Internet Marketing 101
August 30th, 2003
Hello everyone;
I want to wish everyone a safe and happy holiday here in the USA. I won't
ramble too much today. I do have a couple of announcements for this week
though.
Geesh, sorry folks I feel like a walking billboard this week, and that's
not normally my style. However I do like announcing my "no charge"
bonus teleseminars when they take place since many of you sign up.
I'm interviewing Randy Gilbert of the "The Inside Success Show"
tommorow (Tuesday) at 7:00 Central time in a live teleseminar (yes
no charge)...grin.
His site is located at: http://www.TheInsideSuccessShow.com
Randy is discussing how to use Amazon.com to gain exposure and sell more
products, not just books either. Though of course books is certainly part
of the discussion since Amazon is primarily a book seller among other
things. Randy will reveal many "areas" of Amazon you can use
very effectively in your sales and marketing model.
Please go to my Crazy Web Guy site for more details about Randy and to
sign up for the "no charge" live interview and teleseminar,
phone lines are limited.
http://www.CrazyWebGuy.com
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Ok, so onward we march.
Well this week I'm playing the "happy hermit", well almost,
my cat Gimpy, and I are bachelors this week while my wife visits our daughter
and her new husband down in Pensacola Florida this week. She and some
friends went down for a few days in the sun. Well maybe that's "rays
in the sun".
It's funny how how much you can reflect on past events, people in your
life and things such as that when a primary person in your life is gone
for a short period. It seems to make me do more self evaluation anyway.
Actually this is something we should all do on a regular basis, not only
in our personal life, but in our business life as well.
Do you regularly evaluate where you are in your business, such as income,
goals, checkpoints and overall how you are progressing in your business?
Please don't tell me you don't have any goals or business plan setup...
if not then how do you know when you are making progress?
Remember to be effective we have to know:
1. Where we are planning to go.
2. Check points or steps to take along the way.
3. What we have attained when we complete each check point and our final
destination.
Hmmm, it's kind of like taking a trip isn't it. If we head out on the
road to an unknow destination and if we don't know where we are going,
then how can we hope to get there? Sure we can just head out, but what
then?
At some point we have to stop and ask for directions. What if the directions
given to us are wrong?? Then we have delayed the final outcome of the
trip. But if we take a map and plan out our trip then hopefully we can
make it to our final destination in the least amount of time.
I know when we plan a trip, we do it in steps or check points. Such as,
when my wife and I make it to Huntsville Alabama on our way to Pensacola
Florida, then that is the first check point. We usually reward ourselves
with a break and eat a bite. We have 4 check points that breaks the trip
up and makes it more manageable and it takes less time.
We should do the same in our business, have check points and as you attain
each check point (or step) then take a break, reward yourself with a night
out with the family or some small gift.
This breaks up the tasks of taking on a project in your business and makes
it more manageable. It also reaffirms that your are making progress when
you reward yourself for completing a check point or step. Isn't this part
of the reason of having a business or working for yourself, is to enjoy
life some?
All work and no play makes Gary a dull guy. You can ask my wife!
Finally when all the check points are complete, you should know that you
have attained the goals or the end result that you wanted when you started
the project for your business. If you do this in all your projects then
you also have a history to reveiw of your progress, as your business grows.
This allows you to look at a road map of your progress and see weak spots
in your plan, strong points in your plan and overall where you are in
your business as a whole. That way you can concentrate on those spots
that need improving, plus you can increase promotion or activity in those
areas that show the most production (strong points) in your business plan.
So if you haven't laid out a map for your business, then start today.
Don't wander aimlessly about looking for directions.
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Ok last but certainly not least.
The other announcement is I'm honored to be hosting a teleseminar called
"Super Affiliate How To Tips And Secrects". Joining me
is Rosalind Gardner and Roy Oron. It is Thursday at 7:00 Central time,
8:00 Eastern (PM).
No you don't HAVE to have your own products to sell online. Rosalind makes
6 figures yearly selling other peoples
products. Though she has recently written an ebook telling how she does
this and it's receiving great reviews.
Roy has top affiliates selling 20-25 copies of his products a day. He
has learned how to connect with super affiliates like Rosalind that move
products. Learn their methods about being a super affiliate and selling
loads of other people's products, and how to attract super affiliates
if you have your own products.
Be sure to join us on Thursday evening. For more details and to sign up
just click below:
http://wetrack.it/budgetware/af.cgi?aid=38&ent=6
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Several of you notified me that you were interested in the upcoming Joint
Venture project that will be by invitation only. I'll be sending you more
details as they allow us to release them. Thanks for notifying me, you
have been added to my invitation list and to receive more details as they
come in.
This is going to be a huge joint venture resource for those that
take advantage of it. If you sell your own product or even anyone else's
then (which most of us do - one or the other...grin...) you should sign
up to get more details when the project goes live.
Remember it will be by invitation only, so shoot me an email to learn
more as details become available and to be on my "special invitation"
list when it goes live.
gary@budgetware.com
Subject: JV project details.
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I hope you have a great holiday (in the USA), may you and your family
have a very blessed week.
Thanks for joining me and my ramblings!
See ya next week, same place.
:-)
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