Blog tips, Blog Traffic & Blog Hits for a Successful Blog

Blogging is so much fun and therapeutic at the same time! It is a way for the author to express emotions, feelings and insight as to what the author is thinking. I want to encourage all you bloggers out there to stay focused when blogging. I’ve seen many bloggers who write about what they are feeling or what they are thinking about for that day and the theme of their blog is not congruent. My first tip when blogging is to have the end in mind. Meaning what is your goal of the blog? Who do you want to attract to your blog? Then ultimately, who do you want to do business with?

The reason this is important is because you need to blog to a niche target market. A specific group or groups of people are who you want to attract to your blog. Why? These are the people that you will ultimately do business with. That’s why you can’t blog about just anything. You can’t blog successfully when you are writing about anything that comes to mind for that day! So pick a theme for your blog. Is it going to be helpful tips, is your blog the authority on a specific topic, is your blog inspiration, helpful stories, pick me ups and just stories that you get out there that you think will help other readers through your shared experiences. All of the above and many other themes are all correct and there is not one that is better than the other as they will all attract a specific target market to your blog.

Having the end in mind for your blog will help you direct your theme in a specific direction. Even if you don’t have a product or service to sell, your blog should still have a theme and be targeted to a specific group of people. You never know where this blog will lead. You may find a product or service to recommend to your blog followers or who knows; maybe your blog is turned into a book. Being a blogger, means that you are now an author too!

Now that we have a theme and an end in mind, how do we attract the right readers to our blog? The first thing you can do is to create good titles for your blog. For example if you are blogging about weight loss, a good title might be how to lose weight fast and easy or Weight Loss made easy or 7 tips for fast weight loss. These are just a few examples, but these tips work for all businesses, you just have to be creative when writing your titles. I always recommend writing a title with key words. So think of the key words for your specific target market and then create a title based on those top 30 key words. If we look at the example above, “how to lose weight fast and easy” if you go to  https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal, you will find out that lose weight fast is searched 40 to 50 thousand times per month and how to lose weight fast is searched over 100,000 times every month! Now wouldn’t you like to have some of that traffic coming to your website? Why not? It’s free! It doesn’t cost you a single cent write this way. You can still stay true to your blog and your character as an author, while being smart about it too! It is okay to be successful, so go for it!

How to make friends in the blogging community and how to drive traffic to your blog site? The first thing you should do is search for other successful bloggers with a following that have a similar blog theme as yours and make comments on their blog anytime they write a new blog post. Be sure to write nice things about them, their work, how their blog affected or touched you in a certain manner. Compliment them on their work. Be polite. Proper blog etiquette for bloggers who receive comments on their blog is to return the favor and go to your blog and comment on your blog too! This will then get them looking at your blog and the more they visit your blog, the better, right? The easiest way to stay on top of new blog posts is to subscribe to their RSS feed, which gives you constant updates when they have a new post. Don’t be afraid of competition, rather, embrace others work and befriend them. Much more will come out of a friendship than if you bypassed that person because you were afraid of the competition. I have made friends with many people in the industry and they have brought traffic to my site, had me on as guest speaker or guest blogger. We’ve traded links and have quoted each other’s work and used back links to each other’s blog, driving a continuous influx of traffic to each other’s blog. If you provide valuable content, people will respect you for your work and you will attract quality people to you!

Blogging works to drive traffic when used properly. Many little tasks repeated over and over form layers and layers of content out there and the more blogs you put out there with quality content, the more people will read and follow you. The search engines love new content, so write well, stay within your theme, make friends with other bloggers who already have a following and share each other’s work and knowledge and great things will start to happen for you. Blogging is also a way for people to understand who you are; what your passion is and you can showcase your work through your blog. A good blog shows intelligence and people read quality literature! So, always put out your best work! Always!

 

5 Key Ingredients when looking for the Right Company

When I evaluate a company, I look for many crucial elements that will make me and the company I promote, very successful. Recently, I sold my company and was in the process of looking for a company to promote that would give me a long lasting residual income. These are the steps I took when making a decision on what company I was going to put my name on.

The first crucial ingredient is the product. The company you choose to promote must have a quality product that you believe in. You MUST use the product yourself so you have your own story about the products you are promoting. If you are passionate about the product or its results, then your chances of success are even better. The product you promote is heart of your business. Here are some common pitfalls to watch out for when evaluating a company. I’ve heard many marketers tell me that they don’t care about the product; all they care about is the comp plan. I’ve seen these companies come and go faster than you know what. Intellectual property, software, audios, videos and books, can have quality products; however, many of these products have a shelf life because things are changing so fast online.

The second critical element is the company. When I look to promote a company, I want to promote a company that has been around a little while to prove their longevity, yet still have a growth spurt coming. I want a company that is at the bottom of the bell curve and climbing, not one that is already at the top of it. I want a company that has leaders at the top with experience in growing a multi-million dollar company.

The third crucial ingredient is the marketing. Do they have a simple duplicatable system that anyone can do? If you have to be a top salesman to make a deal happen, then that is not duplicatable. You must have a system where, in 5 minutes, you can teach some else to do the exact same thing that you just did. When you have that, you will have other team members duplicating you and hence, helping you to build a huge check.

The fourth key ingredient to picking the right company is the ability to promote the product to a large captive audience. Meaning, is the product something that people are already doing, using or taking? Is there a specific niche within that large captive audience? Watch out for products that you have to convince people to use or take in order to get the benefits. That’s selling and selling is not duplicatable. Be sure that your product is not overpriced for the marketplace. It’s ok if you can find cheaper product, but when comparing apples to apples, you should be right in the mix for pricing. It’s ok to pay a little more for a quality product that produces great results.

The fifth key ingredient is the compensation plan. If you can find a company that can pay a large up front commission and has the potential to build long term residual commission, then you’ve found the best of both worlds. Simple comp plans that are easy to explain make duplication happen. Duplication is the key to success. Be careful of comp plans with loop holes. This is called breakage and companies rely on breakage so they don’t have to pay out the bonuses. A comp plan that is easy to understand is easy to explain. If it is easy to explain, duplication happens.

After reading this article, I hope that your next decision is an informed decision.

P.S. The Independent Review Journal has given one company top reviews.

Sincerely,

Craig Garcia
http://www.InternetKingCraigGarcia.com

 

Craig Garcia Sells EDC and follows his passion for Speaking and Writing

It’s official! Craig Garcia, the creator and inventor of the first 100% commission payout program named Easy Daily Cash, later known as EDC Gold & Diamond, has sold the business to James Ward of LGN Revolution. Craig Garcia, along with his partner Michael Corcoran were the first to sell digital downloadable information products as a business opportunity and was so successful in doing it, many others have since follow this successful business model. Craig and Michel were also the first people to bring the 100% commission payout to the marketplace bringing thousands of successful entrepreneurs to our organization.

 

Craig Garcia is perusing his speaking and writing career and is preparing for the release his new book, “Bet on You”… to get ahead due out at the end of 2009. Craig is a Key Note Speaker for many live events and venues scheduled in 2009 and 2010 and can seen speaking at Empowerment 09’ in August in Raleigh, North Carolina, Breakthroughs 3 in Los Angeles, Ca in October and More Heart than Talent in Dallas, Texas in January 2010. Craig Garcia along with his wife Giovanna Garcia are highly sought after in the speaking circuit and often tour and speak together.

 

Craig wishes the best of luck to all the wonderful people who were part of his old company and thanks everyone for a great career. Craig has enjoyed the hundreds of hours of teaching Internet Marketing and hopes everyone continues to follow their passion and success in their internet marketing career. We are reminded by a famous quote from Craig that says “Follow your passion in what you are doing” and the money will come to you. Craig hopes that everyone keeps this quote in their thoughts as they continue their passion to better their lives. Remember, this is a journey, not a destination and while this business is simple, it is not always easy. It is the perseverance and persistence that makes a person a great success, not a great salesman that makes them successful in this business. Remember to continue your education as we can always learn more connect with more people. By reaching more and more people, we expand our network of influence, therefore increasing our reach and visibility.

To your success!

Craig Garcia
www.CraigGarcia.tv

 

Why Capture Pages Don’t Work Anymore….

“Why Capture Pages Don’t Work Anymore…”

So many marketers are using the same way to market their business. Many people have been told to use a capture page to gather prospects information and drip market to them until they opt out or join your business. By the time the expert marketers use an effective method of marketing and it spreads to the masses, it is only a matter of time before that method becomes ineffective! Standard capture page marketing techniques are old and ineffective for most marketers today because most people have been exposed to this method of marketing for many years and they are desensitized to this style of marketing.

One thing I have examined over the last few years is that the top marketers figure out early on what is working and what is not. Those top marketers figure it out early and ask themselves the most important question that keeps them ahead of everyone else. That question is what is the next method of marketing that will work? Many marketers are followers of those marketers who have been there and done that. On one hand, I think that is very smart, because I never want you to try to reinvent the wheel, but on the other hand there is a point where so many people are using this same strategy, that it doesn’t work anymore. people have been bombarded with emails and are on so many people’s lists simply because they wanted to find out some information, that they aren’t willing to give out their information as easy anymore!

People still opt into a capture pages, but I think they are more selective about who and what they opt into now a days; making the lead generation business harder and harder. If it is difficult to generate leads today, how are the marketers supposed to be successful? First of all, the capture page had better be damn good and I had better be getting something for efforts of putting in my info. I had better be getting something of value if I am going to give you my information. I highly recommend that it be more than just a report or an e-book as that style of marketing has been over used too! It had better be hundreds, if not thousands of dollars worth of free gifts, tools, audios, books and reports before people are willing to give out their info.

There is a brand new system that has outsmarted all the other systems out there and is working like a champ, at least for the next few years until this strategy gets saturated too….and it will, because it works…

If you are ready for the super tip of the year, then go to ProspectBlazer dot com and use that system, but please don’t tell everyone about it. Keep it to yourself if you want this strategy to be effective for a long time!

Sincerely,

Craig Garcia
www.CraigGarcia.tv

 

Insight to the Magic of Believing part 4

Now I am going to share with you some insight.  When I first started to understand and study the power of belief, I started doing amazing things. I didn’t understand how powerful I actually was until I understood what I was doing. When I started studying the power of belief this is when I started exceeding the goals that I had set out to do.  Sometimes in life, we set some outrageous goals.  We set goals for money, family, happiness; whatever it might me….We put some outrageous goals on ourselves. Sometimes creating goals creates a little stress and creates a little pressure. For some people it creates that anxiety feeling when your hears starts beating and you’re a little short of breath and your just like “oh my god what did I just do, and how am I going to achieve this, and I don’t know how, but I know I want this… and perhaps, if I say I want this, then I’m putting myself out there for potential disappointment and I’m scared…  Sometimes you can get a little overwhelmed. I understand that, but in order for you to grow as a human being, you need to be able to stretch. Sometimes when you stretch, it will put a little bit of stress or tension or pressure, or anxiety on you. If it didn’t, you couldn’t grow. A muscle grows by lifting weights or putting stress or pressure on the muscle. Do it enough times in a row, consistently over a period of weeks or months and the muscle gets stronger. It is the same for the brain. The brain is a muscle too! Think about this, if it didn’t put stress, pressure, or anxiety on you, then you would be comfortable, right? IF you’re comfortable, you’re in your comfort zone. If you’re in your comfort zone, how in the world can you stretch and grow? Interesting point right? Let me put it to you this way.

I’ve been a slow reader my entire life. I didn’t realize that I could get better at reading just by reading more. The more I read, the better I get at it, the faster I get at it.  The same thing happens with arm curls, working out, losing weight or stretching the mind. For most of us, we’ve been out of school for so long; we think we can’t learn anymore. The truth is, we never stop learning. Some people just put more emphasis on it than others. Those are usually the most successful people. Those are typically the richest people. Those are most likely the happiest people. Not always, I understand, but as a rule, that is most definitely the case. It is the same thing with business. If you are going to go and put stress and tension on your mind or your muscles, you have to be able to put some kind of anxiety, stress, or pressure on your personal growth…..to grow. Believe in the process and believe in yourself and go for it. You can reach your goals when you believe!

 

“Believe in Yourself” part3

I am going to share with you a couple of scenarios about the belief system and what it means to be able to believe in yourself.  Ladies and gentlemen, even if you have an income goal, it’s really coming down to DO you believe yourself, do you believe in yourself, and do you believe that you are actually saying to the universe?  The first thing you have to do is to be able to put things out there.  You might think that writing goals is corny, but ladies and gentlemen if you have ever studied the laws of attraction or how the universe works, you understand how things in life tend to happen and if you want to call on the universe, the universe will respond.

You can call it whatever you want.  Here is what I know, and I know this to be factual and I believe it 1000 percent with every fiber in my body.  This is the direction that you guys need to follow in order to achieve your goals. You have to be able to put out information. You have to be able to put out a goal, whether its verbally, written, or whether you are just telling everybody you are running into that this is what you are going to do and to make it happen…and when you do this, the universe has a funny way of delivering for you ever thing that you need, when you need it and it will all fall into place.  Every contact, every person, every bank loan, every opportunity….Every tool and every element will be placed at right in front of you when you need it. If your eyes are open to seeing it, you will have everything you need to achieve your goals, as long as you verbalize it and put it out there and most importantly, believe 100 percent in it. If you will stop at nothing and I mean nothing until you get your goal, then the universe will help you achieve this. Will there be speed bumps along the way? Of course there will. This is the universe testing you. Trying to separate you from the rest of the people who would just quit, give up on their dreams and say I tried, but it was too hard, or it didn’t work for me. Those are the ones who never make it. Will you make it? Only if you stop at nothing will you make it. No matter how many times you get knocked down. You matter how close you are to losing it all or quitting, those who persevere are the winners in more ways than one! Your end result is what has to keep you going. Remember it is always darkest before it is dawn. That is the magic of believing.

 

“I Believe” part 2

People have built entities around believing and achieving.  I know couple named Hugo & Roxanne, who have a huge blog, a huge following, and are doing fantastic things because of their belief in becoming successful professional bloggers.  All kinds of doors are opening up because they’ve stuck with it, believed in it and they have been able to brand themselves with Believing and Achieving and that is what makes things happen. When you have an imagination, when you have an idea or concept, its one thing to dream, but it’s a whole other thing to have 100 percent faith in it.  Believing is really having the faith, and saying “I want this to happen.” Let’s say for example, you want to make six figures per year. Let’s just use this as a universal example. You might say, “I don’t know how I am going to do it, but I know that I want it….I know that I deserve it.  I believe that I can do it…I have seen a road map for success to get me there. I know if do a, b, and c, I will make 10k per month, which will put me at 120k per yr, which is reaching and achieving my income goal.  You know that it is absolutely 100 percent feasible, so go for it. Shoot for moon, but it has to be realistic. Meaning, someone before you has accomplished this by doing a, b and c. You can’t just say I want to put a rocket ship on my back and fly to the moon.  There is no road map for that.  They don’t make backpack style rocket ships that put people on the moon yet. Bottom line is, you have to be able to see something happen.  You have to be able to see somebody or something that has already been able to achieve these kinds of results.  IF you know that someone else that has done something, and they have already plotted/written out a road map for you to follow and you accomplish a, b and c, then you will get the final result….

That is how world records are broken. They see that someone can run this fast, or jump that far or swim that fast, then someone out knows that if they can do it, I can do it and maybe even better it. This is the pattern from going from great idea of saying I would really like to have this, to absolutely 100 percent have these things.  I know it….I believe in it, every fiber inside of my body says this is what I want, this is what I’m going to do, and nobody is going to stop me until I achieve what I believe. That is why the power is in the magic of believing…and it is so important.

 

“Belief” part 1

Hi everyone, my name is Craig Garcia and I am going to talk about “BELIEF” today.  Belief is one of the most incredible, most powerful, forces in the universes.  Tonight I am going to share with you a few things I have learned about “Believing in Yourself” and what it has been able to do for me.  You might say, yah, yah “I’ve heard this before,” and I already know this stuff. I know that if I believe in what I can do, then I can do anything” Right? Does this sound like any of you out there? You may know it, but are you practicing it? Ladies and gentleman, the psychology behind it is really most one of the most powerful forces in the universe.  It is so powerful that it has really done amazing things.  I have an audio product about belief and its one of my top selling products, and sometimes I throw it in as a bonus product when you purchase other products from me. We’ll be expanding upon that today. “Belief” is actually going to be one of the chapters in my book. It’s so powerful and so important that I really thought it was important enough to a put it in the book and as an audio product.  Your belief system has everything to do with the determination you have and the outcome you will have in life. It may sound corny to you an you may be thinking yada, yada, yada, but let me just tell you that the conviction you have about what it is that you are selling, what it is that you are doing, what it is that you are servicing has everything to do with belief.  Trust me on this ladies and gentlemen.  When I have 100% belief in what I was doing, amazing things started to happen.

 I’m going to share with you a couple of examples about how belief and what I believed in came to fruition. I was first introduced to the Magic of Believing, by Claude Bristol in a tape I had received from my friend Phil Ramsden… It was actually on a cassette, which tells you how dated I am.  They don’t even make cassette tapes anymore.  He gave me a cassette type called the “Magic of Believing”.  Giovanna and I put it in our little red car, listened to it so many times that we literally wore it out. I was into personal development from an early age. Not having a lot of formal education, I latched onto this kind of higher learning. I thought to myself, why not learn from the people who have what I want. Why not learn from those who have had success and are teaching what they know. I was really into this kind of thinking and had already been studying Tony Robbins seminars and Personal Power tapes. One of my favorites was Tom Hopkins, the great sales trainer, Les Brown, the great motivational speaker along with many others. This tape on your “belief system” was kind of a new concept to me. So I listened to it and listened to it. At this time, when I first listened to The Magic of Believing, I was running my computer company in Irvine, California and had a great thriving business.  One of the things I learned from this is that when the belief starts to come clear, anything that you believed in you can achieve.

 

A free “Local to Global” business seminar

Craig & Giovanna Garcia

SAN DIEGO, Calif—A free “Local to Global” business seminar will be hosted by current graduate students and alumnus of the University of Phoenix from 9:30am to 5pm (Registration starts at 8:30am) on Saturday, May 9 at the AT&T conference center in Mission Valley. Reservations are a must.

This  event will cover a wide range of topics to include transitioning into the global arena, efficiency and effectiveness, technology enhancement features, and how to increase profit share.  Targeting business owners, decision-makers, management on all levels, and the curious alike, the seminar will provide a forum in which one can step outside the box and gain perspective as well as knowledge from experienced professionals and best of all, it is free.

“The presenters at this event have a strong and successful track record in either operating their own ‘Local to Global’ enterprise or they have successfully coached business owners and operators through the various ‘Local to Global’ stages, says Jon Anderson one of the event organizers. Mr. Anderson is a recent MBA graduate of the University of Phoenix.

Mr. Anderson continues, “We have tremendous talent and resources right here in San Diego that can assist business owners in finding the right people at the right time to help them profitably manage through good and tough times. We wanted to give back to the San Diego community by putting on this seminar to help Small-Medium Businesses (SMBs) not just survive but thrive in spite of the current global economic malaise. Moreover, each presenter has been carefully screened by our “core” group to ensure the highest quality program.”

There will be five presentations throughout the day. Included in those five presentations are two Keynote Speakers–they are Craig and Giovanna Garcia.  Craig Garcia is an internationally recognized Speaker, Author and Trainer. Craig Garcia specializes in Online Marketing, Social Media, Prospecting, Leadership and all levels of Effective Marketing.

Mrs. Garcia is a professional Blogger, Inspirational Speaker and Author.  She is an immigrant from Hong Kong that came to United States at the age of sixteen and started her own company with only 300 dollars and turned it into a multi-million dollar corporation. Come find out how she did it.

This “Local to Global Summit ” is certain to be an action packed one-day event that is “FREE” to the first 100 Only! This seminar will help SMBs learn a lot all in a fast-paced, one-day event. Food will be provided for the attendees.

 

Tips to Becomeing an Expert (Part 3)

The seven secrets that experts do and how these seven things can help improve your bottom line are: Perfect One Skill, Continued Education, Opinions and Arguments, Simplify, Create Products, Create a Brand and Charge Expert Fees.

 Experts Perfect one skill and are known for that one skill. There are many things experts can do, but they will do one of those skills the best and are usually know for that skill first. I recommend choosing one thing that you are most passionate about. Choose the skill that you are the best at and perfect that skill better than anyone else you know. When you do this, you will then become the authority in the skill you decided to become an expert. When this happens, people will start coming to you for advice, your opinion and your help. This is when you know you are the authority in your field.

Continued Education is critical to your expert status. Every expert I know, every millionaire I’ve ever spoke with is continuing their education on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. You should be doing internet research on daily basis in your field of expertise. This will include reading blogs and articles, listening to podcasts and watching videos or webinars. How many books are you reading per month in area of expertise? It should be at least two books per month. For some of us, that sounds like a huge task, especially when you read slowly like I do. Then maybe, improving your reading skill should be one of your goals. The more you read, the faster you will get. How many seminars are you attending per year? You should attend a minimum of six to twelve per year. First, because of the great content you will receive, but secondly and maybe more importantly, the contacts you will make when attending these seminars. When you are the expert, other experts will be attracted to you for your expertise.

Experts have opinions and can create arguments on a particular subject. If something has been done a particular way for several years or decades, as the expert in your field, create a dialog that may confirm or conflict with the traditional way of thinking or put a new twist on something or improve it. Campaign or claim that as your own and be known for the person that changed it. For example, everyone knows the phrase “Knowledge is Power”, but Giovanna Garcia, the “Imperfect Action is better than No Action” expert says, “Knowledge with Action is Power”. She didn’t re-invent the wheel; she put her twist on it based on years of experience and coaching many clients. She concluded that many people know what they are supposed to do, but don’t because they don’t put any action behind it. Point out what to pay attention to and explain how things might turn out in any given situation and campaign that knowledge.

Explain what things mean in an easy to understand manner. By illustrating a technique in a formula, flow chart or system, you can help people to see and understand something they didn’t before. So don’t be afraid to analyze something, create something that is easy to understand and get out those graphs, pie charts or flow charts. Everyone loves power point these days, so create a power point to explain each point in your field and do it in a way of everyday language. Don’t try to impress your audience by using big words; the point here is to create something simple so that everyone reading, watching or listening can understand it. When you do this, you become the expert in that field as you are the one who can explain it in a manner that is easy to understand and in a way that hasn’t been taught.

Create products from your expertise. Experts write speak, record and package their knowledge. They have products to sell and give away. Experts speak on stage about their knowledge. Experts create e-books, reports, flow charts, books, cd’s, videos about their knowledge. This is a natural progression from becoming a student in your field to an expert in your field. One rule of thumb is to make sure the content you are providing is quality. Do not focus on the quantity of products. While Giovanna Garcia’s motto is Imperfect Action is better than no action, experts do not just put something together to have a product. Experts make sure their work is excellent. People will respect you when your work is great.

Branding is a key essential element that all experts have mastered. The American Marketing Association (AMA) defines a brand as a “name, term, sign, symbol or design, or a combination of them intended to identify the goods and services of one seller or group of sellers and to differentiate them from those of other sellers. Therefore, it makes sense to understand that branding is not about getting your target market to choose you over the competition, but it is about getting your prospects to see you as the only one that provides a solution to their problem. Branding allows you to deliver the message clearly, confirms your credibility, connects your target prospects emotionally, motivates the buyer and solidifies loyalty.

Experts charge expert fees, which is usually more than you would think. If we look at the top five things that experts do to produce income, you’ll realize that all of them are extremely profitable. Speakers can charge anywhere from $2500 to $50,000 for an hour’s work. Experts can develop a seminar business that can bring $50,000 and up for a weekend’s work. Coaching can bring in $300 to $3000 per hour. Consultants can charge $10,000 to $50,000 per customer and take part in a percentage of the improvements of revenues. Product development can bring in millions of dollars and can be sold again and again. Experts get paid well and as you become the expert in your field, your income will increase. So does it pay to be an expert? Absolutely!

Sincerely,

Craig Garcia
www.CraigGarcia.tv