Whew!

It’s been busy busy busy! Sorry I haven’t written.

I just launched my new ebook on goal setting and software for goal setting to help you with your goals and popup reminders to keep you on track and help you stay focused in your business. Stop by and pick up your free ebook, and if you like what you see buy the software too! The software is on a special discount until Friday at noon.

Why Friday?

Because that is the day I close on my new house! I’m trying to raise some money for some home improvements and stuff so I came up with the idea of offering a special discount on my new software.

I’m also going to be going full time in my business and retiring from my job (at 34 years old!)

Yikes! Lots of stuff going on.

I hope you don’t miss me too much I’ll try and write more often. I promise!

- Ben

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Can I Help YOU Build Your Mailing List?

Today a new mailing list service launched called List Bandit.

The idea of the site is simple, people agree to receive emails from the list in order that they have access to send out their own emails. Many sites like this have launched in the past few years but this one is an improvement.

The biggest improvement is that you are rewarded for acting quickly and being the first to join.

In fact I encourage you to stop right now and join List Bandit Now. (link will open in a new window)

Why?

Because this time the entire ability to email people is a part of a Matrix. Meaning that you will have 3 people on your front line. On your second line you’ll have 9. On your 3rd line you’ll have 27.

So it means that someone like me who is a BIG list builder can only have 3 people personally on my first row. So let’s say you were one of the first 3 that joins me. That means my 4th person would go on your first row. Again my 7th… Again my 10th… Until your first row is also completed.

So this is the improvement, that people like me, can help YOU build your own email list.

That’s why you should join List Bandit Now and not wait any longer!

Enjoy!
Ben Fitts

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Today a new site is launching and You can join as an affiliate and
be among the first to promote this new site.

Your Invitation to Join as an CHARTER affiliate:
http://65.leisureaudiosales.com

See the “retail” site here:
http://www.leisureaudiobooks.com?aid=104618

The new site is from my friend Kevin Anderson. It is a really cool
new idea. Instead of ebooks, it is AUDIO BOOKS. You can download
them and listen to them on your ipod, or your computer, or any MP3
player (even most new cell phones!)

This is a really powerful training tool. How many of you still have
jobs? Are you able to listen to music through your headphones while
you work? Or maybe listen to music in the car? Why not listen to
educational audio books. Learn to get better at sales, at internet
marketing, at networking with people. OR simply listen to your
favorite books on tape.

This is one of the secrets I used when I had a job to grow my
skills. I constantly listened to personal development and training
materials on my headphones. Even while I was working my job I was
getting better at my business.

And if you didn’t know I’m retiring from my job on July 12th at the
ripe old age of 34 years old because my business is doing so well.

YOU can do the same thing if you train yourself and audio books is
a great way to make better use of your time and grow your business
by improving your skills.

You can OWN YOUR OWN AUDIO BOOK STORE and make up to 25% commissions
on retail sales.

Go here now to become an affiliate:
http://65.leisureaudiosales.com

There are different affiliate packages available.

For free you get 15% commissions on all your audio book sales. You
also earn 15% commissions on everyone who buys a platinum affiliate
package.

Platinum members get 25% commissions on your audio book sales and
you get 50% commissions on everyone who buys a platinum affiliate
package!

Needless to say I signed up as a platinum member.

Here is how to sign up as a Platinum member.

Click the link below to go to the web site and read the sales page.
http://65.leisureaudiosales.com

Scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page and click on the
“join now” button.

Once you do you will see the sign up form to sign up for free.

Once you sign up for free, you’ll be given the opportunity to
upgrade to Platinum.

I encourage you to sign up for platinum so you can get the higher
percentage commissions.

Remember today is launch day so you want to join as soon as possible
and start promoting this product before everyone else does! I know
some “big names” are going to be promoting this site, so you want
to get in ahead of everyone else!

Join the affiliate program and get a head start today!

- Ben Fitts

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In my series on the secret to network marketing I’ve been talking about how you can setup a web.

Yesterday I described how my new web site is already getting good search engine results for some keywords, but I wasn’t happy yet with the performance.

I’m not happy though as one of the target keywords I’m going for I’m #2 on, not #1. For another target keyword I’m #38. And another target keyword I’m not even in the top 100 for yet! Yikes!

SO… how do I get in the top of the search engines for these keywords?

Well one of the services I use is called Pay Per Post. It is a service where I can pay bloggers to review my web site or product. I can actually tell them what “keywords” I want them to use when linking to my site. I can also give them photos or images or other things to use in their postings.

This helps in two ways. First of all I get people posting about me on their blogs, and in turn will get quite a few visitors to my web site as a result.

Second of all I get to choose the keyword phrases they use to link to me so this helps me get better rankings for those keywords in the search engines.

I’ve done a few videos on Pay Per Post for our “Marketing ICE” site.

How Pay Per Post works, and how someone can make money doing paid blog posting. This is a free video, to get access to it all you have to do is optin to get the password.

How to advertise your web site or product on Pay Per Post. This one is unfortunately a paid video, but if you optin you’ll get a chance to buy a one month membership at half price.

I hope you enjoy the videos! At the end of the month I’ll post back to tell you if my search engine rankings for these words have improved any!

- Ben

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In my series on the “secret to network marketing” and getting people to seek you out to join you… I’ve been discussing setting up a web site including a blog as a way to get people to seek you out.

Here are some early results from the past 10 days. These keywords were all used for finding my site through search engines like Google. That’s 22 different people who clicked through to my site from search engines or about 2 per day. Not to bad for a brand new site only a few weeks old. As you can see some of the keywords below are pretty well targetted to my audience of people looking for information on Bookwise. For example “bookwise video” are people that are looking to actually watch the video and get more information on the company.

1 8 36.36% bookwise
2 3 13.64% ben fitts bookwise
3 3 13.64% bookwise video
4 1 4.55% blogs about bookwise
5 1 4.55% book mlm
6 1 4.55% bookwise and company
7 1 4.55% bookwise compensation plan
8 1 4.55% bookwise forum
9 1 4.55% bookwise opinion
10 1 4.55% bookwise pyramid
11 1 4.55% winning in the margins

The next step for me is to promoting this web site is to get even more links to my site. If you do a search for “bookwise” for example, my site isn’t in the top 10 yet. In fact my site is only showing up around #38 for the term Bookwise!

So the next step is to get my links up. I’ll write more about this tomorrow…

- Ben

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A few days ago I wrote about a new Instant Messenger I’ve been using called Meebo which allows me to manage several different instant messengers, but best of all it’s a web based system instead of software. You use Meebo so you can use AIM, MSN, Google Talk, or Yahoo instant messengers all at the same time.

Mary made a great comment. She commented that she had to stop using instant messaging because it was interfering with her work.

A friend of mine gave me a great time management tip. He says he shuts down email and IM and only turns them on for 15 minutes at a time. So maybe he works for 2 hours non stop and then only turns on email and IM for 15 minutes to catch up on anything important. That way he isn’t being interrupted non-stop while he’s trying to work.

I thought it was a great tip. One of the best things about Meebo is since it’s a web based instant messenger client, you just shut down the web browser window when you don’t want to be interrupted. Maybe once an hour or once every couple of hours you can open that window. Or if you absolutely feel you have to be available all the time you can have the web browser minimized. That way you don’t get all these popups interfering with your work and distracting you all the time.

What do you think?

- Ben

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Do you want to get the Network Marketing Magazine for two years for the price of one year… and how about $33.95 cash back too!?

I’ve been writing about the secrets to success in network marketing… and THEN The Magazine for network marketing contacted me about contributing articles and maybe even some webinars on internet marketing.

Pretty cool right?

Well you know what’s even better? They showed me a back door way you can get a subscription to the magazine AND get cash back too.

In order to get your cash back follow these steps carefully!

1. Click this link to join the network marketing magazine as an affiliate.

This will take you to the Affiliate Info Page. Click through on that page and sign up as an
affiliate.

**This is the secret to your Cash Back.**

2. Check your email. You will get one from the Magazine with your affiliate link in it.

3. USE YOUR AFFILIATE LINK to subscribe to the Magazine.

When you click on your link, it will take you to the subscribe page.

Fill it out and it will take you to the next page where you can enter a coupon code.

When you get there, use this code: 2years

It will accept the code, but it doesn’t change your total, it just extends the magazine another 12 months! This will get you 2 years (24 months) for the same price as 1 year!

4. Because you used your own affiliate link, you will receive a commission from your own purchase!

$33.95 CASH BACK!

AND it’s a two tier affiliate program so you can go out and tell other people about this “back door”.

Hurry up and subscribe now before they decide to turn off this special “back door”.

- Ben

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Do you use an instant messenger like AIM or MSN or GoogleTalk?

Do you have a program to link all of your instant messengers together so you can just run one software program and talk on all of the different messengers?

I’ve been using Trillian to do this for years. Basically Trillian allows me to insert my AIM username and password, Yahoo, MSN, Google Talk (Jabber), and even ICQ. They read all my different users from the different address books and allow me to use one software to run my Instant Messengers. I thought Trillian was pretty cool. They had features like “skins” which allowed me to change the look and feel of my instant messengers. They had some pretty neat icons and things incorporated into the software. All in all it was pretty good stuff.

EXCEPT a couple of problems.

1. Trillian takes forever to load! The software is now bloated with so much crap that I don’t need that it takes forever for the software to load. On my laptop this means when I’m in a hurry to turn on my laptop and do something trillian’s loading slows down the laptop for a good 30 seconds before I can do anything. When I’m in a hurry I hate to turn on my computer because Trillian is going to take forever.

2. Trillian seems to loose some AIM connections without properly notifying me. I’d be chatting with my wife and she would be IMing me but I wouldn’t get the messages and she wouldn’t get a warning saying I wasn’t logged in. So she’s basically mistaking the fact that I got the message when I didn’t. You can imagine this sometimes caused grief in our family.

SO…

What do you do?

Well I had been hearing about Meebo for awhile. Basically they do the same thing as Trillian except instead of requiring you to download software, you do all your IM from a web page! No extra software to download. So now I can turn off trillian and save the 30 seconds of extra load time when I boot up my laptop! I’m stoked!

So far I’ve been using Meebo for two days but I’ve been pleased so far. I also haven’t had any problems with the lost AIM connections, however 2 days isn’t a lot of testing. I’ll write more in the next few days as I have a chance to use Meebo more.

Try out Meebo today. (I don’t get paid for referring it, I just think it’s cool.)

- Ben Fitts

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