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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 04:42:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Bolin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the last 2 years I have been with a company called Social Media Science who is at the forefront of SEO (search engine optimization) and social media marketing. I don&#8217;t like using the word &#8220;marketing&#8221; along with &#8220;social media&#8221; because you don&#8217;t really &#8220;market&#8221; the same way with social media as you do with [...]]]></description>
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<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><a title="Helping Local Businesses With What You Already Know" rel="http://www.StephenBolin.com" href="http://stephenbolin.com/wp-content/uploads/j04432571.jpg" target="_blank"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-781" style="margin: 10px;" title="Local Web Science" src="http://stephenbolin.com/wp-content/uploads/j04432571-300x199.jpg" alt="Helping Local Businesses With What You Already Know" width="270" height="179" /></a>For the last 2 years I have been with a company called Social Media Science who is at the forefront of SEO (search engine optimization) and social media marketing. I don&#8217;t like using the word &#8220;marketing&#8221; along with &#8220;social media&#8221; because you don&#8217;t really &#8220;market&#8221; the same way with social media as you do with regular marketing. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">8 months ago, Social Media Science realized that they could really help local businesses get an online presence that would incredibly increase their traffic and customers. Local Web Science was born. In 8 months so much has changed, even in Google&#8217;s Local Search. Local search is becoming huge. The experts are saying that next year, 2011, is going to be the BIG YEAR for local search.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">What does this have to do with you? I wanted to alert you to a program that could help you tap into this huge market and end up making a good deal of money. There are 26 million businesses just in the USA who don&#8217;t even have a website. And those that have one are frustrated, because they paid good money for a pretty site that basically sits there and does nothing to help their business. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">Mike Koenigs, the founder of Traffic Geyser, is coming out with a new program to help local businesses get online and kick butt on their competition. The Main Street Marketing Machine coaching program hits the streets tomorrow. It is a complete &#8220;turn-key&#8221; system with automatic blog building software, video templates, pre-made landing pages for each of about 40 niches. There is even a cell phone texting program that will allow your hair dresser customer send text messages automatically to her customers alerting them of their next hair appointment. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">Or a restaurant owner customer of yours can automatically send out a &#8220;Thursday lunch special&#8221; via text message to all her customers. They will love you for setting all this up for them. There is SO MUCH in this program to help you be a success. And the businesses out there really need you.And guess what? Most of you reading this are already pretty &#8216;savvy&#8217; when it comes to internet and blogs, video, articles and marketing online. If you have a working knowledge of these things, you will have no problems with this program.<br />
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<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">This also will work anywhere in the world. In fact, it will probably work even better outside the USA because of less competition.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">There are 5 videos for you to watch. But time is of the essence, because the launch for this product is April 26, Monday, at 12 Noon Pacific. Here is a link to the last video that shows you everything you get in this course. </span></span><a href="http://bit.ly/ba0HMR"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">Main St</span></span>reet</a> If you get a chance to watch the video of Mike the Fireman from Albuquerque NM &#8211; He made $5000 in his first job helping a painting company &#8211; It will blow your mind.</p>
<p>Check it out here:  <a href="http://bit.ly/ba0HMR" target="_blank">Main Street Marketing Machine</a></p>
<p>What does this have to do with Local Web Science? We are thrilled that a course like this is coming out. Any way to help local struggling businesses is a big plus.</p>
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		<title>MLM Prospecting &#8211; The 2 MLM Success Secrets</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 05:57:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Bolin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So here is an article by Doug Firebaugh about prospecting, rejection, deception and winning. I encourage you to really study this article. It will give you the freedom to not worry at all about what people think of you. ]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://stephenbolin.com/wp-content/uploads/Doug-Firebaugh.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-748" style="margin: 10px;" title="Doug Firebaugh" src="http://stephenbolin.com/wp-content/uploads/Doug-Firebaugh.jpg" alt="" width="164" height="212" /></a>A few years ago, I was listening to a new CD set from Jeffrey Combs called The Money Masters I. This is 8 separate CDs just full of incredible information on having the correct money mindset.</p>
<p>One CD especially grabbed my heart, because it talked about MLM prospecting and it showed me a completely different mindset on approaching prospects. This CD is by Doug Firebaugh. I quickly searched for him on Google and was amazed of the great content that he has on his blog. I encourage you to get to know Doug Firebaugh. He will help your MLM business in a very special way.</p>
<p>So here is an article by Doug Firebaugh about prospecting, rejection, deception and winning. I encourage you to really study this article. It will give you the freedom to not worry at all about what people think of you. When you fully realize that it is not YOU that they are rejecting, you will become unstoppable! Here it is:<span id="more-745"></span></p>
<p><strong>Rejection.</strong></p>
<p>You gotta love it.</p>
<p>It is the only thing in Network marketing that will actually<br />
build your Success Muscles in the MLM Business. But many folks<br />
cannot handle it, nor want to go near it.</p>
<p>They just don’t understand it.</p>
<p>Not a problem. This article will teach you how to start<br />
embracing the 2 MLM Secrets of MLM Rejection Proof Prospecting,<br />
in MLM. It is easy. I embraced this truth for years, and it will<br />
help you create a pattern of emotional management and<br />
understanding that will help you succeed massively in the face<br />
of seemingly endless negatives and NOs.</p>
<p>Embracing these 2 MLM Success Secrets of Rejection Free<br />
Prospecting will alone help you move past the negatives in this<br />
business. It truly helped me, and thousands of people in our<br />
business. It is a radical paradigm shift concerning rejection,<br />
but you need to make the shift, if you are going to succeed in<br />
network marketing and mlm.</p>
<p>What are these 2 MLM Success Secrets of Rejection Proof<br />
Prospecting?</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>1) People Never Reject You. They only reject themselves.</strong></li>
</ul>
<p>The truth is, they are only rejecting themselves from the<br />
possibility of Success in their life. It is NOT about you, or<br />
anything to do with you. It is simply them rejecting Success in<br />
their life as they have been taught to do, with the MLM Success<br />
Message you have.  Period.</p>
<p>Many people will NEVER see themselves as Successful, and because<br />
of that, no matter what you do, say, or think, many folks will<br />
reject themselves and stop that from ever happening in their<br />
life. They are programmed and conditioned early in life to do<br />
that.</p>
<p>They do that with a tiny little word: <strong>NO</strong>.</p>
<p>They simply do not want to experience the anticipated<br />
disappointment of not succeeding, as they have felt so much<br />
before in their life. It would only validate again what they<br />
grew up hearing, and learning about their inevitable lack of<br />
Success. And they many times deep down inside, do not want you<br />
to succeed either, as they are afraid you would leave them<br />
behind.</p>
<p>Brutal? Yes.</p>
<p>Sad? Yes.</p>
<p>The Truth? Absolutely.</p>
<p>When people start telling you “NO” in this mlm business,<br />
understand that most of them are NOT telling YOU No, but they<br />
are saying NO to themselves, to their potential Success they<br />
could have had, and to the possibility of an Extraordinary<br />
future. And it is NOT just about MLM or network marketing, but<br />
about anything that offers some type of Entreprenurial Success.</p>
<p>The Word “NO” to them simply stands for “Not Open.”</p>
<p>They believe that their life has no other options except what<br />
they are living, no matter how good your network marketing<br />
business sounds, and thusly, they are Not Open to any other<br />
possible life or future. They have closed the door to Success.</p>
<p>The Second MLM Success Secret of Rejection Proof Prospecting you<br />
must understand is:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>2)There is NO SUCH THING as REJECTION. There is only DECEPTION.</strong></li>
</ul>
<p>Many people today that you will be talking to about your MLM<br />
Business, have been DECEIVED into believing that Success is for<br />
others but not for them. Success is something that is not a<br />
normal part of their makeup. Success, they believe, is only for<br />
those lucky few. They again, were programmed to believe this,<br />
and what they were taught was taught by people who learned to<br />
expect the same out of life. It is a generational conditioning.</p>
<p>They will listen to your presentation, and many times appear<br />
they are ‘with you.” But they are just going through the<br />
motions. They did not get the message you communicated, nor the<br />
info. They were listening, but did not HEAR. Their “Lack<br />
conditioning” or programming was dominating the moment.</p>
<p>Many folks are deceived into believing that they are powerless<br />
to do anything else, except live a “normal life,” and accept<br />
what life gives them, and not reach for anything more in life.</p>
<p>It is a three step formula they learn:</p>
<p>1) Instruction – 2) Deception – 3) Acceptance.</p>
<p>They are instructed at an early age that Massive Success is for<br />
others, not them, and then end up being deceived from the truth<br />
of what could be in their life. And then they end up accepting<br />
it as their lot in life, and the only life they could ever live.</p>
<p>Then, when you show up, with all your dreams, hopes, desires,<br />
and excitement about your MLM business, and they end up telling<br />
you NO, they in reality, are telling themselves NO. And once<br />
again, walk away from a very possible, could be Successful life.<br />
And this is not the first time they have ever done this, nor<br />
will it be the last.</p>
<p>INFERNO Secret:</p>
<p>It had nothing to do with you, but EVERYTHING to do with them<br />
and how they see life, and themselves living it.</p>
<p>And as a network marketer, you need to pour into their life, and<br />
encourage them. A true MLM professional will always encourage<br />
people who live in the Land of Lack and dwell in the lower State<br />
of Mediocrity.</p>
<p>It really does not matter that they have told you NO. They still<br />
can become a customer.</p>
<p>We always taught our folks to give a lot of the prospects who<br />
tell them NO, a copy of the little book “As a Man Thinketh,” by<br />
James Allen. It really opened up a lot of their eyes and it is a<br />
great gift that can bring you referrals in the future. And there<br />
are also free copies of it you can download on the internet as<br />
well. It will help your negative prospects, and set you above<br />
the crowd.</p>
<p>REMEMBER- Prospects never reject you, only themselves.</p>
<p>And they do that because of one of life’s greatest deceptions,<br />
the deception of Success is for others, but not them. And we all<br />
can struggle with that if we are not careful.</p>
<p>Embrace these 2 MLM Success Secrets of Rejection Proof<br />
Prospecting, and watch your Success enlarge dramatically in<br />
Network Marketing and MLM Recruiting.</p>
<p>blessings…doug (c) 2005/</p>
<p>PassionFire Intl</p>
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		<title>How to Use &#8220;Scripts&#8221; to Connect With Your MLM Prospects</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 03:43:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Bolin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a number of rejections, they start wondering if there is a better way to approach people. I covered a different angle of this in "Your Approach To Your Business" in another post. But wouldn't you know, a number of people have come out with "Script Books" and other aids to help people with this problem.]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://stephenbolin.com/wp-content/uploads/Eric-Worre.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-742" style="margin: 10px;" title="Eric Worre" src="http://stephenbolin.com/wp-content/uploads/Eric-Worre.jpg" alt="" width="240" height="136" /></a>So many people in Network Marketing are really troubled over what to say to their friends and prospects. They have already stumbled over their words a number of times, and they came across something like this: &#8220;Would you please, kindly, please. I mean. I&#8217;ve got this new juice drink I know you&#8217;re gonna love. It&#8217;s a business too, but&#8230; well, uh,  you probably aren&#8217;t interested in that.&#8221;</p>
<p>After a number of rejections, they start wondering if there is a better way to approach people. I covered a different angle of this in <a href="http://stephenbolin.com/your-approach-to-your-business-are-you-a-part-timer-or-a-some-timer/training/" target="_blank">&#8220;Your Approach To Your Business&#8221;</a> in another post. But wouldn&#8217;t you know, a number of people have come out with &#8220;Script Books&#8221; and other aids to help people with this problem.<span id="more-741"></span></p>
<p>I have two script books. One by Tim Sales &#8211; &#8220;Professional Inviting Scripts&#8221;  and another one by Todd Falcone &#8220;<a href="http://www.toddfalcone.com/product_details.asp?PID=19" target="_blank">Todd Falcone&#8217;s Little Black Book &#8211; The Ultimate Go-To Guide</a>.&#8221; They are both different and both of them have great tips, scripts and tricks to feel more confident in how you approach your prospects.</p>
<p>Recently Eric Worre  released his new &#8220;The Hottest Recruiting Scripts in MLM&#8221; and if you are a follower of his blog, you know he is really an expert at what he teaches. So this product is going to help a lot of people. Here is a little taste of what you can get &#8211; for FREE!</p>
<p>&#8220;People need what we offer in Network Marketing but have been trained to resist opportunity in just about every form. Our job is to professionally help them get past that resistance and to at least help them understand what it is we do.</p>
<p>I’m going to teach you a proven, eight step process for talking to your prospects. That might seem like a lot, but as you will see, I’m going to walk through each of the steps and provide you with the hottest scripts along with way. When we’re finished, you’ll see how easy it is to put this process to work by filling out a customized invitation worksheet for each of your prospects and then following the step-by-step process.</p>
<p>A few things before we get started…<br />
Please note that this program is going to be focused on getting a person to review some sort of 3rd party materials to better understand your opportunity, and by 3rd party materials I mean a DVD, CD, Magazine, Website, etc. It’s not specifically designed to invite to live events. That is a slightly different process. For now, if you focus on getting people to review your opportunity with a 3rd party tool, you’ll find that getting people to attend an event of any kind is much easier and a natural next step.</p>
<p>What I’m going to teach you in this program is designed to be done over the phone or face to face. It’s NOT to be used with texting, email or any other sort of communication tool. On the phone or face to face. That’s how this works. This can work with warm market prospect (people you know) and cold market prospects (people you meet while living your life). You’ll see examples for both throughout the program. For warm market, you can use the worksheet at the end. For cold market, you’re just going to have to practice.</p>
<p>Let’s start by going through the eight steps, then we’ll put them together at the end and show you how it all works.</p>
<ul>
<li>Step 1: Be in a Hurry&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; Page 4</li>
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<ul>
<li>Step 2: Compliment the Prospect&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..Page 5</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Step 3: Make the Invitation&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;Page 7</li>
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<ul>
<li>Step 4: If I____, Would You____?&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; Page 12</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Step 5: Get a Time Commitment&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; Page 13</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Step 6: Confirm&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;Page 14</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Step 7: Get a Time and Number&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.Page 15</li>
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<ul>
<li>Step 8: Get off the Phone&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. Page 15</li>
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<p>Be sure and get your own copy of this PDF and watch the video too. Eric has an MP3 audio to help teach it too.</p>
<p>You will need to subscribe to his list, but is is well worth it. Even if you already are on his list, he is migrating over to a new platform or blog. Once you subscribe you will get access to the PDF and MP3.  Here is where to go: <strong> </strong><a href="http://networkmarketingpro.com/subscribe/" target="_blank"><strong>networkmarketingpro.com/subscribe/</strong></a><strong> </strong></p>
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		<title>Success in Network Marketing is Simply a Numbers Game</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 19:55:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Bolin</dc:creator>
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<p><a href="http://stephenbolin.com/wp-content/uploads/Peter-Island-1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-733" style="margin: 10px;" title="Peter Island 1" src="http://stephenbolin.com/wp-content/uploads/Peter-Island-1-300x200.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="200" /></a>If you were promised $1,000,000, without a shadow of a doubt, that it would be all yours &#8211; if you picked up the phone and called 10,000 people in the next year, and told them about a business opportunity &#8211; would you do it?</p>
<p>This is equal to calling 28 people per day, every single day, for one year. I think that there are a number of people who would jump at this chance. They would definitely be tested, because calling 28 people is easy to do &#8212; But calling another 28 people is easy not to do.</p>
<p>What is interesting to me, and I have no proof, but the business that you would generate after just 6 months of calling 28 people day in and day out &#8211; would probably be more than $1 Million dollars. Here&#8217;s why:</p>
<p>You would start getting good at talking to people. Your &#8220;closing&#8221; average would keep rising, as your confidence grew stronger. You would get more and more excited as you saw bigger and bigger results from your efforts. After a while, you might even want to call 50 people per day &#8211; or 100!</p>
<p>Network marketing, like any type of sales, is simply a numbers game. The more people you eventually impact with your message and showing you care for them, the more money you will start making. It is really as simple as that.</p>
<p>So why do so many people fail at network marketing? I think part of it is due to the fact that people refuse to leave their comfort zone. If they do leave it temporarily, and they get criticized or suffer rejection, they scurry back to safety in their mediocrity laden comfort zone.</p>
<p>But I think a bigger reason why 95% of people fail, they don&#8217;t have a clear-cut plan laid out for them as to how many people they need to contact, or some other clearly defined avenue that they can drive down without getting lost.</p>
<p>There are so many ways to make this a &#8220;numbers&#8221; game.  Maybe this will make it easier to understand. Here aresome examples:</p>
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<li>Create a blog about Network Marketing and do a new blog post every day. Your new post needs to be relevant and hopefully educational, entertaining or enlightening.</li>
<li>Build lead generating landing pages with good email <a href="http://www.aweber.com/?326096" target="_blank">Aweber autoresponder</a> follow-up.  Use split testing to optimize your landing page and split test how you are driving traffic to your Landing Page.</li>
<li>Forum marketing &#8211; helping out with great informative posts, and having your signature file point to your landing page URL or your blog.</li>
<li>Facebook advertising &#8211; many different ways to do this. But your end result is getting people inside your &#8220;sales funnel&#8221;.</li>
<li>PPC &#8211; Pay Per Click Google, Bing, and Yahoo advertising. I wouldn&#8217;t attempt this without a very clear understanding of <a href="https://m171.infusionsoft.com/go/2010ageb/StephenB/" target="_blank">Perry Marshall&#8221;s Definitive Guide to Google Adwords</a>.  He teaches Split-Testing as a science.  I have this e-book of his, and he is by far the BEST there is in teaching PPC.</li>
<li>Video Marketing &#8211; shooting a Flip Video each day or doing a Screen Capture video of a &#8220;how to&#8221; strategy.  You will need to add your video to some written source, like a blog post, or a Squidoo lens. Be sure and submit your video to more than just You-Tube. You can use a free service like PixlePipe to submit your video to about 15 different sites. If you want a full blown video submitter, you might want to check out <a href="http://www.TrafficGeyser.com/cmd.php?af=846320" target="_blank">Traffic Geyser</a>.</li>
<li>Article Marketing &#8211; writing a good compelling article each day and submitting it to the various article directories &#8211; especially <a href="http://ezinearticles.com/" target="_blank">Ezine Articles.com</a>. If you want to know how to submit your article to 150 article directories at once,  I use <a href="https://www.plimus.com/jsp/redirect.jsp?contractId=2289226&amp;referrer=StephenB" target="_blank">Automatic Article Submitter</a>. It does a great job.</li>
<li>The traditional method of calling people &#8211; usually after you run out of your warm market, you end up buying lead lists.</li>
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<p>The whole end goal of all of these different &#8220;numbers game&#8221; methods is to lead all of these prospect into your sales funnel.  The very best sales funnel I know of is <a href="http://www.redhotsponsoring.com/intro" target="_blank">My Lead System Pro</a>. This  whole system is already in place with incredible resources and training.  You can learn every single one of these &#8220;numbers game&#8221; methods and a few more, inside My Lead System Pro.</p>
<p>Getting back to the opening scenario &#8211; $1 Million for 10,000 calls &#8211; take this same logic and apply it to the methods indicated above. In other words you may not know how many blog posts you need to do to earn a lot of money &#8211; but if you did at least one new post every day &#8211; I think after a year your blog would be really ROCKING! A new video every day for a year? Wow! A new article every day for a year? I think you get the picture. A year goes by pretty quick.</p>
<p>Just imagine what your network marketing business would be like if you just picked ONE of the methods listed above, and did it faithfully every day for the next year. Is this easy to do every day? Not necessarily. Is this easy not to do? Most definitely. This will take commitment and persistence. But what will the pay-off be like? WOW! You won&#8217;t know unless you try.</p>
<p>Are you up for the challenge?</p>
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		<title>Magical Copywriting Tips, Secrets &amp; Resources</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 05:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>(Click Here, <a href="http://stephenbolin.com/scorching-copywriting-secrets-of-gary-halbert/training/article-writing-training/" target="_blank">Gary Halbert</a>, To view the 1st of this series of 3 articles.)</p>
<p>I recently watched Mike Dillard&#8217;s (Magnetic Sponsoring) 18 minute video, and one of the greatest pieces of advice he gave was to pick ONE method of marketing and leave all the rest behind, for now. Work on this one marketing skill until you become an expert at it.</p>
<p>But the other thing he said was, along with this one skill, you need to learn copy writing. With a good knowledge and skill of copywriting, you can pretty much make money anywhere you go. If it isn&#8217;t writing for your own sale campaigns, you can hire your skill out, and command a great price.</p>
<p>In this part of my copywriting secrets teaching, I want to show you who I have learned from and give you some resources so you can quickly find books and courses that will be a big help to you. Copywriting can be learned. It doesn&#8217;t happen overnight, but as you stay consistent in your study AND writing, you will get better.</p>
<p>The first person I have a lot of respect for as a copywriter is <a href="http://dankennedy.com/" target="_blank">Dan Kennedy</a>. He has influenced a lot of people with his teachings.  He has two best selling books that are definitely worth getting &#8211; The Ultimate Sales Letter  &amp; The Ultimate Marketing Plan. Dan Kennedy also has &#8220;Dan Kennedy&#8217;s Copywriting Seminar In-A-Box&#8221; which is 28 CD&#8217;s and a whole bunch of printed examples of what to do and what not to do. I got my copy of this on Ebay. You might find it there too.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.john-carlton.com/" target="_blank">John Carlton</a> is the next copywriter I have learned a lot from. The course I have from him is called &#8220;Kick-Ass Copywriting Secrets of a Marketing Rebel.&#8221; This is 4 CD&#8217;s and about 200 pages of pure gold. He has a great sense of humor, often right in your face. He tells it like it is. I learned from him how the big Ad Agencies don&#8217;t know a hill of beans about response marketing. They milk the big corporations of billions of dollars in building their &#8220;brand&#8221;.</p>
<p>Joe Sugarman is another great copywriter. I have a book of his, &#8220;The Adweek Copywriting Handbook&#8221; which is 338 pages of incredible learning. He has about 40 chapters, each one showing a different style of targeting your audience and how to do it. The sub-title to this book is &#8220;The Ultimate Guide to Writing Powerful Advertising and Markting Copy from One of America&#8217;s Top Copywriters.&#8221;</p>
<p>Copywriting is, in a lot of ways, all about the psychological influence that your writing will have on people &#8211; to take action. That&#8217;s why copywriting is so powerful. A book that anyone in copywriting for long hears about is Robert B. Cialdini, Ph.D.&#8217;s book &#8220;Influence &#8211; The Psychology of Persuasion.&#8221; He shows that there are six very powerful influences that will cause people to take action, either positively or negatively. These six influences are:</p>
<p>1) Reciprocation  2) Commitment &amp; Consistency  3) Social Proof  4) Liking  5) Authority  and  6) Scarcity. He spends a whole chapter on each one of these psychological influences. Very interesting!</p>
<p>Gary Halbert is who I talked about in my last copywriting article. I don&#8217;t have any of his courses or books, but I have a growing swipe file from his massive amount of articles and videos online. One thing you&#8217;ll notice, each copywriter I have mentioned has a very outgoing, almost &#8220;in your face&#8221; personality. Not all of them, but definitely John Carlton and Gary Halbert. And Dan Kennedy can get that way once in a while! I think this stems from the fact that to be a good copywriter you have to have a very wide range of life experiences.  You could never be a good copywriter if you never leave home and are afraid of your own shadow.</p>
<p>The last copywriter I will talk about in this article is Brian Keith Voiles. He has an awesome 6 &#8211; CD course (and 1 DVD)  with a large printed 3-ring binder, called &#8220;Advertising Magic! The Complete Guide To Creating Hot Ads &amp; Sales Letters That Work!&#8221; I found this on Ebay also.  What&#8217;s neat is every copywriter is so different. Being experts at selling, they are experts at selling their own products. I don&#8217;t regret at all the fact that I have spent a bit of money on copywiting books and programs.</p>
<p>There are others that I haven&#8217;t mentioned, that are great copywriters too. If you can get any of these guys on video, that would be a real treat.</p>
<p>Be on the look-out for my 3rd article on copywriting &#8211; some good practical tips and templates that you can use to quickly put together some great &#8220;pulling&#8221; articles.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 11:21:19 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><a title="Gary Halbert" rel="http://www.StephenBolin.com" href="http://stephenbolin.com/wp-content/uploads/gary-halbert-SI5.jpg" target="_blank"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-675" style="margin: 10px;" title="Gary Halbert" src="http://stephenbolin.com/wp-content/uploads/gary-halbert-SI5-300x229.jpg" alt="" width="270" height="206" /></a>Copywriting is an art, and not so much a science. Yes there are people, mostly psychologists, who have taken copywriting to a different level that is more scientific. This, in itself is fascinating. If you want to learn from one of the all time experts in this area, Glenn Livingston is a master at pyschological selling and copywriting techniques. I spent 6 months learning his methods and coming from a true pyschologist, it was hot!</p>
<p>If you heard Mike Dillard&#8217;s webinar a few nights ago, he stated a few times about the importance of becoming a good copywriter. Many people don&#8217;t know where to start, or even what copywriting means. So I decided to do a few teachings on some of the most important points, and point you in the direction of how to learn a lot more.</p>
<p>Copywriting is the art of grabbing someone&#8217;s attention, and then holding their attention long enough to cause an emotional shift towards your product or service, and then making them an offer that they cannot refuse. If you have been into internet marketing for even a month or two, you have seen a number of these &#8220;sales letters&#8221; &#8211; some of them being 25 pages long. I have a collection of sales letters, and it is very interesting to spend time analyzing them &#8211; especially if you got &#8220;sucked in&#8221; and you pulled out your credit card and you bought!</p>
<p>In the video, I show you a simple exercise you can do to quickly increase your copywriting skills. Will you do the exercise? Probably not. Why? Only about 3 to 5% of people ever get focused enough to follow through on one thing long enough to make them a profit. I love the book, The Slight Edge. Is doing this exercise easy to do? Yes it is. Is it easy not to do it? Yes it is.</p>
<p>This exercise is swiping a Gary Halbert Letter, and printing it out, and then HAND WRITING a copy of the letter on lined paper. It takes a while, and if you haven&#8217;t written long hand in a while, it hurts. But you&#8217;ll quickly build up your hand muscles. And your copywriting skills will start increasing. Sounds crazy? Well a great copywriter told me about this a few years ago. It gets your mind and eyes and hand all in action. Just the process of handwriting will drill those Gary Halbert lines into your brain. You will start to pick up on little things that make a big difference.</p>
<p>The next tip is to just start writing &#8211; a lot. Your blog is a great place to start. Try to do one post each day. I know this is a lot of work. Commit to at least 4 posts per week. You will start becoming a better copywriter in no time.</p>
<p>Stay tuned. I will do at least 2 more blog posts about copywriting.</p>
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<p><a href="http://stephenbolin.com/wp-content/uploads/j0262322.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-122 alignleft" style="margin: 10px;" title="j0262322" src="http://stephenbolin.com/wp-content/uploads/j0262322-300x196.jpg" alt="" width="240" height="157" /></a>Network marketing is an interesting business to keep an eye on. You see different trends, and different &#8220;approaches &#8221; in prospecting. But after a while there is not much new stuff being introduced. It is still a people business, and it will always be a people business.</p>
<p>One of the first things a new recruit starts asking questions about is &#8220;how do I approach my family? How do I approach my friends? How do I approach my neighbors? They want to know exactly what to say, and if you have some good scripts that they can learn, they get really excited.</p>
<p>This is all dandy and good, except the rejection keeps coming, and the new recruit starts wondering if he is cut out for this. He also thinks it may be just the company or the product that people don&#8217;t like. She almost never stops and thinks the problem might be between her own two ears.</p>
<p>So instead of concentrating on your approach to your neighbors, family and friends, what about your approach to your business? Say what? Yes, what is your approach to your own business? I&#8217;ll tell you how most network marketers approach their business &#8211; as a &#8220;some-timer&#8221; or a &#8220;part-timer&#8221; or a &#8220;just checking it out-timer&#8221; or an &#8220;if I make $1000 in the first week &#8211; timer -I&#8217;ll stick around.&#8221; Your approach to your business means everything. It means whether or not you will succeed in network marketing.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s happening. As you go out to prospect, and you open your mouth and stutter and tell them you&#8217;re new and just got in, they smile and are thinking &#8211; &#8220;I sure as heck don&#8217;t want to do that myself!&#8221;. Even if your &#8220;approach&#8221; is professional and smooth, your prospect can read between the lines &#8211; &#8220;he&#8217;s nothing but a &#8220;some-timer&#8221; &#8211; why should I bother following him?&#8221; You may be fooling yourself, but if you aren&#8217;t totally committed to your business, your prospects will pick up on this every single time.</p>
<p>I wrote another blog post about this &#8211; the 3 Stages of Belief.  You will be as successful in network marketing as you are passionate about your business, and work at it full-time &#8211; at least in your thinking. For many people, this realization happens all at once, and suddenly you no longer have any fear of picking up that 30 lb phone. I don&#8217;t know what will trigger this for you. But it can happen in an instance. I believe it happens because you are preparing yourself for your future, and you finally see yourself exactly like you are, and you say &#8211; &#8220;I am better than that! I&#8217;m not going to allow my limiting beliefs to hold me back anymore! Get out of my way! Here I come!&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://stephenbolin.com/your-approach-to-your-business-are-you-a-part-timer-or-a-some-timer/"><em>Click here to view the embedded video.</em></a></p>
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		<title>Does Your Headline Suck? or Does it Grab Your Attention?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 03:50:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Bolin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When writing articles, blog posts and &#8220;commercial&#8221; email messages, your headline will determine whether or not your message even gets opened. If you have a dead, boring headline, your message will be ignored. One way to start getting a feeling for good headlines is to pay attention to the emails you get, the blog posts [...]]]></description>
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<p>When writing articles, blog posts and &#8220;commercial&#8221; email messages, your headline will determine whether or not your message even gets opened. If you have a dead, boring headline, your message will be ignored.</p>
<p>One way to start getting a feeling for good headlines is to pay attention to the emails you get, the blog posts that grab your attention and newspaper articles that attract you. With email, I encourage you to start a &#8220;<a class="zem_slink" title="Swipe file" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swipe_file">swipe file</a>&#8221; on your computer, where you copy and paste the email into a special folder. After a few months you will have a nice and growing source of great headlines.</p>
<p>Another way to learn about headlines &#8211; what works and what doesn&#8217;t -  is to join <a href="http://vur.me/MLM--Leads" target="_blank">Viral Url</a> or <a href="http://viralhosts.com/redhotsponsoring" target="_blank">Viral Hosts</a>. You will be getting a LOT of emails from people wanting to sell you something, just like you can send emails to them. (Make sure and sign up with a &#8220;junk&#8221; email account.) Don&#8217;t just delete all these emails. Scan them and see what &#8220;jumps out&#8221; at you. Again, save these to your swipe file. Viral Hosts and Viral URL is a gold mine of headlines -including the body of the message.</p>
<p>You will start getting a better feel about what &#8220;grabs&#8221; you as far as headlines for your articles. It becomes fun to learn about this and even more fun when you see your articles getting more and more exposure.</p>
<p>In the video, I show you an awesome book I use to help me with headlines and also it helps me with domain names.</p>
<p><a href="http://stephenbolin.com/does-your-headling-suck-or-does-it-grab-your-attention/"><em>Click here to view the embedded video.</em></a></p>
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		<title>PixelPipe &#8211; Free Video Uploader to 15+ Video Sites</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 01:53:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Bolin</dc:creator>
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<p>I discovered a real nifty free video uploader about 2 months ago. I belong to Social Media Science&#8217;s Synnd membership, and they are coming out with a super video uploader with commenting and voting, but until that happens, I am real happy with PixelPipe.</p>
<p>For those of you spending $97 or more per month on Traffic Geyser, Pixelpipe doesn&#8217;t do what TG does, but at least it does a very nice job for no cash outlay. One of the most important things for video marketing is getting your videos up on the web as quickly as possible. When I had a Traffic Geyser membership, it was nice, but it took me a lot longer to configure a video than it does in Pixelpipe.</p>
<p>One of the neatest provisions of Pixelpipe is an awesome Firefox plugin that lets you easily drag and drop a video into the plugin and within 3 minutes you are hitting the upload button.</p>
<p>I am really into video right now being on my 7th video of the 90 day video challenge. I need all the speed I can get with uploading videos, so PixelPipe is coming in real handy. Check out my video below. I am using Sony Vegas Movie Studio 9 &#8211; and my effects are a little rough, but they will start looking better and better.</p>
<p><a href="http://stephenbolin.com/pixelpipe-free-video-uploader-to-15-video-sites/"><em>Click here to view the embedded video.</em></a></p>
<p>Here&#8217;s a few interesting articles about Video Uploads:</p>
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<li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://www.slideshare.net/dynastywebmark/how-do-i-increase-my-you-tube-video-views">How Do I Increase My You Tube Video Views</a> (slideshare.net)</li>
<li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://en.onsoftware.com/top-5-free-video-converters-for-mac/">Top 5 free video converters for Mac</a> (en.onsoftware.com)</li>
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		<title>How to Make More Money In Your Network Marketing Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 00:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Bolin</dc:creator>
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<p>People are always interested in how to make more money. There are a number of ways to do this. Work harder. Work longer. Work smarter. Or maybe figure out ways to work less while being more productive.</p>
<p>I was on a webinar a month ago with Jack Humphrey and he showed me this really cool time saving tool. I was &#8220;blown away&#8221; that a simple tool like this existed. And I was irritated that I didn&#8217;t know about this months or years sooner.</p>
<p>So you&#8217;re now thinking &#8211; well, what is this tool?</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a simple web application to help you keep all the websites that you frequently visit &#8211; all together in one place. But this isn&#8217;t all of it. You can organize them in any way you please. Here is how you get there:</p>
<p><a href="http://only2clicks.com/" target="_blank">ONLY 2 CLICKS </a></p>
<p>Here is a video I made about how to use Only 2 Clicks. It is saving me a lot of time. And at least for now, time is $. I am looking forward to the day where time and money are not necessarily related!</p>
<p><a href="http://stephenbolin.com/how-to-make-more-money-in-your-network-marketing-business/"><em>Click here to view the embedded video.</em></a></p>
<p>What do you do now?</p>
<p>Sign up with Only 2 Clicks (it&#8217;s free) and start using it &#8211; and get involved with the different Tribes that I pointed out. If you are wanting to get a lot better at blogging and ultimately making a lot more money, start saving a collection of the best MLM blogs &#8211; in Only 2 Clicks  &#8211; of course. This way you can visit them easily again.</p>
<p>This is my day 6 of the 90 day video challenge. It is getting more fun every day. Please consider what it could do to your blog and your business to start and complete 90 different videos. (unreal!)</p>
<p>And to start generating 0ver 50 leads a day, make sure and take a good look at what is helping me so much: <a href="http://redhotsponsoring.com" target="_blank">Red Hot Sponsoring</a></p>
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