Now this may seem weird to be the first chapter in a book, coming from someone who is writing about how to make or take your business online -- but I've had to work backward at this. Trust me, if you want to see some really weird stuff, just look up Internet marketing and see the 3 and 5-ring circuses just waiting to sell you a ticket to see the freak shows inside.
No kidding.
Probably the worst thing you can see online is Internet marketers marketing Internet Marketing to Internet marketers. Hype vs. Hype vs. Hype. And it just doesn't quit. A lot of money changes hands, but statistically, only a very small percentage make any real money.
And I'll explain why in the next section. It has to do with natural laws. How this universe runs. That sort of thing.
Which is exactly why we are talking about you and what you want to get done, what makes you happy, what brings you peace - all well before we even touch another web page.
3. Table of Contents
Online Sunshine Plan ....................................................................
0. Introduction...........................................................................1
How to get the most out of this book ......................................6
How this book is set up ...........................................................9
I. Purpose/Passion - what drives you, what makes you
really happy? ..........................................................................12
Articles: ..................................................................................16
II. Business Basics ................................................................48
Articles: ..................................................................................54
III. Market Research .............................................................115
What is marketing? What is a market? ................................115
How to research for your community-market ....................118
Keywords, their care and feeding: Niches...........................122
Keywords, Their Care and Feeding: Finding Them ............127
A possible approach to keyword research ...........................131
The short version of keyword research - 9 steps: ...............135
The convention analogy .......................................................136
How search engines used to work .......................................139
Where to look for your keyword research - Part I - Basics . 141
Where to look for your keyword research - Part 2 - The Real
World ....................................................................................144
Where's the money? I'm from Missouri - show me.............146
Finding and Building Your Community..............................150
Learning from the Experts in your Niche.............................151
Finding your way out of this wet paper bag ........................153
Articles: .................................................................................155
IV. Your Sales Funnel - ........................................................179
Lining up your chickens .......................................................179
Collecting up your eggs into baskets. ..................................182
That narrow end of the funnel isn't, really. ........................184
Copywriting - how to talk your walk ...................................187
Articles: ................................................................................193
V. Search Engine Optimization ...........................................212
Why do people think search engines are important? .........212
Search Engine Myths ...........................................................214
Strategies old and new .........................................................216
4. Names to follow and why .....................................................221
Recommended Products ......................................................221
Articles: ................................................................................222
VI. Promotion .......................................................................242
Networking and Promotion ................................................242
Social Media Defined...........................................................244
The care and feeding of social media ..................................247
There is no ROI in Social Media Marketing .......................250
So how do you convert viewers to clients through Social
Media? ..................................................................................252
Now for the Social Media All-You-Can-Eat-Buffet ............254
Write once, publish many ways, many formats .................260
Addtional Online Promotion ..............................................263
Offline and Classic Promotion ............................................266
Articles .................................................................................267
VII. Summary ........................................................................310
5. Dr. Robert C. Worstell
I. Purpose/Passion - what drives you,
what makes you really happy?
Now this may seem weird to be the first chapter in a book, coming from
someone who is writing about how to make or take your business online --
but I've had to work backward at this. Trust me, if you want to see some
really weird stuff, just look up Internet marketing and see the 3 and 5-ring
circuses just waiting to sell you a ticket to see the freak shows inside.
No kidding.
Probably the worst thing you can see online is Internet marketers marketing
Internet Marketing to Internet marketers. Hype vs. Hype vs. Hype. And it
just doesn't quit. A lot of money changes hands, but statistically, only a very
small percentage make any real money.
And I'll explain why in the next section. It has to do with natural laws. How
this universe runs. That sort of thing.
Which is exactly why we are talking about you and what you want to get
done, what makes you happy, what brings you peace - all well before we
even touch another web page.
As I said in the Introduction, this book is for people who have already
started messing around on the web and found that they thought they could
actually earn some income with it. But you've already been running a blog
for awhile, and maybe have a Facebook account and Twitter and some other
things.
And all the books you find on how to "make money" online are completely
worthless to you, unless they help you with what you want to do with your
heart and soul.
If you don't wake up with bright ideas about what to do today in your life,
and you aren't completely abuzz - or even just calmly happy - about getting
about whatever you are doing, then you aren't following your own purpose.
You're working for someone else and are a wage slave.
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How do you find your passion?
While it may or may not take you some time, it's not that hard to do. But
you have to start listening to yourself. Sit down and be quiet for awhile,
where you won't be interrupted by the telephone or kids running around the
house or annoying neighbors playing their music too loud.
Next, just review your activities and concentrate on the ones you actually
like to do, not the ones you do for someone else - the things that routinely
make you smile, that you look forward to, that bring a little peace to your
life, one's that are really satisfying.
These type of activities are the ones which really forward what you should
be doing with your life.
Keep thinking about these things and you'll narrow down to something you
can do, some goal you can forward.
You might have to go out and do some of these things before you can figure
out what it is about these that you love to do. And if you just start weeding
out of your life the things that don't bring you joy, that you can't stand, that
are always annoying - and instead concentrate and fill your life with things
that routinely cheer you up - you'll start to get an inkling of what it is that
really drives you, your passion.
And it is uniquely different for every single person. You will find people that
you have common interests with, but they won't have exactly the same
interests or ideas of how to go about whatever they like to do. So don't
expect this.
But you need to start working at whatever you really like - and you'll get an
inspiration along the line of how you might be able to actually make a living
at this.
I'm not saying that this will necessarily be easy. It is for some, not for
others. Your road is your own.
Until you set your feet on that road, you are going to be a little out of sorts, a
little uncomfortable about your life. When you do find your personal "path
up the mountain", then all sorts of doors will start opening for you and all
sorts of answers will start showing up for your many questions and
problems.
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Goals and Purposes Questionnaires
Here's a short series of questions you can use to help you in that quest:
If I could do anything with my life, what would it be? What is my
passion? What is my dream?
If I were living my dream, what would I do with each of the 24 hours
I’ve been given in each day?
If I were living my dream, what talents, skills, and abilities would I
use to live a full life, and maximize my income potential?
If I were living my dream, how would I use my financial
independence to create a dream life for myself and my loved ones?
If I were living my dream, where would I live? What would my home
be like? What would my lifestyle be like? What would my friends be
like?
If I were living my dream, how would I share all that I have with
others?
If I were living my dream, what would my Core Purpose in life be?
If I knew I couldn’t fail, what would I do?
Charles Heflin gave this short set of questions to determine your passion by
examining your life habits:
To discover your interests and passions, spend some time
contemplating the answers to the following...
1. When you're not worried about “making money” what do you spend
your time doing or thinking about?
2. What are the last 5 non-money making related books that you read?
-- and why?
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3. What are the last 5 non-money making related magazines that you
read? -- and why?
4. Look in the Internet History section of your web browser. What are
the last 100 non-money making related websites that you visited? --
and why?
5. What non-money making related websites have you bookmarked? --
and why?
6. If you had 20 billion dollars and never had to worry about money
again, what would you do with your time?
7. Look at your desk and around at your office. What non-work related
things are there? - and why?
8. What do you usually talk about with your friends?
9. How did you meet your non-work related friends?
10.What social groups (online or offline) do you belong to?
11. What kind of non-money making email lists do you subscribe to?
12. What would you do on your ideal vacation?
13. If you could have any job you wanted, what would it be?
14. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you live? --
and why?
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9. Thrivelearning Guide
Find ways how to improve your life, run a
successful online business, get your freedom
back.
Thrivelearning System - A Guide
I've searched over the Internet for really workable programs for more than a
couple of decades. The main criteria was that they had to work and they had
to help people actually improve their lives. The goal is that people are enabled
to get their abundance which is already native.
People don't know how simple it is to have a peaceful, free life. They don't
know that starting an online business does have a learning curve, but when
you find the right mentor and the right partners, it can be really simple and
successful.
So these programs each individually work. But the real power is that they
integrate into a powerful system that is more effective than the single parts.
There are two approaches to this - Spiritual and Business
Spiritual: You should be able to have all the freedom, peace,
and abundance you could ever want.
Business: You can and should know how to leverage the
Internet to make your own online success.
Like many, I was caught up in the “get rich quick” “how to make money
online” schemes that are very often pushed with Internet Marketing.
And it took me a long time (over a year) to learn enough to earn my money
back out
of the scheme I bought into. (No, I had to attend “Hard Luck U” and sweat it
out with a keyboard and Google searches - it wasn’t found in the “training” I
bought.) And that company has improved considerably since that time - it
was lessons all around, the way I saw it.
10. But since then, I’ve really discovered how to thrive - by discovering and
testing the exact techniques of self-help and spiritual training which will
attract any amount of money or abundance you want. No “institute” required,
no expensive ”schooling” or “coaching” - learn at your own pace, from your
own home.
Now I am starting to regularly earn money working at home, mostly from
online affiliate sales and my own books . It’s not hard to learn, if you want to
invest your time (and a little cash here and there.) But you only get out what
you invest of your self…
Here’s the programs I found that actually work:
Spiritual
1. Find your inner peace - Use Release Technique
2. Learn how to remain calm under stress - Use Silva Life System
3. Thrive financially with your Millionaire Mindset - Learn from T. Harv
Eker
4. Simply Wake Up and Live! - Dorothea Brande's classic.
5. Get a library of proven, workable materials - Spiritual Training
Materials
Business
1. Do market research for products which can factually earn you online
income - Chris Malta's Worldwide Brands
2. Master social network marketing - Charles Heflin’s Synnd
3. Get a site builder and web host with decades of experience -Ken
Evoy's Site Build It!
4. Find the simplicities to protecting yourself legally – Dr. Frederick
Graves' Jurisdictionary
5. Get and stay scam free from here on out - Get Scam Free (book and
online course)
11. Release Technique
Release Technique is simply learning to actually
look at what is happening around you and letting
go of what you don't want. Too easy, actually.
Some people have to know more about such a
technique before they can really put it to use in
their lives. Larry Crane used it to save his life. He
was already a millionaire - even on the cover of
Time - but found he wanted to commit suicide because of his own inner
stress. He met a guy named Lester Levenson, who taught him to release the
inner programs which caused that. Larry changed his life – and has been
teaching and promoting this course ever since.
Silva Life System
Laura found herself in trouble. Her health was
failing, she couldn't keep a job, she was
desperately "in love" with someone who only took
advantage of her. Then she rediscovered for
herself the system of active meditation she had been involved with since
childhood, literally growing up around it. Once she put this to use in her own
life, she became more and more successful as she applied it. Now happily
married with several children, she has devoted her life to continuing her
father's proven program of active meditation. More people than ever have
found how easy it is to meditate through Jose and Laura Silvas' works. There
are reportedly millions internationally who are using Silva materials to gain
calm, successful lives. You can, too.
12. Millionaire Mind Intensive
The key point is that you have to re-learn all
you've learned up to this point about money.
What he starts out to begin with is to tell you,
“Don’t believe anything I say, but try these ideas
out in your own life - and trust these ideas you
are trying.”How Eker gets you to re-train your
millionaires mind isn't all that new. But he took
up the study of millionaire and rich-people psychology in earnest so solve his
own inability to make and hold onto money. While he made (and lost)
millions early in his life, it was his own studies into how people did this which
made him an international success. Now he spends his time only in helping
others to adjust their own Millionaire Mindset
Wake Up and Live
I was introduced to it by Earl Nightingale (of "Our
Changing World" fame). It was in his "Strangest
Secret" recording where he introduced her now
famous credo:
"Act as though it were impossible to fail."
And she explains how she got to that point in this book. The first section is an
autobiography of sorts, explaining the gist of her discovered philosophy of life
- and how that credo lead her straight to an amazing career after a rather
mundane existence prior. Newly republished in an easy-to-read format, this
book is an essential classic for anyone's library.
13. Spiritual Training Materials
For anyone to really make their way through life,
they have to find and follow mentors. With our
modern Internet Age, you no longer have to take
time out and travel to distant lands in order to sit
at the feet of a Master and absorb their knowledge.
Even the long-passed can reveal their secrets from
their book sand materials. I've assembled a short
list of books which have been proved time and again to hold the secrets to all
health,wealth, success, and relationships. The path is there - you have only to
walk it. Build your library today!
Web Site Builder
Site Build It! is the only product that takes the
time to prepare you to build a profitable business,
before you jump into building your site. For the
beginner, your learning curve will be shorter and
you’ll bypass any show-stopping errors. For those experienced in site-
building, SBI! deepens your level of understanding. No matter who you are,
you are guided all the way until you succeed. This approach symbolizes SBI!’s
steady-and-sure approach. It’s definitely not GRQ (Get Rich Quick) and keeps
you from getting distracted by false promises or dead-end tools and strategies
that end up costing more money. Experienced users will appreciate avoiding
time-wasters that don't help you succeed. Think of it as a simple, direct, hype-
free path that leads to success. Check it out for yourself.
Profitable Market Research
The reason Chris started WWB is just because he
knew how profitable it was to sell for others - but
ran into the same shady operators so many of us
do. He sat out building a company which did the
14. homework for you - so you only need login to their single interface where
they've already predigested the product discovery, keyword research, and
verified the drop-shippers as legit. No middlemen, no scammers. Just you,
your hard work, and your filling bank account. Not for the faint at heart - this
is only for those serious about doing the homework necessary to find salable,
profitable products to sell.
Social Network Marketing
Once you have a product and a website, you need
to promote it. Charles Heflin has been marketing
at least as long as the World Wide Web has
existed. And he formed Social Media Science just to study the social media
phenomenon. Per their website: "Social Media Science is dedicated to the
science of online social media as it applies to gaining visibility for you ronline
or offline business. We are dedicated to educating the business community
through a robust educational system as well as providing cutting edge
software tools to make marketing your business easier, more effective and
measurable. See what sets us apart." It's only here where you learn how to
really market online.
Get a Winning Lawyer -
Defend Your Company
Dr. Frederick Graves is a lawyer who has taken on
the formidable task of educating people how to
figure out what the hell is going on. But it's not all
that complicated. For any business, if you
understand the legal system, you can avoid
situations which would lead you into any unnecessary involvement in the
courts. Technically, you learn enough to use the laws to do what they are
supposed to - protect against inequality and bullying behavior. The point is
that when you do need to get a lawyer, you can also ensure that he's doing
what you're paying him for. With all else you need to follow in business, you
don't also need the excess expense which legal costs can bring.
15. FTC Disclaimer
Self-help and Spiritual Training are highly personal. You get out only what
you put into them. There are no "typical results." None of the above should be
considered as a “business opportunity”. These are personal training programs
and materials which you alone can determine if they assist your own progress
or help improve your life.
Caveat Emptor, and all that.