Oh, HAPPY 2011!
Ok got that out of the way…
Found this video on Social Media and it’s impact on the world. Reminds me of a comment a naive professor said about the pointlessness and uselessness of the internet back in the early 90s…. He had to eat a dead bird for that one.
This video speaks for itself.
OH, and here’s the first one I remember seeing about a year earlier:
With the United States Congress pushing to pass questionable ‘health care’ bill thru the House and Senate, it is crystal clear that the government is clueless and unwilling to go after real POSITIVE CHANGE…
Sure, the president built his whole campaign on the concept of CHANGE… but I never heard it phrased as Change for the BETTER.
For far too long we have had a system of disease management. Waiting for people to get sick and THEN try to make them well again… Health Care as it is today is mislabeled… IT should be called, Disease Management. Most of the money spent on health care is spent AFTER people are sick.
What we need is to switch to PREVENTION and Proactive healthy lifestyle living. If we don’t, the aging Baby Boomer population will bankrupt our nation. We need to shift from “wait till you get sick and then try to make you healthy” to “keeping you healthy so you don’t get sick.” This is where Billions of new dollars are going to be spent.
Shaklee’s clinically proven, patented natural products are how you and I can live this new paradigm.
It’s also a phenomenal way to earn a great living and help the world be a better place at the same time.
YOU don’t have to feel excluded from the American Dream… watch this video from Shaklee’s CEO, Roger Barnett and then click on the link to see how You can Take part.
Roger Barnett Shaklee 2010 Highlight
Learn more about how you can be a part of the Shaklee Family.
Trying to post on Craigslist is getting more and more difficult. As of November 25th, 2009, 2 of the most popular link shortening services, Bit.ly and tinyurl.com are now blacklisted. So I went out to find some new ones to see if I could find one that still works. . . and I did.
Backstory: URL shortening services were initially popular because web addresses started to get long and links would break when sent in an email. However, as microblogging services like Twitter have become popular, an increasing number of services and applications, including tracking & metrics, have been added to the basic URL shortening features.
Thanks to TopRankBlog.com for this table of the best URL Link Shortening Services!
If you have an iPhone or any other cellular plan that doesn’t have unlimited texting or texting at all, then you know how annoying and expensive it can get if other people text you.
One option is to turn off texting capabilities on your phone or plan. Another is a relatively unknown way using email.
Keep in mind the person receiving the message still has to pay for these—but you won’t have to.**
Here’s how:
Enter the person’s phone number, along with the appropriate carrier-specific e-mail address from those listed below, into any e-mail client.
The result will appear on the person’s phone as an SMS text message.
Note: All phone numbers are 10 digits with no dashes (example: 2135551212).
**The person receiving the text can then text you back and it goes to the email account you sent your text from.
I tried this the other day and it works great!
source:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2352105,00.asp
“BLOG POSTING in bite sized chunks.”
The addage, ‘how do you eat an elephant?’
Answer, ‘One bite at a time.
It’s very easy in this industry to get DISTRACTED and OVERLOADED.
Brain meltdowns are commonplace.
So in the nature of keeping things simple, today’s post covers one simple but VERY IMPORTANT tip for driving quality traffic to your blog or website.
LEAVE comments on other people’s blogs.
Specifically, those who are in your niche.
And not just the Biggest Bloggers – although you certainly don’t want to leave them out.
Blog on ‘Rising Stars’ blogs as you can ride alongsie their increasing popularity and exposure and help each other out.
WHY?
When you comment on someone else’s blog post, there’s a place to put a backlink to your blog or website.
So keeping that in mind, don’t spam other blogs just to try to get traffic.
You won’t get any quality traffic and will appear as an idiot to others.
Write something that adds to the blog post, or address someone else’s well thought out comment.
If you can’t think of anything, a sincere compliment thanking for a great informative post is acceptable, but people are unlikely to click on your link.
This is a great way to make connections and network amongst your peers and shows you are serious about your business.
* Added benefit – helps you stay in the loop of your niche and see what the pros are blogging about and what they’re doing with their own sites.
This tactic of commenting on other’s blogs can also be applied to forums, facebook and twitter
REMEMBER,
Quality over Quantity in the end makes for better results and better use of your TIME.
This is part one of a multi-part series on personal branding.
Today I cover the importance of Branding yourself online by understanding your niche as it relates to the industry of home based businesses. It has many sub-catagories: Network Marketing, Affiliate Marketing, Direct Response, MLM to name a few.
Understand that your Niche is NOT your MLM or Direct Sales opportunity. Your Brand fully represents YOU and the VALUE you have to give to other people. Your Niche is the overal ‘umbrella’ or the general THEME of your Brand.
If you don’t already possess expertise in an area, pick an area where you can delvelop yourself into and expert.
If you are having trouble discovering what that is, ask yourself a few questions:
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Here’s some Brainstorming ideas for Expert Niches:
Don’t be a buffet – people won’t know what you are about. Pick a few and get ‘expert’ at them.
My niches cover one or two topics in each of the catagories above. i.e. personal expression, social media, health and wellness…
If you have a hobby or interest like say, Charities, Parenting, Massage, Tech/Gadgets, Surfing, etc. and want to tie it into your
home based business / network marketing blog, then figure out a way to make it relevant to making money online. Otherwise, put those posts in a separate blog.
This is stretching it, but here’s an example of how you can tie something seemingly unrelated to your niche.
I blogged about a science experiment with fast food and how it isn’t really food.
This relates to one of my businesses, Shaklee, which is all about top notch nutrition.
The video and post I made help illustrate a point to fellow teammates and prospects.
And that is, You Are What You Eat, so eat right.
Social Media isn’t a fad. It’s a fundamental shift in the way we communicate with the world.
There’s nothing like spitting out the stats to make a point.
If this video doesn’t open your eyes (and they weren’t already) then maybe your head is still stuck in the sand
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