If you are starting out an online business where you are trying to sell products online then an affiliate program is a must. There are numerous advantages that affiliate programs can offer to an online merchant.10 Benefits That You Get When You Start Your Affiliate Program:
1.
Affiliates Bring You Additional Free SalesAffiliate programs are all about maximizing the advertising potential of your brand. You recruit affiliate marketers who do all the referring and promotion for your products and brand. So you don't have to spend unnecessary money to implement your marketing campaigns. Moreover, you can easily increase your market share with a help of affiliates and it doesn't cost you, since you work on a commission basis - affiliate makes a sale and then you pay out. Affiliates can definitely increase your online profits dramatically.
2.
Pay Only When You Get a CustomerThe other great thing about an affiliate program is that you do not pay money until and unless you actually get a sale. It is only when an affiliate marketer brings a visitor to your product's sales page and gets you a sale. Only them you would end up paying a commission. Thus this is all about maximizing your ROI.
3. Easy Tracking MethodsMost of the affiliate programs have automatic tracking and customized reports sent out. Thus you do not have to invest time or money into tracking software or mechanisms to assess the performance of sales or your affiliate marketers.
4. Massive Traffic Volumes Brought By AffiliatesAffiliate programs allow tonnes of traffic to be diverted to your site to make sales happen more often.
The reason is that affiliate marketers get visitors and guide them to click through to your website to checkout your product. It is in the marketer's best interests to bring as many visitors through its affiliate link to your product's sales page as possible. That means there are tonnes of customers visiting your site by the minute!
5. Affiliate's Brought Traffic Doesn't Cost you A CentThe huge benefits that most affiliate programs offer is that you do not shell out money until the sales happen. That means, until then you get access to huge volumes of absolutely free traffic that will either subscribe to a newsletter, e-zine or even just bookmark your own site. Affiliates bring visitors to your product's sales page... Even though if the visitor does not buy your product, he/she might still signup on your newsletter (if you have one) or your website...
This way you could easily keep contacts with them and promote your products in the future. The best thing is that such affiliate's brought traffic is completely free.
6. You Can Easily Test and Track Your Product's Performance With AffiliatesYou can check out the effectiveness of marketing strategies by letting your affiliate marketers do the work. Since you do not pay until a sale is made this is basically like a testing ground to check your advertisements till they actually get you sales. Moreover, this way you can easily tweak and optimize your product sales pages to get the better conversion rates (sales) for your product. Affiliates can easily bring you a lot of free traffic for your own product's testing purposes!
7. Affiliates Make Your Affiliate Program Viral - Viral Marketing at Its BestAffiliate programs allow you to perform creative methods of viral marketing to attract maximum customers to your site. Recruitment of affiliate marketers happens exponentially as each tries to get commissions. More visitors and sales your affiliates bring - there is a high chance that those visitors will become your own affiliates and bring you even more visitors and sales. Your affiliate program becomes viral!
8. Much More Backlinks to Your Website - Higher Link DensitySearch engines place websites higher which have more incoming links to them.
There is no better way to accomplish this than through affiliate programs. Such programs bring in hundreds of thousands of links to your site getting you the best page rankings online! More affiliates you recruit - more backlinks you will get your website. More backlinks = more visitors and higher search engine ranking for your product's sales page.
9. Easy Affiliate Recruitment OptionsIt is very easy to recruit affiliate marketers using the standard two-tier method. In this method one tier earns profits from the subsequent layer and so on. So every layer wants to recruit more below to earn maximum commissions.
10. Exponential Growth Of Your Affiliate ProgramThe beauty of affiliate programs is that you can grow your affiliate marketers exponentially thus magnifying the potential of your business.
The hardest part is to start your affiliate program and get the first good and performing affiliates. From there it gets easier and easier, especially if you have a great product to sell. If you want to leverage a ready made, effective affiliate program to boost your sales online then Click2sell.EU (http://www.click2sell.eu/) has extensive affiliate network for you. It allows you to sell your products online, run your affiliate program, recruit and manage all your affiliates. Moreover, it provides you with a built-in affiliate network and complete tracking for your affiliate program. Whether you sell a material or downloadable product, such as ebook or software, you are able to run your affiliate program successfully. Just add your product and start promoting your website. Happy profiting!
Author:Egidijus Andreika
Tuesday, 28 October 2008
Affiliation
It’s no secret that if you have your own product or service you can explode your profits exponentially by having your own successful affiliate program. The problem lies in the fact that people just don’t have their program set up in the right way resulting in a poor amount of traffic and therefore sales from their affiliates.In this article I am going to outline some tricks and strategies that anyone with their own affiliate program should use in order to take their online business
to the next level.Encourage People To Sign UpHere’s where most people go wrong. They set up an affiliate program and have a links that says, “click here to sign up” and then that’s it. You need to sell your affiliate program. Have a mini sales letter that explains the benefit of people signing up. Tell them their commissions and how they can earn a living without ever having to create a product or have a web site just by promoting your products.Provide Affiliates With Marketing MaterialsHere’s another big one. Site owners get people to sign up their affiliate program and then just leave them to it. It’s like they’re saying “thanks for signing up, now go and make me some cash”. That’s ridiculous. You need to do all the hard work for your affiliates if you want to start earning the big bucks.Provide your affiliate with email promotions, articles, press releases, pay per click ads,banner adverts and whatever else you can create that will enable people to promote your site to the masses with as little work as possible.Here’s the thing. You could write an article and submit it to article directories all over the Internet and do very well for you. However if you just had one hundred affiliates blasting that article all over the net you’ve just multiplied your marketing power by one hundred. This is the key to making massive mounts online.If you can’t write articles etc yourself hire someone to do so from various organisations on web but do provide your affiliates with marketing materials or your just setting yourself up for having a very mediocre Internet businessOr on the other hand you could go out and locate other site owners with large email lists or websites with good traffic {visitors to their site} related to say golf, and you could introduce them to the site and explain they can make money from promoting the other sites, golf clubs to their list/visitors. If this person then promotes that site after signing up through you, you get 10% for example, of whatever they sell.Have An Affiliate Only NewsletterHere’s a real cracker. Have an email list of only your affiliates. Each week send out a mini blueprint on how they can market your products and earn a commission. Inform them of new products you’ve just launched or new marketing materials you’ve just added to your affiliates area.Each week your affiliate who earns the most earns an extra one hundred dollars or whatever you can afford. Mention the winner in each week’s newsletter and say things like “who thinks they can overtake Joe Bloggs as being my top affiliate? Come on guys I know I’ve got some great marketers signed up as my affiliates prove it and I’ll mention you in next weeks newsletter”.This is great. Psychologically you are motivating your affiliates to promote your products like crazy to get recognition as being your “top gun”. Often ego trips are just as motivating as money.Motivate Your Affiliates And Explode Your ProfitsThis week I’ve been taking about what you need to do in order to earn a serious living online through having your own affiliate program. Done properly this could earn you more money than you could ever have dreamed of. The methods in this article, outline what you need to do to in order to overcome the three barriers of starting an affiliate programYou need to:Persuade people to sign upMake it easy for them to marketMotivate them to market fast and market hard.Do this and you’ll be able to create a hugely successful affiliate program and you’ll sell a truckload of your products without any real hard work or any costs.I assure you that if you just put one or two of these simple to implement strategies into place you will see a marked improvement on both your affiliate sign ups, and your affiliates actively marketing your products. Just give it a go!===================================================Al Sowerby is an information publisher specialising in helping people start their own home-based business. You can get a 2 hour FREE video that is guaranteed to show you your future in a brilliant new light, Go to www.knockpike.com And because I am a very nice man I invite you to check this out in all honesty and good luck.
to the next level.Encourage People To Sign UpHere’s where most people go wrong. They set up an affiliate program and have a links that says, “click here to sign up” and then that’s it. You need to sell your affiliate program. Have a mini sales letter that explains the benefit of people signing up. Tell them their commissions and how they can earn a living without ever having to create a product or have a web site just by promoting your products.Provide Affiliates With Marketing MaterialsHere’s another big one. Site owners get people to sign up their affiliate program and then just leave them to it. It’s like they’re saying “thanks for signing up, now go and make me some cash”. That’s ridiculous. You need to do all the hard work for your affiliates if you want to start earning the big bucks.Provide your affiliate with email promotions, articles, press releases, pay per click ads,banner adverts and whatever else you can create that will enable people to promote your site to the masses with as little work as possible.Here’s the thing. You could write an article and submit it to article directories all over the Internet and do very well for you. However if you just had one hundred affiliates blasting that article all over the net you’ve just multiplied your marketing power by one hundred. This is the key to making massive mounts online.If you can’t write articles etc yourself hire someone to do so from various organisations on web but do provide your affiliates with marketing materials or your just setting yourself up for having a very mediocre Internet businessOr on the other hand you could go out and locate other site owners with large email lists or websites with good traffic {visitors to their site} related to say golf, and you could introduce them to the site and explain they can make money from promoting the other sites, golf clubs to their list/visitors. If this person then promotes that site after signing up through you, you get 10% for example, of whatever they sell.Have An Affiliate Only NewsletterHere’s a real cracker. Have an email list of only your affiliates. Each week send out a mini blueprint on how they can market your products and earn a commission. Inform them of new products you’ve just launched or new marketing materials you’ve just added to your affiliates area.Each week your affiliate who earns the most earns an extra one hundred dollars or whatever you can afford. Mention the winner in each week’s newsletter and say things like “who thinks they can overtake Joe Bloggs as being my top affiliate? Come on guys I know I’ve got some great marketers signed up as my affiliates prove it and I’ll mention you in next weeks newsletter”.This is great. Psychologically you are motivating your affiliates to promote your products like crazy to get recognition as being your “top gun”. Often ego trips are just as motivating as money.Motivate Your Affiliates And Explode Your ProfitsThis week I’ve been taking about what you need to do in order to earn a serious living online through having your own affiliate program. Done properly this could earn you more money than you could ever have dreamed of. The methods in this article, outline what you need to do to in order to overcome the three barriers of starting an affiliate programYou need to:Persuade people to sign upMake it easy for them to marketMotivate them to market fast and market hard.Do this and you’ll be able to create a hugely successful affiliate program and you’ll sell a truckload of your products without any real hard work or any costs.I assure you that if you just put one or two of these simple to implement strategies into place you will see a marked improvement on both your affiliate sign ups, and your affiliates actively marketing your products. Just give it a go!===================================================Al Sowerby is an information publisher specialising in helping people start their own home-based business. You can get a 2 hour FREE video that is guaranteed to show you your future in a brilliant new light, Go to www.knockpike.com And because I am a very nice man I invite you to check this out in all honesty and good luck.
Monday, 27 October 2008
Have a Little Faith
Somewhere in your make-up (perhaps in the cells of your brain) there lies sleeping, the seed of achievement which, if aroused and put into action, would carry you to heights, such as you may never have hoped to attain. Just as a master musician may cause the most beautiful strains of music to pour forth from the strings of a violin, so may you arouse the genius which lies asleep in your brain, and cause it to drive you upward to whatever goal you may wish to achieve.
Abraham Lincoln was a failure at everything
he tried, until he was well past the age of forty. He was a Mr. Nobody from Nowhere, until a great experience came into his life, aroused the sleeping genius within his heart and brain, and gave the world one of its really great men. That “experience” was mixed with the emotions of sorrow and LOVE. It came to him through Anne Rutledge, the only woman whom he ever truly loved.
It is a known fact that the emotion of LOVE is closely akin to the state of mind known as FAITH, and this for the reason that Love comes very near to translating one’s thought impulses into their spiritual equivalent. During his work of research, the author discovered, from the analysis of the life-work and achievements of hundreds of men of outstanding accomplishment, that there was the influence of a woman’s love back of nearly EVERY ONE OF THEM. The emotion of love, in the human heart and brain, creates a favorable field of magnetic attraction, which causes an influx of the higher and finer vibrations which are afloat in the ether.
If you wish evidence of the power of FAITH, study the achievements of men and women who have employed it. At the head of the list comes the Nazarene. Christianity is the greatest single force which influences the minds of men. The basis of Christianity is FAITH, no matter how many people may have perverted, or misinterpreted the meaning of this great force, and no matter how many dogmas and creeds have been created in its name, which do not reflect its tenets.
The sum and substance of the teachings and the achievements of Christ, which may have been interpreted as “miracles,” were nothing more nor less than FAITH. If there are any such phenomena as “miracles” they are produced only through the state of mind known as FAITH! Some teachers of religion, and many who call themselves Christians, neither understand nor practice FAITH. Let us consider the power of FAITH, as it is now being demonstrated, by a man who is well known to all of civilization, Mahatma Gandhi, of India. In this man the world has one of the most astounding examples known to civilization, of the possibilities of FAITH. Gandhi wields more potential power than any man living at this time, and this, despite the fact that he has none of the orthodox tools of power, such as money, battle ships, soldiers, and materials of warfare. Gandhi has no money, he has no home, he does not own a suit of clothes, but HE DOES HAVE POWER.
How does he come by that power?
HE CREATED IT OUT OF HIS UNDERSTANDING OF THE PRINCIPLE OF FAITH, AND THROUGH HIS ABILITY TO TRANSPLANT THAT FAITH INTO THE MINDS OF TWO HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE.Gandhi has accomplished, through the influence of FAITH, that which the strongest military power on earth could not, and never will accomplish through soldiers and military equipment. He has accomplished the astounding feat of INFLUENCING two hundred million minds to COALESCE AND MOVE IN UNISON, AS A SINGLE MIND. What other force on earth, except FAITH could do as much?
Abraham Lincoln was a failure at everything
he tried, until he was well past the age of forty. He was a Mr. Nobody from Nowhere, until a great experience came into his life, aroused the sleeping genius within his heart and brain, and gave the world one of its really great men. That “experience” was mixed with the emotions of sorrow and LOVE. It came to him through Anne Rutledge, the only woman whom he ever truly loved.
It is a known fact that the emotion of LOVE is closely akin to the state of mind known as FAITH, and this for the reason that Love comes very near to translating one’s thought impulses into their spiritual equivalent. During his work of research, the author discovered, from the analysis of the life-work and achievements of hundreds of men of outstanding accomplishment, that there was the influence of a woman’s love back of nearly EVERY ONE OF THEM. The emotion of love, in the human heart and brain, creates a favorable field of magnetic attraction, which causes an influx of the higher and finer vibrations which are afloat in the ether.
If you wish evidence of the power of FAITH, study the achievements of men and women who have employed it. At the head of the list comes the Nazarene. Christianity is the greatest single force which influences the minds of men. The basis of Christianity is FAITH, no matter how many people may have perverted, or misinterpreted the meaning of this great force, and no matter how many dogmas and creeds have been created in its name, which do not reflect its tenets.
The sum and substance of the teachings and the achievements of Christ, which may have been interpreted as “miracles,” were nothing more nor less than FAITH. If there are any such phenomena as “miracles” they are produced only through the state of mind known as FAITH! Some teachers of religion, and many who call themselves Christians, neither understand nor practice FAITH. Let us consider the power of FAITH, as it is now being demonstrated, by a man who is well known to all of civilization, Mahatma Gandhi, of India. In this man the world has one of the most astounding examples known to civilization, of the possibilities of FAITH. Gandhi wields more potential power than any man living at this time, and this, despite the fact that he has none of the orthodox tools of power, such as money, battle ships, soldiers, and materials of warfare. Gandhi has no money, he has no home, he does not own a suit of clothes, but HE DOES HAVE POWER.
How does he come by that power?
HE CREATED IT OUT OF HIS UNDERSTANDING OF THE PRINCIPLE OF FAITH, AND THROUGH HIS ABILITY TO TRANSPLANT THAT FAITH INTO THE MINDS OF TWO HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE.Gandhi has accomplished, through the influence of FAITH, that which the strongest military power on earth could not, and never will accomplish through soldiers and military equipment. He has accomplished the astounding feat of INFLUENCING two hundred million minds to COALESCE AND MOVE IN UNISON, AS A SINGLE MIND. What other force on earth, except FAITH could do as much?
Saturday, 25 October 2008
Virtual Affiliate Trainer
Hi
I am about to introduce a fantastic training program with my partner. This will be of special interest to webmasters with affiliates in particular, If you can hang on for just a few days I will open your eyes to a program that will blow you away as it did to me.
Just keep looking.
Al.
I am about to introduce a fantastic training program with my partner. This will be of special interest to webmasters with affiliates in particular, If you can hang on for just a few days I will open your eyes to a program that will blow you away as it did to me.
Just keep looking.
Al.
Sunday, 13 May 2007
Google`s Pay-per-click now FREE!
hi,
In what is perhaps the most shocking announcement made in some time regarding the vast world of the Internet, a New York doctor has just released a very private "secret" he's been using since the earliest days of targeted paid advertising at search engines.
He admitted without hesitation that he's gotten over $87 million in pay-per-click advertising over the last nearly 8 years at such search engines as Google, Overture, MSN, Yahoo and others, and resulting in his having amassed a $300 million fortune!
In the past 2 years alone he's netted over $166 million as a result of what he calls a very simple "oversight" promoters online have altogether missed.
So valuable this "oversight" has proven that he's finally decided to share it with the rest of us.
And his timing couldn't be better!...
- Since going public Google's ads haven't become any cheaper!
- Other paid-for search engine advertising at large is rising faster than inflation can keep up!
"Back in the day" even an affiliate could just go to some website, sign up free to sell some product (such as with Amazon stores or the vast ebooks at ClickBank) and then just place a small 4-line pay-per-click ad, fine tune it, and then sit back and make money on autopilot.
But with rising costs this is getting much, much harder, and has literally seen the demise of many, many affiliate businesses go completely under.
But now with the release of this New Englander's super-secret, webmasters, promoters, both big and small business owners, as well as affiliates with shoestring budgets are back in the game!
When asked why he kept this "oversight" secret, the New Yorker responded "I knew I had a good thing, quite possibly a monopoly over any market I cared to try ... I made a success of 16 web businesses in less than a decade ... do you honestly blame me? ..."
But now he's decided to share his know-how as he knows that doing so doesn't take a single dollar away from his $300 million fortune, and it won't cause widespread usage to the degree that it will even put a dent in search engine activity.
To be sure the good doctor had the sense to consult several Internet experts and "macroeconomists" just to be on the safe side.
Additionally, you should know that nothing about his secret either robs search engines (so you don't have to fear Google coming after you!) or is anything about it illegal in any other way.
What you may even find strangely surprising about his secret is the fact that it actually "helps" search engines make even more money! (You'll have to see it for yourself to understand how this is actually possible!)
So if you think you're smarter than most people, then here's your chance to prove it to everybody else! Just grab the good doctor's secret for yourself at:
http://tinyurl.com/27gkql
But I feel it only fair to warn you that this doctor fellow from New England is a tad eccentric and self-admittedly "moody" and he's threatened to withdraw this secret at some point soon without so much as a single day's notice ... (Northerners!)
So if I were you I'd not take any chances because although he may keep it available for the next 2 months, he may also take it off the market just 2 days from now (and then you'll kick yourself saying "Dad-gummit! I knew I should have grabbed that when I had the chance!" ... so don't let this happen).
Also keep this in mind...
-----------------------------------
How many times since the commercial release of the Worldwide-Web have you seen sudden "breakthroughs" of great fortune-making potential come and go where just a few people were in the right place at the right time to be able to take advantage of them? -- You're right ... very, very few.
So don't overlook this email as it may very well prove to be one of the most influential and important ones you've ever received.
Al Sowerby
In what is perhaps the most shocking announcement made in some time regarding the vast world of the Internet, a New York doctor has just released a very private "secret" he's been using since the earliest days of targeted paid advertising at search engines.
He admitted without hesitation that he's gotten over $87 million in pay-per-click advertising over the last nearly 8 years at such search engines as Google, Overture, MSN, Yahoo and others, and resulting in his having amassed a $300 million fortune!
In the past 2 years alone he's netted over $166 million as a result of what he calls a very simple "oversight" promoters online have altogether missed.
So valuable this "oversight" has proven that he's finally decided to share it with the rest of us.
And his timing couldn't be better!...
- Since going public Google's ads haven't become any cheaper!
- Other paid-for search engine advertising at large is rising faster than inflation can keep up!
"Back in the day" even an affiliate could just go to some website, sign up free to sell some product (such as with Amazon stores or the vast ebooks at ClickBank) and then just place a small 4-line pay-per-click ad, fine tune it, and then sit back and make money on autopilot.
But with rising costs this is getting much, much harder, and has literally seen the demise of many, many affiliate businesses go completely under.
But now with the release of this New Englander's super-secret, webmasters, promoters, both big and small business owners, as well as affiliates with shoestring budgets are back in the game!
When asked why he kept this "oversight" secret, the New Yorker responded "I knew I had a good thing, quite possibly a monopoly over any market I cared to try ... I made a success of 16 web businesses in less than a decade ... do you honestly blame me? ..."
But now he's decided to share his know-how as he knows that doing so doesn't take a single dollar away from his $300 million fortune, and it won't cause widespread usage to the degree that it will even put a dent in search engine activity.
To be sure the good doctor had the sense to consult several Internet experts and "macroeconomists" just to be on the safe side.
Additionally, you should know that nothing about his secret either robs search engines (so you don't have to fear Google coming after you!) or is anything about it illegal in any other way.
What you may even find strangely surprising about his secret is the fact that it actually "helps" search engines make even more money! (You'll have to see it for yourself to understand how this is actually possible!)
So if you think you're smarter than most people, then here's your chance to prove it to everybody else! Just grab the good doctor's secret for yourself at:
http://tinyurl.com/27gkql
But I feel it only fair to warn you that this doctor fellow from New England is a tad eccentric and self-admittedly "moody" and he's threatened to withdraw this secret at some point soon without so much as a single day's notice ... (Northerners!)
So if I were you I'd not take any chances because although he may keep it available for the next 2 months, he may also take it off the market just 2 days from now (and then you'll kick yourself saying "Dad-gummit! I knew I should have grabbed that when I had the chance!" ... so don't let this happen).
Also keep this in mind...
-----------------------------------
How many times since the commercial release of the Worldwide-Web have you seen sudden "breakthroughs" of great fortune-making potential come and go where just a few people were in the right place at the right time to be able to take advantage of them? -- You're right ... very, very few.
So don't overlook this email as it may very well prove to be one of the most influential and important ones you've ever received.
Al Sowerby
Wednesday, 14 March 2007
Bloggoramarama
Hi,
Phil again with this weeks thoughts of Chairman Mao, so to speak.Imagine, if you will, Gardeners' Question Time on the radio. Mr Bloggs from Milton Keynes phones in. "Dear Panel. I have been trying to grow roses in my garden unsuccessfully during the last five seasons without success. They all wither and die within weeks, despite watering. Can you offer anysuggestions?"
The panel then asks questions and soon discover that Mr Bloggs is planting his roses at the base of a large conifer tree. They tell him that the conifer - a shallow rooting tree - sucks out all nutrient from the soil and that the roses are effectively starved. The solution is to hack down the tree, reenergize the soil with good compost, wait a while and try again.
Now I'm not a gardener but even to the most sophisticated urbanite, this advice makes perfect sense.Now every week I get at least one email from someone telling me they either cannot think of a product or a market area they can work in. My first thought is that this is perfectly true - they can't. That's because, unlike Mr Bloggs of Milton Keynes, they simply made a statement. It wasn't a question. Mr Bloggs did not say he couldn't grow roses, he said he'd been unsuccessful thus far, and could the panel offer reasons as to why this was so. My enquirer simply said he couldn't grow roses and this is a self-fulfilling prophesy.
What he should have said is, "what am I doing wrong?" Phrasing it this way means his mind is open to the possibility he can correct the problem.So, what's the answer? The answer is that you can't grow roses in unsuitable soil. My enquirer has the mental equivalent of a forest of conifer trees in his mind, a forest that has taken many years to grow. Every motivational expert will tell you that a person is where they're at today because of all the thinking and actions they have taken in the past and that is undeniably true.
This past experience of how to do anything, including how to think, is engrained and has become a mental forest that stops new things from growing. The solution is to clear the forest.The advice of my gardening panel would be to mentally clear the forest and add tons of nutrient to the soil.
The process is called mind-flooding.Make a decision to spend one month doing nothing else in your spare time other than filling your mind with the best motivational audio tapes, CDs and books you can get hold of. Get some CDs from Nightingale Conant. Buy some classic books such as Think and Grow Rich. Spend money and really make the effort to flood your mind with good news, inspirational words and wisdom. Spend time, every morning, every afternoon, and every evening listening or reading this material. If there is a motivational seminar taking place somewhere then go to it. Really go for it.
This flood of positive information will deluge the forest of negativity in your mind and replace it with new soil. You have to stop negative weeds growing again by constantly being aware of negative 'I can't' thoughts and replacing them with new positive affermations. You cannot, and don't need to self-generate this stuff. Just release the dam of information others have prepared for you.The object is to change your mind, destroy negative habits and replace them with verdant roses, roses which will bloom into your new life, and those very speakers will make you see ideas you simply couldn't see before.
The ideas are there, but most people are blind to them. Instead, what so many people do, is to think that they know all this, that this mental mumbo-jumbo is an unnecessary diversion from the real task in hand which is to find that 'special' plan or off the shelf business that will put some cash in the bank.
The reality is that nothing will happen to the situation outside of your head, until you change the situation inside your head.What I can guarantee is that by spending a month mind flooding yourself with just some of the fantastic information available to you, you will have a much more positive and optimistic view of your own future. This in turn stimulates ideas that were actually in front of your face but you couldn't see them before.
I perform a monthly mind flood every year. Sometimes I spend thousands doing it, and it's worth every penny.BestPhilA carbon friendly transmission. The carbon footprint of this communication has been calculated at 3.2 Gigapratts. Four politicians have been planted head down in Epping Forestin order to prevent the release of further hot air.phildee ltd 2 hilton roaddisley, cheshiresk12 2juGBIf you no longer wish to receive communication from us:http://autocontactor.com/app/r.asp?ID=8061339&ARID=0To update your contact information:http://autocontactor.com/app/r.asp?c=1&ID=8061339
Thanks again Phil we appreciate it.
Al
Phil again with this weeks thoughts of Chairman Mao, so to speak.Imagine, if you will, Gardeners' Question Time on the radio. Mr Bloggs from Milton Keynes phones in. "Dear Panel. I have been trying to grow roses in my garden unsuccessfully during the last five seasons without success. They all wither and die within weeks, despite watering. Can you offer anysuggestions?"
The panel then asks questions and soon discover that Mr Bloggs is planting his roses at the base of a large conifer tree. They tell him that the conifer - a shallow rooting tree - sucks out all nutrient from the soil and that the roses are effectively starved. The solution is to hack down the tree, reenergize the soil with good compost, wait a while and try again.
Now I'm not a gardener but even to the most sophisticated urbanite, this advice makes perfect sense.Now every week I get at least one email from someone telling me they either cannot think of a product or a market area they can work in. My first thought is that this is perfectly true - they can't. That's because, unlike Mr Bloggs of Milton Keynes, they simply made a statement. It wasn't a question. Mr Bloggs did not say he couldn't grow roses, he said he'd been unsuccessful thus far, and could the panel offer reasons as to why this was so. My enquirer simply said he couldn't grow roses and this is a self-fulfilling prophesy.
What he should have said is, "what am I doing wrong?" Phrasing it this way means his mind is open to the possibility he can correct the problem.So, what's the answer? The answer is that you can't grow roses in unsuitable soil. My enquirer has the mental equivalent of a forest of conifer trees in his mind, a forest that has taken many years to grow. Every motivational expert will tell you that a person is where they're at today because of all the thinking and actions they have taken in the past and that is undeniably true.
This past experience of how to do anything, including how to think, is engrained and has become a mental forest that stops new things from growing. The solution is to clear the forest.The advice of my gardening panel would be to mentally clear the forest and add tons of nutrient to the soil.
The process is called mind-flooding.Make a decision to spend one month doing nothing else in your spare time other than filling your mind with the best motivational audio tapes, CDs and books you can get hold of. Get some CDs from Nightingale Conant. Buy some classic books such as Think and Grow Rich. Spend money and really make the effort to flood your mind with good news, inspirational words and wisdom. Spend time, every morning, every afternoon, and every evening listening or reading this material. If there is a motivational seminar taking place somewhere then go to it. Really go for it.
This flood of positive information will deluge the forest of negativity in your mind and replace it with new soil. You have to stop negative weeds growing again by constantly being aware of negative 'I can't' thoughts and replacing them with new positive affermations. You cannot, and don't need to self-generate this stuff. Just release the dam of information others have prepared for you.The object is to change your mind, destroy negative habits and replace them with verdant roses, roses which will bloom into your new life, and those very speakers will make you see ideas you simply couldn't see before.
The ideas are there, but most people are blind to them. Instead, what so many people do, is to think that they know all this, that this mental mumbo-jumbo is an unnecessary diversion from the real task in hand which is to find that 'special' plan or off the shelf business that will put some cash in the bank.
The reality is that nothing will happen to the situation outside of your head, until you change the situation inside your head.What I can guarantee is that by spending a month mind flooding yourself with just some of the fantastic information available to you, you will have a much more positive and optimistic view of your own future. This in turn stimulates ideas that were actually in front of your face but you couldn't see them before.
I perform a monthly mind flood every year. Sometimes I spend thousands doing it, and it's worth every penny.BestPhilA carbon friendly transmission. The carbon footprint of this communication has been calculated at 3.2 Gigapratts. Four politicians have been planted head down in Epping Forestin order to prevent the release of further hot air.phildee ltd 2 hilton roaddisley, cheshiresk12 2juGBIf you no longer wish to receive communication from us:http://autocontactor.com/app/r.asp?ID=8061339&ARID=0To update your contact information:http://autocontactor.com/app/r.asp?c=1&ID=8061339
Thanks again Phil we appreciate it.
Al
Sunday, 4 March 2007
Bloggovisionless
Hi,Another great read from Phil Gosling of www.homepublish.com Sorry that last week was bloggovisionless. It would seem that the beginning of each new year results in Denise, Sheelagh and me going to bed under doctor's orders, fortunately in sequence, not all at the same time, he added hastily.
Last week was my turn. * * * There are milestones in life that move you, lift you, place you on a higher level or on a different path. I'm not talking about the negative events but the positive ones. The trouble is that the negative ones force themselves into your consciousness, whereas the positive ones have to be 'noticed': you have to make a conscious effort to see them. A milestone that affected me not once but twice was the Luscher Colour Test. This test involves placing eight or more coloured cards in order of personal preference. I like this test because it doesn't need a degree in advanced metaphysics to do it. Indeed watching adverts on TV is only slightly less demanding.
This is a psychological profiling test and it can be illuminating or even a little scary. It certainly makes you rethink who and where you are. I did this test in the early seventies when I thought I was 'of scientific bent' and it turned out I was as much of a scientist as Fanny Adams and should have been an artist. That's when I realised, for the first time, that I liked writing.
That test changed my life. I did the test again about eight weeks ago, but on the internet, which is debateable regarding the results. The test relies on pure colours and as anyone even slightly computer literate knows, the colours shown in a browser vary from browser to browser or from screen to screen. The best test uses colour cards and can be obtained in book form (search in Amazon). Even so, I did the test.
I will not reveal to you the results of the latest test. You know I'm weird. You just don't want to know how weird. But what the results did show me was that I was off-track and as a result I have re-embraced goal setting and daily snippets of high-value, self-improvement DVDs and CDs. So, seeing as I have written a book on goal setting, had I lost faith in it? Absolutely not. I have just been reminded that even when you have reached the goals previously set, you cannot stand still. You need to set new goals, new targets that stretch your imagination even further than before.
So I do more than urge you to set goals; more than urge you to listen or watch good speakers every day. I can tell you with perfect honesty, and complete conviction based not only on years of research but on my own personal experience and that of many others I have spoken to, that if you don't have goals, you cannot attain them.
I did not say 'might not' I said cannot. It's universal law. If you don't know where you are going you'll never get there except by the luckiest of chance. And even then chance favours the prepared mind.
Dreaming and wishful thinking is not goal setting. A goal is not a dream you wish to come true. A goal is a dream you know will come true. You've probably read, or more likely skimmed through, Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. It's not an easy book to read because it was written in 1930s America and the language, phraseology and examples are all highly dated, as are the names used, like O. Henry (who calls their child 'O'?). But I'm reading it again and I'm getting even more out of it this time around than the first time.
The first time I was earning about 10K a year as a shipping clerk, had a net worth of minus a lot, and was desperate the break out and be independent, earning - ooh - say 50K a year. I am now a writter (Not a writer. Tolstoy was a writer.) with a net worth of plus a lot and I would regard 50K a year as a half-decent pension. And yet I'm getting more out of this book than before. Why?
Because I NOW know it's true, every bit of it. Because, reflecting back, I now know that everything I have achieved followed, if only accidentally, the advice in this book and everything I haven't achieved was as a result of not following the advice in this book. So, go take Dr Max's Colour test and frighten yourself witless. Then read Hill's epic and relax again. You can find many free downloads of Think and Grow Rich in Google.
Take time to read a little very day. You will not regret it. In Blott on the Landscape by Tom Sharpe one of the characters, a gnarled old colonel, made a very true political comment. "Old style politicians - looked stupid - were clever. New style politicians - look clever - are stupid." That's why a good place to look for wisdom is old-style stuff. Best regardsPhil "In times of radical change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves perfectly equipped for a world that no longer exists..." - Eric Hoffer ...
Thanks again to Phil Gosling.
Al
Last week was my turn. * * * There are milestones in life that move you, lift you, place you on a higher level or on a different path. I'm not talking about the negative events but the positive ones. The trouble is that the negative ones force themselves into your consciousness, whereas the positive ones have to be 'noticed': you have to make a conscious effort to see them. A milestone that affected me not once but twice was the Luscher Colour Test. This test involves placing eight or more coloured cards in order of personal preference. I like this test because it doesn't need a degree in advanced metaphysics to do it. Indeed watching adverts on TV is only slightly less demanding.
This is a psychological profiling test and it can be illuminating or even a little scary. It certainly makes you rethink who and where you are. I did this test in the early seventies when I thought I was 'of scientific bent' and it turned out I was as much of a scientist as Fanny Adams and should have been an artist. That's when I realised, for the first time, that I liked writing.
That test changed my life. I did the test again about eight weeks ago, but on the internet, which is debateable regarding the results. The test relies on pure colours and as anyone even slightly computer literate knows, the colours shown in a browser vary from browser to browser or from screen to screen. The best test uses colour cards and can be obtained in book form (search in Amazon). Even so, I did the test.
I will not reveal to you the results of the latest test. You know I'm weird. You just don't want to know how weird. But what the results did show me was that I was off-track and as a result I have re-embraced goal setting and daily snippets of high-value, self-improvement DVDs and CDs. So, seeing as I have written a book on goal setting, had I lost faith in it? Absolutely not. I have just been reminded that even when you have reached the goals previously set, you cannot stand still. You need to set new goals, new targets that stretch your imagination even further than before.
So I do more than urge you to set goals; more than urge you to listen or watch good speakers every day. I can tell you with perfect honesty, and complete conviction based not only on years of research but on my own personal experience and that of many others I have spoken to, that if you don't have goals, you cannot attain them.
I did not say 'might not' I said cannot. It's universal law. If you don't know where you are going you'll never get there except by the luckiest of chance. And even then chance favours the prepared mind.
Dreaming and wishful thinking is not goal setting. A goal is not a dream you wish to come true. A goal is a dream you know will come true. You've probably read, or more likely skimmed through, Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. It's not an easy book to read because it was written in 1930s America and the language, phraseology and examples are all highly dated, as are the names used, like O. Henry (who calls their child 'O'?). But I'm reading it again and I'm getting even more out of it this time around than the first time.
The first time I was earning about 10K a year as a shipping clerk, had a net worth of minus a lot, and was desperate the break out and be independent, earning - ooh - say 50K a year. I am now a writter (Not a writer. Tolstoy was a writer.) with a net worth of plus a lot and I would regard 50K a year as a half-decent pension. And yet I'm getting more out of this book than before. Why?
Because I NOW know it's true, every bit of it. Because, reflecting back, I now know that everything I have achieved followed, if only accidentally, the advice in this book and everything I haven't achieved was as a result of not following the advice in this book. So, go take Dr Max's Colour test and frighten yourself witless. Then read Hill's epic and relax again. You can find many free downloads of Think and Grow Rich in Google.
Take time to read a little very day. You will not regret it. In Blott on the Landscape by Tom Sharpe one of the characters, a gnarled old colonel, made a very true political comment. "Old style politicians - looked stupid - were clever. New style politicians - look clever - are stupid." That's why a good place to look for wisdom is old-style stuff. Best regardsPhil "In times of radical change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves perfectly equipped for a world that no longer exists..." - Eric Hoffer ...
Thanks again to Phil Gosling.
Al
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