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Dare to Dream Again
by Chris Widener
“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.” �Teddy Roosevelt
Do you remember when you were a child and no dream seemed too big? Some of us thought we would walk on the moon; some dreamed of riding with Roy Rogers; others imagined stepping to the plate in a big-league game. Every one of us, when we were young, had a common trait: we were dreamers. The world hadn’t gotten to us yet to show us that we couldn’t possibly achieve what our hearts longed for. And we were yet still years from realizing that in some cases we weren’t built for achieving our dream. (I realized about my junior year of high school that I was too short and too slow to play professional basketball…
Your Achievement Challenge
Bob Proctor, popular life coach and renowned success speaker, says we don’t just pick up things we like doing by chance. We discover what we’re good at because we were meant to discover it. “Just as you were meant to figure out what your fingers do, and how your elbows work. Your unique gifts are hardwired into your system just as surely as your lungs are given their blueprint to breathe. And it’s from these specific talents and gifts that you’re able to define and determine your definite purpose� the reason why you’re here. Whhat’s in you cannot be found in another living human being. In fact, it’s quite possible that what you bring to the table hasn’t been duplicated�ever�since time began.”
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ust a few years ago, Chris Widener and Jim Rohn�two of the most respected authoorities on personal achievement in our time�got together to design a system that helps anyone craft his or her own unique personal-development plan.
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The two analyzed hundreds of success principles and boiled them down to the 12 most important and easy-to-understand “pillars” of success.
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Quotes from The Experts
Purpose
“A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose?a cause to pursue, a pperson to love, a goal to achieve.” ?John Maxwell
“A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!” ?Thomas A. Kempis
“Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.” —Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.” —Stephen Covey
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” ?Martin Luther King Jr.
“Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.” ?Mark Twain<
“When we carve out a niche for ourselves in our imagined future, and decide that we won’t be happy until we achieve it, we can only feel threatened and anxious over anything that stands in our way.” ?Nido Qubein
“Your purpose explains what you are doing with your life. Your vision explains how you are living your purpose. Your goals enable you to realize your vision.” ?Bob Proctor
“Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.” ?Leonardo da Vinci
10 Day eBiz Series: Helping You find Financial Independence, Day 2, Choosing A Product To Sell
This is the Second in a series of 10
small articles that will help you find Financial
Independence by understanding what REAL
EBiz is all about!
Day 2 will teach you about how to Choosing A Product To Sell
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BONUS: During these 10 Days to EBiz Independence,
the first 50 people who Register for my Personal
EBiz Workshop and Mentoring Program for July
get an extra $50 off. Once those 50 Seats are gone,
so is the discount!
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So, here’s Day 1: Why your EBiz Needs to be Legal
Choosing A Product To Sell
Choosing what to sell online is most often seen as the most
dificult thing you’ll do in your business. People agonize over
this choice for week, months, and sometimes even years! (The
longest I’ve ever seen someone take to choose something to sell
was 3 years!)
This doesn’t have to be that difficult, but people who are new
to retail sales tend to make it difficult because they think they
have to choose the absolute perfect product the very first time.
You don’t have to do that. If a product is being manufactured on a
continuing basis, it’s selling. That means it can be sold.
In other words, if somebody’s making it for a long period of time,
that means people are buying it. THAT means you can sell it.
Here are 5 basic rules for deciding what you can sell online:
1. If you can, sell something you know about. A hobby, a pastime,
something you have career experience with, something you’re good at,
etc.
If you can’t sell something you’re familiar with, GET familiar with
whatever you DO choose to sell. Learn about the product. Buy it.
Work with it. Play with it. Read about it. Social Marketing is a
big part of your online marketing. The more you know about what you
sell, the better your Social Marketing wil be.
2. Stay away from saturated markets. There are some badly saturated
markets out there, and there’s little point in beating your head
against a brick wall when you could simply choose one of the many other
markets that are NOT saturated. Here are the 5 WORST markets to sell in:
(a) Electronics. This market has been oversaturated for years.
(b) Jewelry. Another heavily saturated market, and also a market that
there is a HUGE amount of counterfeit activity in. Counterfeit refers
to lots of people selling cheap copies of designer brand jewelry at
extremely low prices that you can’t compete with when selling the
real thing.
(c) Clothing. This includes shoes, handbags, etc. This market is also
filled with counterfeit products that you can’t compete against on price.
There are also lots of returns in this market due to size issues. People
buy the sizes they THINK they are, and when the clothing doesn’t fit, you
spend a tremendous amount of time handling returns.
(d) vitamins/Supplements. This market has been largely taken over by MLMs
(Multi-Level-Marketing) schemes. MLMs make money for the ones who RUN
the MLMs, not for the people who participate in them.
(e) Gifts. Anything associated with the word “Gift” becomes hard to sell
online. This one is unique in that it’s the word “gift” that causes the
problem. That one keyword is probably the most overused keyword on the
search engines, and using it simply gets you lost in the crowd. So, if you
must sell Gift Baskets, for example, don’t CALL them Gift Baskets. Call
them “Birthday Baskets”, or “Welcome Home Baskets”…anything but the word
“Gift”!
3. Keep the Economy in mind. During a recessive economy like this one,
people are generally saving more and spending less, so expensive products, or
“luxury market” products are not a good idea. Your products’ retail price
range should be somewhere between $40 and $250 in an economy like this. As the
economy continues to recover, that range will widen, but for now it’s important
to sell to peoples’ spending patterns.
4. Watch your shipping weight. Don’t sell anything that weighs more than 70
pounds. That’s the limit for UPS, FedEx, and USPS. Anything over that limit means
you have to use “Motor Freight”. Motor Freight means that the product is
delivered by one of those big trucks by an independent shipping carrier.
The prooblem with Motor Freight is that shipping charges change on a weekly basis
depending on energy (gas) costs. You could sell a product on a Thursday, and
by the time it leaves your supplier’s warehouse on Monday the shipping price
could be $30 higher, for example. Do you want to try to explain that to your
customer? Nope.
5. Always think of a Marketing Hook whenever you think of a product. This is
critical. It’s Marketing that sells products, not the products theselves. If you
want to sell GPS units, for example, sell Marine GPS Units and make your site
all about boating with a GPS. Or sell Personal GPS and make your site and marketing
all about hiking and camping with a GPS. Or sell the more rugged Auto GPS Units
and make your site about 4-wheeling off road with GPS. Every time you think of
a product, always try to think of how and why people use them, and develop a
single Marketing Hook to concentrate your web site and Social marketing on.
OKAY, those are 5 quick tips to help you decide what to sell. We go into much
greater detail in my Workshop and Mentoring Program, but this’ll get you started
down the right road. 
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We’ve covered the basics of getting legal. There are
of course other issues that you’ll come up against in
your own business, which is just one of the many
reasons I offer my Personal EBiz Workshop and
Mentoring program.
Remember, during the next 10 Days, I’m discounting
the Program by an additional $50 for the first 50 people
who Register for July!
Hope this helps…
Chris Malta
www.ChrisMalta.com
888-8ChrisM
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Designing Your Web Store – The Building Blocks of an ECommerce Site
Article By: Chris Malta of WorldwideBrands.com & Home EBiz Product Sourcing Expert.
4 Things Your Web Site Should Accomplish
In building a successful E-Biz, every bit as important as choosing the right products is creating an appealing and user-friendly web site. Your web site acts as your online store, and just like a physical store, it needs to be set up in a way that makes customers want to stay and buy. Here are some tips for creating a web site that’s conducive to selling your products:
• Your web design should be attractive and inviting to entice visitors to stick around and shop. It’s a proven fact that the more time a user spends on your site, the more likely they are to purchase something. And customers tend to associate the effort and care you invest into your site with the quality of products and customer care they can expect to receive from you.
• Your web site navigation should be simple and instinctive — make it easy for customers to buy from you. You don’t want your visitors wandering around, wondering where they need to click to buy something. In fact, the fewer clicks it takes users to get from the homepage or landing page to the page where they actually purchase your product, the better.
• Your web site should have a personal face to help put buyers’ minds at ease. Adding your picture, your name, and a number where you can be reached, can reassure reluctant shoppers that there’s a real person behind your site, and help overcome their resistance to buying from a small, unknown E-Biz.
• Your web site should offer something new and original, so it stands out from the crowd and ranks well with the search engines. It’s okay to get ideas from successful competitors, but don’t simply mimic someone else’s site — you won’t beat your competition by copying them. Put your creative foot forward and differentiate your site.
Weighing Your Options
If you have the know-how, you can choose to create your own site. However, if you have no experience building a web site, let alone one that’s attractive and easy to navigate, you might choose to get some outside help. Your web design is too important to your business’ success not to do it right:
• A custom site is a more expensive option, but it gives you a great deal of creative control.
• A template site can work well, but if you leave it the way it is when you buy it, you’ll likely end up with the exact same site as hundreds of other people who bought that template. Use the many options within the template to make it uniquely your own.
It’s important that customers arriving at your eStore like what they see. Take the time to honestly evaluate your site, what kind of message it sends to visitors, and whether you need to make any changes. If your customers feel comfortable on your site, they’ll be able to enjoy their shopping experience. A smartly-designed site will translate into more customer sales, more repeat business, and ultimately, higher profit margins.
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Yaro has a new three part series coming up on his
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It’s all about knowing your customer – and I mean
really knowing the intimate emotional stuff.
You can read the first part in the series right
now as the newest article on my blog -
How To Develop A Crystal Clear Understanding Of Your Customer
Here’s to your blogging success.
Yaro Starak
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The art of visualization helps you make your goals part of your subconscious reflex habits, like brushing your teeth or driving your car. Imagine that you’re driving home. Think about the steps you take. You start the car, turn left at the light on Main Street, take a right to the expressway, and head west to the foothills. These interim steps break down your final objective into easily segmented steps.
Psychologists call this interior model or template a “cognitive map.” The cognitive map gives you an image by which to check progress at every moment. If you expect to reach a landmark in less time than you are taking on this particular trip, you might speed up a little to get back on pace. Scientists refer to the process of adjusting your actions to fit your image of what is right as using a “negative feedback loop.” This doesn’t mean that you berate yourself when you get off track. It means you mentally correct to the target.
This week begin to utilize or increase your utilization of the art of visualizing your dreams, so that accomplishment of your goals simply becomes a habit!
—Denis Waitley
Although your own internal measurements are the most important, you will occasionally need to seek external feedback on your progress toward your goals. When you do, be sure it is from people who are truly interested in seeing you succeed. Don’t seek feedback from fair-weather friends, competitive peers, or any person who doesn’t have your best interests at heart. Neutral doesn’t count. Get feedback from someone who is on your side but will still be objective and honest with you.
I’ve observed time and again that misery truly does love company. Jealousy creates some of the most miserable people I know. Surpass the achievements of your particular social crowd or your business colleagues, and look out for the slings and arrows of those who wish you were back where they are. You have to dodge the snide remarks and catty comments. Let them roll right off you. Don’t internalize them.
Only pay attention to feedback from those who have similar goals or who are working actively alongside you to achieve goals of their own. Motives and fears run deep. Study them in others. The sympathetic fair-weather friend who supports you and comforts you when you’re down, may like you best when you are in just that state: down and dependent.
Ultimately, nobody else is responsible for your life but you. Nobody else is accountable for your actions but you. Therefore, nobody’s expectations for you and opinions about you are as important as your own. So make sure those take precedence in your mind over all others, and if you do need to consult with someone else, think very carefully before you choose exactly who.
Equally important, be prepared to sell your ideas to an indifferent world. As passionate as you are about your business and the fact that your products and services will have positive, life-changing benefits to everyone you meet, you are going to find resistance every time you tell your story.
People are most interested in their own dreams and goals. They have difficulty believing that you have found a better way than they have to reach them. They are suspicious and guarded when anyone tries to sell them or change their minds. Rather than have others steal your dreams by raining on them, ask questions and find out about their dreams before you launch into your sermon. People buy what they want first, then what they need. Find what turns them on. It may not be what turns you on. By helping others get what they want, you’ll get what you want too!
Many times since, people have asked me what the most important thing you should take with you on a tented safari in East Africa. I always answer, “If you don’t love yourself, and life, you will be lost, ill at ease or bored.”
When I think of self-love, I don’t see it as narcissism or selfish worship of the man or woman in the mirror. I believe self-esteem is a healthy ability to share with others the value you feel inside yourself, without expecting a quid pro quo payoff. When I consider the word soul as I’m referring to it in this book, I believe it is the purity and beauty of an individual’s core values. Core values radiate like rings, as when a leaf falls in a pond. —Denis Waitley
Chris Widener, best-selling author and renowned expert on the art of influence, talks about the seven “C’s” of success. Here is his take on “confidence.”
—Denis Waitley
Success comes to those who have the confidence to try, and more than that, the confidence to win. Confidence is something that you can grow in your mind and heart. Each passing victory that you achieve builds more and more confidence in you to draw from the next time you go to fight another battle on your journey to success. Do what you can to build confidence inside of yourself so you will be able to dip deeply into that well when you need it!
Article By Darren Hardy of Success Magazine
The average person loses focus every six to ten seconds. When you find yourself drifting, recognize it and make a conscious effort to set yourself back on course. Here are four ways to refocus yourself:
| The Third ‘Person’ in Your Relationship
Articles By: Darren Hardy of Success Magazine
She responded with an oh-too familiar scenario� She explained, “Well, we are both doing our part. I am taking care of the kids, the house and my elder parents, and he is working long hours providing for the family. He shows up for dinner and soccergames, so I think we are doing fine.” I responded, “Sounds like you are both performing your roles as domestic partners, but what about your relationship? How is that going?” “Well, life is so busy I think we are doing the best we can,” she said. “That’s dangerous,” I warned. “What do you mean?” she asked. Then I drew out this diagram on a napkin. (see figure) “Here is what happens if you don’t realize there is a third ‘person’ that needs to be cared for. Both of you are doing your part and you do it for 10, 20 or more years. You are living together, raising a family, ‘doing your part’ just fine, but this third entity is never (or rarely) cared for, fed, nurtured or nourished. It gets weak and in many cases withers and dies. You wake up 20 years later. While you are good roommates and you might genuinely care for each other, your romantic relationship has starved� to death. All the while yyou thought you were ‘doing fine.’ ”
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My wife had a friend over recently. In the midst of chit-chat (