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7 Kick Ass Traits that Every Entrepreneur must have Part 1 of 2

– May 12, 2009Posted in: Mindset

Being an entrepreneur, offline or on the internet is not as easy as you think. Especially if you are  someone who is ambitious and wants to make it big. To others this may seem like a nightmare. But with the right mindset, that nightmare can be turned into a dream come true…

1.  Passion – Love what you do
You must have a lot of passion in order to enjoy your work and get ahead. When things get tough, you will not be negatively affected like the other people who hate what they are doing. You will not lose energy because your work is a source of energy itself.

2. Persistence – Do it always
You have to do something consistently everyone single day. It is not enough just to do it once. If you want to gain more customers, work on this goal from Monday to Sunday, never missing a day. You will see results much faster. Thomas Edison failed more than 10,000 times before he perfected the light bulb.

3. Focus – Keep your eye on the ball
This means that you must not be distracted. The biggest enemy for internet entrepreneurs, particularly if you are working in a house with a TV, fridge, etc, is to forget about the task at hand because the show “The Office” is on. You must focus on your goals so that they can become a reality. The minute you get unfocused you will start to fall backwards.

4. Action – It is not enough just to know it
This is by far the greatest area where people get confused. If you go out and learn something new, let’s say an innovative marketing technique, don’t just store it in your head. Get it out of there and put it into an action plan. As soon as you have time to be committed, apply what you have learned. It doesn’t have to be big either, just make sure that you apply it in any way, shape, or form. You will get in the habit of applying and your long term success will sky rocket. This goes for your goals as well.

5. Positive perspective – The glass is half full, not half empty
Keep a positive mindset. When you are working, things can get problematic and frustrating. Do not put your attention on it. Simply notice it and look for a solution. People are dying, getting kidnapped, and turning to violence all the time. At that same moment, there is innovation, financial independence, successful businesses, sunny days, growing grass, celebration, new discoveries, and Rihanna’s nude photos being leaked (that was a joke). Choose which side you want to be on.

6. Work hard – Don’t stick with the easy stuff
If you do something and it starts to get easy for you, move on. Do not stay in the easy zone for too long because you will be bypassed by everyone. As soon as something feels easy to you, find a way to move higher so that it is challenging again. Like this you just keep moving up and up.

7. Visualize – Preview your future life before it happens
The cool thing about this is coming up with scenarios and special moments of your future life. Just imagine waking up in the morning and going outside to get your 6 figure check in the mail. Visualizing is like opening up a small doorway in your mind. It creates a possibility of what you are dreaming about to actually happen. What you have to keep in mind here is to not set any limits. Don’t envision a million dollar check when you can just as easily envision a 10 million dollar check. Hell, why not even a billion dollar check (there, I said it).

So there you have it. 7 traits you must develop in order to make something of yourself. Stay tuned for the second part of this article that you cannot miss. In fact, get notified by email. Click here to subscribe via email and be alerted when the second half of this article is posted.

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5 Ways to Market Your Products Online for Free

– March 26, 2009Posted in: Traffic

One of the greatest skills to have on the internet is to know how to market products well. Once you are good at this, people will search high and low and pay you insane commissions just to get you to sell their products. Forget about paying for traffic. You will save money if you get it for free…

1. Articles
This one is perhaps the most widely used way to market stuff for free on the internet. Writing articles is also the easiest too. All you have to do is write a 250 word article and you can have it viewed by 100′s of targeted people. There are always people out there who are looking for information on certain things. If you can write something useful and something that solves their problems, they are going to consider you as an expert. They will click on your link and if they like what they see, a sale will be made!

Places:

  • Ezine.com
  • Articlebase.com
  • GoArticles.com
  • HubPages.com
  • Buzzle.com
  • SearchWarp.com
    Articlealley.com

2. Bookmark Your Stuff
Here is one of those ways that have to do with social networking. Basically all you have to do is find great sites and then bookmark them so that other people can see it. If these bookmarks are good, people will vote and in turn many more people will see it. Do you see the opportunity here? Why not bookmark your articles or product pages? People will begin to notice you and you will develop fans. The trick to this is to also bookmark stuff that you find interesting. Bookmark stuff that is related to what you are selling even if you won’t make money from it. Why? Because if it is that good, the bookmark sites will rank you high and you will gain more exposure because people will see you and look at what else you have bookmarked!

Places:

  • Digg.com
  • Buzz.yahoo.com
  • Technorati.com
  • StumbleUpon.com
  • delicious.com

*Use this tool to speed up your bookmarking if you are going to submit to many of these places. It is called OnlyWire and I use it all the time!

3. Comment on Relevant Blogs
You must comment on other people’s blogs for two reasons. One, people will see your link and click on it. Two, search engines will see it as backlinks and will rank your site/articles much faster and higher. Just be sure to provide “value” in your comments and to comment on sites that rank “high” in the search engines. Don’t be like this: ” I liked your article, learn how to make $506,484 in 7 minutes. www.IamscammingYou.com” People will see it and automatically throw it into their mental trash. And believe me, you don’t want to be there. What I recommend is to just leave a comment and have no words advertising your products. Instead just add a link with a title that says something relevant. Here is an example:

“This article was great. I can’t wait to put these money making strategies into action. Thanks”

Use this Code in your comment to link a text, most places accept it:

<a href=”URL”>TITLE</a>

Do you see how the link is just there. People won’t consider it as spam and will automatically click it. If the article was about money making strategies and your link has that, people will click! Don’t you love me?

4. Forums
Forums are a great way to establish a relationship with people. The more you give, the more you get. If you offer value to people’s questions and opinions, they will click on your link and see what else you have to offer having in the back of their mind that you always provide value. Then anything you give them will be considered valuable.

5. Free Classifieds
Here is something that requires little effort. All you need to do is to write a 100 word little ad and people will see it. Make sure that your ad is, again, “valuable.” Don’t sound spammy, especially in the title which is the first thing people will see. Would you really want to click on something that says “MAKE $5000 IN THE NEXT 2 WEEKS ONLINE”, hell no. No one is going to click on it. By the way, putting everything in caps lock is not going to help either. It is said that when search engines see things all in caps, they automatically consider it as SPAM! So knock it off.

Places:

  • kijiji.com
  • usfreeads.com
  • isell.com
  • eclassifieds4u.com/
  • classifiedsforfree.com/
  • redleafads.com/

*Bonus*
Since I am in a good mood right now, (because I’m going to McDonalds later (yea I know, I’m a fatty, it’s the stupid subliminal advertising they do)) the last thing you should have is a marketing system. You need to put all these marketing methods into place. And best of all, you have to attach them together. let’s say that you write an article, link that article to bookmark sites, link those bookmark sites to classifieds, and link those classifieds to relevant comments, etc. This is an example of fusion methods together. Try it!

There you go guys. The most important thing I can give you right now is this: Put it into friggin action right now because all of this is useless if you do not use it. It is not enough just to know it. Here is a little goal: Write one article a day for 3 months. That will be 93 articles by the end   of month 3. Just do it now…

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3 Rules You Must know to Start Making Money Online

– March 23, 2009Posted in: General, Traffic

Are you making money online? Let me tell you right now, It is one of the easiest things I have ever learned to do. All it requires is a little effort and dedication. If you are having trouble with this whole idea of working at home and making money, then these 3 tips will get you started on the right path…

1. Find Your Passion
Passion, passion, passion! That is one of the greatest things you should take into consideration because you will receive so much more energy and purpose. Think about it. Will you be motivated to do something you don’t like? It would not be fun (which is important) and you would not create quality work as you would with having a passion. It’s basically like waking up in the morning to a job you don’t want to do! That feeling of discomfort would show its face. The feeling that starts from your throat and eventually flows through your whole body. Find what you enjoy doing. What do you get so caught up in that you lose track of time, what makes you feel good, what would you do no matter how hard it could get, what would you do even if you did not get paid? These questions would eventually lead you to an answer. Sometimes you get into a common situation where you realize that there is another industry where thousands of people are getting rich. An example could be the oil industry. It is worth billions of dollars and a lot of people are getting very wealthy from it. Let’s say oil is not your thing but you decide to get into it anyways. This is a big no-no. Sure, a lot of wealth is being created but if you are not passionate then you are going to have a tough time and this could result in no money at all. Do you see how passion has a great impact on the money you create? Even though the oil industry is flowing with money, you will make very little due to lack of passion.

2. Focus on What Can Be, Not on What Is
When you start out, you are obviously going to make a lot of mistakes. Realize that you are getting something of value from these mistakes. If you focus on what is going on you will just attract that into your future. Focus on what you want and don`t let anything change your attitude. You will be amazed by how quickly you will begin to see results.

3. Create Plans of Action
This is the most important one of them all. All the knowledge you absorb and all the ideas you have will be useless if they are not turned into plans and actions. Knowledge is light and fluffy and will disappear if it is not mixed with stone and concrete. Open Word or Notepad right now and create an action plan. All you are going to do is make a list of what you learned or what you want and give examples of how you are going apply this to something.

So there you have it. You need passion, focus, and plans of action to make things happen. Once you develop your plans, begin to follow them immediately. Start from where you are. When things get tough just keep on going and have faith that makes you feel like you will eventually achieve your goals. Within time, you will see results.

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