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Are you having fun writing in your blog?

I wanted to address the big thing about “Making Money Online.” There are so many people letting you know they have the latest and best program to teach you how to make money online. There is so much of it, that after a while it just becomes a blurr. I highly recommend DOSH DOSH, Maki, who writes this blog definitely gives you some great ideas in making money on line. He’ll even show you how to do it.

It’s a good idea to take your time to research just like you would do for any other program. Go visit other blogs see what other people are writing about. Subscribe to their newsletters, e-zines and feeders to see if you like what they say, or how it feels to you to get their news or information.

If you have chosen WordPress as your service provider they list several bloggers who are blogging. You will find this under wp-admin in your Dashboards. You can also to go Blog Catalogue you can list your blog after you have been blogging for a while – they have just started groups that you can join. It’s a great place to get some ideas.

Being online is fun, you can get lost too as there is simply so much to read, see and do. Sometimes it’s just a good way to get lost for a while.

I do want to say though, the Internet is just a tool like any other tool, to build your business. To make money on the Internet you have to treat it like a tool. It still takes time to build sales and the reputation that you want to have.

It’s on a global scale, rather just being local. It’s a great tool to use if you want to reach another audience, you want to expand into other markets, or reach out to those in your industry. If you are just simply establishing yourself, there are many reasons for being online.

When you blog or write or post something online, be sure to think about what you are saying and doing 1^st.

Once you are starting to be familiar with blogging now, you will want to start marketing your site. Here are a couple places to start Technorati – this allows you to track posts on your favorite blogs.

You can vote for your favorite blogs at Blog Rankings. Feed Burner you can set it up so that people subscribe to your postings. This site also has many other tools that you can you to promote your blog as well

Until next week

Love & Happiness.

Mari-Lyn

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Since taking off the Marketing Dr. image, I have also been busy digging into how I can be of service to you. Surrendering is what I have been saying and doing this past week.

What do I mean by surrendering? It’s means to simply let go of the act; action of what we want to have happen for ourselves. Let the Universe or whatever you want to call it (I say God) to take care of that for you. Rather than forcing it to work or come about.

The one thing that came up was to ‘write.’ Write what? Whatever that comes up write it down. Okay. I am trusting my vibes on this one. This is the same type of answer that was said ‘Do a Kindness Conference.” I said “What?!” Okay. I will write about this some more another time.

Even though I keep surrendering my growing pains as a child, forgiving my parents, siblings and all those who have harmed me, every once in a while a memory will pop up I will remember what it is.

The pain, the tears start to flow. What gift/s have I received from all this pain? When I felt isolated, (I never wanted anyone to feel like what I was feeling) or not good enough. I have always connected people together – whether it’s networking, inviting people for a potluck, doing orphan dinner at Thanksgiving or even Christmas you get the drift. In doing this, including people has helped me to become more inclusive—to create my own community.

Rather than the pain of exclusion, there are a new family of friends and people we want to share and be with.

Have you ever felt excluded, isolated or not good enough?

Perhaps, it is time to be kind, include strangers and people into your life. Strangers are only people we haven’t gotten to know yet. Isn’t it John Mayer who sings, “All those people just kept waiting.” (I may have the title wrong)

What are you waiting for?

Perhaps this is why I get on my soap box about being Kind. Kindness is a decision, whether to ‘be kind’ to another person or group. I could go on and on..

Is there something that you could do to include your clients, your employees, or your friends to create your own community?

What’s missing in your Client Profile Plan that you can add about including people into your life? How could you do something that is kind? What would you be willing to surrender?

Speaking of including people – How can I be of service to you?

One of the things I would like to do is to create a Mastermind Group if you are interested please drop me an Email and let me know if you would like to join me. We would simply meet via the phone, (it would save travel time) once a week say an evening or ? mari-lyn at heartatworkonline dot com.

‘Until next time..

Love & Happiness

Mari-Lyn

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Written by Freddy Rodriguez

http://freddyrodriguez.net

One of the biggest challenges of niche marketing is coming up with …. well …. a niche. A good amount of keyword research could be done to select a great niche that is high in demand, but low in supply.Many internet businesses have been built on the premise of offering better, faster, and easier ways to do niche research. But why should you pay for those services? Well, I’m not trying to knock any of them. I’m sure they have their unique selling point and great service.However, if you’re just starting off and you haven’t made any money from niche marketing yet, then you need to start off with a free service or tool.

Marcin Lejman over at seoprotoolz.com has just what you need. It’s a free tool that you can use to select a profitable niche in under 10 minutes. He’s also included an instructional video that shows you exactly how to use it.

I checked it out…I thought it was really cool. You should also check out the rest of his blog, it has a lot of great tips.

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Written by Mark Silver of Heart of Business

Imagine you’re ten years old, and there are huge stacks of cardboard boxes towering over you. It’s a maze. It’s a fortress. And you’re allowed to climb all over them.

Inside every single one of those boxes is a dozen bottles. in wines, liquor, you name it. It may sound like a caterer’s dream, but I was just hanging out in the warehouse of my grandfather’s wine store. My parents worked with him, and so I kinda grew up there.

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1000’s of bottles. One business.
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The store ran ads every week, because every week there was a different special, a different deal. A new wine, a new vintage, a new label. Customers came in, and often the parking lot was jammed, with a line from the cash register snaking towards the back door.

Can you imagine if every time a new bottle came in, my grandfather had to open a new store to sell it? Create a new and separate ad? That’s crazy thinking, isn’t it?

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One business can handle a whole lotta bottles.
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You can breathe a sigh of relief. While you may be the world’s most amazing biofeedback’s practitioner, just because you also want to provide nutritional education and support doesn’t mean you have to start a second business.

If you’re consulting around marketing and brand development, you don’t have to kill yourself trying to start a new consulting practice to offer organizational development and leadership training.

You’re just adding more bottles to the shelf. Seems kinda obvious when you think about it. But, what if you need another website? Or another stream of income? When does it become a separate business?

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A business is defined by the people it serves.
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A business exists to help people solve a problem. Not just any person, or just any problem. The same business that fixes holes in your teeth isn’t going to be the same business that fixes potholes in the road.

If your message is talking to the same kind of people, about the same kind of problem, then no matter how radically different the offers are, you can keep it all under one roof.

Meditation CD. Spiritual healing session. Hot rock massages. Pilate’s classes. Nutrition consultation. Health strategy session. Spans quite a bit of territory, but because it addresses people healing from traumatic injuries, all of these offers connect. One business.

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One business. Two businesses. Why does it matter?
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Well, aside from the overwhelm that can rise up when thinking about running more than one business at a time, it all boils down to one word: Momentum.

A customer that buys a bottle of Beaujolais Nouveau one week, may buy a case of Burgundy the next. And then the next week, on your recommendation, they may end up trying some white wine, and finding out they like that, too.

All people, including your clients, are complex human beings, with a large variety of needs and wants and challenges. By the same token, problems are rarely solved with only one solution or approach. A good dinner may need both a rich red wine for the steak, and then a sweet dessert wine for afterwards. An injury may need massage, exercise, nutrition, and spiritual connection to heal.

But if you’re already known as a specialist in biofeedback’s, say, how could you ever expand your business without losing clients? Good question. Let’s take a look.

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Keys to Adding Bottles for Momentum
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* Single Answers Can Be Suspect

After touring through the world of healing, where there has to be at least one gazillion different ways of doing it, I’ve come to the conclusion: there is no one single ‘best’
way. If you are dedicating yourself to just a single modality, it’s hard to do that without having at least a little bit of unconscious modality chauvinism creep in.

Offering a sensible variety of approaches that work together and support one another can actually increase the trust your clients have in you. They’ll know that you’re growing and learning, too. And that you are more concerned about helping them, than in just doing “your thang.”

* Variety is the Spice of Life

Even people who have the most “dog with a bone” tendencies still like change and variety. By providing variety and change that is sincerely helpful, and yet still has focus, it means that they will be able to change focus, without leaving your business.

They’ll stick around and drink more deeply at your fountain, j ust because you’ve got different flavors. And this means that not only are they getting more and better help from you, but for you, that’s one less client you have to replace.

* Quality leads to Quantity

Because you’ve got multiple solutions all supporting the same issue behind Door #1, people are getting even better results. Which means they come back, as we’ve already said.
And bring their family. And tell their friends.

Even your best clients may feel like your services are especially profound, or different, or, let’s face it, weird in some way. If you have a few different bottles available for different tastes, chances are it will be easier for them to think of something that a particular person would like.

Go ahead, take that breath, and start stacking your shelves with whatever bottles float your boat, and support your focus. Your clients will thank you, and your business will have that much more help going into momentum.

The best to you and your business,
Mark Silver

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