I meditate.Alot,as in every day.Why?Until you start to know your mind you will have no idea just how wild it is and how much control it has over you.
People talk about getting focused all the time so much it’s become a cliche.What people need to understand is that to get a focus that lasts the mind has to be tamed and controlled so it serves us, not the other way round.
So the way to achieve this is to sit comfortably in a chair close our eyes and start to observe our mind.This will be very easy as our mind will immediately say “well this is boring sitting in this chair,get up and go and have some fun”
We believe our mind is on our side but in reality it is run by our delusions that will be the cause of so much suffering in our life.Our mind kids us into thinking that our external world determines whether we are happy or sad but if you check I am sure you can remember when you were at a beautiful holiday destination but had a heated argument with your partner and felt miserable.You state of mind and the outer world are not related.By training the mind you can be happy all the time.
What you must do at this point is ignore the rants of your mind.Instead you must look for an anchor to which you can tie your wild mind.In this way you can start to bring it under control.The most common practice that gives you this anchor is the breath.I want you to focus on it as it enters and leaves your nose.
Just start,do it for five minutes in the morning and slowly you will start to perceive gaps in all the random thoughts of your wild deluded mind.As your meditations get longer and deeper you will start to feel a great sense of inner peace that you can carry out into your daily life.
If your focus is building a business then it will help you here.We are under great pressure to deliver excellent customer service and with a calm and peaceful mind you can always deal with difficult situations, difficult clients,without losing your temper.
Calming your mind will add to your bottom line.I long for the day when meditation becomes common practice in the work place.
If you are a boss have the courage to introduce it in your company.Remember a happy workforce is a hard working workforce.
with love and best wishes
Andrew Collinson
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As internet marketers we want to spend most of our time working
on the things that will bring in the most revenue and for me
that is product creation.
So as much as possible we need to outsource the more mundane
aspects of making a living online.
Now there are many outsourcing services but if you are really on a tight budget then I recommend you go with Fiverr.comThis site has people willing to perform various tasks for you for just $5.
So all you have to do is find someone on the site who is willing to do the job you want done.Once you decide on who is going to do the job you pay your $5 into Fiverr who hold the money until the task is done to your satisfaction.
I have used this service to syndicate videos,builder headers for blogs and do various social media jobs.In all case I have found the standard of work to be good. Don’t expect to find someone to do a complex job,you must got to Elance or O Desk for that.
Simple jobs is what this site is about.
So try it now for some tedious job you have no time for.It will free you up to do the more important stuff.
Yours in Mastery
Andrew Collinson
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Frank Kern and the state of the internet address 2012
Have you ever watched Internet marketing Guru Frank Kern’s state of the internet address?
He does one every year sitting behind a big desk like he’s the President of the United States giving his opinion of what is going on in the world of internet marketing.
In his address Frank look at the three things that can make the difference between success and failure on the internet.
They are marketing,technology and what he calls the “magic bullet”
In his view we have been focusing far too much on the first two and not enough of the third.
In my view technology is the least important and always has been.Yes we need to have lead capture pages and websites up there but that can all be outsourced.
We can go to places like O Desk and Elance and pay someone to do it for us.I myself use SBI (Site Build It) which takes care of all the techie stuff leaving me to concentrate on the content which is my magic bullet.
Marketing is more important that technology for sure.But we can get lost in the need to have more Facebook or Twitter followers or have more You Tube videos posted.
But the truth if your offer is really really good it won’t need much marketing.This is your magic bullet.
People will find it through the search engines because the offer will solve a problem that is worrying them right now and they are will to pay someone to solve that problem for them.
So what is your offer?Does it solve a deep pressing problem, one that has a large enough market for it to be profitable for you?
With all the keyword research tools out there such as Wordtracker you can see for yourself where the demand is.Not only that you can see if there is competition too.
Try Market Samuri for example, which can assess competition as well as keyword demand.
Then go away and create your magic bullet,the offer so good that no one can resist it.Getting traffic will not be a problem.People will talk about it and it will go viral.
So what is the offer you have?Tell me about it by leaving a comment in the box below.I look forward to hearing from you.
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1.Reply to comments.It is true that many comments are just spam placed on your site merely to get back links.But some comments are genuine and you should reply as someone has taken time out of their day to comment on your blog post.So the least you can do is respond.If the comment is long and adds real value that give it a detailed response not just “thanks for your great comments”.
2.If someone mentions you on social media or a blog go and thank them.To track a mention of your name use Google Alerts and set up your name or business and the keyword phrase.Then once a week check your alerts and see who has mentioned you.If they talk about you in a nice way thank them.
3.Use the like and tweet buttons a lot when you find something of value.It will spread your name and hopefully people will like and follow you back.
4.Decrease your page load time.A page heavy with graphics and images will frustrate your visitor and they will more likely hit the back button.Also I have heard page load time has an effect on your Google ranking so re visit your site and remove anything that slows the load time down.
5.Lay off the sales pitches.Don’t you run a mile when someone who has just joined some MLM program launches into their sales pitch and may even take you through a Power Point presentation.If you help people they will buy from you because they have grown to know like and trust you.Let your site or blog do the selling.
6.Write an evergreen post i.e. one that will survive the test of time.Sure you need to report on the current trends but you also need to write about timeless truths.These become your landmark posts and are longer in length than most you do.These are the posts that get ranked by Google.They will take more time to research but start one now and get it posted.
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If you look at any webpage and then from the drop down menu of your browser select “view source” you will see the HTML code which is what the search come to look at when they visit your website.
There is a whole industry built around getting web pages to the top of Google for particular keywords.Now you can go off an pay someone a lot money to get your website well ranked but there are a few things you can do yourself.
1.When you register your domain name do so for more than one year,Google likes to see that.
2.When you write, decide on a keyword phrase,one that people actually use to find what they are looking for ,and ensure it is in the file name,the title the header and the first line of the main text.It should also be at the bottom of your page.However after that write as if you are writing for a human not a search engine.Avoid keyword stuffing.More on that below.
3.A good free keyword search tool is Google’s keyword tool which will show you both demand and competition for any keyword you choose.Look for one that gets at least 200 hits a month.
There are some “black hat” tactics which use to work but not any more.These are tactics that are a bit underhand in that they do not help your visitor, merely improve you site’s chances of getting up the ranking.
They are keyword stuffing i.e. using the keyword phrase too much on the hope Google will rank you site higher and duplicating your site so that the sheer number of sites brings in more sales.
Neither of these tactics will now work.The Google bots have got alot cleverer at spotting these black hat tactics.
What will work is ensuring the meta name ” description” and “title” contain your keyword phrase.
To insert this code you must access the HTML code on your host server and ensure the meta names have your keyword phrase showing.
This must be placed between the <head> tag and the</head> tag which is always at the top of the web page.
The text here is not shown by your web browser but will get picked up by the search engines.The description and title are the words that appear in the search engine results so ensure your keyword phrase appears in both.It will push you up the rankings.
Here is a quick video I shot about a YouTube feature I just came across.
By placing a time such as 1:30 in the description area under your Youtube video the number will be hyperlinked.When people click on the number the video will jump to that part of your video.
So this would be a useful tool if you have important information to give at a particular part of the video.Anyway please watch the video to see what I mean.
Using Facebook advertising to get traffic to your website.
Here I introduce day five of the SFM internet marketing boot camp.If you sign up at The Six Figure Mentors you will get all 7 videos that show you how to do internet marketing the right way.In day 5 Stuart Ross will give you tips and tricks so you get the most out of your Facebook advertising dollar.Enjoy
What are back links?
A back link is just a link from one website to another.By installing special HTML code we can what’s called “hyperlink” some text so that when someone clicks on that text they are taken to another website.
If there link is to another website then we would call that an external link as we are moving from one site to another.However you can also have links from one page of a website to another page within the same site.This would be called an internal link and make it easier for a visitor to navigate around your site.
Internal linking is also good for search engine optimisation as it makes it easier for the Google spiders to navigate around your site and see what it is about.
Back linking is also used by Google to gauge the importance of your site.The more one way links you have coming to your site from other sites then Google will give you a higher ranking.I should qualify that by saying your site will get a high ranking if sites with a high page rank link to your site.
Page rank is a system devised by Google to show how it views any one website.The ranking runs from zero to ten,ten being the best.If you can get a website with a page rank of five or more to link to you that will give your site more kudos than 50 sites linking to you which only have a ranking of one.
So look for sites the compliment yours and have a high page rank.Then contact the owners of those sites and ask them to link to you.
Ignore link farms which exist just to get high page rank and have no real authority with Google.Google will just ignore these sites and give you no higher ranking.
You should strive to build an authority site of yourself and as traffic grows other sites with high page ranking will want to link to yours.
As important as page rank is whether a link to your site is a do follow or no follow link.If the link is a do follow then by linking to a site you are in essence giving that site a vote and so it will be pushed up the Google rankings.
However you may not wish to give the site you are linking to a vote if for example you were telling your readers about a bad website,in that case you can make the link no follow so the site does not get your vote.
You can waste a lot of time in securing back links from other website only to discover the links are nofollow and will not make any difference to your page rank or whether you get on page one of Google.
So please ensure you check this point out on any website before you go asking for back links.
There are browser add ons which will tell you instantly if a hyperlink is do follow or no follow.
If you use Fire Fox the use this one Search Status which will also tell you a sites Alexa ranking and Google Page rank to name but a few.
I meditate.Alot,as in every day.Why?Until you start to know your mind you will have no idea just how wild it is and how much control it has over you.
