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		<title>I’m sick and tired! (please don’t ignore)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 01:26:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I've got a little bit of a rant today...

I don't do this often. 

But...

I think it's high-time that we had a wake-up call
in this industry. 


You see - this business has been good to me. 

I eat, sleep, and breathe this stuff. 

It's like the best video game on earth :)


But there are some others out there who want to 
ruin it for the rest of us. 

Instead of providing massive value, they're shelling
out crap and putting a pretty bow on it. 

Not cool. 


There are other marketers who pretend to "care" about
their customers - but don't seem to be able to answer
any emails. 

Also not cool. 


There are others who are trying to build "relationships" 
with other marketers but at the end of the day - all 
they really want is for them to promote their product. 

Definitely not cool. 


A relationship online is just like a relationship offline. 

It's a LOT more than just contacting someone when you
want them to promote for you.

Think about the people in your life who ONLY call when 
they 'need' something. You probably avoid even answering
the phone if you have caller id :)

Building a relationship means YOU put in the effort first.  

It means asking about their family. It means caring your 
face off. It means asking the OTHER person what YOU can 
do for them FIRST!! 

Lots of people think you need 100's of JV partners...

But the truth is you only need a handful of 'strategic' 
partners. People like you who are committed to providing
massive value to their customers and subscribers. 

Things start to snowball from there.
 

If you look at any of the most successful businesses
online – you’ll find that almost ALL of them have
formed strategic alliances with other marketers.

No one gets to the top by themselves. You simply cannot
build your business to its greatest potential without
also building relationships with other like-minded entrepreneurs.

Give unconditionally - and it will come back 100x. 

And if it doesn't - don't worry about it.

Being a good person ALWAYS wins out. 


Sure... sometimes it's hard. 

Sometimes it includes many late nights and coffee refills ;)

But it's worth it!

Business is a creative outlet. 

A chance to serve at a higher level. 

And at the end of the day, building a business 
is one of the greatest journeys you'll ever take. 

So keep it REAL!

And do it right. 

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve got a little bit of a rant today&#8230;</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t do this often. </p>
<p>But&#8230;</p>
<p>I think it&#8217;s high-time that we had a wake-up call<br />
in this industry. </p>
<p>You see &#8211; this business has been good to me. </p>
<p>I eat, sleep, and breathe this stuff. </p>
<p>It&#8217;s like the best video game on earth :)</p>
<p>But there are some others out there who want to<br />
ruin it for the rest of us. </p>
<p>Instead of providing massive value, they&#8217;re shelling<br />
out crap and putting a pretty bow on it. </p>
<p>Not cool. </p>
<p>There are other marketers who pretend to &#8220;care&#8221; about<br />
their customers &#8211; but don&#8217;t seem to be able to answer<br />
any emails. </p>
<p>Also not cool. </p>
<p>There are others who are trying to build &#8220;relationships&#8221;<br />
with other marketers but at the end of the day &#8211; all<br />
they really want is for them to promote their product. </p>
<p>Definitely not cool. </p>
<p>A relationship online is just like a relationship offline. </p>
<p>It&#8217;s a LOT more than just contacting someone when you<br />
want them to promote for you.</p>
<p>Think about the people in your life who ONLY call when<br />
they &#8216;need&#8217; something. You probably avoid even answering<br />
the phone if you have caller id :)</p>
<p>Building a relationship means YOU put in the effort first.  </p>
<p>It means asking about their family. It means caring your<br />
face off. It means asking the OTHER person what YOU can<br />
do for them FIRST!! </p>
<p>Lots of people think you need 100&#8242;s of JV partners&#8230;</p>
<p>But the truth is you only need a handful of &#8216;strategic&#8217;<br />
partners. People like you who are committed to providing<br />
massive value to their customers and subscribers. </p>
<p>Things start to snowball from there.</p>
<p>If you look at any of the most successful businesses<br />
online – you’ll find that almost ALL of them have<br />
formed strategic alliances with other marketers.</p>
<p>No one gets to the top by themselves. You simply cannot<br />
build your business to its greatest potential without<br />
also building relationships with other like-minded entrepreneurs.</p>
<p>Give unconditionally &#8211; and it will come back 100x. </p>
<p>And if it doesn&#8217;t &#8211; don&#8217;t worry about it.</p>
<p>Being a good person ALWAYS wins out. </p>
<p>Sure&#8230; sometimes it&#8217;s hard. </p>
<p>Sometimes it includes many late nights and coffee refills ;)</p>
<p>But it&#8217;s worth it!</p>
<p>Business is a creative outlet. </p>
<p>A chance to serve at a higher level. </p>
<p>And at the end of the day, building a business<br />
is one of the greatest journeys you&#8217;ll ever take. </p>
<p>So keep it REAL!</p>
<p>And do it right. </p>
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		<title>My Best Traffic Strategy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:52:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My #1 traffic strategy revealed! Enjoy :) And be sure to leave your &#8216;friendly, coffee-addicted marketing addict&#8217; a comment below.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My #1 traffic strategy revealed!</p>
<p>Enjoy :)</p>
<p>And be sure to leave your &#8216;friendly, coffee-addicted marketing addict&#8217;<br />
a comment below. </p>
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		<title>SEO Is Stoopid! (Unless…)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 17:05:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Traffic]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[95% of people treat Google like the traffic fairy. 

In fact, most people chase after Google like 
they're 17 and never had a girlfriend. 


I'm not one of those people. 

Cause let's face it, Google is just a big tease!

Your rankings can drop like a hot cake any time
those sneaky Google engineers decide to turn the 
dials a bit...


* The Florida Update (2003)
* The Brandy Update (2004)
* The Big Daddy Update (2005)
* Google Panda (2011)


Google has been teasing us for quite a while ;)


And those good 'ol 'gooroos' are all too happy
to try and sell you some magic elixr (3-step 
push button formula doohicky) that will supposedly 
get you on the front page of Google. 

And sure a lot of their tricks have worked 
in the past... (for a VERY brief period of time)

But...

That's NOT the way to build a REAL business online. 


So I want to share with you my "Google-Proof" SEO Formula 
that's focused on generating some quick cash...
]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>95% of people treat Google like the traffic fairy. </p>
<p>In fact, most people chase after Google like<br />
they&#8217;re 17 and never had a girlfriend. </p>
<p>I&#8217;m not one of those people. </p>
<p>Cause let&#8217;s face it, Google is just a big tease!</p>
<p>Your rankings can drop like a hot cake any time<br />
those sneaky Google engineers decide to turn the<br />
dials a bit&#8230;</p>
<p>* The Florida Update (2003)<br />
* The Brandy Update (2004)<br />
* The Big Daddy Update (2005)<br />
* Google Panda (2011)</p>
<p>Google has been teasing us for quite a while ;)</p>
<p>And those good &#8216;ol &#8216;gooroos&#8217; are all too happy<br />
to try and sell you some magic elixr (3-step<br />
push button formula doohicky) that will supposedly<br />
get you on the front page of Google. </p>
<p>And sure a lot of their tricks have worked<br />
in the past&#8230; (for a VERY brief period of time)</p>
<p>But&#8230;</p>
<p>That&#8217;s NOT the way to build a REAL business online. </p>
<p>So I want to share with you my &#8220;Google-Proof&#8221; SEO Formula<br />
that&#8217;s focused on generating some quick cash&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>Step 1: Select a &#8216;Buyer Keyword Phrase&#8217;.</strong></p>
<p>Your first step is to target people who are<br />
literally on the verge of whipping out their<br />
credit card. </p>
<p>Here are some examples of buyer keyword phrases:</p>
<p>&#8220;Garnet Hill Coupon Code&#8221;<br />
&#8220;Vitamix 5200&#8243;<br />
&#8220;Vitamix 5200 Best Price&#8221;<br />
&#8220;Blendtec Vs Vitamix&#8221;</p>
<p>All of the keywords above indicate people who are on the<br />
&#8216;verge&#8217; of buying. They&#8217;ve already decided they want to<br />
make a purchase. </p>
<p>Heck, they may even already have their credit card out!</p>
<p>At this point they&#8217;re simply looking for reviews, coupon<br />
codes, best price, comparisons, etc&#8230;</p>
<p>And that&#8217;s where you come in!</p>
<p>By providing value and helping them to make an educated<br />
purchasing decision you are rewarded with a portion of<br />
the profits. Kaching!!</p>
<p><strong>Step 2: Create Value.</strong> Google no longer wants to see<br />
ugly, automated pages that you&#8217;ve created with some<br />
sort of dodo push-button software. </p>
<p>Google wants to serve up the very best pages on top!</p>
<p>So&#8230; that&#8217;s your job. Deliver as much value as you<br />
possibly can in your product review. Don&#8217;t slap up<br />
some regurgitated content. </p>
<p>Instead, put some time into creating additional value<br />
for the person that lands on your page. </p>
<p>For example, if you&#8217;re targeting the keyword<br />
&#8220;Vitamix 5200&#8243;. Go the extra mile!!</p>
<p>Create a long, extensive review of this blender along<br />
with videos, comparison charts, and Vitamix recipes. </p>
<p><strong>Important Note:</strong> If you&#8217;re really lazy you can publish<br />
this content on YouTube OR as a Facebook Note. Both<br />
of which already have incredibly high authority so that<br />
you can get ranked quickly. </p>
<p>But DON&#8217;T use this as your long-term strategy.<br />
I would just use it to get some easy commissions<br />
rolling in while working on a larger authority<br />
site. </p>
<p><strong>Step 3: Build some link juice!</strong></p>
<p>We all know that backlinks are one of the BIGGEST<br />
factors in the Google ranking algorithm. Unfortunately,<br />
it&#8217;s also the most time-consuming. </p>
<p>So I&#8217;ve uncovered a few shortcuts for you :)</p>
<p>* <a href="http://lexorsoft.net/">LexorSoft.net</a> &#8211; Affordable high-quality link building.<br />
To be honest I probably shouldn&#8217;t be giving this one<br />
away so please don&#8217;t share it with too many people<br />
as I&#8217;d like to keep it on the down-low. Most people<br />
probably won&#8217;t read this far into the email anyway ;)</p>
<p>* <a href="http://onehourbacklinks.com/">OneHourBacklinks.com</a> &#8211; Self-Service store where you<br />
can get indexed backlinks for just 20 cents a link.<br />
Again, let&#8217;s keep it on the downlow ;)</p>
<p>* <a href="http://fiverr.com/">Fiverr</a> &#8211; This is one of the best places to<br />
get a wide variety of high-quality backlinks.<br />
Press Releases, Article Submissions, Social<br />
Bookmarking and whole host of other services.<br />
Just make sure that the provider has a high<br />
rating and good feedback. </p>
<p>And that&#8217;s it!</p>
<p>You&#8217;re now ready to climb up the Google ladder.<br />
And if you follow each of these steps and offer<br />
TRUE value, Google will hold onto you like glue!<br />
You&#8217;ll be immune to all of Google&#8217;s updates :)</p>
<p>To check out my other caffeine-induced traffic<br />
strategies, go to:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.buzzblogger.com/googleproof.html">http://www.buzzblogger.com/googleproof.html</a></p>
<p>Back to the lab!!</p>
<p>- Kim</p>
<p>P.S. One of my students just recently sent me<br />
a testimonial letting me know that she had<br />
generated 158 new subscribers using just &#8216;ONE&#8217;<br />
of the traffic strategies we teach. </p>
<p>I can&#8217;t wait to see what happens when<br />
she implements a few more!</p>
<p>That&#8217;s what happens when you belong to<br />
a community of A-players who all share<br />
what&#8217;s working in their business. </p>
<p>It&#8217;s a mastermind of nerds!</p>
<p>But some very profitable nerds :)</p>
<p>We have a few more spots left if you qualify:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.buzzblogger.com/googleproof.html">http://www.buzzblogger.com/googleproof.html<br />
</a></p>
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		<title>7 Ways to Spy on Your Competition</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 16:06:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Strategy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever thought about what sort of super power
you might like to have? 

Flying, Invisibility, X-Ray Vision, Night Vision, 
Mind-Reading, Super Speed, Time Travel... You can 
see I read way too many comic books growing up. 

But... there is ONE super power that you have
as a business owner. 

It's kind of like X-Ray Vision or Mind Reading :)

Allowing you to see exactly what your competitors
are doing at any given time.... Where their traffic
is coming from, where their advertising, guest 
blogging, who their top JV's are, and a whole 
host of additional juicy info. 

You just have to know where to look ;)

And in this article I'm revealing 7 super cool ninja
tricks for spying on your competitors.
 
So put on your spy glasses!

And let's dive in...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Have you ever thought about what sort of super power<br />
you might like to have? </p>
<p>Flying, Invisibility, X-Ray Vision, Night Vision,<br />
Mind-Reading, Super Speed, Time Travel&#8230; You can<br />
see I read way too many comic books growing up. </p>
<p>But&#8230; there is ONE super power that you have<br />
as a business owner. </p>
<p>It&#8217;s kind of like X-Ray Vision or Mind Reading :)</p>
<p>Allowing you to see exactly what your competitors<br />
are doing at any given time&#8230;. Where their traffic<br />
is coming from, where their advertising, guest<br />
blogging, who their top JV&#8217;s are, and a whole<br />
host of additional juicy info. </p>
<p>You just have to know where to look ;)</p>
<p>And in this article I&#8217;m revealing 7 super cool ninja<br />
tricks for spying on your competitors.</p>
<p>So put on your spy glasses!</p>
<p>And let&#8217;s dive in&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>1. Find out where your competitor&#8217;s traffic is coming from with Alexa.com. </strong></p>
<p>Most of you have probably heard of Alexa.com but most<br />
people don&#8217;t realize it&#8217;s true marketing potential. </p>
<p>You see what I love about Alexa.com is that it uncovers<br />
literally hundreds of different traffic sources. </p>
<p>Not only can you see your competitor&#8217;s traffic stats<br />
but you can also see their top traffic sources<br />
by looking at the Clickstream. </p>
<p>Here are a few examples: </p>
<p><a href="http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/www.bodyrock.tv#"><img src="http://buzzblogger.com/images/bodyrocktv.jpg" border="0"></a><br />
<P></p>
<p><a href="http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/kikolani.com#"><img src="http://www.buzzblogger.com/images/kikolani.jpg" border="0"></a><br />
<P></p>
<p><a href="http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/weblogbetter.com#"><img src="http://www.buzzblogger.com/images/weblogbetter.jpg"></a></p>
<p>You&#8217;ll notice that Pinterest jumped into the<br />
top 10 traffic sources on BodyRock.tv :)</p>
<p>Some other top traffic sources include Facebook,<br />
Twitter, BlogEngage.com, and Google (of course ;). </p>
<p>Alexa is a really great starting point to find out<br />
who&#8217;s sending the majority of traffic to your competitors. </p>
<p>You can uncover potential affiliates, top<br />
advertising spots, guest posting opportunities,<br />
and much more. </p>
<p>But we won&#8217;t stop there :)</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s another cool trick for you&#8230;</p>
<p><P></p>
<p><strong>2. Find out EXACTLY where your competitors are guest posting. </strong></p>
<p>As you guys probably already know, guest blogging is one of the<br />
best ways to drive laser-targeted traffic, build high-quality<br />
backlinks, and build relationships within your industry. </p>
<p>But how do you find the best places to guest post?</p>
<p>Work backwards!</p>
<p>First find out who the most prolific guest bloggers are<br />
within your market. </p>
<p>Once you&#8217;ve done that we&#8217;re going to do some special Google<br />
searches to find out ALL of the websites where they&#8217;re guest<br />
posting. </p>
<p>So let&#8217;s roll through an example real quick. </p>
<p>One person who has done a LOT of guest posting in the IM<br />
industry is Ann Smarty. </p>
<p>Now in order to find out all of the different places<br />
where she has guest post I would go to Google and<br />
type in the following searches: </p>
<p><P><br />
&#8220;Ann Smarty&#8221; + &#8220;This guest post was written by&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Ann Smarty&#8221; + &#8220;This guest post is from&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Ann Smarty&#8221; + &#8220;This is a guest post by&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Ann Smarty&#8221; + &#8220;This is a guest post written by&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Ann Smarty&#8221; + &#8220;guest post&#8221; (sometimes you can just use this one alone)</p>
<p>Try those out and you&#8217;ll soon have a complete list of<br />
places where you can guest post. </p>
<p>Also, if you&#8217;re wanting to look for potential guest post<br />
opportunities within a certain industry, here are some<br />
other Google Searches you can use:</p>
<p>Replace &#8216;Fitness&#8217; with your own keyword term: </p>
<p>Fitness + &#8220;Submit Article&#8221;</p>
<p>Fitness + &#8220;Add Guest Post&#8221;</p>
<p>Fitness + &#8220;Guest Bloggers Wanted&#8221;</p>
<p>Fitness + &#8220;This guest post was written by&#8221;</p>
<p>Fitness + &#8220;Become a Guest Writer&#8221;</p>
<p>Fitness + &#8220;Submission Guidelines&#8221;</p>
<p>Fitness + inurl:guest-post-guidelines</p>
<p>Fitness + &#8220;Now Accepting Guest Posts&#8221;</p>
<p>Fitness + &#8220;My Guest Posts&#8221;</p>
<p>Fitness + &#8220;Submit a Guest Post&#8221;</p>
<p>Fitness + &#8220;Guest Post by&#8221;</p>
<p>Fitness + &#8220;Write for Us&#8221;</p>
<p>These cool little Google search queries will<br />
unlock hundreds of new traffic sources within<br />
your industry. </p>
<p><P></p>
<p><strong>3. See what your competitor is Split-Testing. </strong></p>
<p>Next up is a site called the Wayback Machine. </p>
<p>This free tool reveals YEARS of split-testing data. </p>
<p>You can find this tool at <a href="http://www.archive.org/">http://www.archive.org/</a>. </p>
<p>Basically, this website allows you to see what<br />
your competitors websites look like over time. </p>
<p>Here are some interesting examples to look at: </p>
<p><a href="http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://www.womenapproachyou.com">http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://www.womenapproachyou.com</a> (Check out how their squeeze page has changed over the years. Priceless data.)</p>
<p><a href="http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/truthaboutabs.com">http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/truthaboutabs.com</a></p>
<p><a href="http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://fatburningfurnace.com">http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://fatburningfurnace.com</a></p>
<p><a href="http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/golfswingguru.com">http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/golfswingguru.com</a></p>
<p><P></p>
<p><strong>4. Keep a close eye on your competitors. </strong></p>
<p>Want to find out exactly when your competitors make<br />
a change to their landing page, squeeze page, or sales page?</p>
<p>You can use a service like <a href="http://www.copernic.com/en/products/tracker/">Copernic Tracker</a> to<br />
keep tabs on what sort of changes your competitors<br />
are making. </p>
<p>That way, you&#8217;ll know exactly when they&#8217;re testing<br />
a new headline, design, offer, etc&#8230;</p>
<p>Pretty cool huh? ;)</p>
<p><P></p>
<p><strong>5. Find out what sort of Dispaly Ads Your Competitors are running. </strong></p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a really cool tool for any marketer. </p>
<p>It&#8217;s called <a href="http://www.moat.com/">Moat.com</a> and it&#8217;s essentially a banner search engine.</p>
<p>It allows you to search thousands of banner creatives from<br />
companies across the web. </p>
<p>Lots of competitive intelligence and marketing goodness&#8230;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.moat.com/"><img src="http://www.buzzblogger.com/images/moat.jpg" border="0"></a></p>
<p><P><br />
<P></p>
<p><strong>6. Study their backend.</strong></p>
<p>Ok, that sounded kind of weird ;) </p>
<p>But you can learn a lot by studying OTHER people&#8217;s<br />
sales funnel (especially outside your own market). </p>
<p>A lot of times people start doing the same &#8216;ol thing<br />
within a certain industry. But by studying OTHER<br />
markets, you can often find new ideas that you<br />
can implement into your business. </p>
<p>I like to study the most competitive markets online<br />
because that&#8217;s generally where the most innovation<br />
is taking place&#8230; The Dating market, Relationships,<br />
Health &#038; Fitness, Weight Loss, and Finance. Study<br />
those markets voraciously and you&#8217;ll find LOTS of<br />
ideas for your own business. </p>
<p><P></p>
<p><strong>7. Get on Their List.</strong> </p>
<p>Yes, I know your inbox is probably already full.<br />
But I would strongly encourage you to become a<br />
subscriber of ALL of your competitors. </p>
<p>Plus, you can get an even deeper view of their business<br />
by purchasing their products. That way, you&#8217;re able to<br />
see their backend funnel and see exactly how they market<br />
to their buyers specifically. </p>
<p>Study ALL of their different marketing funnels: </p>
<p>* The Prospect Follow-Up Sequence<br />
* The Buyer Follow-Up Sequence<br />
* Testimonial Acquisition<br />
* Affiliate Follow-Up Sequence &#038; Training</p>
<p>And of course &#8211; you can often times get more innovative<br />
ideas by studying the different marketing funnels of<br />
people OUTSIDE of your market. </p>
<p>Within any one particular industry, different strategies<br />
tend to start repeating themselves. But&#8230; if you study<br />
OTHER industries &#8211; you can often find new innovations to<br />
bring to your own market. </p>
<p><P></p>
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		<title>My Dad Got Over 3,000+ Views on YouTube!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Howdy...Howdy...

Happy Tuesday!!

I'm pretty darn excited today cause 
I just got a phone call I'll never
forget...

My dad called me up this morning 
with so much excitement he was 
about to pop!

With breathless anticipation he 
told me the news...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Howdy&#8230;Howdy&#8230;</p>
<p>Happy Tuesday!!</p>
<p>I&#8217;m pretty darn excited today cause<br />
I just got a phone call I&#8217;ll never<br />
forget&#8230;</p>
<p>My dad called me up this morning<br />
with so much excitement he was<br />
about to pop!</p>
<p>With breathless anticipation he<br />
told me the news&#8230;</p>
<p>He had just got over 3,000+ views<br />
on his YouTube videos :)</p>
<p>Boogy Dance!!</p>
<p>Now keep in mind&#8230;</p>
<p>This is a guy who just learned how to<br />
upload videos a few weeks ago. </p>
<p>And now he&#8217;s got 3,000+ people<br />
who have watched his videos. </p>
<p>Needless to say&#8230; I&#8217;m more than just<br />
a little proud of my dad :)</p>
<p>And the thing is&#8230;</p>
<p>He&#8217;s done this almost entirely by himself. </p>
<p>I&#8217;ve given him a few pointers here and there<br />
but for the most part he&#8217;s been in the<br />
trenches&#8230; teaching himself how to do<br />
all this stuff. </p>
<p>Which I think is wicked cool!</p>
<p>Who said you can&#8217;t teach an old dog new tricks ;)</p>
<p>In fact, he&#8217;s even figured out how to<br />
use forums to drive some crazy traffic!</p>
<p>And he&#8217;s in a tiny little niche that you&#8217;d<br />
never think of. One of his hobbies.  </p>
<p>I helped him setup his own blog about a<br />
month ago and now he&#8217;s just gone hog wild!</p>
<p>Pretty soon he&#8217;ll probably be showing me up. </p>
<p>But in the meantime I&#8217;ve decided to put him<br />
in the HOT SEAT!</p>
<p>Click on the link below to see exactly what<br />
he&#8217;s doing with videos and forums to drive<br />
thousands of laser-targeted visitors&#8230;</p>
<p>==> <a href="http://www.buzzblogger.com/youtube-secret.html">http://www.buzzblogger.com/youtube-secret.html</a></p>
<p>It&#8217;s kind of sneaky ;)</p>
<p>But I&#8217;m going to show you exactly what he did<br />
to drive those 3,000+ visitors. </p>
<p>I&#8217;m creating a case study video that we&#8217;re<br />
going to load into the Marketing Lab this<br />
evening. </p>
<p>So if you want to catch the full story, go here:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.buzzblogger.com/youtube-secret.html">http://www.buzzblogger.com/youtube-secret.html</a></p>
<p>Back to the Lab!</p>
<p>- Kim</p>
<p>P.S. Yes, I know it&#8217;s Valentine&#8217;s Day :)</p>
<p>But please don&#8217;t let candy, flowers, and<br />
all that overrated mushy-gushy stuff<br />
get in the way of building your business. </p>
<p>Let&#8217;s Crush It!</p>
<p>24/7/365</p>
<p><a href="http://www.buzzblogger.com/youtube-secret.html">http://www.buzzblogger.com/youtube-secret.html</a></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.buzzblogger.com/youtube-secret.html"><img src="http://www.buzzblogger.com/images/5,000Promo.jpg" border="0" align="left"></a></p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:11:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning I drove to get my morning coffee
like I do every morning.

But…

Today I went a bit earlier.

7:30am

And OMG!

I forgot how many people are out during the
morning rush. Everybody and their mother
making the daily commute to work.

Reminded me how lucky I am to work from home.

ZERO morning traffic as I make my way
upstairs to my office :)

But it wasn’t always this way of course.

Oh no!!

It’s been a LONG journey.

In fact, it took me 5 years to get to six-figures.

Needless to say I was in college for part of that
time so you’ll have to cut me some slack ;)

But I’d like to share some of the core lessons that
I learned along the way…]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This morning I drove to get my morning coffee<br />
like I do every morning.</p>
<p>But&#8230;</p>
<p>Today I went a bit earlier.</p>
<p>7:30am</p>
<p>And OMG!</p>
<p>I forgot how many people are out during the<br />
morning rush. Everybody and their mother<br />
making the daily commute to work.</p>
<p>Reminded me how lucky I am to work from home.</p>
<p>ZERO morning traffic as I make my way<br />
upstairs to my office :)</p>
<p>But it wasn&#8217;t always this way of course.</p>
<p>Oh no!!</p>
<p>It&#8217;s been a LONG journey.</p>
<p>In fact, it took me 5 years to get to six-figures.</p>
<p>Needless to say I was in college for part of that<br />
time so you&#8217;ll have to cut me some slack ;)</p>
<p>But I&#8217;d like to share some of the core lessons that<br />
I learned along the way&#8230;<br />
<P><br />
===========================<br />
<strong>1. Consistent Lead Flow is Key.</strong><br />
===========================</p>
<p>Your subscriber list is the FOUNDATION of your business.</p>
<p>I wish someone would have kicked me in the butt, knocked me<br />
in the head and forced me to start building my list from Day 1.</p>
<p>When it comes to building a business online, nothing generates<br />
on-demand traffic and long-term revenue like a list of engaged<br />
customers and subscribers.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re not building this long-term asset in your business,<br />
then you&#8217;re not really building a business &#8211; you&#8217;re playing<br />
with a hobby.</p>
<p>* Your subscriber list is the money engine in your business.</p>
<p>If you want to have your best year<br />
in 2012 &#8211; then focus ALL of your<br />
marketing efforts on building your<br />
subscriber list.</p>
<p>And if you&#8217;d like to see EXACTLY how we&#8217;re generating<br />
5,000 subscribers this month, click on the link below:</p>
<p>==&gt; <a href="http://www.buzzblogger.com/secret_video.html">http://www.buzzblogger.com/secret_video.html</a><br />
<P><br />
==========================<br />
<strong>2. Create Your Own Product. </strong><br />
==========================</p>
<p>I know. I know. Everyone&#8217;s telling you to<br />
promote affiliate products.</p>
<p>And that&#8217;s all fine and dandy. Especially<br />
when you&#8217;re just getting started.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s how I got started as well.</p>
<p>But the lion&#8217;s share of my revenue<br />
comes from my OWN products.</p>
<p>And&#8230;</p>
<p>The majority of my subscriber list<br />
was BUILT from product launches.</p>
<p>When you create a top-notch product<br />
and a lucrative partner program,<br />
your affiliates will literally<br />
build your list for you.</p>
<p>Adding thousands of subscribers<br />
to your list.</p>
<p>Plus, you get paid faster :)</p>
<p>As soon as you make a sale, that<br />
money hits your account immediately!</p>
<p>So yeah, I&#8217;m kind of a fan of<br />
creating your own products.</p>
<p>That concept of taking an idea and<br />
turning it into a full-blown product.</p>
<p>That gets me so stoked.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s the fun stuff for me.</p>
<p>Seeing your idea go from the initial seed<br />
of thought into a real, tangible product&#8230;</p>
<p>THAT is at the HEART of every entrepreneur.<br />
<P><br />
========================<br />
<strong>3. Speed of Implementation</strong><br />
========================</p>
<p>Success comes to those who take massive action.</p>
<p>No one is going to give you a perfect business plan<br />
or the exact steps that you need to take. This is not<br />
like a job where someone tells you exactly what you<br />
need to do each day.</p>
<p>You are in charge of your own success.</p>
<p>And that means doing things before you&#8217;re comfortable doing them.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve talked to WAY too many entrepreneurs who have<br />
been working on their product for YEARS!! And still<br />
haven&#8217;t released it cause it&#8217;s not quite perfect yet.</p>
<p>Those are the kind of people who simply aren&#8217;t going to make<br />
it in this business.</p>
<p>This game is NOT about perfection. It&#8217;s about taking MASSIVE<br />
action, monitoring your results, and modifying from there.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s so important to TRACK all of your traffic<br />
online. Using something like Hypertracker or Adtrackz<br />
Gold so you know exactly which traffic sources are<br />
converting to subscribers and sales.</p>
<p>* Otherwise, you&#8217;ll never learn from all the action<br />
you&#8217;re taking.</p>
<p>When you track everything, you&#8217;ll know EXACTLY<br />
what&#8217;s working and what&#8217;s not working so that you<br />
can modify your action from there.</p>
<p>Way too many people are shooting blindly!!</p>
<p>Doing a whole bunch of stuff but they have no idea<br />
what&#8217;s working or what&#8217;s not working.</p>
<p>And even worse &#8211; they keep doing the same thing!</p>
<p>Massive action is critical.</p>
<p>Failure is the key to progress.</p>
<p>But&#8230;</p>
<p>You can only start scaling things when you actually KNOW<br />
what&#8217;s working and what&#8217;s not working.<br />
<P><br />
============================================<br />
<strong>4. Recurring Income is My Favorite Business Model.</strong><br />
============================================</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve tested lots of different ways of making money online.</p>
<p>In high school I started doing adsense. Which wasn&#8217;t too bad<br />
back then but today it&#8217;s about the worst business model you<br />
could possibly follow.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve also done affiliate marketing and product creation.</p>
<p>But my favorite business model by far is recurring revenue.</p>
<p>Membership sites are hands-down one of the best ways to<br />
create consistent, recurring revenue each month.</p>
<p>Now, unlike others I&#8217;m certainly not going to tell you<br />
that it&#8217;s easy.</p>
<p>Cause it&#8217;s not!</p>
<p>Membership sites take quite a bit of work.</p>
<p>Way too many people are looking for a shortcut when they<br />
should be focused on how to provide people with massive value!</p>
<p>For my own membership site we add new content every week.</p>
<p>Plus, we also do a LIVE webinar each week. And we have a<br />
forum where our members interact.</p>
<p>It definitely requires some work, but it&#8217;s totally worth it<br />
because it brings in revenue EVERY day.</p>
<p>For example, today I woke up, checked my stats and I had<br />
already brought in $780 from our membership site. Imagine<br />
waking up to realize you had ALREADY made hundreds of dollars.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s the kind of business I like to run.</p>
<p>Now of course we have other things on top of that. But the<br />
membership site is our core. It&#8217;s the foundation.</p>
<p>You can find out exactly how we run our<br />
membership site at:</p>
<p>==&gt; <a href="http://www.buzzblogger.com/secret_video.html">http://www.buzzblogger.com/secret_video.html<br />
</a><br />
<P><br />
=================================================<br />
<strong>5. Testing &amp; Tracking are the KEY to scaling your business.</strong><br />
=================================================</p>
<p>We are constantly split-testing in our business.</p>
<p>Testing different squeeze pages, sales pages, email subject<br />
lines, etc&#8230;</p>
<p>This is one of the biggest keys to scaling your business.</p>
<p>I just recently finished up a split-test on our sales letter<br />
that resulted in a 60% increase in conversions.</p>
<p>Imagine the impact that would have on your sales.</p>
<p>Bringing in 60% more profits WITHOUT having to drive any<br />
additional traffic.</p>
<p>Each increase in conversions also allows us to do<br />
more paid advertising &#8211; bringing in consistent<br />
lead flow.</p>
<p>However, one of the biggest mistakes people make<br />
with split-testing is that they test the small<br />
stuff.</p>
<p>When you first start testing your squeeze page or<br />
your sales letter &#8211; you want to test DRASTIC changes.</p>
<p>For example, on your sales letter you might test a video<br />
sales letter vs. text.</p>
<p>You want to test the BIG things.</p>
<p>Those are the ones that are going to give you a big<br />
jump in conversions. Then, once you find the control<br />
piece &#8211; that&#8217;s when you can start testing the more<br />
granular variables &#8211; the headline, the submit button,<br />
background color, etc&#8230;</p>
<p>But test the big things first because that&#8217;s where<br />
your biggest breakthroughs will come from.</p>
<p>Click on the link below to get a behind-the-scenes<br />
look at all of our split-test results:</p>
<p>==&gt; <a href="http://www.buzzblogger.com/secret_video.html">http://www.buzzblogger.com/secret-video.html</a></p>
<p>Back to the Lab!</p>
<p>- Kim</p>
<p>P.S. I hope you got a TON of value from today&#8217;s newsletter!</p>
<p>That was some of the best stuff I could share with you.</p>
<p>And I challenge you to put it into ACTION!</p>
<p>Because THAT&#8217;S when you&#8217;ll start seeing massive results&#8230;<br />
when you start taking massive action.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;d like a bit of hand-holding along the way, I&#8217;d<br />
be happy to help out.</p>
<p>==&gt; <a href="http://www.buzzblogger.com/secret_video.html">http://www.buzzblogger.com/secret_video.html</a></p>
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		<title>Disclosure Journal #1</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:08:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Disclosure Journal #1&#8230; This is the first entry in my Disclosure Journal. It&#8217;s something I&#8217;m creating for members of our Marketing Lab &#8211; but I wanted to give you a taste first. So I&#8217;m going to make this first one public. It&#8217;s kind of like a diary of my business ventures. This diary will track [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Disclosure Journal #1&#8230;</p>
<p>This is the first entry in my Disclosure Journal. </p>
<p>It&#8217;s something I&#8217;m creating for members of our<br />
Marketing Lab &#8211; but I wanted to give you a<br />
taste first. So I&#8217;m going to make this first<br />
one public. </p>
<p>It&#8217;s kind of like a diary of my business ventures. </p>
<p>This diary will track our growth over the coming months. </p>
<p>You&#8217;ll get a glimpse into my own goals, personal<br />
thoughts, what drives me, how I plan my day, and more. </p>
<p>You&#8217;ll get to see the exact numbers in my business<br />
PLUS the thought that goes behind them. How a six-figure<br />
business ACTUALLY works on a day-to-day basis.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.buzzblogger.com/full-disclosure.html">http://www.buzzblogger.com/full-disclosure.html</a></p>
<p>So without further ado, let&#8217;s dive in&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br />
<strong>Disclosure Journal #1</strong><br />
&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;</p>
<p>About a month ago we launched the Marketing Lab &#8211; an<br />
exclusive club where our members get a &#8216;behind-the-scenes&#8217;<br />
look at EVERYTHING we do&#8230; Our traffic sources, split-test<br />
results, emails, squeeze pages, sales funnels, and more!</p>
<p>And so I&#8217;d like to let you in on a few details about<br />
the launch and where we&#8217;re going from here. </p>
<p>First off, we&#8217;ll be crossing the $17,000 mark this month. </p>
<p>So definitely a BIG month in sales. </p>
<p>We&#8217;ve also been testing a LOT of new traffic<br />
sources, paid advertising, and solo spots. </p>
<p>I can&#8217;t give a whole lot of details here because most<br />
of that is reserved for our Marketing Lab members. </p>
<p>However, I can tell you that it&#8217;s making a HUGE<br />
difference in our business. </p>
<p>I used to be VERY hesitant about spending money<br />
on traffic. I was ALL about driving free traffic.</p>
<p>But you soon realize that traffic is never really<br />
&#8216;free&#8217;. You&#8217;re going to pay for it either with<br />
money OR time.</p>
<p>So when I got to the point in my business that<br />
I wanted to start scaling things up, solo ads<br />
were my first paid traffic source.</p>
<p>This is about as non-risky as you can get when<br />
it comes to paid advertising. </p>
<p>Solo ads have now quickly become one of the #1<br />
sources of traffic in our business. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.buzzblogger.com/full-disclosure.html">http://www.buzzblogger.com/full-disclosure.html</a></p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br />
<strong>Testing is KING!</strong><br />
&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;</p>
<p>One of the biggest things I&#8217;ve learned so far this<br />
year is that the MORE you test, the faster you grow. </p>
<p>The more traffic sources you test, the faster you<br />
can zone in on which one&#8217;s work best. </p>
<p>The more emails you send out, the faster you can<br />
see which one&#8217;s convert into sales. </p>
<p>The more you split-test, the faster you&#8217;ll know<br />
what converts best. </p>
<p>All of this data is a marketing treasure chest<br />
that allows you to grow your business faster<br />
than you can imagine. </p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br />
<strong>New Email Marketing Formula&#8230;</strong><br />
&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;</p>
<p>Also, you might have noticed that we&#8217;re<br />
doing our emails a little bit differently. </p>
<p>First off, we&#8217;re sending MORE emails. And to my<br />
surprise and delight &#8211; this has created a HUGE<br />
increase in our business. Allowing us to bring<br />
in AT LEAST 10 new members per day. </p>
<p>* Emailing MORE Often DRAMATICALLY Increases Conversions.</p>
<p>Plus, we&#8217;ve also received more &#8216;Thank-You&#8217; notes<br />
than ever before. Which has been personally very<br />
rewarding. </p>
<p>Consistency and Frequency are critically important<br />
to building a successful business.  </p>
<p>When your subscriber continuously sees you in their<br />
inbox (attached with good value), they quickly<br />
perceive YOU as the authority. The expert in<br />
your field. </p>
<p>And when it comes time to buy&#8230;</p>
<p>YOU will be the one that they&#8217;ll buy from because<br />
you&#8217;re the one in their inbox that shows up<br />
on a consistent, frequent basis providing them<br />
with massive value, entertainment, and personality. </p>
<p>And that&#8217;s the other big key here.</p>
<p>To keep your subscribers engaged, you MUST make your<br />
emails FUN to read. Your goal here is to create a fun,<br />
interesting experience for your subscribers. </p>
<p>Each email should be infused with your own unique personality. </p>
<p>Personality is the *MAGIC* Sauce in Your Business.</p>
<p>Create an EXPERIENCE that your subscribers<br />
eagerly look forward to. </p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br />
<strong>The Good, Bad, AND The Ugly!</strong><br />
&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;</p>
<p>Now I know most marketers like to make<br />
everything sound nice and rosy :)</p>
<p>But I want to give you a COMPLETE<br />
picture of what&#8217;s REALLY going on<br />
behind-the-scenes of our business. </p>
<p>Because business growth can take it&#8217;s toll!</p>
<p>Sure, it adds some really nice dough to<br />
the &#8216;ol bottom line. </p>
<p>But&#8230;</p>
<p>It&#8217;s also meant a lot of 12 and 14 hour days. </p>
<p>Now you know why I&#8217;m poppin&#8217; those Starbucks Double Shots!</p>
<p>And that&#8217;s why I&#8217;m bringing on board a<br />
Virtual Assistant as we speak :)</p>
<p>Someone who can handle a large portion of<br />
our customer support, membership management,<br />
content syndication, repurposing content<br />
into new formats and more. </p>
<p>That way I can spend more time creating<br />
content and interacting with our Marketing<br />
Lab members. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.buzzblogger.com/full-disclosure.html">http://www.buzzblogger.com/full-disclosure.html</a></p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br />
<strong>Lifestyle Design (Creating a Life Worth Living.)</strong><br />
&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;</p>
<p>Most of us start a business in order to spend more<br />
time with our families, to escape the daily grind,<br />
to travel, and to live a life of our own design.</p>
<p>But what often happens instead is we become chained<br />
to the business itself.</p>
<p>As you guys know, I LOVE the game of business &#8211; but<br />
a business should serve the lifestyle you want to create.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s about living more, not just working less. </p>
<p>In our society &#8211; working hard seems to be a badge of honor.</p>
<p>We spend 30-40 years climbing the<br />
corporate ladder only to retire<br />
at an age where we&#8217;re too old to<br />
truly enjoy it.</p>
<p>Why not live the life you want right now?</p>
<p>Sure, you&#8217;re going to have to hustle for the first<br />
year &#8211; maybe even the first couple years. It ain&#8217;t<br />
easy creating a business ;)</p>
<p>But once you&#8217;ve built a business online &#8211; once you&#8217;ve<br />
built up those long-term assets and designed a business<br />
that works FOR you &#8211; why not start living a lifestyle<br />
of your own design?</p>
<p>Way too many people have resigned themselves<br />
to a life of 9-5 drudgery in exchange (sometimes)<br />
for a relaxing weekend. </p>
<p>We&#8217;re a society that lives for the weekend and our 2-week vacation.</p>
<p>How sad is that?</p>
<p>But hey &#8211; no one told us there was a better way right?</p>
<p>All of our friends are doing the same thing.</p>
<p>But&#8230;</p>
<p>What do YOU really want your life to look like in 5 years?</p>
<p>Lots of people might would tell you a dollar amount or<br />
the type of business they would like to create.</p>
<p>But in reality &#8211; it&#8217;s not the dollar amount or<br />
a million dollars in the bank that they really<br />
want &#8211; it&#8217;s the &#8216;lifestyle&#8217; that it allows.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s the *freedom*.</p>
<p>But so often we get caught up in the &#8216;busyness&#8217;<br />
of business that we forget to really live. </p>
<p>To LIVE today. To enjoy the journey.</p>
<p>Go to a nursing home and ask 10 people what<br />
they wish they had done more of in life and<br />
you&#8217;ll probably hear a lot of the same thing&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8220;I wish I&#8217;d spent more time with my family.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I wish I&#8217;d spent more time with my kids.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I wish I&#8217;d traveled more.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I wish I&#8217;d been more adventurous and daring.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I wish I would have asked that girl on a date.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I wish I would have slowed down to enjoy the moment.&#8221;</p>
<p>But not ONE of them will tell you that they wish<br />
they had spent more time at the office or that they<br />
wish they had made more money.</p>
<p>The internet has allowed us an incredible opportunity<br />
to create a virtual business that has the potential to<br />
create the lifestyle of our choice.  </p>
<p>And once you reach a certain amount of scale, that&#8217;s<br />
when it&#8217;s time to start creating systems and processes<br />
in your business that you can hand off to someone<br />
else. </p>
<p>If you want to build a REAL business online, you<br />
can&#8217;t play this game alone&#8230;</p>
<p>ONE is the loneliest number online. </p>
<p>And it&#8217;s not how REAL businesses are built. </p>
<p>Building a proper team is critical to creating<br />
massive impact online without chaining yourself<br />
to the computer.</p>
<p>As a member of the Marketing Lab, I&#8217;m going to<br />
teach you how to build a successful online business.</p>
<p>But at the end of the day, I really want to do<br />
so much more than that&#8230;</p>
<p>I want to teach you how to build a business that serves you. </p>
<p>One that allows you to live a life of your own design.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s about living more, not just working less.</p>
<p>So without further ado, here&#8217;s to living!!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.buzzblogger.com/full-disclosure.html">http://www.buzzblogger.com/full-disclosure.html</a></p>
<p>Back to the Lab!</p>
<p>- Kim</p>
<p>P.S. I hope you enjoyed getting raw and real with me :)</p>
<p>I think the best way to learn about business is<br />
through complete transparency. </p>
<p>So if you&#8217;d like to get an even deeper<br />
look at my business, go to&#8230;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.buzzblogger.com/full-disclosure.html">http://www.buzzblogger.com/full-disclosure.html</a></p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:32:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Howdy...Howdy...

Today I want to share a little story with you 
about how I first got started online. 

Now keep in mind I come from a family that is
ALL about security and getting a J.O.B. 

I mean, that's the responsible thing right?

I remember when I first told my dad that I 
was dropping out of college to focus on my
online business. 

Scariest day of my whole freakin life!!!

But...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Howdy&#8230;Howdy&#8230;</p>
<p>Today I want to share a little story with you<br />
about how I first got started online. </p>
<p>Now keep in mind I come from a family that is<br />
ALL about security and getting a J.O.B. </p>
<p>I mean, that&#8217;s the responsible thing right?</p>
<p>I remember when I first told my dad that I<br />
was dropping out of college to focus on my<br />
online business. </p>
<p>Scariest day of my whole freakin life!!!</p>
<p>But&#8230;</p>
<p>I knew what I wanted and nothing could stop me. </p>
<p>Unfortunately, my parents couldn&#8217;t quite see<br />
the vision that I could see so clearly. </p>
<p>Now &#8211; don&#8217;t get me wrong. </p>
<p>I certainly did NOT know &#8216;exactly&#8217; how I would<br />
get there. </p>
<p>But I knew that I WOULD get there!</p>
<p>Whatever it took. </p>
<p>* Late nights&#8230;</p>
<p>* Starbucks Doubleshot&#8230;</p>
<p>* Strange looks from family &#038; friends&#8230;</p>
<p>Have you ever got those strange looks?</p>
<p>Someone asks you what you do&#8230;</p>
<p>You reply with your best effort to explain<br />
online marketing and they kind of tilt<br />
their head a bit, squint their eyes<br />
and sit there looking dazed and confused. </p>
<p>To this day my grandmother still gives<br />
me that &#8216;look&#8217;. </p>
<p>But let&#8217;s face it&#8230;</p>
<p>Internet marketing can be a lonely world. </p>
<p>Sitting behind your computer all day<br />
doing things that no one else really<br />
&#8220;GETS&#8221;. </p>
<p>It&#8217;s like being a lone ranger. </p>
<p>You don&#8217;t even KNOW anyone who does this stuff.</p>
<p>None of your neighbors, friends, or family<br />
have a stinkin clue what you do all day!</p>
<p>Can you tell that I&#8217;ve totally been there :)</p>
<p>In fact, when I was just getting started &#8211;<br />
sometimes doubt would start to creep in. </p>
<p>Are they right??</p>
<p>Should I really get a J.O.B. </p>
<p>Nah&#8230;.</p>
<p>I was much too stubborn and persistent for that :)</p>
<p>But I took the hard road. </p>
<p>I figured out everything myself. </p>
<p>Even taught myself HTML &#8211; old school!</p>
<p>But you don&#8217;t have to take the hard road. </p>
<p>2 miles uphill, through the snow, over the<br />
railroad tracks, and scattered through a<br />
dessert waste land. </p>
<p>It&#8217;s easy to get dazed and confused out there!</p>
<p>That&#8217;s why I want to give you the easy route. </p>
<p>A shortcut of sorts&#8230;</p>
<p>So you don&#8217;t have to make all the same, silly mistakes. </p>
<p>Instead you can get a complete, behind-the-scenes<br />
look at EXACTLY how I&#8217;ve built my six-figure business. </p>
<p>==> <a href="http://www.buzzblogger.com/A-Players-Only.html">http://www.buzzblogger.com/A-Players-Only.html</a></p>
<p>* My exact traffic sources. </p>
<p>* My exact business model. </p>
<p>* Every split-test we&#8217;re doing in our business. </p>
<p>* Every email we send out. </p>
<p>* And how much profit each source generates. </p>
<p>Don&#8217;t ever &#8216;guess&#8217; what you should do next in your business. </p>
<p>With this battle-tested formula you&#8217;ll ALWAYS know exactly<br />
what to do next to grow your business fast&#8230;</p>
<p>==> <a href="http://www.buzzblogger.com/A-Players-Only.html">http://www.buzzblogger.com/A-Players-Only.html</a></p>
<p>And you sure won&#8217;t get those strange looks from your<br />
family anymore!</p>
<p>Instead, they&#8217;ll be asking how you do it :)</p>
<p>Back to the Lab!</p>
<p>- Kim</p>
<p>P.S. One of my students just recently sent me<br />
a testimonial letting me know that she had<br />
generated 74 new subscribers in a single<br />
day using just &#8216;ONE&#8217; of the traffic<br />
strategies we teach. </p>
<p>I can&#8217;t wait to see what happens when<br />
she implements a few more!</p>
<p>That&#8217;s what happens when you belong to<br />
a community of A-players who all share<br />
what&#8217;s working in their business. </p>
<p>It&#8217;s a mastermind of nerds!</p>
<p>But some very profitable nerds :)</p>
<p>We have a few more spots left if you qualify:</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:25:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey guys,

I'm currently getting 30,000+ visitors each and every month
and I thought I'd share where that traffic is coming from...

Enjoy!]]></description>
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<p>I&#8217;m currently getting 30,000+ visitors each and every month<br />
and I thought I&#8217;d share where that traffic is coming from&#8230;</p>
<p>Enjoy!</p>
<p>And be sure to leave me a comment :)</p>
<p><strong>1. Solo Ads</strong> &#8211; I used to be VERY hesitant about spending money<br />
on traffic. I was ALL about driving free traffic. But you soon<br />
realize that traffic is never really &#8216;free&#8217;. You&#8217;re going to<br />
pay for it either with money OR time.</p>
<p>So when I got to the point in my business that I wanted to start<br />
scaling things up, solo ads were my first paid traffic source.<br />
This is about as non-risky as you can get when it comes to<br />
paid advertising. With a solo ad, you&#8217;re sending a dedicated<br />
email to someone&#8217;s ELSE&#8217;S subscriber list. So it&#8217;s laser-targeted<br />
traffic and as long as you have your sales funnel setup correctly<br />
you should be good to go.</p>
<p>Of course you always want to send people to your squeeze page<br />
FIRST. Otherwise, you&#8217;ll be leaving a lot of traffic and sales<br />
on the table.</p>
<p>Solo ads have now quickly become one of the #1 sources of<br />
traffic in our business. And most importantly it creates<br />
consistent, predictable lead flow.</p>
<p><strong>2. Ad Swaps </strong>- Once you&#8217;ve grown a list of 500-1,000 subscribers,<br />
you can then start leveraging that subscriber list to grow<br />
even faster. You do this by ad swapping with other list owners.</p>
<p>This means that you&#8217;ll send out an email for another marketer<br />
in your industry and they&#8217;ll send out a dedicated email for you -<br />
often adding hundreds of subscribers to your list in a single day.</p>
<p>The biggest key to remember with ad swaps is that you want to<br />
swap with like-minded entrepreneurs who are providing the same<br />
kind of value as you. Also I would recommend keeping these<br />
limited to 2-3 per month so you don&#8217;t wear out your list.</p>
<p><strong>3. Guest Blogging</strong> &#8211; This is another one of our top traffic sources.<br />
I&#8217;ve written for a number of different blogs in the IM marketing<br />
including ProBlogger.net, SmartPassiveIncome.com, Rosalind Gardner&#8217;s<br />
NetProfitsToday.com, FamousBloggers.net, and many others.</p>
<p>Not only do you get a nice windfall of very targeted traffic but<br />
you also develop priceless relationships with the top people<br />
in your industry.</p>
<p><strong>4. Forum Marketing</strong> &#8211; This is an &#8216;Old-School&#8217; tactic that still<br />
works like gang busters! I&#8217;m always surprised how little people<br />
really take advantage of this.</p>
<p>Forums are one of the very few traffic sources online where you<br />
can literally start driving visitors in a matter of minutes.</p>
<p>The key here is to provide massive value to the community.<br />
Give.Give.Give.</p>
<p>Create an enticing forum signature that leads people back<br />
to your squeeze page and you&#8217;re set.</p>
<p>Also, I would recommend that you target the Top 3 forums<br />
within your industry. You want to contribute to the most<br />
popular forums with the most activity.</p>
<p><strong>5. Social Media</strong> &#8211; This one is becoming a no-brainer now &#8216;a days.</p>
<p>But I think a lot of people still don&#8217;t realize HOW much traffic<br />
you can get from sites like Twitter and Facebook when you do<br />
it right.</p>
<p>Again the key here is to provide LOTS of value. Interact<br />
and engage with the community. And you will be well rewarded.</p>
<p><strong>6. Paid Advertising</strong> &#8211; This is similar to solo ads but instead<br />
of advertising in other people&#8217;s newsletter you&#8217;ll be advertising<br />
on their website.</p>
<p>Simply find related websites within your market and contact<br />
them to work out a deal. Many website owners will have an<br />
&#8220;Advertising&#8221; link on their website but I often like to<br />
work out custom deals.</p>
<p>For example, in addition to buying a banner ad on a website, why<br />
not also workout a deal where you&#8217;re content is featured on<br />
their website as well. And now you&#8217;re getting exposure through<br />
2 different avenues.</p>
<p>Lots of different things you can do with this so get creative!</p>
<p><strong>7. Affiliate Traffic</strong> &#8211; Affiliates have been the #1 traffic source<br />
in our business hands-down. Imagine having 100&#8242;s of marketers<br />
driving traffic FOR you while you&#8217;re able to focus on higher<br />
leverage activities in your business.</p>
<p>One of the best things I did was to create a 100% instant commission<br />
affiliate program for the Traffic Dashboard. We had over 2,000<br />
affiliates come on board and we we&#8217;re generating over 200+<br />
subscribers per day for MONTHS off the back of it.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s the power of a strong affiliate program. It becomes a<br />
self-perpetuating lead machine.</p>
<p>You can give 100% commissions on the front-end and generate<br />
many multiples of that on the back-end.</p>
<p>But what it does is it take care of ALL of your traffic needs.<br />
Your affiliates will do all the hard work for you. </p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
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