Aside from my own internet marketing projects, I also provide help desk support to a few top Internet Marketers.  And one of those people is Tim Brocklehurst.  Find out what Tim has to say about Obama’s campaign at: http://a.gd/obama.

If you find that interesting, and you’d like to learn more about Social Networking, I recommend you read what Bob Jenkins has to say about it HERE.  And yes, I provide help desk support for Bob too. 

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If people stopped by his blog and told him what their #1 obstacle with making money on the Internet was, he’d help them overcome them, for FREE!

I’ve just heard from Derek, and it sounds like he’s been REALLY busy reading everybody’s submissions (looks like he got 4,596 of them)!

Anyway . . . now that he’s finished reading all of the challenges, he’s concluded that the absolute easiest way to help everyone succeed is with LIVE ONLINE TRAINING.

So here is what he’s doing . . .

Next Tuesday, October 21st from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. (Pacific Daylight Time), Derek’s going to run a massive LIVE training webinar… FOR FREE!

This mega-webinar will be four hours long, and will address the biggest challenges people are having making money online . . . and it will be absolutely jam-packed with hands-on tips and strategies.

Derek promises to spill his guts and transfer as much of his knowledge as humanly possible . . . but his webinar company only allows 1,000 spaces for the event, so to hold your place, you need to register immediately.

To register, just take a minute right now to go to:

http://ebizac.com/x/t.php/6816

As soon as you register, you’ll receive a confirmation email from Derek (if you’re one of the first 1,000 to register), guaranteeing you a place on the free webinar, along with details of how to access it next Tuesday.  If you don’t see that confirmation email in your Inbox, please check your bulk/spam/junk folder; wouldn’t want you to miss out.

This had been a problem for the past two months and after posting to the Forum, it was suggested that the problem was either with the template or the plugins. I’ve determined that it’s not the template, but one or more plugins. Right now, it doesn’t appear that these plugins are working for me:

• Bad Behavior
• Only Wire Autosubmitter
• RSS Auto Submit

I’ve deactivated those plugins and will be mindful of any others that I may add that cause a problem.

So for now my blog’s platform is current, I am extremely relieved. I’m not going to say that I know exactly what I’m doing, but I’m quite pleased with myself that I was able to get it done after so many false starts and a few problems along the way.

Ah . . . the joy of ‘trial by fire.’

Now if I can just figure out how to get the tags to display like before . . .

I had a friend who took my first serious attempt at a website and turned it into a really nice looking blog.  Recently that person decided to no longer maintain my site, so I am having to learn WordPress in a ‘trial by fire’ mode.

In attempting to upgrade to the most recent version of WordPress, I managed to lock myself out of the admin panel!  I know what I did wrong, but didn’t know how to undo the damage.

But thankfully, my hosting company has EXCELLENT customer support, and did what needed to be done so that I could login to the admin and, at the very least, write this post.

The lesson learned . . . while it might seem to be more expedient to have someone else do something for you, it’s in YOUR best interest to learn how to do that something for yourself.  Especially if it’s your website or blog!

I am forever grateful to Kavi at Ultimate Marketing Center.

No Tags ]]> http://netmarketingfornewbies.com/2008/09/28/when-you-dont-know-how-learn/feed/ http://netmarketingfornewbies.com/2008/09/25/only-5-of-the-population-knows-do-you/ http://netmarketingfornewbies.com/2008/09/25/only-5-of-the-population-knows-do-you/#comments Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:39:08 +0000 Anita Johnson http://netmarketingfornewbies.com/?p=184 Did you know that there are TWO systems of taxation in America?  There’s one for employees and another one for business owners.

Which one are you in?  I’m in the one for business owners since I haven’t been an employee in 6 years.  And because I have a heart for people who are employees . . . those who still have a job, those fearful of losing their jobs, and of course, those who have lost their jobs and can’t find another one . . . I’m doing whatever I can to help whomever I can by sharing information that might be helpful.

I just found a great tax savings deal that I think would be perfect for home business owners, as well as for employees who know they need to have another source of income (meaning, a home-based business).  You can save thousands of dollars in taxes, by taking advantage of IRS approved deductions, designed to help home-based businesses be successful.

Dr. Ron Mueller, author of “It’s How Much You Keep That Counts, Not how much you Make,” personally teaches a 4-part tele-course explaining exactly how to qualify for all of these deductions, and thus receive a HUGE additional refund this year.  Because I work with Ron, I am authorized to give you an additional $50 off the already reduced price of this course.  Just use this secret code: BC-50 at checkout. You will not see this special deal on the website.

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Select the “Products & Services” tab at the top of the page,

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Here, you can view information about what you will learn as well as the unbelievable guarantee that Ron offers! You have NO risk!

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Don’t miss this opportunity to get the information that you need to save thousands of dollars in overpaid taxes. This coupon code is only valid from now until October 6^th, which is the start date of the next course.  Don’t wait another day overpaying your taxes!

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Then I spent 6 years taking college courses.  I would have earned my B.S. degree in 4 years like most people, had I not transferred to another university right before my senior year.  I was more tired of being a broke college student, than finishing one more year.  So I moved home to work full-time and go to school at night.  Then I spent a very painful year in law school.   I vowed I’d never venture back into the world of “formal” education.

However, these past 5 1/2 years online have been full of self-taught learning and educational opportunities.  I’ve absorbed so much information, sometimes it just makes my head spin!  When I started this website, my intention was to help others like me figure out how to make sense of it all.  And due to the fact that I manage numerous help desks, I’ve been exposed to countless online programs, so I’m pretty savvy when it comes to sorting the “wheat from the chaff.”  Finding a program that is geared toward someone who isn’t a marketing phenom, or who has very little, if any experience online, is the trick.

A friend of mine recently introduced me to a marketing program that I think might actually be helpful to you, especially if you are in Network Marketing.  But it’s not limited to just that industry, so don’t turn your nose up until you check it out for yourself.  Maybe you’ve heard of it already, but if not, do yourself a favor and take a look at Renegade University to see whether any of it reasonates with you.

I’m just getting started myself, but from what I’ve seen inside the members area already, I know that I’m going back to school.

And I might as well also admit that he’s one of the people for whom I provide help desk support, so I know and trust whatever he offers.

His latest program is called “Discover Autoresponders” and even though the LIVE workshop started on Friday, September 12th, you can still join and take advantage of his next LIVE workshop on Friday, September 19th.

But even if you miss the LIVE workshop(s), the basic lesson is FREE and you can upgrade your “Discover Autoresponders” membership at any time in the future. There are recordings of Bob’s workshops for those who could not participate initially.

So, if autoresponders are still confusing to you, you’re not sure why you even need to bother having them, or if you’ve just not taken the time to set up your own, I highly recommend you take advantage of Bob’s top-notch training. What you’ll learn from Bob with this course will stand you in good stead along the journey of internet marketing. I just wish such training had been available when I first started online years ago!

Without visitors to your website, how will you ever be paid for your products and services (or through your affiliate recommendations)?

One solution to this problem is holding a teleseminar.

A teleseminar is simply a phone call where somebody (i.e., you) talks to somebody else (i.e., a guest expert or just the audience) about a specific topic of interest.

You don’t have to have any specific educational background or be some kind of certified expert to hold a teleseminar – just the courage to hold an intelligent conversation for about an hour about something you enjoy.

Marketing with teleseminars gives you over a dozen ways to get traffic to your products and services. Let me highlight 3 of them for you right now.

Teleseminars can…

• Provide a live event for people to get immediate answers to their questions
• Turn into articles and blog posts which are magnets for search engine-traffic
• Connect you with new affiliates who share your teleseminar with others in exchange for a commission

Let me describe how each of these 3 could work for you.

Attract Traffic With A Live Teleseminar

When you host a teleseminar, you provide a specific time and date for a group of people to gather together. At heart, most people are still social animals. Because of that fact, if people know they can get together with other people like them at the same time and date and learn or discuss their favorite topic, they’ll show up.

And if you provide a way for your listeners to ask you a question that you answer during the teleseminar then they’ll definitely want to connect with you after the call is over.

Create Traffic Magnet Articles And Blog Posts

A second way teleseminars can generate traffic for your website, products, and services is by turning into text.

Most people talk at about 200 words per minute, and within an hour, you can create a 50 page transcript. Simply by breaking apart that text, you can create a dozen articles and many more blog posts with just a single teleseminar.

You then submit those articles to article directories and ezine publishers to spread your message. Each article becomes a traffic magnet by connecting readers back to your website through a link at the end of the text.

You can “write” weeks worth of search-engine friendly content by taking the same articles and breaking them up into blog posts you publish on your own blog or on someone else’s.

Get Affiliates To Send You Traffic

My favorite method of getting traffic with teleseminars is by creating an affiliate program for the sale of your teleseminars, their transcripts, or additional calls you do in the future.

Even before you hold a call, people are willing to pay in advance for the transcripts and/or the recording of your teleseminar. And once you start selling something online, you can invite affiliate marketers to promote your teleseminar product for you.

In exchange for sending you traffic, you agree to pay a certain percentage of the profits – a simple arrangement that’s made very easy with software available today (ranging from free to quite expensive).

Affiliates then spend their time and energy sending you traffic and you can spend your time concentrating on holding an excellent teleseminar.

Start Getting More Traffic With Teleseminars

These are just 3 methods of getting traffic with teleseminars that you can put into action immediately. And once you get started, you’ll quickly realize that your traffic problems are suddenly not so large anymore!

Bob Jenkins is the creator of TeleseminarFormula.com, an in-depth training program teaching business owners how to use teleseminars to magnetically attract better customers, get more sales, and accelerate their growth using their phone. For your free copy of  “The 7 Secrets To Success With Teleseminars”, visit TeleseminarFormula.com today.

#1: Be Proud Of Being You

The first thing is, you have to be yourself. You have to be who you are. Because although you can get away with being fake for a little while, as soon as one person realizes that you’re not who you say you are, your reputation is destroyed almost instantly because of the power of social networking.

So be yourself. And don’t be afraid of being yourself. Realize that you have some gifts and some knowledge that people need to know about, and those that want to learn from you are going to gravitate towards you. Those that don’t think you’re worth listening to are basically going to ignore you. And it’s at their peril, so don’t worry about them.

#2: Transparency - Never Hide From Your Audience

The second thing about your reputation is you should try to be transparent at all times. This means you keep everything real with your audience.

For example, over the last year, I used social media to show you my move from Maryland to North Carolina, including drama with the movers, picking the house, and getting it set up. I also pulled back the curtain to show what it takes to run a product launch.

When I did my last product launch, I was Twittering every day what I was doing to get ready for this site. Most of the gurus out there would keep everything under lock and key, and I was being very clear, saying, “This is what I’m doing to get ready for this launch.” It actually helped me have a better launch, even though I told everybody exactly what I was going to be doing.

They didn’t think that they had some surprise or whatever like most people teach; they just were excited to be part of it and part of the story. So be transparent. Let people know what you’re doing and why you’re doing it, and they’re going to learn how to trust you.

#3: Be Positive For Positive Results

The third way to build your reputation is to be positive.

There are folks out there who generally can do a good job of being negative. I don’t know about you, but I don’t find that to be a very long-term profitable strategy.

It may get you some attention at first and spark some controversy, but that’s not the way to go. Be looking forward to the optimistic of your industry, of your business and what the results are going to be.

It would be easy for you to go onto Twitter or onto Facebook and talk about how you’re having a bad day or this product sucks or this week sucks or this relationship sucks. But you’re not really there for a support network, per se.

You’ll find some of that. If you have something bad happen in your life, sharing it with your followers will be very therapeutic for you and you will get a lot of support back. But when you’re just blasting negative things out, you’re going to get negative things in return, usually.

So try to be positive as much as possible and look for the opportunities that are out there and look at them from that positive perspective.

#4: Build Your Reputation And They Will Come

The fourth thing you must do is to be patient. This is because, initially, your reputation is going to be built only by yourself and the first initial people who get to know you. But as time goes on and you get more followers and you build a larger network of friends and peers, your reputation will solidify to allow your business to grow.

Once it hits a tipping point, your reputation and business accelerates at a very quick pace.

So be patient and let it happen. Don’t try this stuff out for a week and then come back to me next week and say, “Well, it didn’t really work. I didn’t really get any results yet.” You’ve got to let social networking play out over a few weeks and then a couple months and so on. A year from now your business is going to be tremendously different compared to where it is right now.

#5: Contribute To The Conversation Every Day!

The fifth thing about your reputation is you need to be someone that people look to as a contributor, not as a leech, not as a mooch, as a contributor.

You have to be willing to be involved in the conversation, and you have to be willing to give as much or even more than what you’re going to get in return. The people who do that are growing so fast it makes my head spin.

I feel that I’m a pretty giving person but I see some other folks out there that just keep on giving, giving, giving and they just build up a huge following and that social capital is a real asset to your business. So you need to make sure that you’re contributing as much as possible to the conversation.

I don’t mean that as just go around randomly and try to help people. Within your specific task, your specific industry, the things you know well, you need to be at the forefront of letting people know how to do what you know how to do without charging them money at first.

They’ll come and find your site and your products and they’ll pay you for that as time goes on and their needs grow. With social networking you need to be building your reputation up first.

If somebody has a question, you should be one of the first people who answers and you need to answer without reservation not just, “Oh, I answered that in my eBook; go buy it”. They’re going to find your eBook if you just talk to them and give them solutions to the problem they are struggling with at that moment.

Give people your input, your encouragement for them to get better at what they are trying to do.

Any little quick free advice you can give, give it.

Actively Build Your Reputation With Social Networking And Reap The Rewards

You’ve got to be in this for the reason of having fun and really building that relationship. Dollars will come, there’s no doubt about that. But first, connect with people and really help them out. Understand that they’ll become loyal followers of what you do and see you for who you are.

Follow these 5 steps to building your reputation online and you’ll not only beat your competition, you’ll have more fun doing it!

Bob Jenkins teaches business owners how to use internet marketing strategies effectively to attract more customers and get more sales without spending a fortune on advertising. Get more free social networking lessons at www.DiscoverSocialNetworking.com.

The information I share may not initially seem to be cohesive, but it all has a point. It’s like weeding through the thoughts in my head to pull out bits and pieces that may help someone else shorten their learning curve. In fact, now that I see a bigger picture than I did when I first started, there’s also a whole lot more information to go through to get out what’s really important.

Let me start with what I didn’t do, that you really MUST do . . .

WRITE IT DOWN!

Whatever it is that you are online for, write it down. Write down what you want, and what you think it’s going to take to get you what you want. In other words, you need a plan. You need to know WHY you are doing WHAT you are doing online, as well as HOW you are going to get WHERE you are working toward being. It’s not enough to state you want to make money online or that you want to have an online business. You need to write it all down and you need to be specific about the details. (I’m preaching to the choir here . . .)

For instance, I know that with this site, I want to provide a place for people to come and get information and tools that can help them in whatever it is they are attempting to do online. I want to create a place like the one I wish I could have found when I first got started online; one that provides basic information, or at least points people in the right direction to get their questions answered.

Ideally, I’ll be focusing on the network marketing industry because it’s what I “fell into” almost 6 years ago when I came online in search of earning income from home. Regardless of what others may think about the industry, I believe it is one that is viable and worthy of consistent effort, especially in these economic times. Specifically, I want to share information that wasn’t obvious to me when I got started, but is what I learned over time by making the mistakes so many others have.

I’d also like to tap into the younger generation, the high school and college age students who haven’t a clue that it’s not enough to have an education and find a ‘good job’. You need something else on the side (or several) to generate income on a consistent basis, especially when there’s no guarantee that the ‘good job’ will last any length of time, or that it will be easy to find another one.

Indeed, what you’ll find on this site are the resources and tools that I have found to be useful to me and because they are relatively simple in nature, they seem to be worth sharing with you.

For instance, let’s start with a free piece of mind-mapping software that I learned about over a year ago. While I consider myself a really quick study when it comes to learning new stuff, this particular software had me stumped. I knew I needed it, I certainly wanted to use it to help me get better organized, but I just wasn’t getting anywhere with it. But recently, Bob “The Teacher” Jenkins, took all the mystery out of this software by explaining how it works and how it can be used. Take a look at DiscoverFreemind to see if this can help you write YOUR vision and make it more plain.