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Work911 Ezine - Updates, New Free Stuff, Newsletter Changes, Articles

July 24, 2009 Updates, New Free Stuff, Some Newsletter Changes

It's pretty amazing how fast things move when you get older. I keep
promising to do these newsletters much more frequently, and
then...well, I don't. But here we are and hoping you are having a safe
Summer (or season of you choice). In this issue we have a number of
updates, and then some information on what's new and interesting on
our websites.

The Big News: Free2Thee.com

Those of you who have been with us for a long time know that we (as in
my company, Bacal & Associates) has been hunting down and making
available the best freely available articles on the web through our
various subject specific sites (e.g. conflict911.com, performance-
appraisals.org, smallbusiness411.org, and others). For the most part
the evolution of the net suggested that we spend less time on those
types of resources and more effort on tracking down free ebooks,
ecourses, whitepapers, audiobooks and/or anything substantial that
will help you, our visitor, learn.

The result is http://free2thee.com, a site that contains summaries and
links to material we feel is promising or useful in the support of
learning. We concentrate on business, but we won't be leaving out
other topics like personal development when and as we find really good
free stuff.

It's relatively new and we will be adding new stuff as often as we
can, but I'm fairly sure you should find something that interests you.
It's in a blog format, so you can rate and/or comment on the offerings
to help others, AND, in future, we'll be allowing visitors to add
their own favorite AND LEGITIMATE offers.

You can keep up with the offerings at the website at http://free2thee.com,
follow us on twitter (@free2thee or http://twitter.com/free2thee or
use the available rss feed. I want to stress: We are only including
real substantive offers, and not junk, spam, get rich quick stuff,
MLM, or those "free ebooks" that consist of five pages.

Check it out for yourself. I'm thinking you'll like it.

Changes at Both Our Training Related Site and Our Small Business Site

Essentially, what we are doing for both of these sites (http://
thetrainingworld.com and http://smallbusiness411.org ) is put our
development resources into the blog sections. There's still good
stuff, and articles, but all of our new articles, offers and materials
will be in the blog areas at:

http://thetrainingworld.com/wp/

http://smallbusiness411.org/wp

We've done this for several reasons. The first is to allow more
interaction, dialogue with and between our visitors through the
comment sections, and ultimately, to allow others to contribute
articles, while obtaining some free promotion and marketing "juice".
The second reason is ease of adding new material.

I think you will enjoy both of these blogs. You can keep up with any
new posts by visiting the websites, of course, by using the rss feeds,
or by following the associated twitter accounts:

http://twitter.com/trdev (that's for the training site)

http://twitter.com/smallbizIQ

You should also know that the title of the blog at our training site
has been changed from The Curmudgeonly Trainer, to The Happy
Curmudgeon to reflect a shift away from talking only about training
issues, and towards a general workplace topic blog.

A Newsletter Change:

SInce we're creating all kinds of new articles and resource links,
we'll be limiting our inclusion of complete articles in this
newsletter to shift towards providing some summaries of material we've
added, or we think has merits. We'll still include occasional articles
that might be of general interest, but that will be less frequent. We
are also going to start using "shortened" urls rather than long ones.
This is to ensure that the long links don't make it difficult for you
to access features. So, let's see what we have.

Featured This Issue:

How to Make Training and Development a Power Agent for Change

In this article, Jo Ann Kirby shares methods to get a decent return on
investment for training, and to use training and development to serve
required organizational change. It's not rocket science, but for those
making decisions about training (e.g. HR, Managers), it's useful. Long
link:

http://www.thetrainingworld.com/wp/2009/07/20/how-to-make-training-and-development-a-power-agent-for-change-for-managers/

Short Link: http://bit.ly/UZF0M

A Well Deserved Poke At Adult Learning Principles and Styles

Have at it trainers. In this article I provide a bit of a critique on
both adult learning principles and styles, two elements of "modern"
training that are essentially worthless to trainers and learners
because they don't add anything to actually help make learning more
efficient. Long Link:

http://www.thetrainingworld.com/wp/2009/07/20/a-well-deserved-poke-at-adult-learning-principles-and-styles/

Short Link: http://bit.ly/VfEV8

Productivity, Excellence and Giftedness by Gregorio Billikopf,
University of California

This piece was originally posted on HRNET by Gregorio Billikopf of the
University of California. It has some excellent thoughts, but even
more important it's a great stimulus for thinking and discussion
around many HR, training, performance and learning issues. Gregorio
has kind given permission to reprint here on our blog. Also added in
the reply section is Robert Bacal's reply, also from HRNET. Long Link:

http://www.thetrainingworld.com/wp/2009/07/11/productivity-excellence-and-giftedness-stimulating-article-by-g-billikopf/

Short Link: http://bit.ly/3b6H5

Free Whitepaper: The Pillars of Performance Management

This is a 20 page whitepaper that I quite like. It's rarely available
so if you want a copy, presuming you are interested in the topic, go
to http://free2thee.com . Info about how to get it is in the first
summary. But do it now. The offer will be withdrawn shortly.

Do You Believe Learning By Doing is a Superior Learning Method? Is
Your Hamster Smarter Than You? I'm at it again, puncturing some of the
"wisdom" that is accepted as truth in the training field. Enjoy, and
be sure to read the comments made on the article.

Finally, Playing Our Discount Game

If you go to http://busylearners.com (that's our store), you'll notice
that when you arrive, you will see an animated banner at the top that
says: "congratulations". If you pay attention, you will receive UP TO
a 50% discount on your purchases of Bacal & Associates products. At
minimum you will receive 10% so pay attention.

If you let the animation finish it will give you your discount code.
Make a note of it since you'll need it when you check out of the
shopping cart after choosing your helpcards or books. Enter it when
you see the space for it. Your discount will be automatically applied.
Offer ends without further notice at any time.

YOU WILL ONLY SEE THE DISCOUNT OFFER ONCE per day.

Our Sites:

Just a quick summary of our sites that have information on the
following topics:

Free Learning Stuff: http://free2thee.com

Small Business Resource Center: http://smallbusiness411.org

Small Business Blog (new material): http://smallbusiness411.org/wp/

Leadership Resource Center: http://work911.com/leadership-development/index.html

Communication Resource Center: http://www.work911.com/communication/index.htm

Conflict (both workplace and family) http://conflict911.com

Business, Strategic and Personal Planning: http://www.work911.com/planningmaster/index.html

Performance Management & Appraisal: http://performance-appraisals.org

Customer Service: http://customerservicezone.com

Our Main Site: http://www.work911.com

Multi-Purpose Articles Database: http://www.articles911.com

To new subscribers: The work911 newsletter is published no more than
once a week and contains articles on all things work related, and
contains other work related resources, and updates about our sites,
and their contents. Past history indicates we publish about every ten
days. Subscribe at http://work911.com/newsletter.htm

Don't forget that you can access free, useable previews of over twenty
of our books and helpcards at:

http://busylearners.com

and that we continue to offer special freebie offers and discounts to
our newsletter subscribers! (and our toolbar owners!)
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Work911 - Special Alert - Another chance to get free The Pillars of Performance Management

We have an upcoming issue of our newsletter due shortly, focusing on
free offers, but I didn't want you to miss out on this free mini e-
book because it's very good, and it will only be available for a
limited time -- Pillars of Performance Management

When I first came across this small e-booklet, I was extremely
impressed and I know a bunch of people grabbed it when it was
available before. It's back, and I'm telling you that it's an
excellent summary of the basics of performance management AS IT
SHOULD BE DONE. This is time limited so if you are interested, get it
now.

It meshes very well with my books on the topic, but the nice part is
a) it's free and b) It's only about 25 pages, and I think we are all
really busy.

Here's the summary info, and the url to grab your copy. Registration
is required.

"The Pillars of Employee Performance Management"

eBook & strategy manual for leveraging Employee Performance
Management in your organization.

Does your organization consider Employee Performance Management a
laborious, tactical annual practice, or is it a strategic, business-
critical cycle? Maybe it's time to reassess. Now more than ever, HR
professionals like you are tasked with optimizing Employee
Performance Management processes across the board to ensure the most
efficient use of corporate resources. Employee Performance Management

has the power to accelerate time-to-revenue, reduce risks, and help
your organization proactively address threats and opportunities.

What you will learn:

* How to derive real value from Employee Performance Management
* How HR can help align an organization's goals &
* Best practices for successful competency management &
* Five costly succession planning errors to avoid &
* How to manage compensation during the economic crunch

Grab it at: http://bit.ly/QF41C

Or, if you want to access our new free2thee project (which I'm rather
fond of) you can go to http://free2thee.com

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Fastest Way to Make $10k Per Month - Recurring Revenue Model

Recurring affiliate income is the absolute best way to create a consistent income from nothing on the internet. Here are my reasons:

1) You market once and you get the income month after month;

2) As an affiliate you don't have to worry about all of the following:
a) Customer service
b) Fulfillment
c) Product creation
d) Updates the web sites
e) Merchant accounts - Just use a market place like Clickbank or Commission Junction
f) Charge backs - The product creator handles all the disputes
g) Service fees for shopping carts, merchant accounts, customer service, delivery

3) As an affiliate of recurring fees you can concentrate on finding traffic solutions that convert.

4) If you create an opt-in page to capture your traffic before the affiliate offer you can get several offers going at once.

5) You direct your opt in list to cost per action or cost per lead offers and you can make money without having to sell them anything. The networks pay for leads and provide free stuff.

6) You can literally get start creating recurring income in once day.

7) You can start without a list or a Website

There are several opportunities out there that you can sell and get a $50 recurring commission if you simply get 200 people to sign up out of all the people on the internet you would make $10,000 per month. Of course that is our magic number but as you can see it could me much higher then this.

These numbers are purely for people signing up to a recurring affiliate program and do not take into account the other things we mentioned like sending your list of buyers and opt-ins to different related affiliate offers and CPA networks.

Once you find the products and services that sell you can create your own products to make all of the money. You will not have to waste time developing something that won't sell you will know that it does.

Again you can literally start with no money and create a $10,000 per month income stream very quickly. Here are the steps:

1) Go to a market place like click banks and pick you recurring affiliate product.

2) Advertise it for free through article marketing, word press blogs, press releases, Yahoo Answers, and viral videos

3) Use Onlywire to link in your blogs and articles to social media sites.

4) Use Facebook and tell all your friends about this article so they know what to do to!

Once you are making money each month use 10% to invest in a pay per click campaign to increase your traffic.

Spotting the Right Online Income Opportunity

You could be one of those people who have decided to start an online or offline business and are awaiting the right opportunity to come. But what would you prefer more? Being paid once for a product or being paid over and over again for the same sale.

It takes equal amount of determination and vigor in selling products online as it takes the determination to sell the products offline which pays the income monthly.

So, when you are eyeing in making a profit from your online business in the shortest time span possible, then you need that you have great and genuine products to sell and provide quality services to your customers. You may have your own products to sell but for that you need the right type of marketing, ad agencies, websites, support etc.

This leaves you with one option of finding the company that sell reputed and well known products and offer good services. A lot of people have been doing it and earning a respectable income out if it too.

The question arises that are there similar opportunities for me as well on the internet? And the answer is a yes. There are many online opportunities ready and waiting for you to crack them and tap into your experience to make your business a guaranteed success.

Joining the genuine companies gives you the advantage that these companies have already tried and tested everything from a wide range of products so you don't need to worry about testing anything. All you need to do is to follow their instructions.

Like many other people, you may start the business as a part time because in the starting, it's not the income that matters. What matters is that how you establish your business on the internet and make yourself reputed.

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How to "Amaze" People With Poster Printing

When you create a design for poster printing, you always want to amaze people. You want to engage them, and invoke some kind of intense feeling in them as they see your design.

This is because printing posters is not just about displaying information; it is also about making people react. This is something that you really should aim for in your color posters. Therefore, to help get that reaction from people, here are our five tips on how to "AMAZE" people using posters.

• A - Appropriate Concepts - The first thing you need to get that reaction is with the appropriate concept. Each poster has its own major topic or issue that you have to match with a good concept. For most poster designers this is the hardest part of starting a design.

The best way to approach this kind of situation is to look at what others have done in the past, and see how they matched the topic with an appropriate concept. Eventually as you see more examples, you should see a trend growing. Once you see all that has been done on the topic, you should now know what the best ones are and what the bad ones look like.

Simply follow the example of the good ones, but think of an original design that no one has thought of yet. Once you get that unique idea, your poster should be all set to get that unique reaction from people.

• M - Maximize Poster Sizes - Another thing that you should think about is your poster size. As a general rule for posters, the bigger a poster is, the better it is at promoting its content. You will get better reactions and a better impact when you use large poster sizes. Of course, not everyone can afford large poster printing, so you just have to maximize your poster size according to your budget. Print as large as possible to get the biggest possible reaction.

• A - Artful Designs - Also, artistic taste should also come into the picture when it comes to poster printing. You cannot expect people to be amazed by a large poster especially if the design is not really beautiful or artful enough. So always, aim to please with your design by considering the best trends on contemporary poster art today. Ask yourself what people want in a design, and then improve it with your own original interpretation.

• Z - Zero Blank Spaces - Do not forget as well to use every inch of space in your poster. Blank spaces really are an inefficient use of poster area. Most professionals find a way to patch up a blank area and give it texture. Subtle swirls, shadows and gradients give a blank area some content, turning your simple blank background into a more complete and appealing design.

• E - Emphasis on crucial elements - Lastly and most importantly, do not forget to put emphasis on your most crucial poster elements. This can usually be done by adding more lighted colors to that area when compared to the rest. By emphasizing the crucial figure in your poster, you can drive a person's eye towards that point so that he or she will know what the poster is about and of course how amazing that figure is.

These things will make your audience become amazed with your posters. Follow each item well. Your audience should appreciate your poster message well enough.

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Work911 Ezine - SPECIAL ISSUE - 50% discount PLUS some Free Offers

April 27, 2009 Special Edition Contents - Happy Spring 50% Off Sale,
Freebies

Special Issue:

I've been wanting to respond to the recession, and challenges people
are facing by discounting some of our products but I have had so
little time keeping my business healthy during these difficult times.
Now that my year end paper work is done, and warm weather has arrived,
I've allowed myself some downtime and think time, and, on the spur of
the moment, decided to offer a huge discount on The Defusing Hostile
Customers Workbook.

Normally the downloadable version sells for $32.95 U.S., and you can
purchase it for half price using the coupon code ROCKET88 (enter it
when you order the book, see below). Your price, give or take is
$16.47

The title says it all, but of course, you'll want more information
about it. Browse over to http://busylearners.com/products/i-defuse.htm
for details (you can purchase it from there), or if you are ready to
buy you can go to:

http://tinyurl.com/d34kw3

REMEMBER to use the coupon code. The discount will be applied when you
update the shopping cart, so you should be able to see the discount
reflected in your order. If you make an error, sorry, but we can't fix
it.

This offer is good only until the end of April, 2009, and is limited
to the first 25 people, so don't wait. In addition we reserve the
right to terminate this offer early if we choose, or to refuse or
cancel orders from sources with whom we choose not to do business.
(OK, sorry it's the legal stuff).

Freebies

While we are at it these free offers may be of interest.

FREE OnDemand Podcast: Implementing Change Management

As an HR Professional, learn how to get all of your employees on board
after your organization introduces a new technology.

Join Michael Sabbag, VP of Talent Management at Learn.com, in this 10-
minute podcast as he explains how to implement change management in
your organization. He covers:

Understanding the difference between change and transition

Identifying employees' emotional reactions to change and transition

Taking steps to create pre-rollout awareness

How to gauge user attitudes

http://work911.tradepub.com/c/pubRD.mpl?sr=oc&_t=oc::zine&pc=w_lear02

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Learn how to attract and track more website visitors, ensure
consistent follow-up, achieve increased sales productivity, keep
valuable leads from slipping through the cracks and more with this
exclusive Salesforce Small Business Success kit.

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Rapid E-Learning: Maturing Technology Brings Balance and Possibilities

Learn why more skilled learning professionals use these tools and how
you can get a solution to keep pace with your business demands.

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Organizational Agility: How Business Can Survive and Thrive in
Turbulent Times

Learn why 81 percent of executives view approaches such as knowledge
management and collaboration as the main drivers for increased
productivity, enhanced performance and rapid innovation.

In today's knowledge age, the ability to turn information into insight
in response to market movements is core to sustainability. This report
conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit examines the challenges
and rewards of organizational agility, particularly in tough economic
times. More than 300 executives around the world were surveyed on the
benefits, challenges and risks associated with creating a more agile
organization.

http://work911.tradepub.com/c/pubRD.mpl?sr=oc&_t=oc::zine&pc=w_emcx17

Our Sites:

Just a quick summary of our sites that have information on the
following topics:

Leadership Resource Center: http://work911.com/leadership-development/index.html

Communication Resource Center: http://www.work911.com/communication/index.htm

Conflict (both workplace and family) http://conflict911.com

Business, Strategic and Personal Planning: http://www.work911.com/planningmaster/index.html

Performance Management & Appraisal: http://performance-appraisals.org

Customer Service: http://customerservicezone.com

Our Main Site: http://www.work911.com

Multi-Purpose Articles Database: http://www.articles911.com

To new subscribers: The work911 newsletter is published no more than
once a week and contains articles on all things work related, and
contains other work related resources, and updates about our sites,
and their contents. Past history indicates we publish about every ten
days. Subscribe at http://work911.com/newsletter.htm

Don't forget that you can access free, useable previews of over twenty
of our books and helpcards at:

http://busylearners.com

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our newsletter subscribers! (and our toolbar owners!)

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Internet Marketing - The Top 10 Deadly Sins Of New Internet Marketers

Creating Internet Income is quite a daunting task for anyone however the challenges seem insurmountable for most newbies, especially those who are technically challenged. If you're considering marketing online or engaging in any form of Internet Marketing there are a few common pitfalls that you should consider.

Though I'm no "Internet Guru, these are just a few of the common mistakes and pitfalls that beginner Marketers typically face. For many, these mistakes don't surface until the negative effects of these actions surface. Many new marketers develop tunnel vision early in the online business building process. Hopefully this top 10 list will help you avoid the most common pitfalls.

1. Procrastination - The King Of Failure

Procrastination is by far the KING of failure with respect to online business success. If you fall into the trap of "putting things off", you will e doomed to failure. Be certain that you develop a consistent habit of taking action. Even if you consistently make mistakes it is imperative that you take action on a consistent basis. Create some form of time management system that you can use consistently. Prioritize your tasks and keep lists of everything that needs to be done. If you feel that your confidence level concerning your online activities is not quite up to par, do not allow this to hinder the execution of your planned activities. What ultimately matters is the consistent execution of your key activities. Your comfort level with specific tasks will improve over time!

Develop A Plan And Work The Plan...

2. Seeking Perfection From The Very Beginning

Many new online marketers go to extreme lengths to create the perfect scenario as they begin to execute their online marketing plans. The fact is, no matter how hard you try, it's very unlikely that you'll hit the "home run" you seek right out of the gate. Many newbies seek the perfect web site, the perfect email marketing campaign, the perfect online ad or banner, unfortunately it's VERY unlikely happen. It really doesn't matter whether your efforts are perfect or not! What's important is that you get started as soon as possible with the plans that you've developed. Your online marketing efforts will always be a work in process. As you move forward, you can easily tweak things to your liking. Some people set specific scheduled times to review work that has been previously performed and update as necessary. If you try to get everything perfect from the start you will hamper your long term success..

3. Wasting Money By Not Prioritizing Your Spending

This is important and key to your long term success. If not handled properly, this simple mistake will kill your spirit and put you out of business immediately. If you don't have money to try each any every enticing offer that claims to help your business. DON'T spend money unnecessarily!

The Internet is full of fantastic copy and enticing offers, some of which are great others not so great. Don't get side tracked by jumping from opportunity to opportunity, help program to help program or buying everything that lands in your inbox. The fact is, most online business essentials can be obtained for FREE. This is particularly true when you're first starting out. If you commit to engage in a little research, you'll be quite surprised at what you will find. Not only can you find great resources you will find them in many cases at no charge. Try to control your urge to purchase resources and tools. Think and evaluate carefully before you make purchases for your online business. Write a list of what you need. Examine the pros and cons, and make sure that your purchases are essential to achieving your goals.

4. Not Investing Enough Money On The Right Resources

Converse to point #3, many new online marketers fail to make the proper investment in the proper things. Anyone that tells you that you don't have to spend ANY money to grow an online business is lying to you. Unfortunately you will have to spend money to sustain your business. When you initially start, you won't have to spend much, as most of your time should be spent engaging in RESEARCH. You will need more money as your business continues to grow. For starters, you'll need a domain, a hosting service and an autoresponder, all of which are pretty affordable. As you move forward, the bulk of your expenses will be on testing and promotion. If you're paying someone to create a product or you're buying resell rights to a product or service, you must account for these initial expenses as well. Starting out with affiliate products can greatly reduce these types of expenses and allow you to gain a greater understanding of the processes involved as you market online.

5. Pursuing Difficult Markets Due To Ineffective Market Research

This is a typical mistake but an easy mistake to make for the new online marketer. Most new marketers pursue markets that THEY THINK will be profitable. Before you decide on a product or market that you wish to target, make SURE that you've performed exhaustive market research. If you don't, it could be months, even years before you realize that you're involved in pursuing profits in a market that is NOT commercially viable for a beginning marketer. Perform thorough and exhaustive research BEFORE you invest time and money in your online marketing campaigns. Understand exactly what the term "niche" market means and adhere to that definition strictly. All niche markets are NOT profitable. Before you target your market make sure that customers within the targeted market are willing to spend money! If the market that you seek is not commercially viable, refocus your efforts and pursue a different market!

6. Lacking The Desire To Grow

You must develop an unquenchable desire to grow. Continual growth of your marketing knowledge and your perspective with respect to online marketing activities is essential. Learning online marketing is continual process not a destination. It's essential that you develop this mind set immediately. If you're not open to continual learning and growth you and your online business will become stagnant quickly. The skills needed to market online are constantly evolving and changing. One of the most important things you can do is to constantly update your skills and knowledge base with respect to your marketing internet marketing efforts. It is important to note that this doesn't always occur in a linear fashion. There will be times where you'll feel that your learning curve has stagnated but keep reading, listening and learning and your insights will continue to expand. Don't get stuck using the same skills and ideas or doing things the same way for long periods of time without exploring ways to improve what you are presently doing.

7. Trying To Do Everything That Needs To Be Done... Alone

When starting an online business there is lots of activities and tasks that you need to address. This doesn't always mean that you have to do it all yourself. Of course, you can do it alone but it will make the road ahead much harder, and in most cases a much longer road. Without the proper support and assistance you are more likely to experience burnout very quickly. You don't have to outsource each and every thing, however it is wise to target certain areas that will monopolize your time and obtain help when needed. On-line forums, blogs and other portals can be a valuable source of ideas, and sources to provide assistance from other people in this area. Leverage your efforts by seeking assistance in areas that are not your best strengths.

8. The Pursuit Of Smaller Profit Sources / Setting Your Internet Income Goals To Low

Many new online marketers find it less intimidating to sell products or services that cost 10-20 dollars. They are misled into believing that these types of products or services will be easier to market. The fact is, in most cases, it takes just as much time, energy and effort to successfully market a $20.00 product as it does to successfully market a $100.00 product or service. Don’t dismiss the idea of varying the types of offers that you intend to market. Be sure to include a few higher ticket items in your offerings. If you've done your research, and handled your marketing correctly you can find success marketing these types of items even during the infancy stages of your online internet marketing experience. Undoubtedly, you'll get less sales, but you'll also enjoy more profits. You won't know if you can market these types of offers unless you're willing to give them a try. Don't assume that these types of products and services are off limits to your internet marketing efforts. Do the research, target your market, develop your marketing campaigns and promote offers that give you a chance to earn higher commissions along with your small profit offers. Many high ticket offers perform better with existing customers. You typically have developed a relationship with these customers and many will try your offers based on your business relationship and your credibility.

9. The Failure To Separate Your Business Life and You Home Life

Many new online marketers start their online business in hopes to escape the hustle and bustle of traditional offline business activities. Don't fall into the trap of creating another JOB at home with your online business. Though initially, getting your online marketing efforts up to par may take a little extra time and commitment, you don't want your online business ventures to dominate your entire life. One of the biggest pitfalls of working from home is the fact that work s always accessible and so is your home life. Knowing how to separate the two is essential for maintaining balance and a healthy perspective.

You'll find that your personal home life can also creep into your work activities. The fact that you're at home makes it easy for the lines that separate these two aspects of life to become blurred. Try to separate the two by establishing fixed times when you work, and fixed times for your personal home life. In many cases it's a good idea to establish a specific work area for performing your business activities. Work doesn't have to take dominate your life, define distinct barriers that separate your home life and your work life.

10. The Inability To Remain Positive and Ambitious

When you start to pursue your Internet business, you will undoubtedly have those that will not have faith in your long term success. Conversely, you'll have others that will encourage you and cheer for you every step of the way. I encourage you to surround yourself with positive thoughts and uplifting people to help you maintain your belief in YOU. Starting any type of business can be a daunting task. You absolutely must believe in yourself and remain ambitious to move forward.

Don't allow ANYONE to tell you what YOU can't do. Focus on your goals and set them in stone. Decide to decide to decide.... Once you've made a quality decision about your online marketing goals stick to them and pursue them CONSISTENTLY. Over time you will experience tell tale signs of success that will keep you motivated and moving forward. Create your own profitable mind set and don't allow anyone to rob you of that mind set. If you THINK you can you CAN!

Creating an Internet business that consistently generates Internet income is no small task, however if you execute consistently and stay focused in a few key areas it is certainly accomplishable. Avoid these costly mistakes to help you as you pursue your internet marketing goals.

How to Beat the Affiliate Competition

Beat the affiliate competition? How?

Considered as one of the best and easiest way to earn money today, affiliate marketing is now becoming a more and more popular way for people to make a living. But as more people lose their jobs and the job market worldwide continues to plummet, the competition online is becoming ever fiercer. In order to succeed in affiliate marketing today, you need some ways to distinguish yourself from the rest of the affiliate marketers, in order to beat the affiliate competition. Let us examine three very important considerations.

#1. - The first thing affiliates must do to be successful in sales, is to aim for high relevance, not high traffic. All aspects of your marketing campaign should be relevant to your audience and product. Use relevant keywords, ads and landing pages. You are much better off having1000 highly relevant keywords that each gets only one click/day, than one keyword that gets 1000 clicks/day. And often the difference between making a sale or not is a direct correlation of the relevance of your landing page. For example, when someone performs a search in a search engine, they are looking for the most relevant results. If someone does a search for “healthy homemade cat food” and you send them to a general page about cats, you would not be relevant enough. This isn't what they are looking for. Although the topics are semi-relevant, they are not PRECISE enough. The person wants information about cat food and doesn't want to search through a ton of cat information to find it! However, if you send this person to a page outlining the benefits of homemade cat food and places where they could buy it online, linking to your affiliate links, then you would be targeting your audience correctly. THIS IS CALLED LANDING PAGE RELEVANCE!

#2. - Performing market research is a very important part of setting up a successful affiliate campaign, and is the biggest factor separating amateur affiliates from the professionals. If you want to know how to beat the affiliate competition, you must learn how to do proper market research, and how to apply your research to your chosen niche. This includes:
- Understanding purchasing trends,
- Projections and other important statistics,
- Who are your target audiences and what their needs are,
- How to perform cross promotions,
- Tools you may need
- And the best affiliate programs that are available.

Learning to research and spy on your affiliate competition to see what keywords are working for them will also help you to replicate, and improve on their results.

#3. - Delivering quality information to your emailing lists is vitally important, and something that most people don't take the time, or know how to do, in order to beat the affiliate competition. Build a relationship with the people on your lists by learning how to write interesting and quality email that people will enjoy receiving and reading.

These are only three of the most important things affiliates must learn how to implement into their marketing strategies if you wish to beat the affiliate competition. The question is, how do you learn all that you need to know? Education, experience, idea sharing with other successful people in the industry, and skill development are the most important things that will determine the failure or success of future affiliates. Without these, making money online will remain a wish. Wealthy Affiliate University is the #1 affiliate training website on the Internet, and anyone serious about beating the affiliate competition would be wise to join.

To Get More Response, Make an Irresistible Offer

Any marketer knows that to get more response, you need to have an offer that would be hard to resist. So when it is time for you to start printing posters again, always remember to send out an irresistible offer.

Poster printing increases your chances of gaining clients because it helps you provide an improved image to your target clients. A positive impression therefore can greatly increase your response rate through your offer.

What can you do then to craft a stronger and much more compelling offer to draw them in? First, you have to do your homework. The very first step to having an irresistible offer when printing posters is to do the groundwork before you start everything else. This way, you will be able to make an offer according to what your target clients need and want.

Can you provide free samples in your poster printing? What about a special discount when they go to your shop on a particular date? A free concert perhaps when they go to your advertised seminar. As not everyone can give free samples to improve ones response rate, print collateral that provides alternative bids that your target clients would be hard put to resist makes for a positive impact indeed.

Nonetheless, a great offer comes from fully knowing your business first. As they say, nobody knows your business like you do. And when giving away offers in your poster printing is concerned, you need to know your economic capabilities; that is, what you can afford to give out. If not the free samples, what then are you willing to offer? What can your budget allow in the way of offers?

In addition, you should also know your clients and prospects for you to be able to appropriate the offers according to them. A more loyal customer that is been giving you good business for many years surely deserve more than that of a prospect. Maybe a significant price cut or a special shopping time would be the best offer.

The key is to create a very compelling message in your offer that would help make your target clients to finally decide in your favor. Do your homework and provide your target clients with the irresistible offer. However, make sure that you do not get your business bankrupt by doing so.

To craft the best offer when printing posters, the second thing you have to do is to explore you imagination. Be creative. You can design as many offers you want, but the thing that would really get interest is the one that is more imaginative and creative. Often, what piques the interest of any consumer is the most unique proposal that comes from an original and inventive mind.

What you can do is gather a team that will be responsible in coming up with the most original ideas for your offer. Determine a bid that would be both beneficial to your target clients and your business. Remember to drive home a message that says you are the kind of business that thinks of the clients first before profits. But do not overdo it that you forget to be realistic about your offer. Good PR is to be able to walk the talk. So be sure to make promises that you are sure to keep.

So the next time you print posters for your business, think of your offer and what your target clients can get from it.