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Before we get started with my confession, let’s first be clear on the definition we are using here of “guilty.”

Guilty means to admit responsibility; confess.

Since most people associate negative events to the word “guilty” I figured you would race over here to get some dirt, right?

Noooooo… not you.

Let’s begin.

I’m guilty of being like great companies who pour their hear and soul into creating great products… but find some of those products to not be so great. I’ve created products like…

• Sony Betamax <- Failed!
• Coca Cola- New Coke <- Failed!
• Polaroid – Instant Home Movies <- Failed!
• Pepsi – Crystal Pepsi <- Failed!
• McDonalds – Arch Deluxe Burger <- Failed!
• Apple – Lisa <- Failed!
• Levi’s – Type 1 Jeans <- Failed!
• IBM – PCjr <- Failed!
• Ford – Edsel <- Failed!

When I say I created products like those, that means I am guilty of having created my fair share of products that have failed. No one wants to have a failed product. But it happens. So I’m guilty.

Babe Ruth is guilty of having struck out, Michael Jordan is guilty of having missed game winning shots… it’s life, get over it and get going.

WOW (Words Of Wisdom) Moment: Never carry yesterday’s defeat into today’s victory.

So if you have the guts to create products, art, music, books, food etc and some of them fail miserably, know you  will certainly have critics mercilessly pouncing on you and having a heyday.

But like the great people and companies that still stand today despite their product defeats… don’t be discouraged or depressed but be determined, lick your wounds and keep it moving.

That said, I’m also guilty of having created some incredible products across multiple markets that continue to serve the greater good for those using them.

LESSON LEARNED: Now matter who you are, no matter how great the idea, you will have products that fail. But the failure is not permanent, it’s just a passage to the next product that will work.

WOW (Words Of Wisdom) Moment: You’ll never get it right unless you’re willing to get it wrong.

I’m guilty of being like the American people who voted politicians into office because the politician said what they can do and what they will do …but they didn’t do it. Only to leave America holding the bag and paying for it as the politicians ducked and dodged responsibility pointing the figures across the table saying “it’s their fault.”

What do I mean here?

I mean I’m guilty of having trusted the wrong people. Of having  (hired) voted people into my corporate office and trusting them to deliver on our brand promise. But all they did was play politics, make excuses, under-perform, fail the company, not live the vision and values, and ultimately let some of our customers and clients down… all while collecting checks. And once they were given the boot I was left holding the bag, being blamed and having to stand strong, be responsible and clean up the mess.

(Don’t you think Rupert Murdoch realizes now, after that fact that he trusted the wrong people?)

When people are collecting checks you’re the best thing that ever happened to them, and when you stop paying them for their non-performance you’re the worst thing to ever happen to them and they go out of their way to try to destroy the reputation you took years to build.

LESSON LEARNED: Don’t just hire on resumes and promises because everyone looks good on paper. Do a value and character test and make sure your values are aligned and their character is good and strong. Also, check who you trusting, especially if they have unproven character.

WOW (Words Of Wisdom) Moment: There is a high price to be paid for having the wrong people around the right dream.

I’m guilty of having been one of the smaller little dot.com start ups in the late 1990′s with a great idea… gone bad.

Remember this…

• Webvan (1999-2001) raised $375 million in an IPO and they failed, but the failure of Webvan didn’t make it scam.
• Pets.com (1998-2000) Amazon.com-backed Pets.com and raised 82.5 million in an IPO in February 2000 before collapsing nine months later. Pets.com failure didn’t make it a scam.
• Kozmo.com (1998-2001) raised about $280 million and even secured a $150 million promotion deal with Starbucks. But it failed, yet Kozmo’s faiure didn’t make it a scam.
• Flooz.com (1998-2001) raised $35 million from investors and signed retail giants such as Tower Records, Barnes & Noble, and went bankrupt in August 2001. But it’s failure didn’t make it a scam.
• eToys.com (1997-2001) raised $166 million in a May 1999 IPO, but failed and closed in March 2001. But it wasn’t a scam. In fact, they are making another run at it.
• Boo.com (1998-2000) burned through $160 million before its liquidation in May 2000. It failed, but it wasn’t a scam.
• MVP.com (1999-2000) was backed by sports greats John Elway, Michael Jordan, and Wayne Gretzky and $65 million. A few months after its launch, MVP.com entered into an $85 million, four-year agreement with CBS in which the network would provide advertising in exchange for an equity stake in the e-tailer. Yet barely a year later, CBS and its online affiliate SportsLine.com killed the agreement because MVP.com failed to pay the network an agreed-upon $10 million per year. The game was over for MVP.com soon afterward. It failed, but it wasn’t a scam.
• Go.com (1998-2001) a combination of Disney’s online properties and Infoseek, but it failed and Disney took a write-off of $790 million. Go.com still exists, but it carries only feeds from other Disney Web properties.

…now, in the late 1990′s I started an online venture with just under $100,000 in investor capital. It worked for several months and people were singing my praises… and then it failed… and the small handful of investors cried foul and said it was scam …WTF, are they on medication?

Bernie Madoff, now that’s a scam. What I had was (for a lot less money than the body count above) …a failed business model and lost pennies by comparison to the bigger flops of that time.

In my mind, we got off easy. We failed fast with a smaller amount.

WOW (Words Of Wisdom) Moment: It’s better to fail fast and cheap, than to fail slow and expensive.

LESSON LEARN: When people invest in a business and it’s going great, you’re a divine intervention in their life, but when that business fails you’re the devil and you ran a scam. Go big, but make sure you go big with investors and partners who have the stomach and guts and understand the risk. That when the ideas wins, you all win equally based on shares but if it losses, you all lose equally, also based on shares. But no one person becomes the scapegoat of convenient blame.

So in the face of failure, what is success?

Each of us define what success is for us.

Unfortunately, many of us live our lives by other peoples definition of success and in an attempt to be accepted and not rejected we will many times go to great lengths to be successful by their terms and standards.

That said, no matter how you define success, I’m sure we can agree that success is a moving target.

Getting a tricycle at 5 years old may of been a success back then. Getting one today may be bizarre, unless you have some circus thing going on.

That aside, understand that it’s decisions that create success, it’s decisions that keep success and it’s decisions that grow success.

Who you decide to hire… who you decide to trust… what you decide to believe… who you decide to follow… what you decide to read… etc.

When you consider how many decision you will make, you’re bound to make some bad decisions, regardless of how successful you’ve become and how much money you have accumulated.

The archives of business history, and my life are filled with stories to testify to this fact.

However we don’t have to reach to far back to find a story to serve this point.

Just look at Netflix’s.

The company just short of 2 years ago had it’s stock trading at just above $300 a share. And right at the high point the company leadership made a “decision” …a decision that would send hundreds of thousands of subscribers running for the exits and send their stock plummeting to just under $70 a share and flip the company upside down from profitable, to an announcement this week that projects they will lose money for the entire year of 2012.

That’s a snapshot of Netflix.

There has been other costly decisions made, while at the same time they face rapidly rising cost of content, lose of content contracts and getting the squeeze from competitors that include RedBox and Hulu with new streaming competition from Google and Amazon.

Okay, so what’s the point.

The point is, you must stay frosty.

Success can be cozy, but when you get comfy and cozy you can get a little cocky and that gets costly as bad decision begin to mount.

WOW (Words Of Wisdom) Moment: Success is no insulation to bad decisions and it offers up no immunity to mistakes.

WOW (Words Of Wisdom) Moment: What you will find when you make more money is that your mistakes are more costly.

And all along that road people will give you an ear full as you march forward and make your fair share of mistakes and failures.

So when you fail, don’t allow those around you who want to pick the scab of those wounds to bother you.

You’re earning your strips.

WOW (Words Of Wisdom) Moment: Maturity comes from mistakes and mentorship and despite how much mentoring get, you will still have your fair share of mistakes.

Everyone makes mistakes, and you only become crucified by them when your mistakes are public. Which means you had guts to go for it in the open field, not in some closet corner.

Keep those guts. And let the losers fail in private and sweep it under their rugs.

I will continue to press onward and upward and take whatever licks I must take on the way in terms of failures, mistakes and criticisms.

WOW (Words Of Wisdom) Moment: I fear no failure… I fear no mistakes… I fear no criticism, I fear no man. For God has not given me a spirit of fear, but of power, love and sound mind.

I’m guilty of being like great men and women who didn’t wait for others to give them permission to be great. They saw their own greatness and they stepped into, only to be first met with failure prior to tasting victory.

I’m guilty of being like…

• Bill Gates: Gates didn’t seem like a shoe-in for success after dropping out of Harvard and starting a failed first business with Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen called Traf-O-Data. While this early idea didn’t work, Gates’ later work did, creating the global empire that is Microsoft.
• Akio Morita: You may not have heard of Morita but you’ve undoubtedly heard of his company, Sony. Sony’s first product was a rice cooker that unfortunately didn’t cook rice so much as burn it, selling less than 100 units. This first setback didn’t stop Morita and his partners as they pushed forward to create a multi-billion dollar company.
• Henry Ford: While Ford is today known for his innovative assembly line and American-made cars, he wasn’t an instant success. In fact, his early businesses failed and left him broke five time before he founded the successful Ford Motor Company.
• R. H. Macy: Most people are familiar with this large department store chain, but Macy didn’t always have it easy. Macy started seven failed business before finally hitting big with his store in New York City.
• Robert Goddard: Goddard today is hailed for his research and experimentation with liquid-fueled rockets, but during his lifetime his ideas were often rejected and mocked by his scientific peers who thought they were outrageous and impossible. Today rockets and space travel don’t seem far-fetched at all, due largely in part to the work of this scientist who worked against the feelings of the time.
• Jerry Seinfeld: Just about everybody knows who Seinfeld is, but the first time the young comedian walked on stage at a comedy club, he looked out at the audience, froze and was eventually jeered and booed off of the stage. Seinfeld knew he could do it, so he went back the next night, completed his set to laughter and applause, and the rest is history.
• Tom Landry: As the coach of the Dallas Cowboys, Landry brought the team two Super Bowl victories, five NFC Championship victories and holds the records for the most career wins. He also has the distinction of having one of the worst first seasons on record (winning no games) and winning five or fewer over the next four seasons.

So I want to encourage you, as we enter a new year to know that failure and defeat, critics and haters are all par for the course.

I wish I could say it will be easy. I can’t but I can tell you it will be worth it.

• It’s worth being found guilty of having a passion and purpose so strong that it burns up those around you.
• It’s worth being found guilty of having made mistakes in pursue of a higher purpose.
• It’s worth being found guilty of having given your best and tasted the dirt of defeat as you marched for more life.
• It’s worth being found guilty of giving those around you an equal opportunity and kicking them the hell out when they abuse your trust and betray your confidence.
• It’s worth being found guilty of making wrong decisions in route to making the right decisions.
• It’s worth being found guilty for taking the only life you have and throwing everything you can behind it to sculpt a memorable masterpiece.
• It’s worth being found guilty of having a dream so big that when you talk about it, it irritates those around you with small minds.
• It’s worth being found guilty of having walked away from cherished relationships to protect the picture of your future that you cherish even more.

So if you want to stand with me and excel in 2012 and be found guilty of re-imagining a better you, re-engineering your mind, reinventing yourself, re-energizing your passion and resurrecting your dreams… then let’s do it. I’m your guy.

KNOW you are “The Chosen One!”

You are chosen to lead your family to a better place.
You are chosen to alter your family’s financial legacy.
You are chosen to be a beacon of hope and possibilities for those who follow you.
You are chosen to be brave and courageous to endure the uncertainty on the path of certain success.
You are chosen to step up when others step down, to get up after being knock down to speak up where others suffer in silence.

KNOW you are “The Chosen One!”

• Choose to be guilty of stepping up, not backing down.
• Choose to be guilty of pursuing your dreams, not burying them.
• Choose to be guilty of being strong, not being weak.
• Choose to be guilty of love, not hate.
• Choose to be guilty of being you, not being someone else.
• Choose to be guilty of persisting until you succeed, not quitting because it easiest to do.

Remember, critics are not admired and quitters don’t inspire.

Nobody grows up wanting to be a critic or quitter. You become one or the other when you have no guts to do something really meaningful with your life.

And speaking of critics…

To my critics and haters, I don’t wish you hell, I wish you well.

I don’t mind your unhealthy obsessions with me. It’s flattering that out of a full day of 1,440 minutes you find so much time to make me matter more than many other things in your life.

I’m don’t mind being pillow talk for you with your significant other, or dinner talk because life is so boring for you, that you can only find excitement when my name comes up.

I understand how empty and angry you feel when you see how full of passion I am to pursue my dreams and sprout above my challenges and bounce back from disappointments.

You admire that in me, I know… you told me that when you were around, and now you miss being around that and the idea of me not needing you and wanting you hurts you and the only way you have found to deal with that pain is to turn it towards me with your lies, slander and libel that you think hurts me, but is actually eating away at your soul… not mine.

I understand though, and when you reach the point of emotional maturity I hope you can forgive yourself as much as I’ve already forgiven you.

I feels good to be thought about… no matter the thoughts. I still fill your consciousness because you miss the love, care, laughter, gifts and freedom you had with me. You miss how much you felt alive. You missed how tough I was in pulling out the best in you, you miss watching me hustle tirelessly to sculpt myself and those I come in contact with to unleash the depth of their human potential.

But now you’ve gone to the dark side. You’ve let the regrets and repercussions of your on actions turn into an unbearable bitterness that you are unable to escape right now.

Open yourself to be healed, because the harm you try to do to others is only harming you.

Now, not to be offensive, but in the spirit of joyfully “doing me”, I’d like to wish all my critics and haters a Happy Thanksgiving and a KISS MY A$$ holiday!

“Everyone fears failure. But breakthroughs depend on it. The best companies embrace their mistakes and learn from them.” – Bloomberg BusinessWeek, July 2006 Cover Story “How Failure Breeds Success”

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We are now just 1/3 of the way through our 21 day traffic generation series.

If you are applying any of the traffic methods provided so far, then without question you should be generating more traffic, if you apply them consistently then you will experience an overwhelming amount of traffic.

Now, one of the best ways to quickly monetize traffic is to send it to offers already proven to convert.

Many offers proven to convert can be found at Clickbank.com, ShareASale.com or PayDotCom.com. There are actually thousands of sites that offer affiliate products, however these three are a great starting point.

Once you start generating traffic you need to quickly monetize it. One of the worst things that can be done with good traffic is to throw bad offers in front of it. That is a formula for failure.

So always look to test different offers to your traffic.

In a later post we will explore the different ways to monetize all of this traffic you will be generating. So stick with me here.

Also, so that you and I are on the same page here… what we are covering in this 21 day traffic generation series are what I consider to be the tried and true traffic fundamentals.

As the internet matures and grows there are all kinds of exotic traffic methods that are born. And while I’m an advocate of testing everything, it shouldn’t be at the expense of building or sustaining a strong traffic foundation with proven fundamentals.

Also, with the fundamentals, while truly effective, they can also get to be truly boring and repetitive. And once you get that bored and tired feeling, you then open yourself up to be seduced by stuff that looks more exciting, but is either unproven or it’s a fad that will have a short shelf life.

Chase the exciting shining fads if you’d like… just please don’t do it at the expense of the fundamentals, okay?

Good.

It’s a very solid, long lasting, sustainable traffic foundation that I’m really hoping to help you to build here.

With that said, let’s turn our attention to generating traffic from eBay.

eBay is a great place to sell your products (not ebooks), and we have found it to be an even better place to generate targeted traffic and leads.

And while there are various ways to go about using eBay for traffic generation. You can click here now to download your eBay Traffic Generation Checklist and get a few proven ideas that you can test.

That’s it for today. If you’ve posted questions over the last few days, please go back and check for my response later today.

While you’re here be sure to TalkBack to me. Let me know what you think about this 21 day traffic generation series. Is it helpful at all? Do you have any questions. Whether you have questions, comments or feedback. I welcome it. So I’m listening… TalkBack to me.

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This method is old… but OUTSTANDING!

I originally started using ezine marketing back in 2001 to sell more of our trading products. However when I released my ebook The Whole Truth back in 2003 and found an over abundance of ezines to serve the market I was looking to reach… that’s when I really uncovered the amount of juice and power running simple ezine ads could have.

In fact, I wrote in The Whole Truth (and it still stands today) how I couldn’t understand why ezine owners would sell ads so cheap to list so large and responsive.

Recently, I paid $500 to go into  a higher end ezine to market our MRMI book (free +shipping) offer. In return for that $500, I got over 2,500 visitors, more than 1,400 opted in to our list, we sold over 300 books of which more than 30 took the upsell which is $97 + $39.97 monthly.

So I turned $500 into +1,400 new subscribers, +300 new customers, +$2,900 in immediate revenue and additional monthly revenue of an extra +$1,100 a month… from just one ezine that took me less than 30 minutes to write the ad for and place the order to run it.

SIDE NOTE: To give you some perspective here, by combining what you are learning here in this traffic generation series, I tend to pull in over 1,000 BUYERS A DAY to our different sites!

So how often do you think I’m out there secretly running ezine ads?

Yep, you guess it! ALL THE TIME!

Now if $500 sounds like a lot to run an ezine ad… it’s not when you compare it to the results. Also, it’s not when you consider you can run an ad in most ezines for under $50.

And I’ve taken many $50 ezine ads and turned them into $500, $1,000 and more again and again and again.

Now, just imagine if you have 10, 20, 30, 40 or even 50 ezine ads running every one or two weeks?

As part of our recommended marketing calendar to our coaching students, I give them a list of ezines and insist that they run at least 1 ezine ad per week. Reinvest profits to go into 2 ezine ads per week, then 3 ezine ads per week and so on until they max out the ezine ads in their target market.

By doing this one thing, you can experience hyper growth in your traffic, list building and sales.

Now keep in mind though, not all ezine ads will have the same response or results. For the ezine ads that don’t work out, you can do 1 of 2 things…

1. Cut it! (Remove it from your ad list)
2. Continue It! (Test a different ad or offer)

For ezines you run ads in that do work, the next move is obvious… CONTINUE IT!

Keep running it until the wheels fall off.

Okay, so there are three types of ads you can run in ezines. And I’ll list them here in order of preference as well as effectiveness.

1. Solo Ads
2. Top Sponsor Ads (some offer Middle Sponsor ads)
3. Classified Ads

Running ezine ads is a way to do fast measurable direct-response advertising that can allow you to turn dimes into dollars, dollars into hundreds of dollars, hundreds of dollars into thousands of dollars and thousands of dollars into tens of thousands of dollars.

In our training programs I provide a list of the best ezines to market biz ops, mlm, work at home, etc products in. That list exceeds over 100 different ezines. And yep… because I take this so seriously I PERSONALLY compile the list and run ads myself to measure effectiveness.

The response in this market is growing rapidly because people are looking for additional income or a whole new income source and since it’s easier to start your own business today than it is to get a job, running bizop offers are racking up huge revenue right now.

If you don’t have a bizop offer, all you have to do is take whatever is you’re selling and follow these instructions.

The 5 Step Instant BizOp Package

1. Create an affiliate program for your stuff if you don’t have one yet.
2. Create training materials & tools that show how to market your stuff as well as other peoples stuff.
3. Package it as a business opportunity for under $50.
4. Place ads online and offline.
5. Help people and make tons of money.

It’s as simple as that.

Most people don’t know that they can turn an affiliate program for selling shutters, skis and even dog training into a packaged business opportunity. The above 5 steps is an over simplified way, but it works.

Okay, okay, okay. Let’s get back on track here. In your eZine Marketing Traffic Generation Checklist You will find a site that will lead you to finding tons of ezines.

For starters, here are three quick ezine resources you can explore right now to locate places to run your ezine ads.

• eZine Locator (Free Resource)
• eZine Directory (Free Resource)
• Directory of Ezines (Paid Resource and worth it)

And you can click here now to download your eZine Traffic Generation Checklist.

That’s it for today. Be sure to TalkBack to me while you’re here as I always look forward to your questions, comments and feedback. I’ll be sure to catch up on answering all the questions here. So please, TalkBack to me… I’m listening!

Also, if you enjoyed this post, will you be so kind to social bookmark us? Thank you! See you back here tomorrow.

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okay…

So, this is another easy one.It wasn’t in the list of Top 20 because I had it as a sub group of Social Networking.

Anyway… this rocks like crazy! So much so it can be addictive.

I mean really… you don’t get any easier than this for traffic generation.

I can quickly get pages listed in Google on page 1 or 2 in less than 24 hours by doing this one thing.

And for sure, this method of traffic generation is in the “Fast But Fleeting” category.

You can get fast traffic, but it will fade quickly until you create a strong enough social presence to sustain the positions your establish.

I love this… it’s exciting

So let’s get started.

Preliminary

• Identify the URL(s) you want to social bookmark.
• Research & identify keywords.
• Identify categories you want to social bookmark to.
• Create a short description of your site.

I should state here that KEYWORD RESEARCH is the most important part of this.

You can give a partial effort to social bookmarking but if you use the right keywords it will stay pay off in spades.

If you use the wrong keywords, it makes no difference how much effort you put into social bookmarking… even if you outsource it your results will be nonexistent.

Social Bookmarking

• Choose manual, semi-automatic software or outsourced.

Manual Submissions

If you’re ready roll up your sleeves and get started doing some social bookmarking to see traffic in a matter of hours, I can think of no better free site to use than this http://socialmarker.com.

Sure, there are many sites out there, however this one has proven itself to be worth the manual effort.

I should also note here that I do social bookmarking is a very specific way. A way that’s a little to complex to describe here so I only teach it in my live training workshops.

That said… social bookmarking is sooooo straight forward as long as you use the right keywords anyone can see results in a matter of ours and see traffic just as fast.

Semi-Automatic Software

While this program could use a better name, It’s worth the semi-automated effort to get faster results with your social bookmarking. Click here, check it out for yourself and see if you like it.

Outsourced

I wouldn’t recommend outsourcing this to a company the provides social bookmark services. The reason why would require a huge list here.

While not all services are created equal, I’ve personally hired many different services only to find them social bookmarking in accounts that get banned, social bookmarking on crappy networks and in one case, getting my site banned.

So careful, careful… careful.

For now, I would suggest you grab some semi-automatic software and either do it yourself, have a partner do it, have one of your children do it or do some direct cheap outsourcing …which we will cover later on.

If you only wanted to focus on a handful of social sites to social bookmark your sites, I suggest you focusing on these 7 sites…

1. http://www.stumbleupon.com
2. http://digg.com
3. http://technorati.com
4. http://delicious.com
5. http://www.reddit.com
6. http://buzz.yahoo.com
7. http://www.mixx.com

Okay, that’s it for today. I’ll see you back here tomorrow. In the meantime… get to social bookmarking your sites.

Before you do though. I’d love to hear back from. Please TalkBack to me by posting your comments and questions and I will respond. So, TalkBack to me!

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Let’s get started with the fast and easy stuff.

Before we do though, I’d like to share with you a quick perspective that I have on traffic generation.

First is this, I have one simple mantra when it comes to directory submissions, in fact all submissions. And that mantra is simply…

“COMMIT & SUBMIT!”

That simply means being committed to the marketing process and submitting with consistency.

Another quick note I’d like to make here if you don’t mind… I like to put traffic into two basic categories.

Those two categories are:

• Slow but Solid: (The traffic here comes in slowly at first, it builds up over time and it’s solid for the long term)
• Fast but Fleeting: (The traffic comes in fast. It pops like fireworks, but it can fade fast.)

And I also like to think of traffic as having “2 natures.”

Those 2 natures being…

• Interested: (Interested traffic are people “just looking” and are not ready to buy.)
• Committed: (Committed traffic are people already buying the types of stuff you’re selling and are more likely to buy, than not to buy.)

Perhaps later we can dive deeper into the “2 Traffic Natures” …for now, let’s look at today’s traffic generation method, which is directory submissions.

Directory submissions have been a long time staple of generating long term traffic and is part of the “Slow but Solid” category.

It’s important to have proper expectations from directory submissions. So, what can you expect? Well, you can expect the traffic to grow “gradually then suddenly.”

Directory submissions impact your site PR (Google Page Rank), your search engine position, your link popularity, it helps build site authority and of course all of these can lead to more visibility and more traffic.

All of this makes directory submissions a solid starting point in building a firm traffic foundation.

What we will cover here are the basics.

I’m sure for every person you meet that successfully uses directory submissions to generate traffic, they will have their own twist, spins, tools, ideas and so on. So, I welcome you to add to what I put here and to share your experience and ideas from your own directory submissions.

While I do have simple basic traffic generation methods that work, this isn’t about me having all the answers. So I welcome your contribution as well as your questions.

So let’s begin with Directory Submissions for Directory Traffic.

Preliminary

• Identify the URL(s) you want to submit.
• Research & identify keywords.
• Identify categories you want to submit to.
• Create a short description of your site.

NOTE: Many directories require you to submit a short summary of your site in 50 words or less. Keep it concise yet appealing and relevant to the category under which you will be submitted your site.

Directory Selection and Submission

• Choose manual, semi-automatic software or outsourced submissions.

Manual Submissions

• Identify directories relevant to your product/service, niche or industry.
• Ensure the directory is geographically suitable.
• Sign up to directory before submitting if required.
• Submit your site using the site’s submission procedure.
  
  These are different for each site, but usually involve completing a standard form with the url, description, and category of your site.

• Check your email inbox for confirmation urls.
  
  Some directory sites require you to confirm your submission by opening an activation email with a link to a special code on their site. Also note that some sites are hand-edited so your entry may not appear immediately.

Ready to start submitting your site? Click here for what I consider to be the best FREE semi-automatic, manual directory submission site I’ve ever used. You can start using it right now. It’s FREE! The ease of use will delight you… the number of directories you can submit to will surprise you. And all you have to do is “commit & submit!” …that means get started submitting.

If you want some serious desktop directory submission software, then I recommend you click here and download this free software. I’ve tried every single directory submission software I could find. And while some were pretty good, nothing produced the results of this program. So, if you want to do your own directory submission, this is my best pick. Test it out for yourself and decide if it’s right for you.

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Tomorrow, I’ll offer you a few ways to Optimize your directory submissions to improve traffic generation.

Be sure to TalkBack to me while you’re here. I always look forward to and enjoy your feedback. If you enjoyed today’s post, please be so kind to Buzz us up on Yahoo! Buzz by clicking on the “Buzz Up!” graphic above.

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A website without traffic is like a body without a spirit… it’s dead.

So without question, one of the critical skills that must be harnessed is the ability to generate traffic.

More specifically, generating the RIGHT kind of traffic.

While the entire equation looks like this…

RT + RO = MRMI

Decoded, this means the “right traffic” to the “right offer” means “making real money on the internet.”

For this 21 part series however, we will focus on what I consider to be the top 20 ways to generate website traffic.

As a result of this series you can expect to increase website traffic to whatever you’re selling online. And I mean really, really get more traffic to you website.

And as long as what you’re selling online fits the traffic you will be generating, you can expect to be making mo’money, mo’money… mo’money!

Now, there are two basic principles I advocate when it comes to generating traffic.

1. Get F.I.T. (Get Free Internet Traffic)
2. The P.I.T. (The Paid Internet Traffic)

There are dozens of ways to generate traffic to any offer, at anytime, anywhere.

However, there are methods of traffic generation that remain solid and fundamental to successfully making money online.

I consider those Top 20 ways to generate traffic (in no specific order) to be…

1. Facebook Marketing for Facebook Traffic
2. Article Marketing for Article Traffic
3. Banner Ad Marketing for Banner Ad Traffic
4. Blog Marketing for Blog Traffic
5. Classified Ad Marketing for Classified Ad Traffic
6. Directory Submissions for Directory Traffic
7. eBay Marketing for eBay Traffic
8. Joint Venture Marketing for Joint Venture Traffic
9. Link Building for Link Traffic
10. MySpace Marketing for MySpace Traffic
11. Podcast Marketing for Podcasting Traffic
12. Pay Per Click Marketing for Pay Per Click Traffic
13. Press Release Marketing for Press Release Traffic
14. Search Engine Marketing for Search Engine Traffic
15. Social Network Marketing for Social Networking Traffic
16. Social Shopping Traffic
17. Squidoo Marketing for Squidoo Traffic
18. YouTube Marketing for YouTube Traffic
19. eZine Marketing for eZine Traffic
20. Forum Marketing for Forum Traffic

Starting tomorrow, I will be giving you a basic, yet detailed step-by-step checklist to help you jump start your traffic generation with each of these 20 traffic generation methods.

You we can look at this as our own “Make Mo’Money March Madness!” …mo’traffic so you can make mo’money.

One other quick note. Where appropriate I will suggest the same tools that I use for automating, outsourcing and streamlining your traffic generation processes.

So, see you back here tomorrow.

In the meantime, be sure to let anyone you know that could benefit from learning these top 20 ways to generate website traffic, about this new series. This is my gift to you. And you can make it your gift to others.

As always, I look forward to your feedback. So TalkBack to me while you’re here and let me know what you think about this new 21 day series. What do you look forward to most? I’m listening… TalkBack to me!

Also, would you so kindly click on the “Bookmark It” link below and bookmark us to your favorite social bookmarking site? Appreciate you for doing that. Thank you.

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Here is a 4 minute and 18 second video that gives you what I call, “3 Tips To Get A Grip On The Money Game!”

#1: Prepare your _______ for ______________.

#2: _________________ what you have.

#3: Improve your ______________________.

To fill in those blanks above and get a grip, watch this 4 minute and 18 second video now.

These are three simple, proven insights that are sure to improve your financial situation
if you follow through on them.

Enjoy!

God Bless YOU and YOURS,
Stephen Pierce

P.S. Be sure to TalkBack to me and let me know your thoughts, insights, and feedback from today’s video. As always, I look forward to you Talking Back to me… so I’m listening. TalkBack!

Now let’s begin…

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!

This FREE REPORT will be the most important first reading for you for the new year… so I encourage you to read it immediately.

In this report we will discuss the most overlooked secret to building massive financial success.

What is that overlooked secret?

It’s simple… INCOME before business.

Think about this… if you check the detailed archives of some of history’s most amazing business success stories, you will find they all have a similar tune as to how they started.

Ray Kroc built an INCOME before he built his billion dollar McDonald’s franchise.
Mary Kay built an INCOME before she built her billion dollar Mary Kay Cosmetics business.
Even Bill Gate’s built an INCOME before he built his billion dollar Microsoft empire.

So without question, if you want to follow in the foot steps of the greatest business builders… INCOME is the OUTCOME initially. And that’s the title of this Special New Year’s Report.

However, before you download it and devour it… there’s more.

You may be concerned about the economy. And if you listen to the news and marketers trying to sell you on how it will get worst so you can buy their stuff… let me be the first to tell you… that’s NOT true.

You see, people do bad in good times and they do bad in bad times. The difference is not so much the economy as it is their personal psychology.

Let’s take a quick look at history to prove this point.

Estee Lauder started its billion dollar monster business in the heart of the great depression of the 1930′s.

During the Eisenhower Recession giant corporations to include Hyatt Corp., Burger King and IHOP Corp were founded.

In the midst of the oil crisis of the 1970′s FedEx Corp. and Microsoft Corp. had the audacity to buck the trend and start companies.

During the recession of the 1980′s is when CNN and MTV Networks were started.

Rising out of the ashes of the dot com bust were AOL, Amazon, Dell, eBay, eTrade and many others.

So what do you think is most important at this time… what’s happening to you or what you do next about what’s happening to you?

It’s my hopes that you embrace the ideas in this special report and that it opens for you a new or different path, both physically and psychologically for you to make 2009 the beginning of your best ever.

So if history is to repeat itself… and I’m willing to say it is… now is not the time to get mad… it’s the time to get rich… and you can start with this special report.

With that, click here to download your FREE 16 page report, “Income Is The Outcome!” …and discover why it’s smart to build the income, then build the business.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

God Bless YOU and YOURS,
Stephen Pierce

P.S. I would love to hear back from you and get your thoughts, feelings and perspective on this report. So by all means, please… TalkBack to me!

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Merry Christmas to You and Yours!

As a special gift to you this Christmas I’d like you to feast your eyes on this 21 page report and devour its every word. A report so powerful that when understood and it’s principles applied, it’s sure to make you substantially richer in 2009.

Not only can the difference between 2008 and 2009 be staggering… you’ll be shocked at how such little effort and the use of leverage can have you leapfrogging competitors in business and jumping for joy as you experience a dramatic positive shift in your quality of life.

Now listen up, because this is not a temporary fix. When followed consistently, this will yield you permanent never-before seen increases in your financial and personal performance.

I call this report “ForeCOSTing!” …predicting success based on the cost you’re willing pay.

Click here to download your 21 page “ForeCOSTing” Report.

It’s contents has already been the jackpot for many others… and I’m sure it will be the same for you.

So let’s get started… and again… MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU AND YOURS!!!!!!!!!

Click here to download your 21 page “ForeCOSTing” Report.

God Bless YOU and YOURS,
Stephen Pierce

P.S. Be sure to TalkBack to me after you read the report and let me know your thoughts, feelings and feedback. As always, I look forward to your perspective and you talking back to me… So TalkBack to me!

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Do you grunt and groan when you look at how much money you’ve made… versus how much you would like to make?

Do you feel insulted when looking at the gap between where you want to be financially and where you actually are?

There is one thing that can close that gap.

Without this one thing, your business will have clogged financial arteries.

So indulge me for a minute and allow me to massage into your mind today “the obvious secret” to ditching the financial dumps and trading up to a money soaked lifestyle.

In today’s DTAlpha TalkBack Session we discuss the missing ingredient that can turn your business from a ghost town to creating a parade
of buyers.

The audio is only 9 minutes and 09 seconds.

So listen now and your senses will be awakened to the one single element that can have you sprinting to bigger and faster success.
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This one insight back in December 1999 helped me to make over $500,000 in my first 12 months on the internet in the year 2000 with a list of only 1,200 people. And now my wife and I operate a real 8 figure business, and still work from home. “Yea Baby!”

Be sure to TalkBack to me while you’re here. I’m waiting… I’m all ears… I’m listening!

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Okay, so what does it really, really take for you to win at the marketing game (as well as in business and life)?

Sure, we can break the game down and get lost in the tactical world, which is the world where most people live.

However, that’s a sure-fire way to not only get lost… but to lose.

So what does it take?

Listen to this 28 minutes and 39 seconds audio and uncover EXACTLY what it takes for you to win, regardless of who you are, where you are, what you sell, who you sell it to and what’s happened in the past.

Open your hands (by clicking play below) and I promise to hand over to you, the keys to unlimited success in business and in life.

You will also discover what the game of Tic Tac Toe has to do with your success.

Once you’re finished, please talk back to me. I’m all ears.

Ready?

Go…

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I’m listening…Talk back to me,
Stephen PierceAfter talking back to me, if you enjoyed this TalkBack session, please share it on StumbleUpon, vote for it on Digg or bookmark it on del.icio.us. Your support is important and appreciated.

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The old saying of “if you fail to plan, you plan to fail” is
not entirely true anymore.

Today’s marketing strategies require a different foundational
perspective. One that I’ll share with you in today’s TalkBack.

Click the play button below and listen to today’s TalkBack that
runs a short 5 minutes and 47 seconds.

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Then, talk back to me here on the DTAlpha TalkBack blog.

I want to hear your ideas, feedback, perspectives, experiences
and even frustrations around today’s important topic.

And I will be back with you on Wednesday for another DTAlpha
TalkBack session.

Your feedback is critical… so listen to the audio, and talk
back to me know.

I’m listening,
Stephen Pierce

Coming up this week on DTAlpha TalkBack.

Wednesday December 12th: How To Predict The Future And Position Yourself For Success.
Friday December 14th: The 3 Set Move To Winning Without Planning

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