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To ensure you choose the right business you need these six keys:

1. You need a mentor who shares your values and who you feel you resonate with. This is the KEY of success in this industry!A good responsible mentor will help you get on-track and succeed quicker.

2. You need a marketing system that’s  proven to work.  Tragically, far too many network-marketing systems today are not working properly. If it is an effective system, and if you work it properly, you should be able to start making money within weeks or at most a few months, not years.

3. You need to find a company that is not built on the destructive idea of recruiting family members and friends.

4. Choose a direct sales company instead of Multi-Level-Marketing. In MLM, the commissions are far too low compared to the money and the time you put in. Most likely you only make your up-lines rich, but not you.

5. Make sure that what is being marketed are “high real value” products, that could easily be sold on the shelves and you would like to pay for them yourself first, anyway.

6. You need to make sure that whatever business you are going to join into is something that you like to do so much you’d  love to put time, money and energy into it. That makes it much more easier for you to commit to it.

Article Marketing Secrets

Yesterday in my ‘dummy’ 5 ways to make article marketing working for you, I told you that you have to position your articles first.

Today I will tell you how to use Keywords to position Your Articles.

Keywords are the words or phrases that people use to search for anything and everything they want online. So basically, if you want your article to be found, you need to position your article in the relevant searches that right people can find your articles easily on the search engines.

How?

By using the right keywords.

So First, you need to find the keywords that you intend to use.

Keyword Research

Basic keyword research is really pretty easy, and there isn’t too much about it that even a beginner can do it well. To start with keyword research, the keyword research tool – Google Adwords Keyword Tool will be the first choice.

Why?

Google is the most popular search engine around; getting data from it will be a logical place to begin.

When you are doing your keywords research, there are 3 components you have to consider.

  1. Number of Searches

Simply, this is just the number of searches per month. If a term has a high number of searches that means lots of people are looking for it, which definitely makes it a better choice.

2.   Competition

Once you have a keyword that has a decent amount of searches, search it on Google search engine. Load Down the number of results, when you get the results. If there are 11,800,000 results, then that means a lot of people are competing for the same keyword.

On the other hand, if you end up with something like 1,800 results, then you have very few competing websites.

So with less competition and good keywords, your article will have much better chance of appearing on the first page of the search results, which is really what you should be aiming for. Once you’re there, you will no doubt see a dramatic increase in your views.

3.    Profitability

Not all traffic is profitable, sometimes the traffic that attracted by certain keywords just refuses to be converted. So it is better just do one simple test of the ‘profitability’ of a keyword before you use on your article.

When you do your keywords completion research, remember to check if there is any advertising appears for the same keywords or similar keywords. If there are, then that means someone out there thinks it is a keyword that people will spend money on.

By considering the three components while you are doing your keywords research you should have a good list keywords. Remember: The whole idea about positioning your articles in profitable position is having your right keywords with a decent number of searches per month, and low competition.

Enjoy Your Successful Article Marketing

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Have you downloaded your FREE “ Article Marketing Secrets” yet?

Article Marketing is one of the most powerful marketing tools. If you did right, you can get tons of FREE traffic to your website. I mean naturally FREE Target Traffic to your website. But if you did wrong, well mostly just waste your precious time and energy. It won’t work at all.

So is it article marketing something complicated? No, on a very basic level, it really isn’t. The one and only aim of article marketing is to get visitors to visit your website through the back link of a submitted article. The only question is HOW?

9 out of 10 beginners will probably say that article marketing just involves submitting articles to article directories, the more articles you submitting the more traffic you will get.

Well it isn’t totally wrong. It is just only part true.

Submitting an article to an article directory would get it on the Internet for people who are interested in the subject to search and read then visit you site. That part is what’s correct. But, it won’t mean that the article will actually get viewed, and it also won’t mean that people will click the backlink.

Basically, you could end up with 1,000 articles that each get 1 view a day since no one can find the article, and getting a total of maybe only 10 click-through. Which is why, you should follow the 5 basic ‘dummies’ theory of article marketing:

  1. Position your articles where they can be found
  2. Write headlines that gain attention
  3. Evoke interest in the article body
  4. Call to action in the resource box
  5. Get more visitors to visit your article

Chances are, unless you’ve done article marketing before, you probably didn’t understand any of that. Check in the rest details about article marketing in ‘Article Marketing Secrets”, you will get step-by-step guide to article marketing success in the book.

If you have not get your copy yet, get your FREE access from the link below.

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Almost all the affiliate marketers are looking for a magic formula of successful marketing. But the real successful marketing is more complicated than that. It is just good marketing practices that have been proven over years of hard work and dedication.

There are tactics that have worked before with online marketing and is continuing to work in the online affiliate marketing world of today. With these top three marketing tips, you will be able to able to increase your sales and survive in the affiliate marketing online.

What are these three tactics?

1. Using unique web pages to promote each separate product you are marketing. Do not lump all of it together just to save some money on web hosting. It is best to have a site focusing on each and every product and nothing more. Plus, a good reasonable priced web hosting allows you to host unlimited websites is the right way to good. I use Just Host for my web hosting. It is just $59/year.

Always include product reviews on the website so visitors will have an initial understanding on what the product can do to those who buys them. Also include testimonials from users who have already tried the product. Be sure that these customers are more than willing to allow you to use their names and photos on the site of the specific product you are marketing.

You can also write articles highlighting the uses of the product and include them on the website as an additional page. Make the pages attractive compelling and include calls to act on the information. Each headline should attract the readers to try and read more, even contact you. Highlight your special points. This will help your readers to learn what the page is about and will want to find out more.

2. Offer free reports to your readers. If possible position them at the very topside of your page so it they simply cannot be missed. Try to create auto responder messages that will be mailed to those who input their personal information into your sign up box. According to research, a sale is closed usually on the seventh contact with a prospect. So a good Auto responder is a necessary gear for your business. I use Aweber. It is a cheap and user-friendly autoresponder system. If you do not have one yet, I suggest you get Aweber.

Only two things can possibly happen with the web page alone: closed sale or the prospect leaving the page and never return again. By placing useful information into their inboxes at certain specified period, you will remind them of the product they thought they want later and will find out that the sale is closed. Be sure that the content is directed toward specific reasons to buy the product. Do not make it sound like a sales pitch.

Focus on important points like how your product can make life and things easier and more enjoyable. Include compelling subject lines in the email. As much as possible, avoid using the word “free” because there are still older Spam filters that dumps those kind of contents into the junk before even anyone reading them first. Convince those who signed up for your free reports that they will be missing something big if they do not avail of your products and services.

3. Get the kind of traffic that is targeted to your product. Just think, if the person who visited your website has no interest whatsoever in what you are offering, they will be among those who move on and never come back. Write articles for publication in e-zines and e-reports. This way you can locate publications that are focusing on your target customers and what you have put up might just grab their interest. If you do not know how to get your article marketing going, go to http://www.MichaelandMei.com Grab yourself a copy of “Article Marketing Secrets” It is a step-by-step article marketing guide.

Try to write a minimum of 2 articles per week, with at least 300-600 words in length. By continuously writing and maintaining these articles you can generate as many as 100-targeted readers to your site in a day.

Always remember that only 1 out of 100 people are likely to buy your product or get your services. If you can generate as much as 1,000 targeted hits for your website in a day, that means you can made 10 sales based on the average statistic.

The tactics given above does not really sound very difficult to do, if you think about it. It just requires a little time and an action plan on your part.

Try to use these tips for several affiliate marketing programs. You can end maintaining a good source of income and surviving in this business that not all marketers can do.

Besides, think of the huge pay checks you will be receiving…

So you’re trying to be better, trying to change and get out of the rut called your life. But people don’t change right?
Consider the facts then…… Molecular and Cell Biology studies have found that Biologically you have changed, completely, several times already. This means all cell types including your brain. When you understand that you have to agree that people can change……….because they DO.

Your brain has changed too so this gives you the chance to change all those things that hold you back from being the success you deserve to be, like:
-Time management.
-The personal and professional contacts you have now to the type of contacts and people you aspire to be with.
-How you handle rejection.
-Fears and phobias.
-Habits that are holding you back
…….and many more.
Change is freedom from boredom.
Truth is; the only constant IS change
Therefore you CAN change to improve your life and therefore change your results.

I’ve used change to keep ahead of the inevitable patterns that occur when we get in a comfort zone. The type of comfort zone where you begin to accept less and less of what it was you originally wanted. I DON”T accept that circumstances can’t be changed. I know for absolute certainty, because I’m living proof, that I/you/we can change our outcomes as well as our reactions and behaviours. In turn this means we can change our results in life and so can become what we choose to be.
One other important part, which I’ll detail next time, is about putting it all down in writing, then seeing it then saying it. It’s truly powerful. Your business, personal wealth and you relationships will prosper, or at least you will get closer to what you desire, step by step.
Until then say hello to David.
David Bowie’s song

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Once you’ve written your E-Book, got your Website up and integrated your shopping cart, you can sit back and start waiting for the money to come rolling in, right?

WRONG!

These days it’s getting harder than ever before to be able to get people to notice you – and just because “you build it” doesn’t mean they’re going to come.

So what does an author has to do then?

Well, there are 5 easy ways for you to take to get your juices flowing.  Add them to your sales plan, and use them as a jumping off place to help you make even more sales.

First, Create a long-term plan before you write even one word of your first book.  The truth of the matter is that you’re probably never going to get rich from writing one E-book.  So before you start writing your first book, start thinking about your second book.  And the first product that will tie into your first book.  And the second.  And then the third.

Second, Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.  Come up with as many different income streams as you can and plan to build them into your plan.  For example, can you create a workbook from your E-book?  What about recording some audio files that go into further details or give more information.  What about doing a joint venture with other experts in your industry?

Third, Sell more books at one time.  If your book covers any one of a number of popular subjects – self-help or development, home improvement, business, religion – there are probably corporations, organizations or niche markets that are always on the look-out for inexpensive gifts or bonuses for their employees, clients or associates.  Your book could be just the ticket.  Although you might have to go down in price – what do you think sounds better?  Selling one or two books at a time or selling box loads of them?

Forth, Once you’ve built up your credibility as a published author, it’s time to take things to the next level.  Have you ever dreamed of attending seminars or workshops as a presenter?  What about having a speaking career and being flown all over the world speaking to people in your niche market?  If you don’t like traveling or crowds, consider putting together teleseminars or holding intimate bootcamps.

Last, Create joint ventures.  This is the fastest and easiest way to leverage your expertise and start raking in the cash.  Find people who are in similar – but not competing industries as yours.  Explore ways for you to provide value to both of your customers while you’re cross-selling or upselling.  For example, if you own a restaurant, what about creating a special Valentine’s Day promotion with the local florist.  Offer free drinks or desserts to any of the florist’s customers who bring in a special card (that you’ve provided to them) when they come to your restaurant.  And your joint venture partner (the florist) gives you roses or carnations that can be given out to any women when their companion gives you the special dessert card.  See how simple that is? Real value that makes your customers happy, and builds loyalty and trust – and positions both of you as the first people your customers think of when they need flowers or want a romantic restaurant or a place to eat during a special occasion

If you have no idea about how to write your own ebooks, download the free ebook “30 Days to Create A products-step by step system” from my freebie website.

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Enjoy your high-income flow….

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Owning your own domain name is the fastest, easiest, and cheapest way to increase the professionalism of you and your business, virtually over-night.

Understand that in network marketing, or any business for that matter, you are selling yourself.

How to register a domain and forward to your affiliate link then? Well, it is pretty easy. Just follow my instructions below J

First, think of a domain name that makes sense. It is simple to remember, short and snappy and easy to spell.

Second, Go to www.Godaddy.com to search for you domain and register it if it is available. Do not register a .net unless you own the .com as everyone checks out the .com. So register a .com to go to your link.

When registering your .com domain Godaddy will offer you all sorts of bells and whistles which you don’t need. So ignore any extra offers for hosting etc as the forwarding is Free.

Third, Once you have purchased your domain name, login to godaddy account with your login info and take the following steps to forward it to your affiliate link:

- Click on “My Products” in the upper left

- Click on “Domain Manager” – a new page will open up with your domains on the page.

- Tick on the domain name you want to forward

- Click on the “forward” button above and select
‘forward domain’ from the dropdown menu.

- You will see your domain already added on
the left.

- Copy and paste or type your affiliate link without
the http:// into the forward to box on the right.
Your affiliate link is the link the company gives to you to promote with your ID or Username at the end.It will look like this;

==>> http://www.theinfinitydreamteam.com/members/micmei

(it will have your username not mine after the /)

- Click the “Update my DNS settings to support
this change. (Recommended)’ box

- Don’t worry about the Advance Settings Link as
that is for Masking and you do NOT want to mask
your domain as that can play around with the
affiliate tracking!

- Click ‘OK’ and click ‘OK’ again when the next
window pops up.

It may take anywhere from 1 minute to one hour for
the forwarding to active.  If it does not work right
away, give it a few minutes.  Most of the time it
takes 10 minutes or less.

Now, when somebody types in, or goes to http://www.yourwebsite.com/
they will be automatically forwarded to your affiliate link.

So this is the link you will use in all your
advertising.

Best of all if ever our links change for whatever
the reason, then all you have to do is update your
forwarding within your Godaddy and bam it won’t effect
any past advertising you have out there…which would
not be the case if you are promoting your affiliate
link directly.

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Owning your own domain name is the fastest, easiest, and cheapest way to increase the professionalism of you and your business, virtually over-night.

Understand that in network marketing, or any business for that matter, you are selling yourself.

In actuality, people are much more concerned with YOU, than they are about your business opportunity. I don’t care if you have the greatest business in the world. If you don’t successfully position yourself as a leader in the eyes of your prospects, you will go no where.

With this in mind, understand that you are constantly measured, and compared to other potential upline partners.

People want to work with winners. They are attracted to leaders. It’s a survival instinct

that is a part of our very DNA, and you cannot escape it… But you can also use this to your advantage!

So what does all of this have to do with registering a little domain name?

Well it’s simple… It’s all about professionalism. If you don’t even know how to register a simple domain name, how can you possibly expect other people follow you to “financial freedom?”

But there is much more to it than that…

Having your own domain name is crucial for self-branding, tracking your advertising

results, and ensuring that your prospects successfully make it to your site instead of someone else’s, but after writing this guide, I realized there is much to this process than meets the eye.

Personally, I’ll spend hours and even days selecting the perfect domain name that meets all 5 of my exclusive criteria which allows me to find a domain that protects my brand from competition, pulls in maximum traffic from advertising, and gets listed in the top search engine results… (Just to name a few of the considerations I put into play).

Ok, enough of my soap-box chit-chat. I’m glad you’re here because we’re going to completely change the image of your business in about 30 minutes, so Get Your FREE secrets Here before I close down: