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Everything that happens to us happens in purpose.  And sometimes, one thing leads to another. Instead of locking yourself up in your cage of fears and crying over past heartaches, embarrassment and failures, treat them as your teachers and they will become your tools in both self improvement and success.

I remember watching Patch Adams – its my favorite movie, actually. Its one great film that will help you improve yourself.

Hunter “patch” Adams is a medical student who failed to make it through the board exams. After months of suffering in melancholy, depression and suicidal attempts – he decided to seek for medical attention and voluntarily admitted himself in a psychiatric ward. His months of stay in the hospital led him to meeting different kinds of people. Sick people in that matter. He met a catatonic, a mentally retarded, a schizophrenic and so on. Patch found ways of treating his own ailment and finally realized he has to get back on track. He woke up one morning realizing that after all the failure and pains he has gone through, he still want to become the a doctor. He carries with himself a positive attitude that brought him self improvement and success. He didn’t only improved himself, but also the life of the people around him and the quality of life.

Did he succeed? Needless to say, he became the best damn doctor his country has ever known.

So, when does self improvement become synonymous with success? Where do we start? Take these tips, friends…

• Stop thinking and feeling as if you’re a failure, because you’re not. How can others accept you if YOU can’t accept YOURSELF?

• When you see hunks and models on TV, think more on self improvement, not self pitying. Self acceptance is not just about having nice slender legs, or great abs. Concentrate on inner beauty.

• When people feel so down and low about themselves, help them move up. Don’t go down with them. They’ll pull you down further and both of you will end up feeling inferior.

• The world is a large room for lessons, not mistakes. Don’t feel stupid and doomed forever just because you failed on a science quiz. There’s always a next time. Make rooms for self improvement.

• Take things one at a time. You don’t expect black sheep’s to be goody-two-shoes in just a snap of a finger. Self improvement is a one day at a time process.

• Self improvement results to inner stability, personality development and dig this…..SUCCESS. It comes from self confidence, self appreciation and self esteem.

• Set meaningful and achievable goals. Self improvement doesn’t turn you to be the exact replica of Cameron Diaz or Ralph Fiennes. It hopes and aims to result to an improved and better YOU.

• Little things mean BIG to other people. Sometimes, we don’t realize that the little things that we do like a pat on the back, saying “hi” or “hello”, greeting someone “good day” or telling Mr. Smith something like “hey, I love your tie!” are simple things that mean so much to other people. When we’re being appreciative about beautiful things around us and other people, we also become beautiful to them.

• When you’re willing to accept change and go through the process of self improvement, it doesn’t mean that everyone else is. The world is a place where people of different values and attitude hang out. Sometimes, even if you think you and your best friend always like to do the same thing together at the same time, she would most likely decline an invitation for self improvement.

We should always remember that there’s no such thing as ‘over night success’. Its always a wonderful feeling to hold on to the things that you already have now, realizing that those are just one of the things you once wished for. A very nice quote says that “When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.” We are all here to learn our lessons. Our parents, school teachers, friends, colleagues, office-mates, neighbors they are our teachers. When we open our doors for self improvement, we increase our chances to head to the road of success.

Want to know more about Self Improvement and Personal Development take alook at this.

This is a good article I got from HERE.

I often say yes way too much.  Saying no is hard.  It is that way because of the people whom we choose to surround ourselves with.

Steve Pavalina hits it right on the head.  Read what he has to say:

Saying no isn’t easy, but it’s a required skill if you wish to have any degree of focus in your life. If you say yes too often, you’ll likely fall into the common trap of saying yes to the good while simultaneously saying no to the best.

There is no unconditional yes. Whenever you say yes, you’re also uttering a background no. Whenever you allocate time to one pursuit, you say no to everything else you could have done with that time.

Not too long ago, Blockbuster Video initiated a “no late fees” policy. In a way they’re saying yes to their customers who complained about having to pay late fees when returning a movie after the due date. But this policy has a side effect. Because there are no late fees, customers keep movies they’ve rented for a longer period of time before bothering to return them. So now when you go to Blockbuster to rent the latest releases, which used to be stocked abundantly, they’re more likely to be all picked out. The videos are in people’s houses instead of on the store shelves. I’ve heard Blockbuster employees apologizing for this policy on numerous occasions, usually in response to customer complaints that the new releases can’t be rented. The value of knowing you could go to Blockbuster Video and rent whatever you wanted is no longer there.

By saying yes to one group of customers (those who had problems with late fees), Blockbuster is simultaneously saying no to another group (those who value availability first and never had a problem returning a movie on time). Now if I were the VP of Marketing for one of Blockbuster’s competitors, I’d charge ahead with some sort of “guaranteed in stock” campaign to begin saying yes to those customers Blockbuster just bailed on.

There’s always a trade off when you say yes.

The word no often gets a bad rap, but realize that every yes includes a no, and every no includes a yes.

When you say yes, are you saying yes to your own best goals and plans while saying no to what’s less important?

Other people may pressure you to say yes, but before you do so, take a look at the no you’ll have to bear. Do you say no to your family in order to further your career? Do you say no to good health habits in order to fit in with your peers? Do you say no to setting your own goals in order to say yes to the reactive bait others lay before you?

If you want to say yes to what’s really important to you, you can expect to hear yourself saying the word no a lot more often.

When you say no, usually the person who hears it will react negatively, sometimes mildly, sometimes strongly. Don’t let that bother you — their reaction has a lot more to do with them than it does with you. If they push you too much, I suggest you simply turn it around on them by emphasizing the no that would accompany the yes. For example, “Why are you asking me to say no to my family, my health, my goals, and so on, just so I can say yes to your request?”

If it’s not what you truly want, say no.

I agree with Steve.

Here is his post.  Saying No.

Rob Wheeler.

The benefits of increasing search engine traffic to any website are many. For online retailers and affiliate marketers, this means a higher potential for greater product sales and referral commissions.

For the average blogger, the increase in search engine traffic means a bigger audience and possibly more long term profit from the display of on-site or privately arranged advertisements.

Understanding how to consistently send more search engine traffic to your website requires an appreciation of the Long Tail theory and subsequently the effective manipulation of traffic-directing long tail keywords.

First coined in by Chris Anderson in a seminal 2004 article in Wired Magazine , the Long Tail is a socio-statistical theory which suggests that the collective sales of products in low demand can exceed that of popular products and bestsellers.

Applying this theory to mass market retailers like Amazon , Anderson suggests that catering to minority tastes and making low-demand products consistently available will allow businesses to achieve higher profit margins, than if they were to solely focus on high-demand/popular products.

Here is the Long Tail in a Nutshell:

The theory of the Long Tail is that our culture and economy is increasingly shifting away from a focus on a relatively small number of “hits” (mainstream products and markets) at the head of the demand curve and toward a huge number of niches in the tail.

As the costs of production and distribution fall, especially online, there is now less need to lump products and consumers into one-size-fits-all containers.

In an era without the constraints of physical shelf space and other bottlenecks of distribution, narrowly-targeted goods and services can be as economically attractive as mainstream fare.

When applied to websites and search engine traffic/marketing, it simply means that most websites are likely to receive most of their search engine visitors through a variety of low-volume search queries instead of a handful of major keywords.

Therefore focusing on developing the keywords which receive lower volumes of search traffic will lead to an increase in the overall amount of visitors from search engines to your website.

What are Long Tail keywords?

Long tail keywords are simply multi-phrase search queries which visitors use on search engines to arrive at your website. These longtail keywords are much more targeted than the general or main keyword topic and they literally embody a visitor’s need for specific information.

Here is an example. ‘Credit Cards‘ is the general keyword topic and long tail keywords within this niche includes terms such as the following:

• credit cards for people with bad credit
• list of low interest credit cards
• benefits of small business credit cards
• good canadian credit cards for students

These long tail keywords are actual search queries, therefore optimizing your site and creating content to match these search queries will allow you to attract visitors who search for information via these and similar search terms.

Benefits of Long Tail keywords

Here are four main reasons why you should consider optimizing your website for long tail keywords:

• Long tail keywords lead to higher conversions. Visitors arriving through multi-phrase search queries might be more likely to make purchases or convert on affiliate programs or recommendations. By targeting these longtail phrases, you are effectively targeting a market of potential buyers.
• Long tail Keywords are Easier to rank. It is much easier to make your website rank well on search engines for longtail keywords because of the generally weaker competition.
• More Visitors to your website. Targeting long tail keywords will gradually lead to more search engine traffic because you’ll have a lot of pages indexed and ranking for specific phrases related to your website/business. This means increased visibility and therefore a much larger amount of search engine traffic.
• Higher monetization potential. Search engine visitors are very valuable because they are targeted individuals who are seeking specific information and hence are more likely to click on contextual ads or subscribe to your site newsletter or blog feed. This grows your audience and allows you greater monetization potential in the long run through product sales or the use of third-party ad networks.

Five Ways to Find and Target Your Long Tail Keywords

Here is a list of five methods you can use to discover the long tail keywords that are relevant to your website and niche. These methods consist of effectively utilizing several online web tools as well as basic content development tactics.

1. Keyword Analytic and Tracking Programs

HitTail and 103bees are two keyword/analytic programs you can use on your website. You’ll just need to drop a few lines of code in your site template and both programs will start to suggest specific long-tail keywords you can use. They can be considered some sort of a lazy and semi-passive way to develop a range of long tail keywords.

I’ve personally tried both analytic packages for several weeks and didn’t find them to be really useful because of several reasons:

• Poor Keyword management interface. If your site receives a lot of search traffic, the analytic programs will give you a lot of suggestions, sometimes far too many for you to implement.Filtering and selecting specific keywords from the list presented still requires some degree of time and work, not to mention that the weak interface makes it impossible to group, sort and tag keywords according to specific to-do time frames and priorities.
• No built-in search volume measure for each keyword phrase they suggest. You might want to run the list of long tail keyword suggestions you receive through a search volume analyzer to find out which one to prioritize.Links to free keyword tracker programs like Wordtracker and the ability to sort the keywords according to approximate search volumes would have be very useful indeed.
• Weak performance for new sites. If you’ve just started a new website or blog, these packages will not help because if you don’t have any search hits, you won’t get any keyword suggestions.It also means that even if you start getting a little search traffic, the keywords suggestion will come rather slowly. This doesn’t allow you to plan and create content in advance to match your search marketing campaigns.

However if you are pressed for time or am unwilling to do research on your own, these analytic packages might come in handy.

If I were to pick one program to use, I would go with 103bees because they offer more statistical features than HitTail while acting as a SERPs tracker which enables you to monitor how your keywords are ranking on the search engines.

HitTail only allows one website per account so if you want an analytics tool for several websites, 103 bees would be better as they allow you integrate and monitor multiple websites within the same interface.

2. Internal On-Site Search Boxes.

Monitor what keyword phrases users are searching for on your website and create pages with these exact keywords and variations of these keyword phrases. This is a passive and useful way of developing long tail keyword rich webpages.

Your visitors are effectively doing all the research for you and their search behavior usually corresponds in some way to the general public’s search habits.

3. Online Keyword Research Tools

In my previous article on how to pick your blog niche, I’ve written about how keyword research tools such as the Google Adwords Keyword Tool and SEO Book Keyword Suggestion Tool can help you determine the profitability of a niche.

These tools can also help you to develop a broad range of secondary keywords when you type in a core keyword such as ‘credit cards’. Both of these tools will give you a long list of tools sorted according to their search volume.

For example, here’s a query for the keyword ‘credit cards’ on both Adwords and the SEO Book tool:

These keywords and phrases are components of long tail keywords you should target. What you should do is to keep a list of these keywords in an accessible document and when you write any article, be sure to include at least one of these keywords as your title tag.

This can be done systematically and you should go through the entire list at least once or twice.You should connect these keywords with a variety of phrases which are similar to search queries.

For instance, if I were to use the first few items on the Adwords list above for ‘credit cards’, I would include specific phrases before or after the keywords.

Here are some examples of possible page titles:

• How to pick a credit card
• 4 ways to apply for a credit card
• Bad credit cards to avoid

Another tool you can use is Google Suggest, a search box which guesses what you are typing in it and offers suggestions in real time. This uses data from the overall popularity of searches it sees and can be a useful way to narrow down your searches to specific keyword niches.

Note that these keyword suggestions are not longtails but rather categorical keywords which each contain a whole bunch of long tail keyword phrases. Google suggest should only be used to narrow down your search so you can do further analysis through keyword tools or competitor analysis.

If you are using Firefox as a browser, I highly recommend installing the Customize Google extension because it allows you to have Google Suggest functionality on the usual Google search boxes as well.

4. Competitor Analysis: Finding their Long Tail Keywords

Learning how your competitor gets traffic to their website is a powerful strategy because your competitor has already targeted a whole bunch of long tail keywords. You’ll only need to optimize your site and create new pages which target these keywords as well.

Depending on your overall link profile, on-site optimization and site strength, you will stand a chance of ranking better than your competitor on the search engines.

There are two ways to find your competitors keywords. One is to visit their websites and analyze their webpages, check out their title and meta tags, along with their backlinks if you have the time. The benefit of this detailed research is that you’ll come to understand your competitors a lot better.

A faster method to perform competitor keyword analysis would be to use free online keyword parsing tools like SEODigger, which allows you to immediately find out which keywords your competitor is targeting by simply inputing their site URL.

SEODigger can be inaccurate when it comes to actual keyword ranks but is generally useful as it shows you various keywords which your competitors are ranking for at the moment.

5. Natural Long Tail Keyword Development

This is the simplest way to develop long tail keywords because it doesn’t require much research at all. All you have to do is to make sure that you update your website or blog more frequently by adding new webpages and core keyword-friendly content.

The key emphasis here is frequency. If you’ve just started a new blog, get it indexed by Google first and then and post as frequently as possible to increase your content visibility on the search engines.

A high frequency of blog posts, each with specific variations of your keywords will help you to gradually get more search traffic.

Dosh Dosh’s Long Tail Keyword Development Strategy

To make things easier for you, I’ve broken down the procedure of finding and developing your long tail keywords into a simple five step process. By following this strategy, you should be able to effectively grow the amount of search traffic you receive daily.

1. Enter your core keywords in the Adwords Keyword Suggestion tool. Download the entire list in a text or excel format.
2. Perform competitor analysis manually or through SEO Digger.
3. Compile in one list, all the longtail keywords from both of the above steps.
4. Start to create webpages or blog posts and include at least one keyword + a phrase in the title. For Wordpress users, install and use the SEO Title Tag plugin.
5. Optional: Set up an keyword analytics package to receive keyword suggestions and track existing keyword performance

Final Thoughts

This article on using Long Tail keywords to attract more search traffic is an companion piece to my series of tutorials on niche blogging, because niche blogs require consistent search traffic for effective growth and monetization.

If you already own several blogs in profitable niches, these tips on long tail keywords will undoubtedly increase the amount of traffic you receive from search engines.

It has worked remarkably well for me and I’m absolutely confident that you’ll see the same improvement in search traffic figures as well.

[This Post comes from the blog "Dosh Dosh" and all material from there]

Most people have no clue how to establish trust.  Trust is a fickle subject.  It can be won or lost in a blink of an eye.  To be a great leader, you must work long and hard to develop the characteristics and habits that earn trust, build trust and ultimately maintain that trust over a period of time.  There are many theories on how this can be accomplished.  However, you must decide for yourself just how you will.  Establishing trust in a relationship is critical to success as a leader.

A lot of emphasis has been focused on building a tribe.  You must connect with the people who you like or who like you, or those who DO what you do.  While this can be an effective MARKETING tool, it is not realistic.  You will not have on your team only those who like you or do what you do.  A true leader must capture, if not the heart, the mind of the team he or she is working with.  Earning that trust entails a critical long term view.  Here are the keys to earning the trust of your team.

Earning trust:

• Leadership by Early Communication
• Leadership by Training
• Leadership by Visibility
• Leadership by Example
• Leadership by Good Change Management
• Leadership by Honesty
• Leadership by Creativity
• Leadership by Vision

Now that you have earned the trust of your team, you must build on that base.  I wise man once told me that if I wanted to build a massive career, I should start with the largest base.  A wise man (Ted Sisk).  So, you must build your base as large as possible.  To do this you must be recognized as trustworthy.  Trustworthiness cannot be a first impression issue.  It is earned, built and maintained.  Therefore, you must build on that base you began.  Here are the characteristics that a trust-worthy leader will possess.

Building Trust:

• Leadership by Open Communication
• Leadership by Full Communication
• Leadership by Encouraging Creativity
• Leadership by Fostering Talent
• Leadership by Allowing Disagreement or Diversity Without Repercussions
• Leadership by Maintaining Integrity
• Leadership by Fairness and Consistency

Building trust is good, maintain trust is better.  It means that a leader has integrity and understands how to meld the team together with grace and he/she understands that talent can be raw and must be nurtured.  Now, he/she must bridge the gap to create a true bond through long term trust maintenance.  He/She must reward behaviors that foster a trsut environment on the team.  Here are the characteristics for maintaining trust long term.

Maintaining trust:

• Leadership by Rewarding Value
• Leadership by Grace
• Leadership by Doing What You Say
• Leadership by Rewarding Trust Behavior
• Leadership by Creating Consequences

The ultimate goal is that you can earn, build and maintain the trust of those whom you lead.  A leader cannot be myopic, but must have myopic tendencies.  They cannot focus so much on a pet project that they lose site of the overall team.  Trust in leadership is built by being able to see the whole picture, but by being able to focus on the team you are talking to at the moment.  Learning these points will make you a master at establishing a trust relationship.  It will also help you respect trust.  Also, it will help you trust others.

Start today building trust with those around you.  Although this chat focuses on business, the underlying principles can be applied in any leadership position.  I trust you will find this helpful in your career, home, church, military or fun time.

Here is a video on trust from University in Los Angeles County.

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• Search Engine Optimization
• Pay Per Click
• Social Marketing

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Robert H. Wheeler, (Rob)

We all experience tough times in our life.  These times challenge us and either stop us or help us to grow and “excel”.  They either cause us to dwell on the problem or grow toward greatness in our lives.

My son Chris was diagnosed with Cancer.  It was a tough thing to hear.  17 years old.  Just beginning his life.  Why him?

It brought back memories of both my mom and dad and how cancer ravaged their lives.  My mom at 45, my dad at 64.  Then Chris at 17.

There are many questions that you ask and many more that you want to ask, but never do.  The critical thing is to NOT be a dweller.  While you do need to address the issues and concerns, while you do need to empathize and comfort.  You must chart a course and move on.  There are 8 steps that you will proceed through during these times.

• Denial – There is no inconsistency or problem
• Mitigation – The person actually changes their underlying values to match the new moral platitude
• Justification – The Person changes the way they look at or interpret the problem or inconsistency
• Exploration – This is another form of denial where the person will actually investigate ways to argue the problem or inconsistency.
• Disassociation – Much like business associates do when someone is going down, the person tries to detach themselves from the problem or inconsistency.
• Rationalization – The person excuses the problem or inconsistency because of mitigating circumstances.
• Realization – The person comes to the conclusion of his or her error.
• Actualization – The person takes corrective action and fixes the Chaos that is affecting them.

The faster that you get to actualization, the faster you can help or be helped.  Psychologist call this process cognitive dissonance.  I am simple, so, I will call it Chaos.  It’s that little feeling of incongruence while you are going through a struggle of some type.

Dwellers have a tendency to stop at the sixth step or before and never work through a problem.  This can happen in relationship arguments, personal crisis, business meetings, and any other relationships.

They key thought is to move through the entire process to allow yourself and those inter-twined in the situation to move through that process as well.  You may get out this list of steps to help with the process if necessary.  Every rational person will understand that they need to move through these to get to the desired result.

You have a choice when you come to these “moments of truth” to move ahead or dwell.  Which will you choose.  Are you going to dwell in the cellar or excel to be your best.

Let me know what you think about it!!!

Robert H. Wheeler (Rob)

Its a few weeks into the year.  How are you doing with your commitment to a healthier you?

I know a lot of people make resolutions to help them stay a little more fit.

My friend Marilyn Starr Harris has a little help for you this year.

Her book A Taste of The Diet on Light and Life is changing the way we look at food and how it affects us.

I have my copy.  Get yours today.

Whether you are a diamond in the rough, a polished diamond or king of the baseball diamond, you can leave a diamond legacy.  Anyone who has the desire to be sophisticated, well-rounded and complete must surely want to be their best.  You can accomplish this a number of ways.  But here are four that complete the trip around the diamond for you to leave “A Diamond Legacy”.

To get to around the bases in your Diamond Legacy you must capture the moments surrounding your life.  You can capture them for future generations.

To get a single…
Images:
Take many pictures of you, your family and those connections you have made that MAKE you who you are.  These “snap-shots” of life can rarely be re-captured and they add so much to your overall memory if they are captured.

Also, make sure that you keep momentos and other captured images of you, about you, your family and friends.  These third party captures memories will help future generations remember you and your gifts to them all throughout your life.

To turn it into a double…
Words:
Keep a journal of your thoughts and ideas.  Whether you spend money on a blank book or a website, a journal is most important.  Those ideas and thoughts will be worth more than you can imagine to future generations and the value to yourself will be immense.

To stretch it into a triple…
Library:
Build a complete personal library of materials to pass on.  Now days it will contain videos, audios and books.  But what you build will have a profound affect on those who truly treasure who you are.

To truly relax and round the bases…
Legacy:
Build something, stand for something, grow something, leave something or be something that your family, friends and associates will honor upon your death.  Whether it is spiritual or material, make something lasting here on earth that will affect people for eternity.

You may not have started early enough to round the bases.  But, start now to endeavor to make your life stand out.  Be that bright shining example you have always wanted to be.  re-energize yourself to become the best you can be.  These four steps will ensure that you become a legacy builder and leave a true Diamond Legacy.

Most people never start online because of two things:

• Websites are hard to build.
• Websites are expensive.

While that has been true to a large extent in the past.  It is no longer true as of March 1, 2010.  Live Business online has changed that forever.  You can now setup your website, add content and do some pretty amazing things as Live Business Online.

You can:

• Setup your own website
• Include a Wordpress Blog with it
• Have your very own store
• Have Ads on your site
• Create templates from a template library
• Create your own custom menus
• Ad unlimited number of pages
• Have your website hosted

OK, wait, I’m beathing hard now.  Let me catch my breath.

Phew, I’m OK now.

The cool thing about this is that you can have this for less than a cup of coffee a day (and I am NOT talking about Starbucks coffee either).

Stay tuned for a GREAT opportunity for your business.

Robert H. Wheeler

Most of you know I am not a big "resolution" guy. I think goals are much more tangible. So, with that in mind. Here are my thoughts: How to Set (AND KEEP) New Year’s Resolutions:

 

How to Set (AND KEEP) New Years Resolutions