Law of Attraction or Law of Hard Work?
November 27, 2008 by LBB Admin
Filed under Featured, Internet Marketing, Rants
There is so much confusion around the law of attraction today and my personal opinion is this is because there are a whole slew of marketers our there using this concept to build a business around it for the sole purpose of making boatloads of cash and they are just muddying the water.
Now, there’s nothing wrong at all with making money and using ideas and concepts to do it. But what strikes me particularly odd about using this strategy with the Law of Attraction is if you are following the premise and spirit of this law, you would NOT be focusing on trying to use it to make money.
In fact, you would probably be doing the opposite which is helping people understand the law of attraction and providing value related to the law of attraction in order to attract people to you.
Which brings to the forefront the other side of the coin when it comes to the law of attraction – the Law of Reciprocity.
If your use of the Law of Attraction is from the perspective of selfishness and greed, you will manifest these characteristics either in yourself or in what you attract to you.
I found an enjoyable little article by Jeffrey Gitomer in the Eagle Tribune earlier this month about the Law of Attraction which had an interesting comment from a reader named Marlowe regarding James Allen’s classic titled ‘As A Man Thinketh’ and the misguided interpretation of the Law of Attraction.
To read more, head on over to the full article here.
Work At Home Newbie Guide
November 25, 2008 by LBB Admin
Filed under Downloads, Home Business
Never has there been a better time to work from home. There are more opportunities than ever before – with more and more opportunities opening up in the future. This report will reveal just a few work at home business opportunities.
For someone starting out with the goal of working from home who has no idea where to start, this report gives a great overview of what working at home means.
It provides a good overview of the advantages of working for yourself and the qualities of successful self employed entrepreneurs.
Covering some popular work at home opportunities, it closes with a summary of action steps you should take and provides a list of helpful tools.
For those just starting out, this is a great simple guide that will help point you in the right direction to a starting point.
Get the free report by CLICKING HERE.
Getting Started With Internet Marketing
November 18, 2008 by LBB Admin
Filed under Home Business, Internet Marketing
My method for marketing involves lots of free resources so you can minimize the amount of money you have to spend to get started. I teach you how and you execute so along the way, using free tools, we both generate wealth.
Not everything in life is free so where I feel it is important that you consider purchasing a tool, I will let you know and in most cases, I do not have a vested interest in the sale of those tools. In some instances, the paid tool is better than a free version as with some free tools, the creators or authors may be lax in updating or fixing bugs and in these cases, it is worth your time to avoid headaches by paying for the tool.
At a very basic level, I will begin with the steps you need to get yourself started. Your goal should be at mastering one program or income stream and then expanding into other programs or income streams. Why? Because in order to create consistent residual money, you need multiple programs or income streams. This allows you to spread your risk by not putting all your eggs in one basket.
If a program has hiccups or tanks for any reason, unless you have others you are working it can be a painful experience. I know as this happened to me when I first started out. Digging a hole is easy but if you fall in, it’s much harder to climb back out. So learn from my mistakes and I will help you develop strategies for your own ’safety net’.
One word of caution. Do not expect out the gate to hit a home run. Some programs, if things are aligned well and you have laid your groundwork properly, you can knock it out of the park. If that does happen, do not let yourself become comfortable and lax thinking “wow, that was easy, now I can relax”. For many programs, it takes consistent effort and persistence to build long term wealth but I will tell you that you will reach a point when it starts snowballing and runs into auto-pilot mode. This is what everyone should be striving for. For any venture, you will need to continually tweak and adjust what you do, especially to accommodate the changing climate of the internet landscape. Stay on top of your game and your chances of succeeding are high.
Here are the basics of what you need to get started:
A program of some kind. Preferably one that generates high dollar returns but programs with small returns are good too. Just keep in mind it takes the same amount of effort, time and resources to promote either type.
Resources to get your programs off the ground. This includes tools, software, ad copy, advertising sources, etc…
Advertising. There are many ways to go here and free stuff works great, especially Web 2.0 social networking which is totally free and a great way to build your ‘brand’ and recognition so that you attract people to you. Some form of paid advertising is a must and if you have a low budget, that’s fine as you can get a lot done with inexpensive solo-ads and various other vehicles.
Time. This is probably the biggest area people fail to consider when getting started. During your ramp up phase for any program or income stream, even if it’s a ready to go affiliate marketing program, you have to put in the time. Nothing runs on autopilot out the gate and even after you have established yourself, there is ongoing maintenance you have to account for which involves some of your time.
For me personally, my time is precious and valuable and everyone has their own perspective on what their time costs to them. I am raising my daughter alone so for me, it is important that I do not get caught up in unfocused “busy” work that takes away from the time I want to spend with her in helping her grow. So I look for programs that have an abundance of tools, have a great support team of mentors and will not take up tons of my time on an ongoing, daily basis.
I am at the point now where I work my programs about 4 hours a day. But I won’t lie to you – there were plenty of weeks and months where I pulled all nighters learning and working on getting things off the ground and the work I put in during this time is what allows me to spend a few hours a day on my income streams.
To start off, you will need to make sure you have some free tools. Here is what I use and I provide the links where you can download and install them.
Squeeze Page Creator – very simple squeeze page creator
Loaded Squeeze – this is an easy tool to quickly create base squeeze pages which you can easily modify in Kompozer.
http://cantstandmyboss.com/download/loadedsqueeze.rar – you will have to unzip this file and then run it to install on your computer.
UPDATE: For squeeze pages, I now provide tons of free templates to my team members and do not recommend using this tool as it did not work with well with my new Vista machine.
HTML/Website Editor – use this to edit HTML and website pages
Kompozer – in my opinion, the best tool for editing website pages. Simple to use, easy to understand.
http://kompozer.net/download.php
FTP Program – use this to upload files to your hosting account from your computer
FileZilla – awesome FTP software which is what you will use to upload files to your hosting account. You can also use the hosting company’s built in file uploader but an FTP program is best.
Zip File Archiver – use this to unzip and zip files
WinRar – my favorite and it’s free to use. You just have to close the pop up that appears every time you run it but you can also pay to remove that if you want.
http://www.tucows.com/preview/194276
In future posts I will cover ‘how to use these tools’ and provide an overview of my process for choosing programs to promote.
To Your Success!
-Eddie
aka Loaded Beach Bum
