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Boy where has the time gone. Seems like it goes faster every year or maybe I am just getting old. Christmas will be here before you know it and that means the new year is not far behind.
Here in the US we get an extra hour of sleep tonight as the clocks go back which will be much appreciated by me .
Lots of new information this week so lets stop gabbing and get right to it.
First there are still 2 spots in the special blog install. Tax man has caused it so you can save. Check it out at Special Blog Install.
Latest news from the other blogs I run so you can keep up to date.
Christmas PLR Superpack - There is still time to grab this and get it set up to help offset the upcoming expenses of the holidays. Get it started now and you will be able to keep using it each year.
Get More Buyers - You may be tired of hearing about this as it seems that everybody and their dog has been sending out on it. There is a good reason for that. Michael Rasmussen is the rare breed - not just a super affiliate that walks the walk but an excellent teacher that conveys information in an easy to use and apply fashion. This is a must for any serious marketer.
Halloween Giveaway - Only a few more days to grab some great gifts. There are over 120 gifts available there for you and if you don’t want to sign up to a lot of lists you can grab the special offer and trade a few bucks for less email. Don’t miss out and make sure to follow some of the tips in my earlier post “Are you using the gifts you grab?“
PLR Gold Videos - You can get a sneak peek at this upcoming launch from Edmund Loh. Video is something you will absolutely need to be using in the future and probably should be doing more now. PLR is the perfect way to get videos to use without the learning curve to get started. Yes you will need to adopt this and this gives you an easy way to get started.
The Biggest Firesale - Another upcoming launch but as part of the prelaunch you can win the whole package. This package will have over 100 products being sold today from top marketers for a discount price. Be one of the 10 closest guesses to the total value and you win the whole package for free. Even if you don’t win you get “Make $700 in 7 Days” just for making your guess.
Look for things to be busy and there will be quite a few giveaways coming up as we get closer to the holidays. Now is a good time to get a product of your own ready from the PLR and MRR products that are cluttering your hard drive or even better create your own and take advantage of these to add to your list building efforts.
As always your questions and comments are welcomed.
Hope you are having a great week end and making a bit of a change in the format here. First a review of what has been new on my other blogs then a review of what I have seen new this week of value..
Giftus Avoidus - Getting even more from a giveaway
Did you miss this - A second chance
IM Dream Team - a different type of giveaway
Halloween Giveaway launches today
What is new that I have liked.
Secret Affiliate Code 2 - Not usually a big fan of version 2 of a product but the additions and the ease of use makes this a good value for any affiliate marketer.
Christmas PLR Pack - 3 PLR products that you can get up and use to offset your Christmas expenses. Still time to get these up and running and take advantage of the rush plus have them already online for next year.
Halloween Giveaway - Over 120 gifts here and you should get what can help you.
Look for lots more great content next week and as always your questions and comments are welcomed.
There is a new giveaway coming from Kevin Riley and Michael Brown called IM Dream Team. They are doing it a bit different than most.
You really need to understand Kevin Riley to get it. He gives a percentage of his profits every month to Dr Mani’s Heart Kids Foundation to provide heart surgeries for kids in India and has for a couple years. That is how I first found him as I always support Dr Mani’s events.
So understanding that here is a quick video that will explain what they want to accomplish with this.
You can join as a contibutor here - IM Dream Team or wait until the middle of next month to get some great gifts.
Hope to see you in there.
As always your questions and comments are welcomed.
Mike Paetzold
P.S. Don’t forget that The Halloween Giveaway is running right now. Check out my earlier post on using giveaways and go get some items to help you grow your business.
Lots of giveaways lately and lots more coming towards the end of the year. Now you grabbed the products what did you do with them?
I really like giveaways both to build my list and to add good products to my portfolio. The big problem with most people starting out is you get info overload. All of these things to do and no idea where to start.
Does this sound familiar?
You joined a giveaway and downloaded a bunch of products. Now your hard drive is filling up but you don’t have an idea what to do with them. On top of that now you are getting a lot more email every day. Each one talking about a different topic.
Can you relate to this?
Here is a plan to help you get value from this instead of getting totally overloaded to where you do absolutely nothing. After all if you get frozen like a deer in the headlights you definitely will not make any money. It takes effort to succeed.
First have you decided on a business plan? If you have no plan then everything you look at starts a new business model. This is the real key to success.
Now lets start with the products.
Hopefully you added them all into a folder where you can find them. Start by looking over each item quickly. Ask the following questions.
Does it fit your business model?
Does it seem to be a quality product?
What are the rights you have to this product?
If you answered yes to the first two questions can you apply it now to your business?
This will quickly allow you to sort out what is worth your time and what is not. Make a list of these and schedule time to actually use and apply the ones that are worthwhile and spend a set amount of time each day on this.
***NOTE - You should be asking these questions even before you start downloading .
Now to the increased email you are getting. Ask the following questions.
Do I get usable information?
Does the topics discussed fit my business model?
Does the author fit my style?
Give each person two weeks and if they don’t get primarily all yeses then unsubscribe.
Now that you are consuming the information and applying it look at what has rights that you can use to earn from that you found worthwhile. (After all if you did not find it worthwhile why would you want to try and sell it?) This would be anything with resell rights, master resell rights or private label rights. Look for an article on doing just that in the future.
As always your questions and comments are welcomed.
Wow what a week. The economic news has been interesting to say the least. Got an email last night from Ed Dale and he has a video interview of Warren Buffet explaining in understandable language what has caused some of these problems.
The bad economy will bring in more people to this market so now is the time to increase your efforts not let the news stop you.
In other news there are lots of gifts available at The Rising Stars Giveaway. Check it out lots of good ebooks and scripts available there for free.
Rob Toth launched his birthday sale this week. Great value for just $8 in honor of his 28th birthday. If you missed it earlier this week go check out The Birthday Saletoday.
You need traffic to your site and there are numerous ways to generate traffic. Traffic Generation Explosion is a great video resource and will show you over 50 different ways to generate traffic. Pick 4 or 5 and test them keep the tow or three that worked best and then add a couple more to continue to grow your traffic.
Thursday I talked about finding a profitable niche and quite a few of you took advantage. This is one of the most overlooked facets when building your business and the one that makes or breaks your efforts. Check out Finding Profitable Niches.
Christmas is coming whether we it to or not. Yep in 10 weeks it will be here. Doug Champigny has just released a new special PLR pack on that topic. Check out his Christmas PLR Pack.
Look for a great PLR giveaway launching tomorrow. Some great products available ther with Full PLR from a lot of major marketers. A great deal for you at one of my favorite prices - 0-.
Have a great week end and as always your questions and comments are welcomed.
For just a couple examples on Ustream Rich Shefren went 27 hours live during his recent launch and the last 3 hours were because he said he would keep going as long as 1000 people were still watching just answering questions.
A good friend of mine Alan Bechtold does a bi weekly show Breakfast With Alan that shows you just how much you can do with this format. He cuts back and forth between taped and live segments which makes it quite entertaining. Definitely recommend you check out his show and the replays.
Of course Alan does his breakfast show at 7 pm but you would need to know Alan to understand that. His show will be tonight and I am looking forward to it.
There are quite a few others but the question I ask is two fold.
Are you using this format? (If yes how is it working)
Do you like to attend these types of events?
Looking seriously at using this but really need your input.
Mike Paetzold
P.S. If you haven’t voted in the traffic poll please click the polls link in the header.
Over the week end I asked for your input as I am looking for topics that will help you grow your business for a new free report. The results are in and the topic chosen for this report is traffic generation.
The results were very close though so I may end up doing more than one.
Here are the results
Blogging 24.59%
List building 27.87%
Affiliate Marketing 18.03%
Traffic Generation 29.51%
Now I would like you to vote on what types of traffic you are currently using. This will allow me to help most with the sources you like with this report.
Just click on the polls link in the header to give me your input and thanks for all those that have participated.
As always your questions and comments are welcomed.
I was just sent this article that was written by Douglas Goodey, and you should take a read of it right now!
Douglas is a two time self made multi-millionaire and so he’s qualified to talk about how to achieve success. When people like that speak, it’s time to take note and listen.
Here it is:
In this post, I want to share with you
5 big mistakes that stop success.
Mistake No.1:
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Trying to do everything yourself.
We as human beings are limited by a number of things.
Two Hands, One Brain and 24 hours in a day are just some of them.
Learn to leverage the brainpower, manpower, and time of others, and you will find that you can get more done and achieved in your lifetime than you ever imagined.
In life I met many people that didn’t want to do certain tasks till the next day, or the next week, which if only they had done… would have resulted in far more business for them.
Instead, they wanted to concentrate on going for a drink with their friends or watching their favorite soap on the TV.
There’s nothing wrong with that, except, quite often the things they left undone, needed their urgent attention.
They were things that could have helped them be more prepared at the meeting they had scheduled, or it could even have been some action that might have stopped debt collectors calling at their door to take away their furniture if only they’d acted sooner.
These are harsh realities of life and things that have a way of making sure that life remains a struggle, if you put things off.
Don’t. Do what you need to get done, whether it applies to your business or your personal life, in the priority and timing it deserves.
This single action will put you way ahead of the crowd.
We as people are becoming lazier. We want an easy fix for everything in this age of instant everything.
And if we can find an easy fix or route to something then that is fine.
However when it comes to success, there is NO easy fix, no matter what people tell you.
There is no easy way to become a millionaire.
It takes work, it takes effort and it takes patience.
However most people are convinced that there is some magic formula that will take them there overnight.
There isn’t.
On the internet there are people trying to sell you easy fixes to riches.
There aren’t any.
What there ARE are proven strategies and principles of success that anyone who knows them can apply and can ENSURE their way to the top.
These proven principles have worked for anyone who has put them into practice in the past (including me) and turned them into multi-millionaires, they are working for those who are currently putting them into practice, and they will work for anyone who puts them into practice in the future.
After all which would YOU pick? Easy fixes or proven strategies?
Now you might say “proven strategies”, but their is usually some work or effort involved with them.
That’s why DESPITE KNOWING that proven strategies are what people need, the very same people will pay for and go after trying to find easy fixes again and again without paying to learn what are proven strategies.
Proven strategies come at the cost of experience.
They come at the cost of other people’s work, so people won’t offer them to you readily.
Easy fixes on the other hand you will find in abundance, because there is no experience behind many of them.
There is only a quick buck to be made by the person peddling the easy fix.
Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m not talking about an easy fix in terms of software or a solution to a particular problem.
Those are great.
I’m talking about people looking for and people selling an easy fix to success.
Don’t look for people selling easy fixes. Find people offering you proven strategies that are time-tested and that have taken years of trial and error to get right.
Strategies that work for me, and will work for you when you apply them.
If you have an online business what is your strategy for your online business? Do you have one?
Think about this? Why do banks ask people to complete business plans with everything meticulously detailed?
From the marketing plan, through to the budgeting, through to the cash flow and profit and loss forecasts?
Just to make life more difficult?
No, because they know that with a strategy or plan in place there is far more chance of achieving your objectives.
Most people particularly people looking to create an online income have no strategy whatsoever.
They go day to day, looking for the next best thing to promise them instant online success, or the next hot thing to come out to try and promote.
There is of course nothing wrong with wanting to promote the next hot thing that comes out, but is that part of your strategy?
And what else does your strategy for online success include?
Do you have a branding strategy in place?
How you are going to brand yourself or your product?
Do you have a traffic strategy in place? How you are going to get and keep a constant flow of traffic coming to your website?
Do you have a budget in place so that you are not living month to month, but are able to plan ahead to meet the costs of your business?
Do you have a vision of where you want to take your business in 12 months, and can you see the clear route of how you are going to get there?
That’s why I say proven strategies that are time-tested is what you should be seeking in everything you do instead of easy fixes as outlined in mistake no 3.
Any task, or venture you undertake, if you want to complete it successfully, take however long it takes, a day, a week or even a month to put all the strategies in place and to define them as meticulously as you can, so that you have a better chance of achieving that success.
No one has exclusivity on knowledge. Pride is and has always been man’s biggest downfall.
Nations have overtaken prouder nations in history, where one nation thought they had everything and didn’t need to learn anything new from anyone else.
Realize that you don’t know certain things.
Then learn them from those that do.
If you are not good with talking with people in a social gathering, and you want to be… find out the strategies of how to develop that skill from someone who is proficient at it.
If you want to learn to drive… you’d go to a driving instructor right?
And you pay happily for those driving lessons.
Why then when it comes to learning strategies that will transform our lives are we so against investing in our most valuable asset? Ourselves?
Simply, because quite often, we think we know it all.
Successful people recognize the importance of learning from others.
Professional singers hire and pay professional singing coaches.
Why? They’re already stars and can sing right?
Professional football clubs hire and pay coaches to train the players.
Why? The players already know the game so why do they need a coach?
Gymnasts, tennis players, people in business and multi-millionaires all GET it! They know that despite how much they know, someone who can always teach them or help
them to know things they don’t know or help them to improve and successfully implement the things they DO know.
World Champion boxers… have trainers don’t they?
Why? They’re already knocking the lights out of people in the ring, what can old frail men teach them about fighting?
They KNOW that no matter what they do know there is always room for learning strategies or implementing strategies or even perfecting strategies that they can learn from someone else.
That’s what makes winners. They aren’t afraid of investing in the proven strategies of others to improve their own.
So there is a key difference in attitude and thinking between the successful and the none successful.
One value proven strategies, even when they are at the top of their game and pay those with experience to learn them.
And those that remain mediocre think… “Yeah? What can he teach me?”.
Article By Douglas Goodey
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I hope you find the above points I’ve shared with you today useful.
You can find out why people are rushing to learn more from Douglas, and getting in on the real proven strategies that he is sharing for the first time ever, that will help you on your own path to success and wealth creation!
It is a good question and one I really wonder about often.
See I have been on both sides of this question. For a couple years I searched for the magic button. Tried tons of programs and was consistently disappointed with my results.
I tired the just work harder and it will happen. Quickly found that not to be true.
Finally I decided to actually listen to someone that was walking the walk even though it took me out of my comfort zone.
It was hard for me to do that because working hard was making me a bit of money but not what I needed to be able to stay home full time. So if I really wanted to do that I would need to change what I was doing.
Once I started following a path that someone else had already tred and modeling success instead of being stubborn and doing it my way things started to change.
So the question is what is holding you back?
Leave your comments below and lets address them here.
This has been an extremely busy week. There was a lot of things going on. One that I hope you took advantage of was the Nickelmania X which has now ended.
The biggest thing I did this week was to support the Tweet A Thon from Dr. Mani. This was 24 hours of him tweeting to help raise funds for the CHD Foundation. It funds heart surgeries for children born with congenital heart defects. If you can support it it will be appreciated.
The guys from Stomper have added a whole bunch of bonuses for those that try their new journal “The Net Effect” and Stomping The Search Engines 2 for just shipping and handling. They added 12 more bonuses that they received from some of the major marketers online. The bonuses will only be available through Monday. Definitely a great deal for any marketer and the ongoing journal will cost less than $40 a month.
Shark Frenzy Graphics is still available for free. Think Justin has gone a bit overboard with this but definitely a must have for anyone using traffic exchanges. At the price it is definitely a no-brainer.
How to Write A Lead Pulling Squeeze Page is a new $7 report from Robert Puddy. It includes the 4 pages you need to monetize your list building efforts. Check it out.
Have you grabbed your copy of Instant Newsletter? This is great if you are building your list in the IM field. Check it out today and never be looking for content for your newsletter again.
Looks like this week will be another busy one and it will start tomorrow with something from my friends Soren Jordansen and later in the week from Jon Olson. That does not take into account the ongoing launch frenzy being created by Mike Filsaime for Traffic Fusion which will bombard your email box this week.
As always your comments and questions are welcomed.
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