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Today's Feature Article

Are Your Problems Worth Losing Your Future?
Irena Whitfield

Over the recent weeks I receive more and more messages complaining about various problems people encounter every day discouraging many from doing online business and making them leave the Net.

Today I am taking the opportunity to tell you a couple of words about this:

Don't believe that there is a person completely without problems. It's decisive how you handle your problems, how important you allow them to grow and how much you allow them to damage your attitudes and your motivation.

In fact, problems help us to grow and what more: problems allow us to compare and enjoy the positives we have. Without problems you will slowly grow into a state in which you don't appreciate and enjoy anything. You won't even realise you have something valuable, something other people long to have and you do. Problems are only challenges, tests to see how strong, how devoted you are. So, don't complain so much.

Never allow your problems to ruin your attitudes and motivation. It's necessary to prevent problems and prepare yourself. It doesn't mean problems will not come but the better you are forearmed, the better and faster you will react and solve the unpleasant situation, the less time you will lose and the less important it will be for you. A problem is just a little delay on the pathway to your great goals, making them more precious. Problems must not ruin your goals.

It is true that the Internet has changed a lot since I started, people have changed, the ways they use the Internet have changed, and I would say it's grown, advanced and also, it's getting more expensive.

Bigger and bigger money is getting involved and where big money is present, there are always dirtier ways involved. It is simply the way our world goes. Whether you or me agree or not can change nothing about it. The sooner you realise and accept the fact that our world is not black and white, the better for you.

I don't think problems on the Net nowadays are bigger or smaller than problems in our offline world. Definitely, don't think that if you run away from the Net thinking that you failed will help you to succeed in the offline business. You won't. Runaways don' t solve problems, we have the ability to arrange our lives the way we want by solving problems, overcoming them and working hard, not by running away.

You can read a lot about solving unpleasant situations or problems. There are thousands of ways, all of them great, but only you can pick up the one working for you. I can tell you about my way reliably working for me:

When I encounter a problem, I never indulge in thoughts telling myself what I should have done to avoid it and why I didn't. I always do my best in important situations, and though later it may show different, it can't be helped because I didn't have the facts at that time, so it's useless to cry and pity.

I know for sure that if it occurred again, I would do exactly the same. The only thing I can do is to collect facts, solve the problem, repair and make up for the consequences as fast as possible and go on. Never regret. Just work hard looking in the future, always in the future. Every second there is a new chance, and if you cry over the past, you would lose your future. Feed your dreams, work and live for your dreams and goals, they're definitely worth it if you want them so much. Or you don't? Never give up, it's much more difficult to live with the fact that you gave up, failed than with a couple of problems all of us have. As soon as you decide, get involved, get committed, work and persevere. That's all there's to it!

If you feel desperate at times, stop and think about all the positive the Internet and your online business bring you. And if you are thinking about running away, remember that the grass always seems greener on the other side but it doesn't mean it is and it's not always worth checking it. (Though sometimes it is. :-))

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Are You Doing Business With Monopoly Money?
Kalinda Rose Stevenson, Ph.D.

During the depths of the Great Depression, the Monopoly® game appeared in the marketplace. For many American children, Monopoly is the first introduction to using money for business decisions. Monopoly teaches players to buy and sell property, collect and pay rents. The game is fun, especially for the winners. My question is, Are the lessons you learned playing Monopoly killing your capacity to make real money in your business?

Monopoly teaches at least three money myths that can keep you struggling with money in your business.

Monopoly Money Myth One is that the amount of money available is limited. The game begins with a fixed amount of money. The game ends with the same amount of money. The only difference between the beginning and the end of the game is that the money, which was evenly distributed at the beginning of the game, is now concentrated in the hands of the winner. The critical point is that no one MAKES money in Monopoly. Monopoly is a zero sum game.

Compare the zero sum Monopoly game to what happens to money in business. In business, you create a product or offer a service that actually MAKES more money. This is how it works. You create a product. The product costs you money to produce, market, and sell. If you sell the product for more than your costs, you make a profit. This profit is money that did not exist when you started the game.

In other words, you actually create money. You have not only added money to your bottom line, you have added more money to the money supply. This is the critical money difference between Monopoly and business. Profitable businesses make money. No one makes money in Monopoly.

Monopoly Myth One teaches players that money is a commodity in limited supply. Monopoly cannot teach the fundamental truth that the amount of available money is potentially unlimited because money is created in transactions. The more transactions occur, the more money is created.

Monopoly Money Myth Two teaches that the game can have only one money winner. (The game is called Monopoly for a reason.)

As a model for doing business, Monopoly teaches that making profits in business means taking money away from other businesses, to end up with the biggest piece of the existing money supply. This business model is still very much with us when we see businesses act like sharks at a feeding frenzy. In fact, some businesses do win by following the Monopoly money model.

When business owners understand the real truth that the supply of available money is potentially unlimited because money is created in transactions, it takes away the need to be sharks fighting over a fixed amount of money. Instead, enlightened business owners can create mutually beneficial joint venture relationships with other businesses. Joint ventures allow each business to increase profits and increase the amount of money available.

The liberating money truth is that you can make more money by cooperation with other businesses than you will by attempting to take money out of the pockets of your competitors.

Monopoly Money Myth Three is that making money means hurting other people. In Monopoly, the only way to get more money is to take it from other people, leaving them with less money than they had when they started. The game is over for them when they run out of money.

Making money at the expense of others is obviously not a problem for Enron-type businesses that care only about making profits without regard for how much they hurt other people. Monopoly originated in the Depression, when vast numbers of people endured real poverty while a minority of fat cats lived in luxury. The Monopoly game reflects the realities of that economic era. In my own coaching experience, I have encountered many people who believe deep down that making money means hurting other people. And since they consider themselves good, honest people, they are deeply conflicted about doing business. They want to make more money but they don’t want to hurt other people in the process.

If you are struggling with money in your business, ask yourself if these three Monopoly Money Myths lie at the root of your problems. As a game, Monopoly can be fun. As a model for doing business, Monopoly Money Myths will keep you stuck in a Depression-era mindset of haves and have-nots because it teaches that money is a commodity in limited supply.

You can play a much more liberating money game in business than Monopoly can ever teach you. What happens to business when you stop playing with Monopoly money? You will discover that money is unlimited because money is created by transactions, cooperation is more profitable than cutthroat competition, and you can make money while serving the best interests of other people. Best of all, you are much more likely to win the money game.

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7 Ways to Drive Laser-Targeted Traffic
Jason James

An affiliate marketer may have all the things needed for him to be able to succeed in a business such as affiliate marketing. He may have the necessary drive, diligence and perseverance to be able to understand how the system works. He may have all the tools necessary in maintaining the business, including a really unique and interesting website which could earn him a fortune if only the whole world could see it. However, all these would prove useless if he does not know how to drive traffic to his website. His business would sink into oblivion together with all the sales, fortune and dreams that he might have realized if he only knew how to do this particular task.

Getting people who matter to see one’s website is a difficult undertaking if he tries to consider the fact that there are rivals everywhere waiting to pin him down. The immensity of the internet as well as the affiliate marketing world has given birth to the fierce competition between affiliate marketers, each of whom has his own great product to offer. With all the websites piling on top of each other, how would one be able to stand out? The seven best ways to drive laser-targeted traffic to one’s own website would help those who are bent on sticking it out with this business wherever it is bound to take them.

The first step in driving traffic to one’s website is by relying on search engines and what they can do for the affiliate marketer concerned. Because they are popular for driving free targeted traffic, they should not be ignored by all means. Having top search engine rankings is vital in building popularity links, and the use of the right keywords is important in attaining this goal. Once a website is on top of the list, it is easily accessible to anyone who wants to see it for himself.

The second way in driving traffic to one’s website is by contacting other webmasters for a possible link exchange partnership. Locating websites that are related to one’s own website is the primary task. Once there, he should be able to establish communication by personalizing everything as much as possible. It is then possible to make reciprocal link exchanges between webmasters whichever way the affiliate marketer prefers.

The third way is through writing one’s own articles. This is an effective way in promoting a website, because good content that are appreciated by readers will lead them to visit the writer’s very own website out of sheer interest.

The fourth way is through joint venture marketing. This is one of the most effective ways of promoting a product or a service. Having a partner through ad swap or link exchange is beneficial to both parties as it allows them to reach a wide customer base in a short amount of time.

The fifth is through joining affiliate programs. Having affiliates to do the work means allowing them to bring tons of traffic to a website. Skyrocketing sales would be realized as a result, and both the affiliate and the website owner will benefit from the situation.

The sixth is by having a list of subscribers that one can refer to every so often, because they are those which would prove to be valuable assets for the marketer concerned. The use of autoresponders and personalized newsletters is one way of keeping track of them all, and holding on to them by letting them know about new products and services is an essential task that should be done by the affiliate marketer concerned.

The seventh is by knowing one’s market through and through. It is important for traffic to be targeted to those who might have a special interest in the theme or topic of one’s website. This way, a solid customer base is going to be created. Once a potential customer shows an interest in a particular website by paying it a visit, one must not waste time in trying to show him that his effort is worth it.

Traffic generating strategies are important in trying to make one’s affiliate marketing career inch forward. It is always advantageous to plan one’s moves in any business that he might undertake. This is particularly so in affiliate marketing. If one knows how to get people to see what he has to offer, then he is on the right track.

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