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Seize The Moment

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You may only have one chance.

Fear and doubt are thundering down on you like a freight train.

Whether or not you win the game of life, you have to decide how you will walk out of here when it is all said and done…

 You need to make sure you grab the opportunity…It’s all about you and your goals.

Will you reach them? Will you succeed?

You are in control. You are at the helm. It all comes down to what you do with it…

While the visuals in this video use sports as a backdrop, the message is a universal one.

The following can be applied to every action that you take in business and in life.

You need to decide… 

Have passion…then take action….

Here’s to you and your absolute success,

albert grande
Student of Life

How to Succeed With Your Internet Business

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Listen, there a lot of ways to make money on-line.

There is adsense, affiliate programs, creating products and videos. Here is the best way to ensure success: Internet Success System.

If I could distill all of the truth about Internet Success in one word it would be marketing. You need to know how to use the tools of marketing in order to excel on the Internet.

You need a great teacher. You need a great mentor. You need someone who has been there and who has done it. You need someone you can learn from.

You need someone you can know, like and trust. And let me introduce you to the person who originated the saying.

His name is Mark Hendricks. He created a system called the Internet Success System.

He is an Internet Marketer who I respect greatly. Mark is doing something he has never done.

He is offering a 30 day free trial to Internet Success System..

Listen: over the years I have spent thousands on Internet Marketing products. Thousands.

Some of them were great. Some of them were so so. And (though I hate to admit it,) some of them were a complete waste of time and money.

But Internet Success System  paid me dividends. And still pays me dividends. It is one of the best investments I have ever made.

Internet Success System. is a program I recommend totally, without hesitation or reservation.

First of all, the foundation of Internet Success System., is a series of 13 modules. These include everything you need to know about marketing on line. It starts with the basic thing you need which is Mind Set. It continues with modules on competive analysis, products, your marketplace, joint ventures, traffic and listbuilding, infrasructure, testing and more.

Everything you need to know is contained in these modules. Add to this a huge library of vidoes, ebooks, and you have a massive amount of knowledge you can have about becoming a marketing master.

Here is another incredible bonus: every month, Mark hosts Internet Success System. audios. He has them all archived and available to download. These calls go back to 2005.

Honestly, if you just take a look, you will be amazed. Amazed!

Here is the deal: he is offering to let you in the front door for free. You can take a peek at everything contained at zero risk. Then you can continue your membership for $10.00 per month, if you wish. Or you can cancel before the 30 days are up.

I gladly pay for my membership month after month. To me it is not an expense it is an investment. An investment in my own learning and growing as an Internet Marketer.

I’ve made a lot of mistakes. Joining Internet Success System was not one of them.

It was one of the best things I have ever done.

You owe it to yourself and your own success, to at least take a look and decide for yourself. Here is the link: Internet Success System

To your absolute success,

Albert Grande
Internet Marketer and
The Pizza Promoter

Five Easy Ways To Make Money From Your Blog

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Your blog has the potential to be a money making magnet, if you know the right steps to take. Blogs once started as a sort of online diary. They’ve been totally transformed to fit a whole range of needs, from a place to house an online newspaper to a simple way to start an Internet stream of income. The following five methods will help you make money from your blog, no matter what niche you are in and how you are using your blog.
1.       Affiliate marketing
This is one of the easiest ways to make money from your blog, and the simplest to start. You begin by selecting an affiliate program from one of the popular affiliate networks. You can either post a review on your blog about the product (complete with your affiliate link) or post ads along the side of your posts (also with your affiliate link). Affiliate marketing is simple to implement because you don’t have to worry about writing a product.
2.       Selling your own product
If you feel there is a need to be met in your niche and want to create your own product, you can add it to your blog for another stream of income. Advertising your own product on your blog is a smart idea. Your readers have already built a level of trust with you so they’ll be likely to be interested in your product. You can link to your product’s sales page directly from your posts and display graphic ads in the sidebars of your blog.And if need help with selling your product you need to check out: Writer’s Secret
3.       Contextual advertising
Contextual advertising, like the type offered at Text Links, will help you make money from your blog without much intervention on your part. When you sign up with Text Links or a similar service, your blog posts will automatically have certain words hyperlinked. These links go to advertiser’s websites. You get paid when someone clicks on a link. Unlike with affiliate programs, you don’t get a commission on the sale but you do get paid whether or not your visitor buys from the advertiser’s site.
4.       Other types of advertising
Google Adsense and other pay per click advertising programs will give you code to add to your website. These programs will display ads in the sidebars of your website. Anytime a visitor clicks on one of these links, you will get paid anywhere from a few cents to a few dollars depending on your niche. These ads don’t appear within the body of your post, but they are based on the content of your posts so they will be attractive to your audience.
5.       Get paid for reviews
Once you have some traffic coming to your blog, you can be paid to post reviews. There are many different networks that link advertisers with bloggers. You simply find an advertiser through one of these networks and promise to post a review on your blog about the product or service. You’ll be paid a flat rate for your review. Be sure the product or service is relevant to your niche for best results with this monetization model.
As you can see, you have a lot of different options when it comes to making money with your blog. Try one or all of these to see what works best for your niche.

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Five Different “Kinds” Of Blog Posts

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 Blog posts come in many different forms and lengths. If you want to keep your blog fresh and interesting, you should post often. Creating different types of blog posts will keep your audience interested. It will also keep you from being bored with your blog. Whether you are blogging to make money directly from the blog or blogging to drive traffic to an affiliate program, you should know about these five kinds of blog posts.

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1.       Review blog posts
Review blog posts can help you monetize your blog. When you review a product and include an affiliate link, you’ll make a commission off of each sale generated with your affiliate link. Review blog posts should go over some of the major plusses and minuses of the product. Even if you loved the product, you should keep your review balanced by mentioning a few things that could have been improved. Your audience will appreciate your honesty and be more likely to trust your recommendation. AutoBlog Samurai will post automaticall.
2.       Quick tips
Quick tips are great “in between” posts since they are so short. They are normally between 100 and 250 words. If there’s a great bit of information that you want to share with your niche but it doesn’t really warrant a full blog post, you can post a quick tip. The tip should be focused on one key area of the niche. For example, “How to Grease a Muffin Pan” is a perfect quick tip article for a cooking blog.
3.       Lists
Blog readers love lists! If you’ll look at the most popular blogs you’ll see that they make good use out of this type of blog posts. You can make lists fit any niche topic imaginable. They are great ways to convey information online because they can easily be scanned by web readers who like to skim over information. You can create resource lists that will help your readers find information on your niche. You can also create lists of different ways to accomplish a goal in a niche, like “5 Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Sales Letter.” The possibilities are endless.
4.       Interviews
Although these require a bit of preparation, they can be very valuable to your blog. You can interview someone in your niche and share the results of the interview with your blog readers. This will not only help provide valuable content for your blog, but you can also get more traffic to your blog. Likely, the person who you are interviewing will publicize the event on their blog and around the ‘net which will bring more traffic back to you.
5.       How to posts
Like quick tips, how to posts help you provide valuable information to your readers. However, unlike quick tips, these posts go into detail on a certain topic. Some how to posts are even separated out into two or three part courses. For ideas on what to create how to posts about, look at the most frequently asked questions in your niche and develop posts around those topics.

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How to Find Ideas to Write About for Your Blog

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 Starting a blog is easy – keeping a blog interesting and fresh is a whole other matter. While many marketers have no trouble beginning a niche blog, the sheer number of abandoned blogs around the ‘net speaks to the fact that many marketers don’t know what to do to keep a blog going. According to blogging experts, the key to keeping a blog going is to post frequently. This means that you’re going to need a ever present stream of content coming into your blog.

You may be intimidated by the thought of having to come up with lots of topic ideas. Finding topics for your blog posts are easy if you use the following ideas.
1.       News in your niche
Your blog should be timely and there’s no better way to attract attention on your blog than to tap into some ongoing news. No matter what your niche is you can find news stories and breaking information that will help fuel timely blog posts. Sign up for Google Alerts (it’s free) and set up alerts on important words in your niche. This way you’ll be able to see the news in your niche and blog about current topics.
2.       Comments section
The comments section in your blog can be a great source of writing inspiration. Let’s say you have a post on your marketing blog about keyword research. Within the comments section, a few people start asking about how to use keywords in articles for article marketing. Voila! You have your next blog post. Look through your comments section to identify topics that you can write about or questions you can answer in the form of a blog post.
3.       Resource lists
Are there some websites or other resources that your niche needs to know about? Write a few resource list posts. Resource lists posts are very easy to write and they provide maximum value to your readers because they can get the information that they need easily. When you can’t think of anything else to write about you can pull together a helpful list for your readers.
4.       Other blogs in your niche
Keep your finger on the pulse of your niche. Watch other blogs in your niche and see what they are writing about. You can take a different angle on the same topic, or cover an area of the topic that the original author missed. If you disagree with the author, feel free to go ahead and express you opinion on your blog. Other bloggers can be a great source of information so be sure to get involved in the community.
5.       Quick tips
Start collecting a list of quick tips you’d like to share with your niche. These can be inspired by your personal experience with the niche, from other blog posts you’ve read or from other products in your niche. When you find yourself stuck for blog post ideas, you can write a quick tips post.
These tips just scratch the surface of where you can find ideas for blog posts to populate your blog. Start keeping a notepad file with blog post ideas and you’ll never be at a loss for material.

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5 Steps To Writing A Great Salesletter

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 There is no doubt that having a great salesletter can make or break a product. You can sell a phenomenal product to a tightly focused audience, and if the sales copy is only marginal, your results will not be up to snuff.

One of the problems with writing copy stems from being too close to a project. If it is your product, sometimes it’s hard to step back and realize that the reasons you love it might not translate to someone else. It’s a lot like having kids. What is adorable or wonderful about your kid to you might be peculiar or irritating to someone else. Now maybe if they get to know your child, they’d find them adorable, too. That’s the purpose of the salesletter.
Your product is your “baby” at the moment. You’re already sold on it. You need to step back and try to think of what would make you spend your money on it if it wasn’t yours already.
So how do you do it? How do you write a great salesletter? I’m glad you asked…
1.    Grab Attention: You MUST get the reader’s attention quickly. A pre-head, and then a main headline should grab hold of the reader and make them want to know more. If possible, you want to give the ultimate reward for the product right in the headline. If it is easy, requires little time or effort, and/or has a big payoff, the reader should be hooked with the possible results right away.

­- What is the ultimate “best reason” someone should buy your product?
– What is the most desirable result of buying your product to the reader?
– What, above everything else, would be most beneficial about buying it?

This is your chance to quickly encapsulate your entire salesletter in one, eye-catching sentence that is GUARANTEED to be read by the visitor to your site.
Fire your biggest gun! 
2.    State the Problem: Your reader must find out why they need your product. What problem are you solving? What are the frustrations that you can alleviate with your product, manual, report? Many times, there are multiple problems that can be listed to make sure you address every angle possible.
I generally prefer to use the “3 Reasons Why”, or “5 Problems With” approach. Make a list of problems or issues that you know your audience deals with, and then explain a few details about these problems. Make them feel personal.

3.    Introduce the Product: Give details about your product, what will be included, and why it’s an answer to what your prospects are looking for. You’ll want to list solutions in direct answer to the problems described above. Brag on yourself a little, but do it in a humble manner. If you are the expert, be the expert. Tell them why your product can answer their concerns, solve their problems.

4.    Give Plenty of Details: People want meat, not tofu. You must present the meat of what your prospects will be getting when they part with their hard earned cash. Bullet lists, subject or chapter heads, examples of real content. The more content shared here, the more they know they’ll get with the product, and the more valuable it will be to them. If you have proof, testimonials, etc…these are great information about the product, too, if used sparingly and properly.

5.    Call to Action: In sales, this is the close. You must give the reader a reason to act. Ask them to buy, set a limit, or offer a bonus for quick action. Offer a satisfaction guarantee, too. Make them feel at once compelled to buy, as well as comfortable with buying.
 
There are a lot of ways to put a good salesletter together. Use the tools you have, and your own experience, to promote your baby. Make sure you incorporate these 5 steps, and you’ll be on your way to sales copy that really sells.

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Talk is Cheap With Dragon Naturally Speaking

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I have struggled with my writing for quite some time…Not that I can’t write. I can write fairly well.

I like to write. Editing takes a lot of time but, I like to write.

Here’s my problem…I am a terrible typist. It takes me a long time to type out the words I want to get out. I can think and talk a lot faster than I can type. I think a lot of people have the same problem. Do you?

I’ve watched the speech to writing software for a while. Hey it looks like it can really cut down on the time it takes for me to type.

The problem was the expense. It semed like a lot of money…Hey I’m a cheapo.

I just recently found an offer I could not refuse. Here it is:

Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 Standard software with a 63% savings. So I went for it. I just ordered it. I’m not sure how long it will be this price. I think it is an incredible deal. Incredible.

And I wanted to share this deal with you. You can get it here at a great price. Plus it comes with a headset. Sweet!

So I plan on using it to update my blogs, my web pages, my reviews and anytime I have to type something. And I type a lot….

As I said it’s an offer I can’t refuse. and I hope you take a look at it as well.

If you are like me this could save you a lot of time. Hey talk is cheap and time is after all money.

I plan on giving a report on how I make out with this. But at this price, it is something you should not let slip by…

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Stay well,

 

albert

Tips for Getting Sales Success…

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 Here is some great advice from Danny:

More New Sales. That’s what we’re all looking for. Have you ever wondered why there are times when you can’t figure out what to do next? You find yourself browsing at a book store, music store, hanging out at the house…instead of out selling. Why?

You need a restart. A refresher. A kick start, if you will. More training? REALLY?
Let’s say you have a number of years of sales experience, and have attended numerous training classes, seminars, etc. Why are you continually having to attend new classes that rehash the same old thing?
I all of my years of sales, I never worked for a company that didn’t hold training meetings AT LEAST once a year. In my last job, it happened about 5-6 times a year. Most of the time it was a lot of the same information. Why? And what did I get out of it?
Well, it WAS tedious. At the same time, I DID get something out of it.
Literally…every…single…time. Kinda strange…I never really looked forward to spending 2-3 days of my life re-hashing old sales material, yet somehow I ended up learning something.
Truth is we need continual training. Sometimes, the most useful information was just learning how other sales reps do their jobs.
Training is very useful, and the right kind of training can send you into the stratosphere. Every person finds different help in different areas. The right kind of sales tip or training for you might not mean as much to someone else. But, you never know. Something you’ve never even considered might make the difference between a sale and a no sale…and that sale might mean the difference between a banner year and another “good” year.
Let’s have a banner year! I’ve put together 20 of the best sales tips…as a quick reference for anyone. You may even already know and use much of this information, but next time you find yourself browsing at the mall instead of selling, drag this report out and find something useful to do.
I once read a book that said “if you’re not out selling, you’re being out sold”…
Let’s go…
 
1.     Make contact

Make contact with all of your customers who either haven’t bought yet, or have only recently bought.

If it’s a potential customer, find out what you can do to move them along in making their decision. Not the used car sales guy-high pressure way, but by trying to sincerely serve them. How can you help them? You are trying to solve a problem they have, and whether they called you or you called on them…if they wanted to hear your sales presentation, they need or want what you’re selling. Make it a problem solving expedition, and SERVE the best you can.

This is tip #1 because it’s easy, and it’s a great place to jump in. Talking to customers is the only way you’re going to sell. Call them. Drop in. Make contact. Sell.

2.     Trial close

Closing is the most important thing you can do. If you don’t ask for the business, you’ll lose more sales than you make. That’s the obvious part.

The not-so-obvious part is when to start closing. Almost every training course discusses this so you probably already know it, but it’s one of the biggest ways to find out how far along the decision making process the customer is at any time.

Ask questions throughout. “Will this option meet your needs? Is this component something you are interested in? Will this meet your need, and/or am I on the right track?”

Trial closes accomplish two things. 1.) Let you know if you are heading in the right direction. 2.) Keep you from over-shooting the buying decision. If the customer is ready to buy, you don’t want to talk yourself out of a sale.Close throughout the sales call…it’ll make it easier to close at the end.

3.      Capture trust

In order to close effectively, you must earn trust. This means many different things to many different people, but to you it means the difference between selling and “giving a quote”. How do we capture trust? What do clients want from us?

Part of this goes back SERVING. You’re going to hear this a lot in this sales, because service is at the heart of any successful sales venture.
Service during the initial presentation
Service during the sale
Service after the sale and product delivery
Service any time the customer needs you. ANY TIME.

Deliver on your promises. Do what you say you are going to do. Return calls, answer questions completely and honestly. Nothing is worse than nailing a sale and then losing it all on a technicality. Don’t be “that guy (or girl)”. Don’t lie…it won’t work out in the long run.

Answer calls in a timely manner
Call back with solutions
Be on time
Follow up
Be honest
Be friendly and positive
Be confident in your knowledge without belittling theirs

Capturing trust is at the heart of sales. Whether you’re asking someone to part with their own hard earned money, or asking a corporation to narrow its profit margin with an added expense…you must deserve the business. If they trust you…you’re one step closer.

How to Get Into the Pizza Business

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 Over the years, I have gotten hundreds of emails from people,
wanting information about getting into the pizza business. Here is my best advice. I answered each email with the following:

"If you really want to learn the pizza business, you need to work at a pizza operation and get to know the business inside and out.  Get a job at  a pizzeria. Find a pizza place that makes great pizza and start working there!  You want to learn to make fantastic pizza! I would think that in about 6 months you would know the operation. 

You also will know if making pizza for a living is what you really want to do. Making pizza is difficult, if you are turning out 100-200 pizzas a day. You will work long hours without much rest! You will make a few mistakes, but you will learn from each one!

You need to go to "pizza school" and learn all that you can about making pizza. Talk to successful pizzeria owners. Learn all you can about the restaurant business. Research, study and ask questions! I cannot emphasize this point enough! It does seem very romantic to make pizza for people, but understand, it is challenging. The pizza business can be very lucrative but you do have to work, to make it a success! 

I have spoken ith dozens of pizzeria owners including Gary Bimonte, (co-owner of Pepe’s), about the pizza business. Gary grew up making pizza. He learned the business from his grandfather, Frank Pepe. Gary has stated to me how difficult the business can be. It is a life time commitment! Of course it is rewarding, but you will work long hours to be a success! Hang in there!"

People always wrote back. They were pleased with my response but had very specific questions about how to start a pizza business…

"What do you want to know about the pizza business?", I asked

The requests came pouring in. There were some people who wanted more inside information about where to find a pizza business. Some peole wanted to know where to find a commercial pizza recipe. They wanted the shortcuts, the secrets, the real inside scoop. I continued to find answers.

I spent hours and hours researching their questions and answered all of them.  I spent a lot of time learning about how to start a pizza business…
After hundreds of hours of research, I noticed that I had collected a vast amount of information.  These inside secrets were invaluable for anyone who wanted to know about the pizza business.

Here’s where you can find all of the secrets and all of the inside information, I have discovered about the pizza business…

Listen below to what I have discovered about how to get into the pizza business:

 

Click here now to get this report:
The Pizza Business Papers by Albert Grande

 

Promoting Your Website With Videos Works

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Did you know videos are one of the most effective ways you can promote your business on-line?
 
All of the major businesses use on-line videos to promote their business.
Why not you and your business?
 
You can your own on-line video promoting your business, 24 hours a day / seven days a week?
 
 
Go to this website right now and check it out.
 
Here is the link:
 
 
Now of course, I hope that you are so excited about your own video.
 
 

Make sure you look at some of the sample vidoes I have created.

 
You can view the samples here:
 
 
I have created videos for tech firms, bands, an auto air conditioning business and even a car rental firm.
 
Isn’t it about time you had your own video promoting your bsiness 24 hours a day / seven days a week?
 
Have a look and let me know what you think.
 
Incidently, my how to make pizza dough video has had over 350,000 views!
 
Here’s the proof:
 
 
Do videos work? 
 
Yes they do!
 
Step into the world of video…
 
Your website and your business, may never be the same…
 
pizza on earth, and pizza in videos,
 
albert