2009-11-12

Many hands make light work!

Come to the EZProfitsPlus , I want answers!, sessions.
The Moneylegs Network Development Club new
Money Making , 21stCentury, platform.
With a system which meshes together to teach online
marketers how to have a business on the internet.

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http://www.hotconference.com/conference,32721773

EPP (EZProfitsPlus) has a compilation of easy to understand
videos tutorials to teach those new to the internet and also those
already with a business how to use each tool that is supplied.

Even though the tools are there with the tutorials showing you
how to use them coming to the Saturday sessions teaches you
how to apply them. Also working with someone who has already
applied those tools saves you much time and aggrevation when
you get in a hurry and don't apply them as instructed.

Once you start going to the sessions, you will find it easier to contact
the staff at any time during the week if you add them to your Instant
Messenger or get their email address or even their phone number.
There will 95% of the time be someone online during the week. You
need answers, contact one of them. I'm talking about any kind of
reasonable business question.  If one of the staff can't answer your
question, we will find someone who can or point you in the right
direction to the best of our ability.

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The staff can't make themselves available to you if you don't make
yourself available to them.  Also don't expect the staff to do your
work for you, it is your business, it is your responsibility to work
it.

If you don't belong to EZProfitsPlus then don't wait another minute!
Your new opportunity has just arrived and at the right time.  You have
only until Saturday to get the money back bonus guarantee!  Basically
if you look it over carefully you really get the first month free!

Patricia Downing

2009-07-15

Awaken Your Enthusiasm

Awaken Your Enthusiasm ---- Increase Your Incentive
This is from the third capture of Harry Lorayne's book,
' Secrets of Mind Power '

Ralph Waldo Emerson once said that, "Nothing great was ever achieved
without enthusiasm."

Average achievements maybe but nothing great. For someone to achieve
their goal, what ever that goal is,  that person needs to have enthusiasm.
Less than complete enthusiasm for your objective will have you stopping
and starting and making  'busywork'  because you don't really have your
heart in the endeavour so you procrastinate.

You will more than likely do a half-hearted attempt and you won't achieve
the success that others achieve when they put their whole heart into
their project.

Most of us won't have the greatness of Leonardo da Vinci but what
we do accomplish will be much easier if we do it with enthusiasm.
The ancient philosopher Terence said,  "There is nothing
so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance."

If you ever wrote an essay and didn't enjoy it then you probably weren't
enthusiastic about it, so it was a chore. The same with writing a letter, if you
put some enthusiasm into your writing it is so much easier to do and it will
turn out to be something you look forward to doing.

My last article mentioned showing interest in others. This interest is more
surely to be aroused by showing enthusiasm in learning about others.
You need to start by listening to what others are saying and be enthusiastic
about their interests.

Wilson Mizner ( an American playwright, raconteur, and entrepreneur )
once said, "A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a
while he knows something!"

Lorayne feels that, "one's incentive in everyday living ---the goals one sets
for himself-- is closely related to enthusiasm."

What is said about enthusiasm, is "usually also true of incentive."
He firmly believes about enthusiasm and incentive, "that these things are
self-controlled  and must originate in the mind." For as he says, there isn't
much success if there is no incentive. People either set up goals that don't
match their abilities or they don't set up any goals at all.

Lorayne believes and I would agree that so often we are told that we
should do the  'best that we can' and don't worry about being any better.
He believes that we should not settle for that but that we should strive for
even more than our best.

He feels that we should,  "set your goals just a bit farther than what you
believe to be your best.  Believe that you can do it and you probably will!"

He believes, "that many people keep themselves from success by their
own short-sightedness; their easy-to-attain goals; and their attitudes
of  "I can't" do this or that."

J. A. Hadfield (Lecturer in Psychology) stated, "Common experience teaches
that, when great demands are made upon us, if only we fearlessly accept
the challenge and confidently expend our strength, every danger or
difficulty brings its own strength."

As Lorayne continues in the same theme, "Circumstances may back you
up against a wall and all seems lost --but it may be the best thing that
ever happened to you."

The human body and mind are actually miracles, "When put in the position
of having to do something, one usually does, either physically or
mentally".

Chapter three can be concluded in a few paragraphs. It deals with the fact
that we are easily swayed by suggestion. Some of us more than others
and it may be from ourselves or others.  If one person yawns we find
ourselves yawning as well which is more or less an automatic reaction
from most people.  In some cases though we can convince ourselves of
all kinds of things, the trick is to know when it is good or bad for us. 

If you are determined to succeed you need enthusiasm, incentive and
initiative and belief that you can succeed.  "Believing that you can do
something is almost tantamount to accomplishing it."

"Make up your mind to win; work toward winning with enthusiasm, and the
odds are with you.  If you are the type whose goal is merely to 'avoid failure'
instead of to  ' attain success',  you're looking at the pits instead of the
peaches."  Don't leave yourself an 'out',  look at the peach first and be a
success!

I will finish this part with the story Lorayne told of a mother's ingenuity.

The family was poor and their daughter had yet to be married. Upon
meeting a wealthy young man who showed an interest in the daughter,
the mother came up with a plan.  She invited him to dinner and cooked a
beautiful turkey indicating it was the daughter who cooked it.

As the daughter carried the turkey into the dining room she tripped and
the bird went flying across the room. Everyone was aghast but after a
moments thought the mother with amazing inspiration said,
"That's all right, my dear, just take that bird back to the kitchen, and
bring out the 'other' one!"

Benjamin Disraeli said: "Every production of genius must be the
production of enthusiasm."

Patricia Downing

2009-06-28

Our Iceberg is Melting

I have been reading different books, (which I get from the
library)  not being satisfied with reading one at a time. 
This book I am about to talk about is a fable but is a very
thought provoking story about a colony of penguins in the
Antarctica.

{Our Iceberg Is Melting:
Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions
by John Kotter, Holger Rathgeber, Peter Mueller (Illustrator) }

The penguins all worked together to keep their colony alive. One though was particularly curious and observant. While the other penguins did the normal every day chores Fred would get
on a high spot and watch the sea and the iceberg and take notes.

With all his observations he was alarmed to discover that his and the colony's iceberg was melting. He knew he had to tell
the rest of the penguins but he felt that he was a nobody and
he would just be laughed at. One other time another penguin
had tried to warn the colony about a problem and he was made
fun of and then treated differently and even shunned. So Fred
asked himself,  "What do I do now?"

The colony had a Leadership Council and he decided Alice, one
of the councilors was the most approachable. She didn't really
take it seriously until Fred took her under the iceberg to
show her. There were caves in the ice and cracks which when
the caves filled with water and when winter came, the water
would freeze.  As most know, when water freezes it expands
and when it freezes in the cracks then the cracks get bigger.
Soon the iceberg was going to break apart.

Alice was alarmed and went to the Leadership Council, but
they wouldn't listen. Some were slightly concerned but most pooh poohed them. Fred decided the only way they would maybe pay attention was if he made a model and that is what he did.
The Council finally started to get concerned and then had a
meeting to see how they could persuade the rest to do something.

It was a tough job because there were naysayers and
those who feel if they don't think about it nothing will happen,
and also the indecisive. So here is how the council went
about persuading the majority of the colony:

The Role of Thinking and Feeling
Thinking differently can help change behaviour and lead to better results.
   - Collect data, analyze it.
   - Present the information logically to change people's
     thinking.
   - Changed thinking in turn, can change behaviour.

Feeling differently can change behaviour MORE and lead to even better results.
  - Create surprising, compelling and if possible ; visual
    experiences.
  - The experiences change how people feel about a situation.

The solution for the colony was to leave their iceberg, which was an unheard of action for penguins.
So the Council had to gradually change a lifetime of thinking. Here is their way of doing just that:

The Eight Step Process of Successful Change.
1. Create a SENSE OF URGENCY.
  - Help others see the need for change and the importance of
    acting immediately.
2. Pull together the Guiding Team.
  - Make sure there is a powerful group guiding the change,
    one with leadership skills , credibility, communications
    ability, authority, analytical skills and a sense of urgency!
  
 Decide What to Do

3. Develop the Change, Vision and Strategy.
  - Clarify how the future will be different from the past and
    how you can make that future a reality.
   
Make It Happen

4. Comunicate for Understanding and Buy In.
 - Make sure as many others as possible understand and
   accept the vision and the strategy.
5. Empower Others to Act
  - Remove as many barriers as possible so that those who
    want to make the vision a reality can do so.
6. Produce Short Term Wins
 - Create some visible, unambiguous (very clear) successes
   as soon as possible.
7. Don't Let Up  
  - Press Harder and Faster after the first successes.
  - Be relentless with initiating change after change until the
   vision is a reality.
  
Make It Stick

8. Create A New Culture
  - Hold on to the new ways of behaving, and make sure they
    succeed, until they become strong enough to replace old
    traditions.

Patricia Downing
So Sigheee, mmmm

2009-03-17

Organizing Your Mind

I will attempt to write a synopsis of the different chapters of
a book I read before and am reading again. The book is
Harry Lorayne's  'Secrets of Mind Power'.

The first chapter is about 'Organizing Your Mind'.  Something
I feel I need to do.  Before he starts the book he suggests that
'a person with a well-trained and organized mind is a happy and
successful person'.

He quotes Samuel Johnson (an English author): " The fountain of
content must spring up in the mind, and he who has so little
knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing
anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless
efforts and multiply the griefs which he purposes to remove."

So since I have been working at making a business for myself
online I would like to do it in a more organized way. Lorayne
says and basically, it is common sense, "that to avoid chaos in
business or in life in general you need organization."

From birth to death there is a definite regimen that is followed
from how your mother feeds you and cares for you, followed by
schooling and adulthood to the organizing of your funeral.  If a certain
regimen wasn't followed the human race would eventually disappear off
the  face of the earth.

The mind is the first thing we need to organize.  To organize
your mind is to control it, which means controlling your thoughts. To
organize your mind means that you need to systemize it, which does take
effort on your part.  Most of us are lazy and don't want to make an effort
especially if we think someone else will make the effort for us.

We mostly are willing to get organized with the subjects that
interest us. Interest is an essential element needed when you have
something to learn.  It is very difficult getting interested in something you
don't really care about even if it concerns you.  You shouldn't tolerate
inefficiency in yourself and you are the only one who can control how you
think.

Interest though is only part of starting to learn something, you
also need action.  You need to be a doer.  Talking about something and
wishing you were a certain way is a waste of time if you aren't
willing to do something about it.

As Harry Lorayne wrote: " You live the way you think.  Organized
thinking really means controlling thought reactions properly, and solving
the problems in the most efficient manner possible at the time.

The way we react mentally to anything that happens to us, and
the way we go about solving the problems it poses, is what
occupies our minds all the time. This being so, it is an obvious
conclusion that you might as well react and solve your problems
in an organized way as in any other way."

The way you think is the way you live. Think properly, clearly
and effectively, and success and happiness must come to you."
When organizing your mind you are then aiming for a definite
goal.

Dreaming is good if you go about fulfilling your dream otherwise
don't waste your time.  Spending more than five minutes wishing
for something if you don't plan to fulfill it to me is just a
waste of valuable time.  Again to quote Lorayne, "time is more
important than money; it's the most valuable commodity we can
spend; so if you're looking for a bargain, spend some on your
thinking powers."

Patricia Downing

2009-01-27

Do you have it?

Not everyone has the right personality for a Home-Based Business.
Do you think you do? Financial experts have discovered that
successful business entrepreneurs have common
characteristics.

Here are some questions you can ask yourself, will you pass the test?

1. Are you independent, unafraid of striking out where others fear to go?

2. Do you have confidence in yourself always looking for answers?

3. Are you capable of setting goals with a certain objective in mind?
Are you persistent about achieving those goals even if you stumble
along the way?

4. Are you good at organizing? Are you a multi-tasker, able to do
more than one job at a time?

5. Have you researched and do you understand the business
that you are interested in? If not do you have the focus and
persistence in learning the in and outs of that business?

6. Do you know where to find the professional help you will need to
achieve your goal and are you willing to get that help?

7. Have you ever had  your own business before or been involved with
someone who has, thus knowing the complete involvement you will
need to reach your goal?

8. Do you know how to manage money? Are you willing to sacrifice
and give up the luxuries until you are well established? Can you
accept a small profit for a few years?

9. Are you good with people? Can you be patient and listen and
give them what they need?

10. Can you see the big picture? Are you able to move in different
directions if that is the way the trend is?

11. Do you have the stamina to keep going with patience and
determination? Can you accept loses along with the profits. Will you
know when to cut back so that you can come out on top when the
going gets tough.

Can you do the time?

Patricia Downing

2008-11-25

Your To Do List

To start a business on the internet, the first thing we have to
do is get organized.  I know, to some of us that is a dirty word.
Organized? How can I get organized? I have this and this and
this to do and there are always interruptions and everything is
a priority. What do I do first?

It is silly, because I have been on the internet for 5 or 6 years
and I never thought to do this.  Oh I know about making folders
and copying and pasting but it is unbelievable how you can have
these tools and still not use them to their fullest extent.

Now all you organized people can leave, you won't need to read
this article.  The rest of you, give this a try;  go to your desktop,
right click with your mouse on an empty spot on the screen.
A box will open, go down to 'new' another box will open. You
will see 'Folder',  click on it and a folder will be made on your desktop.

Now the next thing you do is name it 'To Do List' then double click
on it.  Now do the same thing inside this 'Folder' called 'To Do List'.
Right click, go down to 'New' , go to 'Folder' and click on it.  Now you
have another 'folder' inside the 'To Do List'.   Again you have to
name it.  You can make as many folders as you would like inside your
'To Do List' folder. 

Actually you don't have to make any folders inside the 'To Do List' folder at all if you don't want to. It can be the one you save your list of things to do, that you have made in your notepad, that you save it to. It will be on your desktop and you can just double click on it and then click on your notepad file and there is you list.

So far I have 7 folders inside my 'To Do List' and you never
know, I may create more.  You can name your folders what ever you feel you need to always be trying to find.  For example, these are the names I have given my folders:  Email, Business, Phone Calls, Housework, Activities, My Domain, Blogging, Chocolate  and so on. What ever occupies your time and what ever  you need to get done.

The last action you need to take, is to write in your notepad  what it is you need to do then save it to the folder you have made for that topic.  Otherwise those Folders will do you no good at all.

Patricia Downing

2008-11-08

Blogging in BlogEstates

I have a lady who has just joined BlogEstates and
she has been a bit frustrated by it. So I thought
since I had not written in my blog for far too long
that I should maybe write one on how to navigate
BlogEstates.

So after you have verified your signup, bookmark
your page. Log in to your back office by clicking
on 'Log in', add your information along with the
security code.

Once inside, click on Account, check out the
information, add anything new that you would like
listed.  Now click on Prefs, check where you put in
the title you want for your blog then the subtitle.
It can be whatever you want it to be as long as it agrees
with the TOS or Terms of Service. See where you can add
your domain name if you want your blog to be your own.
Next check out if you can add advertisements, then below
that the description of what your blog is going to be
about. The rest is the color of your page and your photo.

We are just checking out the back office for now, we are
not adding anything. So go to 'Mail' and click on it. I don't
know if there will be anything in there unless admin sends
a welcome letter. Leave that one and go to Upgrade. You can
study this if you are a regular blogger but if you are just
new then just glance through it  because you need to get use
to writing before you try to sell to anyone.

Click on 'Support' next and read all the information but be
prepared to be logged out if you aren't a fast reader.
Blogestates has fairly high time out setting. But I will
get to that later. I find for myself, the best way to read
something on the net if it is fairly long is to highlight
what I want to read, right click and then left click on copy.
Open wordpad or similar and paste the information there.
If you have a printer, print it out where it will be
much easier to read and you don't have to worry about the
page timing out. I would read all the information on this
page for it does explain much of what you need to do to
have a blog on BlogEstates.

On we go now to the next link, your 'Banners'. These are banners
which you can use to advertise your blog. You can put them
in other exchanges, on your own website or anywhere they
allow banners. In the code listed is your BlogEstates referral
URL, you can use that in other exchanges as well. This is my
url;  http://www.blogestates.com/index.php?ref=PrairieMade

As we go across the top you will see 'Offline Promotions'. If
your are just a free member it may not be there. At least it
probably isn't anything you need to worry about for now.
Skip over the 'GJWForums' for now because it takes you to a
separate browser window. Go back to the left side of the page
and click on 'FollowMe Directory'

These are all the programs in the Moneylegs Network Development
Club.  You can put your member ID in the boxes of which ever
program you have joined so far. You then click on 'submit changes'
at the bottom of the page. This way when your BlogEstates referral
signs up to the program in their back office they will automatically
go under you. The more of these free programs you join the more
chances of your referral going under you in the programs rather
than signing under your upline.  The paid programs can wait until
you learn about the free ones and get use to them.

The rest is fairly self explanatory. Your 'Referrals' are who signs
up under you and your 'Network' is all who signup under you and
under your referrals.

You may only be able to send newsletters to your downline if you are
upgraded. You will know if the 'Send Newsletters' is listed. Then
what is left is the 'Photo Gallery'.  It is a good idea to add your
picture so that people get use to seeing your face and get more
comfortable with you. That is your preference and whatever you feel
comfortable with.

So, now that we have gone through your whole back office, you may now
feel like writing.  The first thing I want you to do is log out of
Blogestates and open a 'Notepad'.  This is what I referred to at the
beginning. Blogestates has a high timeout setting, meaning if you sit
in your back office too long it will time out and you will have to log
in again. If you have been going through the different links you will
be ok. Otherwise if you are in the 'New Entry' area and are planning on
writing an article then you don't want to be inactive for too long.

Here you are diligently creating an article for others to read, you are
correcting it here, adding there,  then, 'now it is ready to go'. You
click on submit, then you click on 'Home' to get to your 'Member's Area'.
You look to see the title of your article and it isn't there. WHAT!
You are angry! Where is your article? You went to all that work, you don't
have a saved copy! How discouraging! You won't remember everything you just
wrote!  You aren't doing this over again, this is a useless blog program!
You log out and you go on to something else and don't plan on going back!

Well I want you to come back, because this is a good program. So you know
now why I want you to log out after you have checked out all the
information in your back office.  This is why I want you to open Notepad,
where you can write your article , take as long as you want and save it as
you go. Make a folder on your desktop if you like to write a lot and save
each article there. Also before you paste your pre-written article into the
'New Entry' area, be sure you click on the 'Private' box, so that if you don't
like the looks of your article you can go back and correct it without anyone
on the web seeing what you don't want them to see.  When you have fixed
it to your satisfaction then click on the 'Comments' box. Make sure only
one of the boxes is clicked at a time, they both should not be showing a
check mark. Then last of all, click on the ' Save Changes' box and 'voila'
your first blog is on the net and the link is there for you to click on and
read.

There is more to this blogging but this should keep you occupied for a
while.  Can't wait to see your first article!
Patricia Downing

2008-06-09

Surfing Traffic Exchanges

This is one thing that I have thought about writing for a while now.
When you advertise your sites on traffic exchanges, please do not
put  pages on, that have the videos, music or actors going on and on
about how wonderful their product is.  It is just a pain to those
who are surfing for they just turn their sound off.   I mean sure
you can turn off your sound but sometimes you need it on. 
Then there are the videos which take so long to load that
you are clicking to the next site before it is even done.

So save your main webpage for classified ads, forums, blogs or
where ever you like to advertise your business.  What you need
on traffic exchanges are splash pages or lead capture pages.  These
are small, to the point pages, that a person can read at a glance.
If it is interesting enough they will click on the link that takes them
to the main page.  With a lead capture page they can fill out their
information which can be as little as their name and email address
or as much as you think a person may want to tell you about themselves.
Less is probably better. Then you can send them the link to your main
business page. 

When making a splash page or lcp or having one made for you, make
sure your picture goes on it.  This is called branding yourself.
People are more likely to join with a face that they are used to
seeing as they surf, rather than any generic page with no information
on it about who the page belongs to.

You can get someone else to make you a page but that will cost you
money each time.  If you learn how to make one then it will cost
you very little and you will be branding your own style.  If you come
to Prairiemade.com my leg of Moneylegs.com , I will show you
what you need to do to start branding yourself and help you to be
a business success online.
Patricia Downing

2008-06-03

Online Marketing with Moneylegs

Prairiemade an Online Marketer

I posted this in April of 2007, and I think it still works for today
as well so I am posting it again with a few changes.

Hello fellow online marketers!  Are you struggling to make your business succeed online? 

Does everyone else seem to know something you don't?  Are they confidently  forging ahead and you feel you are being left behind? 

If so,  I know where you are coming from. 

Sometimes you plug along and don't seem to get anywhere. 
There is so much to learn and sometimes it seems there is so
little time! 

You see ads saying how you can make so much money if you
join this site or that site.  You join and the money doesn't start
flowing in. 

What are you doing wrong?  They said it was so simple,  you
must not be cut out for this business, maybe you should quit.

I'm here to say , 'don't quit'!  If you are like me and you enjoy
working on the internet then don't give up.  If you are a
persistent, diligent, steady working individual then you can
make it on the internet the same as anyone else.

I belong to a program that shows you how to start your own
business. Then it guides you through all the processes to get you established so you can go on your own.  You start out as a free member and then as you get more confidence you can buy
the lifetime senior membership.  At each step you can join
more programs that will enhance your learning and promote
your business  which is YOU!

To succeed for yourself on the internet you have to learn how to
brand yourself.  You have to be the one that people want to go
to or they will  just pick anyone.

Blogging is a great way to brand yourself, and it really isn't
as hard as it may seem.  I find the hardest part is working it
into my schedule. Moneylegs will teach you about blogging and
how to get your blogs on the internet.

But it all takes work, this is not one of those get rich quick ,
easy come easy go 'pie in the sky' promotions.  So be
prepared to work and use that persistance I mentioned at the beginning.

Prairiemade.com is one leg of the Moneylegs Network Development program.  It is my leg of the program and I am
proud to be part of the Moneylegs team! 

So if you  would like some training then come and join me for
our  free startup business training. 
   Let us give you a leg up in your business adventure!

Patricia Downing

2008-04-09

To Blog or Not to Blog

To Blog or Not to Blog
Are you blogging?  If not, why not?  You think,' what would I write about, who
would care?'  You might be surprised.  Isn't your opinion as good as anyone else's?  So the guy next door will laugh, laugh with him. He gives his opinion, so use that and write your opinion in your blog.  There will be others out there who have a similar experience and so they will want to read of your way of dealing with critics.
 
So is there not something in your life that interests you?  Is there anything
you have a lot of experience with?  Do you know how to fix a leaky tap?
Do you have a garden or house plants that your neigbours comment on? 
Have you raised children, would your experience help other parents?  There are more fathers raising their children can you share your upsets or can you be encouraging? 

There are so many many experiences a person has in their lifetime, please share it.  Most people are grateful to be able to read of experiences that are similar to theirs and so they feel that they are not alone.

So what are you waiting for?  Open up your notepad and start writing.  The wonderful thing about a computer is you can make all the mistakes you want, and then you can go back and fix them so easily.

Will I see you in the blogs?  I hope so, because as a very savvy lady said, " You
ARE,  you count, your opinion is what makes you who you are, so unless you are
willing to express it, then how can you edcucate yourself fairly on how and when to
adjust it?"

Patricia Downing
aka  Prairiemade

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