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Philippine Seduction Community

2011-06-20T06:00:00.000+08:00

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Cloud Blogging and Pua Philippines

2011-04-23T03:41:00.000+08:00

Heads up guys. So this is lifestyle design and as you've all known I've upgraded my blogging platform from blogspot to wordpress. You can visit me at my main site at http://OurDevelopingMind.com

But that's not why I'm writing here today. I launched two new blogspot sites, and I think you might enjoy them

If you want to get some tips about dating, wooing, courting or just any thing that will involve success with women, you can visit PUA philippines

The other site is about cloud blogging, this is the new trend to build a good business based on lifestyle design and blogging. If you want to be the next A list Internet entrepreneur you might want to visit cloud blogging. visit it here: Cloud Blogging Review

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2010-02-11T01:52:00.000+08:00

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How To Boost Traffic To Your Blog: SEO for Bloggers

2009-12-17T20:56:00.002+08:00

Let search engine index your blog and let people come to your fresh blog. Though you're in World Wide Web, nobody knows you're there. You need to pull kindly those who are potentially waiting for you but don't know where your are. This objective is related to generally known as search engine optimization (SEO). It's too broad to address all. But the most important things will I talk about. Though they're not all but more than enough will be covered. They are about...

How to use keywords as a SEO technique

What to consider when you choose blog templates

How to construct your blog search engine friendly

Ping your blog

How to use keywords as a SEO technique?

As long as SEO is concerned, the keyword comes at front line. You have to find the target keyword/keywords or niche keywords.

What to do with the keyword/keywords? Please read on.....

Enter keywords in your blog name: If you named your blog for example, "Ryen's blog", it's not a good idea in the view of SEO. Instead name your blog something like "keyword blog". You need to substitute "keyword" with your "target keyword", for example "mountain bike blog", if your blog is about mountain bike.

Enter keywords of your post in title tag: Actually most of bloggers don't need to concern about "title tag" because most of blog hosting applications such as blogger, typepad, wordpress, movable type, drupal, etc... care this for you. But you have to use the keyword in your title and then they will include it in the title tag for you.

Enter keywords in meta description tag, if possible: This may be difficult for most of bloggers because most of blog hosting system don't support this. If this is your case, don't bother with this. To make it possible is almost impossible for the people like me who are not techie at all. But don't worry there is other solution: care your first sentence of the first paragraph.

Enter keywords in the first sentence: Nowadays many SEO experts say that most of search engines don't look meta description tag. Instead they look for the few words in the first sentence. So care your first sentence to include the keywords, make it fit to describe your whole post and attractive.

Repeat your keywords in your post: With this an English grammar teacher may not be happy. But as long as SEO is concerned, it's necessary: frankly to say, you have to. General rule says the keyword density should be about 2-3% of whole words in your post

You may complain "heck, how do I know keyword density." Well, you don't need to count it manually. There is a free tool to check the keyword density. And actually I don't even check it all the time. I just keep in mind 2-3% and check only for some posts that I think worth checking. Having this in mind, the free tool is here. Type the URL of your post, keyword and click "analyze" button. It'll return you the keyword density of your post. If the keyword density is too low, consider repeat the keyword more but don't repeat too much (more than 3%)

Use your keyword in your blog domain: This improves the ranking of your blog and hence more traffic come to you. If your blog is about "anniversary gift", for example, include it in your domain name so that your blog domain looks like "anniversary-gift.yourhost.com"

Use your keyword in the link title: Many blogger don't know about this!

Which one do you think better, "anniversary gift" or "anniversary-gift.your host.com" as your link title? The former is better. The reason? Because search engines value more. So keep in mind that whenever you get link try to enter your keywords in the link title

Enter keywords in your file name: When you save your blog, use your keyword

Which one is better, "mypost98.html" or "anniversary-gift-how-to-choose.html"? This time the latter is better because it includes keywords and hence get better chance to be listed in high rank in search engine.

Enter keyword in alt tag: If you use images in your post, don't forget to put your keyword in alt tag. A 2 cent-tip related to this is that if your Google Adsense doesn't seem to show matching ads with your content, check your alt tag. Maybe it's because you put unrelated words in alt tag.

What to consider when you choose blog templates?

Certainly there is a search engine friendly blog templates. To know whether your blog template is search engine friendly designed, go to Crawler simulation (It's free.) Enter your blog URL and then it'll show you how it looks like when a search engine spider visits your blog site. If you see a lot of html code or java scripts before you see main content, it means your blog is not well designed in the point of search engine optimization. There is a way to hide unnecessary code from spiders, using CSS or div class "hide". Try to make your title tag immediately after head tag and to show up your body content as near to head tag as possible.

How to construct your blog search engine friendly?

Make your blog site structure as simple as possible. This may not be a big issue for bloggers because unless a blogger can design her/his blog system, they have to use a default system. What I mean by this is that most of blog system make permalink be for example, "www.blogcom.com/user/archive/year/month/date/apost.html". See how far the final "apost.html" is from root. It's 5 step further. This is not so good in terms of search engine optimization. You can reduce those steps but you only can do so one or two step because database recognition is concerned behind this story. So the bottom line is that try to make your blog simple but if it's not possible, focus on writing good content. I observed many top bloggers have a bit complicated permalink system yet have lots of traffic.

But if you can make your blog structure simpler without problem, please do so because it is much better for the reader and search engine as well.

Ping your blog

Do you ping? Many pongs will come,then. :-) This may not be an issue if you're using Movable Type, WordPress, Typepad, or Drupal 4.6.0. But consider pinging to Ping-o-Matic!, if your system is not configured to do so. Because it pings to most of important blog search engines and directories in one spot. If your blog application doesn't support to ping automatically to "Ping-o-Matic!", you can do so manually by visiting Ping-o-Matic! Once you type your blog name, blog URL, check where to ping and click "submit ping" button, and don't forget to bookmark. It gives you a convenience because you don't need to type blog name, URL and check where to ping again.

By pinging you make search engine spider crawl you more frequently and make your reader notified faster.

So far you have the most important SEO techniques for your blog. Say, how to use your keywords and where to enter, search engine friendly blog template design, structure and finally ping to "Ping-o-Matic!"
But one thing is missing!

Get inbound links!

The MLM Dilemma

2009-12-15T20:52:00.000+08:00

Does this sound familiar...?

You have taken ALL of the company training, listened to the tapes, recorded phone calls and live conference calls, read all the company materials and tried the products. You bought some inventory, made business cards, set up the web site that the company provided for you.

You have purchased leads, set up an e-mail campaign and told everyone you know about your awesome company, the cutting edge products and the lucrative compensation plan...you were exited, motivated, dedicated, enthusiastic, positive and committed and yet...your results are dismal.

If all of that sound familiar, I have news for you...you are one of the roughly 95% of people in MLM that have been completely wasting your time, money and infinitely more important...your life! Keep reading...there IS hope!!

I know that there are people in your company who are doing well...making tons of money...but here's the question...can you REALLY duplicate what they are doing??

What is it that the people who are on top have that you don't have? Well, there's bad news...and there's good news!

The bad news is that if you were to take a close look at the top performers in your company, you might notice a few things such as:

1. They have above average communication skills. They can walk into a room or stand in front of an audience and command attention. They just have that skill. Most people can't do that! In fact, the number one fear in North America is public speaking!

2. Maybe they are able to work 22.5 hours per day without sleeping. Some people just have the metabolism that allows them to do far more in a day than others. Most people can't do that either!

3. Maybe they had money to begin with and were able to purchase a position in the company which allowed them to maximize their income potential...most people can't do that either!

4. Maybe they are great salespeople. Maybe they don't mind getting 100 rejections in order to recruit one person, but most people can't do that either!

The point is that there are any number of things that allow some people to just outperform others and usually it's because they really do have some quality, characteristic or skill that others just don't have. This allows them to build enormous organizations only a VERY small percentage of those people actually earn them the big money, and it's normally people who happen to have the same outstanding skills.

After I studied this over many months of failing miserably in MLM...I asked myself this question; ”Where the heck does that leave an average guy like me??" That brings us to the good news!

The good news is that there are people just like me; average people with average skills making a substantial living with Network Marketing, and so can you.

You don't need the "gift of gab" or tons of money to buy your position and you don't need to work 22.5 hours per day or to withstand an onslaught of rejection. So what does the average person need to make a fortune in Network Marketing?

You need only two things:

1. A System that can be duplicated by anyone
2. Education as to how to properly deploy that system

The system can be either automated or not as long as the process takes the prospect through specific steps and brings them to a point where they can decide weather or not they are interested in seeing more.

A good automated system will walk the prospect through the following steps:

1. Attention: I have found that the best way to catch attention is to reduce the flashiness of the presentation. The best attention grabbing tool is a very well written introduction abut YOU, the marketer.

2. Interest: Maintain the prospects interest by providing something with which they can relate. Claims of riches tend to alienate most qualified prospects who are not interested in the hype…they are interested in content. Your system needs to provide strong content which allows the prospect feel that they know you a little.

3. Education: The prospect should learned something new. Some actual valuable information that makes them understand that you have a legitimate business opportunity. Education regarding Network Marketing would be best because it can help you pre-qualify your prospect and eliminate that “pyramid” objection.

4. Desire: By the end of the presentation, your prospect should want more information from you. If your system gives away to much information, the prospect will have no reason to speak with you again.

This is where most people drop the ball, especially when using automated systems. Most people think that their on-line system is going to do the recruiting for them.

I have seen many times when a marketer considers the flash presentation on their company website to be their entire automated prospecting system. The problem with this is that the company website gives away the entire story and rarely leaves the prospect in a state of desire. The prospect can make a final decision without ever having to get to know the marketer. This puts the company, product, or compensation plan in the forefront of the prospect’s mind, instead of the exciting potential of the Network Marketing business itself.

A strong automated prospecting system is just that…a prospecting system, not a recruiting system. We can not exclude personal relationship building from the Network Marketing equation. Which brings us to the second requirement for success in Network Marketing…training.

Training is perhaps the most neglected part of our business. Rule number one is that you should never ever lead with your company, your product or your compensation plan...the reason is very simple...NO ONE CARES!!! Here's why...

When you lead with your business, your products, your opportunity or your comp plan, you are talking about what is important to YOU, not to the prospect. They might listen to you out of courtesy or respect for you, and you might sign up a few people along the way, but your chances of building a solid business in the manner are slim because this approach is not “duplicateable” by most people.

In order for the prospecting process to be effective, you really must build a relationship with your prospect before you introduce your company. This can be done using a combination of your automated system and personal follow-up.

Network Marketing success requires that you deploy a balance of properly designed automation, and training on how to develop a personal relationship with the prospect.

If the automated system is properly designed, and the training is effective in teaching the basics, then the average person can do exceptionally well in Network Marketing.

Clickbank Vendors: Two Simple Ways You Can Help Affiliates Protect Their Commisions

2009-12-14T20:50:00.000+08:00

1) How To Remove Your Affiliates Clickbank Id From The URL.

As a merchant, you can hide the clickbank affiliate id for your affiliates by creating a redirect page and pointing your default hoplink to the redirect.

When some uses your hoplink http://hop.clickbank.net/?affid/yourid, the cookie will be set and they will land on your redirect page.

The redirect will send them to your domain without adding the ?hop= information. The cookie is already set and does not need to be shown.

This will help protect your affiliates commission and give your site a more professional appearance.

In the code examples below, you will need to replace [ and ] with less then and greater then symbols.

Create a file called hoplink.php

Add the following code

[?php 
header("Location: http://www.yourdomain.com"); 
exit; 
?]

Upload hoplink.php to the root of your domain.

Click to view or modify your account settings.

Click to modify your account.

Under Business Info, change the url of your website to be http://www.yourdomain.com/hoplink.php

Click on save changes.

Now when a visitor clicks on a hoplink, it appears that they came directly to your site and the affiliate's id is no longer exposed. For this technique to be completely effective, the affiliate needs to cloak the hoplink as well.

2) How to Cloak Your Clickbank Vendor Id Using PHP

Most clickbank affiliate theft is caused by the fact that is easy to rebuild a hoplink and get credit for your own purchase. All you really need to know is the vendor id.

All you have to do is look at the source code of a typical sales link and you will see the vendor id.

For example: http://www.clickbank.net/sell.cgi?YourVendorId/1/Product_Description

To rebuild the hoplink you simply use http://hop.clickbank.net/?AffiliatesId/YourVendorId

Now when you click on the hoplink and the original affiliate has lost a sale.

As you can see, without knowing the vendor id, you can not successfully rebuild the hoplink and the affiliates sale would be protected.

Below is an example of how to do this in PHP.

You will need to replace [ and ] with less then and greater then symbols.

Create a file called order.php

Add the following code

[?php 
header("Location: http://www.clickbank.net/sell.cgi?YourVendorId/1/Product_Description"); 
exit; 
?]

Just replace YourVendorID with your Clickbank ID

Replace 1 with your product number

Replace Product_Description with your Product Description

Upload order.php into the same folder as your sales page.

Now link to order.php instead of using the raw order link and your Vendor ID is never exposed

This will make it very hard for affiliates to rob other affiliates of their commissions.

I encourage you to make these simple changes to protect the commissions of your affiliates.

The BIG Dream Life

2009-12-11T20:33:00.001+08:00

In Network Marketing one of the single most important keys to success is simply having a dream. Unfortunately most people lose sight of this dream due to the harsh realities of life and therefore fail miserably in this industry. On the other hand those who never lose sight of this dream seem to have what takes to stay the course and learn the ropes until and one day find themselves living a life better then they could have ever imagined it.

Today I’m going to give you a picture of The Big Dream Life. Please, if you are struggling in this industry, take hold of it, mold it into your own, and one day you too will be a living, breathing testimony to the life changing power contained inside a few thoughts.

The Big Dream Life

It’s 9:36 am when your eyes suddenly pop open. You sit up in bed with a smile on your face and thank God for all the many blessings he has given you and your family. After a yawn and a good stretch, you give your sleeping beauty (Wife) a kiss on the cheek then head to the kitchen. In no hurry, completely content and relaxed because you don’t have the stress that 90% of America has called “A JOB”. On the way to the kitchen, you find your little ones peeking around the corner in attempt to give Daddy a good morning “BOO”. You decide to play along and act really surprised when they jump out even though this is the everyday routine. At this point, you see your wife walking down the hall with a smile on her face and greet her good morning with another kiss. You have breakfast with your family then head to the office (first door to the left). You check a few emails make a few calls then call it quits for the day. After this hard days work ( ha ha) you decide to take your family on a surprise trip to Sea World. They are excited when they hear the news and begin packing for the trip. On the way out you decide to check the mail and find a nice check made out to you for $18,578.63. You hand the check over to you wife; she looks at it and says “not bad for a weeks work”. You both chuckle and head to your destination.

Now that’s what I call living! Please take this dream and expand on it, don’t let the ups and downs of life come crashing down on your dream and kill it forever. You deserve to live it so LIVE IT.

How Not To Fail In Network Marketing

2009-12-09T20:29:00.001+08:00

My friend Mike said that, 'people fail in mlm, network marketing, internet marketing, or home business opportunities for two main reasons.

1. Most people start with a shoe string budget, but since they don't know how to effectively advertise and promote their businesses, they run out of money without having the opportunity grow and explode their business.

2. They pitch their mlm, network marketing, internet marketing, or home business opportunities to their family, friends, and co-workers. Then they run out of people to talk to, and out of money to advertise.' That's a sad scenario.

The key to not fail in mlm, network marketing, internet marketing, or home business opportunities; is to implement a franchise system with a proven marketing strategy that works. Sort of like Mc Donald's, the casinos in Las Vegas, movie theaters, and others.

For intance, do you think Mc Donald's is in the hamburger business? How about Las Vegas' casinos? They advertise, "what happens in Vegas stays in vegas." Movie theaters, Do you think they could stay in business by merely selling admission tickets?

Let me tell you why Mc Donald's can afford to sell a burger for a $1 dollar. Because it knows that when you buy that extra slice of cheese, fries, and soda, it will make a huge profit margin on them.

Las Vegas casinos lure you with their entertainment advertising, but they don't tell you that they want you to lose all your money in gambling which is where the real money is made.

The same with movie theaters, you take your family to watch a movie, and you easily spend $40 bucks in popcorn, sodas, and candies, not including the admission tickets!

Do you see what is going on here? Do you see the marketing strategy at work? If these businesses did not a have a game plan, they would go out of business or they would have a hard time staying in business.

The question that must be popping in your mind by now is, what does that have to do with my mlm, network marketing, internet marketing, or home business opportunity? It has a lot to do with it, if not all of it! The strategy is based on the ABC business model. Once you understand it and apply it to your mlm business, network marketing business,internet marketing business, or home business opportunity__viola! Your business will explode!

What is this ABC business model, and why is it vital to your, mlm business, network marketing business, internet marketing business, or home business opportunity? Let's just say that part A, part B, and part C, all three parts compliment each other.

Part A is the most important of the three parts, yet most people only use part B and C. Especially if you are advertising your business on a shoe string budget! Do you see now why people fail in business? Can your mlm business, network marketing business, internet marketing business, or home business opportunity survive on parts B and C only? Sure it can, but it will cost you a fortune in advertising, and I guarantee it!

Part A is designed to help you fund your advertising, and generate prospects for your business.

Part B is designed to put quick cash in your pocket to pay bills or to invest to further grow your business, and part C is your long-term residual income.

How does part A help you fund your advertising so you don't run out of money? Simple. Sell a low cost high volume item that is closely related to your mlm business, network marketing business, internet marketing business, or home business opportunity. Something easy to sell whether you are an expert or not. It could be a nutrition product, a service, or an affiliate program, but it has to be closely related to your mlm business, network marketing business, internet marketing business, or home business opportunity. The reason for doing that, is that it is a lot easier to sell $500 dollars in retail products than it is in building a $500 residual income, do you follow?

Just to give you a perfect example, as a network marketer, would you buy a business that is worth $1,000 to $2,000 dollars without thinking about it,or would you be more inclined to buy an inexpensive book that shows you how to be successfull with that business? If you are like me, you would buy the book and educate yourself first. A book like this would be a retail product that sells easily.

By implementing Part A which will lead to Part B and then to part C, your mlm business, network marketing business, internet marketing business, or home business opportunity will always be up and running, and no longer worried about running out of advertising funds.

Part B in mlm business, network marketing business, internet marketing business, or home business opportunities comes in the form of fast start bonuses aka "bread and butter." As you continue to implement part A it will not only fund your advertising campaings, but also will generate endless prospects for your business. Remember, Part A has to be closely related to your main business.

Do you see now why part A is so vital for your business?

When you do your advertising, vary your advertising. Do not rely solely on one form of advertising. My wise friend Mario said, "a table can not stand on one leg, (a conventional table) and neither will your mlm business, network marketing business, internet marketing business, or home business opportunity be able survive on one form of advertising alone.

Apply this ABC business model in your mlm business, network marketing business, internet marketing business, or home business opportunity and you will never ever have to worry about running out of money,or failing in this industry again.

Scams, Pyramids, Powerlines and Ponzi

2009-12-08T20:27:00.001+08:00

What are pyramid, powerline and Ponzi schemes? They are all different versions of the same thing... Illegal business ventures. They are illegal, and have the potential to financially devastate participants when the compensation system collapses. And it always collapses.

To understand why the pyramid is inherently flawed, you have to understand how it works. Most people confuse pyramid schemes with legitimate MLM (multi -level marketing) programs, because the difference between the two can be quite fuzzy.

Just because a compensation plan is based on a matrix does not necessarily mean that it is a pyramid. With a pyramid, the entity at the top always makes more money than everyone else is the program. It is impossible for any other person in the pyramid to even make as much as the person on the top.

Typically, pyramid schemes require an initial investment, usually substantial, and earnings are based on recruiting new members to make that initial investment as well.

Those participating in a pyramid program are lead to believe that they are at the top of their own little pyramid, when in truth, they are somewhere at the bottom of the grand pyramid. The program owner is at the top of the pile; therefore the creator of the program is the company. The company always gets a percentage of the new members' initial investment, and the remaining portion is distributed to the person responsible for the new membership. So, as the pyramid grows, the guy at the top, the "company" gets richer and richer for doing next to nothing, and your earnings are completely dependant upon how many new recruits you can come up with each month, whether it be based on a once off membership fee, or a monthly subscription to the program. If you don't bring in new members, you won't get paid.

Now here comes the major flaw in the system... Commissions are paid based on members recruited. There is a finite number of people who can be recruited. Therefore, once the program has maxed out, and there are no more people to recruit, those at the bottom of the pyramid will never recover their initial investment, let alone make a profit. The pyramid collapses and the guy at the top, the one who got stinking rich, takes off for the Bahamas and is never heard from again. Meanwhile everyone else is wondering what happened, and why they're not getting paid. He gets a nice tan, while you're wearing egg on your face, and all the friends and family that you brought into the program are hating you.

So what makes MLM different?

Legitimate multi-level marketing programs provide customers with a tangible, physical product, or a usable service. Commissions are based of the sale of actual products and/ or services, not membership fees. You can sell an infinite amount of products to a finite amount of people; therefore the system maintains itself; it won't self destruct, and people will make money.

MLM programs are based on a matrix, but since there is an actual product being bought and sold, the company receives a percentage, so it can produce more product to sell, and the member/ distributor earns a commission based on the actual products sold. As long as the company continues to produce a product for resale, the distributor has the ability to earn an income. Even if you stop referring new customers, if you keep your existing ones buying, you will continue to generate an income.

The key to making a large income in an MLM is to encourage existing customers to make repeat purchases in addition to finding new customers.

Consider this example from a traditional sales business:

Your father purchases a car from Dealer X. He gets a good deal on the car, and likes the product and the service he receives. So, the every time he wants to buy a car, he returns to Dealer X. (This means repeat sales and commissions for Dealer X.) In the meantime, your dad recommends Dealer X to a few friends, who buy cars. Dealer X, appreciating the referrals your dad has provided, gives your dad an extra discount on his next car purchase.

This sounds like a fair and equitable business dealing right?

That's because it is totally fair and legal.

Now, think about this multi-level marketing situation:

Your mother belongs to a catalogue shopping club. As a member of this club, she is entitled to savings on the products she buys, and in-home delivery of her purchases.

Mom shops there every month without fail, because she enjoys the products and the service she receives. She deems it a good value.

Mom is so delighted with her shopping club membership that she tells her friends about it. Some of those friends also join the shopping club and begin shopping there month after month. In appreciation for your mom's referrals, the company pays her a commission each month, based on the products her referrals purchase.

If one of Mom's friends refers someone to the shopping club, the company will give the friend a commission on products purchased by the new customer, plus they will give a smaller commission, from that sale, to Mom because she referred the friend who referred a friend. This is called an override commission. This is where the matrix comes into play. The matrix allows Mom to earn override commissions to a certain level for indirect referrals, generated by her direct referrals. This is how the company shares its income with its customers...

Example of a 3 x 4 multi-level marketing matrix:

Mom introduces Aunt Sally to the company. Each time Aunt Sally spends money with the company, Mom earns a 10% commission on what Aunt Sally buys.

Aunt Sally refers Cousin Meg to the company. When Cousin Meg shops, Aunt Sally earns a 10% commission on Meg's purchases, and Mom earns a 5% override commission.

Let's say that Aunt Sally also refers Uncle Bob and Cousin Sue. Uncle Bob's purchases and Sue's purchases will generate another 10% commission for Aunt Sally, and another override commission for Mom. This process continues, allowing Mom to earn an override commission up to 4 levels deep. Click here for an illustration.

Again, because the sale of actual products are involved, the commission structure is solid. The only way that Mom would stop earning commissions would be if:

A. The company stopped producing products and closed down.
B. Every referral in Mom's matrix quit buying products on their own.
C. Mom terminates her relationship with the company.

Each multi-level marketing business has its own compensation plan. The above is just an example of how an MLM marketing plan can work, to demonstrate the difference between a pyramid scheme and a legitimate network marketing business.

Pyramid schemes have given network marketing companies and their business opportunities a black eye, because they disguise themselves as a multi-level marketing income opportunity, in order to draw people into them.

Here is an example of a so-called one up program, where you pay the company an membership fee, and they promise to do all the recruiting work for you. The first member the company recruits for you pays their fee to the company (your sponsor). The company then promises that you will make 100% commission of the next sale and every other sale that the company makes for you. All you have to do is advertise the web site they give you and some automated system the company has in place, will do the rest for you.

Sounds great... right? WRONG!

The way this scheme really works is that your sponsor aka the company, only recruits at two levels. The first level, where they receive 100% of the money collected, and on the second level, where they also get 100% of the money collected, based on the one up marketing scheme. The company grows wider, not deeper, so everyone on the the first and second levels never see a second sale. They lose their initial investment and spend the rest of their lives waiting for the second sale to come in just to break even. Meanwhile, your the company/ your sponsor makes buckets of money and laughs all the way to the bank. Click here for illustration.

There are plenty of legitimate network marketing business opportunities available, and twice as many schemes. You must do your due dilligence and investigate a company before handing over your money. Find others who are involved in the business and find out if they've made any money. And, stay away from programs which have no product or service for sale. If the only way to generate commissions is from the membership fees paid by others, then you are looking a a pyramid scheme, and you will eventually lose, even if you make a little something out of the gate. Pyramid schemes always fail.

Get Your Book Done … Now!

2009-12-04T19:55:00.002+08:00

I don't believe in writer’s block. (I can hear the gasps of disbelief already.) Listen: If you hire a plumber to come to your house and fix a problem, do you expect him to say, "Sorry, I can't figure out what your problem is. I think I have plumber’s block"? Probably not, and if he did, you'd toss him out and call another guy faster than you can say Drano. Not that plumbing can be compared to writing, but if we follow the proper steps to get the job done, I find that writer’s block melts away, the drains are unclogged, and the words start flowing like water from a faucet. But what are these "steps"? Well, a big part of my job as a book marketing specialist is to help people create something they can actually market: a finished book. Many of us have ideas aplenty but not a clue how to get them down on paper.

Unlike other professions, authors operate under a whole different set of rules. We often can't just sit down and pound out a story, and those who do have created their own formula for doing so. We see this huge story with all sorts of directions we want to take it, we see the cover, we see the characters, we see the market potential. Then we see Katie Couric or Oprah smiling and holding up our book for the whole world to see. Then we glance back down at our monitor and see a tormenting blinking cursor and blank screen. And we are again reminded of what a failure we are. We have all these stories and nothing on paper. We are idea generators. We have zillions of them running through our minds, but none of them on paper. Unless you make your money in a think tank, operating this way probably isn't getting you any closer to your goals.

When a project looms before us, it’s like this big elephant -- huge, overwhelming and ready to stomp us flat any minute. There’s an old saying: "How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time." The same is true for writing. You finish a book, one step at a time. But to create these steps, you first have to break down your book into manageable, bite-size pieces. This can be accomplished by creating a TOC (table of contents) that can guide you through the book. My reasoning behind this is as follows: You'd never think of driving from California to New York without a map, right? Well, how can you expect to finish your book without one? Your TOC is your roadmap, guiding you through your book. If your chapters don't have individual headings, then write a 2-3 sentence description of what the chapter encompasses. Don't get too elaborate on this. Remember, it’s not going in your book; it’s just a brief descriptor. Once the TOC is outlined, you'll have a vision of your book from star! t to finish. A few things that creating this TOC will do for you: It will show you any gaps in your story that might need to be fleshed out, and it will give you a sense of completion, of seeing the book or project actually done, and this is a serious psychological turn-on for most authors, because we often live in a world of half-completed projects. Sometimes this step alone can propel an author enough to get their book done, or at the very least give it a darned good kick-start.

Once you've developed your TOC, you'll want to go through it and create a "to do" list. Regardless of what genre your book is, you will always have a to-do list. Whether it’s getting endorsements, doing research, or getting approvals for quotes or excerpts for your book, this to-do list will become yet another item that will help propel your book toward completion.

Once the to-do list is done, set it aside. Now you should have your completed TOC with a vision of the entire book and a growing list of items that will need to be handled for the book to get done. Now the real fun begins.

Some books on writing will tell you to set aside a day or two a week, or an evening here and there to get your book completed. I disagree with this theory, and here’s why: You need to stay dialed into your topic. When I was working on an upcoming book, I would often put the project aside for days or weeks at a time, promising myself to schedule time "as soon as I could." Well, that rarely happened. What I found is that if I set aside some time every day to do something on the book, I got it completed a lot quicker. The more you keep your hands in your project, the more it will stay at the front of your mind and on your radar screen, and the more energy you will invest to finish it. I won't tell you to set aside hours of your time each day -- in fact, you don't even have to set aside an hour. Take 15 minutes, or even five -- whatever your schedule permits. If this seems like a ridiculously short amount of time, consider this: You now have your to-do list and your outlined TOC! . If you are short on time one day, pick a quickie item from your to-do list and get it done. If you have more time, then pound out a chapter or two. The idea behind creating the to-do lists and a TOC is to not only give your project a structure, but to also eliminate any and all excuses for getting it done. Don't feel like writing today? No problem. There’s probably a mountain of research just waiting to be traversed. Get the picture?

But let’s say you can't even get through the TOC. "My book has too many layers," you lament. "Too many back stories, tons of stuff going on. I can't possibly be expected to filter it down into a neat little TOC." Yes, you can, and you must. If your book has no focus, your book will have no focus. It’s as simple as that. But it doesn't stop there -- if your book is all over the place and you do actually manage to get it done, you'll never be able to keep a reader interested because you will be the only one who will get it, and what’s the point of that? What you'll need to do in this case is find the "core" of your book or the focus of your story. Ask yourself this: What’s the one thing this book cannot do without? What’s the one thing this story circles around? That’s your core. If you're still coming up with three or four things that your story circles around, you aren’t focused enough and neither is your book. Find that one thing and build your story or book
around it.

If you follow these steps, your book will get finished quicker than you could have ever imagined. And the once-dreaded writer’s block will go from a stumbling block to a building block.

The Art of UpSelling: Three Tips to Generate More Sales Effortlessly and 3 Ways People Blow It

2009-12-01T17:34:00.000+08:00

Here is the good news. The hardest sale you will ever make to a customer is the first one. With the first sale, if you deliver on your promise to the customer, you establish a mutually-beneficial relationship. The customer gets what he or she wants, and you get what you want. Also, once you have received a "yes" commitment from a customer, it's easier to continue the positive pattern of continued "yeses". The customer finds it hard to break the affirmative sequence. You then will have the opportunity to Upsell them.

Upselling refers to when you help a customer decide to buy a little extra or “up-grade” slightly the final purchase. A car dealer, for example, might inform customers at the time of ordering about upholstery protection and undercoating. A shoe salesperson might suggest that when you buy a pair of shoes that you also use some weather protectant spray. These are usually small purchases that the buyer doesn’t have to put a lot of thought into. The bonus is they can be extremely profitable for you as the sales person and for your organization.

Following are three key tips to effectively upsell your customers.

1. Up-sell where it makes sense. Say a customer purchases an e-book from your website. Instead of trying to upsell your customer on a $3,000 seminar, ask if he'd considered purchasing a $97 teleclass that teaches the work from the e-book.

2. Use sales incentives. Once you've received the first sale, offer a discount on the second item. Give the customer a 10% discount off their first teleclass. Sometimes a very small price break is enough to get that extra sale.

3. Identify buying patterns. Take note of how many customers who purchase e-books also buy teleseminars. This kind of information tells you what items to pitch and when. Your grasp of market research will impress potential buyers as well: telling consumers that 90% of the people who buy e-books from you also buy seminars might tip them towards making that extra purchase.

The best part of upselling is that it’s practically effortless. Since it’s done after the customer has decided to go ahead with a major purchase, the hard part of the sales conversation has already been done. You’ve already established rapport, identified needs, summarized, presented benefits, asked for the order and handled objections. Upselling is just presenting the information in a “by-the-way” assumptive manner.

Also, make sure that you include an upsale opportunity in your autoresponder within your shopping cart. For example, someone buys an e-book. In your autoresponder, thank them for their purchase and ask them if they would like to register for the teleclass on the same subject for a discount.

So if it is so easy, you might be asking, how can I go wrong?

The 3 biggest mistakes in upselling:

1. No attempt is made to upsell. I can hear it now as I write this article. “I hate to sell”, “I don’t want to bother people”, and the ever popular “They are probably going to say no”. This upselling business might all sound a bit contrived, but let me introduce another perspective to look from assuming that you only provide top notch products and services that can make your customers life easier and more enjoyable.

If you had information or a product that could help people improve the quality of their life, wouldn’t you actually be doing a disservice to them to not offer it. You would actually be withholding valuable information from them. And here is the thing… they do have the right to say no. AND you are in business. If you don’t offer or ‘sell’ your services or products to prospects, you won’t have a business much longer and then all the people who need you won’t have access to you.

2. The salesperson comes across as being pushy. How can you avoid this? Being assumptive is the key. You’ve got to assume that the customer will naturally want your product or service. Begin the upsell with a brief benefit, and then if possible, add something unique about what you’re selling. To avoid sounding pushy, particularly if the upsell requires some elaboration, ask for the customer’s permission to describe it.

3. The upselling is made in an unconvincing manner so the customer generally refuses. This issue really links back to the objects made in number one, which is you don’t feel comfortable ‘selling’, so you don’t really make an effort. If you believe in your products and services, let the buyer see your passion. If you don’t…it is time to go back to the drawing board.

How to Create Your Own Information Product Even If You Are a Hopeless Writer!

2009-11-30T17:29:00.000+08:00

You have been longing to have your own information product in your own name. However, you learn that you are just plain hopeless when it comes to writing that you are ready to resign to accept the fact that you just don’t have the flair for writing!

Maybe writing is not your forte. Or maybe English is not your first language. Perhaps, you’ve been living the life of a jack of all trades; you have almost every skill but for once, you wish you were a master of something.

Whatever the reason is, creating your own information product is a plain mission impossible. Or is it? What if I tell you that you can still create your own information product even if you are NOT an expert of any kind and above all, you DON’T have to write?

No, I’m not talking about being an affiliate or reseller here. We are going to get you an information product with YOUR name on it. Comforting to know there is a door to possibility all wide open now?

Great! And I’m just about to tell you how you can do just that! Here are three fantastic ways you can have your own quality information product WITHOUT having to write and in some cases, not even a single word!

The first two ways cost money. The last way can be done free.

1. Hire a ghostwriter

Quite simply, you hire a ghostwriter to create the information product on a subject or topic of your choice (or more accurately, on demand!) but it the product would appear under your name. Normally, ghostwriters don’t take any credit at all and hence the term “ghostwriting”.

Hiring a ghostwriter to write for you can be costly. However, if you have the money to compensate your inability to write a good report, this is for you.

You can go to http://www.elance.com/ and search for a writer who can help with creating your own information product.

2. Buy Private Label Rights to a collection of articles or product.

Quite simply, you buy raw contents (which can come in the form of articles or .doc files which you can edit in Word program) from the original authors or authorized resellers. You can then edit them anyway you like and most importantly, put your name on them and claim authorship!

Private Label Rights seem to be the “in-thing” in Internet Marketing now, though Private Label Rights, in nature, has been on Earth for a very long time, which I suspect dates way back to very long time ago.

This method costs money, too, but it does not cost near as much as hiring your own ghostwriter to get the task done in most cases.

The drawback however, is that if the Private Label Rights to the products or articles are being sold in large numbers, it can dilute the value and quality of the same products or articles as there would literally be many purchasers using the same content at the same time.

If you have limited writing skills, you can still make substantial changes to the raw contents. You will do well to also choose Private Label Right to articles or products on sale with limited copies on sale.

3. Get someone else to write for you… through an interview!

The above two methods cost money on your part. Now, here’s the third and free method. You get someone else to create the product for you.

Sounds hard? No, it sounds impossible! Not only are you going to get other people to write for you, you are also not going to pay them! How? Easy. Conduct an interview. It’s free, and it puts your interviewees in the limelight. More often than not, people are glad to be interviewed, even if it’s free.

If you are planning to create an information product on copywriting, you can approach practicing copywriters for an interview. You can remind them that it won’t take much of their time and you may name some benefits from working with you on this project.

If you know of any experts offline, you can arrange for a verbal interview in person or by phone and sell your information product in BOTH text and audio format!

In return, you can thank your interview candidates for participating by giving them some free valuable gifts. Maybe you can get your interview candidates to strike up a Joint Venture with you in selling the complete information product created by everyone with you being the compiler and facilitator. Perhaps you can convey special Resell Rights to the information product just for your candidates if they are marketers.

At least and above all, you’d better be successful with marketing your product!

With three powerful methods to choose from, creating your own information product without having to write on your part is now possible, even for a hopeless writer like you!

When you make your first bucks from your Internet Business, you may want to take me out for a meal if we happen to be nearby.

Britney Spears Branding

2009-11-28T17:24:00.000+08:00

How would you like to sell as much in one year as Britney sells in one day or in one hour? Have you put much thought into how marketing empires are created? If you're selling anything then you're a marketer and you should study the biggest successes to follow in their footsteps.

We've all heard of branding, but do you do it? Have you branded yourself? If you have, are you expanding your marketing opportunities with your brand?

Once you've created a name, built successful marketing campaigns and gotten people to know and like who you and your company are don't stop there.

The real money is in building multiple streams of income. Once your brand begins to build you can diversify to create your own franchise. Think Star Wars, Harry Potter, the books for "Dummies." You don't have to be a celebrity or an acclaimed author to cash in, but we can definitely learn from them.

Here are some examples:

Britney Spears makes money on CD's, concert sales, posters, books, movie appearances, TV appearances, videos, Pepsi commercials and other endorsements.

Paul Newman makes money on movies, and makes money for charity on salad dressing, pasta sauce, popcorn, salsa, lemonade, steak sauce, cook books, T-shirts, hats, and sweatshirts.

Mark Victor Hansen and Jack Canfield (The "Chicken Soup For The (fill in a lucrative target market here) Soul" authors make money on a series of books and tapes so large and profitable that they have their own book rack at Barnes and Noble stores everywhere. There are over 35 titles and 53 million copies in print in over 32 languages. What if they would have stopped with the first title and not bothered to expand the money making potential of their brand?

Talk about branding! ...and they get other people to send them stories for free so they don't even write the books. Beyond this, they make money from other books and tapes, public speaking, joint ventures, and seminars.

Robert Kiyosaki (author of "Rich Dad, Poor Dad) makes money from books, tapes, board games, public speaking, seminars, an affiliate program, game events, teleconferences and real estate.

There are limitless possibilities of where you can go in expanding or capitalizing on your brand. Mark and Jack have used their "Chicken Soup" fame to sell unrelated products that are also directed at helping people live the lives of their dreams. Paul Newman is using his fame as an actor to sell food and sauces that have nothing to do with the movies he's been in.

So don't limit yourself. As your success builds over time continue to write down new and bigger goals. Imagine what you would do and what products you would create if you were already famous in your field. What would you sell? How would you market? How would you expand your empire?

You are a brand and so is your company. Even before you had a business everyone you came into contact with had an idea of who you were (your brand) because of how you presented yourself. Now it's time to be aware of the brand your building and make the most of it.

Hey, we can't all be Britney, but we're missing the boat if we don't learn from watching her cash in.

Co-Branding For More Traffic

2009-11-27T17:17:00.001+08:00

The opportunity to promote your web site on the internet grows daily. Unfortunately, so do the number of sites that compete for product placement and web traffic. As a response to this increased competition, many savvy marketers are turning to co-branding to provide them with an edge over their competition. By participating in co-branding programs, these web marketers can provide more tools, resources and "sticky" content than their competitors.

A co-brand program is usually an arrangement where a web page, company, or organization allows a licensee or participant to include the licensee's logo or brand on the product offered by the licensor. The benefit to the licensee is increased brand exposure, and the ability to offer a product that would otherwise be unavailable to their clients. The benefit to the licensor can be increase advertising revenue, or in many cases on the internet, increased web traffic. An example of this type of co-branding would be syndicated stock ticker that could be posted on your site, and branded with your logo. An example of this can be found at the Wall Street Trader Co-brand site

The opportunities to co-brand on the internet are expanding from content to actual software and products. IP Ware real estate software (link) offers free co-branding and co-branded web links on the software's start page so that consumers are exposed to co-branding every time they start the software. The Internet Toolpad will actually insert your logo into a host of freeware for a small charge. There are also a number of organizations that will accept co-branding in exchange for cross promotion and increased traffic.

Regardless of the type of co-branding, the benefit in increased traffic and site "stickiness" is apparent. By using the branding and promotional resources on the internet wisely, the internet marketer can offer more options, better solutions, and more attractive content
than their competition.

Twitter Tools

2009-11-26T20:22:00.006+08:00

Here are some twitter tools that could help manage your twitter account

1. Buzzom - Grow your number of followers, Reciprocate those who follow you, Flush those who does not follow you

2. TrueTwit - Stop Wasting time on spammers, let true twit verify your followes

3. thewin - Automatically unfollow anyone that stops following you

Selling Effortlessly by Numbers

2009-11-23T01:38:00.001+08:00

My whole world changed once I realised that selling was really not hard to do. You don't need any fancy scripts. Neither do you need any clever closing phrases such as "which color would you prefer blue or green?" Every sales training school I ever attended failed to make me into a salesman. All those clever closing techniques probably work for some, but they just did not click with me.

Most newcomers to selling are actually scared rigid at the thought of face-to-face selling. They just cannot survive the constant rejection. You can never expect everyone to say "yes" and the emphatic word "no" just destroys many good souls who might otherwise have made their fortune from a career in selling. The same thing happened to me, and this is why I desperately want to tell you about it so that you too might become a real whiz at selling.

Here's What Happened To Me:

I had made some progress as a salesman in the retail trade. It is much easier when prospects actually walk through the front door of a store as they expect to be sold a product otherwise they would have kept walking. My feelings of success in retail where grossly overrated, because I truly believed that I could sell anything to anyone - I was in for a big shock. The world of selling on a commission-only basis is far removed from selling in a store. It's the toughest place to break ground, and usually only the truly hard-nuts crack it.

My initial success in retail came from selling fridges powered from an internal heated element and not a motor. Therefore, it seemed natural to stay in that product field to progress my sales career as a commission-only sales person. What that means is that you do not get paid a salary, you only get a predetermined commission on the actual sales you make yourself. It's a tough field for most.

However, I took such a job selling upright food freezers on credit terms door-to-door. I worked solidly for a two whole days and sold . . . nothing.

Every door that opened when I rang the bell, was slammed in my face once the prospect knew I had called to sell them something. I was just simply demoralised and had to admit defeat to myself. I took my sales kit back to the company sales office to quit the job, but was called into the Sales Manger's office.

"Okay, so you want to quit?" He asked

"Yes. I'm sorry but this job is heart-breaking for me. No one wants to listen to the pitch, and every door is shut in my face". I explained.

"How many calls did you make today then?" He enquired

About thirty in all. I covered four blocks but not a single taker.

"Okay". He continued. "So you got 35 people who said "NO" is that right?"

"Yes that about the size of it. I responded".

"Will you do me a favour? Go out tomorrow morning and find 95 people who say "NO". That's all I am asking you to do. You will not be trying to make a sale, I just want you to mark down in your call sheet, 95 people who say no to the deal. That's all. Will you just do that for me tomorrow, before you finally quit and before I can return your kit deposit?" He suggested

"Well I don't quite understand why, but I need the sales kit deposit desperately now so I suppose there's no choice". I replied.

The following day I trudged around the streets knocking on doors as he had suggested, and marking off every "NO" on my call sheet. Late into the afternoon I had made about 70 calls and just about had enough of it all. I went into a small cafe for a hamburger and coffee feeling completely dejected, but I still had 30 calls to make, and I needed to get my kit deposit back, so there was no real choice unless I chose to be dishonest and mark the sheet as completed.

However, for some reason I decided to be honest and complete the remaining calls. That was at just past 4pm and found myself still on the patch at 8.20pm having made eight sales.
I just could not believe that I had cracked it.

With a spring in my step I walked into the Sales Office the following day with eight signed orders complete with initial payment checks.

"You made it then?" Asked the Sales Manager knowingly.

"If you did as I asked you should have five orders". He continued.

"No, not five, but eight orders signed and paid". I said with pride and not without a little arrogance.

"You've done well" He said. "The average is five percent of calls made and that's what selling is all about. For every 95 No's there will be five Yes's. That's how it works." He continued.

My commission amounted to $125 per deal. So with eight orders I had earned a thousand dollars for a day's work. From that point forward I never looked back, my career in sales was only just beginning.

There is a certain way to sell door-to-door which I had also learned and which requires no actual "selling" as such. The method is ideal for non-sales people and those who were like myself - scared stiff of being constantly rejected. I call it "The Drop-Card and Search Method". If you would like a complimentary copy of the eBook just fill out the enquiry form at my website at http://www.themartuk.com and I'll be happy to send you a download link for the complete book.

I would also love to hear from other sales people who have a story to tell, or a technique they have used. Selling can be a lonely job, but immensely rewarding. Sales people are the most interesting people I have ever had the pleasure to be associated with. Good pitching and good luck.

Article by Harry S Richards. Founder of Beauforts PC Trading.

How to market your Home Business

2009-11-16T21:14:00.001+08:00

Marketing, as contrasted with advertising, is a long-term enterprise. It takes a substantial amount of time compared to other efforts but is likely the most important aspect of your business. The first step in your marketing efforts should naturally be a plan. And the foundation of your marketing plan is a very specific goal that your Home Business is trying to achieve. This goal should be as vivid and well thought out as possible. Marketing is the force which will launch your Home Business toward your goal and make the best possible use of your budget in addition to the most effective use of your time, which is really your mosr precious assett.

When you work as an independent consultant or home business, you yourself are totally responsible for marketing your entity. In essence, there is not really a team to call upon for your marketing requirements. But you seek precisely the same result, which is enhaced awareness of the product or service offered by your specific Home-based Business. This being the case, then of course a certain quantity of salesmanship is needed in this hyper-competitive and global marketplace that we currently find ourselves in, regardless of the nature of your business.

Likely the single most overlooked element of this marketing and salesmanship is in the follow-up and follow-thru. There is follow up with your current base and also with your potential customers. The fact is that many businesses simply don't follow up enouph with their customer base(don't ask me why). When following up with your potential customers you should get a much better success ratio compared to when you initially contacted them. And by no means should you not follow up more than one time if needed.

You will need to choose the time intervals that you would like to follow up with your customers/prospects. You want your prospect to not forget about you and to have sufficient time to look over your offer. You also should have a tracking system of some style already in place. Be ready to send in more information when asked for it.

It is so very important to retain your customers since it generally costs a lot of time and/or money for every new customer. Cross selling or back-end selling is also crucial for this reason.

There are actually many ways you can go about marketing your Home-based Business which are either free or ultra low cost. A good place to start is in Jay Conrad Levinsons' Guerrilla Marketing series of books. It is no secret that a key to growing a business, and especially a new Home Business, is marketing. The internet, for example is full of these free or low cost methods.

Offline marketing methods that are low cost include distributing newsletters with your product or service and contact number listed inside, trade shows, brochures and bulletin boards to name just a few.

Finding a Niche

2009-11-16T03:43:00.002+08:00

If you don't find a niche market for the product or service you offer, you will have a difficult time being successful. Most newcomers who wish to do business on the Internet often market to everyone they can find with the expectation that everyone will do business with them. This is the same as throwing mud against the wall and hoping some of it will stick. They have not yet found their niche market.

What is niche marketing?
A niche market is composed of individuals and businesses that have similar interests and needs, which can be readily identified and that can be easily targeted and reached.
Finding a niche for your business means finding a great product or service for a highly targeted audience.

Here's the process to find your niche business:
1. Find a niche product or service you are passionate about. This will greatly improve your chances of being successful. Why? Because it's the only way you're going to be able to devote the kind of time and effort to create a meaningful web site, build up the right traffic, generate worthwhile income, and enjoy what you're doing.

2. Choose a niche product you are knowledgeable about. Reflect on what skills, hobbies or products you know the most about. If you don't have the knowledge yet, then choose a niche product that you would love to promote, and then spend the necessary time to research it, so you can eventually become an expert in your marketing field.

3. Define your niche market - do the necessary research to see if there is a market for your niche product. To create a profitable business for your niche product, you need to ask yourself these questions:

a) Is there sufficient demand for it? - If you choose a field that is too broad it may be hard to stand out from the competition. For example, camping equipment could be your niche product. Well, unless you are a large corporation such as Sports Authority (a large retail store in my town), you won't stand out from the crowd. However, a more highly targeted niche product could be Coleman Camping Equipment.

b) Keyword research - use keyword tools such as the overture suggestion tool (http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion) or word tracker (wordtracker.com) to find how many people are searching each month on keywords related to your niche product.

Here's an example:
According to overture (at the time of writing this article), the keyword phrase "camping equipment" was searched 76164 times in one month. If you do a search on Google.com for camping equipment you will find 1,610,000 web sites show up - heck, that's too competitive.
However "Coleman camping equipment" generated 1242 searches in one month according to overture. Google.com shows 93,200 competing websites. That's much better though still somewhat competitive.

Tip: Notice there are not many web sites (even the top ones), that have "Coleman camping equipment" in their titles. This is just one of the ways to obtain a high ranking on the search engines for your newly targeted web site. This will then provide lots of targeted traffic to your site.

c) Take a survey - you may already have products or services that you selling to your customers. If so, ask questions within your survey about what product or service would help your customers business. If it can help them save time by gaining more knowledge or automating tasks, you could have a winner.

d) Create Your Own Unique Selling Position (USP) - study your competition to find out what they emphasize about the product which makes them stand out from the crowd. Then decide on something that will make your business unique from the others. It could be something unique about the product (i.e. discount Coleman camping equipment) or you could choose a more highly defined target market (i.e. Boy Scout organizations and clubs throughout the USA that use Coleman's camping equipment).

4. Build and promote your web site - to develop a profitable web site for your niche product you need to create a number of informative pages that will not only attract visitors from the search engines, but inform and move them to purchase from your site.

Niche marketing is the key to developing a profitable business that will make you stand out from the crowd. By doing the necessary research and building an informative web site, you will become an expert in your niche marketing field.

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2009-11-11T21:11:00.002+08:00

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The power of thinking small online!

2009-11-11T03:54:00.001+08:00

I know what you're thinking.

There must be a typo error, because everyone's talking about the power of thinking big online.

Obviously, thinking big is good. But do not under estimate the power of thinking small.

Here's what I mean:

If you want to make $100,000.00 in a year online, is it easier to achieve it from one source of income, or 10 online source of incomes that can give you $10,000.00 each a year?

The answer? Both are correct. But I'd rather take the second choice by thinking 'small' of creating 10 income streams from the internet to achieve that.

My justification?

It's easier for me to create an income stream that can generate $10,000.00 a year online for me than thinking 'big' to create ONE income stream that generates $100,000.00.

If I can create ONE income stream easily, what's stopping me from creating another 9 similar income streams from the internet to make $100,000.00 a year?

You might disagree with me because you probably say that staying focused on one income stream is easier. That's fair and I absolutely agree.

But, I'll still choose to create 10 income streams because my risk of failure is 10 times less.

Assuming I choose the first choice to make $100,000.00 using ONE income stream.

What happens if I fail? Simple. I lose everything in that one year.

But if I create 10 income streams, I can afford to fail as much as 50% of my income streams and yet, I'll achieve 50% of success. Sounds ironic, yes?

Don't get it wrong. I'm not preaching to be negative of preparing to fail, but I'm preaching reality on how to minimize risk to be successful.

Taking small steps is always easier than taking big steps.

Exercise
1. Calculate the Cost of the Lifestyle that you want (Don't forget to add up savings and inflation)
2. Thinking in small business. How many small business would it take to make that sum up that amount of money (have a time constraint or a deadline on when you want to achieve that specific amount of money)
3. Take Action, Set up your small businesses

Can you use hypnotic like statements to sell more products?

2009-11-09T17:42:00.000+08:00

As I become more successful with my internet business I have become interested in ways to move my business to the next level.

Besides pumping more money into advertising it occured to me that increasing my closing percentage on my websites to the visitors I am getting would be a free way to make more money without spending more money to do it.

Writing better copy in my ads and on my websites itself surely would help me reach this goal.

I know in off-line sales that it is not only what you say, but how you say it. To achieve the same results without the benefit of voice inflection will require getting my prospective customer into an almost hypnotic state of mind.

First let's define what an hypnotic state of mind is.

"A trance like state in which a person responds readily to suggestions. Attracting and holding an interest as if by a spell."

O.K. But how do I do that?

If you can tell your readers what they are probably thinking, feeling or doing as they read your ad copy their thoughts will usually trigger their own subconscious mind to bring out these feelings or actions.

O.K. How do you do that?

One way is to add hypnotic sentences into any ad copy. You may have to change one or two words so it relates more to the product or service you're selling.

Here are 10 hypnotic like sentences that you can use to get your prospect more into a buying mood.

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Just kidding. O.K. here are the 10 hypnotic sentences.

1. As you're scanning over this ad copy, you are beginning to imagine using our product and enjoying all the benefits it brings.

2. After you read this short ad you will feel like your problems are almost completely solved, all you will have to do is order.

3. As you're skimming through this, you're beginning to think you have nothing to lose and everything to gain by trying out our product.

4. The more you understand just how valuable our product could be to your life, the less you think about delaying this important purchase.

5. As you keep reading this ad copy you are feeling more and more compelled to experience all the benefits of our product.

6. As every word you read on our website you start to understand just how much our product could benefit your life.

7. The more you keep reading the more you feel it would be a waste to let this opportunity slip by.

8. You don't know it yet but, at the conclusion of this ad, you will feel driven to order and experience all the benefits of our product.

9. The more you review our website the more you begin to find yourself getting very excited about our product and starting to feel the urge to buy now.

10. You don't realize it yet but, in a few short minutes you'll realize that you can't put off this vital purchase and then you'll be yanking out your credit card.

Does this stuff actually work? The only way to know for sure is to give it a try in your ad copy and on your website pages.

If people really do start breaking out their credit card more often or even a few extra times then it is worth the effort to learn how to use hypnotic sentences to sell more of your products.

Time Management Tips for Solo Entrepreneurs

2009-11-05T23:38:00.001+08:00

Does it seem like everyone and everything is vying for your attention all at once? It can be hard for solo entrepreneurs to know what to do first, let alone try to find the time to get caught up. Here are some time management tips that will help you to stay on top of it all:

1. Put your to-do list in writing and prioritize it. Studies show that people who write their lists down are 90% more likely to complete their list than those who do not.

2. Be realistic about how long it takes to get things done. Block out a reasonable amount of time on your planner, especially if it’s an appointment where there’s driving time to consider.

3. Schedule time with yourself, without interruptions. If that means closing your office door and letting your voicemail take
phone messages, then that’s what you need to do. Do this at your most productive time of the day. Are you a morning person? Start your day out with some quiet time by yourself, when you’re the most productive and focused.

4. Don’t multi-task. That’s right! These days, people have found that they’re much more productive when they’re allowed to focus on one task at a time, rather than constantly juggling a dozen different projects at once. Think about it ¬ don’t you feel like you’ve actually accomplished something when you can cross things
off your list?

5. Are you a “yes” person? Learn to say no. Sometimes adding just one more thing to your to-do list means staying at work an extra hour. Ask yourself if you really have the time and energy to handle one more task. Don’t guilt yourself into it, especially if you’ll feel resentful later, for having done it.

6. Do you work at home? Don’t let common distractions sidetrack you. That basket of laundry will still be there at the end of the day.

7. Try to combine like tasks. If you have lots of phone calls to make and emails to respond to, make all of the phone calls first, then tackle the emails.

8. Keep all your contacts in one place, within easy reach. Do whatever works for you, whether you keep an address book in your day planner, in Outlook, or in your Palm. You need to have fast and easy access to phone numbers and email addresses.

9. Use waiting time productively. When waiting for an appointment or traveling, catch up on reading trade magazines, writing correspondence, or jotting down creative ideas for marketing your business.

10. At the end of each day, plan for the next day. Write down tomorrow’s to-do list, prioritize it, and then clean off your desk.

Outside The Box

2009-11-05T23:34:00.001+08:00

Thinking "outside the box" or as it is sometimes called, "coloring outside the lines" is a popular idea in the business world today. People and organizations are told to think outside the box or color outside the lines as a way to stimulate creativity when they need to solve problems like streamlining production, establishing a new product, or developing a new process. And it's true that creativity and innovation often arise from unexpected and unconventional thinking.

But there is a serious problem with trying to apply such thinking too broadly.

For instance, creativity is valued in art and advertising, but not in banking and accounting. An accounting firm recently ran an ad suggesting that it could think "outside the box." Do you really want your business to be associated with creative accounting? Aren't accountants supposed to put the numbers in the right box? Wasn't creative accounting a serious problem for Enron?

In reality, clear thinking and the creativity that it produces are rarely a matter of thinking outside the box. And coloring outside the lines is for the most part just sloppy workmanship. The art of clear thinking is a matter of putting thoughts in to the right boxes or categories. Clear thinking is a matter of mental organization. Conversely, sloppy thinking involves the confusion of categories, of putting ideas into the wrong boxes or not putting them in order at all. Is a child who will not straighten his or her room creative or just sloppy? There is a significant difference. While creativity sometimes looks sloppy to an outside observer, it does not issue from sloppiness.

Picasso was a creative artist.

But his creativity was not a matter of the art he produced. In reality his abstract work is technically sloppy. It looks like the work of a child. Picasso could sell his abstract art only because he had previously established himself as an artist who could color inside the lines very well. Had he not first proven his artistic talent in the traditional way, his abstract art would have been worth much less. He used his reputation as a traditional artist to establish a new direction in art. He didn't so much color outside the box, as he expanded the boundaries and definition of the box. But the point is that his abstract creations were valuable only because of his proven abilities in the traditional arts.

Contrast my own efforts to establish myself as an abstract artist. My art has gone unnoticed because I have not been able to prove myself as a traditional artist. Not that I actually tried to do so, but I am using myself as an example to make the point. The creativity of a novel idea requires the discipline of order and structure to be valuable. Picasso's art is valuable because he was an accomplished painter who intentionally colored outside the lines. My art is not valuable because I am not an accomplished painter and I accidentally color outside the lines. While the two products may look similar, the difference is critical.

Creativity is more than breaking the rules.

Similarly, Joseph Heller was able to break the rules of English grammar in his book, Something Happened (Scribner, 1974), only because he was intimately familiar with them. Having taught English at the University of South Carolina, he was a master of grammar. And only out of his expertise could he creatively exploit, expand and redefine the boundaries of grammar. And so it is with regard to thinking outside the box.

Thinking outside the box apart from being able to think inside the box is worthless.

Such thought is just plain sloppy. Thus, the suggestion that creativity lies in the ability to think outside the box is mostly nonsense. Creativity issues from talent, ability and discipline. Talent must be forged and shaped on the anvil of discipline in order to develop ability. Great ability is always the result of study, discipline and practice.

Creativity is more a matter of seeing that the boxes themselves are inadequate and suggesting a better arrangement or a better definition. Creativity doesn't simply discard the boxes, it redefines and/or rearranges them after becoming intimately familiar with them. Real creativity is always the fruit of discipline and order. Creativity, in order to be genuinely creative and not simply sloppy disorganization, must emerge out of discipline and order as an intentional effort.

While a creative idea often comes unbidden out of unexpected places, it requires discipline, study and order to make something of it. Apart from discipline and order, what passes for creativity is nonsense, and to suggest otherwise actually undermines and/or weakens the creative process.

What does this mean for our industry? Distributors and suppliers should apply themselves to mastering the basics before attempting to break the rules in the name of creativity. Don't start outside the box. First, establish your ability to think within the box. Master the rules before you suggest breaking them. For example, before a distributorship presents a wild, innovative concept to a client for a campaign, it should first establish its expertise with campaigns and/or ideas that have a track record of yielding good ROI. Designers, artists, and copy writers should establish their mastery of basics before experimenting outside the box. For the most part the important stuff is inside the box.

The 12 Reasons Why Most Ads Fall Flat On Their Face, Costing You A Fortune Instead of Making You The Money You Deserve!

2009-11-05T17:14:00.000+08:00

1.You think you need ‘Image’ or ‘branding’ advertising because that’s all the so-called ‘top guns’ use in their advertising. You don’t use direct response advertising they don’t and you’d think they know best.

2.You never offer compelling benefits that cause your prospect to want to do business with you of your competitor.

3.You don’t use powerful, benefit driven headlines that literally stop your prospect in their tracks and draw them into the body of your ad.

4.You don’t tell your prospect what’s in your offer from them. But you do ramble on about your image, your business and what you are trying to sell him.

5.You don’t talk to your prospect like you know him. You don’t get specific and don’t motivate him.

6.You don’t address your prospect needs, wants and desires in your opening headlines. You’re to busying thinking about yourself or your company image! Remember, your prospect is thinking of one thing only WIIFM (What’s I It For Me?)

7.Your ads are boring and dull and look like all the other hundreds of ads. You don’t motivate your prospect to take ACTION. You don’t use energetic, exciting, action words! Your about as exciting as wet paint!

8.Because you copy what everyone else is doing, or do as the ad agency suggests, your ads are full of “white space” which leaves little room to add any benefits. (The only thing your prospect is looking for) You never have ads with a lot of copy. It’s the copy your prospects want. Information is King!

9.You don’t give specifics in your ads. Your prospects want exact numbers, percentages, results and testimonials. They want all the facts before they will make the decision to move towards a buying decision.

10.You don’t give your prospects any reason to act on your offer NOW. Tell them how to in a step by step process. Unless you tell them, them may not know what the next step is?

11.You don’t see your marketing, sales and advertising as a total system. It’s this total system that can either make or break you as a profitable business. They are not separate functions, with separate goals.

12.You focus on YOU, YOUR COMPANY, YOUR LOGO, YOUR CREDENTIALS, instead of focusing on what all of this can do for your prospect. What BENEFITS will them get if they buy with you?

Now you know the 12 reasons why maybe, some of the ads you are running are not pulling any responses at all! In fact they will be costing you and your company money EVERY TIME YOU RUN THEM!

Understanding The Power Of Network Marketing

2009-11-05T17:08:00.001+08:00

Terms such as Network Marketing, 'MLM', and Multi Level Marketing all refer to the same type of business model. This industry has had more than it's share of scumbag crooks and con artists that have used and abused the concept. However, if you do your homework and get involved with a legitimate network marketing organization, this business model has exceptional income potential.

Network Marketing can produce outstanding results if you know a few simple concepts, the understanding of which is critical to your success.

Network Marketing, MLM, and Multilevel Marketing are unlike franchises or conventional businesses in that they take advantage of all three of the important, yet misunderstood principles of:

1) Leverage (of Time and Money)

2) Residual Income

3) Geometric Growth Through Duplication

Unfortunately these principles are not well understood by many of the people that undertake network marketing. And that's just one of many reasons why so many fail at network marketing. There are lots of other reasons, and it would take volumes to cover them all. But this is one of the more common ones. Because if you don't comprehend and believe in these principles, it's impossible to help others fully understand and appreciate them.

First, lets look at LEVERAGE:
Every successful person or business takes advantage of leverage. There are only 24 hours in a day and no matter how talented you are or how much you get paid per hour, if you don't take advantage of leverage you're limited by the number of hours in a day. As a side note, I have heard of cases where an occasional lawyer was billing more than 24 hours per day...but, I guess that's another story. By learning to leverage your time, you can also benefit from a percentage of other people's efforts, and dramatically increase your income while creating more free time for yourself.

The unique and wonderful thing about the Network Marketing business model is that everyone has the same opportunity to become the 'owner' of his or her own business - with a fraction of the investment of time and money of a franchise or traditional business.
In network marketing the people at the top definitely have a vested interest in helping others on their team succeed.

Would you rather receive 100% of one person's efforts, or 5% of the efforts of 100 people?
Obviously 100% of one is always only ONE. But 5% of 100 is FIVE.

Not only will the total result with leverage almost always be amplified, but your income is not dependent on only one person. If your income is produced by the activities of many, it is much more dependable. Even if something unexpected or negative happens to one or more of those people, it only has a minor effect on the TOTAL production.

It's great to get paid while you're sleeping or away on vacation. That's one of the many advantages of leveraging your time.

Now, lets consider RESIDUAL INCOME:
When someone mentions residual income many people automatically think of actors or musicians.

Residual income is recurring income that you continue to receive long after the work you've done to produce it has ended. There are lots of ways to produce residual income. However, many people don't understand it, and still others have never thought about or been exposed to it.
A very simple example of residual income is interest earned on money in the bank or investments. You continue to receive this income without having to invest any more time to produce it.

Suppose you had the choice of doing a job and earning $1,000 once, or getting paid $50/month for the rest of your life...which would you choose? If you chose the $50/month you obviously "get" the concept of residual income.

Clearly, $50/month will surpass a single payment of $1,000 relatively quickly. And if it lasts for a few years, or better yet - the rest of your life - it will really be a blessing.
Residual income is certainly not about "getting rich quickly", even though with the right opportunity it's possible to produce a substantial residual income stream in a relatively short time.

Most people who fail at network marketing either choose the wrong network organization or just give up too soon and quit because they expect overnight results. It is important to recognize that the real beauty of residual income is on the back end, not the front, and that once you build it you have the financial security and time flexibility to do just about anything you desire for the rest of your life!

Last, but not least, lets address GEOMETRIC GROWTH (DUPLICATION):
The classic illustration of geometric growth is the frequently used penny-a-day example.If you save one penny on the first day, and double it every successive day, (day two you have 2 pennies and day three you have 4 pennies, and so on) how much will you have at the end of 30 days?

The answer, to the astonishment of many, is $5,368,708! Amazing, but true.
That's a simple and dramatic illustration of how networking can work. If I can teach you, I've doubled myself. If we each teach someone else, we've doubled again. As this duplication or geometric growth process goes on and on, it can produce some amazing results in a relatively short period of time, just like the penny example above.
So there you have it, understand and apply these three principles

1) Leverage (of Time and Money)

2) Residual Income

3) Geometric Growth Through Duplication and, given sufficient time and effort, you should enjoy a successful and financially rewarding network marketing experience.

Why Network Marketing?

2009-10-03T15:14:00.000+08:00

Network Marketing is the best business Model.

Yes, you’ve read it right. Why is that?

1. Overhead – The Entrepreneur only compensates a few employees; the fix employees with fixed income. That means Less Cost and More Profit.

2. Distribution – Network Marketing has got to be the best business model with a good distribution model. The business makes use of regular people who wants to have added income. These are the people that distribute the company’s products (For no cost for the company). They compensate them by the amount of work they put into it. Fair.

3. Compensation – Everyone gets compensated (Well everyone that worked for it I mean)

To put it on simple terms. An Entrepreneur finds two people who want to have added income and asks those people to sell his products for him; in return they’ll have a rightful compensation for it. Also, if they can also find other people to also distribute his products, they also get added incentives for that.

So with problems arising from a typical business, network marketing has appeased.

Less Cost, More Profit

The FORM technique

2009-10-03T15:12:00.002+08:00

You can use the FORM technique in inviting prospects in your network Marketing

F - Family – Know the situation of the persons family. Is the person able to provide enough for his/her family?

O-occupation – Ask the person about his/her current status in his or her occupation. Is the person happy with his/her job? Would that person, like to add more income into his/her account

R-recreation – Ask the person if she has time for “fun”. If the person has the time to have some luxury, some time with her family, or just some time for himself/herself.

M-message – The three factors above will be your information on how you can engage that person into business.

And also, Be sincere when you are inviting.

6 Things to post on your blog when you're running out of idea

2009-10-03T15:07:00.000+08:00

There is no doubt that blogs are the "it" thing today in the online world. Wherever you surf, blogs are sprouting everywhere like mushrooms, whether they're used for personal or business purposes. But for starters, what is a blog anyway? It is a diary where you can post your thoughts or feelings or whatnots, except that it is online and the public can read it. But enough of that. Gone were the days when they were used solely for personal reasons. On the business side, they can be a very useful tool to boost your business, and to keep your customers updated on the products and infos you have. But if you're still struggling to catch up on the latest thing these days and you think you're not much of a great writer either, let me give you some useful subjects you can write about to give your customers a lot of reasons to keep coming back to your site.

1. News. Okay, so maybe that's basic. After all, your company or business is the reason you put up a blog, right? Write about the products you sell. Give them a bit of the benefits your potential customers might get for buying them, with a link back to your main site to read the entire sales letter. You can also write about updates to your product. Post news about the industry you're in. If you're selling products that help people get better search engine rankings, write about search engine news. Or, if you or your service has been featured on TV, papers, or notable websites, write about it. Don't forget to post seminars or gatherings where you've been invited.

2. History of your business. Maybe this one has already been in your main website, but who cares? People forget it. They come and go and chances are, when they visit your site, they don't read it. Write about how you began, the reputation and achievements you've earned, and the accolades or awards you received, with a link back your site. That way you'll let them know why they should buy from you, and that you're a real person who's building a reputable business. Add some employee's profile if you have someone working for you, too. If you have nice traffic or site stats, that's also worth mentioning.

3. Customer's feedback. When a raving customer emails you about how your product has helped him, share it in your blog. You're giving your visitors a compelling reason to buy from you.

4. Site of the week / month. Mention a site that doesn't compete with you but complements to your won. Explain to them why you like it, and why it deserves your accolade.

5. Contests, surveys, trivia, questionnaires. If you're running a contest, post it in your blog to encourage visitors to join. Get their attention by including the prizes, a bit of the rules, with a link back to your site for more information regarding it. Or put a survey. That could give you information regarding the product you're selling, as to how you could develop it further.

6. Tip of the day. Write about a new tactic you developed or something you learned and perfected.

So there. Whatever your business is, no doubt there's always something you'll definitely want to write about. Give it a try. And it will reward you soon.

Creating a logo for the company

2009-09-11T03:36:00.002+08:00

And so we are doing a logo for triga solutions. I think the colors in this logo is too much of a kiddie type.

What do you think??

Google Ads Earning; $0.01

2009-09-07T19:33:00.002+08:00

What is the importance of frequently updating your site?? VERY

This is what happens when you do not update your site. Less updates means less posts means less google crawls means less high earning ads.

I happen not to update my site because Im "trying" to work on another site that will have a function of all the blogs I have created plus more.

Iv'e read that that from the very start of your blog you must already have a mailing list.
Iv'e also read wordpress with your own domain and hosting is better than blogger

Well that are the reasons why I have noy updated my blogs. BUT

Conclusion: Whatever happens or whatever you have in mind, update your blog.

Just do it. Ciao for now.

A Good Landing page

2009-08-05T23:38:00.006+08:00

The Scrooge strategy has got to be the best online advertising/landing page I've ever seen.

Nope, Im not affiliate with the company. I am just really amused by it.

Why was I amused by it?

1. Great Design - Almost all Landing pages and Squeeze pages have something in common. A white background page and a Red Bold texts on headings, and Black texts.

Scrooge strategy is different. It has a green background. It innovated borders on his page.

2. No Asking for Email - Have you been in situations where you saw an ad that offers a free e book or report, BUT before you can have it, you need to sign up your name and email. How exhausting.

Not asking for email could be a direct to the point offer. Well for me I'll experiment later what works. I will work on a free ebook on my PUA lifestyle blog page.

3. Simple and no bullshits - The page fully details all that they can offer. An example would be its, no guarantee - If you are not satisfied, Just cut the subscription.

4. Join, not ORDER
Yup There are no order forms. No paypal or a push cart logo.

Clicking Join now will lead you to another page where you can actually subscribe.

I think this helps in deviating the people who lands on that page on thinking that all that the company wants is to sell and make money.

I hope you learned something. Please do not try to imitate scrooge strategy. Make up your own strategy. A better one.

Take care

Blog Business Model

2009-08-05T22:44:00.000+08:00

What happens when you mis-price

2009-08-04T13:02:00.001+08:00

I know at first glance this sounds obvious, but it may be worth it for you to think about your prices. At least just for a moment.

How did you decide on your current pricing? Did you conduct market research to understand what prospects would pay? Or did you compare yourself to your competitors and base your price on that? Or was it a crapshoot, and random shot in the dark?

These are the ways most people do it, and they are all wrong. Because the price you set for your products and services is more important than you think.

The following few paragraphs are a bit number heavy, but stay with me because this will be really valuable for you to understand.

Let's say you sell a high margin product - information products and software are two good examples. Your price is $60, and your costs are $10 - that means your gross margin (selling price - your costs) is $50 each time you sell one unit. Let's say further that your overhead is $5,000 per month. If you sell 100 units you'll break even, right?

Now you want to sell more, and decide you can take some business from a competitor by lowering your price - temporarily. You lower it to $40 - a 33% price cut, and not uncommon.

Your costs remain $10 and your overhead is still $5,000, only now your gross margin is $30 - 60% of what it was before. And how many units do you need to break even now? 166! That's 66% more unit sales required to make up for the 33% price cut!

But what if you're feeling very aggressive and you cut your price in half (also not unheard of) to $30. Now you have to sell 250 units - just to break even! That's 2-1/2 times as many as before. How easy do you think that's going to be?

Let's use a different example - something that has real manufacturing costs. This time, your product sells for $100, and your cost of goods are $50 per unit, for a gross profit of $50. Same $5000 overhead, same number of units to break even. Now imagine you cut your price 20%, to $80, leaving you with $30 of gross margin. You need to sell 66% more units. Ouch!

What if you cut the price to $70. This 30% price cut means you have to sell 2-1/2 times more units - just to stay even.

Let's go further...

Competition is really heating up and you think that matching them cut for cut is the way to go. The price for this amazing widget of yours is now a bargain basement $60.

(Shucks, that's only 40% off your original price. Salespeople and business owners do this every day.)

How many units do you need to break even? 500.

Five hundred? That's five times your original number.

Do you really think you can sell five times what you did before - at least without significantly raising your overhead and your variable cost of sale?

How many times have you done just this in response to competitive pressures?

How many times have you cut prices because you thought it would help you sell more?

What we've just done is a simplified version of what's called margin analysis, and I hope it gives you a glimmer of what can happen when you mis-price.

For the most part, your price cuts don't automatically enable you to sell 66% more than you did before, and generally - at least not in this universe - you don't sell 250% more, and never, ever do you sell 500% more with this kind of price cutting.

But there is some good news - and it's very good.

Let's look at what happens when you raise your prices.

Remember your high-margin product. It sells for $60 and costs $10 to make.

Through good product positioning and excellent marketing you raise the price to $70. That's only a 15% increase. Now you only have to sell 83 units to break even, and if you sell the same 100 units, your profits go from $0 to $1000. Nice increase...

And that "hard" product - the one with $50 of costs? Raise the price tag 20% to $120, your margins increase to $70, and now your breakeven drops 71, and you make $2000 if you sell the same number of them.

See how this works?

You can do this same analysis in a bit more sophisticated way, considering your marketing costs, sales or affiliate commissions, travel expenses if you have them, and so on. You can see the actual pricing effect varies quite a bit depending on these details.

If you have a high-leverage, pay-only-for-results affiliate model, a very high gross margin and almost no fixed overhead, you have a lot of price flexibility. You can cut the price 25% and only need to sell 15% more! That's not too bad at all.

But only in that type of model. If you have a office, some staff, and a physical product - in other words, fixed overhead - lower prices can kill you - and you won't even see it coming.

And higher prices?

They can make you rich.

By now you are starting to see the tragic effects of mis-pricing on the downside, and the marvelously enriching possibilities of raising your prices.

This only works, of course, when you can also increase your value proposition...

My life on the blog 2

2009-07-20T04:46:00.001+08:00

Since its conception 12 days ago My PUA lifestyle blog has almost parred with My Real Lifestyle Design Blog in terms of page impression. Real Lifestyle Design has been up for around 2 months already.

I Guess Getting a girl is more read than having a business. LOL

My newly uploaded blog Lifeline Adventure; Life's Waiting to begin has already gained HALF of the page impressions of PUA lifestyle in just 4 days! How is that.

My Lifeline Adventure blog dwells with everything that is interesting to me. I should say that, it is my Personal Blog.

Well for the bad part. The Blog of Triga Studios has the lowest traffic. I don't know. I don't have enough information to analyze.

So what do I need to do:
1. Improve my blogs lay out
2. Add more Ads unit.
3. Gain more traffic by indexing it to other sites and Wriiting about it on other sites.

That's It for now. I hope This would be a guide to those who wants to start blogging. Find your Niche!! That is what the world is looking for!

P.S. Follow Me on Twitter

Differentiation

2009-07-18T15:33:00.004+08:00

I don't like differentiation. As my headline for triga studios says "We don't differentiate, We Create"

Create something that is more
1. Attractive
2. Appealing
3. Useable
4. Indespensible
5. Needed

The List goes on. I think you can grasp the big picture. Make something BETTER rather than "comparing/benchmarking" your product to your "compettitor"

What to do Before the Business Plan

2009-07-18T01:53:00.000+08:00

Purveyors of conventional wisdom would have you believe that the very first thing you ought to do when setting up a new business is to create a business plan.

It doesn't matter whether you are selling odds and ends on eBay from your living room or something larger and more complex,

Business plans are excellent and necessary. Far too few of us self-employed and freelance people use them.

They force us to spell out our objectives. We have to assign numbers to our expectations and assign a time-line to our goals. They become our roadmap and keep us on track.

But I suggest that you can't make a business plan that is worth anything until you've done your homework.

And that means knowing what you want to do and how you want to do it. And determining that there is sufficient demand for your product to generate enough income to cover your costs and allow a profit.

In other words, before the business plan comes research.

If a body of knowledge already exists, it makes sense to tap into it and save yourself some work. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics and other such sources, for example, publish a great deal of demographic information. Some of it is very useful.

But it is also likely that as a creative sole-proprietor, meaningful statistics don't exist about your specialty.

Many micro-businesses target a very specialized niche. And many owned by creative types exist to sell a product or service that don't follow well-worn prototypes.

It is particularly difficult for such people to find meaningful published data.

If you fall into these categories, you'll have to generate your own information.

Don't limit your research to purely business data. You are building a life as well as a business.

Are the demands and conditions of your proposed business compatible with the life you want to create?

For example, illustrators often work on short deadlines - meaning that sometimes they have to work far into the night to complete a project on deadline. Plus, some clients are demanding and some do not pay on a timely basis. After all of that, can you still "love it" enough?

Or, maybe your business is such that sales fluctuate during the year. How will you make it through the lean months? Can you handle the uncertainty of a fluctuating income?

So, how do you find information?

First, if other people provide services similar to yours, talk to them. You will gain a lot of information quickly. Their answers to your questions will save you a lot of legwork and open your eyes to factors you may not have considered.

Try to talk to at least five or six people so you can get a range of viewpoints.

You can find them through trade associations, schools, word-of-mouth. If the locals are reluctant to share information - perhaps because they see you as direct competition - look for similar people in a different locale.

Second, create the information you need.

Mimic and simplify what large businesses do. Reduce their methods down to a level that is practical and affordable.

For example, perhaps you want to survey potential clients and customers to get feedback.

If you are a creating a micro-business on a shoe-string, it may not be affordable nor practical to commission a focus group. But you may be able to speak to potential targets informally or use direct mail to send a simple survey.

Eventually you'll have to 'put your toe in the water.' Try it out in a small way - so you won't lose much if it doesn't work - and observe the results. Then experiment and modify as needed. Once it works to your liking you can plunge right in.

This approach, known by the technical term "trial and error," can be applied to any facet of your business.

After all, even the largest producers test market new products before rolling them out.

Put some parameters around your efforts. Decide, in advance, how much time you want to allow and how much you want to budget.

Then test, test, test.

Use trial and error for every aspect of your business. Experiment with different ways of packaging your services, different rates and prices, different types of marketing, etc.

You'll soon find that certain approaches work better than others. Eventually your experience and data will suggest viable strategies.

And then you'll be ready to create your business plan

How Important is Contact Information

2009-07-18T00:50:00.003+08:00

Very!

Last monday someone called me on my cellphone. I was busy printing a business plan but I got a chance to answer it. Well the call was interrupted due to lack of signal maybe, but then she called back and we had a conversation for about ten minutes.

She inquired about my all in one loading business. She was eager and interested.

As for my past experiences in this kind of business, I failed to invite them to the office. Now learning from it, I limit my say and suggest to them to visit the office for further clarifications.

She was okay with it but not on weekdays(my past invites also had similar situations, they have office work). She said to me that If ever she would go this saturday (this day) she would inform me. She also asked me if I would get her number. I did not, BECAUSE she said that she would text me.

I will learn from that mistake. No matter how eager someone is, that person may still forget the things ought to do.

An entrepreneur/leader must be there to remind them. After all it is for the benefit of everyone.

To tweet or not to tweet

2009-07-18T00:27:00.005+08:00

After searching for the contents of the internet on wether to tweet or not to tweet. I have decided to tweet.

Some information that helpes me decide are the informations that are found
1. HERE - Twitter Statistics
2. HERE - Twitter rankings of twitterers

I have also have putten up another blog You can see it HERE.

So now my problem would be. The driver of my twitter. Would it be for Lifestyle design?? Would it be for Triga Solutions?? Hmmm. I guess I would just make it a personal one.

10 Motivational Triggers That Make People Buy

2009-07-17T04:08:00.004+08:00

I have already written a post about Business Trends for generating Business Ideas.

Here is a list of more simple principles, where you can base an idea for your business.

1. People want to make more money. They may want to start their own business, get a higher paying job or invest in the stock market. This will make them feel successful.

2. People want to save money. They may want to invest for the future or save for a big purchase. This will make them feel more secure.

3. People want to save time. They may want to work less and spend time enjoying life's pleasures. This will make them feel more relaxed.

4. People want to look better. They may want to lose weight, tone their body, or improve their facial features. This will make them feel more attractive.

5. People want to learn something new. They may want to learn how to change their car oil or build a deck. This will make them feel more intelligent.

6. People want to live longer. They may want to get in shape, eat better or gain extra energy. This will make them feel healthier.

7. People want to be comfortable. They may want to relive aches and pains or want to sleep in a more comfortable bed. This will make them feel relieved.

8. People want to be loved. They may not want to be lonely anymore or want to start dating again. This will make them feel wanted.

9. People want to be popular. They may want to be a famous celebrity or be more popular in school. This will make them feel praised and admired.

10. People want to gain pleasure. They may want satisfy their appetite or sexual desires. This will make them feel more fulfilled.

10 Mind Altering Words That Make People Buy

2009-07-17T03:59:00.001+08:00

1. Use the word "fast" in your ad. People want fast results, fast delivery, fast ordering, etc. Nowadays, we usually value our time more than our money.

2. Use the word "guaranteed" in your ad. People want to be assured they are not risking their hard earned money buying your product.

3. Use the word "limited" in your ad. People want to own or receive things that are exclusive or rare because they are considered to be more valuable.

4. Use the word "easy/simple" in your ad. People want easy ordering, easy instructions, easy to use, easy payments, etc.

5. Use the word "testimonial" in your ad. People want to see believable proof before they buy your product. It should be reputable and specific proof.

6. Use the word "discount/sale " in your ad. People want to find bargains. They could be rebates, one time sales, percentage offers, get one free offers, etc.

7. Use the word "free" in your ad. People want free incentives before they do business with you. They could be free books, accessories, services, etc.

8. Use the word "you/your" in your ad. People want to know that you are talking them. This'll make them feel important and attract them to read the whole ad.

9. Use the word "important" in your ad. People do not want to miss important information that could effect their life. People will stop and take notice.

10. Use the word "new" in your ad. People want new products or services that will improve their life like new information, tastes, technology, results, etc.

The Web design Business - 5 Surefire Ways To Fail

2009-07-17T03:04:00.002+08:00

Hi, Im marco and I own a graphics and design firm. I would like to share a story about this kind of business so that we may all benefit from it.

by. John Pierce

Several years ago, I launched a small web design company in a rural area of California. Market conditions couldn't have been better, my skill level was above average, and I had a large pool of aquaintences to which I could market.

Within 12 months I went broke.

My business failed because I made some very fundamental mistakes, and made them consistently.

I now work in the web hosting industry. I have had the opportunity to interact with numerous self-employed web designers and have found that the mistakes which I made are extremely common, and usually fatal.

If you are hoping to make a go of your business over the long term, you may want to memorize my top 5 mistakes, and avoid them like the plague.

If, on the other hand, you are determined to run your web design business into the ground, the following list may be used as an expeditious roadmap to failure.

1. Underprice your services

This is the most common mistake web designers make. The temptation is to break into the business by producing a few cheap websites in order to build a portfolio. Don't do it!

Remember that you will only be spending about 40% of your time designing sites. The other 60% will be spent hustling up the next client. If you think your time is worth $10.00 per hour, consider asking for $30.00. This will give you sufficient revenue to pay for all the non-paying time you spend marketing your business.

2. Fail to set and enforce boundaries

Everyone loves a nice guy, and the temptation to be one is a trap which many of us fall into. It's crucial to remember, though, that you are in business for one primary reason - to make money.

You will, doubtless, encounter clients who will pay you for a small website, then end up wasting all of your time with questions about how to remove spyware from their computer and requests to add "one small thing" to an already completed website.

You can avoid this, somewhat, by establishing clear boundaries with the client from the very start. A contract is useful here. Make sure that your client knows exactly what can be expected of you, and what you expect of them.

If your client asks for extras, and you're amenable to providing them, give them a quote. Never toss it in for free. The only thing you have to sell is your time and expertise. Don't give away either.

Remember, you're in business. Try asking a service station owner for a little free gasoline. They would be shocked by your question. Likewise, you should be shocked when someone asks you to provide free service.

3. View your clients as temporary

Many of us get into this business because we love creating something new. By the time we finish a website, we're tired of that site (and sometimes that client) and we're ready to start a new project, and put the old project well behind us.

This attitude can cut deeply into your potential gross.

Over time, your client will need numerous updates to his or her website. updates are sometimes bothersome, but can add a significant revenue stream to your business. More important, a satisfied client becomes one of the major links in your marketing network.

4. Ignore recurring revenue opportunities

During the best of times, web designers live from project to project. While finishing one project, you will be lining up the next.

Every business, however, has slow stretches.

Unfortunately, your own creditors will still expect payment, even when your own revenue slows down.

A wise web designer looks for ways to provide his business with some sources of recurring revenue. Even $400 a month which you can count on can get you through a dry spell.

There are numerous ways to set up some recurring revenue. Take a look at maintenence contracts with your clients, reselling webhosting, etc.

5. Build pretty websites which do nothing

Your best source of advertising is word of mouth. Nothing generates great word of mouth like a satisfied customer. You can build the flashiest, prettiest, most cutting edge websites on the net, but it's all for naught if your site doesn't perform.

Every website has a purpose. That purpose might be to sell goods, leverage an advertising budget, disseminate information, assist in personnel management, or one of a million other possibilites.

Your first job, as a web designer, is to ascertain what the web site is supposed to do. Once you find that "thing" - the thing it should do - make sure that the site you deliver does that particular thing like nobody's business! By doing so, you will ensure a client who will sing your praises at the Rotary Club, Chamber of Commerce meetings, and to his or her friends and family. A client like this is golden, and will bring a steady stream of customers to your door.

Running Your Own Business: The Options

2009-07-15T23:35:00.001+08:00

Very few people ever got rich by working for someone else. Leaving aside pop musicians, sportsmen and similarly gifted people, the only way to acquire wealth by work is to build a business of your own. The type of business you decide upon will depend on:
a) how much money you have available as start-up capital and working capital;
b) your business idea; and
c) your confidence level.

There are three types of business:
1) the traditional one in which you are reliant solely on your own efforts;
2) a franchise where you follow a proven idea and receive considerable training and back-up from the franchise company; and
3) network marketing.

Each business type has its pros and cons.

• The traditional business requires considerable financial input, either from your own resources or part-funded by your bank. You may need to rent premises; buy equipment; hire staff; pay for advertising, brochures, stationery, and stock. A frighteningly high percentage of this type of business fails in the first year. To succeed you need: a good idea, considerable financial backing, good health, an understanding spouse, and stamina. If you do succeed you will own the business outright and benefit from all the profits.

• Franchises have a high success rate. Banks like them because each franchise operation has a proven track record and thus the banks can accurately judge the risk, consequently they will lend money for this sort of start-up. However, all the support and training comes at a price: the initial entrance fee is likely to be very high, and a percentage of the business’s turnover has to be paid to the franchise company.

• Network marketing, also known as multi-level marketing, has many advantages and few disadvantages. The entrance fee is low and the ongoing expenses are even lower. A network marketing business can be started in your spare time – in fact that is the best way to approach it. Start small, and keep at it. The secret is perseverance, get past the first year and you should find the business has a sound foundation from which you can build a serious income. It is said that 95% of those who survive ten years in network marketing become wealthy beyond their wildest expectations.

So which type of business is for you? If you wish to provide a service or product where you have previous experience from, say, a former employment, the traditional business will be probably be the best choice.
However, if you are just tired of working for someone else and making them rich and wish to strike out on your own, then a franchise or network marketing must be the preferred option.

The choice then is determined chiefly by the funds you have access to, and the time and effort you wish to put into your enterprise. A franchise will require substantial funds and 100% commitment. You are jumping in at the deep end, although the franchise company will provide training and support to help you to swim. On the other hand you can ease yourself gently into network marketing by starting part-time while you continue with your current employment, building your business by ploughing back profits if necessary.

Persevere and there will come a time when the income from your own business will be sufficient to support you financially. You will then be able to leave your employment and concentrate on your business, spending more time on it or enjoying considerable free time with your family.

The Number One Reason For Business Failure!

2009-07-15T23:34:00.004+08:00

Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door."

But when you're starting your own business, there's no guarantee that your "mousetrap" is going to survive, especially in today's fast-paced business world.

Nearly half of all small businesses fail within the first two years of operation. The number one reason for business failure is inadequate planning. The second reason is under-capitalization.

So before you mortgage your house, or go into debt financing your business, you need to know if your business is going to do more than survive -- you want to know if it's good enough to thrive! Here are three things successful businesses that have stayed in business for five years or longer have in common:

1. The idea. A successful business start-up always starts with an idea. Something that makes your business stand out from all the rest. So how do you know if you've got a good idea?

You've probably got a good idea if you can answer yes to any of the following questions: Does your idea provide the solution to a significant problem for your target market? Does it satisfy a need or want? Does it create an opportunity?

The most successful businesses either fix problems (either real or perceived), or they increase your customer's pleasure. They create a repeat need for a product or service among the target market.

2. The market. Your chances of survival are better if you can answer the following questions with a yes: Is there already a market for your product or service? (It's much easier to fill a need than trying to create an entirely new market.) Can your target market afford to buy your products or services? (If they can't afford it, it doesn't matter how great it is, you won't sell any!) Will your target market perceive your product or service as valuable? (If they want it, but don't think it's worth what you're selling it for, you won't make any sales.)

3. Your ability. Do you have the people, the resources and the knowledge to be able to consistently provide your products or services to your target market? Can you maintain a competitive advantage? Do you have enough manpower? Can you purchase the supplies and materials you need over the long run?

Your first step always is to create a solid business plan. Your business plan is more than an essay on "Why I deserve to get funding for my idea" however. Don't spend all the time creating a business plan and then toss it in the bottom drawer of your desk. Your business plan should be a living, breathing roadmap that helps you make sure you're on course and reaching the goals that you set for your business.

The second step to business survival is getting enough financing. Although the term "bootstrap entrepreneur" describes most small business owners, having enough capital to be able to keep your business afloat is vital to your survival.

When you're creating your financial analysis of your business, make sure you're being realistic about costs and expenditures, so that you give yourself the cushion you need to succeed.

If finding financing is a problem, either because you don't have enough credit or equity, or there are other problems, take the time to look into the resources that are available in your community. There are a wide variety of grants and loans (including microloans) for entrepreneurs, if you know where to look.

Some great resources will be:
-The Small Business Administration
-Local Small Business Development Centers
-Women's Organizations
-Local University or Community College
-Chamber of Commerce
-SCORE (The Association for Retired Executives)
-Nonprofit organizations that work on economic development in your area

Use other successful business models as a guide. When you're getting started, look around. What businesses are successful? Why? What is it they're doing that is working? What attributes do you admire, and why? You stand a better chance of succeeding if you're modeling someone who is already successful.

Find a mentor. Most entrepreneurs have great skills and abilities, but no one does everything well. You probably already know what your strengths and weaknesses are. (If not, there are many resources and tools that can help you figure it out!) Rather than ignoring your weaknesses, find a mentor who can help you either build your skills in your weaker areas, or offer advice for getting what you need.

If you take the time to plan to succeed, you could be creating a legacy that will be enjoyed by future generations, and that other entrepreneurs will look at as a model for building their own businesses.

You Can Be An Author

2009-07-13T02:31:00.002+08:00

“You should write a book.” For years, I had been hearing this comment. Writing an entire book seemed completely overwhelming, and so, for a long time, I contented myself with writing short articles. One day, inspiration for an article hit me and, as I started writing, paragraphs began flowing out at an enormous rate. Before I knew it, a rather lengthy piece was developing. It was too long to be an article, so, I decided it would not hurt to try self-publishing a little booklet. Was I ever surprised! The first printing of this 32-page black and white booklet sold out within a week.

All of us have an area which we have more knowledge and experience than the person next to us. What many do not realize is that there is often a hungry market out there ready and willing to pay for the information we have to offer. Yes, it takes a tremendous amount of effort to see a book to completion and printing, but it is well worth it.

Some things I have learned through the experience:

1. Start small. Don’t attempt to tackle a 400-page work for your first publication. You will also save yourself a bundle on printing if you keep it small. I recommend a booklet under 50-pages to launch your career as an author.

2. Enlist the help of others who are more experienced. If you know someone who has published anything, ask their advice and help. You will gain invaluable information from them and save yourself many headaches. In addition, request assistance from others for editing and proofreading. No matter how meticulous you are, it is always good to have other eyes review the final draft before it goes to the printer.

3. Be prepared to deal with disappointment. When you put your heart into something only to hear, "We're not interested," it is easy to take it personally. But, you must continually remind yourself that this is part of the package deal in self-publishing. For every "yes" you receive at least five "no's" (or so it seems). Learning to humbly and graciously accept rejection, not let it get you down, and keep pressing forward is an absolute must in self-publishing, especially at the beginning.

4. The more you market, the more you sell. You can publish an excellent book, but unless people know it is available, you cannot expect many buyers. The possibilities for marketing are endless. Check out all the books on marketing your local library offers. These will give you some great starter ideas. Send out an e-mail to friends, family, and business associates announcing your book’s publication date and offer a limited-time pre-publication special. Join self-publishing groups and let them know about your book. Ask others to promote your book. Be pro-active and do not be afraid to try novel ideas!

My life on the blog

2009-07-13T02:06:00.002+08:00

Pua lifestyle; witth 98 page impressions and 5 days online, still has not got any income.

Ive read from other blogs that they have not made decent income until theyre 12-17th month.
Hmmm. If that was the case that means they had a loss during their first year.
So how about mine?? Will I have a loss during this first year?? Its for me to answer. Anyway, considering that I have just started monetizing my blogs, and I don't pay myself for writing here. I guess that I really am at loss.

I will still continue with my blogs. I will still continue studying the whole system of earning income online. And now I will also start another blog.

The Multiply site has been dying since the rise of facebook had begun.

When I got into multiply, I was really overwhelmed by the number of different things that I can do with it. I'll have my own website, my own posts, or just anything thta I can do there.

Back then I still do not know that You can Earn Online! Now, with its decline, Im deciding that I will transfer blogging here at blogspot. I still don't know If I will still post there (maybe for traffics sake). Who knows.

Stay tuned for my other blog. I may upload it tomorrow evening.

Take care.

35 Questions You Must Ask

2009-07-12T20:24:00.000+08:00

1. In one year, whom do I want to become?

2. If today was my last day on earth, what would I rather be doing?

3. How do I want to be remembered?

4. What do I want to be known as?

5. What brings me to life?

6. What is my life goal?

7. If I could only do one thing and one thing only today, what is it that I need to do to get myself closer to my goal?

8. What is my passion in life?

9. What inspires me?

10. What makes me happy?

11. What makes me feel good?

12. What about my life makes me excited every day?

13. Am I living the life I always wanted?

14. Am I growing and learning every day?

15. What do I look forward to every day when I wake up?

16. Who are my best friends?

17. Who is willing to stand by me no matter what?

18. Am I spending time with people whom I care the most?

19. Am I spending time on things that I care about the most?

20. Why am I doing what I am doing now?

21. What am I willing to stand by no matter what?

22. Why do I want to be successful?

23. Who am I helping?

24. What am I naturally good at?

25. Am I adding value to other people’s lives every day?

26. What am I going to do differently this year compared what I did last year?

27. What actions do I need to take to live by my own lights?

28. What is stopping me from doing what I really want to do? (BTW – the answer should be
NOTHING)

29. What possibilities do I see now that weren’t obvious to me before?

30. Who will benefit (other than me) when my dream is realized?

31. Who can help me in achieving my goal?

32. What is my life going to be like when my dream is realized?

33. How many different ways do I make money now?

34. How many more ways could I make money this year?

35. Am I as healthy as I can be?

Pua Lifestyle 2

2009-07-09T03:35:00.004+08:00

Pua Lifestyle is now up. Just remember to stay tuned for more stories about my social life.

You can check it out HERE

I might be putting up the RSS feed tomorrow. Subsrcibe to to Pua Lifestyle and Real Lifestle Design.

Thanks, and Take care

Update: Check us out at our main site at Beyond Pick Up

Pua Lifestyle

2009-07-08T02:14:00.004+08:00

I'll be launching my Pua lifestyle blog tomorrow.

As I have searched in google adwords PUA has more search queries rather than Lifstyle Design. lol

Pua lifestyle may definitely bring more traffic to my blogs.

Check it out around tomorrow evening. ;)

Update: You can visit the site at Beyond Pick Up | PUA Philippines

Mr. Know it All

2009-07-08T00:29:00.004+08:00

An entreprenuer, must Know it all.

From academics to technical stuffs and even into other fields, an entrepreneur must be knowledgable in about almost everything.

An entrepreneur is the opportunity seeker. He can invent things, solve issues, etc etc. An entrepreneur has a big role in our society. He has a big and great responsibility for his power.

Lets ask if Thomas edison have not invented the bulb. What would the world be like. Thanks to his scientific and rational skill, we are now benefiting from what he has given to mankind. (I've heard that he also fears the dark that is why)

An entrepreneur must know it all. One mistake of his company or his employee could affect other lives. It could lead to disaster. His knowledge may be a help when seeking flaws in his company. His eagle eyes must be the standard of mankind.

An entrepreneur must know it all. An entrepreneur is a survivor. He must be social in order to live. An entrepreneur knows that without social skills, even if he has a great product cannot make it.

An entrepreneur must know it all. Not objectively master it.

p.s. a food for thought. No one can master all things in this worldf. It would take more than a lifetime. (Unless your like Orochimaru LOL.) You can learn what is necessary in order to survive.

Stop Reading and Just Do It

2009-07-07T22:32:00.004+08:00

Oh, Yes! The internet is definitely a goldmine (with the word mine, it could blow off).

With so much information available, there is no time in even trying to input them all. On the past blogs, I always reiterate to only listen to those who have experience.

Accumulating Knowledge is NOT learning. Learning is when you used that knowledge and from the effects of that knwoledge you choose to change your views and mindset for the better.

Action Steps:
1. Stop Reading
2. Think of what you need to do and Do it. If what is stopping you is that you need more "INFORMATION", or you just isnt ready, that is bullshit. Just Do it.

3. After doing it, analyze its efefcts. Make a conclusion.
3.1. Make this as an experiment. Just do it over and over, until you have found out what is wrong with what you ard doing and correct it.
4. Read again. LoL

This post is not just about the counter productivity of knowledge accumulation. It is about ACTION.

Always have a pen and paper by your side. Ideas come and go. Stop and just write it down

Maybe you have thought of watching a movie but you are just too damn busy doing something else (that you also love). or you thought of watching the sunset at the beach.

Write it down.

The things that you wrote will help remind you of the things that you want to accomplish.

Just Do it. If constraints don't permit you. Write it down. Do it at the most possible moment.

Weve got around 3 million minutes to spend in this world. A big amount of time to spend Rushing

8 Blog Tips from Tim Ferriss

2009-07-07T03:52:00.003+08:00

I just found this online. It is an almost hour long talk of Tim ferris on "How to Build a High Traffic Blog Without Killing Yourself"

For the video:
CLICK ME

For an oultine of his tips:
CLICK ME

P.S. Listen to the experienced brothers.

Im a PRO

2009-07-07T03:41:00.006+08:00

Yup! Im a procrastinator

Im a man that must finish one thing in order to do the next thing. However I just don't have that one thing. I have multiple things to do, and have other multiple things to do before that.

I have decided about my OTHER blog to write about my PUA(pick up artist) lifestyle. I shall write about it in full detail (with the exception of SOME names maybe). Well It will start tomorrow maybe. I'll start writing LATER. lol.

I just found a blog about lifestyle design also. Well, he has already 62 posts! (mine got 9?? lol) Wow the traffic that he must be getting is awesome. I also can't tell how he does it (making numerous posts).

p.s. I did not went to school today. I watched movies and eat. (took a break) I need to fix my life. Im a lifestyle designer.

New idea

2009-07-05T16:18:00.004+08:00

It is 4:30 pm here, however I feel like it is already 5:30. The sky is dark. The temperature is cold.

I just had an Idea. 14 hours ago my brother wanted to order pizza. Since we don't have any contact information about them, We searched the internet. From the search results appeared a blog in which all the contact information of yellow cab pizza was in there.

The blog is mind boggling. He's google adsense was scattered everywhere. The best part is he has different blogs in one account. LOL. I seriously did not know that you could do that.

Now, Im thinking of having different blogs about my lifestyle design. This main Real lifestyle design is about how I will achieve financial freedom and a time unbounded lifestyle to do OTHER things that I want. Those OTHER things will be the subject of my other blogs stay tuned

1. Ive already started the 12 week course of shoemoney
2. I still need to get my receivables in order to buy a laptop and take short courses for graphic design
3. I still have not looked for companies for internship.
4. Try XOMBA
5. Damn! I can't finish my feasibility paper. I will finish them LATER!!!!
6. Study operatiosn Research in Advance!!

Truth about 4HWW

2009-07-03T22:37:00.003+08:00

I would like to share an article that I had just found online.
It discusses questions from readers and critics, and answers form tim ferris of the book 4HWW.

Misconceptions and misunderstandings have been around after the publishing of the 4HWW. I somehow also don't understand why those people can't grasp it, or they say that "its not applicable" in their situation.

Solutions. Always make solutions.

View the article HERE

Ready for Anything

2009-07-03T00:30:00.002+08:00

When I was searching for opportunities online, I bumped to this site www.shoemoney.com

Shoe money has helpful articles. As I was browsing, the sites' pop up ad, opens up everytime you open your browser. The ad offers 12 week course for making money online.

I signed up. I hope that this 12 week course will give me practical solutions for reality.

I would also want to take Internship. I need training in the real world.

To do List
1. Take Adobe dreamweaver and photoshop courses
2. Take the 12 week course for making money online
3. Look for companies that is looking for internship

Blogging for Dollars

2009-07-02T23:28:00.001+08:00

Blogging for dollars might sound like the latest game show or some new drinking game, but it's the latest craze to hit the Internet. Bloggers began blogging for a number of reasons, but as the blog movement has increased in popularity, they have found ways to monetize their blogs and are seeing their commitment pay off.

Whether a blogger's focus is to communicate with customers or just to have fun, they have begun looking at ways to earn revenue from their blogs. The most popular ways for bloggers to earn some added cash for their pet projects are:

1. ) Google Adsense in Blogs

Google AdSense allows webmasters to dynamically serve content-relevant advertisements in blogs. If the visitor clicks one of the AdSense ads served to the blog, the website owner is credited for the referral. Webmasters need only to insert a Google-generated java script into the blog or blog template. Google's spider parses the AdServing blog and serves ads that relate to the blog's content. Google uses a combination of keyword matching and context analysis to determine what ads should be served.

2. ) Affiliate Programs (Product Endorsements)

Affiliate Programs work when an affiliate web site receives income for generating sales, leads, or traffic to a merchant website. Generally, bloggers will mention or endorse specific products and if site visitors purchase the product, bloggers will receive a portion of the sale.

3. ) Product Promotion

Businesses use blogs to detail how specific features or product add-ons can increase functionality and save time. Content-rich product promotion will help with search engine placement.

4.) Banner Ads

While less popular than in the past, websites with high traffic levels can still earn decent revenue by selling banner space.

As the Internet evolves bloggers will continue to seek out ways to monetize their opinions and thoughts. Daily journals and online blogs have become more than just a communication means to many.

p.s. This article is not made by me, however I have the right to publish it. You can call this ready to publish articles.

Strategy for the day

2009-07-02T23:19:00.005+08:00

I. I will post articles in which I think would be helpful to those aspiring New rich.
These posts is not written by me, However have the right to publish it.
Check out the blog from time to time or subscribe to the feed.

II. Today is the day that I really realized that Business is using other peoples money.
Im Just a 20 year old boy. No job therefore no income. (But I have businesses) And so the problem to where will I get my capital was the question.

The good thing is you don't need one. Learn to negotiate. Learn how to ask for credit terms.

But its just bad. The stress that you'll encounter when you have credit is just draining. When you've already recouped your ROI, use your own Money (0r the business' money, I mean).

III. I may also write articles at another site and have some back links there to my sites. More traffic means more probable clicks therefore more earnings.

12 Steps to Creating a Business Online

2009-07-02T12:21:00.002+08:00

A word pervading our society, making headlines around the world, and causing the stock market to rise and fall with startling ease. "E-commerce"

It seems every business news story centers on some technology company’s "DOT-com" or "DOT-bomb"!

With all the positive and negative hoopla, business owners of any size company can throw up their hands and feel the "E" world has left them behind.

Every business owner, salesperson, or professional asked one of two questions in the past year, either "Am I using e-commerce correctly?" or "How do I effectively get involved in e-commerce?"

You can buy hundreds of books and pay thousands in consulting fees to analyze and debate the answer to the first question.

To answer to the second question just follow these 12 steps.

Step 1 - Buy a domain name (your own DOT com). Go to www.NetworkSolutions.com and research names. Can a customer easily spell and remember it?

Step 2 - Write down your online goals and prepare a time and money budget.

How soon do you want your e-commerce site up and running?

How much will you spend?

How many hours will you devote to the site and when?

Step 3 - Surf the web to find other sites you like and dislike. Learn from others’ successes and mistakes by taking the best of what their sites offer and adapting it for your own use.

Step 4 - Design your site on paper. Define elements, look, feel, colors etc.

Step 5 - Hire a professional to set up the graphics and navigation, but with the intention of you or your staff maintaining the site’s day to day operations, communication and updates.

Step 6 - Invest in a digital camera and web publishing software such as Microsoft Front Page or Adobe Acrobat to keep up with the site’s maintenance.

Step 7 - Maintain, change, and update your site at least once a month. (The one exception to this rule are those one- page, sales letter websites. Once you have one of those that performs well and makes sales, don't change it!!)

Step 8 - Promote your site at every opportunity. Tell people about it. Put your web address on your business cards and in all your ads. Some companies even advertise their web address when they put you on hold on the telephone.

Step 9 - Give people a self-serving reason to visit your site. Coupon savings, discounts, special incentives, free information, and free newsletters represent excellent enticements for attracting visitors to your site.

Step 10 - Concentrate on obtaining an email address from every customer and potential customer.

Obtain permission to send periodic, value added malings to your database.

Use a list server to organize and maintain your mailing list.

Step 11 - Always look for and use the simplest solution or option.

Whether adding a shopping cart, database or other option to your e-commerce operation, seek out and use the simplest answer for your needs.

Step 12 - Become educated and stay current in the world of e-commerce.

Learn the marketing and sales techniques of the online world.

p.s. This article is not made by me, however I have rights to publish it. You can call this ready to publish articles. Im posting this for free info and more traffic produced by SEO.

Million Dollar Homepage; Fad Or Fiction

2009-07-02T12:19:00.003+08:00

Over the last month a new website created by 21 year old student (Alex Tew) has had a phenomenal impact on the internet advertising world. You may have heard of milliondollarhomepage.com. If not, it is a very simple concept for online advertising. Advertisers can buy pixels on the homepage for $1 a pixel. The minimum order is 100 pixels and with this the advertiser gets a small image that links from the Milliondollarhomepage to the advertiser’s site.

Now this alone isn’t what made the site successful. Granted it’s a unique twist on internet advertising, but lets be honest it’s hardly remarkable. People have been selling spaces for banners on websites for years. For this site to be successful it needed one key ingredient, and that is traffic. Hundreds of thousands of people needed to visit this site to give the advertisers value for money.

So the young student who came up with the idea submitted a press release, and sold a story like any good marketer would. How he was only 21 and came up with this simple website to pay his way through university. Fortunately for him the worlds press found his release and published it, as it was a good story. This meant more people visited the site, and the website traffic increased. In turn more journalists picked up on the story and published it. The result was a viral explosion in traffic which meant many people bought advertising space and it is fair to say the site has been highly successful.

So is this the new advertising medium of the internet? I am afraid this author doesn’t believe so. Once the hype starts to die down, and the story is no longer new, the press will begin to publish fewer articles on it, and less people will visit the site. This in turn will lead to even fewer articles being published in the worlds press, leading to even fewer visitors. This cycle will continue and what originally made this website successful (viral marketing) will ultimately lead to its death.

What can internet marketers learn from this? The best way to promote any new internet venture is to make an interesting story about it, submit articles and press releases, and if the story is good enough, watch the viral explosion in visitors.

Of course for long term growth the new site or service has to be good enough to provide value to visitors, and not just a fad that captures people’s short term interest. I wish Alex Tew all the best, but I think he too will accept that this is not a long term business that can go anywhere from here.

p.s. This article is not made by me, however I have rights to publish it. You can call this ready to publish articles. Im posting this for free info and more traffic produced by SEO.

Business Trends for generating Business Ideas

2009-07-01T00:01:00.000+08:00

1. Cocooning – As the name implies, Cocoon. Home is where the heart is. A number of people (now) want to earn from home. Why stay at home? Well, less expenses maybe, or tired of working for somebody else that an everyday routine is sickening them.

Opportunities can be found here. Your target Market would be of course the people who want to stay at home. Some Business could be Online Movies, Food to be delivered onto their doorstep or other similar products.

2. Fantasy Adventure – Everyone has a dream. The rise of dream shows like American Idol or Dream Academy and even big brother are some of the ideas that could be made from this trend.

3. Ego-Statements – Differentiation. Individuality. Young Adults prefer to stand out from the crowd. (This could be rooted to our replication value)

Eccentric products are the opportunities I see here. From shirts with intriguing designs, to other products that offer sophistication. Eye catching

4. Cashing out – Earn Big and fast, then retire. People are hungry for a simple lifestyle. Sometimes what we want is to just experience things. Sad to say that money is a means for achieving them.

For business opportunities, game shows could be good. However maybe you just don’t have enough capital for that so… You could try a school that teaches techniques how to earn cash fast.

Make solutions and sell it.

5. Down Aging – Age is a limiting belief. Adults want to stay young. And the young don’t want to be adults. (This could be rooted to our replication value too.lol)

Cosmetics! Cosmetics are a god example for this. Cosmetics are not really the products that the costumer wants, what they want is the hope to be young and good looking again.

6. Staying Alive – Here in The Philippines a number of health products rose from the market. From liver herbs to supplements for the heart etc. Many are now becoming concerned about their health.

You could try a gym business. You could also venture into health products or gym products.

A lot of MLM here in the Philippines has health products as their offering.

7. Too Many things to do in a short span of time – People are really becoming tired. Is it because of the unstoppable nature of development?

Entrepreneurs want more profit that is why they hire more people to do more work. So what happens is that this people will ran out of time for themselves. Even companies will have a limited supply of time.

What we can do here is to outsource services. Students pay others to do their research works. Businesses hire manufacturers to do their products etc.

You could try food services, like sandwich for those people who eat while travelling. lol You could try being a middleman too.

RSS

2009-06-30T12:14:00.004+08:00

I just delve into google adsense for feeds. I still Can't understand it until yesterday. lol

You can subsrcibe to this blog so that you are always updated about how my adventure on how I enrich my life. You can see it on the upper right of this page

I will enroll to a workshop for graphic design. Photoshop and Dreamweaver. I went to a small school but they are teaching old macromedia stuffs, not the latest CS4.

I'll find other schools that offers the courses that I would like to study.

Learning Photoshop and Dreamweaver will help me on my businesses. First is because I could be the one who could design my website. It is like an investment to yourself. Adding value to your worth. My webistes will be somehow automated or likely small in managment. Having Knowledge on this stuff will eliminate time outsourcing and additional costs.

Putting a new meaning

2009-06-29T13:13:00.001+08:00

If you are a sole proprietor; You are a one man organization.

You may fall under the left quadrant which is a self employed, or to the RIGHT quadrant which is a NR (New Rich/entrepreneur) or an investor
I prefer to be a NR.

Why? because I still have not delve into the world of investing. As of now Self made business is all I have.

When you are self employed, you will not have the luxury of time.

Think of businesses with the end in mind. A Business that will generate profit and consume the very less of your time.

Have a vision. A business for the sake of money is a business designed to fail. A business designed to fulfill peoples need and enrich their life is deemed to support one.

Hire someone to manage your business. If you can't afford it or have a small capital, make sure it is easily managable and not time consuming.

Let us discuss entrepreneurship and resources.
Entrepreneurship is gathering resources.

Captial- I suggest that money may come entirely from you. Having a loan is suicide in advance.

There are also clever ways to get capital. ASK FOR IT. No, they won't get offended, you are just asking, it is up to them to decide what they want to do.

Labor-If others can do it for you, hire them. Just make sure that they are world class doers. Not hiring or wrong hiring may result to it becoming a liability.

Liabilities - I prefer businesses without liabilities. As what my professor said "your business is very liquid" (my business)

Christianity in MLM

2009-06-28T22:43:00.003+08:00

I support MLM because of its innovative approach to product distribution. I would like to share an article about MLM that I have read.

Christianity was started with only 12 disciples. There was no media then, only face-to-face recruitment; yet the practice and acceptance of Christianity spread throughout the world. Picking up lessons from the spread of Christianity, the following parallelisms about network marketing recruitment are made:

1. Jesus Christ was committed to a cause. An upline sales leader must develop a clear relevant vision consistent with that of his company so the downlines know to what destination they are going. Examples are highest productivity, number of millionaires under his network to be the network role model of the industry, etc.

2. Jesus Christ appointed 12 disciples (not 1000) directly reporting to him. There is a limit as to the number of people you can recruit directly and still effectively become successful at any one time.

3. Jesus recruited those with a high need to change themselves. These people were not satisfied with their existing condition

4. If all recruit were like Judas Iscariot, there would be no continuity, so go for quality recruits. More quality recruits will join you if you are a quality upline too.....

5. Jesus Christ spent a lot of time with his personal recruits to mold and prepare them for the task of duplicating themselves. Did not make judgment as to the personal background of his recruits

6. Jesus Christ chose people with loyalty. He asked the disciples to drop everything and follow him completely without serving two masters.

7. The disciples are committed because of Jesus Christ whom they respect. Upline should be your role model “do as I do and not just do as I say"

8. Peter denied Christ 3 times, and yet peter was forgiven and was even made head of the church. Jesus was not happy with what peter did but not with peter as a person. Upline must distinguish between a task and the person doing the task. They always build from strength.

9. The gospel started to spread the gospel and heal the people. Upline must plant roots and give wings to their downlines.

10. Disciples supported each other. They were focusing on their common vision and stop being professional victims.

11. Thomas eventually replaced Judas in the Jesus Christ team, when personal recruits become inactive or have been promoted to a sale's leader rank, replenish....

12. Jesus promised that he will prepare a place for his disciples eventually become saints. Upline should recognize downlines for their contribution, their productive and their significance.

My uplines does have a reward system. For every Business package we could provide, we will have a bonus package. And for 20 business packages that we could have we could have a laptop computer, either an Acer or a Mac.

Issues

2009-06-28T20:09:00.007+08:00

I have read a blog. It is about how he hates Tim Ferris.

I would just like to have a reaction blog about her ideas. Italicized words are excerpts of that blog.

1. Don’t hang out with people who don’t respect your time

This one is good. Elimination, Chapters 5 and 7 of 4HWW explains this.

Sometimes people wonder if I ever hang out. Yes I do. Im a pick up artist; Others call it social butterfly. I just don't want to be disturbed when I am doing what I like(Watching movies). I have time to be with my friends and I have time for not being with them. It is a decision. A choice.

2. Cut to the chase: Tell people who are full of sh*t that they're full of sh*t
When his book came out, there were vacuous, annoying comments all over my blog directing people to his book. Like, "The topic of priorities is an interesting one. I like how Tim Ferris handles that in his new book,blah blah" and then there's a link to the book.

At this point I knew Tim, sort of. And I called him on his phone and told him to tell his employees to stop spamming my blog.

First he implied it was his fan base and he had little control.

I think he really has no control over other people. Its not his choice for his fans to comment at her blog.

3. Self-centered people are more likely to waste your time

Definitely. Self centered people are what we call the people that belong to the upper class thinking. They strive to have something, however they want to get it at any means possible even stepping on others.

An example would be a multi level marketer who persuades his invites to go to a conference and discuss about a business. After the transaction he does not anymore mind his downline. All for making a sale.

A good MLMer must be Honest about the business. MLM is Having a business and distribution. Here in the Philippines, majority of MLMers just do it for the money. Looking for downlines just for the money. Greed is sad. It is a sad truth.

4. Productivity is about meeting your goals, not getting out of doing work
Fine. But then his four-hour work week is merely semantic. Because everything Tim does he turns into what the rest of us would call work, and he calls it not-work. For example, tango. If you want to be world-record holder, it's work. It's your job to be special at dancing the tango. That's your big goal that you're working toward. How you earn money is probably just a day job. So most weeks Tim probably has a 100-hour workweek. It's just that he's doing things he likes, so he lies to you and says he only works four hours. He defines work only as doing what you don't like.

No. Totally wrong. If I want to be a world record holder, it is NOT WORK. Doing what you want is not work. There is difference between DOING WORK FOR WORKS SAKE, and being PERSONALLY PRODUCTIVE.

I like playing guitar. I want to travel and play concerts. I like to compose songs. It is Not work.

5. Time management is about making time to connect with people

What the NR strives to achieve is NOT time management. The NR wants what he wants. Wether it is connecting with people. The NR will formulate solutions just to be with the people they love, or to do whatever they want without restrictions.

I am not affiliated to Tim Ferris or anything. This is actually disappointing. Just like Religion wars, people still rely on faith instead of thinking. When you are a NR you are open to ideas. You must be, To survive.

When I first read his book, it was an awe. I thought I was the only one who has this principles.

Solutions are the things that the NR is good at. Deal with it.

P.S. Watch the movie The Kingdom

Domino Effect

2009-06-26T22:56:00.007+08:00

I still have not finished my schedule. I am the master of procrastination.

I also started reading again my Bible. (The 4 Hour Workweek)

This week had been somehow diffucult. Disruption in your schedule is very drastic. One change could ruin the remaining things ahead.

Last tuesday I approached my professor and told him that I would pass my feasibility study later that night. I did not. I went to a girls place, for tomorrow we will not have any classes.
Its friday today, still no luck.

What I need to do (FOR WORKS SAKE)
1. Finish my schedule
2. Finish my papers
3. Work on Non disclosure agreements for my Business (Triga Studios)
4. Work on Triga Solutions

Theme
Web Design and Lay out

P.S. Somehow Im regretting going back to school. This day had been a mess. No lessons. Bullshit Wasted Money.

First day of the last year

2009-06-16T11:18:00.003+08:00

Today will be the first day of my last year in school. woohoo

I have not finished my thesis paper..it will be due in 10 days.. woohoo again

Later I will meet a friend and a client about my loading business. Then I'll go to school and hope that the first day would be good. There I may arrange my schedule so that my life would be organized.

I will try to fix this things into my everyday life:
1. Playing guitar
2. my businesses
3. movies
4. women
5. studies
6. travel time
7. Routines like eating and taking a bath

This list looks like its just a short list but hey. It is just the main list, it has sub categories.

Good luck to me. This Evening I will post my shcedule for the whole week.

Its time to get BORED!

2009-06-14T16:29:00.001+08:00

As you have read in my previous post I had problems with my company, that is because of management problems etc etc. I have an excuse, I am a beginner. lol

Yep! It is time to get bored. Stress kills!

Again, Timothy Ferriss has said already and I will reiterate again. People should take some time off.

Champions know when to stop. Further means collapse. We need time to let go of the stress we feel.

What I did, but do not recommend:
1. Watch movies
2. I told my bandmate that, if I still can't play guitar, that means Im still stressed out. I played guitar. hehe

But damn 5 days I think is not enough for me. I need A month and a half or two, lol.

I need to get Bored.

How not to be a slave

2009-06-14T16:23:00.004+08:00

You should listen to those who claim to be experts!

I forgot about the teachings of timothy Ferriss. I loose myself inside myself. I became a slave

Slave of what? slave of yahoo messenger and my own company. Uhm what else, maybe thats how far I can remember. Ah, I also became a slave of information.

I made Triga Studios because It made me think that graphic design could be a business. It is outside of my plan for it ti be the main business that I would submit in my program at school. Triga Studios is the one I passed and not a gym business which is in fact my original proposal. Gym business is too costly.

The end in my mind. That is what Tim Ferris taught. I thought I was doing what he says but hey, I was not, or I just Forgot.

I need to made Triga studios more automated, meaning it will rely very little from me. Back then I was the one talking to clients and it just consumes too much time. I thought of a soution. Tim Ferris solution is to outsource a service from a call center, but since I don't have much capital, or I have not included it on my list of cost I made another one. My solution is to have a fix letter that i could just copy and paste to every email to any customer that inquires. Iwould also attach the company policies to that mail. If the letter does not suffice the needs of a client that is the time I wil think of another one.

Tim Ferriss also told us about answering inquiries. I forgot about it. His book is a Bible.

Never put your personal numbers or contact information. You will be bombarded with non stop messages. Designate a specific contact information where the customers could use. Tim Ferris also added that the more specific that is the better. If a customer has a problem about shipment, there should be a seperate contact information for that.

Well I think this goes out of topic but, Information. Don't be a slave of information. I am an information junkie. What you should do is; Read and APPLY. Don't just read and read and think that you are a genius. You should read, apply it As Soon As Possible ad from there you can disregard that idea or continue with it.

Ventures update

2009-06-05T05:44:00.002+08:00

1. Real Lifestyle Design - Our google adsense application has been approved. I just had $0.63 dollars as my starting earnings.

2. Triga Studios - With having an approved google adsense; I also added adsense to triga studios' blog (you can visit it HERE).

I did have problems to one of our clients and to triga studios' management itself. We need to implement strict policies and to add more features. We will be moving triga studios to triga solutions any day now.

3. Triga Solutions - I just received an approval around 14 hours ago by my web host that my domain trigasoltions.com is already registered and I can already start triga solutions I still have not come up with a decent idea to implement to generate traffic to triga solutions.

4. Loadxtreme - I will be having a client meeting maybe sunday.

The cost of moral living here in the Philippines is aroud 480-560 pesos per day (Luxury not included). I need to have at least 15,000 per month to survive.

Ventures

2009-06-03T05:53:00.008+08:00

As of now I'm working on 4 businesses:
1. Loadxtreme; my Multilevel marketing business that incorporates all in one loading services
2. Triga studios; an online grpahic design studio
3. Triga Solutions; An affiliate marketing business
4. Real Lifestyle Design; A monetized blog about my path in acquiring financial freedom

Im losing touch with my MLM business because I'm focusing my efforts on Triga Studios and Triga Solutions. I need also to focus on it. I'm already embarassed to my friend and upline.haha

There is so many problems arising in Triga studios, some of them are

pricing and pricing strategy
no actual survey
duplication of designs
payment methods

In Triga Solutions however, I just signed up for a paypal account, and a paydotcom account. Im experimenting if paydotcom is Highly profitable that is why I posted advertisements at the bottom of my page. Im waiting for a response from my web host so that I could already make a sole website for it. The sad thing is, their service is too slow. It is taking up too much time.

I don't know how much traffic does Real Lifestyle Design have. What I can do is post much more of what I do in this part of my Life. I just signed up for a Google Adsense and hoping that they would approve it.

From these endeavors, I already spent a much of time in front of the computer, I got a debit card (what an experience). I am just "hoping" that these would pay off. Good luck to me

Hoping is one of the worst things a man can do.

School vs. Real World

2009-06-02T19:32:00.002+08:00

I enrolled myself to the entrepreneurship program of our university; making it a priority before fine arts.

I don't like my program.

Why? It is not because they can't teach properly or they can't teach what they preach. It is about they don't know what they preach can do.

The real world teaches us outsourcing and automated business, levaraging and globalization.
What my curriculum teahces is traditional business.

Now, my program has a different curriculum. A year of pre commerce studies and afterwards three years of entrepreneurship before you can graduate. Adding subjects that they think might help future entrepreneurs. I have not browsed for what it can offer but I'm hoping that it is better than what me and my classmates are in.

When you want to pursue education, here's what you should do
1. Weigh if having an outside mentor is better than having to go to school; Why?

If you plan to pursue formal education this is what you should do??
1. Check out the curriculum.
2. Is the curriculum congruent with what you want to achieve??/Will the curriculum help you attain what you want??
2. Talk to the chairperson of that program and ask questions.

What I want

2009-05-25T02:39:00.003+08:00

PRIMARY
1. I don't want to feel responsible for my survival
2. I don't want to be obliged
3. I don't want to be Constricted or confined

SECONDARY
1. Food

Pizza
Supplements
Donuts

2. Clothing/Accesories

Shades
shoes for running
shirts of my favorite bands such as As I lay dying
shirts with batman designs
hoodies
Jeans

3. Transportation/Travel

A ford expedition
have a vacation at other countries like japan and at the European continent

4. Etc.

Laptop
Money

That is all I could think of right now.

As I was writing this, I included a needs list. I disregarded it.
Thinking what you need specifically will lead to a want.

What you really want.

2009-05-25T02:28:00.003+08:00

How could you do something about your future, when you don't know what kind of future you want it to be.

What you really want is the question. Answers could fall under superficial things, some profound.

That is not what we want. What we really want is the feeling that it gives to us. The feeling of being loved or the feeling of not being loved. The feeling of being appreciated or the feeling of not being appreciated. The feeling of being secure or the feeling of not being secure etc. We want the feeling.

Material things such as money could be a means. What feeling it can give you is the real deal.

EXERCISE:
1. If you think that the past two articles are helpful in opening your level of awareness towards the world; give it a comment
2. What do you want?List it down. Calculate how much will it cost.
3. Can it be attained right now?! If not, In what ways can it be achieved?

What brings me here?

2009-05-25T01:53:00.005+08:00

What do you dream of? That is a question that is frequently asked, rarely answered.

According to Steve Siebold the founder of Mental Toughness coaching; there is a hierarchy in belief systems. Some of them include Middle class thinking, Upper class thinking and World Class thinking.

The middle class thinkers know that something can be achieved however does not push through by reasoning that it is only for a chosen few. The upper class and the world class wants to achieve greatness and is creating ways how to pass that goal. The difference betwen upper class and world class is that the upper class thinks competitively and the world class knows it is counter productive.

I aspire for freedom, time unbounded and financial stability. People forgot about their dreams. They can't even realize that they can experience the adventure that life has to offer.

With world class thinking I want to find ways on how I could achieve what I want.

The sad truth is other people can't and the other won't.

Taking the first step

2009-05-22T16:19:00.006+08:00

Hi, I'm Marco Lee. I created this blog for it to be a help not only to myself but also for other people who want to have an abundant and unbounded life.

Here I will record the activities/actions that I have taken and will take to achieve the lifestyle that I want. (theory -> practice)

I will write variety of topics under subjects of Health, Wealth, and Relationships. I will also cover mindsets and beliefs that I acquired throughout life.

Thanks