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So this is post 2 of a 5 part series and this is were I dive into the subject of content... The posts you create and put online are as important as blood in your veins. So what is the magical formula... Blog 5- 7 times a day... at least 500 words for optimize on Google and populate on the other search engines.

It it hard... well right now I can barely keep my eyes open as its 11 am I was up at 4am and worked the whole day on a construction site I made it home by 8:30 after I got a flat tire today... Do you think I want to sit here and talk about content right now... YES!!

Do you know way???

I know whats awaits to the sacrifices... but that is another post for another day... back to the subject matter at hand.

Where are we going to get content for the training's that we do?

  • Pull tips from the training's you go through 
  • Webinars, conf calls, books, evens 

stop stressing about your credibility and just teach the information

The best way to get traffic 'Consistency' and the fact that a post continues to sell. Have you ever heard of someone opening up a 2 year old email and purchasing any products. However I know of a gentleman that gets traffic and purchase of emails that he wrote over 2 years ago.

Just remember content is king and so is consistency...

P.S If you want to know of a way that helps you blog about content and make money all at the same time! You got to see this ... click here  see you on the next one




What would it mean for you to have 10 qualified leads a day? 

In this post we are going to go over that question and how a lead on a blog is different then a lead from you get from a capture page. Yes you can make money blogging

10 leads a day you say? That is a decent number but the reality may be that most people in fact I am willing to bet that even half that number are not... I mean I get visitors to my blog but to get a lead is a totally different story... 

Most people are not getting the results they really want... have you ever seen them on Facebook in groups making mindless posts hoping to make a sale but more then likely getting zero results. 

Most have burnt out their warm market and are looking to for hot fresh leads.... 

Make money Blogging for beginners ? Perhaps, but can and will fix it all but you have to 
follow a simple system... 

I have and will post the first of 5 must have's ... 

They are...

 1. Pre - Setup  2. Content and Creation 3. Traffic 4. Monetization 5. Your action plan 

1. Pre - setup your Blog 

This is the most important part of a blog that is the most overlooked. 

You got to ask yourself who are you trying to attract? You want to prospect to all and market to one. Who do you immediately think of that your product / training or service can help? 
create a power giveaway ( one that dosent suck )  If you are not giving a people a reason to opt in your blog you are missing the boat. 

Don't worry if a year from now you look back on your blog and go " I should have been doing that, a year ago!" it's all a learning process. 

Put your face in the header ( heck I still need to do that ). Put in the P.S line a offer that is in congruence with the post itself... wouldn't be nice that your post can generate hundreds of dollars on a post that was written 3 years ago! Hey I know of marketers that have links on their post that still make sales long after the post is written... ( P.S see my p.s line at the bottom =) .

A Blog's purpose is to BUILD THE LIST ! that is the # 1 reason.. 

Here is something else about the About me page is met to be about them NOT YOU! What you should show is the transparency of your life so someone can say wow that happened to you... ME TOO... its really the "me too" and how people can relate to you and then close em with I want that... something that would compel them to want to lock arms with you in your vision. 

This is a 5 part series that I intend on diving into... why... because blogging is free and can generate you money...Ray Higdon makes close to $71,000 a month and attributes almost all of his success to blogging over a 3 year period. That about 10 to 30 min a day for over 3 years.., and if you know Ray he is not a techno savy guy... check out his blog www.rayhigdon.com  we will go over Content & creation tomorrow

P.S 

If you want to learn how to utilize this to the full potential of viral blogging systems CLICK HERE to see a free video training that will show you step by step even if you have never made a dime before! Or click the banner below now...














So marketing is a horrible thing to waste you work hard to build a reputation and generate hopefully a word of mouth marketing. What if you are undermining your own efforts I have included the following 8 things that will kill your business. 

1. Your marketing is focused on you 

It should be about your product or services right? Well no it should be about what the product or service can do for your customers. Take yourself out of the marketing and put you customer at the heart of it. Make the customer / prospect the center for your story. 

2. You market to yourself

Do base the needs wants and desires of your customers based on your friends. Basically you can mess this one up by making assumptions , and on that note... 

3. You didn't know your target audience

If you are not the target customer then who is exactly? Invest the time to understand what your customer / prospect behaves. How do they live work? Where do they purchase? What marketing nitch do they fall under? 

4. You market by committee 

Get a group together and suddenly they know what is best for your customer / prospect . Marketing is like parenting everyone thinks that they can do it effectively. Stay away from the unfocused ideas tossed around by the group. You know who your customers / prospects are and how to reach them. That might be a problem if ...

5. You didn't have customer data

I said it once and I am going to say it again. Research not opinions or gut instinct should be the foundation of your marketing program. Try to think of data as your giving you the insights into new opportunities, and that foundation of that which is inspired.

6. You Rely on example Analogy

Its always good to look at what people are doing outside the organization even outside the industry. Don't wait for a case study in your specific industry or vertical to prove the effectiveness of a marketing tactic. Innovation is normally the the act of taking something that work over there and using it over here.

7. You are not shaping shared experiences

Consumers today rely on the social web so does their peers so marketing becomes about enabling those connections. Are you encouraging and supporting the interactions of your customers by rethinking the way you reach out to potential customers before they identify themselves to you as prospects? 

8. Finally , You keeping your lips sealed 

So... what happens when a customer reaches out to you on social media do you respond with an answer or with silence? Customers expect real time or near time responses. At 24 hrs you can forget it.. 

Hey hope you enjoyed these marketing tips. For great marketing strategies and tips you can go to my team hangout every Tuesday at 10pm Mountain Time by clicking here... O so it's not Tuesday? Then you can go to there anyway and catch last weeks replay... 









The GOAL Is a 90 day plan  No B S just results... 



Alright... I have the direction the course that I am supposed to do... It going to suck... I am going to blog for 90 that's ninety days straight...

I got a blog that I am going to put up my daily results and what I did for that day...


 I need to track my progress and make sure that I am doing the productive things that will create success...  click here for my progress

If you are reading this post after the 90 days then go to the search box and type in (90 days) it should pop up especially in the tags..

I know this... at the end of 90 days that I  be in a better place then where I was 90 days earlier... A millionaire told me to do this...

I am sure I have said this before if a millionaire shared with you the secrets to getting $15,000 a month yes that's right a month and then gave you a game plan and laid it out and said do this and do that... that there would be only 20 percent that would...

Hardly anyone is following direction... 


Why... I don't know maybe it has something to do with that 80/20 rule...

I got the leaders of my team on a google hangout saying that they know the serious ones because they follow the exercise on the second video and follow the directions... Literally 80 percent of the team does not follow the directions and or does not do the exercise and yet will contact the leaders and ask how to do something when its on the damn video...

Right now, I was told to blog everyday... for 90 days do my marketing like I have been doing...
listening to the leadership audios... unreal info... I mean gold nuggets of marketing info that I am digesting and getting great visions of strategy and ideas of how to approach new things... I read about a chapter a night... ( 10 - 20 pages ) in a book .... Hey leaders are readers... there are things you can do to better yourself every day...

THAT'S IT for now in addition to the killer strategies I am learning that's the how to part but literally it is nothing without the proper mindset...

Going Out on a limb here... 

I was told to immerse myself and put it out there and do a conference call so this Friday I am going to hold my first conference call its call " The Networking Entrepreneur" Friday at 7 and each week I will hold strategies and tactics to build your business. I want to make this a generic call and

Why is it because I want to heck no.., the idea is scary and is really not something I feel qualified for but after hearing the reason... I said at this point to get to 15 k a month there is almost nothing that is going to stand in my way just short of doing anything unethical or illegal.

So I wanted to make myself basically accountable and show that it does not take super powers or it does not take anything but hard work and dedication but isn't that with anything in life... Most people wont do the things that is needed to make it but they will sit and complain about their current situation...

Just do it... put the accelerator down ... stop crying about this that and another thing just like my kids that come up to me and complain about doing their chores... I am doing things way outside my comfort zone... way outside... I got so much to gain and way more to loose...

I invite you to visit my progress here  and know this I will be writing on this blog in addition to the other one... I will still be posting content on my blog...

P.S to see how I got this plan implemented click the banner below now...







I got My first Leads.


I was told by my team leaders to celebrate the actual accomplishments... no matter how small... So I want to be clear that my actual examples of my results may very... but I actually took Rob Fores course on Posting on Purpose... It was a awesome little course and you can see the blog post about it here...
http://askscottlindstromdotcom.blogspot.com/2013/08/PostingOnPurposeForProfitReview.html

Now I don't do all the methods on every post but I tested it out on one post I did on Magnetic Sponsoring Post Review... No SEO optimization...

This post was simply to celebrate my first actual leads with my blog!!! I had done what my leaders were telling me and understand its going to be different every day to your specific nitch however it was literally 3 weeks of straight bogging and every day posting on FB and something happened...

LEADS!!! FREE LEADS FROM A FREE BLOG AND FREE SOCIAL MEDIA!

So here is formula do something get leads do more of the same thing and get more leads...

I wanted to go over a fact that 95 percent will never generate more then 4 actual leads for a business!!!

I got as of this posting on today's date was 71 actual views of that blog and 10 of them were sign ups into my marketing funnel!!! I am doing the happy dance... I have 18 people that have visited my blog just today so far as of 10AM ... and I am going increase postings and content very soon.,..

Hey you actually get to see the beginnings of a internet marketing superstar.... I got plans to quit my job by projects end ... ( Year from now ) totally doable....

So Scott how are you going to do this if you work 14-17 hrs a day Monday - Sunday (sometimes) well thats where the power of using marketing strategies and tactics... are going to actually save your ass and make it so you can be everywhere at once....

It is possible to have a internet lifestyle and work 4-6 hours a week! I am creating the blueprint now and laying the foundation.

Let's face it work sucks and if you could spend time having sex with your wife / or husband and working which would you choose? I am being honest here... It's these strategies I am learning right now...and if you want to find them out you can catch it here... http://www.hangoutwithscott.net 

So I don't have the super car / hours or the lifestyle but I can blog about my success and what I did to get there...  That's the beginning... then when you have more success blog / video about that...
Until one day. You arrive...

I want to stress... that Blogging / video is my primary ways to get traffic its not the only ways and in my opinion the more you focus more then 2 or 3 strategies the more you will NOT succeed... Don't throw mud against the wall syndrome...

ALWAYS... celebrate your accomplishments and also teach how you got them...

I had a " friend " look at me while I was shooting a 2 min video today and done with my marketing today and after I finished said " I can never do what your doing..." I looked back and smiled and said "That's ok I can never imagine working at a job for the next 30 years living pay check to pay check."  The look was one of shock and actually, it was priceless... he simply walked away...

Freaking Awesome...

To Your Success

Scott


You can see the actual hangout where I got the entire inspiration for this post...
The E-Lifestyle-How To Live A Life of FREEDOM and Still Make Money
http://bethechangeteam.com/hangouts/The-E-Lifestyle-How-To-Live-A-Life-Of-FREEDOM-and-Still-Make-Money.php?id=slindstrom

So I sit here listening to money earners talk about a few key things that literally blow me away... one is the fact they can work 1 or 2 hours a day and literally they can be at the beach go hop online put a post or 2 shoot a video... done... send out a email to their list done....

Can you start the E - Lifestyle from the beginning no... and thank god because then this would not be such a wicked awesome lifestyle...

So this is what is amounts I have been listening to 10, 20, and 30 and one 50 k a month money earners that have all shared the same information to me as I have been listening to audio after audio... I must say that the single biggest thing I do now is take the hour commute to and from work so 2 hours a day 10 hr a week 40 hours a month 460 hours of life changing potential. I know what your thinking...

Scott What does that have to do with the E - Lifestyle ?

EVERYTHING....

You got to get the thing between your ears right before you can accept the E lifestyle... I used to think that positive  feel good stuff was bull crap but the fact of the matter is that you got all these top money earners are saying the same damn message and it's like becoming more clear...
I am buying into it and something weird is happening,.. I would describe it as a change in state... its like when you remember the movie the Matrix?? ( GO SEE IT IT'S TOTALLY BADASS!) it's so good I named my first little girl Trinity after one of the lead characters...

So you get what I call a dose of the Red Pill and the world you know becomes something of smoking mirrors and the world as you know it changes... I can only describe that the point of view of the world changes... So when you change how you think and act you make changes to the way you approach your business... you start to live a happier life... you start to enjoy life more....
the pressures of the world don't affect you like normal... think I am full of it? O.k I will accept that
but here is the fact... You go be right and I will be go be  rich....

I invested in a product that I will share the link here and its literally a $100 dollar a month program...( you can see it in detail here )  all audios and that is by far the biggest reason for my transformation... you will hear money earner after money earner talk about it but also here is another thing... as there is a book that states "Faith without works it dead" So you become lazer focused and don't throw mud against the wall.

I want to have the E- Lifestyle its a 90 180 day gind at first and there is a learning curve but once you get it setup your good to go its a set up process then its a automation at the top of this blog and see how the E - Lifestyle can work for you instead of you working like everyone else...

When I say that its not like a "normal job"...

All my best

Scott Lindstrom
(of course you can always take the blue pill whenever you want)