Ten Empowering Thoughts for Your Internet Business

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!

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

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.

  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. Put your domain name on stationary, magnets, golf balls  and more.
9. Talk to people you see when you are out doing errands. Word of mouth is wonderful.
10. 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!

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Passionate Blogging Works

Have you ever wondered why some blogs become wildly successful while other blogs become ghost towns that no one visits?

In a recent interview on Breakfast Television, expert blogger John Chow was asked what is the biggest mistake that new bloggers make when they start blogging. His response was that it is a big mistake to start blogging just for the money. He recommends doing a blog just for fun.

When people start blogging just for the money, they neglect the passionate side of themselves. People like to read good content from others who are passionate about their topic. Choosing something to write about that you feel a lot of passion for basically makes the job, well, not a job. John said, “If you are passionate about it, it’s not really work, is it?”

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Blogging experts reveal their blogging tips

Learning To Blog Class Sessions

One of the fun things about going to BlogWorld Expo 2008 was listening to expert bloggers reveal their personal blogging tips and tell us how they make money with blogging.  Jim Krukal lead a question answer session with four very successful bloggers, Brian Clark, Zac Johnson , Darren Rowse  and for a brief time Jeremy Shoemaker.

Each guest was asked questions about what made their blog successful and what they recommended to others who are starting out a new blog.  They discussed issues such as which programs were making them the most money, whether Google Adsense was really Webmaster Welfare, and what topics are the best to blog about. They talked about how long it takes to establish a good blog and what to expect from your blog at the beginning.  All of them agreed that you need to have a passion for the topic you are going to be blogging about to avoid the dreaded "abandoned blog."
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Blogging Expert John Chow to Speak At BlogWorld Expo 2008

One person I'd like to meet at the next BlogWorld Exp (Sept. 19-21, 2008) in Las Vegas is John Chow. Well known for his crazy videos, explosive income growth and personality, he has one of the most successful blogs on the internet and he shares his secrets to success. He actually keeps a log of his monthly income growth and what programs he used to generate that income. 

John is best known for showing the power of blogging when he used his blog as an income case study. He took the johnchow.com from $350 per month to a over $27,000 per month in just one year.

                                  

This is what is posted on his blog:

Total Blog Income for May 2008: 227,705.80 RMB

Despite the difficulties of doing business in China, the blog posted a record high income of 227,705.80 RMB, or 228 times greater than the average monthly income of a Chinese factory worker. The income converts to $32,529.40 USD. Here is the breakdown.

• Private Ad Sales: $16,380.00
• Affiliate Commissions: $9,757.04
• ReviewMe: $3,000.00
• Text Link Ads: $2,036.22
• Kontera: $1,000.00
• TTZ Media: $329.50
• Subscription: $20.00
• FeedBurner: $6.64
• Grand Total: $32,529.40

Sign up now for BlogWorldExpo 2008

Don't forget to take your video camera and take videos.

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Nine Million People in the United States are Millionaires

According to www.cnbc.com, some of the nine million people feel poor.  They are the "middle class" millionaires.  Laurel Touby, a successful internet entrepreneur, who recently sold her website www.mediabistro.com for $23 million could be one of them. She tells CNBC that she is not that rich.

Money Making Idea

She wanted to build a website to include a community for the media where there were job listings, bulletin boards, classes,  and a freelance marketplace.  She raised money for her website by hosting parties where she invited editors, writers, and other content creators.  Her parties went on and on and her contacts grew to thousands. Now, her website is worth $23 million, with an Alexa page ranking  of  5,275 , which means that the number of visitors she gets is within the top 100,000 most popular sites in the world. There are  2,745 websites linking to mediabistro.com.

She sold her website in July of 2007 to Jupiter Media. She called her rich friends to see what they recommended she buy with her newly acquired wealth.  When she was told to invest in a jet, she laughed and thought that if she did that, her money could be gone in an instant.

See how the really rich live

According to CNBC.com, a financial news site,  "In 1985, there were 13 billionaires in the United States and today there are over 1,000 billionaires." CNBC has a special page devoted to videos and information about the investment bankers, hedge fund managers and private equity partners who make up the .001% of our population.  What toys do they play with? Perhaps a Rolls-Royce, Ferrari, or Dusenberg would pacify them? Find out how many cars Tim Durham, a 45 year old financier from Indiana has in his garage.

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10 Quick Tips for Job Hunting after being Laid Off!

When people lose their jobs, it’s a devastating experience no matter how tactfully they were told they were no longer needed. The life they once knew as financially and emotional secure has been ripped away.  According to many sources this loss is similar in intensity to a divorce or death.

Here are 10 quick tips for surviving a job loss. (Click on the dog to buy the cute doggie tee.)

1. Be grateful for at least one thing in your life on a daily basis. It’s so easy to get angry about situations beyond your control.  Gratitude helps immensely.

“Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It ismore important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.  We cannot change our past.  We cannot change the fact that people act in a certain way.  We cannot change the inevitable.  The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.”  - Charles Swindoll, Minister/Author

2. Get dressed for the day as if you were going to an interview. You will feel more competent and better prepared for anything that may come up during the day.  Get out of those pajamas (unless you are looking for a job as a pajama model) and act as if you were going to be working soon!

3.  Focus on getting face-to-face interviews.  The chances of getting a job are increased with every face-to-face interview with a person who has the power to hire. It seems too obvious to point out, but the end goal of obtaining a job cannot be reached without face-to-face interviews.

4.  Talk to everyone you know and let them know you are looking for work. If there was ever a time in your life that you felt more like crawling in a hole and covering yourself up with sand, this is it.  Let go of this feeling as quickly as possible. The more people that are aware you are job hunting, the higher your chances of getting interviews that lead to employment.

5.  Become a sales person about the most important thing you will ever sell anybody - YOU! It is extremely difficult for some people to think of themselves as a product, but in a way that is what we are.  If you could describe yourself as a product a buyer needs what would you say?

6.  Control the job hunting process. Being laid off is a situation that is out of your control. In fact the only thing you have control of is the actual job hunting process. Plan out daily time periods where you will be on the phone inquiring about job openings and actually talking to possible employers.  Avoid doing anything else during this time.

7.  Don’t overrate the value of a resume.  What is going to get you hired with a new company is your interaction with the interviewer. Write a good resume, but don’t get stuck on spending hours doing it. Many employers are extremely busy and just want the answers to where your worked, how long you were working and what you did.  

8.  Avoid writing an objective on your resume.  Employers care about what they want, not what you want. They want to know if you will fit the position they have in mind for you.   As Tony Beshara states in his book, “The Job Search Solution,”

“The clear message of an effective resume needs to be – You need to interview ME because this is what I have done in the past FOR OTHERS and therefore THIS IS WHAT I CAN DO FOR YOU!” 

9.  Jobs are given to the people who sell themselves best. Don’t be afraid that the qualifications you have aren’t the absolute perfect fit for the jobs you apply for. Maybe someone else looks better than you on paper, but people get hired who are best at selling themselves. 

10.  Research, research, and more research.  Find out about the company you are asking to work for.  Find out everything you can about them. Ask yourself if you would be happy working for that company. Talk to people who are already working there.

Many more tips and ideas can be found in Tony Beshara's book, The Job Search Solution: The Ultimate System for Finding a Great Job Now! (Job Search Solution)

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Ecommerce Business Advice

Ecommerce is a hot topic today because so many people want to be successful at it and so many seek ecommerce business advice.

Chris Malta, owner of WorldWide Brands provides the newcomer to ecommerce some suggestions about product sourcing.  WorldWide Brands offers customers a research tool that reports the feasibility of product sales for thousands of products. He also provides contact information for suppliers that will sell products to individuals who only want to purchase small quantities of products. An excellent way for a small business owner to get their ecommerce site started.

 

 

Mr. Malta also runs a blog on his website that is full of good business advice.  He personally responds to each customer comment in a thorough manner. His posts are long and well thought out and that is what helps him establish credibility with his current customers and helps him sell new training materials. People become repeat customers because of his honesty and business advice. Finding quality ecommerce business advice is easy to do when you read through his blog.

One of the most crucial bits of ecommerce business advice he gives people is that when you are opening a new ecommerce website, choose one line of products.  One line of products allows you to become an dependable authority about that product line.  You will also get the benefit of being able to get natural traffic from the search engines when you focus on the niche marketing keywords for your product line.

Building credibility with your customers is invaluable for customer satisfaction and for repeat business.

Chris tells us in one of his blog posts:

Trying to market multiple stores at once takes way too much time and energy, and they all suffer for that. When you deal with only one store at a time, you can put all of your efforts into getting that store off the ground. Once you have one making a profit, go to the second one. Check your Market Research within our Supplier Database to be sure that the one store you start with carries products that are selling well right now.

Selling different kinds of product lines in one store confuses your customers, and absolutely kills your Search Engine rankings, which are very important. Stick to one type of product line per store!

Chris Malta is using the internet and blogging software to dramatically impact his ecommerce business. He is definitely an influencial leader in the field of ecommerce business.

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