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The Benefits of Forum Marketing

Internet Forum Marketing

While many people join forums specifically for the social benefits, there are several good reasons for Internet entrepreneurs to join an online forum. We as people tend to be social by nature, and online communities or forums are the latest in a long progression of social organizations created by humankind.

One of the main reasons why business men and women on the internet join forums is for the search engine benefits.

Many forums are tremendously popular with search engines and so they not only rank well but also are regularly crawled.

Most forums offer an introduction area, as well as, a signature area where you can promote your web site or sites. In addition, as you are allowed to participate in a forum that is relevant to your website’s topic.

There will usually be opportunities to work your site into conversation. All these links can be of tremendous benefit in terms of search engine rankings and relevant back links.

However, if you think that search engine benefits are the beginning or end of the ways you and your Internet business can profit from joining a forum then you are missing out on a lot of learning.

Joining a forum will help you learn more about your niche. Even if you are an expert in your field, there is always more to be learned.  A forum is a place where you can gain knowledge from others.

There really is an Internet community for everyone and every interest. Your task is to find the forum where your peers are already hanging out. Learning more about your niche is a tremendous benefit of joining a forum.

There’s no need to restrict your forum memberships to those within your field. It is also wise to join forums that can help you learn more about how to run your business. Find forums of other small business owners and entrepreneurs.

You will soon be able to find folks who are at your level of expertise as well as those with more experience willing to share their hard-earned lessons. Soon you’ll have the opportunity to repay that debt by mentoring other newbies. This sharing and hand-holding is one of the elements that make Internet communities so successful.

It’s important to also seek a forum to help you with your Internet marketing. There are many different approaches to Internet marketing and while so People prefer the scatter-gun approach most choose one or two primary methods.

You can explore text methods to determine which you feel most comfortable with and then join a forum focused on that method to help you refine your approach and achieve maximum success.

A primary problem with the Internet is that you can be easily to feel isolated. However forums can help bridge the gap of time and distance by serving as a community as well as an information source. Friendships will be found in time along with laughter, camaraderie and commiseration which will help sustain the person, as well as the business.

Forums can also help you find customers for your business. As you participate and share information about your business some folks will naturally express an interest. As you share your expertise and demonstrate your knowledge then you will attract still more. Don’t be a pushy salesperson, simply allow your expertise to showcase your business and you will attract a quality customer relationship.

A forum can also be a great place to find partners to help you expand or promote your business in a number of ways. You might discover some like-minded people whose business perfectly complements yours or you might discover the perfect joint-venture partner. Even if you encounter people you might view as competition try to view the relationship from many angles to see if there is a way to benefit from a partnership rather than a competition.

Forums can provide many benefits to you and to your business, but remember that Internet communities are social contracts with have rules and guidelines. Be sure you know and understand all the rules before leaping into discussions. It is difficult to undo a bad first impression on the Internet as it cannot usually be erased.

Begin slow and easy until you are sure of your footing.  Be very wary about pushing your business too aggressively. This type of activity will more than likely get you banned from a forum pretty quickly.

Most forums will have a clearly marked area for advertising and sales posts.  They may even allow some blatant promotion in your signature, but be sure to keep your posts on topic and helpful and you’ll be better off in the long run.

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Personal Goal Setting

Creating Personal Goal Setting with Clarity and Purpose

We have been trained and mentored into the reality that one of the things most critical to our home business success is defining one’s intentions through personal goal setting which will lead to your desired vision or dream.

We have been continually reminded to write these personal goals on paper, as well as speak them out loud while giving ourselves a deadline to meet them, so that we can remain focused on our ultimate dreams.

Your vision should involve much more than your business opportunity.  It must encompass every area of your life.  Many of us create visions for ourselves, our businesses, our families, but, we must also include our physical, spiritual, emotional and social lives.  This then is a holistic vision.

It is important to keep them your vision in front of you at all times in order to maintain the motivation  and determination which is often needed to get us over the rough spots in our businesses.

Wallace Wattles, in his 1910 classic, “The Science of Getting Rich,” states:

“You must form a clear and definite mental picture of what you want. You cannot transmit an idea unless you have it yourself….That clear mental picture you must have continually in mind….The more clear and definite you make your picture then, and the more you dwell upon it, bringing out all its delightful details, the stronger your desire will be.”

Because your vision is created in your mind, it is important that when you think about it, you feel deeply about it, then act in harmony with it.  This way your vision will guide you.

This does  not mean that you must spend hours contemplating your ultimate goal? It simply means that you will need to know  exactly what it is that you desire and then desire it so badly that it stays in your thoughts.

Example:

My ultimate personal goal is for my husband and I to be able to retire to San Diego, CA.  I have a very definite image of what life will be like for us there, and each day I set aside a few minutes to simply close my eyes and dwell on the mental picture of some of the things we’ll be able to enjoy -

walking along the beach at sunset, feeling the warmth of the sand on my bare feet (I can practically smell the salt air when I do this)
 

reconnecting with friends and family and being able to enjoy reunions that I often missed due to living a long distance away, enjoying the palm trees I love so much

dining at local restaurants that serve the delicious seafood the area is famous for

Carrying this one step further, I’ve gathered together some pictures, postcards, and other memorabilia that reflect the overall atmosphere of the area. These items hang on my wall in my office, right in front of me, so that I can have a constant reminder of exactly what it is that I am working toward.

You’ll be amazed at the effectiveness of these simple techniques!

It is indeed possible for you to apply these same techniques regardless of what your goals are. Even if what you’re working for can’t be quite so clearly defined in words and pictures, you can still benefit from these exercises.

During those few minutes each day that you set aside to form your mental “picture,” imagine the feelings that you will have when you have reached your own personal goals.

You will have to get your brain functioning correctly to do this.  Know that your left brain is your logical, decision-making side of your mind, while your right brain is the intuitive, creative side.  You will need both sides functioning in union to create your desired intentions.

Along with your personal goal setting, be sure to take the time to create an affirmation statement, using your computer and some attractive stationery to print it out. Frame this and place it in your own personal work area so that you will have a constant reminder of what exactly it is that you want to accomplish.

Focus, focus, focus….and your dreams WILL come true!

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Happiness From The Inside Out!

Happiness from the Inside Out just Requires A Change of your Most Dominate Thoughts

Happiness will never come from settling for an average life, it comes from the right thinking.  You see, thinking wrong, believing wrong and confessing wrong will always lead to an unhappy, mediocre and uncomfortable way of life.

There are millions of people who are unhappy even though it is possible to be infinitely happy by just enjoying  your family, nature and life as a whole. Happiness is a choice because it is a mindset.  There are people engaged in difficult tasks and in warfare, as well as incarcerated in prisons even, who are still happy.
"Happiness is not something ready made, it comes from your own actions." --Dalai Lama

"I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself.  For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance, but by our disposition." --Martha Washington


We have a universal abundance of more than enough, yet we still see lack and poverty.  You can be happy in every situation just by changing your attitudes of mind.  You can control you future by controlling your thoughts.  Happiness is a decision followed by effort. The effort of Belief.


'The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.'
    ---Milton in Paradise Lost

Here's some examples of how the mind can influence our body::

• Pavlov's dog starts salivating at the sound of the bell without any food in sight.
• If we are tense we often get headache, backache, and spondylitis, etc.
• Heart attacks are directly linked to worry and tension.
• Right mental attitude helps in curing many bodily maladies.
• By self-talk, motivation, and positive attitude we can become happy and successful.
• Through hypnosis one can have command over another person’s mind and body.
• Through meditation one can have a healthy body and extra sensory abilities.

Happiness comes from realizing that the mind has extra-ordinary powers.  The mind has the ultimate power when it comes to happiness.  We should, therefore, have a positive attitude towards life.  Instead of concentrating on bad things in life and people, we should concentrate on the redeeming features in them.

We have to let go of thinking about past failures and bad experiences, but be encouraged instead by our past success and good experiences.  Similarly we should never  be unduly anxious about the future as our anxiety will never have a positive effect, but we must plan and work hard for towards the future.

Your life will move in the direction of your most prominent thoughts, therefore, think Happy thoughts.  Be appreciative and thankful for all that you have and all that is coming your way.  Know that when you limit what you think you can do, you really limit what you can accomplish.

"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."---Abraham Lincoln

Happiness is a sense of pleasure or contentment
Wisdom is knowing what to do
Skill is knowing how to do it
Success is doing it.

So realize that your happiness comes from the inside out.  It starts with a mindset to be happy, no matter what.  You are free to be happy in your mind.  The mind is difficult to be mastered by yourself, yet is is impossible to be vanquished by anybody, any authority, or whatever condition or situations you may face.

Don't worry, Stay Happy!

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Angela Valadez

Are Your Backlinks Not Helping You Get Better Rankings? Here is How to Boost Them…

Social Monkee is the Backlinks Builder

If you want your pages to rank well in the search engines, you need to build backlinks, but in a smart and efficient way.

This implies building backlinks to your money pages (Tier 1), but also to your existing backlinks (Tier 2), to boost them and pass on some link juice.

Well, there is a link building service that allows you to do both with great ease.

This service is a proven link building solution that has already helped thousands, to not only build backlinks to their pages, but also boost their existing backlinks. Building backlinks can be a time-consuming, boring process. You can outsource the process to an agency and pay a lot of money, or you can do it yourself…

The service I’m talking about is SocialMonkee, which offers a quick and easy way to build backlinks to any page, whether it’s your own page or a page that links to your page. Submitting a URL to SocialMonkee takes less than a few minutes, and it only takes a few seconds if you use the Firefox or Chrome Plugin (provided to you at no cost).

Whether or not you already build backlinks to your pages, SocialMonkee is a must-have. If you’re new to link building, SocialMonkee is a great place to start as it’s very easy to use and does a great job. If you already build backlinks but don’t see the benefits, here is your chance to boost them and make them pass on some powerful link juice to your pages.

The system even integrates popular content spinning and link indexing tools so you can submit URLs even faster and get the most out of your backlinks. The network keeps growing, with new sites added every week, so sign up now and submit your URLs within the next few minutes to boost your rankings and get the traffic your pages deserve.

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Are You Prone To Anxiety, Panic Attacks or Stress?

Anxiety, Panic Attacks and Stress all derive from a phobia, or type of fear.

Anxiety is a physiological state that’s caused by the sympathetic nervous system (SNS).

Anxiety doesn't necessarily stem from fear or defensive actions, but is quite often based on irrational or illogical fears. It can come from a need to escape situations which make us anxious and may at some level bring relief.  This encourages us to escape the situation instead of working through the anxiety.

SNS is always active at the base level (called sympathetic tone) and becomes more active in stressful situations. The ”flight or fight” response occurs from here.

The physical symptoms of anxiety include those of stress (sweaty palms, racing heart, churning stomach), with the addition of: difficulty breathing, panicky feelings, chest pain or discomfort, flushed skin, sweating, trouble sleeping, difficulty concentrating, trembling or shaking, and headaches.

Recovering from an anxiety disorder is attainable, but there is no “quick fix,” “miracle cure,” or “secret remedy” for it. Recovering from Anxiety disorder requires accessing the correct information, help, and support, and then applying the right tools to bring about lasting success.

Said the robin to the sparrow,
“I would really like to know,
whey these anxious hum ban beings
Rush around and worry so.”

Said the sparrow to the robin,
“I think that it must be
that they have no Heavenly Father
such as cares for you and me.”
——Unknown

What is a Panic Attack?

Panic has been related to the “fight or flight” mechanism. Panic attacks are sudden feelings of terror that strike without warning. A Panic Attack can be seen as a sudden fear that is able to dominate or replace our thing, and is a reaction that is brought about by some outside stimulus.  It is said to be a product of the sympathetic nervous system.

A panic disorder is characterized by recurrent, spontaneous panic attacks. A panic attack is an acute episode of terror and discomfort. A barrage of terrifying symptoms take over the body, usually lasting only a couple of minutes, but sometimes continuing for up to ten minutes.

A Panic Attack will often occur when a situation happens which is perceived to be life or health threatening.  In other words, panic is an anxiety state we happen to be thinking about.

Stress is a psychosocial reaction. It’s influenced by the way a person filters nonthreatening external events. The filtering is based on the person’s assumptions, ideas and expectations. These assumptions, ideas and expectations can be referred to as social constructionism.

Stress can be a reaction to something out of your control, such as being stuck in traffic. This is considered short lived stress. Or it can last a long time if you’re dealing with relationship problems, a spouse’s death or other serious situations. Stress becomes dangerous when it interferes with your ability to live a normal life over an extended period. You may feel tired, unable to concentrate or irritable. Stress can also damage your physical health.

Both Panic Attacks and Stress  play very important roles in the natural survival instinct. The preparations for fight or flight are the body’s defense mechanisms. Preparing for the necessary course of action to be applied to preserve one’s, health or life, whichever one is in danger at the time.

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When it comes to Baby Boomers and a Home Based Business it’s important to be Open Minded and Creative

Creativity requires a willingness to look stupid, realizing that successful people think differently than unsuccessful people.  By understanding that the reason some people don’t achieve their dreams of a thriving home business is because they desire to change their results without changing their thinking.

Baby Boomers and Home Based Business can be a great venture when you fine tune them.

The baby boomer generation is like no other before it or after it. Technically, they are considered middle-aged, but they are anything but middle-aged in mind, body and spirit.

They know there is more meaning to life than just a commute to an unrewarding 9-5 job; but there are some really important steps they must take first.  In following these steps, planning and preparing for their home business now will lead to less headache’s later on.

Don’t quit your day job too soon!

In order to make progress in any area you must take action.  Successful people succeed through their thinking, their hands being helpers to their brains.

It is know that deciding to leave the security of a job with an established 401(k) plan, health insurance or other benefits can create a real tug of war issue with the baby boomers who truly intend to pursue their dreams of owning their own business.

Some things to consider before leaving your job to start your own business:

1.  Determine Your Exit Strategy

If you are a Baby Boomer now, you are somewhere between the age of 43 and 65 probably.  It doesn't really matter where you fall into this group, it is important for you to determine, analyze and prepare a defined exit strategy from your present job.

It’s very important to have an adequate savings stored away. Think of this as, “The Just in Case syndrome!”  But really it’s just plain old common sense, or better yet, “Wisdom.”

Also, you need to figure out where your health insurance will come from.  A working spouse?

2. Financial Planning

Creating a solid plan so that you and your family will know exactly what the financial picture will be until your business gets off the ground and starts generating revenue.

There are many different business models in which to choose from; such as home parties, consulting, online marketing, and affiliate marketing, as well as, health and fitness, just to name a few. Your  decision based must be based on your personality and what you are best-suited for.  It should be something you truly enjoy doing or you will fail.

Choosing a legal entity for your business should be discussed with a tax accountant or your attorney. Options are sole proprietor, LLC or Sub-chapter S- Corp.

4.  Plan Your Map and Map Your Plan.  Set Benchmarks.

Because you wouldn't travel across the country without a road map, it’s just as important that you treat your business the same. Setting financial and business-building benchmarks will help you to create a focused plan of action which will help you to reach your success.

5.  You Must Get Physical – Workout

While pursuing your dreams of a home business is something you may be very passionate about, you still need to be healthy.  If you do not have good health to enjoy the rewards of your efforts, then not much else is important.  What’s the point?

“For the Flower to blossom, you need the right soil as well as the right seed.  The same is true to cultivate good thinking.”–William Bernbach

Baby Boomers and Home Based Business can be win win when put together with the right mindset.

“Half of this game is ninety percent mental.”–Danny Ozark

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The Best Is Yet To Come

Always Remember That The Best Is Yet To Come!

I want to share with you a story about a fork.  In fact, this story is called: 

                                                           "The Fork."

There was a woman who had been diagnosed with a terminal illness and been given three months to live.  So she was in the process of getting her things "in order."  She contacted her pastor and asked him to come to her house to discuss certain aspects of her "final wishes."  

She told the pastor what songs she wanted sung at her service, as well as what scriptures she would like to be read.  She showed him what outfit she wanted to be buried in, as well as, requested for her favorite Bible be buried with her.

As everything was in order, the pastor prepared to leave, when suddenly the woman remembered something very important to her.  Wait, she said excitedly; "There's one more thing."

What's that, replied the pastor.  This is very important, she said, I want to buried with a fork in my hand."  The Pastor was in shock...That surprises you, doesn't it, said the woman.  "Well to be honest, I'm pretty puzzled at this request, said the pastor.

The woman explained.  "In all my years of attending church socials and potluck dinners, I always remember that when the dishes of the main course were being cleared, someone would inevitably lean over and say, "keep your fork."  It was my favorite part because I knew that something better was coming...like velvety chocolate cake or deep-dish apple pie.

Something wonderful, and with substance would be served next.  So, I just want people to see me there in that casket with a "fork" in my hand and I want them to wonder, "What is with the fork?"  Then I want you to tell them:  "Keep your Fork?"  "The Best Is Yet To Come."

The pastor's eyes welled up with tears of joy as he hugged the woman goodbye.  He knew this would be one of the last times he would see her before her death.  But he also knew that the woman had a better grasp of heaven than he did.  She KNEW that something better was coming.

At the funnel people were walking by the woman's casket and they saw the pretty dress she was wearing and her favorite Bible along with the "Fork" placed in her right hand.  Over and over again the pastor smiled.

During the message, the pastor told the people of the conversation he had with the woman shortly before she died.  He also told them about "the fork" and about what it symbolized to her.

The pastor also told the people how he could not stop thinking about "the fork" and told them they probably would not be able to stop thinking about it either.  He was right!

So the next time you reach down for your "fork," let it remind you, oh so gently that: "THE BEST IS YET TO COME.."

(Unknown Author)

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Creation And The Law of Attraction

Creation and The Law of Attraction is actually the combination of thought and love which forms an irresistible force.

What you are thinking about right now is creating your future life.  This is because you create your life with your thoughts.  The Law is simply reflecting and giving back to you exactly what you are focusing on with your thoughts. 

You see, whether you realize it or not, the Law of Attraction is always working. Positive thoughts attracting positive and negative thoughts attracting negative. Your life is in your hands.  You must know what you desire and then “ask” for it.

To know what you truly want isn’t as easy as it sounds.  Besides your physical needs, your mind is also filled with your wants and desires, as well as your “fears.”  Those conscious and unconscious.

Because creation is always happening, it’s important to know “why” you want the things you want.  It’s also possible that what you really want, isn’t what you’re asking for at all. Your conscious thoughts will produce the same amount of energy as your unconscious ones. Also know this; if your thoughts tend to be contrary to one another, you’re defeating yourself.

1. Believe that which you desire is already yours Now.

To visualize that you’ve already achieved your desire is a major step in itself. It’s the “positive thinking” step.  When you focus on having that which you desire, you are creating  positive energy. Then, the completion of your desire is a result of this positive
energy.

2. Receive That Which You Desire.

This is where so many people lose it.  It’s the completion of your desire.  You must allow yourself to acknowledge your “right” to have your desires fulfilled.

For most people accepting this will actually be the hardest part. If you
consciously or unconsciously feel you don’t deserve what you’re asking for, then be assured that you won’t receive it. If it’s impossible for you to believe you’re “worthy” of having your desires come true, be assured that they never will.

Always be aware of your thoughts.  Realize that you are the master of your thoughts.  Make sure that you “know” what it is exactly, that you want to be, do and have. Then begin to think thoughts of it, this will emit the frequency, and the end result is that your vision will become your life.

Creation and The Law of Attraction says that your thoughts become things.  Because like attracts like, realize that when you think a thought, you are indeed attracting like thoughts to yourself.  This can be used for your good, or for bad.

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