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At the start of each new year we sit down to write our yearly goals.
There are many, many ways to write goals… and many opinions on what works best. We have found one way to write goals that in our opinion makes a whole lot of good sense. We write our goals as SMART goals.
What are SMART Goals? As outlined in the mindmap above and in the descriptions below, SMART Goals are…
| S | = | Specific |
| M |
= | Measurable |
| A |
= | Attainable |
| R |
= | Realistic |
| T |
= | Tangible |
Specific: There is a greater chance of achieving a specific goal than a general goal. For a goal to be specific, answer the six "W" questions:
- Who: Who is involved?
- What: What do I want to accomplish?
- Where: Identify a location.
- When: Establish a time frame.
- Why: Specific reasons or benefits of accomplishing the goal.
Measurable: Determine a concrete way to measure your progress towards the attainment of each goal. To determine if your goal is measurable, ask questions such as: How much? How many? How will I know if I achieve this goal?
Attainable: If the goals you set are important to you, you will start to figure out ways to make them come true. You will develop the attitude, abilities, skills and financial capacity to reach them.
Any goal is achievable if you plan your steps wisely and establish a time frame that allows you the space to carry out those steps. Goals that seemed out of reach become attainable because you grow to match them.
Realistic: For a goal to be realistic it has to represent something that you are both willing and able to work towards. A goal can be high and realistic… it all depends on you. Make sure that each goal leads to substantial progress. If a goal is set too low, there may be little motivation to reach it. A goal is realistic if you truly believe it can be achieved.
Tangible: A goal is tangible if you can experience it with one of the senses… taste, touch, smell, sight or hearing. If a goal is tangible it is easier to make it specific, measurable and attainable.
To make it easier for you to reference SMART goals and the criteria behind them, we have provided the following for your convenience:
SMART Goals as an Interactive Flash File
ENJOY!
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We’ve invested in an incredible number of courses over the years; and one of those courses is single -handedly responsible for giving us the tools to take our blog from so-so to spectacular!
We’re talking about the “Website Creation Workshop” delivered by Christina Hills, The Shopping Cart Queen.
We know Christine… she’s all about helping others to succeed, and that definitely shows through in this course. Not only does she give you the “how to’s” of website creation, she actually gets you to take action and use what she’s taught. The follow-through is built right into the course!
This course has excelled in delivering quality instruction and great content through an extremely helpful and caring instructor.
Because of this course we were able to upgrade our blog at PatAndLorna.com. Hey, that's this site!
Actually, it wasn’t just an upgrade… it was a transformation.
A blog is THE best way to get started online… there is so much you can do with a blog and it doesn’t take a programming wizard to put together.
What can you do with a blog? Well, you can…
• Sell products and services
• Create and grow relationships
• Bring more exposure (traffic) to your products and services
• Create new products
In case it hasn’t been apparent yet… we highly recommend Christina’s Website Creation Workshop. The registration begins on September 10, and you don’t want to miss out. If you’re truly serious about your online presence and making money from it, check out this course now.
Christina has a cool story to share and some very useful free information on WordPress. So go to The Website Creation Workshop… listen, learn and register, it’ll be well worth your time and investment.
Here’s a video we did for Christine while we were travelling on how much we appreciate what she taught us in her Website Creation Workshop. Enjoy…
Or here is our audio testimonial:
So again, go to The Website Creation Workshop… listen, learn and register, it’ll be well worth your time and investment. It was for us!
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We’ve been very blessed to have great mentors in our internet business. One of these mentors is our colleague and friend Alex Mandossian. Each and every thing he has suggested we do has not only worked, it has helped us grow our business.
And that’s why we want you to be on a very special call, which is this Thursday night at 9 pm Eastern, when Alex will hold a preview teleseminar for his upcoming Virtual Book Tour Secrets TeleCourse.
Now, Alex course is called Virtual Book Tour Secrets, but he really should change the course to Virtual Information Secrets. By attending the preview call you will find out why we say this.
So go ahead and take advantage of this man’s knowledge, especially his brilliant marketing mind, just like we have.The call is $99, and well worth the investment at that price. However… we can save you $79 off of that price! That's right… only $20 for 2 hours of amazing content that you can really use in your business.
To get your amazing discount, just enter the VIP Discount Code: gabe1025 when you click here to register for the Preview Call. Do it now before all the slots are filled. Go ahead and do it now because we really want you to learn from this guy….
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WordPress 2.8 is out today. This is the latest version of the WordPress software. When you log into you admin, you will see a request to update your site to WordPress 2.8.
We've heard of some compatibility issues, so proceed with caution.
Here is a video with some of the new features:
If you want to read more on this release, then go here:
http://wordpress.org/development/2009/06/wordpress-28/
Enjoy!
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Learn about the top 21 Uses of Spectacular Presentations for your business.
Use Spectacular Presentations robotically to "Engage Your Audience. Experience the Message."
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To learn more about our services please visit Pat and Lorna at www.SpectacularPresenations.com.
To learn about Pat and Lorna's criteria of working with a new client, please visit our New Client Introduction at
www.SpectacularPresenations.com/newclient.
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Podcast Secrets? What secrets?
How would you like to "Recession-Proof" your business with the monetization power of Podcasting… even if you're starting an online business from scratch?
Podcast Secrets, taught by Paul Colligan and Alex Mandossian will give you the tools you need to do just that. Trust us, anything you can learn from Paul and Alex is well worth your time and investment. They are information marketing masters… knowledgeable, insightful and focused on helping you achieve success.
So what will you discover in the Podcast Secrets course?
Take a look…
- Strategy Casting – How to Aim Towards Monetization
- Ease Casting – How to Podcast Simply and Easily
- Growth Casting – How to Grow Your Hungry Audience
- Stat Casting – How to Track the Numbers that Matter
- Off Casting – How to Get Your Audience to Act
- Funnel Casting – How to Profit Directly from Your Audience
And…
If you look at their Podcast Secrets Faculty Page, you’ll notice 12 of the top experts in Internet Marketing, Media Production and Social Media.
How does this work with Podcast Secrets?
This special program includes a solid hour of pitch-free training with each of the faculty members. It will then be followed with a Q&A session.
These will be included in the private membersite and the premium course feed – but there is nothing like being there live!
We have been honored by being included in this year's Podcast Secrets Faculty. So without further adieu… here is the Podcast Secrets 2009 Faculty (In alphabetical order – links open their Twitter accounts):
You’ll notice we’re following all the faculty on the Podcast Secrets’ Twitter Account. We recommend you do the same.
- Leesa Barnes – How to Use a Podcast to Fill & Make Money From Any Event
- Denis De Bernardy – Semiologic Secrets
- Jamie Davis – Lecture 2.0: giving students 24 hour access to the classroom through recorded media and podcasting
- Michael Geoghegan – From Podcast To Book Contract In 6 Months Or Less
- Jeff Herring – Article Marketing Your Way To A New Audience
- Christina Hills – Blogging Basics From The Beginning
- Dave Jackson – Working With A Podcast Consultant
- Mike Koenigs – Secrets To Web Video
- Raymond Chip Lambert – Linked-Into A New Audience
- Julie Perry – YouTube Secrets For Podcasters
- Dan Safkow – Vendor and Reseller Outsourcing Secrets
- Pat and Lorna Shanks – Making Your Audio Podcast Very Visual
- Mari Smith – Relationship Marketing Secrets
- Mike Stewart – Building The Best Studio For Your Buck
- Jason Van Orden – Promoting Your Podcast
- “Mr. X” – The Next Generation Of Paid Podcasting
We totally recommend that you invest in Paul and Alex's Podcast Secrets course. With the knowledge imparted by Paul and Alex and the wealth of information shared by all the amazing faculty members, you'll be well on your way to Podcasting Success!
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Using Spectacular Presentation Marketing on your websites and in your blog is one of the best ways to draw endless waves of traffic and visitors to those websites and blogs. Add Twitter to the mix, which is free, and you’ve added an extremely powerful traffic generation system to your marketing toolbox.
We couldn’t stop the traffic and visitors coming to our websites and blogs even if we wanted to… and we really don’t want to. We’re pretty sure you would love to have the same flood of traffic to your sites as well. Read on to see how to get this result…
"SPIT IT OUT"
SPIT IT OUT stands for Spectacular Presentation Marketing Including Twitter will Ignite endless waves of Traffic and viewers will go OUT of their way to get to your blog. Here's how you do it:
1. Auto-Tweet Your Blog Posts & EzineArticles Submissions – You can set up a free account to automatically send a “tweet” to Twitter each time you add a new blog post or when one of your new articles is published. This auto-tweet will go out to your followers announcing your blog post or new article.
This is spectacular, but don't stop there…
2. Follow up the Auto-Tweet – Like in all other areas of business, your fortune and future lies in the follow up. Don't just rely on the auto-tweet to announce your blog posts and articles; direct your followers to your posts and articles yourself. You could say something like… "For 3 tips on how to… check out…" and then give the URL of your blog or article.
3. Others will "Re-Tweet" Your Blog Post or Article – A huge part of being social on Twitter is "re-tweeting" (RT) messages you can relate to and want other people to read. An amazing thing is that many people will do this for you without even being asked. So how do you get other people to RT for you? You ask them… and then return the favour with their tweets. It’s like Twitter karma.
Here's how you do it – "Get free instant access to…" whatever it is you are giving them in exchange for their name and email address.
4. Direct Them to Your Opt-In Page – You can also invite your Twitter followers to go directly to the opt-in page that you send people to from the Resource Box in your articles. If you aren’t sending people from your Resource Box to an opt-in page, you seriously need to correct that.
In conclusion… "SPIT IT OUT!" Use Spectacular Presentation Marketing Including Twitter and you will Ignite endless waves of Traffic and viewers to go OUT of their way to get to your blog!
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EzineArticles.com raised a challenge to its authors to have 5,000 followers on Twitter before the end of 2008. The reward? A very warm Ezine Articles fleece jacket!
With only about two weeks left in the year, we were about 590 followers short of that target. And… with the temperatures hanging around the -25 degree Celsius (-10 degree Farenheit) mark, those fleece jackets were looking very inviting!
So, feeling motivated (and cold), we sent out a few messages on Twitter asking others to help us reach the 5,000 follower mark.
Wow! We were blown away with the results! In a few short days we reached our goal. And now, with two days left in the year, we have a grand total of 5,584 followers.
Previous to sending those messages our followers list did not grow anywhere near that quickly. It was, in our opinion, a miracle… or at the very least, a huge learning.
It was solid proof to us that there is power in social networking. Think about it, if it worked this well to increase follower numbers, what else could be accomplished? Anything! There is power in numbers and in people working towards a common goal. All it takes is someone to ask for help or raise a challenge that others believe in.
To answer a much-asked question… can social networking help your business? We believe it can. There is a lot of help and support available through the social networking channels.
But one last word… karma. You can only get out of something what you put in. By being involved in social networking and by offering your help and support, you may be pleasantly surprised what will be available for you when you ask.
To follow Pat and Lorna on Twitter, go to PatAndLornaOnTwitter.com.
To follow Pat and Lorna on Facebook, go to PatAndLornaOnFacebook.com.
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