But the problem is they make it seem so rosy and that it’s just an untapped market begging for your help. Business owners do want more customers.

But there are many business owners out there who don’t want marketing help or who don’t want to trust or do what it takes to grow their business. It’s ironic and hard to believe but true.

Maybe it’s a psychological thing where the owner is stuck in his ways and thinks the Yellow Pages are coming back. Or maybe he’s just unwilling to risk his money on ideas and marketing tactics he doesn’t understand. Whatever the case people get stuck in their patterns and it’s impossible to convince them otherwise.

I saw a great webinar with Chris Baker about this very issue. The 2 things you 1st have to determine is “Does the business owner want to grow and get more customers?” and “Does he want help to achieve this goal?”

The answer to both questions must by a resounding “yes” or you’ve got a recipe for frustration and time-wasting on your hands. Get the answer to these 2 questions 1st before you proceed any further.

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I first heard Frank Kern talk about this concept in one of his mass control resale videos. He cited how you could go to any trailer park and see some fancy cars with expensive rims and satellite dishes perched on almost all rooftops.

Many of them struggle with rent but choose to pay $100-$200 per month for a satellite TV package. This type of activity boggles the mind but upon closer inspection we can understand a little bit more about why it happens.

Today I had my ah ha moment. I was talking to this guy who works as a Wal-Mart cashier. He was whining about how he didn’t like his phone because “it didn’t look good”.

I probed into what he was thinking and he also complained “Cricket isn’t 3G”.

After talking with him more I found out his parents paid for his phone AND pay the monthly service fees as well. This means he’s got a free phone and he gets free UNLIMITED use of it every month. Why would you turn that down?

He further elaborated that now was a particularly tough time in his life financially. I asked him then why he would want to spend $150-$300 on a phone and add an additional $50 per month or more to his monthly expenses. He said, “Because Verizon is 3G and cricket isn’t. I want to watch funny stuff and funny videos on my phone.”

I asked him how it made sense to pay this much money every month when right now he had a phone that can send and receive calls and can send and receive unlimited texts. And his parents are taking care of him by paying the bill.

He nodded his head in agreement and said “yeah you’re right. That makes sense. I probably won’t.”

Sorry Verizon I just talked you out of a customer.

Of course, even though I felt like I did him a favor (though his parents may hate me) I’ll probably see him in a couple weeks with a shiny new Droid phone he “desperately wanted” and the $100 per month plus unlimited Verizon service plan to boot.

Instead of lamenting this tragedy there’s a lesson.

How can you make your product that “desperately wanted Droid phone”? What can you do to your offer to make it so that people who can barely afford food will desperately want to buy your stuff?

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Originally posted 2010-01-12 12:05:32. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Ed said many good things about the WHolesale Traffic System to increase your website traffic in a cost effective way.

Matt Bacak, Gary Ambrose, Jeff Walker (of product launch formula fame), have all sent out emails to their lists promoting Ryan Deiss’ WHolesale Traffic System. WHenever you get this kind of mass talk about the same thing in a market going at once it has huge positive repercussions.

Even the big time StomperNet guys Brad Fallon and Andy Jenkins mailed the stompernet members about it. This is a big boy launch. The stomper guys even did 2 separate emails that I saw about it. Multiple mailings is hard to get big gurus to do so you know when they do it the product will be awesome.

Just saw at 4:30 pm cst Frank Kern mailed about it. 5:14 pm Mike Filsaime also hit his send button about wholesale traffic system. And at 8:02 pm just got an email from Eben Pagan (whose businesses make him $20 mil+ in sales every year) about how he liked the product.

THis is how big time million dollar product launches are done.

The launch went well it seems. I haven’t gotten any emails about it today which means either:

they are so busy dealing with servers, customer service and tech issues

or

they are working feverishly to fill the final few spots

With all the big names that mailed about it I am certain sales were brisk even in this troublesome receeding economy we find ourselves in.

Business coaching and training will always be in demand, especially in a recession, because business owners need new and exciting ways to generate more sales and revenue.

As of right now the order link was still active. If you haven’t yet gotten it and want to know how to get top ROI then you should go check it out now (remember this is no affiliate link just a direct link):

Wholesale Traffic System

talk to you again soon

Originally posted 2008-05-02 13:48:35. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

But there are always challenges and things which come up to derail them. The 2nd tier and even 3rd tier guys don’t make nearly the amount of money you would think. I’ve been privileged to meet and have some inside information and just found out a recent decent sized promotion which brought in the mid-five figures only netted about 10K in profits to my source.

Now that may seem like a lot to you but for months and months of work prepping products and setting up JV deals it’s a very low amount.

I also know many people I talked want to be gurus especially in this internet marketing space.

I’m advising against that because there’s more money and much less risk in some of the other business models and markets out there.

I do maintain this blog because I’ve been in the game for over 12 years now and have much knowledge to impart. But I don’t make my living off of this blog nor teaching Internet marketing. I make it off some of my websites and working with small businesses locally.

I encourage you to find a smaller market where you can thrive and provide some sort of physical product or service.

I know it’s not super exciting or even sexy to talk about fundamentals but they are the things which allow you to build a business and grow that business. But you may be asking me, “I don’t know anything about the fundamentals so where do you suggest I start?”

The best place to start on learning the specifics of what you need for building your business and some really cool underground techniques is the challenge.

I first participated in 2005 and even though I was already an expert I learned about some really cool tools and tactics which save me a ton of time. It’s where I absolutely advise anyone from the beginner to intermediate to start.

The format for this training has been revamped based on the current economics and the world we live-in in 2010. Check it out at challenge.co because it will be well worth your time.

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The cisco router syslog is a built in capability that allows the tracking and storage of certain information generated by a Cisco router.

The cisco router syslog can be configured to log different level of messages, based around the concept of severity level of the message.

For example, informational or debug information can be dropped, whereas more critical errors, warnings, alerts and emergencies would be written to a log file. These internal logs, when enabled, have limited self storage capacity, so it may be prudent to configure the cisco router syslog feature to only log the highest priority events.

This function is useful to quickly assess errors that are current and ongoing within the router, but these logs are not stored permanently and do not offer the option to store past a power cycle of the router; that is to say, the cisco router syslog is stored in volatile memory, meaning it requires power to retain data.

For more extensive and detail cisco router syslog storage, and for long term archiving, cisco router syslog events should be offloaded to a central location where they can grow indefinitely or to size capped at a quota of your choice. This functionality requires a one time setup of a syslog server that is capable of receiving cisco router syslog data.

Once that is in place, the server can store the data for many different network devices, not only adding redundancy by securing the data on nonvolatile storage, but also allowing you to consolidate your personal time investment into checking all logs through a single access point. Each network device will have to manually be reconfigured in order to take advantage of a cisco router syslog, so you should weigh the benefits against your needs and the time investment required to implement such a setup.

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Originally posted 2010-04-19 05:41:43. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

The first thing you need to realize is that joining a reseller program is really signing up for a partnership.

Once you are in the the plan, you are essentially a business partner. The reseller is the sales team and the company that offers the SEO reseller program is the delivery organization. Traditionally, businesses have these two functions all in one entity. But in more recent years, efficiencies have developed that make this type of arrangement popular.

But as with all things that sound a little too good to be true, there are things you need to watch out for.

Specifically, even though the plan may be cheaper than building a search engine optimization product in-house, it also means that you don’t have full control over the offering. If you are not happy with the product, or how it is provided, then you might be stuck with it. This is because there are many other resellers and the product can’t be changed just because you don’t like it.

Second, you may not be entirely sure who you are working with. On this point I say that you need to exercise extreme caution. You want to partner with an SEO reselling company that has solid business experience. You should have no question about their legitimacy.

Additionally, their customer service should be rock solid. It should be clear that these are real people who run a real business. Avoid those groups that are entirely off-shore or impossible to get on the phone.

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Originally posted 2010-04-16 05:43:02. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

It’s a great deal for these SEO companies because they have you out there selling their services for them and they only pay you when you bring them a new client. This means that they only have to pay out money for this kind of advertising after they have gotten payment from their client. And this is a new client which are the hardest and most costly for a company to acquire.

This is also a great deal for you because you don’t have to fulfill the SEO service. You don’t have to go into changing their on-page factors on someone else’s website and wading through a bunch of code you may not understand.

Nor do you have to do a bunch of link building and manually go out to blogs and leave comments or forums and leave comments. Nor do you have to negotiate any link exchanges nor try to get high power and high page rank sites to give a one-way link to your new client’s website.

I can tell you from experience that link building is incredibly time-consuming and there’s never a guarantee that you’re going to get that number one or number two spot in Google that you so desire. This means your link building efforts can be a complete waste of time which is very frustrating.

Bottom line is being in an SEO reseller program is the way to go if you have a blog or website that reaches out to Web business owners and website owners.

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Originally posted 2010-04-22 10:58:42. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

With the advent of the computer, no greater advancement has taken place in social media marketing than with the three best examples:  Facebook, Twitter and Youtube.  These three programs together have captured the market and made it possible for their own sites to be used for those who are interested in online marketing in a dynamic way and free.  With interlinking between them it is possible to move easily back and forth between them, using each of their features as a way to link to programs and sites, drawing interest for anyone searching the Internet to you.

Facebook can be used in the social media marketing area so easily because it is a place where people gather for fun, talking, and learning.  When a person has a membership, he or she is able to put whatever information they desire about themselves on their own page.  This is a great opportunity for marketing because all the demographic data is there for you to target.  Another strategy is to put links to web pages and blogs on the facebook page to draw traffic to the products the marketer wants to promote.  The member can use the Facebook page as a site for explaining products and services as well and just invite people to join your fb page.

Twitter is a tool that is absolutely sweeping the world in popularity, everyone who uses the system can advance their place in the market by using it as a means of drawing traffic to their products and websites.

I just saw a stat about twitter that 30% of the active users are posting links of interest.

Twitter is a fantastic means of getting information out about your promotions.  Campaigns can include a push on twitter to get the most activity possible moving toward yourself and causing interest in your sites to grow.

Youtube has been around for a longer period of time than Twitter or Facebook in social media marketing but it has lost none of its popularity.  In fact, the use of Youtube has increased phenomenally with people involved in online marketing using it to promote their own programs and products.

Video is the most powerful marketing medium other than face-to-face communication. That’s why infomercials and product demos exist and are so profitable.

Best of all YouTube is now the #3 visited site in the world and the #2 search engine behind only Google who owns YouTube anyway!

Building a program and offering it on Youtube allows you to become widely known as people seek out your services.  Another great opportunity is using Youtube as a way to provide testimonials about your products and sites so that seekers may become confident in your system or products.  Nothing works better then peer recommendations when people are looking for products they need and want.

Facebook, Twitter and Youtube are exceptional options for social media marketing because they offer all of the features that make use simple.  Anyone with any experience with computers at all can join these programs and begin using them for their own online marketing program.  Since they are so popular, they provide a ready stream of interested people for your campaign which can’t be had anywhere else as easily as these.

Originally posted 2009-05-18 09:13:56. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

By using drive image software, one can completely restore a system failure fast cause by virus attack or by merely a crash. It can also help in assisting when one needs to set up many computers.

Save your computer system from disaster by having a good back up solution … save those important files and never ever lose them because of a system failure.

There are so many rave reviews about this computer savior … this state of the art invention was developed and distributed by PowerQuest Corporation and was released in the market last August 2004.

With almost everyone owning a computer desktop nowadays, we couldn’t deny the fact that our lives revolve around drive image software. It is only important that we give it the best attention it deserves since it gives us nothing but accessibility, information and yes, fun.

And as we click our days away, it is only wise that we invest for the protection of our files. Upgrade our system image and we will never have any computer problem to deal with ever again.

Shop for a drive image software now … make a logical decision by saving your logical files. Spyware infections can be deadly and so are wrong installations; revive your computer system, save its life.

Give more life to your computer by installing drive image software … it is never too late to fix or upgrade the closest thing you can ever compare to a best friend. So yes, treat it with love and protection.

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Originally posted 2010-04-27 05:59:52. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

These are just a few of the questions that are on my mind and some of these may also be on your mind as well when you’re going through these forum threads. You know you want to get better search engine rankings and links are a good long-term online investment in your business that will last. Google definitely places a heavy emphasis on the quality of the link as well as giving greater weight to the age of the link. So if you get a link today and it stays around for two or three years that link is going to be given greater power by the Google algorithm than if you go out and build a new link today from a similar page rank URL.

There are definitely some of these services that are incredibly good value and do solid work. You can check the number of posts the member has in the forum as well as their feedback rating to guage whether the service maybe good. Especially in the digital point forums where they have itrader notification which is basically a feedback system similar to what eBay has. Obviously if they’ve gotten good feedback from members they’ve done business with both as a buyer and a seller you can trust them a lot more that to do good work for you.

Here’s a cool link building service I found that does good work and I have confidence in.

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Originally posted 2010-04-08 21:42:52. Republished by Blog Post Promoter