How To Find the Right Domain For Your Business

A Domain Name is a name given to your website that gives you an identity on the web and is the name by which your site will be identified.   Every website has its own domain name, there will never be 2 with the same name unlike an offline business or franchise where the brand name IS the business.

For example, compare a Domain Name to an offline Franchise Name such as McDonalds;  if this was an online business and you were buying into McDonalds you would look for a Domain Name, preferably with the McDonalds brand but the Top Level Domain i.e. www.McDonalds.com will not be available as it will be used by the overall business owner.  So, what you would do in effect is to look for perhaps McDonaldsburgers.com or McDonaldsRealBeef.com.

I made 2 short videos that I hope explains it a bit further:

How To Choose the Right Domain

How To Find a Keyword Rich Domain

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Making Money Online – Vacation Club Business

Primo Vacations Hot Weeks

This has got to be THE best feature of the Primo Vacations Exclusive Members Travel Club.

When you sign up to Primo, you don’t just get access to low cost hotels, condos, cruises and travel – you get to stay at some of the Top Resorts around the world for a mere fraction of the regular cost.  Just check this out here:

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This list is not even a quarter of what is actually available.  I just returned from Spain there and stayed in one of the top resorts on the Costa del Sol for $100 for the week.  It’s called Pueblo Evita if you want to check it out through your normal travel search engines.  If you do, just look at the quality of the site, the 5* accommodation and facilities that are there, it was unbelievable.

Hot Weeks are released to all Primo Vacations members 5-30 days before the reservation is available and savings of up to 80% can be found.  No that wasn’t a type, I really do mean 80% off to stay at luxury 5 star resorts worldwide.  How does the Caribbean, USA, Australia or Europe tempt you?

This week’s featured resorts can be found right here:

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The Law of Attraction

I remember when I first came into Internet Marketing and lots of people talking about The Law of Attraction, The Secret and I really had no idea what it was all about.

However, I bowed to their wisdom and started looking into it to see what was so great about it and everything just seemed to make so much sense.  I bought a book called ‘The Secret’ and that is when I started looking at life in a much more positive light.

I have lost count now of the many ‘coincidences’ whereby really good things have happened to me.  This has happened both personally and within my business.  I have more patience now because I just ‘know things will happen’ and they will be as I want them to be.

Here’s 2 short clips that I really enjoy and hope you do too.

The Law of Attraction

Letting Your Results Dictate Your Mental State - Bob Proctor

Does Your Desktop Need a Makeover?

I made this short video after months of frustration and never getting round to having a clear out of my desktop.

I had so much stuff on there it was hard trying to find the ‘blue’ screen of the windows default.  It was covered in folders, things I put on the desktop meaning to do and just never got around to doing them…..blah blah you know how it is.

So if you’re anything like that, see if this short video helps you.

Oh and by the way, my desktop still looks exactly like that now.  It’s amazing that you only need to do this once and it will stick with you.

Have a great day

Trish

Find Out How to Succeed at Being Yourself

I have to say right out the gate that this article is not based on any theory you may find in books, nor is it based on an academic’s teachings.  No siree, this article is written by someone who is renowned for her straight talking and honest approach to everything and everyone.  The author is also a graduate from that awesome University of Life having taken a few hard knocks along the rocky road.

How to succeed at being yourself is 100% down to you and what choices you decide to make in any given situation at any given time.

When we come into this world we come in naked, that is both physically and mentally and we are 100% being ourselves.  Yes the theorists amongst us would say there are many things we are genetically pre-disposed to.  For example, they would say that if one or both our parents had addictions then our chances of having that same addictive aspect to our personality is greater.  But forget all that because how you succeed at being yourself is down to one thing and one thing only – the choices you make.

When we are small children, choices are made for us by our parents and other family members.  As our personalities start to develop we quickly get a sense of what is right and what is wrong because everyone around us lets us know.  That is when external influences start to take effect and stop us being ourselves.  As we get that bit older and start kindergarten or school, peer pressure also starts to chip away at who we really are.  By the time we reach elementary stage, only about 30% of who we really are is on public display.  The remainder is blocked by filters and we can have a multitude of personas dependant on the situation.  We are only successful at being ourselves when we feel safe to do so.  Ask yourself when that time is for you.  Is it in the car in the morning driving to work when ‘you sing like no-one can hear you’, is it when you escape to that ‘space’ you have in the home?

We all choose how to respond when someone says something we don’t like, we choose to behave in a specific way in a variety of situations.  If your automatic response to a comment you did not like is to raise your voice and start shouting then just for that nano second ask yourself “what are my chances of dying here if I were to just smile and say nothing?”  If the answer to that is anything between 90-100% then by all means raise your voice……..

Now you may quickly respond to that by saying “if I were to just smile and walk away then that is not me being me”.  Well let me ask you something “how much fun is it being you?  Are you happy in that angry world?  What are you like when there is no-one around you, what sort of thoughts do you have, what dreams do you want to make happen, when was the last time you told yourself that you are an OK sort of person?  Was there ever a time when you allowed you to be just you and told yourself that it really does not matter what others may think about me.  When others judge us, their thoughts are mapped out by their own life experiences and there is little or nothing we can do to change them so why bother?

How would you like to be someone that people having nothing bad to say about?  The type of person that is warm, friendly and never sees anyone as a threat.

You can be that person, the one who all those years ago wanted to be a certain way before others told you it was not right.  Perhaps you love to make others laugh but somewhere along the way, you didn’t have the normal receptive audience and you lost confidence.  That was their issue and not yours, just go out now and find an audience that does appreciate your humour.  Maybe you wanted to be something in your career but many people told you it was impossible so you just gave up.  That says everything about them and nothing about you so ignore them.  If you have the belief, you can do it, I believe in you so just go and do it!  Make it happen, start making some small choices to change and you’re half way there.

You can be honest with people so long as you never deliberately hurt their feelings.   Before you speak, always ask yourself “how would I like to hear that something doesn’t look right on me, my essay is not quite up to scratch?” etc.

I would just like to finish up by asking you to ask yourself is “how successful am I at truly being MYSELF?”  If I started as a baby being 100% ME, what percentage is left today?  You can get back there; you just have to make different choices than perhaps you are at the moment.

C’mon, 5* luxury vacation awaits you!

This is just a very short snapshot of hundreds of other luxurious villas and condos that await you through this exclusive Private Vacation Club.  Forget timeshare and those exortionate management fees that increase by large percentages year on year, forget returning to the same resort, same villa year after year.  Experience the holidays of a lifetime, or several each year when you see how ridiculously low these prices are.

This is not hype, nor BS but straight up an outstanding offer for you, your family, friends or whoever you want to share with.  You can stay in the very same standard of accommodation that your friend/relative/neighbour paid thousands and thousands of dollars for at the start and where they continue to pay those huge management fees annually.  No siree, what they have is here waiting for you at mere pennies in the dollar.

Oh and did I mention it is also an exceptionally lucrative business opportunity that you can promote and in the process earn $500 immediately on each sale.  But forget about making huge amounts of money, what you are doing with this opportunity is giving something to others.  People who may never be able to afford to stay in these luxurious timeshare and upper end of the market accommodation now can!  It is all about helping others – in this case that help extends to stopping your friends/family etc getting ripped off by those travel agents and others who have made lots and lots of money from all of us.

What you waiting for – find out more from taking this no obligation short tour and you will immediately see how this genuine opportunity will virtually return your money back on the first vacation or sale you take or make – it really is that simple.  Why pay up to $1000 for a week of luxury when with a bit of planning, you can get it for $100 – there’s another 9 similar vacations waiting for you for the rest of the year – can’t get that much time off work?  Get out of that rat race, see the business opportunity within this and start working from home.   As many luxury vacations await you then because who’s going to tell you then you can’t get the time out of the office!!!!

I’m ready now to find out more Trish.  OK, I won’t keep you in suspense any longer –

and enjoy………

2 simple words that will guarantee success in Internet Marketing

Do you look in the mirror every morning and like what you see? Do you see someone who has achieved or do you see someone who is always in pursuit of that next best thing but rarely gets there? What about your achievements, successes and things that haven’t gone so great for you – well to be frank, the buck stops with that person who is looking out at you from that mirror.

Just Do It!

Once you begin to really take responsibility for how you want your life to be, then that is when wonderful things start to happen. There are 2 simple words that will determine whether you get there or not. The first of these words is BUSY – yes, that’s right. How often have you used this word to stop you doing something you really know you should be doing?
I often used that word as some way of avoiding what I really should be doing, I would be ‘busy’ on some of the social networking sites convincing myself that somehow this was productive to my online business. Yes it was, but nowhere near as productive as I could have been had I taken ACTION, the second of these 2 simple words.

I knew I needed to have focus and that focus needed to manifest itself into action. Let us study both of these words for just a second in the context solely of internet marketing:

2 words explained

BUSY – being too busy doing the wrong things will do nothing to drive your business forward. Whilst it may be wonderful to spend time looking at others’ perceived online successes, this is doing nothing for you and you are losing money every minute you are ‘busy’ doing this.

ACTION on the other hand is doing what needs to be done to drive your business forward and you are making money whilst doing so. You can also take pleasure in striking actions from your ‘to do’ list each day and preparing your action list for the next day. Action will turn your dreams into a reality, being forever ‘busy’ will ensure they remain just that – a dream!

What intrigued me when I first started online is that I knew I was procrastinating, avoiding, being busy – call it what you will but what was that part of my brain that convinced me I was ‘busy’ all the time when in effect I was achieving nothing.  Whilst in normal terms, ‘being busy’ and ‘taking action’ may equate to one and the same, in the world of online business, there is a huge difference.

The funny thing about both these simple words is that almost every online marketer knows the difference and can easily see it in others.   Why is it so difficult then for us to see it in ourselves?    I’ll use a simple analogy of a smoker.  They know this habit is a bad one but they persist with it – they also know the damage that their passive smoking can inflict on others – but they continue to do it. They know fully what the long term results will be but they persevere with their bad habit.

So too will being ‘BUSY’, it will just eat away at you and in the long term all you will have will be broken dreams.

Busy people will have no end of explanations for why they did or did not do something.

What to do to avoid the ‘busy’ syndrome and get some ‘action’ into your business

• Firstly, do not go near your emails or any social networking site when you first switch on your PC.
• Have a list at your side and write down 5 things each evening you must do the next day
• When you switch on your PC start at #1 on your list and work through all 5 crossing off as you do them
• once this is done, allow yourself some time on the social networking sites because these are important to internet marketers but strictly limit yourself and go on there with a clear purpose
• The same applies to the forums – allow a time and when that time is up – LEAVE the forums

You will face some setbacks and when you do, the question to ask yourself is this “are my goals and dreams worth trying to get over this hurdle?” If the answer is a resounding “YES”, then take ACTION. If your answer is a defeatist “NO”, then you need to have a bigger dream

A dream without an action plan is just that – a dream and it will never be anything more unless you take those vital action steps to make things happen.

Introduction to Traffic and Internet Marketing

Within the world of internet marketing the term ‘traffic’ will be used all the time and basically refers to the flow of people to and from your website.   It is without doubt the most important aspect of your business as an internet marketer – this traffic is your potential customers.

I was very experienced at drawing in customers when I worked in the offline world, but Internet Marketing proved to be a completely new learning curve for me.  The hardest part I found was accepting that you are dealing with ‘faceless customers’ so you have to find some way of winning them over, of making them want to buy from you.

This is where some marketers become unstuck.  You see, they buy a domain name, put up a squeeze page or small website then sit back and wait for the traffic to flock to their website.  I have to tell you that many of them are still sitting there and they are waiting and they are waiting and waiting again….  It just doesn’t work like that unfortunately as over 90% of potential internet marketers find out to their cost.

The best type of traffic

Some marketers are under the misapprehension that if they buy lots of lists of names and email addresses then that will solve the problem.  So why does it not solve the problem?  They voice comments such as “I thought the whole object of the internet marketing business was to drive traffic to your website.”

Well the reason it didn’t work is because many of those people on that list had not the slightest notion of buying into their opportunity.  In a nutshell, they were not targeted traffic i.e. they were not opportunity seekers searching out a product similar to what you are selling.  Perhaps they were just browsing, came across your site, liked the FREE product you were promoting to get people to sign up and voila, they appear on your list.

Now in theory, this should work right?  All the other internet marketers tell us the money is in the list so why are the people on my list not buying my products?  The answer is simple although there may be a few reasons why they are not buying:

• They have absolutely no interest in the niche industry you are selling in
• There is no relationship built up between you and them, they do not know you, you are a faceless person to them
• They are just not in a position to buy at this time but could do so in the future
• They are not impulse buyers and take a bit longer to be convinced of the value a particular product can bring to them

In summary, you will not have an internet business until you have a list and you will not make money online until and unless your list is a targeted one.  You have a product or products to promote that are in high demand and your marketing is targeted towards finding those people looking for your product and driving them towards your opt-in form on your website.  It is the basic rule of economics – supply and demand!

Domain Name Mystery explained at last

I happened to be on a mailing list for Noble Samurai and often receive links to really interesting and informative articles with particular emphasis on Domains, what they are, how to find them, whether and when to use .com, .org etc.  I wanted to share this information with you, the readers of my blog site so just head on over here, sign up for this guy’s mailing list and you won’t be disappointed.

Short and sweet today as I just wanted to bring you this information.

Stop fumbling in the dark wondering what domain to choose, the answers are waiting right here

Till next time and hope you’re having as wonderful a Sunday as I am.

Trish

Follow Your Dreams & Never Give Up

Anyone who knows me will totally get why I have written this blog post.  You see, I absolutely adore dogs and any positive stories relating to a dog immediately has me going into meltdown.  This video below did exactly that but it also resonated with me on another level.

The message I want to pass to you from this and I hope you get it like I did is “never, ever give up on following your dream.”  If you believe you are worth something, let no-one tell you differently and just keep trying to find that way in.  It may be that your true strengths lie, not within your immediate goal but more effectively in doing something different although possibly related.

I really hope you enjoy Ricki’s story just as much as I did:

When one door of happiness closes, another opens;
but often we look so long at the closed door that
we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Helen Keller