How about a change of pace today?

Instead of yapping about “how to” sell more, what if we rap about
“how NOT to sell” stuff?

Sound good to you?

OK then, below is a list of some ways to “unsell” your products and
services.  In other words, these are things that could take you
from the brink of making the sale (in any medium — online,
offline, whatever) to snatching defeat from the proverbial jaws of
victory.

It’s happened to yours truly many times.

And let me tell ya, it ain’t fun.

So if you find yourself doing any of these things in your sales and
marketing, you may want to reverse course — pronto:

1.  Too chatty (when selling in person, by phone, even in ads)

2.  Lecturing (instead of telling stories — for more on sales
storytelling, check out the free bonus that comes with
“Crackerjack Selling Secrets” – http://www.CrackerjackSelling.com -
described in the PS of the sales letter)

3.  Assuming too many things about your prospect

4.  Not doing enough research

5.  Following the crowd (this’ll get ya every time!)

6.  Slathering your pitch with hype

7.  Screaming at customers (either audibly or in print)

8.  Being too product centered (and not market centered)

So there you have it.

Eight freakishly easy ways to “unsell” your product.

And you what?

I bet if you ONLY avoided making these 8 mistakes, you’d find
your profits go way up… and your frustration levels going way
down.

Try it and see.

Ben Settle

CraigsList.org. is the world’s largest website where you can place free ads in various cities and countries across the whole world and generate free traffic and leads for your products or opportunity.

Placing a free ad on Craigslist is simple and quick. Follow the steps below to advertise for free on Craigslist.

Step 1:

Go to the Craigslist Web site-www.CraigsList.org. Look on the right side of your screen select the city or country you would like to put your ads under from the location columns. Click on the appropriate link. After clicking on a link, you may have to select the closest city. Take the most active city in Craigslist.org  SF Bay Area for example.

Step2

Now you need to select the Category you would like to post your ads under. For online home business, I suggest that you start your advertising under “sm biz ads” section, which you can find under “Services”

Step3

Click on the “Post ” link in the upper right hand corner of the page.

Step4

Click on the category that best suits what you are selling. If you do not see a category that includes the item you wish to advertise, return to the last step by pressing the back button on your browser, and try a different category. Here I will say select our  “small biz ads”.

Step5

Type your posting title, which is the headline for your ads. Then the ‘Posting Description’ where you put the body of your ads in the dialog boxes that appears on the screen. Include the price, the location and your email address. Click on the continue button at the bottom of the page.

Step6

Wait for verification. Craigslist will now give you a verification word to make sure that you are a legitimate poster. Type the word shown in the rectangular box on the bottom left of the screen and click on the “Continue” button.

Step7

Read through the terms and agreements to make sure you agree with all of Craiglists’ policies. If you agree, click on the “Accept the Terms of Use” button on the bottom of the page.

Step8

Login to your email account and look for a message from Craigslist.org. Open the email, which will contain a link to post your ad. Click on the link. Note: You DO NOT need to set up an account to post your ads. But if you set up an account with Craigslist you can see your ads instantly with out login to your email to check it.

Step9

Review your ad to make sure it is complete and correct. Press the publish button if your ad looks good or press the edit button if you need to make changes.

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Michael and Mei

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.

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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…

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.

http://myblog.michaelandmei.com/how-to-create-an-ebook/

Enjoy your high-income flow….

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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Offering free ebooks as bonus to give your customers and visitors a great value has always been one of the best way to build your list quick.

But for most newbies, upload the free ebook to the website has always been a problem. Here are the simple ways to upload your free ebooks for your list to download.

First, save your free ebook into .pdf form. Most ebooks are in pdf form if you download from somewhere. If you create it by yourself, the easiest is creating the ebook in pdf form.

Second, save your ebook on an easy access fold or on your desktop under a short name with .pdf at the end.

Third, open your ftp program. If you don’t have one, you can get a free easy ftp-‘fireftp’ from firefox if you use firefox as a browser. Otherwise, you have to go to google to search for one. Once you get your ftp. It becomes very easy to upload your ebooks to your website.

Offering free ebooks as bonus to give your customers and visitors a great value has always been one of the best way to build your list quick.

But for most newbies, upload the free ebook to the website has always been a problem. Here are the simple ways to upload your free ebooks for your list to download.

First, save your free ebook into .pdf form. Most ebooks are in pdf form if you download from somewhere. If you create it by yourself, the easiest is creating the ebook in pdf form.

Second, save your ebook on an easy access fold or on your desktop under a short name with .pdf at the end.

Third, open your ftp program. If you don’t have one, you can get a free easy ftp-‘fireftp’ from firefox if you use firefox as a browser. Otherwise, you have to go to google to search for one. Once you get your ftp. It becomes very easy to upload your ebooks to your website.

When you get into your ftp program, connect the program with your website. Then you will see on the left hand side of the program are the list of the folds and programs on your computer. On the right hand side of the program are the list of pages and your website folds. Go the list of the left hand side to find out your free ebook.

Click on the name of your free ebook to highligh it. To upload it to your website you need to transfer your ebook to the other side of your ftp program to your website list. With most ftp programs you click an arrow pointing to the website list. On others you can left click on your ebook hold your mouse and drag the ebook pdf to the website side list.

Forth, once you transferred your ebook to your website list. Your ebook has been located at http://yourwebsitename/yourebookname.pdf. That’s it. Your ebook has been uploaded to your website.

Next, go to your browser to type in http://yourwebsitename/yourebookname.pdf. See if your ebook came out. If it came out, save your ebook to your computer and rename it. Click on your new saved ebook to check if your ebook links are working. If your ebook does not came out when you typed your URL in the browser, go back to check the website list you had transferred your ebook into. Make sure you had transfer your ebook pdf file into the same website name as you put in your browser URL.

Well Done!!!

Now you have your ebook successfully uploaded into your website. It is ready for anyone who click on http://yourwebsitename/yourebookname.pdf. to down load directly.

Click on the name of your free ebook to highligh it. To upload it to your website you need to transfer your ebook to the other side of your ftp program to your website list. With most ftp programs you click an arrow pointing to the website list. On others you can left click on your ebook hold your mouse and drag the ebook pdf to the website side list.

Forth, once you transferred your ebook to your website list. Your ebook has been located at http://yourwebsitename/yourebookname.pdf. That’s it. Your ebook has been uploaded to your website.

Next, go to your browser to type in http://yourwebsitename/yourebookname.pdf. See if your ebook came out. If it came out, save your ebook to your computer and rename it. Click on your new saved ebook to check if your ebook links are working. If your ebook does not came out when you typed your URL in the browser, go back to check the website list you had transferred your ebook into. Make sure you had transfer your ebook pdf file into the same website name as you put in your browser URL.

Well Done!!!

Now you have your ebook successfully uploaded into your website. It is ready for anyone who click on http://yourwebsitename/yourebookname.pdf. to down load directly.

Four years ago, when I was a teacher in a training school, one of my students asked me:

“How do I achieve success in my life? I feel lost now. I don’t know how to achieve success in my life any more. I ‘m not a top student in my class and I never have been either. My family and my friends think I‘ll be mediocre for my rest life. But I want to be a successful and powerful man. Otherwise, life is just too boring for me. I believe I have the ability as well. I just don’t know how now.”

Yes, Success is needed in many different areas of life. Students need to succeed at school, a person looking for a job needs to get the job, a person that has a job needs to be successful to keep the job and grow in the business, and a businessperson needs success to keep their business growing and expanding. In every type of situation the person is never relaxed, until they have succeeded in their goals.

But HOW is the question.

The secret of many people’s success is that they are not afraid to tackle challenges, and they face them with a bold determination to succeed. They are sure in themselves that they have what it takes to overcome any obstacle that is placed in their path. They never shirk their responsibilities; they are patient and do whatever it takes to ensure that the end result they seek comes to be. Therefore it must be true that self-confidence and patience are two of the greatest skills needed to succeed.

Where exactly does confidence like this come from? Preparation is where this type of confidence comes from. This means that when you are prepared to face a challenge, then you have a very high confidence level. This is what drives the person to want to succeed. An example is: If a student is set to take exams, and he is totally prepared for them, then he will not be scared to take the tests. He will already know that he will do well, since he is prepared for them. This is like the businessperson, if they feel confident in their business, and have the ability to face any challenge that pops up, they will succeed. They will have the ability to meet the needs of their clients, and make sure that all promises they have made to them are kept.

There is a saying that advises us; there is no substitute for good planning and preparation.

What can be Done To Raise Your Confidence Level?

The best ways to raise your confidence level are to:

Focus on what you are good at, and work hard to become even better at it.

Stay away from people that do not support you, and surround yourself with people that believe in you.

If there are people in your life that say you can’t do something, ignore them, and then go and do it for yourself. No one can make you not do what you want to do; you decide your own fate.

How Important is Patience in Success?

When you are patient, you will not give up on your dreams at the drop of a hat. You will have the skills that are needed to see you through to the end. If what you want to happen in your business takes a while and you are willing to wait then this is patience. If you can keep going even when it seems all is lost, this is determination and patience. People that are successful, or want to be successful, must have these qualities to ensure that they make it to the top, where they want to be. Nothing in life that is worth having is easy, but with persistence and determination, it can be yours.