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Presidential Elections – Trick or Treat?

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Trick or Treat?

It’s hard to tell with this Presidential Election coming to a close in less than a week whether we wil have a trick or treat. Have we got all the facts to make a good decision? Will the Presidential candidates actually do what they propose when elected?

Will there be a trick or treat?

With new technology on the Internet providing instant replays of everything the candidates say and do, voters are probably more informed about this presidential election than they have ever been in the past.

Social media sites like www.capzles.com have provided voters with an incredible means of viewing and listening to all the information one could possibly want on each candidate’s past and present. www.Capzles.com allows users to upload documents, videos and photographs of whatever they choose and then the information is organized on a time line.

All of the Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates have a time-line style profile, complete with photos, videos and all their ads. You can see instant replays of the aircraft accident that John McCain was in during his younger years. You can actually see the plane skidding off the runway of the ship. You can also see pictures of him being pulled out of a Hanoi lake by the North Vietnamese after his plane was shot down. View the actual film footage of him as a prisoner, lying in a hospital bed in Vietnam.

Sarah Palin, mother, moose hunter, maverick, mayor, governor also has an impressive time line. The time line is full of short clips and photos of her career and service.

Barack Obama’s time capsule is equally impressive.  Photos from childhood through the present are interesting to look at. He has posted videos of all of his campaign speeches and one that shows the Charles Keating, Lincoln Savings and loan scandal where five U.S. Senators, including John McCain were investigated for their role in helping Charles Keating to get his charges of fraud reduced.

Joe Biden’s time capsule is rather sparse with only one photo of him.  Wonder why that happened?

So this next week when you go to vote, there should be no excuse for not being informed about which Presidential candidate you are voting for. Don’t let there be any tricks for you!

Ten Empowering Thoughts for Your Internet Business

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Last week, I listened to Brian Campbell, a successful Internet marketer, give a webinar on social media marketing. During that talk he had people think about the belief system they had and whether or not their beliefs where empowering them or limiting them. He pointed out that every action we take begins with a thought.

The audience was asked to identify thoughts that were either empowering or limiting in nature. Here are ten empowering thoughts that were selected.

  1. There is an abundance of money.
  2. People deserve to be compensated generously for the value they produce.
  3. I can spend money freely to enjoy life.
  4. I can make money very easily with very little effort.
  5. Money flows to me easily.
  6. I would like to compensate people for their value because I appreciate them.
  7. Money is to be enjoyed.
  8. You are priceless.
  9. The past is not my future.
  10. I can get many people to act on something.

It seems to be human nature to dwell on some very limiting beliefs, which guide our course of action. How often have you told yourself that there is scarcity in your life? Or lately, the economy is so bad, no one is making any money. Recognizing and replacing our limiting beliefs is crucial to our success in any field of business or any area of our lives.

Would you picture yourself as someone who could influence others to take action? And don’t think of the times you’ve asked your children to clean up their rooms.  Think of the times that you’ve recommended a great movie to your friends.

Could you become a person that could influence 100 people to take the action you want them to take?  A 100,000 or 100,000,000?  How would you do it?  What would you say? What could you write?

Mark Zuckerberg influenced over 100 million people to use his website application at www.facebook.com. He is now enjoying the billionaire status as noted in Forbes magazine, The 400 Richest People in America, 2008 edition.

Create your website business plan to get as many people as you can to take the action you would like them to take. There are approximately 6,732,600,000 people in this world to influence!  Keep empowering beliefs in the forefront of your mind as you create a successful website business plan that can move people to take action!

Top Twenty New Useful Website Applications

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An interesting array of new, useful websites have appeared on the Internet. All these websites are designed to make your life easier in some regard.

The websites listed below are displayed according to their Alexa ranking, which is a measurement of how popular sites are and how much traffic they get. Google and Yahoo of course battle for the number one position worldwide, so that should give you some idea that the closer the website is to the number one position, the more popular they are. They are also listed by the topic they cover.

Alexa Rank Useful Websites Topic
161 www.multiply.com Media Storage
199 www.pogo.com Games
1,183 www.slate.com Government Gossip
4,061 www.opentable.com Dining
12,060 www.gasbuddy.com Energy
16,253 www.fitday.com Health
31,436 www.annualcreditreport.com Finance
35,711 www.glassdoor.com Company Gossip
44,868 www.sproutbuilder.com Media Creation
48,177 www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/ Government Gossip
56,660 www.nextbus.com Transportation
73,063 www.fedspending.org Government Gossip
92,030 www.billshrink.com Finance
119,812 www.techmeme.com Technology
454,896 www.capzles.com Media Storage

It’s worth taking a look at some of these to see how they will help you in your daily life. One favorite is the www.opentable.com where you can book dining reservations. Their database comes complete with photos of the inside of the restaurant and price ranges for dinner.

The next time you are waiting for a bus to arrive, you may be lucky enough to discover your bus system is being tracked by a GPS system. Although this site, www.nextbus.com does not have all the states in the U.S. covered, it is a great idea and one I hope will blossom into all parts of the world. Seems that one cold morning while waiting for a bus, I developed this sytem in my mind. Life is becoming easier with new technology!

I mentioned the top twenty useful websites and only listed 19…what should number 20 be?

Facebook Used to Make Money Online

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Brian Campbell made $25,000 in 21 days on Facebook

Brian Campbell made an initial claim on his Facebook page that he could make $10,000 in 37 days.

Well, he surpassed his original claim and made $25,000 in 21 days. He decided to pay it forward and gifted John Chow $10,000.

So, how do you make money using Facebook?

To begin with, sign up for an account and learn how to use various applications of Facebook to reprint your website blog feed, find and communicate with friends, post videos, provide valuable content to your visitors and provide leadership to anyone who wants to improve their financial condition.

History of the Development of the Facebook Website

In 2008, Forbes Magazine declared the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, 24 years-old, the youngest self-made billionaire on earth with an estimated net worth of $1.5 billion U.S. dollars. Described as a young geeky computer programmer, Mark is the mogul who is guiding the extraordinary growth of Facebook.

In 2006, Yahoo offered to buy Facebook for a billion dollars, but Mark Zuckerberg declined. Microsoft then made him an offer of $240 million dollars to gain 1.6% of the company. Based on this information, some analysts came to the conclusion that Facebook is worth $15 Billion dollars. Not all analyst agree on that valuation.

Mark Zuckerberg is not new to the field of computer programming. He wrote his first software program in the 6th grade. In high school he was approached by both Microsoft and AOL due to a hacking project he was involved in. He decided to go to Harvard University instead.

He built the original Facebook site in two weeks, while attending Harvard. Within a short period of time, more than 2/3 of the student body at Harvard was using the program. Within four months they had launched the program to over 40 colleges. He expanded Facebook to be used in high schools and then in 2006, he opened it up to the public.

Facebook now has more than 700 employees, has hired a lawyer, shares more than ten billion photos, has 100-million-plus users and is connecting people with each other like they have never been able to connect before.

Facebook Helps Entrepreneurs

It has been said that marketing in 2008 begins with conversations and what better way to have conversations with people than being an active member of the Facebook community? People around the world are using Facebook to connect with each other for social purposes and that provides the ultimate medium to network and share your personal recommendations for a huge variety of products and purposes. What kind of marketing system can you create on Facebook?

Watch the interview with Mark Zuckerberg on 60 Minutes here:

 

Updated October 21, 2013

In 2013, Facebook and Google reached an agreement about advertising. In a few months, Google will be able to buy ads on the Facebook ad exchange. A similar agreement was also made with Amazon.com. With Facebook being the advertiser’s nirvana, this may be the biggest surge forward to this date.

Forbes magazine, Sept., 2013 reported Zuckerberg to be worth $19 billion coming in a #20 of the Forbes 400 richest Americans.

 

 

Offline Advertising Helps 83-year-old To Sell Pearl Jewelry

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Entrepreneurs can blossom at any age, even at 83. Wearing what you have to offer is one way that Marian Flake, 83 years young sold her jewelry to her friends at the doctor’s office.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yhXUab_4zA  With so much focus targeted with online marketing, sometimes we forget that offline advertising works well too. Here are some tips to help you advertise your website domain name offline.

  1. Go to www.cafepress.com  and have some wearable artwork put on a tee shirt, sweatshirt, baseball cap, coffee cup, clock or many other items.
  2. If you don’t have any artistic skills in making up logos for your website, go to www.elance.com and hire a professional graphic designer to make you a logo. Then you can upload it to www.cafepress.com  and order all you want.
  3. License plate frames are a great way to advertise to all those people who are sitting in traffic behind you.
  4. Put a cool graphic on your car window. Go to to find out what they look like.
  5. If you are fortunate enough to have one, put your domain name on your boat.
  6. Put a yard sign in your yard, if your neighborhood allows it.
  7. Order pens that have your domain name on them.
  8. Talk to people you see when you are out doing errands. Word of mouth is wonderful.
  9. Make an unusual business card  stand out from the normal cards.   

Enhance your entrepreneurial skills by talking about your website offline and by using offline advertising such as the ten offline advertising ideas mentioned here.

Add your unique ideas here in the comments section!