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		<title>How To Set Up A Marketing Strategy To Sell Your eBook</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:50:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark McCulloch The Success Trainer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet Marketing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The offer of a free ebook can be an extremely effective way of attracting considerable numbers of viewers to your squeeze page, substantially increasing your website traffic and marketing your brand.
Many business owners fail to realise that as with any marketing campaign, the launch of an ebook should be planned and precisely targeted using a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 0px;"><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.markmcculloch.info%2F2012%2F02%2F02%2Fhow-to-set-up-a-marketing-strategy-to-sell-your-ebook%2F"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.markmcculloch.info%2F2012%2F02%2F02%2Fhow-to-set-up-a-marketing-strategy-to-sell-your-ebook%2F" height="61" width="51" /></a></div><p>The offer of a free ebook can be an extremely effective way of attracting considerable numbers of viewers to your squeeze page, substantially increasing your website traffic and marketing your brand.</p>
<p>Many business owners fail to realise that as with any marketing campaign, the launch of an ebook should be planned and precisely targeted using a number of marketing initiatives.</p>
<p>With this in mind, the marketing strategy for an ebook should include several elements such as:</p>
<p>Objectives &#8211; what is the point of offering an ebook? Driving traffic? Self-promotion?</p>
<p>Tactics &#8211; how will you make your target market aware that you are offering a free ebook on your website? Will you mail your current contacts, advertise or write an online taster article?</p>
<p>Measurement &#8211; how will you measure how successful your promotion has been? Will you use Google Analytics to measure fluctuations in website traffic? Number of new subscriptions?</p>
<p>Follow-up &#8211; subscribers will quickly lose interest if all you do is offer the ebook to increase web traffic over the short term. Continue to add value and benefits to your offerings through personalised messages offering tips, create more ebooks, offer discounts and be sure to maintain communication.</p>
<p>Always ensure that your ebook contains a link to your website, preferably at the very beginning, so that your main objective &#8211; driving targeted individuals to your site is given priority. Even if the reader loses interest or becomes distracted and doesn&#8217;t manage to finish the book, their curiosity will have been roused at the very beginning and so they will have visited your site before becoming immersed in the book&#8217;s content.</p>
<p>Promoting an ebook is also a great way of collating email addresses from your target market, so remember to ask them to complete only 2/3 fields of information in order for them to receive the document. Make it as easy as possible for them to receive the end product, or else they may lose interest and abandon the exercise altogether. Most website owners will ask for name and email address only.</p>
<p>There are a number of online ebook directories to which you should submit your offering, once it becomes available. One of the most popular is free-ebooks.net.</p>
<p>Offering an ebook on your site is a well used marketing tactic &#8211; and it&#8217;s free! However, as with launching any product onto the market, you should of course integrate this tactic into your marketing mix rather than use it as a standalone measure.</p>
<p>Do you have an e-book but are asking yourself how can I promote it, what is SEO and how it can help? Why not get in touch today?</p>
<p>I am over 10 years now FULL TIME working from home on the internet making money online and I have put together the following website to share all of my secrets with you at <a href="http://www.DecideYourIncome.eu">http://www.DecideYourIncome.eu</a></p>
<p>Regards Always</p>
<p>Mark McCulloch</p>
<p><a href="http://www.CoachOfSuccess.com">http://www.CoachOfSuccess.com</a> – <a href="maito:mark@markmcculloch.com">mark@markmcculloch.com</a></p>
<p>Internet Marketer and Entrepreneur, Committed to creating success</p>
<p>(UK) 07875 647 867 (Call Me Anytime), Skype – mark.mcculloch1</p>
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		<title>Free MLM Leads &#8211; 4 Strategies On Complete Autopilot</title>
		<link>http://www.markmcculloch.info/2011/06/17/free-mlm-leads-4-strategies-on-complete-autopilot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 17:19:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark McCulloch The Success Trainer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are simply so many benefits with learning how to acquire your own Free MLM Leads, instead of purchasing Leads and starting to contact them for your primary MLM business. First of all, we can all agree on that if people receive to much rejection, they will quit. So recommending your downlines to purchase Leads [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 0px;"><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.markmcculloch.info%2F2011%2F06%2F17%2Ffree-mlm-leads-4-strategies-on-complete-autopilot%2F"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.markmcculloch.info%2F2011%2F06%2F17%2Ffree-mlm-leads-4-strategies-on-complete-autopilot%2F" height="61" width="51" /></a></div><p>There are simply so many benefits with learning how to acquire your own Free MLM Leads, instead of purchasing Leads and starting to contact them for your primary MLM business. First of all, we can all agree on that if people receive to much rejection, they will quit. So recommending your downlines to purchase Leads and start to cold call them will almost guarantee that they just loose their money and quit.</p>
<p>So if you are like most network marketers out there, then you probably want to learn how to get free leads, and also duplicate that knowledge to your downline.</p>
<p>The truth is that the Leads that you purchase from different Lead Companies are usually shared with a lot of other network marketers. Those kinds of Leads have just answered an online request on for example, if they are interested in, &#8220;Making Money Working From Home&#8221;. So that has nothing to do with, if they are interested in working with you, and your particular MLM company.</p>
<p>Once you learn how to get Free MLM Leads and traffic to your website by using the power of Articles, Press releases, Ebooks, Social networking, Videos and Blogs, then it will be totally different, because then you will have Leads that have opted in for the right reasons. The main reason for that, is because those Leads have opted in because they want to receive more information from YOU, and your particular product and opportunity.</p>
<p>Another benefit is the viral effect you will get with those advertising methods, when other people start to spread your content and links around the Internet. So using these advertising methods correctly, is definitely the easiest, cheapest and most effective way to generate tons of Free Leads for your MLM business. In comparison with other advertising methods, these methods are not only highly effective and free, but also time-less, so they will always be effective.</p>
<p>Another advantage that is of critical importance is, that those advertising methods allows you to stand out from the masses, and other people will view you as an expert in the network marketing arena. So spending the necessary time, so that you learn how to get Free MLM Leads and traffic by using those advertising methods will probably be the smartest move that you can ever make.</p>
<p>Here are 4 strategies that will help you to position yourself as an expert and also help you to generate endless amounts of Free MLM Leads in the same process:</p>
<p>1. Learn how to use Free advertising methods that Brand YOU, and that also have the potential to put your primary MLM business on complete Autopilot &#8211; First of all: if you don&#8217;t use Free advertising methods, then you don&#8217;t really get your Leads for Free, because you paid to get your prospects to your website in the first place.</p>
<p>Second: Article marketing, Press release marketing, Ebook marketing, Social networking, Video marketing and Blogging are advertising methods that will help you to Brand and position yourself as an expert, which is of critical importance for MLM success.</p>
<p>Third: All those advertising methods have the potential to generate endless amounts of Free MLM Leads, plus putting your MLM business on complete Autopilot.</p>
<p>2. Design an effective Lead Capture Page and give away a Free Ebook in exchange for your prospects contact information &#8211; It&#8217;s one thing to get traffic to your website, but a whole other game to generate Free MLM Leads. The goal here is to GIVE away something of great value that has preferably YOUR NAME on it, so that you also win peoples trust and respect. The golden rule is: The better and more relevant your offer is, the bigger the chances are, that you will get peoples name and primary email address.</p>
<p>3. Use a &#8220;Tell A Friend&#8221; incentive &#8211; Offer an incentive if people pass on your Ebook to for example 5 of their friends.</p>
<p>4. Make a Video and post it on YOU TUBE and also on other &#8220;Video Sharing Sites&#8221; &#8211; Video marketing is an extremely effective strategy in order to generate Free MLM leads. Here you can give away some of your secrets in the actual Video and leave a link that points back to your website. Once your prospects arrive at your website you show them the rest of your video in exchange for their name and primary email address.</p>
<p>When you have everything set up correctly, you will Brand yourself and at the same time potentially generate tons of Free MLM Leads in the same process.</p>
<p>I am over 10 years now FULL TIME working from home on the internet making money online and I have put together the following website to share all of my secrets with you at <a href="http://www.DecideYourIncome.eu">http://www.DecideYourIncome.eu</a></p>
<p>Regards Always</p>
<p>Mark McCulloch</p>
<p><a href="http://www.CoachOfSuccess.com">http://www.CoachOfSuccess.com</a> – <a href="maito:mark@markmcculloch.com">mark@markmcculloch.com</a></p>
<p>Internet Marketer and Entrepreneur, Committed to creating success</p>
<p>(UK) 07875 647 867 (Call Me Anytime), Skype – mark.mcculloch1</p>
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		<title>Drive traffic to your website through targeted marketing!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 15:46:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark McCulloch The Success Trainer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So you got your website up and running. You hired an excellent web designer to craft a perfect home page and satellite pages that will really draw in the visitors and inspire them to buy. You have a beautiful catalog of products with detailed descriptions. You have a section dedicated to the services you provide [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 0px;"><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.markmcculloch.info%2F2011%2F01%2F25%2Fdrive-traffic-to-your-website-through-targeted-marketing%2F"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.markmcculloch.info%2F2011%2F01%2F25%2Fdrive-traffic-to-your-website-through-targeted-marketing%2F" height="61" width="51" /></a></div><p>So you got your website up and running. You hired an excellent web designer to craft a perfect home page and satellite pages that will really draw in the visitors and inspire them to buy. You have a beautiful catalog of products with detailed descriptions. You have a section dedicated to the services you provide with praises from past customers. And you have the best online shopping cart service out there so that you customers can buy from you with no hassles and next day shipping. That&#8217;s great! Now where are your customers? </p>
<p>Driving traffic to your website is a much discussed and much misunderstood venture. There are a million theories out there that claim to drive tons of new visitors to your site daily. There are services that say they will increase your traffic by an enormous percentage if you will only pay them their small fee over a period of fifty years. There are so-called experts who will place your pages on all the best search engines on the net. They claim that with this kind of blanket exposure, your traffic numbers will explode within days. </p>
<p>But the only sure-fire way to draw productive traffic to your website is through targeted marketing. The important word to notice here is &#8220;productive.&#8221; You can draw hundreds of thousands of visitors to your site every year by hosting a giveaway of some kind. Services that search the internet for freebies will have people clicking a link to your site like crazy. But these people are not there to buy anything from you &#8230; quite the opposite. They are empty clicks. There is nothing productive about this kind of traffic. People looking for free stuff will rarely make you any kind of money. And that&#8217;s what you&#8217;re after, right? </p>
<p>So target your marketing to the people who really want to buy what you have to offer. How? Start by trying these basic steps&#8230; </p>
<p>* Hire an experienced copywriter. The copy that is on your site makes a world of difference in the sales you garner from the internet. Most important to targeted marketing are the keywords found in your title and the metatags in the website&#8217;s code. An experienced copywriter will know how to determine the most effective keywords and place them strategically in your site&#8217;s copy. If you cannot afford a copywriter, do some research and talk to your web designer about inserting metatags. </p>
<p>* You can enroll in pay per click search engines. Obviously, google.com is one of these, but most of the most popular keywords are already taken. If you can think of some original phrases that people use to search for your products or services, you can post your ad next to the text that comes up when people search for that phrase. Every time someone clicks on your ad to go to your site, you pay google.com a nominal fee. </p>
<p>* Submit articles to free ezine sites. This is especially helpful if you are a service provider. You can write, or hire someone to write, an article for you about your area of expertise. Give some free tips, offer your experience, and be accessible in the text. Then at the bottom of the article, you get a link to your website advertising your services. Every time someone publishes your article in their ezine, newsletter or article directory they must use your web address at the bottom. </p>
<p>These are just a few of the many ways to ensure you get &#8220;productive&#8221; traffic. Empty clicks are just that &#8230; empty&#8230; and your wallet will stay that way, too!</p>
<p>Regards Always</p>
<p>Mark McCulloch</p>
<p><a href="http://www.OneMillionIncome.com">http://www.OneMillionIncome.com</a> – <a href="mailto:mark@markmcculloch.com">mark@markmcculloch.com</a></p>
<p>Internet Marketer and Entrepreneur, Committed to creating success</p>
<p>(UK) 07875 647 867 (Call Me Anytime), Skype – mark.mcculloch1</p>
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		<title>Do you have all the tools you need to make money online</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 17:23:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark McCulloch The Success Trainer</dc:creator>
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<p>I am over 10 years now FULL TIME working from home on the internet making money online and I have put together the following website to share all of my secrets with you at <a href="http://www.DecideYourIncome.eu">http://www.DecideYourIncome.eu</a></p>
<p>Regards Always</p>
<p>Mark McCulloch</p>
<p><a href="http://www.CoachOfSuccess.com">http://www.CoachOfSuccess.com</a> – <a href="maito:mark@markmcculloch.com">mark@markmcculloch.com</a></p>
<p>Internet Marketer and Entrepreneur, Committed to creating success</p>
<p>(UK) 07875 647 867 (Call Me Anytime), Skype – mark.mcculloch1</p>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Miss This Amazing Deal &#8211; Act Quickly!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark McCulloch The Success Trainer</dc:creator>
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<p>I am over 10 years now FULL TIME working from home on the internet making money online and I have put together the following website to share all of my secrets with you at <a href="http://www.DecideYourIncome.eu">http://www.DecideYourIncome.eu</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.CoachOfSuccess.com">http://www.CoachOfSuccess.com</a> – <a href="maito:mark@markmcculloch.com">mark@markmcculloch.com</a></p>
<p>Internet Marketer and Entrepreneur, Committed to creating success</p>
<p>(UK) 07875 647 867 (Call Me Anytime), Skype – mark.mcculloch1</p>
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		<title>3 Cold Calling Mistakes that Trigger Rejection</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 16:37:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark McCulloch The Success Trainer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are 3 common cold calling techniques that you should probably avoid:
Mistake #1: Center the conversation around yourself and what you have to offer
In the old approach, you introduce yourself, explain what you do, and suggest a benefit or feature of your product. And then you close your eyes and pray that the other person [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 0px;"><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.markmcculloch.info%2F2010%2F04%2F08%2F3-cold-calling-mistakes-that-trigger-rejection%2F"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.markmcculloch.info%2F2010%2F04%2F08%2F3-cold-calling-mistakes-that-trigger-rejection%2F" height="61" width="51" /></a></div><p>Here are 3 common cold calling techniques that you should probably avoid:</p>
<p>Mistake #1: Center the conversation around yourself and what you have to offer</p>
<p>In the old approach, you introduce yourself, explain what you do, and suggest a benefit or feature of your product. And then you close your eyes and pray that the other person will be interested</p>
<p>Unfortunately, the moment you stop talking you usually hear, &#8220;Sorry, I’m busy,&#8221; or &#8220;Sorry, I&#8217;m not interested.&#8221;</p>
<p>You see, you’ve started your cold call by talking about your world and what you have to offer. But realistically, most people aren’t all that interested in you. When you talk about your company and your product, it’s just another advertisement to them. You haven’t engaged them, so they often just &#8220;turn the page.&#8221;</p>
<p>Prospects are much more interested in themselves and what’s important to them. So if you start the conversation by focusing on their world, they’re more likely to interact with you.</p>
<p>So instead, talk about an issue or problem they may need solving. Focus on them rather than on what you have to offer. And see where it takes you.</p>
<p>Mistake #2: Be confident they should buy your product or service</p>
<p>In the old cold calling mindset, you’re taught to focus on the sale and be completely confident that what you’re offering is something the other person should buy.</p>
<p>The problem with this approach is that you haven’t asked them to determine this along with you. So think about it – in the old mindset, you’re really deciding for someone else what’s good for them. I know this isn’t intended, but that’s exactly what comes across to your prospects.</p>
<p>So rather than being full of confidence and enthusiasm, stop for a minute and think about the other individual. Relax into a real conversation instead of moving into a persuasive strategy or sales pitch. Put yourself in their shoes and invite them to explore along with you whether what you have to offer is a match for them.</p>
<p>Others really can distinguish the difference. You’re inviting them to see if you might be able to help them solve a problem. This makes for a much better connection right at the beginning, and you’ll get that immediate rejection reaction much less.</p>
<p>Mistake #3: When someone brings up an objection, try to overcome it</p>
<p>You know, one of the reasons cold calling is so difficult is that sometimes you may not be very familiar with the other person and their business. When you make that first call, you don’t know very much about their issues, problems, budget, and time constraints.</p>
<p>Chances are, not everyone is going to benefit by your product or service.</p>
<p>So realistically, your company or product isn’t going to be a match for everyone. And yet, when someone brings up an objection (&#8220;we don’t have the budget for that,&#8221; etc.), the old cold calling mindset trains you to &#8220;overcome,&#8221; &#8220;bypass,&#8221; or &#8220;override.&#8221;</p>
<p>But when you do that, you put the other person on the defensive. Something they’ve said is being dismissed. And here’s where rejection can happen very suddenly.</p>
<p>So it’s much better to listen to their concerns and continue to explore whether what you’re offering makes sense for them. There are some wonderful phrases you can use that validate their viewpoint without closing the conversation.</p>
<p>So now you’ve discovered the 3 major cold calling mistakes people often make. See if you can shift away from those old self-sabotaging mindsets. When you do, you’ll notice that people will engage you much more, and the immediate rejection you’ve grown so accustomed to will happen much less.</p>
<p>I am over 10 years now FULL TIME working from home on the internet making money online and I have put together the following website to share all of my secrets with you at <a href="http://www.DecideYourIncome.eu">http://www.DecideYourIncome.eu</a></p>
<p>Regards Always</p>
<p>Mark McCulloch</p>
<p><a href="http://www.CoachOfSuccess.com">http://www.CoachOfSuccess.com</a> – <a href="maito:mark@markmcculloch.com">mark@markmcculloch.com</a></p>
<p>Internet Marketer and Entrepreneur, Committed to creating success</p>
<p>(UK) 07875 647 867 (Call Me Anytime), Skype – mark.mcculloch1</p>
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		<title>Five Stumbling Blocks To Successful Networking And How To Overcome Them</title>
		<link>http://www.markmcculloch.info/2010/03/24/five-stumbling-blocks-to-successful-networking-and-how-to-overcome-them/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 12:57:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark McCulloch The Success Trainer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ability to connect with people is essential to success in any business.  Professional networking events present opportunities to interact with others on a personal level and to develop profitable relationships.  These occasions are critical for anyone who wants to grow a business or promote a career.
Many people are simply not comfortable walking [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 0px;"><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.markmcculloch.info%2F2010%2F03%2F24%2Ffive-stumbling-blocks-to-successful-networking-and-how-to-overcome-them%2F"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.markmcculloch.info%2F2010%2F03%2F24%2Ffive-stumbling-blocks-to-successful-networking-and-how-to-overcome-them%2F" height="61" width="51" /></a></div><p>The ability to connect with people is essential to success in any business.  Professional networking events present opportunities to interact with others on a personal level and to develop profitable relationships.  These occasions are critical for anyone who wants to grow a business or promote a career.</p>
<p>Many people are simply not comfortable walking into a room full of strangers and striking up conversations.  Here are five common stumbling blocks that you may face and tips to help you overcome them.</p>
<p>A RELUCTANCE TO TALK TO STRANGERS.  You were taught at an early age not to speak to people you don&#8217;t know.  It&#8217;s not safe.  In certain situations today this is still good advice.  In business, however, talking to strangers is a way to generate interest and support for your products and services.  If you only talk to the people you already know, you will miss out on opportunities to make new connections and establish valuable contacts.</p>
<p>To get past your discomfort in talking to strangers, set a goal for yourself before you attend any networking event.  Decide how many new contacts you want to make or how many strangers you want to meet.  In some cases, you may specifically target individuals whom you&#8217;d like to know.</p>
<p>Next come up with some icebreakers or conversation starters. Have questions prepared that you can ask anyone you meet at the event.  You may want to inquire about other people&#8217;s business, their connection to the sponsoring organization or their opinion of the venue.</p>
<p>LACK OF A FORMAL INTRODUCTION.  It&#8217;s much easier to make a new contact when there is someone else to handle the introduction and pave the way.  If you wait for another person to make the move you may not meet anyone.  At networking events, the goal is to meet as many people as possible.</p>
<p>This is the time to take the bull by the horns, walk up to people you don&#8217;t know, introduce yourself and start a conversation.  You can do this if you have prepared your self-introduction in advance.</p>
<p>You will not introduce yourself the same way on every occasion. Perhaps it is your first time to attend an association meeting. In that case, you might want to say that as part of your introduction.  Let people know who you are, why you are there and give them a reason to ask more abut you.</p>
<p>FEAR OF BEING SEEN AS PUSHY.  You may think that you will turn people off if you are assertive and that if they want to talk to you, they will make the first move.  If this is your line of thinking you will find yourself spending your time alone at the reception or meeting function and leaving without a single new connection.  Being open, friendly and interested does not turn people off.</p>
<p>You will not come across as overly aggressive if you seek out the &#8220;approachable&#8221; people.  These are the ones who are standing alone or who are speaking in groups of three or more.  Two people talking to each other are not approachable because they may be having a private conversation and you would be interrupting.</p>
<p>THINKING THAT OTHER PEOPLE MAY NOT LIKE YOU.  There is always the risk that the other person is not interested in you and doesn&#8217;t want to meet or talk to you.  It happens. If that is the case, don&#8217;t take it personally.  Nothing ventured is nothing gained.  When you get a cold shoulder, smile, move on and say to yourself, &#8220;Next?&#8221;</p>
<p>HAVING YOUR INTENTIONS MISUNDERSTOOD.  Approaching someone of the opposite sex to begin a conversation may seem more like flirting than networking.  This is more of an issue for women than men.  Women have an equal place in the work arena and need to make professional connections the same as men do. Women in business can no longer afford to hold back when there is opportunity at hand.</p>
<p>Neither men nor women will have their motives misinterpreted if they present themselves professionally in their attire and if they keep the conversation focused on business issues or topics that are not personal or private.</p>
<p>Whatever your stumbling blocks, face them before the next networking event and devise a personal plan for getting past them.  Once you do, you will find yourself connecting with confidence and courtesy on every occasion and the results will be reflected in your bottom line.</p>
<p>I am over 10 years now FULL TIME working from home on the internet making money online and I have put together the following website to share all of my secrets with you at <a href="http://www.DecideYourIncome.eu">http://www.DecideYourIncome.eu</a></p>
<p>Regards Always</p>
<p>Mark McCulloch</p>
<p><a href="http://www.CoachOfSuccess.com">http://www.CoachOfSuccess.com</a> – <a href="maito:mark@markmcculloch.com">mark@markmcculloch.com</a></p>
<p>Internet Marketer and Entrepreneur, Committed to creating success</p>
<p>(UK) 07875 647 867 (Call Me Anytime), Skype – mark.mcculloch1</p>
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		<title>A Reality Check On Your Marketing Strategy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:23:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark McCulloch The Success Trainer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The &#8216;Marketing Strategy&#8217; is the way we have come up with for achieving our marketing goals and it should include two mandatory elements:
- Which target consumers whom we can reach, hold a viable potential to buy whatever we intend to sell?
- What is the offer (the entire marketing mix) we will be presenting to these [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 0px;"><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.markmcculloch.info%2F2010%2F03%2F20%2Fa-reality-check-on-your-marketing-strategy%2F"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.markmcculloch.info%2F2010%2F03%2F20%2Fa-reality-check-on-your-marketing-strategy%2F" height="61" width="51" /></a></div><p>The &#8216;Marketing Strategy&#8217; is the way we have come up with for achieving our marketing goals and it should include two mandatory elements:</p>
<p>- Which target consumers whom we can reach, hold a viable potential to buy whatever we intend to sell?</p>
<p>- What is the offer (the entire marketing mix) we will be presenting to these consumers in order to appeal to them and thus realize the said potential, given their alternatives?</p>
<p>You must not think of these as two separate questions but rather as two parts of the same idea. Let me clarify. What are &#8220;target consumers with a potential to buy&#8221;? These are consumers (a sizeable enough group with buying power) likely to desire what you are offering. Why would they want it? That is the potential that you are supposed to identify. There may be several reasons. For example, maybe they are not consumers of your kind of product yet, however, they might be if something happens, or if they are exposed to a certain message. It could be that they have special needs or preferences, which up until today were not catered to by any of your competitors&#8217; offers (and don&#8217;t forget that psychological, social, aesthetic needs are real needs). Maybe they are bored with what they routinely buy. When you identify such a situation, you know that the potential is there.</p>
<p>Identifying potential is only the initial stage of your mission, of course. Your strategy would also have to include something that you are going to offer these consumers that might improve their situation in a certain way, solve a problem, give them more than what they already get for the same price, or open new opportunities for them. In short, something that will motivate them to buy from you and thus materialize the potential.</p>
<p>The &#8216;Marketing Scenario&#8217; is a synopsis of the logic of your marketing strategy. In the same breath, it also enables you to make sure that that logic really works. The &#8216;Marketing Scenario&#8217; translates the &#8216;Marketing Strategy&#8217; to simple everyday language. How will it happen in reality? How will the materialization of marketing goals occur? I don&#8217;t know whether or not you have already sunk in this fact, but marketing goals are achieved through customer acts. So, let&#8217;s assume that we install a webcam with enhanced psychological insight capabilities inside the market and that it captures the materialization of our marketing plan, one purchase after another. </p>
<p>What is the &#8216;Marketing Scenario&#8217;?</p>
<p>The &#8216;Marketing Scenario&#8217; is an amazingly simple tool to use: Only four questions. Are you jotting this down?</p>
<p>1. Who are the people who we believe have the potential of buying what we intend to sell? Yes, these are the same people we so often refer to as the &#8216;Target Consumers&#8217;. First, we must define our targets. What do these people have in common that makes them probable prospects (in the sense that they are likely to be particularly interested in our offer)? We could use demographic, socioeconomic, psychographic, as well as lifestyle descriptions. Note that at times, we target not a specific group but a wide almost indefinable group of people in a specific mood, a specific situation, or a specific need or state.<br />
Make room for another possibility. You can target not a defined group of consumers but rather a state of need/desire or a consumption context shared by many diverse consumers at one time or another.</p>
<p>2. What precisely should they be doing (that they are not doing already and will probably not do if we will not intervene), that would direct them to eventually choose our brand specifically? It is, by the way, the first and only objective of branding. What do they have to do so that your marketing plan will materialize (even before the actual purchase)? Do they have to go somewhere? To call? To agree to meet your salesperson? To stop and pick out your product from the shelf? Which activity, which does not occur today, would lead them in the correct path on the way to buying?</p>
<p>3. What is the sound reason that should motivate them to change their behavioral inertia? How will they benefit from that change? Why would you, in their place, buy what you are offering? You can think of it as your differentiating factor (what makes you differentially better?), or as your competitive advantage (what makes you comparatively better?), according to your preference. What could make their situation better compared to their current standing and to the other options available to them in the market?</p>
<p>4. How exactly will they extract the benefit (that which answers question 3) according to your marketing plan? That is not a repeat question. Notice that the third question dealt with the &#8216;why&#8217; of the target consumer&#8217;s planned motivation, and now, we are trying to understand the &#8216;how&#8217; of your marketing plan. How are you planning to provide the benefit defined in the answer to question 3? If, for instance, you said before that you are making something more accessible, easy or comfortable for them, now explain how it will become more accessible, easy or comfortable, due to you product. </p>
<p>Let us look at an example: The introduction of Palm Pilot to the market. O.K.? Just the main points:</p>
<p>1. &#8220;Residents&#8221; of the business community, gadgets fans, who manage a dynamic, constantly changing schedule, and have not yet embraced the electronic organizers, or were disappointed by them because of their being laborious to update and generally unreliable.<br />
2. &#8230; will step into the nearest office equipment store and ask about the Palm Pilot.<br />
3. &#8230; because at last there is an organizer which is not only sophisticated, small and wonderfully shaped, but is also easily kept up to date and  preserves the stored data when damaged or when upgrading to a new model<br />
4. &#8230; because the Palm Pilot can &#8216;converse&#8217; with the PC, making the updating process a simple task to perform, as well as enabling creation of backups which could be easily transferred on to the next generations of organizers.</p>
<p>That is what the &#8216;Marketing Scenario&#8217; is all about. All you have to do is answer the questions. Be precise. Be thorough. Be honest. Do it in writing. Even if you&#8217;re absolutely sure that the answers are positively clear to you and there&#8217;s nothing to be gained. Only when your &#8216;Marketing Scenario&#8217; is totally translated to a written text, should you go on and proceed with the brand development process. Otherwise, you will get trapped along the way, and don&#8217;t say I didn&#8217;t warn you.</p>
<p>I am over 10 years now FULL TIME working from home on the internet making money online and I have put together the following website to share all of my secrets with you at <a href="http://www.DecideYourIncome.eu">http://www.DecideYourIncome.eu</a></p>
<p>Regards Always</p>
<p>Mark McCulloch</p>
<p><a href="http://www.CoachOfSuccess.com">http://www.CoachOfSuccess.com</a> – <a href="maito:mark@markmcculloch.com">mark@markmcculloch.com</a></p>
<p>Internet Marketer and Entrepreneur, Committed to creating success</p>
<p>(UK) 07875 647 867 (Call Me Anytime), Skype – mark.mcculloch1</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:02:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark McCulloch The Success Trainer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So you have finally stepped into the world of making money online. You too, like the others, have decided to start with the affiliate programs. Also, you must have heard that it’s not a big deal to make good money with affiliate marketing, provided you choose the right programs and do some strategic planning while [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 0px;"><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.markmcculloch.info%2F2010%2F03%2F15%2Fviral-url-an-honest-review%2F"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.markmcculloch.info%2F2010%2F03%2F15%2Fviral-url-an-honest-review%2F" height="61" width="51" /></a></div><p>So you have finally stepped into the world of making money online. You too, like the others, have decided to start with the affiliate programs. Also, you must have heard that it’s not a big deal to make good money with affiliate marketing, provided you choose the right programs and do some strategic planning while promoting your affiliate products. So far so good.</p>
<p>Whether you are promoting other people’s products or promoting your own products – that doesn’t matter because after all it is nothing but your own business and your means to earn good money. So whichever be your case, I am sure you would not want to leave money on the table and invite others to steal your share of profit.</p>
<p>Even though the industry of affiliate marketing is pretty competitive but if you are cautious and are strategic in your marketing techniques then, it could be very profitable for you.</p>
<p>Take a close look at the industry, you will see that not every one who gets into affiliate marketing is successful. People who are doing well leave no room for failure and take all security measures and understand its importance.</p>
<p>Yes! Security is one of the key factors in affiliate marketing. If you do not adopt proper security measures, then your business will be at high risk. One of the most important way to restore security is to protect your affiliate links. Do not take them for granted. A bit of carelessness on your part in regards to affiliate links may cost you a lot of dollars.</p>
<p>Do you know the long complicated links that you send to your prospective customers not only look convoluted but they can create a lot of problems too! If you send such an affiliate link to your customers, then the smart ones will definitely figure out that you are promoting someone else’s product and they would rather visit the parent company. Also, if your link does not function then your customers have to type a really long URL into the browser, which will definitely put him or her off.</p>
<p>You could be a victim of even a worse situation. What if some devious Internet pirates steal your affiliate links and replace them with theirs. If they do that, then you get no commission at all.</p>
<p>Did I scare you off with all of the above possibilities? Well, that certainly wasn’t my intention. I just wanted to open your eyes and state facts that actually happen in the world of Internet. It happened with me until I came across <a href="http://vur.me/markmcculloch">ViralURL</a> , that brought a revolution to my online ventures.</p>
<p>So, if you are not getting the desired results out of your affiliate marketing,don’t lose hope. There’s definitely a remedy to this problem and that is <a href="http://vur.me/markmcculloch">ViralURL.com</a></p>
<p>Do I hear you asking, what is it and how can it help in averting any adverse situation for an affiliate marketer like me?<br />
Be patient and read on, if you love your business.</p>
<p><a href="http://vur.me/markmcculloch">ViralURL</a> is a link cloaker that protects you in the truest sense. There may be many unethical people lurking around, who might play with your affiliate links by cutting them off or replacing them with their own etc. How much effort you put in towards building your business and advertising your business, if your links are tampered with, then all your hard work will be rendered useless.</p>
<p>In order to avoid such a rip off, <a href="http://vur.me/markmcculloch">ViralURL</a> gives you full protection and sees to it that your affiliate links never get exposed to others.</p>
<p>So save yourself from getting ripped. Get all the commissions to your account that you rightfully deserve. All this is made possible by <a href="http://vur.me/markmcculloch">ViralURL.com</a></p>
<p>It is a blessing for every affiliate marketer like you and me, who wants to achieve success in their endeavor.</p>
<p>Is <a href="http://vur.me/markmcculloch">ViralURL</a> limited to only link protection?</p>
<p>NO!</p>
<p>It does much much more than that. Let’s see what ViralURL can do for us:</p>
<p>*<a href="http://vur.me/markmcculloch">ViralURL</a> helps us in protecting commission.<br />
*<a href="http://vur.me/markmcculloch">ViralURL</a> helps in building mailing lists.<br />
*<a href="http://vur.me/markmcculloch">ViralURL</a> helps in tracking statistics.<br />
*<a href="http://vur.me/markmcculloch">ViralURL</a> helps in earning extra ad credits.</p>
<p>In short, <a href="http://vur.me/markmcculloch">ViralURL</a> allows us to create massive business leverage.<br />
I don’t see any negative aspect associated with <a href="http://vur.me/markmcculloch">ViralURL</a>. All you have to do is join it for free, then cloak your links, promote them and see your business soaring higher and higher.</p>
<p>You can get all detailed information about the program from the site <a href="http://vur.me/markmcculloch">Click Here To Visit Viral URL</a> . There, you can find several unsolicited testimonials from various users of <a href="http://vur.me/markmcculloch">ViralURL</a>. So if you want to protect your business and see your earnings grow, try <a href="http://vur.me/markmcculloch">ViralURL</a>. You have nothing to lose with it.</p>
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		<title>5 Reasons Why Blogging is the New Internet Marketing Tool</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark McCulloch The Success Trainer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you ever feel like you know just enough about Blogging to be dangerous? Let&#8217;s see if we can fill in some of the gaps with the latest info from Blogging experts. 
Blogging is a concept that started in late 90s. It used to be a way to comment an existing webpage, an opportunity for [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: right; margin-left: 0px;"><a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.markmcculloch.info%2F2010%2F02%2F10%2F5-reasons-why-blogging-is-the-new-internet-marketing-tool%2F"><img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.markmcculloch.info%2F2010%2F02%2F10%2F5-reasons-why-blogging-is-the-new-internet-marketing-tool%2F" height="61" width="51" /></a></div><p>Do you ever feel like you know just enough about Blogging to be dangerous? Let&#8217;s see if we can fill in some of the gaps with the latest info from Blogging experts. </p>
<p>Blogging is a concept that started in late 90s. It used to be a way to comment an existing webpage, an opportunity for visitors and readers to react or voice out one’s opinion on the said page. What started as a single-sentence commentary has evolved into pages of personal take on just about anything and everything under the sun. As it continues to move forward, online advertising has tapped into the blog’s potential. Here are 5 reasons why you should use blogging as an Internet marketing tool. </p>
<p>1.Blogging is simple. The simplest way to get your piece on the net is through blogging. No skills are necessary… an average adult can read and type, or at least click a mouse. It’s like having a virtual piece of paper and you just write your ideas, experiences, new products, and hope that the truth behind your articles comes out and entice your reader to also try your product. If you have a PC and an Internet connection (who doesn’t?) then you can blog and advertise. </p>
<p>2. Blogging is authentic. In this day and age where advertising saturate our lives, we question the credibility of promoters’ claims. However, in blogs, real people share their real-life experiences, unscathed by paid advertising. Reading blogs about first-hand product use is like talking to people about their first-hand experience. You definitely want to buy a tried and tested product. </p>
<p>3. Blogging is free. Because blogging is yet to be proven as a mainstream online advertising media, most sites see it as something to augment current marketing tools and thus offer it for free. Any opportunity for free webtime is definitely a bonus especially to businesses that are starting up. Needless to say, paid blog pages can generate more income for your seriously growing business. </p>
<p>4. Blogging builds credibility. As you get more and more into writing your experiences on a particular product or industry, your readers come to realize that they can depend on your posts for their own information needs. As such, you become an expert on it; as a consequence, more readers visit your site and more bloggers link to your blogs. As companies and professional organizations notice the growth of your readership base, they may soon get in touch with you for advertising on your blog page, or make you an affiliate, which pays for every referral generated from your blog site. </p>
<p>5. Blogging builds your market. Unless you are a Hollywood star, chances are, only your Mom reads your posts. Mom has a lot of friends, so she lets her friends know how interesting your blog site is. But you need not depend on Mom to increase your readership base. Look into the following ways to build your market through blogging: </p>
<p>Knowledge can give you a real advantage. To make sure you&#8217;re fully informed about Blogging, keep reading. </p>
<p>-By using your e-mail. Today, blogging is overcoming the e-mail’s popularity in quickly and effectively reaching and expanding a market. In this age of speed and quick access, logging in and downloading e-mail is simply taking longer than clicking into a blog site. Let them explore your site by using a short e-mail message as teaser to your blog site. If your e-mail is on an entirely different subject, use your e-mail signature to give a link to the site. </p>
<p>-By using subscription. An easy way to get your readers e-mail is to give them an opportunity to subscribe to your blogsite. Keep some exclusive information for your subscribers to entice readers to subscribe and give their e-mail address. Just be responsible in using their e-mail address, as the last thing you want is a comment on your blog that you are a spammer. </p>
<p>-By understanding your readers. Conduct a simple survey for your readers to understand their profile and advertising preferences. Ask consumers to give you feedback on a post, an ad link, or a trial that you shared. In this way, it is like interviewing your readers without the commitment and intrusion of a face-to-face interview. </p>
<p>-By joining a blog network –A network of blogs maybe a collection of blog sites that share the same industry, interest, readership base, payment mode, etc. Consumers find credibility and convenience in clicking one link to several real bloggers about a single subject. Clearly, more bloggers are better than one. </p>
<p>-By using RSS. RSS is the fastest growing technology on the Internet today. As such, having RSS feeds to your blog is definitely another means of generating awareness for your readership base. Having a variety of feeds can add interest to your blog site. </p>
<p>Give your business a boost by effectively using blogging as an Internet marketing tool. </p>
<p>When word gets around about your command of Blogging facts, others who need to know about Blogging will start to actively seek you out. </p>
<p>I am almost 10 years now FULL TIME working from home on the internet making money online and I have put together the following website to share all of my secrets with you at <a href="http://www.DecideYourIncome.eu">http://www.DecideYourIncome.eu</a></p>
<p>Regards Always</p>
<p>Mark McCulloch</p>
<p><a href="http://www.CoachOfSuccess.com">http://www.CoachOfSuccess.com</a> – <a href="maito:mark@markmcculloch.com">mark@markmcculloch.com</a></p>
<p>Internet Marketer and Entrepreneur, Committed to creating success</p>
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