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Really… What do you call “something” if you disagree with it?

You may or may not know that I’m an artist, a painter, as well as a marketer. You may or may not like the art I create.  Of course, we can agree, art, as is beauty, forms it’s value in the eye of the beholder.

In the 1949, Congressman George A. Dondero denounced modern art as a communist plot.

Congressman George A. Dondero of Michigan attacked ACA Galleries
(American Contemporary Artists) in a speech delivered on the
House Floor of Representatives calling it “… the hub, the
gathering point of Marxists in art, whose subtle, nefarious
un-American schemes receive their prime incitement….” He went
on to say the gallery, “… should be shunned like a plague
center of infection…”ACA and many of its artists were
blacklisted soon thereafter.

If you’re a business owner or marketer, then you market ideas
that some people are annoyed with or more likely, afraid of. And
in the face of fear, we lose honest expression and start calling
things names, usually names that don’t make a lot of sense.
Nowadays we still have modern day versions of communist plots,
we call them different things, there’s never a shortage of boogy
men available to point the finger at.

If you’re a marketer, then people you’re marketing to are
frightened about something.

What do they call it?  If you’re looking to make money online,
what are you afraid of?

I have a saying, “truth is a perception and control is an
illusion”.

Think about it, you or I could see something totally different
because we might have different vantage points. What do you call
the disagreement of perspective? There is a vast pool of
perspectives in the world and to each one of those individual
perspective’s, their truth is relevant and real to their
specific interest. Does the universal truth matter to everyone?
No, it does not matter, at least not in their minds eye. What
matters is, your truth, and the truth of the people who matter to
you.

How does this fit into marketing a successful business?

You need more time… Ok, Why?

You have either said this or heard this at least once in you lifetime.

If you understand the simple importance of what I’m going toshare with you right now, you’ll gain a huge value back. Time, which is our most valuable asset and we all have the same about of time, will not make a better decision.

First rule of decision making: More time does not create better decisions.

In fact, it usually decreases the quality of the decision.
More information may help. However, more time without more information just creates anxiety, not insight.

Deciding now frees up your most valuable asset, time, so you can go work on something else. What happens if, starting today, you make every decision as soon as you have a reasonable amount of data?

Learning how to market online can easily lead to information overload or analysis paralysis. If you find your self in a situation where the opportunity cost of decision analysis exceeds the benefits that could be gained by enacting some decision, or non-deterministic situation where the sheer quantity of analysis overwhelms the decision making process itself, thus preventing a decision.

I have made good money on the internet and I fail all the time. In fact, I fail more often than not. You’ll usually hear me say, ”learn to fail faster, the faster you fail, the sooner you’ll find your bulls-eye target for success.”

Finding out what does not work CAN help you find what does work.

The birth of the internet marketing GURU, the system, the way to create success is not an easy thing to put your finger on. Who do you listen to?

My dad likes to say, “even a blind squirrel finds an acorn now and then.” And it’s true. You shouldn’t pick your strategy by modeling someone else’s success. The success might have been strategic and planned, but it’s just as likely to be a matter of blind luck.

Please don’t get me wrong, I’m a big supporter of modeling successful plans and people. BUT who is a successful person with a successful plan worth modeling? How do you know if you’re following a lucky squirrel who found a nut? Or maybe your
following the nut:)

Just trying to make you think.

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Many people who are interested in starting an online business assume that because the country is in a major recession right now, this is not the time; however, I ask you to consider the facts:

1. For most of the big life decisions, e.g., getting married, having a child, starting a business, there is never the “right time,” there is only today, only now.

2. If you want to be wealthy, you need to own your own business - 93% of the wealthy do.

3. In 2006, Fortune magazine called direct selling, including network marketing, “the best kept secret in the business world” with a 91% growth over the previous 10 years. It has a market of $30 billion in the United States and $100 billion worldwide. That number is expected to grow to 60 billion by 2012.

4. Network marketing has been called a “recession proof industry”.

5. Warren Buffet called his purchase of a network marketing company the best investment he’d ever made.

6. Tom Peters, author of In Search of Excellence, called it the first truly revolutionary marketing shift in the past 50 years.

7. When you work from home, you don’t have to worry about the high costs of gas, parking or daycare for your children.

8. There are significant tax advantages to owning a home business.

9. Online businesses are generally easy to start. All you need are basic language skills and the ability to point, click and follow directions.

10. The Internet gives you more control of your financial future than a 9-5 job. You’re the boss, and the upside is incredible! If you’re willing to work, you can make a lot of money.

Affiliate marketing programs are potentially the best methods to begin an internet firm, and a lot of them also offer coaching referring to the product that you’ll be marketing for them.

The issue with most online opportunities, however, is that their training is limited, and often focused only on instructing you regarding their product (s). Sadly, you’ll require more knowledge and skills than that.

One superb starting point for gathering all the rest of the education about internet marketing that you’ll need is to enroll in the Online Success for Beginners classes.

Hundreds of thousands of new businesses will launch in the next 12 months, regardless of the recessionary economy. You can be among them? Aren’t you ready to leave all the job-related stress behind you?

Carpe Diem! Don’t waste any time, seize the day! Now is the right time to start a home business .

I found an old video from my Chili Production days. In 1992, I produced a party in TJ Mexico called Colossus, there was 4,500 people, five different levels in a 10 story building, a dozen bands and Djs going ‘til the early morning…a wild party.
You’ll see some people you might know, they’ve become kinda famous. Who do you recognize?

When this flier was opened the character popped up. For 1992, it was very trick. We had to glue 60,000 fliers by hand. You don’t see a pop up party flier very often. We thought it was cool:)

Most people who are tying to make money online just go head first without to research the many rules and tips that are mandatory to know. You realize that to be in any profession, whether it be a teacher, laywer, doctor, cashier or even a janitor, you must be taught the proper steps and rules.

The same applies to the online marketing industry, even if there are some who try to make you think that that it is a piece of cake. And I’ll have to admit, it is a walk in the park compared to what you have to put up with in the working world punching a clock being a subordinate to someone who does not have your interests in mind, but there are still rules you have to follow and pitfalls you must avoid to actually make Internet marketing work for you.

Most people will not make a dime online and yet there are others who will make more in one month than most people make in a whole year. Why is that? What comes first? The Chicken or the Egg? Personally I vote for, well never mind, each argument you or I make comes back to the same old conclusion - I have no clue and I don’t think many of us do either. One thing I do know for sure is that to be successful in making money online, you have to be passionate about the niche or product you wish to become involved with.

Passion in this sense simply means that you’ve researched and like the company and products or services. It is then that you translate that like (or Passion) into the education, excitement and work that usually accompany Passion. I will have to say that many online entrepreneurs are so good at what they do that they ignore passion because they can sell anything.

But I’m concerned about those of you who are not so knowledgeable at working an online business successfully. Now, I’m not trying to make anyone believe that Passion is the only thing necessary. To be successful, you need a well designed, well functioning website, advertisement and marketing, etc. Those things are often learned from the company you join - but sidestep Passion and you reduce your chances for success dramatically. It therefore follows that, if you have no Passion for the company and the products and services provided by that company, again, you won’t attempt to do the work you are being taught.

Working on the Internet from home is normally not that difficult, but you must be motivated and have the drive to succeed. Internet Search Engines are excellent resources in searching for online opportunities in Internet Marketing and Business! The company you go with should have likability, relevance and you should have confidence in it. It should be solid, founded on great principles, and easy to understand with great products and services that are sell-able for which you can have Passion. If you don’t find it move on,

You can find a great opportunity as outlined above. Comments like, well, that one sounds good and the compensation plan is excellent so I guess I’ll start that business - does not sound like a decision based on anything near Passion.

Don’t be fooled by those Internet geniuses (you know, the ones who can sell anything) into thinking that you can be just like them, even if it is possible. It takes time and practice just like anything else. Indeed, it is your personal goal to get to where you also are able to sell almost anything online. The goal is clearly a worthy one. You must remember that there are guidelines that need to be followed to be successful, and having the passion to succeed will help you avoid skipping steps in the process of learning.

You must be focused on a company that shows promise, has believeability, and stay away from those you are not passionate about.

Among the resources available online, one particular site stood out and that was Zero Friction Marketing. A clear-cut crash course and excellent opportunity, as well as example of the possibilities when you are looking in the right place.  The mentoring and proven tactics are among the best available online today.

When you hear the term “internet marketing“, what do you think of?

For many, that term conjures thoughts of websites or spamming or search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing. For others, it’s all about graphical design, writing fancy code or even affiliate programs. All of those answers correct, but the essence of internet marketing is much simpler.

At its core, internet marketing is about these things:

* Understanding the target market to which the product/service/cause you’re marketing will appeal
* Determining exactly how your target market interacts with the internet
* Positioning your content on the internet to attract the attention of your target market
* Collecting information about your target market (also known as “leads”) for follow-up and conversion into sales
* Design of offers or incentives to induce the desired actions from your leads

Since there is insufficient space in this article to give all of these topics adequate attention, let’s focus on just one specific topic with the realm of internet marketing: Email Marketing.

My best payoff has always come by focusing on permission-based email marketing. Permission-based email marketing refers to the practice of collecting information (including email addresses) from website visitors and communicating with them via e-mail with their direct consent. The “permission” aspect of permission-based email marketing is what separates legitimate email marketers from the spammers that everyone despises.

My love of email marketing is strong for one reason: It works very well. Email marketing has been much like a never-ending goldmine: It enables us to produce income on demand simply by sending a good offer to our list. When you have thousands of loyal subscribers - as we do - and you put a strong and compatible offer in front of them, income becomes nearly automatic.

However, the key to successful email marketing is the development of a legitimate trust relationship with your subscribers. If you opt to send your subscribers a request for purchases every single day, they will likely tire of your badgering and cease reading your emails altogether.

Alternatively, if you take the time to provide good content to your readers on a regular and frequent basis, you’ll discover that your readers take all of your emails far more seriously, and as a result your emails will be opened, read and acted upon with greater frequency. Essentially, email marketing is really an exercise in trust.

Even though there are more sides to internet marketing than just email marketing (permission based), email has been the foundation that our business sits on.

When an artist finds their artwork sought after, it’s an incredible feeling. For artist Rick Bliss (aka Gil Ortega), creating live exhibition paintings at The Playboy Mansion in front of Hugh Hefner and his celebrity friends offers a sense of wonder and amazement, as it should for any undiscovered artist. Rick Bliss says, “Maybe I’m on to something here, I keep getting asked to paint live at some very cool events, and it’s a great feeling.”

Indeed, attention is growing for Rick Bliss’s artwork, however, it helps that Rick Bliss paints scantily clad, often nude, Playmates and models from around the world. His process is unique; paint is applied to the skin of a model to achieve a desired effect. While the paint is still wet on the skin, the model is positioned over an impression canvas and guided into just the right spot to make an abstract stamp of their body.

Rick Bliss said, “As an artist, I was not content with the mere application of pigments to a canvas, so I developed a technique and a style that makes the human body an active element in the genesis of my art.”

After Rick Bliss creates a painting in front of the audience, the piece is auctioned off, mostly in the name of charity. His originals have sold for as much as $5,000 and his prints have sold for as much as $1,800. “I want to create art that reveres the human form while exploring the spectrum of creation and innovation,” says Bliss.

Rick Bliss’s most recent art project was inspired after seeing the innovative art project by Swiss artist Marcel “Sala” Salathe of One Thousand Paintings. Bliss, in turn, has developed The 365 Project, constructed around a similar pricing model as One Thousand Paintings. Bliss will create 365 body paintings; one body painting representing each day of the year. All 365 original body paintings will go into an auction. The buy now offer will always be $1,000. The initial reserve price will start at a 90% discount from the buy now price. The discount will decrease by 10% every 34 pieces. For example, the first group of 34 will have a reserve price of $100 ($1,000 less the 90% discount); the second group of 34 originals will have a reserve price of $200 ($1,000 less the 80% discount) and so on.

You will be able to watch live over the internet as Rick Bliss paints a beautiful model and creates each body painting. Imagine being able to buy a Rick Bliss original for only $100. The 365 Project is likely to be perceived by buyers as creating a valuable secondary market for Rick Bliss’s paintings. This can lead to later financial gain for early adopters of Rick Bliss’s work. This will be fun project will be fun, stay tuned! Sign up for the launch notice here

Are you stuck with very little capital to commit towards marketing your online business? You may be finding that there tare plenty methods to market on the internet but they also contain some pitfalls unless you are an expert in it. How can you start building a solid online presence without spending a lot of money to start out? You are about to dispel your doubts that a solution exists here is some information on how article marketing can help you.

To begin with, ask yourself what are people searching for online? Usually people are searching for requested info, and they want it to be relevant. Sometimes people want to buy something, but they will will surf the world wide web to get information about what they are looking for before they make their decision. For this reason, if if you can provide infowhich these people will find interesting and thought provoking, you can be sure that you will be able to get your offer in front of them.

When creating an article for online marketing do not forget that people don’t have to read it till the end. That is why you better start with the foreword of the article give an idea why it is worth reading. The best solution is to ask questions in the beginning of the article. This will show what problem will be resolved by reading the article.

Once you have their attention you have about ten seconds to demonstrate that you can deliver on your promise. It means, you have to make sure that there is useful info in each of the paragraphs and that each of them has a lead to the next one. The paragraphs should be no longer than three to five sentences and and you better present them step by step. For example, each paragraph is a step of five step technique.

To sum up, you make sure that the article arouses a new curiosity which will bring them to your website by clicking the link in the article. For instance, if you are a SEO Agency, invite readers to go to your homepage and have a PPC Chat to discuss the problems with SEO and PPC advertising. But be careful, if you overload a reader with the info you give them they will have no reason to continue after the article. A great way to do this is to have a statement near the beginning which arouses curiosity and to restate it at the end in some form. This will remind them that they still need to know something and they will stay with you.
So, take this into consideration and start your own online marketing activity.