Archive for September, 2007

Happy Thoughts – Help Dr Mani

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Bring a friend, show your support, sponsor the event

- and help save a child’s life!

Join the HEART KIDS BLOGATHON at
http://www.EzineMarketingCenter.com/blog/

Dr Mani is doing a blogging marathon to raise money for kids he works with every day who suffering from congenital heart defects.

He’s blogging about happy thoughts and enjoying life, so if you can visit his blog today and show some support, you do a good thing and while you’re there pick up the happy vibe and have a great weekend! I’m off to see how he’s doing. see you there?

I want my Dojo!

What Is ScriptDojo?

ScriptDojo is a review site for the hottest Internet Marketing Scripts, Affiliate Tools and New Product Launches.

It’s the new ‘button’ website solution from the always imaginative Joel Comm. The site itself has some great reputable products such as SEO Elite and Joel Comm’s Contact Station but right now you can get your own page of it for the smallest value coin in your pocket.

The ScriptDojo Affiliate Program allows you to promote one link configured with your Clickbank and Paypal ID’s…

Go here to Genie’s ScriptDojo and you’ll get an affiliate page just like it which cookies your ID’s to the ScriptDojo domain for a Year!

Yes the catch, as always, is you have to promote it, but the rewards are long lasting. Read the page to see what I mean. Whenever a visitor you refer joins – they are on your team and helping you out.

I like the site, it’s clean, modern, colourful and spacious. It should be easy to promote and a pleasure to send people there. Have a look and tell me what you think.

A neat affiliation that need very little attention for the littlest cost to try it. Didn’t you wish for that last night?

Genie

PS Did you read Mike Filsaime’s post? If you didn’t it’s a worth a look and will explain why “button” is a good description for this one. http://mikefilsaime.com/blog2/?p=228

Link Organisation

Have you ever been at a friends place and said I’ll show you that page – and then couldn’t remember its URL correctly? Have you typed an URL under text in a hyperlink and not found out till weeks later that you typed ///, that is three of these / instead of two, and the link goes to a 404? Have you tried to hide a product name, to make it hard to guess for your download folder, and named it 45893245438ofnfrbg and then later you had to open an ftp connection to go see what it was, so that you could create a link to it? Or simply left off the question mark in a title URL (eg. – /Which_golf_article?) when you wanted to look at a page, because you forgot that you put it there in the first place.

Link urls are the deeds in an Internet marketers investment portfolio. Without link organisation, finding your assets can be a constant problem. This is especially true if you only want to show a page to your subscribers or those following a search or an advertisement, but you don’t want to have it linked to an index or other main page with a menu. The only (almost) failsafe solution is to copy an url from the address bar and paste it somewhere so that when you need to find it, you can.

Now, I don’t mean on a random notepad file, saved in a folder called ‘miscellaneous’ and titled ‘remembertodothis4’ – or a scribbled link on an envelop, tucked among a pile of instructions and installation print outs (that you’ll file away one day) that is currently just on the left side of your keyboard! If you are a filer, and not a piler, you may be horrified by this sentence; but the rest of you know what I am saying, because you’ll be looking ruefully at the same pile I have on my desk, despite my best intentions.

Business Organisation is as important to your sanity as paying your bills is. I can only suggest this as a solution and I know you will defensively say ‘I don’t have time for that’, but what can I say? Half a day getting organised can save you half an hour when you’re creating something with a deadline, and over a month, you will have gained back the time you took to organise, by being organised.

It can also save you from many dead links and unexpected error logs on your site that just might have been a sale otherwise. Unless of course you managed to get around to setting up those sale pages on your 404’s, in which case you may have inadvertently made a sale! Even disorganised pilers get lucky sometimes.

How can I do this? I asked myself that and I tried a few things, and then serendipitously I came across a program. What I needed to create was a database that was easy to refer to. When in place, you can use it easily for every snippet or link that comes your way. When you are done creating this, you could go on and create a new database to organise that entire arsenal of product that’s sitting on your hard drive – but that’s another story.

The program I originally found was a free version but I upgraded to Pro, because it was a little unstable. The system works great, although adding the backlog to it is still a work in progress, but it works like a granted wish! I’m so happy with how easy it makes things that I wrote a report on how to do it and I’ll have that ready by Monday 10th September. I’ll broadcast the Genie Tips list when it’s ready, so if you’re interested, sign up below.

Using the Link Organisation system can help you achieve regular blog posts, pings, profiles, pages and additional cross links that you’ve been constantly meaning to do. It can help you feel that you really do know your business. More than anything else though it will help you find what you are looking for when you are looking for it – without using windows search or opening a zillion folders in case ‘it might be there’.

Create your own Links Organisation database with this system and anything you want to find will be there. Maintain it and know that everything will always be there.You’ll be amazed how much easier it is to do this.

Then back it up somewhere. Regularly .

Here and There Goals

We have family tugging at us to look after them, love them and pay attention to them.We have a business to run pulling us to do essential tasks of maintenance and creation. Success is subjective. If your business is ok and your family is happy this is also success.

Mega success seems to require that you cut the link to family and business and focus on the goal. The goal is what wins the game but it is the game itself that is fun.

The law of attraction – like a colour bubble of attention – is the horizon. Between you and the horizon is life. Whatever your goal is, especially if it’s as far away as the horizon, find a balance between the journey and the arrival or you will find the horizon is as insubstantial as the crock of gold at the end of the rainbow.

James Dean said “Dream as if you were going to live forever and live as if you were going to die today.”

The horizon is closer than you think and is always with you.

Work at your tasks, get the chores done and enjoy the journey. Then stop and enjoy your family and friends. This is a balanced life. If you are travelling send postcards, there are people who care where you are. Emails are just words, like birds singing in the forest. If there is time to stop and listen, then by all means listen and enjoy but if there is not,  focus on the next task, there will be time later. It’s your choice and your life.

Making money is all about the choices the make. If you’ve chosen Internet Marketing as a way of making money then ensure that both tasks and chores are done. For surely like any other job, if they are not there will be no wage. If you have a system in front of you, it’s like a roadmap, follow it from start to finish or you’ll be meandering in the woods listening to birds and getting nowhere.  Complete your tasks and take a step further.

And at days end, as with any other job, turn off the computer and go find family and friends and enjoy life. The best part of a journey is often talking about it in the evenings. It’s hard to talk anyone who’s focused on a screen or a horizon. So be where you are now.