We have had sort of a family situation here at home and I have not been able to prepare a new post in the last week. With permission from my friend, Kimberly Castleberry at “Just Ask Kim.com” I am borrowing one of her posts.

Upward Bound On The Social Train!

One of the most prominent trends in internet marketing today is the trend of social media. Social media is getting rapidly increasing in important.

Whether you’re a solo entrepreneur working from your house or a Fortune 500 company, you simply cannot afford to ignore social media anymore.

==> Studies Show Buying Decisions Are Influenced

Studies show that the majority of consumers today are influenced in one way or another by the posts of their friends.

If a friend recommends a brand, a place, a movie or a restaurant through social media, that person is much more likely to become a customer of that establishment.

On the other hand, if a friend complains about a business through social media, research also shows that consumers are much less likely to buy from that place.

In other words, what people say about you on social media plays a big part in consumers’ buying decisions today.

==> People Are More Willing to Share Links

When social media was first launched, people were cautious of sharing links. Sharing a link on Facebook appeared similar to sharing a link in an email, which seemed almost spam-like. In email, posting too many links is socially discouraged.

Today however, users understand that sharing links on Facebook or Twitter is perfectly acceptable behavior. Users are sharing more and more links today.

That means that if you publish top-notch content or do something innovative, the potential for your content to make its way around the internet is much higher.

==> Networks Influence One Another

The cross-pollination of social media networks is also getting increasingly faster. A post that gets popular on Reddit is rapidly going to get shared on Facebook. Something posted on Facebook will quickly be link shortened and posted on Twitter.

With or without your help, your social network is going to cross-post and cross-pollinate with other social media networks. The reach of good content and good promotions through social media is larger today than it has ever been.

==> Social Sentiment

One hotly debated topic is whether or not search engines can actually read the sentiment inside comments and tweets.

After all, if there are 1,000 tweets about “I Love Brand X,” it shouldn’t have the same impact as 1,000 tweets about “I Hate Brand X.”

The general consensus is that Google can actually read comment sentiment to some degree. Of course it can’t read highly complex comments yet, but by and large Google can distinguish between positive sentiment and negative sentiment.

It’s believed that sentiment plays a large role in rankings – as large as the number of shares itself.

==> Social Influence

The authority of the tweets, mentions, likes, +1?s etc are, of course, a measurement of how powerful each creator is. If they have a lot of followers and a strong brand, a mention or share from them weighs more than if they were a brand new account.

==> Starting to Influence Search Results

Social media is starting to influence search results. Getting exposure in social media is going to help you increase your rankings in the search engines.

In “3 Google SEO Changes Rattle SEOs & Bloggers Alike“, we looked at some dramatic shifts that are occurring in SEO today and social is most certainly one of them!

All this adds up to one thing: Social Media is getting more and more important by the day. In the past, social media could be just another marketing tactic you dabbled in. Today, however, it needs to be an integral part of any good business strategy.

Social influence is also beginning to be factored into SEO and shares from influencers in your niche can cause your content to perform favorably in the future!

And just because social media loves fun, viral topics, I thought you might enjoy Heidi Cohen’s “5 Dr. Seuss Quotes & Their Social Media Lessons“!

If you haven’t already gotten your foot in the door, start by choosing one network to master. Start with Facebook or Twitter, then move on to bookmarking sites like StumbleUpon and Reddit. Learn the system, build an audience and get in the habit of regularly posting great content.

~ Kim ~
Simple Tech Tips For Marketing

Read more: Social Media – It’s Getting More and More Important by the Day
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Thank you, Kim for the use of your post today.  Folks, please be sure to visit Kim’s Blog and share this post with your social media contacts.

Internet Marketing With Smart Goals

As an internet marketer for the last 4 to 5 years, testing and trying out and working with different businesses in order to create passive income has been my main goal, that will result in me being able to work totally from the internet.  We read, we learn, we download, we create, we think, we write notes, etc. but UNLESS you start internet marketing with smart goals, then you will be pretty much like myself and many others have been for a while; “spinning your wheels.”

Making money has been sporadic for me in the past but then again I also have no one to blame but myself.  I always managed to come up with excuses of why I can or cannot do something.  The main problem is that I did not believe in myself which has affected my success in many more ways than one.

The longer I work on the internet and the closer I am getting to my personal goals and financial goals of being independently working from the internet by June 30, 2012, I’ve realized I’ve been my own worst enemy.  It seems once I set my deadline, things started to fall in place.  I have made myself accountable to everyone that I have told about my goals and I hate to let myself or anyone else down.

Internet marketing and smart goals are not just words that you throw around and I don’t care how many fancy cars you stand in front of and say “Hey, I’m making a living on the internet.”  You have to do the work, walk the walk and talk the talk; they have to be words you live and breathe in order to get to your personal goals and financial goals.

I’ve joined Network Marketing VT with a few friends that I value their opinion very much.  Also I’ve realized I do believe in myself and it’s not always necessarily the program you choose, it’s the attitude you have and the mentors you work with;  put this all together, this is what is going to get YOU and I to our independent status that we so richly deserve.

Most of you that know me, are all too aware that I hate to make videos but I am doing it and will work at them until I become better at making them.  I didn’t ride a bike very well the first time either.

Forgive the shaking movements, I definitely have not mastered holding a video camera, driving and making a video at the same time but my message to you is genuinely something I believe in.

Internet Marketing With Smart Goals

 Do You Play Games Or Run Your Business

MLM Company Team Member and a Marketing Strategy

Photo: wn.com

Have you ever tried to play a game of ping pong or tennis without a partner?  You will very quickly find that it cannot be done; at best all you can do is knock the ball against a wall and hit it back with the same result over and over.

Working on the internet in an MLM company can be close to the same thing, if you are out there by yourself trying to play games or run your business.  If you do not have team members that are on the same page as you are and do not have the same goals in mind you may as well be batting your head against the wall like that tennis ball or ping pong ball and you will gets the same results.

You can talk to people on the net about your business and try and convince them to join but if they join your business basically just to “shut you up” you have not gained a team member, you have gained a non working spot holder.

If you cannot show effective leadership, enthusiasm and dedication, you cannot expect to build a team that has the same goals as you have and you are going to get no where – fast.

A marketing training system that we all can learn from and from people who have been in this business a lot longer than you or I have is going to be your best chance of success and to develop a marketing strategy. There is always something new for each of us to learn.  Each person has different strengths and when you open yourself up to the possibilities and believe that you can achieve your dreams, then nothing can stop you.  You cannot make anyone else have the same dream as you but you can find people who have their own dreams with the same goal or end result.

Jason Spurlock, Dana Durham Tisdel, Mark Manderville

As a team member of NMVT, we have the chance to work with many in this industry who have different reasons for working with an MLM company but the end result is the same for all of us; to learn to make a better life for our family and to pass on the knowledge we have to others following our path.

Right now part of my team is at The No Excuses Summit in Las Vegas, Nevada (I’m so jealous but I plan on sitting right there with them the next time), learning all that they can, to bring more information and more training back to us; their team.

I have been part of many teams and have met some great people who have turned out to be very good internet friends.  Others have signed up with what seems to be the intentions of getting something for nothing.  There are always going to be those types out there.  Your goal is to seek out those that do have the same passion that you do and have every intention on reaching the same goals.

Working with tools on the internet is just a part of the overall effort. There are many, many tools to work with but it depends on your work habits of what will do the best for you.

It is true that you can make a living on the internet for very low start up costs but let’s be realistic, there will be some costs in starting an internet business and the sooner you realize there are no totally free shortcuts the better off you are going to be.

Sign up for my newsletter, get your free gift and keep informed of what’s going on in my corner of the internet world and how you can get your piece of the pie.

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Do You Play Games Or Run Your Business

Internet Marketing and Make Money Online

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Most of the time I get stuck trying to decide on a topic to write about on my blog; of course most of us write about internet marketing and how to make money online.   People say just write as if you were talking to a friend, make it valuable information and if people are interested in what you write, they will stay and read and keep returning.

Some will share with others and some will never come back.  Trying to keep your blog focused on one specific topic or “niche” is sort of hard, especially if you have so many interests.

Confusion

So who do you please?  Your readers or Google or both?  Google changes things so many times and it is getting hard to keep up.

You know what?  I’ve always been different and in order to reach my intended goal, I have to do things “my way” and see where it takes me.

I still have this J.O.B. that I want to desperately quit and have made my goal to be full time on the internet by June 30, 2012 but if I don’t get my rear in gear, that will never happen.  So from here on in; I’m just being me.

Maybe you will be interested in what I have to share, maybe not but obviously I’m not moving forward by not doing anything and guess what?  You won’t either…  Are you in the same predicament I am in?

What keeps you from getting to your goal?  What are your goals and plans for you and your family?

So, as my way of helping, I’d like to let you know what is working for me and what can be working for you too?

First and foremost, my main business is TagVillage.  Dave Williamson of DaveDWilliamson.com and I provide lots of training information on TagTradingCentral.com.

An update from the Tagvillage CEO, David Ruebush;

April 3, 2012

I don’t want to give away too many secrets, but here are a few updates. The original idea for a social network that benefited Causes will be integrated throughout our new advertising platform. Advertisers will be able to support Causes, Publishers will be able to support Causes, and Tag Traders will be able to support causes. It is going to be very unique and special. We are building very useful widgets that Publishers will be dying to have on their pages. And, we feel, advertisers will be lining up to use.

In addition, we are enhancing the tagvillage website a lot over the next few weeks. We are adding almost all of the research data you can find on websites such as Google Adsense, KeywordSpy, and others. So, when you search for a Tag, you will see complete detailed information you would expect to see on many other keyword research sites.

So, this is my post.  Google come get me or sandbox me; I’m on a mission and I don’t have time to piddle around with stuff that does not get me to my goal.

If you are looking for something to make money online with internet marketing, every so often I will add a report of my progress in the programs I work with.

Tagvillage Stats:  Tag inventory of 3135 Tags, purchased for $1519.00, Valued at $1746.85 and a working fund of $198.12.

Join Tagvillage with me >>>HERE! 

Royalty 7:  This past week, I earned $151.10 which includes 7% interest and commission from April 1 through April 6, 2012.  My initial investment was $50.  I’ve withdrawn $130 to my bank account.  I joined R7 on February 13, 2012.  I have a total investment of $605.86 and a total working balance as of today of $81.19.

Royalty 7 – YOUR Ticket To Make Money Online

JSS Tripler:  This past week, I earned $81.20 which includes 2% interest and commissions from April 1 through April 6, 2012.  I initially started out with about $20 or $30 investment and have withdrawn well over that since I joined (withdrawn $104.24 according to my AlertPay account).  My bad, I did not keep a record from the beginning of my transactions because to tell you the truth, I didn’t think this would still be active and paying; but it is.  I joined JBP/JSS Tripler, back in July of 2011.   I will admit I did not read and study the program as I should have or I would have made a lot more money.  Now that I have educated myself on how JBP and JSS works and how to earn extra cash; the payoff is starting to increase.  I just received a $60 payment the other day for a matrix being filled.  I believe I have another 1 or 2 that will pay out $60 each in the next week or so.

JSS Tripler – Another Way To Make Extra Cash

My new venture that I have just started this past week is Network Marketing VT.  I’m still in the process of setting up my autoresponder email series and going through the training videos, attending the wake up morning calls, lead generating and the performance coaching webinars.  This is a bit of a change for me; usually I do not join any programs that require a downline or 1, 2 or 3 up systems but this was recommended very highly to me by a friend and I love working with Dana Tisdel and many of the other friends I have made there already.  As I am new at NMVT, I don’t have any monetary report to give you.

Watch this short Free video and take a test drive, on me…

I always have my Easy Double Wedding Ring quilt book for sale but now have it available in 3 different formats; PDF on my site Double Wedding Ring Quilts.com, Kindle version on Amazon http://tiny.cc/dwrkindle and paperback version on Amazon http://tiny.cc/dwrpaperback .  This book has gotten me through some rough times.

So if you have an idea or a method of doing something a little different, don’t be afraid to make some network connections, write a book or a report about it and get it out there.

Believe in yourself and know that there is someone out there that can benefit from what YOU know about internet marketing, earning extra cash; making money or work at home jobs.

Internet Marketing and Make Money Online

Vision Board For Motivation and Goals

Do you have a vision board for motivation and goals on your wall in front of you?  You should have!  If you have dreams and goals just tucked away in your mind and not actually posted on a board in front of you, then how are you going to be reminded every day of the reason that you push yourself so hard to attain those goals?

or even worse, if they are not staring you in the face, do you think it is the reason you haven’t worked hard enough and/or created the many excuses of why you are not succeeding or being able to fulfill your dreams. I’ve been working online for quite a while now and I am doing “okay” but I want to be doing better than “okay.”  Somewhere along the line I have lost my “vision” and the incentive to keep moving forward by making excuses without even realizing that I am doing it.

Are you doing the same thing?  Are you your own worst enemy?

Most of the time your subconscious mind is the thing that holds you back and until you take it as your ‘personal responsibility’ to do away with negative beliefs and any inner conflicts you might have; otherwise everything in your life tends to suffer; your mental well being, your health, your relationships, your job, your finances, etc.

It all begins to work like a “domino effect.”  When one little block falls on to the other one, it causes them all to fall; one right after the other.

A “Vision Board” can be made from anything YOU want it to be from; taping things to a wall in front of your computer, buying a cork board, using a whiteboard, or even a cardboard box and I know of someone who is very successful who uses “cardboard” for his vision board.

It has been proven over and over that increasing your self esteem and positive affirmation will go a long ways towards your success in anything you do in life.  Self improvement, self respect and making long term goals are also important factors in the “law of attraction.”  Motivation and goals are can easily be put aside if you do not have a group to work with to help hold you accountable in reaching your goals.

Tell me about YOUR vision board, what motivates you and your goals.

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