Hi everyone, it’s been a while.  I hope life finds everyone OK.  I’ve been keeping busy and want to show every one how I hooked up a custom opt-in box with Aweber but first I want to say I’ve been doing my best to stay in touch and be around.  I want to thank all those who have asked about me and are concerned.  It really means a lot to me.  I also want to thank all of you guys and gals who poke me on Facebook that also means a lot.  All this makes me feel like I haven’t been forgotten.  All you guys/gals are great.  As some of you know my dad passed away some time back and I’m still dealing with the loss.  I will always deal with the loss.  When someone you love is gone its not about trying to get over it.  It’s about learning how to deal with it so you can move on.  As I’ve been doing my best to stay around, it’s very hard and sad to read about others losing loved ones.  I extend my condolences to you all.

I’ve been working on this important health project because it only stands to reason that everyone should know about it.  I believe once you know what this powerful health information is you will feel compelled to help others as well.  Unlike the traditional ways of  marketing (yes I’m telling you up front) there is something for sale but if you don’t buy at least you get an important biology lesson and even an important marketing lesson.  The free report and valuable info e-mails I offer to all are a perfect example of educational marketing.  I’m not going to twist your arm to buy that much, just break it off seriously, what you do with the knowledge that you receive is up to you.  I want to educate you and present the health evidence/credentials from governing bodies.  Governing bodies? Something many don’t do because they can’t.  Yes there are clinical trails, but I’m not talking about that.  All I’m going to say is that pharmaceuticals are treated this way.  This is truly sound, makes a whole lot of sense health info and everyone should know about it.  This is all completely safe (no side effects), if you’re wondering.  If your immune system is strong, it can fight off or help deal with a lot of aliments.  There is so much I’m not telling you about so pop in your name and email address up top on the home page of this blog and find out what this enlightening, powerful health information is all about.

As a marketer I want to use my Internet marketing skills to bring this enlightening, powerful health information online so others can benefit.  I want to be clear this is still an Internet marketing blog, although I will be writing about important quality health issues from time to time.  As always, I’ll be letting you in on marketing issues so you can learn and do the same.

While working on this health project, I had bought this graphics package.  Within this package, I am using one of the opt-in boxes I fixed it up with Dreamweaver and Photo shop,  you can see the finished opt-in box on top of the home page of this blog.  Hooking it up with Aweber so Aweber can start my email sequence was easy.  The finding out about how do do it was hard.  Like everything else once you know how to do something it’s not so bad.  I didn’t want to use any of the opt-in boxes Aweber gives you.  A custom opt-in box looks so much more professional.  I want to share this video I made so if  you have a custom opt-in box you got from a designer, graphics package or even created yourself and want to hook it up with aweber, you won’t go crazy like I did.  I hope the video below helps you, saves you time and headaches.  I would suggest using the wide screen button on the bottom right of the video to get the best understanding.

I hope you got something out of this post and video, please do let us know by leaving your comments.  If you have a Twitter or Facebook account don’t forget to easily tweet and/or like.  Facebook me, Stumble me, social media me.  Please share using the buttons above or below if you found value here, thank you.

Terry Conti

Hi everyone,

When first learning about Internet Marketing you must get a good sense of what it is you are going to do.  You must have the right ingredients within you to never give up.  You must create a plan by writing it down all in front of you and most important, you must take action or else nothing will happen.

My last blog post was about Action- the master gear that makes everything happen.  Taking off from there nothing happens with out taking action.  There must come a time when the learning stops and the doing begins.  Well actually the learning never stops, it’s just now you are learning as you are doing.

Learn the essentials and move on.  Don’t make the same mistakes many have made.  Avoid getting stuck and staying there.  Do something about it!  Learn about Internet Marketing and move on as quickly as possible.

As you run into obstacles getting over them is learning.  As you move forward and learn more, make sure you keep notes on what you did because often there will come a time when you must get over the same obstacle and you have forgotten what you did previously and it will be like starting all over.  Keep good references!  Just be aware of this.  Don’t make the same mistakes I did.

As you’re doing and taking action, you must know the Internet Marketing scene always evolves, that’s why always staying in touch with what is going on is important.  For example: Recently, there was a lot of talk about Facebook. Then creating Facebook like pages easy, was the next big thing.  All this is the new wave of Internet Marketing.  Twitter is another wave Internet Marketers should know about.  You can read a blog post I wrote about Twitter here.

The point is you as a marketer should always be made aware of what’s going on out there in the Internet Marketing world.  Stay on top of all changes as they come out.  There will always be something, so you must stay on top of it all if you want to market effectively and be in the know and work at your highest potential.  You must be in the know otherwise the competition will crush you.

One of the best ways to stay in touch with what’s going on with the Internet Marketing scene is to constantly blog hop.  You’ll be amazed on how much you can learn, interject, build relationships and stay on top of what’s going on.  Get involved and you’ll see what I mean. Create your own blog and join the fun. Welcome to the 21^st century.  You can read a good blog post about blog hopping from one of my good friends Barry Wells-  Click and learn http://barry-wells.com/the-benefits-of-blog-hopping-keep-getting-better-and-better/

If you are just starting out and want to know about Internet Marketing there are a few solid products I can recommend that are of high value that I have used myself.

Your Own eBook Business I highly recommend it because not only will you learn about selling information on eBay, you will also get your own eBook website, just like mine here at http://www.liferitenow.com Click the link and learn how to set it up once you make a purchase.  You can change the look of this website so it doesn’t have to look exactly the same.  Also I want you to know there is a lot more value, than what I am explaining here so click away and check it all out.

Another great resource is Jim Cockrum’s Silent Sales Machine.  Jim explains how you can turn eBay into an automatic cash machine.  Also he shows that the opportunities to earn are all over the Internet.  Click here for more info.

One thing I also want you to know is there are a lot and I mean a lot of Ads that will peak your interest, that’s what they’re meant to do, avoid getting bombarded, purchase only what you know you will need.  I also want to tell you don’t make your email box attack you with tons of emails.

Listen to what I’m saying here because all of this will only lead to information overload.  Keep your inbox clean and only buy what you need so your brain doesn’t explode because of too much information.  Stick with a few quality products, stay focused and start moving forward.  Again I can’t stress enough there must come a time when you must take action and learn as you go.  The learning never stops.

Terry Conti

Hi all!

Without action nothing happens.  You can have all the knowledge in the world, if you don’t put it to use NOTHING HAPPENS.

First, I want to say thanks to all those who have taken the action of commenting, tweeting, facebooking, social bookmarking my posts.  Thanks for spreading the good word so everyone can get insight here. When I say insight, I mean we all (me included) learn something.  Some of your comments has made me look at things from different angles.   Your good comments mean a lot to me and others.  Helping each other is priceless.  Helping each other is what this blog is all about.

Taking off from my last post http://www.terryconti.com/setting-direction-for-your-goals/ you need to create a direction on what it is you want.  Make a plan by writing down the necessary steps.  There are many micro, small, medium and large steps (goals) you must set up for yourself to achieve your ultimate goal. Life has it’s ways of changing things around so sometimes you must change things around.  The main thing is that you have a direction and TAKE ACTION.

Out of all the gears that you need to reach your goals action is the master gear.   Once you have established a direction through a plan, it’s action time!  You must organize all in your life where you set aside time for action for your Internet Marketing business.  It may not be an easy thing to do for some however it must be incorporated into your life.  It all ties in with the fuel to reach your goals which is the passion you have within.

Like anything else in life.  The beginning steps are the hardest.  The more you get going the more things fall into place.  You’ve got to have that fuel.  That fuel is passion.  Sometimes your actions will get a lot done, sometimes your actions will get something small done, even nothing done.

I keep saying it but life is a funny thing.  Everyone has a bad day.  Everyone has a good day.  Always do the best you can and enjoy your days.  The more you do in time the better it gets.

A Fellow blogger Dawn Kay who has a quality resourceful blog of her own is giving away Internet Marketing checklists and planners. That’s right free Internet Marketing checklists and planners on her blog to help you take action along your way.  http://dawnkaysblog.com/free-internet-marketing-checklists-and-planners are a tremendous help so go over to her blog to get yours.

When it comes to Internet Marketing and you’re looking for a good place to start I would suggest taking action and get John Thornhill’s Your Own eBook Business I highly recommend it because not only will you learn about selling information on eBay, you will also get your own eBook website, just like mine here at http://www.liferitenow.com Click the link above and learn how to set it up.

You will be able to personalize it your own way so it won’t look exactly the same.  You’ll also get to become an affiliate of an audio book marketing website.  You will also  get a good education about eBook marketing, plus so much more.

Oh I almost forgot about the limited bonus.  Resell Rights Blue Print that John is selling on the web for $97.00 you can check it out by clicking on the link but don’t get it through that page get it as a bonus free by getting John’s Your Own eBook Business.  Read the two sales pages to get more info on the subject.  I can tell you this doesn’t compare with anything else out there, the price is fantastic considering the value you’re getting.

So what ever it is that you are planning to do, taking action is the key to it all.  Take action everyday and along with all the ups and downs that life gives us do your very best and enjoy each day.  Know that the fun starts when you start to take action to arrive at your destination.

As always I hope you got something out of this post.  If you have a Twitter or Facebook  account don’t forget to easily tweet and/or like.  Facebook me, Stumble me, please share using the buttons above or below if you found value here, thank you.

Also please leave a comment below.  We’d all  like to know what you think or like to add.

Terry Conti

My last blog post was about the fuel to reach your goals.  I talked about passion, mindset, work in order to reach your goals.  With that said, having all those ingredients will not get you anywhere if you don’t create a structured direction in order to move forward to arrive at your destination.

We as humans have one gift that is taken for granted by most.  We all have the capacity to create.  What do I mean?  I mean we can take nothing and make it something.

We are talented enough to erect buildings, build bridges, build things to suit our needs.  We build things like cars, planes, trains, motorcycles, bicycles  to get us around.  We write books of all sorts to spread information and open the imagination.  We set up businesses and achieve greatness.

Nothing would ever get done if it were not for the setting of Goals and creating a structured plan

Whether we know it or not we all create.  We can create good or we can create bad.  It’s all up to you.  We create a wish, set a plan and achieve what we want, right down to the smallest of things to the most complex.

We all have goals to achieve everyday! Writing this blog post is a small goal achieved.   Getting up in the morning and doing what needs to be done for the day is achieving goals.  If you go about doing what needs to be done in an unorganized way you probably won’t achieve all the goals you set and it will be much harder on yourself to get things done.  We need to create direction.

Planning is Key

Planning is key for everyday living.   Planning and setting small realistic goals is what we do everyday.  Writing things down is very important. Take a grocery list for example.  Say you didn’t write down all the things you need for your family and you find yourself in the supermarket without a list.  How effective would you be in getting all you need right off the top of your head?

This line of thought carries through to setting big goals.  What do you want out of life?  You’ve got to sit down and put the plan all on paper in front of you so you can see it and follow it.  Think and ask yourself what are you going to do?  Isn’t it just too much to keep it all in side your head all at once?

You need something you can visualize,  hold on to and follow.  Following your plan to reach your goals will not be clear cut at certain points.  You might come across road blocks so this is where my last post comes in.  You’ve got to have passion the right mindset and be willing to work.

There are many streets and avenues in your plan.  You’ve got to make order out of it all by writing it all down.   Once written it becomes so much easier to reach your goal.  Just like the grocery list.  A bit more complex but just as effective.

Make realistic short term goals in order to achieve your long term goal.  Keep everything reasonable and real.  A plan such as this must have every detail and have timelines.  Timelines will help in your momentum and make you accountable.

You’ve got to know everything isn’t set in stone.  There will be times that you might have to change some parts of your plan.  The point is that you have a structured foundation to work form.

You must know the night before what it is  you are going to do tomorrow.  It’s all about setting small term goals in order to reach the long term goal.

Again I say, trying to keep it all in your head is just too much.  You have got to write it down in order to create the life you want.  Create direction and you’ll be laying down the tracks leading to your goal.

Have passion, the right mindset, work, create the right direction and enjoy each day.

As always I hope you got something out of this post.  If you have a Twitter or Facebook  account don’t forget to easily tweet and/or like.  Facebook me, Stumble me, please share using the buttons above or below if you found value here, thank you.

Also please leave a comment below.  We’d all  like to know what you think or like to add.  Helping each other is what this blog is all about.

Terry Conti

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I am a student of the John Thornhill Masterclass program.  If it weren’t for this serious 36 week easy to understand Internet marketing course what I know about Internet Marketing, what I do, this blog would not be possible.  If you are interested in The John Thornhill Masterclass Program- leave your name and e-mail address  in the optin-box above or above on the home page of this blog.  You’ll get this controversial free report Why you’ll Never Succeed Online.

You’ll also get all the information you’ll need to make a wise decision enrolling in this very informative results driven home study action course.

Hi everyone,

The fuel needed to reach your goals comes from within. One ingredient of this fuel is called passion.  Passion is a strong feeling along with a great mindset.  No matter what obstacles come my way, no matter how hard they may feel, it’s not going to stop me from obtaining my goals.  Even if I feel like giving up (we all feel this way at times) deep down inside I know I’m not going to give up.

This passion is the feeling of how bad I want it (reach your goals).  Mindset is to never have that feeling diminish or go away because of it’s too hard.  If you have a burning desire in you to achieve something you want, you must have the proper mindset of always figuring  out ways around or through obstacles.  Passion and mindset work hand in hand.

You must master the art of positive thinking (mindset)  and not to approach any problem that comes your way negatively.  If you get a big fat negative in your face learn from it so the next time around you’ll be more experienced.

I believe you can be passionate about something you desire but without the proper mindset your passion risks slowly dissolving away.  I say this because life is not perfect and things will come your way that will wear and tear down your passion therefore you need the right mindset for a good outlook.

Just like when two people meet.  In the beginning there is a lot of passion, everything is great.  Life is beautiful.  You even think about getting married!  Then as time goes by, the passion you both had will not be the same if you don’t Work at staying together by having the proper mindset.   Yes work!

There’s that word!  WORK!  Same goes for anything you set your mind to.  You must work to get what you want.  If you want it bad enough you will find a way to get around/through anything that gets in your way by working on it.  So when you are burning with passion make sure you incorporate the right mindset and know there will be work to do, full circle.

With the proper mind set work should not be a chore as long as there is passion around.   Even if  work feels like a chore at times with the right mind set and passion you will get through it.  Once done it only makes your passion and mindset stronger.

Never losing track of your destination (Goals) makes all this work.

Goals- Passion- Mindset- Work- Inject these into your being as fuel and you’ll run forever.

As always I hope you got something out of this post.  If you have a Twitter or Facebook  account don’t forget to easily tweet and/or like.  Facebook me, Stumble me, everything me using the buttons above or below if you found some value here, thank you.

Also please leave a comment below.  We’d all  like to know what you think or like to add.  Helping each other is what this blog is all about.

Terry Conti

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I am a student of the John Thornhill Masterclass program.  If it weren’t for this serious 36 week easy to understand Internet marketing course what I know about Internet Marketing, what I do, this blog would not be possible.  If you are interested in The John Thornhill Masterclass Program- leave your name and e-mail address  in the optin-box above or above on the home page of this blog.  Get this controversial free report Why you’ll Never Succeed Online.

You will get all the information you will need to make a wise decision enrolling in this very informative results driven home study action course.

Free traffic Twitter

Good for business?  What do you think?

Some marketers hate twitter, but they still use it because it works in bringing in traffic.

When Twitter first came out I felt it was unessential for my business.  How could it bring in free traffic to my website?  Most marketers still feel this way.   Could it be because of not understanding and not having the correct information?

When trying to find out about all this, I’ve realized everyone has their own views.  Some say automation is not good, some say it is.  Some say an automated direct message is great, some say it’s not.

I guess it all depends on what will work for you.  I’ve come to the conclusion that there is no right way or wrong way but you sure have to have some knowledge to know how to work Twter to cut through all the twter confusion and make your own decisions.

Get a pen and jot down key important points here so the next time you’re on Twter you can have a good understanding about what to do.

(I want to get my message across but don’t need to be penelized for keyword spam so for the purpose of this blog post Twitter will be spelled Twter )

If the reason you’re not into Twter is because you think, who cares what I had for lunch today.  Well you’d better think again because Twter is big and growing every day and you don’t really have to let people know what you had for lunch.

Instead,  just like in email marketing provide value.  I’ve been doing some homework on the subject and want to share my findings and I’d like it very much to know what you think about Twter.  Add something by commenting so we can all learn something new.

Whether you like Twter or not it’s everywhere!  On the news, in advertisements on and offline.  Businesses and major corporations are jumping aboard this band wagon and so should you!

I can understand why Twter can turn a lot of people off.  Using it can be very frustrating because it seems all you see is an endless sea of fluff.

If you provide great content on Twter you will stand out because there is a lot of mambo jumbo on there.

Weeding out the good stuff and providing good stuff  is the key for making Twter work for you.

Look at Twter from the standpoint of getting quantity over quality because it can grow to be a very crowded confusing place, bottom line Twter works.

If you are going to use Twter for quality people it’s just going to grow to the point where it’s going to be difficult to keep up with each individual person.  Yes get quaility people but when you grow it’s going to get out of control.  Select as many quality people as you can and keep tabs on them.  Make a list if you wish.

On the other hand, looking out for and giving out quality is very important.  The larger the number of  followers you have the bigger your network.  The bigger your network of followers the better everyone is likely to see your tweets.

As a marketer I’m sure you’re hearing about Twter a lot these days.  Are you utilizing your traffic streams to full potential?  If you don’t do something about it, you will most definitely be missing out on free traffic, meeting new people, building your list and making sales.

Here’s a good way to look at Twter so you’ll be able cut through what seems to be like a crowded mall during Christmas time.

What is Twter?  It  is a microbloging site meaning people can read and send other people updates (tweets) up to a 140 words.  So how many times did you go to the bathroom today?  That’s what I first thought when I first heard about Twter.

There are many ways you can use Twter depending on your needs.  People sign up for it for many different reasons.   It can be used to stay connected with family, friends from all over the world.  School mates,  work mates, groups etc..

It can also be used for business and to stay updated with professionals or it can be used to get huge exposure.  Provide value and people will get to know who you are.

Same rule that applies for list building applies for Twter.  Don’t sell all the time.  Outright selling should be kept to a minimum it will turn people off.  It will also turn Twter off.  You can get your account suspended if done too much, especially if you are sending out direct messages to everyone about your product (spaming).

There is a right way and a wrong way to do it.  If you do it the right way you will get lots of followers.  As for us marketers we should open an account based on our niche.

In fact we should open several accounts based on variations of the same niche or if you have other niches it’s a good idea.  The point here is Twter has limits on how many people you can follow. 

You can only follow 10% of the people following you.   For example: If you have 2000 followers you can only have 2200 people following you. Having other accounts you can get more people following you thus more followers over all and still keep your Twter limits sound or the way you want them to be.  It stands to reason for the most part when you follow someone they will follow you back.

Every one is different and I try to keep the people I’m following lower than the people that are following me (my followers).  That way I’m not only safe with the limits but it also shows you have more followers.  I think it’s a good thing for people coming to my Twitter account to see.

I see a lot of good marketers that have more followers than people following.  I believe I’ll get more interaction and free traffic to my blog when people see that I have more followers than people I follow.  If you know of another reason for this, lets all find out by leaving your comment below.

So to keep an eye on your limits.   It’s a good idea to unfollow people from time to time.  Note that Twitter does not like that you unfollow a whole bunch of people and then right afterwards you follow a whole bunch of people.  That’s not how to do it.

When you are reaching a high following mark (you can have your own custom limits, just make sure you know Twter’s) it time to unfollow some people.  It could be every two weeks, every week or even every 4 days.  It all depends on the rate your following and the way your follower numbers are going, don’t unfollow everyday though.  If you have a busy account wait a least 3 days before you unfollow.

Twter is all about establishing yourself as a valuable resource through the content you provide.  Then if you have something you want to recommend, people will listen.  Think about Twter as sharing  information about your niche and you will build very good relationships.

One way to gain respect on Twter is to re-tweet.  Meaning if you see a good tweet you like, you can share it with your followers by re-tweeting.  Also the person who originally tweeted should thank you and start re-tweeting your tweets, it’s one of the great ways to build relationships.  Do this everyday.  Go down the timeline and when you spot a good valuable tweet, re-tweet it.  Don’t re-tweet junk.

So if you are providing good content people will re-tweet your tweets as well.  The more re-tweets the better it is for everyone so you should always be on the look out for good tweets to re-tweet.

Giving a link to your squeeze page in your valuable tweet can truly build your list to provide more valuable content and make sales because if someone re-tweets (shown by a RT in the tweet) your tweet and someone else re-tweets and so on depending on the amount of followers they have your tweet can be exposed to thousands upon thousands of people.

There is nothing wrong with linking to a sales page in your tweet from time to time but I think people are more likely to give you their e-mail address for more information though.  Once you have that e-mail address you can sell at the proper time through your auto-responder.

As with any social media DO NOT PROMOTE YOUR BUSINESS first.  Think of Twter as a whole bunch of people at a party.  You wouldn’t just go up to someone at a party and start pitching your business right off.  Talk about anything, get to know each other.   Have people get to know you.

Don’t have the attitude that it’s all about you.  Don’t constantly send tweets to your stuff online.  Send out popular content from good sources.  Some places where you can find popular tested content online are:

http://www.stufftotweet.com – find popular content  from various social media.

http://www.digg.com -  Here you can target your niche and use popular content.  Just do a search and use the most dugg button to get the best diggs.  You can find the button using the best match tab.

http://www.alltop.com -  This is really cool.  This site is like a magazine rack you can customize to your needs.  This site updates the most popular topics every 24 hours.

When it comes to promoting your own stuff on Twter do more interacting (value tweets, tweeting about other peoples good content) than pitching out your own stuff.

Everyone’s got different views and there is no exact number but to keep things efficient  I would say for about every six valuable tweets you offer from other good content, provide one or 2 tweets to your content.  Don’t forget Twter is a form of social media, not advertising space.

When on Twter make sure you are following active people.  Look at when their last tweet was.  You don’t want to be following people who are inactive, it’s just a waste, so keep note.

A good thought being you only have 140 words to use in a tweet is to make your tweets like attention grabbing headlines in a newspaper.

If using a Twter management system- make your tweets stand out by tweeting in blocks of 3 or 4.  Make the first 3 tweets good content from various interesting sources and make the last tweet link to your squeeze page or where ever you want in order to monetize.  It will show up first in block being that you entered it last.

Tweet your past blog posts titles, don’t forget to shorten the url by using bit.ly just type in bit.ly into your address bar.  Don’t use dot com or anything else just bit.ly

Tweet some of the key content in your past blog posts.  Don’t forget to shorten the url by using bit.ly

Make sure you make a good amount of tweets with no links in them.  (Twter is watching)

Drilling the thought-  When do you think is the best time to tweet? http://webanalysis.blogspot.com/2010/07/best-time-to-tweet.html#axzz1I0fIledC

Use a great Twter/ social media management system where you can automate a lot of Twter chores and schedule your tweets so they post in blocks + so much more.

15 is the maxium number of characters you can have in your user name

250 is the number of direct messages you can have in a day.

1000 is the maximum number of tweets you are allowed to make in one day.  http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/twitter-limits_b5697

RT means re-tweet

@ means AT-  When you want to reply to someones tweet use the @ sign

DM means direct message

It’s best to use the symbols at the end of your tweet so you can read the message first.  For example:    Hey I really liked that @ twter username OR Want to know when the best time of day is to tweet?  [the link] RT

Oh…and once you set up your Twter account don’t forget to share the knowledge in this post.  Tweet this post by clicking on the Twitter box on the right hand side at the beginning of this post.

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Share this knowledge on facebook as well by clicking the share/save bar below.

As with all my posts I hope you got something out of it.

So what do you think about Twter and getting some free traffic to your blog, squeeze pages, etc.  Share your views by leaving a comment.

Got any more suggestions or valuable  information/tips about Twitter we can all learn?   Let us all know below.

Until next time,

Terry Conti

Is precious

Free Traffic

getting wasted?

Did you know editing your published blog post too many times can make you lose precious traffic?

I just installed what I believe is a very important plug-in and I want everyone to know about this subject.

Here’s something I believe a lot of blog owners don’t know about.  Do you know when you write a post and hit the publish button your  word-press blog sends a ping to Ping-o-matic pinging service by default.

Without getting into all the technical mambo jumbo, a ping is a notification your word-press sends out to directories and pinging services that your blog has new content.  A ping invites search engine bots to visit your blog.

You should add more pinging services to your word-press blog so they can be notified when your blog has  new content.   Just go to Settings> Writing in your admin panel and scroll down towards the bottom and you will see where you can add them.

Click here for a list of pinging services and directories.  Just copy and paste all the services.  I double space between each insertion.

This is all well and good however if you edit your published post, word-press sends out yet another ping.  Even if you change one letter in your post!

So if you edit your post say five or ten times, that’s five or ten pings.  You might be saying so what, that’s good.  Oh no… that’s bad. What this does is it can label you as a Spammer and you will be blocked from directories and pinging services resulting in search engines not wanting to know who you are because of excessive pinging. The computers say, sorry too many pings, YOU ARE SPAMMING.

Call it a flaw in word-press what ever you want.  The FACT of the matter is if you hit that publish button after you believe your post is ready to go online and then you notice, I need to change this and click update, that’s two pings and then you notice oh looky here I must change this, I can make this point so much better to understand, that’s another ping and so on. Word-press will always ping whatever you edit when you click that update button.  Not Good.

Don’t get banned from pinging services because of excessive pinging.  Here’s the solution.  Best of all it’s free.  Optimize the flow of your free traffic.

MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer

Watch the video- then click the link below- Read & Download the plug-in

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MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer plug-in corrects WordPress’s pinging system- even the latest version of Word-Press

This plug-in will take care of the pinging problem and you can edit your post as much as you like with out getting penalized.

When you create a new post, your blog will ping and notify all the ping services that it has been updated. This encourages search engines and different blog directories/services to index your updated blog properly.

When you edit an existing post, it won’t send an unnecessary ping to ping services and saves your blog from getting banned and losing  free traffic.

As always here on my blog, I hope you got some good insight.  This blog is all about helping each other,  just take a look around and you’ll see.

I and everyone else  learns a lot from your comments so please let me/us know what you think so we can expand knowledge.  If you know someone who can benefit from the knowledge on this blog send them a link.

If you have a twitter account don’t forget to tweet this post and anything else you might find interesting here.  I really would very much appreciate it.  You can use the tweet link on the right at the beginning of each post.

Until next time,

Terry Conti

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Understanding and getting

Free Traffic

Hello everyone, I hope your holidays were great and the New Year brings good things.  I want to open up the New Year with a topic that can help all of us get more visitors to our web pages, free traffic. There are many ways to generate free traffic.  Traffic= Sales, No Traffic= No sales.

If you know of any ways for free traffic that aren’t listed here in this post let us know by leaving a comment.  If you disagree with anything let us all know.  Anything related to free traffic getting methods, let us all know.  What works for you?  Let us help each other out.  We  can all get some insight and learn something.

Getting free traffic to what you have online involves work.  You just can’t put something up on the web and think people are going to come to it.  It just doesn’t work that way.

If you put your web site, squeeze page, blog etc.. on the web and you don’t do something to get traffic to your content it will just sit there on the web, like putting something on a self and forgetting about it.

If you don’t want to do a lot of work  for traffic then pay for it.  There is nothing wrong with paying for traffic, it works but some don’t want to spend the money or some people do both.  What do you do?  What works for you?

Remember as I said before there is work to be done if you want to send free traffic to your blog, website, squeeze page etc…  I will outline some free traffic getting methods for you to wrap you mind around.  I hope you get something out of it.  I hope we can all get something out of it by leaving your comments.

List Building- All you do online as an Internet Marketer should be geared toward building your mailing list.  It is most important.  Building up a list of people who are interested in who you are on the web, your products, affiliated products, blog, website is very powerful because these people are letting you know they are interested by submitting their email address to you.  You can’t narrow it down any further when working with a list of people who have raised their hand letting you know they are interested in what you have to offer, great for traffic,  great for  sales.  The bigger you grow your list, the better.  There is a correct way to do this.  You can find out all about it on a recent post I wrote titled Why is a Mailing List Soo Important?

Blog Commenting- Blog commenting on blogs you are interested in and leaving your views not only creates back-links which is good for search engines but you can create a very good lasting relationship with blog owners and others.  When you leave a quality comment on someone’s blog everyone sees it and it’s a great way to get the blog owner and other people to know who you are.  The more you blog comment the better it is for your own blog or website because of the back-link that is created.  When you leave a blog comment the blog owner and others can come and visit your blog to leave comments and check out what you have.  Become popular by blog commenting and your blog will become popular.  John Mc is setting a very good example of what I’m saying here,  Check out his post http://johnmcnally54.com/december-blog-traffic/ You can also find out more about this topic by checking out a post Thu Nguyen wrote on her blog- http://www.bloggingfor.info/the-3-types-of-blog-visitors/

Video Marketing- There is an enormous amount of video websites out on the web.  http://www.youtube.com is very popular.  The more videos you post on Video websites, the better.   Be creative and intelligently provide value by creating a video that can lead to a squeeze page, blog, website, anywhere you deem necessary.  If the video is good you can generate some good free traffic for yourself. You don’t have to use a video camera if you don’t want to. You can use your photos, your music, even video clips and make a really good professional looking slide show. There is a website http://www.animoto.com if you want to create a slide show video.  To expand further about video marketing John Edwards wrote a great informative post http://john-edwards-blog.com/video-marketing-has-a-powerful-viral-effect-in-traffic-generation-and-profits/

Social bookmarking- Anywhere a whole lot of people get together to discuss various subjects is where you can get involved and use keen marketing strategies.  Provide value, get involved and recommend, do not blatantly advertise.  Get to know the rules of each website you sign up with.  For more information on this Steve Deerfield wrote an interesting post- http://stevedeerfield.com/social-bookmarking-for-internet-marketers/ so did Bill Murney, when  you read his post read the comments through they are very insightful- http://billmurney.com/blog/social-networking-yes-or-no/

Affiliate Marketing- Creating your own informational product and having affiliates promote it for you with related links within to your blog, website even another info product can bring in traffic and/or sales.  The related link or links within your informational products can spread like a virus.  The more sales you and your affiliates generate the more the links within get passed around.  One thing I want to make you aware of depending on what you’re writing about, one must keep related links to a minimum otherwise your informational product will just look like one big advertisement instead of an informational product which is supposed to provide value.  Outright advertising is a big turn off.  Fran Aslam wrote a very good informative post about affiliate marketing- http://franstips.com/online-affiliate-marketing-internet-income-and-top-rated-affiliate-program-of/

Article Marketing- Article marketing is very powerful if done right.  There are an enormous amount of article websites out there.  I know it’s a lot of work however submit articles to as many article websites as possible.  It is worth it.  All successful marketers use article marketing to generate traffic.  Make sure you follow the rules of each individual article website.  Articles must be your own work, not copied.  At the end of your article there is what is called a Bio Box- that’s where you explain who you are and leave a link to your related content.  To expand on this Andy Beveridge wrote a very good informative post- http://powerblogtactics.com/how-to-write-an-article/

Forums- There are forms on the Internet about any conceivable subject you can imagine.  Getting involved with online forums will bring in a good amount of traffic to your related subject matter however, you just can’t blatantly advertise.  You must get involved in what’s being talked about, provide value, ask questions, answer questions and develop a good reputation.   This will bring traffic to any links you strategically provide. When signing up with a particular forum you will have the opportunity to create a user name and provide links to your website.  Always understand the rules before joining any online forum for what you can and cannot do.  A very good and most popular forum for Internet marketers is the Warrior forum You will see a lot of successful marketers there.  You will also learn a lot too, it’s a great place for learning.  Got a question or problem insert a post, get an answer.

eBay- There is an enormous amount of traffic that comes to eBay.  eBay will only allow you to ship a physical product so your are going to have to put your information product on a disk.  Within your information product disk you can provide strategically placed links to your online content, even to your squeeze page to build your mailing list.   The main strategy about eBay is to sell a low priced item which leads to your higher priced item off ebay through the use of  links.  Another strategy would be to sell a bunch of your products, even affiliate products on one disk at a reduced price.  You shouldn’t only be out to make a sale.  Using strategically placed links within your information products disk can provide you with traffic to your online content.  The Barry Wells blog explains more, go through his blog and you will come up with some very good information about eBay and other eye opening information.   In his recent post he is offering a free eBay eBook http://barry-wells.com/if-you-are-new-to-ebay-try-newbies-auction-profits-free/ from John Edwards who also has a great blog with a lot of eBay information.

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Wow,  almost the end of another year!  How time flies, doesn’t it?  I’d like to wish everyone happy holidays,  peace, love and joy.

This blog has been around for just about a year now and it’s progressed quite well thanks to the John Thornhill Master Class Program.  If it wasn’t for the John Thornhill Master Class Program this blog wouldn’t even exist.

Thank you John Thornhill for helping me make this blog possible.  He walks you through each step you need to create a blog like this one plus so so much more.  There’s more to the John Thornhill Masterclass  course than just blog creation, it’s all about Internet Marketing.  There is  product creation, sales page creation, list building, traffic & on & on.  (36 weeks-plus)

John Thornhill is the best honest mentor anyone can ask for.  He has helped so many people.  For just a $4.95 trail you can get to see what I mean.  If you have the desire to seriously succeed  and are ready to seriously apply yourself (at your own pace), this course is worth every single penny.  The learning is great!

Check it out by signing in above and receive the free controversial info report,  Why You’ll Never Succeed Online.  Go ahead sign in above and get yourself quality information.  See if you agree with what is said.  You have nothing to lose and so much to gain.

All because of the John Thornhill Masterclass Program, I’ve met some great people who come and visit this blog and leave comments.  I also visit their blogs and leave comments.  Commenting is  great because you can learn a lot when people comment.  We all learn!  Commenting opens up so much more knowledge.

A good example would be a post I wrote for the 100 comment challenge  back in July titled, Sell your ebook on its own or put it on Clickbank?  What do you think? From the comments, I and anyone reading learned so much about Clickbank.  Great learning experience for all!

Having a blog is wonderful and visiting other quality blogs is great.  Leave your own comments here explaining anything about blog commenting.

What do you get out of blog commenting?  What do you get out of reading blog comments?  What is a good commentator?  What do you hate about some blog comments?  Get a lot of  spam?  We can all learn something from your viewpoints.

I want to pass on to you some great quality blog posts from wonderful people that I’ve met through out the year.  They have fantastic blogs.

Don’t just read the post, express your views by commenting.  Take a look around the whole blog, as you will see you can find some golden nuggets of useful information.  Leave these people your comments, you might just get a comment back and create a great informative learning relationship.

Barry Wells
http://barry-wells.com/blogging-tool-for-wp-highlight-comment-share-and-build-your-email-list/ In his most recent post Barry introduces a great tool (Plug-in) he found out about from Vance Sova for your blog that can help you generate more traffic and build your mailing list.  He even made a video showing you exactly how it works.  Check out the rest of his blog as you will see it its packed with great information.

Fran Aslam
http://franstips.com/selecting-info-products-top-10-tips-for-best-results/ In her recent post Fran lets you in on 10 great tips for selecting an info product to market.  Her tips are a great method to get best results.  Her blog is jammed packed full of these type of  great tips.

Thu Nguyen
http://www.bloggingfor.info/alexa-research-blog-idea/ Thru’s recent post gets into Alexia website ranking.  Alexia shows who are the most visited sites on the web.  She explains how you can use this resource to improve your own website and get more traffic, sales and more relationships.  Thu’s blog is also another blog full of great interesting learning content.

Jacinta Dean
http://creatingmybusinessonline.com/tweet-dynamite-by-dave-nicholson-an-honest-summary-and-review/ In Jacinta’s most recent post she introduces Dave Nickolson’s twitter’s informational product and lets you know what she thinks.  Check out her whole blog.  You will find many interesting subjects that you can use to better your internet marketing experience.

John Mcnally
http://johnmcnally54.com/preventing-blog-porn/ In Johns recent post he explains about the Akismet Spam filter and why you need it installed on your blog.  I have it installed and it is a necessary plug-in to have, otherwise your blog comments will get flooded with a lot of crap.  John has a no hype blog in which you can learn about many interesting things.  A blog full of good valuable content for all.

Sally Neil
http://sallyneill.com/networking/fancy-a-room-full-of-gurus-anyone/ Here in this post Sally lets us look into hanging out with some gurus.  Her Internet Marketing career is truly moving forward.  Her blog is another  jammed packed quality informational blog.  Do take a look around and comment.

Bill Murney
http://billmurney.com/blog/corryvreckan/ Bill always has good interesting content on his blog.  Great for realization, enjoyment, learning.   In his recent blog post he tells us about a phenomenon you don’t hear about everyday.   Enjoy his blog and leave comments as you will learn many things.

Bryan McHeyzer
http://theinternetintern.com/blog/marketing/article-writing/secrets-to-creating-traffic-sucking-headlines/.php Bryan’s recent blog post is an inside view on what and what not to do when writing headlines.  He also mentions a very good way to get click troughs to your site.  Another great blog.

Patricia Perth
http://www.lavenderuses.com/patricias-ponderings-lavenderuses-com/ In Patricia’ recent post she talks about commenting, tweeting or do both.  Insightful post, insightful comments.  Also one more thing about Patricia.  Do like Lavender?  Do you want to know more about it and all the different sorts of ways it can be used?  Check out the rest of her blog and you’ll be amazed.

Vance Sova
http://www.vancesova.com/5-reasons-for-internet-marketing-networking-meet-im-people-live.php Vance Sova’s recent post talks about how important it is to meet up with other internet marketers and what you can get out of it.  Take a look around his blog and you will see his topics are enlightening.  Comment and share your own views.

Justin Dupre
http://justindupre.com/keep-things-small-then-scale/ Justin latest post talks about how you can spend very little for your advertising dollar and test out your campaign to see if it will work.  Justin’s blog is on the ball.  He always talks about great stuff to help you in you internet marketing.

Kathy Dobson
http://kathydobson.com/the-13th-month-pay-in-the-philippines/ Kathy’s post lets us all know about the 13th month pay when out sourcing in the Philippines.  She is the  go to person for understanding outsourcing and what it can do for you.

As the year ends and 2011 approaches, I wish good things for all.

Terry Conti

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I am a student of the John Thornhill Masterclass program.  If it weren’t for this serious great 36 week Internet marketing course what I know, what I do, this blog would not be possible.  If you are interested in The John Thornhill Masterclass Program- leave your name and e-mail address  in the optin-box above (or on the home page of this blog).  Get this controversial free report Why you’ll Never Succeed Online.

You will also get all the information you will need to make a wise decision enrolling in this very informative results driven course and of course you will get to know more on who John Thornhill is.  No pressure here, just information.  Thanks, T.

Hi all, why is a mailing list so important?  You hear it all the time, the money is in the list.  Why do you hear all the time building a list is the most important thing you can do for your online business.

Do You Know Why?

You must understand people who opt in to your list are people who have raised their hand letting you know they are interested in what you have to offer.  They left you their email address letting you know they have an interest.

I’m going to say it again so you understand just how heavy and powerful this is.  They left you their email address letting you know they have an interest.  Ever hear the term target your market, well you can’t target any better than this but, it must be done in such a way that you provide value.

Treat your list with good related  information on what it was that you offered.  Get people on your list to like who you are, what you do and how you do it and then when you recommend and sell something to them from time to time chances are very high they will buy so the bigger your list the better.

It just doesn’t get any better than this when it comes time to  market and make sales

Very Important- Don’t out right sell to your list all the time like some other marketers do.  People on your list will get frustrated that you are trying to sell to them all the time.  Do you get frustrated?  Do you opt out?

This is not the message you want to give to your subscribers.  People who have shown interest can and will opt out of your list as easy as they opted in.  Provide value, educate then sell.

You must develop a re pore  with your list.  Offering good free related information is key and recommending something related for sale, be it your own or someone else s  product (affiliate product) from time to time is key to making good sales.

This is a very effective powerful strategy therefore you can also send your list to your related informative blog post, websites and sales pages, etc. to generate traffic.  Traffic = Sales.  No Traffic = No Sales.  Again the bigger your list the better.

If you are serious about building your mailing lists you are definitely going to need an autoresponder.  Although there are many autoresponder services out there, Aweber is the most popular and reliable autoresponder service out there.

Just like eBay is the most popular for auction sites,  just like youtube is most popular for video sites, Aweber are the big boys on the block when it comes to autoresponders.  The website is a great website for learning more about email marketing.

• They have a great  knowledge base.

• Live webinars

• Videos

• email marketing tips

• A great affiliate program

Find out more about email marketing and sign up with Aweber, compared to all others they are the best.  Unlike other autoresponders out there they have a strong reputation for getting your email through to reach your subscribers.  With most other autoresponders out there your email may be viewed as spam.

Yes I use them and I’ve also joined their affiliate program.  Most of the highly recognized Internet marketers use Aweber so if you are considering getting an autoresponder please sign up through my affiliate link.

Get more valuable information about email marketing, use Aweber by signing up, become an affiliate yourself, visit the Aweber autoresponder service website take a look around and see for yourself just how good they explain email marketing.

If you are going to use a free autoresponder service you are not really serious about earning money online.  The free autoresponder services are all full of advertisements when you send out your emails to your subscribers.

The last thing you need when you send out your emails are other advertisements.  The advertisements will only distract your subscribers away from your content.

Even if a free or low cost autoresponder service tells  you they have no advertisements they are not reliable on getting your email messages through.

With all the spam out there today you need an autoresponder service that has a reputation of getting your email though because they are highly recognized.  Aweber is the way to go.

Again list building is most important above all because your list is a list of people who have raised there hand letting you know they are interested.  When it comes time to recommend something to them, you are not marketing blind. You are targeting.  I know I’m kind of repeating things here but I really want you to get why a mailing list is sooo important.

Who would you want to market to?  People who you know are interested in the subject matter you are offering or marketing at random?

Building a mailing list not only will get traffic your to your website, blog, sales pages, etc… but most of all will make you sales.  It’s the best most effective way to make a sale if done the right way.  Building a list is enormously important.

Everything you do online in terms of marketing should be geared to building your list.

What are your views?  Please leave your comments.   We can all learn something from them.

Terry Conti

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I am a student of the John Thornhill Masterclass program.  If it weren’t for this serious great 36 week Internet marketing course what I know, what I do, this blog would not be possible.  If you are interested in The John Thornhill Masterclass Program- leave your name and e-mail address  in the optin-box above (or on the home page of this blog).  Get this controversial free report Why you’ll Never Succeed Online.

You will also get all the information you will need to make a wise decision enrolling in this very informative results driven course and of course you will get to know more on who John Thornhill is.  No pressure here, just information.  Thanks, T.