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		<title>How to Help Children Develop and Build High Self-Esteem</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have children in your Life, this is the Most Important Message you may ever receive and read! I&#8217;m writing today with a very special invitation. Over the past 21 years, Dr. Joe Rubino has coached more than 1000 people to elevate their self-esteem. He&#8217;s helped them become happier, more fulfilled, achieve better relationships [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you have children in your Life, this is the Most Important Message you may ever receive and read!</p>
<p>I&#8217;m writing today with a very special invitation.</p>
<p>Over the past 21 years, Dr. Joe Rubino has coached more than 1000 people to elevate their self-esteem. He&#8217;s helped them become happier, more fulfilled, achieve better relationships and put into place every aspect of their dream lives. </p>
<p>He&#8217;s made dozens of discoveries about the importance of self-esteem at every stage of a person&#8217;s self development.</p>
<p>And one of his biggest discoveries is there is <strong>NO greater gift you can give your children than high self-esteem</strong>!</p>
<p>Dr. Joe has a vision of impacting MILLIONS, but he needs your help. He knows he cannot realize his vision without YOUR partnership.</p>
<p>So he found an <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://02671wqldxmm6sf0ydjbn2pd6n.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=6012112"><u>affordable way to train parents, teachers, coaches and other adults to champion children to develop high self-esteem</u></a>, without the problems associated with excessive ego. </p>
<div id="attachment_11947" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 565px"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://02671wqldxmm6sf0ydjbn2pd6n.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=6012112"><img src="http://www.marketingbyann.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/children-self-esteem.jpg" alt="children-self-esteem" title="children-self-esteem" width="555" height="354" class="size-full wp-image-11947" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">31 Ways to Champion Children to Develop High Self-Esteem</p></div>
<p>Many leading experts have applauded his efforts and hailed his work as nothing short of life-changing. </p>
<p>You can read their testimonials here &#8211; <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://02671wqldxmm6sf0ydjbn2pd6n.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=6012112"><u>Become a Certified Self-Esteem Coach for Children!</u></a>  </p>
<p>If you are a parent, teacher, grandparent, coach, or adult who has anything to do with molding children&#8217;s lives, I believe strongly that the program I am about to share with you is THE most important body of knowledge you could possess to make a difference in the lives of children. </p>
<p>Many are learning the principles Dr. Joe teaches through the book, &#8220;31 Ways to Champion Children to Develop High Self-Esteem&#8221; and the audios and videos that accompany the High Self Esteem Kids program, just to make a difference with their own kids.</p>
<p>Others are joining as <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://02671wqldxmm6sf0ydjbn2pd6n.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=6012112"><u>Certified Coaches in Self-Esteem Elevation of Children</u></a> so they can go out into the world and teach these principles to others and earn a great living in the process!</p>
<p>The program was designed to make learning from your own home, at your own pace, easy, convenient AND affordable! With Dr Joe Rubino&#8217;s program you can learn to coach and guide children to elevate their self-esteem without spending tens of thousands of dollars attending seminars and paying exorbitant fees and while saving precious time. You can learn at your own pace and go through all the educational information in a manner that fits your lifestyle and needs.</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://02671wqldxmm6sf0ydjbn2pd6n.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=6012112"><u>Here is your chance</u></a> to make a difference in the lives of children everywhere, and enjoy work that&#8217;s as ultra-rewarding as it is fulfilling. </p>
<p>For a limited time, Dr. Joe is offering the program at a <strong>huge 80% discount</strong> in order to make it affordable for anyone to take on.</p>
<p>If you are ready to learn the life-changing principles that are essential for children to grow up as well-rounded, happy, abundant, fulfilled and successful adults possessing high self-esteem, please take a few minutes to see what this program is all about &#8211; <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://02671wqldxmm6sf0ydjbn2pd6n.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=6012112"><u>Become a Certified Self-Esteem Coach for Children!</u></a></p>
<p>I welcome you to join Dr. Joe Rubino&#8217;s team of committed people helping to make a difference in the world &#8211; one child at a time!</p>
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		<title>3 Tips on How to Become a Better Writer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Becoming a better writer isn&#8217;t easy, I won&#8217;t lie to you. It takes hard work, but it&#8217;s worth the effort. In today&#8217;s highly competitive internet universe, the importance of attracting targeted traffic to your website cannot be overemphasized. Routing web traffic to your site can be your only means of survival especially in the cutthroat [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Becoming a better writer isn&#8217;t easy, I won&#8217;t lie to you. It takes hard work, but it&#8217;s worth the effort. </p>
<p>In today&#8217;s highly competitive internet universe, the importance of attracting targeted traffic to your website cannot be overemphasized. Routing web traffic to your site can be your only means of survival especially in the cutthroat world of ecommerce. Getting a high search engine ranking can be very difficult. </p>
<p>There is a wide variety of strategies you can adapt, from paid advertising to affiliate marketing. However, most of these techniques require payment. Nevertheless, there are ways to promote your website and increase your web traffic without spending anything. </p>
<p>But writing articles or blog post is one of the best web site promotion strategies you can use to drive the traffic to your sites, to promote your business, products or service, and they can be very effective as well.</p>
<p><strong>I am Not Good in Writing But I Want To be a Writer, How To Do That?</strong></p>
<p>Alright, for myself, I am doing below these three simple things, and I find that they work great for me. I share them with you here, hope you find it helpful to you too in which to help you improve your writing skill and achieve explode your business.</p>
<p><strong>1. Keeping a Journal</strong></p>
<p>You may doubt this method, but believe me &#8211; the results of keeping a journal will probably amaze you after only a couple months. It is not only makes you a better writer, it will also make you a happier person. </p>
<p>In regards to writing, there’s one thing that is certain: the more you do it, practice the writing, the better you become at it. You don’t need anyone correcting what you’ve written either. All you need to do is to write every day, after time being, you will develop a solid style and voice of your own. </p>
<p>Don&#8217;t just plan to write &#8211; write. Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about too.  It is only by writing, not dreaming about it, that you develop your own style.</p>
<p>In the other words, when you keep a journal, you can basically write about anything, anything that you wanted to write about, such as keep your thoughts organized, the way your day went, how it goes, what’s happening with your family, what’s going on with your work life and etc. The key point here is to simply write. </p>
<p>On the other hand, if you have a lot of writing to do for your business, like writing articles, blogs, eBooks and so forth, then you can skip the journal writing for that day. </p>
<p>No matter how and what your own schedule will be look like, just  remember the important thing for you to do  is to write every day, whether it’s for your journal or for your business.</p>
<p><strong>2. Write at the Same Time Everyday</strong></p>
<p>Being disciplined, you know that you need to write every day and write it at the same time. </p>
<p>Treat writing as a job. Be disciplined. Lots of writers get a bit OCD-ish about this. Graham Greene famously wrote 500 words a day. Jean Plaidy managed 5,000 before lunch, and then spent the afternoon answering fan mail. My minimum is 500 words a day – which is sometimes easy to achieve, and is sometimes, frankly, like shitting a brick, but I will make myself stay at my desk until I&#8217;ve got there, because I know that by doing it I am inching the book forward. Those 500 words might well be rubbish – they often are. But then, it is always easier to return to rubbish words at a later date and make them better.</p>
<p>By doing this, it can actually train your brain and let it get into the mode of writing, so don’t make yourself have any uncomfortable or pressure feeling of doing it. </p>
<p>Authors refer to this as &#8220;capturing the muse&#8221; because they realized that if they write at the same time every day, then they will be inspired to write, and the “muse” will bring them the inspiration to write well.</p>
<p>So don&#8217;t look back until you&#8217;ve written an entire draft, just begin each day from the last sentence you wrote the preceding day. This prevents those cringing feelings, and means that you have a substantial body of work before you get down to the real work which is all in &#8211; the edit. </p>
<p>Write at the same time everyday method will help you find that your mind gets trained, which helps you write what you need to write.</p>
<p><strong>3. Follow a Proven Formula</strong></p>
<p>If you have a talent for writing, you probably don’t need to follow a set formula. In fact, you might even be opposed to formulas. But for the rest of us, formulas are a good thing as long as they don’t completely handcuff our creativity, which means should have an outline.</p>
<p>Hove your outline and then cling to it as a lifeline. You can adjust it in mid-stream, but don’t try to just write your way into a better structure: think about the right structure and then write to it. Your outline will get you through those periods when you can’t possibly imagine ever finishing the damn thing — at those times, your outline will let you see it as a sequence of manageable 500 word sections.</p>
<p>The basic form that you have to remember for any writing is to have an introduction, a body, and a conclusion.<br />
The introduction will introduce what will be discussed. The body will discuss everything as promised, and the conclusion will restate the introduction (in a different way) while telling the readers what they just read.</p>
<p>However, if you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to sleep, make a pie, draw, listen to music, meditate, exercise; whatever you do, don&#8217;t just stick there scowling at the problem. But don&#8217;t make telephone calls or go to a party; if you do, other people&#8217;s words will pour in where your lost words should be. Open a gap for them, create a space, and be patient.</p>
<p>Thus, to become a better writer, there are three things you need to do &#8211; keeping a journal, writing it at the same time every day, and following a formula.</p>
<p>Follow above these three tips, practice your writing with joy and pleasure, and then you will writing faster, writing better in no time. </p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:40:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ann Liu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have ever wondering how the ecosystem works? You will like to read this post. I discovered this very interesting infographic and I want to share with you, it is about how the inbound marketing ecosystem works, how to combine content, social media, SEO and marketing automation together to let it work for you [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you have ever wondering how the ecosystem works? You will like to read this post. I discovered this very interesting infographic and I want to share with you, it is about how the inbound marketing ecosystem works, how to combine content, social media, SEO and marketing automation together to let it work for you to grow your business.</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://volinskyconsulting.com/inbound-marketing"><img src="http://volinskyconsulting.com/static/inbound-marketing-ecosystem-950px.jpg" alt="Inbound Marketing Ecosystem - Infographic" /></a></p>
<p>    Created by <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.twitter.com/#!/svolinsky">@svolinsky</a> of <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://volinskyconsulting.com">Volinsky Consulting</a></p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:53:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ann Liu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you know &#8211; A recent study showed that Facebook is now credited with reducing the six degrees of separation to only FOUR! I think this is one of the most exciting developments in recent years when we look at the impact Facebook is having on our world. That means, if there&#8217;s anyone on the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Did you know &#8211; A recent study showed that Facebook is now credited with reducing the six degrees of separation to only FOUR! I think this is one of the most exciting developments in recent years when we look at the impact Facebook is having on our world. </p>
<p>That means, if there&#8217;s anyone on the entire planet you&#8217;d like to get to know, that person is only four people away from you now. And since everyone from heads of entire countries to your next best customer is on Facebook, I&#8217;m sure you know what a tremendous advantage it is to belong to the biggest social network in the world.  </p>
<p>But, to really make Facebook work for you from a BUSINESS standpoint, you&#8217;ve got to know how to grow your network with genuine fans, create consistent visibility, engage the right way, and convert your prospects to paying customers.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s great news on a <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://bit.ly/A2CBtH"><u>Facebook Event</u></a> I&#8217;m actually happy to hear about because it comes from a true leader in the social media space!</p>
<p>And as entrepreneurs and small businesses owners, we are all interested in getting better at Facebook marketing and relationship marketing in a big way. </p>
<p>If you have been trying to get social media to work for your business, you might already heard about Mari Smith, the author of <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://bit.ly/wNqhhD"><u>The New Relationship Marketing</u></a>, and know that she provides some of the best guidance there is for making sense of it all.</p>
<p>So, I&#8217;m VERY excited about she is going to be leading one of her informative webinars on <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://bit.ly/A2CBtH"><u>Facebook Marketing for 2012 on Tuesday, January 31st</u></a> — and you&#8217;re invited!</p>
<p>With all the recent changes over at Facebook, sometimes it&#8217;s tough to stay ahead and use the world&#8217;s largest social network to guarantee consistent visibility, engagement and growth for your business.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s why Mari is offering this free webinar, to get you up to speed on Facebook Marketing right at the start of the year. It&#8217;s all about the best ways to develop a raving fanbase so that they REALLY connect with you and love to buy from you.</p>
<p>I recommend you <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://bit.ly/A2CBtH"><u>register right away</u></a> to save your seat on her first big Facebook event of 2012 before it fills up (because if her previous webinars are any indication, I really think the virtual seats on this one will be overflowing too!)</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve already signed up, so let&#8217;s both start this year off with a big boost to our Facebook marketing for 2012!</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you started to use and own the Genesis yet? If you are already use it, I am very happy for you, if you haven&#8217;t, I highly recommended you to get it now. After that, download this Genesis Framework Guide for WordPress and read it. This guide is for bloggers, copywriters, consultants, and content marketers [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Have you started to use and own the <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=346198&amp;u=179232&amp;m=28169&amp;urllink=&amp;afftrack=628"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Genesis</span></a> yet? If you are already use it, I am very happy for you, if you haven&#8217;t, I highly recommended you to get it now.</p>
<p>After that, download this <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.copyblogger.com/genesis-framework-for-wordpress/"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Genesis Framework Guide for WordPress</span></a> and read it. This guide is for bloggers, copywriters, consultants, and content marketers who rely on the efficiency, security and scalability of Genesis + WordPress to make their place on the web.</p>
<p>You should go ahead and grab it even if you don&#8217;t own Genesis — it’s a fantastic primer for WordPress too.</p>
<p>Genesis, is a framework is a robust WordPress theme that can be utilized out of the box &#8211; as is &#8211; or also easily extended with child themes and hooks (customized code). Not only do they provide a number of enhancements above and beyond a typical <a href="http://www.marketingbyann.com/wordpress-theme"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">WordPress theme</span></a>, they also serve as a platform on which to build added functionality.</p>
<p>Everything changes, nowhere more quickly than on the web. Unless you&#8217;re a rockstar developer, being up-to-date on the latest SEO, WordPress, and security developments can be a full-time gig.</p>
<p>The Genesis framework responds and adapts to these constant advancements.</p>
<p>And if you know anything about how SEO works (don&#8217;t worry if you don’t, Genesis will take care of a lot of it for you), you know that Google hands out brownie points for clean code. As amazing as search engines are, they&#8217;re not as smart or grown-up as you might think. Present them with an orderly, squeaky clean page of code, and you’re well on your way to a solid ranking for your chosen words.</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=346198&amp;u=179232&amp;m=28169&amp;urllink=&amp;afftrack=628"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Genesis Framework</span></a>, again, does the bulk of this SEO work for you, so you can get back to work.</p>
<p>As Genesis evolves, the latest version also keeps up-to-date. Here is the latest version 1.8 of Genesis, it comes with a fresh new front-end style, a couple of new settings, and some new hotness for developers who work with Genesis, including extensive inline documentation.</p>
<p>Here are the specific changes made in this update.</p>
<ul>
<li>Added new SEO options to term archives. You can now specify your own headline and intro text.</li>
<li>Added new option to display breadcrumbs on Attachment pages.</li>
<li>Added page link text option to the User Profile widget.</li>
<li>Better integration with the WordPress SEO plugin.</li>
<li>New extendable Genesis_Admin classes make building Genesis admin pages dead simple.</li>
<li>Added ability to disable primary or secondary menus completely via the &#8220;theme support&#8221; method.</li>
<li>New genesis_widget_area() function to output widget areas without having to build markup or use conditional logic.</li>
<li>Native color selector that child themes can use to create multiple color schemes.</li>
<li>Improved settings UI to work better with non-English languages.</li>
<li>Genesis post options can now be enabled/disable using the &#8220;post type support&#8221; method.</li>
<li>Sanitize some options on save, instead of output, for performance benefits.</li>
<li>Admin scripts now loaded only when needed.</li>
<li>All code now follows the WordPress coding standards.</li>
<li>Comprehensive inline documentation.</li>
<li>Various bug fixes and enhancements.</li>
</ul>
<p>For a more comprehensive list of changes, see <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://genesischangelog.com/1.8"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">this page</span></a>.</p>
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		<dc:creator>Ann Liu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your prospects won&#8217;t buy things from you unless they trust you. Read that again, because fully understanding that deceptively simple sentence is crucial to the bottom line of your business. If you can&#8217;t establish trust, you can&#8217;t make sales. Period. You&#8217;ve heard that before. And while you can grow plenty of other things (vegetables, your [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Your prospects won&#8217;t buy things from you unless they trust you.</p>
<p>Read that again, because fully understanding that deceptively simple sentence is crucial to the bottom line of your business. If you can&#8217;t establish trust, you can&#8217;t make sales. Period.</p>
<p>You&#8217;ve heard that before. And while you can grow plenty of other things (vegetables, your hair, sea monkeys), maybe the whole idea of growing your business has so far eluded you.</p>
<p>You can get traffic to your website or your offline store, you can make sales. Maybe you can even bank a little profit, but sometimes it feels like there&#8217;s an invisible ceiling that&#8217;s capping your earnings. And if you could just break through that ceiling, you&#8217;d enter a new tax bracket. You&#8217;d take your business to the next level. You might even start enjoying a new lifestyle.</p>
<p>But nothing quite works.</p>
<p>You feel like a unicyclist sinking in a foot of mud – you try and you try, but you don’t budge an inch. You don&#8217;t move forward or back. You just stay stuck – working so dang hard but not getting anywhere fast.</p>
<p>So what&#8217;s wrong?</p>
<p>There is nothing really wrong actually, it is about back to the basic &#8211; you need to build that trust first, and then sales will flow in. </p>
<p>To earn that trust and get sales, here are some tips to help you achieve that.</p>
<p><strong>Start a Blog</strong></p>
<p>A blog not only gives you an opportunity to interact with your prospects and customers. It also gives you an opportunity to show value to your prospective customers. Blogging is a great way to help market or promote yourself or your business, product or service. Blogs are wonderful tools to help you establish yourselves as experts in a field or topic. When your prospects see what kind of help you give away or offer, they&#8217;ll be excited to become a paying customer.</p>
<p>Plus, blogging brings like-minded people together. Starting a blog can help you find those people and share your opinions and thoughts.</p>
<p><strong>Offer Great Customer Service</strong> </p>
<p>Whether it is your prospect contact you for the first time with a pre-sale question, or you have an existing customer who needs help from you, you need to provide prompt, professional service.</p>
<p><strong>Interact with Prospects on Social Media sites</strong></p>
<p>Social media is a great way to drive repeat business and to attract new customers. It helps you strengthen a relationship with a prospect during a long sales cycle. It is an awesome especially by using <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://www.facebook.com/marketingbyannrock"><u>Facebook</u></a>, <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.twitter.com/bblweb"><u>Twitter</u></a> and <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://plus.google.com/106495444580477719034"><u>Google+</u></a>. There you can interact one-on-one, as well as provide good information to others.</p>
<p><strong>Follow Up with Your Prospects</strong> </p>
<p>The vast majority of people who come to your website are likely not return back again, that&#8217;s why you need to get their contact information so that you can follow up with them. </p>
<p>To get prospects contact information is a challenge task, usually this involves offering your prospects something valuable in exchange for their name and email address.</p>
<p>Example: You can offer a free report on your website, or if you have an offline store, you can offer prospects a chance to win something in a contest. Just to make sure that &#8211; in all cases, your prospects know you will be following up with them.</p>
<p><strong>Get Personal</strong></p>
<p>If your prospect or client mentions a special event, e.g. an upcoming wedding or a birthday, do remember to write this information down so that you can refer to it again later. Next time, when you see this person (either in person or even online), you can ask the person about the event. I am sure he or she will be impressed that you remembered – and your relationship will grow!</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s be honest, just like anything else in life, blogging is not for everyone. But don&#8217;t let that stop you from becoming a blogger either, there is such a low barrier to entry to blogging. However, to transform your blog into a powerfully-leveraged tool that opens doors and allows you to change the world, it [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Let&#8217;s be honest, just like anything else in life, blogging is not for everyone. But don&#8217;t let that stop you from becoming a blogger either, there is such a low barrier to entry to blogging. However, to transform your blog into a powerfully-leveraged tool that opens doors and allows you to change the world, it does take your time to get there.</p>
<p>If you are a new blogger who wants to entering the blogging world in 2012, before diving yourself into that ocean, there are some basic things you need to know. I learnt it the hard way but you don&#8217;t have to. Below is a fact list that I put together about what they didn&#8217;t tell you about blogging for newbies, hope you find it helpful. </p>
<p><strong>Good To Know List</strong></p>
<p>1. Blogging is easy to start but hard to maintain because it needs you to feed it with fresh content.<br />
2. People expect consistently good content, if you can&#8217;t provided that, quality readers walk away.<br />
3. You can extend your brand via the blog but it is hard to build a brand by blogging.<br />
4. Blogging is an addiction and sometimes it can be serious.<br />
5. If you want to succeed, you HAVE to start making others succeed first.<br />
6. You don&#8217;t climb up by pulling down other people.<br />
7. It takes time to produce &#8220;Timeless Content.&#8221; But &#8220;timeless content&#8221; produces results (traffic included) in the long run.<br />
8. Traffic is important but &#8220;Quality&#8221; traffic is more important.<br />
9. Never ask for links.<br />
10. Using the right tools is VERY important to get the right feedback.</p>
<p>11. Don&#8217;t apply the rule of reciprocation to blogs.<br />
12. Don&#8217;t impose your rules on other bloggers.<br />
13. Don&#8217;t write if you don&#8217;t have anything to write.<br />
14. Don&#8217;t expect short-term benefits, there are none.<br />
15. Your attitude DOES show up on your blog.<br />
16. Getting attention may be easy; but maintaining it is hard.<br />
17. If you don&#8217;t care passionately about your readers, they won&#8217;t care for you too.<br />
18. What you do outside the blog is equally important.<br />
19. You can never stop learning; now you got to learn FAST.<br />
20. You WILL get critics, so get use to it.</p>
<p>21. You have to give back!<br />
22. Not only is blogging addictive, blogging stats are addictive too.<br />
23. Barring exceptions, older posts are considered dead.<br />
24. Blogging is personal even you write it for business blog, you have to have your own voice.<br />
25. Traffic is not the only metric of success in blogging.<br />
26. Name of your blog matters.<br />
27. Create tipping points for your blog.<br />
28. Set time aside for your blog fans.<br />
29. You can join the discussion but you got to have something original to say.<br />
30. Your blog can change who you are.</p>
<p>31. Your blog can change who your readers are.<br />
32. Blogging can make a serious impact on your personal brand.<br />
33. Not everyone who should be blogging is blogging.<br />
34. Not everyone who is blogging should be blogging.<br />
35. There is no one secret recipe to make your blog successful.<br />
36. Not all the blogging tips are applicable to everyone.<br />
37. You can make your blog the ultimate leverage engine.<br />
38. Blogging will increase your capacity to do more good.</p>
<p><strong>Heads Up and Things to Keep in Mind</strong></p>
<p>1. If you started blogging because it seemed cool, you may be struggling or suffering to continue the effort. </p>
<p>2. If you are constantly suffering with what to write next, you may not be blogging on the topic that you are passionate about.</p>
<p>3. If you are not getting enough traffic to your blog, you may not be spending enough time building relationships with your audiences. </p>
<p>4. If you have ideas but struggling to write, then you are not investing enough in yourself to acquire the skills required to blog, and, </p>
<p>5. If you have ideas and are passionate about a topic and are inclined to write but don&#8217;t have the time, you have not worked to integrate blogging in your life yet.</p>
<p>Remember that when you started blogging, the only thing that really matters is <a href="http://www.marketingbyann.com/2011/03/28/four-content-writing-tips-to-improve-your-page-ranking"><u>superior content</u></a>. If you can focus on just providing great content, you can still win BIG in the blogging world!</p>
<p>However, if after you try so hard and you find yourself not having fun with blogging, you might want to revisit your decision and see if blogging is really for you. Otherwise, your blog will end up in the blogging graveyard, sooner than later.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:46:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ann Liu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the Facebook, when you update your status, post the comments to other people&#8217;s post, photos, videos, and everything else people share. Facebook can tell how your feel through your thoughts, opinions and personal interest that you shared with others. Below this interesting infographic is from]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On the Facebook, when you update your status, post the comments to other people&#8217;s post, photos, videos, and everything else people share. Facebook can tell how your feel through your thoughts, opinions and personal interest that you shared with others. </p>
<p>Below this interesting infographic is from <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.helpfordepression.com/><u>Help for Depression</u>, check it out and you may find it helpful. </p>
<p>There’s an interesting look at what Facebook can tell us about depressions, <img src="http://www.marketingbyann.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Facebook-depression.jpg" alt="Facebook Depression" title="Facebook Depression" width="691" height="3906" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-11889" /></p>
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		<dc:creator>Ann Liu</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In this 2012 what are you intending to do? To improve yourself, to achieve a goal, or better the world? Whatever you want to do, I hope that things have been started great for you.</p>
<p>Do you make New Year&#8217;s resolutions? I know many people do that, I do it sometime but not all the time, in fact, I am not big on New Year&#8217;s resolutions because it is too easy to break. I like to do goal setting and feel it&#8217;s one of the keys to success. </p>
<p>Every blogger, business person, marketer, or students has his or her own ultimate goal. If the goal is set up too big, it usually takes time to achieve it. Thus to help you successfully achieve that journey along the way in 2012, follow below these actionable steps will help get you there.</p>
<p><strong>Write Down that Simple Marketing Plan on Your Notebook</strong></p>
<p>Marketing is what separates the big blogs from the small ones. To build a big blog, it takes a lot more than just good content. If your blog is not where you want it to be, ask yourself what you&#8217;ve been doing to market it? Great content is only half the formula. You have to get your blog name out there. That means you have to create a marketing plan.</p>
<p>I would suggest you to investing in a nice notebook first, and by &#8220;notebook,&#8221; I don&#8217;t mean a computer, but an old-fashioned paper notebook with plain, unlined white paper. Any brand will do, myself, I like Moleskine, you can find it in bigger bookstores. I like them because the quality and craftsmanship of these notebooks make using them delightful. It makes you feel good and also make you feel you want to write stuff on it. </p>
<p>Then put that notebook into your bag, carry it with your at all times, and write down your thoughts, insights and ideas when they occur. And at least once a month, review your notebook, as previous ideas often spark new ones. By doing that, you can always get some good new content for your next blog.</p>
<p>The more ideas you have, the more likely it is that you&#8217;ll have some great ideas. A reasonable goal for ideas is to create eight every workday. If that number scares you, remember that these ideas don&#8217;t have to be reasonable, feasible, or fully thought-out. And if you come up with eight ideas each workday, at the end of the year you will have had more than 2,000 ideas, some of which are likely to be very good ones. How cool is that?</p>
<p>For the marketing plan, you don&#8217;t have to write tons of pages like a MBA student does, a simple one will do the work. Write down the questions of &#8216;What&#8217;, &#8216;Why&#8217;, &#8216;How&#8217; to your notebook and then draw out the answers. </p>
<p>For example, a money-making blog should have a mailing list, to get this task done, you need a solution to help you manage the mailing list, My recommendation for it is <a href="http://www.marketingbyann.com/recommends/aweber.html"><u>Aweber</u></a>. This solution is the best in the business and have features that put them light-years ahead of the competition. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.marketingbyann.com/recommends/aweber.html"><u>Aweber</u></a> offers a $1 trial account for all new customers, the trial account is just like a normal Aweber account and includes unlimited email campaigns, newsletter, broadcasts and follow ups. If for some amazing reason you can&#8217;t make the $1 back, then making money by blogging is clearly not for you, if that happens to you, you can send Aweber an email and they&#8217;ll give you the $1 back.</p>
<p><strong>Start a Question List On the First Page of Your Notebook</strong> </p>
<p>You can name it whatever you want, like use &#8216;My Blogging Journey 2012&#8242;, and then write that &#8220;My Blogging Journey 2012 List&#8221; at the top. Under that, write those things based on the category of your work and also in your private life. </p>
<p>Why your private life need to includes in the list? Because you need a work-life-balance lifestyle. Just work without having a balanced fun life, the work will become boring and you will not feel good of it too.  </p>
<p>Each item on your List is a creative challenge for you in the year 2012. For instance, if one of your list is, &#8220;I&#8217;m annoyed that my blog conversion for the year is too low,&#8221; you can easily turn it into a creative challenge by making it a &#8220;How to?&#8221; question: &#8220;How to boost the traffic to achieve higher conversion rate?&#8221; Throughout the year, review your &#8220;My Blogging Journey 2012 List&#8221;. Add new things to it and turn your blogging journey into creative challenges.</p>
<p>As you know, blogging is all about forming relationships. There&#8217;s the relationship between you and the readers, and relationship between you and other blogs in your niche. So make a commitment to get to know them in 2012. At the same time, also find the ways to let your readers know you &#8211; create the page and Tell YOUR story to the world. </p>
<p>You can through tell your readers story about you towards where did you come from? What are your goals and dreams? What one thing could you do in your personal and professional life that, if you did on a regular basis, would make a tremendous positive difference in your life? And also introduce some of your family members to them. The more the readers know about you, the more they&#8217;ll connect with you and trust you.</p>
<p><strong>Imagine and Daydream, Be Serious and Take more Action </strong></p>
<p>Albert Einstein said, &#8220;Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life&#8217;s coming attractions.&#8221; </p>
<p>Remember what he said in the year ahead, take time out regularly to imagine solutions to your challenges. Daydream for a few minutes, and allow your imagination take you anywhere it wants to go. When you return to reality, use what you imagined to stimulate your creativity. And always, always write your ideas and insights in your notebook.</p>
<p><strong>Innovation is Creativity Plus Action</strong></p>
<p>You might heard so many people talking about innovation. Innovation is the process by which an idea or invention is translated into a good or service for which people will pay, or something that results from this process. It is like no matter how many creative ideas you come up with, you won&#8217;t change the world unless you take action on your ideas. </p>
<p>So each month, look into your notebook, take action on one of your ideas and turn it into a creative project or product (ebook, seminar cd bundle, or audio course etc). When the time comes to the end of the year, you will have 12 creative projects or products under your belt. Is that a great achievement? I think so. </p>
<p>At the beginning it might not that easy, but after while, the more creative projects you perform, the easier they get. </p>
<p>Finally, let&#8217;s recap the famous <strong>SMART Formula to Goal Setting</strong></p>
<p><strong>S</strong> &#8211; specific, significant, stretching, and asking the 6W: who, what, where, when, why and which.</p>
<p><strong>M</strong>  &#8211; measurable, meaningful, motivational.</p>
<p><strong>A</strong> &#8211; agreed upon, attainable, achievable, acceptable, action-oriented. Ask yourself about what attitudes, abilities, skills and financial capacity do you need to achieve your goal?</p>
<p><strong>R </strong> &#8211; realistic, relevant, reasonable, rewarding, results-oriented. A goal has to be realistic. If you set it too high, that&#8217;s mean you are going to living in the bubble.</p>
<p><strong>T </strong> &#8211; time-based, timely, tangible, track-able &#8211; Have a time limit goal is the best, not &#8216;Some day&#8217; type of goal, it is not good enough.</p>
<p>2012 has just started. Now is the time to write down your goals and map out your journey. I really believe that every obstacle you are going to face along the way is to prepare you for the next bigger greater thing. It&#8217;s there to teach you a lesson and help you grow. Once you understand the lesson, you&#8217;ll be able to move forward stronger and wiser and your next obstacle would be smaller and easier to overcome.</p>
<p>So things to remember &#8211; it&#8217;s not the final destination that is important, it&#8217;s the journey along the way. Do enjoy the raid, set up a bunch of mini goals and reward yourself along the way. See you at the top!</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you might already know there are lots of blogging platforms out there, such as WordPress, TypePad, Blogger (lacks the built-in SEO side, but offers great customization options, going right to the HTML, and there are tons of free design, theme templates you can quickly and easily install on Blogger), and Tumblr (to get the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As you might already know there are lots of blogging platforms out there, such as WordPress, TypePad, Blogger (lacks the built-in SEO side, but offers great customization options, going right to the HTML, and there are tons of free design, theme templates you can quickly and easily install on Blogger), and Tumblr (to get the best value out of this one is you need to be targeting the 20 year old audience and use the networking tools of Tumblr). But which one is the best platform to use?</p>
<p>My answer will be it depends on &#8211; what is good for one is not good for all. It really depends on individual needs, comfort level, budget, and more so, what you are looking for/looking to get out of your blog.</p>
<p>As far as personal blogging goes, or if you are doing it just for fun, having the convenience of not managing a hosting account, platform updates, theme maintenance etc, using free blogging service can be nice.</p>
<p>But if you are going to invest time and energy in a new blog, you want to own your content. And if you are looking to blog for business, as a professional, you should definitely get a self hosted WordPress blog.</p>
<p>Myself, I love using <a href="http://www.marketingbyann.com/web-hosting-email-autoresponder"><u>SelfHosted</u></a> the WP platform to manage the content for websites; here are the few main reasons:</p>
<ul>
<li>WordPress is not just for your business blog but it is for your entire business website.</li>
<li>It is very user friendly, you can do your own content updating to your blog.</li>
<li>It is just flexible, powerful and you can have full control of your blogs.</li>
<li>WordPress is free and easy to update to the latest version (1 click only).</li>
<li>There are also tens-of-thousands of free templates you could use, or buy a <a href="http://www.marketingbyann.com/wordpress-theme"><u>Professional Template</u></a>.</li>
<li>WordPress is used on more than 20 million sites across the Internet and you will never have to worry about outgrowing the platform, sure you may outgrow your server but that it an easy upgrade or fix compared to moving your blog content from some other less standard platform.</li>
<li>You can use WordPress to open an online store, set up a discussion group or forum or even a <a href="http://www.marketingbyann.com/2011/06/17/how-to-create-an-instant-niche-community-with-genesis-connect"><u>Social Site</u></a>.</li>
<li>WordPress has the best SEO. You can customize them but need to know CSS for advanced customization.</li>
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<p>Well, the downside is there is probably more of a learning curve with WordPress. It is easy once you get the hang of it. However, getting your own WP site set up, building the right theme and learning how to use the content management system really take some of your time. But it is well worth it.</p>
<p>Another thing is when you are using WordPress, you just need to be diligent about updating when new updates happen. You also need to be careful about <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/"><u>What Plugins</u></a> you use since there are many scripts crawling the web looking for old WP installations and weak plugins in which are open to hackers.</p>
<p>For using the free blogging platform, on the other hand, it means having your content hosted on another network, it is risky for your business because once they changed the rule, if your content doesn&#8217;t meet up with their standards or TOS, and they might just shut it down. I knew some SEO bloggers on Blogger.com that lost their content and comments because certain aspects of SEO no longer met with Blogger&#8217;s TOS.</p>
<p>Plus, when you hosting your site on other networks, you lose that functionality to have lead generation through a mailing list; or even simple control of changing certain design features. So it definitely not a good thing for a business!</p>
<p>So still can’t decide which platform is right for you? If it is the case, then you should look into below these few things;</p>
<ul>
<li>Is the blog that you are going to set up is for business or pleasure (personal)?</li>
<li>Is SEO a necessity or is it that you just want to share info with your family and it doesn’t matter if your content can be found on the web?</li>
<li>Are you familiar with the computer and the internet? (Many of people are older and scared to death so they go with Blogger to ease into it).</li>
<li>What is your financial budget? Blogger and WordPress.com are free. Blogger again is easier, but WordPress.com has great SEO and would be what I recommend if you intend to build a business blog.</li>
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