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Landlords and rehabbers take notice - you may soon be focused on the new concepts of “Virtual Real Estate Investing“. Everything from using the internet as an avenue to make more money in real estate to online games such as SecondLife seem to be included in the popular definition of this term.

To get the facts, I sought out the man generally considered to be the father of virtual real estate investing: Bryan Ellis of BryanEllis.com.

When I began using the term virtual real estate investing in the late 1990s, I did so because I saw clear parallels between the strategies used for profiting from physical real estate and those that would create income in the online world, said Ellis.

One example of the parallels between virtual and physical real estate Bryan Ellis cites is the similarity between the monetization of domain names versus physical property. “There’s a huge difference between a website and a piece of real estate, but the ways you can profit from them are similar: ‘flipping’, rental/leasing, advertising sales, etc…all of these apply to both markets” he states.

The parallels really are obvious. Consider: A valuable piece of real estate is valuable largely due to the interest that other people have in that specific location. Similarly, ownership of a desirable domain name is valuable for the same reasons. So it doesn’t matter if you own physical real estate or virtual real estate - you’ll likely use similar strategies to turn them into money in your pocket.

In our next installment of this series on virtual real estate investing, Bryan Ellis will share the internet analogies to the physical concept of real estate development.

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Copyright 2006 Marketing On The Playground (TM)

Yes, you can market from your comfort zone. It’s all about permission, learning style and claiming where you are most comfortable…by the way, that’s where the permission comes in. So many of us are led to believe we must step out of our comfort zone in order to market our business. I would like to transform that thought right now.

It’s amazing what will happen when you give yourself permission to stand in your comfort zone. You will automatically start branching out and yes, you may be so excited you will want to try new things.

So what is your comfort zone? Here’s a quick exercise to help you identify with the perfect stepping out point.

Take out a blank sheet of paper. Get some colored pens, markers, crayons or a plain pencil if you like. There is one rule. You cannot write down anything you don’t like and anything you’re not good at.

Begin writing:

- things that bring you energy

- things you enjoy and skills you have

- things that people say about you and your expertise

- what you have heard from your clients

- gifts you share with others

- how you have helped those you connect with

In the previous course we talked about the perspective of your marketing definition. Now let’s talk about the perspective of your approach. There are two ways you can think about stepping into marketing action. You can come through the door marked “Marketing, Follow Me” or you can go through the other door marked, “My Comfort Zone first, My Chosen Marketing Steps Next.”

Here’s an example:

Someone might suggest to me, call 3 entrepreneur associations a day and tell them about my business. I might say, “that’s a good idea but I think I’ll do it from my comfort zone. I’ll contact someone I know that’s involved in an association, ask if they could introduce me to the person in charge, make the call and ask if they would like to talk about each others business to see if there’s a connection. You see, I like to hear about other businesses and make comfortable connections. My comfort zone in this example was a “warm” call, which is having someone else, connect me and my comfort marketing was asking to share a conversation about their business and mine rather than ‘telling’ them about my business as the first part of the conversation.

Each person has their own comfort zone and their own style. We are all unique. Again, we choose different business paths; wear different clothes; drive different cars; have different viewpoints-our marketing approach should be just as unique. Marketing from your comfort zone is all about the right fit for you. Since we are all different, let’s identify what’s unique about your or your approach.

List 3 ways you are unique. Here are some key points to think about while making your list.

- Don’t take your style, skills and passions for granted. Not everyone does what you do.

- If you have a difficult time writing these down, ask a friend or relative, “Do you see something unique about a skill or hobby I have?”

- What does unique have to do with Marketing? It’s a huge piece in differentiating you from your competition.

Now that you know what makes you unique, what are 2 creative ways YOU can make a comfortable marketing approach?

There is a marketer inside of us all - it’s just a matter of identifying the true, authentic marketing person inside of YOU.

Beth Woodward, CPCC, is the creator of the popular Marketing On The Playground Program, and the “My Way” Marketing Plan. Find out more about how to market “YOUR WAY” with the free e-course 5 Steps To Market Your Way at www.asimplemarketingplan.com .

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Internet Marketing and making money on the internet is a process that is closer to a run away snowball than a financial revolution. Momentum can be defined as the “Impetus of a nonphysical process, such as an idea or a course of events”. Making money online requires momentum.

When I started my first e-commerce web site back in 2002, I expected sales to just pour in without any effort. Do you remember the old commercial that showed the launch of a new internet business and almost immediately they had their first order, and then the next came, and before they knew it they had thousands of orders? That never happens with a new business in a competitive environment. For sure people launch new products on the internet every day and make millions overnight. But that success did not happen overnight. In most cases they are taking advantage of someone else’s or internally created momentum, before they launch their new product. It may appear as overnight success, but it was really the result of a lot of time, planning, execution and excellent momentum.

So if you are brand new and no one knows you exist, how do you create momentum? You’re eager, you’re excited and you want results NOW. Temptation to jump on board a dozen marketing guru’s paid plans or participate in shaky traffic schemes is very strong, but my best advice is to slow down, don’t spend any serious money and build your own momentum. How do you do this? It’s called work.

Start going to every forum you can find about internet marketing, and read, read, read. Don’t allow the hype of some of the marketers to get you so excited you start dropping money. Most of these programs do work, but they require some effort on your part before you will see results, and in many cases you can do more harm than good. There are thousands of people that are looking to score a fast buck off an internet newbie, don’t fall prey to your ambition. Be prepared and knowledgeable.

Now the beauty of internet marketing is that once you start to see income, it compounds and builds quickly, like a snowball rolling down a hill. It may be small at first, but it will grow with time. And then it starts to grow exponentially, like a snowball. Most people quit before they get to this point, or simply run out of money before they figure out what works. Your biggest allies are persistence and time. Like your money, don’t waste them.

Bill McRea is the publisher of Free Marketing Information Free marking information from a successful marketer that has created a wide range of legitimate and profitable businesses on the interent.

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Ever sit with a single puzzle piece of clouds and wonder how you will ever put the
entire sky together? Life as an entrepreneur is often just like that– lots of the little
pieces, creating products, taking care of clients, wrestling with computers, finances,
taxes, etc.– and a whole lot of sky. The big open space where you create a
successful and enjoyable business. There were many pieces of ‘puzzle sky’, I was
drowning in an ocean of sky blue. After over a decade of struggling with my own
company to fit all the ‘pieces’ together, I have finally put together the big business
puzzle– and it’s not what I thought it would look like.

As a sponge for knowledge, I would constantly search for information to help me
grow. Emblazoned in my mind was a quote that I stumbled upon by accident while
researching William Shakespeare in the old, smelly, humid junior high library (thank
goodness for the Internet). “Information is power” insightfully said by Sir Frances
Bacon. At thirteen years old, I didn’t exactly know what power was but I knew I
didn’t want to be a ‘dork’ or a ‘druggie’, like so many of my friends. So, I wanted
power. So… I needed knowledge. I lived for it.

I became a “knowledge” junkie and didn’t ‘know’ it. How ironic is that? I graduated
from college with over twenty more credits than needed because I kept taking
classes. A habit that carried into adulthood, waaay past college, anytime I tackle a
new endeavor or head in a new direction… I take a class. A class– the perfect place
to get knowledge right? Yes, though I found I gave up something for that
knowledge. And I didn’t know it.

For me, every pursuit of knowledge was a piece of “puzzle sky.” I was excited with
the opportunity to learn something new. Exhilarated by the threshold of my un-
dorkiness being expanded. Enamored with the teacher teaching me! Yet at the end
of each ‘learning’ experience, something felt– wrong. Yes, I had gained a piece of
knowledge but felt empty and unattached. So, I would throw myself into another
class, another learning opportunity– ever on my quest for power. I had no idea that
with each learning experience, I was instead seeking permission for the new
undertaking– and was sidetracked by the high I got from the experience of
learning. (Gosh, I hope I’m not the only one.)

With more and more people leaving their cushy corporate job, there’s an explosion
of entrepreneurial workshops and seminars teaching you how to be more, make
more, more, more, etc. With all these portals of power, how do you know what’s
valuable information? Every one of these workshops and the information they offer
are a benefit to you– ONLY IF it is part of your larger picture. So let me help you
now… you don’t need permission to “see” exactly what is inside you daring to come
out.

To be successful you must dare to learn, surround yourself with knowledge, savor
each individual learning experience, HOWEVER always hold it in relationship to your
big picture– your success sky.

You must have a clear vision of the sky… your sky. No one else’s. You get to
establish if it’s blue or green. You get to establish is it’s clear or cloudy. You even
get to establish if it’s up or down. The important thing is that you “see” it, establish
it, create it by surrounding yourself with knowledge to supports that vision.

The next time you are considering taking a course or workshop for your business,
ask yourself these three simple questions:

1. What is my sky?

2. Which piece of my “sky puzzle” does the course fulfill?

3. Can this knowledge help me “see” my sky better or help me create it faster?

Knowing the answers will ensure you get actually what you need.

After all my years of knowledge hunting, I’m amazed to find I am now in the
knowledge-sharing business. Of course, I learned how in an incredible workshop
(Email me at info@whybrandu.com I’ll tell you about it!). I know you can accomplish
whatever you want. It just takes the right individuals to remind you and expand your
knowledge. I’m honored to have the opportunity to be one of them.

© Castle Montone, Limited All Rights Reserved.

Written by Kim Castle, the Co-founder of BrandU the home of only step-by-
step process for developing your business as a brand from the inside out!

To get information on upcoming BrandU one-day workshops: http://
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These ideas are for anyone that has a small budget to work with or is just starting to expand into exhibiting at trade shows.

You can even use these tips and techniques whenever you are speaking or presenting — at Toastmasters, delivering workshops — or even eLearning activities.

1. Have a visual point at your booth — like a power point show or a television with a video playing. Put together a workshop video, even if it isn’t professional quality. People will usually not look at it more than three minutes before they feel conspicuous and will approach you.

2. Have a picture album with success stories and pictures. Especially great for independent professionals selling a intangible product. Pictures of workshop attendees having fun and doing various projects or eating together or a Christmas party in your office with your clients is very connecting and attractive. Please like to belong to things that they perceive as “successful.”

3. Have a drawing for something that is valuable and attractive to them. Don’t give away something laying around your office or something that has your ego attached, this very unattractive.

4. Candy bowl. One they have to reach deep. Don’t fill it up, let it look like there isn’t much left — that is even more attractive. They want to reach in before it’s all gone. They will take less too (chuckle)>

5. Hire a model with brains and a marketing background to assist you. Someone “very attractive.”

6. Do what they do in grocery stores, demonstrate how to use your product. Wear a mike and have a small speaker attached. Buy the headset mike like professional singers use. The connection to that alone will attract (second chuckle).

7. Wear clothes with your logo. Name tags are great for participants but displaying your logo or name is important for building your brand. If you can’t afford to have them done, create your own. There are transfer materials made for your ink jet printers (see your office supply store), find some nice shirts/blouses, and go create.

8. Don’t just stand behind the booth, go in front of the booth and mix and mingle.

9. Stand up behind the booth with a smile. If you get tired go sit somewhere else and have someone there that has an attractive approachable energy. Rule of thumb is to rotate the energy every 30 to 60 minutes.

10. Display your web site name big and bold in the background. Make the name a different color than the “www” and the “.com”.

Here’s a bonus for you. How about going in with another one-person business and sharing the costs. One that I like to use, is to work with someone like does chair-massages. It is a big attractor to people.

Oops, let me slip in another tip — let’s call it a super bonus — for getting this far in your the reading and in your mindset. If you are a shy person, a dead way to sell at a trade show, hire a trade show presenter.

A trade show presenter is experienced at attracting people to your booth. Their fee may seem expensive, and I said I was going to keep these tips in the inexpensive realm, yet then if your ROI gains from it, it will pay for itself. And these experts on presenting at trade shows will pull in the people all the time. Find someone training for this type of work and you might even be able to barter.

Catherine Franz, a Certified Professional Marketing & Writing Coach, specializes in product development, Internet writing and marketing, nonfiction, training. Newsletters and articles available at: http://www.abundancecenter.com blog: http://abundance.blogs.com

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Salehoo: United Warranty Wholesalers
A few days later I got an email from my friend saying he was trying to locate a certain product but couldn’t find it so he emailed Salehoo and asked them about it and they got back to him with a supplier and a really good wholesale price. He’s selling it on eBay and this one product alone is making him $400 a week profit after the eBay selling fees. The directories justify the cost of the list by saying that their list has the best suppliers and not only that they have been verified and they accept secure payment methods.

It has gained worldwide recognition due to its ease of use and reliability Using either of these two search engines is still a great way for quickly having access to a vast array of choices. Salehoo an Online resource boasts of a comprehensive platform of wholesale suppliers

Salehoo Wholesale Fireworks Stores In Houston:
In many cases, you will spend less for the product as well as the elimination of gas, time and parking at the local mall. There is absolutely no need to be paranoid about shopping online and the bargains and even wholesale products that are dropshipped to you are waiting to picked!

It was a tricky thing to do with no obvious answers. A fake wholesale distributor could tell you that all you need to do is fill out a W-2 form and give them your social security number. See Salehoo Review.

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Do you post to message boards, e-mail discussion
lists, classified ads sites, FFA sites or newsgroups?

People will usually read the subject line before they
read your ad or message, so it’s important they get
noticed.

Below are ten simple, but powerful web marketing tips
to get your ads or messages noticed.

1. Use extra white space creatively in your subject
line. You can add extra blank spaces between your
words or letters.

2. Combine capital letters with lower case letters.
Use all capital letters in every other word or use a
capital letter between every other lower case letter.

3. Add text symbols in your subject line. You could
use them between words and letters. Start and end
your subject with a text symbol. ( *, $, >,{,] )

4. Begin your subject line with the word “STOP!”.
People have been trained their whole life to stop
what they are doing when they see that word.

5. Ask people a question in your subject line. We
all went to school and were repetitively branded to
answer questions.

6. Use the word “FREE” in your subject line. Your
offer should be attractive to your target audience.
It could be free information, software, trials, etc.

7. Begin your subject line with an “online smile :)”.
People use smiles offline to gain people’s attention
and to win their trust, why not use them online too.

8. Don’t use unbelievable claims in your subject line.
People have or know some who has been ripped
off and trained themselves to ignore those claims.

9. Don’t use all capital letters in your subject line.
It is hard to read, looks unprofessional, and on the
internet it’s considered a symbol for shouting.

10. Test different subject lines to see which ones
draws the most traffic to your web site. Also, read
the FAQ before posting a message or ad anywhere.

May these web marketing secrets help you to make a lot
of money.

Warmly,

I-key Benney, CEO

I-key, a Millionaire CEO from New York City is the creator of “Mscsrrr: Millionaire Secret Cash System”,(investing online) program, which has helped thousands of ordinary people from all over the world to attain financial security and shining success during the past 2 yrs.

Mscsrrr Millionaire Cash System helps you to generate $1,500+/Week for life, from home or office, part time or full time. No large investment or hassles. Win $1000-$2000 free “cash”.

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We all do it I guess: give something away for free to stimulate interest in our online promotions, an e-book here; a report there, whatever elsewhere.

But can you really build an asset out of giving stuff away?

I believe you can and I’ll tell you why.

I have dozens of small web businesses in diverse fields and one site in particular drives traffic in droves to most of the others.

That’s its job. It’s a portal; a catalyst and it’s good at what it does.

You know what though?

I have been consistently and unwittingly underestimating the power of its innate potential to build an asset, a priceless asset.

Until recently this valuable catalyst had no opt-in facility, no newsletter.

Crazy - and it took my ten year-old granddaughter to point out the error of my ways.

Here is the 4-point action plan I implemented to persuade her I wasn’t a terminally doddering old duffer.

1. I set up a dedicated subscription web page offering targeted visitors a bumper bundle of goodies to opt-in and sign up for a free newsletter I have yet to launch.

2. I emailed my existing lists directing members to the bumper bundle page.

3. I installed the script for an opt-in responder form on the home page of the portal.

4. I inserted a link in most of my other websites.

That was several weeks ago and already it’s showing signs of paying off.

I am averaging around 30 sign-ups per day and my new list currently stands at 1300+

The subscription site is an ugly duckling - but so what - the technique is working.

If you would like a sneak peek at how I’m building an asset out of giving stuff away for free, you might like to visit the site featured in the resource box below.

Jim Green is an online enthusiast and bestselling author with an ever-growing string of niche non-fiction titles to his credit.
http://free-stuff-xl.com

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Selling an item or service through the internet can be a grueling task, without question. And most internet marketing techniques either don’t work, or have been overused. Marketing through self-promotion is a new, innovative way to sell your products, while at the same time advertising your skills. Providing your customers with information about yourself and your background can put them at ease with their impending purchase, and assure them that you care about their best interest. This fresh internet marketing technique may just be one of the best sources currently available.

One way to utilize internet marketing through promoting yourself, is to regularly participate in online communities. These can involve discussion groups, chat rooms, or message boards. Any forum where you can interact with the public is a great form of internet marketing. As you regularly visit these online areas, you will get acquainted with your peers, as they familiarize themselves with you and your business.

Another great internet marketing technique is composing informational articles on subjects that you are interested or skilled in. The end of the article should include a byline, and short bio about you. Adding your web site address is also a helpful marketing tool. Submit the articles to numerous e-zines and article directories for even more internet marketing power.

Have you ever wanted to be a teacher or professor? Why not teach an online class devoted to your area of expertise? Chat room classes have become a favorite on the web, and now an outstanding marketing source. A chat room can easily be installed on your web site. Before each class begins, be sure to tell your students about your education, background, and business. This method of internet marketing is exceptional, because it allows for continuous interaction and a commitment to learn more about the subject at hand. The more that you promote and market yourself, the more others will want to know about your business and goals!

Scott has his own website to help you find the best home based business ideas and opportunities so you can work at home at: www.Pennies4You.com

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