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YTB - The Cure For Idea Diarrhea!

Personally, I love great ideas. When I see unique and unusual business ideas, my mind goes into overdrive and I immediately start thinking about all kinds of new possibilities.
Can you relate to that?

Well, recently I had a conversation with Stu, a Canadian business associate, that dramatically changed my perspective regarding the true value of an idea.

And this came from a guy who markets himself “The Idea Guy.”

I asked Stu for his opinion on a new idea that I would like to implement. He wanted to hear about it so we went to a coffee shop and I started up my laptop in order to show him my “impressive idea.” He listened to my “master plan” as I went through all the details and explained how this idea was going to be my salvation. You know, the million dollar idea.

After I finished my explanation, he immediately asked me a question. “Would you like me to show you how to triple the amount of money you will make during the next 12 months?” Of course I wanted to.

I didn’t expect what came next. He grabbed my computer, closed it and said. “Kaare, you don’t need any more ideas. You just need to take action on the ones that you already have. Choose one or more of the programs that you already have joined. Do something with that. Take action!”

That’s not what I wanted to hear, but soon afterwards, it started to sink in.

An Idea By Itself Is Worthless.

Only when someone has taken some kind of action on an idea does it then gain value.
So many would-be entrepreneurs suffer from “Idea Diarrhea.” It’s a disease that stops more entrepreneurs from making the kind of progress they’ve always dreamed of than anything else.

It’s inevitable that ideas breed new ideas. You’ll have a million dollar idea on Monday and as you start working on it, Monday’s idea stimulates another. So on Tuesday you stop working on Monday’s idea and start taking action on Tuesday’s. Then Wednesday comes along, and guess what? You’ve got “another” million dollar idea.

Unfortunately, this cycle continues and before you know it, you’ve got a whole bunch of half-baked ideas not making you any money.

I realize now that the idea itself wasn’t as important as the speed of taking action on the idea. Everyone has ideas but the people who succeed in this world are the ones who take action on their ideas.

People join programs because it seemed like a good idea at the time. Then other things, other ideas, other programs enter our lives and all of a sudden good ideas aren’t such good ideas anymore. The reason was that they failed to take action.

Successful people have something in common; they took action!

All of us have joined YTB, a leader in the largest industry in the world. We have something that has made other people millionaires. Are they smarter than you? Probably not! Do they have better education than you? Probably not!

For most people speed is important. If you don’t do it quickly, it will never get done. The longer you drag your feet the less likely you are to complete it. If you don’t complete the steps necessary to make your travel business a reality quickly, chances are you won’t do it later and you won’t make any money with YTB. Just as you wouldn’t make any money with any other opportunity or any other idea. It’s that simple.

Stu’s lecture made me think and it made me re-commit to YTB. I know now that I want to become a director within two years and I will do what it takes to get there.

And the first step is to take action.

Is A Home-Based Business In Your Future?

Today more and more people have taken a look at a home-based business as their primary business. It’s people disillusioned with the corporate world, baby boomers who don’t want to or can’t afford to retire, housewives in need of extra family income, as well a the unemployed who cannot find anything other than working as McDonald clerks or Wal-Mart greeters. And people are looking at their home-based business as their primary business and not just the multi-level marketing that is usually done off the kitchen table.
Everybody talks about some of the extremely successful entrepreneurs who got their start in garages or basements, i.e. Bill Gates & Paul Allen (Microsoft), Ted Waitt & Mike Hammond (Gateway), Larry Page & Sergio Brin ( Google), Pierre Omidyar (eBay), Michael Dell (Dell Computers) and Jerry Yang & David Filo (Yahoo). These entrepreneurs eventually moved away from their garages and into the corporate world where they operate billion dollar empires.
Today’s entrepreneurs who are starting businesses out of their homes are usually staying there, even as their businesses are taking off.
The latest U.S. Census statistics on non-employer firms, defined to include home-based businesses and those run by one or more individuals, show that the number of self-employed reached 20.4 million in 2005, an increase of 4.4 percent from the previous year. According to NASE home-based businesses constitute 53 percent of all small businesses in the United States.
The declining economy is bound to drive even more frustrated people into home-based businesses over the next few years. The majority of Americans believe we are heading into a period of recession. Traditionally, during a recession, more people turn to self-employment because traditional jobs are difficult to come by.
It is common today for young people, raised on computers and the Internet, to want to avoid working for somebody else. Instead they are creating opportunities for themselves outside of the traditional workplace.
So, if 2008 is the year you’re planning to finally break free of the office and start your own home-based business, may it be a consulting business, online retail, eBay business, information marketing or any other plans you may have, you would be well advised not to rush into your dream. Take your time to learn some of the basics about the business model that you want to follow. Don’t quit your day job and start your home-based business the next day.
Fortunately, the Joe Congo Marketing Academy has a program designed just for you that allows you to do exactly that, while gradually building residual income that will continue to increase while you are learning your new home-based business.
For more information, visit http://joecongoattraction.com.

Is YTB A Household Necessity?

How about 400 reasons why YTB is a household necessity? 

There are over 400 “Legal Tax Deductions” when you own a home based business. Don’t take my word for it, I strongly encourage you to call your tax advisor and validate it! 

Just think about it for a minute!  $449.95 for two e-commerce (money making) websites, Red Carpet Treatment on all your travel, the ability to own and operate your own business within a business, fully hosted websites with full YTB customer support, full YTB travel support, training classes, and weekly presentations in most areas of the country.

Best of all it can be made into an “Absolutely Free Business For Life” if you bring 6 people into your team.
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Establishing Daily Routines

If you are new in setting up a home-based online business, you may find it difficult to set up a daily routine so you can accoplish something. Establishing daily routines is simply making a plan for what you do each day in building your business. Without stability, there will be no growth. Your daily routines are your stability. Try to make them fun and stick to them!

First and foremost, you need to expose your business to new people EVERY DAY! Consistent and persistent action will help you realize your dreams. Make this your first priority. Set up specific time each day to build your list and work your business. Set up an hour or two a day or 5 to 10 hours per week. For example, work Tuesday and Thursday for 2 hours and on Saturday for 1 hour. The most important activity is exposure. In fact exposure is everything! That’s why people say, “If you don’t have a list, you don’t have a business.”

You also need to set aside about the same amount of time each week to educate yourself. You need to subscribe to newsletters, trade magazines, etc. You need to buy books and courses related to your field. More than anything you need to learn how to market your business.

Fortunately, Joe Congo has a plan that will take care of all this training for you. To find out more, visit www.JoeCongoAttraction.com and learn how you can earn while you are learning. 

What Should You Sell On The Internet

Today we’ll take a look at what you need to consider when deciding what kind of product or services you should market in your homebased business. Surprisingly enough, this is actually one of the easiest decisions you’ll have to make because it really comes down to one simple question.

What is selling on the Internet right now?

The biggest sellers on the Internet are sex sites. I personally would not have anything to do with those sites, so I’m going to focus on the second biggest seller on the Internet.

Marketing and selling information is in response to the vast amount of information that is available on the Internet every day. Think about it. What are millions of people doing on the Internet at this very moment? They are looking for information just like you are now.

In the early days of the Internet everything was free. Today, while people are still searching for free information, they are now accustomed to have to pay for more advanced training. This is creating tremendous opportunities for information marketers.

Selling information digitally over the Internet has several tremendous advantages that you won’t see anywhere else, making it a very lucrative business model.

Here are some of the most important ones:

1. Low start-up costs. If you already have Internet service it is possible to get started without any cost. 2. Very low overhead. 3. Advertising advantages over any other type of media. 4. High perceived product value if you choose the right products. 5. Instant delivery. 6. No shipping and handling costs. 7. No product storage. 8 Unlimited income potential. It is totally up to you how much you’ll make.

What other business can claim all these advantages?

Once the website is set up, all you have to do is focus on your marketing efforts and public relations efforts, such as answering questions sent to your e-mail account. Best of all, you will continue to make money while you sleep, go to church, shop at Wal-Mart, go on vacations or spend quality time with family and friends.

It’s not only the great income potential, but also the lifestyle change that is attractive to all of us.

You can and should eventually produce your own informational products. But in the meantime, who wants to spend all that time writing a book without knowing how to make profits from it? The best way to get started and to learn is to sell other people’s products.

To gain required experience in the online marketing world, I would recommend buying the resale rights to sell other products that have already been proven to sell.

Some Internet Business Tools

In my opinion the most important Internet marketing business tool is Outsourcing. You can outsource almost anything when it comes to your business, just as you are already doing in your personal life. Examples are dry cleaners, lawn service, restaurants and hair dresser. I will also cover several other invaluable tools that will help assure online success.

Virtual Assistant:

Consider outsourcing part of your work load to a virtual assistant. You won’t have to pay the extra employee payroll costs and you can save precious time. You only pay your assistant when needed. Virtual assistants can do a number of tasks: writing, editing, website/graphic design, secretarial, accounting, bookkeeping, marketing, copywriting and so much more.

Webinars and Teleconferences:

Increase your traffic by holding free teleclasses and webinars. You can refer attendees to your website for more information. You can also discuss products or services that you sell at the end or during the teleclass. You could offer them daily, weekly or monthly. Whenever you have time. You get the best results when you invite other experts to speak and teach.

Autoresponders:

I dare say that if you do not have an autoresponder, and a list of course, you do not have a business. They are that important. The best ones are AWeber, AutoResponsePlus and GetResponse. Most of them will cost you about $20 per month. Some are available for a one-time charge. When you become a member of Joe Congo Marketing Academy, you get an autoresponder service without an additional charge.

You collect leads with your autoresponder and it gives you the ability to follow-up automatically on the email addresses you capture. It makes it easy for you to stay in touch with your prospects and customers. Autoresponders are a perfect way to increase traffic to your site. They can save many valuable hours by automatically answering emails concerning frequently asked questions about a service or product or by sending a welcome letter to new members of your program.  One of the most important uses is the ability to track the effectiveness of your promotions.

Reprint Rights:

Sell the reprint rights to your website content. It can be articles, e-books, reports, etc. Allow people to compile them into an e-book and sell it. Just require them to include your ad copy and link back to your website in the e-book. You can also allow people give the e-book away. The important part is to get your name and links out there.

You Competitors Products:

It is perfectly legal to study your competitors by buying their products or by simply checking out their websites. You’ll learn about their customer service, follow-up marketing, upsell offers, etc. You’ll also get great new ideas for your own business. Another option is to contact your competition and ask them if they are interested in doing a joint venture with you. You could possibly double your results without additional cost or effort.

To learn more go to www.joecongoattraction.com.

What Products Should You Choose To Market?

Today we’ll take a look at what you need to consider when deciding what kind of product or services you should market to your potential customers. Surprisingly enough, this is actually one of the easiest decisions you’ll have to make because it really comes down to one simple question.

What is selling on the Internet right now?
 
The biggest sellers on the Internet are sex sites.  I personally would not have anything to do with those sites, so I’m going to focus on the second biggest seller on the Internet.
 
Marketing and selling information is in response to the vast amount of information that is available on the Internet every day. Think about it.  What are millions of people doing on the Internet at this very moment? They are looking for information just like you are now.

In the early days of the Internet everything was free. Today, while people are still searching for free information, they are now accustomed to have to pay for more advanced training. This is creating tremendous opportunities for information marketers.

Selling information digitally over the Internet has several tremendous advantages that you won’t see anywhere else, making it a very lucrative business model.
 
Here are some of the most important ones:

• Low start-up costs. If you already have Internet service it is possible to get started without any cost.
• Very low overhead.
• Advertising advantages over any other type of media.
• High perceived product value if you choose the right products.
• Instant delivery.
• No shipping and handling costs.
• No product storage.
• Unlimited income potential. It is totally up to you how much you’ll make.

What other business can claim these advantages?
 
Once the website is set up, all you have to do is focus on your marketing efforts and public relations efforts, such as answering questions sent to your e-mail account.  Best of all, you will continue to make money while you sleep, go to church, shop at Wal-Mart, go on vacations or spend quality time with family and friends.

It’s not only the great income potential, but also the lifestyle change that is attractive to all of us.
 
You can and should eventually produce your own informational products.  But in the meantime, who wants to spend all that time writing a book without knowing how to make profits from it? The best way to get started and to learn is to sell other people’s products.
 
To gain required experience in the online marketing world, I would recommend buying the resale rights to sell other products that have already been proven to sell.
 

How To Become A Well Paid Affiliate Marketer

More than 38 million people started their very first websites online in 2006. This is in addition to all the sites that were already up and running. A great deal of those sites will be offering various affiliate programs for people who choose to participate.

Affiliate programs pay you for referring customers to them.  Most of them will supply you with promotional materials such as banners and ezine ads, so all you have to do is promote their advertisements and collect your commission checks.

If someone visits their website through your link and eventually buys from them, you get paid a commission. This can generate a steady stream of income on the side. I strongly suggest you choose a few select companies and do the same.

It is possible for you to run your business completely by referring people to other websites, without even having a website.

It is now easier than ever to find the best affiliate program for your particular application. Support will be the number one consideration for you when choosing a program.  Traditional advertising is becoming less and less effective. This is a great opportunity for web  affiliates and resellers alike. There are now thousands of affiliate programs to choose from and there are no difficulties in finding the right one for you.

Keep in mind that you should never refer your customers to a company that you would not do business with yourself. You would only be doing yourself a grave injustice by ruining your reputation.  Represent only what you stand behind and can be proud of standing behind.

One of the first decisions you should make is to sign up as a web hosting affiliate.   Everyone who wants his own website needs a web hosting company to host it.  The majority of people choose hosts based on recommendations. Usually, they get it from the ones that already use a particular web hosting service.

With so many hosts offering affiliate programs, you need find the one which you think will work best for you. Think of the product or service you will be promoting. Compare the hosting companies to your needs and see if they are catering to the same things that you require.

When you have been with one host for some time and you do not seem to show sufficient results despite all your efforts, leave that host and look for another. There is no use in trying to stick with one when you could be better off with another one. Of course, first you have to consider if your problems really are the host’s fault. If you are not sure, try someone else anyhow.

If you are happy and satisfied with your web host, find out if they are offering an affiliate program that you can participate in. Instead of you paying them, why not make it the other way around. Let them pay you. The process can be as easy as putting a small “powered by” or “hosted by” link at the bottom of your page and you are in the affiliate business.

Always remember that when choosing a web host, choose the one that is known for its great customer support.

There are a lot of niche markets out there just waiting for the right affiliate to penetrate them and make your dreams come true. Web hosting is just one of the affiliate markets you should try. Just remember that to be successful you need time, effort and patience.

Every affiliate marketer is looking for the market that produces the biggest paycheck. It is, however, not a magical formula that is readily available for them. It is more complicated than that. It is good marketing practices that have been proven over years of hard work and dedication.There are tactics that have worked before with online marketing and will continue to work today.

Do a little research before you join an affiliate program. There are so many choices to make. Will it cost you anything to join? Most affiliate programs being offered today are absolutely free of charge.

Other things to consider:

When do they issue the commission checks? 
Is there a minimum requirement that an affiliate must meet in order for checks to be issued?
What is the hit per sale ratio?
How are referrals from an affiliate’s site tracked and for how long do they remain in the system?
What are the kinds of affiliate statistics are available?
Does the company track your referrals so you will receive payment when the prospect returns at a later date to buy?
Does the company supply you with marketing materials?
Do you get residual income?
Is the affiliate a one tier or two tier program? A single tier program pays you only for the business you yourself have generated. A two tier program pays you for the business, plus it also pays you a commission on the on the sales generated by any affiliate you sponsor in your program.
Does the program have a proven system that can allow you to check your networks and compensation.
What is the amount of commission paid?

These are just some of the questions that you need to have answered before you enter into an affiliate program. You should be  as familiar as possible with the programs you are considering before incorporating them into your website.

Choose programs that you like and have interest in. Are you interested in purchasing the product yourself. If so, chances are there are many others who are also interested in the same product.

Look for a program that is of high quality.

Choose programs that have plenty of tools and resources that can help you grow the business in the shortest possible time.

Choose programs that are catering to a growing target market.  Make inquiries. There are forums and discussion groups you can participate in to get good and reliable feedbacks.

Do not waste your time with programs that do not reward substantially for your efforts.

Be aware of the minimum quotas that you must fulfill or sales target that is too hard to achieve.

A good technique is to use a unique website to promote each separate product you are marketing. Do not lump all of it together just to save some money on web hosting. It is often to your advantage to have a site focusing on each and every product.

Always include product reviews on the website so visitors will have an initial understanding on what the product can do for those who buy them. Include testimonials from users who have already tried the product. Be sure that these customers give you permission to use their names and photos on the site of the specific product you are marketing.

You can also write articles describing the uses of the product and include them on the website as an additional page. Include calls to act on the information. Each headline should attract the readers to read more and to contact you. Highlight your special points. This will help your readers to learn what the page is about and will want to find out more.

Offer free reports to your readers. Position the offers at the very top side of your home page so it they simply cannot be missed. Try to create autoresponder messages that will be mailed to those who input their personal information into your sign up box. According to research, a sale is seldom closed on the first, or even the second contact with a prospect.

Only two things can possibly happen with a web page alone. Either a closed sale or the prospect leaves the page and never returns again. By placing useful information into their inboxes at certain specified period, you will remind them of the product.  Be sure that the content is directed toward specific reasons to buy the product. But do not make it sound as a sales pitch.

Focus on important points like how your product can make life easier and more enjoyable. Include compelling subject lines in the e-mail. As much as possible avoid using the word “free” because there are still older spam filters that dumps those kind of contents into the junk before anyone can read them. Convince those who signed up for your free reports that they will be missing out on something if they do not use your products and services.

Try to write a minimum of two articles per week, each consisting of at least 400-600 words. By continuously writing and maintaining these articles you can generate as many as 100 targeted readers to your site in a day.  Always remember that only one out of 100 people are likely to buy your product or services. If you can generate as much as 1,000 targeted hits for your website in a day, that means that on the average you will make 10 sales.

Try to use these tips for several affiliate marketing programs.

How To Get Motivated

To be successful in life you have to get enough motivation to do something.

We don’t get rewarded for good intentions, knowledge or just for great ideas. If that were the case then the most successful people would be philosophers and professors.

While we all need good intentions, knowledge and ideas are not enough unless you are motivated enough to do something about them.

There is power in action…otherwise it is just a dream. Here are some tips to help you get started getting more motivation in your life.

Get a Big Enough WHY

We all do things for a reason, whether it is through inaction or action, they are all a choice. Unless we have a big enough reason “Why” we need to take action, then there is just to much momentum to keep on doing what you always have been doing. And how do you expect different results all of a sudden just doing what you’ve always bee doing.

A great way to get a big enough “why” to take action, is doing a writing exercise where you spend some time to write out all the benefits you are going to get if you take action. Picture what your life would be like if you were to take action today. Then write out what your life would be like if you didn’t take action, what would you miss out on and what would you lose. By giving yourself enough reasons to take action you will also give yourself the conviction to get motivated.

Get Started Today

A common problem why people have difficulty to get motivated is that they always postpone what they need to do today till tomorrow. Have you ever heard someone who is all excited about changing their diet and introducing an exercise regime so that they can lose weight. Only to hear at the end of the conversation that they will start it first thing Monday morning.

The best time to start something is yesterday. The second best time is today. Stop putting off what you need to do until sometime in the future because the future never happens, you only have control over your present.

Be Accountable

A great way to get motivated to take action is to tell someone what you want to do or change in your life. Tell them the details and when you will actually do it by. That way you now have someone who knows about your plans and deadlines. None of us want to disappoint people in our lives, or be embarrassed by the failure of reaching our goals, so this is a great way to get motivated to get things done.

Set a Deadline

A deadlines is a great way to get you motivated especially when it starts to loom closer and closer. We have all gone through those times during school or when we had to do an assignment only to put it off until the deadline was almost there. Eventually we ended up cramming to finish it till the wee hours of the morning prior to the due date.

Deadlines can get you motivated when nothing else seems to work. Of course this is not the ideal way to get yourself motivated, but if it gets you to take  action it is better than nothing.

Create Urgency

The reason most people aren’t motivated to make changes in their lives is because there just is not enough urgency to take action. They have a false sense of belief that tomorrow will always be waiting and they will get started. It wasn’t until the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center in New York that most people woke up and realized that there just isn’t any guarantee that tomorrow is actually going to come for them.

The terrorist attacks woke up many people enough to take action and review their lives. People ended up motivated enough to drastically change many areas of their lives and put a sense of balance into their world.

But why do we need a terrorist attack to make such a decision?

At the end of the day you cannot rely on someone else to get you motivated. Others might produce short term results, but in the long run the only person that can give you the motivation you need is YOU.

To be successful in your profession or your business you MUST TAKE ACTION!