How To Find Creative Blog Names

Starting a blog is the best time to strike up your inner creative abilities but you have to translate this into a getting unique domain names and choosing creative blog names.

Did you know that one of the best ways to release your inner badass is to ignite the natural creativity that lies dormant inside you. We all sense a feeling of inspiration and creativity at one time or another, now it’s time to become more aware of it and use this inner power for a good use.

Once you have a good flow of creative ideas, it’s now time to consider what you want to name your new blog.

Reasons To Pick Creative Blog Names

There several reasons why selecting a creative blog names will be to your benefit. Here are just a couple examples:

• How will you set yourself apart (in a positive way) from the countless other bloggers or online marketers in your industry?
• How will your visitors know what you have to offer over your colleagues & competitors who are offering similar services & products?

This is all where the name of your blog and your domain name come into play.

For example, if your blog will help others by offering first-class trips to Venus and there is a demand (people searching online for trips to Venus that must be first-class), it would be helpful to not only you but your future blog visitors if you use these exact keywords when creating your unique domain name to match your creative blog names.

If you can’t get a domain name for your blog with the exact keywords, then pull out a resource or 2 from below to help you generate words with similar meaning to use in your domain name and for the name of your blog.

Resources For Finding A Creative Blog Name

Finding a unique blog name is quite simple and not difficult at all. Whatever you decide to name your blog, you will want to take that name and purchase a domain to go along with it. The best resources are:

1. Thesaurus – helps you find different words that are in similar meaning
2. Domain registrar – to help you purchase the domain name that you prefer – if it is available and not in use by someone else (GoDaddy & Namecheap are good options)
3. Nameboy.com – a company domain name generator that helps you select any creative blog name
4. Panabee.com – allows you to find your desired domain name for your blog by using keywords that you want to be in your blog name

 

 

Your Audience & Selecting Your Creative Blog Name

Do you know who is your target audience?

Are you clear about the products & services you offer?

Having clarity about your online business + you business blog will help you greatly when thinking of what would be the ideal creative blog names. Select a blog name based on keywords your target audience is searching for online. These keywords must be relevant to your products or services or you risk drawing the wrong crowd, which won’t help increase your conversions.

Chose keywords wisely in selecting your domain and your blog name so that your audience can find you, experience the ways your business solves their problem, and increases your conversion rates.

Ashley Porter

Skype: ashleyadrianna

P.S. Tons of people will find success online starting a new blog. Why not improve your chances of success too? Go here now. Get help coming up with your creative blog names & developing your blog into a stream of residual income. 

 

2012 Family Holidays + Google Hangouts | Increase Blog Traffic With Ashley

The holidays are here and more and more people are gathering during this time with the people, friends, and family that they cherish the most.

Distance usually has been a barrier until the rise of technology, webcams, and internet to be used as a way to connect with people we might otherwise miss seeing.

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1 Million Moments Of Giving

 

We challenge ourselves to Make A Difference

Today is the day you can be a part of history simply by giving. If you didn’t know, December 15th marks the date of The World’s Largest Giving Day. And I want you to join me to be a part of this. Here is how…

We are challenging you to Make A Difference on The World’s Largest Giving Day

It’s easy to get involved and it only takes 3 steps:

1. JOIN Ashley’s Giving Day Group on Facebook (and share with your friends)
2. CHOOSE whether you are going to Give Shakes, give time, or just give
3. POST your story on Facebook or Twitter (#ViCares) to inspire others to give

Giving food gives hope to a hungry child

Hunger exists in every community—even your own. One in four children go to bed hungry every night. We think that’s one too many.

Join the Vi-Community Challenge, and give hope to a child in your community.

Each $24 donation buys 30 ViSalus Vi-Shape® Nutritional Shake Mix meals for a child in need. ViSalus matches your donation meal for meal, doubling your contribution to a full pouch of 60 shake meals—equivalent to a month of healthy breakfast, lunch or snack options. Make a difference. Feed a child. Donate NOW!

Help Us Create 1 Million Moments Of Giving

 

Make a difference. Feed a child. Donate NOW!

I am looking forward to making a difference with you,

Ashley Porter

Review of The Mastermind Partner Program

 

My friend Andrea developed a mastermind group called The Mastermind Partner Program. Have you heard of it? If not, this article will give you a better idea of this program including:

• what this program is,
• who it is for,
• how to become a part of the group.

What is the Mastermind Partner Program?

Andrea Goodsaid developed the Mastermind Partner Program after realizing barriers into her own coaching program….Time & Money

I saw a distinct barrier to entry.

Two barriers really.

One was time…

(no one seems to have enough time – especially when they’re stuck in the “rat race”)

The other was money…

(the cost to get solid guidance on how to put all the pieces together – especially guidance that takes the wants and needs of the individual into consideration – rare and rarer)

And both were keeping me … and the people I was most effectively able to help … apart.

Many of these people were folks who I really dug too … I was not happy about having to wait till their next “I’m completely overwhelmed and I’m ready to quit” moment to connect again.

Something had to be done.

So I came up with my “coaching wrapped income thingy” … later to become known as the Mastermind Partner Program.

See I knew that I could easily “overdeliver” on a few hundred dollars worth of investment…

According to Andrea’s blog, here are a few things that this program includes:

Lots in the hopper…

~ a 6 month Accountability level coaching program

~ a 6 month JV partner program

~ several members with info products to spit shine and get launched

~ increased specialized group activity in our private inner circle community

~ the addition of as many as 3 residual income streams

~ an updated MPP Phase I Roadmap complete with a totally new income Jumpstart system

~ focus on specialized marketing methods and listbuilding goals

~ inter team contests

~ monthly webinars guest hosted by up and coming leaders in our Mastermind program

~ what else?

… we’re only limited by our imagination 

 

Who is the Mastermind Partner Program for?

This program is for those who are either new to Internet & network marketing industry or those who have experience but are hitting obstacles that is preventing desired growth.

Many will set out on the quest to become successful in a home based business but take on too many tasks without seeking expert guidance. The guidance that you gain from those within the Mastermind Partner Program is priceless and will take you further more quickly than figuring out everything on your own.

Those who are ready to learn and ready to take the right steps are the ideal individuals for this team. So much struggle for newbies is taking action steps or using specific strategies and then correcting those actions as needed along the way. The trouble is that there are many who either never take action, take the wrong actions without correcting them, or taking inconsistent actions.

Getting to know one another helps to identify with other members of the group help to hold you accountable. Seeing others achieve success and networking with them helps you learn what they are doing to accomplish success so that you can model the same. This is especially true when you know that ‘if they can do it, then so can you’.

How to become a part of the Mastermind Partner Program group

It’s as simple as making a decision. Once you have gotten all the necessary info to make an educated decision, then just do it. Get guidance, shorten your learning curve, and network with a group of successful home business entrepreneurs.

Get more info on Mastermind Partner Program  click here

P.S. Tell her Ashley sent you ; )

 Here is Ashley’s Mastermind Partner Program Review Video…

Hope the video was helpful,

Ashley Porter

Skype: ashleyadrianna

Learn more about the Mastermind Partner Program here.

 

 

 

Success Online: 3 Best Practices

Success in an online business is like reaching the highest peak of a mountain. It feels good to reach the top where so few are able to go. Too often, people fall short of success online because they quit before they get the the end goal, they lack goals, and other factors as well.

Just what does success online look like and how can you best equip yourself to accomplish success online?

This topic will be explore more below…

What does it mean to have success online?

The definition of success is different for each person.

Some would define success as having material possessions. Others would define success as getting specific results. And another group would see success as effort towards a goal.

Whatever the case may be, one thing is for certain, you must install some sort of tracking code into your blog or website. In order to quantify your success, it must be measured. Without tracking such as Google Analytics or Hypertracker, you would have a very hard time knowing for certain where your efforts produce the best results and how to make changes that increase success.

I wrote a blog article a while back about the #1 reason people fail to reach success online. In addition to this, there are other qualities that contribute to achieving success online.

Below are 3 examples:

How can you have the best chance of accomplishing success online?

1. Value – what is the value that you offer? What unique skills, talents, experience can you bring to the table that will benefit your team and the company that you work with? We all possess skills and talents that we can use to provide positive service to others.
2. Story – your team and leaders must feel an emotional connection to the story you have at the current moment. You never know when someone relate to and be inspired by your unique set of experiences that make up your story. Where you have been and where you are headed not only shows your potential for growth but also provides a platform for others to take action towards creating their story as well. While you are creating your story you can also share the stories of your team and your leaders as well.
3. Community – the support, vision, and common goals that are shared with a large group of people help bring about a sense of energy that propel us to move forward to reach higher paths. This is similar to a mastermind group or support group.

Now that you have a more clear picture of the ingredients of success online, you have the tools to go out and achieve your goals.  Use the tools you have through learning and training to go out and serve others first using online strategies then connecting and networking. This can all be done online in a way that brings you success in your online home business.

Where can I go to learn more about achieving as much success online as I believe possible?

To Learn more about how you use a system that’s designed to bring you success online. Click Here.

 

To your ultimate success online (or anywhere),

Ashley Porter

Skype: ashleyadrianna

Internet Leads: Here Are The Pros & Cons

Developing a large pool of targeted Internet leads is something that ANY business owner or entrepreneur relies on for for successful sales to increase business.

What are Internet leads?

Leads are people who have taken action to express interest in your product or service. Completed on the Internet, this is the first step in building a business that generates a steady flow of partners, clients, and customers.

There are many ways to attract more leads into your business. You can either do this yourself or you can hire someone to do this for you. You can also use internet or you can use more traditional methods of marketing to attract leads although an integrative approach expands reach greater than using either by themselves. The Internet is just 1 way to significantly increase home business leads.

 

 

Using Internet Leads & The “Pros”

Meet more people – if you attract internet leads online you are able to reach a global market of people to do business with. This is a bit different from attracting you local market offline. You can generally use traditional methods of marketing combined with Internet to expand your reach to those in different regions, countries, etc.

Stay at your home office – you can use your home office or you can connect with your internet leadsover any wifi or data connection (and a computer). This is great because video conference can be just as efficient as an in-person meeting and can occur without the time and travel expenses

Already using the Internet – the people who come into your marketing funnel as internet leads have 1 advantage so far and that is they are using the Internet to connect with those who offer more expertise in an are they are looking to achieve abundance with. If you want to work with people who are more ‘internet-savvy’ then this works to your advantage. Internet is become more popular because if it’s ability to be leveraged in business building and future clients, partners, and customers must be at least using and have basic knowledge of navigating the Internet.

Build your business faster – you can quickly develop a list of your own internet leads using paid advertising. Within 48 hours on some ad networks.

The “Cons” of Internet Leads

Expensive – buying internet leads from a 3rd party can be expensive because you are paying extra for someone else’s knowlege and effort. If you know how this works and learn how to do some of this yourself, you can save a cash then build your resources to be able to delegate & outsource these tasks to someone else.

Quality – 3rd party internet leads aren’t helpful unless you are familiar with the quality and integrity of the vendor who is generating the leads you purchase. Check beforehand to get a better idea of how well of a relationship the vendor has with his leads and how well they will respond to your offer.

Lacking relationship –  If you have purchased access to a group of leads, you will have to build trust with them over time before they purchase anything from you. These are people who generally will take a longer time to go through the sales funnel. The people who you build a relationship with online or offline are those who will become your loyal fans and will be interested in what you have to offer.

 

Building your business online of offline requires specific actions taken consistently. These types of actions include marketing and selling. Taking these actions (in addition to setting up an online marketing and sales funnel) will help you generate more internet leads.

Ashley Porter

Skype: ashleyadrianna

P.S. We are just getting warmed up…Learn more about how to generate and attract more internet leads for your business, Click Here.

 

Ideas To Monetize Blog Websites

Did you know that you can be up and earning money online (from your very own blog) in less time than you may realize. In less than 6 months from now, you can become THE authority within the blogging community.

Instead of taking 2-5 years to increase your earnings, why not shorten your learning curve & sharpen your blogging skills? The best way to do this is to take a shorter path to success by using a system to monetize blog websites that you created or someone else has created for you.

The average person would assume that a blogger is some slacker college student who types on the Internet about random stuff. But what many people don’t know is that you can work from home as a content marketer (aka blogger) or freelance online writer about interesting stuff that lots of people want to know about.

 

Why Monetize Blog Sites In The First Place?

Blogs are updated with fresh content on a frequent basis. The time it takes to create a blog from start to finish and on a regular schedule requires the same effort an energy as any other type of work. Getting paid for your work is one way that you can continue to contribute to the following:

• Paying for training to refine your blogging skills – taking any type of educational course, purchasing training tools and paying for mentoring are all expenses incurred that are essential for growth. Earning fund from blogging helps to pay for these upfront costs of developing your blog into a profitable one.
• Receiving for your giving of service – using your skills and talents to offer service to others in the marketplace is a big reason to monetize your blog. When you are using your earnings to provide for yourself and give to others you are able to attract more success into your life.
• Becoming a professional blogger – getting paid to do something you enjoy places you into the category of professional. While there are some interns or trainees who get paid while they are in the learning process most of them work without financial compensation so that they can develop their skills prior to providing services professionally.

How To Monetize Blog Site Successfully?

Become an affiliate -

• the key here is to affiliate yourself with a product or service that you have experience and success with or are very familiar and trust the integrity of the product/service creator.
• shoot for products and services that offer higher commission percentages earned, strong follow up sales funnel, and high retention and reorder rate

Create your own products

Offer your services (local or global; online or offline)

• set up payment processing online for services you can offer to the marketplace. This can work of those who will be working locally as well as those who will be working outside of the local market

Once you are set up as an affiliate it is now time for you to produce and market content on a regular and consistent basis.

• produce regular quality content
• market your blog consistently and as efficiently as possible

 

The Numbers You Need To Monetize Blog Websites

Be aware of your statistics so you can rest assured you are creating optimal conversion rates for success. This start with installing tracking code on your website and/or using email auto responder software that allow for tracking via tracking links.

Play a numbers and conversions game

• Traffic numbers – how many people visit your blog/landing page/offer? The livelihood of your blog and earning from blogging depend largely upon how well you are able to start your blog, increase blog traffic, build relationships, and develop sharp marketing and sales skills.
• Opt-in conversion numbers – out of all the visitor that come to your website, how many opt-into your webform and into your email subscription list?
• Sales conversion numbers – out of all the people who see your offer, how many make a purchase?

Monetizing a blog can be a wise decision to make considering all the factors discussed above. Blogs are simple to create, allow an outlet for sharing our talents with the world, and have the ability to connect individuals together towards a common vision. When mixing finances into the picture, it’s also important for integrity to remain intact for the benefit of the blog audiences.

Happy blogging!

 

Ashley Porter

Skype: ashleyadrianna

P.S. Ready To Learn More On How To Easily Monetize Blog Sites On Any Topic? Click Here

 

What Does Cyber Monday Mean To You?

Are you seeing Cyber Monday specials all over your computer? The people who are less than thrilled by the massive shopping chaos that happens yearly on the Friday after Thanksgiving, will be sticking to their computer to order digital and physical products online instead of in the store.  

Benefits Of Cyber Monday Specials

• Save time - The biggest benefit of Cyber Monday is that you If you know exactly what you want or at least have an idea of what you want, you can go directly to the website of your choice to order your product of service - online. The time it takes to do this is significantly less and can be done within a few minutes.
• Avoid long lines and waiting - waiting in long lines sucks and if you head out to shop for holiday gives and check out sales while the masses are out, you could end up spending a lot of time in long lines.
• Avoid travel time - if you live in a rural area or have lots of traffic in your city then traveling to the store to make purchases can take up lots of time you could be doing other things. Save time by cutting out the travel and purchasing online.
• Avoid aggressive salespeople - sometimes you end up purchasing more than what you planned or even something you don't want all because the in-store sales person has a way with words ;)

Drawbacks Cyber Monday Specials

• No physical (tactile) experience - some people like to touch products or play with them a bit by using a demo model. Think of that reclining massager you can try in the store before buying it.
• No taste experience - this could be very important for food items that you have never tried before but would like to try before buying.
• Buying something you don't really need or never intend to use just because it is on sale

Cyber Monday Specials for Bloggers

Channel the flow of online shoppers who are looking to buy. These types of visitors would be prime prospects if they land on your website during their buying process. This is especially true if your website caters to their needs, goals, wants, and desires. Offering discounts on your products or bonuses along with your products makes it more likely that your clients and customers will do business with you over your competitors. As an abundant blogger, you blog sites also functions as a store - in addition to learning hub. This is one of the biggest holiday weekends for retailers (brick & mortar stores as well as online stores). Cyber Monday is the perfect time to help others become aware of your website or blog and how you can assist them in reaching their goals. This is why it's important to leverage the holiday for making your business more visible to the people who are shopping online this holiday season.

Ashley Porter

Skype: ashleyadrianna  

P.S. Ready to release you inner blog creativity? Click to check out this sweet Cyber Monday specials.

Use The Power Of Language To Acheive Your Dreams

Have you ever had a dream of how you want your life to be in the future but somehow you find yourself slipping farther and farther away from dream?

It's not completely your fault.

You see you must understand how powerful language is for bringing your dreams and ideals to life. You may have worthy goals and dreams but if your mind (that inner voice inside your head - also known as your conscious mind) is believing the opposite of what you feel deep down, this conflict will keep you from getting what you want. The rational part of your mind will find past events to make a statement true to you. So for example: You have a dream of becoming a successful blogger and making money in the industry. The problem: You haven't made a reasonable income in the years/months you've been blogging, therefore you assume your dream is not a reality. You may even begin to doubt that it will ever become a reality because you have yet to experience it.

There is a conflict...

"What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve" ~Napoleon Hill

Here is an explanation of the conscious and the unconscious mind http://psychology.about.com/od/theoriesofpersonality/a/consciousuncon.htm Once the two (conscious and unconscious parts of your mind) are in harmony your dreams will begin to manifest into your reality. If you have not been accomplishing your dreams it's because you are telling yourself that you don't believe you can have it.

Pay attention to the thoughts that are going through your mind.

While you may want one thing, your mind (your inner thoughts) may be thinking the opposite. Have you ever told yourself you wanted something but your mind went to work - and you end up doing the opposite? Think about a dream that you have yet to accomplish but want to in the near future --- what are the thoughts that you are going through your mind right now? Have you told yourself not to do something, you end up doing the exact opposite? Your dreams may seem out of reach because you have been telling yourself what you will not do, will not be, or will not have - not realizing that in doing this you're actually planting a negative seed in your head that causes you to do the opposite. Examples -

• Do NOT click the yellow buttons on this site
• Do NOT give up on your dreams right now
• Do NOT fail in your current business like you did in your last business.
• Do NOT listen to the naysayers who tell you that your dreams are just fantasies.

Instead: Think, speak, and act of what you ARE going to be, do or have.

Examples -

• I WILL set an intention and take actions that are in alignment with my intentions
• I WILL keep my dreams alive by sharing them only with others who support me.
• I AM creating abundance for myself and those around me.

 

Now do you see how important your words and your language is to achieving what you want most out of life? Having belief is an important part of the formula for success but so is language. Once you have your language as something affirmative, then act them out with belief and you will notice how your dreams will begin to manifest.

Speak your dreams into existence.

Low-Cost Ways To Increase Blog Traffic

In this article I will outline the various ways to increase blog traffic. Some methods are low-cost - meaning you pay with time and effort (I don't believe anything is truly "free") & other methods are available at a cost of financial resources. Whether or not you chose to use low-cost methods or use a set monthly financial budget to increase traffic to your blog, you must keep in mind the following tip:

There are 2 things you absolutely have to do: 1) Produce Content and 2) Market Your Content

When producing and marketing content online, it is important to remain consistent with your blogging and traffic generation strategies over time in order to keep the momentum of traffic flowing to your site on a regular basis.

Producing Content To Increase Blog Traffic

Without content, it's unlikely you will have any viewers coming to your blog. Your blog is the perfect place to produce content to share with others and showcase your skills/knowledge in your specific area of expertise. You can either produce this content yourself if you like doing so or have someone produce the content for you. The content that you produce doesn't necessarily have to be in the form of an article so don't worry if you aren't the best writer. Here are a few types of content you can add to your blog:

• Videos
• Audios (ex. podcasts, mp3, etc.)
• Written documents (ex. articles, whitepapers, pdf, etc.)
• Software demos
• Images

Produce content on blog platforms that are simple for new bloggers to use and to design. The platform where you create your blog should also be ranking high on alexa.com and in the search engines themselves to increase likelihood you get more traffic to your blog

Marketing Content To Increase Blog Traffic

Producing content alone is not enough to bring traffic to your site and this is why your blog content must be marketed using 1 or many tactics to get you content and message in front of your target audience. Keeping your target audience in mind, market your content in places where they are looking for the solution you provide in your content. Place a hyperlink back to your blog so they can easily find your blog and what it offers. Here is a following list of "free"/low-cost ways to increase traffic (visitors) coming to your blog each and every day. Search Engines

• Those looking for solutions use search engines (Google, Bing, Yahoo) to find information
• Optimize your site by making slight changes to it in order to help search engines find your blog and pull it to the front of search engine results page

Tribes

• Build a network - Join forces with other interesting bloggers or people in your niche who are open to reciprocating the sharing of each others blog content as well as participating in each other's blog community by commenting on one another's blog.

Social Media Marketing/Online Social Network

• Social media is a great way to not only build and share with a community of targeted fans but also a very good way to build authority and credibility in you area of expertise
• Use tribes to build a community online of bloggers/readers/followers who share your content across the top heavily trafficked social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, Linked In, Google+, and your niche social network site

Social Bookmarking

• organize, store, manage and search for bookmarks of resources online vs. your local computer in order to access them from any computer as well as share them with others
• social bookmarking sites use an organizational strategy known as tagging. Tagging is a significant feature of social bookmarking systems, using keywords enabling users to describe and organize their bookmarks
• Social bookmarking provides backlinks to the websites that are bookmarked
• You can use tribes to build a network of other social bookmarking users you want to share bookmarks with, or you can use the built-in RSS feed to share your bookmarks with anyone on the Web.

Guest Blogging

• Creating content on the blog of another blogger related to your niche is a great way to increase blog traffic.
• Guest post on blogs that have established authority and already receiving high levels of traffic.
• You can also increase traffic to your website once you become established by introducing guest bloggers to your website.

Email Marketing

• Build a list of email subscribers so that when you update your blog with new content you have regular viewers.

Forum Marketing

• Join a forum related to your niche where you can learn and contribute to the community. Many forums allow placing a link back to your blog that forum members can check out if they are interested in learning more from you.

Now that you have an idea of how to get a surge of visitors to your blog, remember to create and market your blog content on a consistent basis. Without a regular pattern over time, you miss out on repeat loyal visitors who will eventually become fans, customers, or potential clients. This is one important ingredient in strong and profitable blogs use that continually increase blog traffic.

Should You Attend Events & Conferences?

Are you a business professional? Are you a future or recent college graduate? If so, you are probably wanting to learn more and meet people within your industry at every chance you get. One excellent way to do this is to attend business events and conferences. There are a quite a few reasons doing this and the reasons will benefit you and your work or business to a far greater extent than you can imagine.

First of all, you have an opportunity to meet people in person that you wouldn't otherwise have access to & you can connect in a way that is superior to virtual meetings . Think of the top leaders in your industry and the likelihood that they are conducting some type of major live event such as a national conference that you can attend. While you can meet people virtually (through video conferencing software such as Skype or Facetime) and through teleconferencing and webinars, there is something special about being in person. Making it out to these type of live in-person events means that you can interact with your leaders and colleagues on a more human level to include sensory perceptions such as touch and smell.

Next, you are able to learn from the successful people who have the results that you want to achieve. This is a great way to absorb insights from others that you may have missed or just haven't learned yet. Doing this also keeps you at the cutting edge of your industry as you are staying up-to-date with what is working and what is not working in your field of expertise. The information that you learn at these type of live events are like 'golden nuggets' that you can then go back and apply to your work or your business making you more valuable and increasing your credibility.

Finally, by getting out of your local market to attend major live events you are getting out of your comfort zone and getting out of your own 'backyard' - so to speak. Traveling to another city (if the conference happens to be in a city other than your hometown) is considered a luxury for many people but it can also be a great way to move your skills up to the next level, not just something to do on special occasions.

In conclusion of this article, think of any upcoming events that are happening in your industry if you are a business professional or a savvy college graduate. If you are considering attending the major live events - whether you have to travel outside of your hometown or not - then consider the benefits versus the downside. There are are few reason to keep in mind including: meeting & networking with industry leaders and colleagues, learning from those who are successful so that you can apply up-to-date & cutting edge info into your business or work, and getting out of your comfort zone & having a specific reason to travel outside of your hometown.

Have you attended any live conferences or events in your industry? If not, to you plan to in the near future? If so, tell us about your experiences in the comments section below...

Turn Problems into Something Positive

What problem(s) are you experiencing right now and how are you coping with the inevitable obstacles life throws at you?

Each of us has encountered some type of problem throughout life – ranging from small nuisances to major life changing setbacks. One important thing to remember is that it’s not necessarily about the problem itself but your perception of the problem & how you handle it.

Is it really possible to keep things going positively when your problems seem to be overwhelming you emotionally? I believe the answer is YES – You can turn any problem into something positive if you are empowered enough to change your outlook. This requires leaving the victim mindset and taking action towards what you want by turning the problem around.

If you think for a moment about how troubling a current problem is to you and what steps you can take to resolve problem(s), then this will help improve your life experience greatly. Here are a few tips to help you get a better handle on managing the problems that you encounter in life:

• Face the problems head on – avoiding the problems only make them worse than they have to be.
• Tackle problems step-by-step – break down major problems into something than can be managed in increments rather than all at once to prevent becoming overwhelmed
• Get support – get help from those who are able to help you cope with problems you face. This can be therapists, coaches, church leaders, etc. Someone who has overcome a similar problem and is able to remain an objective, non-judgemental listener and guider
• Plan for avoiding future similar problems – although we can’t avoid problems altogether, we can learn from them so that we don’t continuously make the same mistakes

No matter what type of problem you have, you can take the negative experiences and turn them into something good.

This concept seems quite simple but is very powerful. It came about as a result of me reading The Attractor Factor. In it, the author Dr. Joe Vitale writes about a past experience in which he overhears Mark Joyner’s conversation with a man giving his sad personal story when Mark said “Turn it into something good”.

Joe’s acryonym for turning your problems into something good:
T.I.I.S.G = Turn It Into Something Good

Your problems don’t have to define you or hold you down, they can be sources of something good that can alter the course of your life either for a positive or a negative. It is ultimately your choice.

Here is an assignment for you to do right now:

Write down and answer the following,

1. What is the problem that you are currently experiencing?
2. What steps need to be taken to resolve the problem?
3. Who can help you with this problem?
4. How can you turn this problem around and form it into something good?

Have you had experiences turning your problems into something more positive in your life or the lives of others? Let me know what tips or insights you have on this topic in the comment section below.

Twitter Marketing Tools [Top 3]

Twitter can be a great way to market your products and services to your target audience but it's more effective to use Twitter marketing tools to help you get your message out to the world. Here are a few tips that will guide you in your journey to exploring Twitter and using it for social media marketing online.

Learn the basics of Twitter before venturing into use of marketing tools

Marketing tools can help you but they can also hinder you if you haven't taken the time to do the following: * learn the basics of twitter * learn the basics of marketing on twitter * learn the basics of the specific marketing tool you are using to market on Twitter Make sure to set aside a few minutes of time each day to learn how to use the Twitter and the tools that you will be using. If a tool you use has training webinars or videos, watch them to get the best usage.

Marketing with Twitter can be done more effectively with tools

If you are the one in charge of marketing for yourself or your business then using certain tools will help you with your Twitter marketing efforts. The main reason for using tools would be to help

• grow your network consisting of those who are potential clients or customers
• provide your network with updates about your business
• present your network with solutions to the problems that they are facing thus positioning yourself as the credible expert

Twitter marketing tools will allow you to automate some of your effort thereby saving time for other activities and track your results as many tools have analytics so that you can measure the effectiveness of your online actions

Keep your Twitter marketing tools to a minimum

Just as not knowing the basics of twitter, twitter marketing, and twitter marketing tools can slow you down so can using too many tools. When starting out it is best to keep the number of tools you use to help market on Twitter to a bare minimum especially to learn how they work and once you get the hang of using them. You may notice that 1 tool fills in a need that another tool is missing and decide to combine the use of tools together to achieve a certain goal. Just make certain not to over-complicate things by using more tools than what is necessary.

My top 3 essential Twitter marketing tools

Without further ado, the tools that I use most often to help with marketing on Twitter are:  

Timely.is - this tools is helpful for scheduling your Twitter posts and sending them out at the optimal time when your audience is most responsive. Your posts are published when they will have the most impact, increasing the likelihood for retweets, mentions, and followers.  

 

Hootsuite - this tool is more like a social media management tool to help you manage your social media profile such as Google+, Facebook, LinkedIn, in addition to Twitter.

 

 

TweetAdder - this tool is used for automated Twitter marketing and promotion which helps you find like-minded Twitter followers and automate Twitter posts, manage multiple Twitter accounts, auto-follow/unfollow, and so much more...

In essence, Twitter is one of the top social networks and when used effectively (and in conjunction with quality tools) your marketing efforts will be greatly rewarded. Comment in the section below to let me know what your favorite Twitter marketing tool is.

Twitter Marketing Tools [Top 3]

Twitter can be a great way to market your products and services to your target audience but it's more effective to use Twitter marketing tools to help you get your message out to the world. Here are a few tips that will guide you in your journey to exploring Twitter and using it for social media marketing online.

Learn the basics of Twitter before venturing into use of marketing tools

Marketing tools can help you but they can also hinder you if you haven't taken the time to do the following: * learn the basics of twitter * learn the basics of marketing on twitter * learn the basics of the specific marketing tool you are using to market on Twitter Make sure to set aside a few minutes of time each day to learn how to use the Twitter and the tools that you will be using. If a tool you use has training webinars or videos, watch them to get the best usage.

Marketing with Twitter can be done more effectively with tools

If you are the one in charge of marketing for yourself or your business then using certain tools will help you with your Twitter marketing efforts. The main reason for using tools would be to help

• grow your network consisting of those who are potential clients or customers
• provide your network with updates about your business
• present your network with solutions to the problems that they are facing thus positioning yourself as the credible expert

Twitter marketing tools will allow you to automate some of your effort thereby saving time for other activities and track your results as many tools have analytics so that you can measure the effectiveness of your online actions

Keep your Twitter marketing tools to a minimum

Just as not knowing the basics of twitter, twitter marketing, and twitter marketing tools can slow you down so can using too many tools. When starting out it is best to keep the number of tools you use to help market on Twitter to a bare minimum especially to learn how they work and once you get the hang of using them. You may notice that 1 tool fills in a need that another tool is missing and decide to combine the use of tools together to achieve a certain goal. Just make certain not to over-complicate things by using more tools than what is necessary.

My top 3 essential Twitter marketing tools

Without further ado, the tools that I use most often to help with marketing on Twitter are:  

Timely.is - this tools is helpful for scheduling your Twitter posts and sending them out at the optimal time when your audience is most responsive. Your posts are published when they will have the most impact, increasing the likelihood for retweets, mentions, and followers.  

 

Hootsuite - this tool is more like a social media management tool to help you manage your social media profile such as Google+, Facebook, LinkedIn, in addition to Twitter.

 

 

TweetAdder - this tool is used for automated Twitter marketing and promotion which helps you find like-minded Twitter followers and automate Twitter posts, manage multiple Twitter accounts, auto-follow/unfollow, and so much more...

In essence, Twitter is one of the top social networks and when used effectively (and in conjunction with quality tools) your marketing efforts will be greatly rewarded. Comment in the section below to let me know what your favorite Twitter marketing tool is.

Summary of the Visalus Compensation Plan

Top network marketing leaders are drawn to the Visalus compensation plan - over other network marketing companies compensation plans.  The reason is because there are several benefits within the comp plan that allow the average person (with no network marketing experience) to achieve health and fin

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Summary of the Visalus Compensation Plan

Top network marketing leaders are drawn to the Visalus compensation plan - over other network marketing companies compensation plans.  The reason is because there are several benefits within the comp plan that allow the average person (with no network marketing experience) to achieve health and fin

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How To Attract Money

There is nothing like the feeling of not having enough money in your bank account. (Especially when you have bills and other necessities that have to be paid for). How do you attract money into your life when you don't have much and need more? Here are a few tips to help you attract money into your life

Model For Massive Succes With Blogging

The Feeling Of Empowerment ... There is nothing quite like feeling of being empowered to make money. If you don’t experience this feeling often, that’s okay… this the place to learn while making money at the same time.

Let’s even the playing field for ‘average’ people to make ‘guru-type’ money online with blogging.

Watch Dave’s Webcast Now to see how to make 100% commissions & make daily $1,000 commissions.

This is not for those who want to make small money slow. This is for those who want to make big money fast.

The Solution = Home Based Sales + Blogging.

The beauty of this industry is that if you are blogging, you don’t have to do the selling yourself. It is okay to leverage the skills of others. Dave & Dave have a natural talent for this kind of thing. Pay Attention & Take Action

Step #1 – Activate With Empower Network

• blogging platform – Simply use a blogging platform that require no technical skills and very simple to set up.
• affiliate account – Join as an affiliate to earn commissions ( starting at $1,000/mo. – $15,000/mo)

Step #2: Start a conversation

• leverage social media profiles – then link back to webinar (EN).
• Facebook – Create a Facebook Note on your public page to get indexed in the search engines
• Twitter – Send tweets to your followers
• LinkedIn – Send updates to your networks
• Google+ Send updates to your circles

Step #3: Share with your email list

• Email to linking back to EN (ex. this an Empower Network Livestream with your aff. link) for most traffic and highest conversions.

“Start a list and make money with it. I’ve used email marketing to do around 7-8 million in sales without paid advertising (with free marketing and social media).” David Wood

Implement within 60-90 days for instant and residual commission AND to recruit 2-4 people daily in ANY network marketing company. Get more details on home based sales and blogging with Empower Network here.

Video: 5 New Features of Timeline design for Facebook Pages

New Facebook Page Design

Posted on 05. Mar, 2012 by Ashley Porter in Social Media, Videos

Facebook (once again) has redesigned the look of Facebook Pages. They now have the look of Timelines and come with some new features.

The 5 features include:

1. About – Your cover photo & profile photo
2. Views – Highlight what’s important
3. Star, Hide, or Pin – Review your Page timeline
4. Admin Panel – Manage everything in 1 place
5. Message – Respond privately with messages

Check out the video above as I walk through a tour of the new Pages design.

Leave a reply in the comments section below with your thoughts on the new Facebook Pages design.

About Ashley Porter

Ashley is a full-time mother, blogger, and an Internet marketing professional. You can connect with her on this blog or on social media.

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On March 30, 2012 all Facebook Pages will automatically convert to the Timeline design. Watch this video tour of the new Page design.