May 20, 2012

Never Give Up – Proof Attitude Defines Altitude

The best way to understand that you can do anything you set your mind to is to watch videos like this.  Here’s a guy who couldn’t walk.  Out of shape, over weight and told he’ll never walk again without assistance.  He decided he was going to do something about it.  And he did.

This is a video called “Never, Ever Give Up.  Arthur’s Inspirational Transformation!”.  It has gone viral and for good reason.  Any time you think you can’t, you should watch this.

 

Here’s the thing, there are countless others out there with handicapps, misfortune, hurdles, road blocks.  Some are real, some are in our own minds.  Whatever the obstacle, it can be overcome.

I don’t care if you don’t even have arms and legs.  Go Google Nick Vujicic.

There’s never an excuse.  Unless your dead, there’s just no excuse.

Your altitude is defined by your attitude.  If you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.

So get up, be inspired and go get things done!

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New Membership Site Up And Live… And AWESOME!

So the brand new membership site, Internet Wealth Dojo, is up and running.  Getting lots of questions on it so I figured I’d answer them all in this quick video.

Here’s the link to learn more about the program: InternetWealthDojo.com

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Blog Commenting For SEO And Google Reader

If you are trying to improve your search engine rankings, here is a simple, white hat, way to do it.  You will build a ton of strong backlinks without pissing off Google. 

This 9 minute video shows you how to blog comment to build up your SEO and shows you how to use Google Reader to make life much easier.

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How To Host Powerful Webinars Using GVO Conference

The GVO Conference system is by far one of the most powerful tools I’ve seen for local brick and mortar businesses, Internet Marketers and MLMers in years. It is one tenth the price of the nearest competitor. That is 1/10th LESS than its competition!

If you are in any kind of business you should be using a webinar system.  Webinars sell, period.

Webinars are the best way to build strong rapport and bonding with your customers and prospects that will allow you to have a long and lasting relationships.

Click Here To Get Your Free Trial Of GVO

Here’s a couple videos I recorded for you to show you a little ‘under the hood’ view of GVO.  The first one shows you the affiliate (MLM) opportunity.  And it’s a great one!

The second video shows you how to host your first conference.  Very easy!

Video #1 – Make Money With GVO

Video #2 – Basic How To Host A GVO Webinar

Click Here To Get Your Free Trial Of GVO

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Contest Burner Product Tour

As an offline business owner, offline marketing consultant and online marketer, I can tell you that running contests can help ANY business grow.

We used to run contests in my offline business and they had profound impact.  Contests grew our business like crazy.

Want to cut through all the noise and grow your list fast?  Run a contest.

Contest Burner is the new software that automates the process with powerful simplicity.  I put two videos together to show you exactly what it does and how easy it is to implement.

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Video #1 – What Contest Burner does


Video #2 – Look under the hood of Contest Burner

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Cool SEO Tip: Automatically Ping Your Blog Posts

So I was perusing the forums today when I came across a cool little tip I thought I’d share with you.

The funny part is, the guy who gave this advice had given the wrong answer. He totally mis-read the question. So the other readers were annoyed but I thought it was a gem.

As you’re working your SEO strategy, one thing you may already be doing is PINGing your sites, videos, blog posts, etc.

This alerts the world that you’ve added some new content out onto the web. Ideally, you get the search engines crawling your content and indexing your site.

A tool I’ve used online is Pingler.com. I enter my info in and hit the button and blamo… Internet beware.

Well, this dude on the forum pointed out that WordPress can actually do this for you auto-magically. All you do is enter the same sites Pingler.com uses into your ‘Writing’ settings and you’re done.

I’ve made a little instructional video to show you how I did it.

UPDATE: Please take note of the comment by Ryan Parenti below.  He’s recommending cbnet Ping Optimizer.  I looked into this and it looks solid.  As long as you do not publish and then continually update your post, either method will work fine.   Either way, you still must add all the ping sites into the area I show you above.

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Some Halloween Fun And FLV Hell

I recorded this video on Saturday night. That was the night before Halloween here in the US.

Friends of mine run a haunted maze here in CT each year. I always lend them a hand and do security for them. All that means is I get to dress in black, walk the maze and scare the boogers out of people.

It’s pretty darn fun. I put a little behind the scenes video footage together for you, complete with a scream reel.

The last few minutes you won’t be able to see anything because it was pitch black but you can hear the fun.

Because I was dresses completely in black, literally head to toe, no one could see me until I was right on top of them. It was pretty funny some of the responses.

Now if you’re a regular reader of this blog you know I recommend Blip.Tv to convert your video into Flash FLV for free. Well, they’ve gone and gotten rid of that feature. So now I am embedding the Blip.Tv video directly, (since I uploaded it there anyway). Complete with their ads and all.

So I’ll keep you posted on whether I find an FLV conversion process that’s free, easy and works right.

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One Plus One Equals No More Spam

The SPAM is makin’ me-a-crazy!!!

So if you’ve been following the blog here you know I added a ‘dofollow’ plugin to the site so that you, subscribers and readers of this blog will be rewarded.  That is, so long as you’re a human being with a pulse and something interesting to share.

In other words, Viagra and Cialis comments will not be approved.  Nor will comments that look, smell or feel in any way like the hated spam.

I really don’t know how blog owners keep it together with the mountains of blog comments that have to shovel through.  Well, I found a very cool WordPress plugin to combat it.

I just installed a new plugin to the blog that asks commenters to do a math problem.  Like 2+4=???  

The pluggin is called ‘Math Comment Spam Protection’.  So if you use a hosted WordPress site, just search for that name and it will come right up.  All you need to do is activate it and you’re done.

No answer, the comment gets junked. 

I’m really hoping this cuts down on the 15 spam comments I get every day.  And I expect that number to increase more and more as the spammers get wind that this is a doFollow blog.

I’ll be sure to update you on the progress of the plugin.  Looking forward to NOT having to decline piles of these spam comments.

So make sure to comment on some of these posts to get some link love to your site.  Just make sure you’re giving specific feedback or advice.  If the post sounds generic or… spamy, it won’t get past the gatekeeper. 

And make sure you’re up on your basic addition.

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Chilean Miners Become Instant Celebrities

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few months, you know all about the Chilean miners ordeal and their dramatic rescue yesterday.  The media coverage of this has been amazing.  And yesterday’s dramatic rescue made for great TV.

When the miners arrived top side, they did so as instant celebrities.  They were showered with gifts, given all expense paid vacations, invited to dignitary dinners in their honor and the book, movie and TV deals are already in the works.

Everyone in the world wanted to and still want to know who these men were, what the ordeal was like and what’s next for them.  One day your trapped in a mine the next day your an international superstar.

Celebrity rules.  Pure and simple.  

Anyone who can harness the power of celebrity will enjoy great wealth and success… if they do it right.

If you are in the business of marketing, you should be working over time to build your own celebrity.  There are no two ways about it.

Take two identical people.  They look exactly alike.  They sell the exact same thing.  Their marketing looks exactly the same.

If one of those people was busy working like normal while the other was trapped in the Chilean mine, guess who’s selling more stuff today?  A LOT more stuff.

This is not to say you should go get yourself trapped in a mine.  But you should be working on your celebrity.

And there are all shapes, sizes and flavors of celebrity.  There’s local celebrities too.  You don’t need to be the next international superstar to make it work for you. 

Go get started today.  Write for your blog, write articles, host calls and webinars.  A great way is to carry around a Flip Video camera and just film yourself.  Talk about what you know.  Teach, entertain and engage people.

You have to keep at it and be prolific.  You’d be amazed at what you can accomplish with just a little effort. 

Go ahead and start getting your name out there right now by commenting on this blog post.

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If You Lead I Will DoFollow

Without getting too technical, it’s really important to build up your page rank with the search engines. An important method to help improve your sites page rank is getting backlinks.

A backlink is simply a one way link from one site to your site. The more backlinks, the more popular the search engines think you are thus the higher they rank you.  And more importantly, the more traffic you’ll get.

A great way to get backlinks that can also drive traffic to your site is to comment on blogs.

If you provide well thought out insight as a comment on a blog, the reader may want to check your site out to hear more from you. Then they click on your link and visit your site.  Blamo… free traffic! You’ll also grab needed backlinks which give you the coveted ‘link juice’.

The problem is that most blogs are set as NoFollow. This means that it will not count as a back link.  Some blog owners go so far as to not even let you include your link.  Understand, they are concerned with spammers inundating them with comments pointing to some site selling Viagra.  You really can’t blame them.

When a blog is installed, the default is NoFollow. You actually have to add plugins to make it DoFollow.  And for non-techies, this can be a pain in the butt.

In addition to having to manually make it DoFollow, the belief is that Google doesn’t rank DoFollow blogs well.  So if my blog is NoFollow, I should have a higher page rank as a result.  So the incentive to have a blog set as DoFollow is not very high and most bloggers keep it NoFollow as a result.

There is some debate as to whether a NoFollow site is really NoFollow in Google’s eyes. You Can read more about their NoFollow rules here.

Well, I have a little gift for my readers and subscribers.  I have made my blog DoFollow.  I’m taking one for the team. 

So, if you’d like some free ‘Link Juice’, I invite you to put up acomment.  In fact, if you’re an SEO expert, feel free to correct me where I may be wrong or mis-informed.  And certainly add more to this conversation to help our readers learn and grow.  It’s all about helping people.

The only thing I ask is that you add to the conversation.  I don’t approve comments like ‘cool post’ or ‘thanks for sharing’.   And because the blog is DoFollow, I get a ton of spam and robot comments.  My favorite is ‘Your post was very helpful on my college assignment.’  Yeah, right.  Delete!

So, agree with me, disagree with me, debate me, educate me, help the community.  If you add value, you’ll be approved!

You always get the most benefit when you add to the conversation.  The more value you add, the more likely the reader is to want to check out your site.  And that’s what it’s really all about.

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