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Take the 90 Day Challenge

Amin — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:20:45 +0000

I’ve just read a post on a blog I frequent and it’s one I’d really love to share with you.

The particular post is about setting yourself up for success, so if you already earn a huge amount it might not be for you. But for everyone who would like to do better in the next 90 days than they have in the last 90 days, it’s a great piece.

I won’t repeat the information here – I think you should visit this blog to read it in full. I thin the biggest piece of advice is to focus on doing one thing over and over. Don’t dilute your efforts by darting around like a butterfly all over the place.

Let’s be honest, it’s easy to fall into that bad habit, but it’s generally a real killer to success.

Have a look at the blog post and let me know what you thought of it. If you have any questions about it add them here and let’s see if we can expand on the advice given.

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Get on Talk Radio

Amin — Fri, 23 May 2008 20:39:32 +0000

I’ve posted a small snippet of an interesting blog post. Many of us are looking for opportunities to make more money and we sometimes overlook ways that aren’t right in front of us. One of those opportunities is radio. There’s a whole captive audience on radio and they’re very receptive to the information they get, by all accounts.

If you want to know a little more, read the full article – the link is given below.

Entire businesses can be launched on the radio. Combined with press releases, radio appearances reach a whole new audience, create tons of credibility and build goodwill.

There is a specific system of steps to use to get on the radio—and effective methods to use to create interest and listener action when you’re on the air.

Step 1 – Listen to the radio, read newspapers, watch TV news, subscribe to news blog rss feeds, and setup a Google Alert that tracks your area of expertise. These actions will help you stay current with what’s in the news and how your message ..

Source: Interview

Easy Weight Loss

Amin — Thu, 22 May 2008 22:29:44 +0000

Are you fat and fed up?

Even if you are, what’s it got to do with me? Well, nothing, really. But I just finished watching a short video by Jim Edwards. He’s the guy who does a lot with video and makes a good living online. His start in the business was like a lot of people’s – no money, bills all over the place and desperation setting in.

He’s made a very good point in his video, which is that making money on the internet is like losing weight. You actually have to do something. You can’t just buy a gym membership and expect to get fit, slim and toned without going and getting a little sweaty. The gym membership card doesn’t do it on its own!

And just buying a course, or report, won’t make you an internet marketer. You actually have to get up off your behind and take some action.

Quick survey: Hands up if you’ve ever bought a product and not used it?

Yes, exactly. Quite a few of us. I daren’t think about how many times I’ve done it and if my wife reads this post she might start looking at my Paypal receipts to find out.

Here’s a startling statistic: I’ve made zero dollars from the products and information I have that never got used.

Like I say, startling.

Here’s another one: I’ve made money when I’ve taken some action and done something.

Man, this internet marketing can be really hard. Of course it’s a bit more subtle than that in reality. Some of the things I’ve actually taken action on haven’t made any money and some didn’t make much money. But collectively they made far more than the stuff I didn’t do.

Jim Edwards is quite right in what he says. You have to take action, or you won’t get a thing. I don’t care how many ‘gurus’ promise you that all you have to do is ‘buy now’ and sit back and watch the money pour in.

It just doesn’t happen that way. Funny thing is, the harder and smarter smart people work the luckier they seem to get. But notice I said smart people and working smarter. You don’t have to do a 96 hour week to make an income online. But you do have to work at it.

Once you’re established and have your streams of income set up it gets easier, but never let anyone fool you that you don’t have to work in the beginning.

As for Jim I’m sure he’ll reach his weight loss goal and if he wants a free copy of my Easy Weight Loss product I’ll be happy to fix him up!

Right or Rich?

Amin — Wed, 21 May 2008 10:08:24 +0000

Do you want to be rich?

Or would you rather be right?

Of course you can be both, that’s not really the point of the question. Given a choice, which would you rather be?

Some of you will have heard really successful marketers talk about the right mindset. In truth there are several components to the right mindset, but one of the most important parts is your need for approval from other people.

That single need that so many of us have, is a real obstacle to your success. Keith Matthew has an interesting discussion about it on his blog. I wont reprint what he said here because you can read it at his blog, but there is one sentence that I believe deserves singling out.

I bet that Bill Gates, Donald Trump, Oprah Winfrey and Michael Bloomberg are all more concerned with getting things done than they are with social consensus.

It’s often said that the quickest way to success is to model someone who’s already successful. Do you think the names mentioned above qualify as successful? I certainly do.

That one sentence above probably gives you 90% of what you need to know to succeed and get rich.

Let’s break it down.

Get things done – nothing beats taking some kind of action. Not even great planning. Now, great planning and action together – wow!
Don’t sweat everybody else’s opinion of you. Hey, your parents, your kids, your spouse all have a big place in your life (or they should). But don’t worry too much about what the rest of the world think of your latest plan. They’re not the ones doing it. So when that ‘friend’ laughs at you as you discuss your new idea for creating a successful business, remember who laughed at Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and all the others like them. Not laughing now, are they?

Take action, above all else take action. Just make sure you learn from the results!

Prosperity Affirmations

Google neglecting your site? Add a blog.

Amin — Tue, 20 May 2008 19:37:46 +0000

This content originally appeared in Jon’s blog and I thought it was interesting enough to share – with his permission. I hope you enjoy reading the post and please feel free to comment on it!

How long has everyone been telling you that Google loves blogs? Months? Years? Well, it’s true, and I wanted to share an experience that helps reinforce that truth to you.

The Blog That Resurrected My Rankings

I had a site devoted to a particular type of exercise equipment. The site was in the top 7 results for its keywords in Google for over six months. Unfortunately I had server problems and the site went down for a few days. Google crawled the site constantly because it was well-linked, and so big G knew instantly that the site was down. Since it stayed down for a few days, Google must have decided it wasn’t coming back up, and its rankings plummetted.

After the site did come back up, it reappeared in Google, but this time on the third page (ranking 25 – 28 for its keywords, on average). Its original page one rankings just wouldn’t come back. I shrugged it off as a lesson learned and basically forgot about the site.

Early last week, though, I was testing a tool I’m creating that helps you write and post blog posts to WordPress blogs super fast. I decided to setup a blog on the site that lost its rankings, just to test it out. I made a bunch of blog posts (they were post-dated so they would show up slowly over time), and sat back to see what would happen.

To my surprise, over the weekend my site jumped back onto page one for its rankings. I hadn’t touched that site in months, and now it’s ranking better than it ever was — at #4 for 3 great sets of keywords. This, of course, has spiked my AdSense earnings for the site.

Another nice benefit of the new blog is that the blog itself is getting some additional traffic from Google, even though the blog does not have any external links directly to it. Google is applying the authority of the site itself to the blog. Since the site is well-linked, the blog is given a bit of “trust” by Google and is appearing in the search results as well.

Scraper Sites Can Help You Rank

On a related note regarding blogs and traffic, I’ve recently setup a blog that automatically creates a bunch of posts each day based on a variety of keywords. This blog is a test for a larger idea I have in mind, and the test is working great, with the blog having achieved more than 12,000 unique visitors in the last 5 days. The vast majority of the traffic has come from Google.

As part of that same test, I setup a second, similar blog that does the same kind of thing. Despite the second blog actually having more content, it has (so far) received no joy from Google at all (it’s not even indexed yet).

The difference is in the scraper sites that are referencing the content. The keywords that I’m creating content around for my successful blog is a scraper magnet — hundreds of scraper sites are auto-posting content from my own blog to theirs, and giving a reference link back to my blog posts to try and make it more legit.

How do these scraper sites know about my brand-new blog posts so fast? Because the blog is indexed by Google’s blog search, and many scraper sites scrape results from that blog search to post to their own blogs. They also scrape many other blog search engines, and since my blog pings those search engines when I make a new post, the blog’s content gets picked up and spread around fast.

Those links from these automated scraper sites have resulted in my blog quickly gaining hundreds of backlinks from all over the web, and that means great rankings for the pages of my blog.

The second test blog I setup, however, has not attracted the scraper blogs and so hasn’t even been indexed in Google yet. It might seem strange that scraper sites can help you rank, but if they link back to the source of the content, they really can.

Trackbacks Are Your Friend

On a final note, I recommend setting up your blog to automatically post trackback links to the blog posts that you link out to. If you’re not familiar with trackbacks, it’s a simple concept: any time you link to an external blog post from within your own blog post, your blog posts a “comment” to the blog post you’ve linked to, letting the readers of that post know about your own post referencing it.

Now, not all blogs will approve your trackback link, but many will, and I’ve received literally thousands of visitors from a single trackback link appearing on a popular blog. So make sure you setup your blog to automatically post trackbacks to the blogs that you link out to — it can often result in a flood of traffic.

Have any more great blog-related traffic building ideas? Care to share your opinion about this post? Please post your thoughts in a comment below.

Source: Jon Leger’s blog

Make More Money Doing What?

Amin — Tue, 20 May 2008 09:51:14 +0000

John Reese has just posted an interesting blog post. He asks the question if you can make more money by marketing to fewer people. He goes on to answer it in the affirmative.

The logic behind what he says is inescapable, really. And it’s ancient wisdom, but something that a lot of us forget, with the consequence we may not make as much money as we could – and should.

I won’t repeat his full post here because you can read it at his blog. But I will mention one small part of what he says that is very valuable.

So start thinking how you can at least start doing some test marketing to a smaller targeted audience. Set up a separate web site and special offers if you have to.

Excellent advice. You’ll never know whether you can make more money by focusing on a smaller group of customers, until you try it. Setting up a test site sounds like a sensible precaution to me.

Make Money Online

Amin — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:03:29 +0000

Yes, that’s something we all want to do, isn’t it?

There are several things you need to have in place to make money online. A website helps, although it’s not essential. A product, or affiliate link is a good thing too. And you must have web site traffic. That’s the magic ingredient that can give you the sales you so desire.

So, how can you make money online and increase web site traffic for free? Well, there are tons of ways, but I’d like to talk about one way to increase web site traffic with a link to a web site traffic promotion offer that is, well, free.

How many places do you know that will give you free web site traffic? I mean really free web site traffic?

And quality web traffic that is worth having?

I found one such site today, while doing some general research on keywords – another of the important things to get right for good web site traffic.

There’s a website called Make Money Online with John Chow Dot Com. Wow, that’s a mouthful of a name. But the site itself is full of good content. I won’t say I agree with every item and I definitely don’t agree with every comment, but there’s enough in there to get your imagination going.

And what John Chow does with his advertising revenues of that one blog is just insane. If you read about it you’ll understand what I mean.

So, here’s the deal:

John Chow dot Com is a blog that can help you to learn how to make money online. Since John is making pretty good money online with his blog, you’d better believe he knows what he’s talking about. And if you’re willing to carry out a review of his blog, he’s offered to make a link to your review and send you some traffic.

So that’s a free link that you can use as a web site traffic promotion strategy to drive more web site traffic to your own digital real estate.

Personally, I’m going to implement some of John’s ideas for advertising on a couple of my other blog sites. He’s done a lot of hard work testing and it seems like a smart move to learn from others who’ve already done what you want to do.

Why re-invent the wheel?