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Friday, November 13, 2009 |
Good morning,
A couple of years ago, Ken Evoy and Sitesell introduced Content 2.0, which was one of the rare add-ons to SBI that cost additional money.
It was designed to make it easier to add interactive features to the static websites that Site Build It helped us create and maintain.
Some SBI webmasters have done very well with this addition and have added hundreds or thousands of additional pages to their sites from contributions by their readers, plus comments on pages.
In fact, this has worked so well for some SBI webmasters that Ken made a major announcement a few weeks ago.
Content 2.0 is now free for all SBI sites and this was part of the announcement of the introduction of SBI version 2.0.
Calling this new version 2.0 is a bit misleading, however.
Site Build It has been constantly upgraded over the years and I'm willing to bet that they could have made a case for version 6 or 7 by now, but they are taking it slowly and methodically.
A lot of people don't believe that SBI offers all that we say it does, but I've been using it for years to build sites and my newest site at Murphy Gold is powered by SBI. I know that it works and works well.
With the introduction of free Content 2.0 and all the other upgrades that have been introduced this year and those that are coming soon, SBI gets better and better and the price stays the same - a very affordable $300 per year.
If you're looking to build an online business, and not just a website, take it from me. SBI may be just what you're looking for.
If you're not sure, you can always ask your questions and have a real person who knows SBI answer them - at no charge.
SBI is not for everyone or every website, but it provides almost all that many people need to build a successful online business.
Learn more about it, today.
Act on your dream!
JD
11:12:17 AM 
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Good morning.
I've been making some big changes in my marketing business and today I realized I needed to update this blog, make some corrections, and delete some out-of-date posts.
Since I'm no longer promoting traffic exchanges, Amazon.com, SFI Marketing Group, and others, I've deleted posts about them.
This has resulted in some categories having no posts and that leads to an error, so I'm publishing this post in all categories.
This is just a part of running a business in general and is particularly important when running an online marketing business.
Things change and we have to change with them.
Act on your dream!
JD
10:51:47 AM
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Monday, August 17, 2009 |
For the last several months, I have been planning a new website to promote select, locally-owned small businesses and their owners in Murphy, NC.
In July, 2009, Murphy Gold went live and now I will be concentrating on getting recommendations for other business owners who are dedicated to providing the best products and services that they can to their customers, friends, and neighbors in our small mountain town in western North Carolina.
Not every business owner will be accepted, and eventually it will require two recommendations from existing Murphy Gold Business owners before I'll promote someone on the site.
I'm looking forward to working on it and helping people who live in Murphy, NC and the surrounding area to get more for their hard-earned money by shopping at Murphy Gold Businesses.
All the best,
JD
8:16:45 AM
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Friday, October 3, 2008 |
John C. Campbell Folk School, October 4 and 5, 2008, Saturday and Sunday, 10 am - 5 pm.
Admission: $5.00 Adults, $3.00 children ages 12-17, children under 12 admitted free with an adult.
Celebrate the rich heritage of Appalachia at the 35th annual Fall Festival, featuring over 200 juried and non-juried craftspeople. Handcrafted items for sale include jewelry, woodturning, pottery, weaving, ironwork, photography, rugs, woodcarvings, furniture, paintings, baskets, and much, much more.
Live music and dance on two stages, great food, craft demonstrations, and children's activities are just a few more reasons why Fall Festival at John C. Campbell Folk School is one of the most popular events in the area.
Join us!
About the Folk School
Founded in 1925, the Folk School strives to bring folks together in a creative, supportive environment. We offer over 850 classes each year in traditional and contemporary craft, art, music, dance, cooking, gardening, writing, nature studies, and photography. The John C. Campbell Folk School is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization.
For more information, call 1-800-FOLK-SCH or visit www.folkschool.org/fallfestival for more information.
10:23:14 AM
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Sunday, August 31, 2008 |
As you may already know, Ken Evoy's affiliate marketing training course, Affiliate Masters Course, has been updated and released in a new August 2008 edition.
For over eight years, this course has been highly acclaimed as one of the best affiliate marketing training courses available at any price, and it's free.
Learn more: Ken Evoy releases updated 2008 edition of the Affiliate Masters Course
If you're interested in becoming more successful with your affiliate marketing efforts, you should download and study this ebook.
Highly recommended.
Act on your dream!
JD
1:42:15 PM
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Friday, August 15, 2008 |
If you don't already know it, I'm a huge fan of Site Build It!, Ken Evoy, and their 5 Pillar Affiliate Program.
I've joined and tested hundreds of affiliate programs, and the 5 Pillar Affiliate Program remains at the top of the list.
You can earn generous commissions from each sale, and recurring commissions from each annual renewal. This is true lifetime commissions, and the folks at SiteSell go out of their way to make sure you are credited for the sales you make.
It is a two-tier program, so you can earn residual commissions each time someone you refer to the affiliate program makes a sale.
SiteSell offers outstanding training, a regular newsletter for affiliates, great promotional tools, dedicated affiliate managers, and free members-only forums.
The 5 Pillar Program remains one of my highest paying and most reliable income streams.
Have you joined, yet?
It's free, you know.
Come learn more about the Site Build It! 5 Pillar Affiliate Program.
If I were going to recommend only one affiliate program, this is it.
Act on your dream!
JD
9:03:01 AM
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Saturday, July 12, 2008 |
After years of selling Make Your Knowledge Sell! for $49.95, Ken Evoy just announced that it has been completely revised and is now available as a free download.
My new Squidoo lens, Make Your Knowledge Sell! has more information, and I'll be adding additional resources related to writing, selling, and marketing ebooks.
Act on your dream!
JD
11:34:36 PM
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Monday, July 7, 2008 |
Skill.
What role does skill play in the path to success? Are good intentions enough? Or do you actually need some talent?
This is the question Steve Pavlina asks himself and then he proceeds to give a detailed answer on how skill can affect your success and how you can build your skills to a new level.
He uses examples from his own background to illustrate the points he makes.
If you're looking for more success from your efforts, you may learn something of value by reading Steve's blog post: Skill
As Steve says, "If you want to be a true professional in a certain line of work, don't neglect the effort of skill-building. It's hard work, but it does pay off. Building skill over a period of years is how you go from amateur to pro. The pros commit for the long haul."
Act on your dream!
JD
11:23:06 PM
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Tuesday, June 3, 2008 |
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008 |
Until now, Site Build It! was for the "Do it yourself" crowd.
I'm part of that demographic and I love building websites of all sorts, but that's what I do.
There are many thousands of us who want to learn all the skills that are necessary to build a successful, profit-making website around which we can build our business.
But, there are many millions who are part of the "Do it for me" crowd.
Maybe you are one of them.
You already have a business and you want a website that actually brings new customers and clients. You want your site to add to your bottom line, not subtract from it.
You know how to run your business and now you want to find someone who can build a website that gets results.
You already hire specialists in other areas, including your lawyer and accountant. Maybe it's time for you to hire a specialist who will work closely with you to build a website that promotes your business and attracts new prospects to your business.
Where will you find a specialist who knows how to do this and won't charge you more than its worth?
SiteSell Services now offers very attractive packages that include hosting using the un-matched Site Build It! system and a specialist who will work closely with you to target your niche market and build a website that will work for you night and day.
SiteSell Services is brand new, but it is based on a decade of proven techniques and technology combined to build websites that produce results.
From the SiteSell Services page:
Build a professional Web site with SiteSell Services, using a process and tools proven by tens of thousands of people. Each page is aimed at pulling in Web site visitors. More Web site visitors means more new business.
Your SBI!-built site will work. Built from the ground up, you reap the benefits of 10 years of SiteSell experience, all packed into a truly professional site.
Don't waste your time and money. You deserve a website that will work for you.
Why don't you spend a few minutes and see if SiteSell Services is what you've been looking for?
Act on your dream!
JD
3:38:00 PM
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008 |
Are you a lensmaster on Squidoo?
If you are, I'm inviting you to join a new social networking site for Squidoo marketing, where our goal is to help each other do a better job of creating lenses that are used for marketing.
Want to increase the revenue you earn from your lenses? Come and talk about them. Attract new visitors. Learn new techniques and share your own.
Want to become a Squidoo lensmaster?
Everyone is an expert on something. Squidoo provides an easy way to build one-page websites called lenses that you can use to focus attention on a particular subject that you know and love.
It's free, and Squidoo even shares any revenue they earn from your lens with you. There are many of us who get a monthly deposit from Squidoo into our PayPal accounts. I just got a deposit into mine a couple of days ago. You can, too.
Are you an expert on something?
Build your own Squidoo lens and tell the world. It's free, of course.
Then, come join us at the Squidoo marketing community.
We'll help each other become better lensmasters.
Act on your dream!
JD
8:32:35 PM
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I got an email from someone who's had a Ryze community for years, but he announced that he was leaving Ryze and moving to Facebook.
That got me to thinking.
I, too, have been staking out some territory on Ning.com and wanted to take advantage of Facebook to help promote my social networking communities.
It took a bit of searching, but I found a great app that works on Facebook and let's me syndicate multiple RSS feeds. You can see it in action on my Facebook profile:
Facebook profile for John Dilbeck
If you look on my profile and scroll down below the pictures of my top friends, you'll see a new module for Blog RSS Feed Reader, where I've syndicated the Latest Activity feeds from my Ning communities.
I'm also building lenses for each community that will syndicate the latest activity feed, as well. The lenses will link to the communities, which link to the lenses, and the feeds will be syndicated wherever I can.
As a result, I'm already seeing excellent search engine results on Google with many page one results - sometimes page one, item one.
You can easily add the Blog RSS Feed Reader app to your profile.
Since Facebook is now ranked in the top 10 sites, I'm betting that syndicating your Ning feeds on your profile will make it easier for you to get found.
By the way, if any of you have a Facebook account, I'd love it if you add me as your friend there.
If you don't have a Facebook account, why not. It's much more useful than Myspace these days.
That's my two cents.
Act on your dream!
JD
8:31:14 PM
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Do you own or manage a business in Murphy, NC, or anywhere else in the United States? Did you know that you can claim your free listing at MerchantCircle.com?
For example, here's the Merchant Circle directory page for Murphy NC 28906.
The folks at Merchant Circle have used publicly-available information and have added thousands of businesses to their directory. If you own a business that is already listed, you can claim your listing and start promoting your business there for free. Publish a newsletter, offer special offer coupons, write on your blog, meet other members, and do much more.
Even if all you do is add more to the information page about your business, it's worth the time to claim and update your listing there. Merchant Circle is already indexed and regularly visited by all the major search engine spiders, and you can easily lead them to your main website, blog, or newsletter, with an hour or so of work on updating your listing on Merchant Circle.
Of course, if you prefer, you can use it more and promote your business on another easy-to-use and effective website.
I just added a profile question for members of this community to link to your Merchant Circle page so it will show on your profile page here.
If you have any questions, comment on this posting and I'll help you sort it out.
When I have time, I'm going to compile all the experiments I've done over the last three years and create a mailing list where I can recommend valuable websites like Merchant Circle to you, and help you steer clear of other sites that offer no real value.
I'll announce it when it's ready.
What can we do to help you promote your business?
Act on your dream!
JD
8:24:42 PM
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Do you have an account at MySpace, Facebook, or any of the other major social networking sites?
Did you know you can start your own community at Ning.com for free?
If you have the talent and time, you might even consider setting up an online community for your hometown, like I did for Murphy, NC. You can see our growing community at Murphy Connections.
I started this site about six weeks ago and it is growing slowly, but steadily.
You can do the same thing for your community.
Meet new friends and help the business owners in your community spread the word about their products and services.
This type of community is needed by many places, particularly small towns, and work well with other sites, including Merchant Circle.
Please note, however, that you'll need to pay the upgrade for a premium service to control the ads on the community if you or your members post commercial links or link to other commercial websites.
Act on your dream!
JD
8:21:49 PM
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Wednesday, January 2, 2008 |
In late December 2007, I created a new social networking site for Murphy NC 28906 on Ning.com.
If you live in, visit, or want to know more about Murphy, NC, come join us at the MurphyConnections.com social networking site.
You can customize your profile, write a blog, discuss topics related to Murphy, NC in our forum, meet and get to know fellow residents, upload photos, and much more -- all for free!
Anyone living in, visiting, or wanting to know more about Murphy, NC is welcome. Come join us today.
2:48:14 PM
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Thursday, October 25, 2007 |
It's scary trying to build a successful online business when the great majority of websites do not succeed in attracting new visitors and making the sales you need for your business to grow.
Site Build It! offers the tools you need and a proven step-by-step process for building an online business that offers a much better probability of succeeding.
During the special offer, instead of paying $299 to subscribe to Site Build It! for a year, you can choose to pay $399 and get two subscriptions.
Keep one for yourself and give one to a friend, associate, or someone in your family.
(Note: even if you look at this posting after the Halloween special has expired, the above link will still take you to the SBI order page - and - if there is a current special, the image will inform you. How's that for keeping you informed of any special promotions for Site Build It?)
Give the gift of Site Build It! to someone who is newly retired and wants something new to do or to a college student for building an in-demand skill for the real world.
There are so many possibilities.
Take advantage of this special and it may help you change your world.
This Halloween Special Offer promotion for Site Build It! expires at midnight on October 31, 2007.
Act on your dream!
JD
6:01:03 AM
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Sunday, October 7, 2007 |
On Friday, in the 5 Pillar #291 newsletter, Ken Evoy announced the introduction of Snippet Build It! This is a tool that can be used by 5 Pillar affiliates to build links to over 60 landing pages for promoting Site Build It!
Many years ago, when dinosaurs roamed the earth and the rocks weren't quite hardened, Sitesell was selling some of the best ebooks ever published. Make Your Site Sell! was the Bible of online marketing that helped me start building my marketing business. Now, it's a free download and there is a lot of very valuable information in the 1,500 or so pages of this ebook. I still refer to it now and then.
In addition to outstanding ebooks, Ken wrote a number of courses that were delivered via email. I remember taking all of those courses as they were introduced and updated. I still have several of them in a 3-ring binder, and they are covered with notes and bright yellow highlights. Now, these courses are available as free downloadable PDF files. I still highly recommend my favorite, the Affiliate Masters Course, because it offers as much as some courses that cost around $100 and you can download it free. It was always free and still remains free.
Over time, to make it easier for Sitesell's 5 Pillar Affiliates to market these products, Ken introduced Page Build It! - a tool for building customized gateway pages. Around the same time, give or take, the Build It! tool was introduced to make it easier for affiliates to build web pages (or just snippets of code) that combined text and graphics. This was a cutting-edge marketing tool when it was introduced.
Now, I hope you'll excuse my memory, but a lot of water has gone under the bridge since these tools were first introduced, so I may not have all of this exactly right, but I believe the gist of it is accurate.
These tools for building pages and code snippets eventually lead to the first, less-than-impressive versions of Site Build It! But, Ken and the folks associated with Sitesell were not content with what SBI was and continued to improve it and add new features.
Now, several years later - a very long time in the online marketing world - Site Build It has become an incredibly effective tool for building online businesses. More tools are added all the time and older features are updated continually.
So, as I said, Ken announced yesterday that Snippet Build It! was available and I just now spent about a half-hour playing with it.
I am impressed!
What used to be the Build It! tool has been streamlined and greatly improved. Now, 5 Pillar affiliates can easily and quickly create links to over 60 different landing pages that tell the story of SBI and why it makes sense to use it rather than traditional webhosting.
It's easy to go to the page, select either text or image, select the desired landing page, and build a link.
If you select text, and a landing page, you can type the text you want in the link and see the link created as you type. It makes it simple to try several phrases to see which one you like, and then simply copy and paste the HTML code to your websites, blogs, and other places on the web. The text links in this article were created using Snippet Build It! as a test of using the system and it is easier than hand coding the links as I normally do.
Not only is it easier, the landing pages are grouped by their order in the buying cycle, and this is explained in an excellent article that was also released yesterday.
Why is that important?
I've gotten into a rut of referring prospects to just a handful of the many pages that are available. Now, by using Snippet Build It!, it will be much easier to choose just the right page to link to, depending upon the point I want to make in an article or advertisement.
This combination of being easy to use and providing a full list of the available landing pages (and this number is growing all the time) helps me provide the information you may need in order to make your final decision to buy, or not to buy, a subscription to the Site Build It! system - or to become one of our affiliates and make money promoting the best way to build an online business.
In addition to text links, Snippet Build It! makes it easy to build graphics links using some new banners, buttons, and logos.
For example, the following is a link to the Site Build It! main page, and was created in less than five seconds:
The new graphics use less text and more people. They use more right-brained emotion and less left-brained logic.
Now, I'm a left-brained logic kind of guy. I rarely make my decisions based on emotion. I spend a long time learning about something before I buy.
Most people, perhaps you, make more decisions based on emotion and then later justify it with logic.
Site Build It! is great for right-brained people. It is an exciting system that has helped many of its subscribers build successful online businesses, and quite a few have left the corporate world and are now living their dreams and working from home. Of course, not everyone is this successful, but SBI offers the tools and training to make it much more likely to succeed.
Many people have said they were exposed to SBI and didn't believe that it was as good as many of us believe it to be. So, they moved on and built websites using other services. After a year or two of butting their heads against the technical hurdles, they remembered Site Build It! With more experience, they were better able to judge the benefits SBI offered and some bought on the spur of the moment.
Rather than regretting the purchase, most of them regretted wasting a year or two trying to build their online businesses the hard way.
Yes, some people do not do well with SBI, and some people don't like what they can't do with SBI - so Sitesell offers a money-back guarantee. You can't lose by trying it.
Oops, I'm getting off track. Back to Snippet Build It!
The new graphic images are more colorful and appeal more to right-brained people, in my opinion. I think they will be a welcome addition to the marketing tools offered to 5 Pillar affiliates.
But, nothing is perfect.
A few minutes ago, I offered my opinion about the new marketing tool on the members-only SBI forum.
I think it is a huge improvement over the older tools and I welcome the ease-of-use and organized listing of the more than 60 landing pages we can promote.
On the other hand, I believe we need a wider variety of graphics that are specifically targeted to each landing page.
But, you know what? I don't doubt that Snippet Build It! will be improved over time and that we'll see more and better-targeted graphics to go with all the other marketing tools that Sitesell provides its 5 Pillar affiliates.
It's easy to recommend something when I know from first-hand experience how much it has helped me build my online marketing business. I'm working from home 100 miles from the nearest traffic jam and loving it.
I don't believe I would be where I am today if it weren't for what I've learned from Ken Evoy and all the many Site Build It! webmasters who help each other on the free, members-only SBI forums.
I'm a very satisfied SBI customer and have many plans for expanding my Act On Your Dream! website.
You know what?
At first I balked a bit at spending $300 a year to build a website, but after building dozens of sites and blogs over the last few years, and wasting more than what I would have spent to build several more SBI sites, the only one that has never given me any trouble at all is the one I am building using Site Build It! Over time, that becomes more and more important, because I'm getting tired of wasting my time and efforts on sites that don't work or get destroyed by hackers.
I'm one of those hard-headed people that just has to do it my way and I don't regret all the testing I've done. I've learned and I'll be turning more to SBI in the future, except for some of my sites that require perl and php programming to make them work.
I just renewed my subscription to SBI for another year, and a long time before my subscription expires I will have earned back my $300 investment several times over. It's not an expense, it's an investment.
Just as Site Build It! is the best tool I know of for building a successful online business, the marketing tools that Sitesell offers its 5 Pillar affiliates continue to get better over time, too.
I am very happy that I found Ken Evoy and Sitesell those many years ago. I hope you'll find it worth the investment of your time and money, too.
Act on your dream!
JD
4:39:43 PM
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Wednesday, October 3, 2007 |
There are several ways you can promote your business on Merchant Circle: the contents of your basic listing, any items you post to your blog, coupons you create, photos you upload, and the bulletins posted on your directory listing page.
I just learned about Merchant Circle a few days ago and I've jumped all over using their system. You can see the profile I've created for Dilbeck Marketing on Merchant Circle. I've taken the time to use most of the tools and love their system.
(Your business is listed at Merchant Circle, right? If not, you can create a professional looking online listing for your business with our easy to use tools. Free! - MerchantCircle.com.)
There are probably other things you can do at Merchant Circle that I haven't discovered in the less-than-a-week that I've been a member of the site.
What you may, or may not, already know is that every time you blog, create a coupon, upload a photo, or post a newsletter, these things are added to a newsfeed for you, automatically.
At the top-right of your listing, you'll see "Subscribe to blog and coupon feed" followed by an orange chicklet that says "RSS/XML." This is a standard news feed that can be syndicated on many services and can be read by anyone using a news feed aggregator or a news reader. Even without sending emails you are broadcasting to the world - potentially.
I'll write a post later to explain more about making use of this. For now, suffice it to say that you can blog in one place and have it automatically republished in multiple places. This makes it very powerful for getting your news out.
If you don't know anything about RSS, let me suggest that you read What is RSS?.
One place you may want to syndicate your feed is at Squidoo.com.
To do this, you'll need to be a member.
Are you an expert on something? Build your own Squidoo lens and tell the world. It's free, and you may even earn some money from it.
Of course, you're an expert on your business, so join Squidoo and create a lens about it. It's worth the effort to learn how to build free lenses on Squidoo, and it's a perfect place to syndicate your Merchant Circle news feed.
For example, I've created a Squidoo lens about Merchant Circle and I've syndicated (re-published) my news feed and Merchant Circle's news feed on that lens.
Also, as part of that lens, I've created a list where you can add a link to the Merchant Center listing for your business. I will be syndicating that list on some of my other websites, so you'll get free advertising just by adding your link to the list. If you don't understand, just comment on this topic and I'll see what I can do to help you.
Act on your dream!
JD
9:34:55 AM
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So, once you get your listing set up on Merchant Circle, what else can you do to increase the likelihood of being found by a potential customer?
(Is your business listed at Merchant Circle? If not, you can create a professional looking online listing for your business with our easy to use tools. Free! - MerchantCircle.com.)
First, tell people how to find you here.
For example, my listing is located at:
http://www.merchantcircle.com/business/Dilbeck.Marketing.828-837-2901
I've used the custom URL feature to shorten this link to:
http://member.merchantcircle.com/dilbeckmarketing
This custom URL is much easier to pass along, put on business cards, and show in your advertising.
You can create your own custom URL by logging into your MerchantCircle account and then clicking Listing Configuration in the left column. When you click it, several other options will be displayed below that heading. Click Manage Links and then enter what you want in your Custom URL edit box.
You should be careful when you do this if you plan to advertise this URL. Make sure it is something that describes your business and is something you can live with for the next few years.
Remember, if you change this at any time, all advertising you previously did using your former custom URL will be wasted.
This is something you want to think about before implementing. Don't do something hastily that you'll regret later.
Also, while you are there, you can enter up to four links to other websites and blogs. Just enter the name and URL of the link and Save. If you have less than four saved links, it will automatically create a new empty listing. Add as many as you want - up to four - and save each time. In a couple of minutes, you'll have additional backlinks to your websites and blogs from a highly-ranked and high-traffic site.
After you enter what you want in your custom URL box and/or link boxes, don't forget to save it.
Act on your dream!
JD
9:33:38 AM
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First, if you're not listing your business on MerchantCircle, why not?
Create a professional looking online listing for your business with our easy to use tools. Free! - MerchantCircle.com
Truly, even if you are not a highly skilled web designer or webmaster, you can use the tools provided by MerchantCircle to promote your business and the products and services you offer. It won't take days, weeks, or months, either! You can get started in a few hours and can continue promoting your business as long as you want through posting to your blog, creating coupons, and publishing newsletters.
This is the kind of business promotion that every owner or manager of a small business should jump onto. It's free, effective, and easy to use. What's the downside?
Act on your dream!
JD
9:32:29 AM
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President Clinton recently announced MyCommitment.org and urges you to pledge to make a difference. Make a commitment to change something - big or small - and connect with others who share your vision for change.
I have been inspired by all the things President Clinton and Vice-President Gore have been doing to help our world after they left office and I am happy to pass along the word about the latest iniative of the Clinton Global Iniative, a project of the Clinton Foundation.
From the MyCommitment.org About page:
MyCommitment.org seeks to:
* Inspire Change. Provide information highlighting some of the world's biggest challenges, raise awareness and motivate others to take action.
* Build Community. Connect people with others who share the same vision for change and help them create networks to put plans into motion.
* Facilitate Action. Offer tools for visitors to make commitments to act and track their progress and results.
* Strengthen Engagement. Encourage citizen action around America and throughout the world.
MyCommitment.org builds on the success of the Clinton Global Initiative, a project of the Clinton Foundation, which has already inspired more than 600 commitments to action from some of the world's top thinkers and government and business leaders. Learn more about CGI member commitments.
Launched in 2007, MyCommitment.org reflects President Clinton's dedication to promoting citizen service. Throughout his life, President Clinton has met inspiring individuals and organizations taking innovative and unique approaches to solving some of the world's biggest challenges. These encounters also led him to write his second book, GIVING: How Each of Us Can Change the World, which was released in September 2007.
What will you do to help make the world a better place?
Act on your dream!
JD
9:29:43 AM
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Brainstorm It! is a powerful niche brainstorming and keyword analyzer module that is only one of the tools included in your Site Build It! annual subscription.
Here is some information from a recent announcement from Ken Evoy (Who is Ken Evoy?):
"Yes. Brainstorm It! *V2* is now live!
Both vertical and lateral brainstorming have been greatly improved. Important new concepts like VALUE Demand and Real Supply provide stronger guidance for content development. "Pink messaging" helps get niche selection "just right."
And there are a whole bunch of other improvements. It all adds up to the best keyword brainstorming and research tool in the world...
We did a ton of research before launching V2. It's fair to say that it's the best keyword tool in the world. And it's included in the $299 price of SBI!, which, of course, delivers many more tools than Brainstorm It!..."
Site Build It! is a powerful system of integrated tools that help you find a niche, identify key concepts and keywords for writing about your chosen niche, build your website and promote it to the world, and interact efficiently with your visitors and customers.
Brainstorm It! is one of the tools that is used extensively in the step by step process for building your online business when you first start using Site Build It!. Later when you have established your online business, you can continue to use Brainstorm It! to help you find subjects you can write about to extend the valuable content you offer on your site.
I've used the new version over the last few days and have found lots of new ideas for topics to write about on my SBI site.
The fact that you can pay much more than the cost of an annual Site Build It! subscription just for a keyword analysis and brainstorming tool that doesn't work as well is just one more reason for using Site Build It! to build your online business.
I am a happy and very satisfied SBI customer and I welcome these improvements to the tools I use to continue to build my business.
Act on your dream!
JD
9:24:55 AM
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Sitesell, Inc. recently updated the results page for websites built by their customers using Site Build It!
From a recent announcement by Ken Evoy:
"Results.sitesell.com is becoming a mini-directory of some of the most well-done, informative sites in the world. But it sure is getting harder and harder to to update it.
Picking the top SBI! sites for results.sitesell.com can be a real challenge...
It's become so much work that we seem to have subconsciously put off an update for over a year! SBIers keep doing better and better. More and more of them are entering the Top 1% of all sites in the world.
So this year(!), we shook it up (requiring higher traffic numbers to "make the cut.") There are a lot of new faces, but some old ones still in the lineup, too!...
We eliminate sites that don't have the "real" traffic to justify their Alexa scores. We chop sites that are in categories that are overcrowded. We regretfully drop sites that have been in results.sitesell.com "long enough" (and bring in new ones). And we cut so many others for a variety of reasons. So what you see is just the tip of the top.
One way or another, all selected sites must be in the top 1% of all sites on the Internet. And you can imagine that's a very nice place to be...
Each time we do this, the new sites stagger me. There is no limit to the niches you can conquer.
I think the most important point, though, is that most of these people are non-techs, just "ordinary" people who have been empowered to do EXTRAordinary things online.
They get the kind of numbers that any professional webmaster would drool over. And the more congested the Web gets, the STRONGER SBIers become. "Regular people" are leaving professional non-SBI! Webmasters and SEOers in their dust.
That's the power of the Site Build It! process... ANYone can find real, verifiable, online success.
For YOU, our partner-in-sales, this is BIG NEWS!
Why!
Because this is all the proof you need to convince your visitors that SBI! is for real. Real traffic! Real success!"
A while back Ken Evoy gave us a challenge to find any other webhosting company (and SBI is much more than that) that can provide better results for their customers. I spent some time searching and never found a site that even came marginally close.
See for yourself, these are the results SBI webmasters are getting by building their online businesses using Site Build It!
Why waste your time and money using anything else?
Act on your dream!
JD
9:23:39 AM
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Ken Evoy and Sitesell recently announced the release of Content 2.0, an optional add-on module for Site Build It!
Here is a copy of their press release:
Montreal, Quebec, Canada (PRWEB) August 30 2007 -- Sitesell.com, the originator of Site Build It! and champion of using quality content to drive small business sites, today takes Web 2.0 to new heights. For the first time, small businesses can make it easy for their visitors to craft original Web pages including photos and captions. Other visitors comment upon and rate those Web pages. The process is optimized for search engine results driving long tail keyword traffic and viral spread.
"Up until now," says Ken Evoy, president of SiteSell.com, "Web 2.0 has been the playground of large companies which basically aggregate individuals and small businesses. Today, small business owners have the simple, powerful ability to increase content through others and use it to grow traffic and 'buzz' tremendously."
Web 2.0 is a catchall term for user-generated content and interaction with viral spread. It has created legendary business success stories such as MySpace, flickr, and YouTube. But they are all 'big company' stories.
"Small business has been shut out of Web 2.0," states Evoy. "They are limited to blogging and using YouTube and MySpace to increase traffic and revenues in small ways. Now they become 'aggregators' instead of 'aggregatees.' Blogging pales because the site owner still has to create all that content. With C2, visitors create original, high-value content, a tremendous leveraging of time and results."
The depth and breadth of user-created content yields surprising results. At Wikipedia, contributors do the work, building new pages of keyword-rich material. Wikipedia gets the benefits of content and inbound links. Millions of Page 1 rankings at Google have pushed it to the 9th most visited site in the world (according to Alexa.com).
Evoy contends that what he calls "the rest of us" do not have the resources to create Web 2.0 platforms. Over one year in the making, Content 2.0 is that platform. SiteSell clients are already using it to create their own mini-MySpaces or to turn sites into super-blogs, inviting recipe submissions, beer reviews, etc. A ghost story site has even created BooTube, which invites video submissions. In SiteSell's forums, users are already showing traffic stats that have doubled.
Web 2.0 and so-called "user-generated" content has its detractors. They cite everything from the unreliability of Wikipedia and uncontrolled "splogging" (spam blogs) to widely publicized issues on MySpace. Evoy says that all those problems stem from the lack of reasonable forms of control. "We studied all the major Web 2.0 companies, took the best, eliminated the worst, and then made it all simple to use."
"You need an authority to maintain quality. Users of Content 2.0 cannot continuously overwrite each other like at Wikipedia. They don't create 'Profiles' and gossip like at MySpace. And they do much more than just upload photos. They build real value, content which an owner can easily control and monetize. That control is key."
Just like the large Web 2.0 successes, visitors who participate are notified when theirs page have been published and when comments are posted about their pages. They comment back and forth on the site and are encouraged to spread the word through e-mail. Repeat visits, community and viral spread are the hallmarks of Web 2.0.
"Content 2.0 is automated, regulated, high-quality Web 2.0," continues the passionate Evoy. "Like our flagship, Site Build It!, the complexity under the hood is intense. And 'under the hood' is where it belongs. Our small business customers never have to look there. They just focus on doing business."
Evoy sums up "Small businesses have been the aggegatees for years. The money is in being the aggregator. Now they can do it, in their niches, with quality and ease."
Content 2.0 is available at SiteSell.com for the annual subscription price of $99 as an add-on module to Site Build It! (SBI!), SiteSell's flagship business-building product.
(End of the press release)
Not every website that is built using SBI will need or be able to use Content 2.0 effectively, but many sites are already using it with success.
If you would like more information on Sitesell and SBI!, please visit Sitesell.com.
Act on your dream!
JD
9:21:02 AM
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After a very long hiatus, while I was trying to decide on a new approach, I have published the latest issue of the Act On Your Dream! newsletter.
It is archived at Act On Your Dream! -- Issue #6 -- Getting back on track
If you would like, you can subscribe to Act On Your Dream to get the next issues when they are published.
I intend to publish the newsletter on a regular basis, probably twice a month, and I want to feature you and what you are doing to act on your dream.
What can we do to help each other find the success and freedom we all want?
Act on your dream!
JD
9:11:45 AM
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