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G’day folks… I hope you weren’t too shocked yesterday after my reappearance back here at Web Money Blog, after quite a few weeks of silence.  But as you would have read life has been busier than a one legged man in a butt kicking competition.

So I have decided I’m going to attempt to write as frequently as possible and attempt to write shorter posts, rather than spend hours each day pouring out my heart.

In saying that I only ever want to provide the high value content to you my wonderful readers.  I’d hate to waste both yours and my time, so here we go, hang on for the ride!

How To Increase Website Traffic Using Facebook

This simple strategy to increase website traffic is also good for building your social network on facebook, building rapport with potential customers, and also helps with positioning yourself as an expert, but for now we’ll just focus on this as a traffic generation strategy using facebook.

Its really quite simple…

To build your facebook friends - if you are using facebook to network with likeminded people and also to attract visitors and customers to your website, you should be fishing in the right ponds.

Start by browsing through facebook groups which are of interest to your target market.

If you are in the Make Money Online niche, then browse through groups which are about making money online.  If you’re in the Make Money Blogging niche then browse through groups which are about blogging.  And quite obviously these groups will be full of people who are interested in the topic of your niche and your niche website.

Then begin to add these people as your new friends, requesting their friendship, but lets not be rude! Would you walk up to someone at a cocktail party and simply hold their hand or put your arm around them without saying hello and introducing yourself?  Well the internet should be no different.

Facebook allows you to type a short message to the facebook user you are requesting friendship.  Type something short and simple like ” Hi, I see that you are interested in …………..  I always enjoy connecting with likeminded people and i’d be interested to hear more about what you do.  Regards Nathan Hulls - http://www.WebMoneyBlog.com”

Within that short message is my top secret, ninja strategy to increase website traffic using facebook…. did you miss it?  Its so sneaky, and so tricky and completely stealth that I bet you didn’t even pick it up.  Okay so i’m giving myself way too much credit, but just incase you’re not sure what I’m talking about, the simple addition of my web address (including the http:// so it creates a clickable link) will increase the number of visitors to your website each day! And if you’re smart and you have an opt-in you will not only have them as your facebook friend then you will have them join your marketing funnel and potentially become a raving customer.

So there you have it folks, the top secret ninja stealth way to increase website traffic using facebook.

Just a word of warning, dont add more than 50 new friends per day as facebook can quickly ban you for spamming users.

Other than that… its a great way to build your website readership, build your database and build your targetted facebook friend base.

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Hey gang…!

I trust this post finds you health, wealthy and wise, loving life and filled with optimisim!

First things first - SORRY!!  I’m really sorry that i’ve been really slack over the past month, but I do have reasons (not excuses) why I haven’t been posting regularly.

Firstly - In just 5 weeks and 3 days I am getting married!! As you may have seen my cheeky little button to the right for ‘Honeymoon Donations’ its my virtual wedding wishing well, so if you’ve found any of my posts valuable please feel free to drop me a little token of your appreciation.

So yes, that’s all very exciting, and keeping myself and my fiance Kate, very busy.

Secondly - We’re building a new house for us to move into early next year as our very own ‘love shack’.  For those of you outside of Australia, our government has an awesome ‘First Home Buyers Grant’ which is available as the name suggests to people who have never previously owned or built their own house.

Where we live in Victoria, the total grant is $36,500, of ‘Money for Jam’ which is more than 10% of the cost of our new home and land, so who could pass that up, but it finishes at the end of this month, so we’re busy working with our builder selecting colours and fittings to get our contracts finalised before the 30th of September.

Thirdly - and probably most relevant to the readers of my Make Money Blog a few weeks ago I was approached by a good friend and Austrlaian internet marketer to be a part of a team of Internet Marketers here in Australia to build a very exciting online business.

If you are interested in online business, and you’re looking for just the right business to get involved with then you might just want to check this one out.

It is a Global Online Business in the booming area of Personal Development and Business Development.  It was founded by Brian Tracy and a number of other world leading authors, speakers and trainers, and is basically a membership portal with hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars worth of leading edge personal and business devleopment training videos, audios and ebooks.

What’s even more exciting about this business is that it has a ‘Marketers Subscription’ for motivated marketers or entrepreneurs like you and me, where we can not only benefit from the content but build our own Passive Income Streams by promoting both the customer subscription options and the marketer subscriptions.

The business is called iLearningGlobal and is less than 9 months old and with under 15,000 members worldwide truely is a ground floor opportunity for anyone who is interested in building their own home based business online.

One of the leaders in our team, Eric Allen, is a founding members and after introducing only 39 other marketers to his team, is earning over $30,000 USD per month, and the potential is unlimited.

Anyway… as part of my involvement with the business we’re building a ‘Success Team’ where we’re training and mentoring any marketers who join our team for FREE!  So my reason for sharing this with you is that I’d love to talk to anyone who may be looking for an online business like this one, where they can tap into and leverage the success of names like Brian Tracy, Jay Abraham, T Harv Eker, Mark Victor Hansen and more, and rather than do the hard work of building the website, developing content and continually having to update content, you might be looking for a great business that you can just promote, and sit back and reap the benefits.

If you’d like some more information check out http://www.tinyurl.com/successteam and if you want some more information either on the commission structure, or what I mean when I say Free Mentoring for our team members.

This thing has almost got me more excited than my wedding, but it really is one of those ‘Once In A Life Time, Ground Floor Opportunities’

I’d be happy to chat to you more about it, so please feel free to drop me a line, talk to me on skype (nathan.hulls) or just send me an email.

So that’s where I’ve been over the last few weeks… What have you been up to? What’s news in your world?

Please leave some feedback and comments to let us know what you’ve been up to…

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For our mindset monday this week I want to take a short lesson from the butterfly.

As humans we have a tendancy to move towards pleasure, and avoid pain.  Nobody naturally moves towards or is motivated by pain.

However often while in the middle of a challenging situation, we do everything we can to escape and avoid the challenge we are faced with.

Learn From The Butterfly

Our lesson to be learnt today is learnt from the process the butterfly goes through to break free from it’s cocoon to begin its new life as the amazing new and transformed creature.

As we know the butterfly begins its life as a caterpillar and then begins the process of metamorphosis by spinning itself a cocoon where it will live in darkness while the processes of change take place.

This process of change takes the caterpillar into its new form, however…

When the butterfly is ready to break free from its cocoon, if it were to be helped by a human or any other external assistance, it would not develop the strength it needs to spread its wings and fly, as it was created to do.  Without this struggle, the butterfly would not develop and would end up dying, falling short of its destiny.

If the butterfly is left to undergo this time of struggle, to build and develop its strength, to break free from its confines and the things which hold it back from achieving its destiny, it will naturally develop the strength it needs to spread its wings and fly!

Dont Run From Struggles

To apply this analogy to our lives, if we run from hard situations and prefer to hide ourselves away from confronting issues in our lives, we will not develop the physical and mental strength we need to be the very people we were created to be.

Often I see kids who have been given everything they ask for, and end up having no sense of value for what they have.  The same is true with life and success.  I’m not saying that we should look for struggles, or hope to have struggles in our lives, but rather, when they do present themselves be prepared to push through with an attitude of understanding that they will produce strength, patience, endurance and wisdom.

These struggles can allow us to create our own success toolkits, which we can draw on at other times in our lives, filled with widsom to overcome adversity.

We are all faced with the opportunity to run from adversity and struggles, or face them with an attitude that as we move further along on our success journey, climb higher on the mountains of success, the path will become narrower, the air will become thinner, the companions will become fewer, and the trail will become harder - but the view from the top will be well worth it!

On a closing note… the bible says in James

“Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him.”

So consider it joy when you face trials, knowing that your trials, as you go through them and come out the other end will develop your faith, your belief system, your attitude, your outlook on life, and this will develop perseverance, the ability to push through, go higher, go faster, go longer, go further!

I’d love to hear from any of you who have stories of perseverance to share with the other readers, please leave comments and I’d be happy to share them in future posts as well.

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Just last week I watched a great webinar with Perry Belcher and Ryan Deiss, called Social Media Money System, where they talked about the power of social media networks such as Twitter, Youtube and Facebook, and how when leveraged properly they can really help you not only build traffic to your websites or blogs, but also work towards helping you build your list with targetted followers.

Now you may have heard all of the news stories about Perry Belcher and how he got one of his online businesses shut down for making untrue claims in his advertising, and if you want to see the stories, you just have to do a search on YouTube for Perry Belcher Arrested to see the news stories.  Anyway, he’s pretty open and honest about it all, and I’ll be honest I am still a little sceptical and unsure about who’s telling the truth, but with that all said, he is one talented and smart internet marketer, so I’m more than happy to take the good and leave the bad.

So that leads me to my own discovery of a powerful little List Building Secret which I pretty much stumbled upon through my own efforts integrating my social media networks to build traffic to this blog and my desire to teach more and more people how to make money online.

As I’ve discussed in the past, and I’m sure you’ve all heard it a thousands times before, the money is in the list, and we all know that even if you had a list of 100,000 people with permission to email them, there’s more power in a smaller targetted list, than a massive random list.

Social media networks such have twitter, have allowed everyday internet marketers and even newbies to access what I’ll call the ‘public lists’ of the internet marketing gurus like Perry Belcher and Ryan Deis… By the By, their little Social Media Money System launch which came from their webinar last week, which sold out in the first day, would have landed them a measley $1.7Million in sales in just 24 hours… Just a little something to wet your appetite.

So back to Twitter - if you haven’t got yourself a twitter account because you just cant work out how it could benefit your business, or you just dont have time to tweet, let me start by saying GO AND SIGN UP FOR TWITTER NOW! And as you read on I have no doubt by the end of this blog post that you’ll do it…

My Simple List Building Secret - Leveraging Twitter and Another Secret Site

As I was saying, twitter allows you to view the ‘public lists’ of anyone you want, so if marketers like Perry Belcher have done the hard work to attract people who are interested in making money online, or someone who is particularly famous in your particular niche, they will have a large following of targetted followers.  By simply viewing their twitter profile on www.twitter.com and clicking on the link that says “Followers” you can view their whole list of followers!

Pretty powerful huh?

So there’s a ready made list…

Say you’re running a blog about Car Insurance - funnily enough I have one right here - Car Insurance Scoop (its just one of my little side projects which i’ll shed some more light on in the near future).  You want to drive traffic and build a list of people who drive cars right?  Well do you think there might already be car insurance companies on twitter who have done some hard work in building a following, and maybe even because of the size of their brand they have followers who are particularly interested in cars and car insurance.

Using http://search.twitter.com or a site like http://www.buzzom.com you can search for keywords used in user profiles or tweets.  Then when you find a profile which has a large number of followers, view their profile, then click on the “Followers” link.

Now you can start building your own list of targetted followers…

But how do you get them following you and subscribing to your list?

I’m glad you asked…

A lot of twitter users are using 3rd party services and applications to do automated tweets, and automatic Direct Messages when someone starts following them.

The service which I am currently using is called Tweet Later - This service allows you to do a number of things and has both a free and a paid subscription, but for the purposes of my list building strategy you’ll only need to sign up for the free membership.

So here it is…

List Building Secret - Step 1

Sign up for a Tweet Later account - which allows you to manage multiple twitter accounts by the way.

When you have your Tweet Later account all set up, log in and add a new Twitter Account, this is done by simply selecting Twitter

Then adding your twitter username and password:

And further down on that same screen - here’s the simple list building secret.

Add an Auto Welcome message, which includes a link to your website or blog.  Make sure this message is welcoming and inviting and not just a blatant spam message to get them to click on your link, but if you’re targetting the right audience and you can present yourself as an expert in the field, or passionate about your niche then they’re going to want to check it out for more information about you.

This auto welcome message will be sent as a Direct Message to new followers twitter accounts when they start following you.

List Building Secret - Step 2

As we have previously discussed, begin to research industry leaders who are on twitter and already have a large following.  Seek them out, and begin to follow their followers.

The strategy behind following their followers is that, many people now use an autofollow system, whereby the automatically follow back people who follow them.

With a large enough percentage of these people following you back you will be building your own follower base.

Twitter does however have restrictions on how many people you can follow each day, and once you reach that you’ll have to wait until the next day to follow more people.

When you reach 2000 followers there is also a follower/following ratio, so its no good if you’re following 2000 people but only 250 are following you.

A simple strategy for building your twitter followers quickly and balancing out your follower/following ratio is by using a site like http://www.buzzom.com which allows you to “Flush” out people who you are following but are not following you back.

Here’s a sneak peak at a daily routine for building your twitter followers:

1. Go to a targetted list of followers - of an industry leader (eg Perry Belcher)

2. Follow as many of their followers as Twitter will allow you to in one day

3. Wait 24 hours

4. Go to http://www.buzzom.com and flush out the people who did not follow you back and return to step 1.

List Building Secret - Step 3

The main impact this will have will be to increase traffic to your website or blog, so for us to achieve the ultimate, which is to have them graduate from being a twitter follower to a subscriber on our database, we need to have a compelling offer.  Something which is motivating enough for them to give us their name and email address and give us permission to contact them.  An example is a free 7 page report on “Secrets to ….” in your niche market, or like I have done here, offer free Ebook downloads.

The positioning of your optin is also key to increasing your opt-in rates.  If you’re targetting an english reading audience, at the top of a right hand side bar is the best position, as it is above the fold, and our brain is used to reading left to right, meaning our eyes automatically go there.

Another great place to position an opt-in is at the beginning or end of blog posts, particularly popular ones which are receiving good amounts of Search Engine Traffic.

So there you have it folks, a simple list building and traffic building secret to build your online business and make more money!  Perry Belcher actually says that he averages about $1 per subscriber per month, so there’s some good motivation for you to get off your butt and start building your list!

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So often I hear people speak about how amazing it is to be able to turn your passion into profits, and get paid to do, or speak about or teach or train others in what you love, and how the internet has made it possible for anyone to make a full time living out of any old passion.

Whether that may be knitting, public speaking, internet marketing, golf, swimming, wine, food, whatever…

Dont get me wrong, I am all for turning your passion into profits, I even created a facebook group recently to gather people together and teach them how to do that!  Turn Your Passion Into Profits - Facebook group

But I have some bad news…

If you’re the only one in the world who is passionate about your niche or topic, then its going to be pretty hard to turn that passion into profits… not impossible, but just plain hard work, and I’ll be honest, i’m not a fan of hard work.  To create profits in any market you need to have A MARKET…

So one key element before launching out into any business project, is the dreaded topic of market research, we must gain an understanding of whether or not there is actually a market for a product or service within your particular passion.

The three key elements of our market research online are:

1. Volume of people

We can easily find out whether there are many people who are interested in our passion and our chosen niche by doing some simple keyword research.

Since Google has cemented its position as #1 search engine commanding over 80% of all global searches, we can quite safely conduct our market research using Google’s Keyword Research tool

https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

This tool will allow you to type in keywords and keyword phrases, specifying a particular region, or the entire world, and it will return the results of how many people search for that term of phrase per month, and whether or not its trending up, down or sideways.

Now specific figures will be different for each person, because if you’re able to sell a $1000 product or service to your market you’re going to need less volume than if you’re selling a $17 product or service.

So gauge whether or not you think there is much of a market by researching whether or not people are searching for your specific keyword phrases.

2. Commercial Value

Even though you may have discovered that there are 100,000+ people searching for a specified keyword within your niche each month, that doesn’t automatically mean that you could make money from it.

The way we can ascertain commercial value within your niche is to see whether or not companies are paying money to advertise.

If companies are paying money to advertise then they are obviously confident that they will receive a return on their investment.

Google Keyword Research tool also will give us the CPC or cost per click, advertisers are paying for traffic in google with the sponsored listings.

The higher this CPC value the high the commercial value of your market and your niche keywords.

3. Market Competition

We may have discovered our passion has a huge following, and high search rates, and also has a high commercial value, but lastly we need to work out whether or not this market already has massive competition.

Competition isn’t always a bad thing, but particularly when you’re starting out in internet marketing it can be frustrating to spend a lot of time developing your business and waiting for the results.

To determine our levels of competition we can see how much competition there is within Google Adwords, in our keyword research tool, but another way of determining competition in our market is to type one of our primary keywords into a google search and see how many competing websites are displayed in google search results.

In the top right of the screen Google will display a figure for how many webpages are listed for that keyword.

This will give you a final indication as to how much competition there is in your particular passion market.

This is a great place to get started, before you start forking out money to have websites built and you put your time into building a business.

That being said there are always going to be occasions when new ideas, and passions create a market which didn’t previously exist, so dont let this put you off from developing your own ideas into a successful business.

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