The post posed a few questions – like why do people read blogs? What gets people to read your blog in particular?  Well let me ask you?  Who are you? Why have you come to visit my blog? Are you curious to find out what this whole topic is about?

When I ask “Who’s Out There” I am not referring to alien life or people on other planets – no I am referring to you – my readers.  Yes – it is all about your headline and if it can grab the readers attention.

As someone new to internet marketing, I am just trying to tell you about what I am doing on my journey to being a success. No, I am not bragging because I know I have the determination to get there and attain all the success I want. How do I know that? Well here I am going to let you in on a big secret – it is having the right mind set. I want you all to take a look at this video and you too will gain the knowledge how to conceive and achieve.

I just want to help as many people as I can so take your time, watch this and then you MUST put it into practice. Your actions will dictate the results you get.

Copy and paste to your browser . Enjoy and let me know what you think. Until next time…Sue McDonald is signing out

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Again this week, we have added to our original product that we have available. This time we have added a product for sale but it is more than one product – it is a series of videos with heaps of free bonuses to go with it. This week we had to create another aweber code and our paypal button to be upload to enable people to be able to get the videos. It is a very interesting process. My coach and mentor has provided the products for us this week and has helped us get them loaded on our site.

The next important part will be, when we have to create our own product. That will be interesting. Mark has suggested we see what questions are being frequently asked on forums and then we provide a product that will answer these questions. I have been on a few forums over the past few weeks and I would say the most frequently asked question -  apart from ” how do I make money fast” -all relate to traffic and list building.

We all know how important it is to get a quality list and build up a relationship with the people there. I think some marketers forget that there are “people”on that list  and not just an email address that you can bombard with product. Remember to treat every person on you list well, give them good quality products for free, and this is how you will succeed.

This is Sue McDonald and I will catch you soon…..

Well, I am still traveling looking for ways to build up my traffic. I have been vigilant in my quest to get more traffic this week and it is starting to pay off. I have been going to the Warrior Forum and yesterday I tried the Digital Point Forum but I can not use my signature block there for 7 days and have at least 10 posts. I have completed the 10 posts – in fact I think I have 12 today but now I will just have to mark time. While this is not there I can not get traffic from there.

The warrior forum is very informative and it is easy to be part of it. I read yesterday they are now going to charge to be a warrior member – but if you are a war room member then you do not have to pay again. You will still have to pay for WSO (Warrior Special Offer) but I am not that far advanced yet, so I will just keep that in mind. They are also changing some of their rules regarding signature blocks, mainly to do with the length, the size of the font used and the colors that some members have started using. I like the terms and conditions they have – it makes for a level playing field. In two weeks I have been thanked 10 times for my contributions and that made me feel pretty good. I have probably submitted 45 posts.

Forums are a very good place to learn, ask questions and get help but they are also a source of  traffic -  if you have your web site in your signature block. Google Analytics shows me that as of today’s date 16% of my traffic has come from the warrior forum.

I have also been working on increasing my twitter followers. There are some really interesting people on twitter but because tweets are posted at such a fast rate you often miss out on some good information. I am getting a lot of direct messages and  I am enjoying answering and responding to these people. I find it very time consuming and at this stage not getting the return for the effort I have put in. I have answered over 75% and that would be approximately 87 messages. My percentage of visitors from Twitter 6%.

So for me, at least, it appears more beneficial to spend time on the forum. The stats prove it – don’t you agree?

This is Sue saying … keep following me

This week has been a little bit stressful I think. There is so much to do when you are trying to manage your normal everyday life and your Internet Marketing homework. We are still in the driving traffic to our blog phase and I know it is just a matter of time and persistence to get people to sign up for my free book. On the other hand, I know people from all around the world are visiting my site. I know this because of Google analytics. This is an absolute great tool and everyone should use it.

If you install it you have so much you can find out. If you go to Google analytics and “View report” and then “Map Overlay” you can view where your traffic is coming from. I really don’t know how some of these people have found me. I have people from over 14 countries as of this morning. The next interesting statistic is to go to Traffic – you will find out the source of your traffic.

I have cloaked my URL in my signature block on the warrior forum. I know you don’t have to cloak it but I just want to see how many people would want “to follow my journey in the IM world”. Again, I have been trying to be an active and participating member of the forum this week and I have managed to get 9 people to visit my site. I even managed to get thanked once. I thought that was worth the effort I had put in. So over the next few weeks, I shall have to keep going to the warrior forum every day. I’ll make it my number two priority because I always start my day by checking my emails.

This week on the webinar, we were given a few more ideas for driving traffic to our site. I intend to implement then and I let you all know how I get on. Till then, cheers…

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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I love this tool. I especially love how you can tell where all your visitors come from and even what language they speak. Clever Google! If you are not sure how to do this, go to your dashboard on Google Analytics. Click on “Visitors”and you will get a drop down box and from here you can click on the map overlay and see a visual representation of where your visitors are coming from. You can also click on the Map Overlay in the Visitors Segmentation box also. This box is on the lower right hand side of the first page.

There is so much information that is available to you regarding your visitors. The map will give you a clear indication where your visitors are. You can also ascertain if you are getting a new visitor or a returning visitor. You can find out how many pages the visitor has looked at and what is the time they have spent on your site. You will be shown your bounce rate. This is the Wikipedia definition of “Bounce Rate”. “It essentially represents the percentage of initial visitors to a site who “bounce” away to a different site, rather than continue on to other pages within the same site.”

Traffic Sources provide us with more information on how the traffic arrived at our site whether it is direct traffic or referring sites – whether people arrive because they had click on an ad or used some of our keywords. This is all great information because you can monitor what words are being searched for.

When you have a site always include Google Analytics on it. This will eventually help you monetize your site.

Hope you found this interesting….catch you later


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I then thought, maybe it’s the theme. OK – let’s change the theme. Now, we all know the hours it can take to find the theme you like, it can be a truly frustrating task. So I did a bit of looking and came up with another one. Loaded it up and approved it and then proceeded to start the process again. You would not believe it – the same thing happened again. I must have tried about ten times on this new theme before I thought, this is no better, let’s go back to my original theme. Uploaded it again and retried the whole exercise again. Still a disappearing act. Now I am not a person who gives in easily – I like to work things out. But this disappearing text box was beyond me.

I finally emailed Mark. His answer was for me to skype him so he could help. I think he knew I had tried but it was not working for me. Well I skyped him this morning and with his help he said there was a coding problem in the side bar and he would have to fix it manually. Well, he did, and now I have my image and my optin box up showing on my site. Thanks Mark! Houdini wasn’t in there after all. These are the highs and lows of the learning Newbie.

So until next time …………..Sue

Why is it that some people have succeeded while others have not even continued to maintain their sites? I can tell you quite honestly, in anything you do in life, you must have the right mind set. Getting the right mind set is not that difficult.We must think in a positive way and set goals. Have long term goals but always break these goals down into small actionable items.Set monthly and weekly goals and then break that down into days. I personally write my goals down and I put them in a place I can see them – it could be on your refrigerator, your bathroom mirror or right near your computer. This helps keep your mind on the right track.

So many people fail to plan and then they have found that they have failed. If Thomas Edison had 10,000 attempts to produce the light bulb – it shows if you keep at something and keep trying you will SUCCEED. It wasn’t his formal education that made him a success -no, he never even made it to high school, but it was his determination to succeed that kept him going.  The thoughts we think and the actions we take, govern our lives for better or worse.

There are three things that affect your life. They are the thoughts that you think, the images that you visualize in your mind, and the actions that you take. Positive thoughts – produce positive results!

Hope this doesn’t sound like a lecture but I am passionate about helping people and I want to see people succeed in their chosen field. For anyone who has never read Napoleon Hill’s book “Think and Grow Rich” I have included a link where you can download it for free. I know the book was written in 1938 but it is still relevant to today – read it at your leisure .

Let me know what you think of the book – catch you later………Sue



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Now this week we are also going to upload a free book to our blog and start building our list.

Have you ever been to your inbox and it is full of the next best thing – the magic pill that will give you millions if you swallow it? I have followed Mark’s advice and not bought a single product. I have previously and my download box is full of unread ebooks that I thought I really needed. I have been unsubscribing from so many emails, I even had one cheeky marketer contact me and ask for a reason, we have now become friends.

I agree with Mark that, if you are on a marketer’s list, people should foster a relationship with you before they try and sell their products to you. With most of the ones I have hit unsubscribe, they are sending me an email through adswaps and just want you to buy the product. I can get 3 or 4 emails for the same product.

These marketers are certainly teaching me what NOT to do. As some marketers now realize that their emails are not being read and they are wondering why. You really have to stand out from the crowd and foster that relationship before you start selling your product. So tomorrow I am going to up load my book.

Come back then and have a look and let me know what you think………. Sue

Now here is the second thing I have to catch up on  continuing on with this blog.

I have done courses before but this looks good and goes right back to basics. This is where everyone should start  learning to blog. When I recently attended a weekend workshop in the UK for Internet Marketing with 50 people in attendance, there was at least 15-20% who did not know how to write a blog. By the way, I live in Australia so going to a workshop in the UK was a major thing but I was disappointed that I didn’t learn the advanced stuff that I believed would be taught.

So now Mark is going to teach me the missing bits. I am quite happy to do this blog and learn.  I will add to it as much as I can and tell you all about what I am learning. I have been blogging for about 6 months now but wherever you are at; you can still learn something that you didn’t know before. I have already.

By the end of the Newbie’s part of the course – which is 12 weeks – I know we will have learnt so much and progressed so far. But one step at a time just like any other journey.