In Volume 2 we discussed “setting our goals”. In setting your goals, you now have a target to aim at. Now we can look at a one of a couple of techniques that will affirm your goals and start to change the limitations in your sub-conscience.

 Affirmations are a verbal commitment to your goals that tells your sub-conscience that this is the path you are going to follow (not just want to follow) and gives your mind specific details for achieving the goal.

 The way an affirmation works is you will state your goal in the present tense. What I mean is, not want you want but what you have. As if you have already achieved your goal. We use this method because it will drive your sub-conscience to look for ways to achieve the goal and block out any of the limitations from the past hence opening up all the ideas and methods you need to further your success. Like I stated before, these ideas and methods have always been there but your limitations have kind of blocked you from seeing them.

 Here are the 9 guidelines for creating an affirmation;

1. Always start an affirmation with the words “I am” – the most powerful words in any language.

2. Always use the present tense. As if you have already achieved your goal and you are there enjoying the sun set or driving that new car.

3. State the goal in the positive. Affirm what you want, not what you don’t want. Never use a negative like – not, don’t, aren’t. Your sub-conscience will not recognize a negative. So for example – “I don’t smoke anymore” is recognized as “I smoke”

4. Keep the affirmation as short as possible. Simply – the shorter it is, the easier your sub-conscience can pick it up.

5. Make it specific, if its for income, state the exact target amount.

6. Always use action words that end in “i-n-g”. (driving, working, golfing, vacationing).

7. Include at least one dynamic emotional or feeling word. (loving, enjoying etc.)

8. Make sure the affirmations are for you and not others.

9. At the end ad the words “or something better”. You don’t want to limit yourself by hitting your goal and stopping. Why? Because of a quote i just heard – “If you’re not growing, you’re dying!” True of every living thing on this planet.

A couple of examples one of my own goals, my income goal, I want to be earning $200,000 per month;

• “I am not making enough money at $5000 a month, I want more.” In this example you see I used a negative, no emotion words and it wasn’t specific. The result is “i make $5000 dollars a month” and that is what your sub-conscience will try to achieve.

• “I am happily and joyfully earning, investing, saving and donating $200,000 per month or more”. In this example, which is my actual affirmation, I use 2 emotional words, 4 action words and a specific amount or more. That is what my sub-conscience is now working towards achieving and I must say, ideas coming to my are so abundant I can’t get them on paper fast enough. See these ideas, things and people were always there, we just couldn’t see them because of our limitations.

 Hope this makes sense to you. Next time I will cover visualization that will further enhance your aspirations and goals.

Till next time.

Kelly

In the first post I described how we are programmed to have sub-conscience limitations by those we look up to. Again, we shouldn’t judge those people, they only worked with what they had and it’s up to us to change this programming so we can move forward with our dreams and aspirations and achieve our goals. This brings us to our first step which is “SETTING OUR GOALS”.

This step is very simple, simply right down your goals and keep them in front of you on a daily basis. I recommend you review your goals at least twice a day. I review mine when I get up in the morning and when I go to bed at night. That way you go to sleep with your goals in your thoughts and wake up with your goals in your thoughts.

One way to have your goals with you at all times is to use small index cards you can carry with you at all times, giving more opportunity to review on cab rides, commuter trains, at lunch and so on. The more you can review your goals the better.

You can also keep a goals binder that you can track your progress, having a separate page for each goal. You are going to want to set goals for all aspects of your life including career, financial, relationships, health and smaller goals such as possessions – the house you live in, the car you drive, vacations you want to take, when you want to retire, where you want to retire and so on.

Be specific about your goals as well. The color of the car you want, the lay out of the house you want, exactly where your vacation will be and the date you want to achieve each goal. It is very important you be very specific what your goals are. The more specific you are the more easily attainable they are. Why?

Well the clearer you make your goals, the better picture you can paint for your sub-conscience, the easier it is for your sub-conscience to recognize the methods and paths you need to take to achieve your goals. What I mean is, the more specific your goals are, the quicker you will recognize the things, people and opportunities that have always been there but we where programmed to ignore because we didn’t believe we could have or achieve them. We didn’t believe we were worthy to have or be anything we wanted.

I am telling you now, you DO deserve to have and be ANYTHING you want. You have as much right as anyone to have or be anything you want in this world. And don’t let anyone tell you can’t. Frankly it’s none of their business, they are your dreams and aspirations and no ones but yours.

In the next post we will look at one of the ways you can affirm your goals to get you closer to your dreams.

Till next time!

Kelly

Yea I know, this was posted before. Had a little technical bump so I had to post again. Enjoy! More to come in the new year.

Series on the keys to succeed

Volume 1

As many of you have heard and many have said, 95% of people who try to make money online – Fail. Why do so many fail trying to make money online? Well you’ll get many different answers to that question by many different people in many different niches and on and on.

Truth be told, why so many people fail at making money online, is the same reason that so many people fail at off line businesses as well. They don’t really know what they are doing and don’t know where to go or who to ask. Yes, even if you have tried to find help, you where talked into some “made for you, ready to go online business” and have been given the run around. Hey, been there, done that. We ALL have at some time and many people come to realize they are being miss-lead, get mad and give up.

The thing is, as we grow up, we are programmed by our parents, teachers, friends and employers into believing that we must follow the regular life plan. “You can’t do that and support a family”, “you can’t have everything you want”, “you can’t compete with them”, “stop doing what you want to do and do what I want you to do.” “Get a good job and support your family.” “Stop dreaming of that stuff, it’s not realistic.”

Anything sounding familiar?

Most of us have heard these kind of comments from people before and that has set in motion our limitations that have kept most of us from achieving the success we dream of having. There’s been so much fear and doubt instilled in us as we grew up that we just can’t seem to get past the first hurtle. When the first obstacle get’s in our path, we tuck tail and give up. That’s true for 90 to 95% of the population, that’s why 10% of the population owns 90% of the wealth in the world. Only 10% of us have either over come these limitations or they grow up some how with out them. It’s not our parents and other influential people’s fault, that’s how they grow up. They are doing the best they can with the tools they had, which were instilled in them as they grew up. Can you see the snow ball effect this has been and will still cause in our society?

Lucky there is hope. Not so much hope as techniques and methods developed by some of the greatest minds over the years, to over come these limitations. Techniques we can use to reprogram our selves into believing that almost anything is possible if we only know where to look and who to listen to. I have recently learned these techniques and can tell you that they work and I’ll explain how and why.

Well I will tell you, after years of dabbling in the internet marketing industry participating in several programs, you know the MLM thing, I decided that we were all working hard to produce a few bucks. Then i looked at the number of people in the program in total and you multiple that by the amount of money you spend in the program yourself and wow, we are all busting our butts for a few bucks and the owners are making millions!

That’s when I decided that there has to be a better way to make money on-line and keep more of it for me. I mean that’s why we are all doing this right, to improve your families lives and give them a better future.

It became apparent to me that there was a lot of people out there selling these eBooks on line and they must be making money or what would they be doing it for? There was sites like Clickbank and others that sold these information products and we can sell any of them and make 50% to 75% for ourselves and that is a lot better than the results for my efforts in the other programs.

Then I got thinking that selling others people’s products at those commissions is great but what if it was my products that a bunch of other people where selling and I still make 50%. Ding ding ding, yep the bells went off and that became my goal. So… how do I do this? Writing was not my strong point in school so what do I do? I asked around in the circle I was hanging around in at the time and most either didn’t know or weren’t saying. (That’s another conversation)

After digging in the forum world then the blog world, I met some people who where into marketing information products for themselves and also with JV partners, mostly on Clickbank. I then spent some money on coaching which taught me an endless amount of knowledge (still learning) and the biggest thing I learned is that you don’t have to be a big time author to produce your own information products.

That’s where PLR or Private Label Rights products come in. You can buy the product already written, put your spin on it with graphics and some affiliate and website links. You then set up a mini site or sales page, put your product on one of the retail sites and you are off and running! It’s amazing what you can find out when you just do some digging, ask questions. The biggest thing is to keep at it, don’t stop because this person didn’t respond, just keep asking. Some one out there will answer your question eventually.

My best advise I can give is to get yourself a coach to show you how to do this process and start marketing your own products, that is how you can leverage other people efforts and grow your income tremendously. It has made a huge difference in my on line experience and the future is looking very bright!

To all you people who are just spamming my blog with URL’s – STOP! I have my admin set for approval on all posts so you are wasting my time and yours. From this point forward I will be reporting the  spammers to the IC3 unit, a division of the FBI who work with Interpol on internet crime, spam being part of it. SO – STOP or pay the price. No need for it, participate in a proper manor, I have no problem with that and I will allow posts that are real. We all do it but be real, ask questions, contribute but stop spamming.

Kelly

The answer to this question should be yes. With the software available to us these days, there is no question that you should be using what is available to you to assist you in growing your business. It only makes sense that if you have something or someone helping you do tasks in your business, you then have more time to work on more important projects like website development or product creation, which increases your earning potential.

One thing you need to understand about me is that I shoot from the hip and give it to you straight. I hate deception and fraud when it comes to these people that put out hyped up, “this will do it all for you” one click software that in the end does nothing. So here you go, hope it doesn’t discourage and offend you in any way. My apologies if it does.

To clear up one of the biggest myths on the internet for those who are just starting out and have less of an understanding of how the internet works, there is no magic software out there that can just reach out and grab people and bring them to your offer or website. It’s true that if you rank in the top ten of Google, Yahoo, Bing and other search engines, you will receive a ton of organic and no cost traffic. But there is no software that can automatically do this for you with the push of a button. There is software that can help you with the process but not automatically do it for you. Is that clear enough?

What you need to understand is that people are using the above mentioned search engines browsers. What they type into the search window, determined through algorithms and a bunch of other technical names, is what results they get. These search engine operators are also constantly updating and modifying their systems to bring their users the best results they can. Be rest assured that the search engines also have very tight and well protected security for their systems so there is no way someone can tap in and grab this traffic. You can pay for it of course, that’s how they make money. So you see, software can’t just reach out and grab surfers, they are behind closed doors so to speak.

Now that you understand this, you can however, find application software that can assist you in your business in various different ways. There is also different sites that use software to help you do tasks like article or ad submission, that will in the end free up your time for other tasks which in turn speeds up your growth. This is the main goal of any business. Growth is the key to any businesses success whether it be building a list, generating more traffic to your site or simply developing more products of your own to market.

What should you look for in an application software?

Here are the 7 main things to look for – in my opinion;

• Does the software actually perform a task for you?

• Can you use it for your Website or Blog?

• Can it give me reports or results when requested?

• Does the seller have testimonials available?

• Can you contact the seller or creator for more information?

• Do they have support available for the product?

• And finally, do they offer a sufficient return or money back guarantee to allow you enough time to give the product a good test?

Ok now I don’t recommend you just go out there and start buying a bunch of software, you need to do some research beyond the above questions, you want to qualify the product first. One of the best ways to do this is to get some feed-back from other users.

Only when you have qualified the product to be legitimate and you are totally comfortable with your research, only then would I suggest going ahead and obtain a product for use.

Talk soon

Kelly

As an Internet Marketer, you may have all the tools necessary to succeed in a business such as affiliate marketing.  You may have the necessary drive, diligence and perseverance to be able to understand how the system works.  You may have all the tools necessary in maintaining the business, including a really unique and interesting website which could earn you a fortune if only the whole world could see it.  However, all this is useless if you don’t know how to drive traffic to your website. Your business will sink into oblivion together with all the sales, fortune and dreams that you might have realized if you only knew how to do this particular task.

Getting people who matter to see your website is a difficult undertaking. The immensity of the internet as well as the affiliate marketing world has given birth to the fierce competition between affiliate marketers, each of whom has their own great product to offer. With all the websites piling on top of each other, how would one be able to stand out? The seven best ways to drive laser-targeted traffic to one’s own website would help those who are bent on sticking it out with this business wherever it is bound to take them.

The first step in driving traffic to Your website is by relying on search engines and what they can do for you. Because they are popular for driving free targeted traffic, they should not be ignored by all means.  Having top search engine rankings is vital in building popularity links, and the use of the right keywords is important in attaining this goal.  Once a website is on top of the list, it is easily accessible to anyone who wants to see it for themselves. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is very difficult and takes some time so don’t concentrate all your efforts on this technique but work at it over time – but work at it.

The second way of driving traffic to your website is by contacting other webmasters for a possible link exchange partnership.  Locating websites that are related to your own website is the primary task.  Once there, you should be able to establish communication by personalizing everything as much as possible.  It is then possible to make reciprocal link exchanges between webmasters whichever way you can agree upon. This also helps with SEO.

The third way is through writing your own articles.  Article Marketing is an effective way in promoting a website, because good content that are appreciated by readers will lead them to visit the writer’s very own website out of sheer interest. This also provides you with back-links to help with SEO.

The fourth way is through joint venture marketing.  This is one of the most effective ways of promoting a product or a service.  Having a partner through ad swap or link exchange is beneficial to both parties as it allows them to reach a wide customer base in a short amount of time. You can also arrange an email campaign to their list for your products.

The fifth is through starting your own affiliate program.  Having affiliates to do the work means allowing them to bring tons of traffic to your products and websites.  Skyrocketing sales would be realized as a result, and both the affiliate and the website owner will benefit from the situation.

The sixth is by having a list of subscribers that you can refer to every so often, because they are those which would prove to be valuable asset for you.  The use of auto-responders and personalized newsletters is one way of keeping track of them all, and holding on to them by letting them know about new products and services is an essential task that should be done.

The seventh is by knowing your market through and through.  It is important for traffic to be targeted to those who might have a special interest in the theme or topic of your product or website.  This way, a solid customer base is going to be created.  Once a potential customer shows an interest in a particular website by paying it a visit, you must not waste time in trying to show them that there effort is worth it.

Traffic generating strategies are important in trying to make your Internet Marketing career move forward. It is always advantageous to plan your moves in any business that you might undertake.  This is particularly so in affiliate marketing.  If you know how to get people to see what you have to offer, then you are on the right track.

Talk soon!

Kelly

The idea of being mere passengers on a ship meant to sail to the farthest points does not appeal to people who like to put their destiny into their own hands.  They have the desire of maneuvering the ships themselves, of being able to be the ones to take it anywhere they want.  Being aboard a ship on its way to a particularly great destination is something each and every one of them dream of, and the knowledge that they have the capacity to steer it themselves is what makes them actually want to.

Perhaps this is the reason why more and more people are succumbing to one of the most popular businesses around – affiliate marketing.  It is because in this business, there are no bosses to order the employees around.  There are no deadlines to meet and no clutter of work do to.  One only needs to be equipped with the tools needed to succeed in a business such as this, and he or she is bound to get what his heart ultimately desires.

Just what are the things needed to be able to succeed in affiliate marketing?  What must one have within themselves to be able to do well in this industry?  There is a lot of competition involved in affiliate marketing, and to be able to rise above the norm, one must be equipped with just the right stuff necessary to propel forward.  There are five things one must ultimately possess if he or she wants to achieve the glory he or she is yearning for in this business, and these five things are a “must possess” to be able to stand out among the rest.

The very first quality one must possess – the willingness to learn and be trained. Treading through unfamiliar territory is scary stuff if one is not properly equipped, and they might get lost amidst a jungle of the unknown. Learning the tricks of the trade is also an important aspect of the game, and one’s willingness to know it all will give them far better advantages in the business than they could ever imagine. Oh and I think this process is endless. Never stop learning!

The second quality one must possess is the willingness to invest time and effort even if direct results do not seem at all apparent. Although several months may pass without good news, it is important for one who has their foot in the industry to hold on and wait.  It is this quality which would save them from giving up after investing a lot of themselves in the business.

The third quality one must possess is self-determination.  If one wants to conquer the affiliate marketing world, they must have the ability to push themselves ahead.  Never having to say die is a quality each and every affiliate marketer should possess, and the ability to motivate oneself into scaling greater heights is an ability which would actually take an affiliate marketer there.

The fourth quality one must possess is discipline. My nemesis – lol.  If one knows how to teach themselves to work everyday with all the energy they can muster, then they are close to achieving what they have set their heart to having in the first place.

The fifth and last quality one must possess is optimism.  Negative attitudes and hear-says should not discourage an affiliate marketer from pursuing what he or she has to in order to make life better for themselves and for everyone concerned. Neither should anyone influence your attitude towards the business, because once in it, it is a must for you to be the captain of your ship and the master of your soul.

The ingredients to success in a business such as affiliate marketing are diverse and manifold, but the most important thing one needs to be able to make it big lies in you alone.  It is you who has the capacity to do everything to be able to realize your dreams, and the desire which fuels your heart in doing so is the gasoline which should keep the engine going.

Affiliate marketing is all about putting your fate into your own hands.  The right attitude is the key to being able to steer your ship into that part of the ocean where a certain kind of serenity can be found, one that permeates the atmosphere as the ship sails calmly on.

Too corny?

Talk soon!

Kelly

What does it take to become a successful Affiliate Marketer? What are the ingredients of an affiliate marketing successstory? Is there a shortcut to Affiliate Marketing glory? All these questions play around in the minds of affiliate marketers who want to make it big in this business.

Although affiliate marketing is dubbed as one of the easiest and most effective ways to earn money online, it is not as easy as it sounds. The wise affiliate marketer plans every action and executes it the best way he knows how. He should also maximize the potential to earn by utilizing the right tools necessary for a successful Affiliate Marketing business. I have consulted some of the most successful affiliate marketers in the business and below are the top three necessary tools for a successful affiliate marketing business.

Important Tool #1: Your Own Website

The most important and indispensable tool in Affiliate Marketing is your own website. The first step in any successful affiliate marketing business is building a good, credible and professional looking website. Your website is the jump off point of all your marketing efforts. Thus, you must first build a user-friendly website, which will appeal to your prospects and encourage them to click on the links to the products and service you are promoting and make a purchase. Therefore, you must first concentrate your efforts in building a website that will cater to what your prospects need. The most popular site being used by many successful marketers today is a blog with your own name.com for the domain name.

The most important thing you should consider is that almost all web users go online to look for information, not necessarily to go and buy something. Above all else, make your website full of original, relevant and useful content. People will love articles that are appealing and helpful. Keep in mind that, in the internet, content is still king and good quality content will not only build your credibility, it can also help you achieve a higher search engine ranking. By posting relevant and useful articles, you establish yourself as a credible expert in the field, making you a more trustworthy endorser of the product or service you promote. Establishing a good reputation is a good step in building up a loyal consumer base.

Important Tool #2: Incentives

Competition is extremely tight in the internet world. You must always be one-step ahead of your rivals to ensure that you capture a significant share of your target market. Therefore, you must use every possible means to encourage people not only to visit your site but also to click and proceed to the websites of the products and services you are promoting. Building an opt-in email list is one of the best ways to gather prospects. Offer a newsletter or an e-zine. Better yet, offer incentives to your prospects to encourage them to subscribe to your newsletters. You can present free software, access to exclusive services and other freebies that will be helpful to your prospects.

Important Tool #3: Link Popularity

The importance of driving highly targeted traffic to your website cannot be emphasized enough. The all-important web traffic is at the top of the list of the most important entities in the internet world. Attracting people to your site should be the first step you should carry out. Do everything to achieve a high search engine ranking. Link Popularity is one of the factors that search engines use to determine search engine rankings. Therefore, to enhance your link popularity, you must launch an aggressive reciprocal link campaign but make sure they are authority sites.

One of the best ways to do this – at no cost at all – is by submitting articles, with your website’s link at the resource box, to e-zines and free article sites. You will not only gain exposure, you will also have the opportunity to advertise for free, just include a link back to your site. The more sites you submit your articles to, the better your link popularity is. Make your articles original, relevant and useful so that more websites will pick it up and post it.

These are but three of the many tools that an affiliate marketer can use to maximize earning potential. The possibilities are endless and are limited only by your imagination, creativity, resourcefulness and determination. You can always explore other ideas and adapt other strategies, which you think might help you become a high rolling affiliate marketer.

Talk soon!

Kelly

Starting an Internet marketing business is probably the best way of growing a residual income and at the same time achieving financial freedom. It really sounds easy and fun, yet there are several things that will cross your mind—things that will probably stop you in starting your own Internet marketing business.

Time and financial resources.

You need to accept the fact that in order to make money, you must have sufficient time allotment and financial resources. It is not advisable to start your online business if you feel that you do not have that financial capability of sustaining your own business in the long run.

Getting large web traffic to your online business site is your main priority in starting your Internet marketing business. You will be able to achieve it through advertising your site. However, when you found out that the cost is not within your reach, there is a slim chance that you will achieve success in getting traffic and converting them into long-term clients. Keep in mind that without a strong client base, it will mark the end of your Internet marketing career.

Is there any other way to escape expensive online business advertising?

Keep in mind that the word “free” still exists.

In other words, there are still low-cost alternatives and even free methods of advertising your Internet marketing business. You must be confident that such free or low-cost advertising alternatives will work, after all it is still a type of promotion that will help you get the targeted traffic that you need for your site. It does not necessarily follows that free or cheap advertising will not work effectively whereas expensive advertising mediums will always work. Invest confidence and a “clever thinking” on how you will be able to make it as effective as the expensive advertisement packages on the Internet.

As previously mentioned, there are many ways of advertising your online business without spending much of your fortune. The best idea that you must consider is writing original articles containing fresh and juicy information that will help your website visitors know about your business and the products and services that you are offering. Write your own original articles and sign with free or low-cost article distribution services that will distribute your articles to publishers around the Internet. If you want a wider distribution of your articles for increased awareness, you may pay for a small fee. Once your articles are distributed and published around the Internet with hyperlinks directing to your site, you will have your first set of new web visitors in no time. If you do not want to write the articles by yourself, you can hire different article writing services that will do the job in exchange of a small fee. Article writing and distribution is one of the best means of Internet marketing promotion.

Just like article writing, you may also use weblogs or simply blogs for your Internet marketing business promotion. This is completely free of charge and an ideal way of getting quality content on your website as well as getting repeated visitors who are interested in reading what you want to say. You can write your views about your business or include some photographs of the products you are offering. Do not forget to include your site’s link on your blogs so that your readers can visit your site if they want more information about what you have written on your blogs.

Posting to online forums is another free yet effective way of getting your hyperlinks noticed by majority of Internet users. There are thousands of online discussion forums out there that offers subjects related to the nature of your online business. You may also help other individuals by posting your comments or suggestions that you know with regards to a certain issue. The more assistance that you can offer, the more your name will stand out of the crowd as the authority on the subject, and the more likely forum readers will click on your website hyperlink to find out more about you and what you are into. It is one of the best ways of making sales without even selling actual products or services.

Why spend a lot if there are free and low-cost advertising alternatives for your Internet marketing promotion? With some careful planning and little spending, you will be able to earn a lot from your online business.

Talk soon!

Kelly