I was feed my son the other morning and he was tucking into his favourite bottle of milk and well milk so I was just flicking through the TV and caught something that I found very interesting.

It was a report on a program about different technology and blogging was the subject.

A reporter had his Youtube account disabled and everything on the account had been deleted.

This guy had everything on there, from personal videos, work videos and family stuff and with the blink of an eye the lot was gone.

Click on the link to read the full report of “Is YouTube’s three-strike rule fair to users?”

Well what did you think? How easy is it to lose everything that you have worked for.

OK so the guy got his account reinstated, but would you want to spend all that time trying to get your hard work back?

How would you feel if all your hard work was gone at the click of a mouse.

I can tell you it feels like crap, I lost two Facebook accounts so I know like a lot of you how it feels.

I think this highlights the exact reason why you must have your own self hosted blog. This problem could not happen with something that you own.

You do not own your Youtube channel, Facebook page, Twitter account or any of the other social media site or other tools we use. You are subject to someone else’s rules and therefore you have absolutely no choice but to follow them.

Having your own blog is like owning your own piece of cyber-space. It’s your and it can’t be closed down.

Thank you for taking the time to read this and hope that you found it informative. Please leave a comment and share this with your Twitter and Facebook friends.

To Your Massive Success.

Tristram Lodge

Today I want to share with you something that I have been learning over the last couple of weeks.

I have joined a few tribes and doing blog syndication and have been meeting some fantastic people and checking out their great blogs.

To begin with I would share their post but only occasionally leave a comment. However I have changed that outlook and comment on every blog I visit.

I want to share with you 4 secrets as to why you should leave a comment on someone’s blog.

Tip 1: The Blog Owner Will Appreciate It.

Think how you feel when you get comments on your own work? Nice feel right, well that’s how the blog owner will feel.

I great to do a nice thing for other people, I know I love it when I get left comments. Also you are showing that person your appreciation for the work they put into the post.

Tip 2: It Pushes Up The Blog Owners Profile.

That’s right, by leaving a comment other people that visit the site will those comments and think this person has something important to say.

They are more likely to stick around and see what going on. Comments are very powerful attraction tool for a blog.

Tip 3: You Get A Backlink To Your Own Blog.

Your blog is now linked to their blog through the comment. If you are leave good quality comments people will check you out.

I am getting traffic from the blogs that I have left comments on, now it’s early days and the numbers are not mind boggling but thats free traffic to my blog.

Tip 4: That Person Will Visit Your Blog and Comment.

As you can see this is a win win situation for everyone. They get their blog recognised, they feel great, you get a backlink and a comment in return.

This is called Blog Syndication and it is a great way to learn, meet new people and share your work.

Don’t forget to also share the bloggers post by using the share buttons and retweets. This is another great way that they will Thank you for.

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Facebook is a great way to meet people in your target market or that you have something in common with like business or hobbies. Now a great way to meet people is by joining groups and fan pages. If you post regularly to these groups you will get a fair few facebook friend requests, the more you belong to and contribute to, the more friend requests you get.

I’m going to give you one little tip that will increase the number of people who accept your friend requests. This will take you no time at all yet 90% of people on Facebook do not do this simple but effective thing when requesting friends.

Add a message, it’s simple, more personal and above all just plain polite. What you must remember is that when you make a friend request you do not know that person at all so you want to make a good impression.

Here is a snap shot of my latest friend request, as you can see only one person add a message, the rest didn’t bother.

This is easy to do, write out some welcome messages in notepad and add them when you are friend requesting. You will see a massive increase in the number of people who accept you as a friend. Also you will start to build that all important relationship building process.

It’s not a case of how many friends you have a Facebook, but a case of how you build relationships with those people. Don’t forget you can only have 5000 friends so make the most of those friendship.

I hope that you found this interesting. Please leave a comment, I would love to know your thoughts and don’t forget to share this with your friends.

Tristram Lodge

If you have a Facebook profile the chances are that you belong to a few groups. Groups are a great place to meet people and get yourself to stand out. Some are great at this but other stand out but for all the wrong reasons.

Post on group walls is a great free advertising method that you should be utilizing on a regular basis but what exactly should you be posting on group walls.

Well this is the 3 different things that I like to post on group walls. You will notice that there isn’t a business opportunity, forced matrix, over spill, ground floor, turnkey, lock your position in today, we launch in 3 days and we’ll build your business for you anywhere in sight and for very good reason. It don’t work guys!

1. The first one I love to do is post links back to my blog of my latest post. This is a great one because if you have your own self hosted blog it’s yours, you own it. It can’t be shutdown like your Facebook account and you can post whatever you like. This is where people can find out what value you have to offer, therefore you start to build relationships and trust with your readers. I even post older blog posts if I think that they add value. I still get comment on post that are a couple of months old. Over a period of time you will build up a lot of posts you can add to your different groups. Don’t forget to ask people to share your posts at the end of each article, this will increase your traffic.
2. The second thing I do is post links back to my capture pages. I don’t do this on a regular basis as I have been getting better results from my blog. However it’s good to mix things up a bit and a capture page is a good way to get people onto your list. Also a capture page is just that, something to exchange information for a name, email address and phone number. Your blog is full of content and value. It can show people how to do something there and then. A capture page can’t until the person has filled out the opt-in form. Don’t get me wrong there is nothing wrong with capture pages but I am getting better results with blogs.
3. Lastly every now and then I post motivational, inspirational and personal growth quotes. People love to read quotes and I see quite a few around the status updates everyday but there is nothing wrong with adding them to groups. There are loads of places on the web where you can get free quotes, just Google it.

That’s my 3 and I would love to know what kind of things you guys like to post. You don’t need to keep promoting the same business opportunity that another 60 odd people are promoting. Build up your list of blog post on Notepad as well as quotes and capture page posts.

Just a word of caution and please read this. Take your time when making posts and rotate your post every time. You should spread your posting through the day or you will get your account shutdown.

I hope that you found this interesting. Please leave a comment, I would love to know your thoughts and don’t forget to share this with your friends.

Tristram Lodge

There are two ways that you can build your Network Marketing business. First chase your family and friend and keep badgering them until you become an NFL (No Friends Left). You can stand in shopping malls pestering complete strangers and leave fliers on cars.

Or second, you can work from the comfort of your own home and all your leads and business come to you.

Which one would you prefer to do?

Well mine, like most  people is the second and it’s called attraction marketing. I want to share with you my 5 reasons why you need attraction marketing in your business. These are just my 5, there are many more but these are the ones that have really made my life so much better.

1. First and foremost, you position yourself as a leader even if you are brand new to this industry. You can start simple by learning a particular skill, say how to generate leads on Facebook. Write some articles and post them on the internet. By helping others first you will help yourself in the long run. Who you would prefer to do business with, somebody who has taken the time to show you how to do something like generate leads on Facebook or somebody who has no interest in you and just pitches their business opportunity to you?
2. Attraction marketing coupled to a great Lead Generation System will sort all the time wasters from the serious people for you. All this can be done on auto pilot so you only talk with the most qualified people. Imagine cold calling 50 people a day who have no interest in what you have to offer. How much time is that going to take? You have no idea that they don’t care about your product or service so all you are on is a fishing trip. You might get a bite but don’t count on it.  With an attraction marketing system and lead generation system you can show your product or service to 10 times that amount 24 hours a day 7 days a week 365 days a year. Sounds good right!
3. No selling. When I started out I did not want to sell and was informed by my upline that this is not a selling business. Great I thought until you find out you have to sell products to make money. I’m not a sales person and I never wanted to be but with attraction marketing there is no need to learn how to sell. This is because it’s about building relationships and trust with people. I only ever buy from people who I trust, never from people who offer no value.
4. Attraction marketing is about branding you and not your company. There could be millions of people all promoting the same MLM company but there is only one you so you can stand out. If all those people are using the same replicated website and company literature what differentiates them from each other? Nothing, they are all offering the same thing but if you are using attraction marketing you will be marketing yourself and your skills to help others by adding value. This was a breakthrough for me when I found attraction marketing and paired that up with a lead generation system which can be fully customised to brand me as the product. This is very important.
5. The ability to start earning an income from multiple sources so I could learn the skills needed to become successful in this industry. By making small commissions on products but having different commission streams money can be made from day one. I look as my primary business as a pension fund, it’s where I will get my residual income from and the biggest part of my income. However I am not relying on my primary business as an only source of income which can take years to build up. By learning attraction marketing and having a lead generation system in place has kept me in the game for longer as it has never cost me any money.

That’s my 5 reasons why you must learn attraction marketing. Yours might very well be different from mine and they will be the reasons why it has helped you.

I want to thank you for reading this post and I would love to read your comments and thoughts. Also please share this with your Twitter and Facebook friends, I’m sure they would appreciate your for doing that.

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