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Conquer These Three Crucial Marketing Mistakes!

I was honored to have been invited to conduct a teleclass recently as a part of the ongoing program of teleclass/webcasts by the amazing roster of experts at Global Teleclass.com.

DO YOU MAKE THESE THREE CRUCIAL MARKETING MISTAKES?

If you don't understand and resolve these three mistakes, your marketing will never be fully effective. Whether you are a health practitioner or car salesman, a rank beginner or a seasoned executive, the powerful principles and easy steps I show you apply across the board.

I invite you to click here join me on the RECORDED AUDIO of this eye-opener teleclass, and discover for yourself these Three Crucial Marketing Mistakes so you can flip them over and  make your marketing easier and more fruitful. Or you can click on the IDareYouRadio.com Logo to the left to listen in. You can download the audio for future reference.

You can get some really nice FREEbie goodies at the end of the recording!

Keep Your Focus Through the Holidays--and Beyond

Happy Early Thanksgiving! Since holiday season insanity is almost here, I wanted to provide you with something that would help you create and maintain a spirit-based business high throughout the season--and beyond.

For years, I've had this voice--well, Voice--that wakes me up with ideas. I call it the Voice of Dreaming, and it's given me some of the best ideas I've ever had.

So I asked it to give me an answer to holiday confusion, and I woke up on Friday morning with an idea that surprised me. It said, why not tell people that, for the next week only, when they sign up to be Little Red Tapping Books VIPs, you'll give them the EFT Business Success Package for $99.98 instead of the usual $357?

Hmmmm. OK, I liked that. That's a savings of $257.02 for over 17 hours of audio and a ton of ebooks full of the best energy business ideas and tips, tactics & strategies....!

Cool! And so (Check it out (but do not get it) HERE)...if you are an Energy Therapy, EFT/MTT or Holistic Practitioner, and you have wondered....

HOW DO I GET CLIENTS?
And then more clients?
How do I get them to keep coming back?
What do I charge for my services?
When do I raise my prices?

HOW DO I SELL WITHOUT SELLING OUT?
What niche do I create and why should I?
Where do I market my business and how?
Where can I (easily) get free publicity?

HOW DO I TELL PEOPLE ABOUT MY WOO-WOO BUSINESS?
Can I really be successful helping people raise their consciousness/?
How do I market such a 'woo-woo' thing?

HOW DO I CREATE AND SELL PRODUCTS?
How do I start giving teleclasses?
What can I do with all the audios I get from sessions and teleclasses?
How do I create a revenue-

Article Marketing: A Beginner’s Guide

By Article Marketing expert, Steve Shaw, of SubmitYourArticle.com

Do you need to market your website and aren't sure how?

Article Marketing is simple to do and effective. The results are long lasting if you do things correctly.

This article explains what Article Marketing is, why people use it, the perks, the challenges, and how to get started.

With Article Marketing, you write articles on the topic of your niche and submit them to online publishers such as article directories, ezine editors, and article announcement lists. Along with each article you include a resource box, which is basically a short author bio that includes a link back to your website.

This resource box is the key to everything--this is the one spot where you can talk about yourself and your website and provide a link to your website. Every time your article is re-published, your article gains exposure and you gain

How to Write Sharp and Snappy Blog Posts

 Written by Darren Rowse (In this post Dan Kaufman from BarZine.com.au shares some tips on writing Sharp Snappy Blog Posts.)

When you write a story you’re lucky if you can get a reader beyond the first paragraph. This is true in print and it’s even worse online (a recent study by Jacob Neilson at http://tinyurl.com/mubtmr makes for interesting reading). After all, your post is just one out of millions online – and the difference can lie in how well written your copy is.

Writing is a craft that involves a continual learning process.

Having been a journalist and editor for the past 15 years (and I’m now a blogger as well) I still find myself learning – but there are some hard and fast techniques to make your copy snappier and more engaging.

Here are some of the basics:

Elite Tappers & Duo-Coaching: Open for Now

I have a few coaching spots that have opened up. Email me right away if you want to vastly accelerate your business success: Lyon (at) EFTinEveryHome.com

Not only do we work on your Inner Game, clearing it up and making it streamlined, but we also make sure your sequencing, strategies and Outer Game are clean as a whistle and going full-speed.

Are you ready for the increased energy of being successful?

I have three spots available in my Elite Tapping Group....you get individual attention on each session, audio recordings of each one so you can continue to tap during the week, email access to me, plus both my Change Your Mind! with EFT books when you sign on for 6 weeks, and more....

And two spots in the Duo-Coaching Program, where you and a buddy can get coaching for the price of one--plus a whole lot more. We'll spend 15 minutes on the phone first to see if we're a fit. Once you decide to go for it, we'll take off!

These go really fast, so email me right away. With my specialized guidance you can get done in 3 or 6 weeks what you thought you'd have to take 6 months to do.

Not to mention get feedback and support and a ton of fun! Remember - your business is really your busy-ness - it's you being busy at what you love to do - it isn't meant to be some heavy, seeeerious  burden! Email me right away if you want to vastly accelerate your business success: Lyon (at) EFTinEveryHome.com

Amazon Pulls Out

Here's something you'll be interested in if you get Amazon associate payments as part of your regular income. Do you live in any of the so-far five-in-all states out of which Amazon has pulled itself because of 'illegal and unconstitutional' tax laws in those states? Article source: performancemarketingalliance.com

"The U.S Supreme Court's 1992 Quill decision forbids states from forcing tax-collection obligations on out-of-state merchants, but Tarheel legislators [in North Carolina, Hawaii and 3 other states] still want Amazon and other online retailers to start taxing their constituents.

"The Seattle-based retailer has no physical presence in the state, but a pending North Carolina bill holds that since affiliate Web sites in the state link customers to Amazon, the company is now responsible for extracting cash from Carolina shoppers.

"Other proposed North Carolina legislation would apply a new tax only to Internet ticket resales, in direct defiance of the federal Internet Tax Freedom Act, which prohibits taxes that target the Internet with burdens not applied offline.

"To its credit, Amazon yesterday refused to accept the expected new compliance burden and announced the cancellation of its North Carolina affiliate relationships.

"Said the company, "This is a direct result of the unconstitutional tax collection scheme expected to be passed any day now by the North Carolina state legislature (the General Assembly) and signed by the governor."

"So now the state won't get the revenue, even as in-state Web retailers lose their ties to Amazon thanks to the legislature's revenue grab. Brilliant."

I hate to think what dumb act will they think of next to put small businesses out, reduce state revenues and cut market ties?

Your Copyright Rights

Today I got an angry note from someone who took my how to write and publish an ebook course last year. Don't be like this man.

This is what he said: "I don't know why you're griping about this orphaned works copyright thing. It won't affect most of us, and it will probably be defeated anyway. I'm tired of hearing about it. Unsubscribe me."

Whew. Here he is with his brand new ebook, a series of teleclasses and audios he intends to make and sell, and he's wondering what the big worry is?

OK, let's pretend that this private copyright registry bill goes through. And let's say the man who wrote me produces all this great stuff. He's excited, looking forward to helping people, selling his books and classes....

...and after a month or so, he Googles to see his page ranking. And he sees that, under his own titles, three or four marketers, another author, and a school teacher from East Podunk have copied his work, put their own names on the various products, and set up websites to sell their own identical versions of his materials.

He has no recourse; nor will he receive a dime from any of their sales.

Do you think he might just get a little bent out of shape because of that?

He could have helped stop this bill! Here's one link to go to to sign a petition: GoPetition.com/petitions/no-to-orphan-works-act.html

And here's another to get addresses to write and call folks in the gov: USA.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml

Now read the rest of this article to see how else this silly man could be affected by this bill indirectly, because his wife is a painter....

When Email Links Refuse to Work

Once again - I thank everyone who wrote about the audio links - as I mentioned before, I always appreciate your notes.

(That's General Should-issimo to the left - the one inside your head that says, "You Should...." all the time - got one of those?)

Here are a couple tips about using email links:
If a link won't show as "live" in your email, copy and paste it into your browser bar and try it that way.

Or: if a link doesn't work one browser, it may work in another. If you are using to Firefox, try it in Internet Explorer before giving up!

Try it with this link to the DUST OFF YOUR DREAM audios:
http://tinyurl.com/2x2yrr

There were a couple of notes from folks saying they were sure I was using bad links as a ploy to be able to write my list and give a couple more days to the sale; and a very kind one saying she understood from her own experience as an email sender how it feels (thank you!).

Well, I suppose there are people who do manipulate like that, but I assure you, given the choice of looking like an inept, careless doofus and a savvy professional who truly wants to serve her list, I'd much prefer the latter any day.

Which would you choose? I think it's obvious! Imagine for a minute how you'd feel making a simple goof like that with only yourself to see - and then compare how you'd feel making that same goof in front of several thousand people!

I think we all need to remember that, in this age of incredible technological wizardry where we can email hundreds of thousands of people at the push of a button, that we are all, still, very human - and as such, prone to err at least once in a while!

I also invite you to rethink how you look at the people who write your favorite ezines. I'd venture a bet that the ones you have stuck with and savored most are the ones who help you the most, are the most personable, who have high quality content, whose values meet your own - and who you LIKE!

Ali Brown's Blue print is Back!

It's back, but not for long!

I know you have heard me mention Alexandria Brown, a.k.a. "The Ezine Queen." She's really shaken things up in the online marketing world. Why? Because she's so open and honest about what WORKS (and what doesn't work) when it comes to using email, the Internet, and information marketing to transform your business.

Instead of dangling exciting "magic pill" solutions in front of you, or selling "the next big thing", Ali tells it like it is. Especially at her sold out Online Success Blueprint Workshops, the most recent of which was just 2 months ago in Los Angeles.

FROM SCRATCH TO A WORKING ONLINE BIZ

You CAN be successful online. You CAN create a Portable Empire that will pump money into your bank account while you sleep...but you can't do it alone. Get major one-two-three help HERE!

Yes, you can join the thousands who are successfully making money by marketing information online. It's easy. But, you're going to need some help.

You may have already tried to set up your online information marketing business. Maybe you've started an e-book. Maybe you've even started building your list...

And you got bogged down. The learning curves hit you all at once, and you got overwhelmed. Confusion led to inactivity which led to, well, no money coming in.

You're not alone and it's not your fault. And, there is an easy solution. EVERYBODY goes through the frustration of "too much to learn too fast."

Don't give up. Here's a solution.

I've looked through so many different programs for helping people get going online my head spins thinking about it. Last year, I signed up to Pat O'Bryan's Portable Empire University to see if it had any merit, and if you really could use wha's there to go from not knowing zip to making good income online.

You can!

There's so much good stuff at the Portable Empire University you may feel overwhelmed at first - I did. But I figured that the very very low monthly price was worth the info, because I could go back there anytime of day and clue in to a video, a pdf report, go through the forum and ask question - and he has just redone the whole site to make it even more comprehensive. Here's where to find the Portable Empire University.

AND - if you want an all-basics-covered RIGHT NOW, a knock-em-out series of goodies that will help you get going immediately, here's something Pat just came up with: the InfoMarketing Channel.

The whole idea behind the InfoMarketing Channel is to show you the basics of exactly what to do to build your own Portable Empire.

This training is going to save you many thousands of dollars and hundreds and hundreds of hours. Other courses that don't provide near the value of this one cost hundreds and hundreds of dollars. Here's where to get The InfoMarketing Channel

When I first built my own sites, I had questions up the wazoo. If I had had a guide like this I'd have walked around the world upside down gargling peanut butter to get help with them. And here he is, covering those most important questions - like: