Saturday, April 25, 2009

Success Begins In The Mind

Success is characterized in various forms, also has many meanings depending on what you are looking for in life, relationship and career. To athletes, success can mean obtaining that gold medal, to parents’ success can mean raising children with good moral values, to doctors, success can mean saving a life and to some it can mean a job promotion or acquiring wealth. It actually depends on one’s perspective of the life that one has. Understanding and success perceptions are as abundant as there are stars in the sky.

One apparent thing about success is that every individual has to determine the true meaning of success in his own life. The one’s who walk through life making an attempt to accomplish “success” through someone else’s standards or through the standards of his or hers society will continuously be lacking of that successful feeling.

The modern dictionary defines success as that certain measure or degree of achievement or accomplishment or as a desirable and favorable outcome.

You should make a decision on what you truly wants that can offer a desirable or favorable outcome that must be in each aspect of your life. To accomplish success, one has to set realistic goals for his life, meaning goals that can be achieved. You should measure success as to how close you come to accomplishing your goals that you have set for your-self based on skills and abilities.

Know that your “subconscious mind” is a very incredible and powerful tool that has yet to improve and utilize it wisely to its complete capacity, to accomplish success.

To fully understand how powerful and encouraging your “subconscious mind” can be, you should understand first and recognize that there really is no “coincidence”, that nothing in life occurs just by chance. Meaning, nothing is predestined, that you have the power to control your life, to control your success and your failure.

Events or incidents in life can be maneuvered or controlled to resolve most problems. You have the power to change certain aspects of your life that you are not contented with.

Whereas there is no disagreeing to the actuality that you can not at all times acquire what you wants, it is likewise true that you can utilize your natural power over events of your life and cause things to move in your desired direction more “frequently”.

Expectation, belief and desire are three powerful forces that can help you do so. Before anything that you wishes for to occur can happen, you must desire for it to happen, should believe deeply that it will happen and must expect that it will happen.

The “subconscious mind” generates all things in your life that is on the information and messages one sends to it. You are continuously and regularly sending the mind information and messages and most information sent are useless or that they are negative information functioning against you. This is why things never recuperate regardless of your efforts to make it succeed.

It will be truly difficult to follow any success level if you are not specific and clear regarding what you believe is attainable for yourself. It is then extremely significant assess and gauge your actions, thoughts and motives as you partake your daily life. You should gain understanding and knowledge of where you are and what are you doing wrong as well as what you are doing right. Subsequently you should be ready to change for the better when and as it is needed.

Always remember that whatever you display in your beliefs, thoughts and actions are sent to the “subconscious mind”.

So be very careful of your thoughts, beliefs and actions, as they are great influences to your success. Note that if you worry constantly about not acquiring enough finances, then you will really not acquire enough; thinking that you do not have the capability to accomplish your goals, then you will never achieve any; thinking that there not enough open opportunities, then there will never be.

Why? Simply because the “subconscious mind” is constantly working on those information that you have sent and a “negative information” results to nothing but “negative reality”.

When you do accomplish your goal, stop a while and relish that certain satisfaction and pleasure of achieving a goal. Great or small, it is success; a beginning of that life that you want for yourself!

Good luck

Len.

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Email Marketing Tips

Using email is a great way to market and promote your e-commerce
business. With people being so busy and getting junk mail, how
do you make your email stand out? Here are some helpful tips to
get you the most benefits from this effective marketing tool. It
is important to do some research and attempt to get your
marketing sent to a target market that will likely be interested
in the products or services you are offering.

Some companies randomly send emails to people who have
absolutely no interest in what is being advertised. You will get
a very low response from such marketing methods. If your website
asks for consumer information including an email address, but
respectful. Ask if they are interested in receiving e-mail
advertisements and promotions. If they choose not to then don’t
add them to your data base for marketing by email. Make sure you
have the permission of the consumer to send them such materials.
You are required by law to include an opt out link in the event
the consumer no longer wants to receive such emails from you.

Statistics show Tuesday and Wednesday are the most effective
days to send out marketing emails. Send them out in the morning
so that individuals have time to read them during breaks, lunch
hours, and in the early evening. You might have a lot of
information to pass on to the target market, but keep your email
short and to the point. Most internet users like to go through
their emails quickly. If yours is lengthy it may get deleted or
saved to be read later. You want the consumer to be able to read
it as soon as they click on it and get all the information. Make
sure you have hyperlinks that take consumers immediately to your
website if they are interested. Internet users are not patient.
Most will not wait longer than five seconds for your website to
appear.

It is important to test your marketing email in the various
email programs including Yahoo, MSN, Hotmail, and AOL because
they all work differently. Your graphics and pictures may be
distorted in particular email programs. This will result in all
those consumers not being able to use your marketing email as it
was intended. Taking the time to conduct these tests can make
the difference between an effective email marketing campaign and
one that is a flop.

How often do you want to send an email to your consumers? This
can be tricky to determine. It really depends on your products
or services and your target market. You want to keep your
business name fresh in the mind of the consumers but they will
stop reading the emails from you if they become too frequent.
Some businesses do them weekly or monthly. Others choose to only
send an email when there is a huge promotion going on. A
business newsletter is a great way to contact the consumer
monthly with fresh information. You also want to give consumers
a very simple way to change their email address as it is very
common to change email service providers.

You need to have an effective system set up to answer any
questions emailed to you from customers within 24 hours. This
will show your business is serious about keeping them satisfied
before, during, and after they make a purchase. Issues come up
and most consumers will give your business the opportunity to
help resolve the situation. This is your opportunity to prove
the integrity of your business.

Len Hutton

Saturday, April 18, 2009

Stop Blog Spammers

Blogs are now an extremely popular and important part of the
internet. Millions of people blog every day. As blogs have
evolved over the years, so has the commenting system. Now anyone
can make comments on a particular blog posting. As blog
commenting has grown more popular, so has spam commenting. In
this newsletter, we’ll go over why comments are a great form of
feedback for your blog, how they help the credibility of your
content, what spam comments are and how to prevent them from
happening.

Comments – A great form of feedback

When blogs first came around, they were simply online journals.
No one could post comments on a blog posting. That all changed
in 1998 with Open Diary, a site which allowed people to comment
on blog postings. Now every blog, whether it is remotely or
self-hosted, includes this option to comment.

Commenting is great because it allows real people to tell you
what they think about your form. It gives you feedback on what
you are doing right and what you may need to improve. Comments
can be encouraging to you and motivate you to post more quality
blog messages. Or they can be constructive criticism to make you
work harder to get better at writing content.

Whatever the style of comment is, it is still very useful to
your blog. High numbers of comments have the ability to make a
blog look credible because they show that the blog is being read
by a lot of people. That’s something that every blog owner
wants, and comments help to let them know just how many people
enjoy their content.

Bad comments

Unfortunately, spammers have now started to use comments as a
way to spam. How do you know what a spam comment is? Well, a
spam comment is a comment that only advertises another site or
product. If the comment seems bland/generic with a cheap link
thrown in, then it’s definitely a spam comment.

Here is an example of a typical spam comment:

“Hey, this site is really cool. Check out my really cool site at
spamsite.com.”

Of course not all spam comments will be this blatant, but you
get the point.

Fortunately for bloggers, as spam comments have grown, so has
the ways to prevent it. Here are a couple ways that you can
prevent spam comments from even being posted on your blog.

#1: Close off commenting on older blog posts

There are options for you to stop comments from being posted on
any particular blog post. Lots of times, spammers will post
comments in weeks or months old posts. So take away this
opportunity from them to keep it from happening. Most blog
hosters now offer this as a standard option in the tool panel.
If one of your posts has been up for a couple weeks, close it
up.

#2: Take advantage of software offered to prevent comment spam

If you host your own blog using WordPress.com, you can use an option
in that software to prevent spam. Even if you aren’t using
WordPress, you can still use other Spam comment blocking
software like Spam Karma, Akismet, and Bad Behavior. While these
aren’t 100% effective, they have proven to be quite effective in
preventing spam from happening.

#3: Take a look at your settings and see what can be tweaked to
toughen your protection

Lots of blogs now have settings to help prevent spam. If you
already have a spam blocker on in your blog and are still
experiencing spam, take a closer look at the settings to see if
there’s anything that can be tweaked to make your protection
stronger. However, if you do this, you should closely monitor
your posts to make sure legit comments aren’t being blocked out.
If they are, you might have to lighten up a bit.

#4: Regularly read your blog comments

Be sure to keep an eye on your comments. Even the best software
or setting can’t prevent everything, so you will have to
occasionally manually remove comments on your own.

By applying the above principles, you can ensure that your blog
is full of only good, quality comments, which will help your
credibility tremendously.

Comments are a great form of communication between yourself
and your readers. They help the credibility of your bl



Len Hutton.

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Happy Easter.

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Len Hutton.

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

You can Really Be The Next Facebook?

Ok. so how many of you got inundated today with emails promoting Niche Socializer by the usual gang who promote just about everything that ever seems to come out. Niche Socializer is by two guys with great reputations, But do you think that You can Really Be The Next Facebook? No. I don’t think so. But of-cores a few will make a lot of money. I also wonder just how many of the people promoting this software will be using it themselves?

Len Hutton.

Monday, April 6, 2009

Advertise with Adsense

Adsense is a great marketing method that can be quite effective
for your business. It involves advertisements for your business
being posted on the websites of others. In a world where
millions access the internet every day, this type of marketing
is very effective. It has the potential of generating more
traffic to your website. A percentage of that traffic will
likely result in an increase of sales for your business.

It is less expensive that other types of marketing because you
only pay when a consumer clicks your link from one of the
websites you are advertising on. This is a great opportunity for
new businesses, small businesses, those on a low marketing
budget, and larger businesses that are looking at ways to market
their products or services while cutting out unnecessary costs.

Take a moment to look at various websites on the internet. I am
sure you will find several sites that offer advertisement links
for other businesses. You will also notice they look
professional and attractive. Are you ready to give advertising
with Adsense through Google a try? The process is very simple.
You will need to go to www.AdWords.com. Here you will complete a
detailed application. It is important to use relevant keywords
for your products or services as this is how matches will be
made to relevant websites who will be posting your ads. Google
Adsense offers great tutorials to help you select the right
keywords for your business.

Google Adsense allows you to create your own ads just like you
would for any other type of advertising campaign. They program
allows you to format for specified languages and geographic
locations. Once the ads are posted on various websites consumers
can choose to click on the link and be directed to your website.
This is the only time you will pay an advertisement host
website. When you set up your ads, you will decide how much you
are willing to pay per click on your advertisement. You will
also have the opportunity to change and edit your advertisements
any time you like. If the advertising is going well you might be
able to increase the amount of sites you advertise on.

There is a five dollar activation fee for each new business to
set up an account on Google Adsense. Most credit cards can by
used for payment as can Paypal and Post-Pay. There is no minimum
dollar amount you have to pay each month. Again, you only pay
for when consumers click on your link from a website you are
advertising on. If they access a webpage with your advertisement
on it and read it but don’t click on it, then you pay nothing.

As with most other types of business, there are scammers out
there waiting to take advantage. Click fraud is a problem with
Adsense advertising. Click fraud involves setting up a system to
click on advertisement links or doing it manually to earn more
money from the business that is advertising. Another reason
click fraud is done is to damage competitors by clicking on
their ads, knowing they will have to pay out more money. If you
participate in Google Adsense for your advertising needs, it is
a good idea to purchase Click Fraud software for your own
protection. Google also works very hard to monitor such
fraudulent activities.



Len Hutton.

Sunday, April 5, 2009

Blogging Cash

Believe it or not, but it’s actually possible to make money from
blogging. One teenager has, in fact, earned $5,000 a month just
from making posts on his blog! Of course, not every blogger is
this lucky. It does take some skill, and some luck to make money
from blogging. What it also takes is some knowledge of how
exactly to generate income just by posting blogs. In this
newsletter, we will go over three specific methods of making
money on your blog: Adsense, Pay Per Lead, and Affiliate Links.
So how exactly do I make money on my blog?
You do it by working with another company that wants to use your
blog as a form of advertising. It sounds like selling out,
right? Not exactly. The advertising can be as in your face or
subtle as you want. And it can still make you money, provided
you have enough visitors to your blog.
What is Adsense?
Adsense is a program offered by Google. The program, if
installed, will display ads provided by Google.
How do I get Adsense?
You’ll need to go to Google.com, first. At the bottom of the
screen is a link for "Advertising Programs". Click on that. Then
click on the link for "Adsense". Scroll down on the page that
comes up and click "Click Here To Apply!" You then fill out the
form with information about yourself. After 12-48 hours, Google
will notify you via email whether or not your site has been
accepted. When you’ve been accepted, set up your ads by doing
either of the following:
1.If your blog is hosted on Blogger.com, you can set up your
AdSense ads by going to your profile, selecting
settings>template>add an element. Then select AdSense and login
with your account info. Next, you’ll configure your ads and save
the template. That’s it.
2.If you are self-hosting your blog, you’ll have to set up
AdSense in more of a manual way. You’ll create your ads(which
can be as small or as tall as you want) and then copy the
HTML/Javascript code Google gives you. Then you’ll paste it into
your blog(on the left, right, or top of the screen).
For the first few days, the ads displayed by Google will be
Public Service Announcements. After the ads have been up a few
days, though, the ads will switch to ads that are relevant to
your blog.
How does Adsense work?
Every time a visitor clicks an Adsense ad, you get a little bit
of money(usually around 30-60 cents). The amount you get for
each ad clicked depends on the number of unique visitors you
receive on your blog. The more visitors, the more money that can
be earned.
Google will then send a check or pay you through Paypal once
you’ve made at least $100 from the ads.
It is important to remember that Google will penalize you if you
click your own ads, or if you ask visitors specifically to click
ads. So don’t do that!
Pay Per Click
Pay Per Click is basically just like AdSense, except you don’t
just work with Google—you work with multiple companies.
BidVertiser is one such company you can sign up with to do Pay
Per Click advertising.
How do I get Pay Per Click
You sign up with a site like Bidvertiser and then follow their
instructions to set up the Pay Per Click ads on your site.
How does Pay Per Click work?
It works by paying you money each time someone clicks an ad that
you display. You won’t get paid for multiple clicks from the
same user in the same visitor, nor will you get paid for someone
simply visiting your site. You only get paid for legitimate
clicks.
Affiliate Links
Affiliate links are basically links which people pay you for.
Companies will actually pay owners of popular blogs to post
links on their blog. You can do as much Affiliate linking as you
want.
How do I get Affiliate Links?
You can get Affiliate links by searching for "Affiliate Link
Programs" on the internet. Once you find an Affiliate link
program that looks good to you, sign up for it. Then you can
follow their instructions for putting the link(s) on your blog.
How do Affiliate Links work?
Like the other two methods mentioned above, Affiliate links work
by paying you money each time they are clicked. You get paid for
each click per unique visitor.
So that’s it. There’s three legitimate ways to make money from
blogging. It is important to keep in mind that the amount of
money you are able to make depends on how many visitors your
blog draws. If you draw a lot, you’ll make a lot. If not, the
money you earn will be modest. But it’s still extra money, so
why not do it?
Making money using Adsense, Pay Per Click or Affiliate Link
programs is easy and effective. Start monetizing your blog
today!

Len.