Archive for Alex Jeffreys
Bumps In The Road…
Posted by: | CommentsYesterday my car was hit from behind by a driver not paying attention as the traffic in front of me came to a stop.
The bump was a shock to my system! Thankfully I’m feeling ok – so far at least – though the rear bumper’s seen better days.
Why am I telling you this? Not for sympathy..but to make a point about life and internet marketing.
Internet marketing is a slice of real life…Real people marketing to real people.
Yesterday I had a bad day with a surprise rear end collision.
Sometimes your business has it’s equivalent to the rear end shunt. Something unexpected happens…
Google changes it’s algorithm, “slaps” your web site and you drop off the first pages of natural search.
Your visitors drop and your sales drop.
Now you don’t have website accident insurance to compensate you – so what do you do?
Go back to basics – improve your web pages – better targeted keywords, better images, better videos, more valuable content….
Send more articles out. Do more marketing and your pages and your traffic will come back.
Watch Alex Jeffreys free internet marketing seminar [CLICK HERE] to learn these fundamental elements that bring your site back to life.
Add comments to this post and let me know what you think of the free seminar.
Free – Easy Cash Webinar
Posted by: | CommentsAs you’ve learned if you read my earlier posts I started marketing online several years ago and had early success with a specialist niche marketing site on Japanese maple trees.
Today that site is ranked #1 in natural search on Google for at least one important long-tail keyword for this niche. Last time I looked I was in #1 and #2 positions for “Japanese maple seedlings”.
Google: "Japanese Maple Seedlings" Search
Go to Google now and check out this long tail keyword phrase: “Japanese maple seedlings”. See the proof for yourself.
Now here’s the “hidden secret” to my success.
While I had early success with my simple seed page and I did make money. The reality is I didn’t have a real business.
Ultimately my success is because I took the step of getting myself a mentor with proven internet marketing success. Then I took action on what I learned from my mentor and “bingo” my business started growing and I began making more money than I had when I did it all myself.
Valuable Lesson –> You have to be a follower before you can be a leader.
I’m really pleased to be recommending a terrific FREE Internet Marketing Webinar from my friend, mentor and UK internet marketing “guru”, Alex Jeffreys.
I know when you watch Alex’s FREE WEBINAR and take action on the information presented you can become as successful as Alex Jeffreys and me – perhaps even more successful?
Alex holds nothing back in this 60 minute free webinar. This could be the most valuable lesson you learn online and its all completely free.
If you are new to internet marketing and want to learn the “insider secrets” to making money online or if you’ve been marketing online and haven’t broken through to consistent success yet, then this free “Easy Cash Webinar” is for you.
Become A Lifelong Learner
Posted by: | CommentsIn future posts I’ll give you some of my personal recommendations for people and places to go to continue your business and personal education.
Never stop being curious and seeking to learn something new. I’ve challenged myself greatly forced myself to get out of the box and expand my knowledge of myself and how to succeed in business.
Ken Alston and Brian Klemmer
For example, I’ve had the privilege of working personally with top personal coach and author of the book “The Compassionate Samurai”, Brian Klemmer.
The Compassionate Samurai, Brian Klemmer
Here you see me at the end of a wonderful week of mind-stretching exercises at Klemmer and Associate’s “Heart of the Samurai” course.
<– Click the book image to order Brian’s book.
Get more information on –> Klemmer and Associates Leadership Training <–
If you live in Virginia, USA, contact me personally. I’m building up a list of people in and around Central VA to host a local Champion’s Workshop with a top Klemmer facilitator.
If you’ve not been keeping up with reading books on a regular basis, make a point of starting again.
Books, videos, CDs and DVDs are all helpful media to take in new material. I use my “drive time in the car to listen to CDs of well-known people in the personal development field.
–> Key Learning: It’s REALLY important that you work on YOURSELF and your mindset.
Tom Haupt was my first Klemmer facilitator and he did a masterful job on me! So much so I’ve gone on to spend several thousand dollars to take more advanced Klemmer courses.
Tom’s new book is called: “Time Out! Winning Strategies for Playing a Bigger Game in life”
This could be a good way for you to get going with new learning. Be open to learn from mentors id different areas of your life.
Another way is the FREE Internet Marketing Webinar by Alex Jeffreys that I encourage all entrepreneurs to watch.
What “Made Me” Learn Internet Marketing?
Posted by: | CommentsThe simple answer is “PAIN”!
Ouch!!! My pain – and the realization that something had to change.
My original pain came from being sick and tired of being sick and tired of being an employee. Working for someone else’s profit and earning a good wage, but literally trading my time, my very life just for money.
You know the deal, at first you just feel upset at your boss for not giving you ‘attaboys’ or recognizing your contributions. That’s a relatively minor pain. Then over time the pain grows and the realization dawns, you’re trading your heartbeats for dollars.
And you’re not being paid enough for the limited number of heartbeats you’re trading!
You see I was naive and eager to learn and progress in major corporations and I worked hard for years.
Lucozade drink
Ribena Drink
My first job after graduating was as a Food Scientist in the UK working on major brands like Ribena, Locozade and Quosh (Ex-pats and Brits will recognize these!). See pictures.
I took the job because I knew the company “Beecham’s Products” was known for its junior management training but the price you paid was a relatively low starting salary. To give you an idea how low, when I changed jobs after about 2 and a half years my pay jumped 50%
Then I moved to another major multinational company as “Quality Audit Manager”. To cut a long story short (covering a couple of decades) I did the usual thing you’re taught to do – climb the corporate ladder. I became “Development Engineering Manager and gradually it dawned on me…
…I could do my bosses job.
But still at each stage as I was promoted up and up – I still wasn’t satisfied.
Yes, I earned more money at each job move, I later became one of the comapny’s European R&D Directors and I did get to travel all over the world paid by the company…
But what did I see?
The airport and the road from the airport to the hotel followed by the road from the hotel to the company building…
…Then back again.
And all the time I’m away from my family.
PAIN, PAIN and more PAIN!
So now you get the picture – I’m not getting paid enough, I’m away from my family and although I’m working harder and harder, I’m still not even getting recognition for a job well done!
And I still have the PAIN!
At what point does the penny actually drop for you?At what point do you decide to do something about it?
Finally you realize – as I did – you’re not going to get what you want from being an employee.It’s tough to stop and tell yourself that you’ve spent your working life on this employee treadmill that’s not getting you what you want.
It’s tough to stop and get out of your comfort zone and decide to do something different.
But it’s even tougher if you let yourself get to the end of your life and you have to tell yourself…“I wish I’d tried to something to make the change in my life that can get me all I want – without the PAIN!
If I can teach you just two things in this post – TAKE ACTION and DON’T EVER QUIT no matter what your friends and family may say.
Become an entrepreneur and build your own business. Start now with a free internet marketing webinar by my friend and mentor Alex Jeffreys .
