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What is this Body by Vi 90 Day Challenge all about? This video explains a little bit more about the what all the excitement is.

Whether you are brand new or a veteran of internet marketing, Empower Network is a wonderful marketing tool. Plus, it’s a 100% commissions in your pocket marketing funnel. So, no matter what product of program you have, Empower Network is a nice little addition. You get excellent marketing advise from guys who have done it successfully and you get the easiest to use blog platform I’ve ever seen. There are only 8 core commitments you have to complete but everything else is done for you. No technical hurdles in this system that normally hold people back. No fear. You can do this! Empower yourself. You are worth it.

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Today was the fist day of my journey to better fitness. I am an active participant in the Body by Vi 90 Day Challenge.
Basically, I started the day with a yummy shake and sat down to go online and officially register for the Challenge. Tam took a few “before” photos. A humbling experience for most, me included. Another function of registering is a statement of my personal goal. My BMI (body mass index) is classified as “overweight” for my height and weight. I will get this into portion while taking the challenge. When I hit the scale after these 90 days, I will be at least 20 pounds lighter! I’m going to need new pants! What a great problem to have – smaller clothes in the closet is a good thing.
Next is the exercise. I’m going to be honest here and tell you that I did not complete the simple easy 15 walk. Other issues of life happened and this is not an excuse. Tomorrow, I will be on track.

Then I had a sensible dinner of a salad, lean turkey and a baked potato. The only other ingredient is a vitamin regiment. One pack in the AM and one in the PM hours for maximum health. This is an easy one for me because I’ve learned that vitamins make me feel better! So I am thrilled to take the recommended supplements. I’m excited about the whole process! People from all over are changing their health using the 90 Day Challenge. Check out some of the before and afters.

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For almost a week, I’ve been enjoying meeting and connecting with social media moguls through a fun and engaging platform known as Empire Avenue. Players register and are traded as a stock. Your user name is your ticker symbol and other players invest fake money called eaves in multiple “stocks”. You invest in other users stock in an effort to earn high dividends and advance in the game. The more connections and social activity you participate in the higher your value. If you are yielding a high dividend, you will be purchased by other players and gain value quickly. There are strong social media contacts to be made and a great portal for gaining social media clout. There are leader boards, communities for all interests and plenty of game play strategies to pursue. It’s free to play and challenging. Check it out and get your Empire Avenue account here.

Since 2008, I’ve been using Aweber’s email marketing tools. At first, the interface was a little bit intimidating but with some experience, it’s now very quick and easy to set up a email list and web form to capture subscribers and customers. As an internet marketer, it’s a critical piece of my business. Using Aweber, I can communicate with my customers at will and create long lasting relationships with them.

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Here’s a quick video I did on how to create an Aweber subscriber list and form.

The internet has changed the way we do business and internet marketing is the new sheriff in town when it comes to selling products and services. There are five steps to becoming an internet marketing millionaire. They are:

1. Drive traffic to your website
2. Convert traffic to sales
3. Cross-sell and up-sell complementary products
4. Continue to increase the amount of traffic to your site
5. Increase your conversion rate

Now that doesn’t sound very difficult at all does it. Heck in a month or so you should be a millionaire right? If that’s the case and all it takes it these five simple steps, why are 90% of internet marketers never making a sale. Why do affiliates never translate to sales in 90% of the cases. It doesn’t matter whether it’s Commission Junction, Linkshare, Clickbank or another.

The problem lies in just one area – sales techniques. There are three types of sales techniques you need to know and use if you want your internet marketing to be in the 10% that are successful. Let’s have a look at these 3 type of sales techniques for internet marketing

Sales Technique #1 – Feature or Function Based Sales
This type of selling sells the functionality of the service or product. For example. When you purchase a car it has an engine, gas pedal, brake pedal, 4 wheels. The car takes you to and from work and you use the car to bring home the groceries and carry the baby stroller. You can use your car to go on vacations, take the kids skiing, or just go for a relaxing drive. Having a car is great isn’t it?

Let’s look at another example. You buy a cell phone. It lets you talk with your friends, text message your friends, take pictures, and even listen to music. It works in your home town and across the country.

Last example, you go out for dinner at a high end restaurant and with no reservation you are able to get a table and order a steak for dinner. It tastes delicious, it makes your taste buds water, it fills you up and relieves your hunger pains.

Every one of our examples shows functionality or the function of the product. This is how most sales occur. The salesperson will sell the potential customer on the functionality of the product or service in an effort to get them to purchase. It’s the most basic of all sales techniques.

Sales Technique #2 – Benefits Based Sales
This is the second method of selling which uses telling the potential customer what the product or service will do for them. Let’s look at our examples again.

In the case of the car it can provide social status, luxury and convenience. In the case of the cellular phone it can provide convenience and connectivity. In the case of the restaurant you must have social influence in order to get that table without a reservation.

With benefits based selling you provide the product or service benefits to the potential customer in a way that makes it difficult not to find it overly appealing and thus necessary.

The difference between technique #1 and technique #2 is that feature based selling is more descriptive than benefit based selling. You must actually understand your product before you can be successful at selling it. Benefit based selling required you to have an excellent understanding of how the product can improve the potential customer’s life.

Sales Technique #3 – Engaging Selling
For online internet marking this is by far the most effective and it’s also the most interesting technique.

With this technique you are going to engage the potential customer and create a sense of ownership with the product or service. If done right it will compel the visitor to buy. In fact the urge will be unbearable. That’s because this method of selling taps uses psychological drives to create an irresistible compulsion to make the purchase. This technique taps into needs, wants, and desires.

For example, the desire for a comfortable, reliable, fast car. The desire to enjoy a delicious meal. The desire to have convenient communication. Or perhaps the desire to become a millionaire using internet marketing.

Remember with your website you have no direct contact with your customer so you must interest, compel, and close the sale all with words, graphics, and videos. These three sales techniques for internet marketing will help you do just that.

Many online marketers think that social networking is way to slow to help build an online business. But even though it may be slow, social online marketing is a great free advertising resource that will build a solid foundation that can bring a steady flow of traffic over time.

What is social online marketing? It allows people to communicate with each other and create relationships in every area of life, including business. There are many tools available to brand yourself and your company online, such as videos, discussion groups, and blogs.

Many successful marketers are using social marketing to increase their business and attract others to do Joint Venture Partnerships. It allows them to promote their businesses to people who are actually interested. This is done by using social networking sites to build up a network of friends with common interests while offering support, advice and exchanging information. Over time they can establish relationships and then promote their business opportunities.

This can be a great way to increase incomes, simply because many people are seeking information and will be interested to do Joint Venture projects.

Networking with others is one of the oldest forms of communication in the world. By joining a social network people can search for professionals like consultants, hosting services and much more.

The popularity of networking websites is spreading all over the Internet. Not only can members make new friends but these sites can be used as marketing tools. They can help increase website traffic by sending tons of traffic to your website and for an added bonus, they can also improve your search engine ranking.

By integrating social online marketing into your marketing plan you can now generate additional income as well as to gain free advertising.

How can social networking help your business?

1. You can save any website that you find interesting and mark it for public viewing. This is a great way to get your site exposed.

2. Many social networking sites will link to your website and thus increase the number of backlinks to your site. What a great way to improve your websites search engine ranking.

3. Some of the well known social networking sites are famous for directing massive traffic to other websites. If your site ever makes it to the front page of any social networking site, then get ready for a mind boggling amount of traffic.

4. Search engines love social networking sites because they can get fresh, rich content. If you can get your website on a number of social networking sites then it will get indexed by search engines fairly quickly.

5. Take advantage of sites such as YouTube to post videos and pictures relating to your business. YouTube is visited by millions of users daily so just simply think creatively and make a video using your hand held camera and then post it.

It’s a fact, everyone has an opinion and everybody wants to get theirs heard. If you think that you have information that will draw in the masses and keep them coming back then explore the endless possibilities of social online networking.

You just won’t know until you try.

Copyright 2008 Joe Rispoli

Affiliate Marketing Through Blogging

If you are looking to go for affiliate marketing for your business activities, among the easiest way is through blogging. There are many blog sites that you can use but blogger.com is certainly a very neat one if you want to use pay per click method. It has more than million users already and if you are an experienced marketer you can transform many of them into your customers. This beginning can turn into a legacy and you really can make profit out of this.

On the contrary if you’re fresh legs in the field, you just can not afford to use AdWords because of the strict guidelines and policies of Google. But you can certainly go for other linking sites to start with. WordPress.com is a really good site to start up with. It has a really good interface for automated traffic.

It all just depends on how you start – right and proper way will lead to the doorstep of success. Promotion through affiliate marketing is not a destination; it’s an ever moving process. You learn during this process and continue doing the same. It is very important that your basics are strong and clear. When you start with building a nice WordPress site, things automatically gets smoothen and ultimately you see the returns. You should build a main website and then connect your blog in that main website. It’s like the main site is http://www.mybusiness.com and your blog at http://www.mybusiness.com/blog.

To add extra traffic you must keep the very basic things in mind. Like –

1. If you want someone to link to your blog, you must start commenting on his blog.

2. You must get out of the frame of mind that you comment on your niche only. You can comment everywhere and leave your site’s link or signature there. Try leaving your blog’s address rather than main address. Don’t doing so may label your main website as spam and you will definitely not want it.

3. Statistically it is proved that commenting everywhere other than only niche results in good returns. You can find a number of books written on it. This improves your PageRank.

A good research for how to make good blogs will certainly provide you an edge over your competitors. You keep in mind that it is not an easy task; you need to put in a lot of efforts. You must post 10-20 articles on the daily basis. You need to forget time and continue putting in hard and smart work. If you do so, it’s my promise – profits will flow into your business by this use of affiliate marketing.