How to overcome your fears and doubts

March 17, 2013 by admin Leave a Comment

How to overcome your fears and doubts

During last week’s first webinar for the 90 day challenge, our training was all about mindset and positivity. I made a comment in the chat box about my feelings about mindset and, more to the point, a quick mention of how bad my mental state was going back a little over 3 years ago.

I was encouraged to write a blog post about my take on mindset so I thought I’d put this together. It is a huge subject for me and I’m probably going to write a few blog posts about the subject because it is vital to have your mentality in the right place for business.

How to overcome your fears and doubts

For this blog post I want to cover four mind strategies that you can use. Four tactics that work for me at anytime. I can almost instantly change my mindset FROM negativity that can sneak up on you at any time – especially if you have a history of depression or anxiety – TO positive thoughts and relief from feeling negative.

These are the points I’ll be covering in this post:

Avoiding getting overwhelmed and why this is so important when setting goals.
Remember all your achievements in life, no matter how small you think they were.
Remembering all the things you discovered as you grew into an adult – things that excited you.
Adding emotions and physicality to your thoughts to truely bring them to life.

Avoiding being overwhelmed

How to overcome your fears and doubts

When I get up in the morning and sort out breakfast for myself and my daughter I will always have 5 minutes to think about what I have to do that day. Inevitably I split these things into the essentials such as, school runs, shopping, the day job, washing up ect. For most of us, these are things that are on autopilot. But quite often, these are the things that we might use to allow procrastination or to skip our online work. We hit a brick wall when we feel overwhelmed – when we feel that there aren’t enough hours in the day and all the excuses come out.

I will write a list in my pad or on my white board of 5 key areas for that day. Anymore than 5 things can be overwhelming for most people. Instead of itemising every single thing that I have to, I will do the following:

School runs and pick up anything I need from the store/shop on the way or way back.
Day job
Clear house jobs including washing up, laundry, throw out recycling and do reading/homework with Millie-Grace.
Check emails, social media messages and statuses, friends requests, new followers, leads.
Complete today’s 90 day challenge jobs and assignments.

Now that is just the way I personally group everything together in a way that makes sense for me. You may all be different and group things in a different order. Whatever works for you. Just don’t end up with a list of 6-15 things to do on your list because if you don’t get it all done you will feel bad or even guilty. If you get into the habit of doing this then you’ll just never get anything done and your business will just not take off.

The feeling you WILL get used to everyday is that you will achieve all your goals, and you’ll start to set tougher goals along the way and you’ll achieve it because it’s what you do. So it’s very important to stop overwhelming yourself.

Remember your life’s achievements so far

This is a really powerful strategy to use if you do this properly and it doesn’t have to be anything like you conquered mount Everest when you were 10! Once I started this exercise I couldn’t stop writing things down and to other people it wouldn’t have been particularly significant, but to me it meant the world. I wasn’t a big achiever at school but I remember being in the school basketball team. I loved playing basketball and I practiced a lot. But, my problem was stage fright and when it came to the games I often went missing during the game. My technique went out of the window and passes went astray. It wasn’t good!

How to overcome your fears and doubts

But then one day, it all came together. I scored a two pointer early on and I felt ten feet tall. My team mates all wanted me to have the ball because I began to make things happen. I made different plays, hit passes that stuck and set up many points for my team mates. I walked away with the man-of-the-match and I will never forget that feeling afterwards when guys who often shook their head in disappointment at me, were now full of respect. This was just an under 14’s school match in a small town in England. It wasn’t a national or county game. We didn’t have a crowd or audience there. Did I care? I wouldn’t have noticed them anyway, I was in the zone and I hold that emotion close to me if I feel like I’m being rubbish or if my self-respect takes a hike.

Your life achievements don’t have to be trophy laden or attached to certificates. Have an emotional attachment to when you really felt valuable in your own heart and soul.

Remembering your discoveries.

I was a vinyl record junkie when I grew up and I used to work for my parents for that all important £2.50 on Tuesdays. My parents got paid on Mondays so I got my “wages” on Tuesday. I was 11 at the time and my dad would hand over the readies and I would literally run down to “Mr.Dobbs record store” In town and spend the next two hours filling through the singles and albums. I would choose my purchase very carefully and carefully carry it home. The feeling I got when putting the needle on the record still excites me today. I loved discovering new music and bands but it was the artwork and sleeve notes on the record covers that excited me. It made me feel like it was a personal present from the band or artist themselves. It’s funny how we attach emotions to ourselves at that early age. I use this particular emotion to remind myself that there are things in life that we love and we should go back to. Write a list now of things that excited you while you were a teenager and also write down how it makes you feel to look back.

Imagine yourself actually achieving your goals.

Adding emotion and physicality to your thoughts and dreams is very powerful. One of my goals is to go on safari in Africa one day and I will do it. I imagine the flight and the arrival to the airport. I love the airport and flying. It’s just an amazing but weird experience! I run through my mind how it might feel to look out over Africa as we descend.

I try to imagine being sat in the back of a jeep while our guide takes us across safari. Then I imagine planting a kiss on my daughter’s forehead as we watch wild animals in their own habitat in Africa. Do you see how descriptive this is? Can you see how I have gone through all of this future experience from the arrival to the airport to the actual experience of seeing animals on safari in Africa? It is so powerful and it makes it obtainable and achievable. It’s really just a holiday with a price tag and I just have to achieve that price tag. I have also taken the ‘Overwhelm’ out of it to see it as a task to perform.

I hope this helped you in some way, shape or form. Mindset is incredibly important and I believe it contributes to about 95% of how I go about my life. All the How-to’s and step by step guides won’t matter in the slightest if you do not believe in yourself or have faith. It just won’t matter.

If you would like to discuss any of the issues or points in How to overcome your fears and doubts then do not hesitate to contact me on adrian@adrianwhitworth.com or through the form in the contact page.

Your friend, Adrian

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Making it work

March 7, 2013 by admin Leave a Comment

Making it work

Making it work has to come from within you. Inner focus and concentrating on your heart and soul will give you the driving forces and your ‘Why’ to fight for what you want in 2013. Recently in Texas, David Sharpe address a room full of Empower leaders and gave this speech on ‘Making it work’ – Enjoy.

David Sharpe’s Recent Leadership Address

How many of you are committed to making it work and building the biggest business of your entire life in 2013?

What I’m going to ask you guys to do, is I am going to ask you to have an honest conversation with yourselves in the mirror, and ask what you want to do in making it work in 2013.

Some of you want to quit your jobs; a lot of you still have jobs.

Some of you want to be able to vacation like a lot of us.

Some of you want to buy a Maserati and have it delivered to your house.

Some of you want to move to Costa Rica.

Some of you want to go and visit Scotland where you are from, like Toby and Layla just got back from doing.

Some of you want to go and hang out with Simon in the UK and just go and have a ‘Cheeky Pint’ whenever you want. Some of you guys just want to be “Brilliant” like Simon.

Whatever it is that you want to do in 2013, I want you to start putting yourself in that place, in that situation already. When Dave and I started the company, we already knew what we wanted to do, and there was no doubt in our mind as to what we were going to do.

Making it Work!

I don’t know if you were like me growing up, but I knew that people didn’t think like me. I just knew that what was going on in their head was not the same thing that was going on in my head.

When I was swinging a hammer on a construction site, I can remember thinking to myself almost every single day,

This is not where I belong. This is not where I belong, this is not where I belong.”

I would tell myself that over and over and over again, until a door opened up, and I walked through it.

I’ll tell you what, people that live the life of their dreams got there because they were dreaming, they didn’t stop believing. They didn’t stop going out there and fighting.

I don’t care where you are at right now, if your going through something at home, if your going through some personal struggles, because you can get through them, and we’ll help you.

The cool thing is that we are on this journey together, and you will never hear out of Dave and I’s mouth, “We’ve arrived.” You will never hear that, because the day that someone tells you that, you’d better turn the other way and run.

…the day that someone tells you that, you’d better turn the other way and run.”

You’ve got to stay in the process of developing your skills and your heart. A lot of people wonder what the missing key is. The missing key is that you’ve got to get up every single day and find something that is going to inspire you in making it work.

I’ve got some secrets to my success and they are the basics. You don’t need to go out there and do anything special. You need to turn the focus inside. You need to focus, you need to get serious, 2013 is already here. Lets do it.

Your Challenge

I want you to do what David Sharpe asked us leaders to do in this speech. I want you to look in the mirror and ask yourself what you really want.

What are you going to do in 2013?

See yourself there as if it has already happened.

Go out there and take action until you have made it a reality.

2013 is your year. Lets lock arms and do this together!

Be sure to comment below and let me know what your personal vision is for 2013!

To Your Success and Freedom, making it work

P.S. Anyone still sitting on the fence should watch this video now, and then take action when the time comes. After you have made the decision to become a member, goto your email box and expect some stuff to come from me to get you started.

Remember, we don’t guarantee that you will become rich and powerful from joining the Empower Network. Don’t be a weenhole about it; if you want to read our full income disclosure you can do that at any time by clicking here. We update it daily.

Adrian Whitworth

‘Proud member and Team Leader at Empower Network’

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Who is Les Brown

March 7, 2013 by admin Leave a Comment

Who is Les Brown?

Who is Les Brown? In 1986, broke and sleeping on the cold, hard floor of his office, he began a career as a motivational speaker. By the early 1990s, he was one of the highest paid speakers in the USA.

Leslie Calvin Brown and his twin brother, Wesley, were born on February 17, 1945, on the floor of an abandoned building in Liberty City, a low-income section of Miami, Florida. Their birth mother, married at the time to a soldier stationed overseas, had become pregnant by another man and went to Miami secretly to give birth to her sons. Three weeks later, she gave them away. At six weeks of age, both boys were adopted by Mamie Brown, a 38-year-old unmarried cafeteria cook and domestic. The importance of her entrance into his life, Brown concludes, was immeasurable. “Everything I am and everything I have I owe to my mother.”

During his time at school, he was cheeky and often chastised for being disruptive in class. He was labelled as “educationally mentally retarded”, by his teachers and was often bypassed for classroom attention. There was one teacher who saw something within Les Brown and spent a lot of time trying to repel this negative attitude from the other teachers.

Les Brown

Brown related in his book that when he once told Washington in class that he couldn’t perform a task because he was educationally mentally retarded, the instructor responded, “Do Not Ever Say That Again! Some-one’s opinion of you does NOT have to become YOUR reality.” Those words provided Brown’s liberation from his debilitating label. “The limitations you have, and the negative things that you internalize are given to you by the world,” he wrote of his realization. “The things that empower you, the possibilities come from within.”

Employed after high school as a city sanitation worker, but determined to achieve what he desired-perhaps for the first time in his life-Brown pursued a career in radio broadcasting. He repeatedly bothered the owner of a local radio station about a position until the owner relented. Having no experience, Brown was hired to perform odd jobs. Firmly intent on becoming a deejay, he learned all he could about the workings of a radio station. One day, when a disc jockey became drunk on the air and Brown was the only other person at the station, he filled in at the microphone. Impressed, the owner of the station promoted Brown to part-time and then full-time disc jockey.

A chance encounter with motivational millionaire Zig Ziglar, convinced Les that a career as a motivational speaker was what he wanted to do.

Les did indeed, become a motivational speaker and a mentor to thousands of people. He spoke all over the USA and mentored a new generation of motivational speakers – most of whom, came from backgrounds where they had been told they would achieve nothing at all with their lives.

I love working with people who just need their inner victories unlocking. Once belief is experienced, and consistency is applied there is no limit to what can be achieved by anyone. An opportunity to write with Empower Network and to send out your voice and opinions is a great one. Yes, this can be done with personal blogs and websites – but the community and family support you get with Empower means you are more likely to get to your personal and business goals.

“A lot of people are content with their discontent.

“Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals, and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.

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How to start an online business from scratch

November 4, 2012 by admin 3 Comments

How to start an online business from scratch

How to start an online business from scratch. It seems that everyone wants to make money online these days and think that all you have to do is press a few buttons on your keyboard and make money magically appear in your bank account. If that were true, i’d be sitting next to Richard Branson on his island, drinking cocktails with my laptop open!

Having a profitable online business is all about mindset. It is, after all, a business and should be respected as such. Online marketing is not an amateur sport and cannot just be picked up by posting your links on Facebook or Twitter. Marketing is all about communication and telling your target audience about your product or service. Here are my 5 tips on how to start an online business from scratch.

How to start an online business from scratch

Identify your passion in life. We all know something about something don’t we? Most of us have a passion in life and because we love that particular thing, it means we know a lot about it. The more passionate we are about something, the more enthusiastic and knowledgable we will be about our interests. Don’t choose any old product because you have a feeling it will sell and make you some money.

How are you going to create content nearly everyday or talk about your product on Facebook if you don’t really give a rat’s ass about shoe laces? Start with the one thing you know most about even if you think no-one will want to know about it – Believe me, the internet is vast and there’s a big pond for everyone to go fishing in.
You can get an easy to use website (blog) to write about your passions in life. I can help you get hooked up with a blogging system that you don’t have to get the domain name or hosting set up. It’s all done for you! All you have to do is take a look HERE and see how having a viral blogging system and using it to talk about what you’re really passionate about and how you love to live your life can earn you money and really get your business off the ground!
Create regular content. By posting regular content about your passion you can start to build attention and momentum to that attention. People will find your content on Google or Bing, or they’ll find you on Facebook or see your tweets on Twitter and follow you with interest. Regular content in your blog will make you an authority on your subject and the more consistant you are with your content then people are more likely to buy from you. Remember this – People buy from people.
Create social media pages around your business. Unless you’ve been living in a cave you will have heard of Facebook and Twitter. There are literally hungreds of these sites around. The phrase social media for me simply means ‘The Internet’. It’s essentially the same thing. Social media was just a phrase created to explain where people hang out online and talk about stuff. This is why the internet is such a powerful medium. It’s changed some societies and people have risen up against dictatorships. So if you think that the internet and social media won’t get you business then please don’t even waste your time. I suggest you get yourself a Facebook page and a twitter page and learn how to use them both because in minutes you’ll be able to find people and groups that are interested in your subject matter. Once you have your blog content published and ready to be read, you can send out your link to people so they can access it. Again, if you want some guidance and lessons on how to find prospects and customers using social media sites then get in touch with me.
Create buzz and attention around your product or services. Social media can really help with this. Newsflashes, product launches and questionnaires can be done on your Facebook fanpage to drive awareness to your business. Because your content can be shared amongst your facebook friends or twitter followers – this can be powerful in terms of reaching out to more people than you ever thought possible. This can be known as the viral effect – it spreads!

Once you have completed the above steps you just repeat, repeat, repeat and repeat.

How to start an online business from scratch

How to start an online business from scratch is all about being passionate and consistent. Keep writing, creating content, or making videos about whatever it is that you love the most. My passion is helping people online. People that have a passion and want to make money out of it online can do it by creating lots of content and making sure as many people see it as possible. This can be done on the internet quite easily.

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How do I rank high on Google

July 10, 2012 by admin 3 Comments

How do I rank high on Google

People often ask me how do I rank high on Google? Well, I just follow some simple rules every single time and above all, I keep consistent. I’m going to go through some important pointers to give you a taster of what I do to achieve these consistently high rankings.

Researching Content Post Titles

This is one of the most important but most overlooked tactics. A lot of network marketers inparticular, seem to overlook this important tactic. A content post title is the most important part of your content’s SEO because this is how your content will be found in the search engines. When someone goes to Google do you think they are about to search for, “today I went to the shops and saw a purple duck”? No-one on the search engines cares what you saw or what you think about purple ducks! They are going to type in their problem or issue that they need an answer for.

If you do not want any traffic from the search engines then I am sure that web 2.0 sites like Facebook will only be too happy to learn about your purple ducks!

Still, It is well worth tidying up your optimisation for your potential customers though because if you are not search engine reliant, you still need to answer people’s questions whatever medium you are using to reach people. You can goto Yahoo Answers to get a feel for what people are asking through forums and the search engines. Once you decide on something that fits with your market place, pop it into Google search as a phrase search and see how many searches it attracts. You can then decide whether it’s something you think will get you traffic without lots of competition.

Headings

Headings will help you rank high on Google because the search engines see headings as good SEO. It splits the content up into readable chunks and is good for the user experience. Try and put some good keywords in there so it describes the content that is coming.

Linking Structure

Linking structure is all important when looking at the overall SEO for your content. Linking your content to authority sites and to content within your blog will work in your favour. Linking to other sites, especially authority sites will show the search engines that you are providing the visitor with good content and with options to really find the information they need. It will also get you good links which the search engines see as votes for your content. I like to send people to other pieces of content within my blog and also send them to my Facebook page and sometimes my You Tube Channel. It keeps visitors within my brand and it helps build their trust.

Using Videos Within Your Content

You’ll know from my blog, that my opinion of video is huge. You Tube currently gets approximately 1 billion hits every day. There are other video platforms such as Daily Motion and Vimeo. They all get a ton of traffic every-day and you could be getting some of that. If one of your videos is optimised properly and has a big-time keyword in there, you could be going viral with your product or service and you’ll get loads of traffic and hopefully some sales and sign-ups. My You Tube videos are ranking just as high or higher than my blog content and I have links in there to send traffic to.

Social network Posting

Once you have completed your piece of content and published it, it will get picked up by the search engine spiders and it will get ranked. The next thing to do is to share your content where there are millions of people on another medium – Social networking sites.

Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Stumbleupon, Digg, Reddit, Delicious and Google+ are just a few examples of the huge amount of networking sites that are online. Each different site has a different way of sharing content and are used by different groups of people. As an example, reddit and Pinterest are used by different types of people and the sites are completely different.

Reddit is used mainly by males who are into tech and Pinterest is mainly used by women. When you look at your product or service you must research where your market place is represented online and goto it. This is just targeting your traffic, going upto it and putting your product or service within it.

I goto Facebook groups and search for groups that are appropriate to my niche or market place. Then I have prospects ready to approach in a friendly manner. I use Twitter search to put my keywords into and I can find people to approach and help them with my blog posts. Like forum posting it can take time but well worth it.

So, when asking how do I rank high on Google, take into account the points I have raised above. I could go into each subject much more deeply but I’ll happily go into that if you want to get in touch with any questions you may have.

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How to video blog

June 24, 2012 by admin 12 Comments

How to Video Blog

The day is coming when video will be so big, it will get rid of blogging as we know it now – forever. Tech and the internet has no respect for our feelings or how we like to work. We have to move with the times and make hay. I feel sorry for companies who arent moving on with it. Have you seen the full page ad spreads in magazines and newspapers?

Who’s buying newspapers and magazines still? No-one really, people are on the internet instead. So, get making videos and put them on your blog. Create as many video posts as you can everyday. Answer people’s questions and solve their problems. Learning how to video blog will put you in front of online marketers who aren’t doing this yet.

Video Content Is King

People want to watch video, and not read your text. Sorry, but thats the way it is and its going to get a lot worse. I write lots in my blog. Not because i like to type, but because its SEO. I need my blog content to rank, so i write 600 words everyday and put my video in and hit publish.

I will continue to do this until, either people lose the ability to read, or people only ever watch video! I do suggest though, that you start making your videos and fire them out across the internet in as many ways as you can! When you film your short video, take the following advice:

Choose your video title carefully. Make sure you are answering a question or providing a solution to someone’s problem.
Fill in the description box on you Tube and put in your blog URL as well as a descrition about the video’s content. Use some keywords.
Be thorough with your tags box. Use different combinations of keywords because You Tube search is based on tags and not keywords.
Send your content out to all your web 2.0 and social networking sites. Build up your pages and get as many followers and friends as you can. You will get more views and more blog traffic when you do this

If you’re not sure about any of these pointers then skype me at adrianjohnwhitworth and ask me! Learning how to video blog is essential for your online marketing strategies.

Keep smiling

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Make money blogging for beginners

June 22, 2012 by admin 2 Comments

Make money blogging for beginners

Make money blogging for beginners is going to give you newbies some great information on how to gear your blog up for making some money. It doesn’t really matter what your market is or what niche you are in. the techniques are the same for everyone. So, here goes!

Relevant post title to answer people’s problems

When people goto Google, or Bing or whatever search engine they prefer. They are going to ask a question and they are going to want an answer. What if I told you, that you can find out what questions are being asked of the search engines and that you can answer these questions and provide an answer to potentially thousands of people? Well you can! Goto Yahoo answers and you can work your way through hundreds and hundreds of questions that people are asking!

Once you’ve found a question relevant to your product or service, you can go about using your product or service to answer that question in the form of blog content. The title you choose for your post is the answer to the question that you found! This post title will get ranked in the search engines and you will get some of the traffic to your site through doing this. This free information will place you as an authority with the people who find your content and will very likely return to your blog.

Answer people’s problems with a short video

Video is incredibly powerful at the moment and is set to get bigger and more influential. One of reasons why most people are said to fail at online marketing is the same reason people generally prefer to watch video than read all your hard researched text……LAZINESS!

That’s right folks! There’s only one reason why you have put together 600 words or so and types it up and spell checked it for the blog. The search engines need to crawl your text in order to rank it.

People would rather watch a video and be spoon fed their information rather than read it. Statistics tell us that 90% of people are going to click on a video in search engine results and on blogs.

You will know from all of my blog posts that I have a short video of some description under the first or second paragraph. That is so when my blog is loaded onto your monitor, you will see my video right there without having to scroll down the page – AGAIN……PEOPLE ARE LAZY! No offense but it’s the truth! You might as well learn and study human nature and apply it to your blogs.

Write your content with your customer or prospect in mind

Now, I know I said that 90% of your visitors are more likely to watch your video rather than read your text. But some people will read most or all of it so you need to write your content in a way that gets your point across. Optimising your content just for the search engines can lack emotion and personality. Get passionate about what you’re talking about and make a great impression on the person that chose your content over everyone else’s. Write at least 300 words but I recommend around 600 words. It’s not too long or too short for your visitor.

Build an Email List

Finally, I like to build an email list with people who liked my content and I want them to come back. A lot of internet marketers build huge lists but then lose their subscribers by continually trying to sell to them. Big mistake. The best thing way to treat your prospects or potential customers is to give them FREE information. Keep adding value to yourself and build trust with them. Your prospects will visit your site at least 4 or 5 times to keep reporting back to your content.

So, instead of spamming them with crappy affiliate products that they will get refunds or returns for anyway, send your list your new blog content. I create fresh new content at least 5 times per week and send the link out to my list. Not all of them will click on it but most do which keeps the traffic coming and keeps the trust building. I say this over and over again, but people buy from people. Do you like to be sold to? I don’t! It’s bloody annoying and disrespectful. If I want something I’ll ask for it thankyou very much! If someone wants to bombard me with their awful links then I’ll unsubscribe straight away! Rant over with.

Follow these initial rules when you get started and you’ll develop good habits. I hope you got some use from make money blogging for beginners

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Using social media for marketing

June 20, 2012 by admin 2 Comments

Using social media for marketing

Using social media for marketing can be a slower way of getting your online sales at first. Social media is there for interaction with people and to share information. What people do not like, is to be sold to. People like to buy from people and with social media, you can build up trust, share free information and show yourself as an authority.

I use social media for marketing and I’ll go through some of the platforms that I like to use to get my content lots of attention from the right places.

Facebook. I love to use Facebook for prospecting leads. I target Facebook groups that are appropriate to my niche or marketplace and look at the people commenting and ‘liking’ content on the page. If that person is indicating that they need a solution to a problem and I think I can provide that solution then I will introduce myself and start a conversation. I never go in for the sell though, and simply talk about the subject in hand first. After bouncing some messages back and forth and giving some free information to them, I will slowly introduce my product or service to their attention.
Pinterest is a new addition to my social portfolio. Using Pinterest for marketing is great because millions of people use it and it is totally different from other sharing sites. It’s based on the idea of you having an online notice board and you ‘pin’ content to it. The content can be images, blog content or video. People can follow you and share your Pinterest content on Facebook. I really like it because it’s visual and the layout looks good and clean. You can link the images to where you want to send the person looking at your content.
Stumbleupon gets me loads of traffic to my blog. Once I’ve completed my blog post and published it, I will bookmark it onto Stumbleupon. How Stumbleupon works is that the user will log in and choose a category and ask the site to find it an interesting site or blog within that category. Once your site or blog post comes up then the user can share it with friends on facebook or other sharing sites. This particular site works out very well for me.
Digg is one of the sites that has a lot of authority on Google. You can post your blog content on there and also add friends. By having your content ‘dugg’ it is like a voting system and the most diggs that a site gets then they get onto Digg’s homepage and get a ton of traffic!

Using social media for marketing needs different approaches for different platforms. On Twitter, for instance, there are marketers putting their sales links everywhere and it’s allowed. But, just because it’s allowed, it doesn’t mean it works! Do you like to be sold to by a stranger? What do you think when someone direct messages you with a link for their company or product?

So, when you’re using interaction sites like Facebook and Twitter, don’t stomp in with your boots and and get selling. Look at the site that you are using and do what the ‘locals’ are doing. Be respectful and develop friendships first. It won’t be long before your new friends are asking you what you do and then the door is open for that particular conversation.

With sites like Pinterest and Digg, you can post your content which is linked to your site and you’ll get traffic. So use as many bookmarking sites as you possibly can because you can never have too much traffic

I hope this content does help you to generate leads online. See you next time!

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Local Business Internet Marketing

June 17, 2012 by admin 2 Comments

Local Business Internet Marketing is here to get you onto the internet to increase your revenue and draw lots of attention to your products and services.

Local Business Internet Marketing

• Are you dominating the search engines with your content? Place your business right where people can find you.

• Use social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter to draw lots of attention towards your products or services. Your special offers, news flashes or price deals can get immediate exposure.

• Google Places is like having your own business card and map location on search engine results pages (SERPS). Google Places increases revenue for many local businesses and is a FREE service. Are you using Google Places yet?

• Video platforms such as You tube, Vimeo and Daily Motion can give your business massive exposure and it is really easy to produce a short video and upload it onto You tube for FREE!

• Create unique content based on your products or services which will rank high in the search engines.

Content is King

I have been using WordPress Blogs for a long time as it is easy to add fresh new content to my site whenever I want. Original content is exactly what the search engines want and so do people using the search engines. Search websites such as Google and Bing are in the information business and all they want to do is to provide the searcher with the most accurate results to the search. The combination of keywords and relative information to the content title will ensure that in time, your content will rank high in the search engines.

Here are some important statistics for local businesses:

• 71% of ALL searches conducted online are local in nature. That’s a huge amount of searches looking for products or services in your local area. You could be a part of that.

• 60% of revenue is generated online. This figure will increase as the internet grows.

• Google takes up 70% of local search engine use. This is why it’s important to know what Google looks for when ranking new content. All my content is optimised for the search engines as well as the customer.

• Purchases made on mobile phones in your local area increases 16% annually. Smart phones will be able to pick up your blog and therefore buy your product or service.

• Finally, MOST local businesses in your local area FAIL to be on page 1 of search engine results. Page 1 placings can be achieved by applying solid online marketing skills.

You know your business best:

Many companies, small businesses and individuals employ SEO companies to take care of their search engine optimisation. This can be because some people don’t have the time or think they cannot do it themselves. Some SEO companies give them the impression that it’s very complicated. It’s a lot easier than people think and it can be done with some regular maintenance work.

Local Business Internet Marketing

Local Business Internet Marketing is vital for your products and services. Keep in mind that 71% of all searches are local in nature. Many local people in your area are looking for solutions to their problems. Getting your local online marketing strategies in place will put you in the frame to solve these problems and increase your revenue. Are you ready and placed to take this extra revenue on?

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