The Cookie Monster Was Still In My Computer

Most evenings when I shut down the computer I will delete the cookies and clear the cache.  Every so often I also run the disc defrag.  The purpose of course is to help the computer stay cleaner and run faster, as well as more privacy.

doggie-cookiesA couple of weeks ago I happened upon an article called “You Deleted Your Cookies? Think again”.

Click here for the article

After reading the article myself, I decided to install
* Better Privacy extension for Firefox -
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6623

I personally found over 2,000 of the LSO or “Flash cookies” on my system and many of them were from way back in 2008.

The idea of being tracked in such a sneaky way did not sit well with me. I now delete the LSO’s each evening as well.  You may want to consider adding on the Better Privacy extension to your Fire Fox browser as well and see who is spying on YOU.

If you decide to use the Better Privacy Fire Fox extension, be sure the auto delete check boxes are all checked.  I have it set to delete at start-up, close, and every evening.

You could set it to delete every 15 minutes if you wanted to.  Its a matter of personal preference and how bad you want to keep the cookie monster at bay.

Why You Need A Work At Home Schedule

In my experience, the main reason why people strive to work at home is because of the freedom it invokes. I’ve enjoyed this freedom myself for a few years now and there are upsides such as never setting an alarm clock, no commute, no time clock, no oddballs in the office to deal with, the list goes on and on.

I remember when I first set out to work from home, there were no “pie in the sky” numbers of $50,000 a month in my head. What was in my head was “GET ME OUT OF THIS OFFICE AND AWAY FROM MY BI-POLAR BOSS!” I had downsized my life already and needed a specific amount of income each month to stay at home, and ramp it up from their.

In the beginning, it was fairly easy to work from home and I was burning the mid-night oil. But, something happened. Boredom strikes. Isolation, no one to socialize with, bad habits settle in. Especially putting off something to later, which ends up tomorrow, which ends up whenever.

Then there are the family distractions, crisis situations within the extended family, phone ringing, friends stopping over, short errands that would end up turning into afternoons, etc. What I found all to common was how my “intended work time” would over-lap into my “free time” and vise-versa.

You Must Have A Schedule To Follow When Working From Home

After putting in a few months of your new work at home endeavor, you will find yourself with more and more tasks to get done, more and more income coming in, and if you don’t keep getting those tasks completed, the income can dry up. Or at the very least, dwindle down into an amount that is barely enough to live on, which is what happened to me.

What worked for myself in getting back on track is to ALWAYS have a work schedule made out for each day. I create mine the night before. Sometimes I put it into a spreadsheet, and sometimes I just write it down on a notepad.

When Creating Your Work From Home Schedule

1)      Create your “to do” list the night before, and prioritize your list

2)      Be sure to schedule in your break time and hold to it

3)      Don’t allow the phone, TV, e-mail, etc take you away from your tasks. A good “compass” would be to ask yourself “If I was in a corporate office, would I do this on corporate time”. Remember, doing wasteful activities with employers takes away from the employers bottom line. Wasteful activities in your home business takes away from YOUR bottom line. And that can get a little scary if you are depending on your work from home income to fully support your household.

4)      Enjoy creating your own schedule, after all, you get to choose your break time, your free time, your hours, how long your lunch will be, what days your work, etc.

One of the things I enjoy the most about being able to work from home is on some days I feel like working early in the morning and getting allot done by noon. Other days I don’t do much of anything in the morning and work afternoons late into the night. For me, it’s always been about FREEDOM.

Having that work schedule made out the night before with the exact tasks for the next day spelled out with the most important tasks prioritized has made my work days much more productive and effective.

2009 Video Clips And Photos

Out With 2009, In With 2010


Network Marketing Success-Dealing With Doubt

One of the most common problems that gets in the way of network marketing success is dealing with doubt.  I know because I’ve been down that road of doubt myself, and ran.

I remembered a blurb I seen on TV last year about a private all-girls college in St. Paul that charges $23,000 a year. That doesn’t include books.

The women can hope for a job between $40,000 to $50,000 a year upon graduation. The average being around $40,000 a year to start.

I think you know where I’m going with this. If an entrepreneur truly wants to be successful, they will first set their mindset that their will be ongoing education, work, and persistent consistency in order to achieve success.

I Need What For Network Marketing Success?!

Success signWhen we first start out in our home-based businesses, we hear about how a person MUST change from within first. We hear how we will be challenged beyond anything that we may have ever done in the past.

We hear how there will be days in which we question if we are truly capable of following through and doing all that is necessary.

We question whether or not we can successfully compete with the thousands of others on the the same industry. Many who seem to be easily making it happen.

We question if we have what it takes. We have days of emotion in which we may become depressed or over-whelmed by all that needs to be done.

We feel like we are doing allot of work, spinning our wheels, and not getting the results we wanted.

We see others having allot of success and may feel that they are some kind of unique person that has qualities that we do not possess and therefor may never get to $50,000 a month but we would be happy with $10,000 a month.

We are programmed since an early age to accept a certain map of life that has been laid out for us by the many institutions we have been apart of in our early life.

Mindset Corrections Bring Massive Change

When we begin to learn how to truly become successful entrepreneurs, we are making a stand to become independent of most everything that we have been programmed to accept all our lives.

Becoming an entrepreneur is truly a call to independence. We are taking a stand to take back our lives and not rely on outside forces that we have no control over.

We are being held accountable for ourselves and have no one to blame for our success or failures but ourselves.

This is all very over-whelming. To fail at such a daunting task is a frightening proposition.

We are called to step outside of ourselves, and to essentially reprogram our minds. Don’t ever think this is an easy over-night task.

It requires us to really make a decision, and then follow through. And it is work. The rewards are worth every ounce of it.

A Real Decision For Network Marketing Success Manifests Bluntly

I remember the day I made the decision. Not just a thought, but a decision Success2that came from within.

I knew that this was going to take allot out of me. It was going to require a total shift in my way of thinking and how I do things related to business.

I knew it was going to be over-whelming. So I sat down with my family, and told them about the decision I had made.

It was emotional. I’m not talking tears, but rather a sense of a “no turning back, failure not an option”.

My family and friends all had a sense that I was about to do something that was going to really change me as a person as well as require me to dig deep.

It was time to pull out all that was within me, and that which wasn’t there, I had to fill by learning the knowledge that I was lacking.

Despite What You May Have Heard…

Most people out there today that are trying to make extra money online or offline, make a shift in their lives and make a stay at home incomes are never told how much it requires of them.

It is more than just buying a system or buying leads and wishing for the best. It truly takes a change from within. A commitment that is internal, not external.

So how does a person make this change from within? It starts with a real internal decision. I’m not talking about meaningless words or thoughts.

Trust me, when you make the decision from within, you will know it. You will have a sense of freedom.

You will also realize that there is a mountain before you that you must climb. And you will know that no matter what, you are going to get the knowledge.

You’ll do what it takes to get the training, and tools that would be required of you to succeed at making it to the summit of that mountain.

Anything less, would smash your dreams of succeeding in making it to the summit. And knowing this as you make your decision, you will find that things from within come to the surface.

Fact Is….

It happens as you go down the path. It doesn’t happen like a bolt of lighting hitting. You just hunker down, and begin, and never give up.

As you begin to implement the mechanics of online marketing, those changes from within begin to take place, personal development takes place.

You give of yourself to others that are on the same path as much as you can. And when it seems like you just keep giving and giving and not getting much return, you make some tweaks, and keep giving.

And guess what happens, things begin to “pop”. It may happen in 90 days, month six or seven, or longer. It is a rare occasion where a person gets a great income over-night.

Yes, we have all read the stories of people who make boat loads of cash in 30 days or less. These people likely already learned the knowledge of what is takes to get to that kind of income so quickly. But it is not the norm.

The ladies at that private college in St. Paul are willing to pay $23,000 a year and give four years of their lives, and start out at around $40,000 a year, with a debt of nearly 100k right out of the gate.

How can anyone wanting to become an entrepreneur and learn how to make six figures a year feel badly over spending what equates to a fraction of that college tuition in order to get there?

How can anyone complain or give up if it takes 6 months to a year, or even longer for success in network marketing? It’s all about mindset. Change your mindset, take action, take action. And then take more action.

Most Important Of All

eyesUntil I changed my mindset, I fussed over spending too much money on tools and courses to learn how to make it in this wonderful industry which offers anyone with motivation, commitment, desire, and a work ethic success and independence that is hard pressed to be found doing anything else in life.

The return on investment for tools and training which truly is minimal compared to the potential outcome is really a no-brainer. I personally began on a shoe string budget so I started out doing what I could.

I made sacrifices by cutting back on spending and used the funds to buy knowledge and implement tools. As I made money, I bought more tools, and more knowledge.

There will be struggles, there will days when you will question if you have what it takes. There will be times when you will have a “mental block” and are frustrated as can be.

It is just the old programming in your mind trying to push its way back in. On those days, step away from your work for a little while, maybe even a whole day or two, and spend time with friends or family.

Go for a walk. Go to the lake. Read a chapter in an inspirational book. Especially one that is related to the industry that addresses the challenges that everyone of us goes through.

Then come back refreshed, enlightened, and get back to work. Continue to always move forward. You WILL get to the summit.

E-Mail Marketing For Network Marketers

Hang on to your seat because I’m going to keep things simple and show you why e-mail marketing for network marketers is vastly different than e-mail marketing to niche markets, and make it very easy for you to NOT have to worry about creating a whole series of 10 to 20 e-mails to your prospects.

e-mailWhy? Because I remember how much I dreaded having to sit down and try to write a dozen e-mails to load into an auto-responder. And I am convinced that most people who purchase an auto-responder feel the same way. Not only that, but people are no longer very appreciative of getting a slew of sales pitches in their inbox.

For Starters….

For a moment, think about how different niche marketing is from network marketing. A quick refresher: Niche marketing is just selling products to faceless nameless buyers who are ready to buy.

Network marketing is much more personal and its where you build trust and work closely with your team, and in many cases become friends with those you work with.

We never want to confuse how you would treat a niche prospect who, in most cases, is ready to buy, and will likely purchase other related products in the same niche, to someone who is looking for the right person to work with in a network marketing opportunity.

So Here Is The Easy Part (We love easy!)

Write just one e-mail for your auto-responder. Yep, just one. Make it a welcome e-mail containing:

  1. Your contact info in a nice signature file
  2. A short paragraph about you that has “read more…” and a direct link going to your “About Me” page on your blog

That’s it! But There’s A Rub And It’s Really Ironic

First, your prospect is totally scratching their head. I mean, they were  half-expecting that you were going to try and sell them a bill of goods. They were also expecting to see a long drawn out e-mail that they would just delete.

Second, YOU completely have set yourself apart from all the other e-mails in their inbox and they will very likely open future e-mails from you.

What we are trying to do is treat your prospects as if they were sitting right in front of you and you had the intention of helping them out, not trying to sell sell sell.

ConversationUse your auto-responder to inform your network-marketing prospect, not sell them. Inform them of a new blog post you’ve written. Let them poke around your blog and see the products you recommend. Have your own personal reviews on the products you are recommending.

You see what’s happened here? We have completely removed any pitching in our e-mails. We do want them to get opened, right? We do want our prospects to visit our blog and get to know us better, and see what we’re about.

If you do want to recommend and sell affiliate products to your network marketing prospect list, create a blog post around why you recommend the product then send the post to your list. Remember, first paragraph with a link leading to your post on the blog.

One More Important Point

Do consider creating a separate e-mail list that your prospects can opt-in to that would contain a series of trainings. Perhaps a series of articles you have written yourself, or a series of audios or videos.

Finally, once a prospect joins your opportunity, have them opt-in to an “update” list in which you would e-mail Team updates and trainings, etc.

My strong hunch is that if you have been involved with a network marketing opportunity, you appreciated it when you had a leader in your upline that kept everyone informed. Best of all, YOU can be that leader.

Facebook Lead Generation-How To Generate Leads On Facebook

Facebook lead generation is not only a great strategy for your business, but it can also be as frustrating as trying to paddle a canoe into the wind. Done improperly, it can also get your profile yanked without notice.

ist1_9458297-network-peopleOne of the biggest and most common mistakes people who are new to Facebook lead generation make is sounding like a sales person. As if that’s not enough, they sometimes will also pimp the “latest, greatest opportunity”.

A word of caution”: If you want to develop Facebook lead generation, don’t sell products, pay plans, opportunities, and please don’t hype anything. Here’s why:

Recently I accepted a friend invitation on Facebook. The first message I received from this person was “New Company Just Launched! Join Now! Big $$$ Will Be Made Here”.

The real kicker is this person just kept sending these types of messages, and I had to unfriend them. No doubt their profile was or will soon be deleted.

It is against Facebook policies to pitch business on personal profile pages. You can however, create “Fan” pages and talk business on those fan pages without any concern-at least at the time of this posting.

The secret to developing a decent Facebook leads generation strategy that can be duplicated in pretty much all of the social networks is quit simple. Be yourself, and provide useful information.

Most important of all, don’t wait until you feel like you’re an expert at something. Share what you learned on the last webinar, conference call, info product, blog post, etc that you learned from.

Share what you’ve learned in your own words via video, blog posts, a Facebook page, whatever your comfortable with. Then post the link to it on Facebook and don’t forget to tweet it on twitter.

The people who are most successful at Facebook lead generation share their knowledge as well as interact with others who also share. It’s always about two-way conversation and not one-way pitching.

Facebook Lead Generation Points:

  • Upload a decent photo of yourself
  • Fill out the info below your photo-add your blog url
  • Be thorough when filling out your “Info” page-let people find out more about you without having to “hunt” for it
  • Join a few groups you will be interested in and upon joining, state to the community why you joined
  • Send friend requests to those who interest you, but NEVER send too many at once, or you might find your profile deleted
  • Participate in the groups you have joined. Add your “2 cents” to some of the topics that are brought up
  • Try to update your status at least once every day or two, and if possible, more often than that
  • Socialize with others in your News Feedist1_6855981-speech-bubble
  • Give “Kudos” to other peoples posted work
  • Share your own work-blog posts, videos, etc
  • Don’t pitch. Rather, just share and the right people will be attracted to you
  • Make sure to include your blog link in all your social profiles
  • If you are building an e-mail list, have a way for those who are interested in receiving more info from you to opt-in to your newsletter or training e-mails. ie. Have your marketing funnel set up.
  • Read Facebook Policy and Procedures concerning business activities in order to remain in compliance

Over time using Facebook will seem like second nature and it will actually become part of your day. By being yourself and interacting with others without pitching your deal, you will inevitably attract people to you.

Marketing Funnels Made Easy

Some people use marketing funnels and some don’t. Not every method to making an income online requires building an e-mail list to sell products. If you are looking to create a marketing funnel in order to build your e-mail list, then I have a few things to say here.

First, its best if you can create your own capture pages that are personally branded to YOU. For most newbies, this is too complicated and in this case, I think it is fine to use a “ready made” system with training on creating e-mail lists and generating income from them.

One thing I would be very sure of, and you will want to find out a head of time is if you can export your leads from the “ready made” system to your own auto responder when you get to the point that you can build your own custom capture pages.

Most auto responders don’t allow you to import leads but at the time of this post I believe that I-Contact still does allow importing of leads that you have generated ethically.

Ready made marketing funnels don’t have to be expensive. If you’re on a budget, I’ve found an excellent one that is far more than just a marketing funnel, and you can start for a $10 bucks and some spare change. (however, I recommend the $39.95 version-but if money is tight, the lower priced one will work just fine)

I actually really like this marketing system because it is very inexpensive and easy to use for the beginner and it also allows the user to earn income while building their e-mail list. Not to mention this system pays for itself.

Finally, I also like the fact that all the leads generated using this marketing system can be exported into I-Contact should the user ever wish to export their leads into another auto responder system

The two most important things any marketers will need and should set up first, is their blog and a lead capture/marketing funnel system. I invite you to check out to the one I’m using so you can get a “feel” for it and see if it might be the right marketing system for you.

Easy Ways To Make Money Online Exist, But..

You’ve seen all the sales pages out there talking about easy ways to make money online, and I’m sure your e-mail inbox gets flooded with offers as well.

You and I both know there are no easy ways to make money online without first getting an education on the basics, as well as building a foundation.

Not to worry though, there really are easy ways to make money online once you have enough working knowledge of the basic fundamentals.And it WILL take hard work

The good new is, once you have the fundamentals down, some education and a working knowledge of the daily activities you’ll need to be doing, you’ll find that you can make an income online.

Easy money? Not at first. But it does happen for those who stick with it and implement what they have learned and always keep educating themselves on techniques and trends.

One of the biggest fundamentals is pretty obvious and I’m not trying to insult your intelligence, but it’s always worth repeating that continued activity at the point of where you are at is crucial.

If you’re brand new to the idea of making money online, then your main activity would be learning. I’d start with getting your yourname.com site set up first before anything else.

[Tip: The longer you own your domain name, and the longer you have your website up, the better. The search engines like “aged” domains and websites. i.e. the sooner you have your domain name and your site up, the better-even if you just have one article on the site to start out with]

I recommend a WordPress blog site. Again, your first site should be yourname.com. Don’t worry about what you will write about at this point. You’ll need to get the structure in place first.

Next, determine which method you want to start with to generate an income online. Focus on that one method, and it will become easy to do. Work? Yes. But easy because you will know what you are doing.

Don’t limit yourself to any one method of generating income online. It is a wise idea once you have mastered one method to move on and learn another. I’d never want to put all my eggs in one basket.

So, to recap:

1) Get hosting for your website (most hosting companies allow you to create as many websites as you wish on your hosting account. I recommend Host Gator.

2) Buy yourname.com domain name

3) Download WordPress onto your domain name from your hosting account.

4) Search for a theme (what your site will look like)

5) Add all the proper plug-ins so your site

6) Start brainstorming a couple of articles to start with. Help with writing

Consider some of these various ways to make money online:

1) Affiliate

2) Niche Marketing

3) CPA offers (I don’t recommend this method unless you are more advanced  in your internet marketing knowledge)

4) Write your own e-book to sell or give away to increase your audience/build an e-mail list

5) Create “How To” videos to sell or give away for same reasons as #4

6) Learn a skill set and offer your services for fees based on your skills

These are just but a few of the many ways to start generating an income online.

They all work, and they all require some “elbow grease”. Need help? Basic “how to” set up videos will be posted before weeks end.

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