Often in life we observe someone emerge from obscurity to achieve great success. They flash across the firmament like a shooting star, only to then crash and burn. Why is that so? Often it's because their talent isn't underpinned by strong character. Ability can take you to the top in any endeavor, but only character that will keep you there.
Outstanding character is more important than outstanding talent. Most talents are to some extent a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not a given, it's not set in stone but is a construct, built on the foundation of our beliefs. And it changes over time based on what it is we give our attention to. Character therefore can be both de-constructed and also re-constructed. It is built brick by brick, by daily attention to our thoughts, our choices, with courage, and determination.
So what exactly is character? Our character is comprised of the collective mental and moral qualities that distinguish us as an individual. It's our ability to follow through with a commitment we make to ourselves. It's the sum total of the choices we make every day. Our character today is as a result of past choices. Our character tomorrow will be a result of today's choices. Our choices and our character will be inevitably and eventually congruent. To change our character, we must simply change our choices. Because day by day, what we think, what we chose, and what we do is who we become.
Although there will always be differences of opinion as to what constitutes character, some traits appear to be universal. A recent survey found that truthfulness, compassion, freedom, responsibility, and reverence for life were considered the most important traits. From a practical perspective, the world could not function properly if responsibility and truthfulness did not exist. A person of character has behaviors that display both respect and integrity.
The definitions of character are all to do with action or behavior and our character is revealed through our behavior. In contrast to a belief or attitude which isn't the same as an action. We may think one way, but act another. People behave in certain ways because they possess a particular philosophy, and we can observe their philosophy by observing their behavior.
Often the most important aspects of our character are developed in adversity. Just like the best timber which comes from the strongest trees; those that have been buffeted by the wind, and tested by the elements, such that the tension creates fine close grained timber much prized by artisans and artists.
I prize his poem but unfortunately I cannot reference the author. It's titled: The common law of Life.
The tree that never had to fight: for sun and sky and air and light. But stood out in the open plain: And always got its share of rain; will never become a forest king. But will live and die a spindly thing.
The man who never had to learn to toil; to gain and work his patch of soil. Who never had to win his share; of sun and sky and light and air. Never became an inspiring man; but lived and died as he began.
Good timber does not grow with ease. The stronger the wind the stronger the trees. The higher the sky the longer the length: the more the storm the more the strength. Through sun and cold by rain and snow; in both trees and men good timbers grow.
Where thickest is the forest growth. We find the patriarchs of both. And they hold counsel with the stars. Whose broken branches show the scars; of many winds and much of strife; this is the common law of life.
Welcome adversity, learn and apply its lessons; they will help you develop a strong character, one that will sustain you in your journey through life.
To your success,
Lloyd Dobson
P.S.
Lloyd Dobson is an expert trainer on how to utilize proper online marketing techniques and strategies that can help you ANY online business you are involved with. Learn exactly how to generate more leads without cold calling, buying expensive leads or chasing your friends by clicking this link: FREE Marketing Success Secrets.
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Sunday, August 1, 2010
Smart and Safe Backlink Building Guide To Obtain Page #1 on Google
Links play a tremendously important role for the search engines and their algorithms.
Basically if you try to recollect, you will see that Google and its first algorithm started from the 2 guys inventing the “new-level-of-quality” algorithm of counting backlinks and using these backlink calculations for giving specific positions to the sites in the search engine results. Google emerged from smart backlink calculation.
The same about the majority of other big search engines – they are heavily relying on the links in giving their search results for any specific keyword.
The problem is that Google knows: thousands of people try to manipulate the backlinks to improve their positions in search engines.That is why Google has started a serious battle with link manipulations, and this is great that they have started to do that!
However this causes lots of troubles for the people who want to build backlinks and want to make sure they do it in a smart and safe way.
This is exactly the purpose of Smart and Safe Backlink Building Guide – we are sharing here our successful experience of getting 1st page in Google for LOTS of different keywords in different niches, without any problems with Google.
No matter if:
- you have decided to build backlinks with a FREE Traffic System
- or you want to build backlinks in ANY OTHER way.
You still need to know how to build backlinks without looking as link manipulator for the search engines...Because Safety Matters!
MAJOR LINK BUILDING SAFETY RULE:
The rule is simple – your backlink building must look NATURAL to the search engines. You see, Google and other search engines will never fight against the sites that are growing their backlinks naturally, otherwise they would kill their own search engine business!
That is why if your backlink building looks natural to Google, you will never have any problems.
But what exactly is a natural backlink building?
And this is where the details start to matter a lot. We consider several factors to be critically important in making your backlink building look natural. Each of the factors will be discussed in details in the Smart and Safe Backlink Building Guide.
And after you read this information you will also see that FREE Traffic System
service is helping you to build backlinks in the most NATURAL way available on the market today.
Factors of Natural Link Building:
Natural Link Building – Factor #1
Your backlinks must be backed by something really valuable for search engines.It is very easy to understand this factor if you get into the shoes of Google. Today there are hundreds of links directory scripts that in a minute can create thousands of junk like pages,and these pages can give you thousands or millions of backlinks.
Are these pages of ANY value to Google? No! In terms of value for the users of Google who want to find quality information these pages are junk, junk and let’s agree upon it.
But if you get a backlink from a large content page, the value of this page (and this backlink) increases instantly for Google. You created new information, this information is found by a person who used Google to surf the net. You have “bribed” Google with the most valuable gift – new information. Backlinks from this type of pages are real gold.
And this is exactly what FREE Traffic System is doing for you, because you get backlinks from inside real blog post with unique content. Will Google be against new unique content? Never! Will Google look favorably upon the backlinks from inside unique blog posts? Yes, otherwise Google should stop being a search engine.
Natural Link Building – Factor #2
Your backlinks must be from non-duplicate pages!Duplicate content over years remains one of the most disputable questions in SEO. Is Google punishing for dup content or is it not? Opinions differ.
But we think that here we must look at the problem from the Google’s point of view. Will be Google happy about tons of dup content pages? No! That is why in the FREE Traffic System we give you the tool of automatically diversifying your article. Inside the members area you can find a video where we show how to easily diversify each of your articles with the help of [spin][/spin] html tag.
By spending just 5 minutes on your article you can be sure that each republication of your article will look nonduplicate.This will hugely BOOST the value of your backlinks for the Google, because Google will see that lots of non-duplicate pages from different sites are giving you backlinks.This is the most safe and natural way of link growth ever imaginable online.
Natural Link Building – Factor #3
Backlinks must be built from relevant sites.This is another pain of SEO gurus, because no one says for sure whether Google is against backlinks from irrelevant sites or not. Google is not saying anything officially, because they hate giving away the details of their algorithm and say only general stuff that can be interpreted in both ways.
Surely you should not have big problems due to backlinks from the irrelevant sites. Otherwise your competitor in yoga niche would pay a porno site to give you thousands of backlinks and this would get your site deleted. Google understands that penalties for incoming links are a stupid and unrealistic measure. That is why sound logics assumes – nothing very bad in getting backlinks from irrelevant sites.
BUT! Let’s think about Google and its interests again. Does a recommendation from porno site about yoga site look valuable to Google? Perhaps not, a much better recommendation about a yoga site is a backlink from another yoga site, or health site, or fitness site.
This brings us to the simple conclusion: though there is nothing dramatically bad about getting backlink from irrelevant site, it is MUCH BETTER to get backlinks from the sites in your industry or niches which are neighboring with your industry. Gardening fits nice with hobbies; finances fit niche with loans, debt freedom, retirement plans and business; health is ok with diets, wellness, basic life tips and fitness.
And this is what you are getting inside FREE Traffic System – we give you the choice of sites in different niches that are ready to publish your quality information and not touch your backlinks. You have maximum freedom is choosing the sites that correspond to the topic of your article.
This will make sure that you article is read by the targeted visitors on these blogs (these visitors are very likely to click your links in the article, if this article grabbed their attention). And this instantly increases the SEO value of the backlinks.
Natural Link Building – Factor #4
Backlink growth speed – don’t be greedy! If your site is very old (at least a few years in the Internet) and has gained some SEO trust, then even tons of new backlinks which have appeared to your site within 5 minutes will not hurt the site. Maybe the site will get down due to heavy traffic, but this is another story :)
But when a new site that is just building its SEO reputation starts getting dozens or even hundreds of backlinks in a matter of short period of time – this looks suspicious, very suspicious.
This is a problem!
... because FREE Traffic System is basically a service where you can build an almost unlimited number of one way links per day. Your article gets republished on 30 sites maximum, with 2 backlinks from each article – this is up to 60 one way links from full republishing of the article! That means when you create (piece of cake) 10 articles per day – this sums up to 600 backlinks per day!!
We understand that even the most reasonable people will not stand this SEO seduction and will lure into building hundreds of backlinks per day. And no matter how much we say “Don’t be greedy, don’t be greedy” – most of the users came here for backlinks and will not listen to the voice of reasonability.
Don’t worry – we have taken care of the greediness. We will not seduce our members: that is why when you schedule the article for publication, it does not get published on all blogs right after you sent it. Our service will be republishing your article on 3-4 sites per day, day by day, until the whole publishing sequence on 30 sites for this very article is not complete.
You do not have to wait with submitting another article, before the publishing sequence for the previous article is over. But even if you send us dozens of articles per day, we have automatically made your daily link growth look a lot more natural.
This is where we have made a decision without asking for your permission. But this is an absolute must to do that reasonably and you will thank us over time for doing that.
Natural Link Building – Factor #5
Diversify anchor text of your backlinks! Anchor text – what is that?!
The anchor text is a visible and clickable text in the hyperlink. For example, the in the HTML code quoted below ‘get free one way links’ is the anchor text one way links and people who see the web page with this code in the Internet will simply see that ‘get free one way link’ text is hyperlinked to a URL FREE Traffic System
Anchor text is one of the critical factors in getting good positions in search engines. This is because search engines treat anchor text as a helpful information which explains what the page (to which the backlink is sending) is about.
Today many people know about this huge importance of anchor text and put the keywords (for which they are fighting for) into the anchor text of their backlinks. BUT, this is where many people do a nasty mistake. By the way, this is one more mistake caused by greediness.
People use the same anchor text in all backlinks that they build. Does it look strange to Google that all backlinks to Site A have one and the same anchor text? It looks very strange! It is impossible that all sites give you backlink using one and the same word – at least few would simply write ‘click here’ or ‘more info’ in the anchor text.
We insist that anchor text diversification is a must for safe and successful link building campaign. This factor is taken into account by FREE Traffic System service – you give our system several versions of anchor text and it will use one of the versions randomly when republishing your articles and building backlinks to your sites.
Let’s say you want to see your site on the 1st page in Google for ‘make money online’: we suggest using several anchor text versions like: ‘make money online’, ‘how to make money online’, ‘learn to make money online.’This will create natural looks for the growth of your backlinks and will ensure that your sites - with the help of FREE Traffic System service – get solid SEO reputation and long-term success from link building.
Natural Link Building – Factor #6
The page to which you are building backlinks must have the keyword you are fighting for. For example, you want to get 1st page for ‘best Italian shoes’ and you are building backlinks with anchor text ‘best Italian shoes’ (properly diversified – read lesson 5 for more details about anchor text diversification).
So, you must also make sure that the page - which you want to see on page1 for ‘best Italian shoes’ – has this keyword in meta title, meta description and somewhere in the text of the page.
This is all about adequacy and natural looks. Imagine how it can look for Google: 500 backlinks with anchor text ‘best Italian shoes’ pointing to the page which does not have even the single mentioning of this keyword. This is awkward and strange.
Simple insertion of necessary keyword in meta title, meta description and text of the page instantly corrects the situation and the whole scheme starts looking natural and logical. MAKE SURE...That you are using a site building engine (also known as - content manager) which allows to change meta title, description and text for every single page. Most of the engines today have this option, because it has become a standard in the 21st century.
Why Free Traffic System?
Now you know a lot more about safe backlink building. When reading this guide you noticed that we have been mentioning many times http://www.freetrafficsystem.com/a.php?p1=58343 service. This is not just because we are proud of it and boast with the success we reached with this service – this is also because it is the most natural way of growing your link power.
AND . . .
There is another very important aspect...
When creating this service we exercised a simple rule – give users maximum freedom. And we managed to do that. If you look into all aspects of our service, you will see that everything is in YOUR hands, when it comes down to one way link building. We gave you a possibility:
- to make all pages with your backlinks look unique and non-duplicate with text diversification
- to choose the relevancy of the sites where your content and backlinks will be published
- to make your link growth speed be natural
- to make your anchor texts look natural and diversified
This is all you need to get real safety in building free one way links with us. Maximum freedom means that YOU are in charge of the quality of link building job that you are doing and YOU are in charge of your success.
To Your Success!
Lloyd Dobson
Smart and Safe Backlink Building Guide – by FREE Traffic System
Basically if you try to recollect, you will see that Google and its first algorithm started from the 2 guys inventing the “new-level-of-quality” algorithm of counting backlinks and using these backlink calculations for giving specific positions to the sites in the search engine results. Google emerged from smart backlink calculation.
The same about the majority of other big search engines – they are heavily relying on the links in giving their search results for any specific keyword.
The problem is that Google knows: thousands of people try to manipulate the backlinks to improve their positions in search engines.That is why Google has started a serious battle with link manipulations, and this is great that they have started to do that!
However this causes lots of troubles for the people who want to build backlinks and want to make sure they do it in a smart and safe way.
This is exactly the purpose of Smart and Safe Backlink Building Guide – we are sharing here our successful experience of getting 1st page in Google for LOTS of different keywords in different niches, without any problems with Google.
No matter if:
- you have decided to build backlinks with a FREE Traffic System
- or you want to build backlinks in ANY OTHER way.
You still need to know how to build backlinks without looking as link manipulator for the search engines...Because Safety Matters!
MAJOR LINK BUILDING SAFETY RULE:
The rule is simple – your backlink building must look NATURAL to the search engines. You see, Google and other search engines will never fight against the sites that are growing their backlinks naturally, otherwise they would kill their own search engine business!
That is why if your backlink building looks natural to Google, you will never have any problems.
But what exactly is a natural backlink building?
And this is where the details start to matter a lot. We consider several factors to be critically important in making your backlink building look natural. Each of the factors will be discussed in details in the Smart and Safe Backlink Building Guide.
And after you read this information you will also see that FREE Traffic System
service is helping you to build backlinks in the most NATURAL way available on the market today.
Factors of Natural Link Building:
Natural Link Building – Factor #1
Your backlinks must be backed by something really valuable for search engines.It is very easy to understand this factor if you get into the shoes of Google. Today there are hundreds of links directory scripts that in a minute can create thousands of junk like pages,and these pages can give you thousands or millions of backlinks.
Are these pages of ANY value to Google? No! In terms of value for the users of Google who want to find quality information these pages are junk, junk and let’s agree upon it.
But if you get a backlink from a large content page, the value of this page (and this backlink) increases instantly for Google. You created new information, this information is found by a person who used Google to surf the net. You have “bribed” Google with the most valuable gift – new information. Backlinks from this type of pages are real gold.
And this is exactly what FREE Traffic System is doing for you, because you get backlinks from inside real blog post with unique content. Will Google be against new unique content? Never! Will Google look favorably upon the backlinks from inside unique blog posts? Yes, otherwise Google should stop being a search engine.
Natural Link Building – Factor #2
Your backlinks must be from non-duplicate pages!Duplicate content over years remains one of the most disputable questions in SEO. Is Google punishing for dup content or is it not? Opinions differ.
But we think that here we must look at the problem from the Google’s point of view. Will be Google happy about tons of dup content pages? No! That is why in the FREE Traffic System we give you the tool of automatically diversifying your article. Inside the members area you can find a video where we show how to easily diversify each of your articles with the help of [spin][/spin] html tag.
By spending just 5 minutes on your article you can be sure that each republication of your article will look nonduplicate.This will hugely BOOST the value of your backlinks for the Google, because Google will see that lots of non-duplicate pages from different sites are giving you backlinks.This is the most safe and natural way of link growth ever imaginable online.
Natural Link Building – Factor #3
Backlinks must be built from relevant sites.This is another pain of SEO gurus, because no one says for sure whether Google is against backlinks from irrelevant sites or not. Google is not saying anything officially, because they hate giving away the details of their algorithm and say only general stuff that can be interpreted in both ways.
Surely you should not have big problems due to backlinks from the irrelevant sites. Otherwise your competitor in yoga niche would pay a porno site to give you thousands of backlinks and this would get your site deleted. Google understands that penalties for incoming links are a stupid and unrealistic measure. That is why sound logics assumes – nothing very bad in getting backlinks from irrelevant sites.
BUT! Let’s think about Google and its interests again. Does a recommendation from porno site about yoga site look valuable to Google? Perhaps not, a much better recommendation about a yoga site is a backlink from another yoga site, or health site, or fitness site.
This brings us to the simple conclusion: though there is nothing dramatically bad about getting backlink from irrelevant site, it is MUCH BETTER to get backlinks from the sites in your industry or niches which are neighboring with your industry. Gardening fits nice with hobbies; finances fit niche with loans, debt freedom, retirement plans and business; health is ok with diets, wellness, basic life tips and fitness.
And this is what you are getting inside FREE Traffic System – we give you the choice of sites in different niches that are ready to publish your quality information and not touch your backlinks. You have maximum freedom is choosing the sites that correspond to the topic of your article.
This will make sure that you article is read by the targeted visitors on these blogs (these visitors are very likely to click your links in the article, if this article grabbed their attention). And this instantly increases the SEO value of the backlinks.
Natural Link Building – Factor #4
Backlink growth speed – don’t be greedy! If your site is very old (at least a few years in the Internet) and has gained some SEO trust, then even tons of new backlinks which have appeared to your site within 5 minutes will not hurt the site. Maybe the site will get down due to heavy traffic, but this is another story :)
But when a new site that is just building its SEO reputation starts getting dozens or even hundreds of backlinks in a matter of short period of time – this looks suspicious, very suspicious.
This is a problem!
... because FREE Traffic System is basically a service where you can build an almost unlimited number of one way links per day. Your article gets republished on 30 sites maximum, with 2 backlinks from each article – this is up to 60 one way links from full republishing of the article! That means when you create (piece of cake) 10 articles per day – this sums up to 600 backlinks per day!!
We understand that even the most reasonable people will not stand this SEO seduction and will lure into building hundreds of backlinks per day. And no matter how much we say “Don’t be greedy, don’t be greedy” – most of the users came here for backlinks and will not listen to the voice of reasonability.
Don’t worry – we have taken care of the greediness. We will not seduce our members: that is why when you schedule the article for publication, it does not get published on all blogs right after you sent it. Our service will be republishing your article on 3-4 sites per day, day by day, until the whole publishing sequence on 30 sites for this very article is not complete.
You do not have to wait with submitting another article, before the publishing sequence for the previous article is over. But even if you send us dozens of articles per day, we have automatically made your daily link growth look a lot more natural.
This is where we have made a decision without asking for your permission. But this is an absolute must to do that reasonably and you will thank us over time for doing that.
Natural Link Building – Factor #5
Diversify anchor text of your backlinks! Anchor text – what is that?!
The anchor text is a visible and clickable text in the hyperlink. For example, the in the HTML code quoted below ‘get free one way links’ is the anchor text one way links and people who see the web page with this code in the Internet will simply see that ‘get free one way link’ text is hyperlinked to a URL FREE Traffic System
Anchor text is one of the critical factors in getting good positions in search engines. This is because search engines treat anchor text as a helpful information which explains what the page (to which the backlink is sending) is about.
Today many people know about this huge importance of anchor text and put the keywords (for which they are fighting for) into the anchor text of their backlinks. BUT, this is where many people do a nasty mistake. By the way, this is one more mistake caused by greediness.
People use the same anchor text in all backlinks that they build. Does it look strange to Google that all backlinks to Site A have one and the same anchor text? It looks very strange! It is impossible that all sites give you backlink using one and the same word – at least few would simply write ‘click here’ or ‘more info’ in the anchor text.
We insist that anchor text diversification is a must for safe and successful link building campaign. This factor is taken into account by FREE Traffic System service – you give our system several versions of anchor text and it will use one of the versions randomly when republishing your articles and building backlinks to your sites.
Let’s say you want to see your site on the 1st page in Google for ‘make money online’: we suggest using several anchor text versions like: ‘make money online’, ‘how to make money online’, ‘learn to make money online.’This will create natural looks for the growth of your backlinks and will ensure that your sites - with the help of FREE Traffic System service – get solid SEO reputation and long-term success from link building.
Natural Link Building – Factor #6
The page to which you are building backlinks must have the keyword you are fighting for. For example, you want to get 1st page for ‘best Italian shoes’ and you are building backlinks with anchor text ‘best Italian shoes’ (properly diversified – read lesson 5 for more details about anchor text diversification).
So, you must also make sure that the page - which you want to see on page1 for ‘best Italian shoes’ – has this keyword in meta title, meta description and somewhere in the text of the page.
This is all about adequacy and natural looks. Imagine how it can look for Google: 500 backlinks with anchor text ‘best Italian shoes’ pointing to the page which does not have even the single mentioning of this keyword. This is awkward and strange.
Simple insertion of necessary keyword in meta title, meta description and text of the page instantly corrects the situation and the whole scheme starts looking natural and logical. MAKE SURE...That you are using a site building engine (also known as - content manager) which allows to change meta title, description and text for every single page. Most of the engines today have this option, because it has become a standard in the 21st century.
Why Free Traffic System?
Now you know a lot more about safe backlink building. When reading this guide you noticed that we have been mentioning many times http://www.freetrafficsystem.com/a.php?p1=58343 service. This is not just because we are proud of it and boast with the success we reached with this service – this is also because it is the most natural way of growing your link power.
AND . . .
There is another very important aspect...
When creating this service we exercised a simple rule – give users maximum freedom. And we managed to do that. If you look into all aspects of our service, you will see that everything is in YOUR hands, when it comes down to one way link building. We gave you a possibility:
- to make all pages with your backlinks look unique and non-duplicate with text diversification
- to choose the relevancy of the sites where your content and backlinks will be published
- to make your link growth speed be natural
- to make your anchor texts look natural and diversified
This is all you need to get real safety in building free one way links with us. Maximum freedom means that YOU are in charge of the quality of link building job that you are doing and YOU are in charge of your success.
To Your Success!
Lloyd Dobson
Smart and Safe Backlink Building Guide – by FREE Traffic System
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Self-Management - In Order To Have a New Beginning You Must Have The Courage Necessary To Make a Change
In order to have a new beginning you must have the courage necessary to make a change. By observing your faults with objectivity and resolution you will gain the strength of character necessary to eliminate them. How would you like to be the predominant force in your life, to truly be in control of your life, to not be affected by external circumstances, to not be affected by what others do or do not do, to not be affected by how others act or respond?
We have all been conditioned to believe that our power and security lies outside of us. A person may say, "Yes, I want to be in control of my life but you don't understand I have no money." That means nothing. "Yes, but I live in a small town." That means nothing. "Yes, but I have no contacts." That means nothing. Are you willing to make the decision to be the predominant force in your life or not? That is what means something! In fact, that means everything!
Self-management is about making a choice to be in control of your own destiny. To make a choice to no longer be the victim of your own self-imposed limitations, to no longer be a victim or just a player in someone Else's drama. Self-management gives you a choice to work for your goals and dreams instead of working for someone Else's. It is making a choice to never again let money be a factor in how you live your life.
Once the choice is made you will have a whole new basis for dealing with the challenges you face in everyday life and in your business. Being a success in your business or a success in life for that matter requires an understanding of some basic principles of self-management, the first of which is decision making.
We all make thousands of decisions everyday. Some are big decisions and some are small ones. You decide when to get up in the morning and what you are going to wear for the day. You decide to eat breakfast, to drive to work, to stop at traffic lights. You know that if you don't get into the car and drive to work, you won't get paid. You know that in your business, or at least you should by now, that if you don't talk to people and teach others to do the same you don't build a business and you don't get paid. You know that if you don't stop at red lights you could have an accident.
Based upon the firm decisions we make we attract the result of that decision into our lives. It is called the "Law of Attraction." As we discussed before, a firm decision to do a certain thing doesn't allow for anything less creates a mindset and puts the "Law of Attraction" in motion. If you make a decision to be successful in your business, one that doesn't allow failing, you will create the mindset necessary to attract success into your life.
There are two main problems that enter into the equation. One, we make decisions based upon past experiences and our current circumstances instead of what we truly want in our lives. And two, we are often too quick to change our decisions which are all too often influenced by our current circumstances or past experiences.
Making decisions can become like an "Inner civil war." It is like being judge, the jury and attorney for both the defense and the prosecution of your own mental courtroom. You make a case for yourself. "I'm going to be a success in any business." Then the prosecuting attorney steps in (the old you). "But Your Honor he's never been a success before. Here's concrete evidence of all the past failures he's had. You can't allow him to be successful with a track record like that!"
The very first step in self-management is getting rid of your internal conflicting dialogue . . . your self-judgment. We really have one or two choices in everything we do. We can make a choice of intelligence or we make a choice out of convenience. Convenience is the easy way out. We can choose to be our unwanted circumstances or not. It is as simple as that!
The next step in self-management is to get started, to take action. This can be difficult sometimes because it's hard to see your progress initially and your fears will always attempt to hold you back. We all have them to one degree or the other. Not that they are really in control but it can sure feel that way sometimes. Just remember with every action no matter how small you are building a foundation for your future.
Your progress will depend on three things:
(1) The clarity of your daily action plan.
(2) The amount of effort you put forth.
(3) How well you manage your fears and self-imposed limitations.
Self-management basically boils down to this: It's your ability to manage your attitude, thoughts, feelings, emotions and behaviors. It is developing the capacity to always remain resourceful despite your circumstances. It's being able to see a resourceful solution to your challenges instead of being blinded by them.
To your success!
Lloyd Dobson :)
FREE Training & Marketing System: http://LloydDobson.com
We have all been conditioned to believe that our power and security lies outside of us. A person may say, "Yes, I want to be in control of my life but you don't understand I have no money." That means nothing. "Yes, but I live in a small town." That means nothing. "Yes, but I have no contacts." That means nothing. Are you willing to make the decision to be the predominant force in your life or not? That is what means something! In fact, that means everything!
Self-management is about making a choice to be in control of your own destiny. To make a choice to no longer be the victim of your own self-imposed limitations, to no longer be a victim or just a player in someone Else's drama. Self-management gives you a choice to work for your goals and dreams instead of working for someone Else's. It is making a choice to never again let money be a factor in how you live your life.
Once the choice is made you will have a whole new basis for dealing with the challenges you face in everyday life and in your business. Being a success in your business or a success in life for that matter requires an understanding of some basic principles of self-management, the first of which is decision making.
We all make thousands of decisions everyday. Some are big decisions and some are small ones. You decide when to get up in the morning and what you are going to wear for the day. You decide to eat breakfast, to drive to work, to stop at traffic lights. You know that if you don't get into the car and drive to work, you won't get paid. You know that in your business, or at least you should by now, that if you don't talk to people and teach others to do the same you don't build a business and you don't get paid. You know that if you don't stop at red lights you could have an accident.
Based upon the firm decisions we make we attract the result of that decision into our lives. It is called the "Law of Attraction." As we discussed before, a firm decision to do a certain thing doesn't allow for anything less creates a mindset and puts the "Law of Attraction" in motion. If you make a decision to be successful in your business, one that doesn't allow failing, you will create the mindset necessary to attract success into your life.
There are two main problems that enter into the equation. One, we make decisions based upon past experiences and our current circumstances instead of what we truly want in our lives. And two, we are often too quick to change our decisions which are all too often influenced by our current circumstances or past experiences.
Making decisions can become like an "Inner civil war." It is like being judge, the jury and attorney for both the defense and the prosecution of your own mental courtroom. You make a case for yourself. "I'm going to be a success in any business." Then the prosecuting attorney steps in (the old you). "But Your Honor he's never been a success before. Here's concrete evidence of all the past failures he's had. You can't allow him to be successful with a track record like that!"
The very first step in self-management is getting rid of your internal conflicting dialogue . . . your self-judgment. We really have one or two choices in everything we do. We can make a choice of intelligence or we make a choice out of convenience. Convenience is the easy way out. We can choose to be our unwanted circumstances or not. It is as simple as that!
The next step in self-management is to get started, to take action. This can be difficult sometimes because it's hard to see your progress initially and your fears will always attempt to hold you back. We all have them to one degree or the other. Not that they are really in control but it can sure feel that way sometimes. Just remember with every action no matter how small you are building a foundation for your future.
Your progress will depend on three things:
(1) The clarity of your daily action plan.
(2) The amount of effort you put forth.
(3) How well you manage your fears and self-imposed limitations.
Self-management basically boils down to this: It's your ability to manage your attitude, thoughts, feelings, emotions and behaviors. It is developing the capacity to always remain resourceful despite your circumstances. It's being able to see a resourceful solution to your challenges instead of being blinded by them.
To your success!
Lloyd Dobson :)
FREE Training & Marketing System: http://LloydDobson.com
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Become The Sponsor You Never Had . . .
Become The Sponsor You Never Had . . .
As Network Marketers, most of us have searched and searched for a simple yet effective way to "Clone" ourselves; knowing that if we could overcome the duplication problem we would reach the levels of success we ALL dream about in this business.
The problem is that 95% of the people in a MLM business usually fail. The inability to duplicate, I believe, has a lot to do with it. Let’s say the 95% failure rate is accurate for a minute... I’m not the best at math, but that would mean that 5% of the people in this business are successful and some probably wildly successful? It’s also likely that most of us are recruited into a program by someone in the 95% category.
Now for those of us that want to join the ranks of the 5%, it’s our job to sift through as many prospects as we can until we find other 5%’ers like us; people who want to work hard and build a long term residual income business.
The problem for me was I had to figure out how to do this while I kept my full time job. My family needed health insurance and while I can’t stand my current job, it does provide us with needed things such as insurance and helps pay a few bills.
The solution for me was to build a system that sorted and sifted for me while I was working at my full time job. The great part about it (and honestly shocking too) is that it worked like crazy and my team started to explode. It literally felt like I hit the JACKPOT at a casino or something. With one big difference though... I get paid every month and it keeps growing and growing with each passing month :-) You can find out more about this FREE Marketing & Training System by clicking this link: http://LloydDobson.com
For now, lets talk more about the solution. It’s simple actually...You need to "Become The Sponsor You Never Had" (as I like to call it) and become a leader for others to follow. That’s it... it really is THAT simple! Become the pro in this industry by providing value. Everyone wants to become successful . . .show them how by using the system called NetDivvy and you can find out more here: http://LloydDobson.com
Do you think you’re up for it? I didn’t think I was when I first started...But I did know one thing... If I didn’t step up to the plate right then and give it a shot, when would I? Tomorrow? Next week? Maybe Never...
Would I step up to the plate "after" I became successful (never works that way) or would I step up right then and start leading? It was at that point that I made the strengthening decision to take charge of my
life and start branding myself as a leader in this business and it was the best decision I have ever made!
Now, before you take the same plunge, the one thing you must "Get" first is that it all starts from within you... The strengthening decision to become a leader and really go for it is the first step and one you must take seriously and follow through on. That really is the true secret to this whole crazy "success" thing.
By stepping up and becoming the sponsor you never had, you will end up in the 5% ranks much sooner, opposed to later or never. And just to be clear... when I say "Become The Sponsor You Never Had" I’m mainly referring to a mindset or philosophy... The philosophy of wanting more from life and knowing that helping people and making a difference is what’s it’s really all about.
That mental shift is all I needed in order to help my team expand and duplicate. This same mental shift may be all you need to take your business to the next level. Only you will know. Once I stopped thinking about "making money" and started thinking about how to help others make money is when I started to make money. (Read that sentence slowly one more time)
My confidence level seemed to skyrocket too after I stopped focusing on how "I" could make money. I’m sorry to be the one to tell you this, but if you’re in a tight spot right now and needing money is your main motivation for getting involved in network marketing... your chances of attaining success will be severely hindered.
Hindered, yes. Impossible, no. Join my team on "NetDivvy" to begin branding yourself into a leader and start succeeding It’s time to stop following the 95%’ers around and it’s time for YOU to start
leading them! Let’s get to work... GO HERE NOW: http://LloydDobson.com
Go out and make it a great day!
Lloyd Dobson :)
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Network Marketing - Your Mental Switch - Your Mindset
The mental switch of your mind and your mindset is absolutely critical in the direction of your journey towards your dreams towards success. I always elude to the equation for success as very simply this: KNOWLEDGE + EXECUTION + a POSITIVE ATTITUDE = SUCCESS. With that said . . .Why a Network Marketing business and how does that relate to your "Mental Switch"?
The Network Marketing business give you the vehicle to have financial and time independence which seems to be the dreams of all of us. The trouble is most people want instant gratification. They don't really have the mindset or mental toughness to stick with anything long enough to make it work.
In addition they often have friends who have negative ideas about network marketing. They tried it and it didn't work for them or knew someone who had a bad experience. Their uncle Bob tried it and it didn't work for him so he discourages them from trying it. In my opinion that's called "the language of the poor." Because uncle Bob wasn't successful does not mean that network marketing doesn't work. It means uncle Bob didn't have the right mindset and mentoring to make it work. This is where a system and mindset MUST be the correct one to have success! Here is a FREE system that a person can use today and it will work. FREE Training & Marketing Strategies.
If you want to get ahead you have to open your mind and change some of the ways you look at things and not allow poverty minded people to influence you. If someone advises you about your financial future, about whether or not you should start a network marketing business, make sure that they are qualified to make recommendations. Everyone has an opinion about everything. The question is, is it worth listening to?
There is nothing wrong with network marketing. The failure rate is no higher than any other type of business. It's the mindset of the people who join and the lack on a system showing them exactly how to market their business. Here is the problem though. The average person or the "Uncle Bobs" of the world doesn't consider network marketing to be a real business. My question is this. How would someone who's never done well in any kind of business know what a real business is anyway? So why would you listen to their advise or be upset if they didn't want to join you?
Well . . .to become financially free you need more than a dream. You need a plan, a system, a vehicle and the right mindset to take you where you want to go. If I had it to start my career all over again back in those early years to get started in my own business, it would have been the Network Marketing Industry.
In a normal job somebody tells you how much money you make, when you come to work, when you can eat lunch, when you can go home, when you get a pay raise and even when to retire . . .or in some cases that you no longer have a job . . .or a retirement!
A Network Marketing business simply gives you more choices. And if you have more choices you have more freedom. That's what the world wants the freedom of choices and can't get it. We have all the freedom in the world and most don't make the choice to have it because of that "Mental Switch." Instead they let others dictate to them what they earn and how they live their lives . . .and that's a sad thing in my opinion.
There will always be the person, friend, the relative who says, "Why are you in the Network Marketing business? That kind of business doesn't work." Well all I can say is that if you let that person make your decisions then you're the one who loses. Job security is non-existent these days. Somebody sold you the wrong plan if you think differently.
Your success will begin with your mindset. The results you produce are always the result of your mindset. You create your mindset by making clear, firm decisions and and with that you expand your limitations. When your decisions, thoughts, beliefs, feelings and behaviors are in perfect alignment, the conditions in your life will change like magic!
To your success and make it a great day!
Lloyd Dobson
My FREE Marketing & Training: www.LloydDobson.com
The Network Marketing business give you the vehicle to have financial and time independence which seems to be the dreams of all of us. The trouble is most people want instant gratification. They don't really have the mindset or mental toughness to stick with anything long enough to make it work.
In addition they often have friends who have negative ideas about network marketing. They tried it and it didn't work for them or knew someone who had a bad experience. Their uncle Bob tried it and it didn't work for him so he discourages them from trying it. In my opinion that's called "the language of the poor." Because uncle Bob wasn't successful does not mean that network marketing doesn't work. It means uncle Bob didn't have the right mindset and mentoring to make it work. This is where a system and mindset MUST be the correct one to have success! Here is a FREE system that a person can use today and it will work. FREE Training & Marketing Strategies.
If you want to get ahead you have to open your mind and change some of the ways you look at things and not allow poverty minded people to influence you. If someone advises you about your financial future, about whether or not you should start a network marketing business, make sure that they are qualified to make recommendations. Everyone has an opinion about everything. The question is, is it worth listening to?
There is nothing wrong with network marketing. The failure rate is no higher than any other type of business. It's the mindset of the people who join and the lack on a system showing them exactly how to market their business. Here is the problem though. The average person or the "Uncle Bobs" of the world doesn't consider network marketing to be a real business. My question is this. How would someone who's never done well in any kind of business know what a real business is anyway? So why would you listen to their advise or be upset if they didn't want to join you?
Well . . .to become financially free you need more than a dream. You need a plan, a system, a vehicle and the right mindset to take you where you want to go. If I had it to start my career all over again back in those early years to get started in my own business, it would have been the Network Marketing Industry.
In a normal job somebody tells you how much money you make, when you come to work, when you can eat lunch, when you can go home, when you get a pay raise and even when to retire . . .or in some cases that you no longer have a job . . .or a retirement!
A Network Marketing business simply gives you more choices. And if you have more choices you have more freedom. That's what the world wants the freedom of choices and can't get it. We have all the freedom in the world and most don't make the choice to have it because of that "Mental Switch." Instead they let others dictate to them what they earn and how they live their lives . . .and that's a sad thing in my opinion.
There will always be the person, friend, the relative who says, "Why are you in the Network Marketing business? That kind of business doesn't work." Well all I can say is that if you let that person make your decisions then you're the one who loses. Job security is non-existent these days. Somebody sold you the wrong plan if you think differently.
Your success will begin with your mindset. The results you produce are always the result of your mindset. You create your mindset by making clear, firm decisions and and with that you expand your limitations. When your decisions, thoughts, beliefs, feelings and behaviors are in perfect alignment, the conditions in your life will change like magic!
To your success and make it a great day!
Lloyd Dobson
My FREE Marketing & Training: www.LloydDobson.com
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Three Key Qualities For Your Journey Through Life
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Saturday, July 3, 2010
4 DAILY ACTIONS of SUCCESSFUL MARKETERS
4 DAILY ACTIONS OF ALL SUCCESSFUL MARKETERS
There are 4 things that THE MOST successful online entrepreneurs do on a daily basis and if I were you, I’d try to incorporate them into my day as best I could. Vince Reed & Terry Dorland, well known online marketers and trainers spell out for us below. Their FREE Training and Marketing System with strategies to build ANY successful business can be found at: http://LloydDobson.com
1. Personal Development: Top leaders are always immersed in personal development and there’s a reason for it. This industry is all about growing and developing into the most accomplished entrepreneur you can be. Your business will only grow to the extent that you do…think about that…It all comes down to attraction. Think of yourself as a prospect, someone looking to join a company. Maybe you just heard about a new business, or were just turned on to the industry through an acquaintance or a friend. You Google the opportunity to find out more information and you find a few other distributors advertising the same business.
Your friend is focusing on the products, and how much money you can make and how great of an opportunity it is while someone you found online has some information on the same, BUT they are focused on what they can provide YOU. They outline details on all the training, coaching, and support they’ll provide you to teach you to market the business online and help you succeed. They offer websites, regular personal consultations, and have testimonials from other successful people on their team to prove it…Who would you join? Which is more attractive to the average person?
People don’t join companies, they join people. I can tell you from experience that when you provide people with more, when you are more valuable as a sponsor and a mentor in this industry, more people will join you. Not only will you sponsor more people, but it becomes easier and easier to sponsor people. They will be calling you to join you and emailing you to join your team rather than you chasing them and trying to convince them to join your business. In network marketing, you are in direct competition with everyone else in your company. The best distributors are either great salesmen, great marketers, great leaders, or a combination of the three.
Personal development in this industry comes down to building your value as a marketer, a salesmen, and a leader. Develop the skills in marketing you need, learn every technique and strategy so you have value to share with others. The more you can share, and the more you can teach, the more attractive you become to your prospects. Grow your leadership skills, become the best leader you can be and people will want to follow you. Leaders get out there and take action. They’re not afraid to speak their mind and be in front of a group of people sharing what they know. Learn to sell yourself and your opportunity. Believe in what you can provide to people and believe in your products and people will want to buy from you.
DailyRead books, listen to CD’s, attend conferences and learn whatever you can from whomever you can to add value to what you can provide to your potential business partners, and people will be naturally attracted to you!
2. Build A List. All top producers in our industry build a list of targeted leads and develop a relationship with that list. There are two types of prospects you can go after: People who are network marketing buyers, and everyone else. Network marketing buyers are people who already believe in the business model, they are either already involved with a networking company, have been in the past, or they would get involved if the right opportunity came along. Once people believe in the business model, it becomes infinitely easier to sign them up in your business provided you’ve built a relationship and positioned yourself as a leader.
Building a relationship and positioning yourself as a leaser takes time, but it starts with providing value. Share what you know with your leads, teach them strategies that have helped you, share stories about what you’ve learned and how you learned it in order to showcase your skills. Basically what you’re doing is telling people and showing people that you know what you’re doing without directly coming out and saying. Instead, you’re providing knowledge that they can go out and use to help them build their businesses and in turn showing them that you are someone that can help them get to where they want to be.
Once you’ve built a relationship and proven yourself to your prospects (everyone on your list) you can market products and services to them until the end of time! Any time you join a new business, find a great affiliate product, or just need to get some new distributors in your primary business you have a list of people that are receptive to your offers and willing to look at anything you have provided you present it in the correct way!
3. Mastermind With Other Leaders. All the top producers in this industry have a support system in place that they stay connected to without fail. They talk to other people in the industry, bounce ideas off them, and learn from them. They have friends in the industry that they talk to on a regular basis, partners that help keep them motivated, and a team that they lead by example. In this industry since most people work from home, it’s really easy to get disconnected and isolated and go out on your own little “island.” When you don’t have a support system in place, it is easier to give up and walk away…
In our case that support system is NetDivvy. Make it a point to be on at LEAST a few webinars a week to keep your motivation going, learn new skills, and stay connected. By staying connected to the NetDivvy community, you are masterminding with other industry leaders every time you communicate. Whether you are asking questions on webinars, offering your opinion or commenting in forums, or just talking to other people within the community you are staying connected and helping keep your motivation alive.
4. Top Producers Are Committed To Their Business And Their Vision. The best of the best are willing to do whatever it takes to accomplish their goals and they believe beyond the shadow of a doubt that their business is the way to make them happen.
Network marketing, and specifically online network marketing is easy, but it requires most people to step outside of their comfort zone and do things that aren't familiar. If people aren't firmly committed to what they want and their goals, they might try it once or twice. If they don't get results, they won't try again and they give up. However someone who is truly committed to a specific goal will stop at nothing to make it happen for themselves.
On the same level of importance is conviction. People need to have conviction that they are taking the right action. They are starting the right business and be absolutely convinced beyond the shadow of a doubt that they will succeed. Most people let that doubt creep in. They listen to naysayers and let the opinions of others change their minds. As soon as that happens, the conviction is gone and people immediately begin questioning their decision. When you are questioning yourself, and your business it comes through in your marketing, your prospecting and your presentations. No one, I repeat NO ONE will join you if you don't believe in yourself.
You need to be both committed to your goals and your business and have conviction that it is the right opportunity for you. So this is something I've always included in business planning conversations with new business partners ever since. I really try to drive home both because it's not about me and whether or not I want people to succeed...
It's about their COMMITMENT to their goals and themselves, and their CONVICTION that they are involved in the BEST possible business, the best vehicle to help them get to where they want to be in life.
In conclusion your mindset is like the fuel for your business. Your business is the vehicle that can get you where you want to go, but even if you have the BEST, most expensive vehicle in the world, it can’t get anywhere without gas!
Make it a great day!
Lloyd Dobson
There are 4 things that THE MOST successful online entrepreneurs do on a daily basis and if I were you, I’d try to incorporate them into my day as best I could. Vince Reed & Terry Dorland, well known online marketers and trainers spell out for us below. Their FREE Training and Marketing System with strategies to build ANY successful business can be found at: http://LloydDobson.com
1. Personal Development: Top leaders are always immersed in personal development and there’s a reason for it. This industry is all about growing and developing into the most accomplished entrepreneur you can be. Your business will only grow to the extent that you do…think about that…It all comes down to attraction. Think of yourself as a prospect, someone looking to join a company. Maybe you just heard about a new business, or were just turned on to the industry through an acquaintance or a friend. You Google the opportunity to find out more information and you find a few other distributors advertising the same business.
Your friend is focusing on the products, and how much money you can make and how great of an opportunity it is while someone you found online has some information on the same, BUT they are focused on what they can provide YOU. They outline details on all the training, coaching, and support they’ll provide you to teach you to market the business online and help you succeed. They offer websites, regular personal consultations, and have testimonials from other successful people on their team to prove it…Who would you join? Which is more attractive to the average person?
People don’t join companies, they join people. I can tell you from experience that when you provide people with more, when you are more valuable as a sponsor and a mentor in this industry, more people will join you. Not only will you sponsor more people, but it becomes easier and easier to sponsor people. They will be calling you to join you and emailing you to join your team rather than you chasing them and trying to convince them to join your business. In network marketing, you are in direct competition with everyone else in your company. The best distributors are either great salesmen, great marketers, great leaders, or a combination of the three.
Personal development in this industry comes down to building your value as a marketer, a salesmen, and a leader. Develop the skills in marketing you need, learn every technique and strategy so you have value to share with others. The more you can share, and the more you can teach, the more attractive you become to your prospects. Grow your leadership skills, become the best leader you can be and people will want to follow you. Leaders get out there and take action. They’re not afraid to speak their mind and be in front of a group of people sharing what they know. Learn to sell yourself and your opportunity. Believe in what you can provide to people and believe in your products and people will want to buy from you.
DailyRead books, listen to CD’s, attend conferences and learn whatever you can from whomever you can to add value to what you can provide to your potential business partners, and people will be naturally attracted to you!
2. Build A List. All top producers in our industry build a list of targeted leads and develop a relationship with that list. There are two types of prospects you can go after: People who are network marketing buyers, and everyone else. Network marketing buyers are people who already believe in the business model, they are either already involved with a networking company, have been in the past, or they would get involved if the right opportunity came along. Once people believe in the business model, it becomes infinitely easier to sign them up in your business provided you’ve built a relationship and positioned yourself as a leader.
Building a relationship and positioning yourself as a leaser takes time, but it starts with providing value. Share what you know with your leads, teach them strategies that have helped you, share stories about what you’ve learned and how you learned it in order to showcase your skills. Basically what you’re doing is telling people and showing people that you know what you’re doing without directly coming out and saying. Instead, you’re providing knowledge that they can go out and use to help them build their businesses and in turn showing them that you are someone that can help them get to where they want to be.
Once you’ve built a relationship and proven yourself to your prospects (everyone on your list) you can market products and services to them until the end of time! Any time you join a new business, find a great affiliate product, or just need to get some new distributors in your primary business you have a list of people that are receptive to your offers and willing to look at anything you have provided you present it in the correct way!
3. Mastermind With Other Leaders. All the top producers in this industry have a support system in place that they stay connected to without fail. They talk to other people in the industry, bounce ideas off them, and learn from them. They have friends in the industry that they talk to on a regular basis, partners that help keep them motivated, and a team that they lead by example. In this industry since most people work from home, it’s really easy to get disconnected and isolated and go out on your own little “island.” When you don’t have a support system in place, it is easier to give up and walk away…
In our case that support system is NetDivvy. Make it a point to be on at LEAST a few webinars a week to keep your motivation going, learn new skills, and stay connected. By staying connected to the NetDivvy community, you are masterminding with other industry leaders every time you communicate. Whether you are asking questions on webinars, offering your opinion or commenting in forums, or just talking to other people within the community you are staying connected and helping keep your motivation alive.
4. Top Producers Are Committed To Their Business And Their Vision. The best of the best are willing to do whatever it takes to accomplish their goals and they believe beyond the shadow of a doubt that their business is the way to make them happen.
Network marketing, and specifically online network marketing is easy, but it requires most people to step outside of their comfort zone and do things that aren't familiar. If people aren't firmly committed to what they want and their goals, they might try it once or twice. If they don't get results, they won't try again and they give up. However someone who is truly committed to a specific goal will stop at nothing to make it happen for themselves.
On the same level of importance is conviction. People need to have conviction that they are taking the right action. They are starting the right business and be absolutely convinced beyond the shadow of a doubt that they will succeed. Most people let that doubt creep in. They listen to naysayers and let the opinions of others change their minds. As soon as that happens, the conviction is gone and people immediately begin questioning their decision. When you are questioning yourself, and your business it comes through in your marketing, your prospecting and your presentations. No one, I repeat NO ONE will join you if you don't believe in yourself.
You need to be both committed to your goals and your business and have conviction that it is the right opportunity for you. So this is something I've always included in business planning conversations with new business partners ever since. I really try to drive home both because it's not about me and whether or not I want people to succeed...
It's about their COMMITMENT to their goals and themselves, and their CONVICTION that they are involved in the BEST possible business, the best vehicle to help them get to where they want to be in life.
In conclusion your mindset is like the fuel for your business. Your business is the vehicle that can get you where you want to go, but even if you have the BEST, most expensive vehicle in the world, it can’t get anywhere without gas!
Make it a great day!
Lloyd Dobson
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