This is a summary of the first 3 parts of this series. It’s pretty much a discussion of how all the mentoring principles can really be applied by seeing them in action.
Click on DAY 4 to catch the wrap-up. You won’t want to miss it.
To learn more about the tribe I’m in, and how you might get involved, CONTACT ME anytime. I’d love to chat with you about it.
Meanwhile, I look forward to your comments below, and your Re-Tweets and Facebook shares.
A great place to prepare the pathway to your success is to write out a clear description of your:
(1) Vision or direction
(2) Goals for specific accomplishment that will result in fulfillment of the vision
(3) Game Plan for bringing that vision into reality
(4) Work Plan setting out the exact tasks that must be completed to make the game plan work.
To make it all happen in the shortest time and with the least struggle and expense, it’s best to engage a live mentor who will guide you, and keep you accountable for your progress.
Find out how my tribe mentors can help you make your dreams happen. Click on DAY 3 of their Tribe Mentoring Series.
If you’d like to know more about getting involved with me and my tribe mentors, don’t hesitate to CONTACT ME.
I’d love to hear what your vision is and how you’d like to make it happen! Comment below.
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One thing that separates the big-time internet marketers and bloggers from the wannabees is product creation. The really serious and enterprising bloggers are the ones that get down to the business of creating their very first product.
It could be an ebook, a DVD series, an interview or any number of things.
It could be an expensive product or simply an introductory freebie.
Whatever it is, it is NOT an end unto itself. It is just the beginning. It is the first rung, if you will, of the “Product Ascension Ladder“. If you want to learn how my tribe mentors have put together products in succession, one building on the other… if you want to learn in minute detail, step by step to the top… click here for Day 2 of their Tribe Mentoring Blogging Basics Series.
If you’d like to learn more about my tribe and my tribe mentors, and how you can join us in our online marketing success, be it for your own product, your own service, or to build your MLM downline the RIGHT way, then CONTACT ME right now! I’m happy to bring you behind the scenes.
In the meanwhile, I always love hearing your comments, and always appreciate you sharing this post on your Facebook and Twitter.
PRODUCT CREATION is critical to your ability to be successful online. Yet, it tends to be an elusive skill for many marketers and bloggers.
My tribe mentors have developed a rock solid primer for those who want to know where to begin with their own Product Creation.
Click to see DAY 1 of their awesome Tribe Mentoring video series.
If you’d like to learn more about my Tribe, and find out how you can get involved, CONTACT ME. I’d be happy to let you know what it’s all about!
I’d love to hear your comments about this post and the Day 1 video training.
Hey blogger and online business marketer! Have you ever felt like you’re all alone in the wilderness? A voice in the desert? Feel like all the great things you write or create videos about are just between you and the trees?
Maybe you’re just not seeing the forest from the trees.
You’re NOT alone.
There are many pioneers of this vast internet world who have messages to bring, services to offer, even products to sell that could truly have a major impact on our world.
The first problem they encounter, though, is “how can I get people to listen?” Continue Reading
The fastest, cheapest, most effective way to drive traffic to your newly designed blog is Network Syndication. The best format for network syndicating that I’ve seen is Tribes.
Tribes are groups of like-minded bloggers who form a voluntary alliance for the express purpose of giving each other seed traffic and comment feedback. The purpose of this is to lend “social credibility” to your blog.
Social credibility for your blog functions as your online “reputation” so to speak. The more people see you attracting attention through comments from other readers, retweets of your post, facebook shares of your post and other forms of network syndication… the more credible they perceive you to be, and the better reputation you gain as a blogger. Continue Reading
Being a successful blogger means different things to different people. To some it means blogging for money and profit. For others it means creating a steady blogging income. It might be your means for establishing a home-based business to replace your day job. Or, it could just mean a powerful method for promoting an idea or cause that you are passionate about. Continue Reading
I want to blog but I don’t know how to set up a blog. And no, I never heard of Squidoo.
I’m ready to blog but do not have the web design skills to create a blog. And no, I never heard of Squidoo.
I’d like to have a blog created but I’ll have to wait until I have the funds to hire someone to set up MY blog. And no, I never heard of Squidoo.
I can set up a basic blog, but I notice most bloggers have Facebook buttons and Twitter Re-tweet buttons to help them syndicate their blogs. I don’t know how to do all that. And no, I never heard of Squidoo.
HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF SQUIDOO?
I have had more than a few friends, downlines and clients use the above reasons for stalling their efforts to getting started on their personal blog sites. They understand that to use a blog as a central hub is critical to orchestrating their social media strategies. They realize that they simply must have a “home” to send their friends to from You Tube, Twitter and Facebook.
But far too many cite the above reasons for sitting on the bench and not getting into the game.
If you are one of the benchwarmers, let me introduce you to Squidoo.
Squidoo is the brainchild of “Tribes” author and online guru, Seth Godin. I highly recommend it to my clients for many reasons:
It is really easy to set up, and you really don’t have to maintain your Squidoo site as intensely as you do your blog.
The design work is all done for you. No struggling with widgets, plugins or design code.
It’s free. You don’t need to pay a designer. Squidoo is ready to go. Right now! Really!
Not only is it free, you can actually make money from your Squidoo posts if they generate sufficient traffic.
Because you don’t have to mess with the technical aspects of creating and maintaining your own blog, You Can FOCUS Your Efforts On Creating Ideas, rather than getting bogged down in blog mechanics, or sidelined periodically by technical defects.
Squidoo has all the functionality of a personal blog post. It has Facebook and Twitter connections so people can syndicate your content, and they can even leave comments for you! This functionality exists the moment you write a Squidoo post (called a “lens”). You don’t have to set it up, you don’t tweak it… it’s simply there!
I HAVE ALREADY HAVE A BLOG, IS SQUIDOO FOR ME?
Absolutely!
One of the big benefits of adding Squidoo lenses to your online presence is that Google gives high priority for Squidoo lenses. That means it has great search engine optimization features that catch Google’s eye faster and more effectively than the majority of personal blogs.
So, whether or not you have a personal blog, it’s time to create a Squidoo presence to further enhance your online visibility.
If you want to see what a Squidoo lens looks like, check out mine:
http://www.squidoo.com/DavidMerrill101
OK, I’LL GIVE IT A TRY… WHERE DO I START?
This is the easy part.
You just go to the Squido homepage, click on “Make A Lens” and then the “Get Started” buttons.
From this point on, it’s pretty self-explanatory. Of course, I’m going to give you the advanced Squidoo training when you’re ready to get things smoking’… but for now, open your free account, create a lens, and get started.
I’ll be creating enhanced training for my clients and fellow bloggers who want to make the Squidoo lens an absolute powerhouse addition to their social media syndication strategies. Until then, just keep blogging!
This is your chance to get a FREE education into what tribes are all about. I took a TMI (Tribe Mastery Intensive) course about 5 weeks ago. Watch my video as I describe that incredible experience. A new TMI Course is on it’s way and YOU can get in on a really great FREE webinar coming up. Don’t pass it up, friends. The learning you’ll receive on this webinar will rock your world and costs you NOTHING!!
Watch the video, then read on and contact me so I can get you signed up for the FREE 2-hour information packed TMI webinar coming up in JUST DAYS. I’d hate to see you miss out on it. I’m highly recommending this educational MUST to all my students, clients, friends and visitors. Take Action Now! You will thank me many times over.
If you’d like to learn more about My Tribe, I’ve got GREAT NEWS. We’re doing a FREE… Absolutely FREE WEBINAR in which we will give you all the basics of getting started with Social Media techniques to Drive Your Internet Marketing campaign and to Drive leads to YOUR BLOG. No buying leads, no paid advertising… all free techniques to market online. You do not want to miss out on this. Space is limited. Please, leave a comment below, or call me, or email me… do whatever works best for you, but PLEASE get yourself registered for this FREE WEBINAR before it fills up. Worm to the early bird, guys!
PS: THE BEST place to join in the action is here: MY TRIBE
Many of my students, lately, are asking me how to start a blog. A lot of them want to know how to start a blog for a life success coaching business. Maybe because it’s the new year… resolutions to finally create a blog are catching fire. To create a blog is one thing. To build a blog is quite another. Learning how to get your blog noticed, how to make money from your blog, how to get your blog noticed and then increasing blog traffic… all of these elements are essential to the whole purpose of writing a blog to begin with.
When students or clients ask me how to start a blog, my first question is WHY do you want to create a blog in the first place. The most common answer I get is that they want to drive traffic to a place where they can capture people’s interest in what they are doing. Then, not surprisingly, they want to know how to increase blog traffic fast. So, for instance, if you want to start a blog for a life success coaching business, you clearly need to attract people that are interested in self-development, in creating “success” in their lives, perhaps in their career, financially, maybe with relationships or in terms of a specific skill like public speaking or being more assertive.
To attract these specific kinds of people–self-identified “prospects”–to your blog, I teach my clients to meet them where they are, enter their lives and learn who they are. Many such prospects can be found in the social media, seeking out life success coaches. They appear on search engines, typing in questions about self-development, or maybe even asking how they can connect with a reputable life success coach. There are specific online techniques I teach clients for capturing the attention of these people who are specifically seeking what they have to offer.
One such technique is to direct friends and visitors of your social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, Digg and others… to YOUR BLOG. If they are out there seeking expertise that you have, and if you can show them in your blog how you apply your expertise to solving their problems or making their lives more valuable… then YOUR BLOG is a great place for them to improve their lives. Your job is to send them there. Post links to your site in the social media, let people know you have valuable information and methods they can apply. Let them know that YOUR BLOG is the place to go to find this.
Some of my clients have voiced concern that such a technique is self promotional. Of course it is. If you are in business, and especially if the business is focused on the professional help YOU have to offer, then you better promote yourself. YOU are your entire offer.
The only concern you should have about being self-promoting is if you are pushing your promotion on people who have not asked for it and may very well have no interest in it. That is simply spamming people. It’s analogous to the door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman of old, who would knock on the door (not too many doorbells in those days) and throw a handful of dirt on the floor as soon as someone opened it. Then he’d “sell” you on how great his vacuum is, if you’d just let him in to clean up the mess he just created. This is spam. Don’t do it if you want your blog to be taken seriously, and moreover, if you want your professionalism to be undisputed.
There ought to be plenty of people out there who want your services. (If not, you better reconsider the value of your business at the outset.) People who are interested in your services (1) need to be attracted to explore your invitation to visit your blog, (2) need to have sufficient trust in you as a person that they are willing to give you the information you request to follow up with them, and (3) need to be able to clearly and quickly see how you can help them and at what cost.
Attracting people to your blog at the outset is a matter of meeting them in social circles (the social media) and letting them get to trust you from a personal standpoint. This is accomplished by offering information, insights, perspective, tips… anything you think will be of value to your target prospects. These things can be shared in the social media, with links back to your blog. Once on your blog, the prospect will be able to get the immediate information, insight or tip he was looking for, plus will be afforded the opportunity to spend some time on your blog and get to know you better.
Once the prospect knows you sufficiently to trust you, he or she will most likely proceed to exploring your blog to determine your offer and pricing. At that point, they will be likely to give you their contact information so you can contact them and give them more detailed information about how you can give them the products and services they are looking for.
So this gives you an idea of the power of having and why you should have a blog, one method of getting your blog noticed and, finally, how to make money from your blog. This information is pertinent to those my clients who want to know how to start a blog for a life success coaching business as well as for those who want to promote an MLM opportunity or teach people to play the guitar.
There are MANY other techniques to explore in order to create a blog that is effective and valuable to people, and in order to market your blog to prospects that are looking for what you have to offer. Perhaps the most powerful way, in fact, to promote your blog, is to syndicate it through the efforts of other bloggers who have the same goals in mind… creating and maintaining a blog that will drive prospects to them. This is called “content syndication” and the people who come together to help each other out in this way are often referred to as a “tribe”
If you’d like to learn more about My Tribe, I’ve got GREAT NEWS. We’re doing a FREE… Absolutely FREE WEBINAR in which we will give you all the basics of getting started with Social Media techniques to Drive Your Internet Marketing campaign and to Drive leads to YOUR BLOG. No buying leads, no paid advertising… all free techniques to market online. You do not want to miss out on this. Space is limited. Please, leave a comment below, or call me, or email me… do whatever works best for you, but PLEASE get yourself registered for this FREE WEBINAR before it fills up. Worm to the early bird, guys!
PS: THE BEST place to REGISTER FOR THE FREE WEBINAR and join in the action is here: MY TRIBE
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