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<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:blogger='http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-965452870253330261</id><updated>2024-08-30T11:10:06.483-07:00</updated><category term="Social Media Marketing"/><category term="Internet Marketing"/><category term="network marketing"/><category term="Article Writing"/><category term="Blogging"/><category term="HTML Code"/><category term="List building"/><category term="Motivation"/><category term="Search Engine Optimization"/><category term="Success Principles"/><category term="Website Hosting"/><category term="domain name"/><category term="video marketing"/><category term="website design"/><title type='text'>Meri Howard's Guide to Building a Strong Profitable Internet Business</title><subtitle type='html'>Meri Howard gives you a step by step formula to build and market your business on the internet.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://merihoward.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/965452870253330261/posts/default?redirect=false'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://merihoward.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>merihoward</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04702121136902344444</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFKpaVTKlRNwZ-UJmL3DsHfxZmUQXBlTG84lRE8ThHLVGc3BuNYm4UNScP_FGHrqQTREVQdkeQaZdq7i-sN2wvqhUuVRts49s0sUqrYbQGLFfxrEDXE1mLZZs2E3md1A/s220/meri10.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>21</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-965452870253330261.post-8779874578476231537</id><published>2010-04-07T11:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-07T11:48:48.915-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Internet Marketing"/><title type='text'>Ezine Advertising Secrets from a Millionaire Marketer</title><content type='html'>I was fortunate to learn some valuable ezine advertising secrets recently from millionaire marketer Daegan Smith who has been marketing on the internet for over 5 years. He uses a variety of advertising methods including pay-per-click and content marketing. He shared his secrets to one of his favorite advertising methods, ezine advertising. Use these valuable tips to grow your business.
 
Don’t just advertise in any ezine. You need to focus your advertising budget toward an ezine which caters to your prospects. Make a list of 100 ezines or newsletters in your niche. A valuable resource for finding these ezines is Directory of Ezines. You can have access to the Directory of Ezines for $97 per year or $197 for a lifetime membership. If this is out of your budget, you can create your list for free by doing a search engine search of your niche plus ezine or your niche plus newsletter.
 
Once you have your list of 100, look at each ezine’s website. Does it look professional? Is it a serious ezine for your niche? If it claims to have a million subscribers but offers you an ad for $30, this is not a serious ezine and you will be throwing your money down the drain. 
 
Once you have examined the websites for the 100 ezines, you will probably be left with about 50 ezines that qualify. Open a new email account with Yahoo or Google and subscribe to each ezine. Look at the ezines that you receive to see which ones work best for your offer. The only ones that you want to consider are newsletters with solo ads. This is very important so I will repeat it. Only consider newsletters or ezines with solo ads. 
 
Whittle your ezine choices down by this criterion and now you will have probably about 25 ezines that qualify. Contact the publisher of each of these ezines. Tell them that you are a happy subscriber to their ezine and you feel that you have a good match for their subscriber base. Ask them how well their ads pull from their newsletter. Ask them if anyone else has marketed anything similar in the past and how did it do. Probably only about 4 of the publishers will respond. Only send money to publishers who respond.
 
The speed of growth is important for a newsletter. Ask the publisher how fast the subscriber base is growing. Discount about 60% whatever they tell you. You want to advertise with a newsletter that is growing and not one that is dying out. 
 
Daegan Smith uses the same ad for every publication. He has tested this ad and knows that if it isn’t working that it is the publication and not his ad. When you are starting out, you may need to test different forms of the ad until you find one that gets the best response. If he pays $100 for an ad and it doesn’t pull at all or he makes a small amount, say $20, he pulls the ad. If on the other hand, he makes $80, he will contact the publisher and see if he can advertise the ad on a long term contract like 6 months for just $80 per month. This way he should at least break even each month and if the ezine subscription is growing by 10% a month, chances are good that he will soon start to make money.
 
Daegan has a 2 minute solo ad formula for the best results and here it is: 
 
Subject Line: How to get XYZ Results in ZYX Time Free 
If you are sick and tired of (problem, problem. problem), then this will be the most important website you ever see. 
Link to website 
Headline of Website 
Line to website 
 
The goal with the solo ad is to get people to click on your link, not to sell them with the ad. Once the prospect is on your website, capture their name and email address so that if they don’t purchase immediately, you still have a chance to get a sale down the road. 
 
To learn more marketing tips from Daegan Smith, go to https://daegansmith.infusionsoft.com/go/freedvdbootcamp/meriberi/</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://merihoward.blogspot.com/feeds/8779874578476231537/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://merihoward.blogspot.com/2010/04/ezine-advertising-secrets-from.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/965452870253330261/posts/default/8779874578476231537'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/965452870253330261/posts/default/8779874578476231537'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://merihoward.blogspot.com/2010/04/ezine-advertising-secrets-from.html' title='Ezine Advertising Secrets from a Millionaire Marketer'/><author><name>merihoward</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04702121136902344444</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFKpaVTKlRNwZ-UJmL3DsHfxZmUQXBlTG84lRE8ThHLVGc3BuNYm4UNScP_FGHrqQTREVQdkeQaZdq7i-sN2wvqhUuVRts49s0sUqrYbQGLFfxrEDXE1mLZZs2E3md1A/s220/meri10.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-965452870253330261.post-9106486233004544093</id><published>2010-03-31T17:00:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-03-31T17:28:48.751-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Blogging"/><title type='text'>Some Great Resources to Market Your Blog</title><content type='html'>If you have a blog and are looking for ways to promote it, here is a great list of resources for you. You will need an RSS feed first so look to your webhost as to how to set it up or go to <a href="http://www.feedburner.com">http://www.feedburner.com</a> to set one up.
 
<a href="http://www.bloglines.com">http://www.bloglines.com</a> 
<a href="http://www.bloghub.com">http://www.bloghub.com</a> 
<a href="http://www.plazoo.com">http://www.plazoo.com</a> 
<a href="http://www.redtram.com">http://www.redtram.com</a> 
<a href="http://www.icerocket.com">http://www.icerocket.com</a> 
<a href="http://www.rss-feed.org">http://www.rss-feed.org</a> 
<a href="http://www.blogcatalog.com">http://www.blogcatalog.com</a> 
<a href="http://www.bloghop.com">http://www.bloghop.com</a> 
<a href="http://www.weblogalot.com/Ping">http://www.weblogalot.com/Ping</a> 
<a href="http://portal.eatonweb.com">http://portal.eatonweb.com</a> 
<a href="http://www.blogged.com">http://www.blogged.com</a> 
<a href="http://blogs.botw.org">http://blogs.botw.org</a> 
<a href="http://www.bloggapedia.com">http://www.bloggapedia.com</a> 
<a href="http://www.feedcat.net">http://www.feedcat.net</a> 
<a href="http://www.feednuts.com">http://www.feednuts.com</a> 
<a href="http://www.feeds4all.nl">http://www.feeds4all.nl</a> 
<a href="http://www.rss-spider.com">http://www.rss-spider.com</a> 
<a href="http://www.rssmountain.com/rss_directory.php">http://www.rssmountain.com/rss_directory.php</a> 
<a href="http://www.bloglisting.net">http://www.bloglisting.net</a> 
<a href="http://www.topblogging.com">http://www.topblogging.com</a> 
<a href="http://www.superblogdirectory.com">http://www.superblogdirectory.com</a> 
<a href="http://www.millionrss.com">http://www.millionrss.com</a> 
<a href="http://www.feedage.com">http://www.feedage.com</a> 
<a href="http://www.blog-directory.org">http://www.blog-directory.org</a> 
<a href="http://www.blog-watch.com">http://www.blog-watch.com</a> 
<a href="http://www.addurlblog.com">http://www.addurlblog.com</a> 
<a href="http://feedshark.brainbliss.com">http://feedshark.brainbliss.com</a> 
<a href="http://chordata.info">http://chordata.info</a> 
<a href="http://www.jordomedia.com">http://www.jordomedia.com</a> 
<a href="http://www.2rss.com">http://www.2rss.com</a> 
<a href="http://www.findrss.net">http://www.findrss.net</a> 
<a href="http://www.feedlisting.com">http://www.feedlisting.com</a> 
<a href="http://freefeedsdirectory.com">http://freefeedsdirectory.com</a> 
<a href="http://blog.directory-seek.com">http://blog.directory-seek.com</a> 
<a href="http://theblogresource.com">http://theblogresource.com</a> 
<a href="http://blogville.us">http://blogville.us</a> 
<a href="http://sarthak.net/blogz/add.php">http://sarthak.net/blogz/add.php</a> 
<a href="http://www.submitblognow.info">http://www.submitblognow.info</a> 
<a href="http://dir.blogflux.com">http://dir.blogflux.com</a> 
<a href="http://www.lsblogs.com">http://www.lsblogs.com</a> 
<a href="http://www.feedbees.com">http://www.feedbees.com</a> 
<a href="http://www.feedsee.com">http://www.feedsee.com</a> 
<a href="http://blogit.a1weblinks.net">http://blogit.a1weblinks.net</a> 
<a href="http://www.rsshugger.com">http://www.rsshugger.com</a> 
<a href="http://www.blogsweet.com">http://www.blogsweet.com</a> 
<a href="http://blogoriffic.com">http://blogoriffic.com</a> 
<a href="http://www.jordomedia.com">http://www.jordomedia.com</a> 
<a href="http://www.blogbunch.com">http://www.blogbunch.com</a> 
<a href="http://www.webloogle.com">http://www.webloogle.com</a> 
<a href="http://www.readablog.com/default.aspx">http://www.readablog.com/default.aspx</a> 
<a href="http://www.feedgy.com">http://www.feedgy.com</a> 
<a href="http://www.myblog2u.com">http://www.myblog2u.com</a> 
<a href="http://www.blog-collector.com">http://www.blog-collector.com</a> 
<a href="http://www.iblogbusiness.com">http://www.iblogbusiness.com</a> 
<a href="http://www.mvblogs.com">http://www.mvblogs.com</a> 
<a href="http://www.blogtagstic.com">http://www.blogtagstic.com</a> 
<a href="http://www.freewebs.com/blogotion/">http://www.freewebs.com/blogotion/</a> 
<a href="http://www.topblogarea.com">http://www.topblogarea.com</a> 
<a href="http://www.goldenfeed.com">http://www.goldenfeed.com</a> 
<a href="http://feedfury.com">http://feedfury.com</a> 
<a href="http://www.bloggeries.com">http://www.bloggeries.com</a> 
<a href="http://www.feedgy.com">http://www.feedgy.com</a> 
<a href="http://blogannounce.info">http://blogannounce.info</a> 
<a href="http://www.rssmad.com">http://www.rssmad.com</a> 
<a href="http://www.blogbib.com">http://www.blogbib.com</a> 
<a href="http://www.bloggernow.com">http://www.bloggernow.com</a> 
<a href="http://www.blog-search.com">http://www.blog-search.com</a> 
<a href="http://blogtoplist.com">http://blogtoplist.com</a> 
<a href="http://www.photarium.com">http://www.photarium.com</a> 
<a href="http://www.goldenfeed.com">http://www.goldenfeed.com</a> 
<a href="http://www.blog-search.com">http://www.blog-search.com</a> 
<a href="http://anse.de/rdfticker/addchannel.php">http://anse.de/rdfticker/addchannel.php</a> 
<a href="http://blogclicker.com">http://blogclicker.com</a> 
<a href="http://www.blogsrating.com">http://www.blogsrating.com</a> 
<a href="http://www.yourwebloghere.com">http://www.yourwebloghere.com</a> 
<a href="http://www.feedmil.com">http://www.feedmil.com</a> 
<a href="http://www.rssbuffet.com">http://www.rssbuffet.com</a> 
<a href="http://www.blloggs.com">http://www.blloggs.com</a> 
<a href="http://www.search4blogs.com/blog/">http://www.search4blogs.com/blog/</a> 
<a href="http://rss001.com">http://rss001.com</a> 
<a href="http://feeds2read.net/Rss-Directory">http://feeds2read.net/Rss-Directory</a> 
<a href="http://www.rss-network.com/submitrss.php">http://www.rss-network.com/submitrss.php</a> 
<a href="http://www.blogbal.com">http://www.blogbal.com</a> 
<a href="http://www.rssmicro.com">http://www.rssmicro.com</a> 
<a href="http://www.blogobbler.com">http://www.blogobbler.com</a> 
<a href="http://www.sarthak.net/blogz/">http://www.sarthak.net/blogz/</a> 
<a href="http://blogfinds.com/directory/">http://blogfinds.com/directory/</a> 
<a href="http://www.blogoculars.com">http://www.blogoculars.com</a> 
<a href="http://www.feedboy.com/addfeed.html?catid=">http://www.feedboy.com/addfeed.html?catid=</a> 
<a href="http://www.hirank.com/semantic-indexing-project/census/">http://www.hirank.com/semantic-indexing-project/census/</a> 
 
Submit Your RSS Feed To Yahoo: 
<a href="http://publisher.yahoo.com/rss_guide/index.php">http://publisher.yahoo.com/rss_guide/index.php</a> 
 
Add Your Blog To Google Blog Search: 
<a href="http://blogsearch.google.com/ping?hl=en">http://blogsearch.google.com/ping?hl=en</a></content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://merihoward.blogspot.com/feeds/9106486233004544093/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://merihoward.blogspot.com/2010/03/some-great-resources-to-market-your.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/965452870253330261/posts/default/9106486233004544093'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/965452870253330261/posts/default/9106486233004544093'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://merihoward.blogspot.com/2010/03/some-great-resources-to-market-your.html' title='Some Great Resources to Market Your Blog'/><author><name>merihoward</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04702121136902344444</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFKpaVTKlRNwZ-UJmL3DsHfxZmUQXBlTG84lRE8ThHLVGc3BuNYm4UNScP_FGHrqQTREVQdkeQaZdq7i-sN2wvqhUuVRts49s0sUqrYbQGLFfxrEDXE1mLZZs2E3md1A/s220/meri10.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-965452870253330261.post-2436390994841077080</id><published>2010-03-16T11:48:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-03-16T11:48:19.168-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Internet Marketing"/><title type='text'>Make Money on the Internet Immediately with Affiliate Programs</title><content type='html'>If you are like many people, you are looking for a way to make money on the internet. But getting started can be a daunting task. If you sell your own product, you need to set up a sales website to send customers to, figure out how you are going to get money from people and how you are going to market your product to get customers to come to your website. If you have little or no knowledge of html code, don’t have the first clue as to how to write effective ad copy and don’t know the difference between adwords and adsense, you will have a lot to learn before you can get your website up and running with cash pouring in from thousands of customers.
 
I hope you have a product that you want to sell on the internet and I hope that you can get your website set up to make money from it. 
 
In the meantime, try something simpler so you don’t tear your hair out or get a migraine headache from frustration. The easiest way to start making money online is to sell affiliate products. The capture page is already set up. The merchant account or way for customers to pay online is already set up. All you do is market your affiliate link which redirects to the capture page of the product. When the customer buys, you get paid. Instead of learning webpage design, professional copywriting, shopping cart and merchant account set up, you can concentrate on learning how to market the site.
 
Since marketing is key to making money on the internet, the more you learn about marketing, the faster you will start making money. Two places to concentrate your marketing efforts are Google and Facebook. On Google, you can sponsor ads for keywords that describe your product. When a person clicks on your ad, you will pay Google the amount you have bid for that keyword. This is called pay-per-click marketing. Facebook ads work in a similar way but have a different audience. They appear on the right side of people’s profiles and can be chosen according to information listed in the person’s profile so that ads are targeted to customers who have a predisposition to be interested in your product. Both Google and Facebook have tutorials for creating and marketing ads.
 
To find affiliate products that you want to sell, set up accounts at Clickbank and/or Plimus. You can browse through the available products and sign up for the product that appeals to you most. Use your knowledge from the tutorials on Google and Facebook to place ads and start making money right away.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://merihoward.blogspot.com/feeds/2436390994841077080/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://merihoward.blogspot.com/2010/03/make-money-on-internet-immediately-with.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/965452870253330261/posts/default/2436390994841077080'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/965452870253330261/posts/default/2436390994841077080'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://merihoward.blogspot.com/2010/03/make-money-on-internet-immediately-with.html' title='Make Money on the Internet Immediately with Affiliate Programs'/><author><name>merihoward</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04702121136902344444</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFKpaVTKlRNwZ-UJmL3DsHfxZmUQXBlTG84lRE8ThHLVGc3BuNYm4UNScP_FGHrqQTREVQdkeQaZdq7i-sN2wvqhUuVRts49s0sUqrYbQGLFfxrEDXE1mLZZs2E3md1A/s220/meri10.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-965452870253330261.post-7950696859645377503</id><published>2010-03-12T20:33:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-03-12T20:33:17.189-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Internet Marketing"/><title type='text'>Online Marketing to a Local Audience</title><content type='html'>Do you sell to a local market? Where are you putting your advertising? It used to be that you could buy a big ad in the Yellow Pages, buy an ad in the local newspaper and mail circular and your business would be thriving. More people are using the internet and smart phones to find businesses that meet their local needs. According to Web Pro News, consumers are going online for 70% of their business searches. This includes search engine searches, internet yellow pages, local search sites and mobile phones. If you aren’t going after this market, you are losing 70% of your potential business. The way things are going, it looks like you will lose an even larger share in the future. Local newspapers are closing right and left for lack of readership. Yellow Pages are going the way of the horse shoe. There will always be people who use them, but the majority of younger people just do a search with their phone or computer.
 
Of the online searches, Google has a 65% share and growing. Yahoo is next with 18%, Bing with about 10%. Ask with almost 4% and AOL which used to be a strong presence has less than a 3% search rate. 
 
It only makes sense with these statistics that you need to get a website and market on Google at the very least. You can rank high for specific keywords that target your business so when a consumer puts the keyword in the search, your website will be one of the first that he sees. This is done through search engine optimization, having pertinent content on your website and through content marketing, i. e. writing articles about aspects of your business and doing videos about aspects of your business showing yourself as an expert in your field. This is all free marketing. You can also use pay-per-click marketing to have a sponsored ad on Google so when a customer types in an appropriate keyword for your business, your ad will pop up even if other businesses have beaten you with search engine optimization to rank higher for content. The more you are willing to pay for pay-per-click, the higher your ad will appear on the page.
 
I am not suggesting that you get rid of your Yellow Page ads all together, at least not yet. I am just suggesting that you slowly move your advertising dollars to the internet to maximize the exposure for your business. People will gladly print out internet coupons as they will cut them out of the newpaper or circular. Having a website also allows you to have contests and run surveys to maximize your business results. 
 
I am putting together an ebook to help business owners who would like to set up their internet advertising themselves. I am an expert with online marketing and will be happy to help you market your business online if you do not have the time or expertise to do it yourself. You can email me at meri@merihoward.com to get a quote.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://merihoward.blogspot.com/feeds/7950696859645377503/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://merihoward.blogspot.com/2010/03/online-marketing-to-local-audience.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/965452870253330261/posts/default/7950696859645377503'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/965452870253330261/posts/default/7950696859645377503'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://merihoward.blogspot.com/2010/03/online-marketing-to-local-audience.html' title='Online Marketing to a Local Audience'/><author><name>merihoward</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04702121136902344444</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFKpaVTKlRNwZ-UJmL3DsHfxZmUQXBlTG84lRE8ThHLVGc3BuNYm4UNScP_FGHrqQTREVQdkeQaZdq7i-sN2wvqhUuVRts49s0sUqrYbQGLFfxrEDXE1mLZZs2E3md1A/s220/meri10.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-965452870253330261.post-5573402775123718032</id><published>2010-03-08T13:50:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-03-08T13:59:10.280-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Motivation"/><title type='text'>Can You Taste It Yet?</title><content type='html'>I think that the biggest difference between people who become wildly successful and those who just get by is the burning desire for success which is so strong that they can taste it. Not only do they taste it, they see it, they hear it, they smell it, they feel it. They are determined to get it no matter what it takes.
 
I am afraid if you don’t have this kind of motivation, you might as well give success the old R.I.P. 
 
Do you think I am kidding? 
 
How many times have I heard people say they can’t take the time to sign up for a free webinar to learn how to grow their business or buy a book or course that teaches you how to get customers to come to you because it costs too much money. When you say these things, you are saying that you would rather be comfortable than be successful. You want to be successful only if it is convenient. 
 
You see success comes with a cost. The process isn’t usually comfortable or easy. You have to taste it so strongly that you will do what it takes to make it happen for you. The stories of many successful people I know in the network marketing business are very similar. 
 
Mike Dillard, a 8-figure earner and expert in attraction marketing, struggled for 5 years to build a network marketing business. He waited tables instead of getting a high-paying job like his college pals because he believed in his network marketing dream. Money was so tight he got so desperate that he pawned his championship-winning bike and DVD collection in order to buy ramen. He even considered moving into a storage unit to save money. But Mike had a taste for success and he bought every book and course on marketing and personal development until he was able to use this knowledge to build his successful Magnetic Sponsoring business. You can read more about Mike at his free 7 Day Video Boot Camp <a href="http://leadsexplosion.magneticsponsoringonline.com">http://leadsexplosion.magneticsponsoringonline.com</a>
 
Larry Beacham, lost his job as a cable guy with a wife and 5 kids to feed. He didn’t know how he was going to feed his family. But he needed to find a way to make it happen. He contacted up to 600 people a day through LinkedIn to mention an affiliate program so he could get paid $20 per sale until things turned around for him and he has been able to do even more than feed his family ever since. 
 
David Wood became homeless and was living in his van and had no money for advertising. He wrote articles every day and submitted them to article directories until his efforts paid him more than $40,000 in less than 4 months. He won a BMW lease in a contest through MLM Lead System Pro beating out others who had spent lots of money in Pay-Per-Click advertising. He used a software to submit his articles to over 100 article directories called Automatic Article Submitter. I have written about that in another post. You can get information about Automatic Article Submitter by clicking on the ad to the right or by <a href="http://www.plimus.com/jsp/redirect.jsp?contractId=2289226&referrer=meriberi"target="bbbb">clicking here.</a>
 
As hard as it got for these three guys and many more I could mention, they never gave up. They believed that they could achieve their goal of success. They could taste it. They knew it was theirs and they did whatever was needed to achieve success. 
 
What about you? What would you be willing to do to become successful? What would you be willing to give up if it came to that?</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://merihoward.blogspot.com/feeds/5573402775123718032/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://merihoward.blogspot.com/2010/03/can-you-taste-it-yet.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/965452870253330261/posts/default/5573402775123718032'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/965452870253330261/posts/default/5573402775123718032'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://merihoward.blogspot.com/2010/03/can-you-taste-it-yet.html' title='Can You Taste It Yet?'/><author><name>merihoward</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04702121136902344444</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFKpaVTKlRNwZ-UJmL3DsHfxZmUQXBlTG84lRE8ThHLVGc3BuNYm4UNScP_FGHrqQTREVQdkeQaZdq7i-sN2wvqhUuVRts49s0sUqrYbQGLFfxrEDXE1mLZZs2E3md1A/s220/meri10.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-965452870253330261.post-90706640345375255</id><published>2010-03-06T07:47:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-03-06T07:47:23.384-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Success Principles"/><title type='text'>Are You Worth A Million Dollars?</title><content type='html'>A million dollars is not a lot of money these days. Maybe I should have asked, “Are you worth 10 million dollars? How about 100 million dollars? Or 1 billion dollars?”
 
What I didn’t ask was “do you have a million dollars in your bank account?” I asked are you worth that. Aah! 
 
Until you believe that you are worth a million dollars or maybe I should rephrase that as worthy of a million dollars, it is not going to be yours. You may win it or earn it somehow but unless you believe that you are worth it, you will quickly lose it. 
 
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No matter what your business is, if you want to be successful, you need to know the Success Principle. What I learned about the Success Principle in the last two months has turned my business around and I want to share it with you. 
 
Mack Michaels, who will reveal the Success Principle to you, has personally made over $2.7 million in 2009 using this principle and has taught over 16,000 people to follow his lead. 
 
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</a></content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://merihoward.blogspot.com/feeds/90706640345375255/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://merihoward.blogspot.com/2010/03/are-you-worth-million-dollars.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/965452870253330261/posts/default/90706640345375255'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/965452870253330261/posts/default/90706640345375255'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://merihoward.blogspot.com/2010/03/are-you-worth-million-dollars.html' title='Are You Worth A Million Dollars?'/><author><name>merihoward</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04702121136902344444</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFKpaVTKlRNwZ-UJmL3DsHfxZmUQXBlTG84lRE8ThHLVGc3BuNYm4UNScP_FGHrqQTREVQdkeQaZdq7i-sN2wvqhUuVRts49s0sUqrYbQGLFfxrEDXE1mLZZs2E3md1A/s220/meri10.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-965452870253330261.post-7881006093048602911</id><published>2010-03-01T10:22:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-03-01T10:22:54.702-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="List building"/><title type='text'>An Easy Way to Build a List of Over 10,000 Subscribers</title><content type='html'>I’m sure that you know that the secret to making money on the internet is to have a large list. Normally, building a list can be a tedious day by day process that can take years to build to over 10,000. You offer people something for free, have a capture page and build your list one person at a time. You can trade lists with other people in your niche and you can do joint ventures.
 
Here is a way to give your list building a boost. I just found a great viral site you can use to build your list easily to 1,000 subscribers or even 10,000 or more subscribers for FREE. You heard that right. People will help you build your list and they will not charge you to do it. 
 
Go to this free website to learn how other people will build your list for you! It's a VERY powerful concept - go watch this quick video to see how it works: 
 
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Then sign up and build your list!</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://merihoward.blogspot.com/feeds/7881006093048602911/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://merihoward.blogspot.com/2010/03/easy-way-to-build-list-of-over-10000.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/965452870253330261/posts/default/7881006093048602911'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/965452870253330261/posts/default/7881006093048602911'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://merihoward.blogspot.com/2010/03/easy-way-to-build-list-of-over-10000.html' title='An Easy Way to Build a List of Over 10,000 Subscribers'/><author><name>merihoward</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04702121136902344444</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFKpaVTKlRNwZ-UJmL3DsHfxZmUQXBlTG84lRE8ThHLVGc3BuNYm4UNScP_FGHrqQTREVQdkeQaZdq7i-sN2wvqhUuVRts49s0sUqrYbQGLFfxrEDXE1mLZZs2E3md1A/s220/meri10.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-965452870253330261.post-8253923202525901070</id><published>2010-02-25T14:46:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-25T14:49:41.897-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Social Media Marketing"/><title type='text'>My Five Year Old Can Whip Your Pants in Sales</title><content type='html'>When my son Matthew was in Cub Scouts, he set out to win the sales contest for selling candy. We spent many days out in front of the supermarket and he sold a lot of candy at $1 per bar. In fact, he sold over $1,000 worth. He also got many people to give him money just because and not take the candy. Matthew was a cute little kid and people wanted to help him. Sometimes, his younger brother Charlie would help him sell. He was 5 years old with an angelic face and had what most people would consider natural sales ability. When Charlie was selling candy bars, even more people just gave him money and let him keep the candy. They would even mention how cute he was.
 
Now I am not telling you this story to brag about my kids or even get you pumped up to sell your business opportunity. What I want to point out is that hardly anyone bought the candy because they love that brand of candy. They bought the candy because they were attracted to the cute kids and wanted to help them out. This is what I refer to as “attraction marketing”. 
 
How would you like people to join your network marketing business or internet marketing business just because they wanted to work with you, not because it has the best comp plan, the best management team, the best products or any other special feature? 
 
Too many of you are selling your business opportunity. People don’t like to be sold but they do like to buy. I would like you to try an experiment this week. I would like you to stop trying to sell your business opportunity. Hundreds of my Facebook friends contact me every day pitching their business opportunity to me most of whom have not even read my profile to see what I am into already. They don’t care. They think the more that they pitch their business opportunity, the more sales they will make. Maybe that is what you think.
 
I have a better plan, one that has completely changed how I recruit for my network marketing business. Not only have I recruited more people using this plan, but I am making money each month from the 95% of the people who will never join my business opportunity. 
 
I want to help you learn how you can duplicate my success. I would like you to keep an open mind to learn from those people who have gone before you who are now wildly successful. 
 
The first person I want you to connect with is Mike Dillard. He went from waiting tables to making over $7 million in the last three years. He created a FREE video boot camp teaching you how to use magnetic sponsoring to get people to ask you if they can join your business. You can get it now at <a href="http://leadsexplosion.magneticsponsoringonline.com/"target="bkbkb"> http://leadsexplosion.magneticsponsoringonline.com/</a> 
 
Change your mindset, expand your bank account, change your life.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://merihoward.blogspot.com/feeds/8253923202525901070/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://merihoward.blogspot.com/2010/02/my-five-year-old-can-whip-your-pants-in.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/965452870253330261/posts/default/8253923202525901070'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/965452870253330261/posts/default/8253923202525901070'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://merihoward.blogspot.com/2010/02/my-five-year-old-can-whip-your-pants-in.html' title='My Five Year Old Can Whip Your Pants in Sales'/><author><name>merihoward</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04702121136902344444</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFKpaVTKlRNwZ-UJmL3DsHfxZmUQXBlTG84lRE8ThHLVGc3BuNYm4UNScP_FGHrqQTREVQdkeQaZdq7i-sN2wvqhUuVRts49s0sUqrYbQGLFfxrEDXE1mLZZs2E3md1A/s220/meri10.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-965452870253330261.post-1560455143325865599</id><published>2010-02-03T13:07:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-03T13:07:51.950-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="network marketing"/><title type='text'>The 6 Pillars for the Network Marketer</title><content type='html'>Michael Dlouhy created the 5 pillars for evaluating a network marketing business. I critiqued them in another blog post. I’ve created my own 6 pillars for the network marketer. Regardless of how wonderful the business is, you as a network marketer need these pillars to be successful.
 
Pillar #1: Don’t join any network marketing company unless you are going to give 100% of your effort to your success. 
 
Have you ever joined a network marketing business because a friend convinced you that it was a great company and when you joined you would make a lot of money? Did you then just sit there waiting for the money to pour in? Network marketing is work just like any other business. Unless you give it 100%, you will not reap the rewards. 
 
Pillar #2: Join a network marketing company whose products or services you truly believe in and you will use. Don’t join it just because you think you are going to make a lot of money or because someone else told you that it is a great company because it meets the 5 pillars of success or any other criteria. 
 
Just because someone else tells you that a company is great, if you don’t like the products or services, you will not have the passion to promote them and will quit when obstacles become too great. 
 
Pillar #3: Do not join a company that requires you to stock products every month just to keep your membership if you are not going to be able to sell or use them. You will either become overwhelmed or resentful and this will keep you from being successful. 
 
Network marketing companies thrive on requiring their distributors to purchase a quota of product each month. It benefits them but it only benefits you if you are able to resell the product or if you would have purchased the product for your personal use anyway. If you can’t see how you can move the product, don’t join the company because you will end up spending more money than you make and will have a garage full of merchandise you don’t know what to do with. 
 
Pillar #4: Don’t do it alone. The key to success in network marketing is building a strong team that will support you. Look for a strong upline leader and allow them to help you build a strong downline. 
 
When you look for a company to join, look for a builder in the company and hop on board with them. Make sure that it is someone who believes in training their team and with whom you feel comfortable voicing challenges and asking for help. Keep in mind that there are many successful network marketers who are great at closing the sale but who are not trainers or team builders. Then follow the strategies of your team leader to build your own downline. 
 
Pillar #5: Educate yourself on new ways to promote your business. Do not blindly follow one leader. Listen to many leaders and choose the methods that work best for you. 
 
Technology and the internet have changed how network marketers can promote their business. The options are vast and growing to allow you to connect personally with potential recruits from around the world. Use online methods to promote your business. Don’t rely solely on techniques that worked in the pre-internet age. 
 
Pillar #6: Become your own leader so people will want to follow you. Learn how to brand yourself to stand out among the crowd. 
 
Instead of promoting your business opportunity to anyone who will listen including family and friends who have no interest in what you are doing, learn how to position yourself as a leader in your field using attraction marketing so that recruits will ask you how they can join your business.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://merihoward.blogspot.com/feeds/1560455143325865599/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://merihoward.blogspot.com/2010/02/6-pillars-for-network-marketer.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/965452870253330261/posts/default/1560455143325865599'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/965452870253330261/posts/default/1560455143325865599'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://merihoward.blogspot.com/2010/02/6-pillars-for-network-marketer.html' title='The 6 Pillars for the Network Marketer'/><author><name>merihoward</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04702121136902344444</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFKpaVTKlRNwZ-UJmL3DsHfxZmUQXBlTG84lRE8ThHLVGc3BuNYm4UNScP_FGHrqQTREVQdkeQaZdq7i-sN2wvqhUuVRts49s0sUqrYbQGLFfxrEDXE1mLZZs2E3md1A/s220/meri10.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-965452870253330261.post-5260253949463430409</id><published>2010-01-31T14:28:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-03T13:11:07.701-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="network marketing"/><title type='text'>Evaluating the 5 Pillars of Success</title><content type='html'>Michael Dlouhy, a charismatic salesman and seasoned network marketer, created a program called Mentoring for Free to help potential network marketers understand the MLM business. It includes an ebook called Success in 10 Steps with advice from his many years in the business along with weekly phone calls to keep his followers on the right path.
 
His devotees worship him as the modern day prophet of MLM success and they blindly follow every word he utters as if it is the word of God never straying from what they believe to be absolute truths about the network marketing business. Such cult-like devotion has been very profitable for Michael Dlouhy since he has been able to convince about 80% of his followers that the best network business for them is his own company, Vitamark, which sells vitamins, weight loss products and skin care products.
 
One of the tools he uses to funnel people into his business is called the 5 Pillars of Success. I decided to take a look at each of these “pillars”. 
 
Pillar #1 is look for a company whose management has experience and integrity. That sounds reasonable enough yet how are you supposed to check this. It makes common sense that a network marketing company should have a team with experts both in network marketing and in running and funding a large business. Unfortunately, there is no way of knowing from looking at a company prospectus if there is the proper synergy for success. I doubt that the average person thinking about starting a home-based business has the qualifications to do this evaluation.
 
Pillar #2 is to pick a company that has been around for 2 to 5 years because it has a better chance of succeeding. This seems like a reasonable recommendation. Yet by doing so, you may miss out on an opportunity to get onboard with an exciting company whose products or services you really believe in and with which you can make a lot of money. Longevity does not guarantee continued success. Consider the demise of seasoned companies like Arbonne and Excel Communications. Also, just because the company is successful, does not guarantee that YOU will be successful in it.
 
Pillar #3 is to pick a company with a remarkable product that stands out. This seems like a tall order for any company. Even Michael Dlouhy’s company has trouble meeting this pillar. What is remarkable about vitamins and skin care products? It seems like every other network marketing company is selling these same types of items. It is difficult to sustain retail sales on items such as vitamins, skin care products or exotic juices when people can go to their local store and get comparable items for a lot less money. The only way these MLM companies thrive is by requiring each distributor to purchase a quota of product per month.
 
Pillar #4 is a compensation plan that rewards part-timers. I don’t know enough about Vitamark’s compensation plan to evaluate it. From my years in network marketing I have found that there are very few compensation plans that reward part-timers. Most plans require people to recruit a downline of 1,000 people or more before they make any real money. This is not easy to do part-time. The best compensation plans I have seen recently are of a matrix type where people get paid if they reach the top of a matrix. This requires fewer recruits to have a good pay day. With any other compensation plan, the best chance for part-timers to make money is to find a company where they can move a certain amount of retail product each month.
 
Pillar #5 is to have a proven system of duplication. This last pillar is how Michael Dlouhy captures the true devotion of his followers. The truth is that only about 2% of the population have the sales skills to build a huge downline. The rest of the people who start a network marketing business never succeed. This is one of the biggest reasons that network marketing gets such a bad reputation which makes it difficult to recruit people. Michael Dlouhy allows his followers to bring others onto his weekly phone calls so he can do the recruiting for them. He has them ask everyone they meet if it would be okay if they share the ebook Success in 10 Steps. They all believe that sharing this book will make others want to go into business with them. The problem is that people join people they view as leaders, not someone who shares a book with them. If they can get people to the phone call and the prospect connects with Michael Dlouhy, they have a shot at recruiting them since Michael Dlouhy provides that leadership. The problem is that without Michael Dlouhy’s skills, duplication is difficult.
 
The truth is that there are no guarantees. When evaluating a network marketing company to join consider the product or service offered and if you can give 100% effort in promoting it. Look at the compensation plan and see what it will take for you to make the amount of profit you desire. Can you do it? What seems great at first glance will many times become much harder work when actually put into practice. Look at the people involved with the company both at the top and in the ranks. Do you feel comfortable around them? Do they share your values? Do you want to associate with these people to build your business even if something should happen to the company? Remember that your relationships with other people ultimately will be more valuable then any particular opportunity. If you build a great team, you can take it to any company.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://merihoward.blogspot.com/feeds/5260253949463430409/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://merihoward.blogspot.com/2010/01/evaluating-5-pillars-of-success.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/965452870253330261/posts/default/5260253949463430409'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/965452870253330261/posts/default/5260253949463430409'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://merihoward.blogspot.com/2010/01/evaluating-5-pillars-of-success.html' title='Evaluating the 5 Pillars of Success'/><author><name>merihoward</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04702121136902344444</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFKpaVTKlRNwZ-UJmL3DsHfxZmUQXBlTG84lRE8ThHLVGc3BuNYm4UNScP_FGHrqQTREVQdkeQaZdq7i-sN2wvqhUuVRts49s0sUqrYbQGLFfxrEDXE1mLZZs2E3md1A/s220/meri10.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-965452870253330261.post-1971306594565822608</id><published>2010-01-25T18:27:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-26T08:14:27.051-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="video marketing"/><title type='text'>Using Video to Build Your Internet Presence</title><content type='html'><object width="400" height="323" bgcolor="#111111" data="http://www.siteproweb.com/flash/videoplayer.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"><param name="movie" value="http://www.trafficgeyser.net/flash/videoplayer.swf" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="scale" value="noscale" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#111111" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="allownetworking" value="all" /><param name="flashvars" value='config={"embedded":true,"menuItems":[true,true,true,true,true,false,false],"baseURL":"http://www.trafficgeyser.net/flash","videoFile":"http://www.siteproweb.com/getvideosecure/DBIU6417cbdc757dab13f6c8e0a00514ed491bR3rPy/hi","initialScale":"scale","controlBarBackgroundColor":"0x333333","autoBuffering":false,"loop":false,"autoPlay":false}' /></object>
 
I have been using video to promote this blog. Now I am using it on the blog to demonstrate how I use it. I make teaser videos which tell people to go to my blog to learn more information about different topics. I then promote them on 22 video sites, 10 podcast sites, 5 bookmarking sites, and 3 status sites. I also post it on the wall of my Facebook page. 
 
Sending my video to all of these sites would be quite a task if I had to find each site, sign up with each of them and manually submit to each site. Luckily, I have found a program called <a href="http://www.TrafficGeyser.com/cmd.php?af=24348" target="bbbss">Traffic Geyser</a> which does it all for me. All I do is upload my video to their site, choose which sites I want to send the video to, what website I want to draw traffic to and when I want to send out the video. It prompts me for the name of the video and the description, tags and the category of the video. It gives me the likelihood of acceptance with each site. Some sites require that I choose a special category. Then with one click of the mouse, it submits to all of these sites.
 
This tool has expedited my ability to promote my videos to get more traffic to my site. Traffic Geyser has videos and a user guide which explains how to use their program. They also have software that creates unique capture pages for your promotion. Another nice feature with Traffic Geyser is the ability to upload a video from YouTube and the feature changes the video to get rid of the YouTube watermark and the link to similar videos at the back of your video that are displayed on YouTube. Now you can store your video on YouTube but display it on the website for your business without having it jump to your competitors’ links at the end of your video.
 
Because so many people are using video cameras to promote themselves on YouTube, people have gotten used to seeing videos which do not have professional lighting and are not of the best quality. Even though I have a decade of experience in the film industry, I do not concern myself with getting professional lighting for my videos. I feel that it is more important just to get the information out to the world. 
 
I videotape myself on mini-DV tape using an inexpensive Sony Handycam. You can even use a webcam but I prefer to use the video camera. I place it on a tripod and face the LCD panel toward me so I can adjust the lighting and my placement in the frame. I turn on the camera and shoot the video of my promotion. I have a DV connection to connect my video camera to my computer. I import the video into Windows Movie Maker. I create a subtitle at the beginning of my promo with the title of the blog post I am promoting. I create a title at the end of the video with my website address. I also do a voice over on the end title spelling out my web address. I do this because many of the podcast feeds are audio only and they can’t see the titles.
 
Google likes videos so my videos show up on the first page for specific keywords as often as my articles and blog posts. This is a triple whammy. 
 
You can get Traffic Geyser by <a href="http://www.TrafficGeyser.com/cmd.php?af=24348">clicking here.</a></content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://merihoward.blogspot.com/feeds/1971306594565822608/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://merihoward.blogspot.com/2010/01/using-video-to-build-your-internet.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/965452870253330261/posts/default/1971306594565822608'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/965452870253330261/posts/default/1971306594565822608'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://merihoward.blogspot.com/2010/01/using-video-to-build-your-internet.html' title='Using Video to Build Your Internet Presence'/><author><name>merihoward</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04702121136902344444</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFKpaVTKlRNwZ-UJmL3DsHfxZmUQXBlTG84lRE8ThHLVGc3BuNYm4UNScP_FGHrqQTREVQdkeQaZdq7i-sN2wvqhUuVRts49s0sUqrYbQGLFfxrEDXE1mLZZs2E3md1A/s220/meri10.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-965452870253330261.post-6970716756662387981</id><published>2010-01-20T22:20:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-20T22:23:09.994-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Article Writing"/><title type='text'>Writing Articles to Grow Your Business</title><content type='html'><a href="http://www.netleadsexplosion.com"target="bkbkb"> MLM Lead System Pro</a>, an online training and recruiting system for network marketers held a contest in the fall of 2009 for the most recruits into their system. The winner of the top prize, a 2 year lease on a BMW 335i Coupe, was David Wood, a broke homeless guy living in his van in Alaska.
 
How did he manage that? He built his business in 4 months by writing articles, submitting them to directories and linking them back to his website. He beat out all the other top producers who were spending lots of money using pay per click marketing. The more articles he wrote, the more often one or more of his articles appeared on the first page of Google for a given keyword bringing more people to his website. 
 
Daegan Smith, a millionaire internet marketer who is an expert on pay per click marketing, also believes that he has received most of his business because he is a prolific article writer. 
 
By establishing yourself as an expert in your niche through article writing you accomplish two things. You get backlinks to your business website and because you have established yourself as an expert, you get credibility and people like to buy from people they believe are experts in their field. 
 
The top article directories for getting ranked high on Google are Ezine Articles and Buzzle. Buzzle requires your article to be unique to their site. Ezine Articles does not require it. Other top article directories are WebProNews, GoArticles.com and ArticlesFactory.com. Like Buzzle, WebProNews requires that articles submitted to them be unique. When you write for any of these sites, you get a high Google ranking for the article itself. When you submit to many article directories, you create many backlinks to your main site and that gives your main website a higher Google ranking. GoArticles.com gives you an option to pay to be a featured article on their website for your category. It is expensive and I feel that more people will find your article from a Google search than from going directly to their website so I would not recommend spending the money.
 
Understand that you are submitting your articles for free to these sites and other people can use your articles on their websites as well. Any time they do, it is free advertising for you. 
 
David Wood got his success from using a program called Automatic Article Submitter to submit his articles to over 100 article directories at the same time. I tried Automatic Article Submitter and was very happy with the results. It takes awhile at first to learn how to use the system but once you get everything set up, submitting articles is very simple. Initially you need to set up logins for each article directory. Automatic Article Submitter has an automated system to set up accounts at each directory and to confirm each account automatically. You can set up the submissions to go to specific directories for specific article topics. You can set up more than one account if you write articles on different topics and don’t want to put them all under the same account. They also allow you to do word spinning on your articles so that each time you submit to a directory, the composition of your article is a little bit different.
 
I have used Automatic Article Submitter for about a month now and have had my articles appear on the first page of Google for the specific keywords that I am tagging. I am very please with the program and recommend it for those of you who want to write articles. To get Automatic Article Submitter, <a href="http://www.plimus.com/jsp/redirect.jsp?contractId=2289226&referrer=meriberi">click here.</a></content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://merihoward.blogspot.com/feeds/6970716756662387981/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://merihoward.blogspot.com/2010/01/writing-articles-to-grow-your-business.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/965452870253330261/posts/default/6970716756662387981'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/965452870253330261/posts/default/6970716756662387981'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://merihoward.blogspot.com/2010/01/writing-articles-to-grow-your-business.html' title='Writing Articles to Grow Your Business'/><author><name>merihoward</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04702121136902344444</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFKpaVTKlRNwZ-UJmL3DsHfxZmUQXBlTG84lRE8ThHLVGc3BuNYm4UNScP_FGHrqQTREVQdkeQaZdq7i-sN2wvqhUuVRts49s0sUqrYbQGLFfxrEDXE1mLZZs2E3md1A/s220/meri10.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-965452870253330261.post-3442783501075741592</id><published>2010-01-14T07:13:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-14T07:16:18.781-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Social Media Marketing"/><title type='text'>Marketing Your Network Marketing Business on Facebook</title><content type='html'>Facebook is a great place to find recruits for your network marketing business. You can easily find qualified leads because people put information in their profile which lets you know that they are a potential recruit for your business. I built a list of friends of over 1000 people in one month on Facebook. Almost every one of them is a network marketer. You might be asking why I would choose network marketers since they already have a business. The reason is that the hardest task I have found in traditional recruiting is convincing people that network marketing is an acceptable business that they can do. I don’t have to convince other network marketers. They already get it.
 
Just like in your normal social life, you need to build relationships online with your Facebook friends. People will join a business with a person that they trust and feel that they want to work with. Network marketing is a team business so it is important to find people who want to work together on a team. Therefore, when you make friends with someone on Facebook, do not start your message by trying to sell them on your business. It is possible by doing that you will get a few recruits here and there but in the long run you will lose many more possible recruits because you turned them off by trying to make the sale too soon. Remember if you follow my procedure of adding network marketers as friends, they already have a business. They are not going to join your business unless they can see an advantage that your business has over what they are already doing.
 
Facebook has several ways of communicating with your friends. You can write on the wall and say a few words about your business opportunity or a webinar that explains the business opportunity. You can also use the wall to make general comments about life, business, or anything that is on your mind. Writing on the wall gets your face out there so people will recognize you when you have something to offer. You can comment on other people’s wall posts and write on their wall. If you write on the wall of someone who has a lot of friends, many people will see your post. (The maximum number of friends that Facebook allows is 5,000.) You can post information on a group site to members in the group or on a page site for fans of that page.
 
You can write messages to individual friends. This is a great way to get to know your friends. Instead of trying to sell them on your business, get to know them as people. Find out what is important to them in life. Remember that Facebook is a social media site. It is about making friends and network marketing is built on bringing friends together to make money together. 
 
Facebook also has a chat feature so you can talk instantly with any of your friends who are online. This is a great way to get to know someone. Even when I am very busy I will take the time to chat with someone who wants to chat with me. 
 
Facebook restricts the number of people you can send a message to at the same time to 20 people. Therefore, if you want to get a message out to a lot of people, you need to start a group. Then you can send messages out to up to 5,000 people at a time to members of your group. 
 
You can also create a page for your business and invite your friends to follow it and you can link your blog to your Facebook profile using NetworkedBlogs. 
 
After you get to know your friends and let them get to know you, you will be in a much better position to promote your network marketing business. 
 
To know how I built my friends list to more than 1,000 in one month, see my other blog post.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://merihoward.blogspot.com/feeds/3442783501075741592/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://merihoward.blogspot.com/2010/01/marketing-your-network-marketing.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/965452870253330261/posts/default/3442783501075741592'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/965452870253330261/posts/default/3442783501075741592'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://merihoward.blogspot.com/2010/01/marketing-your-network-marketing.html' title='Marketing Your Network Marketing Business on Facebook'/><author><name>merihoward</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04702121136902344444</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFKpaVTKlRNwZ-UJmL3DsHfxZmUQXBlTG84lRE8ThHLVGc3BuNYm4UNScP_FGHrqQTREVQdkeQaZdq7i-sN2wvqhUuVRts49s0sUqrYbQGLFfxrEDXE1mLZZs2E3md1A/s220/meri10.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-965452870253330261.post-4846574470375633941</id><published>2010-01-12T15:32:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-13T12:12:12.581-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Social Media Marketing"/><title type='text'>Get 1000 Free Well-Qualified Leads in One Month Using Facebook</title><content type='html'>Imagine if you had access to more than just the name, phone number, email address and time zone of your leads, you know, the ones you paid for. Imagine that you knew where they worked, what their hobbies and interests are, who and what are important to them, both family and friends and in the wider cultural scene. Imagine if you could already select only those people who were already predisposed to be interested in your product or service. Imagine also that you got all of this information for free!
 
Wow! That is the beauty of Facebook. The account is free and there is no reason not to open one if you have something to promote. 
 
Before you go after leads or as Facebook calls them “friends”, you need to set up your own profile page. This is extremely important because this is how you brand yourself to people you are going to choose as friends. Upload a nice picture of yourself showing a close up of your smiling face. Do not upload a picture of your dog, cat, baby, your product, your favorite sunset, your favorite cocktail or a picture of you in a large scene where we can’t see your face. Don’t upload a group shot because we don’t want to have to try to figure out which person is you. This seems like common sense but from all of the crazy profile pictures I have seen, the sense isn’t particularly common. The main reason I suggest a close up of your face is because every time you post on the wall, send a message or chat, a small icon of your profile picture appears. If you have a close up of your face, you are still recognizable. If you have any of the other pictures I mentioned, you will not make as big of an impression on others because it will be harder to recognize you.
 
Next, fill in the boxes on the profile sharing with others what you would like them to know about you. Show some uniqueness, what your passions are. Give your potential friends a reason to want to connect with you. You can include such things as your favorite sports, hobbies, television shows or movies if you wish. You can state your religion or politics. I would only include details about your religion and politics if you feel strongly about them and want to connect with others based on them. If not, I would leave them off. Add a few photos of yourself if you feel that they help to show others who you are. For instance, if you have photos of yourself with leaders in your industry, this can be helpful. I have a lot of travel photos because I am in the travel business and I want others to see the beauty and joy of visiting other places.
 
The leads that I personally focus on are all network marketers. Because of that, I include the websites to my lead generating system, my blog and my primary network marketing business. Make sure to add a paragraph about what you offer other people who will become your friends. I write that I am an Online Business &amp; Marketing Coach. I teach businesses to dominate the search engines and to structure their web presence for massive profitability. 
 
You must decide who you want to see your profile using the Facebook privacy settings. I choose “everyone” because I have only put things on my profile page that I wish to share with the world. My philosophy is that it will be easier for people to become friends with me if they can see something about me first. Keep in mind that all of the Facebook friends that you are going to make will start out as strangers. The easier you can make it for them to want to be your friend, the better.
 
Once you have set up your profile page, it is time to find some friends. Since I want to be friends with network marketers, I look at Facebook groups and pages for network marketers. A simple way to get started is to search MLM in the search box in the upper right hand corner of the Facebook page. Many groups will pop up with MLM in the name. Find groups that you like and join them. All you have to do to join is click on the group and click on the button “Join Group”. You can do the same for Facebook pages. It is not necessary to join a group in order to contact members, but I like to join so I can have easy access to the group later since the groups you join appear under your profile information.
 
To start with, pick a group whose members have a high likelihood of being interested in what you have to offer. In the lower left hand corner of the group page, there is a box that says “Members”. Inside the box is a link that says “See All”. Click on that link and all of the members will pop up in another screen. Next to each person’s picture icon is a button that says “Add Friend”. You can add friends that way. However, I prefer to right click on the photo and open a new tab. This way I look at the person’s profile to determine if I want to be friends with this person. This is very important and is why I have so many specially qualified friends.
 
I want to see that the person is serious about building a network marketing business. I look to see if they have a website to a business they are promoting, what groups and fan pages they belong to, and if I can detect a general positive attitude. I also look to see how many friends they have. When I started building a friend list, I chose only those people who had at least 100 friends. Now I will add a friend who has fewer friends if I can see that they are serious about building a business.
 
I will not add anyone who has the privacy settings so secure that I can’t see anything about them. I will not add anyone whose main fan pages are Mafia Wars or Farmville because these people are more interested in playing games than building a business and their constant posts will become annoying. I click on the person’s website if I am not familiar with it. Once I got a surprise when a potential friend had a pornography website. I am glad that I clicked on that link and didn’t add her as a friend.
 
When I click on the “Add as friend” button, there is a link that says “Add a personal message”. I click that and add the person’s first name, I would like to network with other network marketers on Facebook and sign my name. This way the person knows why I want to be friends and will not wonder why a stranger is asking for friendship. This procedure works really well. 
 
Facebook does not like spam, so you can only do up to about 50 friend requests a day. That is why it takes a month to build your list of 1,000. As you are building your list, you will discover who the movers and shakers are in your industry and you can befriend them as well and learn a lot from them. They will have groups and fan pages and you will want to join. You will find that as you go about this process, other people will want to be friends with you. Check them out just as I mentioned above to determine if they are people who fit in with your goals.
 
Adding friends this way is time consuming but it is the best way to get a quality list. To see my Facebook profile, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?ref=profile&amp;id=100000570973619#/profile.php?ref=profile&amp;id=100000570973619" target="bkbkb">click here</a>. 
 
In my next post I will tell you how to market to your friends.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://merihoward.blogspot.com/feeds/4846574470375633941/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://merihoward.blogspot.com/2010/01/get-1000-free-well-qualified-leads-in.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/965452870253330261/posts/default/4846574470375633941'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/965452870253330261/posts/default/4846574470375633941'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://merihoward.blogspot.com/2010/01/get-1000-free-well-qualified-leads-in.html' title='Get 1000 Free Well-Qualified Leads in One Month Using Facebook'/><author><name>merihoward</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04702121136902344444</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFKpaVTKlRNwZ-UJmL3DsHfxZmUQXBlTG84lRE8ThHLVGc3BuNYm4UNScP_FGHrqQTREVQdkeQaZdq7i-sN2wvqhUuVRts49s0sUqrYbQGLFfxrEDXE1mLZZs2E3md1A/s220/meri10.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-965452870253330261.post-7179285678935885647</id><published>2010-01-06T12:04:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-13T12:12:34.243-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Social Media Marketing"/><title type='text'>Free Internet Marketing Using Social Media</title><content type='html'>When you are starting out in business, chances are that you have a limited advertising budget. You don’t want to blow it on advertising campaigns that don’t bring results. One of the simplest and also free ways of advertising is to join social networks and use other social media. There are many out there and each has its own benefits. My suggestion is to pick one, master it and then add another one. In this blog I will briefly describe the experience with each social network. Later, I will go into detail on each one.
 
Facebook 
 
Facebook is an easy social network to use. It is easy to fill in information about yourself and your business. You can easily upload photos and videos. You can connect with customers for your business or prospects for an MLM opportunity by adding them as Friends. You can form your own group and invite friends to join. You can also start a fan page for your business. You can create lists of friends and send information out to 20 people at a time. With a group or fan page, you can send to everyone who subscribes. This can be in the thousands of people. You can also talk to friends in real time using the online chat feature.
 
MySpace 
 
MySpace allows you freedom to personalize your profile page putting anything on there that describes you and your business. You can add videos and music and create an individual look to the page. MySpace allows you to search for customers or prospects based on demographics. You can connect with other people like Facebook. You can also create or join groups based on specific topics. It was originally created for very young people and still has that bias. Many people create pages that take minutes to load even using a high speed internet connection which can turn off all but the most patient of individuals.
 
Twitter 
 
Twitter allows you to communicate with your customers in real time. It is a great way to get a buzz going about your business in conversations of 140 characters or less. Each message is called a tweet. People can sign up to follow you on Twitter to read everything you have to say. It is a great way to communicate to your customers using your mobile phone. 
 
YouTube 
 
With the advent of YouTube, anyone can be a star or at least can make a video statement about anything. You can promote your business on YouTube and send your YouTube video out to many other video sites and RSS feeds. It is free to subscribe to YouTube. You create your own channel and people can subscribe to your channel. You can also create your own YouTube group. 
 
LinkedIn 
 
LinkedIn is a professional network and is good if your business requires you to connect with other professionals or businesspeople. You submit your profile listing your business, your experience and skills. You can then connect with other businesspeople by joining company groups and user groups and personal connections. 
 
Digg 
 
Digg allows you to share with others something that you like. You can use Digg in two ways, to comment on other people’s articles, blogs, videos, or images or submit your own and have other Digg members comment on it. The most popular items jump to the home page of their category. This is a great way to get the word out about your business if it the item you submit becomes really popular. 
 
There are other social media sites but the ones I have mentioned are the most popular and I would suggest you pick one of them to start. When you have mastered all of them you can look at StumbleUpon, Reddit, Yelp, Delicious, Yahoo Buzz, Badoo, Bebo, and PeopleString.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://merihoward.blogspot.com/feeds/7179285678935885647/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://merihoward.blogspot.com/2010/01/free-internet-marketing-using-social.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/965452870253330261/posts/default/7179285678935885647'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/965452870253330261/posts/default/7179285678935885647'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://merihoward.blogspot.com/2010/01/free-internet-marketing-using-social.html' title='Free Internet Marketing Using Social Media'/><author><name>merihoward</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04702121136902344444</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFKpaVTKlRNwZ-UJmL3DsHfxZmUQXBlTG84lRE8ThHLVGc3BuNYm4UNScP_FGHrqQTREVQdkeQaZdq7i-sN2wvqhUuVRts49s0sUqrYbQGLFfxrEDXE1mLZZs2E3md1A/s220/meri10.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-965452870253330261.post-2675262378582158787</id><published>2010-01-02T09:11:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-02T09:16:31.979-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Search Engine Optimization"/><title type='text'>Search Engine Optimization</title><content type='html'>Once you have your website uploaded to your webhost, you will want to submit it to the major search engines Google, Yahoo, and Bing. To make sure that you maximize your exposure on these search engines, there are certain things that you need to keep in mind for search engine optimization (SEO).
 
When building a website, there are certain “metatags” that are created that the search engines see but are not necessarily apparent to the visitor to the site. The first thing is the title of the webpage. Make sure that your title describes the webpage. For example, the title of this blog is “Guide to Building a Strong Profitable Internet Business”. The title appears in the top of your browser. It appears as the description on the page at the bottom of your computer screen. If you have more than one web page open, it appears as the description of the webpage so a person can easily go between web pages based on the title. It also appears as the title of the webpage when you bookmark it. For that reason, do not put “Home Page” as your title. This is something that I see all the time. You know it’s your home page but other people need to know what it is a home page to.
 
Limit your title to 60 characters since some search engines will cut off the title at 60 characters. 
 
The other things that a search engine robot looks for on your web page are the web page description and the keywords. The keywords determine which web pages will come up when people search in the search engine. The description will be shown under your website title so people can skim through the list of websites and determine which one most closely fits what they are searching for. Google offers a keyword tool to help you pick the best keywords for your site. <a href="https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal">https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal</a>
 
To submit your website to Google, go to <a href="http://www.google.com/addurl/">http://www.google.com/addurl/</a> 
To submit your website to Yahoo, go to <a href="http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit">http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit</a> 
To submit your website to Bing, go to <a href="http://www.bing.com/docs/submit.aspx">http://www.bing.com/docs/submit.aspx</a> 
To submit your website to AOL, go to <a href="http://www.dmoz.org/add.html">http://www.dmoz.org/add.html</a> 
 
There are several sites that will submit your website to many search engines for free. One of them, AddMe will submit your site to 22 search engines including Google. FastSubmit at will submit your site to 89 search engines around the world for free. SubmitExpress will submit to 37 search engines. Other search engine submitters are FreeSubmissionWeb, ineedhits, Submitshop, Searchengineoptimizing, AddPro, Pageranklist, Freewebsubmission, Amfibi, Burf, Jerkasmarknad, LocalSubmit, SrSubmit. You may want to check several submitters since they seem to submit to different search engines.
 
There are many firms that will optimize your website for search engines for a fee. This may ultimately be the best solution for your business. Before you pay someone to optimize your site, look at Google’s own search engine optimization information at <a href="http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/">http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/</a></content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://merihoward.blogspot.com/feeds/2675262378582158787/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://merihoward.blogspot.com/2010/01/search-engine-optimization.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/965452870253330261/posts/default/2675262378582158787'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/965452870253330261/posts/default/2675262378582158787'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://merihoward.blogspot.com/2010/01/search-engine-optimization.html' title='Search Engine Optimization'/><author><name>merihoward</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04702121136902344444</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFKpaVTKlRNwZ-UJmL3DsHfxZmUQXBlTG84lRE8ThHLVGc3BuNYm4UNScP_FGHrqQTREVQdkeQaZdq7i-sN2wvqhUuVRts49s0sUqrYbQGLFfxrEDXE1mLZZs2E3md1A/s220/meri10.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-965452870253330261.post-678838331900110512</id><published>2009-12-27T18:17:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-02T09:17:14.613-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Website Hosting"/><title type='text'>Smart Web Hosting on Go Daddy</title><content type='html'>You will need somewhere to host your website. Beware of web designers who will set up your website and then demand that you host your website with them for a large monthly fee. If you are a small business person, the costs can prove to be prohibitive. You are better off learning some html code, controlling the host site and outsourcing the elements that you can’t do yourself.
 
My favorite place to host my websites is Go Daddy. I like them for two reasons. The hosting is cheap and the customer service is outstanding. For most businesses, the $6.99 per month plan is adequate. It gives you 150 gigabytes of space which is plenty for most businesses. Their unlimited hosting plan costs $14.99 but is more than most businesses need. You set up one website as your primary site and create folders underneath the primary site for your other web addresses. Their web technicians will walk you through the process over the phone. They are knowledgeable and will gladly take the time you need to set up the hosting.
 
Go Daddy has its own File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server which is adequate for most businesses. If you have lots of files to upload, Go Daddy will allow you to use your own FTP server. I moved two large websites over to Go Daddy recently and found that their FTP server worked just fine. If you don’t know what an FTP server is, let me explain that it is the way that you can take the files that make up your website, both html files and image files, and upload them from your computer onto the internet.
 
To use Go Daddy’s FTP server, you log into your account. Go to Hosting on the list on the left hand column. When your primary account comes up, click on manage account. The Hosting Control Center will come up. On the pull down menu under Content, click on FTP Client. The FTP server will come up. Find the folder from your computer on the left, click on the file you want to transfer. Make sure that the proper folder is highlighted on the right. Click on the double arrow in the middle to move the file into the Go Daddy hosting site on the right.
 
If you want to see that your website uploaded properly, go to Home in the Hosting Control Center and Click on View. You are able to see if you loaded all of the elements of your site propertly. 
 
If you started a new website, it should go live right away. If you moved your website from another server, contact the technicians at Go Daddy to help you make your website live on the Go Daddy hosting site. 
 
If you have a blog or your business is an affiliate site and you want to use your own domain name to get to the site, you can mask and forward your domain name to the site. Visitors to your domain name will go to the other site but will see your domain name as the address for the site. To mask and forward in Go Daddy, go to Domain Manager from the list on the left side. Find the domain name you want to mask and forward. Put a check by it. Click on it. On the top, click on Forward. It will prompt you to the IP address that you want to forward the domain name to. Type it in. Press Advanced Options. Click on Forward with Masking and click Okay.
 
Congratulations. If you have followed these instructions, you now have a website up on the internet.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://merihoward.blogspot.com/feeds/678838331900110512/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://merihoward.blogspot.com/2009/12/you-will-need-somewhere-to-host-your.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/965452870253330261/posts/default/678838331900110512'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/965452870253330261/posts/default/678838331900110512'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://merihoward.blogspot.com/2009/12/you-will-need-somewhere-to-host-your.html' title='Smart Web Hosting on Go Daddy'/><author><name>merihoward</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04702121136902344444</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFKpaVTKlRNwZ-UJmL3DsHfxZmUQXBlTG84lRE8ThHLVGc3BuNYm4UNScP_FGHrqQTREVQdkeQaZdq7i-sN2wvqhUuVRts49s0sUqrYbQGLFfxrEDXE1mLZZs2E3md1A/s220/meri10.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-965452870253330261.post-7198183516465360335</id><published>2009-12-26T13:35:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-02T09:17:48.042-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="HTML Code"/><title type='text'>Using HTML Code to Build Your Website</title><content type='html'>Knowing a little about html code can be helpful when building your website even if you hire an expert to design your site. If you know some html code, you can make minor changes in the site instead of having to go back to the designer every time you want to make a change.
 
HTML stands for hypertext markup language and it is the language used to build a basic website. Knowledgeable web designers will use a more elaborate script that entails java script and cascading style sheets (CSS). If you are just starting to learn about building a website, start by learning html code. 
 
A basic feature of html code is that for every tag that you add to start a command, you need an equal tag to stop. The tag to stop always has a slash before the command. 
 
Here are some examples. Every page starts with the word body surrounded by these brackets &lt; &gt; and ends with /body surrounded by the same brackets. Remember to put the brackets around all tags.&nbsp; If I do it in this blog, the words will just disappear. 
center before and&nbsp;/center afterward centers your text on the page. 
 
font face="Times New Roman" size="4"Example/font is the code for font face and size. You can insert your preference for font face. Keep the font face generic like Times New Roman, Verdana, Courier, or Arial because not everyone who visits your site will have all of the exotic fonts and it will just show up as one of the generic fonts anyway. 
b /b is bold. 
u /u is underline. 
i /i is italics. 
Remember to add brackets &lt;&gt; around these tags. 
You need to tell the code that you want to go to the next line by typing br. 
To make a new paragraph, type p. 
To add an image, use this code, img src="Your image" width="number of pixels" height="number of pixels" border="0" alt="" /. 
To add a link to another website, use this code. 
a href="http://www.yoursite.com"Write text here&nbsp; /a 
 
To have control of the size of your webpage, you need to tell it how many pixels or inches wide you want it. Otherwise, the text will fill the monitor of each visitor and it will be difficult to read. An easy way to do this is by using a table. Here is some code for a simple table with two columns and two rows. The table is 800 pixels wide. Each cell of the table is between td and /td. tr /tr indicates a row. You can add text, images or even forms in the cell. 
 
table width="800" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2" border="2" 
tr 
td /td 
td /td 
/tr 
tr 
td /td 
td /td 
/tr 
/table 
(Remember to bracket each tag &lt; &gt;.) 
 
If you would like to practice using html code, you may start with a free download of the Coffee Cup or First Page html editor. If you want to purchase a good html editor, Dreamweaver is popular. However, it costs $400. I have been able to produce perfectly fine web pages using Coffee Cup. 
 
You don’t need to remember all of the tags because the html editors allow you to push buttons to insert tags. Keep in mind that you will need to highlight the item you want to tag using your mouse before adding the tag so that it will be included in the tag. 
 
These simple tags will get you started. You can get more in depth tutorials from the html editors themselves.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://merihoward.blogspot.com/feeds/7198183516465360335/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://merihoward.blogspot.com/2009/12/using-html-code-to-build-your-website.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/965452870253330261/posts/default/7198183516465360335'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/965452870253330261/posts/default/7198183516465360335'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://merihoward.blogspot.com/2009/12/using-html-code-to-build-your-website.html' title='Using HTML Code to Build Your Website'/><author><name>merihoward</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04702121136902344444</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFKpaVTKlRNwZ-UJmL3DsHfxZmUQXBlTG84lRE8ThHLVGc3BuNYm4UNScP_FGHrqQTREVQdkeQaZdq7i-sN2wvqhUuVRts49s0sUqrYbQGLFfxrEDXE1mLZZs2E3md1A/s220/meri10.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-965452870253330261.post-6967735582354397758</id><published>2009-12-25T13:45:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-25T13:47:26.268-08:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="website design"/><title type='text'>Website Design for Profits</title><content type='html'>When building a website to make money as opposed to a personal one that showcases your talents or interests, it is important to make it easy for your visitors to give you their money. For that reason, you want to keep your site simple so that the visitor will understand how to purchase what you are selling.
 
First off, make the website easy to load. If you put a lot of Flash on the site that takes minutes to load, chances are you will lose visitors to another site that opens more quickly because people are impatient and want to see results. 
 
Keep your visitor’s eyes focused on what you are selling. Do not distract them with flashing signs and animated gifs or links that will take them away from your webpage. 
 
If you are selling just one item, you can use a service like Clickbank or 2Checkout to process your orders. If you have several items for sale such as an online store, you will need a shopping cart program and a merchant account. 
 
Design your website so that a customer can purchase your items easily by clicking a button which takes them to a secure webpage where they can enter their credit card or bank information. It is helpful to have a phone number or live chat on your page so that customers can talk to someone to get help if they have questions or problems in processing their order. This idea alone will set you apart from most internet companies. 
 
To increase profits, add an additional item or two on your order page to upsell your customer. You will find that a certain percentage of your customers will purchase the related item and that will increase your profits. 
 
Another way you can make money with your website is to have your customers opt in to get free newsletter, ebook or other free information by having a form on your website requesting the name and email address of your visitors. You can use the free information opt in to grow your customer list and sell to them over and over again. You can use a third party service like <a href="http://www.aweber.com/?334382">AWeber</a> or <a href="http://www.getresponse.com/index/leadsexplosion">Get Response</a> to make the form and store the information of your customers.
 
If you are just starting out, setting up a website yourself can be daunting and chances are you don’t have a lot of money to hire a web designer. Luckily, there are many web designers around the world who will be happy to design your site for you for a reasonable fee. Go to websites like freelancer.com or guru.com to find designers that will either work for a fixed bid or a small hourly rate. 
 
Do not let your lack of internet knowledge keep you from having a profitable website. The money that you spend on a knowledgeable web designer will come back to you quickly as your customers discover how easily they can purchase from your website.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://merihoward.blogspot.com/feeds/6967735582354397758/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://merihoward.blogspot.com/2009/12/website-design-for-profits.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/965452870253330261/posts/default/6967735582354397758'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/965452870253330261/posts/default/6967735582354397758'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://merihoward.blogspot.com/2009/12/website-design-for-profits.html' title='Website Design for Profits'/><author><name>merihoward</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04702121136902344444</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFKpaVTKlRNwZ-UJmL3DsHfxZmUQXBlTG84lRE8ThHLVGc3BuNYm4UNScP_FGHrqQTREVQdkeQaZdq7i-sN2wvqhUuVRts49s0sUqrYbQGLFfxrEDXE1mLZZs2E3md1A/s220/meri10.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-965452870253330261.post-582150589182600822</id><published>2009-12-22T14:33:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2023-05-20T03:17:39.862-07:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="domain name"/><title type='text'>How to Pick a Great Domain Name</title><content type='html'><div style="text-align: left;">When choosing a domain name, there are two important factors to consider. The first factor is visibility. The second factor is branding. The key to success on the internet is being found. You may have the best website ever built, but if no one finds it, you will not make money online. How do you get visibility? First consider what keywords people are searching for when looking for your product or service? Think like your customer. If you are in the plumbing business, what keywords might they search? How about unclog drain or fix leaky pipe. Google moves websites to the front of the search page based on relevance. If your website is unclogdrain.com or fixleakypipe.com, you would expect to have more visibility than if your website was smithplumbing.com.
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If you have been in business for a long time as Smith Plumbing and people will search for you under that name, it is okay to have smithplumbing.com, but you need to advertise to have visibility. I will talk a little more about that later. 
 
Once you have determined the keywords that best describe your business, you need to see if the domain name is already taken. I prefer to use the domain company called Go Daddy because they have great deals on purchasing domain names and offer cheap web hosting as well. <a href="http://www.kqzyfj.com/click-3716903-10378406">Click on the Go Daddy banner</a> on the right to go to Go Daddy. Use the Go Daddy Domain Search Tool to see if someone already has a domain name with your keyword. I checked Go Daddy for unclogdrain.com. It was taken. Fixleakypipe.com was also taken. However, fixleakypipes.com was available. I checked Google to see how many people searched "fix leaky pipe" and found 1,180,000 searches. I tried "fix leaky pipes" and found 1,580,000 searches. If you specialize in fixing leaky pipes, you have a lot of customers searching for you and you can purchase this domain name for only $10.69 plus tax for one year.
 
If you have established yourself as Smith Plumbing and are known in your community, it makes sense to get smithplumbing.com. You must continue to advertise as you have always done so the local community can find you. 
 
There is something else you can do. If you specialize in fixing leaky pipes, you may purchase fixleakypipes.com and forward and mask the domain name to your smithplumbing.com website. This way you can take advantage of the keywords that are being searched for your business and you can continue branding your business with the Smith Plumbing brand. (I will cover forwarding and masking in a separate post.) 
 
This brings me to the second important factor in choosing a domain name, branding. Branding is more expensive and takes more effort on your part, but if you want people to associate Smith Plumbing with fixing leaky pipes, you can brand yourself with repeated advertising. Then when someone gets a leaky pipe, they will think of Smith Plumbing. 
 
The example I gave is for a local brick and mortar business. The same principles apply for a strictly online business. I recommend the .com domain name. This is the first domain name that is taken with the keyword you select. Look for a domain name that you can promote all by yourself. If someone has the .com name and you buy the .net name, it can lead to confusion. If you are concerned with competition from someone else with the same keywords, purchase the .net and the .org domain names as well.
 
To prove to you how powerful this concept is, I started a website for Italian folk music ten years ago. The website is www.italianfolkmusic.com. I have hardly done anything to the site in the last 10 years. It still ranks as one of the top web searches for "Italian folk music".</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://merihoward.blogspot.com/feeds/582150589182600822/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://merihoward.blogspot.com/2009/12/how-to-pick-great-domain-name.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/965452870253330261/posts/default/582150589182600822'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/965452870253330261/posts/default/582150589182600822'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://merihoward.blogspot.com/2009/12/how-to-pick-great-domain-name.html' title='How to Pick a Great Domain Name'/><author><name>merihoward</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04702121136902344444</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFKpaVTKlRNwZ-UJmL3DsHfxZmUQXBlTG84lRE8ThHLVGc3BuNYm4UNScP_FGHrqQTREVQdkeQaZdq7i-sN2wvqhUuVRts49s0sUqrYbQGLFfxrEDXE1mLZZs2E3md1A/s220/meri10.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-965452870253330261.post-1608711665650124403</id><published>2009-12-21T14:51:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-21T14:51:13.459-08:00</updated><title type='text'>I have lots to share on my new blog</title><content type='html'>This is my first posting on my new blog.&nbsp; As an online business and marketing coach, I have a lot to share with anyone who would like to earn a living using the internet.&nbsp; If you are just getting started, it can seem intimidating.&nbsp; You may not know where to start.&nbsp; You are probably getting conflicting messages about what kind of marketing to use, whether to pay for leads or try free advertising.&nbsp; You may want to try pay per click but don't want to lose your shirt in the process.&nbsp; Some of you may be so green that you don't even know adsense from incense or MySpace from outer space.&nbsp; That is okay.&nbsp; This blog will be a nuts and bolts guide for what you need to operate a business online.&nbsp; In fact, I apologize to you internet gurus who may have landed on this site, because I will be speaking mainly to those business people who either need help getting started or who&nbsp;have gotten&nbsp;stuck somewhere along the way and need to get to the next step. I will talk about different tools that you will need to operate a successful online business.&nbsp; I will also offer places to go that will inspire you to prosperity thinking.&nbsp; You will need both tools and attitude to be successful.&nbsp; I look forward to our journey together.</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://merihoward.blogspot.com/feeds/1608711665650124403/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://merihoward.blogspot.com/2009/12/i-have-lots-to-share-on-my-new-blog.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/965452870253330261/posts/default/1608711665650124403'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/965452870253330261/posts/default/1608711665650124403'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://merihoward.blogspot.com/2009/12/i-have-lots-to-share-on-my-new-blog.html' title='I have lots to share on my new blog'/><author><name>merihoward</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04702121136902344444</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='25' height='32' src='//blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFKpaVTKlRNwZ-UJmL3DsHfxZmUQXBlTG84lRE8ThHLVGc3BuNYm4UNScP_FGHrqQTREVQdkeQaZdq7i-sN2wvqhUuVRts49s0sUqrYbQGLFfxrEDXE1mLZZs2E3md1A/s220/meri10.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>

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