Are you staying local in your business and being a Local Yokel?

I have seen this quite a bit recently with many businesses when it comes to searching for talent or opportunity for their business.  Be it Web Design, SEO, sales, or Consulting Help, and even new customers.

The businesses that do this are seriously shooting themselves in the foot.  In fact to use yet another gruesome analogy it is like throwing a Frog in a pot of cold water and turning on the heat until it boils.  The Frog won’t jump out, but if you put him in Hot water, they hop right out.

In other words, you won’t know you are cooked until it is too late.

Just think about it.  There are now millions of people that you can reach on the Web and just from a statistics standpoint, the guy or gal down the street is not going to even be in the top 5% best at what they do but, the person that you can snag on the Internet is? —–> READ MORE

Add 50% Or More To Your Sales….. An interview with the author of the new book “Personality Language” Marilyne Woodsmall.

I did this interview when this book first came out and I see that there a few people have picked on just how valuable this really is and are starting to teach it.  But, why not get it from the Horse’s mouth so to speak instead.

Get comfortable and take a listen to an interview I did with the author of the new book Personality Language.  Listen in as we discuss how using Personality Language can dramatically boost your profits.

This is a totally new way to reach not only new customers, but get a lot more sales from your existing customers.

I hope to have more chats with her about this mind-blowing new way to communicate with your customers and increase your profits.

We talk about how Personality Language and you will find out why you want to layout all of your Blog posts, Sales Letters, and Information Products this way if you want to have the most success with them and become profitable.

Marilyne Woodsmall and Wyatt Woodsmall, who are Human Success Modelers  wrote  this as a primer to introduce this new way of thinking. —–> READ MORE

Tags: Eben Pagan, Joe Polish, Marilyne Woodsmall, Marketing, Personality Language, Tony Robbins, Wyatt Woodsmall

It is well past 2:00 AM  and I am about bushed.  Started at 8:00 this morning and yet I am still pumped and in a bit of a contemplative mood and tired and wired at the same time  But I have found that in these moments that I have some of my best insights, right before my battery runs totally out.

All of the clutter and noise of the day is gone and it seems like my fore brain and subconscious meld.

Today, I spoke with members of my team scattered all across the globe.  From Europe, to America, and Canada, to the South Pacific and Asia. —–> READ MORE

Tags: moving mountains, Productivity, Team

Common Sense Marketing Challenge
Using Social Media And Twitter

I have accepted a Common Sense Marketing Challenge from someone that many have called the best Commonsense Marketing Alive in the World today.

He is been involved with selling tens of Billions of dollars of products and services over his lifetime. Find out about the Challenge and how you can learn from it.

Information about the challenge.

To follow along as the challenge goes on, just drop your email in the box below.

How You Are Going To Benefit

I am going to show you some cutting edge ways use Twitter and other Social media to bring in more clients for you immediately, keep them long-term, then get them to spend more money with you.  If you have been stumped on how to do this, I am going to take out all of the mystery and show you exactly what you need to do.  Perhaps the best part about this is, it’s free.

The techniques that you will learn work no matter what type of business you have.

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How It Got Started

The Challenge got started all because I sent off an email to someone whom many consider to be the best Commonsense Marketer alive in the World today. The man’s name is none other than Drayton Bird.  If you know who he is, then I need not say anymore about him, but if you don’t and  you are in business and sell any product or service, then read on.

Briefly, Drayton Bird has worked with Microsoft, Ford, IBM, Nestle, Proctor & Gamble and a host of other companies on their Marketing and Advertising.   David Ogilvy said he “knows more about direct marketing than anyone in the world”.

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Tags: Common Sense Marketing, Common Sense Marketing And Social Media, Common Sense Marketing And Twitter, commonsense marketing, David Ogilgy, Drayton Bird

Could not having an editor be costing you thousands of dollars?

I am going to explain how getting one could help you make a lot more money.

This is a two part Blog post.  This post  is before I have one of my Editors look at it and the next one will be after I have my Editor go through it.  It may be a miracle if there are no corrections but, I would not put money on it. 

How can not having an editor be costing you thousands or even 10′s of thousands of dollars?   Let me start out by saying that I am the King of mis-spellings, bad grammar and punctuation, on top of making up words, purposely mis-spelling others and being fond of alliteration, so bear with me as I explain this for my situation and how it can also affect you.

So, first off I have really bad dyslexia, which is rather ironic because of the fact that I make money from my writing.  What happens it the the conversation that I have in my head makes perfect sense, that is until I start to type it out and things get all messed up.  Usually, whole sentences will come out backwards and spelling and grammar are  arbitrary things.   I truly look at this as a gift and a competitive edge because this is just part of the way that my brain is wired and it allows me to see and recognize complex situations and see connections and create answers before a whole lot of other people.    But the bottom line is that if you or I have typos, bad grammar and punctuation, it does not matter how great your product or service is, no one is going to buy it!

Here is a fact. Most of us truly do judge a book by it’s cover no matter what we say, a lot of people and clients can’t see past the typo’s and grammar and realize just how much more profit I can help them make. —–> READ MORE

Tags: editors, making money, writing

Get Video Transcription for just $19.99 at www.YakWrite.com.  Here is a short video on it.

So, if you need Video Transcription, you now know where to go.

Cheers,
Andrew Anderson
www.YakWrite.com

Tags: Transcription, Video Transcription

Will put this back in later..

Tags: Increase Optins, Marketing, Sales, Video

Prior Proper Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance

I am bumping this post up because I am reminded of the value and transcendental truth of this yet again.

The first time I heard that adage from two young guys named Hollis and Carter, it was like someone slapped me upside the head and it was game changer for me.

(As some of you may know, I have been involved in what has become a rather large software project that as they often do, is taking a bit longer to put together than we had hoped, yet is still on track for doing what we had planned it to do.

What we planned for it to do is basically make everything that I had cussed various Web designers, Programmers and pieces software out for and make it easy to do for an amateur.  That is make it easy to put together Websites, Blogs, Sales and Squeeze pages, and Shopping Carts for someone with no technical skills whatsoever.

Basically we wanted to give someone who’s sole technical skill was to check their email, the ability to create what normally only professional Website developers and Programmers could do at a huge cost, and on top of that, be able to do it in a few hours, not in a few days or weeks that it would take a Pro to do.

Guess what? We freakin pulled it off and I think it is going to be a game changer as far as how Websites, Blogs, Landing Pages, and profitable online businesses are put together.

My point about bringing this up is that this never could have happened had we not planned to do this at the outset.  Regardless of how many people said it could never be done, if we had not properly planned it out, it would not have been brought into being and we would have ended up with just another piss poor piece of software.)

The impact was so great because in the Organization People Pattern(tm) of my Personality Language(tm) profile, I am a Free Spirit and I never used to like to really plan anything because it bugged the heck out of me. I know the reason why and it was mostly because I was rebelling against the rigid Structurists that were around me.

By the way, if you have not read the book Personality Language yet, I highly suggest it. It is kind of mind blowing as to what it will tell you about what makes you and others tick.  I learned more in that book about basic human behavior than any other book that I have read. —–> READ MORE

Tags: 7 Ps, Performance, Planning, Prior Proper Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance

I am updating this post.  While I would love to show you some results of this, the only thing that I will say at the moment is that this had helped me get several from page listings simultaneously on Google, Bing, and Yahoo.  But remember, you have to have great relevant content first and foremost.  Content really is King, and Queen and every other piece on the board.

If you are a regular reader here, you know that I don’t often recommend too many products and when I do, they are only the best of the best.  And if you are into getting your site ranked high in searches and if you are in business, this should  be one of your priorities, then I have something to share with you.

Most of your have probably never heard of Dr. Andy Williams, but you here is why you should get to know him and Colin McDougall for that matter.  More on Colin later.

He has what I consider the best tools out there to help you with search rankings.  It is not a gimmick, or trick, or black hat junk,  but some very advanced scientific analyzing software to find out what you need to do to help get your ranked for certain search terms using latent semantic indexing and giving Google, and Yahoo exactly what they want and need to rank you higher. —–> READ MORE

Tags: Google, Search Engine Ranking, SEO/Traffic, Yahoo

As a dyed in the wool Capitalist and a fan of Ayn Rand, I thought I would put these videos of John Stossel’s New Show up for you. Interesting viewing for sure.

In it he discusses Atlas Shrugged, the book by Ayn Rand with a number of people and he talks about the similarities that are going on today.

I am including all 6 videos.

If you want to read the book, I suggest that you don’t watch the videos until afterward.

Would love to know what you think if you have read the book. Enjoy!

Cheers,
Andrew Anderson

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Tags: Ayn Rand, Capitalism, John Stossel