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To my Mindset Monday readers, I do apologise for my absence in providing you with my insights, however I also wish to inform you that this article is being written by one of my friends, Graham.

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Hello everyone!! On behalf of the fantastic Nathan, I would like to share you with my Mindset Monday. I am a huge fan of the old Mindset Mondays and I am begging Nathan to reintroduce himself back to the construction outlet of awesomeness.

Is humanity ready for a Hero?

I watched a movie the other day, it was a cartoon movie called “Mega Mind”. To quickly bring you up to speed on this, it was a Good VS Evil battle, but when Evil won, they were alone and they were bored. Evil decided to create a new Good superhero (shot a random person by accident with a gun that gives super powers) to make his life complete with more Good VS Evil battles. It turns out this new good superhero, was bad.. really bad. Mega Mind, the Evil villain ended up turning good.. and more battles resumed.

Now this regular Joe Blogs which now has super powers, was corrupted by these powers. Would this be the case for humanity? Would this be the case for you? If you could fly, have super strength and all the hero like powers, would you use them for good or bad? I always thought I would use these for the greater good of humanity, but after conversations with friends, I believe that power of this nature may tempt people.

What is a Hero?

This is a hard question. I want to start by saying that you don’t need to have powers to be a hero by any sense of the definition. A hero to me, is a person going above and beyond their daily lives to make life as a whole better, not only for themselves, but for everyone. Sure, I personally don’t mind if you want to wear a cape, or your underwear on the outside.. you can fight villains at night as well if you choose (Seriously thou, please don’t, I’m sure it’s very unsafe so leave it to the professionals). There is actually a Facebook group called “I’m always tired because at night I’m a superhero” haha. J

How can you use your already amazing skills/attributes to better life?

To remind people.. skills and attributes can be anything from your ability to computer program, or your nature of giving. All these can be put to good use! Yes that is right, you already have something within side you that can be used to either enrich your life, or to enrich the lives of others. Australia has many volunteers, scattered across every corner of our great planet. No you don’t have to travel outside of this nation to contribute, you can be doing this right now in your local community. The point I want to make is, I want people to go hard in life, and reach every goal. You all have the powers within you to achieve everything you want and make our existence something special!

Written by Gra

So I haven’t disappeared off the face of the earth.  I have been busy devising plans to take over the world and recently come out of hiding to launch a brand new business!

Firstly, my apologies for not writing any blog posts recently, it sure has been a crazy time.  Aside from developing this new business in the time I’ve been in hiding, I’ve moved house twice, built a new house and now just getting everything set up in my new home office, when I get a chance I’ll post some photos.

Secondly, the new business… drum roll please…

The new business is called http://www.WebsiteCo.com.au - the best place online for Australian Small and Medium Businesses to get a cheap website set up.  Its a template based, Do It Yourself, website creation service where from just $97, you can create your own website, choosing from hundreds of professionally designed templates.  Using our fantastic and easy to use content management and content creation system you can create your own site, add text, add images, integrate paypal buttons, add video or audio, image galleries, members areas, email forms and so much more.

A blog post really doesn’t do it justice but I really wanted to touch base with you all and also send out a bit of  a spiel for WebsiteCo to get some feedback, so please go check it out and come back and leave me some feedback.

Also as this blog is all about how to make money online, I cant go without letting you all know about the website affiliate program, for those of you who are into affiliate marketing, you can make up to $250 per referred sale, and I am on the look out for more gun affiliates to help me spread the word and partner with me in promoting this great website builder.

So what’s news in your world?  Please leave me some comments and tell us all what you’ve been up to over the past few months.

I trust you’re all doing well and I will endeavour to get back to a more regular schedule of blogging.

Profits are better than wages!

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So this post is just a really short and sharp one…  Amongst life being totally crazy with wedding plans, building a house and all of the fun stuff which comes with that I have been working on a side project which has been evolving for about 5 years now.

The concept of the LogoCo service and website began about 5 years ago and was birthed as an idea, and has now evolved and is positioned to become the leading logo design service in Australia.

Standing in a noodle box store in Adelaide, South Australia, an idea was downloaded into his mind about the need for a full service logo design company, which was professional, easy to access for small businesses around Australia and ultimately affordable for the sole operator start up business owner.

The concept of ‘logo in a box’ or ‘brand in a box’ as it was initially branded, was that through an easy to navigate website, small business owners could identify a package or ‘box’ which suited their requirements, their taste and their budget and included everything that they needed to present their business in a professional and creative manner.

Brand in a box was birthed and over the past 5 years has grown and evolved to service small businesses across Australia, providing them with professoinal custom logo design services, and affordable business stationary printing.

More recently because of the demand in the market and the growth we have encountered we have been able to expand our human resources to over 50 logo graphic designers, providing each business with unique logo design concepts from multple graphic designers.

With growth comes change and in order to reach an even greater market online we have rebranded ourselves as LogoCo.com.au and here we are today.

Image Investment Group and LogoCo.com.au is a 100% Australian Owned private company providing Australian small business owners, entrepreneurs and organisations with professional custom logo design services.

Because we operate 100% online we can offer our services to the Australian business market at highly competitive prices making it affordable for even the smallest business to have a high quality and professional custom logo designed for them.

We are so confident in the work of our Graphic Logo Designers that we offer a 100% Satissfaction Money Back Guarantee.

So please check out the brand new www.LogoCo.com.au website and I’d love to hear your feedback.

I trust you’re doing well and kicking goals with your own online businesses.

Over the next few weeks I’ll be talking more about the LogoCo website and business model and how you can develop your own online business using this same model.

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Hey folks, this blog post begins and is prefaced with a warning…

This topic is one of my pet hates, so if I start getting on my soap box dont let me scare you off, its just that its something quite close to my heart.  Also with that being said, I dont profess to have it all worked out and pretend that I’ve never broken any rules of Internet Marketing Etiquette but let me say this I do my best and am always open to be corrected.

So…

My reason for todays post is that over the past few weeks I have had a number of encounters with Internet Marketers from the city of spam in the land of rude and obnoxious.

Strong words I know but let me paint a picture for you.

You’re at a party, people are in their groups, having conversations and quite happy to be enjoying each others company.  Some people are familiar with the others in the group but there are a few new faces and they’re enjoying conversations about varied topics and subjects.

Then along comes Mr Bonehead, from the city of spam, in the land of rude and obnoxious, waltzes into the middle of your circle and without so much as an introduction says something to the effect of:

“Hello there people, come over to my group, my group is great, it will change your life and you’re wasting your time here in this group.”

He then slips out of the circle as quickly as he came and moves on to the next circle of people, while the previous group are left in the wake of his whirlwind of obnoxiousness.

Hmmm interesting…

So firstly, what would you think of such a person at your party?

They would be shouted down, kicked to the curb and never invited back.

But yet there are people just like that, doing exactly that, online, everyday without so much as a thought or hint of how rude and obnoxious it is.

If you’ve been a subscriber for any length of time to this blog you will know how much importance and emphasis I place on relationship.

In marketing just as much as in life, relationship is the key to success.  If you are not building genuine relationship with your prospects and your customers before you present them with any form of offer, you will not have any sense of rapport or trust in their eyes for them to attach to your offer.

So here are my keys to Internet Marketing Etiquette:

1. Dont Be A Jerk - Do The Ground Work!

Pretty simple I think… but lets define it.  A jerk in the real world is someone who simply considers themself and doesn’t put any thought into the people around them.

When you’re marketing online, your focus should be on your market.  Not on making money, not on making a sale, not on finding a prospect, not on making appointments or making a pitch.  Focus on people, people buy from people, and again unless you build relationship, trust and rapport you will have no market and no customers, AND NO BUSINESS!

Unlike our Mr Bonehead, an informed and educated Internet Marketer, knows that its important to treat people online, the same way you would treat them in the real world.

Dont treat them like a commodity, or just another friend in your facebook account, or just another follower on your twitter.  Each and every person is just as real and deserves just as much respect online as they do in the real world.

So… Dont be a jerk - do the ground work!  Build relationship, offer and create value, identify the issues of your market, and provide a solution.

2. Two Ears and One Mouth - Learn To Listen

I think that because the internet is typically a text and type driven medium, people have decided that the ‘two ears and one mouth’ concept no longer applies, well I guess, to an extent from a reality perspective, we do have two hands and two ears, so we can type as much as we listen…. WRONG!

Be willing to listen to your market, to the people you’re building relationship with, more than you pitch, sell or offer.

You will be amazed when you begin to ask your market questions how much information they will provide you and what’s better, its FREE!

Your market can provide you with valuable information at no cost, which could benefit your business no end.

I am in the process of building a new online project, but before launching it, I’ve spent a few weeks asking people for feedback on the site design, the pricing, the packages, the service.  Essentially these people may be my customers, so they know what they’re looking for, why not ask them, and give it to them!

To many business owners, online or offline, think they have the great idea and run off without consulting with their potential market.

3. Build Your Business Online - One Person At A Time

When you focus on sales, or prospects, or cash flow, your business becomes a heartless machine.

I’m of the opionion as Zig Ziglar puts it - “You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.”

As an internet marketing professional even though your vision or outcome in the end is to build a passive income, and create freedom for you and your family, the only way you will get there is to build your online business one person at a time.  Help as many people as you possibly can and you will see the money roll in.

People are people whether they are online or offline.  Values should not change.  Things like; respect, manners, integrity, openess, trust and truth, should not go out the window just because you have the benefit of annonymity and they wont physically grab you round the neck if you rip them off or tick them off.

When you focus on building people, and creating value, identifying need and providing solutions you will discover that the amazing universe that we live in has a fantastic way of rewarding those who approach life in this way.

So, that’s my little soapbox session for this week.

Dont be a jerk or a Mr Bonehead, be sure to build your internet business in a way that displays utmost integrity and you will see success follow you.

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