Hi – this is Sue here again. I want to tell you about the very beginning of this course. Mark said he wanted use to brand ourselves with our own names. Just first name surname.com. Obviously, he did not realize that if you type sue mcdonald into Google you come up with (today) 748000 entries spread over 846 URLs.

Have you ever looked at this search in Google? Amongst the linked names (to name a few) are artists, photographers, Doctors, a clinical psychologist and Real Estate agents. But there are so many entries of people wanting to sue McDonald.

They want to sue for various reasons one group of youngsters sued because McDonald  failed to warn them that fast food can lead to obesity. Didn’t their parents ever tell them the risks of eating fast food all the time?

One couple wanted to sue McDonald because the husband left his cell phone at one of their restaurants and the naked pictures of his wife were uploaded to the internet.

This one bought a smile to my face. This guy wanted to sue McDonalds because it clearly states on the side of the bag; “From the hundreds of varieties available, fewer than 10 types of potatoes and apples are good enough for McDonald’s. And to give you perfect grapes, we carefully pick each one hand by hand.”

He didn’t believe there were 10 different varieties of potatoes never lone 100 varieties or more and he was not aware of any product where McDonalds used grapes. He sought advice to see if he could sue them. He must have thought he knew their products very well.

I could not find any court ruling on any article  so I do not know if anyone won or lost.

So, you could see the predicament I was in, with the plain name of Sue McDonald and no middle name. Then Mark suggested I put a hyphen in the name and try that. It worked but the next trick was to get my ranking up with Google. I must have started at the very bottom. I checked after 10 days and out of the 846 I had reached position196. Just before I started writing this blog, I checked again. I have reached the dizzy heights of 144. I will keep working on driving traffic and see how far I can get my site up in the Google rankings.

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Well – would you believe that after I investigated it I decided to sign up? Not only to the Newbie course but also the Advanced. The course actually started two week ago but Mark allowed me to sign up as long as I was prepared to catch up.

The first thing Mark asked us to do was list 100 things we wanted to do before we died-our very own bucket list. Now that sounds easy but there are so many things you could list  of course we have to have the money to fulfill all of our desires. That is why I joined this course to get the money.

My greatest weakness is travel. I have been taking an overseas trip about every 12-18 months for the last twenty years with my husband but the last two I have taken by myself. So you can easily see that at least a quarter of my list was travel. Visiting places I love to go like the United States and new destinations of Russia and China.

So here’s to making money and fulfilling all of my dreams!!!!

Make sure you bookmark this site and then you can follow the journey with me.

Till next time

Sue

This is truly amazing that a child has such range and pitch – a true gift from the Creator. She could bring world peace all by herself if only people would listen.

The massive and rapid shift away from an agrarian society to one of commerce with the development of cities and suburbs caused family members to move farther and farther away from each other, therefore making it necessary to travel by land, air or rail to be together for holidays such as Christmas and other special occasions. And with some countries being economic powerhouses in the world, movement of peoples got even farther as they migrated to other countries to take advantage of better opportunities to improve their lives. Consequently, air travel has expanded in modern times to take people to international destinations.

Travelling during Christmas and the holidays is not limited to visiting relatives and friends. Many people travel for entertainment, including families who are interested in seeing interesting sights and enjoying world-renowned entertainment that are in faraway places from where they live. Travel to a destination that is far away, within or outside a country may only be done once by a family and that in itself creates a special memory.

Within the United States, it is popular for families and groups of friends to visit New York City to see the general sights of the city and to shop at Christmas. Some of these sights are known throughout the country and are celebrated each Christmas. The annual lighting of the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree is an example.

The lighting of the Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center, which is located west of Fifth Avenue from 47th Street to 51st Street in New York City, has been an tradition since the time of the Depression. The first tree was placed at the site in 1931 but it wasn’t decorated with any Christmas ornaments. In recent years, more than 25,000 Christmas lights and other ornaments have been placed on the tree.

Also in New York City, it is very popular for tourists to travel at Christmas to see the spectacular Christmas show at Radio City Music Hall with the signature high-kicking Rockettes perform. The show is a favorite of both adults and children as it is very festive, lively and filled with the spirit of Christmas. Tourists also travel during Christmas to international destinations for entertainment. Because the Nutcracker Ballet originated in Russia and that country has worldwide acclaim for some of the most technical and artistic ballet performers, it is a popular destination at Christmas. The legendary Tchaikovsky composed the music for the Nutcracker Ballet, which was first performed in Russia’s Mariinsky Theatre that is home to the acclaimed Kirov Ballet. The story is about a little girl’s dream on Christmas Eve about a beloved Nutcracker toy she received as a present.

Travel to international destinations is also popular at Christmastime to escape the cold of a ‘White Christmas.’ For those who do not like the cold but like to be out and about at Christmas, the alternative is to go somewhere with a more tropical climate. Travel to destinations in the Caribbean, where Christmas is robustly celebrated, is popular during the Christmas season.

One of the intriguing places to travel during the Christmas season is to a place where Santa can be observed. There is such a place in Finland at a village where Santa Claus has his workshop. Travel to see and possibly talk to Santa Claus is a delightful adventure for children. But such a trip has to be made before Christmas Eve when Santa, his elves and reindeer embark on a trip themselves to every home in the world.

It is true enough that affiliate marketing is financially rewarding. People who have gone through everything to be able to succeed in this business are reaping the seeds that they untiringly sowed. Many of them enjoy the kind of existence that was not possible for them to have had under ordinary circumstances. Having gone through the A-Z of affiliate marketing, however, these people are the ones who know that while such business is lucrative, there is absolutely no easy money in it.

Ignorance of this fact is one of the main reasons why there are people who fail miserably in the internet business. There are those who believe in myths concerning the easy money involved in systems such as affiliate marketing. They do not know that there are those who have wasted time, effort and too many resources in trying to pursue the life of ease that they believe this business will give them. And so they go into affiliate marketing armed with nothing but myths and fantastical notions of wealth swimming in their consciousness, never realizing that they bound to make mistakes that would prove to be their downfall.

What may be the reason why in businesses such as affiliate marketing, many are called but few are chosen? Perhaps the answer lies on the fact that many affiliates make mistakes that result from their ignorance of facts concerning how the entire business runs. Affiliate marketing is not as simple as an affiliate promoting a merchant’s wares through his website and getting paid for it. It is also about knowing the market and the customers at hand.

Discovering what the most common mistakes affiliates make can perhaps dispel the gloom about myths surrounding affiliate marketing by correcting some wrong notions about it. It might also be able to make those concerned understand that like any other business, there are dos and don’ts involved in this one if they want to make each of their steps count. The first common mistake affiliates make is their lack of knowledge concerning principles involved in their business. This refers to the affiliate’s knowledge of search engines in particular.

Affiliate marketing involves advertising, and advertising through the internet could not have been better without the existence of search engines. What every affiliate has to do is to make these search engines his best friend through studying search engine optimization closely. This way, he is able to know what to do in connection with building a better website to ultimately use for his business.

The second is that affiliates make the mistake of stuffing their sites with banners that do not provide enough information about the product at hand. The best way to battle this mistake is to provide good content hand-in-hand with such banners. It is important for customers to know and understand the features of a product, and good content will be able to help them realize this goal.

The third is that there are affiliates who make the mistake of promoting only one product. Consequently, customers are not given enough options to choose from. There is also the risk of generating fewer sales as compared to having more options for customers ponder about. It is always better to give them a few better alternatives than to give them only one.

The fourth is that there are affiliates who make the mistake of promoting too many products. As a result, customers are confused and end up beyond making a choice. It is perhaps good to give them only the best choices. This is because it is ultimately up to them to judge which one is the best for them to patronize.

All in all, affiliates that are doomed to fail in this business are those who do not exert enough effort to understand everything involved in the industry that they are in. Knowing their path step by careful step will prove to be beneficial to them, as there is no other way to succeed than to go through any path slowly but surely.

The town has created a Qantas museum. Qantas stands for “Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services” and has come a long way since it first began. The headquarters are now in Sydney but the service is very proud of its beginnings. The Qantas fleet now circles the globe carrying passengers and cargo all over the world.

There are two planes there that you can walk through and see what it is like to be in the pilot’s seat. There is a 747 and a 707. The 707 is one of two that are still able to fly. The other one is owned and flown by John Travolta who has become an ambassador for Qantas. The museum buildings are quite extensive, displaying aircraft from former years.

Just across the road is the Stockman’s Hall of Fame. This was opened and dedicated to the stockman who originally opened up much of Australia.

Now apart from enjoying the sights in and around Longreach, there was one thing that I did not enjoy. The internet was only available from one carrier and if you moved too far out of the town there was no service at all.

You can easily see that I know I could never live where I cannot get the internet. I felt completed isolated from my friends. I was glad to get back home last Friday. I had over 500 emails waiting for me and heaps of skype messages.

So now I am back here to work on my internet marketing and I love it. I am starting a great new course Internet Business Code X.

Always nice to go on holidays but there is no place like home.

Wow! Just found out that Google are now trying to get more market share back from Facebook by using their+1 button. You may be wondering what the +1 button is all about. It is similar to the Facebook’s “like” button

It is still in trial stage but they have come up with the idea because Facebook is gaining more and more users.

Why? Facebook is social media and people who go on Facebook to chat seem to stay on facebook. Google, on the other hand, was primarily known as a search engine but times are a changing.

You may not have even noticed it when you do a search on Google but it is there.

Go and do a search on Google and I am sure you will see it straight after the title.

So if you want to learn all about it I would suggest you read exactly what Google has to say. I am sure you will find it very interesting.

Here is the link:

http://www.google.com/+1/button/

I wanted to move servers from a private server over to hostgator. I backed up the blog all 64 posts along with 18 pages of comments.  Then using an FTP program uploaded the backup to my Cpanel. Hostgator said it should be ready within 12-24 hours. One hour later hostgator advised me the file was corrupt. Imagine my disappointment! My blog had over 8000 backlinks that had taken me hours to create and it had a PR2.

Well sometimes the gods do smile down on me. My blog (or at least part of it) was there after 2 days. Yes every post had some type of corruption in it and I had lost all the tags, the plugins and the widgets – but at least I could clean them up and get on with my next task.

It is amazing how happy that made me feel even though it will require a lot of work to restore it – it should be worth it.

I planned to write this earlier but unfortunately I have been sick and out of action for the entire week. Just a little unfortunate, but it happens when you least expect it.

So now that I have most of my blogs, I will start and get back to regular updating. In fact, I think I might even do it automatically – write one blog and have it appear on several blogging platforms at once. It will certainly save me a lot of time.

So this is Sue McDonald saying I am happy to be back and I don’t know if I will every find my lost blogs in cyber space.

Fortunately for us, we live south of Brisbane and our house was unaffected but this was not the case for some people who have lost everything. For these people, there lives have changed. Everyone in life has at some time to adapt and change and this can be both good and bad. The best way to do this is to have a positive mindset that you will are going to be a winner.

So now I am home, what are my plans? My initial plan is to attend more classes and increase my knowledge in the field of Internet Marketing. I have had to make some crucial decisions regarding a business deal and one decision has been rather difficult for me but I know that whatever happens I have made the right decision.

This is what life is all about really  change. If you are not where you want to be or you do not have what you want yet  you and you alone have the power to change everything. Now I am not saying that by making the decision to change that things will happen immediately, but if you know what you want from life, it makes it so much easier to work towards attaining your goals. Remember that goals are dreams and desires that have to be completed in a certain time frame.

Affirmation and visualization is one of the easiest ways. Write down your affirmations and repeat them over and over to yourself. This is how you reprogram your brain. When planning for a change, be realistic in the time frame that you are going to allow yourself to reach your goal. If you wanted to travel overseas to work (for example)  write out a detailed plan how you are going to achieve it.  Note I did not say how you might achieve, I said how you are going to achieve it. So we have our goal in mind and a written plan and now we have to implement the plan. Always be positive with your affirmations never include words that are negative or the word “want” because that means you are lacking something.

So all that is required from us is to follow the plan and along the way celebrate the milestones you achieve. Getting started is the hardest part but remember the Chinese proverb “The longest journey begins with a single step.” This is your year so take that step or should I say leap!

So this is Sue McDonald just saying in another way – “Just do it”.

If like me you are in the Internet Marketing niche, I want you to really be realistic and plan your year to achieve what you want to do. For this plan to work we have to write out the exact road map to getting where we want to be.

I was in a college lecture once and the lecturer posed this question to the group. If you don’t complete this course, where will you be in one year?  Most of us looked at one another and were confused.  What did he mean? Where would we all be in one year if we did not complete the course? No one answered – the lecturer answered the question himself. He said  “The answer is very simple, you probably will not have advanced in your job, but you will be another year older and have wasted another year of your life.” Those words really made me think. What he was saying was that time is a commodity that cannot be replenished. Unlike restocking you food pantry, by buying more food, you can never replace the time that you waste.

So whatever you think you want to do, think very carefully about how you are going to achieve your goals. So this is why I want you to think and plan and do not waste any opportunities that present themselves to you.

If you have wanted to get educated in Internet Marketing, I would suggest that this is the very time for you to take action. A lot of people want to know exactly the right steps needed to be successful in this field. There is no easier way that getting a coach/mentor to show you how to gradually learn all the skills necessary to move forward and finally break through and start earning some money.

As your skill level increases, be prepared to help other people and you will find that there is a Law of Karma “ what you put out there, you will receive in return.” So be prepared this year to help others and experience the joys of giving and receiving.

So this is Sue McDonald wishing you great success for 2011.