We all have heard of how bad things are.  The economy is down, we’re in a recession, jobs are constantly being loss, people are lost – unsure of what to do….But according to the recent blog post with the Wall Street Journal; “Not every industry was decimated by the recession, in fact some areas of the economy are thriving.”

Take a look at the list of the Top 10 Thriving Industries :

Are you involved in any one of these?  If so, you are in a good position!

I have been online for quite some time, and have been involved with a rock solid company since July 2011.  This company is 3rd in the above list –  in the category of “E-Commerce & Online Auctions”.

I am very happy to be a part of this company, the longer I am in it, the better it seems to get!  What makes it even more wonderful is that my team and I are committed to helping everyone succeed.  It’s amazing how many lives we have seen changed since they joined with us.  People have went from having to walk to their local library for internet access to having internet service in their own home, while others have went from foodstamps to freedom – saying GOODBYE to local assistance or welfare programs.

Their are so many happy testimonials.  Are you ready to add your own?  Let us make a change in your lives as well.  Click here to join our team today.

I look forward to working with you!  Have a wonderful day  :)

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Yes, that’s right…there’s even a 5 second rule for your landing (splash) pages.  And the count down starts from the moment their eyes first hit your site!

Did you know that more than 50% of visitors to any given landing page will bail within the first 8 seconds!?!? Yikes!!

That means more than HALF of the people who land on your page won’t even see what you have to say, let alone buy from you. I know this really sucks, but it’s the truth.  But let’s not get too worried yet, there is something you can do about it.

Let’s start off with something rather easy, shall we?

First, grab a friend and ask them to sit in front of your computer. Next, show them your landing page for 5 seconds only. Then, ask your friend the following questions:

• What was the purpose of that page?
• What was the call to action?

If your friend doesn’t know, you’ve got some work to do!

Some things you can do (and should be doing) are all simple things. Yet it seems that it is these simple tasks that people forget the most!!

You want to create your page with your CUSTOMER in mind. Ask yourself questions like, “If I was someone wanting to buy this product, what info would I want to see?”

Focus on only ONE message and make it very, very clear.  I see many pages that are stuffed with so much that I am not sure if even they know what they are promoting!

Make your call to action obvious.  You want it to reach out and smack them – POW! – right in the face, but in a nice, kind way..lol.

Another very important thing to do is to make a few different pages so you can test them. Testing should be one of your TOP things you do in marketing.  If you are unsure of what or how to do this let me know.  Also be sure to subscribe to my blog so you can be aware of my new posts because I will be doing a follow up post on the importance of testing soon!

Until then, have fun creating your new landing pages.

** Need help building a splash page, landing page, or website?  You are in luck!  I can help you with that also…click here for more information!

Landing Pages 5 Second Rule is a post from: Internet Marketing Tools And Tips - Nicole Acosta

Embedding a video is a great way to interact with your readers. Not only that, but it also increases the duration of their stay on your site giving them more time to check out your other posts, learn more about you, grab a free gift, get on your list and also provides a wonderful monetization opportunity!   So let me show you How to embed YouTube videos in WordPress blogs the best way that I can!

There are three ways by which you can add YouTube videos to your WordPress blogs. Before we jump right into the “how”,  let’s first understand some of the things that you need to know about embedding YouTube videos in your blog.

Go to YouTube and find the video you want to embed into your blog. For an example I will use a video that I watched last night…it’s hilarious! You can go watch it below, I added it so you all could enjoy a good laugh. Just promise me you won’t piss your pants!! LOL  :)

First thing you want to do is click on the Share button. Doing this will open up more options underneath the YouTube video which I have highlighted and explained in the picture above.

To make things easy, I always grab the embed code, un-check the top box which allows YouTube to ‘Show suggested videos when the video finishes’ and check the bottom box to ‘Use old embed code‘.

You simply hover/place your mouse inside of the embed code box; click to highlight and then copy the code.

Once you are back to your blog click on HTML

Paste in the code where you want your YouTube video to be.

If you are going to add more to your post be sure to click on the Visual tab that is next to the HTML tab and continue writing your post like normal.  Publish it when you are finished.

Enjoy the video!!!

Your Online Friend, Buddy, Mentor, Go-to-Girl…

I really hope this article will help learn How to Embed YouTube Videos in WordPress Blogs. Be kind…share this with a friend or two or three.

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It’s Contest Time….Are you ready to make some MONEY???

In order to help out our team members, we (Scott, Oniece, Carol, Janet, Obi and I) have decided to have a contest for our team!

Being such nice TEAM leaders, we have put together a referral contest to help give a little boost and hopefully explode this team even more.  You all do a very wonderful job – why not make a little extra cash?!!  I know that we all can use this, so go and have fun promoting like crazy! If you are in any of these teams, you are eligible to participate in this contest!!

If you are not on our team yet….

Contest Rules:

• Join our program here or click on the banner above
• Register to enter the contest
• Put your username and sponsors name on the contest page at PtcWorld
• You must tell us when you get a new silver member so we can verify it
• Prize money must be used to upgrade your free downline members, or used to buy sample bids. If you help your free members upgrade, it helps you in the long run.
• PROMOTE, PROMOTE, PROMOTE!!!

The first one to get 10 Silver members will receive $100, 2nd place wins $60 and 3rd place $40.

So start recruiting like crazy!

My daughter has decided to join the contest, only problem is – she is new to all this and has no way to promote.  But Mommy has decided to let her make her pitch here….

Hi everyone. My name is Alicya, and I’m 18 years old. I’m at home trying to finish school. I’ve been trying to get a job for a quite a while now, but haven’t had any luck.

My mom got me into this program and now I’m making money with it. Definitely happy about that.  I don’t have anyone in my downline yet – I want to promote, I’m just not sure how. I’m really looking forward to you joining my team

Hint, Hint!! Come everyone, I know you’ll LOVE this biz opp.

Take a look at these before you go:

• This is NOT something that will take you away from your current venture
• It takes less time to do then it does to drink a cup of coffee
• No need for a hefty downline
• Steady company with great customer service — here in the US
• Being able to work with me!!!!   (which I think is the best of all!)

Please if you have any questions, just ask.  We’d love to have you with us!

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How to change the Send Mail From in Gmail

For those of you who wanted to know how you can change the “from” email in your Gmail email account, I am here to try my very best to explain it for you.

There’s some posts that are easy for me to write and then there’s ones like this one, where I spend more time backspacing then actually typing!  So bare with me here if things seem out of sorts….lol.

It might be better just to watch the step by step video tutorial on this one, so I’ll leave the video right here at the top.  (If at anytime during the video you need or want to, just click pause so you can follow along.)

And now for the written step by step instructions….Log in to your account, then click the “Settings” icon on the top right, then from the drop down menu click on Settings. It will look like this:

Once you click on  Settings you’ll want to click on ” Accounts and Import ” then click on Add another email address you own.

Put in your name and the new email address; click NEXT STEP.

It will then ask if you want to Send mail through your SMTP server?

To keep things easy, don’t change a thing! Just click NEXT STEP.

You should see the page that tells you to verify your email address.  Simply click on the SEND VERIFICATION button to do this.

You will need to login to that email account so you can copy and paste the confirmation code that Gmail sends to you or click on the link in the email.

And, well, that’s it for the Step by step instructions on how to change send mail from or “send mail as” in Gmail!  Please be sure to share this with others, you’d be surprised just how many people don’t know how to do things like this.  It feels good to know you are helping out others!

Take care and have a wonderful day

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Ways to Build a Following for Free

Whether you are trying to monetize your blog, share information, build a list, or all of these you will need to attract a following. More traffic means more page views and more viewers.  This is what most bloggers have problems with.

So how do you build a following to your blog for free?

It can be quite simple, really! You just have to be consistent and (of course) follow my blog for new or updated blogging secrets.  I am always adding new tips and tricks that you don’t want to miss out on!

Here are some ways that you can build a following for your blog without spending any money:

Enable Comments

I know you are probably asking yourself, “Who doesn’t allow comments on their blogs??” but you’d be surprised how many blogs don’t. Enabling comments makes your blog be more interactive.  It gives you a way to communicate with your readers and for them communicate with one another.  This is important for building a blog community, because readers will feel like they are part of something.  As the blog administrator, don’t forget to comment on new comments yourself.  Make it easy to log in without having to subscribe to your blog, and you will see more people contributing to the conversation.  Another way to keep people commenting is to use the CommentLuv plugin.  It automatically adds a titled link at the end of the comment which links back to the their latest blog post.  Don’t have this plugin yet?  Click here to download it.

Social Media

Social media just might be the easiest way for you to build a following for your blog.  Facebook and Twitter are free and virtually effortless tools to attract more readers. Just like your blog, you will want to be sure to update these sites often.  If you are promoting your Twitter or Facebook accounts and your reader decides to follow you – which is what you want them to do – and when they get there they see it has been 2 months since you posted anything there, they may think that you don’t update information in your blog either. Use social media as a way to brand your blog; create a Twitter account that notifies readers when you add a new article or feature, and start a Facebook Fan Page that will highlight your readership. Let your readers do the work for you. With Twitter, people can easily retweet your tweets, which builds a bigger following. With Facebook, people can invite others to become a “fan,” which also reaches out to a bigger audience than you would have been able to do alone. Be sure to set up these profiles to the max.  This is what everyone will see when they visit them.

Videos

You can easily pump up traffic with videos.  Don’t worry…you don’t have to a full body shot video.  You really don’t need to show yourself at all if you don’t want to.  The main thing is, is that you make a video about your post.  Either explaining it more in detail or by showing them a how to use or do something with step by step instructions.  People love it when you make it as easy and pain free as possible for them.  If you don’t have a video for them to watch, they will most likely go search for one to help them if they need it.  All you are doing is giving this other person traffic.  Keep the traffic for you, or if you have someone you work with closely online you can help one another by sending each other traffic to their blog posts/videos.

Guest Posts

You will have to invest some time in doing this, but in the end it will be well worth it as writing a guest post is an invaluable tool to increasing traffic.  You can add backlinks to your blog which can draw brand new visitors to your website.  If the new visitors like what they see, they’ll come back and will mostly likely share it with others.  Also, by writing informative articles for another blog, you can establish yourself as an expert in your field.  Just be sure to find a blog that provides information about a similar topic, and contact the blog author to see if they allow guest bloggers.  There are many that do, and if they don’t now they most likely will. It never hurts to ask!

There’s many more ways to for you to build a following for free, but this should keep you busy for a little while.

Have fun my friends!

Be kind and share below with us what your favorite ways or places are that you use to build a following or to gain traffic to your site and why.

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If you have ever posted a comment on either one of my blogs, you may have noticed a little check box and icon under the submit or post comment button that says “CommentLuv”.

What is CommentLuv and why do I have it installed?

CommentLuv is a WordPress plugin that gives a blog more functionality.  There are many WordPress plugins which allow you to do pretty much anything from optimizing your blog to modifying how your  pictures are displayed.  Do a search for WordPress plugins and you will see what I mean!

The reason why CommentLuv was created was to grow the blogging community and to encourage interaction between bloggers.

How does CommentLuv work?

When you have CommentLuv enabled on a blog, the check box and CommentLuv icon is activated on every blog post.  When a visitor leaves a comment on one of my blog posts, the plugin automatically goes out and searches their blog for the latest post. If it finds one, it automatically adds a titled link at the end of the comment which links back to their post and looks like this:

See at the end of the comment it says “Roland Leveille recently posted….Save Money By Changing Habits”

The sentence that is in blue is the link to his blog, the last post he had made when he posted this comment.  When someone else see’s it, if it peeks their interest they’ll click on it and so they can see what it’s about. It’s a win-win situation for both the blogger and the reader.

I know many people might not like the idea their readers being able to go to other’s sites…You just have to be sure to keep posting things that will keep them coming back for more!

Do you have a blog?  If so feel free to leave a comment and give it a try.

If you have a WordPress blog, I highly recommend installing CommentLuv.

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What is the one thing that everyone online needs?

Leads, leads, and more leads…

Lead Skimmer is one of the best lead generation tools you will find. You will see once you join just how quickly you start to build your list…(dare I say it? yep, I’m gonna say it)…with ease! Lead skimmer allows you to build your list 3X faster than you can now, with REAL opt-in quality leads.

It is 100% FREE to join and as always, there is an option to upgrade on the inside. You all know that I LOVE free things and only upgrade to things that I feel will REALLY be of benefit to me. Well, this is one of them. It is to your benefit to take advantage and pay the one time upgrade fee as soon as you possibly can! Let me explain why…

It doesn’t matter who you are, how long you’ve been online, or what you do online. Sooner or later you will need leads. The sooner you start, the better. I am very greatful to have the chance to share this spectactular NEW lead generating system with you. It is still in pre-launch, which most likely means we are being offered the BEST options now!

Once you have created your account, EACH AND EVERY TIME you log in you will see a video from the owner with a quick overview of Lead Skimmer – you can either watch it or scroll to the botom of the page to “Click here to continue to your LEADSKIMMER.COM backoffice…”

Then you are taken to a page with a promotion or ad from your sponsor – only if he or she is an upgraded member – if not, then it skips that person and shows the promotion from the next upgraded member next in line. This my friend is a GOLDEN opportunity!! Not only that, but you also make a very nice commission for every person who upgrades with you as well. Either way, it’s a very wise choice to take the upgrade!

Have fun with this…share it with everyone and watch the leads as they fly into your list!

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We all love getting those emails that say “You’ve got money!‏”.  You know you get a smile on your face as the little voice in your head whispers Ka-Ching!  It’s a great feeling…but I can top it.  Now, some of you might know exactly what I am talking about.  Those of you who do, take a quick moment and give yourself a pat on the back.  For the rest of you who are still feeling a little lost, pay attention as I fill you in on this.

It is almost 2012.  We use our cell phones for everything under the sun, right?  So why don’t you have your cell phone hooked up to your paypal account?  If you haven’t done so yet, let me go over the wonders of  Texting with PayPal.

By connecting your cell phone number you can securely access and manage your account wherever you go. PayPal Mobile lets you use your mobile phone to:

• Check your balance
• Send money
• View past transactions

How cool is that??  I love it when one of my kids yell “Hey Mom, you just got a text from Paypal”, even they smile when they see who it’s from!  Another reason I like having my cell phone connected with PayPal is that I can easily send money to family and friends without having to be in front of a computer.  Anything that makes my life easier, I am ALL OVER IT!  If you have a smart phone, be sure to download the Paypal App.

Here are the Basic Text Message Keywords (or Commands) that you use:

To check your PayPal balance:

Text bal or balance to 729725 (PAYPAL)

Examples:

To: 729725
Msg: BAL

To: 729725
Msg: SEND 10.99 to 2125551981

To send money with PayPal:

Send a text to 729725 (PAYPAL). Specify the amount and the recipient’s phone number or email address.

Request money from another PayPal user:

Send a text to 729725 (PAYPAL). Include the words getand from, and then specify the amount and the phone number of the person you’re requesting money from. You can even enter several phone numbers – just separate them with a comma.

To get help with Texting with PayPal:

Text help to 729725 (PAYPAL), and we’ll reply with instructions.

There’s a lot more that you can do so be sure to login to your Paypal Account and read all over all the details they have.  If you do not have a PayPal account yet, you can open a free account here or click on the banner below.

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If you are wanting to pump up your SEO and reach the top, you should definitely be using videos.  There are many ways you can use videos to do this, from video tutorials to a full “about us” video that explains who you are and what your company is all about.  Take a look to see what  your competition is using or what others in your same field in another state or town have for their sites. Don’t forget to make it your own!

Here is a good video put out by Google that will teach you the basics of getting your youtube video’s to rank high in Google search.

Just throwing video up into youtube will not guarantee to you top the search engine result pages and according to Google, your video’s will only rank well if all factors are present including content quality and hits and ratings.

Go have fun and make some videos! Then come back here and share them when you are done!

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