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

http://www.mindmoviedownload.com/

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…..

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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What is the best way to achieve that? These are what I would suggest you do.

1. Sign up for a autoresponder account. I prefer Aweber for this. Go and create an opt-in box and offer your visitors a free gift that is applicable to you niche. This means if you are in the golf niche you can offer them a free report on how to improve their golf swing or something similar. They have to sign it to get the gift.

2. Share your blog with other through the social media sites and social networking sites.

This is a list of some you can use.

http://stumbleupon.com

http://digg.com

http://reddit.com

http://delicious.com

https://facebook.com

3. Read and post comment on other peoples blogs. Make sure that the comment is meaningful. Read the person’s blog before you add a comment. This will also give you a link to your blog as long as you include your URL in the correct box.

4. Make sure that you add your site address to your signature when you are sending out correspondence.

5. If you are using WordPress as your blogging platform, it will automatically ping your posts, but you can also manually ping them yourself.

6. Manually submit your blog to Google, Yahoo and Bing.

7. Include your blog URL on your business card or a flyer you may produce.

8. Make sure you include an RSS feed on your site. This is very easy when you are using WordPress.

9. If you have other sites, you may want to set up a “Blog Roll” and have the sites linked.

10. Write content for your blog on a regular basis. Include external and internal links in your posts.

11. Write some articles and post them on these sites and link back. Unique content is best but always when using blogging platforms, check out there terms and conditions.

Squidoo.com

Hubpages

Blogger

Ezine Articles

If you follow these guidelines you will definitely start attracting traffic.

To YOUR success

Sue McDonald

To find a profitable niche, requires some research. These are two ways that may help you find a niche.

The first is to go to www.google.com. On the left hand box, as facing your computer, you will this at the  “categories” click on this and pick a category. This will give you a list of sub-categories . Now type the sub-category you pick into the top box “word or phrase.”You can now see the relevant key word, monthly searches, competition and the suggested bid for that particular word.  This now will let you know if the category you have in mind would be a profitable niche.

The second tool to use is Amazon. Yes, this is a very good place to find a niche or how popular your chosen niche could be. Just go and click here:  http://www.amazon.com/ .

Click on the “Books” on the top left hand corner and then click on “magazines”. On the search bar at the top of the page click on “Browse subjects”. Now this will give you the category and if you click on the category you will be able to see the magazines that are available for that category. All these magazines would not be produced if there weren’t people searching for information about that particular niche.

Click on a category and again on the left hand side you will see how many subcategories there are and then click on one of these and you see how many magazines are written on each one. If they are publishing several magazines on a particular subject, you will know that you have probably found a profitable niche.

Why is it that some times we procrastinate? Is it because we can be lazy or is it because we lack the knowledge and do not know how to tackle the task we should be doing?

Many times is the later. If we have insufficient knowledge – it is like a paralysing fear. We want to start the task but because we are not sure that we know how to fully complete it, we tend to put it aside and not start it at all. This fear is often irrational but we tend to think, what others will think or say if you fail. The problem here is compound because you are thinking what others will think instead of just trying to start the task. When it comes to this, think about yourself and forget the others around you. You will probably find that they will praise you for doing something that you wanted to do.

Once you start, you may surprise yourself when you see that there was really nothing to fear because you find it relatively easy. If you need help, why not ask. There are many people amongst your friends and colleagues who will help you, if you feel that you lack the knowledge or skills. Most people will go out of their way to assist you. There is a saying I love “You have to do it for yourself, but you do not have to do it alone.”

The thing about our society is we do the things we feel comfortable doing or things that we have to do during our normal day. This keeps us busy but to step out of our comfort zone and attempt something else scares us.

So this being my year, I am stepping out of my comfort zone and not procrastinating any longer. I am going to complete any task I attempt but I may need help along the way.

To YOUR success

Sue McDonald

Well on May 13, I met John at a seminar in Brisbane and now I have booked to go to a seminar in San Diego on the 11/12 June where Frank is a speaker. So it looks like I will be able to meet the second person on my list. When I first decided that these people were on my “to meet list” I really did not know how I was going to achieve this.

This shows you the power of belief. If you practice visualization and affirmation, you are able to achieve what you want. This is proof for me that I am doing what I want to do and achieving the goals I have set for myself.

I am a true believer in Napoleon Hill’s book – “Think and Grow Rich.” There are other similar books available but for me this was and still is one of the best. If you have not read it, it is now out of copyright and is downloadable, for free, on certain sites.

So many people do not have the right mindset for so many things in their lives. They allow doubt and negativity to creep into their thinking, and before they realize it, they have defeated themselves. They fail to achieve the goals they have set for themselves and instead of remaining committed to the task fall into the category of the “interested” and make every excuse why they were not able to attain the goals they had set.

So you can see that I am achieving what I planned and I want you to do the same.

To YOUR success

Sue McDonald

Well yes I did go and hear John Assaraf talk last Friday and I loved it – even managed to get a photo with him.

John’s story is like a lot of other people. He grew up in Canada and was, as a teenager, going down the wrong path. His childhood had been very poor and at 8 years of age promised himself that he would be a wonderful provider to his children and they would not experience lack in their lives as he was. He was not a good student at school but his favorite show on TV, as he was growing up, was “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous.”

He was 19 when he went to visit his brother in Toronto and he was helped by his brother to turn around his entire life. His brother introduced him to a man named Allan Brown. John credits Allan for changing his entire life. At the age of 19, John sat and passed the real estate examination and became a fully fledged real estate agent. Allan asked John what he wanted in life and his answer was to live like the rich and famous. Then Allan asked him “Are you committed or interested?” Like a lot of people, this had to be explained to John and so that night he went home and wrote down exactly what he wanted to achieve. One thing he wrote was that he wanted to retire at 45 so that gave him 26 years to achieve that goal.

How did John achieve all that he set down to achieve? He did it through visualization and affirmations, the same thing that he is teaching today but he has now studied to prove scientifically that our thought process can be changed. Our behaviour is governed by our belief, values and habits and some of these stem right back to our child hood when we heard such things as – money doesn’t grow on trees, why are you so stupid that you never get things right, or – don’t ask again because we cannot afford it. All these types of statements have been imprinted on our subconscious and these are the things we have to change. With John’s method it means removing these thoughts and planting in the ones we want.

If you have doubts and fears that you cannot change, then this is the belief that you will achieve – no change – but if you believe that by affirmations and visualizations practiced everyday and you believe that you can have the lifestyle you want – you CAN achieve.

This was an exercise that John had us do. You see what you want to see! Can you see the arrow in this logo and also the measuring spoon?

The arrow is between the Ex. If you look at it closely it will appear as a white arrow. Now for the measuring spoon, the spoon is in the first e and is going from left to right.

So you can train your brain to see things differently – so you agree? I have a copy of his book “The Answer” but I need time to read it.

So start writing down your goals in detail, and practicing affirmations and visualizations and make time every day. It is the repetition that will change the pathway to your brain.

To YOUR Success

Sue McDonald

I have just finished a massive clean up of my office. Well what I am saying, I de-cluttered it. There was so much paperwork, that I had printed out over a matter of time that I really had to go through it and I ended up throwing a lot of it out. But while I was doing this I came across the skeleton of a blog that I was going to write and when I looked at it I thought why not write it now.

The thoughts were about what were the qualities you needed to become a success in any endeavor your ever attempted. Believe it or not, it really is your “mindset” but let me expand on that because not everyone understands that.

Your beliefs are the most powerful of forces. Henry David Thoreau puts it so well:

“What lies before us and what lies behind us

Are small matters compared to

What lies within us

And when we bring out what is within

Out into the world

Miracles happen.”

You must be committed – remember be committed not interested. YOU must be prepared to do the hard work. You must take the time to acquire the knowledge to be able to do whatever it is you want to do. Now a word of warning here, knowledge without action is useless. You have to have the inner belief in yourself that what you have conceived in your mind can be achieved. You have to set goals (a goal is only a dream with a definite time line.) If goals are not set down in writing, how do you know you are following the right path? By reviewing your goals, you can see what you have achieved and what the next step is.

What this comes down to that you are persistent and focused and that you do not stumble at any hurdle. If you come to a problem, whatever it may be, find a solution.

I remember as a child (I played the violin) being told – “practice makes perfect”. Sorry, I must not have practiced as well as I should have because I never reached the point of perfection there. But as an adult, this saying takes on a whole new meaning. The people who are successful are the people who will, if necessary, perform the same task over and over till they achieve the results they desire. No one is a success overnight –but we hear that many times, but later we hear the true story of how they have achieved their goals. There has been a lot of hard work before they were a success but one common thread, in every story like this, is they believed that they were going to achieve.

I just had to get better because this Friday 5/13/11 – I have a free ticket to go and listen to John Assaraf. Now if your don’t recognize the name – he was the guy in the movie “The Secret” who created the vision boards, only to discover years later that the house he had put on his vision board, was the exact house he had bought.

He came from a humble background but went onto build the Re-Max Indiana which grew to $ 4.5 billion in sales. John started wondering why and then he realized it was his mindset – he referred to it as his “mindset edge” and this was allowing him to build the business faster and easier.

After he realized this, he decided to study Quantum Physics and find out the scientific reason and prove how it was done. Now John is on a mission to show anyone how you can attain the mindset that will allow you to achieve the goals that you have set for yourself. As he so eloquently puts it “when you re-train your brain” you can achieve all that you want and the best part is he is actually giving away the tickets to go to the seminar.

So on Friday, I will go to the Sofitel in Brisbane and just learn and absorb as much as I can. I have already paid for some of his products that I can collect when I get there. So now I am better, I am really looking forward to the day. I think I will be “buzzing” coming home – will let you know.