I do not know about you but I hope that when I retire that I can help people.
That is what Darwin tries to do every day of his life.
I have known Darwin for a short time and know that I could spend hours listening and learning from the things he has to say.
He is one of the most positive individuals I have ever met and enjoyed getting to interview him.
Darwin wrote a book called Creative Unemployment – The Secret to being Healthy
He shares so much with people, but one of my favorite things he does if you are close to him, is to make you realize that you can do anything in life that put your mind too.
In fact that is the secret to challenge your energy towards your goals and to never get side tracked or become unfocused.
These are some of the things that Darwin shares in his newsletter that he sends out.
“Motivation is what gets you started.
Habit is what keeps you going.” Jim Ryun
“Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments.” Jim Rohn
Posted by Chris Jenkins on 2 August 2010 filed in Giveaways
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Let me give you a little back ground first. You see I always wanted
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So I partnered up with Daylynne who has experience in running
a giveaway event and we came up with the idea to run and 10 product
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Now comes the fun part of putting it all together I looked at the
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Posted by Chris Jenkins on 14 June 2010 filed in Web Traffic
The Traffic Challenge is over kind of sad moment in some ways, in others it is a relief.
Either way you look at it was a fun ride and a bonding experience for many marketers.
There are many good things that came from the Traffic Challenge in my opinion. The most important thing in my opinion was the way that it made us bond together and help one another. Now I know what you are thinking right now, has he gone crazy? Yes I said help one another because some marketers were ahead of other marketers and you could feel their frustration.
Let me explain a little more detail before you get the wrong impression here. First off we all learned a lot about driving traffic rather you were at the beginning level or you were advanced. I think all that was very important for growing a successful online business. That was not the most important lesson here to learn though. You see the most important lesson was that we all come online to succeed and no matter how much or how little you know, you will not succeed without the help of others!
Let me say that one more time to make sure that you get it. No matter how much or how little an individual knows they will not succeed without the help of others.
Posted by Chris Jenkins on 9 June 2010 filed in Uncategorized
Used by both beginners and advanced internet marketers, forum marketing is one of the best ways to promote a product, service, and to increase traffic to website. It can be a bit time consuming and repetitive, but the potential gains are well worth the effort in performing this task. The trick here is to enter a particular forum, become a member, and elevate your status with the entire community. You can do this through answering questions and participating in discussions truthfully. You just have to be honest, insightful, and as informative as possible. Do not just stuff your links in other people’s faces, or reference the links in your signature every time you post something. Be natural with your conversation and only do this if you have a reason to do so.
Posted by Chris Jenkins on 8 June 2010 filed in Uncategorized
Here is a video that was created for me and I wanted your opinion!
Please let me know what you think of the video and the emotional feedback you get from it. Now do not get me wrong that maybe good or bad I would like to hear your opinion so I can see if I would like to continue down this line of videos. I have my personal opinion of it right now but I am not going to give you that because I want to hear from you.
Article marketing is one of the great unchanging features of an online landscape which seems to grow more different every year. Other methods come and go, but the article directories remain a constant source of traffic for anyone who uses them wisely. Article marketing works because it gives the site viewer exactly what they are looking for. Most people come online to search for information, which is why the article directories are able to grab their attention. If you can position your article in front of that interested searcher, you have the chance to satisfy their curiosity just enough to persuade them to click through for more information.
So, you have two immediate problems. Firstly, you need to create content which is going to engage the reader enough to make them read the whole article, but not so much that they find themselves satisfied when they reach the bottom. When you have done this, you then have the job of getting potential readers to see your article in the first place. It is basically the same concept of traffic and conversions which applies to a sales page. Choosing a good subject and title for your article can satisfy both roles, as it can get your article ranked highly enough in the search engines for people to find it, while allowing you the opportunity to write interesting material for the reader.
Posted by Chris Jenkins on 7 June 2010 filed in Web Traffic
Video marketing is bigger than many people realize or even dare to think. The popularity of YouTube in particular is well enough known, but so many marketers are prone to think of it as another social networking site, and to overlook the marketing potential. Yes, YouTube is effectively a social networking site, and, yes, there are plenty of people using it to just share social video. There are however, more people searching for information and answers on YouTube than any of Google’s competing search engines, and that means the traffic from video marketing is something you cannot afford to overlook.
Many marketers are realizing the great potential of video marketing, and are giving it a lot of time and effort. So often, these marketers are ending up disillusioned because their videos are simply not getting any views, and they are not returning anything for the time and effort which is being put in to creating them. They are then tempted to claim that submitting video content does not pay off, while believing deep down that there has to be a way to make it work if only they could find it. The key is in getting eyeballs to the video, you might say “marketing the marketing material.”
Posted by Chris Jenkins on 7 June 2010 filed in Web Traffic
Online forums and forum marketing have a far greater potential than many marketers realize. You have to pick the right forum, of course, as there are so many which are underpopulated. It is very easy to set up a forum script, it is far harder to actually get some activity on to the boards and attract some people. The good news is that active forums are easy enough to identify and easy enough to find. Because forums are inherently search engine friendly, it often takes no more than a simple search to find them. What is admittedly harder is finding out what the people running the forum want from their contributors.
All content syndication is a matter of mutual benefit. The person or forum receiving the content wants to get some material benefit from it, and the person offering the content needs something in return. Often, that something is no more than to find some information, and that is usually easily done. The forum owners, however, will benefit from keeping the contributor on the forum so that they can pass on their own advice in turn. To do this, many forum owners (the wise ones) will allow the contributor to place a link in their signature file.
This link can rarely be blatantly commercial, and affiliate links are not usually allowed even in marketing forums. Make sure you choose one which will let you link back to your own site, even if that site is overtly commercial. Not being able to include blatantly commercial links is no bad thing, because they would receive very few meaningful click-throughs anyway. In order to get a benefit from people coming to your site, you will need to have them in the right frame of mind, which means that you will need to build up trust, and a reputation, before you can really expect any great results.
