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When Are You Going To Be Serious About What It Takes To Succeed In Your Internet Business?

Hopefully the answer to that question is NOW! Or ALWAYS! Sometimes Internet entrepreneurs start out and continue to be casual about the whole prospect. They read the stories that them them how easy it is to make boatloads of cash with a minimal of effort. So, that is what they do: Put forth minimal effort. Little do they realize (until too late sometimes) that making a living of the Internet, which can be done, takes honest time and effort. It is the old adage of what effort you put into something will greatly affect the outcome. 

Keep a positive mental attitude and put the effort into your venture, and you will get some positive results. Be sour and negative, and your chances of achieving success are greatly diminished. It’s up to you. When I first started with a website and a blog, I put my heart into it and saw quite a bit of traffic to my sites. I was regularly updating my sites and pinging on a daily basis. I also visited many related sites and left comments (with my website as a contact point) and saw a bit of traffic there. But after a few months, I hadn’t seen a vast increase in traffic because I was only posting twice a week and not visiting other sites and leaving my name and mark there.

I began to seriously look at some of the social networking sites to increase the traffic, and that has helped tremendously. I reconnected with some of my friends and former students to which I have been a silent mystery for years. I got a profile on Facebook and Twitter and spent some effort making my website known there.

Traffic has increased dramatically. I also realize that the attention span of many is shortening as time goes on, so more of an effort is being put on short, information-filled messages. You just have to be open to try new things and stick with the things that are working and find changes to make to get other things working as well. 

Just keep at it and working at it until you find what works for you. It may happen overnight because you might stumble across what is working for you immediately, but it make take longer. Just be patient.

Have a GREAT day!

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Internet Marketing: I’m So Excited!!

It is amazing that Internet Marketing has the ability for you to earn decent money. Thirty years ago I can recall the dawn of the personal computer. There were dreams that were written about that went into detail on how music would largely be done on computers. A lot of it is done that way nowadays, but there is something about the ability to actually play an instrument. There was talk about telecommuting to work and never having to leave your home (that is closer to a reality for many people than was ever envisioned). But to actually make money on your own as an Internet Marketer was unthought of in those days, but now it is a booming industry in which you just need a computer and some guidance.

Is it easy? No. Despite what the pitchmen and pitch women will tell you, it will not happen overnight: there is some work involved in it. Unlike what they would have you believe, you don’t just turn on your computer and the money starts flowing to your bank account.

If only it were that easy.

Just as a star athlete doesn’t get to their highest level of excellence without hard work at the gym, you will never succeed without your own hard work. How much? Ask yourself some questions: How much money do you want to make? What is the time-frame for earning this money? How much time are you willing to devote to this endeavor? Are you going to spend any money in the process? How much? Are you willing to do research to find out the information that you need to succeed? Are you going to have anybody mentor you? Is any of this written down?

Of course, this just scratches the surface of the soul-searching that is required to have Internet Marketing success. I honestly believe that if you have the desire and willingness to work, you will be successful beyond your current dreams. Success begets success.

Have a GREAT day!

Just as a star athlete doesn’t get to their finest without working out at the gym, you will never succeed unless you put in some time and effort. How much? you may ask. It depends. How successful do you want your Internet business to be? What are your goals? Who is yo

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It’s Tuesday, Do You Know Where You Positive Mental Attitude Is?

When on the road to Internet Marketing success, it cannot be emphasized enough that a key to that success is a positive mental attitude. This attitude is not just for the first few days and it will all be easy and downhill from there, but it is a need that needs to have a constant flow of good input in order to be effective. New Year’s Day is a great example. Traditionally people are all excited on that day because it is a new year and an opportunity to start fresh. People often choose to start diets and exercise programs then (why do you think that gyms advertise so much during the Christmas through January time-frame?). There is excitement and somebody may go to the gym every day for a whole week.

Then other influences creep in and make it easier to quit than to press on. They skip going on the Monday after one week and tell themselves “It’s okay, it is only one day, I will make it up tomorrow.”

Tomorrow never comes.

You should do something every single day to feed your positive mental attitude so that, like a muscle, it becomes stronger over time. I am not suggesting that you are “on fire” 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, but a steady flame does so much more to evenly temper you mettle and you will be more successful in the long run.

That’s how I became successful with my ebook Never Surrender!!. Every day a little bit more was done on the book. Had it been attempted in one or two full days of work, it would not have turned out as well as it did. Instead, small bites were taken and the success was built upon.

You can do the same with your Internet Marketing.

There is  lot of information out there and it can be overwhelming, but when you tackle it a small piece at a time. You will find that you will be much more successful in the long run!

Have a GREAT day!

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Positive Mental Attitude - Your Attitude Determines Your Altitude

On of many sayings that comes to mind when Dealing with Positive Mental Attitude. When you have dreams and aspirations, it is better to have a great positive mental attitude, you will get further if you have one than if you engage in thought that is non-motivating. Can you imagine how far the NASA program would have gotten if all the engineers though of was that the rockets would never get much off the ground and the ship would come crashing down to earth?

Not very far.

Rather than think of all the reasons why you will fail at Internet Marketing (and there are a lot of reasons out there if you choose to listen to them), look and listen to all the reasons why you will succeed. Live on a steady diet of praise and possibility and you will be more nourished than if you attempt to live on a diet of scorn and failure. Personally, I would rather have praise then to be ridiculed and belittled. So I haven’t achieved a Bill Gates-type fortune yet, but I revel in the small accomplishments that I have achieved: I jumped for joy the first time that I have 50 hits in one day on my website. I did a jig when I finished my ebook, Never Surrender!! (about getting out of credit card debt). I will have tremendous joy when I write my second book, which will be finished by the end of summer.

You see, the little joy and praise that I get for my “small” victories ensure that I will continue to succeed and strive for even bigger gains in life. You can celebrate the great things (be they small things) in your own personal journey toward Internet Success.

Have a GREAT day!

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Positive Mental Attitude - Always Look on the Bright Side of Life

As a holder of a degree in music, I love songs! Not any one particular genre, but songs in general. When I think of positive mental attitude I think of the Monty Python song Always Look on the Bright Side of Life.Whatever you focus on, you tend to gravitate toward. If all you ever think about is how you are poor and you don’t have enough money, guess what? … You will be poor and not have enough money. If, instead, you focus on the things that you have going your way and how successful those are, you will be harvesting feelings of empowerment and success.

It is up to you!

Instead of focusing on the $1,000 that you don’t have, focus on the $100 that you do. It is much like the parable of the three servents of a master who were entrusted with the master’s money while he was away. Two of the servants used the money to make more money for the master and they were rewarded with more responsibility and praise. But one who simply looked on the negative side and didn’t want to lose what was given him hid the money and had only that money to return to his master. His indecisiveness and laziness and fear caused him to lose what was to be his reward.

What reward are YOU missing because of your fear and laziness? You know that you will get out of something what you put into it and that you should not fear.  In fact, I recall reading a Zig Ziglar book, See You At The Top that stated the fear stand for False Expectations Appearing Real. Be fearless and you will improve your chance for success.

Have a GREAT day!

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Internet Marketing - You Have to be Flexible

An story keeps running through my head as I think about what was posted yesterday about the need to be flexible. There is a lot more to say than the few words that were typed out yesterday. The story goes about the great mighty oak tree that had lived for over 100 years. Strong and proud, it had weathered some years of drought, some years of excessive rain, even a small wildfire. One day a strand of prairie grass was near the oak tree and the oak tree was in his usual bragging mood admiring his reflection in a small nearby pond. “I am mighty and powerful and you, little sprout, will never be as grand as I am.”  Suddenly, the skies darkened and the winds began to blow. The might oak stood his ground and almost laughed at the growing wind. “I am mighty and powerful, this wind is nothing to me”, he boasted. The storm worsened and it grew dark. The next morning the mighty oak had been toppled because as the wind gained strength the tree had not had any flexibility and the wind finally won. The strand of prairie grass, however, was still standing as it was before. The winds at time had the grass laying flat against the ground, but because of its flexibility, it was able to survive.

You have to be flexible to survive in Internet Marketing also. Don’t be so rigid that you will not be able to see what works and what doesn’t and change accordingly. Have a plan, of course, but also be willing to change your plans as necessary. Don’t believe because what has always worked wil work for you in the future because, if there is any one constant in the world, it is change. Things will change. Be flexible to adapt to the changes so that you can be more successful.

Have a GREAT day!

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Internet Marketing - One (of many) Key To Marketing Success

I enjoy reading other ideas about Internet Marketing and how the one in any particular article are the ONLY ones that work. Unfortunately, there is more than one way to skin a cat. You can take many paths along your road to online success and I am just presenting another one. This particular key could be considered as the only one that you would need, but perhaps it is a starting point instead. It is at the use of this key, doors will open up to you that you never before though possible (hence, the word key). It isn’t fancy, it isn’t new, but it is powerful in and of itself. What is that key?

DECIDE

Decide literally means to cut off. When you decide to do something, you subconsciously make the choice to go toward reaching the goal. Your body responds by putting all effort into that. Internet Marketing success is the same way. You must decide to make it successful. Don’t use weak language and say “I guess I will do a good job at making money on the Internet”. Does that sound convincing? If you saw that somebody else had said that, do you think in six months you would see their name on a lot of articles about Internet Success? No. What about if you instead said “I will definitely make $100,000 on the Internet by December 31, 2009″ Apply the same scrutiny. Will they be successful? Probably, but you know that whoever says that will be a lot closer to being successful than somebody who “guesses” they will be successful.

Decide! Do Something! Make a move toward your own success!

Have a GREAT day!

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PMA: Fill A Need

You want to have more traffic to your website. You know that having more traffic, when directed wisely, can lead you to having more success as an Internet marketer. But you ask yourself: “How do I do this? How can I get people to come to my web site and what can I do to translate this into more dollars in my pocket?” We have been exploring some of the ways to generate traffic to your web site and the role that having a positive mental attitude can assist you in having a greater degree of success in your online endeavors. The answers are out there, the challenge is that those gems of knowledge are sometimes hidden deep within writings of those who are already enjoying a great deal of success. In a nutshell, if you find a need and supply the solution to fulfilling that need (whether it is through the creation of your own product or being an affilliate for a product) will transition a web “browser” into a buyer. The person on the other end will be happy and loyal that you have provided this service to them and you will be rewarded as well.  Let me state that again:

Find a need out there that others desire to have fulfilled, offer a solution, and you will be rewarded.

It isn’t the easiest thing in the world. You have to research (and you thought that once you were done with school you didn’t have to do any thinking again - WRONG!), you have to put time and effort into your endeavor (if you put nothing into your effort to drive Internet traffic, you get exactly that: NOTHING!), look at what others are doing successfully and use those same techniques yourself.

You CAN be successful, but you have to take ACTION to be successful.

Have a GREAT day!

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Should I Pay or Should I Go?

When in the process of developing traffic to your website (remember that traffic = $$$),  you may wonder if it is good to pay for your traffic.  Several different options are out there such as Google’s adwords or Yahoo Search Marketing.  Of course you don’t have to use either on of those.  You can simply type “pay per click advertising” into the search field of your browser and see how many thousand results pop up.  Read through these carefully because you will get traffic to your site because you are paying per click to whatever company you choose to help direct your audience to you. 

Most of these companies (or at least the most reputable of them) will allow you to set a daily limit (budget) on the amount that you will pay.  Google is excellent at policing the click history for you to help prevent somebody from quickly depleting your available funds.  Paying for traffic is one of the fastest ways to generate traffic to your site, but you will not need to always have that avenue used.  In fact, if you will ntice some of the bigger sites (those that generate millions of hits daily) don’t need to have to pay for visitors, they tend to have people pay them to redirect people from their site.

That brings us to another way to generate traffic: have your site linked on another site.  You may have to pay a small monthly stipend to the webmaster of that site, but typically the costs are minimal and the results are priceless.   One of the keys is to first get people to visit your site, but it is up to you (and this is where the work comes in) to continually upgrade your site to have a lend of the familiar mixed with new.  People like familiarity, but attention spans seem to be growing shorter with time and people want variety.

Give the people what they want!  If you have any questions, just drop me an email, and I will answer as best I can. Here is to your succes in having money for your life and living the dreams that you have dreamed!

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Do The Research, Baby!

When starting an online presence, you need to do a little bit of research.  That is, of course, if you want to be successful an have traffic come to your site.  There are many things to research when searching for a subject to cater to (and with so many specialized interests out there, you can find a niche that would cater to just about anybody).  These include (but are certainly not limited to):

* Number of people that are looking for a particular subject.  For example, if you were wondering how many searches there were for searching for pomeranians, simply go to Google, type in the search word “pomeranians” and google will quickly return 599,000 results. That’s a lot of different searches for a little dog.  And some people do not like or are afraid of dogs. 

* Read the blogs.  This is another no-brainer in that you would go to Google, type in your subject followed by a space and the word “blog”.  Chances are you will get several results.  If there are very few results pulled from your search, that either tells you that there is no market for your subject or that you may have more exclusivity in that market. 

* If you are looking to sell a physical product, try going to Yahoo!Shopping, there you will find your product, what the average price will be and, depending on the number of results, how saturated your market is going to be.  Chances are that if there is a big market for something, there will be room for you to be in there and start making your own online money.

Be diligent, be thorough, be excited!  This is a great time to be able to start your own online business, but you have to work smart in order to succeed.  Next time, Creating Traffic.

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