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"Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really..."

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:21:19 -0800

“Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.”

- Mark Twain (via inspireyourdream)

Exclusive BETA Invitation: Moneza

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 10:26:45 -0800

Exclusive BETA Invitation: Moneza:

There’s a lot of good buzz going around about Moneza right now… they are a new platform that is set to change how social networking is done. Here is a short Q & A from the company— get in pre-pre-launch!

I just wanted to send down an email and answer some common questions we have been getting. This will help YOU be able to answer them…

1. Is moneza an MLM?
NO WAY!! This is going to be a platform for you to socialize on. You can be a member of ANY company and ANY business and it will not contradict a thing…as a matter of fact it will HELP you and set you apart!

2. What is moneza?
Well, imagine if you will that there was only ONE place you had to go on the Internet to be “social”. I mean it is so overwhelming right now because everyone tells you that you need to be on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, FriendFinder, Ning and all these other social networks…and the truth is…it is overwhelming people.

Enter moneza…we are going to simplify your life by giving you a platform where you only have to go ONE place to enter any content. One place to blog, update, share, chat, email, market and search.

This is not going to be just another social network. This is not going to be just another online marketing system. This is going to be EVERYTHING you need!

3. Do you just want my money?
We do not want a DIME from you. The meCard is ALWAYS going to be free. We will never expect you to give us something for nothing, but we are going to do that for you!

You can sign up for the BETA test by clicking here.

How You Can Ask Me Anything

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:24:00 -0800

How You Can Ask Me Anything:

Society.me is a cool new website that allows you to create a virtual “society” and provides an easy system to ask questions anonymously. You can ask me anything and check back for an answer. Try it out and create a society of your own. It’s fun, free, and easy.

Bookmark http://Society.me/johnbates to become a “citizen”.

I will publish the best questions on the blog.

Pre-Launch Alert: Monetized Social Networking with SWOM

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:51:00 -0800

Pre-Launch Alert: Monetized Social Networking with SWOM:

I joined SWOM (Super Word of Mouth) a couple of days ago and have gotten a hugely positive reaction from my professional contacts about this monetized social network currently in pre-launch.

Click here to check it out, and please let me know what you think!

18,000+ Beautiful Free Icons for your Blog or Website

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:52:45 -0800

18,000+ Beautiful Free Icons for your Blog or Website :

If you’ve been looking to spruce up the icons on your blog or website without needing to spend any cash, check out this amazing site with over 18,000 icons that you can use for FREE. Thank you http://FreeIconsWeb.com

inspireyourdream: Is your dream getting the focus it...

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:31:08 -0800

inspireyourdream:

Is your dream getting the focus it deserves?

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Syndicate Your Blog, Increase Traffic, and Share in the Revenue with New Blog Showcase

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 06:45:00 -0800

Syndicate Your Blog, Increase Traffic, and Share in the Revenue with New Blog Showcase:

I found a new website that I recommend that you check out. Just submit your blog or website URL and it will instantly syndicate your blog, where it will be exposed to interested eyes and provide you with another avenue for traffic and exposure. The social networking twist makes it easy to connect with people, but best of all the site actually shares in its advertising revenue with its members, so you can plug in your google adsense or amazon affiliates code and instantly monetize your blog. If you don’t yet have a blog you can get some great ideas and make connections, so I recommend it for site owners and readers alike. Click here to get started.

Don't Make These Five Internet Marketing Newbie Mistakes

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 10:58:00 -0800

Everyone makes mistakes, and I actually look at them as blessings: they offer an opportunity to see what isn’t working in your technique and adjust accordingly. I know I made plenty of mistakes when I was starting out trying to make money on the Internet.. and so has every other successful marketer! It’s ironic that because of some little missteps, people actually make the BIGGEST mistake of all: giving up on themselves and quitting. Yes, that is the surest path to failure, and here are some others:

1) Expecting support from the “wrong people” : those negative people that don’t offer the enthusiasm about your efforts that you had thought would be automatic, most often your friends and family. You start to see who your true friends are when you start doing things differently, taking control of your own life and skirting the expectations of others that “know” you. Just forget about any accolades from your friends and relatives… they probably won’t come unless you buy them all cars. Remember, it’s not about them. Its YOUR life. Make new friends in the industry who can actually help you, collaborate and partner with you, and are in love with the field as much as you are. You will become a different person on this journey, so embrace the changes in your relationships that will inevitably come as a result.

2) Not building a list. If you are sending traffic directly to an affiliate link without capturing the lead into YOUR system, you are making a mistake. You need to capture leads and then begin to communicate with prospects on a regular basis, establishing credibility, building rapport, and offering related products and services that they are looking for. At the end of the day, you will have a LIST of prospects that can get to know and like you and will be able to generate income by sending an email.

3) Not knowing what you want or where you’re going. You need to sit down with yourself and be very specific with what you want. Don’t say “I want to have a great life” without first defining exactly WHAT a “great life” means to YOU. Once you know what you want, you will have greater clarity in finding how you can reach any goal that you set for yourself.

4) Becoming a robot. Automation is a wonderful thing, but don’t let it become all that you do. Don’t have a computer generated article feed into automatic blog posting software and think that you’re marketing effectively. Write your own original articles and blog posts, answer inquires personally and follow up with your customers offering your help and guidance should they ever require assistance in the future. Just make sure your wonderful personality shines through.. think about it, do you prefer receiving personal emails or nameless spam advertising? You actually need to sell yourself as well as your product or opportunity, so you must learn how to put yourself out there and interact with your colleagues and customers in a confident, open, and HUMAN way.

5) Being greedy. Here is the difference between a greedy marketer and a giving one.

A greedy marketer wants to take as much from their customer as possible while giving as little value as possible in return. Even if they make initial sales, they will not create the necessary relationships nor inspire trust with their desperate behavior.

A giving marketer may want to make money just as much, but knows that in order for them to get what they want, they need to first give value to others and help them get what they want… in doing so, they “just know” that they will receive returns multiplied exponentially to the amount of value they gave. It’s the Law of Attraction at work, and trust me when I say: it always works.

Be self-motivated and confident, create authentic relationships, create quality products and resources, help others without expectation, and give of yourself, and you will shortly find yourself on the right path to making your dreams of success a reality.

"What you want to do, and what you can do, is limited only by what you can dream."

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:47:18 -0800

“What you want to do, and what you can do, is limited only by what you can dream.”

- Mike Mellville

Free Prospecting System Advertises YOUR Primary Biz

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:50:00 -0800

Free Prospecting System Advertises YOUR Primary Biz:

This just launched and free-to-use prospecting system will help you attract leads to your primary business as well as grow your downlines and multiply your promotional efforts while building your personal contact list. Fully customizable and effective advertising via this viral downline building prospecting system. Click here to check it out!

"Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world..."

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:38:55 -0800

““Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.””

- Howard Thurman

More Free Software That Every Internet Marketer Should Have

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 11:57:00 -0800

Following up on the popularity of my previous article, “Essential Free Internet Marketing Tools”, I bring you a selection of 3 more software applications that help me immeasurably in my Internet Marketing career. I hope that you find them useful!

Evernote

Free resource Evernote finally makes it easy to jot down ideas, collect categorize, organize important information, and serve as a database that you will be able to easily access and store all of the information that you compile. Seamlessly integrates with your browser for easy access.

Using virtual “scissors” you can cut and save portions of webpages that you would like to add to your database to refer back to. That makes it great for saving passwords without the need to print out pages or endlessly search your email archives. Evernote helps you easily organize information, and best of all it’s free to download and use.

WEBCEO

If you have your own websites and you haven’t heard of WEBCEO, go and download it NOW. There is a robust free version, and with the software you can easily research keywords, search engine optimize your websites, analyze your rank, check link popularity, website monitoring, and much more! They even offer a free class in SEO.

CCleaner (Crap Cleaner)

CCleaner is a program that will delete most of your junk files, clean your registry, allow you to do complete uninstalls, and it totally free software. Run this before calling the geek squad to your house! It is also great at deleting most of the “crap” that your computer picks up when you surf the web.

"When work, commitment, and pleasure all become one and you reach that deep well where passion lives,..."

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 12:35:07 -0800

““When work, commitment, and pleasure all become one and you reach that deep well where passion lives, nothing is impossible.””

- Anonymous

Three Free Ways to Drive Quality Traffic to Your Blog

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:20:00 -0800

There are few tools at an Internet Marketers disposal that are more effective and useful than the blog. They are loved by search engines, can be completely customized, and are perfect platforms for branding yourself in your niche, giving you the opportunity to demonstrate authority and gain credibility within it. You can then attract a targeted group of readers and potential customers with whom you can nurture a relationship that could last long into the future…. that is, if you can generate the traffic. Here are three free methods that I employ and find most effective.

1) Write your own quality content. Search engines “love” blogs because of original content that they often contain. Search engines are NOT “excited” by blogs that are put up with AdSense revenue as the main motivator. These types of blogs are given black marks and often find their “quality score” (Google’s page rank indicator) fall to ZERO, and find one of the best sources of targeted traffic unavailable to them.

2) Promote via Email Marketing. Whether you have your own list or not, you can still employ email marketing to effectively advertise your site. Promote your site in your signature, or even better, write to your mailing list (or a Safelist) when you’ve written an entry with opening “teaser” copy and direct them to your blog to read the material in its entirety. This method can similarly be employed using article marketing: Rework blog postings into articles, submit them to article directories (EzineArticles is largest and most well known) and include a link to your blog in your resource box, directing the article traffic to click through to your blog for more information about the article subject matter.

4) Join Blog Networks. Getting connected with the top blog networks is a great way to bring quality traffic to your site. They allow you to list your blog on their site, usually in exchange for installing one of their widgets on yours. The good news is that most of the widgets are actually quite useful, and perform functions like click tracking, rankings, tracking where traffic to your site is coming from, and even who is visiting your blog, picture and all! They are also a great way for you to get involved in the blogging community, and you will find that if you engage and visit the sites of others, you will find that often, they will return the favor. I recommend the following networks that I utilize with success.

1) EntreCard: This blog network allows you to earn credits to promote a thumbnail sized graphic advertising your blog by “dropping” in on other blogs in the network. 200 credits for signing up to this free program.

2) Networked Blogs: This network, based in Facebook, allows you to create a following for your blog on the giant social networking website, and create a widget displaying all of your readers, promoting yourself and your audience at the same time. It also reblogs your entries on Facebook.

3) BlogCatalog: Get a quality score as well as useful statistical tracking of your traffic data via this popular blog directory.

4) Link Referral: Very effective and free directory website will drive quality traffic to your blog via four channels: forum traffic, search engine traffic, directory traffic, and referral based.

Promote your blog consistently with the above methods and provide quality content about your niche to your target audience and you will see great results, directly proportionate with your efforts.

Five Essential Keys to Finding Success in Internet Marketing

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:54:45 -0800

To start off things on a strong note this year, I wanted to share five of my top tips that I hope will assist you in your journey toward success. These are 5 things that I wish I had understood when I first started out in the Internet Marketing world. Some of these might not make sense to you right away—some things you just have to learn from experience… but I do hope to shorten the learning curve for you can start doing what you want to do as soon as possible!

1) Be able to answer the question “What do I want?”. Be specific! How exactly do you want to spend the limited time in your life, what do you want to accomplish, how do you want to feel, and what things and feelings do you desire? If you don’t know what you want, then what are you working toward, and where are you going?

If you don’t have a destination, you will simply be tossed around this industry, unable to focus or allocate your precious energy into furthering your career. When you know what it is you want, you will be able to attract it into your life.

2) Find your passion. The basic test for passion is to find something that you would want to devote most of your time to, even if there was no money involved. Some people that aspire to be Internet Marketers don’t like advertising, marketing, the internet, or networking, yet they want to do it because they think they can make some fast easy money.

Well, I’m sorry, but if you don’t love and believe in what you are doing, it will be obvious to everyone and people will run from you. What I’m saying is that you can do whatever you want, and get paid WAY more for it then a job you hate. It’s your life to design— don’t let other people tell you what you can or can’t do.

3) Take Action. Thats the simple thing that is oftentimes the difference between success and failure. Learning is wonderful and necessary, but you need to be spending focused energy towards the tasks that will actually make you money. Don’t get stuck and try to learn everything yourself— work at what you’re good at and outsource the rest. Be a CEO in your life and hire others to handle the minutia.

4) Connect with others in the industry! I know that it can be frightening at first for some shy people to reach out to others in the industry and collaborate, share, and help with, but trust me when I say that its nearly impossible to make it in this industry on your own. You will need help from others, be they joint venture partners, affiliates, team leaders, etc.

You may find it daunting, but once you start making those connections, your business will start to gain momentum, and you will project credibility and radiate success. Find those real relationships, and treasure them for they truly are more valuable than gold.

5) Don’t be selfish. While I understand that people believe that they’re acting in their own self interest by hiding their secrets or wealth, you might not be doing yourself the favor that you think. For example, if you don’t teach your affiliates or downline how to sell, then you will actually suffer in the long run by repelling people that could be generating passive income.

Trust me: when less than 5% of people that sign up for marketing programs ever even promote them, you don’t have to worry about people “stealing your secrets’. Encourage others to emulate what you do that makes you successful, open your heart, and remember that it is far more rewarding, both in the physical and mental sense, to give then to receive.

Give of yourself without expectation, and you are literally opening yourself up to the universe and will be rewarded beyond your wildest dreams.

"I certainly don’t regret my experiences because without them, I couldn’t imagine who or..."

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:56:53 -0800

“I certainly don’t regret my experiences because without them, I couldn’t imagine who or where I would be today. Life is an amazing gift to those who have overcome great obstacles, and attitude is everything!”

- Sasha Azevedo quotes

Free Inspirational and Motivational Book, "What Matters Now"

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:46:00 -0800

Free Inspirational and Motivational Book, "What Matters Now":

A huge part of success is mindset, and to help in shaping yours I’d like to offer this free book edited by Marketing Expert Seth Godin which offers short and sweet musings from about 50 recognized leaders, including:

What Matters Now

I hope that reading it assists you in inspiring greatness in yourself and others in 2010 and beyond. Enjoy and share this fabulous compilation. Click here for instant download.

"It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more on a man than..."

Sat, 26 Dec 2009 15:41:16 -0800

“It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more on a man than he can bear. But worry is rust upon the blade. It is not movement that destroys the machinery, but friction.”

- Henry Ward Beecher

Featured Internet Marketing Resource: Unbiased Reviews at IM Report Card

Sat, 26 Dec 2009 15:35:23 -0800

Featured Internet Marketing Resource: Unbiased Reviews at IM Report Card:

Finding unbiased reviews of the latest internet marketing products and opportunities is not always easy— so many of the reviews out there are cooked up affiliate pages with a high page ranking, oftentimes are created by the company that is selling them… and about as far from an honest review that you can get.

So where can you find unbiased reviews? The best site that I’ve found is the IM Report Card. It’s a community ratings site that features almost 3,000 unique reviews covering the Internet Marketing product niche, and the most unbiased summaries that I have come across.

While occasionally unscientific and speculative (in one review the owners remark that a guru must be successful because he lives in Beverly Hills), there is an innocence and honesty to the reviews that demonstrate reliability and no agenda.

Register there and your reviews are worth points that can be converted into cash, so if you’ve got good insight into many programs you can cash in on an income stream simply by giving your honest evaluation.

Essential Free Internet Marketing Tools: The Best No-Cost Alternatives to Dreamweaver, Photoshop, and Camtasia

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:02:00 -0800

Can you create your own landing pages and upload them to your server? Do you know enough html to install widgets on your blog? How about creating your own graphic headers, or isolating foreground images and superimposing them onto a custom background? Can you create screen capture videos?

I didn’t know how to do any of these things when I started promoting on the internet, but I quickly realized that these were essential internet marketing skills that I needed to master if I wanted to succeed on-line. My problem was that the professional tools that I would need to learn to master these and other important technical skills cost hundreds of dollars and were unthinkable expenses at the time. Luckily, I was able to find 100% free alternatives to many of tools found in professional webmasters toolkits. Following is a list of the top alternative options that I regularly use:

Instead of the top web design software, DreamWeaver, Check out NVU. You can create pages using a WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) editor, and then instantly transform it into ready to paste html code. It’s how I learned to create my own splash and landing pages, and it’s easier to learn than you may think. The best part is that you will quickly improve and start to get ideas for all kinds of website design/monetized implementation ideas that you can try.

NVU Free Professional Web Editing Software

If you’re ready to delve into professional graphic art but find the hundreds of dollars that Adobe Photoshop costs as a stumbling block, then try GIMP. It does nearly all of the same things, but is 100% free to use. If you can master graphic design as an Internet Marketer, you will have a big leg up on the competition.

GIMP: Professional Digital Photo Editor

Finally, if video screen capture software Camtasia is out of your price range, try free alternative Camstudio.

CamStudio - Free Streaming Video Desktop Recording Software

If the technical language scares you, don’t let it: once you learn by practicing and trial and error, you will find that it’s a language that you will be able to have a working understanding of! There are lots of free tutorials out there that will teach you these Internet Business skills, but I recommend these free Internet Business Video Tutorials. For the sake of the success of your business, make it a priority to learn these essential skills now!