Rabu, 10 Desember 2008
How To Take a Small Step Towards Your Goals and Achieve Your Dreams
Well, Quit dreaming. Just thinking about them and not taking any single step towards your dreams, your aspirations, and your desires is not going to bring them to you. That's just wishful thinking.
The moment you decide that you want something, and surge ahead to take the next step in that direction, then providence moves too, in your direction. And the object of your desire comes a step closer to you.
Rather than just dreaming, when you focus on what you want, and take the time to write it down, it becomes permanently imprinted in your subconscious. Our brain has a problem solving mechanism. You give it a problem, and it starts to find a solution all the time, even when you don't know about it. The power of the subconscious mind is limitless. The human mind has not been able to completely comprehend what our brain and our subconscious is fully capable of.
What is Goal Setting?
Goal Setting is a formal process of writing down what you wish for, what you desire, and what your truly want. Whether you want more money, or a better relationship, a new car or a better paying job, each of these is a goal. But just saying "I want more money" is not enough. The brain does not understand "more". You must tell it how much more, by explicitly describing it.
Imagine if you were to asked to find a red house in the city. Without the suburb, the zip code, the address or location, you could roam endlessly till the evening, and not be any closer to your destination. But if you are given sufficient details about the location, suburb or address, sooner or later you will find it.
The better you define the object of your desires, the better it will be for your subconscious mind to be able to find it. So the first step in achieving your goals is to define them clearly. Write them down, break them down into smaller chunks, and divide them into categories.
For example you may have financial goals or career goals. That's a category by itself. Similarly, you may want to organize your goals into these or similar categories.
Financial / Career
Social / Cultural
Family / Friends
Health / Physical
Personal Development / Educational
Spiritual
Once you have written down your goals in each category, group them into short term goals and long term goals. For example if you are earning $50,000 a year, and your goal might be to get to 500,000 a year later. Now I am not saying that it is impossible. Nothing is impossible! Unless you win the lottery, it will require a Herculean effort on your part to get to that figure in an year.
So chunking it down helps. Maybe, get to 80,000 in the next year,150,000 the year later, and get to 500,000 by the third, fourth or fifth year. Based on your goals, and how deeply and intensely you want those goals, work out your own blueprint to success.
Once you break it down to short term goals to attain in the next 6-12 months, you could lose 10 pounds, save $5,000 or plan for a vacation cross country. Take small steps, and get successful at doing the smalls steps. Nothing succeeds like success. As you attain small successes, you will get more confidence and more faith in your ability to attain your dream goals. Your motivation and inspiration will increase manifold, and you will be on a roll... going from peak to peak to reach your dreams.
Goal Setting Tips
1. Make sure your goals are SMART goals. Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic and Time bound. This gives them power and clarity.
2. Take your 5 year goals, and split then into year by year goals. Then take your first year goal and split further into 6 months goals. Then work on the month by month increments. Work on how you will start updating your resume, or start saving $200 dollars each month, or find a book or video on Yoga or aerobic exercises.
You can even start jogging for 15-20 minutes a day, and then gradually increase it to about 30 to 45 minutes, and eventually take it to an hour of exercises. 6 months is not a very long period. You could have lost a few pounds by then, become a lot trimmer, and will have a new wardrobe of nicely fitting clothes that will give your personality an extra edge.
3. Use a Daily Checklist to remind yourself of the actions you need to take each day to achieving your goals. Don't skip a single day. Even if you can spare only 30 minutes towards your goals, doing so consistently will soon add up, and you will begin to notice the difference it is making in your life!
4. Do a periodic Review of your long and short term goals. See what is working, and feel free to make amends to reflect what you want to change, and what you have already achieved. Keep in mind that personal goal setting is an ever evolving exercise. Your goals evolve dynamically based on the changes in nature, your self and your environment. So keep reviewing them regularly to stay on course.
What are you waiting for? Go ahead, get started now. Write down your goals now. When you look back in a few months time, you will cherish this moment of decision. It will take you towards getting that house, the car, be mortgage free, or find the loving relationship you are looking for.
Selasa, 25 November 2008
Online Auto Insurance Quotes - The Guide to Getting The Best Deal
Now almost everyone is in on the act it is more difficult for consumers to use the convenience of online facilities as another key differentiating point. Rather, an online service is another avenue that needs to be assessed to ensure you get the most accurate quotation and therefore the most suitable cover.
Now Speed Has Entered The Equation
The trouble is, now everyone is providing online car insurance, companies are trying to stand out by other means. Now it is not enough to offer online facilities, it must be the fastest online insurance. We all seem to be so busy that the thought of shaving a few minutes off is actually a key point for many consumers.
But it is critical to realise, ‘fastest’ may not necessarily be ‘best’. If your car, and family, is involved in an accident or your car is stolen what benefit will those few saved minutes be if one of your most valuable possessions is under or incorrectly insured and you lose thousands?
Points to Consider When Choosing Online Insurance
If you find the provision of online cover the key differentiating point when purchasing insurance cover, then you need to ask yourself a few questions:
Probably before you click one more button you should know the reliability of your insurer. What is their financial standing? For example, 1 Cover has a AA rating with international agency Standard and Poors. This rating indicates a company’s ability to pay out on claims.
How in depth is the online questionnaire? You might think the fewer the questions the better, but not so. There are any number of factors that can influence the final premium and accurate information needs to be obtained. These variations can result in hundreds of dollars difference on your premium and lack of relevant information could result in your being under-insured.
What is their staff like to deal with? Do you receive respectful, efficient service when you need to make a claim? One of the best ways to check this is to pick up the phone and have a chat.
When looking for online auto insurance quotes, the guide to achieving the best deals rests in reliability, service and accurate information.
Kamis, 07 Agustus 2008
Affiliate marketing basics and major points
Visitors to your site are interested in lots of things that may or may not be related to your product. But when you know your customers well, it's simply a matter of affiliating yourself with sites that offer what they want. What you receive is just a small percentage of the sale, but it adds up, especially when you consider that all it costs you is a link on your web page. And usually, the more sales your affiliate makes from your "click thru" traffic, the bigger your percentage will be. There are at least half a dozen methods, but by far the most preferred method is Cookie Tracking. It's popular because it makes tracking affiliate-referred sales so convenient, without negatively impacting your site. This system writes a small text file, called a "cookie," to a user's browser when they click on an affiliate link. When you are the referring affiliate, the cookie holds your ID, so that at the merchant's order page, you get credit for referring the sale. One drawback is that many computer users disable cookies, although most choose not to, since their favorite sites require them. One bonus is that the merchant can save the information, so that even if a customer buys long after clicking through your site, you still get credit for the sale.
The key to success in affiliate marketing is being able to track referred customers. As an affiliate manager, you want a system that reliably tracks what you want, with minimal effort on your part, and without affecting the performance of your site or server. Over the last few years a variety of technologies and strategies have been developed in an attempt to improve accuracy, convenience, and flexibility.
There are at least half a dozen methods, but by far the most preferred method is Cookie Tracking. It's popular because it makes tracking affiliate-referred sales so convenient, without negatively impacting your site. This system writes a small text file, called a "cookie," to a user's browser when they click on an affiliate link. When you are the referring affiliate, the cookie holds your ID, so that at the merchant's order page, you get credit for referring the sale. One drawback is that many computer users disable cookies, although most choose not to, since their favorite sites require them. One bonus is that the merchant can save the information, so that even if a customer buys long after clicking through your site, you still get credit for the sale.
Affiliate marketing, at its best, is a win-win scenario. It's an easy way to offer your customers more of what they want, while you benefit, both in terms of building goodwill and making money.
Rabu, 06 Agustus 2008
How To Find The Best PPC Keyword Tools
For any online marketer finding the right keywords is akin to finding the Holy Grail. If you can find effective keywords and use them to run a pay per click (PPC) campaign you will make a lot of money. There are tons of keyword research tools available online. There are e-books, audios, videos, software, etc. The trick than becomes how to find the best PPC keyword tools. With so many choices online today where do you go? How do you choose which PPC keyword tools will give you the biggest bang for your buck?
One of the first places I would recommend looking is on Clickbank or Paydot. These are two digital products websites. They sell e-books, audios, videos and software on hundreds of different topics, many of which are internet marketing. If you do a search of the marketing products you will find a list of perhaps hundreds of different products. Once you have found the type of PPC keyword tool you are interested in Clickbank will give you information on sales, refund rates, etc.
What you want to find is a product that has consistently high sales with low refund rates. If many people are buying (and not returning) the product there is a high chance that it will work for you too.
Clickbank also has a very liberal return policy. If you purchase a PPC keyword tool and find that it isn't what you want you can always return it for a full refund Almost all products on Clickbank come with a 100% no questions asked guarantee though some do not. Make sure to check the return policy of whatever product you buy. If there is a 100% refund guarantee than Clickbank is very good about issuing a refund in a timely manner.
You can also go to forums dedicated to internet marketing, affiliate marketing, etc. There will be many knowledgeable people who participate regularly in these forums. Most internet marketers will be more than happy to help you out and answer your questions. Ask for some recommendations on PPC keyword tools. Try to check out several different programs. Since each person who developed a program will have had different experiences you can gain a lot from using more than one tool. You will get a much more diverse 'education' by picking the brains of more than one internet marketer.
So to sum up. There are hundreds of PPC keyword tools. Take a little time and do some research to find the right one for you and your needs and skill level. Don't make the same mistakes most new online marketers make: trying to skimp on spending money on their online eduction. If you are unwilling to spend the time and money necessary to learn how to do PPC campaigns as well as other methods of online advertising than you are never going to achieve the results you want. Spend some time and money now to have more time and money later.
Selasa, 05 Agustus 2008
Free SEO Reports - CRM is Offering Customers
Having to understand the aspects of search engine robots and websites rightfully optimized to be search friendly., Correct Search Engine Optimization Strategies will lead to successful websites and potentially more money in your pocket. Using good relevant content to what consumers are searching for, eliminating bad links as well as reducing flash and images will result in a search engine friendly website. The indexing can happen either by following a link or a submission request. Basically a crawler is capable of scanning the content of a site from the meta tags and navigation, to the copy content, and following any internal or external links available. Then this information is sent to a datacenter for further processing, and final indexing. As information changes, the bot will keep visiting the site for these changes on a given interval that is different from one site to the other.
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Websites are rapidly increasing with flashy banners, images and the popular flash animations exposing unique design to the website. However, unsuspecting website designers motivated by the thought of incoming traffic do not realize the implications of using these specific tools on a website. Using source codes the smart way will increase chances with search engine robots in terms of indexing the website and having it on search engine result pages on a daily basis.
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Senin, 04 Agustus 2008
What to do On-Line
In online communities, you are given an account to represent yourself and to befriend others by linking yourself with other accounts. People write posts and upload pictures to express themselves and communicate with others like the off-line community. You can go visit auction house websites such as ebay or go to an online store website such as amazon and shop in front of your desk. You can even book and plan a whole trip from an online website. Though it seems like the internet is convenient with methods to do everything on it, some people say it is hard for others who doesn't know the website address and ultimately, it would be useless since there are not that many ways to advertise online websites to others, but I say otherwise.
Like the off-line community, people from the online community send links for websites of online stores, websites, and companies that they really like and discuss about them. How their product or programs were really helpful and how the other was more convenient, kind of like those talks over coffee table of how they got a better deal on a certain product than the other guy and thus advertising for their company. There are banners of advertisement on major websites like the billboards on the major freeways we ride on. There are online marketing websites that does directory advertising, and optimize some search engines so that it is easier to search for a certain product or a website through a search engine.
There are many other ways to advertise a website; Brochures and TV/radio commercials with website addresses for people to go to, website addresses on the box of the product to find more information, website address on a movie poster, on a T-shirt, and some people even use spam emails to advertise online. There are countless ways to advertise your online store, both on and offline. Many different ways of advertising are being developed everyday by the people who realize the power of online marketing. As internet is growing into a parallel world, it is becoming more like our world in a sense that it is being used as another method of making money. It is being too commercialized. Though it is a unique medium, like the TV, where both entertainment and commercialization co-exist, we should take caution while utilizing this medium.
Minggu, 03 Agustus 2008
How to Flood Your Dealership with Customers
Your business is actually comprised of two businesses: the people business and the marketing business. You can be great with your people skills and handling of customers, but if you don't have the customers to be great with, it won't matter. Lead generation equals dollar creation. You live and die by the success or failure of your marketing efforts to create new customers and retain existing ones.
There are three simple things you can do immediately to make a dramatic impact on your customer flow and sales: Market, Message and Media
Step One - Define who your market is. If you were asked who your average customer is, do you really know? Do you know where they live, what they do for a living and what their hopes, dreams and fears are? Have you begun to break down every element of what makes up your best potential market of customers? Many dealerships open the doors every day and spend tons of money to drive customers through the door without ever giving extensive thought to who their market really is. Successful businesses don't try to do business with everybody. If you believe your market is everyone, you are wasting tons of money. You must match your message to your market. The more accurately you define your message while also narrowing your market and niche, the more success you have. You also greatly increase your return on investment.
Step Two - Define an effective message. Remember that you are not in the car business. You are in the emotions business. Your customers don't buy cars. What they are doing is seeking to emotionally solve their perceived problems. If you believe you are in the car business, you have just grouped yourself into a fishbowl with every car dealership and every sales person in the world. You can immediately differentiate yourself by creating an SDP (Specific Defining Proposition) built upon emotional pull.
In other words, what does your business do better, more of or more originally than any other business in the world? Begin to tell your story. Facts tell; stories sell. You may not have spent enough time figuring out what your story is that positions and sells you. If you don't believe you or your business is better or unique, I would argue that you are wrong, and you should do more work on figuring it out. If, after careful consideration, you still don't believe you are better or unique in any way, the good news is that it probably doesn't even matter. Since most people or businesses never tell their story, you will automatically differentiate yourself and stand out if you do. There are three legs that must be established to create a winning marketing approach to your business: Message, Market and Media. You have now created the second of three legs that builds your business - the message.
Make sure that all of your marketing messages contain the following: an emotional story, a specific and incredible offer, a strong sense of urgency with a specific call to action, multiple ways to respond and, if possible, a specific deadline that creates a real or perceived fear of loss for a lack of action by that date.
Step Three - Define your media strategy. Be forewarned, advertising agencies are usually nothing more than commissioned based media sales agents. The focus of the majority of advertising agents is to place the largest amount of money possible in media. This is a recipe for waste and lackluster results. Although there are technically no bad media selections, you must define which medium is best for your market and message. If you can't dominate a medium, can you dominate the way you use the medium (for example, infomercial versus regular TV)?
A huge mistake would be to believe that the medium itself is what gets you the results. A good example of this is a dealership that chooses a particular medium, such as radio or TV, as their favorite and then places tons of ads that are strictly brand-based messages. For dealerships, branding should always be of secondary importance to the actual direct response offer. The best way for a dealership to build a brand is to sell a bunch of vehicles. Unless you are Budweiser, Coca-Cola or some other huge brand with tons of money, spending money on brand-based advertising is like pouring money down the drain. You are in the business of creating customers and profit, not in the ego-inflation business.
When you get very clear about your strategy and tactics and use emotional direct-response marketing to achieve your goals, you will have flipped on the switch to a continual flow of customers and sales.