of 9-12 you might be OK but there will be something that will have to change – perhaps you need a backup plan so you can afford to fail a little more, or perhaps you should brush up your computer literacy with a software course. Maybe you marked yourself down on your positive outlook because you were in a bad mood at the time. If that is the case on any of the questions, revise the score to reflect your average outlook over a number of months. (remember, there are no zeros scored here).

With a score of 13-16 you should be good to go, and with anything above 16 you’re either lying, or you should be kicking yourself for not starting online sooner!

The Next Step.

Right, so once you know you’re OK to continue, your next step is to research and critically assess the full range of options available to you as a budding Internet Marketer.

In the next part of this series, we’ll examine each of the money-making opportunities that exist online and identify characteristics of each of them so that you can decide which ones you’re best suited to.
 

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Successful Thoughts Bring Success

June 24, 2011 By cbessent Leave a Comment

Do successful thoughts really bring in successes? What is success, really? How do thoughts change a person?

First things first: success is not the same for everybody.

Although we all knew of many individuals who were considered universal successes, each person, past or present, still has a different point of view what success is all about. These include how their own success meant to them, and how they measure these successes in each of their individual outlook.

Donald Trump might add another “feather” of success to his hat the moment another one of his high-end hotels rise up either in Las Vegas or New York.

The late Mother Teresa’s idea of success was perhaps being able to finish feeding everyone in a big leper facility in Calcutta, and had finished meeting with to a group of company heads who would like to donate to her charity.

In his heyday, Michael Jordan proved to the world his formula of success (“Practice makes perfect”) in all his games and succeeded in almost all of them.

The study and application of success and the varying degrees of its execution and details had grown into one big industry today.

They are filled with scientists, psychologists, motivators, as well as charlatans, so-called new age gurus, and some plain quick-fix manipulators.

Sifting chaff from the grain, there could be some basic truths to it. We might as well look at them and do our own sifting.

At the time when fame and fortune were almost synonymous, when wealth was the first standard of success, Andrew Carnegie, commissioned a young and industrious writer Napoleon Hill to do a celebrated study. Carnegie wanted to find out how the other rich men make their fortune and what makes them tick generally.

1st premise: You are what you think you are

If you have not thought, or even imagined yourself to be like any of the people listed above in the future, then you shall all be what you are right now.

If you had thought of yourself to make just enough money to feed your children and your wife, earning enough to pay your bills and taxes – then that is what you are right now.

If you have thought of not much, then you do not have much

. In short, you are the sum total of all your thoughts all your life up to this point.

In time, it was proven that success was not about the result of chance, nor of actions by others against you, nor even events of Nature that seemed to be conspiring against you.

Thoughts to action, to results

Other people may hinder you, make your progress slower, but they can NEVER stop you. The universe might have brought some natural disasters like flood and hurricanes to delay you. But unless these had killed you, they can never stop you.

The only person who can stop you is simply YOU.

At this point in your life, you are who you are and where you are because of your current thoughts. And at any time from hereon, you can change your thoughts, and hence, your life.

Changing your thoughts simply means taking control of them. We have to increase our awareness to thoughts that have dominated us without our knowing it. These thoughts will become habits and habits become automatic actions (or inactions).

Successful thoughts bring success?

One expert said: “Everything you achieve or fail to achieve in your life is the direct result of your own thoughts!”

Put another way, a man’s thinking can move one to success, or keep one where he is, or sadly drive him down into the lower depths of his mind.

Your level of success in life is in direct proportion to your ability and willingness to direct your thoughts.

Successful thoughts bring success? You can bet on it.

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