Internet Business Blog by Jack Keifer

James Brausch has just recommended a book by Joe Vitale called "Attractor Factor" This book may be of interest to you if you liked my post relating to the Law of Attraction a couple weeks ago. I've read some of Joe Vitale's materials before and found them truly inspiring. Joe Vitale is one of the Big boys and a great source of inspiration and guidance. My own copywriting is inspired by Joe's material. I'm no Joe Vitale obviously, but that's the level I aspire to reach or exceed. If James Brausch finds merit in his work, then what else can I say? Check it out.

Most people starting out in affiliate marketing pretty much have the same dilemmas. What software should I use for making my web pages? What kind of products should I promote? Do I need content? And the list goes on. Well here's my two cents for what it's worth. If you're already web savvy, Dreamweaver is an excellent product for creating web pages, especially if you are doing large multi-page projects. For strictly smaller websites & pre-sell or sales pages its pretty much over kill and over priced for what you need. When I first started on-line marketing, XSite pro was my weapon of choice. This is a sweet app that is designed specifically with Internet marketers in mind. It has a simple to use built-in WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) page editor and templates to make creating a web page a snap. There are features for adding ad-sense ads, forms, navigation menus, buttons, and much more. You can optimize your page for the search engines, add meta tags / keywords, etc. Many people swear by this software and use it to generate hundreds of quality search engine friendly sites. Other great software for web page design is the Coffee Cup HTML Editor . This is my personal favorite, and is the software I used to design the AmazingCloaker website. The Coffee Cup HTML editor will allow you to design your website in an easy to use WYSIWYG editor as well, but also gives you the added convenience of having full control over the HTML code. I like to have the ability to easily modify (or clean up) my HTML code and this editor let's me do this very well. A very NICE app is also the BlueVoda website builder. You can build a web site in 30 minutes. It's easy to use and has many templates. You can layout your website exactly the way you want in the WYSIWYG editor. You can add multimedia, javascripts, plugins, the works. The only hitch is that it will only interface to a bluevoda web server. You could get around this of course by simply previewing your finished page and copy/paste the source code into wordpad and save as html. nyuk nyuk nyuk… Products that you promote should ideally be something related to what you like, but if you want to make any real money you need to diversify into many different products. Keep your web pages specific to your products of course. I use dreamhost, because you can host unlimited domains under one account! This means that everytime you come up with a new webpage/domain, you don't have to pay for another web host account to go with it. Just add it to your existing account. All you pay is the 9 or 10 bucks for the domain registration! In my opinion, this is the only way to go! Products that have recurring payment are great affiliate products to promote. Dating sites, membership sites of any kind, products that you would enroll monthly like hair loss products, anti-aging, etc are all excellent, because you get the option of residual income rather than the one time deal. Content. Yes, you need to do a little work and write content. It's really not that hard. If you've ever written an email to a friend, then you can write a review about a product. If you don't know anything about the product you are promoting, then "Google" it and find some articles and re-write the review into your own words. It's not cheating, and you'll be in business before you know it. Well, hopefully this little tidbit of info will get you pointed into the right direction if you're new to the game and feel lost and overwhelmed by all the horse-crap in the forums, junk "how to affiliate market" products designed to tease you but really steer you away from what the big boys are "really" doing, etc. Remember, 99% of any successful journey is taking that first step. You just got to resolve yourself to do it. Don't know what to write? Just start typing without trying to write a masterpiece, and you'll be surprised at what starts coming out!

A few days ago I wrote a blog about using the laws of attraction to attract the things in life that you want. How to shape your universe instead of the universe shaping you. James Brausch left a link to a very cool video yesterday on his blog and I would like to share this link with you. I was exposed to the laws of attraction principles about 20 years ago, but never really "got it" until about a year ago. Check out the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN_Y5CnsokQ Just maybe you'll "get it" too. Also check out Jame's new date night car! I think that you'll see for yourself that he "gets it".

Did you know that using the right tools, choosing the right products, promoting your site, generating your traffic, building a list etc. is only part of the equation? All these physical efforts are indeed important to be successful, but don't forget that if your mind is still negatively programmed, you're likely to keep treading the same treadmill for the rest of your days. I see the universe as a perfect mathematical matrix governed by universal laws that apply to everyone and everything. You may or may not have heard of the law of attraction. Every successful person understands these principals, either intuitively or deliberately. Did you ever notice how some people just seem to have everything go their way all the time? Is God playing favorites with certain people and stomping on the rest? Or could it be that some people just have a natural ability to follow divine laws while others are oblivious. Those who are oblivious to the law of attraction for example see life as a crap shoot, where sometimes good things happen to them and other times they end up in seemingly endless ruts. Slapped in the face for no apparent reason. The law of attraction is a neutral force that is neither negative or positive in itself. If you are in debt up to your eyeballs, and keep worrying about how you're ever going to get out, you are simply attracting more debt and continuing the cycle. This is because you are focusing on the situation of debt rather than the end result of being debt free. You need to "feel" that you are actually out of debt and free. What you feel and what you visualize is exactly what you will attract. So if you want out of debt, don't be telling yourself, "I want a million dollars so that I can be out of debt". You have just brought "debt" back into your reality. If you're 40 grand in the hole, then visualize $50,000 in your bank account. Be very specific, feel the money already there. Feel the money is in your account all the time. Sooner or later little opportunities will pop up that will steer your life in a new direction if you act upon them. This is where we have to hold up our end of the bargin. The law of attraction will send us the things we call for, but it's up to us to spot these opportunities and ACT ON THEM. You don't need any special talents other than simply being conscious and have the desire to accomplish a goal. Jump out on the net and Google some info on how to use the law of attraction. Use it and you will then discover that we really do shape our reality. We are the sculptors of our future. Our present situation is a direct result of our actions from the past. A life of joy and prosperity is only a mindset away!