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Shockingly Dynamite Business Growth Tactics To Rock
Northern Ireland’s Economy

‘Business Strategy Belfast is this year’s number one
explosive event for business growth in 2010.’

That’s according to Ireland’s Leading Professional Online
Marketer, Sotiris Bassakaropoulos, from Bangor,

Co. Down, one of the top minds behind the extraordinary
event on Botanic Avenue, Belfast on Saturday January
30th from 9am to 6pm.

Mr. Bassakaropoulos has revealed he saw a massive gap
in the market to bring a World Class Communications
Expert to Belfast to shake up established and outdated
business methods and give Entrepreneurs a jolt with
techniques and strategies to enhance their levels of
business.

His trump card comes in the form of Worldwide
Communications Excellence Specialist, Marie O’Riordan,
who will raise the roof with her unique style of transferring
golden nuggets of knowledge to business people,
entrepreneurs and individuals for long term growth.

‘This event is your Insurance Policy Against Failure.
The Business World Is Well Overdue A Reform,’ according
to Marie O’Riordan. Her wealth of experience with
International icons like Mother Teresa and Hollywood’s
Academy Award winning elite began when she first started
Broadcasting at the tender age of just 13, became an
Award Winning Filmmaker at 15 and reported for C.N.N.
aged 20.

Business Strategy Belfast calls on Northern Ireland to
plug into the communications attention it deserves at
this crucial event in the 2010 calendar to boost business.

Marie O’Riordan, an accomplished media interviewee, is
available for interview on +353 86 8119066.

Ends.

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“Major Northern Ireland Anti-Recession Event”

For Immediate Release:

Shockingly Dynamite Business Growth Tactics To Rock
Northern Ireland’s Economy

‘Business Strategy Belfast is this year’s number one
explosive event for business growth in 2010.’

That’s according to Ireland’s Leading Professional Online
Marketer, Sotiris Bassakaropoulos, from Bangor,

Co. Down, one of the top minds behind the extraordinary
event on Botanic Avenue, Belfast on Saturday January
30th from 9am to 6pm.

Mr. Bassakaropoulos has revealed he saw a massive gap
in the market to bring a World Class Communications
Expert to Belfast to shake up established and outdated
business methods and give Entrepreneurs a jolt with
techniques and strategies to enhance their levels of
business.

His trump card comes in the form of Worldwide
Communications Excellence Specialist, Marie O’Riordan,
who will raise the roof with her unique style of transferring
golden nuggets of knowledge to business people,
entrepreneurs and individuals for long term growth.

‘This event is your Insurance Policy Against Failure.
The Business World Is Well Overdue A Reform,’ according
to Marie O’Riordan. Her wealth of experience with
International icons like Mother Teresa and Hollywood’s
Academy Award winning elite began when she first started
Broadcasting at the tender age of just 13, became an
Award Winning Filmmaker at 15 and reported for C.N.N.
aged 20.

Business Strategy Belfast calls on Northern Ireland to
plug into the communications attention it deserves at
this crucial event in the 2010 calendar to boost business.

Marie O’Riordan, an accomplished media interviewee, is
available for interview on +353 86 8119066.

Ends.

“Major Northern Ireland Anti-Recession Event”
By sotiris1 On January 22, 2010 Comments Off

“Major Northern Ireland Anti-Recession Event”

For Immediate Release:

Shockingly Dynamite Business Growth Tactics To Rock
Northern Ireland’s Economy

‘Business Strategy Belfast is this year’s number one
explosive event for business growth in 2010.’

That’s according to Ireland’s Leading Professional Online
Marketer, Sotiris Bassakaropoulos, from Bangor,

Co. Down, one of the top minds behind the extraordinary
event on Botanic Avenue, Belfast on Saturday January
30th from 9am to 6pm.

Mr. Bassakaropoulos has revealed he saw a massive gap
in the market to bring a World Class Communications
Expert to Belfast to shake up established and outdated
business methods and give Entrepreneurs a jolt with
techniques and strategies to enhance their levels of
business.

His trump card comes in the form of Worldwide
Communications Excellence Specialist, Marie O’Riordan,
who will raise the roof with her unique style of transferring
golden nuggets of knowledge to business people,
entrepreneurs and individuals for long term growth.

‘This event is your Insurance Policy Against Failure.
The Business World Is Well Overdue A Reform,’ according
to Marie O’Riordan. Her wealth of experience with
International icons like Mother Teresa and Hollywood’s
Academy Award winning elite began when she first started
Broadcasting at the tender age of just 13, became an
Award Winning Filmmaker at 15 and reported for C.N.N.
aged 20.

Business Strategy Belfast calls on Northern Ireland to
plug into the communications attention it deserves at
this crucial event in the 2010 calendar to boost business.

Marie O’Riordan, an accomplished media interviewee, is
available for interview on +353 86 8119066.

Ends.

“Major Northern Ireland Anti-Recession Event”
By sotiris On January 22, 2010 Comments Off

“Major Northern Ireland Anti-Recession Event”

For Immediate Release:

Shockingly Dynamite Business Growth Tactics To Rock
Northern Ireland’s Economy

‘Business Strategy Belfast is this year’s number one
explosive event for business growth in 2010.’

That’s according to Ireland’s Leading Professional Online
Marketer, Sotiris Bassakaropoulos, from Bangor,

Co. Down, one of the top minds behind the extraordinary
event on Botanic Avenue, Belfast on Saturday January
30th from 9am to 6pm.

Mr. Bassakaropoulos has revealed he saw a massive gap
in the market to bring a World Class Communications
Expert to Belfast to shake up established and outdated
business methods and give Entrepreneurs a jolt with
techniques and strategies to enhance their levels of
business.

His trump card comes in the form of Worldwide
Communications Excellence Specialist, Marie O’Riordan,
who will raise the roof with her unique style of transferring
golden nuggets of knowledge to business people,
entrepreneurs and individuals for long term growth.

‘This event is your Insurance Policy Against Failure.
The Business World Is Well Overdue A Reform,’ according
to Marie O’Riordan. Her wealth of experience with
International icons like Mother Teresa and Hollywood’s
Academy Award winning elite began when she first started
Broadcasting at the tender age of just 13, became an
Award Winning Filmmaker at 15 and reported for C.N.N.
aged 20.

Business Strategy Belfast calls on Northern Ireland to
plug into the communications attention it deserves at
this crucial event in the 2010 calendar to boost business.

Marie O’Riordan, an accomplished media interviewee, is
available for interview on +353 86 8119066.

Ends.

Twitter, undoubtedly (real word-I checked), has become the most talked about social network on the planet.

Twitter’s growing by the second and nearly doubles in size every week …but does it have the guts to beat email?

Email has been the most popular way of syndicating content for the past 15 years…

Many have tried to conquer it, but even RSS feeds didn’t make it obsolete-Email has proved to be the best way of electronic communication and plans on sticking to that title for many years to come…

But ever since Twitter has stepped onto the scene, many internet marketers have realized how powerful it really is and started using it with, and sometimes instead, email.

IM community got hooked on Social Media and many experts now claim that Email marketing is dead…
…but is it?

I’ve done some research to compare Twitter vs Email to find out which one to use more of, which one is the most effective and maybe even how you can combine both to bring your online business to the next level.
Twitter VS Email

So, how do we go about comparing Twitter vs Email?

I came up with several criteria, which I believe to be the most relevant to internet marketing and stacked them up against each other:

skepticism… Let’s keep this in context…

A skepticism that keeps you hunting for the “messiah” marketing mentor or guru to help you but then FREEZES YOU INTO INACTION is NOT worth a hill of beans in the marketing world.

Direct Response Marketing offers NO GUARANTEES. NONE.

I have a buddy of mine that is a self proclaimed skeptic and has not yet decided which $40 ad to run!!!

A $40-$60 dollar ad spend man!!!! Cmon already… THAT level of skepticism will KILL YOUR BUSINESS and you’re NOT truly “marketing” if THAT is an issue… you’re trying to slam the home run out of sheer desperation and that is GAMBLING, not Direct Response Marketing…

I hope my reply to my buddy will help you and others understand the “feel” for this arena a bit better…

To be blunt buddie…

too much skepticism KILLS your business.

We’re talking about less than $100 ads here bro…

It’s not madison avenue and NUMBERS reign supreme.

NOTHING in marketing is THAT scientific that
they come with guarantees of response etc…

Test, test, test…

Even the pros are in the hall of fame with a 1% response…

which means that 99% are losers in the advertising game.

But you have to start with SOMETHING

You can NOT sit and be skeptical and do nothing because
you feel you “may” lose… get this straight right now…

WE ALL LOSE

more times than we win

Those that win long term know this
and are ok with it because when you win
you tend to learn things that help you win again

You optimize your approach, your subject lines, your ads…

You get better…

You learn your target market’s mind a bit more and work
on your copy more and you optimize…

NO MENTOR can teach you that part… the part that
stops the disease of skepticism… that’s your call buddy

But my ads are EVERYWHERE.

That’s all I can tell you

And I don’t expect NOT ONE to pull better than a measly
1-3% response and I’m happy with it… been running with those
numbers for YEARS…

It’s marketing bud… welcome to the party.

Sandi

I get this question a lot. People with low budgets ask me whether I think they should start their own home business even though they have very limited funds to market with… I can’t and won’t tell you what you should do with your money. That’s only YOUR responsibility, but I CAN tell you what I did… and it worked for me. YES! Get into your own home based business! SO WHAT…if you don’t have money to market after you join. Most successful entrepreneurs started with a SHOE STRING BUDGET! I was 21 years old and getting paid almost nothing in the military… But I was taught to join a direct sales business where there was no “autoship” or monthly product purchase requirement and this is why it worked for me:

You buy it once.

And you’re done.

No monthly autoships or anything else to buy.
It’s a one time shot and you own it for life…

That means you can do what I did…

Back when I started my mentor also
taught me to start with direct sales
programs where you only buy ONCE.

Then I ran out of funds to really market
in month one… so I waited… collected a couple
paychecks (I was in the military at the time) and
I’d market later…

Then if I ran out again for my monthly marketing
budget… I’d just hold off or focus on free stuff
and then collect a bit of marketing money and
promote later…

There is no risk since there is nothing to buy.
You can take time off to LEARN marketing and
save up some marketing money and market then.

No rush. It’s long term.

So… sure I’d get into my own business… and build
it at my own pace. The problem is that people
are always buying different programs every
couple months instead of just buying ONE
and then focusing on buying MARKETING…

Marketing is what pays you.

First couple sales… you can reinvest into
more marketing and start scaling up… it’s what
was I taught to do…

Should work for anyone that sticks to it that way.

Hope this helps!

Sandi

Best Affiliate Programs. What Are The Best Affiliate Programs To Promote

Everyone Wants More Cash

One of my favorite things about internet marketing is that no matter who you are and what you’re selling, you can always promote other people’s products as an affiliate.

There are many Internet Marketing gurus who are running multi-million dollar businesses and yet they never miss a chance to promote other people’s products to their lists.

Few month back I have purchased the LaunchTree course and two weeks later signed up as an affiliate. Here’s just a couple of names I saw on the affiliate contest scoreboard the second I logged in: Eben Pegan, Frank Kern, and Russell Brunson.

affiliate marketing

Those guys are already running multi-million dollar businesses and still they didn’t miss an opportunity to promote a $77 product.
What Makes Best Affiliate Programs?

Most affiliate marketers when in need of a new affiliate program to promote – turn to Clickbank for help. Personally though, I don’t like Clickbank very much. I can’t explain why – I have my own reasons. But nevertheless, I try to avoid doing business with them unless necessary.

Most affiliate marketers make the mistake of promoting ebooks. The mistake here is not the product, but the payment plan. Ebooks are rarely sold with a continuity program attached to them which means that the affiliate is only going to be paid once.

Best affiliate programs are the once that pay on monthly basis, the ones that you do not have to sell over and over again. Residual affiliate programs – those are the best ones in my book.
Additional Guidelines

Here’s a list of specific guidelines to follow when choosing an affiliate program:

1. Residual Income or Continuity. Best affiliate programs are the ones that pay on monthly basis.
2. Reliability  In order for the promotion to be as genuine and as effective as possible it is best to promote only the products you have personally tested used. I try to avoid promoting products that can hurt my subscribers in one way or another.
3. Need, Want or Desire. Make sure that the product you are promoting fills a significant need, want or desire that your subscribers have. For example if you have weight loss targeted list than promoting car insurance to that list is a stupid thing to do, don’t you agree?

Free Affiliate Promotions

Here’s a tricky one: should you promote an affiliate program that doesn’t pay? Yeah, You should. But only if  it pays later or pays in a different kind of currency – value.

Sometimes, it is appropriate to promote affiliate programs that don’t pay right away. There are plenty of  free programs with an option for an upgrade and various subscription levels.

Often, those are very profitable to promote for several reasons:

1. You acquire a higher expert status by recommending a  free product.
2. When they upgrade – you get paid, and most of the time – it’s  residual.
3. It’s one of the greatest ways to build a rock solid business relationship. Giving without asking anything back will result in receiving more than you ever wished for.

My Favorite Affiliate Programs

Here’s a short list of my all time favorite affiliate programs:

1. Aweber. Great autoresponder with a great residual affiliate program
2. Mastermind Marketing System. Lead generation tool as well as top notch residual affiliate program. Pays $17 first tier and $3 second tier sales.
3. Article Submit Auto. Ezine article submission tool. Residual payout of $18 per sale.
4. Tweetlater. One of my favorite FREE Twitter tools as well as $12 residual commission per upgrade.
5. Conquer Your Niche. Internet Marketing forum where posting pays.

If you have other cool affiliate programs you can recommend, don’t hesitate to leave a comment.

Good question.  There are many ways to make money online, and there should be enough to go around for everyone.  Why, then are only some affiliates succeeding while others are failing?

Because the ones who succeed are remaining focused.  As affiliate marketers who are trying to make money online, you need to remember at all times what you’re trying to accomplish.  Those who are struggling to make money have lost their focus, and have become distracted from the core of their online business plan.

There are many ways to make money online; try them all at once and you’re guaranteed to fail.

In short, you can lose sight of your goals.  If you’ve decided that the best way to sell your products and earn you money is through PPC advertising, then what are you doing buying software to help you with list building?  You’re splitting your focus, and your business is hurting as a result.

If you’ve decided that PPC advertising is the way to go for your online business, then concentrate on that.  Learn as much as you can about PPC advertising, buy products to maximize your PPC campaign.  Don’t get distracted by all the other forms of advertising out there until you’ve given your PPC advertising campaign the attention it deserves.

The problem that most affiliate marketers encounter when they’re starting out get distracted by the sheer amount of advertising vehicles available to them.  List building one day, SEO the next, on to PPC and so forth.  They start out trying to understand their niche, get distracted by membership sites, and then that gets put on the back burner when they get this great email about how you can make a mint on Ebay.

All of this discussion begs the question:  what is your plan to make money online?   Out of all the different methods available, what do you think will work best for you?

If you do decide that PPC advertising is the way to go, then make a commitment to do it was thoroughly as possible.  Then, when the next interesting news about a great new product comes your way, you need to stop, and evaluate whether or not it will help you meet the goals that you’ve set for yourself.  If it doesn’t, then no matter how interesting it is, walk away, because it will just distract you from your goals.

So How Does PPC Kahuna Come Into All of This?

Once you’ve decided what your goals are, and if you’ve decided that PPC advertising is the way to go, then you need to find tools to help accomplish that goal.  And PPC Kahuna has a whole offering of tools to make your PPC advertising turn clicks in to money for you.

PPC Kahuna has all of the resources to take you through the ins and outs of PPC advertising.  It helps you get started by finding your niche, picking your products, and setting up your sites.  Then you’ll also have access to the resources you need to market to your niche, develop your PPC campaign, and how to manage that campaign once it starts.

And once you’re established online and making money, PPC Kahuna can show you how to maximize your campaigns to increase your profit even more.

PPC Kahuna is unlike anything else available. It is an easy and comprehensive system that anyone can use.  It is about making real money online.

PPC Kahuna provides you with the tools and resourced you need to make money online.  All you need to do is stay focused, and only spend time on things that will help you accomplish your goals.

I strongly urge you to check out <a href=”http://www.ppckahuna.com/invite/rickyandsandi/” target=”_blank”>PPC Kahuna</a> for yourself at

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Happy Friday Day! Here are TWO Attraction Marketing Gifts To Brighten Up Your Day! For my Baby Boomer Buddies, Do You Guys Remember Those “Yesterdays”? Beautiful Music, Beautiful Man, Beautiful Talent, Beautiful Memories… Here’s your second gift for today… Click Here For Your Special  Marketing Gift! Enjoy. Sandi SHARE THIS…

Special Attraction Marketing Gift

Happy Labor Day! Here are TWO Attraction Marketing Gifts To Brighten Up Your Day!

For my Baby Boomer Buddies, Do You Guys Remember Those “Yesterdays”?

Beautiful Music, Beautiful Man, Beautiful Talent, Beautiful Memories

Here is your second gift for today…

Click Here For Your Special  Marketing Gift!

Enjoy.

Ricky & Sandi

After couple of month of trial and error,
I am proud to present you with THE LIST:

Anthony Robbins Blog

Anthony Robbins is one of the world’s most famous coaches. For over 20 years Tony has been successfully conditioning his clients for success in every aspect of their lives. He coached people like Andre Agassi, Fortune 500 executives, New York Kings, NHL teams and hundreds of others famous personas.

Blogussion. Blogging Discussion, Tips and Tricks

Blog about blogging that provides outstanding tips for excelling your blog in a variety of topics. Whether or not you are someone who earns an income from blogging, or someone who wishes they were – Blogussion will teach you how to create a blog that truly stands out from the crowd.

Brian Tracy Blog

Brian Tracy is an old school personal development author, speaker, coach, mentor and publisher. He is most famous for being one of the first people to publish his work as audio books. Brian blogs about how to improve yourself, your life, your business and your relationships.

Copyblogger. Copywriting Tips For Online Marketing Success

Now that blogging has become the smartest strategy for growing an authoritative web site, it’s your copywriting and content marketing skills that will set you apart and help you succeed. Copyblogger is all about helping you: get traffic, gain subscribers, attract links and sell something!

DailyBlogTips

The title speaks for itself. Daily Blog Tips for Bloggers

Entrepreneur’s Journey

Yaro Starak’s blog for internet marketers. Each post is filled with massive value and valuable insights. Highly Recommended.

Freelance Folder

Blog for freelancers. You know, people you find hanging around at guru.com and elance.com. Great tips and advice on how to run a freelancing career and deal with annoying clients.

Mashable. The Social Media Guide

HUGE social media news portal. If you want to be up to date with what’s happening online, I highly recommend subscribing to Mashable.

Matt Cutts. Google, Gadgets, SEO

Matt Cutts is the head of Google’s web spam team. I find his blog useful because often times Matt shares interesting Google and SEO insights that even Master Degree SEO experts have no clue about.

Men With Pens

#2 position for the Top Ten Blogs for Writers. Besides Copyblogger, Best copywriting blog on the web.

Problogger Blog Tips

If you’re serious about blogging, this blog’s for you. Valuable tips, strategies and advice on how to be a Professional Blogger by Darren Rowse.

Steve Pavlina

One of the most successful personal development blogs on the web. Steve Pavlina, once a-19 year old criminal, now a publisher of dozens of books and audio programs, blogs on the topic of personal development, spirituality and success.

Zen Habits

Blog about simplicity and productivity. Great self-help resource.

Each and every one of the blogs on this list has helped me in one way or another at some point of my internet marketing career and or personal life. Hope they will do the same for you. Enjoy!

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Most readers tend to be skeptical, even suspicious of information when its provided by a corporation. However, we welcome and seek out advice from qualified persons who have our best interests at heart.

We typically seek out and also welcome advice from someone who has solved a problem that we’re struggling with. When writing copy we need to put on a friendly or highly qualified face on our copy. Avoid the non human robotic drill.

Speak to your audience. Talk to your reader as though they were right in front of you. Instead of talking about how “we” do something or how things happen to us, talk to the reader about his/her life … his/her future … and most importantly, his/her feelings.

Use the word “YOU” as often as you can without overdoing it. Your prospect doesn’t really care about you, your business, your product or anything else you have to offer. Your prospect is interested in the prospect!

Another way of speaking to your audience is to talk about the reader. Yes, its true that x thousand Children every year are lured into private chat rooms where they are eventually lured away from home by predators. By saying it this way, you are making it real…and you are not talking about him or her, but x thousand other children.

Find ways to personalize statistics: “As a man over age 40, your chances are one in x of having a heart attack this year.” Yikes! Now, you’ve got my attention!

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