Sunday, 18 April 2010

How to Market Your Business - Inexpensive Tips and Methods to Get You Started

You now have your business up and running. How do you attract new customers and leads? Here are a few cheap and free methods that work for me to get you started.

Viral Marketing. Why not give away a free informative ebook? If it is useful people will pass it on to friends and family. Put a few links in back to your website or blog and you will get people signing in for your free report or email newsletter when they visit your website.

List Building. Make sure you capture peoples email address with a sign in web-form at your blog or website. This way you can follow up with other offers and information to them. Remember 60% of customers say no five times before saying yes to an offer.

Pay Per Click Advertising. This is a good cheap way to get traffic quickly to your website. Keep your bids on key words low for a start until you find your feet. Try to think of key words phrases to use that people type into their browsers. Phrases starting with How To is a good start.

Article Marketing. A great free way to build your email list is article marketing. Write informative articles and list them on ezines such as EzineArticles. Remember to put a link in the resource box back to your website or blog and you will get plenty of free traffic in no time. Some good subjects to keep readers interested in are animals, babies, cars, entertainment, fashion, money, royalty, sex, sport, war and weddings.

Direct mail. Don't forget direct mail. Make sure you rent out a good list of names from a reputable list broker. Write out your sales letter with all the benefits of your offer. The three most important things in direct mail promotions are, the quality of the list, the sales letter copy and the print quality.

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Thursday, 25 February 2010

How to Create Emotional Triggers with Hypnotic Stories

Hypnotic stories are essential to your practice and profession as a Conversational Hypnotist. The art of telling stories is a time tested tradition that has been alive as long as humans have been alive. You need only to look as far as cave drawings to know this is true. Story telling has evolved since then and is now available for you to use in practices such as hypnosis.

Story telling gives you an insurmountable amount of power with in hypnosis. Story telling is a way for you to access states through the unconscious without triggering the critical factor as well as seeding ideas for future use to change lives.

It allows you to implant emotional triggers, which you learn more about later on in this article. It is a way to express many different types of situations, feelings and solve problems.

There is no real limit to the power behind a story, hence it is a very powerful tool for you to use in you quest as a hypnotist. In this article you will learn how to create an emotional trigger with a hypnotic story. This will serve only to strengthen your story telling ability and assist in propelling you into new areas of the telling of stories.

Hypnosis is a way of altering your experiences to become more responsive in a focused and calm mind. The unconscious is the house where your emotions dwell and when you create an unconscious response you are in effect creating an emotional response as well. Just in this you have already accessed an altered state of mind.

When you embark on telling a story your objective will be to get an emotional response from those around you. You want to revivify the experience for your listeners, really make them come alive in your ideas placed in the story. Context of the story will play a big part in this. You must access the correct contexts for the emotions you are trying to coax from the people around you.

The best way to do this is to ‘go first’. In doing this you will sub-communicate the experiences that you want your listeners to have. If you can make the events, ideas and characters of your story real for yourself in turn your listener will have a better chance of tuning into that same picture.

In going first here you are not just going to be visualizing the story you need to really place yourself within the story in your mind. You need the experience to convey the emotions you wish to extract from those around you. In fact you need to experience the emotions as well.

Remember the things you have been learning as they will be valuable tools for this process. All the tools still count in this type of story telling. You will need to use the three rules of story telling as well as the re-incorporation of events.

You will find that ‘going first’ to visualize the story will heighten the awareness of your listener. Keeping in tune with your creativity and how to let it flow freely from your unconscious to create the story will be pivotal. All of these aspects along with keeping inside the circle and never stop talking will get your story telling to a new level.

As you use all these concepts in your building of stories you will be more apt and more able to let your unconscious mind freely create the story straight from the creative wells with in you.

There are other aspects you have learned that you will want to work into this web of story telling as well. These include the hypnotic language, precision language, hypnotic themes and sensory rich language.

In practicing your story telling you will be making up stories and telling true stories at the same time. The more you create stories to tell the more your unconscious mind will relate those fictional stories to true events that have taken place in your own life.

Soon you will have the capability to tell genuine stories that will also induce hypnosis and present hypnotic themes. You will be able to embed the suggestions you want your listeners to put into action, and see a response to that action.

When you start to combine all these aspects of hypnosis you will be actively creating emotional triggers within your stories. The story itself will set off emotional triggers and open the people around you to suggestion and change.

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Monday, 19 October 2009

Betting for a Living

Betting for a Living





In this book, Nick tells how he succeeded in taking more than £1,000 a month from bookmakers, despite betting almost exclusively on week-ends and public holidays. The book details the exact methods he used and explains the precise reasons behind every bet. Reading it, Nick says, 'won’t turn you into a professional gambler, but it will give you the knowledge to become one'.

Betting for a Living

Friday, 16 October 2009

eBay Power Seller Secrets, 2E: Insider Tips from EBay's Most Successful Sellers

eBay Power Seller Secrets, 2E: Insider Tips from EBay's Most Successful Sellers: v. 2 E





If you want to take your eBay sales to the next level, this proven guide has all the inside trade secrets that have propelled the savviest entrepreneurs into eBay PowerSellers-those earning up to $150,000 per month through auctions. eBay PowerSeller Secrets teaches you how to effectively run a store that never closes, sells globally, and offers virtually unlimited income potential, with valuable advice on advertising, collecting payments, running an eBay store, selling and shipping internationally, and much more.



From the Back Cover

(Debra and Brad Schepp/eBay PowerSeller Secrets/ISBN-10: 0-07-149816-8; ISBN-13: 978-0-07-149816-6/Back Cover Copy)

Join the ranks of top eBay sellers with even more insider tips!

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The Second Edition of eBay PowerSeller Secrets is packed with up-to-date guidance in effectively running a eBay store, selling and shipping internationally, finding little-known sources for products, advertising your wares, managing inventory, collecting payments, keeping records, and much more.

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Learn from hundreds of PowerSellers just what it takes to succeed on eBay:

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  • Track incidentals, deductions, expenses, and other tax-related items
  • Automate to ease processes such as creating and posting listings, managing feedback, e-mail, and shipping
  • Use Blogs and eBay Guides and Reviews to drive traffic to your listings
  • Make big money through eBay's Affiliates program

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eBay Power Seller Secrets, 2E: Insider Tips from EBay's Most Successful Sellers: v. 2 E

Get into Bed with Google: Top Ranking Search Optimisation Techniques

Get into Bed with Google: Top Ranking Search Optimisation Techniques





There's having a website and there's having a website that works. It's all very well having a Flash intro and lots of features and functionality that can 'wow' your audience on every single page. But what if they can't find you? What if you're not visible on the search engines, and on Google in particular? Making your site 'Google Friendly' or employing Search Engine Optimisation techniques (or SEO as it's known in the trade) at your earliest convenience, should be a priority - if you don't rank on those results you may as well not have a website at all - it's that serious...But how do you get yourself started so you can make the most of your online presence? Let "Get into Bed with Google" help.Dip in and dip out, read it from start to finish - it really doesn't matter. The 52 brilliant ideas contained within are canny and quick fixes that should result in immediate benefits to your site; even implementing just a handful of ideas will improve your website rankings and will help you realise your ambitions and the ambitions of your company. "Get into Bed with Google" will help readers get their websites at the top of search results pages so their customers can find them easily and quickly, which in Google terms is the gold at the end of the rainbow. It is simply brilliant.

Get into Bed with Google: Top Ranking Search Optimisation Techniques

Yahoo! SiteBuilder for Dummies

Yahoo! SiteBuilder for Dummies




Save up to $75 on Yahoo! Web Hosting!

Choose the right graphics, include links and feedback forms, and add "wow"

You too can develop cool Web sites with Yahoo! SiteBuilder and this handy, easy–to–follow guide! All the basics of good site design are here, plus step–by–step directions for creating your site with text, links, pictures, and animation. Once you′re finished building your site, cash in a special offer from Yahoo! for discounted Web hosting and share your work with the world.

Discover how to

  • Create and publish a basic site in minutes
  • Use SiteBuilder templates
  • Design a site that?s easy to navigate
  • Avoid common mistakes amateurs make
  • Offer maps and searches on your site


From the Back Cover

Save up to $75 on Yahoo! Web Hosting!

Choose the right graphics, include links and feedback forms, and add "wow"

You too can develop cool Web sites with Yahoo! SiteBuilder and this handy, easy–to–follow guide! All the basics of good site design are here, plus step–by–step directions for creating your site with text, links, pictures, and animation. Once you′re finished building your site, cash in a special offer from Yahoo! for discounted Web hosting and share your work with the world.

Discover how to

  • Create and publish a basic site in minutes
  • Use SiteBuilder templates
  • Design a site that¿s easy to navigate
  • Avoid common mistakes amateurs make
  • Offer maps and searches on your site
Yahoo! SiteBuilder for Dummies

Starting a Business on eBay .co.uk For Dummies UK Edition

Starting a Business on eBay.co.uk For Dummies UK Edition



Review

"....Also just published specifically for eBay.co.uk, rather than the US version, is the Dummies guide to Starting a Business on eBay.co.uk, which covers topics including: setting–up shop, running successful auctions, delivering goods, keeping customers happy and maximising profits..." (The Times Online, May 2006)

"...worth a look whether you want to operate a sideline or a full–blown business..." (The Guardian, June 2006)



Review

"... covers topics including: setting–up shop, running successful auctions, delivering goods, keeping customers happy and maximising profits..." (The Times Online, May 2006)

"...worth a look whether you want to operate a sideline or a full–blown business..." (The Guardian, June 2006)

Starting a Business on eBay.co.uk For Dummies UK Edition