I am creating this post, which has absolutely nothing to do with internet marketing, as a lesson in life which applies to anyone who cares to take it on board… and that includes me.

Read on … and inwardly digest . I think there is much to think about here – and enjoy.

“To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me.
It is the most-requested column I’ve ever written.”
My odometer rolled over to 90 in August, so here is the column once more:

1. Life isn’t fair, but it’s still good.
2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.
3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
4. Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch.
5. Pay off your credit cards every month.
6. You don’t have to win every argument. Agree to disagree
7. Cry with someone. It’s more healing than crying alone.
8. It’s OK to get angry with God. He can take it.
9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.
10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
11. Make peace with your past so it won’t screw up the present.
12. It’s OK to let your children see you cry.
13. Don’t compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn’t be in it.
15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don’t worry; God never blinks.
16. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.
17. Get rid of anything that isn’t useful, beautiful or joyful.
18. Whatever doesn’t kill you really does make you stronger.
19. It’s never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you, and no one else.
20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don’t take no for an answer.
21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don’t save it for a special occasion. Today is special.
22. Over prepare, then go with the flow.
23. Be eccentric now. Don’t wait for old age to wear purple.
24. The most important sex organ is the brain.
25. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.
26 Frame every so-called disaster with these words ‘In five years, will this matter?’
27. Always choose life.
28. Forgive everyone everything
29. What other people think of you is none of your business.
30. Time heals almost everything. Give time time.
31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
32. Don’t take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
33. Believe in miracles.
34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn’t do.
35. Don’t audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.
36. Growing old beats the alternative –dying young.
37 Your children get only one childhood.
38 All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.
39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.
40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else’s,we’d grab ours back.
41. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
42. The best is yet to come.
43 No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
44. Yield.
45. Life isn’t tied with a bow, but it’s still a gift.”

Its estimated 93% won’t forward this. If you are one of the 7% who will, forward this with the title ‘7%.’ I’m in the 7%. Remember that I will always share my spoon with you!
Friends are the family that we choose for ourselves!

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I have recently come across a few posts by well-known, well respected marketers and there were a few gems  which I thought would be of interest to readers. The first is  aimed at relative newcomers to the business and  there is some really sound advice there. Without further ado here it is:

Warning: Quite a long post!

“I read a thread on the Warrior Forum yesterday that was started
by a guy who says he has ‘tried everything’ to make money online,
but in 2 years of effort has only managed to make about $100.

Not surprisingly, he was asking if he should give up and go try
something else, or if it really is possible and he has just been
doing the wrong things.

The replies were somewhat polarized. Some people said to carry
on, but to focus more. Others said that Internet marketing
clearly isn’t for him and that he should give up right away.

My own view is that if he truly has only made $100 in two years,
he is doing something radically wrong.

There must be something about the process of online marketing that he simply hasn’t
understood.

Of course, without more detailed knowledge of what the guy has
already done, and how he has done it, no advice can be of use to
him.

In general though, while I accept that there is a learning curve,
I can’t see any reason why somebody shouldn’t be able to make
regular income within 6 months of starting out.

The trouble is that many people secretly don’t believe that it is
possible.

They subconsciously put up barriers in their own minds.
They over think and over analyze everything to the point that
they either don’t do the things they need to do, or they spend so
long on the unimportant trivial stuff that they forget to take
action on what really counts.

I was just the same. It took me a while to ‘get it’ when I
started out and I remember the frustration of thinking that I was
doing everything right but still making nothing, when all around
me I could see people apparently doing the same things that I
was, but making a fortune.

In the end I learned the most important thing of my online life:
that if I thought I was doing the same things as other people and
they were successful with it but I wasn’t, then the problem was
that I didn’t understand the process properly.

Somewhere along
the line I was doing something differently and success would come
when I identified my own error and corrected it.

Making money online is simple, but it isn’t necessarily easy.

None of the steps you have to take are particularly complicated -
so long as you don’t over think them – but there are a lot of
steps and the potential for doing them wrong, or in the wrong
order, is high.

Internet marketing can be defined like this:

Learn what problems people use the Internet to solve and provide
them a solution.

Everything you need to know about online marketing is contained
in those 14 words, but most importantly, in their order.

First comes learning what their problems are.

Most people who try, but ultimately fail to succeed online don’t
start in the right place. They start out by listening to the
worst advice anyone ever gave: go with your passion.

Your passion is only of value or relevance if it solves the #1
question: what someone else is searching for an answer to.

I might be the world’s leading expert on snail mating behaviour
and think it is the most interesting subject known to man. But
despite my total enthusiasm, the chances of anyone ever wanting
to buy my latest ebook on how to breed snails is slim.

There might be a handful of French food enthusiasts, but not enough for
me to start an online empire from!

No. Forget your passions and look for other people’s problems.

Problems come in all shapes and sizes – from curing a disease to
finding a good price for a camera and our objective is to find
one that lots of people share that we can find or create a
solution to.

That is the #1 principle of marketing, whether online or off.

How do you find the problems people have?

Simple – Use Google’s keyword tool. (Google “keyword tool” and it
will be the #1 listing.)

Enter “How to” or “How do I” or “Where can I” and you’ll
instantly have enough problems to last you a lifetime!

The next trick is to decide which ones are worth pursuing! But
that’s a question for another article.

One thing I will say now though is that you must get common sense
on your side and think like a marketer.

For example, one of the top questions people are asking is ‘how
to kiss’.

With hundreds of thousands of people searching for the answer to
that particular problem, you might think that there is a huge
market ready to buy your latest practical e-guide. But think
about it for a minute and you’ll realize that the vast majority
of the people searching for that are going to be teenagers – and
kids don’t generally have credit cards or PayPal accounts.

Even offline marketers make that mistake all the time. I worked
with a company once that gave reward points that could be
redeemed for discounts on CDs. Their fatal flaw was that their
audience was 12-16 year old boys and the redemption could only be
done via a credit card purchase. Wasn’t going to happen!

But carry on down the how to list a little way and you’ll find
that ‘how to make pancakes’ is a very popular search.

Sure, there are endless free recipes online, but you can say the
same thing about chocolate cake too – and there is an ebook that
has been selling well on ClickBank for at least the last 6 years
on how to make the world’s best chocolate cake. (I bought it and
the recipe is almost impossible to get right!)

Could a report or video on how to make the world’s yummiest
pancakes sell for a few dollars? It might be worth a try – and
won’t cost much to find out.

It is a real problem for millions of people and maybe you can
provide (or appear to provide – which is what marketing is all
about) a unique solution.

So, to wrap up, whether you’ve been failing online for two years
or have just started out on this exciting journey, success will
come by getting all the simple steps in the right order. And the
first simple step is to put the other person’s problem at the
very beginning of what you do.”

By Martin Avis   http://kickstartnewsletter.com

Well, I finally managed to get my FREE eBook up and running and here it is:

The book is a collection of most of the tools and resources I have gathered and which reside in my “swipe” file.

There is enough information here for most newbies and not quite newbies. In fact, take a look and I am sure you will find something of interest in this eBook.

You can download it over to the right where it will always be visible.

Anyway, I hope that you find this useful.

Please feel free to comment on the eBook, in a positive and constructive way, as this will be much appreciated and help me to add to or update the FREE eBook.

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I think that things are changing very much so in internet marketing.

The day of the rip-off marketer is coming to an end – and not before time.

Also, so is the day of the BIG launch model that is recommended by every man and his dog!

Am I the only one who just switches off from these endless emails?

In my previous post http://dave-whittle.com/internet-marketing/alex-jeffreys-is-on-the-move-again-how-to-make-a-million-dollars-in-2010 I mentioned the new way that Alex Jeffreys intended to go.

Alex has always said that he is marketing with you not too you which really means he gives away a lot of free content – frequently with a back end, of course.

So, it was with interest that I came across this recent video (thank you Chris Farrell) which I thought was VERY interesting for internet marketers. A message not to be ignored!

Food for thought indeed!

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I have had an invitation to join Google Wave, which at present is in beta.

The following is an attempt to inform people about what is coming next.

I think we are looking at the future here, and so far, I just wonder how I am going to get my head around all this

I have said this before though,  so I am sure I will get to grips with it eventually.

The following, plus the long video, should give some sort of idea about Google Wave.

Interesting?

Perhaps, but I am sure a lot of people will grasp this with both hands! Enjoy!

Google Wave is designed as a new Internet communications platform.

What is a wave?

“A wave is equal parts conversation and document. People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.

A wave is shared. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process. Then playback lets anyone rewind the wave to see who said what and when.

A wave is live. With live transmission as you type, participants on a wave can have faster conversations, see edits and interact with extensions in real-time.

Here’s how it works:

In Google Wave you create a wave and add people to it.

Everyone on your wave can use richly formatted text, photos, gadgets, and even feeds from other sources on the web. They can insert a reply or edit the wave directly.

It’s concurrent rich-text editing, where you see on your screen nearly instantly what your fellow collaborators are typing in your wave. That means Google Wave is just as well suited for quick messages as for persistent content — it allows for both collaboration and communication.

You can also use “playback” to rewind the wave and see how it evolved.”

by Google  wave.google.com/

Well, whether you kept at it until the end or left early you should now have some idea about Google Wave.

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We constantly hear that it is necessary to add good quality content both to your websites and to your blogs.

Good content will attract search traffic and keep your readers and customers on your website.

….and Google loves good content.

However, writing this good content does not come easy for inexperienced writers.

I am sure you have sat there, as we all have, in front of a blank screen with an equally blank mind wondering what to write about.

Nothing comes to mind, so you decide that perhaps you should perhaps try later….
….and another day passes, another day with no content produced for your blog, an article, or an addition to your web pages

If you are struggling to create products or content for your internet business then public domain may be the answer you are seeking.

What is public domain?

Read the rest of this entry

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The Alex Jeffreys Coaching program has opened again and is selling, at the moment, for a much reduced price of $497 -  for a very short time.

As a student of his last Coaching Program I  thoroughly recommend that you join if it is at all possible.

It is a once in a lifetime opportunity to learn Alex Jeffrey’s internet marketing strategies from someone who really walks the walk and talks the talk.

What you will get for your investment  is:

• A Ready Made List-Building Machine!

• Your Push Button Traffic System!

• Your Profit-Pulling Platform To Sell As Your Own!

• Instant High Profile With Brand Recognition!

• Your Secret Wealth Weapons!

• Plus Alex Jeffreys As Your Personal Mentor To Blast Your Income To The Next Level!

PLUS

• Free Bonus Gift #1  Resell Rights to His “Internet Millionaire System”.

• Free Bonus Gift #2 Resell Rights to His “Internet Business Basics System”.

• Free Bonus Gift #3 – A Personal One To One Strategy Session

• Free Bonus Gift #4 – Full Access into The Private Joint Venture Club

• Free Bonus Gift #5 – One Golden Ticket to Alex Jeffreys LIVE Las Vegas Workshop or Full Video Recordings of The Workshop if You can’t Make It.

This will go very fast and only to 100 people so if you are interested – don’t hesitate!

However, first you can access his FREE training video

All is explained by Alex Jeffreys in the video:

Click Here To Get Your Copy of  Triple Threat Affiliate Now!

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I got this from Phil Wiley’s blog and thought it was well worth watching: