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?”

Have you been screaming out your message but nobody hears?  Nobody comes by to read your blog posts, or view your videos?  Nobody leaves comments or joins in the conversation you try to bring to the table?  Do you struggle to find “friends” on Twitter and FaceBook?

What To Do When Nobody’s Hearing You

The answer to your dilemma lies in making your voice loud enough that it can’t be missed.

To do this, you need to find community… what we call a blogging alliance or, more commonly, a syndication “tribe”.  If, by the way, you’re not familiar with what “syndication” is all about, it’s simply a method for sharing content like blog posts with each other.  A very simple (but powerful) example is when I comment on your blog post, then you comment on mine in return.  That’s the sort of syndication that a blogging alliance or syndication tribe will do.

You may be a pioneer, but when faced with the rigors of the wilderness, you need to join a community of other pioneers who can help each other tough out the barren winter and protect themselves from bigger and stronger beasts of prey.

What To Do When Nobody’s Helping You

Who will stand watch while you sleep, or give warning when disaster lurks?   That is to say, what sort of automation tools are available to drive traffic to you?  What sort of technology can you use to amplify your voice, and to spread it across the world with just a few keystrokes?  And what are the pitfalls to be aware of?

Your tribe will help you with all of this.  They will bring you up to date to use the latest technology to put your efforts on cruise control, while steering you clear of the hazards that eat most internet pioneers alive before they even make a campfire.

Blogging alliances and syndication tribes are built on the foundation of tribal community goals and shared values.  They bring you the assistance and expertise of others who have tread this wilderness before you, and have clearly marked the trails that will most directly get you to your destination.

Your Syndication Tribe Is A Shining Light In The Darkness

Members of my tribe come from all walks of life.  From all ethnic and religious backgrounds, and even from different continents on the globe.  Yet, we all share a common experience.

We are all pioneers.  We have left the comfort of the big city… the BOSS with a paycheck, the apartment above the deli, and the token for the subway.

The very first thing we encounter is the VASTNESS of the WILDERNESS.

We feel small, overwhelmed and barely suited for the obstacles we face.  We question ourselves for leaving our comforts and familiar lifestyles behind us.  We wonder if we should have listened to our families and friends when they warned us that we’d never survive out here, all alone.

Tribes Can Turn Your Blog Into A Beehive of Buzz!

The second thing we encounter is the strength of community.

In order to survive the first brutal winter, we huddle together with our new tribe mates.  We establish a community where we give each other a voice to be heard.  We visit each other’s blogs, view each other’s videos and friend our tribe mates on FaceBook and Twitter.

This gives us “social credibility”.  The time will come when “strangers”… people not in our tribe… will notice all the activity on our blogs and in our social media streams.  They will want to know if we are credible.  They will look to see if we are getting comments and social activity.  And, of course, they will find it.  Lots of it!

Comfortable with the social credibility we’ve displayed, these new visitors will jump right in and join the conversation that we have begun.  Eventually, many of them will join our business opportunities, buy our products, read our e-books, sign up for our online workshops and so forth.  They will hear our message, join our vision and become the basis of our new business.

But not until they’ve seen the activity we generate through our tribe affiliations.

Be A Pioneer, Not A Hermit: Join A Blogging Alliance or Syndication Tribe Community

So, if you are a serious internet pioneer…  If you’ve left the big city comforts behind… and you’re out here trying to figure out how to survive your first winter, contact me.

There really is strength in numbers… and in community!

Let me introduce you to my blogging alliance… my tribal community.  I’ll give you a tour of our village, introduce you to some of my tribe mates and show you how to arm yourself, and get prepared for internet marketing survival.

Sound intriguing?  Let me know what you think of this information.  Jump into the conversation by leaving your comment below.  I’d love to hear from you.

You don’t just need a blog. You need to learn how to be a blogger. Actually, you need to be a STAR blogger. Maybe even a SUPER STAR blogger. You want to make money blogging, don’t you? You want to promote your great ideas, don’t you? You want to help people, help the world, entertain, enlighten, spread love and value to others… don’t you?

If you answered yes to even one of these questions, then you need to get down to business… the business of becoming a STAR blogger.

You Can Warm The Bench…

You see, it’s nice to be a blogger. It’s a nice thing to do. It passes the time away. Your family and friends are amused by it. They might leave you some cute comments. You could even add it to your resume if you want to get some freelance writing assignments.

But blogging is also an incredibly powerful communication tool. You can use it to position yourself as a leader in your field, as an artist, an educator or a philosopher.

You can also use it to make money. Sounds pretty selfish, huh? I hear lots of people say “it’s not about making money”. That’s fine if you’re financially independent or blessed with a trust fund.

Otherwise…

Try telling your kids when they’re hungry… you “got no cash today”.

Try telling your favorite charity when they beg you to help them assist people trying to recover from an earthquake… sorry, I didn’t think money was too important… so “I ain’t got none”.

And you can forget about helping your aging parents who can’t afford the dentist, your shut-in aunt who can‘t pay for air-conditioning, or the old man across the street losing his house to back taxes… just tell them you don’t place much value in money. Tell them you blog just for the “art” of it (ie., your ego).

… Or, You Can Step Up To The Plate!

But if you decide you DO want to monetize your blogging efforts, or you do want to spread your ideas, talents and unique perspectives… then here’s the 5 reasons why you want to be, not just a blogger, but a STAR blogger!  Take notes, and then take these 5 Steps that will take you from the Bench to the Batter’s Box…

Being a Star Blogger means

• You are getting people’s attention (Action Step 1: Get People’s Attention)

• You’re taking on a leadership role within your community or niche (Action Step 2: Be A Leader)

• You are positioned to dominate social media circles (Action Step 3: Master Social Media)

• You gain the trust and credibility that commands a huge audience or following (Action Step 4: Create Trust)

• You are in a position to generate incredible profits (Action Step 5: Capture & Convert Leads)

If you are looking to accomplish these objectives as a blogger, remember that blogging BEGINS with you developing yourself into a STAR BLOGGER.  In future blogs, I’ll go into the 5 Action Steps in detail.

In the meanwhile… If you’re ready to step up to the plate and establish yourself as a STAR Blogger NOW… I’m here for you!  Let’s talk!

I’d love to hear what level of blogging you’re at now, and what things you think you need to work on to start being a STAR BLOGGER!

No matter what your idea of success is, to reach your goals can seem like a complicated and elusive process.  I mean, how do you go from knowing virtually nothing about blogging to becoming a dynamic and prosperous blogging personality in just a few short months?  Is it really possible, or are you just kidding yourself?

It may sound too good to be true to you, but the fact is, whatever success you want as a blogger can be gotten by following just 3 simple steps.

Create Your Niche

Decide WHY you are blogging to begin with.  Who are you in the photosphere?  What do you have to offer?  What is your burning passion to share with others?

This becomes the basis for your Niche.  It is what you have to offer.  It is why people will come to read your blog over and over again.

Are you writing a cookbook that you want everyone to know about?  Are you sharing secrets to make money in real estate?  Are you an affiliate of a great product or system?

It all begins with your deciding what you will offer on your blog.  That’s what your blog will feature.  That’s what you’ll post content about.  People interested in your niche are the ones that will visit repeatedly and become your friends, clients and customers.

Create Your Personal Blog

Now this is not such an easy thing for most people, myself included… at the top of the list!

But it’s not difficult at all if you know where to turn to get techno-savvy professionals to do it for you.  If you want a blog created for you by my affiliate blog design team, check them out anytime.

These guys can have you up and running with a beautifully designed and fully functional blog in mere days… and you’ll be shocked at how affordable it is.

On the other hand, if you know html and coding and are up to the challenge, you can create your own blog.  It doesn’t matter WHO creates it, as long as it gets done, gets done right and gets done quickly so you can start on your journey to being a successful blogger.

Create Your Faithful Following

Now this is THE step that separates the bonafide blogging superstars from the wannabees.

Most people can define their niche and develop a blog to present their ideas in fairly short order.  But the majority of people who do, end up with nice blogs that have great content… and NOBODY reading them.

You might be trying to sell a beautiful car with super low mileage that runs like new.  But if you lock it in the garage and never take it out, who’s going to see it?  And if nobody sees it, who’s going to buy it?  I don’t care if you live on a super highway with 10,000 cars trafficking by every 5 minutes.  Nobody’s going to see it.

But what if were to open the garage door on a sunny day, get 50 people parked on the side of the road, all standing in your driveway pointing at your car and talking about it.  Do you think some of that passing traffic might slow down to see what’s happening?  When they do, and they see your “For Sale” sign, do you think some of them might stop, get out of their cars and walk up your driveway for a closer look?

This is the same process for creating buzz and excitement about your blog.  Simply set up your blog, give it some content, and find faithful followers to visit it, comment on it, tell others about it on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.  Don’t you think that will attract a lot of attention to your blog and bring you rapid success?

Of course it will.  So now, you only need to learn the SECRET for getting those faithful followers.

The secret is… Join a TRIBE, or Content Syndication group… or whatever else you might call it.  Without taking a lot of time now to discuss it, I would invite you to link on some of my other posts about the power of tribes to make you an overnight sensation in the photosphere!

Basically, when you join a tribe, you join forces with other bloggers who are all committed to visiting each others blogs and syndicating each others’ blog content everywhere in the Social Media, and directly on  the blogs themselves.  The process is simple.  It won’t happen without your effort and diligence… but it will happen if you get involved and start making it happen.

If you want a little more idea of how Tribes work, check out this blog post I wrote a little while ago:

And please… if you’re itching to get into action, contact me anytime to get started !

These are the 3 steps that will make you a blogging success story.  And it can happen overnight, or it might take a few weeks or months.  But if you develop these 3 essential steps to the best of your ability now, the wheels of success will instantly be put into motion.

I’d love to be with you as you set out on the exciting journey of blogging success.

Keep in touch along the way, and let me know how you’re doing… and when you’re in need of a little help and hand-holding… I’d love to help you reach the next level

Coordinate You Tube Videos and Ezine Articles

You Tube video campaigns can personally brand you as an expert on topics that are more fully explored in companion ezine articles that you publish simultaneously.  This is a coordinated effort that is designed to drive You Tube visitors to your ezine articles for further information.  At the same time, ezine article readers are being driven to your You Tube videos for a more intimate and personal review of  your topic.

I encourage my clients to introduce people to their topics and ideas at the same time that they introduce themselves as go-to leaders that people interested in these topics and ideas will want to consult and work with.  At the heart of this strategy is developing your approach to a topic by coordinating a distinct campaign to share particular insight or information through  your own unique and personal perspective.

Let Me Show You How To

Put This “Insider” Technique To Work

First, try creating an outline of the main features of the topic that you wish to discuss.

Next, write a somewhat detailed article.  In it, you should expand each of the points made in your outline.  Give some specific examples or possibly story lines that underscore your point of view.

After your article is written, create a You Tube video using the same outline.   Use your own personal impressions and experiences, possibly sharing story lines that underscore or illustrate your point of view.  You can reference your article in your video, and even link back to it.  In that way, after you have briefly illustrated an idea, technique or strategy in your video… you can send viewers immediately to your article for a fuller narrative explanation.

This is a very powerful method for introducing people to your personal brand.  We can already presume are become interested in your topic.  That’s how they found your article or video… by browsing the keywords that your article are video is about.

If they like your unique approach to the topic, now they have qualified themselves as prospects both interested in your topic and also… attracted to you and your handling of the topic.  They are now truly qualified prospects that are interested in following you.

Drawing Your Prospects Into Your Personal Brand

At this point, it becomes your job to direct them to your Twitter and Facebook pages, and to your personal blog.  From here, they can become involved in other things you do.  This might include your primary business, your affiliate programs or anything else you might  be offering.

To make this strategy even more powerful, you could consider writing ezine articles for multiple sources, and submitting video to multiple other video hosting sites in addition to YouTube,  Your personal branding efforts are limited only by the amount of effort you put into creating excellent content and proceed to syndicate it through multiple video and article sharing and hosting sites.  Perhaps most exciting of all, it will not cost you anything except for your time and talent.  And that’s really what you want to invest first and foremost.

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!

Since I’ve been involved with my own tribe, my own personal brand has begun to take form. For me, my personal brand is about the message I want to share with the world. One of the first things I learned from my tribe affiliation is that the most important thing to do is to share the message… share it often, share it clearly, share it despite your misgivings about your ability to do so.

I was recently reminded of this message offline, with implications that are applicable to the organic growth of my online presence.

The most important thing to do is to deliver your message… in whatever way, shape or form is available to you at this very moment.

If you wish you could do it better… in time, you will. If you want everybody to hear it… realize that you can really only speak to one person at a time, so be personal rather than a “personality”.

We are blessed to have great examples of others who have perfected their messages and their personal brands, like Jonathan Budd and Katie Freiling. And most of us are attracted to them because everyday they put themselves out on the line for all to see… not just a business or opportunity or lesson plan. They give us themselves.

But they are not YOU. They can never deliver what you can and in the way that you can. You can choose to deliver your SELF to the world in the very same way. And people will be attracted more to the YOU they are introduced to, than any THING you have to offer.

I encourage you to Make that delivery YOUR purpose, and you will have mastered the secrets of personal branding and attraction marketing.

Could your business suffer from malnutrition?
In the developed world, it is common for people to be overfed and undernourished.
Are you “feeding” into your business a whole lot of calories with very low nutritional value? Are you giving it the “nutrients” it needs to grow and regenerate on a daily basis?

Are the nutrients you are feeding your business of the right quality? It’s great to have lots of widgets and plugins and bells and whistles… but do they complement your most immediate, high impact goals. Are they nourishing the most essential organs of your enterprise? Remember, the quality of the nutrients your business ingests is far more significant than the quantity.

Is your business properly “digesting” and “assimilating” the nutrients you are feeding it?
Making the nutrients your business requires available is only the beginning. Then they must undergo enzymatic activity sufficient for their assimilation into the bloodstream of your undertaking.

Are you continually energizing the nucleus of your online marketing efforts?
Through proper assimilation, key nutrients are transported through the bloodstream of your business, to the cell sites where they are utilized as the energy blocks that are transformed into energy. It is this energy that manifests as the ACTION required to make all your efforts meaningful.

In Part TWO…
We Will Explore The State of Your STRATEGIES…
strategies for coordinating your daily actions with laser sharp precision.
You will learn how to employ strategies for reaching your BIG goals with lightning speed and efficiency.

See You There!

The TRIBE concept is here, fellow Social Media entrepreneurs, MLM folk and online bloggers. Right here! It’s the most powerful and effective way to share our internet marketing efforts to benefit us all. And benefit we ALL shall!

As I’ve told you before, in this Tribe, there’s simply NO ENTREPRENEUR LEFT BEHIND. Not one!

King Vidor’s classic 1934 movie, “Our Daily Bread” (above video clip) gives a quick glimpse into the inner workings of OUR Syndication Tribe.

Remember: “What We’ve Got To Do Is Help Ourselves By Helping Others” – I guess that summarizes the workings of this Tribe. It’s been so great… so profitable… so virally effective… working with my Tribe partners. This is what I call organic growing– and my internet business is GROWING.

Thanks to all of you for your partnership. And we’re JUST GETTING STARTED!

PS: If you want to get started in My Tribe, Contact Me Anytime

This is SERIOUSLY… The most important thing I can teach you about Becoming An Internet Sensation in just months, and, honestly, some people have done it in WEEKS!

I have learned some of the most amazing internet marketing techniques from MASTER ENTREPRENEURS in the internet marketing industry. I will be creating posts on my blog to teach you as much as I can. In the meanwhile… ACTION IS REQUIRED.

If you are interested in joining me and my tribe associates, let me know… ASAP. We’ll be doing some pretty intensive trainings in the upcoming weeks and I’m inviting a few commited entrepreneurs… at this time… to join in. Contact me to learn more about this developing opportunity that could catapult you into Internet Marketing ORBIT!

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