Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Sunday, June 23, 2013
What is Viral Traffic?
Empower Network Viral Marketing
Rudy | on June 23, 2013
What is Viral Traffic?
Viral marketing on the internet has exploded in recent years. We’ve all seen the likes of YouTube and Facebook soar in popularity -these are great examples of viral marketing. What makes them so successful is the way in which they spread their content – through word of mouth (or the internet equivalent). When you consider that the population of the internet is 360 million people and growing, you can begin to appreciate how effective viral traffic can be!
So how does viral traffic work?
Well, in a nutshell, visitors to your site see what you have to offer, and if they like what they see they’ll tell their friends. They’ll either email their friends or post it on a site like Facebook. Their friends will see these emails or site postings and visit the site that their friend suggested.Chances are that they’ll also like what they see, and they’ll tell their friends. The message spreads like wildfire, just like a virus -it doubles and doubles and doubles every time. That’s viral traffic in action!
As you can imagine, the traffic potential here is limited only by the population of the planet. I mean, that’s outlandish and it’s not realistic but the potential here really is unlimited as the population of the internet grows and the growth in social Web sites takes off.
Word of mouth spreads incredibly quickly.
If we take the analogy that we spoke about earlier and you assume that one person tells two of their friends and they tell two friends and so on and so forth, it only takes 10 generations of that to happen for one message to reach over 1,000 people.
What would happen if you started not with one person but with 100 or 500 or 1,000 people?
Can you imagine how much more quickly your message will spread if you tap into this incredible resource?
Consider social networking sites like Fark, Digg, Reddit and StumbleUpon. They are hugely popular, and the traffic that these sites get everyday would make you green with envy.
Visitors come to these sites because they’re looking for recommendations to find stuff on the internet. These sites have built a reputation of showcasing interesting web sites, and so when people visit these sites and find a link to your site they’re going to be far more likely to visit.
We want to use that trust element to our advantage when building our viral marketing plan. As you’re about to see, building that trust relationship between you and your visitors is key to successfully generating viral traffic.
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Saturday, June 22, 2013
THE BASICS OF BLOGGING AND ONLINE PUBLISHING
By Brandon Cox
Blogging is such a weird word. We never used it until people started keeping “logs” on the “web” of their life called “weblog” and for some reason, we dropped the “we” and were left with the art of blogging. And in a sense, it has changed everything. How? Because now, everyone is a publisher.
Every business, and every institution is now a publisher, and those who publish with the most gusto win. It’s the age where people with few connections and little resources can grow their voice in the marketplace in inexpensive and creative ways.
I’m writing this post for those who haven’t jumped in yet. I’d love to dialog about the latest developer’s beta version of WordPress or Google’s search algorithm, but my goal is instead to reach out to those who are on the verge of blogging and push you over the edge to take the dive. If you need to read no more, head over to WordPress or Tumblr and get started! If you’re still looking to rationalize your decision, read on…
Still with me? Let me give you some reasons to jump in.
Everybody is doing it. This is normally a stupid reason to do anything, but in this case, what I mean is that everybody is talking and conversing about everything, and your voice matters.
It’s easy. There was a time when you needed to know html or write the code for your own blogging platform. Now, with a few clicks you can sign up and from your smartphone, you can blog.
It’s cheap. In fact, it’s usually free, or costs peanuts, to get started.You can earn some income. Don’t plan on getting rich off of blogging. It’s been done before and will be done again, but don’t assume you’re going to be the next John Chow, who makes money online by telling people how to make money online. Most of the “six-figure bloggers” were in the game early, but you can still earn a bit of an income if you’re patient and consistent.You can expand your influence. Ideas change the world, and today, ideas are shaped by the conversation online.
In other words, this isn’t just for geeks and nerds anymore. It’s for you too (assuming you don’t fall into either of those categories).
Convinced? With me? Good.
Now what in the world are you going to blog about?
What does “blogging” look like for you? You can make blogging a time of personal journaling, but I want to challenge you to think a little harder than that. Let’s re-define blogging as putting your passion into words for the world to experience.
Your passion.
If you are passionate about underwater basket-weaving, blog about it. If it’s vintage and retro living, go for it. If you’re all about the latest flip-flops coming out of the fashion scene, blog about it. The blogs I read are those written by people who are passionate, whose passion spills out in a contagious way. In words.
Blogging can include video and other forms of media, and will more and more as time goes on. What I’m getting at is that blogging is the act of allowing your passion to escape your heart and find expression online in a form others can consume.
For the world to experience.
I talk a lot about the experience of reading blogs because I’m a design and communications nut. For me, content is highly important, but so is its aesthetic surroundings. I’m not drawn to mere words. I’m drawn to the experience of reading them in their creative context.
So blog about what you know, what you love, and what you can speak authoritatively about to the world. Stay focused. I blog about an array of subjects, but they are mostly related to each other. If I started blogging entirely about weedrat recipes, I’d lose my readers, no matter how good weedrat stew might be.
Writing is good, but reading is better. Speaking is great, but listening is even greater.
Blogging isn’t simply the dissemination of information. Rather it’s the joining of an ongoing, developing conversation about a niche. The more people you help, connect with, and pour into, the more you and your blogging influence will ultimately benefit.
Don’t read them all – you’ll go nuts. There are too many of them.
But some of my own favorites are:
WeBlogBetter.com (I started this one, but Kiesha Easley has taken it beyond my wildest dreams).
ProBlogger (A lot about earning money, but a lot about powerful networking too).
Copyblogger (A whole lot of longer posts about writing, communication, and marketing).
Fuel Your Blogging (I used to be the Editor, but Christopher is much better!).
Kikolani (She gathers together some of the best resources on the web).
Social Media Examiner (Not all about blogging, but the broader topic of social media, of which blogging is one part).
Chris Brogan (An expert who blogs his expertise rather freely).
Danny Brown (Few understand blogging activism like Danny).
Michael Hyatt (He understands blogging from the perspective of a respected publishing executive).
For Bloggers By Bloggers (A steady stream of great tips).
Blogussion (Another great site with great tips).
Hubspot offers another list of great blogs too.
Here’s my step-by-step guide to getting started with blogging in a half an hour or less. Understand that if you can get hosting, a domain, and a custom-designed WordPress theme, you’ll be better off in the long run. But this isn’t the long run. This is the moment of taking the plunge.
So here’s my challenge:
Sign up for an account at here.
Pick a nice theme that reflects the personality of your blog. You can change later, and even move your WordPress blog to a self-hosted platform. For now, pick something pretty.
Create an “About” page where you tell the world whom you are and other ways to connect with you (link to your Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and other social profiles).Write a blog post. No, “This is your first blog post.” doesn’t count. Craft a catchy, attention-getting title and briefly pour your heart out.
Post the hyperlink on Twitter, Facebook, and wherever else you hang out online. Don’t be shy. Do it!
Oh, and below, in the comments, tell me where you blog! What would you add to what I’ve said (for the soon-to-be newbie bloggers)?
Source: BrandonACox.com
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Step by Step Blogging System
If you’re a blogger, your most common problem is likely not knowing what to write. You open your word processor or editor to find a blank canvas staring back at you, which causes the same thing to happen to your mind — it goes blank.
Week after week, you struggle to pull together coherent posts that are just this side of rambling, and in the back of your mind, you know that you’re not doing the best job of managing your blog to ensure that it helps you reach your goals.
The solution?
Develop a system around your blogging efforts.
Here are the steps I took to create a system for producing and managing content for my own site.
About a month ago, I was approaching yet another week of blank canvases, so I set out to find a way to be more intentional and focused with my content. The first thing that came to mind was an editorial calendar. Big magazines and newspapers have used them since the dawn of the publishing industry, so I was fairly confident the solution would work for me, but I didn’t want to just throw together a calendar in spreadsheet form and think that all my problems would go away. I really wanted to approach this as a big magazine would, so I started by thinking in terms of a single magazine issue and how an editor might produce andmanage its content.
If you think about a single magazine issue, there’s generally a theme to it, a common thread that ties together the articles within it, so that was my first step — develop a theme. I decided to have “focus months” on my site to guide the content for a given month. This would help me accomplish a couple of things.
First, it would make my content more intentional. It would center my efforts around keywords and information that was relevant to my target audience.
Second, it would help me better anticipate the content I was going to create, which would allow me to line up guest experts and interviews that were relevant to the content.
I was immediately able to come up with themes for the next six months.
Step 2: Choose Your Sub-Topics
Once I had a theme in mind, I was able to think about sub-topics within that theme that would deepen my coverage of the content that month. At first, I just listed out the possibilities for sub-topics without thinking too much about them, and created a list of ten or twelve ideas. As I created the list, I noted possible guest experts who might provide greater insight into the sub-topics than I could provide on my own.
Step 3: Establish Your Schedule and Content Needs
With my topic and sub-topics ready, I had to decide on the frequency I would publish. I settled on publishing one content piece per day (could be an article, an audio piece, etc.). I decided to interview guest experts within the sub-topics and then spread out the content over the course of the month.
My plan would be to line up and interview guests the month before I intended to publish the content. That way, I would avoid last-minute scrambling to produce content and could instead focus on quality well in advance of publishing. This would also help when I got sick or took time off, since I would already have content on tap for the given week or month and could simply schedule it to be published (or, even better, hire someone else to do it for me).
I decided that the number of weeks there were in a given month would be the number of guest experts I would line up for that month (five weeks, five guest experts). And to make things simple, each guest expert would produce one week’s worth of content (five content pieces per guest).
My site has a mix of articles and audio, so I decided to do one-hour interviews with each guest (and then each interview would be divided into four shorter content pieces) and then have each guest contribute one article in addition to their interview. That made it really easy on my guests, since they only had to show up for a one-hour interview and create one article. Plus, that little bit of effort on their part would equate to weekly promotion for their businesses, since I would be spreading their content out over the course of the month.
The great thing for me was, instead of having twenty to twenty-five separate content pieces to create on my own in a given month, I would simply do four to five interviews (depending on the number of weeks that month) and knock out four content pieces in one hour. Of course, that meant a lot more planning on the front end, but then the actual content creation part would become very easy.
So, I knew how many guest experts I would have (the same as the number of weeks that month), and I knew how many content pieces I needed from each of guest (always five), so that let me know how many titles I had to create for the month.
Say, for instance, the month’s theme was “balance.” I knew I needed five content pieces, so I created five generic titles.
Stress-Reduction Tips
Personal Renewal
Food and Mood
Balancing Home and Work Life
Disconnecting from Technology
Then I could create more interesting titles from the generic ones:
60-Second Stress-Busting Techniques
The Importance of Personal Renewal
Is Food Affecting Your Mood?
Creative Ways to Balance Work and Home Life
Cut the Cord: How to Disconnect from the World
This part was surprisingly simple. While I normally could sit and ponder blog post titles for what seemed like hours, I was immediately able to think of several ideas when thinking about picking the brains of experts on a given topic.
Step 5: Create an Editorial Calendar
I had my theme, my sub-topics, and even the specific post titles for the content I wanted to create. All that was left to do was actually create the content, edit it, and publish it. That meant that I actually had to conduct the interviews and then lay out exactly when I was going to edit and publish the audio and articles contributed by the guests.
Why a System? Why Not Just Blog?
If you’re running a business blog, there’s generally an underlying purpose behind it. Maybe you want more clients or to create a fan base for an upcoming book. Whatever the case, there’s a reason that you blog, and the content you create should help you reach your end goal. By being more intentional and focused with your content, you’ll achieve greater success in a much shorter period of time and make sure that your content is, in fact, serving the audience it’s intended to serve.
My favorite things about having a system?
Content has become so much easier to create
My efforts are more focused and are helping me reach my goalsI’m more intentional when it comes to guests, which means greater cross-promotion, back links, and visibility with new audiences.
I’m no longer staring at a blank screen wondering what I’m going to write.
So, what’s your blogging system?
How are you staying on track and organized when it comes to your blogging efforts?
by amber singleton riviere
AUG. 26, 2010
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The Reason
The reason I look at Network Marketing is to change my life.
And why I choose an Empower Network as mine?
Because this is my opportunity to get:
Extra Income
Financial Freedom
Having My Own Business
More Spare Time
Personal Development
Helping Others
Meeting New People
Retirement
So even if you have only one reason of these, I believe it worth trying and giving your best shot as your life will change so you will never want look back again!
Extra Income:
It doesn’t matter how much you earn you always spend it and there’s always more month than money. everyone can use extra income. Whether it be to pay for a specific small item, to clear outstanding debts or to supplement (or replace) an existing income.
Financial Freedom:
This can mean different things to different people. It could be being able to afford the things in life you want. The car, the house, the boat , and go travel around the world.
Having Your Own Business:
Empower Network offers one of the few means by which you can own your own business with little or no investment.
Most business usually involves major capital investment and is often exposed to serious risk. Most businesses do not survive the end of their first year and even established franchises are not risk free and require large fees. But at Empower Network you just need a little investment or FREE. But with a little investment you can be RICH.
More Spare Time:
In today’s economic climate employers are expecting their staff to work more hours for the same pay. People in jobs (Just Over Broke) are having less time to spend doing the things they want. People who own their own businesses are also subject to long hours and increasing stress. Often working more to pay banks and institutions than themselves. Whether you would choose to spend more time with children, family, friends, hobbies and quality lifestyle, and Empower Network can provide the means of achieving this.
Personal Development:
From the day we are born we are told more often that we ‘can’t do’ rather ‘can do’. Empower Network offers the opportunity and encouragement to fulfill your true potential. This benefits people in so many ways, giving them greater self-confidence and awareness that many things are possible if you just try.
Helping Others:
Join with Empower Network can only be successful if they help others in their teams grow. You can help others by improving their incomes, through the business opportunity. One of the greatest sources of joy is to see peoples lives improve and know that you have played a part.
Meeting New People:
Empower Network provides a social environment in which to work. Because other member have similar desires and are positive people it is a great way to make long lasting friendships. It’s more of a social business club than self-employment, which can often be lonely.
Retirement:
There are not many people who will retire from their current occupations and be able to afford to live on their pensions. Indeed, many do not have a pension at all. Because people are living longer this is becoming a major concern. With Empower Network, your income continues and grows after the time you would normally retire. It’s a non-contributory pension scheme that you can start drawing immediately.
And what are your reason?
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
All About Empower
When a company pays out over $50 Million in commissions to its affiliates within 18 months and is rated at No1 in the Alexa ratings, then you know you are looking at something very special. May be once or twice in a lifetime do you come across such an amazing Global Opportunity.
Allow me to take you through “All About Empower”
Empower CEO’s Dave Sharpe & Dave Wood are not just CEO’s, they are also active affiliates within the Empower Network Opportunity.
While steering this amazing company to the No1 Opportunity on the Internet today, they also maintain a “hands on” approach on building a team.This is rare into day’s day & age and is one of many reasons why the Empower Network Opportunity is so successful.
Their combined years of experience in this Industry, knowledge and training offered to you put the Empower Network Opportunity as the best there is.
The Empower Network Opportunity offers you world beating training products, an amazing blogging system, 100% commissions and a Global Opportunity. Whether you are in business for yourself and want to use the trainings & blogging system to increase sales and productivity or as 100,000 Empower affiliates around the world are now doing, using the Empower Network Opportunity to generate huge personal incomes while changing their lifestyle, the choice is yours.
From Car mechanics, to Lawyers, Nurses to School teachers, Mums at home to the Unemployed, the Empower Network Opportunity is an equal opportunity for all to achieve success, whether you are looking for an extra $500 per month or $50,000 per month the Empower Network Opportunity offers you the tools, training, & commissions to help you become financially free.
At its core is the Viral blogging system, the modern way to communicate for both business and personal use, create a following and build a Global team.
The 8-part video training is the bed rock to your success, it is truly amazing as it guides you step by step on how to make money from blogging.
The 100% commissions structure is a world beater, how does it work?
just like it says, you make 100% on promoting the Empower Opportunity product range.
You can make from $25 to $3,000 on each Empower product, paid direct to your own credit card or bank.
Add to this your residual Income paid to you every 30 days from $25-$100 for every member on your pay line. Its easy to see why the Empower Network Opportunity is changing people lives around the world.
BENEFITS TO YOU AS AN EMPOWER AFFILIATE:
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5 Starting packages
Make from $25 to $3,000 on each package purchased
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Monday, June 17, 2013
GLOBAL EMPOWER TEAM
We are a team of Professional Network Marketers with a combined Network Marketing experience totalling over 100 years.
Many of us have made millions of dollars within the Network Marketing industry and continue to do so. This hard earned experience has been gained from working around the world, supporting our networks & developing systems & trainings to take our teams to great heights within the Industry of Network Marketing.
We have learned the skills, the dedication needed to succeed, and above all the ability to seek out NEW and exciting opportunities that will take us and the people we choose to work with to even greater heights within this Industry.
The secret is to be part of a company that is young and dynamic, in momentum, forward thinking and allows its members to be Entrepreneurs, allowing them to do what it takes to reach the TOP.
After 2 years of looking at many MLM companies, comparing compensation plans, looking deep into the integrity of many companies, we are pleased to say…
…We have found that company -
the timing is perfect and YOU will be offered the opportunity of being part of one of the largest teams with the Empower Network
We have set out to change the rulebook, and we have cracked the MLM code. We have spent 12 months developing a viral system with a different approach to building a network, an approach you would not have seen before.
We are about to share with you a lead generation system that will build YOUR business in a way the industry has never seen before. This system has the potential to bring in 100’s of new members into your business and allowing you to earn huge commissions.
You will be able to use our unique system for FREE to build your Global Empower Team. No matter which country you live in, this opportunity & system will work for you.
If you commit to this system we will commit to you, guide you, support and assist you, and will work with you to take you to the TOP within the Empower Network.