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Three Sides Of Traffic was a 2 day event held on Long Island, NY and hosted by Howie Schwartz, Simon Leung and Ross Goldberg. The event was different right from the get go with the cost being a donation to Al’s Angels to help children and families in need.

I attended the event because first and foremost, I’m a Big Howie fan - the man really knows his stuff and always overdelivers- and second, I wanted to undertstand traffic from 3 different “proven” perspectives. And as if learning about traffic from 3 different but effective points of view wasn’t enough, they unselfishly invited a husband/wife team, Lee and Robin Collins, to speak about yet another way of getting traffic.

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Today was the first day of the “Three Sides Of Traffic” 2 day event being held right here in my own backyard, Huntington, Long island, NY.  The 3 main speakers at this event include Howie Schwartz, Simon Leung, and Ross Goldberg. All 3 dropped the bomb with information and I can’t wait till tomorrow to learn more about dominating traffic with their personal proven methods.

I have only attended 3 Live events in the 8  months online but all three were Howie Schwartz events and occured within the last 6 weeks. I almost feel like I’m a Howie Schwartz stalker! Howie’s material is so “must have” if you want a real advantage over your competitors. And from what I heard today, Ross and Simon are equally dominating in their areas of traffic expertise. Tomorrow is the second and last day of this event and I can’t imagine the information and resources they plan to share.

For anyone who has never been to a Live event, I would strongly suggest you get your butt to one as quickly as possible. Live events are not only filled with information and resources you won’t find any where else, but the networking that takes place is priceless. As an online marketer who is still wet behind the ears, I felt star stuck with some of the attendees at this event. As silly as this may sound, today I was thrilled to not only meet Ross Goldberg and Simon Leung in person (had already met Howie), but I also introduced myself to Donna Fox and Ken McArthur. To me, it was like meeting “famous” people - and in many respects they are in their own right! Looking forward to tomorrows training. Will post with more after the conclusion of “Three Sides Of Traffic”

Peace and Prosperity!

Back in November of 2007 I tried jumping straight into Internet Marketing by joining Passport To Wealth. From there I took advantage of their promotional offer to join MyInternetBusiness.com at a discounted rate. I joined in on all the conference calls, read, researched and did a lot of self teaching. I found that even though I belonged to a group that was pretty accessible I still felt like I was on my own. There was so much for me to learn that the more I learned, the more I realized how much I needed to learn. Like any other education, it’s a never ending cycle of gaining knowledge and skills in order to succeed. 

With all that I learned and all that I implemented, my efforts still showed no profits. Now I could have easily quit as most new internet entrepreneurs will. Afterall, over 95% of the people who attempt to start an internet business will quit before ever making a dime. I was not going to be among them. I was going to succeed online.

So it hasn’t happened over night and I never really believed it would. I have learned lots and have no regrets. But I do need finances coming in and not just going out! So my solution, which I heard before but I guess, just wasn’t ready, diversify, diversify, and diversify!

If you read my last post, “Hidden Treasures Found in Twitter“, then you’re well aware that I’ve been tweeting and building relationships with marketers who are of a different mindset then those that I initially came into contact with. The main difference being, the marketers on Twitter are people who look to build relationships first and then market, while the typical marketer you find on the web through Google searches and the like are just that, marketers and sales people. Their first priority is making the sale and putting more money in their pockets!

So as I begin to diversify my income streams and work on building relationships, I have turned to affiliate marketing. But not the type where I bombard my list to get them to buy into every new product other internet marketing gurus are promoting. I have chosen to go the route of quality name brand items that the general public seeks to buy at a less expensive price or from the convenience of their home. 

Peace and Prosperity!

First my deepest apologies for not being consistent and staying away from my blog as long as I have. The truth is, I have been struggling with my marketing and making money online and just went into a funk and almost gave up. But I’m not a quitter and I truly believe that financial freedom can be attained online. So in reality, quitting was never really a part of the equation and I just needed to rethink my plan of attack for achieving my goals.

So I stepped back from what I was doing, cut back on some of the monthly membership fees that I felt provided No value, refrained myself from falling prey to any more of the marketing Hype for the “next” Big Marketing Secret, and some how ended up spending a good deal of my time building relationships on Twitter.

Twitter, you might say? Why would you waste your time on Twitter? Why not market “harder” instead of spending useless hours on Twitter? Twitter is just a “time suck.” No one makes money with Twitter.

If this is what you’ve heard and this is what you believe about Twitter . . . You’re WRONG!!

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Hope all is well and profits are soaring!

Do you want to learn about web 2.0 and social media?
Do you have any burning questions you need answered by an expert?

Do you REALLY understand it?
More importantly do you know how to PROFIT
from it?

Tonight, Howie Schwartz is going to do something different.
He is hosting an ‘OPEN QUESTION’ call.

For 90 minutes, you type your questions -
He will answer every single one of them.

Last call he did like this was on getting traffic to your website
and he answered over 300 questions! Read what I had to say . . .

You can ask him ANY question right now:

http://www.instantteleseminar.com/?eventid=3465534

Then join him LIVE tonight (Wed 7/2) at
8:30pm EST / 5:30pm PST

If you can’t make the live call, you can still
type in all of your questions now, so you can
listen to the answers on the replay.

http://www.instantteleseminar.com/?eventid=3465534

This is something you don’t want to miss!

Action Is Required!

With the price of gas still on the rise and nearing $5.00 a gallon and the economy in such as sad state of affairs, people are looking for alternative ways to offset the rising prices of gas and the all too common unexpected loss of employment.

Just a few hours ago, Bloomberg.com along with various other news media announced that Starbucks Corp. will eliminate as many as 12,000 jobs as close to 600 coffee shops across the U.S. close their doors. Starbucks is not the first, nor will it be the last of the many companies that will be forced to eliminate jobs in order to survive this dismal economic state that exists today.

Looking for alternative ways to make ends meet, make some extra cash, and possibly even attain a sense of financial security are common concerns that have people scurrying to the internet in hopes of making money online.

There is more than what meets the eye when looking to start an internet business and while you can make money online, it’s definitely not for everyone and not all business opportunities are created equal. With that being said, do your due diligence and research before jumping in feet first.

If this all sounds too familiar to you, and you’d like to read more about 5 Perfect ‘Spare-Time’ Online Businesses, listen to what an established Internet Marketer, Yanik Sliver has to say.

Peace and Prosperity!

Earlier this afternoon I was fortunate enough to listen to Howie Schwartz for over 90 minutes as he answered over 300 Traffic questions live. It was packed with content and people. Listeners on the call were able to simply fill out a form and ask/submit any traffic question(s) they had.

Yes he did promote an upcoming event, but hey, the content he covered and gave away for free on this call was well worth the time. And I’m sure, just a sampling of what you’d get from ANY of his Live events. In a previous post about attending live events, I spoke of my experience at Howie’s Online Profit Workshop. And I’ll still stand by what I said, “If you can get to a Live event, Go! If you can get to a Howie Schwartz Live event, Go faster!

If you’re interested in listening to the webcast replay of this call, visit                                 http://tinyurl.com/6rczhs

If you’re interested in attending Howie’s next Live event, go to: http://www.TrafficTornadoWorkshop.com
I believe you should also be able to listen to the replay here, if he takes it down from the site listed above.

And No this is Not an affiliate plug. This is just my humble opinion and strong suggestion as to where to go and who to follow/listen to when it comes to Making Money in any Niche Market.

Peace and Prosperity!

As an immediate follow up to the post on FireFox 3.0 and ScribeFire - Awesome! This nifty blogging tool is going to make my blogging life so much easier. And in return, I’ll be able to post more and with less effort. Imagine reading around the web and being able to create posts to your blog right there on the spot. Can’t tell you how excited I am to get to know this powerful tool.

And just so you know, there is well known web 2.0 marketer who not too long ago released “for sale” a very similar tool. Can’t beat “free” value!

Get it today!

FireFox 3.0

ScribeFire Add-On

Okay so up until today I’ve pretty much used IE as my browser. I did try FF before but my computer wasn’t able to handle having both browsers open at the same time. Not sure I needed both open at the same time, but that’s how I began using it. And you know how it is, it’s hard to teach an old dog new tricks and it’s human nature stick with what you know.

Yet, since turning to online marketing, I’ve forced myself to do many of things that are a little uncomfortable for me. Like opening up to complete strangers, posting my picture, recording my voice and soon to be posting live video with myself included (up until now, I’ve only posted a PP presentation with my voice as audio).

With an upgraded computer on hand and the newly released version 3.0 of FireFox, I decided to give it another shot. And wanted to try this ScribeFire add-on I saw on the TechCrunch site. There appears to be quite an extensive amount of add-ons and plug-ins available for FF and I look forward to playing around with it.

I’m actually doing this post with the ScribeFire add-on at this very moment. ScribeFire is a full-featured blog editor that intergrates with your FF browser and lets you easily post to your blog. When I’m done with this post, I’ll just push a little button “publish as a page” and viola! If all works well it should show up as a new post in my blog! How easy is that?

I also believe, but haven’t gotten that far yet, that I should be able to drag and drop formatted text from pages that I’m browsing, take notes, upload images, and post to multiple blogs. Sounds pretty cool if you ask me - and I’m far from being hip and up-to-date with the latest and greatest techy computer stuff. I will keep you updated but for now lets see if this really works. Drummmm roll please . . . I’m pushing the button . . .

A sitemap is often considered redundant in the process of building a website, and that is indeed the fact if you made a sitemap just for the sake of having one. By highlighting the importance of having a well constructed sitemap, you will be able to tailor your own sitemap to suit your own needs.

1. Navigation purposes

A sitemap literally acts as a map of your site. If your visitors browses your site and get lost between the many pages on your site, they can always refer to your sitemap to see where they are, and navigate through your pages with the utmost of ease.

2. Conveying your site’s theme

When your visitors load up your sitemap, they will get the gist of your site within a very short amount of time. There is no need to get the “big picture” of your site by reading through each page, and by doing that you will be saving your visitors’ time. 

3. Site optimization purposes

When you create a sitemap, you are actually creating a single page which contains links to every other page on your site. Imagine what happens when search engine robots hit this page — they will follow the links on the sitemap and naturally every other page of your site gets indexed by the search engines! It is also for this purpose that a link to the sitemap should be placed prominently on the front page of your website.

4. Organization and relevance

A sitemap enables you to have a complete bird’s eye view of your site structure, and whenever you need to add new content or new sections, you will be able to take the existing hierarchy into consideration just by glancing at the sitemap. As a result, you will have a perfectly organized site with everything sorted according to their relevance.

Taking the above reasons into consideration, it is most important to implement a sitemap for website projects with a considerable size. But for those that are not of considerable size, its good practice and it will still be beneficial in all the above mentioned ways.  In the end, you will be able to keep your website easily accessible and neatly organized for everyone.

 Action Is Required!