Old Italian Proverb

"Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it".

A to Z Steps to a Richer Life, Letter "C"

Good Day Fellow MLM'ers and Affiliate Marketers,

In my December 3, 2008 post, I shared Deepak Chopra's wisdom on creating affluence. In his book titled, "Deepak Chopra, M.D. -- The A-Z Steps to a Richer Life", we're reminded that affluence is a state of mind.

• A person may possess great wealth in life but they may be poor in mind. Conversely, another person may be poor in their pocketbook but they may be spiritually rich.
• The goal of this post (and future posts) is to help you align your spiritual self to your human self.
• When both self and soul are aligned, your soul will bring forth 'inherent wisdom' or your inner-knowingness.

Today, I cover Chopra's letter "C" as I weave business information over time with uplifting concepts. Please feel free to check out earlier posts.

The essential quality of "C" "stands for Carefreeness and Charity". Because Chopra states these qualities succinctly, I will directly quote his book. In it he states, "A billion dollars in the bank, without the experience of carefreeness and charity, is a state of poverty. Wealth consciousness, by definition, is a state of mind. If you are constantly concerned about how much money you need, then irrespective of the actual dollar amount you have in your account, you are really poor".

"Carefreeness automatically leads to charity and sharing because the source from which it all comes is infinite, unbounded, and inexhaustible".

Think of the Universe as a mirror. It shows you the results of your inner-most thoughts and beliefs based on actions you take today. These thoughts will reflect your conscious and subconscious belief system. However, if you're not sure what your subconscious thoughts are, the conscious mind receives signals from the subconscious mind. What's neat about the natural law of mirroring -- these mirrorings appear in the form of people, messages, timed events and coincidences.

If you discover a belief is holding you back, you may reprogram the belief by using positive statements called affirmations. I talked about how this process works in the post covering letter "B". In short, if you rewrite an old belief in positive terms, you will begin to program the new belief.

Example:

I am poor.

Replace the new belief with:

I am abundant.

At first, you may not feel this new state of being.

You have to feel the new reality in your body before it appears.

Then by feeling that feeling consistently, you'll tell your subconscious mind the new thought.

The subconscious mind accepts the new affirmation without question.

The key is not to contradict yourself when you're reprogramming an old thought.

The affirmation can be stated out loud or it can be written on paper.

Here's a complete affirmation --

"Because I am inherently complete in the eyes of my creator, I am complete",

It takes 30 days to embed a new belief. You must accept it unconditionally for your subconscious mind to accept the new thought.

To make the first affirmation plausible to your mind, you can embed the first affirmation with the second one by telling yourself.

"I am abundant".

As you move in this direction consistently, you will produce a positive change.

If you use these affirmations but then talk to neighbors or family members about "not being abundant", your subconcsious mind will hold onto this belief. The goal is to be careful about what you say, paying close attention to how often you say it.

If you would like to understand more about how you may reprogram an old thought, feel free to post your comments. I will be happy to offer additional input.

Supporting Your Success Using Proven Means, Thoughts and Principles,

B. Brinkmeyer

A to Z Steps to a Richer Life

Well Wishes Fellow MLM'ers and Affiliates,

During the holiday season, it's most common to reflect on past events of 2008.

If you feel 2009 must involve more change, then we turn to beliefs.

Did you know --

If you clear a belief, you can accelerate your learning?

You don't have to spend years mastering a life lesson.


Extend your thoughts further by considering --

Changes in belief alter your reality. You've heard that saying, "Be careful what you wish for because you might just get it"!

Then...think about what would happen if you could take this new belief further, replacing the old
one that didn't serve you very well. Now, carry this work over to your business and ask yourself..., how would those newly-acquired beliefs impact your business during 2009?

Whenever you change a belief, it has to become conscious. Sometimes this work involves 30 days of testing the waters, to see if you've really altered the thought.

Do you believe you are poor? You will obtain that result.

Do you believe you are worthy of the very best in life, regardless of what others tell you? Of course you are -- without any doubt!

So we address creating the abundance you desire (and deserve), separately from what you've been told.

If you think of yourself as someone who already possesses an internal guidance system, you can tap into this knowledge to bring forth ready solutions.

Let's cover more of Deepak Chopra's "A-To-Z Steps To A Richer Life", as I've done in prior posts.
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Today, I talk about letter "B".

It's connected to the essential quality of your Soul reflecting the energy of words called BETTER and BEST. When people read or hear these words, there's confusion. If you're thinking about getting the best of everything but you're doing it at others' expense, this kind of best will yield limited results.

Kindly think in terms of a Universal Good, representing the Functioning Whole.

Think about better or best along the lines of an old but proven Japanese principle martial arts masters call Kaizen. The most spiritually-integrated masters will pair Kaizen with business (using lean processes, Six Sigma ideas, guiding self and others with care and love).

Above all, anything you do in life should include love. This may sound corny but there's no more powerful force than love in the Universe. It's active, it's light -- it's knowledge.

How might you apply this information in 2009?

a) In order to change what may not be working too well, you have to take an honest look at yourself. This process requires time. It means taking some time out for yourself each day.
b) Think about what you want to change the most.
c) Then take a baby step forward. Write the new thought on paper and refer back to your notes often. Then embed the new belief with a new action. Any new step will count.

You must implement the small change often to embed a new reality.

Over time, more change will emerge. Be patient with yourself. Then, once you've made smaller changes, you can tackle the larger changes. If it's business or personal, the changes are up to you but to obtain the wisdom of anything new, you must first walk through the change to obtain the new wisdom.

e) Connect to someone new or known but apply the new change.
f) The cobblestones of your success appear as a new bridge, taking you from old to new.
g) Implement these baby steps without restraint. Don't think too hard. If you have gaps in your knowledge, then search for better information.
h) Always pick positive information. Negative information pulls you down.

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Chopra suggests, "People evolve readily when they apply "Better and Best" ideas to their lives".

Better and best principles are not to be confused with ego. We're looking to discover the greater self with ease; it's that part of you which is very wise. It's always slow to anger and it's always quickest to deliver key insight.

If you find that an area in your life is sliding backwards, chances are that your greater self is trying to show you what must change. This means healing a belief that's holding you back. Maybe the change means going to the doctor or increasing your exercise or altering your diet for the better...or maybe it means you might improve your lifestyle to some extent.

If you can accept that you are inherently perfect in the eyes of God, you are eternal and powerful. If we apply better and best to personal relationships, the finger always points back to you. It's up to you to make the necessary changes. This is true because when you change something about yourself, changes from others appear later.

As you offer others your best, you will see that "people with a wealth consciousness settle only for the best". I'm not saying that you're expecting perfection from others because we know that people can't offer this in return. I am saying that by using THE PRINCIPLE OF HIGHEST FIRST, you'll share solid information. Pull from the strongest resources available but always
use careful discernment because we are entering a special time ahead.

You could say that we're now facing leadership of self!

Proof -- take a look at recent events on the news. You'll see that the paradigm of following others is making many of us rethink what we should now do for the future.

People who are truly wealthy in mindset continually work on themselves. They never stop. They're always looking to others who mirror back to them pure power!

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Recap of the Principle of Highest First --

In the mastered sense, if you accept only the best in life, you program yourself to receive only the highest, most loving best from the Universe.

Offer your ultimate best and the Universe will respond by giving you what you put forth.

Happy Holidays!

Supporting Your Success Using Proven Means, Thoughts and Principles,

B. Brinkmeyer

Humans Facing Change

Visualize in your mind the perfect solution without knowing what it is! Visualize the challenge being over, being peaceful with everything around you. Don't tell Spirit how to solve it. Instead, visualize it as being finished.

-- Lee Carroll

Learning From Your Emotions

Honor and learn from your emotions, but do not let them control your life. Behave with kindness and compassion no matter what you are feeling. This is not denial; this is courage.

-- Dan Millman, "Wisdom of the Peaceful Warrior"

Whatever You Do, Keep Your Day Job

Hi Fellow MLM'ers and Affiliates,

Falling For People Who Claim To Strike It Rich --

So you've probably stumbled upon a variety of superaffiliate websites online... stating that you can strike it rich, in 30 days or less. I'd like to inject a healthy dose of reality whenever you embark on the "home-based business journey".

This claim is not true.

The reality is --

1) it takes time to build a business
2) it costs you more time/effort than first suspected
3) you'll have some learning involved -- be the expert
4) there will be some money invested
5) if the biz doesn't require money up front, it will demand time/effort
6) you must be passionate about what you do
7) there will be times where you'd like to quit
8) quitting is permanent
9) hanging in there is temporary
10) in time -- you'll find solutions

With that said, I'm not here to discourage you. I'm telling you how things are in business. It takes time for people to know who you are, finding out what you represent -- honest Joe....or worse.

To reduce the learning curve, click below:

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This work will prepare you for traffic (getting people to you who already have an interest in what you offer).


Keep The Day Job

I will say -- as an economy, we're sitting in a pickle. We'll recover and we'll discover several countries are more intricately involved than we thought. So while there's no substitute for staying positive and focused, Boomers may not necessarily retire. Or..., in the very least, why would you want to? We have Generation X'ers & Y'ers looking to us for knowledge.

Click below for Current Fed's Financial Bailout 101 Information:

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This article talks about how the Fed's are using the Savings & Loan Bailout model from the late 1980's in an effort to rescue everyone from a global crisis. Hmmm -- will it work -- applying an older financial model to new times?

If you're not interested in what our gov't is doing, you can translate worries into something more tangible -- learn something new, take immediate action then measure your results.

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B. Brinkmeyer, MBA

Affirmation

"When you call upon the love of God, Buddha, or any name you prefer,
exercise pure intent and there will be miracles", (Carroll, L., 2007).

Fortune Cookie Wisdom - Action & Consequence 101

Hello Fellow MLM'ers and Affiliates,

Times are challenging for many people these days. There are many blessings in disguise but I'd like to offer you something the martial arts masters taught me.

People Excel At Creation, Whether They Know It Or Not

Let's call Earth a planet of Action and Consequence. If you're okay with this idea, then consider the possibility that "This planet is a divine school, and daily life is a classroom. Our choice of teachers depends on what we need to learn", (Millman, Dan, 2008).

Thoughts You Hold Are Powerful But Action Is Required

You could say each person develops his/her creative abilities in a relatively-short period of time called a lifetime. By bringing into reality what is desired most (but based on a set of specifically-held intentions called your beliefs), you will create a new reality. Beliefs guide actions and actions deliver results. If you don't like the results of your reality, alter the belief radically by taking a new action.

Sounds simple. Right? Well -- maybe. Let's assume that humans naturally resist what they don't easily understand off the bat. Did you know that there are Universal Laws put in place to help you see what's not so obvious? Consider natural laws tied to an effect. Call this law the Law of Mirroring. Some people call it action and consequence. What you don't see in yourself directly..., then others will show you. This is important feedback to alter what you like or don't like about yourself. Ignore this feedback and you may get a heavier lesson than before. This is much like learning how to better yourself in say...areas of personal money management. You spend X dollars but take in Y..., but your bank accounts and investments will tell you something else entirely. That's one example.

Now, if you put different actions into place like saving more money than you spend, you will begin to shift towards another reality yielding other opportunities. Pretty neat, when you think about it. So early relationships in life tend to prepare you for the more successful ones later on, depending on how well you think and act.

Why this information can make a difference in your online business -- it's to help you see that the keys to your true success are usually connected to your most honest self. That self tends to reside within this type of mastery I call honest personal assessment and improvement.

I will be posting additional marketing updates very soon.

Supporting Your Success Using Proven Means,

B. Brinkmeyer

Reprogram Your Mind With Affirmations

"If you don't fit easily into your circle of peers, consider the possibility that you may not be here to fit in -- you may be here to lead", (Millman, Dan. 2008).

Internet Marketing Applied

Hello Fellow MLM'ers and Affiliates,

Hi folks. First of all -- I wish you the very best, no matter what you're experiencing! Whether you're doing fine and you're having fun -- that's great. If you're like more of us who are feeling this financial meltdown a bit, try not to worry. The thing to do is to keep working with an upbeat attitude. Keep working but stay focused on results. If something isn't working very well, assess what's not working, look for what may work better...and then alter your plan of attack. The best business owners do this!

If you're an MLM'er, kindly don't tell me -- "Well affiliates work things another way. They don't do what we do...so therefore, this marketing stuff won't work, Brinkmeyer".

CHALLENGE:

Okay. Fair enough. Now let me have my say...and let me say it with care and respect...because I believe in my fellow marketers, no matter what they're moving. Ask a few 'major corporations' in your city if you can watch their corporate marketing departments in action. Yeah, they're proprietary and they probably won't let you walk in to see what they're doing. No problem. You can find the answer online.

Pick a company you like. I recommend it's not necessarily an MLM, right off the bat..., not because I'm biased against MLM's but because MLM sites aren't necessarily showing you the full marketing overview. They will show you what's on sale (so you can pay attention to how something is promoted). That's helpful.

Pick a company that showcases a very popular product or service -- one that many people know.
Enter that name in a search browser.

You will see a few things in common, across several best sites. Look for a site that offers reviews and helpful information. Don't just pick a site that lists a bunch of products and nothing else. That may not give you the information we're tackling right now.

LOOK FOR --

1) a website that's interactive -- meaning you can see articles you can click on for research purposes, you'll see videos that educate you, you'll see who to contact for more help
2) you should see an area which includes a place to put your contact information
3) you should see a place where you will receive newsletter tips and updates -- the autoresponder carries these messages to you
4) this is standard stuff
5) you may see 'how to join a class or a seminar'
6) you may see something about how to directly purchase online

If you could see this work in progress..., where you could saunter into a marketing area, you'd see writers and researchers and analysts. You'd see them working on websites, copywriting ...,(writing effective ad copy targeting one audience or two, you'd see the stuff in progress...as it's appears online) as you inquire. If your MLM will let you take a tour of this work in progress, then you want to see what they'll allow behind the scenes. A product tour is great but you want the marketing information! You want to see how they put themselves online. You want to see the CALL CENTER, where people are making calls, handling the sales. This is the real information that's going to impact you.

Now, if you're new to all of this online stuff -- that's okay.

Click on either link below. You don't have to wait for retirement to learn this information many companies value.

Option 1 --

Option 2 --


IF YOU LIKE TO TEACH OTHERS --

If you can make money teaching other people to make money, you need to do a couple things.

STEP-BY-STEP --

You need a website, you need to solve problems, you must create value, you must then promote yourself or even advertise through free (self-publishing) or paid means (pay-per-click), put into place a solid sales system, move a quality product, incorporate a fairly decent converting sales letter, include a strong autoresponder series, and drive traffic to your site.

BOTH OPTIONS I INCLUDE TODAY ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS --

If you can do all of those things - why can't you do this in any market? Why can't you apply this stuff to the MLM model? It's because the traditional hats who don't know how to do this stuff, don't know how to do this stuff. So, they tell you what they know. Use 'warm market'. 'It's easier'.

If you're an affiliate and you can't do these things - you shouldn't be selling products - you should be learning how to do all these things.

If you want to take the slow route - go through the steps and learn from your own experience.

If you want to go the fast route - pay somebody a couple bucks for the hours and time they spent putting together the format for you.

Here's where people have trouble with online marketing. No one has to prove to you that money is being made on the Internet.


PROOF:

1) BILLIONS of advertising dollars are spent by major corporations to complete these very steps - that fact alone tells you that there is money being made online.

2) The reason earning disclaimers are created by superaffiliates is because NO ONE can guarantee you're going to go through the system step-by-step.

EXAMPLE:

When people first enter an MLM or join an online Internet Marketing membership site, they expect everything for nothing. They want results without the personal work. But, if you are your own CEO, you're going to have to master your product content anyway (benefits/features/values), not comp plans, not up-lines, not bonus pools (that's applicable if you already have all of these marketing elements mentioned here).

You must be able to direct your outsourced workers you pay to get some of this stuff done, whether or not they're on track with what you demand.

And..., most of all, you must know your audience because whatever they demand is what must be fulfilled.

CONSIDER FRANCHISING AS A MODEL FOR SOLID BUSINESS:

Franchising takes you through steps A - Z, no matter who you are, no matter what your eduation may be. It adheres to a step-by-step model in Internet Marketing. Did you know that?

APPLY MARKETING HAPHAZARDLY:

Let's try marketing in reverse. Join a fast n' easy Make Money from Home Website (with no work on your part) or apply the traditional MLM recruitment model (with no experience needed) and you're bound to hit the wall. Again, this isn't your fault. You've been handed incomplete information!

Let's consider how McDonald's operates. If you can use this general business model then applied to online marketing, you can't expect to pay McDonald's a franchise fee, do nothing yourself, then get upset because customers aren't buying from you - all while your store is still being built.

It's the same with online marketing. Before you go live, you have to set up your store, organize it, test its contents before you open your doors, test all links and test the infrastructure to make certain that anyone coming on board will be able to find and track your words. So this thought brings us to forgetting a negative business mindset that everyone else out there will do the work for you.

HERE'S WHERE THE MONEY IS --

1) Get a website that monetizes products/services.
2) Drive traffic to it.
3) Track your results.
4) Change things every single day to find what works.

So let me ask you if you're able to do those 4 things?

If not, here's a system that takes you step-by-step through the necessary steps.

Click on either link. Both will get you there:

Option 1 --

Option 2 --

Do you have a website? Is it monetized (you should have pay buttons and a shopping cart)? Of, if you're a new affiliate, head to www.clickbank.com for ideas. You can easily pick up affiliate products there. Are you driving consistent traffic? Are you tracking all of your metrics? Are you split testing the different pieces of the puzzle?

It baffles me what I read in these online forums - people have systems they're accessing, laid out step-by-step. These sources I'm talking about teaches all these things. Here's my CHALLENGE to ANYONE who thinks this business doesn't work.

BUILD A WEBSITE
DRIVE TRAFFIC
TRACK IT
SPLIT TEST IT

And do it in front of us.

It requires a few to several months out of your life (depending on whether or not you're new or experienced).

Then share what you learn.

Don't hold anything back.

Let all of the experienced and inexperienced people check out your information.

Learn every single step.

Skip a step and your system won't work.

Kindly remember that your campaign must adhere to natural ways people research information, then play consumer to look at things from that perspective. Enter keywords when you're 'only looking'. Find something you really want now. Notice which keywords you enter when you're more ready to hit the pay button? (Hint: people will use specific, long-tail keywords when they're ready to buy. EXAMPLE: research vintage guitars. If you're not buying, you're entering "vintage guitars" in the search browser to see what's out there. Now let's say that you want a vintage guitar. You've seen many models. You've found a website that sells more than 40,000/year. There's a big one that does this. You then go to the site and in their search feature, you enter the make, model and year of that type of vintage guitar.)

WHAT MOST PEOPLE USUALLY DO WITH THEIR ONLINE CAMPAIGNS:

They often start their threads, going about doing it in a step-by-step fashion. Then, not too far into the distant future (most will give it 2 months), they suddenly disappear. To all of those people who are negative about Internet Marketing --

It's not Internet Marketing that doesn't work.
It's not the tactics that don't work.
Perhaps it's you who gave up before you could figure out what and how the main marketing elements fit together.

SO..., EVEN WORKING FROM MY OWN ADVICE:

Never give up. Hit as many brick walls as you need but don't give up during these adverse times. It's your freedom and your finances that could be at stake. If you keep working at it, you'll make sense of these steps. You'll form key relationships online (learning from those who already know).

Click below -- either choice will do:

Option 1 --

Option 2 --

Supporting Your Success Using Proven Means,

B. Brinkmeyer

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Golden Needle In The Marketing Haystack

Hello Fellow MLM'ers and Affiliates,

Here's a followup post I promised earlier! Frank Kerns, eat your heart out.

• This is a solid starting place for newbies
• Even if you're a seasoned player in MLM, don't brave the Internet alone
• Know what you're doing first
• Set up the infrastructure needed to handle folks BEFORE you go live
• Test your niche for profitability
• Then..., decide through hard data whether or not you should proceed

SUGGESTION --

• Get the best, down-to-earth help possible -- at affordable levels. Heck, I've spent more money on a tank of gas!

USE YOUR SWEAT EQUITY TO BUILD YOUR BUSINESS --

• Get yourself out of the rat race
• Get the skinny 'in your time'
• Move multiple products and services
• Life life independently of hidden corporate strings

BENEFITS --

• Create success at levels the public will trust (and reward)
• Spare yourself big challenges.

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Take the Challenge. Don't guess!

HERE'S HOW --

In a 30-day trial, you tackle:

Phase 1: Keyword Research

1) You have to find additional but relevant keywords the "paying" public uses.

2) You're not targeting 'tire kickers' interested in research.

3) You're targeting people who are all ready to hit the BUY button. Avoid those who are 'looking'.

4) Analyze total traffic in your area of interest. See if people will pay for what you offer.

5) Pinpoint specific numbers (we show you how) by checking visitor values, the competition, the "likely" buying intentions centered around specific keywords.

Phase 2: Assess Competition

Look at what others are doing in your niche. Find out whether or not you should compete in this niche or better still..., find a 'sub-sub-niche' that's not so overly-competitive that you can't make a living from home. We show you how. Hint: look at the top-10 web pages in your current keyword market.

Phase 3: Find Content

Once you know your keywords, we show you how to save time, effort and frustration when it comes to creating content for your web-site.

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Phase 4: Promotion

Pump - up your site traffic, build high-quality back links needed to boost your search engine rankings..., quickly, effortlessly and easily!

This step still means you must be diligent...and never give up.

Phase 5: Publish

Simplify your publishing by scanning multiple articles at once. Pick and choose your content quickly. Make managing your website a breeze!

Phase 6: Monetize

Discover precisely how you can profit from the keywords in your market. Turn your newly- found visitor traffic into a cascading stream of income!

Phase 7: Google Adwords

Using pay-per-click advertising, maximize your income stream and target the most profitable sources of traffic out there.

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Supporting Your Success Using Proven Means,

B. Brinkmeyer

Review of Social Sites, Google Adwords, Browsers Plus Bonus

Greetings Fellow MLM'ers and Affiliate Marketers,

Wishing you a good day, today. There are new systems emerging online potentially altering the way business is conducted but I will expand more along those lines in later posts.

Thought for The Day --

When you fully understand your niche market even without the technical skills, you can do well online.

Updates in Current Marketing Trends -- Google Adwords

Digesting several topics impacting the success of your business..., here's a rich resource which can help you drive more traffic to a website.

• Amazon - look for the definitive guidebook on Google Adwords
• this resource stands the test of time
• still the #1 resource for Adwords
• enter Perry Marshall at Google
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"Entrepreneur: Ultimate Guide To Google Adwords", by Perry Marshall.

Today, I talk about social sites and web browsers --

• you can navigate around the Internet with ease and speed
• this is about putting your business on autopilot
• make it easy for people to find you
• work from home -- attract people to you
• generate solid revenues
• develop a sustainable business
  

Flock -- web browser

• some rave about the ease of use this browser brings
• it has 'backdoor security leaks'
• use discernment/run backups before any browser installation
• head to http://www.flock.com/ to find out more
• install extensions to increase browser functionality

FireFox -- web browser

• decent and safe
• head to http://www.firefox.com/ to find out more
• install extensions to increase browser functionality

Windows Internet Explorer -- web browser

• stable but somewhat cumbersome
• Google search indicates there's no 'windows internet explorer' but window internet explorer is one source -- http://www.windowinternetexplorer.com/
• conduct your own search for this site
• install extensions to increase browser functionality

Twitter -- social site

• some superaffiliates are using this free resource to speed up team communications
• it's a 'thumbs up' for use
• http://www.twitter.com/

Facebook -- social site

• currently revamping the way their system works
• they're increasing usability and professionalism
• http://www.facebook.com/

Tagged -- social site

• appears to be more of a dating site but school buddies reconnect here
• this site came up banned when I tried to post business content
• use discernment
• don't go anywhere where you're getting a lot of spam, even if it's 'someone who supposedly likes you'...as you get at this site.

Bottom Line On Social Sites --

• keep in mind you're in a public forum even though you can set controls on 'private settings'
• anything you publish is available online for years to come

BONUS #1: 3 Types of Blogs --

1. cat blogs - personal blogs
2. boss blogs - used for people who work together - amazing tools for team communication
3. viral blogs - used to spread ideas fast

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Keep in mind -- it takes some time to build an Internet empire from home.

There are several campaign elements you must have before you go live:

• a few blogs with data capture (storing contact info.)
• an autoresponder
• a bit of social networking (to test your content and your niche)
• some type of niche finder software (recommended in my prior posts -- see 30-day challenge)
• traffic (moving people to your blogs and site)
• ad copy
• maybe a few online published articles at ezine articles
• some headlines and neutral content from your industry, to name a few basics.

I will continue to expand on prior posts in the coming weeks. This is work in progress..., designed to help you piece key Internet Marketing puzzle pieces. If you're reading this article from a social site, you can view my blog directly by clicking on http://bb-home-based-business.blogspot.com/. There I post regular marketing updates.

Please feel free to post comments regarding any Internet Marketing business topic online and I will answer your questions promptly.

Supporting Your Success Using Proven Means,

B. Brinkmeyer

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To Bail Or Not To Bail -- What's the Real Question?

Hello Fellow MLM'ers and Affiliates,

Well, the House of Representatives rejected the $700 Billion bank bailout Monday. The Senate did not concur on Wednesday. Now there's ongoing deliberation later this week to prevent what some claim will be the worst financial meltdown ever. Personally speaking, lets outlaw high CEO (Chief Executive Officer) payouts. This challenge can't be a clear-cut issue.

Implication For Consumers --

• goods are carrying a more reasonable price tag...and some items are still 'sky-high'
• what are retailers thinking ? -- forget the designers --
• cost-of-living increases are almost nill
• lenders will tighten credit
• any credit secured will come at a higher price
• 401K's are worth less
• some spend no matter what

Implications For Businesses --

You'll be pressured more than ever to find just the right niche (sub-niche).

This brings us to the real question called true profitability --

1) How do you find people who want what you have to offer?

2) Will they buy? (Yes -- you can answer this question without hassle!)

3) Are they ready to buy 'sooner-than-later', even when they're carrying less cash?

In short, you need to know what people will buy and what they'll spend -- at precise levels.

Click on the link below:

Answering these Q's using 'hard-core stats', in far less time than you'd think.

Supporting Your Success Using Proven Means,

B. Brinkmeyer

IM Checklist, Cont'd: Process Improvements (Part 8 & 9)

Happy Day Fellow MLM'ers and Affiliate Marketers,

In today's post, I complete the Internet Marketing Checklist. The goal of this work to share universal marketing principles, techniques and resources. This is about transforming your business through the harnessed power of technology (the Internet), mastery of the written word (ad copy) and automation.

Let's get started!


IM Checklist, Part 8: Process Improvements

8.1 Analyzing Web Stats

Using information from web stats and analytics to make key business decisions. Make
informed campaign decisions using traffic stats, demographics and more.

8.2 Split Testing

Improving the effectiveness of your web-site using split testing techniques.


9 Advanced Marketing

9.1 Advanced Online Marketing

Pulling cutting edge marketing strategies into a campaign for solid online profits.


In future posts, I will begin to expand on checklist points as superaffiliate information supports this work. Please keep in mind there's no complete turnkey system for a business but there are several wondrous resources that can simplify the work that lies ahead.


To find out what you can do without delay, click below:

Step-by-Step Grab the Bull by the Horns Help.


Supporting Your Success Using Proven Means,

B. Brinkmeyer

Adopting Conservative Measures When Times Are Lean

Greetings Fellow MLM'ers and Affiliate Marketers,

1) Today the House of Representatives rejected the $700 Billion bank bailout. This sets an interesting precedence for us as consumers and business owners. Read on to find out more about what will be involved for Americans.


See how this decision impacts your business, click below:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080929/tbs-uk-financial-bailout-vote-4210405.html


As a business owner, you have the right to be conservative with your spending. Please allow me to say that much with care. It's okay to use free to lower-cost methods of advertising. I will continue to bring you relatively inexpensive marketing means and regular updates.


One of the best ways to put yourself out there as an expert is to set up your own blog. Check out http://www.blogger.com/ and free teleconferencing in the MLM resource section of this blog.
You can expand your blogging abilities over time. I will address this need in the posts ahead.


2) People are talking about emotionally-charged topics prior to these November elections but it seems to me that as America falls in status similar to that of 3rd-world financial power, it's natural investors will dump stocks in favor of government bonds. I'm not saying this is a best course of action because it's a short-term approach based on "I have mine Jack...but do you have yours" mindset.


3) We'll have more pressure on ourselves to rebuild our financial strength at individual levels.


Click on the link below to view a more complete picture:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080929/tbs-uk-financial-bailout-vote-4210405.html


4) This means Americans must pay down their debt, borrow far less then focus on saving.


5) For businesses, publishing solid content for a consuming public online will be key, offering quality products and services (offsetting harsh economic realities), diversifying business offerings..., then continuing to develop multiple income streams. I will talk more about addressing these challenge in future posts.


6) The good news is --the economy has its own natural equilibrium and America will recover.


Click on the link below to view a more complete financial picture:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080929/tbs-uk-financial-bailout-vote-4210405.html


Bringing You Proven Updates at Many Marketing Levels,

B. Brinkmeyer

IM Checklist, Cont'd: Systemization (Part 7)

Greetings Fellow MLM'ers and Affiliates,

Posting content on a Saturday. Wishing you a happy weekend and a prosperous new week ahead, delivering part 7 of the Internet Marketing checklist. Please allow me to emphasize a few things before you see 4 major points on the list.

1) You are the CEO of your business --

Not your upline. Not your crossline.

If you are looking for help online, be certain to use careful discernment. The Internet is evolving, the economy is unstable, plenty of people are looking for work elsewhere and we are moving into an empowering time.

2) That much said --

... it's a great opportunity for you to finally create your dream job. With sweat equity and a little bit of cash upfront (not tens of thousands of dollars), you can publish yourself into your area of expertise. I will begin to fill in specifics along these lines in future posts. You can move yourself into profit. But, it's going to mean work. It won't happen instantly and it won't happen overnight.

3) The Internet is also a place where unscrupulous people will take advantage.


Please Let This Reasoning Be Your Guide --

In all matters -- whenever you're the consumer, time is always on your side.

Never let anyone tell you "that you have to make an important business decision..., right now..., today...or it's gone". If that happens, in truth -- then that biz opp is GONE. You don't need it. What you want is time-tested information and cutting edge material, and people who will be around for the long haul. These people will answer your questions with respect. As they show you what's out there (without having to reinvent the wheel), they will tell you "this is a standard offer". They won't berate you. Had to get that off my chest because nothing steams me more than human dishonesty.

IM Checklist, Part 7 -- Systemization

7.1 Outsourcing

This is NOT about getting people to do your dirty work. Truth be known --- the best entrepreneurs handle their own dirty work. They don't expect others to slave over what they know they must handle themselves.

This is about hiring people to help you with things you don't have time to master or things you've already mastered so that so you can tackle the bigger stuff, thereby moving your business forward. You pay a fair price. If that work means someone delivers you proper keyword research or a website or solid copywriting (ad copy you see online), they should deliver what you expect.

This is about putting your business on automated processes so you can expand your market reach. If that means managing multiple campaigns, let's include outsourcing as important help. Please don't expect to get it for free.

7.2 Automation

Getting computers to automatically complete key tasks in your online business.

7.3 Building Business Systems

Systemizing business tasks so that all management happens on auto-pilot.

7.4 Customer Service Systemization

Putting systems in place to manage customer support tasks. That doesn't mean you, the CEO, will ignore customer complaints.


Click here to find out more:

Take the 30-day challenge, specific step-by-step help.

Supporting Your Success Using Proven Means (No Kidding),

B. Brinkmeyer

IM Checklist, Cont'd: Content Creation, (Part 6)

Hi Fellow MLM'ers and Affiliate Marketers,

Today's post touches on a few advanced marketing concepts. Until you've had a campaign online working seamlessly for a minimum of 3 years (time enough to build a responsive list), chances are you're better off marketing along activity levels mentioned in prior posts. See earlier checklists for a complete overview.

If you're curious to find out more now,

Take the 30-day challenge, where "no stones are left unturned".


There are various superaffiliates online who specialize in areas mentioned along this marketing continuum. Some marketers are more complete than others so I offer reviews of many, picking only the best (and most proven) ones out there.

As the CEO of your business, you have full choice to incorporate anything you wish into your business, as long as you're not violating corporate trademarks, using specific company materials or publishing corporate content.

Solution: offer neutral information, put your name on everything you do, become a 'go to' person and in time, you'll attract people to you on the basis of your expertise.

Then, offer the values and benefits of your products or services. If you publish even a snippet of corporate information, then include the proper credit, (name and date). That's the best way to keep yourself out of any hot water!

In all posts, I offer recommendations giving you ample means for much less than you'd traditionally think. The goal is to support your marketing, positioning only you as the expert! I will expand these posts in the coming weeks ahead, to offer examples, how to's and more. Keep referring back to this blog to look for information you demand. It's about finding out what's going to work best for you.

Click here to find out more:

Take the 30-day challenge, where "no stones are left unturned".



Here You Are:

6 Content Creation

6.1 Writing and Publishing Articles

Quickly and easily create content to publish online or promote your website.


6.2 Writing and Publishing Blog Posts

Quickly and easily write and publish blog posts online, faster than you can sneeze.


6.3 Syndicating and Republishing Existing Content

Taking existing content and republishing it (in your own words), saving huge time

and effort. Hint: if you can cut/paste/edit/apply your thoughts and life experiences,

you can do this. You just need the right tool. It is that simple.


6.4 Recording and Publishing Video Content

Creating video content to promote or publish on your web-site.


If you wish to find out more, click below:

Take the 30-day challenge, where "no stones are left unturned".


This is step-by-step help that answers many of these questions.

Supporting Your Success Using Proven Means,

B. Brinkmeyer

IM Checklist, Cont'd: E-Mail Marketing (Part 5)

Greetings Fellow MLM'ers and Affiliate Marketers,

Whether you're a newbie or more advanced, I will be offering specific solutions addressing your most pressing challenges.


For Most of Us --

• success is about obtaining solid, targeted traffic for less
• putting numbers in the business owner's favor
• whether you like to work a business 'on the go' or you like working from home, it doesn't matter
• Internet Marketing could potentially transform your business further
• you need solid information to piece these intricate details
• emphasize infrastructure set-up before you go live (so you don't implode later)
• don't try online marketing without using inexpensive means first
• you're shown precisely how to do this, accessing free tools, techniques and more.

Click below:

Take the 30-day challenge.

Today, I offer Part 5 of the Internet Marketing (IM) Checklist.

When you see a full overview, check out prior posts. There are 9 sections to this entire checlist.

Intent Behind This Aid --

• help you form more concrete marketing plans
• implement successfully
• tap into the right niche markets
• secure payment for your work easily (you don't have to chase prospects all over the place)
  

This overview should help you avoid people who offer 'everything for nothing on your part' (except a lot of moneypaid out with little to no results). Business information should be 'reasonably priced and fairly complete'.

5 E-mail Marketing, Part 5 --


5.1 Building an E-mail Subscriber's List

Capturing potential customers' details so that you can communicate special offers and more.

5.2 Increasing Opt-Ins

Maximizing the number of visitors who sign up for your email alerts, newsletter, etc.

5.3 Improving Deliverability

Making sure the greatest percentage of emails you send arrive in your customers' email inbox.
5.4 Sending Broadcast E-mails

Sending e-mails to hundreds and thousands of people at once.


To find out more, click below:

Take the 30-day challenge.


Please shy away from anyone telling you they have an entire turnkey system requiring no work on your part.

Feel free to post any comments and I'll be happy to get back to you asap.

Supporting Your Success Using Proven Means,

B. Brinkmeyer

IM Checklist, Cont'd: Conversion & Monetization (Part 4)

Hello Fellow MLM'ers and Affiliate Marketers,

Offering the Internet Marketing Checklist (Part 4), if you want to track super affiliates who are "in the know". This information addresses what you must absolutely know BEFORE you put any hard-earned money, time and effort into any business venture.

It's about giving you careful details about what will work and won't work, IF AND BEFORE you go live online, EVEN WHEN you're operating in MLM territory. Don't try to figure this stuff out for yourself because it's intricate. Said with care and respect, the traditional MLM folks may disagree but it's because this is information they don't know about. There's no way they can know unless they've worked this blueprint firsthand.

You Don't Have To Know Everything About Internet Marketing

To work this blueprint, you first have to wrap your mind around a solid mind map.

Commercial Intention (Target The Buyers Directly)

Conversion means holding the attention of your prospects long enough to secure the sale. Argue about semantics along the lines of "We don't do sales" VS. "Yes..., Sales Get You Paid". Pick your battles carefully.

This is about SHOWING YOU what you must master by tapping into what's called commercial intention, right off the bat. Target people who are ready to buy what you have to offer. This is a clue but I'm not going to give you the entire piece of the pie just yet because I would ask you to find out why a lot of people don't make money online. There's a reason. You have to work up to this solution...again...target people who are ready to buy NOW. You can't move into advanced marketing (product creation) and pay-per-click until you've published yourself along some decent lines. People who will watch you will do just that. They want to make sure you won't be a flash in the pan.

Here's Good News --

And.., you don't have to be an expert writer but you should have some basic command of the English language. Study vocabulary. If you can cut and paste..., then add your 2 cents, you can write. Online, it's okay to publish in fragments because writing online emphasizes brevity.

It's not enough that I regurgitate answers for you. This is about you finding out that you don't have to pay a dime for a free 30-day trial period. Get the answers now, before you spend a lot of time, money and sweat. Find out how you can easily FIND PEOPLE WHO WILL PAY for what you have in 2 days or less.

I will give you the link at the end of this post. Without this information, you will most certainly pick the wrong niche, again..., said with care and you will more likely choose a niche that's so crowded -- no one gets paid.


Here's Why 1940 MLM 'On The Farm' Marketing Methods Work Far Less Effectively Than We'd All Hope

I'm not saying traditional MLM doesn't work. I never did. I'm saying these marketing methods could work much, much better IF you were presented with hard-core fact-finding information up front. That means market research targeting the right keyword prhases (stuff people enter when they're conducting a search online). Wrap your hands around that information and you can see which niches are crowded and which ones have room for you!

Read Closely --

More people are hopping online during these challenging financial times, looking for complete answers. Somehow they know it doesn't have to take you 10 years to earn something for yourself. That's because the power of the Internet allows you to reach more people in far less time.

I have people contacting me at 1 and 2 a.m. in the morning when they're most baffled. And..., because they're confused about what they've been told, they don't know who to believe. That's not going to stop me from telling you what you need to know.

People are More Commonly Looking To Those Who Are Working An Old Marketing Template

The Ones Hopping Online Are...For the First Time In A Long Time Are Finally Solving A Big Riddle

Why?

This is about you not having to work for someone else. But, with that freedom comes the responsibility you'll need to get the work done -- without anyone pushing you. I know this is scary. But, people are doing it as we speak. They don't want to give up their entire futures to faulty corporate promises where a few 'folks at the top' have no intentions of ever sharing their golden parachutes with front-liners.

What's Happening Online

We have some people online who claim to be experts long before they've seasoned themselves through proper marketing education and coaching. There's a vast difference between 'hype' and 'reality'..., especially when it comes to implementing Internet Marketing. But, I'm not entirely talking about MLM's..., or social networking entirely. There are other marketing avenues you can use to get your message out there. But, you have to aim your message at people in a very specific way.

Many Don't Succeed Because They Pick Markets That Are Too Competitive

1) Marketers will commonly target a very big crowd.

2) They target people who are in research phases of a buying cycle. We want people who are ready to buy, today! So, there's a big difference between these 2 categories of buyers.

3) You want step-by-step instructions and online help, answering your questions and more.

Many Struggle Online Because Their Messages Are Very Broad

In order to answer what people want, you must first understand what they're looking to solve. If you're developing a marketing message moving your MLM or affiliate product, you have to understand what motivates your target group. You must first understand the words they use, know what they think, then know how they buy...so you may also talk directly to these people.

Example: Brides and weight loss...before the wedding. You won't talk to this crowd about 'sky-diving' when a gal wants to look her best on the 'Big Day'.

MLM'ers: If you're talking to someone about a compensation plan while sharing your weight loss products..., it's going to be a challenging discussion. You have a mixed advertising message in place. People who want to lose weight and look good for whatever reason want to hear HOW the weight loss products you're offering will address their goals directly --more energy, add'l vitality, better looks, clearer skin, less water weight.

If we're talking about financial consolidation or debt reduction, you must be able to target the WHY'S/Benefits/& Values of your offering, as that information answers a prospect's pains.

Moving Forward...,

Those who get the proven "How To's" must look for universal marketing information.

Those Who Succeed Find A Targeted Sub-Niche That's "Just Right"

I will offer a solution but all solutions require some form of payment, in the form of your sweat equity, your time..., your resources and even your money. Business is never free. It's just a rule.

You're going to have to work to absorb what this content means. It's going to require a tenacious attitude. You must be willing to motivate for the right reasons -- not for 'get rich quick gains' immediately but for serving yourself and your family..., helping the common good. Do that much and you'll get everything you desire, in due time but you must be patient.

Here's The Beef

Internet Marketing Checklist: Conversion & Monetization (Part 4)

4.1 Sales Letters

Writing sales pages that turn visitors into buyers.

4.2 Squeeze Pages

Writing site content that gets visitors to sign-up to a database. This is important. We're talking about you owning your own database. You're not giving it away to any affiliate, if you can do anything about this challenge. And.., you can. It's about having your own autoresponder.

4.3 Up-Sell Pages

Increasing the value of each sale by immediately asking, "Would you like fries with your meal"?

4.4 Affiliate Marketing/Promoting Existing Products

Earning commissions for promoting what's called 'third-party' products/services.

4.5 Split Testing

Using split testing and multi-variate testing to increase the number of people who buy your products.

Miss these steps and you have an incomplete marketing plan. This information adheres to the ways people purchase online, in keeping with the natural flow.

Click on link below:

Take The Challenge, Using Step-By-Step Help...It's Guided Help Online...From A Solid Source.
Don't wait. Do something now..., today.

I will offer part 5 of the checklist in a few days. Please, don't just brush this information under the carpet. It could be potentially important to your success online.

Supporting Your Success Using Proven Means,

B. Brinkmeyer

Satire: Before November, Ask Who's Minding the Store?

Hi Fellow MLM'ers and Affiliates,

I promise to deliver the remains of the Internet Marketing checklist but I'm certain that it's not foremost in American minds lately.

I'm also not very big on tracking the political agendas of either American party and I'm not a 'political satirist'. The simplest reality is that if you've been tracking the news with even one eye open, have you ever asked yourself WHY AREN'T THE OBVIOUS QUESTIONS completely addressed during a presidential debate? Maybe I'm more concerned than the average bear, or maybe I'm not.


1) We're not told as the American public HOW the Presidential Candidates will solve the U.S. economic "stagflation".

2) I decided to look for some kind of US global ranking today, to numerically see where we stood relative to other nations. But then I rebuked my own questioning thinking, "A number isn't going to tell me how rough things might get". The family investment portfolio has dropped quite a bit these past few months and I'm not the only one who's watching their life savings blow down the drain.


MEANWHILE:

The media doesn't like to talk complete financial realities --

• Corporate America is outsourcing 24,000 American jobs just from Hewlett Packard alone, after they completed a multi-hundred billion dollar merger. They told their employees they were struggling last year. And other companies aren't far behind.
• Our Gross Domestic Output (productivity) is far less than foreign consumption (imports) -- true for sometime now
• Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy and AIG was bailed out
• The Feds offered their help (for as much as they could)
• Most of my life-long friends were hit by the latest Texas hurricane
• We have FEMA housing our hurricane refugees on the white sands of damaged shores, situated somewhere in-between cow pastures and jails, not including the 3 million who migrated across the U.S. in search of new life because of hurricane Katrina.

3) Sharing a link you may wish to check out for yourself, if this might help to ease some of the public malaise.

Click below:

http://www.un.org/esa/policy/wess/wesp2008files/2008_geo.pdf

It takes a bit of business schooling to read this stuff. More obviously, many of us can surmize we're logically in some trouble nationwide. If you read a few pages and find you're yawning, then try reading Bill Cosby's advice offered below my signature.

Warning: there are tidbits in Cosby's message even I found offensive...and I'm fairly
forgiving regarding the worst of human habits.

Thanks and Take Good Care,

B. Brinkmeyer, MBA

____________________________________________________________________

Bill Cosby's (Write-Me-In-On Your Ballot) --

I HAVE DECIDED TO BECOME A WRITE-IN CANDIDATE.

HERE IS MY PLATFORM:

(1) 'Press 1 for English' is immediately banned. English is the official language; speak it or wait at the border until you can.

(2) We will immediately go into a two year isolationist posture to straighten out the country's attitude. NO imports, no exports. We will use the 'Wal-Mart's policy, 'If we ain't got it, you don't need it.'

(3) When imports are allowed, there will be a 100% import tax on it.

(4) All retired military personnel will be required to man one of our many observation towers on the southern border. (six month tour) They will be under strict orders not to fire on SOUTHBOUND aliens.

(5) Social security will immediately return to its original state. If you didn't put nuttin' in, you ain't gettin' nuttin' out. The president nor any other politician will not be able to touch it.

(6) Welfare - Checks will be handed out on Fridays at the end of the 40 hour school week and the successful completion of urinalysis and a passing grade.

(7) Professional Athletes --Steroids - The FIRST time you check positive you're banned for life.

(8) Crime - We will adopt the Turkish method, the first time you steal, you lose your right hand. There is no more life sentences. If convicted, you will be put to death by the same method you chose for your victim; gun, knife, strangulation, etc.

(9) One export will be allowed; Wheat, The world needs to eat. A bushel of wheat will be the exact price of a barrel of oil.

(10) All foreign aid using American taxpayer money will immediately cease, and the saved money will pay off the national debt and ultimately lower taxes. When disasters occur around the world, we'll ask the American people if they want to donate to a disaster fund, and each citizen can make the decision whether it's a worthy cause.

(11) The Pledge of Allegiance will be said every day at school and every day in Congress.

(12) The National Anthem will be played at all appropriate ceremonies, sporting events, outings, etc.Sorry if I stepped on anyone's toes but a vote for me will get you better than what you have, and better than what you're gonna get.

Thanks for listening, and remember to write in my name on the ballot in November.

God Bless America !!!!!!!!!!!

Bill Cosby!!!!!!!!

Link Exchanges - Increases Indexing

Hi Fellow MLM'ers and Affiliate Marketers,

Today, someone very special sent me an e-mail. If you wish to know the identity of this individual, click below:

Business Opportunity


Goal of This Post -- Demonstrate the Power Behind Link Exchanges

Ever wonder how you virtually duplicate yourself effectively ? Here's a technique that multiples the power of YOURSELF in ways you can't imagine by increasing the level of indexing you acquire online. You could say this is one way to get into 'VIRAL MARKETING'. Where one contact begets another... as site traffic may be shared. Don't be afraid to do something like this, if you're a social person.

Quality links help you develop natural or organic traffic (the traffic you want as a result of your published work and your targeted messages, not the kind most pay for delivering few results).


Basic Guidelines --

Whenever you exchange links, always be certain to check out the sites of those who would like to represent you. There should be a similiar match in content so you won't publish a link talking to an opposite niche group. You won't publish a link driving people to "Alaskian Eskimos" when your content targets "People Who Adore Tropic Regions".


Look for a Match in Business Mindset --

1) Does the link leading to the other business (or individual) basically share similiar values?

2) Is there reciprocation?

If you meet the first 2 criteria, then you most likely have a match.

3) Look for people in your link exchange who will offer grounded,

information, as they know their information best.

4) Does this business (or individual) represent the public good?

5) Does this source 'basically do the right thing' in balanced keeping with self and others?

We have a 'yes' to these basic questions.

Click below:

Business Opportunity

This gentleman talks in universal terms what's good for many people is generally good for business. Feel free to see what's he's talking about and take notice about looking for the positives in life, even when we've 'hit bumps in the road'.

I will continue to bring additional human resources your way.

Supporting Your Success Using Proven Means,

B. Brinkmeyer

IM Checklist, Cont'd: Social Media (Part 2.4)

Hi Fellow MLM'ers and Affiliate Marketers,

In this post, I offer a continuation of the Internet Marketer's Checklist, should you wish to carry your business online. Please refer to prior posts on earlier content titled, "IM Checklist"in parts.


GOALS OF THIS EFFORT --

• Bring the HOW'S and WHY's you demand
• Offer step-by-step instructions
• Address your work load in the least amount of time possible
• Deliver affordability
• Maximize profitability

Future Posts Answer Specific Business Needs

• Include product reviews
• Introduce best marketers at cutting edge, implemented levels
• Reduce and manage risk: time, resources, expenses
• Increase success by putting #'s in your favor (think 200 people/day)
• Offer intermediate/advanced marketing answering prior posts

2.4 OVERVIEW -- SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING

2.4.1 Social Networking

Gathering crowds using social networking sites (Facebook, Linked-In, MySpace, etc.)

2.4.2 Social Broadcasting

Communicating with and gathering crowds using Twitter, Plurk, Friendfeed, etc.

2.4.3 StumbleUpon

Attracting web-site visitors using StumbleUpon

2.4.4 Social Bookmarking

Using social bookmarking sites (e.g. del.icio.us) to promote content and improve

search engine rankings.

Supporting Your Success Using Proven Means,

B. Brinkmeyer, MBA

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IM Checklist, Cont'd: Product Creation, (Part 3)

Hi Fellow MLM'ers and Affiliates,

Welcome. Offering part 3 of the full Internet Marketing checklist. As more people see an overview, they're able to sift through proven materials from hype, better able to make better marketing decisions. While the Internet is not 'the end all be all', it can be powerful.

There are people harnessing the power online and they represent both marketing realms. The numbers are growing. Those who implement consistently over time eventually develop their own qualified, targeted leads based on the messages they publish. It's not an overnight deal. On average, the best marketers will spend anywhere from 3 - 5 years developing a responsive lead list. That's the norm.

Part 3 of the IM overview expands the blueprint for action, no holes barred. Best news of all -- you don't have to go broke implementing this blueprint because we're talking about developing natural traffic based on what's called achieving an organic listing. For this end-result, it means for average Internet Marketers that there will be a lot of self-publishing..., but it's not impossible.

SO HERE'S THE DEAL IN INTERNET MARKETING

You need time --

• time to learn and absorb
• time to research a profitable, sizeable niche (one that's small enough so large companies won't care -- large enough to support you at decent levels)
• master your first campaign -- rinse and repeat -- develop multiple campaigns online
• take your mastery to the public

PROOF IN THE PUDDING

• Look to the actual market trends to see what fellow businesses are doing online
• See what's happening over time
• Make up your own mind
• Everything in the economy is shifting so nothing is static online or offline
• Add'l tools appear online, as the Internet evolves
• Research Dan Kennedy, Gary Halbert, Perry Marshall, Rich Schefren
• Recent IM pressures push marketers to 'be straightforward with customers online' because of prior bad raps...and content is key.

HERE'S THE PRODUCT CREATION LIST, PART 3

3.1 General Product Creation Techniques

Fast, effective strategies for creating your own products to sell online.

Why ? Sometimes it's necessary, in order to differentiate yourself (stand out)

from the larger market. This is advanced marketing, not recommended for

beginners.

3.2 Creating and Distributing E-Books (Electronic Books)

Creating informative ebooks with ease, selling them online. Best labeled as whitepapers

or 'help pdf's', this is a legitimate way to increase your expertise in the eyes of your consumers.

3.3 Creating and Distributing Books(Paper-Based Books)

Becoming a published author by selling your own books online. This is not a 'get-rick quick' scheme. This is an initial way to establish yourself as a credible source, opening the first door to other marketing means (seminars, tapes, educational DVD's and more).

3.4 Creating and Distributing Video Products

Creating video products that you can sell on DVD or directly online.

3.5 Creating and Distributing Big-Ticket Products

These are products that sell for $200 - $20,000.

3.6 Developing, Promoting and Running Seminars

Seminars are big business! You can profit from them too.

3.7 Outsourced Product Creation (Ghostwriting)

Getting the creation of products outsourced.

Covering Section 4 in the coming days ahead.

Supporting Your Success Using Proven Means,

B. Brinkmeyer

IM Checklist, Cont'd: Content Marketing (Part 2.3)

Hi fellow MLM'ers and Affiliates,

If Internet Marketing is something you wish to understand, the goal is to complete the IM Checklist in the coming days ahead, give you an overview..., then show you what's possible. You can build a sustainable business online using real data. It's not a shot-in-the-dark some might suspect. This kind of effort requires a dedicated approach. Forget sites promising you the moon, telling you that "no effort" is needed. This is only a losing proposition.

In the coming months ahead, I will deliver resources best answering these questions.

Also, please know that there's no such thing as a 'turnkey system'..., BUT you have the power to pick and choose what you want for your business, readily answering the demands of your clients. We call this 'solution-based marketing'... -- where you find what people want -- then you supply a menu of viable choices. The best businesses do this, without exception.

Part 2.3, IM Checklist --

2.3.1 Article Distribution & Article Marketing

This is the place to start, IF you're building your business on a budget.

• a solid way to put your name online, for the lowest-cost possible
• the best way to generate targeted leads for less than pay-per-click
• ease your way into Internet Marketing without going broke

This marketing method is about distributing articles to attract traffic from third-party sites.

2.3.2 Blogging

Use blogs to attract visitors to your web-site. If you don't yet have a web-site, this is a great place to start when you're new to Internet Marketing.

2.3.3 Viral Marketing

Attracting torrents of visitors using viral marketing strategies.

2.3.4 Video Marketing

Distributing videos on third-party sites (e.g. YouTube) for purposes of attracting visitors.

2.3.5 User-Generated Content Sites

Using sites like Squidoo, Hubpages..., etc. for rankings to attract traffic.

2.4 Social Media

2.4.1 Social Networking

Gathering crowds using social networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, etc..

2.4.2 Social Broadcasting

Communicating with and gathering crowds using Twitter, Plurk, Friendfeed, etc..

2.4.3 StumbleUpon

Attracting web-site visitors using StumbleUpon

2.4.4 Social Bookmarking

Using social bookmarking sites (e.g. del.icio.us) to promote content and improve search engine rankings.

I will offer additional information in the next post. Hopes are not to inundate you. See the overview, choose what you want and choose proven resources.

Click on link below to find out more:

Take the challenge.

Supporting Your Success Using Proven Means,

B. Brinkmeyer

IM Checklist, Cont'd: Search Engine Optimization (Part 2.2)

Hi fellow MLM'ers and Affiliates,

Delivering on the promise to cover key aspects of Internet Marketing.

Why is this stuff important to your business?

• If you dislike the idea of a company pegging you for life -- read on.
• If you want a better future, living life on your terms -- read on.
• If you're tired of running all over the gameboard for whatever reason to find targeted, qualified leads -- read on.
• If you're absolutely motivated to move what you're passionate about and you know it fits into the needs of willing buyers -- read on.
• If you need traffic and lots of it -- read on.
• If you don't want to hire an entire department to do what you and maybe a few others can do via automated means -- then read on.
  

If you're new -- click the "Take The Challenge" link listed below.

Take the challenge.

If you're a seasoned player, it makes no difference whether you're a marketing rep who's been around the block more times than you'd care to admit or you're a marketing professional who's been walking the the "high-wire" too long. This is about giving you a roadmap that's supported.
And..., you don't have to slug it out in the trenches for 17 years at length, to piece together what should have been delivered, MLM -- day 1 of recruiting or affiliate marketing.


SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION

Here's starter work which helps people find you online. This work gives the search engines Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc. demand. Rich content satisfies what people want. You, the merchant..., get what you want -- customers and lots of them. So, we use the search listings.


There are 8 parts to Search Engine Optimization --

A British group of "techno-brains" developed something more workable for "us common folk", like me for one.

Part 1: General Search Engine Optimization Strategies

• Ensures your sites are ranked prominently in search engines.

Part 2: Achieving Fast Ranking

• Ensures your sites rank quickly in the search engines.

Part 3: Identifying SEO Keywords for Easy Rankings

• Find the right, high quality keywords most likely to result in fast top-10 rankings.

Part 4: On-Page Search Engine Optimization

• Make changes to site content, thereby improving your site's search engine rankings....so people find you easily, for less.

Part 5: LSI/Siloing

• This has to do with structuring your site effectively, using what's called "latent Semantic Indexing".
  

Part 6: Link Building

• Improving site rankings by obtaining links.

Part 7: Creating SEO Optimized Content

• Writing content with effective keyword placement and density for search engine rankings.

Part 8: Tagging

• Identifying tags for videos, blog posts and other web 2.0 content.

Take the challenge. They show you step-by-step how to do all of this stuff.

Feel free to post your comments, happy or otherwise. This is about helping you find what you want.

Supporting Your Success Using Proven Means,

B. Brinkmeyer

Creating Affluence

Hello Fellow MLM'ers and Affiliates,

This post is dedicated to those of you who may be challenged in life by any
circumstance, for any reason. A wonderful author I met at an unusual human
empowerment seminar repeatedly told the audience (experiencing many challenges) --


"Life is never as it seems".


He suggested --

If we (as a race) will reach it's greatest potential, we must eventually
understand..., "We're far more than we readily believe and no
matter what we're presently experiencing, we should still celebrate life.
If we accept that much, then we must also stop the shifting of blame onto
others, to then look at our own thoughts, actions and responsibilities to
produce now a greater way of life. This change begins with us".

So..., if you believe you're not exactly where you're at..., consider --

• success is a moving target
• people who are worth millions in net worth areworking towards their next goals
• those who have yet to earn a million are focused on that goal
• those who define success in their own terms uniquely (let's say it doesn't include bigger money...and that's okay), they will have their goals
• here..., now..., we talk about affluence in general terms

If you maintain at some level of your awareness that some of your thoughts might be holding you back, you're not alone.

• it's take great courage to see that what's working and what's not working well
• no human lives entirely in the light
• if you decide for yourself that something may be better, only you can know
• the best clues in your life will point to a 'yes' or a 'no' , if you ask yourself honestly, "Okay what do I really need to change"?
• usually this process means you have to change something within yourself, pointing to new needs about altering the way you think, act and feel.
  

For areas of life you like most --

• I will direct you to your honest first emotions
• Think about something -- the emotion will be happy or unhappy.
• These feels indicate your thoughts and actions may be 'right-minded' or not and they are congruent/incongruent with what you desire most.
• If something in your life is not working, reprogramming the thought will produce a better outcome.
  
  Consider the published works of Deepak Chopra, M.D., if we begin to shift the mindset in affluent directions. To understand more about what affluence may mean to you, I will first suggest that affluence is a conglomeration of thoughts guiding many actions. Chopra begins by talking about what affluence is, separately from what we think is real.
  
  By Chopra's definition, he states, "Affluence is more than money, status or power -
  
  
• It's "the experience in which our needs are easily met and our desires are spontaneously fulfilled -- whether they apply to the material/emotional/psychological or spiritual needs... or to the realm of relationship", (Chopra, 1993).

"A truly wealthy person's attention is never focused on money alone".

• "Wealthy people who think about money all the time, when they are concerned about that reality, irrespective of the dollar amount they possess..., are poor".

• "Moreover, a truly wealthy person rarely ever has money concerns", all quotations, (-- special edition of Chopra's, "A - Z Steps to a Richer Life" -- Notes From The Author).

Translation:

• You can own a bank account that's worth millions -- and you can still be deprived in thought...
• Wealth is a relative state...,
• It is a consciousness which goes beyond material realities...,
• The basics are important -- once you have daily needs met...,
• If any basic need remains unmet, you life at the level of that unmet need until it's fully realized...,

In closing my husband would ask, "Isn't chocolate included on that list"?

Offering Food For Highest Thoughts And Outcomes,

B. Brinkmeyer