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Watch Survivor and learn lessons to survive and thrive while building online business.

As the episode begins you see the losing team returning to camp after tribal council. You notice the dissention. Ah, but they have a leader now. Or do they?

The unsociable tribe member is gone, yet the tribe is still not content. Can they be productive like this? The elected leader makes suggestions for the group to accomplish to make their home better. There is resistance but also some cooperation. Ingenuity is used to catch some fish. First victory for the team.

The system seems to be working. Still grumblings begin against the chief, so he quits. Can the team succeed leaderless? Yes, if everyone is proactive, sees what needs to be done and just does it. 

The well oiled machine doesn’t have an obvious leader. The tribe volunteers to complete tasks. All the components are doing their part achieving the goal of survival.

A message arrives, “rolling stones gather no moss”. Off to the next challenge. Will results remain the same or will there be a surprise? 

As you are moving through the gates of the strategy you have chosen for you online business buiding, you will find keys to help with your goal. With all components of your system (tribe members) pushing in the right direction you can’t help but be victorious. 

As you reach the completion of your action, use the keys you got along the way to unlock secrets to your online business building success. You work together, you win. Again the system that all members didn’t contribute came in second. 

Exile Island is a blessing and a curse. It can be lonely and uncomfortable but rewarding. As the exiled tribe  member chose, always pick clue over comfort. Especially when you are still building your online business. Maybe you won’t find the idol but if you go for comfort you have no opportunity to improve your position.

Absence seems to make others question your loyalty and value. Make sure you keep visible and accessible to people you want to build relationships with and do business with.  It is true, out of sight, out of mind. People have a tendency to judge you according to what they would have done. 

In the end when the tribe spoke, it was the weak one who didn’t contribute that was sent away. So ends the second installment of Survivor: Build Online Business. 

Do you want to know what you are playing for? A no cost quality autoresponder test drive. You can see how this can exponentially help you build your online business. 

Lessons learned:

• Always contribute and give value
• Chose clues over comfort
• Work together as a system
• Ensure your business system components are working together
• Choose your leader carefully

If you feel you deserve immunity/reward go here to get it (free test drive). If not, head on back to camp.

Copywriting is one of the most valuable skills you can invest your time, energy and money in to successfullt build your online business.

Why?

Good question. You see copywriting is about giving your customers the right information and enough information to make a quality decision to invest in your product or service. Everything you do while building your online business requires content. 

Pictures, graphics, colors are pretty but they don’t get the job done. It takes words, the right words, in the right place, at the right time. 

Most everything you need to build your online business can be bought, individually or in a system. You can get blog and website templates. It’s easy to find autoresponder templates, you can build a Squidoo lens, Hubpage, Blogger blog all at no money investment on your part. But do you know what all those neeed? That’s right, content. Content in the form of copywriting. 

You can also outsource many tasks you need done, but quality copywriters don’t come cheap. I have study several and also learned from marketers who have acquired the skill. All have said, if you can write good content you can always earn money. Sound good? 

You might think that copywriters need a university degree. That is a myth. Many of the best copywriters barely finished high school and a few earned degrees. You would be surprised if you heard their stories. You would be inspired to take action and realize you too can do this wonderful thing called copywriting.

How would you like to listen and watch two copywriting legends share their stories, experience, skills and talent? Words that when written fetch a very high price. You can for a limited time do just that, and get a couple of nice valuable bribes to boot. This is all possible thanks to an Internet Marketing legend in his own right, Mark Joyner. 

As you want to be the best you can be. Take a few moments now to take a few strides towards that goal. All you need to do is listen to a story and get your bribes here.

What does Building Online Business (BOB) have to do with Survivor? It is a great model to  learn lessons which can be positively applied to business building strategies.

When Survivor first came on the scene my thoughts, being a former soldier,  were it is about using basic skills necessary to survive in the wilds. I envisioned something along the lines of Man vs Wild, except competing against other players instead of just Mother Nature.

It took some time to finally realize that it was a game of social survival more than hunting, gathering, fire-building and shelter building skills. It turns out the sole survivor, who gains the ultimate prize, is someone who skillfully uses influence, persuasion, hypnosis and salesmanship. Sounds like business success to me as well.

To prepare for the experience you might want to read Cialdini, Hogan, Lakhani and Carnegie. Memorizing an SAS Survival Handbook might be handy but seems to have on effect on the final outcome.  Outwit, outlast, outplay it’s all a mental game. 

As you decide to join Survivor Building Online Business, keep in mind that everyone can be a winner. When your tribe has spoken then you will know the results.

You step out into a strange land. Nothing is recognizable. The terrain, vegetation and wildlife are totally new experiences.

All you have to quickly judge the strangers surrounding you are first impressions. Chose your team wisely, it can mean the difference between success and failure.

Your tribe is given an identity in an effort to form an instant cohesiveness. Is it possible for nine people from diverse economic, social, ethnic and geographical backgrounds work together as a single unit?

Are you ready for the challenge? In the distance you see a hill, the challenge is to get all tribe members to the top.  Want to know what you are playing for? (more on that later) The first tribe to get everyone on the peak will get food and fire. Also the first player of each team can claim an individual immunity idol.

One group helped each other out and was first. They went home with the food and fire. The other goup acted individually and paid for it with failure. They went home cold, hungry and thirsty. 

Things were good in the victorious camp. There was socializing and celebrating as they enjoyed a hot meal. Meanwhile, in the losers camp, there was bickering, finger pointing, labeling of faults with other members. All the while denying responsibility as a group. Disharmony reigned supreme.

Tree mail arrives, another day another challenge. Who will win the prize today? 

Six team members connected by rope must naviagate an obtacle course to a sand pit where three bags containing puzzle pieces are buried. The teams must collect the bags, deliver them back to the remaining team members who will assemble the puzzle. First team to complete the puzzle wins immunity and reward. Want to know what you are playing for? (more on that later)

It is said there is no “I” in team. But there is a “me” in team. A team is a system and each individual must contribute their part to perform well. An single member can’t do it all, ask Michael Jordan. Team members resisting the system will result in failure.

Things looked fairly even until they reached the pit. The individualist team had members taking breaks during the urgency of the challenge. Obvious reason they didn’t succeed. The other team won again and once again it was through cooperative teamwork. Seems like a good lesson.

Once again the cooperative team won immunity and also fishing gear. The losing team when back to camp still cold, hungry and thirsty.  They did manage to chose a leader but would you respect a leader who took off alone in a quest for individual immunity and then took a break in the middle of a challenge. He didn’t seem to lose any energy running up the hill to grab the idol.

Reward for the losing team, tribal council. Who would they send home? Would it be a weak member who couldn’t contribute much or would it be an strong member who is unsociable?

In the end, it was decided that the non-social member was unwanted. The tribe has spoken.

What lessons were learned this time?

• Pick a good team to work with in your business
• Make sure you build a relationship within your tribe
• Chose a team that is committed to being all they can be but also contributes to the overall success of the team
• Keep your attention focused on your goal

What were you playing for?

• If you feel you won individual immunity pick up reward here.
• If you feel you won group immunity/reward get it here

You saw how you can use Survivor to help you grown your online business.

See you next time on Survivor Build Online Business.

Two days ago Mark Joyner and Simpleology sponsored a teleseminar with Dan Kuschell.  Both men are highly successful business builders.  Wanting to always continue expanding knowledge and experience this was a must listen. Great interest to anyone focused on online business building.

The teleseminar/webinar was scheduled to begin at 8 A.M. local time. Mark came on and gave an overview of the session. An introduction of the guest followed. For about 5 minutes Dan was trying to get connected but due to some technical difficulties it didn’t happen. This went on for about 20 minutes. Meanwhile I took care of another matter instead of just waiting. 

Finally, the event began, it was well worth the wait.  Dan discussed his qualifications then began sharing his 3 Pillars of Success: Mindset, Marketing Mastery and Persuasion & Communication Mastery.

     Mindset - Stop thinking job and trading time for money. Develop an entrepreneurial thought process. 

     Marketing Mastery – If you build it then won’t come unless you take action to implement marketing strategies. 

     Persuasion & Communication Mastery – Learn the skills necessary to get people to respond favortably through your writing and speaking. 

You must have a goal with your business. It will be extremely difficult to succeed if you don’t have a plan. Write it out what is your business, who is your market, what are your goals. 

Always position yourself to ensure every communication is geared to a large audience. That creates leverage with your time, money and energy. 

Find a way to do what you love and let your passion and enthusiasm shine through.  Develop systems and you have a business. 

It is very critical to project a positive success self-image, so as you are building your business online you will also do what you must to keep your self image always moving upward. Study in depth those successful entrepreneurs you respect and want to master the same qualities, traits and attributes.

Find a hungry market and give them what they want. Take advantage of what is there, it takes tremendous amounts of time, energy and money to create a new market.

When visitors or readers come to your site, initiate a relationship and follow up to maintain. 

The teleseminar ran over the one hour time limit but the content was valuable so it wasn’t noticeable. I consolidated the notes and created a mindmap. Then filed both in my Online Business Building research and knowledge file.  Then focused my attention on another project. 

Just about an hour later I got an email from Mark Joyner at Simpleology. He apologized for the 20 minunte delay due to technical difficulties. He appreciated the loyalty and values his listeners time. Out of the blue and totally unexpected he made a gesture. If a Simpleology member he authorized access to any of the programs not yet participating in. 

I tested his statement and it was 100% true. No strings attached and no hassles. After having to deal with many customer service nightmares and run arounds trying to contact, this was a breath of fresh air. My loyalty and respect rose considerably. 

The content of the teleseminar was valuable for sure, but the online business lesson Mark demonstrated was priceless. As you are building your online business it would be a good idea to keep this example of best business practice in mind, think of your customers first, always. 

The above post was to make public not only the conversation between Mark Joyner and Dan Kuschell but also how valuable Simpleology considers it’s customers.

A review copy of Stomping The Search Engines 2 arrived at my door a few days ago, Thank you Stompernet. On the surface it seemed rather unremarkable.  It came in a small plastic case containing 2 DVDs. Stomping The Search Engines (original) and STSE2. Along with the DVDs was a review copy of The Net Effect. All were shipped together in a plain padded yellow envelop.

In the house I ripped open the envelop and paged through The Net Effect. It was impressive. I was anxious though so loaded up the STSE2 DVD and begin learning. The course consists of 7 modules with each having several sub-modules well organized with descriptive titles. So far so good. 

I got through the intro and the tech modules then got into the meat of the course. That is when my mouth drooped open and I know I stopped breathing a few times. Lights began to come on and I realized why my results in the seach engines had been dropping.

You see I learned about SEO when search engines were still in their infancy and a bit ignorant. Do A, B, and C and you will get ranked. That worked then, but since that time things have been evolving and the search engines have gotten more sophisticated. If you want to get ranked you need to provide qualty content and lure other quality content sites to link to you.

I have some work to do but the end results will be well worth it. 

Module 1 gives you and introduction and lets you know what Stomping The Search Engines 2 is, and what it isn’t.

Module 2 covers a lot of technical stuff about search engines. You don’t really need to know all this abut it is good to know for a better understanding of the process. 

Module 3 is entitled Keyword  and Content.  You learn how to best find and use keywords and some awesome tools to help you out.

Module 4 is all about how to build your site to make it search engine friendly.

Module 5 is a tour through the wonderful world of content. 

Module 6 focuses on link building in the current environment

Module 7 is all about testing and improving. 

The lesson modules are in depth and presented by obvious hands-on experts.  You are given everything you need to optimize your webpages for search engine results. What this does for you is provide you with natural traffic through high search engine results.  The processes in the modules combined with other marketing strategies should make you a happy camper indeed.

The best use of this information is by using it to build a site. But there are suggetions on how to correct bad SEO practices as well.

You should have some knowledge on building and maintaining websites to be able to get maximum benefit from Stomping The Search Engines 2 but you can follow as you learn. What STSE2 isn’t is a step-by-step A to Z course. The quality lessons are provided for you in an understandable method but you will have to do some research on your own if you don’t know certain procedures.

I found my review of Stomping The Search Engiines 2 to be an enlightening experience. It is easy to take things for granted, do and forget.  But I am reminded the Internet and technology are constantly evoving. To be competitive you must keep on top of things. STSE2 provides knowledge to do just that. 

You will find this valuable only if you use it. When you receive it in the mail, if you put it on a shelf and leave it sit or watch the lessons but take no action, it is worthless.

Your copy of Stomping The Search Engines 2 is waiting for you if you are willing to watch a video and take care of shipping. Invest a few minutes now to ensure a great return in the near future.

The Net Effect, an Internet Marketers professional journal published by the faculty of Stompernet.

This is not the first journal for people building an online business, but it is the most comprehensive. The greatest value factor is the fact that all the contributors are experts in their field. Articles are written by people who have been there, done it, and are wearing the T-shirt.

The premier issue of The Net Effect is exciting as a solo publication. If you think about receiving this same quality useful content each and every month is rather mind boggling. 

You will find 44 pages of exclusive information contained in five departments: Research, Traffic & Marketing, Customer Relationship Marketing, Technology & Business, and Featured Articles.

Andy Edmonds tells you about human behavior when looking at a website.

Dan Thies shares expert knowledge regarding how to find and use the best keywords.

If you want to be the best you can be you need to test your actions, David Bullock informs you what and how to test in your marketing efforts.

There is a difference between selling Business to Business (B2B) and Business to Consumer and again David Bullock lays it out for you.

What is the truth about how to get your webpage ranked on page one? Would that be something you are interested in? See what Leslie Rohde has to say about it.

Sherman Hu, a multi-media expert shares his triad threat strategy about how to publish and distribute your multimedia content. I don’t personally know any of these guys but I do tweet with Sherman on Twitter. He likes tennis, good movies and good food. 

Speaking of Twitter. There are politically correct ways to generate traffic with Twitter. Paul Colligan leads you through the micro blogging way to get traffic 140 characters at a time.

Is video more you cup of soup than writing.  You are in luck. Mike Stewart feels the same way. His story is worth reading. 

Meanwhile back at the search engine ranking game, Don Crowther breaks it down for you.

The man who loves talk, Andy Jenkins, took the time to sit down and actually write an article. He wants to motivate you to take your dream and turn it into a system.

The emails you send are worthless unless your receivers open them. Audrey  Kerwood opens up for you to help you learn how to get your emails read and more.

Social media can be a finicky animal. Let Dave Taylor make it safe for you sort of like Man vs Social Media. 

An article about outsourcing was insourced by Jerry West.

Will you allow Brad Fallon to explain how small and quick is better than big and slow?

Finally, Don Crowther, reviews the content and sets you up with an action plan to implement all the valuable tips you will learn while reading the premier issue of The Net Effect.

Keep a highlighter close by while you are reading. Find a way to add to your business. 

Take a few minutes now to secure your copy. If you are willing to do that and take care of postage and handling you will be reading and learning before you know it. 

Find out how The Net Effect can have a positive effect on your business and your life.

I recently The Medici Effect by Frans Johansson, which you can now download for free. The author talks about the rule of the Medici family in Florentine, Italy during the Renaissance period.  His focus in on how through encouragement different disciplines were brought together to create something new and wonderful.

This same effect happens with people as well. Elton John is a singer and performer. He might have had just an average and short lived singing career, except he met up with Bernie Taupin. Bernie wrote great songs and Elton delivered those songs beautifully to the hearts and minds of the public. Many of the songs became classics and are still popular today, 30 years later.

What does this have to do with online business building?

Brad Fallon is an entrepeneur and the creative type. He had some businesses but had many more ideas that just stayed in his head or written down in a soon forgotten notebook. He became somewhat of an expert in SEO but wanted more. He decided he wanted to get involved in e-commerce. 

Enter Andy Jenkins. Andy was enjoying a career in the film industry but he also built a successful online store selling products that were also a hobby of his. Due to his success he published an e-book which was a guide on how to build your own successful online store.  Andy is a doer, and implementer.

Brad found Andy’s book after researching on the net. Brad contacted Andy and they became friends.  This is amazing because on the surface they seem as different as night and day.  But just like the Medici Effect and Elton & Bernie that difference is our benefit.

Brad had ideas and Andy knew how to put them into action. Their first venture, Stomping The Search Engines, was a tremendous success.  This product taught us how to naturally optimze websites in order to achieve the best results on search engine results pages.  Stomping the search engines was a hit and remained at the top until they removed it a bit over 2 years ago.

The chemistry evolved to legendary undertaking. Stompernet is born. Thousands of people were excited by all the videos leading up to the opening of Stompernet. Records were broken. The curricullum is unbelievable. But many were stopped from joining though because the monthly tuition is almost $800. Many people building online businesses just didn’t have that to invest each month.

Stompernet’s reputation grew behind closed doors. Disappointed people were working diligently to build their profits to a point where they could join when Stompernet opened for new members. Meanwhile the chemistry of Brad and Andy, along with the reputation of Stompernet, attracted the biggest and brighest stars of the Internet Marketing community to become faculty members as experts in their area. 

People who join Stompernet tend to stay, which makes it hard for those on the waiting list. It is like a candidate waiting to get accepted to Harvard. Brad, Andy and their faculty began to realize this and put their heads together in a mastermind to come up with a solution. What it boils down to is creating a junior college or minor league team. Education will be made available to those who want to keep moving ahead. 

The plan they came up with is brilliant. They would offer some education to people who couldn’t get in to Stompernet or couldn’t yet afford it. One part is a professional Internet Marketing monthly journal written by Stompernet faculty member, The Net Effect. The Net Effect covers topics of interest to Internet Marketers which are of valuable to Newbies as well as seasoned veterans. These topics include email campaigns, social media, video and article marketing, to name a few.

Another course for you is Stomping The Search Engines 2. A course created for their Stompernet members, it was decided to also make it available to the public. This is not just an update of the original Stomping The Search Engines, it is new and improved. This time it’s not just the team of Brad and Andy, the expert faculty has contributed too. Included is the original Stomping The Search Engines.

Brad and Andy finding each other has benefited them greatly. Now it is benefiting you, maybe more so.  You can get started using these valuable resources to build your online business very soon if you are willing to invest some time and effort to watch a video, read some and take care of shipping and handling. A small price to pay. 

If you haven’t found your partner with whom you can create the Medici Effect and have your own dream team, why not adopt for now. You can adopt Brad, Andy and the Stompernet Gang and maximize your Internet Marketing profits. Meet your dream team now

Internet Marketing business is no different than sports, music, or any activitity in which skills have to be maintained. Tennis has Roger Federer and Raphael Nadal, golf has Tiger Woods and Ernie Ells, music has Justine Timberlake and Mariah Carey, Hollywood has Denzel Washington and Tom Hanks, Internet Marketing has John Reese.

Rembrandt and Van Gogh created masterpieces, Beethoven created symphonies that have withstood centuries, Nadal and Federer matches end up being tennis classics, Tiger Woods can woo the gallery with a 12 under round to overtake the field and win the tournament, John Reese produces satisfied customers that become friends by providing quality Internet Marketing business building resources.

I don’t know about you but I am getting sick and tired of the excessive assault from marketers hyping, hyping, and hyping some more. There is a big build up and then……… disappointment. The quality marketers are aware of this. I have begun using a marketers strategies to decide if I want to associate or not. So with this in mind I have found it refreshing that instead of an assault we got 3 heart to heart talks from John Reese.  No hundreds of emails, no bands playing, no flashing lights, just “here is what I have created for you.”

In the state of today’s economy it is important that we invest our money wisely. You want quality and value, you want to know you will get a good return on your investment. If you are serioius and sincere about building and successful and profitable business online a critical factor is a continuous process of learning and growing. In other words, continue to educate yourself to optimize your efforts. Use your precioius time to learn from the best and be all that you can be.

Traffic Secrets 2.0 is not just an updated version of Traffic Secrets. It is a unique resource, as different from the initial offering as today’s Internet is from the Internet of 2004. Traffic Secrets 2.0 is a product created to fit what the world wide web has evolved to become now.

If you want to stack the deck in your favor then you must watch this third, and final, installment of John Reese’s Traffic Secrets 2.0 introduction videos. As you watch this video make your own impressions and judgments about the man who is talking to you. You might find that by investing 15 minutes of your time will make a big positive difference to the future of your online business. Enjoy.

Building and maintaining an Internet Marketing business online is matter of continuing education. When you find a mentor or teacher who provides you with quality and value it advisable to follow. Personally I have found both traits in John Reese and Traffic Secrets 2.0.

I first heard of John Reese when I read an offer to download a copy of the famous Reese Report. I think it was from Alan Gardynes’ AssociatePrograms.com. I was fairly new to the wonderful world of Internet Marketing and didn’t totally understand the language or the mindset yet.  Trying to read the report I imagine the author to be a senior statesmen of the Internet Marketing world.  I was expecting, Dr. John Reese, PhD and was quite surprised to discover he was in his mid 30′s and the knowledge came from experience, not from a classroom.

That Reese Report I read was talking mainly about Virtual Real Estate (VRE). I wasn’t clear at the time exactly what it is. I was thinking maybe it was a virtual residence for an avatar. But what would that have to do with Internet Marketing. I read through the report a few times and filed it away forgetting about it.

My next encounter with John came when he produced and released a Camtasia video documenting revenues he earned from Google Adsense arbitrage sites. I remember this well because it caused quite a stir in Warrior Forum. Some members were insinuating he was lying and had fabricated the whole thing.

After doing some research and being hungry to succeed online Reese Report became a monthly subscription.  Never was there any doubt in my mind as to the value of what I invested monthly. The report was packed full of tips and usable information. If anything maybe got more than I paid for. The quality was always of the highest level.

I couldn’t help but hear about John Reese’s Traffic Secrets and his historical launch. It’s quite an achievement to top over a million in sales in less than 24 hours.  More important, in my opinion, was that Traffic Secrets had staying power. It continued to sell for 3 years until John took it off the market.

My exposure to Reese Report built my respect for it’s author. I had been learning Internet Marketing on my own and it was a long hard process. All the hype and false promises of how much I could earn in weeks, days or even hours was taking a toll. As  a last gasp I made the plunge and invested in Traffic Secrets. I was not disappointed. What I found was a system for building a business, not some “get rich quick” scheme. Traffic is the lifeblood of your online business. Without interested customers visiting your sites, you have nothing.

If John has a fault it is his obsession with testing. If a product or service goes out with his name attached he will accept no less than the highest quality. That is why John Reese has been an influential marketer that I hold in high regard.

It has been 4 years since the release of Traffic Secrets. That is a lifetime on the World Wide Web. Though the basics of Traffic Secrets is still valid and relevant there are many strategies and technologies that have evolved. John felt the need to create and produce a contemporary Traffic Secrets to help people who are serious about building a business online get the most results from  time and energy investments.

Will you do me a favor? Could you take a few moments and watch this video by John.  That way you can make your own judgement about the quality and value. It’s just John talking one on one about results detectors. The reason results detectors are important is because you don’t do business in a void and it is important to know what results your actions are getting. If results are good you can put more emphasis on them, if results are bad you can modify or drop that action.

Thanks for reading this post and let me know what you think of the video. Remember traffic is the heart and soul of your Internet Marketing business, no matter what your niche.

Earth Day is coming up on us on April 22. It is a day to think about how our actions affect the world we live in.

As Internet Marketers or work at homer we are already doing some things to help our environment. Think of how much fossil fuel you are saving by working from home and not commuting to an office, shop or factory.

Still we can do more. Here is a list of things to consider if you have a desire to contribute even more:

1. When you are going to be away from your Mac or PC for a period of time, shut it down or at least put it on standby.
2. Only prints things that are absolutely necessary.
3. Use both sides of printer paper.
4. Create small notepads or memo pads from paper that has been printed on one side but you don’t need it anymore.
5. If you are working at home alone, only heat or cool the room you are actually working in.
6. Consider using Earth friendly resources, such as webhosting the uses renewable energy resources.
7. Turn off electrical or electronic devices you aren’t actually using. If you aren’t really watching the TV or listening to the CD shut them down.

This list is far from inclusive. There are many more things you can do working from home.

You might ask,”I am one person, what can I do?”. Just live your life as it makes a difference. If enough people do this it will make a big difference.

Remember the Butterfly Effect, something as simple as a butterfly flapping its wings can have a major impact.

Let us Internet Marketers and all who work at home do something to make a difference. It is a good thing and no reason to keep it to Earth Day, for our future quality of life, do it everyday.