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The other development I want to tell you about is still in the testing stages for me, though it looks promising. Now this will cost you a little bit of money for set-up. You will need to get a hosting account. The one suggested is fine. You get a month of google ads for free and there after $29.99 a month. This is a good deal to have someone else work out the in’s and out’s of google adwords. Your set up takes a wee bit of time and I suggest you save everything to a file so that you can retrieve the information if you need it later.

Here is the full explanation.

A New Niche Market

Take a look. I thought the presentation quite impressive.

Focus of the Week

Let’s keep surfing. Make sure you are surfing on a consistent basis. This will do more for you that the occasional  bringe surfing. Even 30 minutes a night will make a big difference over time.

And don’t for get my favorite Surf Engine:

Lords of Traffic

Nick Grimshawe

Building Businesses Together

Yahoo Messenger: ngrimshawe

How much time do you spend surfing each week?
( surveys)

These are short term goals designed to get you to your major or long term goal. Look at short term goals of simple steps taken to help you get to the your long term goals.

I write these goals on a post it note and keep it at my computer. You daily goals should be driving you to achieve your weekly goal.

One of the areas we need to have a plan or goal is the use of traffic exchanges. To help you out I’ve got a new PDF for you to download and read. Now this is not a huge file, so it is a quick and easy read and should help you to understand what you should be doing with traffic exchanges.

Here is the link: Successful Surfing

The report is written by Darrel Dean. I hope you enjoy and find the information useful.

I have been recommending this surf exchange for the last little while. I have to say right now it is my favorite to use. Lords of Traffic.

It’s free to join and the results are outstanding. See results from yesterday October 12th 2008

From my blog admin page

How many traffic exchanges are you surfing? Let me know.

What is your favorite traffic exchange? Let me know.

To your surfing success.

Nick

“Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.”
–Niccolo Machiavelli

How good are you at turning obstacles into opportunities?

This weeks Key to Business Success is
“Focus”

To help you keep focused I suggest you write up a short list each day of your goals. and post it somewhere you will see it several times during the day.

Here is what mine looks like for today:

Today’s Goal

Find Balance

What I Wish To Do

Work on Purpose Course

Newsletter for Monday

Food (I’m love cooking and I am planning a great supper)

Gardening (Another one of my passions)

So you see I am striving to create a balance to my day, as well as keep me focused.

I avoid “To Do” List like the plague. To Do Lists usually carry items that are determined by someone else, and therefore lack your enthusiastic support. Where as a “What I Wish to Do ” list is entirely driven by you and more likely to get accomplished.

To Your List Building Success

Nick Grimshawe

Building Businesses Together

Here is a great new Traffic Exchange I have been testing with good results.

Lords Of Traffic

A subscriber recently suggested that I write about how to work with social networking to help build a list. His comment happened to job my memory, because I have all ready been writing articles about social networking else where. So we begin a series of short post to about some of the generic features of social networking and how to use them.

The first are is the “About Me” section of most social media.

With social networking all the rage these days it’s important to send a consistent message to the people you want to build a relationship with. Your consistency should run through all the social networks you develop.

When people are looking for others to network with, one of the tools they have here is to go to your profile page and read through it. If yours is blank or carries and ad for a product, (I’ve seen this often) you leave your visitor wondering if you would be someone they should contact. Further research at your profile might reveal more information about you, but why put people to all that trouble? If you really want to connect with people you need to let them know what you are looking for and what your interests are.

Now when someone lands on your profile page they can get a better idea if you are the person they want to develop a relationship with. You never know when you get a friends request if that is the person who can pave your road in gold.

But they won’t find you if you don’t give them some clues in the “About Me” section. Does your bio it help someone to figure out some basic information about who you are and what you are interested in? If not change it. And when things change go back and update your profile. Then through out your social networks maintain the same or very similar information with changes to reflect the type of social media you are using.

If you came to this page on a link, click on the list grow and prosper title and you will see “about” section on this blog. Take a moment to read through mine. To get back to the article click the title page again.

Social Networking is not about how MANY names you have on your list, but about how many of the right people you have on your list.

To Your List Building Success,

Nick Grimshawe

Building Businesses Together

PS Try this surf exchange. I am getting the best traffic using this:

Lords of Traffic

The nation’s highest paid marketing consultant, he regularly works marketing miracles for his clients. During his 24 year career, Mr. Abraham has worked with over 5,000 individual businesses in 165 separate industries. He has consulted for businesses large, medium and small, from one person operations to some of the world’s largest corporations including Weyerhauser, Coldwell Banker, Prudential-Bache, Dun and Bradstreet, Citibank and Sears Roebuck & Company.Mr. Abraham specializes in successfully identifying and ethically exploiting a company’s hidden, marketable assets to create windfall profits for his clients.

]]> http://listgrowandprosper.wordpress.com/2008/09/05/about-me/feed/ 0 ngrimshawe picture-6-custom-thumb.jpg Jay Abraham http://listgrowandprosper.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/social-marketing-and-list-building/ http://listgrowandprosper.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/social-marketing-and-list-building/#comments Tue, 02 Sep 2008 05:55:37 +0000 ngrimshawe http://listgrowandprosper.wordpress.com/?p=123 ]]> One of the latest ways to build your list is through social marketing sites, like Facebook or MySpace.

But before you start out there are some important tips you should follow.

I have snagged a new Social Marketing Strategy Guide which you can down load from this link.

Social Marketing Strategy Guide.

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Here are some of the subjects covered:

• The difference between Internet Marketing and Network Marketing
• Profile Basics
• Be Sure to Give First

Plus what is all this talk about web 2.0.

Down load your free copy now.

Social Marketing Strategy Guide

Nick Grimshawe

Building Businesses Together

PS

Here is a hot new Traffic Exchange that I have been using with great success.

Lords of Traffic

Nick Grimshawe

If this has never happened to you, you get my perfect person award. Here is a video from a fellow marketer about the perils of not checking your links on a regular basis. I recently discovered one on the mainpage of my personal website that had been sitting broken for months! Yipes!

http://www.timlinden.com/blog/business/check-your-sales-process/

Tim Linden runs a traffic exchange which is one of my favorites. I highly recommend this one. One this exchange at the bottom of the page is a running score of your rank. This kinda challenges you to improve you surfing rank and it’s fun (well you are surfing an exchange) to watch your rank improve. You also get a bonus surfing percentage from time to time that really increases your results.

Here is the link: StartXchange

The site has recently been upgraded and looks ten time better than before. When you sign up there is a one time offer, its worth considering.

Happy Surf Day,

Nick

Sites listed here are ones I use and which have worked for me. If you discover a site that is working well please let us know through the comments section.

My number one favorite site for this is WebBizInsider . You can email you list once every seven days and can offer credits to help improve your click through rate. If you are going to upgrade anywhere this is the one I recommend. The site also works as a traffic exchange so you can earn credits to get your site viewed.

Free Ad Depot

This is a place where you can put text ads for your site or business and where you can place banner ads. this is a free site to join. You can upgrade if you want to get maximum results. You will be directed to a One time offer when you sign up for free but you are not obligated to sign up.

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Target Ads Depot

Here is an explanation from the website on how it works:

Your targeted text ad appears permanently on your affiliate page in the blue box. Your ad also rotates throughout all pages on the network in ad positions 2-6, and this means it could be seen on 1000′s of other pages each month, This gives your ad good exposure. Your ad rotates at a 1-1 rotation.

Again this is a free to join site with an upgrade option.

Finally My favorite of the three and the one I choose to upgrade at is:

Build Referrals

This site has so many options I would say it is worth paying the lifetime membership fee. You can join free, but the life time is the cheapest way to invest. When you look at the price of other levels you pay monthly fees. This site has a traffic rotator, a Search engine submitter, and three programs to help drive traffic. You have a place to add up to six of your own programs.

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I hope you enjoy checking out these sites and getting set up to start to receive traffic.

To Your List Building Success

Nick Grimshawe

Building Businesses Together

I build this site using 2 of the three pages available, but I urge you not to think linearly. I have one more page to build, but almost unlimited potential for adding pages to this site. Here`s how you can accomplish that.

First go to the site and have a look and what I created all for the price of a domain name for under $10.00 a year.

http://www.beautifulsummermorninginspirationalbooks.com

I used the subtitle bar to put my links in. So I linked to the next page by using the URL google supplies for each page. I just added the link using hyperlink. That simple. You can link any page you own that way. So I also linked in my lead capture page using a different set of google pages, and I have a e-course I will be linking in there all well. So essential you end up with quite a site with a lot of information on it. Not only that, as you can see, I have linked up my other sites as well to help drive traffic, that way everything is feed ing traffic through the link.

Google Pages are easy to use and format. You do not need any special skills. The html editor is down in the bottom right hand corner so that you can post in HTML code.

You really can’t go wrong building sites, and lead capture pages on this system.

If you have any questions, please query in the comments section and I will respond as quickly as possible.

Nick Grimshawe

Building Businesses Together.

Too get visitors to your need site you need to surf on a traffic exchange:

Here is one which is multi functional as a list building and a highly ranked

traffic exchange.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35ym8-_eXZ8

(I had to use the link the embedding didn’t seem to work.)

Here is the website I built using these videos.

http://beautifulsummermorninginspirationalbooks.com

Let me know how you do with these. Post your results here.

Building Businesses Together

Nick Grimshawe

PS

What is the easiest list building site out there?

Answer: Triple Your List