We’ve just read that Harry Potter author, J K Rowling has announced the title of her new book – “The Casual Vacancy“. Let’s explain why this is important and why it should inspire you to step outside your comfort zone and whatever is holding you back right now.
Her saga of Harry Potter, the boy wizard became one of the most successful fictional series in history and led to a series of extremely popular films and made her a very wealthy woman. In fact Forbes has named her as the first person to become a U.S. dollar billionaire by writing books. That’s some achievement. Now she is moving into a new area of writing with the launch of her new book later this year.
BUT …. it wasn’t always like that for J K Rowling
…. Less than five years ago she was living on social security and struggling to bring up her daugher, was diagnosed with clinical depression and contemplated suicide. Even after graduating from university Rowling saw herself as “the biggest failure I knew.” Her marriage had failed, she was jobless with a dependent child ….
Does that sound familiar. Can you relate to that? Have you ever failed and not wanted to get started again?
Failing Forward will lead to your ultimate success
Watch this video from The Harvard Commencement Address in 2008
“I have decided to talk to you about the benefits of failure. And as you stand on the threshold of what is sometimes called ‘real life’, I want to extol the crucial importance of imagination.”
“Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy to finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one area where I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had been realized, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter, and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life”.
You can read the rest of here address here We are certain that you will be inspired to take action to change your life – we’re not asking you to become a best selling author – just to take control of your own financial future, learn some new skills, join a family of like minded entrepreneurs and make some money.
“The freedom to explore new territory and to write The Casual Vacancy is a gift that Harry’s success has brought me,” Rowling said – so you need to start exploring and here’s the place to start – The Six Figure Mentors
We know that the internet is the place to be and working online is the future but we were completely blown away with the facts presented on this image and what happens in an internet minute.
So how do you make your Internet Minute count?
Regular content creation will definitely help you to become more visible online and it is important that you embrace this and publish content regularly about your business – make your internet minute count! This will include articles which can be published on directories such as Ezine Articles , blog posting on your own authority site, guest blogging (blogging on someone else’s website), press releases on sites such as PRWeb and not forgetting social media.
All of the content you create must be include your key words so that a consistent picture can be built up about your business. Therefore if your business is about ‘dog training’ then you need to ensure that your content is relevant to that niche and has the relevant key words such as dog training, dog training skills, dog training course, etc
In our niche which is ‘make money online’ this is more challenging given that the key words are highly competitive. But, given that we train in this area we have a lot of opportunity to expand on these keywords such as ‘make money online business training‘, ‘how to make money online‘ etc So you get the picture? Your internet minute needs to work for you 24/7
Make your Internet Minute Count with Keywords!
Key words is a subject all of its own but to establish your keywords you can use the google keyword tool to test your own particular keywords
We also use a plugin for our wordpress blog called SEO Pressor to make sure that every blog post is well keyworded. It’s probably the best tool that we have every purchased.
In this blog post the keywords we are using are ‘internet minute’
Articles
One of the easiest ways to share content is to write articles that can be published on highly ranked sites such as Ezine Articles. Each article should contain your key words, be well written and interesting to your readers, be of 500-700 words (minimum) and of course have a link back to your website at the end of the article (referred to as a resource box).
If article writing is not your thing then this is something you can outsource – you can use a source such as iWriter.com or find someone on Fiverr.com These people will write articles for you but you will need to give them direction and of course your keywords. This is a great way to leverage your time and make your internet minute count.
Blogging
Blogging is a very powerful way to get your content seen in the world of the internet but just like the articles you write (content) it much be interesting, informative and of course have those all important keywords. We have written a blog that will give you lots of tips and strategies on writing a blog post
You can also write blog posts on other people’s sites – called guest blogging. If you are good at writing. This will get you recognised as an authority in your niche and help you get more traffic to your website. This is a fantastic way to get even more from your internet minute.
TIP We blog every day on a website called Empower Network which is a very highly ranked website so our content when published there gets us lots of traffic. We highly recommend that you check this out and really get the most from your internet minute – your 60 seconds of internet fame.
Video
Video is also a very powerful medium and likely to become The Most Important medium in the next few years since video is predicted to be contribute 90% of traffic by the year 2013.
Right now this is a great way to get traffic – we know because right now we are on page one of YouTube for our key words
We have not shown this to boast but to show you what is possible when you know how to use video marketing and apply your keywords. Since video is the future of traffic we’re glad we started early!
Social Media and Bookmarking
Writing for social media requires some slightly different techniques. If you are writing for Twitter for example you have only 14o characters to get your message across (called micro blogging) You can use those characters wisely however by having a link to the content with just a headline. You might for instance send your followers to a blog post like this or an article or a video.
Using Facebook, again you can can use the ‘notes‘ or ‘docs‘ tools to write contents. In fact why not just publish your article content or your blog content as a ‘note’ or a ‘doc’. After all you’ve already done the hard work – the writing.
Social bookmarking sites such as delicious and stumbleupon are also great places to bookmark content you have already written.
Content Syndication
Getting your content out onto the internet is essential and there are many different platforms that you can use to do this – some are paid and some are free. Here are a few to get you started (there are hundreds of different places in truth)
Onlywire.com
IMAutomator.com
blokube.com
blogengage.com
Ask your friends & followers
Ask your website visitors, friends and followers to share your content using plugins on your website such as ‘share and follow‘ or ‘sexy bookmarks‘. Everyone has their favourites and these are ours. You can see at the bottom of this post we have included a call to action and asked for comments and sharing.
Now the great thing is that The Six Figure Mentors (The SFM) help you do all of this with great training on all aspects of lead generation and you can get yourself set up online in next to no time. You can check it out and get $500 worth of traininghere
We hope you enjoyed this blog on An Internet Minute and will leave us a comment and share on social media – every second counts … all 60 of them!
Blogging is a really good way of adding ongoing valuable content to your website but we want to make sure that you get the most from every single blog post and attract and keep visitors to your site.
Blog Post Writing
The aim with your blog post writing is to create a buzz on your website and draw your visitors to your site like the proverbial bees around a honeypot … and more than that – to keep them coming back again and again.
Here are our blog post writing secrets to get you started straight away
The Headline
Your headline should be captivating and enticing enough for your readers to want to read more so spend time getting this right. It is probably the most important of the blog post writing secrets. Curiosity plays an important part in choosing a good headline. It’s the reason your reader will want to stay and find out more.
The Opening Paragraph
Make your opening paragraph interesting enough that your readers want to progress beyond your opening headline. Tell them what to expect from your blog post and a reason why they should keep reading. It’s a bit like a summary of what they will expect from your blog post.
Using Keywords
Make sure that your blog post is keyword rich – that your keyword(s) or keyword phrases are in your headline, your first paragraph, throughout your blog post and in your closing sentence. The key words in this blog are “blog post writing“. There is a fine balance when writing to include your keywords.
TIP - we use a wordpress plugin called SEOPressor – in fact we have used it to wrote this blog post and would thoroughly recommend it to anyone who is going to use blogging or article writing as a marketing strategy. We write all of our articles on our blog using SEOPressor before submitting them to sites such as Ezine Articles. Once the article is published then we go ahead and publish the blog post we prepared it on as well.
* There was a reason for not adding “no follow” to our external links in this blog post
Make Your Words Count
Think of your visitors as individuals and write as if you were talking to them one on one – this is far more powerful and will draw your readers into your content.
Tell a story and bring your readers into the story – let them see themselves in the scene. This is very powerful and done well it will bring back visitors time and again. When you are writing more of a knowledge based blog post like this it is a bit more difficult but there are many instances where it can can work very well.
Images & Videos
Images make posts look colourful, attractive, interesting. Look for funny or interesting looking pictures or images as people love them and they make your post look more appealing.
Likewise having a video embedded into your blog post also makes it different, interesting and stands out. Plus Google really likes video and will “visit” your site more often to check out your content especially if you do it regularly.
TIP – make sure that you link up your images to another blog post, a video or somewhere you would like your reader to go as some people do click on images! You don’t want to miss the opportunity to send them to maybe a lead capture page or a link to get your free report etc.
Formatting your blog post
Make sure that you use all the tools that wordpress give to you like boldface, italics,underline. Also use sub headings, bullet pointing and numbering and quotations. All of these things break up your blog post and make it far more appealing and easy on the eye of the reader.
“Your blog is your unedited version of yourself”
Internal Linking
If you have already written content that is relevant to the post you are writing or will enhance the post you are writing then make sure you link to this so that your readers can get a deeper experience of your knowledge of the subject you are writing about.
Here’s some information we wrote earlier on blogging. This is to demonstrate the point – but actually it is very useful and will help you in your blogging endeavours.
Solve Your Readers Problems
This is really important. Make sure that your blog post solves those all important problems of your reader. You can do this by thoroughly researching forums in your niche – there is alwas a common thread to the problems that people are experiencing. All you then have to do is present the answer in your blog post.
Say Thank You
Remember to credit a source of information – they will love you for it and it helps build great relationships. We would like to thank our good friend Mavis Nong for her knowledge that she so generously shares on blogging. You can check out her website here
All that remains is for you to use these blog post writing secrets and get started creating great content your readers will love.
If you are working online or looking to work online then you have probably heard of Empower Network or someone has sent you an email or contacted you on social media about it. Let’s face it, when something is new then people jump on it like hot cakes and sometimes before they have really looked at it. It’s called the ‘shiney object syndrome‘ or ‘magic button‘ syndrome – the latest, greatest thing.
This means unfortunately that they just SPAM you and tell you to get it without giving you a reason why or show you how it can benefit YOU.
We would like to redress the balance here and give you our review – the good, the bad and the ugly – so that you can make your own choice about it.
Empower Network – Our Story
Timing
We first heard about Empower Network towards the end of last year but we were not ready to spend any time looking at it. Why? Because we were focused on a project and didn’t want any distractions (apologies to everyone who sent us links and told us we should join – the time wasn’t right)
However, like all good marketers we put it in our ‘ideas to pursue‘ book and duly had it scheduled to look at when we went to France a couple of weeks ago. We find a book like this invaluable as we often think of things (sometimes in the middle of the night!) and we don’t want to forget to go back to them.
Research
We spent a good deal of time looking into Empower Network, reading reviews, checking out the founders – Dave Wood and Dave Sharpe – and speaking to other marketers whose opinion we trusted and who had the highest integrity.
The reason we do this is because we will never recommend something that we have not fully researched or used ourselves.
Of course our caveat is that you should always carry out your own research – that is imperative!
Our Business Model
It had to fit our business model and not only support it but add value to it – not just for us but for our students and subscribers who trust our judgement.
We recorded this video giving our reasons why we decided to join Empower Network – because we just find that video says it better
Empower Network is marketed to be an online money making system using a blog platform (WordPress). The idea is that people who decide to join the Empower Network will have the ability to market anything they want on a blog that is highly ranked and has thousands of visitors daily. This is the entry level to the program – just $25 per month.
If you want to make money from Empower Network (and why wouldn’t you) you need too become an affiliate. Just one customer will at the entry level will pay you $25 per month and cover the cost of your own account.
There are also other products that you can promote within the system.
The 100% Commission System
Let’s explain how it works as there is a lot of confusion surrounding these words “100% Commission“ What is means is that you get 100% of your sale (that means no deductions for anything). And you get paid weekly which gives you that all important fast cash flow which is the life blood of any business.
The commission structure is set up in such a way that you do not personally get paid on every sale and this is where the confusion lies. Without going into great detail about the payment plan, you basically pass up sale No 2, sale No 4 and sale No 6 and thereafter every 5th sale. Is this good or bad? It’s brilliant…. because although at first glance you are losing sales you have to remember that your affiliates have to do the same thing and so you are getting paid on sales that you pesonally don’t make. This is real leverage and true passive income.
Most other systems normally only pay you a small percentage of each sale – usually about 20 – 25% tops and secondly, you don’t get to see your money for 30-60 days. That can be really hard when you are just getting started so the weekly payment system of 100% commissions from Empower Network gives you immediate cashflow – cash to expand your marketing.
Now remember, you will be getting residual income from each member you personally introduce – that’s month on month as long as they remain a member. Plus residual income on some sales from your affiliates. Plus one off income of $500 or $1000 for each product sale.
The Upsells
How many times do we hear the words “we hate the upsells“. Why? Upsells are the life blood of any online business and you really need to get over this psychological barrier. If you can’t then you shouldn’t be working online! Seriously.
We agree that historically some unscrupulous marketers would create upsells that had no real additional value and were there just to get you to spend more money. The Empower Network “upsells” are truly products that will provide you with training and information that will not only help you grow your business faster but earn you substantial more income as well. The price of these products is well below their actual true value.
The Empower Network products are:-
Inner Circle – $100 per month
$15K Formula – $1000 (one time payment)
Costa Rica Intensive – $500 (one time payment)
As an affiliate of Empower Network you get the 100% commissions on these as well on the same basis as the $25 product. As with most affiliate systems you have to purchase the product yourself to earn any commissions on it.
Lead Generation
Empower Network is set up to enable you to plug in your own autoresponder and that means that every email collected from sharing the Empower Network videos adds a subscriber to YOUR list so you can build a relationship, provide more information on Empower Network and ultimately make more sales.
If you don’t have an autoresponder – get one (the simplest & best is Aweber – click here) as building a list of subscribers who are interested in what you do is the the best asset you can ever have in your business.
How much money can you make?
Well that’s the million dollar question and it’s all down to marketing. However we have seen the real results from people we trust – not just screen shots of earnings but real time earnings. We didn’t ask to see them – they just showed them to us. Whether you are looking to earn an extra $1-2,000 dollars a month or a six figure income all comes down to your focus, your effort and marketing.
Working with established and recognised marketers who will help you grow your marketing skills will be of great benefit to you – especially if you are new to working online. In Empower Network it is in everyone’s interest to help other affiliates in their team make more sales. Mores sales equals more income.
How to Turbo Charge Your Online Business
We’ve been through the training and have got our Empower Network blog up and running and that is just the start.
You can use the “search engine power” of the Empower Network blog to generate traffic for this or any other business you may be involved with – an MLM, Network Marketing Business, Direct Sales or other affiliate product.
More traffic = more leads = more sales
Blogging with the “right” tools makes a big difference. And blogging with the “right” training makes it even better – our blogging training is second to none.
That’s exciting for anyone building an online business.
Attraction Marketing
One thing we are going to say here is that over time you should really build your own brand and authority site – we have ChrisAndSusanBeesley.com With your own authority website you can build up your very own presence online and promote absolutely anything you like.
This is a core principle in building an online business and one that we absolutely recommend.
Now here’s the bonus – you can use Empower Network to help rank your own authority site and that’s very exciting.
We’ve given you all the facts about Empower Network as we see it – now it’s up to you … just watch the video.
We know that not everyone has time to watch TV or even wants to watchTV let alone Britain’s Got Talent. However that being said, we were watching it ….. sad but true – and clearly at just the right moment as we heard 16 year old Charlotte and 17 year old Jonathan being interviewed by the show hosts.
Now like many of the audience who would have seen this interview either live or the recording, you would have been pretty skeptical about the partnership as were the judges when they appeared before them – they didn’t look like they were anything special or that their performance would be anything special.
BUT ……. when they started singing ….. they were completely transformed as were the audience.
Here’s the video so you can experience just what we experienced that night
We were completely blown away by their performance and just so grateful that programs like this exist to expose such amazing talent.
So our question to you is “Have You Got Talent?” Have you been thinking about taking that first step and starting your online business. Maybe you’ve been thinking about it but have doubts about whether you can do it or maybe even wonder what people might say when you tell them.
Well, we’re here to tell you that you are not alone. Every single day hundreds of people are getting started online and not only that they are succeeding online.
And we know ourselves just what that is like. Even now, when we tell people what we are doing, they look at us as if we are on another planet because they just don’t understand the power of working online and the financial and time freedom it affords.
But if you want to get started in a safe environment with the support of hundreds of other people who will help you when you need help, give you guidance and advice when you ask for it and generally be there for you then there really is only one place – that place is The Six Figure Community.
The SFM Community as it is fondly known is a powerful group of individuals from all over the world from six figure and multiple six figure earners right through to complete “newbies” and they are all there to help you whenever you need help, sharing their experience and getting you over those little hurdles that we all have.
Here’s a little look behind the scenes so you can see for yourself
Now it is not for everyone and in fact we do have to turn some people down just as Britain’s Got Talent have to turn down many of the applicants who turn up to audition.
To check out if You’ve Got Talent all you need to do is APPLY HERE and we’ll do the rest.
