"Executive Affiliates" :
Time Management Within Your
Pay It Forward 4 Profits System

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I thought I'd take a moment here and explain the fairly new concept of the "Executive Affiliate ".

Some of you have heard this term around, in forums and possibly on live training calls. I know I've had several team members asking me just what it denotes. I did ask about it and here is the explanation:

An Executive Affiliate is simply a member who has decided to use their PIF4P system, and has affiliated with any or all of the programs necessary to make it work: GDI, Traffic Oasis, Success University, and a Primary Program.

One of the things that our PIF4P's system does so well, is assisting us with time-management. The designation of Executive Affiliate is simply a good way for us to
determine how much time we should be spending with someone. It's an easy way of labelling where our concentration of time will be directed, and it will assist you active PIF4P'ers greatly.

Let me explain that like this: As a PIF4P's Senior Manager, I am quickly approaching 200 Members. If any of these Members need my help in evaluating, configuring, or setting up their home business system, I am more than willing to accomodate them. There are many of you reading this that know that's true.

However, I simply don't have the time, and it's not my job, to chase people down and try to convince them to make use of their PIF4P's system. They have to decide that on their own ... I can't do it for them. The system is right there for everyone to see, we're all adults here, and that is a decision that is completely up to the individual.

So ... out of the group of "unaffiliated members " ... if these folks would like my help, I'm more than willing to provide it. However, they must contact me. My e-mail,
phone number, and IM id's are all in their Member's areas or in this article, and any one of that group is welcome to contact me for help at any time they wish. Just the simple act of contacting me tells me something: that you are serious about creating a home business on the Internet, and that you MIGHT be someone I should consider spending more time with. However, at this point, my PIF4P's system has not verified for me that these folks are committed to their own success to a point where I should devote much more time than is simply polite.

Now, the designation of Executive Affiliate is granted and applied to any associate who has affiliated with the programs I've mentioned above. At the point that someone becomes an EA, my PIF4P's system is e-mailing me with notifications, and verifying for me that this person has committed, in a concrete manner, to pursuing a business opportunity with me. They are now in my downline in at least one company, and it is now my responsibility to help them become successful in any way I can.

At that point, they will, rightly, have a claim on much more of my time and personal guidance than they did when they were simply a member. This is automated
time management that can be duplicated, because its built right into the system.

So, having said all this, and now understanding just what the term "Executive Affiliate " denotes, I would lay it out this way:

If you are a Member of our ProfitMasters Team, I applaud you and welcome you. I am there to assist you if you need me. If you have questions at any time, please feel free to call or e-mail and I'll do my best to answer them or at least direct you to the location within your system where the answer can be found.

If you would like closer guidance, and more of my time devoted to helping you to get your new home business up and running ... I would encourage you to become
an Executive Affiliate. The affiliate programs within your Funded Sponsoring Franchise system are necessary to make your system work. Without incorporating them into your system, it's not going to be effective anyway, and as a Senior Manager I need to devote my time to those folks who can show me that they actually are serious about their new business venture. I'm sure that, when you really think about this, you'll see how much sense it makes, and how this type of time management system will help you as you build your own business.

Those of you who are currently Executive Affiliates can testify to the fact that, once you've achieved this status, my time is yours to the absolute extent of my abilities, and that I will do everything I can to help you in any way you might need me.

So, those of you who are unaffiliated members, but who would like to begin to make use of your PIF4P's home business system ... the first step is to become an Executive Affiliate. When you do, call me or e-mail. Let's figure out from that point just what I can do to help you.

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Over and above that, there is one other step available to you that you can consider to insure your success at PIF4P's. That, of course, is The Advanced Mentoring
Team.

The Advanced Mentoring Team is Paul Birdsall's personal training and working group within PIF4P. I am a Member of the AMT, and 7 of the others who you will find on this week's ProfitMasters Leaderboard in your Team Newsletter are members as well. That's a good indication to you that we are speaking of something very powerful here.

As members of the AMT, we all work personally with Paul. Additionally, I devote the majority of my time to working with my AMT members. These are the people that I will actually seek out ... I will call them... to find out if I can help and if there's anything they might need from me. We work together on an almost daily basis, and each of them would tell you that I am always there for them and they can rely on me to make sure I'm aware of anything they might need from me.

If that is the kind of guidance and assistance you feel you might want as you put your PIF4P's system to work for you, and as you conduct your business over the next few years, let me know of your interest. Call or e-mail me and request information regarding the Advanced Mentoring Team. We don't accept everyone, but taking the initiative to contact me does go a long way to demonstrating that you just might be the kind of person we look for.


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New 3 Step Secret Page

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Some of you started to notice last Thursday ... those really observant and active folks ... you know who you are ... that the 3 Step Secret website had changed. The change was announced and explained on Saturday's Breakfast call. If you missed that one ... you missed a great one.

The new 3 Step Secret page is a stroke of genius. It's basically the same as the old one, BUT ... no one has to join GDI or anything else ... before they can gain access to their new PIF4P home business system!

Those who enter through the 3 Step Secret webpage are now given exactly what they want and should have ... full access to a great Internet Home Business system, including the training, live calls, recorded calls, the forums, the affiliate programs, and the entire Advanced Internet Marketing Success Guide ... all of it ... before they need to committ to anything at all.

I think this will be great. The Pay It Forward 4 Profits Funded Sponsoring Franchise system has no competition that's even close when it comes to providing a way to create a viable, solid, reliable, long-term and profitable home business. It just doesn't. Go look ... you won't find it.

So ... if your best "selling point" is simply that there's nothing else even like you (let alone better) ... why not just let everyone that wants to investigate have complete and total access. Then they can simply decide to use their system if they'd like ... or they can simply walk away.

At any rate ... that's now the 3 Step process, so if you haven't taken a look at your new webpage, go check it out.

The new 3 Step process has also caused some autoresponder changes. For those of you who have not yet done it, there is a new letter list to upload. To do that you would go to your Member's Area, and click on the "Marketing" tab. From the drop-down menu, select "Response Magic". Then select "Upload Response Magic E-Mails". At the page that follows, simply make the two boxes both say "New 3 Step", and then click "Copy E-Mails".

That will copy your new list over to Response Magic.

Remember this: Unlike the old process with the 3 Step Splash page, our new 3 Step members ARE MEMBERS OF PIF4P. The new 3 Step list is NOT a newsletter anymore. Our 3 Step list contacts have joined PIF4P, and the mailings they receive from your system are designed only to instruct and assist them with it's use... setting it up and getting it going so that they can start to use it to earn money as quickly as possible. That means that your Members appear now in two lists: PIF4P, AND 3 Step.

If you have any questions about all of this, please e-mail me or give me a call.

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Creating Your Home Based Business:
Opportunity vs Adversity

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Implementing a marketing system for your home business, or starting a home business from scratch, is not an easy job. Too often we fall prey to the sales pages on the Internet that continually tell us of the thousands we'll make in our first week, or the hundreds we'll sponsor in our first month.

In my business I coach and mentor scores of people in how to use the marketing system I use to promote their MLM or network marketing businesses. That system, known as Pay-It-Forward-4-Profits, contains a huge amount of training resources that are available to anyone who wants to use the system to promote their current business or to create a new home business. Those resources are extensive and complete in order to deliver a good education in how to run a successful, long-term and solid Internet-based business.

Internet marketing is an interesting industry. It's filled with people, intelligent and motivated, who lack knowledge in only two areas: the Internet and marketing. We are an industry made up almost entirely of people who hear that it's easy to make a huge income on the net in a matter of days, with no experience, no knowledge and almost no investment at all of either time or money. Many of us buy right into this myth the same way we did with the tooth fairy.

I can't tell you how many times I've received a call from one of my new trainees who will say something like this:

“Oh my God! I can't believe how much stuff is in there! Am I supposed to learn all that?”

Of course, we know what the short answer is here, but the interesting thing to me is the surprise. This tells me that the person uttering this sentence expected the process of starting a home business on the Internet to be an easy one ... even though they had absolutely no experience in this kind of endeavor previously. They had obviously, somewhere along the line, bought into that myth of the “auto-pilot money machine”, and expected to click here, copy and paste there, and then go on vacation as the huge checks rolled in.

That's not starting a business...that's daydreaming. It's an expectation of opportunity, without any accompanying adversity, and that is simply not how the Universe works.

To get past that stumbling block, we all must come to an understanding of the relationship between opportunity and adversity. This trainee was looking for one without the other. That's a fantasy and simply doesn't exist.

Very often, a trainee who asks the question above will follow it with something like: “That's impossible! I'll never get through it all.” Then they'll fall prey to the “deer-in-the-headlights” syndrome, and simply freeze up, unable to move further. If they can't shake themselves out of this state, they'll fall by the wayside and disappear.

Interestingly enough, this is also the same trainee who will tell me about all the different businesses they've been involved in before. They'll have a million reasons why this company was no good, or that pay plan was ridiculous, or nobody wanted this other product. They had made discoveries about each opportunity they tried, one after the other, that explained to them why the opportunity was a bad one. So they left each.

Note two things here: They left without success, and the fault was never theirs.

Obviously, success can't be achieved by abandoning an opportunity prematurely. What's not so obvious, at least to the person with this mind-set, is that the fault didn't lie with the company, where they would like to put the blame. The fault was their own. They were willing to accept the opportunity, but not the adversity that naturally comes with it.

Every opportunity comes with its own adversity and vice versa. That is a natural cycle of the Universe, like the seasons. If I'm in adversity today, even if I don't do a single thing about it, things will eventually change. The adversity will cease of its own accord. The problem this trainee has with all of their past companies and opportunities, lies in how they react to adversity.

Why do some other people succeed in those same companies? This trainee will tell you it's because they were lucky, or they knew someone, or some such drivel. The reality is quite different. This person failed in those companies because they reacted to adversity in a different manner than those who succeeded in those very same opportunities.

Here's what I'm driving at ... finally. If you actually want to create a home business for yourself, or create huge growth in one you already operate, you'll need to do much more than simply recognize a good opportunity. You'll also need to accept the adversity that naturally accompanies that opportunity. You'll need to recognize that you must overcome that adversity. Then you simply tuck your head down and trudge right through it to the other side.

Yes ... there is a lot of work to do.

Yes ... there is a lot of stuff to learn.

How can anyone expect to create something worthwhile without the adversities of work and study? It seems almost silly when you lay it out like this, and yet I run into it constantly.

Don't be deflected from your opportunity by the mere threat of adversity. Do what you need to do, and you will learn what you need to learn. Work on something today, and there will be one thing you won't have to do tomorrow.

Work and learning bring rewards.

Nobody said it would be easy, so don't demand that the Universe behave differently for you than it does to anyone else. Simply proceed down the road towards your opportunity. Welcome your adversities, knowing that the attainment of your goals will come through your own perseverance.

Don't give up.

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Updates & New Goodies !

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Hey everybody!

I've just updated some things here that you should know about. Most of these things will be for more advanced Pay It Forward 4 Profits members, but if they're not your cup of tea right now ... they will be soon. We're seeing more additions to our Team Leaderboard every day now, and you'll be seeing those results in this next Team Newsletter.

I've updated the Links section of the blog on the right. In there you'll find quite a few new resources that I wanted to draw your attention to...

Under "Safelists", you'll now find links to several good lists that weren't there before:

Rent-A-List is, by far, the best Safelist I've found. It's extremely responsive, and they do it in such a way that the list isn't saturated. It's great and very economical.

Smart-List is a good one. I've had pretty good results there.

AdSolutiOnline is a hybrid. One mailer is untargeted, and you can just use that daily with your membership. The other is credit-based. You must view e-mails and web pages to earn credits. When you use the cred-based mailer, you can target your prospects very specifically.
Here's a recommendation: if you're going to build up credits on a system like AdSolutiOnline... use a tabbed browser. The new Internet Explorer 7 has been released and it's great. You can actually "view" many web pages at once, earning credits very quickly.

Under "Networking For Leads", you'll find "Conquer Your Niche Forum". This is a great new concept from Russell Brunson. Ads are displayed on the site. Each time you post in the forum you earn credits for displaying your ads ...

PIF4P'ers have a great advantage in a place like this. Everyone there has a business to promote ... we're not offering them another business ... we offer them a Free Franchise that will help their business grow bigger and faster.

Conquer Your Niche Forum is something I recommend everyone incorporate into their daily routine. I've had very good results so far ... and it's brand new. It's not over-run with other PIF4P'ers yet, so get in there and do your stuff!

Under "List Builders", you'll find the new and fun site called "List Lotto". It's very cheap to get a Pro membership right now, but it will be going up soon, so hurry if you want to do that.

List Lotto is kewl. They have drawings for the opportunity to mail to the list. You get entries in the Lotto for referrals and membership level. It's just getting started, so you might want to check it out.

Under "Services", you'll now find "Article Marketer". This is simply the best way to get your articles distributed around the net. It's simple, inexpensive, and incredibly effective. We currently have hundreds of people a day visiting this blog. That's all due to Article Marketer. Anyone interested in incorporating article writing and distribution as one of their strategies to drive traffic to their PIF4P website really needs to be using these guys.

Under "Software" I've included a gizmo called "Instant Booster". Now, I'm not a great one for Blast-o-matics and Leads-o-matics, and Blasting your ads to Billions, etc. What all these thing seem to do is just get me a lot of crappy e-mail.

However, I decided to try this particular piece of software, and what do you know ... I got a signup off of one of the ads it posted not five days after I started using it. So, each night, before I go to bed, I set it up to send out 32 different ads to millions of Free For All web sites and directories, like Yahoo and Google and all the smaller ones. It takes about three hours to go through it's process, and it's done in the morning when I get up. I'm getting some results from it, so I'm passing it on here.

Three hints about anything like Instant Booster:

1) Don't just write one PIF ad. This is "keyword" based. These FFA's and search engines have different categories for their ads. I have PIF4P ads for "mlm", "network marketing", "business", etc., etc. If you do this, the software will submit your ad several times to each directory, each time under a different category.

2) If you're going to use something like Instant Booster, set it up with a seperate e-mail address. this thing posts to FFA pages where you are agreeing to accept e-mail offers in return for posting. Also, many of these sites send out "Confirm Your Posting" e-mails. You don't want all this crud in your business e-mail. I've created one e-mail address at GDI just for this purpose

3) Don't pay any attention to the "Confirm Your Posting", or "Confirmation Required" e-mails. Just go into your special account every couple of days and DELETE EVERYTHING. The confirmation requests are just bull ... there are ads in the e-mails they want you to read. Don't let them distract you ... be brutal! Delete the buggers!

One more thing:

Those of you not yet involved with The Advanced Mentoring Team should really take a look at this incredible opportunity. If you want to really use your PIF4P system to its fullest advantage, I believe that this is the best way to learn how to do that. I've found that being accepted on the AMT has just accelerated the growth of my business to an incredible rate.

If you think that you have the dedication and the motivation required to become a member of The Advanced Mentoring Team, call me for all the information. Alternatively, you can click on the link below or in the Links menu under "Primary Program". Paul Birdsall will tell you all about it.

Well ... that's it for now! New tools, tips, and toys!

Call me if you need any help!

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1-2-3 Configuration

and Startup Process Posted

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Hey, y'all!

We there are many of you now that are really up and running. Some of you are now calling me and letting me know just how excited you are at what's beginning to happen for you.

Well, I'm excited for you as well. The Pay It Forward for Profits system is turning out to be the best thing that's ever happened to me, and it's really fulfilling to see your reactions as it's beginning to work for you as well.

Tonight I'm posting just to let you know that there is now a link here to a web page that I've titled "Getting Started With Your Pay It Forward 4 Profits System". Of course the Member's Area re-design has made the process almost self-explanatory, but I thought I'd provide this for new people coming in so they can see a permanently mounted explanation of what they should be doing.

You can find that link at the top of the menu to the right.

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Choosing Your MLM Opportunity

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MLM or Multi Level Marketing, on or off the Internet, is probably the business structure that offers the most opportunity for all involved. Everyone from the consumer to the business owner and builder can benefit greatly from this exciting business model. Choosing which MLM opportunity to take up as your own can be a daunting and sometimes harrowing task.

For every truly good MLM business opportunity, there are hundreds of fly-by-night, pre-launch, flavor-of-the-month, startups, all put together by people who have no intention of creating or contributing anything lasting to their enrollees or society. All of these “Hot Opportunities” and “Auto-Pilot” money-makers give good, solid, respectable MLM companies a bad name, and can make it very difficult for the sincere MLM'er to distinguish between the gold and the brass.

If you are currently contemplating becoming involved in an MLM opportunity, here are some things to keep in mind which may help to guide you in your selection:

1) A good MLM opportunity will have products that are unique enough to be able to receive patents. The products must serve multiple market categories, and must serve the masses, not just one strata of society.

2) The company must have a record of long term stability...no startups or “hot pre-launch” opportunities.

3) The company must provide a simple, effective marketing system...one that can be used by anyone and whose use anyone can duplicate. Failing that, it must at least lend itself to use by someone using such a system, and allow you to market it in that way.

4) The company must be led by successful business leaders, with a verifiable history of accomplishment and a vision for growth.

5) The company should be in a state of beginning to expand globally, using the Internet.

6) The compensation plan should maximize your income based on your efforts. It should pay out at least 50% of sales and should offer unlimited depth within the compensation plan, fast start bonuses, and other rewards and recognition.

MOST IMPORTANT HERE: you must be able to achieve $10,000 per month true residual income with less than 500 people in your organization.

and...

7) The company should contribute something of value to society, and be conscious of conducting its business effectively while preserving the environment, making a positive impact on the world at large.

All of those things are simple prerequisites of Good Business.

On the Internet today, the great majority of companies you will run across are being run by people who are truly experts in one thing...the Internet. They have no true Business background.

We've all heard the saying, “The Internet changed everything”. Well, it didn't. It only changed the environment. The activity itself is still Business, and these people know nothing, and care nothing, about creating a long-term, truly functional organization, designed to serve its customers, its distributors, its executives, and society itself. They do a complete disservice to the concept of MLM and network marketing and the entrepreneurs who participate in it.

In my MLM businesses, I often relate this concept to my enrollees/trainees in this manner:

Let's say you are going to perform an activity within a certain environment. The activity will be reading a book, and let's suppose that the environment will be your living room. You'll naturally perform the activity in a manner allowed by the environment. You'll probably sit in a comfortable chair with a cup of coffee or cold drink nearby.

If you want to perform that same activity in a different environment, say at a Metallica concert, you will perform it in a slightly different manner...perhaps using earplugs and a flashlight.

However, even though the environment is changed, and therefore you adjust some aspects of how you perform the activity, the activity itself remains the same.

You still need to know how to read.

Business is still business. Plan long-term, solidly, with one eye on the past and one on the future. Don't be misled by fads, fashions, or hype. Choose you MLM opportunity using the guidelines of time-tested business principles and you won't go wrong.

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Hey Guys! Check Your Member's Area!
How KEWL !

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I've been saying that changes were coming to the Member's Area at PIF4P. Well......

They're Here! AND.....They're Great!

Check yours.

You know how I've struggled to simplify the setup process for my enrollees. That's why I finally came up with the 7-Step process I posted on the blog the other night.

Well, Paul and Joel have simplified it even more. The "7-Step Process" is no longer necessary. New enrollees can now simply "Follow the big red buttons"....Step 1, Step 2, and Step 3. Can't get much more simple than that. AND...... there is really no need for them to even go to the "Affiliate Links" menu at all.......all those steps are covered, affiliate links uploaded, AND the Response Magic autoresponder is upgraded, all in the three red buttons......just follow the process.

Direct Matches and Adland Pro are now included in the setup proceedure, AND the new enrollee
is signed up in those services directly under you, and trained in their use to get them going quickly so they can get signups right away.

I would like to urge ALL PIF4P'ers to go through this process carefully yourself. You need to know what happens there so you can teach your enrollees how to duplicate it.

This is going to make things so much easier for you, AND so much more DUPLICATEABLE for your enrollees.

I'd like to draw your attention to something else:

In case any of you are still in any doubt about the "quality" or "trustworthiness" of the people you're working with.....here is an example of just who you guys are working with and learning from:

Before today, the $17.95 per month required to upgrade and maintain your Response Magic autoresponder was money that went completely to Response Magic. That is no longer true. Beginning today, Paul and Joel have negotiated an arrangement with Response Magic that you will love:

From now on, whenever anyone you enroll pays their monthly $17.95 to Response Magic, YOU will receive 15% of that as commission from RM!

That means there is still another way in which the system will work to pay your operating costs and to GROW your business.

I'm sure you'll all agree with me that the Pay It Forward For Profits system is becoming easier and easier to use, and more effective whenever anyone learns how to use it correctly.

Have a good day, all.........

DON'T BE SHY!

Call or e-mail if you need me.


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Final Version:

My REFINED

7-Step Process For Beginning PIF4P Enrollees

I Promise This Is The LAST ONE!

Steve Gaghagen

I'm sure you're all going to be overjoyed to see this, but hey, folks, this is a learnin curve for all of us. I'm just a little ahead of most of you, so....stuff happens.

I've been refining what I believe to be a simple and clear start up process for all new enrollees in the Pay It Forward 4 Profits System. Joel and Paul are upgrading and updating the Member's area as well, so some locations might change, but essentially, what I'm posting here is a good foundation for us all to work with.

It now includes 7 steps, and here it is:

7-Step Configuration and Startup Process For Newbies

1) Getting Started Checklist.

2) Listen to "Crash Course In Funded Sponsoring" found under the Training tab.

3) Affiliate menu - "Setup Your Complete Funded Sponsoring System". Start at the top and work down finishing with "Upload Affiliate Links".

4) Get On A Quick Start Call. (Schedule found in the Live Training section under the Training tab)

5) Do Day 1 And Day 2 of the Success Guide (Found under the Marketing tab).

6) Get On A Fast Start Traffic School Call. (Schedule found as in #4 above)

7) Get back into Success Guide, Starting on day 3 and just keep on going. Keep on attending the Fast Start Traffic School calls, and as much Training as you can.

Also, in the Live Training schedule, you'll see a place to register for the online conference training sessions held by Janet Legere. I also recommend those. I consider her my mentor (though she might not know it....LOL), and the sessions are great.

There it is...FINALLY.

I've also found a way to keep this post on top, I believe. If I can do that, I'll keep it right here for a while so it's easy to find.

As always, please call if you need me. Our team is just about 60 members right now, and I believe we'll hit 100 before the end of November. We're from all parts of the world, from Austrailia and India, to Singapore, Finland, the UK, the US, and Canada. Many of you are now enrolling members of your own, and it's becoming very exciting.

Remember that this blog is here for you. I'm sure you'll eventually want to set up your own for your own team, but feel free to refer your own enrollees here until you do.

Keep up the good work everybody. The Pay It Forward 4 Profits system really does work if you simply DUPLICATE the process. Don't try to re-invent the wheel. Joel Broughton and Paul Birdsall have already invented it and handed it to you. Just follow the process, at your own speed, and everything else will follow.

L8R !

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Janet Legere:
Pay It Forward 4 Profits Online Training
Next Monday

Steve Gaghagen

For everyone who is interested, Janet Legere holds a Pay It Forward 4 Profits online training session every Monday at 8PM (EST). These sessions are invaluable to anyone who seriously wants to learn how to use the PIF4P system correctly and effectively. Janet is a world famous coach and mentor in the Internet marketing field. She came to PIF4P just a couple of months ago, and is now the #2 enroller in the organization.

I recommened two things here:

1) If at all possible, attend her workshop on Mondays. These are online, conference room situations, so you need to register to get the passwords, the free software, etc. You can register through the link below:

CLICK HERE FOR JANET LEGERE'S PIF4P WORKSHOP INFORMATION

When you are asked who referred you, simply put in my name.

2) For those of you interested in some serious coaching and personal mentoring from one of the most successful people in this industry, you should check out the link to "The Contact List Builder". You'll find it under "Services" in the links section to your right as you read this blog. "The Contact List Builder" is Janet Legere's coaching and mentoring program, known all over the world for turning out powerful and successful Internet marketers. For those of you who are well along and getting your business to a productive and growing level, Janet Legere is your place to go for advanced training. Those of you who are just starting out as well: don't be shy about speaking up and turning to Janet if you feel you need something more than the PIF4P training and the guidance I can provide.

CLICK HERE FOR JANET LEGERE'S PIF4P WORKSHOP INFORMATION

That's probably it for today, folks. Remember, I'm always here to help if I can, so call, e-mail, Skype, or hit me up on the IM's.

L8R !

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Time Management For Home Business Owners
by, Jason Gazaway

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Found this article by Jason Gazaway that I thought you might enjoy. Jason can e found at http://www.homebasedbusinessindex.com , and is the author of "The Home Based Business Index Newsletter". He is a recognized expert in the field of home based businesses and working at home.

I like his stuff a lot because he usually agrees with me.....LOL.

Hope you learn and enjoy.

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Time Management For Home Business Owners

By: Jason Gazaway
http://www.home-business-top-picks.com/

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As each day passes, and more and more things need to get done with your business, you may find yourself alittle overwhelmed with how much is left to be done. This is nothing new, and a problem that almost every home business owner encounters.

There are too many things to do, and such little time! So how does one get all of these things done without interfering with family and friends time? The answer is simple enough, but not very easy to do. It's called Time Management. Managing your time to make your time spent during "business hours" the most productive it can be.

There are many distractions when running an online business that many people easily become victims of. Some at home examples are things that consist of your everyday. Things like the chores that need tending to, eager kids simply wanting your attention, the television blaring, dogs barking, errands that need to be ran, and on down the line.

Some classic examples of distractions that occur online are not as easy to identify, but can consume many hours if you're not aware of this. A good example includes just "surfing" for something, and you get sidetracked and end up reading something that you weren't even looking for to begin with! Another classic example is how many times you check your email a day, or how much time has passed before you last checked it. How much time do you spend visiting discussion boards or online communities? What about the emails you respond to? How much of your time is consumed by that? These are all examples of distractions that can get in the way of your businesses productivity.

It all boils down to time management. Listed below are some good things to consider when using your time online for business.

1) Make A List:

You've probably heard this before and with good reason! Write the things you need to do with your business down on a piece of paper. List in order the things by two factors. One is the importance, and the second is which of the things you least would like to do.

Once you have your list, put them in order of the things most important and are you're least favorite at the very top of the list. This way, the more important things that need to be done will get done first, and you won't procrastinate because it's written down. As you progress with your list, you'll find that the last things you need to do will go by very quickly because you'll enjoy doing it.

2) Set a time Limit
Let's say you spend on average 2 hours browsing forums and discussion boards on a daily basis. Is this really necessary? I mean, there are alot of good resources out the on forums, and you get to interact with like-minded individuals.. but is this helping your business?

The best way to stick to a plan is by giving yourself a specific amount of elotted time for each activity you conduct online. If you normally spend 2 hours in forums, and think this is simply taking too much away from your business, set a limit on how much you do it. Say to yourself, "Ok Jason, I will participate in forums for no more than 45 minutes. From exactly 12:15 to 1:00 today, I will spend this time browsing forums and being an active member." And stick with it!

3) Give Yourself A Break!
This may sound a little contradictory, but it's very true. If you have been working consistently for a few hours online, and find yourself to be slipping into the "dull glare" mode, give yourself a break. Step away from your computer for 30 mintues, and move around. Go to the fridge and grab a nice cold drink, and relax a bit. When you get done, you will feel more fresh and will be more focused on your list that you've already made to complete your daily business tasks.

4) Punish Yourself For Not Sticking With It.
This may seem a little weird, but it will work if you give it a chance to. For example, let's say that you need to get something done by a certain date and you don't. To make things more productive for you, punish yourself for not getting it done! I personally love those Little Debbie "Star Crunch" cakes. I usually have one every day. One time I told myself, I said, "Self, if I can't eat a Star Crunch unless I get these webpages uploaded by 5:20 today!". And when 5:20 came, I didn't have it done. So I punished myself for not completing the task by the time I set. I didn't eat one that day. Let's say you have a favorite TV show you absolutely love watching. You must complete 3 things on your list before you can watch it. And stick with it! Believe it or not, it actually works! But only if you stick with it.

Having many distractions can make things a bit more difficult with productivity when spending your time online. The first things to do to solve the time management problem is to identify what things are keeping you from being productive in your online business. The next step is to avoid these things at all costs. The hardest part is identifing these distractions. But after you do, more than half the battle is already over! I wish you much success with your businss and all your on and offline goals!


Article written by Jason Gazaway, webmaster and owner of http://www.homebasedbusinessindex.com and publisher of the "HBBI Newsletter". To subscribe to this free home business newsletter, simply visit his site listed above or send a blank email to: hbbi@inetmarketing101.com for more details.

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Good, huh? Try some of his ideas....they work.

That's it for today, Folks!

L8R!

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Newbies Training Process & Call Schedule

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How many of you were on the Janet Legere training session today? Many of you, I hope. It was a good one. She made a couple of points I'd like to re-iterate here:

1) When you first join Pay-It-Forward-4-Profits, there is a lot of information made available to you. In fact, there's TOO MUCH information. At first it can seem so daunting that we can become like deer in the headlights: frozen and unable to move.

Don't let this happen to you. Understand something here: NO ONE EXPECTS YOU TO KNOW EVERYTHING TOMORROW!

In fact, no one expects you to know ALL of it EVER.

The Success Guide is a HUGE load of information. It's designed that way, not so everyone will do everything in it, but so you can find several marketing methods that fit and that you're comfortable with, either financially or psychologically. Picking any three or four marketing methods within the Success Guide, and doing them with focus and dedication, will assure your success.

Also, be sure you don't try to do too much at one time. We're talking a lot lately about TrafficSwarm, Direct Matches, Top Surfer, etc., and the list can go on and on. Well, just because you hear about something doesn't mean you have to put it into your marketing plan TODAY. In fact, it doesn't mean you have to put it into your marketing plan AT ALL. It simply means that there is a tool available that you might want to look into, evaluate, and possibly incorporate.

Remember: This is Not A Sprint.....It's A Marathon.

Read the article I posted a day or so ago about being a hedgehog or a fox.

Be the Hedgehog! Take your time. Incorporate one thing at a time, at your own pace. When you do incorporate something, stay focused. Don't get side-tracked by this web page, or that offer, or this new product or system. There's a gazillion things out there. If you don't stay focused you'll become what's known as a "program hopper". Those are the people who always say, "I tried everything, but nothing worked". Well, no wonder!

One more thing on this: If you find yourself "stuck" on something, like one day in the Success Guide, or setting up one traffic exchange, DROP IT! Just get UN-STUCK, move on, and go on to something else. Sometimes we want to be so letter-perfect that we neglect to write anything. Just let it go and move on.

The main point here is this: cut yourself a little slack. Go at a comfortable pace for you. If that's slower than the guy on the terminal next to you...so be it.

Guess what...the Internet will still be there when you arrive.

2) The process for new enrollees: I liked what Janet said this morning. Mainly because it's what I've been saying since the new call schedule went into effect. I'm expressing it a little differently, and I think it's a little clearer, but it's basically the same.

This is a little more detailed than the last time I posted it, and it's designed for an absolutely perfect situation, which rarely happens. But, that said, here's how I like to see it go:

What New Enrollees should do, and what you Sponsors should tell your new Enrollees:

1) Complete the Getting Started Checklist. That includes "Setting Up Your Complete Funded Sponsoring System", the affiliations menu on the left hand side of your Member's Area. They should also listen to the "Crash Course In Funded Sponsoring" recording found under the training tab in your Member's Area.

2) Get on a Quick Start Call to make sure your system is correctly configured.

3) Complete Day #1 And Day #2 in the Success Guide found in the "Marketing" tab of your Member's area. This will get you aquainted with your new websites and what they do. It will also make sure your autoresponders are upgraded and loaded correctly.

4) Get on a Fast Start Traffic School Call, and pick up on Day 3 in the Success Guide.

Once you're into the Success Guide, you can start to check out some of the tools we have links to here in this blog. As you can see, there are tons of them available, and now I've got them seperated into catagories so things are easier to find.

I also made an .html file of the PIF4P call schedule, and mounted the page on the net so you can view it or download it to your computer. I keep it on my desktop so I always have it handy.

Here's the link to download the schedule:

http://www.box.net/public/7zyfdmotjd

It's also over to the right for viewing any time you need it.

Well, there we are for today. If you ask me, you guys are doing great. We are really starting to build a team here, and I want all of you to feel free to call, e-mail, IM, Skype....whatever. Contact me anytime with any questions or suggestions.

That's it 4 Now!

L8R!

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Are You The Hedgehog...
...Or The Fox?

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Yuck! A hedgehog...

Not the most glamorous of all the beasts to compare yourself
with, for sure. So how did the lowly hedgehog become the
mammalian mentor for us all?

After all (and no offense to all you hedgehogs out there), it
appears to be nature's accidental cross between an armadillo and
a porcupine -- slow moving, methodical, prickly and not all that
bright.

The fox, on the other hand, is...well...FOXY! A quick-witted,
sleek, fast and agile predator, the fox seems to have the
attributes that we can easily imagine we share? (And even if we
don't, we pretend.)

Why compare a hedgehog to a fox anyway? It all started with
ancient lines of poetry that were found from a fragment of verse
by Greek poet Archilochus which says:

"The fox knows MANY things, but the hedgehog knows ONE big
thing."

One thing! And that's a good thing?

What about Renaissance men like Leonardo Da Vinci? He's one of
the exceptions to a very perplexing rule according to Jim
Collins, author of the classic business best-seller "Good to
Great". He picked up on the ancient hedgehog vs. fox comparison
in his book. All top level CEOs he says are very hedgehog-ish.

He tells this story:

"Day in and day out, the fox circles around the hedgehog's den,
waiting for the perfect moment to pounce... (The emerging
hedgehog) waddles along, going about his simple day, searching
for lunch and taking care of his home."

While minding his own business, focusing on vittles, the hedgehog
wanders right into the path of the fox. Sensing danger, he rolls
up into a perfect little ball, becoming "...a sphere of sharp
spikes, pointing outward in all directions. The fox, bounding
toward his prey, sees the hedgehog defense and calls off the
attack...Each day, some version of this battle between the
hedgehog and the fox takes place, and despite the greater cunning
of the fox, the hedgehog always wins."

The hedgehog ALWAYS wins!

Think about this: Are you a hedgehog, or a fox?

Your answer holds the key to whether you'll be successful in
business or life!

Nobody wants to be a hedgehog. Admit it. How boring is that?

He doesn't see much of the world. He's too focused for that. He
doesn't learn all the latest hunting tools and tricks because his
world view is boiled down to just what he needs.

In "Good to Great," a terrific book by the way, Collins says the
hedgehog "reduces all challenges and dilemmas to simple -- indeed
almost simplistic -- hedgehog ideas."

"For a hedgehog, anything that does not somehow relate to the
hedgehog idea holds no relevance."

Ever known anyone so focused that they could only pursue a single
goal? Ever known anyone so focused on that goal that nothing else
mattered?

Think about Olympians. Even thought the Winter Olympics may be a
distant event to us, there's a 10-year old girl somewhere who
gets up at 3:30 every morning to practice figure skating
compulsories for four hours before school. The Winter Olympics is
all she thinks about.

And NOTHING else matters!

Foxes on the other hand, "pursue many ends at the same time and
see the world in all its complexity. They are 'scattered or
diffused, moving on many levels.'"

Multi-tasking with too many balls in the air at once already,
we're asked to do more and be more. Our bosses want us to be
busy, working hard, doing as much as possible.

Yet the fox "who pursues many ends at the same time" NEVER wins!

And the guy who gets the promotion or has the very successful
business is the one who focused on fewer tasks and did them
well.

That was one of Collins' points -- instead of demanding too much
from employees and executives; we should demand one BIG thing.

Think this doesn't apply to you? Wanna bet? You're an employee or
an executive -- or both -- if you're self-employed. And just
because you may wear many hats doesn't get you off the hook
either. Focusing on the hedgehog ideas even when you're doing the
grunt work is the key to your success.

Okay, so it's good to be a hedgehog.

How do we become one if we're a fox by nature?

It's simple. You act as if...

What would the hedgehog do? He'd focus on hedgehog ideas. Don't
know what your hedgehog ideas are? Sure you do. You're just not
focusing on them. This will help:

1) What six things are vital to the success of your business this
year?

2) Narrow it down to three -- two's better

3) Make 'em BIG

4) Focus on those only

5) Nothing else matters

Make this part of your soul. Eliminate everything that is not
helping you focus on your goals.

Keep working at it and some day you'll be a hedgehog too.

About the Author:

Steve Gaghagen is the owner of this blog,
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Internet marketing entrepreneur. He makes
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Correction To Call Schedule

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It was called to my attention that the call schedule had actually changed since I posted it several days ago. The Friday Fast Start Traffic School call had changed to 1PM EST

I will point out that the change was reflected in the "Live Training" section of your Member's Area, but in the interest of clarity, I'm posting correctly again, and I've changed it in the previous post.

Quick Start Call Schedule:

Mon: 1PM (EST)
Wed: 1PM (EST)
Thurs: 8PM (EST)

Call-in #: 1-646-519-5800 / PIN#: 9810

The Quick Start Call is now the FIRST ITEM OF TRAINING for all new enrollees.

After a new enrollee attends the QS call, you will direct them to "Set-Up Your Complete Funded Sponsoring System", the black menu items on the left hand side of their Member's Area. They should start at the top button and proceed downward through each button there, ending with "Upload Your Affiliate Links". That will get their system put together and ready to go.

At that point, new enrollees should proceed to Day 1 and 2 of the "Internet Marketing Success Guide", which will get them aquainted with their new websites and their autoresponders and how they work together.

AFTER they have completed those chapters in the Success Guide, THEN new enrollees should go on to the "Fast Start Training School" call.

Here is the schedule for that:

Fast Start Training School Call Schedule:

Tues: 8PM (EST)
Fri: 1PM (EST)

Call-in #: 1-646-519-5800 / PIN#: 9810

OK.....that's it.

Thanks!

L8R...

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OOPS! Wrong Link!

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Apparently I included the wrong link for Top Surfer in last night's post. Inadvertently, I gave you the one to their current special on the Wholesale Membership upgrade. So I told you it was free, and then sent you to a site that cost $10. Clever me.

Here is the correct one, and the others on this site have been changed as well:

Join Top Surfer For FREE For REAL Here

I do recommend that you upgrade to a Wholsale Membership with this site. It's much more effective and it's also very cheap, but at least with this link you can actually join free......

See what happens when we try to do too much, or take on too much, at once? We make mistakes.

Sorry if it was an inconvenience to anyone.

L8R!

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Short Blog Tonight -

-Direct Matches

Steve Gaghagen


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Good evening / morning to all. I hope you're getting a lot out of the blog. I'm told that last night's article did help to assuage some of the misapprehensions about "getting behind" that some of you were apparently feeling. That's good. We all do what we can do, and we're all going to move at our own pace, so....no worries.

On the Fast Start Traffic School call on tuesday, Rick Jorgensen spoke about Direct Matches, a networking website that is an excellent place to generate some traffic to your website. As you know, you need a referral link to join there and I was having some trouble obtaining one. Last night Janet Legere passed me hers. I joined, upgraded for more mailbox size, poked around the site some so I would know what I was talking about if you had questions, and now I can pass my link on to you:

JOIN DIRECT MATCHES HERE FREE

You can go there and join, and then simply follow the directions Rick gave on the FSTS call. Within the next day or so, for those who couldn't attend the call, I will be posting directions for what to do when you have a Direct Matches account. Look for that before the end of Sunday night (PST).

Remember, the Fast Start Traffic School calls are not duplicates. They will change, as I'm sure the Quick Start Calls will change. I heard the first FSTS call on Tuesday, but I plan to attend the call again tomorrow evening. As Rick said, there are many subjects that will be covered in upcoming calls, and I'm sure we can all benefit.

That's it for now. Will blog later tonight if I can. Take this link for Direct Matches and pass it on to your downlines. If you don't know what to tell them to do with it, let them know to listen to the FSTS calls, and give them the url for this blog.

One last idea: since there are a few of you now who are beginning to build downlines (you know who you are), you might want to keep a record of where you can find certain subjects covered in the archives of SteveTalk. For instance, Direct Matches will end up in the October '06 Archive. You might want to write that down or actually save the url to the post so you can pass on the url or the info to locate the article at a later time. Hey! Put together an index as we go, and insert it into your autoresponder messages.....automate and duplicate!

Don't forget my FREE Google Advertising Bribe! Timeframe is approaching its end. If you don't know what Im talking about, you'll find it in a post from earlier this week (scroll down).

Have a good night.

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Lotsa Treats, Tools, And.....
..... A Rant!

Steve Gaghagen


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Well, I got a lot of stuff for you tonight, so let's get going......

First off, I just want to say that I realize I'm loading a ton of stuff onto my Pay It Forward 4 Profits members here on the blog. Please, as you often hear me say, don't let yourself get overwhelmed.

Setting up your PIF4P business correctly, moving from there into free marketing techniques, taking your first steps into more aggressive advertising, and from there into exploding the size and momentum of your Pay It Forward business, is a step-by-step process. Nobody, and certainly not me, expects you to implement all of the tools and strategies I've posted here over the last couple of weeks in one day! That's not how this is supposed to work.

Still, I've been talking to some of my students who are concerned because they're trying to download all of this information, the software, tools, and resources, on a daily basis....and then trying to implement it all in one day!

Remember: This is a marathon....not a sprint!

Some of this may stem from misunderstanding about how a blog works. You should know that these posts aren't going anywhere. If you look at the menu on the right, you'll see a section called "Archives". Everything I post here for you will stay right on this page for 30 days. After that, it will simply move into the "Archives" section. There's not much there now, if anything, because the blog isn't old enough, but soon that area will begin to be a great repository of information.

Also in that menu, you'll see a little search box utility that says "Search This Blog". That search box is provided by Technorati, a blog index website. Steve-Talk is indexed by Technorati, so if you want to find anything I've posted about....oh, say GDI...you'd simply put GDI in the search box. Then a window would open and you'd be at Technorati. There you'd find every post I've ever done that mentions GDI, with the title and first five or six lines of the post visible in a list.

So...don't worry. If you've just come aboard, or you feel you're you're getting behind on what I'm posting......RELAX. It will all be here when you're ready for it.

You should at least read through anything new here before starting work. If you see something you want to download and implement today...put it on your list, but only if adding it is reasonable scheduling (see my previous post concerning Time Management). If not, download whatever it is and put it in a "To-Do" file to be scheduled when it is reasonable and feasible. Alternatively, you could simply make a note to come back to the post another day.

Another thing before we get started: Those of you who were on the "Fast Start Traffic School" call last night got some really good information. First you learned about Traffic Swarm, and Rick gave you an address where you could download instructions and software for maximizing your use of TS.

Well, if you're checking in here, you probably realized that Rick's stuff is exactly what I posted here about two nights before the call. Don't want to blow my own horn...but I will:

YOU GOT IT HERE FIRST! (LOL!)

Also on last night's call, you heard a mention of Direct Matches. I've known about Direct Matches for a while, but DM is a "by invitation only" organization, so I've not gotten in as yet. On the call they also told you to contact your Sponsor for that invitation, and several of you have done so already.

The problem here is, as most of you know, I have the Sponsor from HELL, a person I've been able to speak with exactly once since I began PIF4P several months ago. I did send him an e-mail asking if he was a member and if he would send me his invitation link, but I'm not hopeful. I also e-mailed Rick Jorgenson and I e-mailed and called Paul Birdsall. Tonight I'll e-mail Janet Legere. I WILL obtain SOMEBODY'S link. As soon as I do, I'll pass it on to you guys.

All right...that said, here's this evening's GOODIES:

DESKTOP LIGHTENING

Some of you received e-mails from me this morning containing a link to join this brand new free traffic generating system. I'm glad to say that some of you have joined already. I received it from Janet Legere yesterday and am posting it here so it's always available to our Team Members. The technology here is simply amazing. I joined FREE and upgraded to a Platinum membership ($19.95 per month) to get the extra goodies. Whether you upgrade or not, you should download this thingy and make use of the free advertising credits you'll earn. Pass it down to your downlines as well.

JOIN DESKTOP LIGHTNING HERE FREE

TOP SURFER

You'll hear about Top Surfer in an upcoming Fast Start School Traffic call, but if you have the time, go ahead and join up for FREE and get it going. It's similar to TrafficSwarm, in that you surf for credits. They have a little different system of surfing, and a whole host of ways to advertise. I upgraded to a "Wholesale" membership, and that's REALLY a good deal, and allows you to make some money here as well. You can check that out when you get there, but like Desktop Lightning, you can get advertising for free, so just go ahead and join and set up your ads. When you get used to doing your daily TrafficSwarm thing, add another few minutes and surf Top Surfer as well. This one's actually a lot more fun than TSwarm....you'll see why once you join. The different options it presents also make it very powerful. Check it out. It'll bring you TRAFFIC.

JOIN TOP SURFER HERE FREE

INSTANT BUZZ

Instant Buzz, another Free to join Traffic generator, came on the scene about six months ago. It was recently purchased by Mike Filsaime. If you don't know who Mike is...you will soon if you're going to be doing business on the Internet. Mike is one of the most famous Internet marketers in the world, a proponent of what is known as "Viral Marketing", and author of the book "The Butterfly Manuscript". Soon after Mike took over, Instant Buzz began online conference training calls conducted by...you guessed it...Janet Legere, one of my mentors, who conducts online conference training sessions for Pay It Forward 4 Profits every Monday. Instant Buzz is another technological wonder, and you should join, at least on the Free level. By the way, if you're interested in Mike's book, send me an e-mail. I can get you a good deal. I'll send you an e-mail before Janet's PIF4P training session next week, so look for that.

JOIN INSTANT BUZZ HERE FREE

TRACK-THAT-AD

TrackThatAd is another Mike Filsaime winner, in conjunction with Craig Heywood ("The Blue Guy"...don't ask, LOL). This is an incredible tool. If you've already clicked on any of the links above, you've seen Track that Ad in action. When you join FREE, you can enter your Pay It Forward 4 Profits website url and Track That Ad will transform it into another one. You then use THAT url (and you have a lot of cute little choices there) to promote PIF4P. You can enter it in your ads in TSwarm and Top Surfer instead of the conventional url supplied by PIF4P. When you use that url, your ad is tracked...you can tell what source your hit came from, and WHO the hit was, even down to their ISP address.

If you upgrade at TTA, you can also employ this great list-building feature: When someone views your page through a TTA url, they will also see a spot where they can investigate and join TTA. If they click through there, you can have their information automatically sent to your Traffic Oasis autoresponder to enter them in the newsletter series you have over there. That's, of course, if you're a member there and have upgraded your account. At any rate, this is a great tool, and even at the free level you can build a downline in Track That Ad that will help to build your contact list like CRAZY. Plus, you know which of your ads are working and which aren't...something you MUST know to be effective. I wouldn't be without this one.

JOIN TRACK-THAT-AD HERE FREE

Well...there's a whole lotta poop for ya! LOL

Now, a rant:

Today I came across a Pay It Forward 4 Profits ad while surfing at Top Surfer (and yes.....I still crave FREE advertising!). Here was the Headline:

"Are You A Affiliate Loser?"

Anyone notice anything? Hmmm?

Not a bad idea as far as direction there...I mean, someone who runs an ad with the headline of "Does Your Life SUCK?" can't throw stones, so I won't go after the insult thing. From a marketing standpoint, shocking can be good.

No, what gets me here is the incorrect grammar. "...A Affiliate"?

Would you respond to an ad and sign up under someone who you might suspect was a functional illiterate?

No... You wouldn't, and neither would I!

Now, that doesn't mean you can't be a functional illiterate and still be effective in this industry...you can...and I know several functional illiterates that ARE!

BUT...and here's the BIG BUT...they check their ads.

That's a simple process. It just takes a moment, if you're not sure of something, to call someone and ask. But, here's a better process:

Write your ads out in a good word processor, like WordPerfect, Word, or OpenOffice Writer. Then just ask it to check the grammar! It will tell you if there's anything wrong AND make suggestions as to how you might correct it.

JEEZ! What an idea! Using correct grammar when you're trying to attract people to your business opportunity. What will they think of next!

Just a word to the wise....

Well that's it for this evening...

Wait! This just in:

I just got an Instant Message from Janet Legere in Canada. Once again this wonderful lady has come to my rescue! She's just sent me a link to join Direct Matches! I will do that this evening, and tomorrow I'll post a link here so you can all join as well.

Thanks, Janet.

Good Night, ALL.



About the Author:

Steve Gaghagen is the owner of this blog,
an actor, director, author, Realtor, and
Internet marketing entrepreneur. He makes
his home in Big Bear Lake, California, where
he is owned by a dog named Cimarron.

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To Find The Best Home Based Business Ideas And
Opportunities So You Can Work At Home Visit:

Steve Gaghagen's Online Home Business Learning Center

Pay-It-Forward-4-Profits

ProWealth Solutions

Success University

Get Paid While Building Multiple And Massive Opt-In Lists!
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Subscribe Here To My FREE Online Newsletter: "I-Marketing Secrets that I-Learned The Hard Way!", and Download Your FREE e-Book, "The Contact List Builder", by Janet Legere

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