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I've been in technology in one form or another for over 20 years. ?Learning the skills it takes to become successful at whatever I put my attention on. Since starting a blog, I have learned the skills of graphic design, and most importantly how to use code to customize anything on my blog. I've?combined those skills into successful social media ads which paved my way to a successful entrepreneurial career.

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How To Use The Drip Email Marketing System

One of the unfortunate things about this email marketing system is that it shares the same name as a marketing strategy. I sometimes ask myself if the creators were thinking about that juxtaposition in the strategy of marketing vs the software they created. But, what the video below is about is how to use drip email marketing system.

Now if you haven’t a clue as to what Drip is, then I invite you to press play on the video below and get a taste of the goodness that Drip is. During this video I will take you through how Drip does, or handles the various areas that a marketing email program usually provides for users such as you.

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After watching this I’m sure you have more questions – or your ready to give Drip a trial run by using your full fledged 14 day trial! In that spirit, I did create more videos all about Drip so that you have the best opportunity to know what Drip is and if it’s for you.

So let’s dig in and follow along on the instructional for using Drip.

One of the best things about using drip is that they charge you based on your total amount of subscribers across all your accounts. I know that other companies will charge you based on your accounts and subscribers. Not so with Drip.

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Currently the rate for new business owners starts at $19/mo

I have seen how much Drip has changed their platform so that they are in the conversation with other bloggers.

In the past they have solely been after the e-commerce business owner and they still are making that business owner their avatar.

HOWEVER…

They are now making it much easier to be a blogger, marketer, or most any business owner on the internet to have an interest in using Drip.

I’ve been using them for quite a while now (about 5 years) and love what they have done with the space they own on the internet.

One of the biggest complaints that bloggers had with Drip was the VERY PLAIN LOOKING forms that were the default. They simply told us to find a programmer and get the forms branded or just learn how to use CSS to make the forms look better.

NOW, things have changed so much and I’m very proud to be using these forms that they provide.

If you’ve been around much on my social accounts or on this blog, you know that I LOVE LOVE LOVE automation!

Drip makes automation very simple and basically anyone can do these automations to manage your account. Using workflows to get those who bailed on their shopping cart for one reason or another, to going out to find the “lost” subscribers and inviting them back to your world with a simple automation.

Time Savers For The Win!

Templates are a great way to save time with your emails. I use them for different subject matter to a different campaign format. It just makes it quick and easy to send out a nice looking email knowing all the formatting is done. Just type your email and click send!

Whether you are a beginner business owner or an advanced emailer / business owner, drip can and does make your life better, by presenting a great way to grab subscribers with their forms, to giving great customer service to those who need questions answered.

There are many more instructional posts for Drip on my blog here as well as on YouTube

If you’re searching for a new email system, I know there are steps to finding out everything you need to know about email systems. You first want to know the price and if it’s in your budget and then how does it stack up against the competition.

Best Email Autoresponder For Bloggers

Email Services for Bloggers

Bloggers are a breed all by themselves. To point a entire company towards them can be risky. However, there are companies that do just that. That’s why I’m going to show you why you need to have an email autoresponder and which company is the best email autoresponder for bloggers.

In a very weird world we live in right now (#2020). Strange enough, Blogging has turned into a much bigger industry that it ever has in the past. This is due to the fact that there are more people working from home than ever before.

In fact, a study that ConvertKit did recently shows that bloggers who use email marketing earn 447% more income than those who do not use email.

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Pretty encouraging to see stats like that roll through to support your blogging dreams and goals!

Drip offers an RSS feature (which must be activated by request) for bloggers. This feature will create an email digest plus the most recent post. All you need to do is review and publish.

There would be a lot less hesitancy to give the company a test drive with your blog.

Experience Matters

I’ve found that if the email marketing doesn’t feel right, then it’s time to move on and look for a better solution. Drip is what I’m using now for about 5 years and haven’t left them. I’m not going to put out a false hope that one company can satisfy your needs for a lifetime, which is why I take a look around occasionally to see what’s out there.

GetResponse was my very first email company, Convertkit, and MailChimp. These are all very good places to land a blog and but with each of them, I was not satisfied with one thing or another.

Let’s dig in to those things and that will explain why I am using Drip, and why I believe it’s the best email autoresponder for bloggers.

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As you can tell from the video above, there’s a reason for my love for Drip. The biggest one was once not a feature (price) but now it surely is.

If you’re not currently setup for a blog, here’s a solid guide to get you started.

Now that the price is in almost everyones reach, the features are going to help you get started with your blog as well as any ecommerce you want to include on said blog. The choice is yours!

Automation

One of the best features of email systems is their ability to use automation. I’ve said this many times before. Automation is what enables the “laptop lifestyle”.

In an email marketing system such as Drip, you will see different things that you can setup but none of them work unless you have a workflow setup with rules.

Workflows are the basis of automation and if your email marketing system doesn’t offer workflows, they are about 10 years behind the curve, and it’s time to find a new system to use.

I’m really not aware of any of these competing companies that do not offer workflows or their variation of what a workflow consists of. Perhaps they call it something different.

Best Email Autoresponder for Bloggers

There are several companies that do a pretty good job with regards to getting your email(s) send and into the inbox. Alternatively, some companies are sending directly to the junk or spam folders. This sort of thing needs you to change companies for at least 6 months and by that time you’re already giving your time to a company that IS working for you.

Companies that I would say are in the best interest for you are

…and there are at least a handful more that you could decide to partner up with to do your email marketing.

Again, the company may have prices out of your budget at the current moment. The other things that help you with deciding which company to land as your email marketing are as follows.

Price (as discussed above)
Ease of use
1. is the graphical interface easy to understand?
2. Can automation be implemented simply?
What topics will get you banned
1. Yes, some email providers will ban you for marketing certain companies, such as CBD.
Customer service
1. Response time
2. helpfulness

The End Result

These are the top of mind items that people use to decide what email provider they are going to choose. However, the one that I left out is one that we don’t think about because it’s what our emotions tell us is the right thing to do.

Granted, this post will not attempt to pull the emotions but rather give you the facts about which email autoresponder is best for bloggers.

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Stay tuned, as I’ll be doing a review on the different email autoresponders that bloggers generally use in future posts. I hope that this post helped you get a sense of what the Best Email Autoresponder for Bloggers are in the marketplace.

How Does Drip Compare to Other Email Marketing Systems

Drip Email Marketing Review

Hey this is Jon. And today we’re going to talk a little bit about e-mail. In fact, what we are going to do in this post is learn more about how does drip compare to other email marketing systems!

Now, the e-mail automation that I’m using or that I’m going to do a review on the drip e-mail marketing review that I’m going to do, Is called drip. Obviously, because it’s a really good way to do your marketing.

Marketing is also when you are dripping on people. You know there’s a metaphor there. So, they called themselves Drip and they’re also the same people that own Leadpages (at the time of this recording). So, if they do great in Leadpages and they give you the sales tools why wouldn’t they help you further in the process and help you in your email.

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I do a video every single week and we’re going to start out doing some drip e-mails and going through how to use drip and what scenarios are best for certain people and really dig down deep on what kind of things you can do with Drip. Also how to use their liquid programming language.

Customer Service

Drip has the best customer service and it’s as fast as a click down at the bottom right hand part of your screen. You may be seeing a trend of companies going away from the phone method of doing customer service. That’s all by design due to the cost of manning phones. They certainly are doing an amazing job with their offering of email or chat. Usually if i need to get in touch with someone asap, I can check to see if they are on line at the moment. if not, I’ll use the email option which is responded to the next day or as soon as they receive the email.

How Does Drip Compare to Other Email Marketing Systems?

Drip is a forerunner to all the other email marketing systems because it gives us the ability to run campaigns with ease. these campaigns can be made to segment your list so that you are not spending unnecessary money on people that do not respond to your emails.

Sure there are other systems that offer the same segmentation but when it comes to ease of use, I believe that Drip will make your digital email marketing much easier. Take, for instance, Automation.

Automation using Drip

Their automation in my opinion is awesome because you set it up one time and it goes. I’ve learned so much from using the customer service help as well.

Automation is the key to your marketing. if you are marketing well, you know there’s no stress involved when you’ve got your automation running. Drip automation involves workflows, campaigns, triggers, and tags. These are the tools you have to help you deliver the right message at the right time.

There’s so many things you can do with Drip. Automation is where it’s at in today’s marketplace.

There are more and more going towards the ECRM (Electronic Customer Relationship Manager) way of doing things. So the next thing you really want to have in place, and this is huge, is deliverability.

That is another key point in drip because they are 99.9% deliverable and as long as you stay in the value group, you’re going to be at 99.9 percent. This will definitely help you stay relevant in your niche. So when it comes to knowing how does drip compare to other email marketing systems, the feeling is a great one even an hour, day, week, month, year in.

ONE CAVEAT TO DELIVERABILITY

You know it’s only the user that’s going to say things like

“I don’t really want to receive emails from you”
“I don’t really want to see this anymore and now I’ll put you in the spam folder.”
“I get too much email already and don’t have time to read your email.

you just cannot get around people like that because we all have lives to live. It might mean you’re creating too much noise in their world? This is why you should always send an email asking them about their situation. Provide them a way to bundle your communications with them. Drip does this really well by the way.

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Of course, you will definitely need to learn what the average deliverability is for your niche. Some are way different than others. When you know your stats, then you can tell if you are on a platform that has low deliverability or you have been pegged by the platform as a spammer.

How Drip Handles Spammers

I learned this ten years ago when I was spamming a lot of people. When you’re new, you don’t know any different. I had emails that I wanted to get out to my people that were on my list and they weren’t getting them or they were going to the spam/junk folder.

That’s just as bad as not sending an email, right?

I think back then I was at .2 percent that were actually getting the emails and I later found out that this particular platform labeled me as a spammer and they put me in a IP range that didn’t send out that well. So you have to be giving great value and always doing someone that is known for giving value. If you need a little help from a seasoned pro that travels all over, Gary Vaynerchuk is that guy. He’s a bit in your face but maybe that’s what you need to get off your butt to do something. I highly recommend his book that was written several years ago because it’s still relevant: The book is called, “Jab Jab Jab Right Hook“.

Ease of Use

The ease of use is the next on the list. It’s based on a great method of graphical presentation so you can understand what and where things are. You’ve got people instead of subscribers. It’s more personable but you’re going to have so many things presented in front of you when you first log in.

You’re going to see a graph of:

How your blog is doing
Your email stats
First time visitors you have on your blog.

Lastly I would like to point out that the price of drip for a 0-500 subscribers (people) is $19.

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Now I have to admit, at the time of this recording the price was $49 and it wasn’t cheapest because there are other ones out there that were much cheaper. I think when I started it was 12 dollars a month with a different provider, and went up to 15 for others and eventually other ones that start at $30. As far as price, I’ve seen some that I go up to $300 a month. They also have many more things that they can offer and personally I don’t want them handling all of my marketing because if one thing goes down it can wreak havoc on all of your marketing. Simply put, you want to have items of your marketing in different locations.

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My Thoughts On Using Drip vs Other Email Marketing Systems

Now this review is slightly biased but not because Drip is sponsoring me. I would only get a commission when you decide to continue past the 14 day trial period, or just purchase a monthly or yearly subscription. it is my sincere hope that you take the 14 day trial after reading or watching my drip email marketing review.

The others email marketing systems I ‘ve used seem to be out of their league when trying to match what Drip has to offer. The original email systems have been in the business a long time and I would have thought that they would be jumping on the changes in the industry trying to make it easier to market businesses that are using their service.

The only system that I found that is close to Drip is ConvertKit. The ideas they have work well because of the programming language they use. This language is the exact same one as Drip. So, of course, it makes sense how well they match up to Drip.

The others email marketing systems are tough to compare even though they are in the email marketing system niche. So in future blogs and videos, I’ll be doing comparisons of each system that is after your hard earned money.

I’m giving you the review because it’s what i use and I think you could get great value out of using it in your business as well. So, if you’re ready to try out Drip, I encourage you to go for it! See you in the next blog post and/or video.

I know that this is just one topic on using Drip, and you can go through the entire series which is located on either Rumble, or YouTube. There, you’ll be able to go through all the videos – or just search this site for all posts that I have done regarding Drip Email Marketing

How To Add Opt In Forms To WordPress

In today’s vastly improving technology we have so much at the tips of our hands. We have email opt in forms that seem like they just appear without doing any real work. So in this post, I’m going to help you get your email opt in forms added so that you can begin collecting emails from your WordPress blog.

I know that this is just one topic on using Drip, and you can go through the entire series, and become a master at drip

Types of Forms

When adding forms to a WordPress blog, you have a choice of whether you want to have a pop up form, embedded form, or in the case with Drip, a slide out form. This will work with WordPress as well. However, if you choose the free plan, it may be more difficult to integrate Drip into the free blogs.

The email provider we will be using today is Drip. This is mainly because that’s who I’m using for emails these days.

…and I absolutely love them!

Here’s how simple it is to add opt in forms to WordPress using Drip.

at the onset, you are telling drip you would like to add a form to your blog. That part is quite simple.

You’ll get a pop up similar to what is pictured above. I’ve gone ahead and typed in the name ‘Test form’ as well as added a tag for those that submit the form. In this case, I’ve added “Blog_visit” as the tag.

In real world situations, you’d probably place a tag describing the form purpose, such as “Best PDF download for my program”.

Next, you’ll need to decide what is the form type that you want to add to your WordPress blog?

In this example, you see that the popup form is selected. However that is not the only choice.

Different Types of Drip Forms

Exit -Intent Popup Form
Side Tab Form (slide in)
Embedded HTML Form (visuals have vastly improved)

after making the selection of which form you what to add to your blog, simply click the create form button.

Subsequently, you will see a screen that looks like the photo above. This is where you will customize the look and feel of the form.

You’ll start off by choosing the fields you would like to collect from your soon to be subscriber.

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After you have customized this, move on to the design portion of the form.

Designing Your Form

As you can see, this process is literally holding you to each step and helping you design the form by using colors, font sizes on the Style tab. Then on the text tab you are able to choose a title for the Form as well as a description.

Lastly, as you can see you are able to choose an image which Drip suggests that it be at least 300px wide. In my photos, I aim to upload an image that is (300px wide by 450px tall) so that it fills up the area that is meant for the image.

Choosing When The Form Pops Up

The next part of creating this form is to tell Drip what the behavior of the form will be. As you can see there’s a time delay, after scrolling to a certain point in the blog, or on the click of a link or button or via the JS API.

What Do You Want The Form To Do?

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Lastly, you’ll need to tell Drip how to proceed once the form is submitted. It’s as simple as that to insert a form to a WordPress blog. This can be done on each blog page or assigned to a certain tag that you create on your blog, The sky is really the limit here on how to apply each form.

How to Crush it in Video Marketing

Video Marketing Tips and Tricks For the Beginner to the Experienced.

Video marketing can be very intimidating. There are so many different things that you need to know. However, it’s a necessity if you want to be successful.

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So if you’re in a marketing business of some sort, you may want to start making videos. What the pros tell you is that if you are in the least bit fearful of making a video, you should pull out your phone and pretend you are making the video, even if you don’t post them. Starting somewhere is exactly where the person(s) you follow started.

Heck! I started doing videos and found them very intimidating because the camera was not a person that could respond back to what I was saying. So, what I did was to jump on into the video by putting myself directly in front of my camera or phone. In my mind, it didn’t matter the quality in the beginning. It was that I was taking a step each and every day to become better than the day before.

So if you’re in business and afraid of what people will think, or whatever reason you put in your head to excuse you from doing videos, know you’re not alone. Your goal is to make marketing videos which is just another way to say you are providing value to your customers.

What is Considered “Value”?

Value is anything from showing your lifestyle off to solving a problem which you may have the answer, to writing out your feelings so that others can see them – and feel validated.

I and many others tend to focus on solving problems for people – because there’s one truth that we all want living on this planet.

Ok…well maybe there are more truths to list…

There is a wrong and a right answer, and if you have the right answer you will get more attention in your video marketing.
There is no such thing as over saturated topics to do a video on. Have you noticed that some of the videos you watch are not done the way you would have done them? Put your own spin on the topic with your personality.

In the short video at the beginning of the post are some more ideas to practice in your video marketing. Those that are frightened of the very thought of a camera and being on camera should start by doing videos for themselves.

You can do as short or as long of a video you like. The key is to be able to watch your video and accept what you see. Some of you that are perfectionists will have more problems with this than most. This isn’t a bad thing though. You probably jump in and make all the mistakes. Faster than those with the perfectionist bent.

The Biggest tip I can give to you right now is to start now, take a deep breath and enjoy the ride. The last point here is to post them to your Facebook, YouTube, and other social media sites. Even if you are just asking for people’s opinions on your efforts.

Do Not Delete Your Videos In The Beginning.

When you jump in with abandon, you’ll start to notice your immediate improvement and you will get more results this way. The key here is to never delete your videos in the beginning – nor when you are advanced.

You will get views on your videos and if you delete them, that will take away some of your channel juice.

You’ll thank me later! 🙂

Test, Test, Test!

When you have a “great idea” in marketing, the best rule of thumb is to try it. You never know if it will be a hit.

Most of all, don’t do things halfway. ?It’s all about the energy you put off. People may not be physical with you. But, they can sense your energy no matter where you are located. Video or in-person is tough to trick people into thinking you are not nervous or hesitant.

Here’s a list of traits that you may want to consider when doing your video marketing.

State your keywords in your video. This is especially if you are using YouTube as they make a script of what you are saying. ?So, to do this well, treat it like SEO for video.
Place little bits of attention-getting stories.
If your goal is to have videos done efficiently, use your cell phone and upload directly to any video hosting site. Otherwise, if you have time, edit your video and make it look professionally done.
Use a place that is busy in the background. Our minds are very busy and can “soak” in information faster than you can speak it. ?

Those tips should help you get started in your video marketing and improve your subscription base, both on your blog and your video social profiles.

How To Hone Your Video Marketing Skills

Now that you have some great tips to practice in your video marketing, dig in and get even more strategies. Use these proven strategies and subliminal tips that will improve your sales. They will also create a business model that all your friends and family will be begging you to know.

Lastly, remember that you are starting a business that will leave that legacy for your children. Also, YouTube has proven to be very lucrative in ads and getting more customers. Take your passion and grow it!

The Best Review Of The Drip Email Marketing System

In today’s post, we are going to review one of the top email marketing systems around call Drip. So sit back, relax, and let’s dig into this best review of the drip email marketing system.

Are you stuck and not sure what to do with your email marketing? Perhaps digging into your current email system seems like it’s just too much to learn and master?

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Review of The Drip Email Marketing System

so when it comes to doing reviews, I tend to go into the informational part of the review so that you can see how things work and get an idea of where I’m coming from when doing the review.

I know that it’s better to show than write about this and that’s why I have a video for you to watch here:

In case you really want to dig in, This video starts off the series of videos all about Drip.

The first thing that I would like to point out about Drip is Automation. This is what really got me sold in the beginning. I used to be with other email systems that said the automation was superior but when I attempted to apply my marketing to it. I was always going up against workflows not working. I’m hoping that they got their act together (they are still in business).

What Exactly Do You Use In Automation?

Automation is run by workflows. In almost all cases, you’re going to see the use of triggers, tags, goals, lead scores and conversions. This is across the board in email marketing.

However, you will see this presented to the user in a way that makes sense and is easy to use. I’ll be doing videos about this in future posts so that you can get a really good grasp on this for your marketing.

Triggers are a new technology within email marketing and Leadpages and Drip have this in place. What is it?

Triggers That Automate

If you’re new to email marketing, you might be wondering what triggers are and what they do.

In short you are going to love them because they will do more automation for you on different platforms such as your blog.

Triggers are converted links that allow you to place the link anywhere (social media, your blog, or drip account). These converted links will act just as if you were sending an email and the subscriber clicked the link.

One caveat: you have to have a cross-domain tracking setup.

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Now, I mentioned in the video that Leadpages and Drip were both the same company. That is no longer true as Leadpages has split off from Drip. My guess is that there will be many more great things happening to Drip now that they have split off from each other. Time will tell and yes, I will do a video on these new things that come out.

This is a review and not a cheerleading post, so onward with the review of the drip email marketing system

The Downside of Drip

Some of the liquid is the programming language and it is a bit more advanced and needs to have someone who has dealt with this to handle any of this implementation.

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The other thing that I didn’t like at all with Drip was the form integration with your blog. The design was flat-out ugly. Of course, you can do some CSS to spruce it up to match your brand but I’m guessing not many bloggers know how to do CSS because they blog, not code or do graphic design.

As of this writing, there are some slight improvements in the embedded form (see above – and subscribe).

If you’re looking for a knock your socks off sort of form, you’re not going to get it (yet – crossing my fingers) from Drip. The forms were a point of contention for me because ConvertKit was much better at doing this for bloggers.

Drip Pricing

The other item I wasn’t excited about was the price. the lowest was set at $49/month. Now that has changed (after the recording of this video on youtube)

Now the prices are much different and start out with better package deals.

This price goes up to $29 and stays there until you reach 2501 subscribers, which THEN it’s a $49/month investment.

If you want a really good email marketing system and don’t want to pay the price of the ultra-expensive, you will be absolutely happy with DRIP.

The integrations that you have access to with Drip is mind-boggling. If you have your own courses to sell and you want to put them into a place such as WooCommerce (which integrates with WordPress seamlessly) you can run automation with this plug into your blog with just a few clicks.

Here are the top integrations listed on Drips website…

Another feature I absolutely love is that in my workflows, I can automatically build my Facebook custom audience by either adding to or removing subscribers.

As you can see on the list to the left, there are many more topics to peruse of integrations.

Does it seem like I’m just overjoyed about using Drip? Well, you’re spot on with that deduction.

There really is so much more to tell you about but, in the interest of time and my ability to create videos that go over such things, I’m going to give you a chance to subscribe to my email and get a notification when I upload a new youtube video. Yes, these will also be here on my blog as well.

Stay tuned for more (each week will be another video). Remember to subscribe!

What’s The Buzz About Having A Facebook Fan Page?

Do you have a Facebook Fan Page. Have you had any success with this form of doing business?

Well…

You’ve probably heard of the biggest change that has happened to the Facebook Fan Page community recently. It’s kind of a big thing but is it enough to sway people from Facebook to other social media outlets such as Google Plus, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube?

In short, I can tell you that there are lots of trains going around spouting off thoughts here and there (like that… 🙂 )

So here’s my thought on the subject of creating a new fan page in the beginning stages of your business and why you may or may not need one.

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A Facebook Fan Page Can Be A Time Suck

It’s true, you either know how to give valuable content to people for FREE or you don’t. ?Those that do not want to give their audience information on how to solve their problems or value based posts are not going to have the following they so desire.

After all, if you have a fan page, and you’re reading this post, you’re probably looking to monetize your fan page and/or your blog.

So, if you view giving free information away as a time suck your finances will be a time suck as well. The key to a successful Facebook page is to be passionate about the content that you are teaching. If you THINK you are passionate, try this question to really know how passionate you are:

Would you do what you’re doing now for your followers knowing you’d never get paid?

If the answer is YES! then you are on the right track and it won’t matter what platform you are working on. You’ll succeed!

The next step is to go out and provide massive value for your followers on your Facebook fan page. Start building courses and scale up!

How To Start A Fan Page The Right Way

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When starting a Facebook fan page, the best suggestions to get done before going public is to do the following items:

Get your header image ready. You can have a call to action placed on this if you would like to capture leads from this space on your fan page.
Select a good image of yourself to place as your profile image. You should focus on a detailed photo of your face, not wearing any sunglasses, show your teeth, and keep your eyes wide open. This will convey trust to the reader.
Have 10 posts ready to go and posted that is aligned with the purpose of your content. This should also match with the niche you are helping out or marketing to on your Facebook page.
Have a mixture of posts from the text, to photo, to videos. This will help the reader in getting to know you better.

Once you have completed the above tasks, you are now free to start advertising your fan page to the community and inviting them to “LIKE” your page so that they can start getting updates in their news feed.

Setting Up Your Fan Page

To get the things done that I mentioned above, you’re going to need some tools to complete them. Now I know that most people are not Photoshop geniuses but even if you are, you probably use tools based on their ease rather than how capable the tool is. That being said, I also weigh out both of those scenarios – just so that we are clear about the decision-making process on what tools to use.

For those that do not have the option of Photoshop, here are a couple tools that I use on a regular basis to do things like cover photos on your social media profiles.

Canva For Non-Photoshop Users

This is a tool that is a must-have for any marketing business. The cost to you is free if you use their images that do not cost money or your own images imported to your Canva profile. If you’d like a little more in the way of unique and pleasing photos, you’ll be paying $1 for each element you choose – and they clearly mark these items before you choose them.

The beauty of this site is you get to see what things look like before you have to pay. You are charged when you decided to download your image, and even then they will alert you that you will need to pay for your items. The way you pay is either by paying in bulk and deducting from that balance or you can pay for each item when you need it. Pretty convenient in my book!

PicMonkey – More Options

PicMonkey is a site that allows you to do more editing of your photos but you also have the ability to make collages and Memes for your sites, social, business, or personal. As you can see in the graphic, they offer a free account with limited functionality that is actually more than most will need. The “Royale” account which is a paid account gives you everything under the sun that they offer for about $2-$3 per month.

“The best tool is the tool that you can use”

So that quote is right on in most anything you do – even applied to photography. I learned that you have to have access to a tool to use it. A camera, a photo editing suite, an online editing tool. You name it, you have to have access to these tools in order to make them useful to you.

PicMonkey is one of those tools that I will use when I want something edited quickly and I have a connection to the internet. The biggest reason you would use this is to create collages. I’ve also seen others use it to touch up photos and even some design is possible with this website.

If you’re going to use a site like Canva and you know you’ll spend more than $36 per year – PicMonkey Royale is the account to have going forward. ?It does most everything that Canva does only with other options that Canva does not offer.

Spark by Adobe

One of the other places that I have been making images and loving it is a place called spark. This platform is created by a company that already has their hands in much of the photograph image editing arena.

If you guessed Adobe you’d be correct. In fact, since using spark over a year ago I have not returned to canva or picmonkey. However, those are definitely great tools to use as well.

The last option is to have someone create these banners for you using a service such as Fiverr.com, or Upwork.

Once you get your photos all set on your Facebook fan page, you’ll be on your way to creating your first 10 posts.

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7 Blogging Hacks For Better Search Engine Rankings

Blogging Hacks For Better Search Engine Rankings

The best way to start a blog and be successful quickly is to put into place blogging hacks for better search engine rankings in any search engine you choose.

Blogging is a big income producer for many people. Throughout the past several years, there are fewer people creating blogs because they realize that it’s a business and it requires that you be consistent.

Writing blogs for Google, Bing & Yahoo are great for SEO, but let’s not forget your target market and relating to them!

I’ve heard too many times that SEO is not something I want to do. I’d rather just write my story and add photos / video then publish.

The story is a valid part of the equation but you have to keep SEO in the game as well.

Blogging Hacks That Create Better Search Engine Rankings On Google, Bing, and Yahoo

1. Blogging Hack: Be Consistent

The biggest reason a blog starts to get ranked is simply that they are providing Google, Bing, and Yahoo with content.

It’s not just the content that these search engines see, but rather the continuous submissions on a daily or even multiple times per day.

Of course, these posts need to be of high quality or you’re going to see your rankings drop. So if you’re a blogger and want to start seeing results on your search engines by way of 1st-page rankings, then you need to be a performer of great content on a regular basis.

I mentioned that some bloggers are doing daily posts, but understandably, most professionals cannot handle this type of schedule. So if you are able to post just one blog per week or every 2 weeks, that’s great!

Just keep on your schedule and do your SEO so that you can be found.

2. Better Search Engine Rankings From Telling Stories

Have you ever read a blog that was dry or just told you a bunch of facts that you really didn’t know what they had to do with you or your search to answer your issue?

Usually, blogs that give you facts are the ones that are more technically oriented and don’t have to tell stories because they have built-in traffic (techies searching how to solve a problem).

The problem with that is that techies are not necessarily the type of genre that you would want to blog for because when they are looking for answers they aren’t looking for anything to buy – just information.

Most of the time, they are also working but not always.

3. Proper SEO For More Traffic

SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization.

This could be one of the best ways to create a passive income using your blog. SEO doesn’t have to be too intensive but it does need to exist in order for your blog to be found.

What do I mean by “it needs to exist”?

Simple.

You need to have a plan of attack and know what you are talking about and it needs to be narrowed down to something as detailed as “purple frogs living in lakes in Hawaii” to get your page ranked. This is called Long-tail keywords, and I’ll get into this in a different blog post (big topic to cover)

You’ll also want to include your keyword in your blog post, photos, URL, and title. All of these need to be at a ratio of about 1-2 words per 100 words in your post.

Now if you are brand new to the blogging world, you may need to also get setup with an email list system.

I’m currently using Drip which I highly recommend you use. It’s basic enough for beginners yet can be expanded greatly if and when you’d like to do that.

4. Image Spacing to Aide Readability

Using WordPress is a great way to get your blog started in the right direction. However, there are a few things that are not quite right about the total package.

One of these is the default spacing for pictures. If you’re like me, and most other bloggers, you know that having the proper amount of padding between the image and your text is great for both eye appeal and readability.

Both of these are essential for readers to be able to decipher your content in a quick and orderly fashion. The best practice to get your images spaced out properly is to check the code. The proper syntax for an image to show up in a blog post is as follows:

*style=”padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; <a href=”http://myblogphotos.com/photogallery”>

There is another part of this text version to putting an image in. The key here is to place the bold text into the statement for your image. ?However, placement is also key, but if you’re not sure, place it at the beginning after the?<a ?so that the web page will know right away, you want?to pad around the image.

5. Spreading the Word About Your Blog

Google pays attention to how well your content is liked and viewed. That being said, you are getting your blog post judged by how many views it gets as well as how many share it to their influence on social media.

A post with the same word length, keyword, and the above-mentioned items will outrank the other post that has identical traits if there are more views and shares.

Shares are akin to backlinks. Backlinks are definitely viewed as a good thing – but don’t go haywire with buying backlinks. Some backlinks will actually hurt your ranking.

How To Get Eyes On Your Blog Post

For starters, you can begin sending out emails with your new DRIP email service built for bloggers and marketing entrepreneurs

This will definitely get eyes on your post and get your post ranking higher as people visit and comment and/or like your post.

Do you want your message on several different places on the internet? Why yes you do!

Post a video about your blog post and embed it. Also, create an audio version of your blog post and embed to your blog post so you will be the one reading the post to your viewer.

each of the outlets should always lead back to your blog where you have control of your marketing. Social media has been a good place to post but you must know that they own any content you post there and have control of how much it gets promoted on their platform.

So when you are posting a blog post, make sure you apply the Blogging Hacks For Better Search Engine Rankings

6. Things To Consider When Blogging

When blogging, there are a few things that need to be in place.

The first and foremost is to be in a great state of mind before starting any blog post. I’ve found that the best way to clear your mind is to do something physical to get your heart rate up.

After the workout, hone your thoughts, focus on being in the moment, and start writing.

The Technical Part of Blogging is Only 20% Your Business

Having the knowledge of how to blog and get ranked is essential. This is key to having a successful blog but not the whole ball of wax.

In order to be successful at blogging, vlogging, or whatever you choose as your business, you need to be 100% all in with your vision. How do you know that you’re 100% in?

That’s where you’re going to need to do some soul searching. However, I have a quick and easy form you can fill out and it will tell you if you’re ready to go full steam ahead.

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7. Have A Domain Name That Has A Lot Of Pull

In the blogging world, having a domain name that has a lot of pull is called Page Rank. This seems to be a great advantage if you’re going to apply the Blogging Hacks That Create Better Rankings.

These hacks will help you make a bigger splash in the blogging world. Currently, the best way to do this with no previous blog is to just get in and have your blog created, then start blogging each and every day.

How are they doing it?

They know the key elements of setting up a blog, to getting each post ranked on the biggest search engines, and how and where to promote these blog posts.

3 Handy Tools To Make Money Online

In today’s world of the not so secure job, people are turning more to the online world of business. In this post, we are going to discuss a few Tools To Make Money Online. Now, I’m going to be the first to tell you that owning your own business is not for the faint of heart.

Any business endeavor will take committed action. That being said, I have a few different ways you may want to consider. These are all suggestions I have done or have seen others do quite well for themselves.

Click Bank

Click Bank is one of those amazing affiliate programs that give you a product to sell on your blog, social media, or in your PPC campaigns. It’s all up to you how and where you advertise.

If you have the right places in line, you can easily pull down a full-time income doing the affiliate sales. That’s a lot of work, however. If you look at the number of commissions you receive from most click bank sales, it ranges between 5% and 60%.

So you would have to choose a high paying product to make any real headway financially. Otherwise, you’re going to be constantly advertising for small commissions.

I’ve seen recently that click bank has tutorials to teach you how to make money online. Even mid to advanced level marketers can get value out of these tutorials. This is, however, one of the tougher avenues to take. It’s because you are constantly selling the same thing to different people.

The other side of the coin with Click Bank is that you can sell or put your product up and have others sell it for you.

Although I have never seen or known anyone personally sells on Click Bank, you’d be amazed at the income that people are pulling down using this one strategy.

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eBay

Now, some people are very casual eBay sellers and that’s alright. For some, it’s a way of life and life couldn’t be any better.

Would you do this for a living if you could be taught in as short as a couple of hours?

The upside to doing a business is that you get tax breaks. This is because you own a business, and you can set your own schedule.

If you were to point out a downside to this sort of business, it would be that you’re always sourcing new products. The entrepreneur is always looking to sell their products. A business has to survive after all. That said, this lifestyle is not for everyone. But for those that can handle this, you could be looking at 4, 5 and even 6 figures a month. However, this is for those who are consistent and smart about how the business is set up.

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Blogging

The best advertising that you can have as an entrepreneur is free advertising, right? That’s why this is one of the best tools to make money online.

Let me preface this by saying it’s the best but not necessarily the fastest. And a word to the wise, nothing fast is really worth your while.

When you start a blog, you have spaces such as space here on the right and the left to advertise what you would like. You can self-promote your stuff/business, or you can put ads up for others for free or for a fee.

The goal when blogging is to get your blog post to rank as high as possible for a search term that gets a fair amount of searches each month. This is part of the equation that makes it so lucrative to blog.

The other part of the equation is that when you are blogging you can place videos, photos and of course lots of text in your blogs. Most blog posts that rank on the first page have a minimum of 2,000 words and up to about 5,000 or more.

But just because you have a blog doesn’t mean people will rush over to read it. You have to put in time to build it up and have valuable content that people want to consume.

Sign up for my blogging course where I teach you all the strategies to getting more traffic. This will turn into buyers from your blog.

Why Go Through All This To Rank A Blog Post?

Short answer: It gives people a chance to get to know you better. When you have this ranking strategy in place, people will know, like, and trust you. When people know, like, and trust you; they buy from you as well.

What type of people do you suppose are buyers? The ones that know, like, and trust YOU!

So, if you’re in business, you may want to get yourself a blog, that has all the right features. This is important because it will get you ranked high on the search engines. Another great benefit is it doesn’t come with a huge price tag. ?

The other necessity is to get setup with an email service provider. They used to be called an auto responder, but that term left about 10 years ago. We now are calling them eCRM’s.

The other benefit of this blogging platform we know as Squarespace, is maintenance isn’t your job. Keeping your blog running fast is also a part of SEO.

In other words, you do not have to be an IT guru to keep your blog running like it should be running. When you are looking for a blog, here are some specs that you should watch out for:

Built for speed

Potential to use as a marketer

Save your time, by helping you get traffic, leads, and sales

Will help you with your bottom line and is part of the tools to make money online

NOTE: Free blogs such as blogger, WordPress.org, etc. do not allow marketing to be done on their platforms. It’s in the fine print and they can and will shut you down.

This has not stopped many from doing ads, and Squarespace has different packages for different types of bloggers. Eventually, you should get your blog hosted and run using WordPress.com. For more on setting things up with WordPress, click here

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Wrap Up: Tools To Make Money Online

If you’re in the marketing space and are struggling, check what you are doing in your business. Next, decide if you could be doing less of something and focusing your attention in some other manner.

Are you constantly having to advertise your business to get any leads?

Perhaps a blog is something you could use to get auto-pilot leads and sales?!?

Are you coming across as being a spammer to your social media followers?

Do you hate selling to people because you’re not sure what to say?

Then you could really benefit from our team building course.

These are just a couple of the things to think about when you are looking for tools to make money online. For starters, remember that when the economy is “bad” your business should be thriving. Peoples needs outweigh what the economy dictates, so they find other ways to meet those needs.

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How To Be Successful As A Marketing Beginner

All businesses start out fresh in the world of marketing. This is why I’m talking about online marketing for beginners.

Most businesses that are successful use various marketing methods to attract customers to their products or services. Wise business owners and managers develop marketing plans. These plans outline the road maps that help them achieve their short and long-term goals. Most strategies that are used include such details as:

how to develop new products or services
how to distribute products
what methods of promotion are applied
how to manage customer relationships

Big companies typically already have in place the marketing strategies and know-how to put them into action. But too many small business owners misunderstand what the proper definition of a marketing strategy. They attach the term to a specific marketing practice such as an advertising campaign.

A Marketing strategy is a plan that has an attainable goal.

An ad campaign is one of the strategies that make the marketing strategy successful.

This is why an approach to successful marketing plan needs to have one or many goals. It should that tie up or combine all advertising efforts and marketing activities into a comprehensive strategy. The goal here is to attract and keep customers.

For new business owners who are learning How To Be Successful As A Marketing Beginner, there’s no need to be concerned about coming up with overly complex strategies to market products or services. It’s possible to create strategies based on ideas that have already proven to work. Here are some basic examples that work well in terms of marketing for beginners in business. These are experienced business people who are branching out into something new.

Marketing Beginner: The Product Strategy

When you define a product strategy, you can determine what direction your product or service efforts go (or are going). To help you define your product strategy, ask yourself these questions:

What can you identify as a need in your own marketplace that you would like to answer?
Specifically what product or service are you selling?
Who are the specific people whom you need to focus on in terms of selling? This is one area of marketing for beginners that many business owners fail to be specific enough about.
In terms of value, what will your customers receive by doing business with you? And this is not just about price value, but long-term personal value-something that makes their lives better over a long period of time.

Marketing for Beginners: The Pricing Strategy

Pricing strategy is something that is based on what it costs to create a physical product or provide a service of some kind. This is also known as cost of goods. And it’s not just the physical materials that fit into the cost of goods; you also have to factor in labor costs, salaries, and even commissions when the business involves services rather than product sales. Marketing for beginners heavily relies on a good marketing strategy, and that strategy should take the following into account:

Costs that are both fixed and variable
Who the competition in the marketplace is and what they’re doing
The overall short and long-term objectives of the company
Who the target group of customers is and what they are willing to pay for the product and/or service.

Marketing for Beginners: The Promotion Strategy

Any product or service, no matter how good it is, is worthless in the marketplace. What makes the product or service have value is how the value is communicated to their customers. The promotion strategy should contain a mix of different elements and can include:

Print advertising
Broadcast (radio and/or TV) advertising
Direct mail marketing
Personal networking
Internet marketing

Another method that does quite well in the How To Be Successful As A Marketing Beginners niche is “inbound marketing”. This involves the use of well-designed websites, blogs and social media networks. This can help the company’s promotional voice to be heard throughout the internet.

These ideas are just the tip of the iceberg that can make up an overall plan of marketing for beginners. There is a lot more information and tools to round out a business’s plan to get the customers attention.

If you need help in growing your business, consider starting a blog. If you need help after reading the post, consider taking my email course. This course will break things down and help you get to a place where you can work on your blog, customize it as you see fit, and get it to rank well on all the search engines.

Choosing The Best Domain Name For You

How to Choose the Best Domain Name

Most of the time when someone wants to buy a domain name for personal or business use, they may already have a domain name in mind. The domain name they want might be their company name or the name of a certain product they sell. The reasons why someone would want a specific domain name are almost endless. But there are some things to consider when deciding how to choose the best domain name.

Do a Keyword Search to Find a Domain Name

One thing that many people forget to do when trying to figure out how to choose the best domain name is analyzing keywords on the internet that are related to their company, product or personal interests. There?s plenty of tools on the internet to help you do this. There are also some software applications you can buy and use on your computer. They?re complicated in how they work, but generally, it?s very easy to use them. It?s simply a matter of entering words or phrases related to what your website is about, and the research tool will give you a list of the top keywords that are words that point to what people are searching for on the internet. Take the time to use a tool that helps you with this and you?ll be in a good position to receive a lot of website hits even before your site is up.

Make Sure That Your Domain Name is Unique

Another very important point in figuring out how to choose the best domain name is to make sure the name you choose is not one that resembles a domain that?s already in existence and well-known. For example, many churches in different places have the same name, which is not a problem. But it is a problem if you?re looking for a domain name for your church and (as an example) you choose ?hometownchurch.net.? There very well could be a church website already on the internet called ?hometownchurch.org.? People looking for your church might get confused quite easily. That?s why one rule of thumb in understanding how to choose the best domain name is ?Don?t rush!?

Use “.Com” or “.Org” Web Domains If Possible

The ending part of a domain name is called the extension. That?s the part that ends in .com, .org, etc. In the early days of the internet,t there wasn?t much choice. You could pick a domain that ended in .com, .net, and .org. Now there are so many domain name extensions available it can get downright confusing. It?s tempting to pick a domain with one of the many new extensions; such as ?.tv, .me,? etc. But try to avoid the temptation. If you want to attract lots of traffic to your site try to stick with a domain that ends in .com. Of course with so many websites on the internet now, that can be hard. If you can?t get the name you want that ends in .com, the second and third best choices are .net and .org. Many people who have tried to figure out how to choose the best domain name have chosen the ?.co? extension, which can be confusing because advertising a .co domain might make people think you meant .com and just made a spelling error. So they go looking for ?yoursite.com? instead of your real domain name ?yoursite.com? and never find you on the internet.

However, if this isn’t possible, more and more domain extensions are now available and the .com / .org sites are no longer available unless you’re willing to pay big money. Do a web search for “GoDaddy .99 cents” and you will more than likely strike it rich!

Add Value to Your Brand or Organization

When deciding how to choose the best domain name, remember that the name you choose has to send out an easy to understand message about your company, product or yourself. While it?s not always possible to avoid using numbers or punctuation marks such as hyphens in a domain name, try to avoid them if you can. Your domain name ideally should be one that people don?t have to look up to find you. It should be a domain name that people can recall off the top of their heads rather easily.

In the past, people have asked me how to make money online?using a blog.? I always tell them that it’s a matter of applying yourself and following through on your actions. ?I know many of my readers are looking for something to help them bridge the gap without having to do cold calling, or using the phone at all!

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How To Setup a Website on WordPress

Setup Your WordPress Website

If you’ve never had a website on WordPress or just haven’t figured out how to set up a site on WordPress. You’re missing out on a lot of fun!

Having a blog for your own personal use can give you an outlet to talk to the world. Perhaps the best thing to do is talk to your people

Think of the possibilities…

You get to write about the very things that you are passionate about in your life. What’s not to love about this, right?

For clarification, this blog post is all about setting up a blog on wordpress.com. This is the free blogging option that WordPress offers. If you’re looking to set up a blog using your own domain name and want to use WordPress as your platform, then you should refer to this post.

What a blog is and isn’t

Your WordPress blog is a place to interact with friends, show off photos, and write about your personal experiences.

If you’ve been missing out on the fun and want to get started with your own blog. Here are some tips to help to show you how to set up a website on WordPress.

Keep in mind that wordpress.com will give you several different options ranging from $4/mo to $45/month billed yearly. If you’re serious about blogging, you should stay away from these options. Instead, find a hosting platform to set up your wordpress.org site.

The first thing you’ll want to do is visit the WordPress website. You’ll see a screen below:

The second thing you need to know regarding how to set up a website on WordPress is just as easy.

Click on the get started button and decide on what username and password you want to use. While this is an easy step, don’t rush too fast.

Remember: your username on WordPress will be part of the URL or website address on WordPress. Once you’ve chosen a username you can’t change it unless you want to start again from scratch. This could be a problem. If six months after setting up your WordPress website you decide you don’t like your username…

especially if during those six months you’ve added a lot of posts.

So part of the process regarding how to set up a website on WordPress does require some advance planning.

Make sure your username meets some basic criteria:

Naming Your Website

You’ll have to follow some other basic steps, such as providing an email address and picking a password. WordPress will send a confirmation email to you that will provide you with some easy instructions. Then just confirm who you say you are and that you agree to their terms of service.

Understanding How To Set Up A Website On WordPress

You will need to involve some thought on how you want your website or blog to look. Once you’ve confirmed your account through WordPress, choosing a theme is the next decision you’ll have to make.

It’s not difficult, but understanding how to set up a website on WordPress does involve some advance planning. The theme you choose will say a lot about you or your business. That said, pick a theme that provides a visual statement about you or your business. Take your time, and look around at the options. There’s a lot of themes to choose from so don’t feel like you need to rush.

Choosing Your Website Name

Your username should fit what you’re doing. If it’s for a business, try to use a username that matches your business name.

If it’s a personal blog, try to use a username that matches the theme of what the blog is about.

Once you’ve chosen the theme or design you want. You should set up your front page, also referred to as the welcome page. It’s the first page people will see when they visit your new WordPress blog.

Selecting Your Widgets

One thing that confuses new WordPress users sometimes are WordPress widgets.

Widgets are not all that complicated, once you get a feel for how they work.

They really are instrumental in attracting traffic to your blog. So, if you’re a newbie or just have a very basic understanding of how WordPress widgets work. Get to know the widgets by jumping in and working with them.

Widgets are a big part of understanding how to set up a website on WordPress. Widgets are simple parts of your WordPress blog. These allow you to embed code to internal or external things on the internet.

Linking to other sites

If you already have another website somewhere. Just use a widget to link to it from a different blog,

You can also use widgets to link to your Facebook account; news or whether websites. The options are almost endless. If you found this blog, most likely you found it on Pinterest as it’s my biggest traffic referral site.

Pinterest has many widgets to turn your pins into rich pins.

Rich pins are simply pins located in your blog posts. What makes them rich pins is that your blog is verified with Pinterest.

This blog is verified with Pinterest. It’s more of a way to track your stats from the bloggers perspective. From the reader’s perspective, it says you can trust the blog because it’s verified through Pinterest.

The Dashboard On Your WordPress Website

For picture-based learning, this is the administrative area of your WordPress site. This is also referred to as the dashboard.

You’ll have the option to access the settings, properties and determine how you want your posts to look.

You’ll have the option of other things like

Whether or not you want to allow people to post comments.
Whether you want them to be able to provide links to your site back to theirs and many more options.
Write Pages or Posts.
Ability to set up individual pages.

You don’t need to (and shouldn’t) set up a separate page for each post. A page is more static.

Separate pages on WordPress are for the purpose of posting information that will most likely not change.

Pages are for Information about you or your business, how to contact you, etc.

When you’re learning how to set up a website on WordPress, you’ll see that you only need one or two actual pages on your blog. They will be static pages during your blogging experience.

Pages that are most common to create are about me, thank you, and sales pages.

WordPress.org is the place to go for support and basically anything WordPress. It’s also the place that you go to start a blog with a specialized domain name such as, yourname.com

WordPress Installation

Now, if you’re really wanting to go a step above and have control over your blog posts (content)…

Then you are ready for WordPress to be installed on your personalized blog, such as this website.

Most bloggers don’t make that much money to support this habit in the beginning. However, there are some things that need to be put in place so that you can set yourself up to make money on your blog.

WordPress is installed. What now?

One of the steps that you could start out with is learning how to market your blog. I have found that social media is the best and cheapest way to tell everyone about your new blog. Try it out and see the response you get from your blogging.

Also, if you’re new to this blogging business stuff, leave a comment below. Let me know what your experience has been so far.

15 WordPress Optimization Hacks That Flat Out Work!

Why WordPress Optimization is Paramount To Your Blogging Career

Here are some tips that are useful for WordPress optimization and better performance. It will reduce the CPU burden that WordPress puts on the server.

wordpress optimization hacks that flat out work

1 – Upgrade to the latest WordPress version.

Yes, you’re probably reluctant to upgrade if it?s already working but note that every WordPress update always contains bug fixes and improvements so there is no reason not to upgrade.

Sooner than later, you will need to upgrade to blocks (Gutenberg). This should be a priority in your quest for WordPress optimization!

On the other hand, if you just don’t have the time to do this, Use a host that will do this automatically for you.

2 – Remove unnecessary plugins

I know the plug-ins are nice but are you sure you really need those plug-ins? If you don?t need them, just delete the unneeded plugin. It’s taking up processing power on your webhost. This is what could be slowing up your website. You can always install it later if you need it.O

3 – Activate Plugins That Are Needed

For example, you don?t need to activate a Theme previewing plug-in if you are not planning to change a theme. You don?t need to activate a WordPress database backup plug-in if you are not auto scheduling a backup, and so on.

4 – Install “WP-Super-Cache”

If you’re really looking to improve your speed gains, then this is one that is paramount to increasing your website speed

It is clear that the wp super cache has great WordPress optimization while having the lowest overall resource hit on the server. It should always be using the least amount of memory and CPU time that it possibly can.

5 – Reduce PHP/Database Calls

Most CPU usage is caused by the number PHP and database calls. Using WP-Super-Cache helps this tremendously but sometimes it can?t be helped that your blog still has to do some PHP/Database calls. If you can reduce it though, do it. For example, if a plug-in allows you to set an option whether to write a log or not (like the number of spam comments caught, etc), then disable it. This will reduce the number of database insertion/update calls. As a technician on computer systems, I?ve found more wasted CPU processes spent on things that are not used. This one item will get WordPress optimization on the way quicker than anything I?ve said so far.

6 – Reduce the number of Widgets and other components

Although putting a weather widget or other widgets are cool, do you really need them? Besides cluttering your blog and turning visitors off it can also put a strain on the server.

Turn them off!

WordPress Optimization Through Cpanel (Server-Side)

7 – Repair and Optimize

Your database gets updated several times a day, whether you?ve posted or not. There?s a lot of chance for errors there. The process can be completed through the cPanel.

Under the Databases section, click on PHPMyAdmin ?>> Select (your WordPress database).

Notice the table that appears. This contains all your posts, categories, comments, blogroll links, users, etc.

Scroll to the bottom. Click on Check All.

To the right of Check All you?ll find a drop down.

Choose ‘Repair’

Repeat the process and choose Optimize from the menu. (Note that you really only need to do this if you have a lot of overhead in your tables. Check it often.)

8 – Close Any Post Writing Pages When You?re Not Using Them

WordPress will Auto-Save and it uses server resources and builds up CPU usage. It’s a rather simple task to do but it does close out another process that wordpress is not having to save and update.

9 – Turn Off The Formatting Options in Settings

In WordPress, under Settings->Writing uncheck both Formatting options. Especially turn off ?WordPress should correct invalid nested X-HTML automatically?.

10 – Don?t Post Via eMail/Word

Write your posts in the default wordpress writing interface. If you’re not done writing copy/paste it into Word.

There are plugin’s that help with getting rid of the garbage that word produces when copying and pasting to other apps or in this case, your blog. Just know that your MS Word doc is not the same when pasting to your blog.

11 – Use Summaries in Feeds.

Under Settings->Reading, select use Summaries in Feeds.

12 – Turn Off Any eMail Notifications You Don?t Need

especially redundant ones. If you go to your blog often, don?t worry about having it e-mail you for comments. Just turn that off. This can be found Under Settings-Discussion

13 – Reduce File Sizes

Use Photoshop, Gimp etc to reduce the image size, and if you are uploading a video, make the file size as small as possible for faster downloading on a slower network connection. This is another big item to accomplish in your WordPress optimization.

14 – Rename Backup Files

The file wp-cron.php should be renamed to wp-cron.php.bak. This is a good one to do but not as important to do for your WordPress optimization.

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15 – Switch To A Simpler Theme

If you?ve done all the optimizations above, you may need to switch to a simpler theme. There are many themes out there each one is programmed/designed differently by different developers. Do you research on each theme to see how fast they load? It may be just that one extra second that keeps your visitor on your page reading!

WordPress Optimization Complete!!

Now, I have run many WordPress blogs and still do. But I focus the majority of my time on blogging rather than maintenance of the blog. The biggest reason for blogging is so I can help my audience solve a problem. This will in turn help them help someone.

WordPress Optimization On Auto Pilot

One entrepreneur tip is to outsource this type of ‘job’ unless you enjoy doing the maintenance on your blog(s).

So why take your precious time doing WordPress optimization on your blog when your passion is blogging? It’s a whole mindset that isn’t well-known now. Blogging is so profitable that you won’t be able to fail if you decide to make a commitment to blogging rather than tinkering with that blog.

Now, start blogging and building your tribe. Your tribe will thank you that you jumped in and blogged your heart out!

Blogging is for all ages and niches. Don’t get spooked thinking that you don’t know anything that would help someone out. You definitely have a talent, skill, or knowledge that can help out an entire tribe!

Here are a few examples if you’re not sure what to blog about

Real Estate
Network Marketing
Internet Marketing
Personal Bloggers
Local business
Photography
Saving money

…and the list goes on!

These are just a few of the types of blogs you can write about.

Now that you have a WordPress blog and it’s been optimized like it should be, create about 10 posts (if you’re new) and begin ranking on the top of Google and Bing.

Propel Your Business Success with 3 Simple Actions

The Secrets To Business That Will Set Your Path To Inevitable Success

Do you ever have thoughts of creating something that you own and can be proud of? Well today my hope with this post is to propel your business success so that you can begin leaving a legacy for your children’s children.

1. Planting Seeds

I was thinking about one thing today… How do I get people to follow a path and stick to it until they are successful? Today, I started perusing through Facebook and found a favorite celebrity that I’m a huge fan of… Tyler Perry!

Yes, it’s very much one of the biggest reasons for failure in business today. Focus, it’s why Tyler was able to get where he is today. If you haven’t watched the short video of him telling the why and how then please take a moment and listen.

Stick to it, go for your #dreams. Your #FutureSelf will thank you for it. Click To Tweet

The face of business failure is still that little squirrel going from deal to deal and then when that face has decided to be happy with the current deal, there’s no focus and passion about it. That, my friend, is why people suck at marketing, and at building a business. They think that if the deal isn’t going to make money the first month they ain’t gonna stick around.

I’ve been saying to myself that same thing for a few years and it didn’t get me anywhere. So my tune has changed and wouldn’t you know, I’m getting places within my business and seeing results that I previously never saw.

2. Change Your Speech

Well if you’ve been living here on this planet for a while, and have also paid attention to the buzz. You would know that it’s truly the words that we speak that are so very powerful.

My upbringing was one that was positive when I was on the baseball field all throughout my days as a teenager. Growing up playing sports was huge in my development as a person. We never spoke negativity and always supported each other.

It was as if there was an unwritten code within our team that we all kept each other up and never spoke depressing emotions to each other.

RELATED READING: The Secret Law of Attraction

This very team would end up in the Senior Babe Ruth National Title game in 1988. They did it. Played to a championship. Unfortunately this is when I took a detour in my life and was not able to play on that team for my last eligible year.

So in your business, start to be positive and speak into your world what you want. Your words are powerful. More powerful than you know.

If you want to make more sales, start telling yourself that you attract more sales. Be more specific, like “I make 3 sales a day in my online business”

My business is a reflection of what I believe and how I speak things into existence. Click To Tweet

3. Never give up

I know… you have heard this so many times before that it makes you want to plug your ears when someone says it. (that’s why I wrote it down for you to read it …. lol)

It’s true. Never, ever give up on your dreams. You’re created for greatness and to that end, you have things that you need to accomplish that NOBODY on this planet can do better than you.

Perhaps you’re doing something right now that you feel like you have to prove to yourself that you can be successful in. Go ahead and do that but know that if you decide to stop what you are doing now. It does not mean that you have given up or quit.

What this really means is that you’ve found what your passion is and that is when true success really comes flooding into your life.

What To Do Next?

My suggestion is to start to focus on changing your inside game. Learn how to propel your business success story to bigger things each day, week, month, and year. That’s the only way to hit those goals.

I was once of the mindset that I could set a goal 90 days out and because I set that goal, I would just go about doing the things that I have always done.

Let me tell you the truth here…

You will always get what you have always received with the efforts and work that you have always put in. In other words, change what you do and you will receive the change you put in.

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You can start changing your inside by reading books. Also, by hanging out with people who are better (in your opinion) than you both in personality, financially, and then be friends with the friends you hang out with. This is social networking before social media came into play.

RELATED READING: 3 Favorite Books About Online Business Marketing

I know some people literally struggle with being social in the realm of offline (and some online too).? It’s quite alright though.? You have to start somewhere to get really good at anything, right?!

HOW TO BUILD A YOUTUBE CHANNEL THE RIGHT WAY

Get online and start being social. Take a true interest with no strings attached with 5 people. Some will think you’re crazy, others will really appreciate you for urging them to do things they have never done before.

The strategies listed in this blog are guaranteed to work if you put your whole heart into it. Click To Tweet

On the flip side, find a mentor for yourself. This may mean you’ll be paying for their services, but it will be worth it if it’s just for the fact you are taking in how they talk and how they handle conflict, etc. This will definitely propel your business success to higher levels.

When Is The Perfect Time To Build A Business?

Today’s post is about “When Is The Perfect Time To Build A Business”?

So you found a great company to join. You’re pumped about the opportunity of making a lot of money and selling a product that you believe in. However, when the time comes to promote your business, the time is never right. Life just seems to get in the way – ALL OF THE TIME!

So, having said that…

When is the perfect time to build a business? A business that sets people free from the doldrums of their daily jobs? Well… The answer to that question is an emphatic NOW!

The real question that needs to be asked is what are you willing to give up in your social life in order to get what most will not ever have.

Making The Perfect Time For Yourself To Succeed

I’ve found that many people will agree with the statements I made above and then dismiss them because they don’t see them making any difference in their lives. However, if you take a step back and look at how you treat your time, you’ll quickly understand how much time is wasted at the TV or browsing social media. It literally only takes an hour per day of action towards your goal. Hopefully, it’s a goal that will cause you to be more profitable!

Take a look at your life. Make the necessary adjustments such as cutting your social media time down. Start by decreasing your browsing time and doing business-oriented tasks that will set you financially free. You will also need to get a blog set up so that you have a home on the internet.

So just by narrowing down time, you’ll see the answer to your question of “when is the perfect time to build a business?”

REMEMBER: Your perfect time is now not “in a while” or “I already tried that and it doesn’t (insert excuse)“.

Setting Goals!

If you promise to yourself that you will succeed and you keep that mindset for 90 straight days by doing actions towards that you will see things growing in your business which is a sign of success. when you have success 90 days from now, you’ll thank your present self in the future for the decision you made to start. So, the perfect time is only a decision away.

The #PerfectTime to start anything worthwhile, is NOW!"? Don't procrastinate. Be a doer! Click To Tweet

Why you need a blog to start your business?

If you have been in the online space for a while, you know that blogging has been one of the constants for quite a while now. If you own an online business, you also know that you’re leaving money on the table by not setting up and running a blog.

One of the many things you can do with a blog is to advertise your podcast on it along with a blog post. In fact, you need a blog in order to have a podcast. Did you know that?

Claiming Your Domain – You.com

Who owns all the content that you post on social media? It’s not you. Even though promises are made in the T’s and C’s (Terms and Conditions) that you do have rights to your content.

Imagine a day when social media doesn’t exist or perhaps your favorite social media outlet decides to close its doors.

What happens to all your photos, videos and your daily, weekly, or monthly posts? Ultimately, you have no control over the data. Sure, Facebook gives you a way to download your data from them, but truly how many of us do that on a regular basis?

Here’s a video that goes over this very excuse – because that’s what it really is.

I’ve created a 4-day mini course that takes you step-by-step through setting up a blog and getting the blog ready for monetizing.

then comment below on what you’re going to do about it.

When Is The Perfect Time To Build A Business?

Will you promise yourself to be true to your goals and not only that but actually respect and carry out those promises with yourself? hint: this is part of self-respect which also relates to your confidence you have in yourself.
In the comments section below, tell me your story and let’s get a dialog going right here!

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Better yet, let’s get you started making some money with your self-hosted blog.

For many, starting a blog can seem like one of those things on your list.

…way down that list!

But if you set things up on your blog, you can be on your way to making the money you could previously only dream about.

If you can dream it, it already exists – Jon McCaw #Quote #Mindset Click To Tweet

Lately, I’ve been researching the power of our words. It’s actually quite interesting to read of stories where people are tagged with insurmountable odds. They someone are able to get the needed change by using their thoughts and words to change their situation.

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I know this is very topical but if you would like to read more about healing, and the power of our words, there’s a book that I recommend called, “You are the Placebo”.

One of the main points in this book is that we as humans are at our best when we live in the present. Living in the past is bad because it can’t be changed. Living in the future sucks because it just brings fear, pain, anxiety and the list goes on. No wonder we all decide to procrastinate (meaning to put off pain).

#Procrastination is just #fear of pain bundled up as an excuse. Learn to say NO to all fear and you will go very far Click To Tweet

So if you’re serious about making a difference in your life, your families life then take action now.

Start Your Blogging Business

Using time as a barrier to what you should be doing now can no longer be an excuse because you now know when is the perfect time to build a business?

Home Business Marketing Videos – Your Key To Success?

Why most people shy away from home business marketing videos, is beyond me. To that end, in home business, most people think that it’s a scam or something negative that will deter them from getting involved with something that can truly change their life.

What’s Getting In The Way Of Our Success?!

Now, it’s true that people are always learning and making choices to either improve their lives or make them worse. It’s just a simple fact of life.

I’d like to show you that in our life, we are presented with ideas or people who are there in your life to help you get more out of life. It’s just sometimes, they don’t realize it due to the mindset of the person receiving the help.

Would you jump at the ability to go to school to learn more, if you knew that it would get you that dream job? Of course, you would!!

This very fact that you would take a dream job is evidence that your mindset is the key to you getting what you want. The only factor left is for action to happen. Part of that action is to start speaking out what you want in verbal words or vibrations.

Mom Of 3 Shares Her Home Business Marketing Videos Results

If you think that a home business marketing system is a scam or that these things just don’t work, you may want to reconsider. People every day are making it work and showing proof that it works. If a stay at home mom can do this with limited time or even a stay at home dad. It just doesn’t matter what background you come from.

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Barbie Figuera Talks About iPas System Success

Barbie Figuera’s Blog

UPDATE: This system (iPAS) is no longer available. However, if you want to make money online, the best system which I promote is one that helps get you get financially free as well as improve your health.

New Success Story Video 2014

One success story that I found to be fun to watch is that of Lisa Torres. She is one of the people who I quietly followed during my time of gathering information and really to see if I could do this business as well. I have come to the belief that if you can follow directions, YOU CAN DO THIS TOO!

It doesn’t take a person that can talk someone’s ear off either.? I look at Lisa’s story and relate because she isn’t really a talker.? She doesn’t talk just to be filling dead air is what I meant to convey.? I think one of the speaking points that Lisa has been teaching here is getting really good with video.

Home business marketing videos literally pushed some leaders right to the top in their perspective businesses. It’s a huge talking point no matter what business you are in.

Lisa has a blog that can be found here: http://www.lisatorresspeaks.com

Lisa Torres Success Story

Paul Hutchings Speaks in Dallas

Paul Hutchings is a guy that I worked directly with the business while I was promoting the Empower Network System.?

You may or may not already know that Empower Network’s product was a blog called Kalatu.

Paul has been through many business models and it’s clear that he has landed on a business model that has taught him how to be successful at anything he does. Part of his success is his enthusiasm and positivity. It’s contagious to be around, especially in Paul’s case where he is so sincere in helping others achieve success as he has done.

Choose Your Vehicle To Success, Be Sure To Include Some Home Business Marketing Videos

If you have the desire to make a change in your current life, take a moment and think about where you want to go. Then take action on those desires. I’ll help you get to those goals. Just know that it will take some work on your part to get there.

You know, they say that great opportunity only strikes once in a lifetime. I believe this is one of those opportunities that are great. If you pass it by or just don’t take action on it, you would be leaving money on the table. Time with your family gone because you had to work 40+ hours per week. The key here is to learn to create home business marketing videos.

UPDATE😕 Empower Network is no longer serving the marketplace with a blog (Kalatu).? It was a sad day when they closed the doors. However, you can get your blog started here with instructions.

You can read my Empower Network review and see exactly what happened to this amazing company.

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The Truth About Empower Network

Empower Network – What It Isn’t?

I think I have heard it all by now. ?Empower Network? ? a blogging system ? ?is a scam!!?

You see, this couldn?t be further from the truth simply because of just a few reasons I?ll mention below.

I?m sure there are a ton more to further prove this, but I’ll focus just on the ones that are most important.

The Truth About Empower Network – Is It A Scam?

Reasons it’s not…

it?s a blogging system for people to use. There’s a product that is sold called Kalatu
People get paid to blog using this system ? who doesn?t want to get paid?
people buy things from blogs each and every day and never say it?s a scam.
It’s a FREE way to advertise on your Kalatu blog

There are just a few of the logical reasons that came up right off the tip-top of my mind. However, since this is a review on the truth about Empower Network. I will go through the ins and outs of this system.

Pro’s and Con’s of The Kalatu Blogging System by Empower Network

Now, I know that people are searching out ways to make money, that won?t take food off the table and that will also allow family time. Since Empower Network promotes a blogging platform, this can be integrated into your daily life very easily.

RELATED READING: Does a Blog help your bottom line?

You can blog right along with your family and it only costs $25 for each site you have set up.

NOTE: At the time, there was a premium upgrade for $97 that gave you access to have 10 blogs per account.

At the very worse, you could just say ?no? to 5-6 Starbucks coffees for a few weeks. $5 per coffee times 3 per week is $15. In a 2 weeks time, you’ll have enough to get yourself set up on Kalatu. It should only be a month or 2 tops before you pull a profit and are able to get back to those missed cafe lattes. You’ll just need to follow the training inside of the Empower Network system.

Is Starbucks a Scam?

It’s funny how people will call out the scam card so quickly when there’s no physical address to the business. Suppose these very people are just afraid of things that are not tangible, like a blog. So, places like Walmart, Best Buy, Starbucks, Target, are not called out as a scam because they can visit the store to resolve their issue. But when there’s a digital product that they have no idea about, there’s a fear about the unknown and they resort to calling it a scam. Heaven forbids they actually do some research on the product.

When you have a business, you’ll more than likely use the Facilities that Starbucks offers. (wi-fi, coffee, laptop, ambiance, interaction with people who go to Starbucks). Now you’ll have a tool at your side to use and it’s called a business expense. You get to write off that trip to the coffee shop because you were running your business at that location.

?and if you?re ever in my neck of the woods ? you definitely need to visit one of my favorite coffee shops ? Insomnia Coffee Co. – I digress.

Business Benefits

Are you starting to follow me about having a business of your own?

It actually benefits you at the end of the year to have one. It can be anything as long as it’s not being played with like a hobby. You can begin taking tax write-offs using this as your business.

I?m not a tax adviser so that?s all I will say about this but I know there are plenty of write-offs for businesses and that will save you money in the long run.

That?s all for now on the tax portion of having a business.

Empower Network – The Pay Plan

Here’s an in-depth video that will go over what the compensation plan is for Empower Network

As for the 70%, you really are making about 50% when all the math is done thoroughly.

Empower Network Training

The training that Empower Network provides is something you would get from a 4-year college. In fact, colleges don’t teach you how to build a financial empire. It’s all about training you to be part of the industrial age. Just in case you missed it, we are in the digital age :). And what’s at hand is the truth about Empower Network.

Empower Network Products

Viral Blogging System – Cost is $25/month. This is an authority blog that is easy to set up and does what you need it to do.
Viral Blogging Academy – Priced at $297 one-time, this is a video course on how to monetize your viral blogging system. This is targeted for complete newbies that need that foundation education to get going
Inner Circle – priced at $100 per month. This is a compilation of interviews and webinar audio that are geared to tell the story of top earners and help you stay focused by staying positive all the time. Essentially changing your mindset from negative to positive.
High Ticket Academy – Priced at $497 one time. This is a set of long but very informative webinars to help close clients on high ticket products. This is geared to using the phone but can be also used in your blogging techniques.
Internet Traffic Formula – Priced at $997. Vick gives you different ways to get traffic and lots of it. He shows how abundant traffic is and how to get the best traffic that’s targeted to your niche.
Costa Rica Intensive – Priced at $500, this was a high-quality recording of an intensive mastermind by the founders. This is was down PRIOR to Empower Network first launching in October of 2011.
15K Formula – This is their best product and comes at a fair price of only $1000. They teach everything from PPC, Blogging, Solo ads, and other internet marketing strategies.
Top Producer Formula – Priced at $497, David Wood teaches you to sell anything you want. He did a training in Seattle Washington where he sold a pencil for $1000. The formula to do this is all in this product.

Empower Network – Other Services

They also have a Media Hosting service for $25 per month where you get 50gb of space and 50gb of bandwidth. Use this for your video back up or place them on your blog. The push for this was that people were putting YouTube videos on their blog, getting the channel shut down and then the blog would have empty video space because the YouTube video disappeared. Now you can host and never worry about the video or channel getting flagged by YouTube and disappearing.

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Empower Network Review – My Thoughts

This company came from nothing and built its way into a market that needed some attention. Since then there are several spin-offs that have done very well. My part in this was a blogger. I learned a ton about SEO and how to do blogging to generate leads on a daily basis.

Blog About Your Passion

It took me a while to really wrap my head around how blogging can be integrated into the empower network products. What I have learned is that if you blog about what you love. Your passion will come through and it will naturally flow out of you. I think most people call this getting in your own way of success.

So now, I’ve become more sustainable in my own right. I’ve learned that I don’t have to depend on a company to generate leads and sales.

UPDATE: Since the writing of this blog, Empower Network has gone out of business (Summer, August 2017).

NOTE: Empower Network may be out of business, but you can still get a blog to talk about your passion. Setup is free. Just buy a domain for a 1-year term from Godaddy

If you’re serious about building a business…

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I hope you have been enlightened as to how this amazing company works and the freedoms that it affords you to have.

One thing I do want to make you aware of is this…

Online business is NOT a get rich quick scheme. That said, you really do need to apply yourself and follow the instructions of those who have gone before you.

Just think ? in 6 months, you could be in a position to leave your current Job or very close to only having to work 4-10 hours a week!

The Truth About Empower Network – The Conclusion

If you still think this is a scam ? then maybe home business or entrepreneurial endeavors truly aren?t for you. However, if you’re looking for something different, and you love health products. Find out more about this health system

However, if you are now able to understand what this is and could grow to be in your life, then either go watch this video to learn more ? or cut to the chase and sign up here.

NOTE: This isn’t Empower Network, but a system that will teach you how to succeed at any business online.

Also, the free blog can also be used to promote anything you desire. It will by default promote a set of 5 different income streams that you do not have to take part in order to keep your blog. The blog is hosted and setup for you at a no charge basis as long as you continue to promote the plugin profit blogging system.

Does Your Blog Help Your Bottom Line?

Blogging is a great way to spread your message to the masses. When your blog is setup right for SEO you receive traffic on autopilot. This traffic is all from those looking for your message. The question at hand is does a blog help your bottom line?

As I have already pointed out, a blog helps you get your internet marketing business off the ground. No more warm market leads where you are bugging friends and family to sign up in your marketing business.

Here are some reasons that you should have a blog for your business and/or your personal life.

Social Media

Supposed that Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram all shut down for some crazy reason. For good measure, they shut down all at the same time.

What would you do if you solely relied upon social media marketing? All your followers would be gone. Unreachable. In effect, your business has shut down.

Now if you had a blog along with an email list, you’d be able to let your followers know that social media is not a good way to get in touch with you. Instead, just reply to the email message that the reader is reading.

Attracting New People To Your World

If you have a blog, and you want to affect your bottom line, you have a few things to do in order to get these things rolling.

Get your niche nailed down and start blogging, vlogging, marketing to this niche.
Be consistent with your blog posts.
Serve them better than you did yesterday. The competition is never against anyone other than your previous self.

The #competition is never against anyone other than your previous self. Click To Tweet

I’ve personally seen blogs that have grown so much that the blog owners are full-time bloggers due to the income they are creating.

If you search Pinterest for the term monthly income report, income results are amazing. Ranging from $5 to $200k /month and more.

I hope this blog post has convinced you to start a blog now rather than later.

Below is a graphic that I found on a prolific bloggers site, Neil Patel’s QuickSprout.com

Courtesy of: Quick Sprout

Blogging Isn’t For…

Yes, you know what I was going to say here, but before I typed the complete thought. I had to say that blogging is for everyone. The real question is if you are ready for blogging to be a part of your business.

I’d love to give you a quick overview of how to start a WordPress blog so that you can take advantage of the free traffic that a blog will generate.

Leads and Sales

If you’re in a business, you know that the lifeblood of all businesses is getting leads that convert into sales. Without it, your business is essentially dead.

This is yet another reason you should use the blog as a strategy to get more leads into your email marketing system. The very nature of a blog is to give tremendous value and then help your customers decide that they need your product that you’re selling them.

If you could show how profits are coming from your blog (and you can), you’d be ecstatic over the profits your blog can and will bring into the storehouse.

All it takes is just one sale from your blog to realize the immense positives of having a blog. So, does a blog help your bottom line?

I would say an emphatic YES!

I’m running a 4-week email course that will show you just how to set up a blog and start making money.

Tony Robbins Tips For True Happiness In Life

This is a topic about how to avoid submitting to fear and having true happiness in life, in business and in your personal or family life.

I know that this is a subject that all too often gets neglected.

So Here’s what Tony Robbins, who is one of the top earners in the industry of business says about having true happiness in life. Listen carefully and don’t take it lightly as it will affect how you do business and how much you make in business.

Tony Robbins has proven to be a leader in the area of mindset and accomplishing your goals.

Mindset Matters

I’m in the business of making my mindset be what drives me to success and achieve even more day by day. Although the change is small most days, there is change and that is where progress is taking place – day by day, hour by hour, minute by minute, thought by thought.

When you attend a seminar with Tony Robbins you’ll learn many things that will definitely help you in your life arena. What you heard in the video is just one facet of Tony’s teachings. Thankfully, it’s not just Tony teaching this stuff. These teachings are well known in the expert arena of relationships.

Tips for True Happiness

For a quick summation of the video, you’ll learn about how your blueprint is setting your path to either happiness or depression. The reason for depression is simply that you are not matching what your blueprint for your life is.

In the video, you’ll find that there are a couple different examples that Tony gives to help you understand what exactly does a life blueprint have to do with your happiness?

Truth Choices

Tony goes on to talk about our LC (Life Conditions) and how when it doesn’t live up to our BP (Blueprint), people will start to show different emotions come out. This is where fear, depression, anxiety, etc. all show up and reek havoc in a person life.

In a book I’ve been reading recently, I noticed that if you are looking at relationships and how they interact, you see either a diad or a triad. These can play a big factor into what’s really going on in a relationship and why people do the things they do

There are always three options when it comes to changing our happiness levels. Mainly, when we are not happy.

When our LC (life conditions) do not equal our BP (blueprint), we can do one of the following:

Change our LC
Change our BP or…
Blame ourselves or others for what’s going on in our life

Obviously, the third option is not very productive and can lead to more counter-productive issues down the road.

So whether you are new to the mindset transformation, know that you can always start by making that first decision towards being a better, more profitable person. Making the right decisions through taking captive the thoughts that are in your mind, and allowing only those thoughts that serve you. This is one of the biggest tips for true happiness in life!

Use these strategies to stay happy, and live life to its fullest!

How To Get Lazy Members To Produce In Your Business

There are thousands upon thousands of people in a top producers business, and to be quite honest, they need every one of them to make the money they are making. But what if they could get those members that are “lazy” to start producing in their business?

Getting those lazy members to start producing is more of a tooth pulling operation. Watch this short video I created a Facebook LIVE to explain this phenomenon.

How To Deal With The Lazy Or Uninterested Member

Should they start to give them advice that isn’t necessarily in a positive spirit?

Do you change how you go about dealing with people who are not producing?

I, personally think that this is an area that many make the mistake of trying to “encourage” these people, rather than being the type of person that just goes and steps into the leadership role by recruiting more people. Leadership by example.

Step One: Mindset Of A Leader

The first thing you’ll need to change is removing the word lazy from your vocabulary. It’s not like they are going to do something different from what you have preconceived them to do. For instance, if you have a neighbor that is very grouchy or just messy – you could insert anything that is really not that desirable of a trait to have.

Joe, in this case, is quite grouchy and he’s walking towards you in your front yard. What’s the first thing that comes out of your mouth?

“Oh, No! Here comes grumpy Joe and I do not like dealing with him when he comes around.”

You are essentially giving him or her a destiny to live up to whether you want that or not. Your words are very powerful because your subconscious listens to you 24 hours a day. So what you can change about this situation is simple.

Start to say things that are life-giving rather than speaking negativity. This one change alone will give you the change in your business that you’re looking for in a quicker fashion.

Lazy Becomes The Possibility Marketer

Now if you’re going to foster a great relationship with these marketers that haven’t produced any results, you might as well start encouraging them and when they come to you asking about building a business, you can respond with some homework.

Give them something to do that is going to help them get off the floor of their business and get some action started.

Related reading: Tips For True Happiness?

How To Be Instrumental In Change

If network marketing is the venue, then tell them to go prospect 5-10 new people who are not friends or family. Give them some traffic methods if they aren’t willing to go out and talk to people. If they are in internet marketing, have them message at least 25 people and come back with results of 10 or more responses and how the conversations went. Just think outside the box and realize that most people are starting out with an employee mindset.

The employee mindset is one that has to change but start out with them at where they are and then slowly encourage them to make a change or two in their mindset towards the #entrepreneurial #mindset. Click To Tweet

Most likely they will attempt to do the assignment and then not get back to you for one of many reasons. It’s ok that they do that.

Simply put…

Believe in them!

Keep loving on your team, build them up by affirming who they are becoming. Click To Tweet

Power Of Social Media Video

Facebook allows me to connect with my following and friends and family using Facebook Live. Video has been a huge reason I’m making headway in my business. If you don’t start doing video in some fashion, you’ll get left behind.

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Talking To People Online

Blogging has been a journey of learning from trial and error for me. I’d recommend you get a blog setup if you want your reach to expand.

If you don’t have a blog yet, you’ll want to begin setting this great tool up for your online marketing. Don’t forget that you can use this blog for offline reference as well (e.g. business cards, license plate frames, mobile magnet signs, etc.)

Why?

Your blog is your only home on the internet. It’s there that you’ll be able to showcase YOU. Give people a reason to do business with you.

Sure, you say that Facebook is free and they allow you to do whatever you want within reason. That may be so for now. But, you should understand that they can and do remove business pages for even a hint of wrongdoing. That also goes for doing business on your personal profile.

Self-hosted blogs are the best option to have in your corner. If you have never set up a blog before, that’s ok. There’s help to set up your hosting and WordPress blog.

If you found my blog via social media, I’d love to hear from you in the comments below.

Currently, I’m using Pinterest to generate traffic and am working on getting my page views up to 10,000 per month.

I’ll be posting about this endeavor soon to let you know if Pinterest is the real deal when shooting for more traffic. In the meantime, go over to my Pinterest account and follow me.

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