How I Beat The UGLY PayPal Button Demon To a Bloody PULP

by Rose Mis

I really do like it when "projects" that I am working on for clients turn out well and the final product looks totally yummy After all, I really want my clients to LOVE my work and keep on hiring me right … ??? So I MUST deliver an excellent product every single time …

The other day I was setting up a sales page in WordPress for a gal who is selling an e-Book that I edited for her. And I am trying to get the danged Paypal "Buy Now" Button to look just like it does on PayPal's site … nice … neat … proportional … professional … you get my drift ! And the button wouldn't cooperate.

It  S  P  R  A  W  L  E  D all over the whole page … just like the one at the top … YUCKKKKKK !!

No way Jose was I going to let that UGLY button live on the same page as that beautiful e-Book!!

I was bound and DETERMINED to figure out how to make that button worthy of that page. (Can you tell that I am challenge driven? …. )

I put it in a table to "contain and compress" the html … better but not great …

I fiddled with the html code and blew the button up!! I was getting REALLY annoyed by the whole thing … and my client needed the page DONE in an hour and a half … and I did NOT have a viable solution …

I took a deep breath and made some iced tea .. trying to relax enough to get a Divine download …

10 minutes passed … nothing … 15 minutes passed … nothing …

I was getting ready to pick up the phone and tell her I couldn't give her what she needed to launch her e-Book promotion …

And then IT came to me … a possible solution that was so danged simple and easy … I was shocked …

If it worked it would be a PERFECT hack …oh I have absolutely no doubt in the world that there is a way to do this perfectly with the PayPal Code … however … time was not on my side this morning … I needed the solution NOW !!  And since my usual resources had been complaing of the EXACT same problem … I needed to get creative on my own and find a simple, non-techie solution NOW !!

Now the only thing left to do was to make sure it really worked the way I thought it would …

So here is what I did

I logged into her PayPal Account (yes , my clients trust me THAT much)

And Created A New Buy Now Button

Step 1 – Log Into Your Paypal Account and Create a New Buy Now button

Step 2 – Fill In All Of  The Details

Step 3 – Click on Step 2 In Your PayPal Account

Step 4 – Go To Step 3 In Your PayPal Account and Fill Out The Requested Information

Step 5 – Click on Create Button

Step 6 – Copy That Code – Isn't That Button On The Paypal Site Just Beautiful?

You Want One Just Like It Right … ??? ME TOO!!

The only code you need is the <X82DEF74PNA9J> forget all of the other html stuff

That's The Button That I Wanted For My Client – Beautiful Isn't it???

So Here Is What I Did To Give It To Her ….

I uploaded that photo to her media files (you can use it if you like it

I added the photo to her sales page.

I linked that photo to her PayPal account with one simple line of html code.

I published the page.

She got her sales page on time.

She got her first sale in 30 minutes.

She was REALLY pleased !!

The "Secret Sauce"

One simple line of code

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Rose Mis is highly respected both offline and online for her ability to translate very complex concepts into understandable, bite sized pieces of information and simple “this is how to get it done now” steps. People are shocked when they see how quickly they get tangible results  with  their WordPress blogs after implementing what they learn.  

Rose partners with overwhelmed, time-stressed business owners, allowing  them to have their time back to  focus on the revenue generating activities they do best. Her services eliminate the frustration often associated with WordPress site installation, design and maintenance.

She currently serves a group of over 100 business owners on a daily basis, as well as providing virtual copy and content management services to private clients.

WordPress Blogging Hack – No More UGLY PayPal “Buy Now” Buttons is a post from: Attraction Marketing Test Kitchen

An Event That Rocked The Small And Home Based Business World!

Sandi Krakowski's "Read Their Mind Book Tour" Chicago June 2011

by Rose Mis

(Photo Credit John Hays)

Have you ever experienced something that was just too weird to really be believable? Something that leaves you shaking your head totally dumbfounded, wondering what ELSE is going to happen and WHY is this happening right here and now?

"If you take Resistance at it's word, you deserve everything you get."

~ Steven Pressfield

I live in New York City … we are famous worldwide for our aggressive cab drivers … they will do just about anything (yes … immoral and unethical are included in their customer acquisition strategies) to pick up a fare!! Early Friday morning .. like 6:00 am … I confirmed my pickup time with the service that I have been using for the past five years. They know me by my first name … know exactly where I live and always LOVE sending a driver because they know I am going to the airport when I call and I tip well .

I was packed and ready to go to Chicago for the weekend to attend Sandi Krakowski's  "Read Their Mind Book Tour Event" and I needed to be picked up by 10:00 am to be at the airport by 11:00 am …

At 9:00 am I get a call from the dispatcher who tells me my address doesn't exist (weirdness #1)  … so I give her block by block instructions on how to find me. AT 10:15 I get a call from the dispatcher who tells me the cab had to leave because I didn't come out of my building fast enough (weirdness #2 because I was waiting on the STREET CORNER and the driver never showed up) … I asked her to send another driver ..

10:30 am … I see the cab coming up my street and he drives right past me – ummmm…. HELLOOOOOOO … DRIVER – dude where are you going? ….

10:35 … I get another call from the dispatcher …. the driver can't find me …. I tell her to send the car back because I am RIGHT ON THE STREET CORNER waiting with my suitcase …. (weirdness #3 – NYC cab drivers SEE everything )

10:45 and I get another call … the driver still can't find me and as I am listening to the gal the car drives RIGHT PAST ME AGAIN. I tell the girl to phone the driver right away and tell him to STOP … because I can see him and can walk to the car … Thankfully he stops

When I get into the car … I ask him if he saw me standing on the corner … he tells me he saw me coming OUT OF MY BUILDING … (serious weirdness #4)

Anyhooo … we finally get to the airport by 11:05 … I have plenty of time to get checked in and go through security only to find out that …

My first flight is canceled … they reschedule me. The second flight is canceled … they reschedule me … That flight gets canceled too … and they tell me they are going to reschedule me to fly in early Saturday morning. NOPE that is NOT going to work … I tell the ticketing agent that if she has to fly me to  Los Angles and get me to Chicago from there then that is what she will have to do because Saturday morning is NOT acceptable.

She looks through all of the possible flights going to Chicago … and all of a sudden she blurts out … "THAT wasn't there five minutes ago" … I told her … whatever it is, it's mine – book me on it …. She does and I have 15 minutes to get to another terminal, at the other side of the airport, get cleared through security and get my butt into that seat … I made it … (total weirdness #5 – should have taken at least 45 minutes to do all that)

Can you believe it … I was on time (with 5 minutes to spare) for our Friday night "Meet and Greet"…

And just in case you think I was the only one this happened to … close to 80% of the participants at this event reported "unusual stuff" as well … talk about not taking "Resistance"at it's word !!!

What a way to kick-off the weekend that literally "Rocked The Small And Home Based Business World" with over 100 business owners  in attendance worldwide.

(Photo Credit John Hays)

What a great looking group !

Over the past year and a half I have not only watched Sandi build and create her most successful online company to date – A Real Change.com, I have watched her help dozens (yes dozens) of other people start building and seeing remarkable results with THEIR businesses – myself included – because of what she teaches!!

It has been through coaching and mentoring with her … watching HER coach with some of the best coaches out there today …. watching HER step all the way out of her comfort zone … paying attention to what SHE does and how she does it … seeing her results come rolling in with my own eyes …. and then implementing (yes, that means taking action on) exactly what she teaches, that I have been able to turn the lights on for my own business, just as so many others have been able to do because of her mentoring.

Here is the one thing that made a real difference for me. I KNOW, with every fiber of my being, that if one person can do something, it can be done by others. Since I wanted to have the same kind of results that Sandi and the others were having, I DECIDED to do EXACTLY what she was doing herself and what she was teaching her other students to do.

I invested (time and money) into my own education and immersed myself in her training. In a very short amount of time REAL RESULTS started showing up for me, just as they had for many others. I gave myself permission to take the time I needed to do the work and  trusted that the system that I was learning could work for me too, if I allowed it to happen (translated  – that meant telling "Resistance" to go straight back to where it came from.)

And now, a dream has come true for me, just as it has for many others … Because of the internet and my decision to do whatever I had to do to, to become humble enough to learn whatever I had to learn, I now have the privilege of making a real difference for people who are  stuck with their WordPress sites – I get them unstuck at lightening speed … no geek-speak required

Six months ago, Sandi offered me the opportunity to assist with her Forever WordPress Community – a community focused on helping people get unstuck FAST with their WordPress challenges. And slowly but surely, my confidence in my skills and my ability to serve other people well was renewed.

Being able to use WordPress easily and efficiently was something that I took for granted. It had been a very easy thing for me to learn how to do and since I have been using it for years, I figured that was true for everyone else. It never occurred to me that it could be a really challenging thing for other people. People would always ask me questions about their blogs and what to do to make them rank better, or which plugins to use, or how to add pictures and optin forms … and I would always help them out with joy in my heart …

I NEVER, for one minute, really "got" that my skillset was in high-demand. And after I had a coach tell me that I was wasting my time blogging and I should learn how to "get people to join my network marketing business the good old-fashioned way", my confidence in being able to build a business online was pretty well shattered. So I ended up giving everything I knew about WordPress away, because I felt that it had no real value.  Talk about a poverty mindset … talk about speaking "death" over someone's dreams … "Resistance" is a chameleon – it can look just like  someone that you should be able to trust …

Thanks to Sandi's mentoring, her encouragement, her belief … and a couple of swift kicks in the pants, I started to believe in myself again and because I was helping people real-time … I finally "got it" …  WOW … I REALLY can serve alot of people well with my knowledge and be profitable doing so. I don't think there are enough words to describe how grateful I am …

Lo and behold … I now have an online business that is growing each month. I understand and fully appreciate the REAL value of my time and knowledge and how  I can serve people with integrity. It really does make a difference with whom you decide to coach. I was truly blessed to see firsthand what having the right kind of support and training can do for an online business owner.

I am sitting here smiling and thinking about how many more people she helped this past weekend. The event really did rock the small and home based business community  in the best kind of way. Ideas for businesses were birthed. New ideas, products and opportunities were popping like Jiffy Pop Popcorn.  Life was spoken over everyone and every business during the event. People learned how to "hear" which words their perfect clients are really using to talk about their problems and how to translate those conversations into relationships that will profitably get those products and services to just the right people.

That wasn't the best part of the weekend for me though. The networking and the friendships that were born amongst the attendees, that was priceless. We all became a family … we laughed together, we cried together, we prayed together, we celebrated each and every breakthrough together – we all had one common goal … making sure that everyone walked out of that event receiving EXACTLY what they needed to MOVE FORWARD – it was a total team effort … and it happened …

If any of what you just read speaks to your heart … if you think that you and your business could benefit from being with a bunch of spirit driven business people, who are being coached by a very successful business person who actually walks her talk,  then I invite you to take a minute to look at the Inner Circle Coaching Program that Sandi has put together. It just might make a real change in the results you are seeing with your business too.

Remember what Steven Pressfield said …

"If you take Resistance at it's word, you deserve everything you get."

 I believe that YOU DESERVE nothing but THE BEST !!

>>>Come join me and let's work together with Sandi<<<

so that we can all get to where we want to go together!!

I would love to have your feedback!

Let me know your thoughts on today's issue.

You can leave your comments below or stop by Facebook and tell me there!

Remember sharing shows that you care

Feel free to share this article with anyone who could benefit !!

Both of you will be blessed

Rose Mis is highly respected both offline and online for her ability to translate very complex concepts into understandable, bite sized pieces of information and simple “this is how to get it done now” steps. People are shocked when they see how quickly they get tangible results  with  their WordPress blogs after implementing what they learn.  

Rose partners with overwhelmed, time-stressed business owners, allowing  them to have their time back to  focus on the revenue generating activities they do best. Her services eliminate the frustration often associated with WordPress site installation, design and maintenance.

She currently serves a group of over 100 business owners on a daily basis, as well as providing virtual copy and content management services to private clients.

Home And Small Business Owners Learn How To Read Their Clients’ Minds is a post from: Attraction Marketing Test Kitchen

Why Some Network Marketing Companies Are Failing – Eric Worre, Multiple 7 Figure Network Marketing Pro Speaks Out

I tip my hat to Eric Worre of NetworkingMarketingPro.com, for today's bold video calling for some serious change in the Network Marketing Industry, starting at company ownership level. Eric challenges the networking marketing community at large and the owners, product formulators and management teams of those companies specifically to work much harder than they are on their Product Value Proposition than they do at recruiting and maintaining corporate culture.

What IS Product Value Proposition?

Eric explains it very simply as a product's WOW FACTOR,  the price of the product and it's ability to compete effectively in the marketplace. I can hear network marketers every where saying, "BUT Rose … my product IS the best out there … that's why it's priced the way it is … and NO other company is using that super duper magical pixie dust in THEIR products, so there is NO COMPETITION." And, as you are saying that, I want you to ponder this – "If you were no longer able to be a distributor for your company would you stay on autoship, continue to use the product and recommend the product to others ?"

BE HONEST with yourself. If your answer is no, it is time for some serious soul searching, because you are not adding any sort of real value to your own life and to anyone else's. Sure you maybe making money right now, but the question I have for you is, how much of that money is RESIDUAL INCOME versus fast start commissions? If most of your income is coming from fast start payouts, and you are replacing your BUSINESS BUILDERS every 90 days, there is a BIG PROBLEM with the way your business (if you can call it that) is being built.

Network Marketing is all about selling AMAZING products to people who are willing to pay a fair market price for the results that they get from those products. Those results are so positively life changing that they cannot imagine ever being without those products, so they order them like clockwork month after month, year after year and as a distributor you get paid month after month, year after year for those purchases. It really is not about making money, it is about making someone else's life better. When you do that by putting the other person's needs first,  the money follows.

One of the most profound statements that Eric made in the video is that the days of $200+ a month autoships on "me too" products that really don't compete in the marketplace are coming to an end. The New Economy simply will not tolerate over priced, mediocre products EVEN if they have an income opportunity attached to them. The New Economy is pushing the entire world to a tipping point in how business is being done.

Building a network marketing business is proving to be a far better way to take back control. However, network marketing companies that do not do the right thing, i.e. produce truly amazing products that are competitively priced will have a really hard time staying in business. Just imagine what could happen if a network marketing company was totally over delivering to raving product users who can't wait to talk about their results with everyone they come in contact with! Product sales on steroids …??? True lifetime residual income for distributors …??? The PROMISE fulfilled?

No wonder so many network marketers are not seeing the results they want and so many have started asking "Where Did The Money Go?"

Seriously, how many different kinds of Super Juice are out in the market place? How many different kinds of Protein Shakes are out there? How about Discount Travel Programs? Discount Technology Programs? Healthy Coffee and Chocolate? Essential Oils, Cards and Coins? … You name it and it probably has a network marketing opportunity attached to it. The only thing that I can think of that doesn't is … burial plots

What makes one product stand head shoulders above another in the marketplace and which company is producing it should be qualifying questions that everyone asks BEFORE they get involved with a network marketing business opportunity.

The bottom line,  the New Economy has created new rules that most network marketing companies have never had to contend with. And, in order to meet the new demand being expressed by the marketplace, high-value, more price sensitive products need to be created. Some companies have already started doing this. Others are still playing by the old rules. Kudos to the companies that have stepped up to the plate already. Research and development is a lengthy process and these companies have positioned themselves and their distributors to win in the New Economy.

So, once again, I am going to ask you to seriously think about this question …

"Would you continue to purchase these products, at the price you are currently paying, every single month, even if you were NOT involved with the business opportunity?"

If your answer is yes, I encourage you to go out there and serve as many people as you can. If your answer is no, I encourage you to think long and hard about what your future looks like in network marketing if you continue to build something that is not truly aligned with your mission and values through serving others with honor and integrity.  

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Rose Mis is the author of “Dead Blogs Don’t Lie ~ 7 Secrets To A Wildly Popular High Traffic Blog” and the editor and publisher of The Frugal Networker Newsletter. She is the creator and Executive Chef of the internet's only Award Winning Attraction Marketing Training Kitchen. Rose is one of the top MLM / Network Marketing bloggers online today and is a featured blogger at thatMLMbeat.com. You are invited to stop by the Kitchen anytime you have any questions about blogging, marketing or mindset. Rose is here to help you get the results you are looking for as quickly and cost effectively as possible.

Eric Worre – A Call For Serious Change In The Network Marketing Industry is a post from: Attraction Marketing Test Kitchen