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		<title>Can You Be A Successful Blogger By Following Just These 3 Steps?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 11:43:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Merrill 101</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being A Successful Blogger Takes Just 3 Steps.  I Show You What They Are, and How To Do Them Right.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>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.<span id="more-276"></span></p>
<p>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?</p>
<p>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.</p>
<h1><span style="color: #ff0000;">Create Your Niche</span></h1>
<p>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?</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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?</p>
<p>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.</p>
<h1><span style="color: #ff0000;">Create Your Personal Blog</span></h1>
<p>Now this is not such an easy thing for most people, myself included… at the top of the list!</p>
<p>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 <a href="http://nanacast.com/vp/95995/50923/">my affiliate blog design team</a>, check them out anytime.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<h1><span style="color: #ff0000;">Create Your Faithful Following</span></h1>
<p>Now this is THE step that separates the bonafide blogging superstars from the wannabees.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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?</p>
<p>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?</p>
<p>Of course it will.  So now, you only need to learn the SECRET for getting those faithful followers.</p>
<p>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!</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>If you want a little more idea of how Tribes work, <a href="http://davidmerrill101.com/2010/01/post-to-my-tribe-well-boys-and-girls-its-up-to-us-we-start-here/">check out this blog post</a> I wrote a little while ago:</p>
<p>And please… if you’re itching to get into action, <a href="http://davidmerrill101.com/contact-me/">contact me anytime</a> to get started !</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>I’d love to be with you as you set out on the exciting journey of blogging success.</p>
<p>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… <a href="http://davidmerrill101.com/contact-me/">I’d love to help you reach the next level</a></p>
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		<title>Social Media Is The Key To Internet Marketing Success. Part III</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:38:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Merrill 101</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the final part of this series on using Social Media as the key to your Internet Marketing Success , I will show you how to execute an extreme offensive attack from the positions you have established.  Executing proven strategies such as these will become the foundation for driving traffic, prospects, and down-lines from Social Media sites to your blog and, ultimately, into your sales funnel.<span id="more-256"></span></p>
<p>In the first part of this series, I discussed how creating a path to online marketing success requires taking up precise Social Media positions.  In the second part, I illustrated how to reinforce these positions consistently and systematically with valuable content that is specifically meaningful to your target clientele.</p>
<h1><span style="color: #ff0000;">Use Your Positions To Co-Ordinate and Execute Extreme Marketing  Campaigns</span></h1>
<p>Now that you’ve assumed your Social Media positions, and have established a plan for the ongoing reinforcement of those positions, you are ready to unleash an extreme marketing campaign.  There are many types of campaigns you could embark on, of course, but let’s look at just one.  This will show you what a marketing campaign might look like.</p>
<h2><span style="color: #ff0000;">Case Study</span></h2>
<p>One of my clients (let’s pretend it is you) was interested in building up her MLM downline for a health products company.</p>
<p>Here’s one marketing campaign we devised.</p>
<h4>Step One:</h4>
<p>Create a single video discussing the product line: what it is, what its health benefits are, and who would want to use it.<br />
Create a SERIES of 3 videos discussing the benefits of becoming a distributor of the product.</p>
<h4>Step Two:</h4>
<p>Release the videos (post them) onto You Tube and other video sites, one at a time, for 4 consecutive days.</p>
<h4>Step Three:</h4>
<p>On day one of your first video release (about the product), you will post an entry on your blog about health in general, pertaining to the product you are promoting, but not specifically.  So for instance, you could post about how your diet could reduce the likelihood of heart attacks, reduce high cholesterol and lower blood pressure.  (One of your key products utilizes these same principles, but that is only discussed in your video, not on your blog post).<br />
On the second day, enter a pillar post on your blog about MLM  marketing, showcasing your skill-set and capability to lead people through a marketing process.   This post is NOT about your MLM opportunity, it IS about how any MLM can be effectively marketed.  This post should link directly to the “work with me” (or whatever you call it) page on your blog that will show prospects more about your MLM and HOW THEY CAN CONTACT YOU to get involved.  It should also backlink to your You Tube video.</p>
<h4>Step Four:</h4>
<p>At the same time that you post the two blog posts outlined in Step Three, you will post two ezine articles that are essentially the same as your blog posts, but reworked for article SEO formatting.</p>
<p>For SEO formatting, I recommend that your articles should be heavily key-worded to your niche.</p>
<p>In addition, the first paragraph should comprise a fairly detached and academic statement of  (in article 1) the health issues that your product addresses; and (in article 2) the nature and history of MLM marketing.</p>
<p>These articles should backlink to your You Tube video, and to your “work with me” blog page, or, probably best of all… an “excluded” blog page dedicated strictly to the campaign.</p>
<h2><span style="color: #ff0000;">Call To Action</span></h2>
<p>This campaign was designed for a client desiring to build her downline.  Its purpose was to root out all the browsers and seekers of MLM opportunities in general, and attract those ready and able to join the specific opportunity offered.</p>
<p>In order to have people ACT on my client’s video, blog and article discussions … a Call To Action had to be in place.  For the most part, I suggested that this be offered in the form of the “work with me” static page of the blogsite, or the excluded page linked to directly from video and article content.</p>
<p>In addition, Facebook links and Tweets are used to encourage people to view the blogs, as are email blasts to prospects already in the sales funnel, and direct messages to the Facebook sales funnel list of prospects.</p>
<p>The call to action in this case was essentially a “call me for more information” offer.  Optional to this, you could also employ an optin box on your “work with me” page, or even within the blog post itself.  Still another call to action could be an optin box on your Facebook Business page.</p>
<h2><span style="color: #ff0000;">Summary</span></h2>
<p>Marketing campaigns are designed to obtain prospects and clients, but also to put your business on the map and establish you as a force to be reckoned with in the world of cutting edge internet entrepreneurs and online marketers.</p>
<p>Besides the prospects you seek for the immediate opportunity you are promoting, you will also be adding to your overall online credibility.  This might lead to people joining other opportunities or products you offer on your blog, or at the very least, should add to your online visibility and personal branding.</p>
<p>Campaigns like the one I just demonstrated, can put your business over the top.  They can establish you as a force to be reckoned with in the world of internet entrepreneurs and online marketing.   Your Social Media sites will be the base from which all operations proceed, and your Internet Marketing Success will be measured by how effectively you carry out missions to attract and convert prospects, leads, down-lines and business partners into your marketing funnels.  Visit my other posts that detail the first and second parts of this 3-part series designed to propel you to rapid victory in Online Marketing.</p>
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		<title>Come TRIBE WITH ME!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 05:02:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Merrill 101</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s way and YOU can get in on a really great FREE webinar [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>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&#8217;s way and YOU can get in on a really great FREE webinar coming up.  Don&#8217;t pass it up, friends.  The learning you&#8217;ll receive on this webinar will rock your world and costs you NOTHING!!</p>
<p>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&#8217;d hate to see you miss out on it.  I&#8217;m highly recommending this educational MUST to all my students, clients, friends and visitors.  Take Action Now!  You will thank me many times over.</p>
<p><a href="http://tribe2.davidmerrill101.com">My Tribe</a><br />
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<p>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!</p>
<p>PS: THE BEST place to join in the action is here: <a href="http://tribe2.davidmerrill101.com">MY TRIBE</a></p>
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		<title>Learn How To Blog Effectively</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 04:44:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Merrill 101</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span lang="EN">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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>To attract these specific kinds of people&#8211;self-identified “prospects”&#8211;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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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”</p>
<p>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!</p>
<p>PS: THE BEST place to REGISTER FOR THE FREE WEBINAR and join in the action is here: <a href="http://tribe2.davidmerrill101.com">MY TRIBE</a></p>
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