I admit: I love Twitter!

Don’t you?

It’s an amazing platform for creating networks all around the world. It’s a platform that makes it easy to share all kinds of information.

I want to share these twitter Cartoons and hope they will make you smile and laugh.

Thank you!

Is good enough good enough?

These days I’m working on a new Prosperity Affirmations Audio with a friend of mine, Laureen Falco.

It has been an amazing creative process.

I love working with professional people, and Laureen is one!

As a part of the process I’m working on a video to put on YouTube. I have made several versions and sent them to Laureen, and she has given feed back and then I adjust the video.

Two days ago I thought that now I had made the final version. But Laureen had three things that needed to be adjusted. I shortly had the thought: “Is it really necessary to edit it again? Isn’t it good enough?”

But as soon as I “heard” myself thinking the words “good enough” I knew that I had to edit it again!!

Because I don’t believe in “good enough is good enough”! To me good enough is NOT good enough!! I have learned that from years of work in the recording studio. Every time we said that something was good enough, we knew that it was time to take a break. Maybe one hour, maybe one day, and then come back.

I believe you should always go for “perfect”, or at least as good as possible. Of course for some people, who never finish anything because they are too perfectionistic, the good enough is good enough would work, but not to me!

Remember, every time you deliver something or publish something, it’s a visiting card. And the best recommendation you can get is doing your absolute best, always!!

Don’t bother that there are people that might think they could do it better that you, there certainly are such people.. But if you always go for the sublime, you will have the chance to improve your skills.

Here is the Prosperity Prayer video:

Thank you!

Networking Opportunities Made Possible by Guest Blogging

Just like in the offline world, sometimes it is “who you know” that counts. In online business, there are many ways to network with other business owners. One way is through guest blogging.

You are building your business and making your mark in cyberspace. As a complement to your business, you start a blog. It is a place where readers and customers can interact with you, find out about new product offerings and get business information.

Networking is important for business owners. You can find new partners for business ventures, resources for upcoming product launches and ways to increase your visibility. Those who you give a chance to may turn around and offer you a helping hand one day.

There are two facets to networking through guest blogging:

1. You as guest blogger
2. Guest bloggers on your blog

You as Guest Blogger

Through your work, you make contact with suppliers, clients and other business people. Everyone that they know is a potential new contact for you. One of your clients or those in your business circle may ask you to guest blog for them. If you know the person and their reputation, this may be a no-brainer.

With their influence, you are opening yourself up to a new audience of business owners and other readers who can be of use to you. Always bring your best work to a guest spot just as you would on your own site. You want to be remembered (in a good way).

• Interact with your audience. Ask questions in your posts that they can respond to via comments. Answer comments with advice and a friendly voice.
• Add a website or blog link to your bio box so interested readers can find you.
• Post links to the guest blog posts on your website to interest your readership. This builds trust and expert status.

Guest Bloggers on Your Blog

Finding the right guest blogger is not easy. Getting the cream of the crop is even harder, especially if you are not well-known. Even so, only extend the invitation to those that you trust and have read their work.

• Ask friends who have blogs or online businesses and clients with expertise to blog for you. They can give your readers a new insight into what you do. Besides, you are also bringing their readers to your place for a look see.
• Set down ground rules: No foul language in posts or comments. Stick to the topic assigned. All work is to be reviewed before publishing. A bad incident could get you labeled and cause the larger, more influential bloggers to shy away from you.

Networking is needed to get your name on everyone’s screen. Use both sides of guest blogging to make your own networking opportunities with those who can benefit from a reciprocal relationship.

Thank you!

Joint Venture Marketing

During the past months I have posted five blog posts about Joint Venture Marketing.

Here is an overview:

1. Benefits of Joint Venture Marketing

2. Joint Ad-Venture

3. Make Money with Joint Venture Marketing

4. Why You Should Consider Joint Venture Marketing

5. Take Charge of Your Joint Venture Marketing Partnership

Get a Free Report: Joint Venture Marketing Tips

Thank you!

Take Charge of Your Joint Venture Marketing Relationship

Joint venture marketing can be tricky. By combining forces with another business, you are entering into difficult territory. Why? Because as a business owner yourself, you are in control. You are the leader, the decision maker and the final say. But when you form a joint venture relationship with another business owner, you are no longer the end-all-be-all when it comes to the decision making process. You are connected to a more than likely, equally as opinionated, business-minded individual who will want and need to share these responsibilities with you. This can be a difficult task for many goal-oriented,
driven business leaders, but only the strongest leaders are equally as strong team players.

You probably started your own business out of a desire to work for yourself rather than take orders from someone else. Dealing with more than one Type A personality in any relationship can be challenging, but in joint venture marketing, it’s a must. So, how can you “take charge” if you are supposed to work as a team? It’s simple. Lead by example.

Make suggestions and bring your thoughts, ideas, goals and strategy to the table. Be open to criticism and willing to compromise. It is important to keep in mind that the main goal is for both you and your joint venture marketing partner to succeed, so as long as you can work together, you are already half-way there. And finally, keep the momentum going by keeping the lines of communication open. Offer ideas and suggestions to improve your strategy and be a constant cheerleader for success.

Also read: Why You Should consider Joint Venture Marketing

Saturday is Joke Time! Have a Joke and a smile!

“That is the best – to laugh with someone because you both think the same things are funny.” Gloria Vanderbilt

Today I have chosen 4 jokes about music:

1. The Composer:
One afternoon, Sir Adrian Boult was conducting a program of contemporary music, one of the items being a work by the composer X. The rehearsal had been going on for some time when Mr. X himself arrived, sat in the hall, and listened to the music for a while, showing increasing signs of restlessness and irritation. In the end he stood up. “Sir Adrian,” he called out, “Sir Adrian, could you PLEASE take it a little quicker?” Sir Adrian Boult peered out into the hall. “Ah, Mr. X,” he said, “Yes, certainly, we can take it quicker if you wish. But you do realize that we haven’t come to your piece yet, don’t you?”

2. The Jazz Player:
A jazz player dies and goes to heaven… (no that’s not the joke)… Once he gets there, St. Peter points to where the heavenly jazz band is forming. The guy goes there and sees all of the greats that ever lived… Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, everybody! Duke Ellington was conducting the band. “Duke, this is some kind of band! I mean, you’ve got everybody here! This is great!” “Yeah,” Duke replies, “it’s okay.” The jazz player is shocked. “OK? This is the greatest band ever!” Duke replied, “Yeah, the band’s great. But see, God has this girlfriend, and she sings.

3. Sopranos and other vocalists:
Question:t’s the difference between a soprano and a terrorist?
Answer You can negotiate with a terrorist.

Question What’s the difference between a soprano and a pit bull?
Answer The jewelry.

Question: How can you tell when your lead singer is at your door?
Answer: He can’t find the key, and he doesn’t know when to come in.

4. Famous Frog:
Two girls are walking along when they hear… “Psst! Down here!” They both look down and see a frog sitting beside the road. The frog says to them, “Hey, if you kiss me I’ll turn into a world famous drummer and make you both rich and famous!” The two girls looked at each other, and one of them reached down and grabbed the frog and stuffed it in her pocket. The other girl said, “What did you do that for?” The first replied, “I’m not stupid. I know a talking frog is worth heaps more than a famous drummer any day!”

I did it!! 30 blog posts in 30 days!

30 days ago I joined Connie Ragen’s 30 days blog challenge. The challenge was to write 30 blog posts in 30 days!

I have learned a lot from the challenge, and in this last post I will share some thoughts, statistics and give a survey of my 30 posts.

Content: My first thought about the challenge was: “How on Earth can I create content for 30 posts in 30 days? And how do I get the time?”. But my mind started to get into creative mode, and ideas for posts started popping up. I also learned about sources I didn’t know of where I could get content and inspiration, like PLR articles. Also two of my posts where guest blog posts.

Traffic: My blog has had an amazing increase in number of visits during the challenge. Take a look at this number from Google Analytics:

560.88% more traffic than the month before the challenge started! And I even wrote a good amount of post the previous month. Also I can see an increase in number of visits to some of my other sites that I link to in my posts. Traffic to Powerful-Affirmations.com has increased with 91.53% and traffic to newbie-ebooks.com with 315.15%!!

Finally, I had the three highest numbers of visits to my blog on one day during the challenge.

Other benefits: I have met a lot of new people, some have asked me to gues blog on their blogs, some have asked me to do Joint Ventures. I have recieved lots of great comments.

The question is: Would I join another challenge like this in the future? Yes!! Just bring it on! (I might need a couple of weeks “blog rest”!)

The Posts:
Day 1: Blog Content

Day 2: Joint Ad-Venture

Day 3: Law Of Attraction in Action

Day 4: Have a Joke and a Smile

Day 5: Silent Night

Day 6: BudUrl

Day 7: The Sleep Secret

Day 8: Snow, snow, snow!

Day 9: Guest Blogging – A Powerful Way To Build Your Brand

Day 10: Choose the Right Guest Blogger for Your Needs

Day 11: Have a Joke and a Smile 2

Day 12: Exotic Christmas

Day 13: Create Quality Backlinks

Day 14: The Practical Side of Law Of Attraction

Day 15: My Portable Empire

Day 16: Make Money with Joint Venture Marketing

Day 17: How to Calculate Lifetime Customer Value

Day 18: Have a Joke and a Smile 3

Day 19: Damage Control

Day 20: Flex Your Writing Muscles

Day 21: Soothing baby Music

Day 22: Unborn Baby Music

Day 23: Happy New Year!

Day 24: Baby Sleep Music

Day 25: Have a Joke and a Smile 4

Day 26: Maximize Yiur Time With Guest Bloggers

Day 27: Affirmations for Reprogramming Your Mind

Day 28: Powerful Affirmations

Day 29: Why You Should Consider Joint Venture Marketing

Day 30: I did It!!

Thank you!

Why You Should Consider Joint Venture Marketing

Post 29 in Connie Ragens 30 day blog challenge.

The more I go into online business and online marketing, the more I realize how Joint Venture Marketing is a great way to build your list, increase your customer base and maximize profits. The idea is simple: join forces with another business/business owner and instantly gain access to a greater audience with built-in trust. It’s really that easy. Personally I do list building joint ventures as well as joint ventures regarding product creations.

Some marketing strategists may want to make it seem more complicated, but at the root of every joint venture are two or more businesses with the same goal, and that is to make money. How you go about attaining that goal together is where much of the effort will come in to play, but that is all part of the experience. You will learn to work as a team for the benefit of both your businesses.

Whether you choose to seek out potential joint venture opportunities within your own industry, or with those that may compliment your business, consider how and why your joint venture will benefit everyone involved. In order to be successful, joint venture marketing should be mutually beneficial as well as complimentary. Is there equal opportunity for promotion, visibility and sales?  Will there be profit-sharing involved? You will surely have some kinks to work out, but as with any good business idea, you will have to devote time, energy and planning to your joint venture marketing strategy in order for it to become a success.

Also, it is important to make sure you share the same vision with your joint venture partners. As long as you are on the same page, you will not only help each other, you will also help yourself and ultimately grow your business, bringing you right back to the bottom line and making money.

in order to find the right joint venture partners, it great and important to do research, but also always trust your instincts!

Thank you!

Also read:
Make Money with Joint Venture Marketing

Powerful Affirmations.

Post 28 in Connie Ragen’s 30 Days Blog Challenge.

In my blog post My Portable Empire I write about how I used affirmations as a part of my recovering from a serious stress attack.

During this process I had an inspirational idea to create a series of Powerful Affirmations audios. Audios with positive powerful affirmations including specially designed music and sounds to speed up the process of reprogramming your mind. Also I did research on brain science, and included binaural beats and technical effects to activate centres in the brain for optimal results.

How to create powerful affirmations?

Here are some guidelines to the creation of effective, powerful affirmations.

1. Start with the words I am. These words are very powerful, and the subconscious mind will interpret an affirmation starting with I am as a command.
2. Use the present tense. A powerful affirmation should describe what you want as if you already have it.
3. State the affirmations in the positive. Affirm what you want, and not what you don’t want. Our unconscious mind do not understand the word no or not. If you say: “ I no longer have sleepless nights”, your mind will hear: “I have sleepless nights”!
4. Keep it brief. A powerful affirmation should be brief and precise, so that it’s easy to remember.
5. Make it specific. It is more powerful to add details to the affirmations. “I am enjoying driving my new black Mercedes Benz CLS 63 AMG” instead of: “I’m driving in my new car”.
6. Include an -ing word. An active action verb adds power to the affirmations by creating an image of doing it right now.
7. Include dynamic emotion or feeling word. These words should indicate your mood if you already had achieved what you are affirming. Examples: Enjoying, happily, lovingly etc.
8. Make the powerful affirmations for yourself. Make the affirmations describe your own behaviour or situation, not others.
9. Add this or something better. In my powerful affirmations audios I add this affirmation as the last one: “This or something even better is real for me now!” By doing that you avoid limiting yourself and your mind to “just” achieve what you affirm. (Something better might be waiting for you!)

Remember, powerful affirmations will mostly not work without taking action. More about that in posts to follow!

The guideline list is inspired by Jack Canfield.

Thank you!

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Affirmations for reprogramming your mind

Post 27 in Connie Ragens 30 Days Blog Challenge.

If you want changes in your life you will need to get out of your comfort zone, by thinking and acting in new ways. We humans are habitual, so in the beginning it will take some persistance and determination. Not until your brain, by repetition after repetition has created new neurological pathways, you have got yourself a new habit that feels natural and comfortable.

Affirmations for streching your comfort zone

One way of challenging your comfort zone is by using affirmations. Your way of acting and thinking is controled by your conscious as well as unconscious beliefs. Often a lot of these beliefs are limiting! You can use affirmations for reprogramming these beliefs.

What is an affirmation?

An affirmations is a statement that describes a goal in its already completed state such as: “I am happy right here right now”. For the affirmations to work, it is important to state it in the positive, so that the affirmations is for what you want, and not what you don’t want. If you say: “I am no longer sad” your mind will hear: “I am sad”. So the affirmation for a joyful life could be: “I now live a life full of joy and happiness”.

Affirmations for yourself.

Make the affirmations for yourself. “My husband is now kind to me” is not as powerful as: “I now live in a loving marriage”.

When you start bombarding your subconscious mind with affirmations and thereby new images and thoughts like a big bank account, a trim body, a perfect relationship etc. your chances for making changes in your life will increase. When your focus shifts, new doors and opportunities will appear, and your job is then to act on these!

You can download a free Powerful Affirmations Audio from this link:
Free Powerful Affirmations Audio

Maximize Your Time with Guest Bloggers

This is post 26 in Connie Ragen’s 3o Days Blog Challenge.

When you operate a blog, with or without the online business to go with it, it takes up a lot of your time. Readers want fresh content on a regular basis. Sometimes it is hard to keep up with their voracious appetite unless you have help.

Blogging Help!

Seek out writers for your blog. Think of it as another writing project. If you are familiar with ghostwriting services, you can hire writers to write posts for you that you can then publish yourself. With this type of help, you are asking a writer or writing service, to provide you with content for your website or blog. The credit goes to you for the work.

Finding a guest blogger is different from outsourcing blog content. With guest bloggers, they are getting a chance to write for your blog but with the posts being credited to them. You’ve got a few options about how you approach a guest blogging situation.

1. You can look for an ongoing contributor who blogs on a regular basis for your blog. Some contributors will blog for free as long as you’re giving them credit and helping them with their own blog or website promotions.
2. You can hire a writer to write for your blog (this will require payment, especially if you’re looking to claim the content as your own). For a certain fee, you can assign them topics and ask that they write one or two blog posts per week. Usually one is enough unless you are truly busy and need more to fill the space.
3. You can ask other experts in your field to post occasionally to help relieve some stress from having to post yourself all the time. Most of these guest bloggers will oblige and do not require any more than a link or two to their site or products in their posts.

Benefits of Guest Bloggers

Now, you can breathe a little easier. You want to keep your blog fresh and new but there don’t seem to be enough hours in the day at times. A guest blogger can take that pressure off of you so that you can devote your time to other needs:

• Marketing
• Networking
• Administrative Duties

As long as your readers stay happy, you can rotate a guest writer in and out to provide them with interesting content. Guests can also respond to reader comments and build a relationship of trust with your audience. If they have their own traffic from their sites, you have a chance to impress their readership when they come to read the posts. They can also browse your work and take an interest.

At the beginning, you may have to review posts and schedule their publication just until you feel comfortable with the writers and their styles. Once you see they do a good job, let them publish their posts immediately or schedule them without your help. This will go a long way in saving you time.

The first time that you don’t have to write several blog posts over the weekend or in your wee spare time, you won’t want to go back. How long a writer will blog for you depends on your needs, but the extra time may lead you to make it an ongoing thing.

Besides the fact that you are benefiting, so is the guest writer. They gain a reputable forum for their work, possible networking opportunities and greater visibility.

Thank you!

Joke Time

It’s Saturday, it’s Joke Time!

This is post 25 in Connie Ragens 30 Days Challenge.

First an inspirational quote about laughter:
“Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

And now time to smile and laugh! Today I have chosen 5 kids jokes:

1. Longest word:
TEACHER: What’s the longest word in the English language ?
Pupil: Smiles – because there is a mile between the first and last letters !

2. Plural of Baby:
TEACHER: What is the plural of mouse ?
Pupil: Mice
TEACHER: Good, now what’s the plural of baby ?
Pupil: Twins!

3. At once!
Teacher: Now class, whatever I ask, I want you to all answer at once. How much is six plus 4?
Class: At once!

4. The Frog at McDonald’s:
Teacher: What did the frog order at McDonald’s?
Pupil: French flies and a diet Croak

5. Cat Family:
TEACHER: Name four members of the cat family.
Pupil: Daddy cat, mummy cat and two kittens !

Baby Sleep Music

Post 24 in 30 Days Blog Challenge.

If you have children you know what it’s like if your child cannot sleep. You feel sad and powerless because you often can’t comfort your child. as a result you often get anxious and the child can feel your tension and a bad circle starts. It is well known, that baby sleep music can help your child as well as your self. It can create a relaxing and peaceful atmosphere, to help your baby go to sleep, as well as helping you to relax.

The CD series Music for Mother and Child consists of three CDs with relaxing and soothing music, especially composed and designed to help babies get to sleep.

The third CD from the CD series is called Lullabies and it is a sequence of originally composed baby sleeping music, lullabies, each of which tells its own little story.

A lullaby is a soothing song or piece of music, usually sung to children and babies before they go to sleep, therefore often used as baby sleep music. Lullabies are often simple and repetitive and creates a secure and relaxing atmoshere for the baby or child to fall asleep.  The baby sleep music we have created is instrumental, and the melody is “telling” the story.

What makes music baby sleep music?

As babies grow so does their consciousness and ability to comprehend actual melodic sequences.
On the CD, Lullabies, we have sought to preserve a tranquil and secure atmosphere by purposely using repetition as an artistic effect. Some of the babies sleep music compositions on Lullabies have an almost hypnotic expression, something that naturally also influences the listening experience of the adults. The music is not just baby sleep music, but also very useful for grown-ups.

Listen to sample of baby sleep music from Lullabies:
Lullabies

Buy the CD Lullabies with original baby sleep music:

Lullabies - Baby Sleep Music

Happy New Year Quotes

Post 23 in Connie Ragens 30 Days Challenge.

Today is the 31st of December. Tonight it’s New Years Evening. For many people, me included it’s an evening for thoughtfulness as well as joy and having fun. Spending the night with friends and family, great food, fireworks. Listening to the speach of our Queen, thinking about our lives. What happened in 2009 what would we like for 2010 to happen?


To celebrate this day and and night and as my last blog post of the year and this decade I want to share with you some fun and inspirational New Year quotes:

“An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in.  A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.” ~Bill Vaughan

“Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits.” ~Author Unknown

“Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.” ~Benjamin Franklin

“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” ~Oprah Winfrey

“We will open the book.  Its pages are blank.  We are going to put words on them ourselves.  The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.” ~Edith Lovejoy Pierce

Happy New Year

I wish you a HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Photo by Thomas Larsen

Unborn Baby Music

Post 22 in Connie Ragens 30 Days Blog Challenge

The idea for the CDs Music for Mother and Child arose from a common desire to compose music that could give unborn babies/infants a good start in life.  For it is recognized as an extreme upheaval to leave the mother’s secure womb and suddenly face the “real” world. We wanted to compose music that could impart security and inner as well as external peace and tranquillity. For the unborn baby as well as infants and children

We decided to Create three CDs each one made for a specific age. The first CD, Wind Chimes, contains unborn baby music.

How can you create music for the unborn baby?

So how do you compose unborn baby music? One thing that impressed us was when we read an article about the widely recognized French physicist Tomatis, and learned that hearing is the first sense that is developed, and that the unborn baby already has a fully developed sense of hearing by the 6th month.

We also realized that the unborn baby reacts to high frequent sounds. Also, it was obvious that unborn babies can’t understand melodies and harmonies. The music on Wind Chimes has a light and airy quality and is thought of as a soothing blanket of sound. Besides the continuous wind chimes, the instruments we have chosen are Native American drums, which according to the original Americans represent the heartbeat of Mother Earth, the human voice as a primordial instrument, and the acoustic guitar for its transparent tone. The music is composed both with an intuitive approach and a search for a balance in the harmonious structures from a more analytical angle.

Breaks in the music is disturbing for the unborn baby

On Windchimes there are purposely long, continuous passages. Through dialogue with a reflexologist who has specialized in work with infants, we learned that the continuity is an important element for calming young children. Too many breaks in the music can be very disturbing to young children as well as the unborn baby. Thus, among other things, Wind Chimes consciously consists of a melodious, five-tone structure, which is completely devoid of tension.

Here is a sample with music for the unborn baby from Wind Chimes:

Wind Chimes

Wind Chimes: Unborn Baby Music

You can buy Windchimes by clicking this + Add To Cart button:

(Clicking the button will take you to a new site for safe payment)

Soothing Baby Music

Post 21 in Connie Ragens 30 days blog challenge.

As you might know, I’m a producer of music as well as an online marketeer.

In the summer of 1999 I produced the CD series Music for Mother & Child with my friend Henrik Birk Aaboe. The series consist of three CDs with soothing baby music specially composed and designed to calm fetuses, infants, toddlers and parents.

In the course of the process we received such exciting responses from people that we decided to undertake a private study of the effect of the soothing baby music on pregnant women, infants and their parents.

Soothing Baby Music for all ages

The results were amazing! We realized that creating soothing baby music we also created music that had a remarkable effect on grown ups. That music is a universal language that goes beyond age.

My own daughter is 7 years old now, and she still listens to the soothing baby music on the CDs when she has problems falling asleep or if she is ill and needs some comfort.

Here’s a video I have created about Music for Mother and Child:

Website: Music for Mother and Child

Flex Your Writing Muscles through Guest Blogging

This is post 20 in Connie Ragens 30 Days Blog Challenge.

And my 5th post on Guest Blogging

Writing is one of those activities that really can get better with practice. Maybe you are a fair enough writer for your online content or blog, but you can always improve. Writing about a variety of topics for others is a kind of working out for those creative muscles. For me personally being from Denmark, I learn a so much from blogging, on my own blog as well as being a guest blogger for others.

Many writers have written on a number of topics and in a number of different medias before they decided on the one or ones they liked. If your business is writing, then in the interest of expanding your skills, guest blogging is a great way to do that.

What is Guest Blogging?

Guest blogging is when you write blog posts for others. Or if others write a post for your blog. It’s like being a guest on a late night talk show but with less name-calling and bad jokes. Blog owners won’t just choose anyone for their guest spots, so you must have done something right if they are asking you. Be proud, but still just say yes if the blog lives up to your “standards”.

If you agree to be a guest blogger, now it’s time for you to impress by writing what they need and want with your voice. If you are writing on a topic that you don’t have much experience with, you’ll need to start from scratch.

1. Do your homework. If you are running a general gardening website and another business owner asks you to blog for them on daffodils, you may have some work to do to become thoroughly familiar with that flower.

2. Follow any instructions to the letter. The blog owner may give you the blog post titles. Within their word count and the context of the title, deliver a product that will meet and, even better, exceed their expectations. If you have questions, ask them before you get started.

3. Read past blog posts on their blog for hints on style. Maybe you are a fan of the blog for which you are writing. You like the posts, but now you will reread them to see how they layout their information and get to the point in such a short piece. Do the same if you don’t know the blog well.

4. You can write a rough draft as a start. Perhaps you have written about the subject a while ago for your own website. Writing for someone else, you might want to add a different angle to the subject, and/or add some general definitions to words or concepts. Keep writing and editing until it is the way you want it to be.

If you are used to writing longer pieces of content or reports, a blog post is a nice change of pace. The tone is usually more conversational and fun but with an emphasis on the facts. It is a new style but one you may want to adopt to create your own blog for your business.

Enjoy!

Also read:
Damage Control – The Naughty Blogging Guest

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Damage Control: The Naughty Blogging Guest

This is post 19 in Connie Ragens 30 Days Blog Challenge.

And my 4th post in a series of posts about guest blogging.

It is relatively new to me to invite guest bloggers to write on my blog, and recently I have also started to be a guest blogger myself on others blogs. I choose my guest bloggers carefully, and read their posts before they get published, and I have not experienced any “bad things” like offended readers or mean comments.

Still as a blog owner you might fear that you will let the devil in the front door. So it might be a good idea to be ahead and think about some “what if” scenarios. Everyone who wants to blog for you is not right for your blog. And if the naughty blogger should come to visit, you’ll have to smooth things over with your audience.

There could be different reasons why you want to find guest bloggers. It could be because you need more time to attend to the other areas of your business. Or, you are looking for ways to increase your traffic. A new voice on the blog can stimulate growth and give faithful readers new reasons to love you. It can simply add some new dynamics to your blog.

Even if you use certain measures to choose your bloggers, there are chances that a bad apple will slip through the cracks. Actually, they may have a popular blog or have come to you on the recommendation of someone else. What may spurn the naughty behavior is not the post itself but the comments that go along with it.

All guest bloggers have a chance to interact with the audience. When comments are made, they can respond back. Now, everyone is not going to like your guests, but what you wish is an open mind.

Guests who post also have to watch their comments on the blog as well. These are your readers and new visitors who are posting comments. When the guest blogger gets out of line with their responses to irate comments or makes irate comments, there will be backlash for you.

What to Do?

When readers are angry, they will let you know in no uncertain terms. If you have a suggestion area on your website or blog, they will use it. While you monitor your blog as much as you can, something may slip through.

1. When you notice the incident, make an immediate post. Let your readers know that you are handling the situation and are sorry for any comments that may have offended them.
2. Pull any scheduled posts by that blogger. You don’t want readers to feel you don’t care by letting this person continue to post.
3. Talk with the naughty guest blogger. Were they having a bad day? As a business person, you are held to different standards. They may be personally offended by something someone says in a comment but can’t let it get the better of them. The guest also can’t use their posts as an open forum for stating disagreeable positions that may offend that blog’s readership.

You can plan for most outcomes, but in the event that a guest blogger irritates your readers, damage control is important. Be proactive and go to your readers instead of waiting for them to come to you.

Thank you!

Also read:
Choose the Right Guest Blogger
Guest Blogging A Powerful Way to Build Your Brand

Ebook Package:
Blogging for Profits & Creating and Writing Your Blog

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Have a Joke and a Smile!

It’s Saturday, and Saturday is Joke Day! Have a Joke and a Smile!

As said by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:  “Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.”

1. The Secret of Women
Did you hear about the guy who finally figured out women?
He died laughing before he could tell anybody.

2. Who’s the Boss?
A young couple, just married, were in their honeymoon suite on their wedding night. As they were undressing for bed, the husband — who was a big burly man — tossed his trousers to his bride and said, “Here, put these on.” She put them on and the waist was twice the size of her body. “I can’t wear your trousers,” she said.
“That’s right,” said the husband, “and don’t you ever forget it. I’m the man who wears the pants in this family.”
With that she flipped him her panties and said, “Try these on.”
He tried them on and found he could only get them on as far as his kneecaps. “Hell,” he said. ”I can’t get into your panties!”
She replied, “That’s right, and that’s the way its going to stay until your attitude changes.”

3. The FBI Interviews
Three men want to become agents for the FBI. After a day of intensive interviews, they are told there is one more test to prove their dedication to the FBI. The head FBI agent takes the first guy into a private room. He hands him a gun and says, “Go into that room and kill your wife.” The guy says, “No way,” and leaves FBI headquarters.

The second guy goes through the same proceedings. He walks into the second room, but on seeing his wife decides that she is worth more than a good job, and he, too, refuses.

Finally the third guy is given the gun and told to kill his wife. He walks into the second room and six shots are heard. A few seconds later, the head FBI agent hears crashing and banging from the room. After a few minutes, the guy comes out of the room. “What happened?” asks the FBI agent.

“Some idiot loaded the gun with blanks… I had to kill her with the chair.”

4. Hairy Problem
A lady walks into her doctors office screaming.
She yells, “Doctor, Doctor my breasts are hairy! What do I do?”

The doctor asks, “Well, how long does the hair grow?”

The lady replies, “From here to my penis, but that’s a different story!”

How to Calculate Customer Lifetime Value

This post is post 17 in Connie Ragens 30 Day Blog Challenge.

Are you aware of the lifetime value of a customer? If by now you have not given a serious thought, it’s time you do now. Customers are the king. They can make or break your business and there’s no two ways about it.

If you already know that, I can bet you do take extra care of each and every customer of yours. There is a simple formula that could do the trick for you and let’s see how it works.

While making our sales we need to show it to our customers that we have something always ready to improve the situation.

You will be surprised once you find out the worth of each customer. To find out the value of the customer one needs to know two pieces of information. We first need to know the average a customer does a year and next we need to know how long the average customer does business with us.

Once you have managed to get this vital piece of information you need to multiply both the values. The product of the two values would determine the lifetime value of the customer. Customers are like gold, precious!

By retaining all our customers we can add value in two ways. There is a definite way to increase business. To do so, one needs increase the frequency and value of the orders. Another way in which you could duplicate good customer is by referral and introducing new business.

It is very important to build strong customer relations. A business research shows it is much more difficult to keep an old customer than to find a new one. It’s sad and humiliating if we lose our customers to poor salesmanship.

The success of our business depends on how often we keep in touch with our customers. The main purpose of the article is to remind us of the importance of keeping in touch with our customer, as this would bring them back.

One should keep in mind that our competitors are always striving to take away our best customers, so the trick lies in keeping them like vintage playing cards. We should set in top priority to thank our customers for their business. It is our duty and we could easily find out how much they mean to us by simply multiplying. This calculation would help you to find out how much your top customers are worth.

This post is an extract from the free ebook Customers Are King.

You can download it here: Free ebook Customers Are King

Make Money with Joint Venture Marketing

This is post 16 in Connie Ragens 30 Day Blog Challenge.

As business owners in today’s difficult economic climate, we all could use a boost. That is why there is no time like the present to consider joint venture marketing. It is a great way to gain additional resources for your business without having to break the bank to do it.

Advertising can be expensive and extremely demanding on resources. However, when you join forces with another business, you help each other by sharing costs, dividing up responsibilities, and most importantly splitting the profit.

With additional resources, including time, money and access to quality leads, joint venture marketing offers your business huge profit making potential. What better way to make more money by spending less? Joint venture marketing will require you to use less of your capital while gaining the potential to earn more. Just be sure you and your partner share the same goals and understand your shared responsibilities.

The best way to make your joint venture marketing partnership a lucrative one is to ensure you are getting out what you put in. Make sure you and your partner are equally committed to your agreement, no matter what the provisions are. That is why it is so important to start out with a plan that clearly defines roles, expectations and goals. If you lay the groundwork first, you and your partner can focus on what’s really important and that is increasing profits by working together.

It may take money to make money, but with combined resources, targeted lists and double the effort, your joint venture marketing partnership will be a success and so will your business!

Resources:
Ebook: Joint Venture Marketing

Also read:
Joint Ad-Venture

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Finding Your Voice.

My Portable Empire

Three years ago I was forced to make changes and reconsider my life. All aspects of it.

I had a serious stress breakdown. Two heart failures in one night. There I was with a body that had turned 80 overnight, and lot’s of emotional challenges.
And – lots of time to think!

As a part of my recovering, I worked with affirmations, visualization etc. I saw and read The Secret, began to study books by Joe Vitale, John Assaraf and Jack Canfield. My curve was going rapidly upwards.

I soon made the decision that it was time for a change regarding my career. Through Joe Vitale, I heard about Pat O’Bryan, and bought his book: You Portable Empire. Immediately I ressonated with what he was writing. That was what I wanted to do for a living! I wanted to have my own Portable Empire.

Also I ressonated with his personal story. Being a musician myself, I was never financially broke, but as I was teaching music a lot, and never really liked it (actually I mostly hated it!) I was kind of emotionally broke!

At this point in my life I knew nothing about the technical side of creating webpages, opt-in forms or creating digital products like ebooks and audio products. Pdf, ftp, html etc. was Chinese to me! But I started to learn. Through my study of the Classical Guitar at the Academy of Music, I had taught myself to work very purposefully and determined, and while learning I met some really nice and helpful people on the internet. Some of them are my close friends today.

Parallel to this I educated myself as an online marketeer. A whole new world had opened to me!

I now run several web sites (designed by myself), I have created digital products, and I’m building My Portable Empire. And I love it!

Recently I joined Pat O’Bryan’s Portable Empire Coaching program. Because I wanted to learn from the best! As I studied the Classicall Guitar, I was used to have the best teachers. Teachers who could not just tell you how to, but also play how to for you. I wanted the same regarding online business. I wanted a teacher who was walking his talk, and Pat O’Bryan is.

I am creating products in two niches that have been a part of my “new life”: Audio programs for personal change and growth, and ebooks on subjects as Blogging, Online Marketing, Audio Production etc.. I’m dedicated to helping and inspiring others achive their dream lives.

I’m now a part of an online marketing “gang” with lots of talent, everybody helping eachother and everybody progressing with an incredible speed.

As part of the coaching program, we have announced an Unlaunch. A launch where we offer high quality products to very attractive prices.

We have an Unlauch web site and I invite you visit it here:
www.portableempirecoaching.com/products

I have two products on the site:
Creating the Perfect YouTube Marketing Video
Powerful Affirmations for Attracting Money

I’m happy and proud of being a part of this, and I so much enjoy my “new life”!

Thank you!

The Practical, Non-Metaphysical Side of Law of Attraction

This is post 14 in Connie Ragens 30 Days Blog Challenge.

Its a guest post written by Geoff Hoff:

I was very excited when I saw the movie, The Secret.  It had a lot I agreed with and there was much new information in it to ponder.  However, there were two things that didn’t ring true:

1) they talked very little about actually doing things – as they used to say in religious circles, ya gotta be in motion, God can’t steer a parked car.  And …

2) the special effect in the movie representing the energetic waves emanating from the person’s thoughts that brings the magic of the Universe in to play seemed really silly.

Phoowie on that, and all it’s ancestors and progeny, I say.  I think the Law of Attraction is much simpler and more direct than that

Our minds are great filtering devices.  We have so much input that we’d go crazy very quickly if our minds didn’t filter out what wasn’t needed or currently relevant.  When you’re in a room with lots of people, lots of conversations, you can focus in on just one of them.  The others seem to disappear into a soft, only slightly distracting buzz.  That doesn’t mean those other conversations don’t exist, it just means you aren’t aware of them, you’ve filtered them out.

When you focus both consciously and unconsciously on something, you are training your mind to notice that something rather than some other thing.  When you train your mind to notice that, it filters out things in your environment that aren’t that, and makes obvious the opportunities that are that or will bring that.  They seem to appear like magic.  They were already there, trust me, you just didn’t notice them.

Now I say “consciously AND unconsciously”, and this is important.  As an example that most people can relate to, if we were to concentrate on having money, visualize having money, get emotionally excited about having money, say affirmations about having money, without first acknowledging what’s already there in our subconscious mind about money, (telling the truth about what we believe rather than trying to change or fix what we believe) we’re just painting over the rust and the rust is what will “manifest”.  More specifically, it is that rust that you are still noticing, so you’ll move toward more of that.

It is easy to notice the thoughts that don’t support achieving what you desire, those thoughts we call negative, those thoughts we usually try to repress and resist.  (Remember, that which you resist persists!  What you focus on expands.)  Don’t resist those thoughts.  Notice them.  They’re there, so tell the truth about that.  You can even play with them.  “Hey, thanks, what a great thought.  You’re such a genius.  Now.  What do I want to think?”

Acknowledge them and accept them as part of who you are.  Once you do this, you are in control, not the thought.  When it comes up again, (and it will) do it again.  (“Hello, again!  Haven’t heard from you in a while.  How’s the wife and kids?”) Then choose to reframe it

What’s “reframe”?  Stop for a brief moment to acknowledge fully what’s there, then suggest a new thought.  It is said that “fear” and “excitement” elicit the same physical sensations, that it is only what we choose to call the feeling that makes it one or the other.  When fear comes up, thank it for being there and decide to reframe it as excitement.  Another example, if you often find yourself thinking “I can’t”, when you notice it come up again, say “Cool.  You can’t.  Gotcha, dude!” then reframe it into, “How can I?”

It’s okay to giggle a little at the thought before you reframe it, by the way.

Once you get into the habit of acknowledging what is already there and reframing it, surround yourself with images, words, people and things that support the new way of thinking.

Do use the word “attract” if you must.  (I do.)  Do use the word “manifest”.  (I do.)  Use the word “affirmation”.  But know that you, yourself, have the responsibility for and control over the result of your mind’s focus, not the Universe.  It is not waves emanating out from your head thing.  It’s you focusing without restraint upon what’s possible.  Train your mind to acknowledge and release the old patterns, the “rust”, and train it to really focus on what you desire as if you already have it, and you will (magically?  Hrmph) begin to move toward that goal.  (Notice I said move.  You have to move.  You have to take action.)  You will, indeed, have attracted it

This is taking control of the power of the Law of Attraction without all the magic and spiritual mumbo-jumbo.

~Geoff Hoff is a writer of both fiction and opinion pieces and of how-to guides on the process of writing.  He has studied alternate thought and human potential most of his life.  Two of his websites are:

www.LawOfAttractionWords.com
and
www.WritingAShortStory.com

Create Quality Backlinks

Use Your Bio to Create Quality Backlinks when Guest Blogging

This is post 13 in Connie Ragen’s 30 Days Blog Challenge.

Search engines not only look at the keywords on your website and in your content but the types of links that are connecting you with others. Use your bio to help increase those quality links when you decide to guest blog for others.

Guest blogging gives you a chance to interact with other audiences. You have your own readership and they like your voice. But maybe others just haven’t found you because you are in a smaller niche market or you are more general and they are reading in a specific niche. Blogging for others can bring you both together.

When you blog for others, you will get a space for your bio. Now, they don’t want to draw traffic away from their website or blog so you may only be allowed to mention one website. Use that chance to the fullest.

Within that bio, what you say is just as important as the website link that you add. You have one chance to impress them enough to get them to click on the link and visit your website or blog. Mention facts about your business and yourself that will catch the reader’s attention.

What you are hoping to do is build backlinks. Backlinks are the inbound links coming into your website from other places. You don’t want just anyone linking back to you but someone who is interested in the same things.

Guest Blog for Whom?

Choose who you blog for very carefully. When you get the invitation or while looking for possible guest blogging spots don’t just do it for the money or because you are flattered to be asked. Check them out. If their website is reputable and based on a similar topic, you could have a winner.

Even money is not worth a bad association. Let’s say that you are asked to guest blog for a friend. They own a business in Internet marketing. Your blog talks about home-based Internet businesses. There is a commonality here that can work to your advantage.

When you include your website link in the bio, you know that those clicking on it are at least interested in Internet marketing. Some of them could be business owners, who visit your site and will trade links with you. Your readers who take advantage of the online business ideas will need the help of an Internet marketer to get their business growing.

Such quality backlinks help you in the networking arena and on the search engines. You are now being noticed by others who find your business worthy of their time and their name.

Also read:
Choose the Right Guest Blogger
Guest Blogging – A Powerful way To Build Your Brand

Ebook:
Blogging for Profits

Exotic Christmas

Post 12 in Connie Ragens 30 Days Blog Challenge.

Today is December 20, and Christmas Evening is just four days ahead. (In Denmark we celebrate Christmas the 24th in the evening). I have been thinking which Christmas has been my most special and exotic one.

And I have a clear winner!

Exactly ten years ago in December 1999 I was in Tanzania, Africa. As some of you might know I’m a passionate birdwatcher, and I have been to many places in the World to watch birds. This time I was in Africa as a volunteer working for Birdlife International.

Our “mission” was to estimate the population of one of the rarest birds in the World: The Uluguru Bushshrike. It only lives one single place on Earth: The rainforest of The Uluguru Mountains. This rainforest is seriously endangered because the local people are cutting it down to make space for agriculture. The small amount of forest left is protected.

If the forest dissappears, so does animals and birds like the Uluguru Bushshrike.

At first we stayed in the rainforest for three weeks. It was pretty tough, and very wet! And the stay included Christmas Evening.

We had some local African people to join and help us. December 24 in the morning one of them was heading for the nearest village to buy supplies. It was a long walk, and it wasn’t until we sat around the fire in the evening that we heard the sound of feet against the forest floor, and he was back.

He was bringing some sodas and a chocolate bar! We shared the chocolate and had our sodas while listening to a Danish Christmas Carol (Sweet World/Dejlig er Jorden) played from a walkman with loudspeakers. Around us were all the sounds from the rainforest, and the smell from the fire. We all had tears in our eyes, and sad for a moment without speaking each one of us thinking about our families back home in Denmark.

Do I need to say that the chocolate and the soda tasted REALLY good?

What is your most “exotic” Christmas?

I would be honored to have you share it here.

Christmas in the Jungle!

Our “Christmas Camp”

A Joke and a Smile!

This is post number 11 in Connie Ragen’s 30 Days Blog Challenge.

It’s Saturday, and it’s joke time! There’s nothing like a good laugh.
As Mark Twain said:

“The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.”

So sit back and have a joke and a smile!
(Warning: Some of the jokes might be dirty!)

1. Wife isn’t in the Car:
On a rural road a state trooper pulled this farmer over and said:
“Sir, do you realize your wife fell out of the car several miles back?”
To which the farmer replied: “Thank God, I thought I had gone deaf!”

2. The condom and the penis:
Q: What did the penis say to the condom?
A: Cover me im going in!

3. I ain’t touching it!
An armless man in a long jacket walks into a bathroom and stands by a urinal…
Soon seeing he needs help to use the toilet he asks a closeby man, ” Can you help me point my penis” ?
The man reluctantly accepted but, decided not to look at the mans penis. After a few seconds of holding it he thinks, ” Hey! I’m grabbing it right”? ” So I should look, I have a right”!
He looks down at the mans member and sees that is beyond hidious. Startled he jumps back and lets go, asking.
“What the hell is wrong with it ?”
The “armless” man pulls his arms out of his jacket and says “I dunno, but, I ain’t touchin’ it.” and walks away.

4. A years worth of used condoms!
What do you do with a years worth of used condoms?
Melt them, turn them into tire and call it a goodyear.

5. A french Fry at the bar!
A french fry walks into the bar and says to the bartender “Hey , could I get a beer please”
The bartender looks at him shacking his head and say “No, we don’t serve food here”.

Thank you!

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Choose the Right Guest Blogger

Post 10 in Connie Ragens 30 Days Blog Challenge.

You have worked hard to build your blog audience. It may be an extension of your online business. The blog is where customers and other visitors can pick your brain and find out about products and so forth. Maybe it’s time to branch out and ask others to post to give your readers some variety.

Variety is the spice of life they say. If you have gained a following on your blog, the readers more than likely love your voice. But, other bloggers can add another dimension to your site. Here is an example.

Let’s say that you have an online craft business. You have expertise in the field, but maybe you want to expand your knowledge base into other aspects of crafting. Having followed other blogs, you have found sites that specialize in things like doll making, miniature building and the like. Asking them to blog for you can be just what you need.

You can gain the knowledge you seek from your guest blogger. Come up with a list of possible post topics for them to write on. Each one can cover a topic you wish to learn more about. If you don’t know what topics to choose, take a poll on your blog to see what devoted readers want to learn more about themselves.

With ideas in hand, the next thing to do is choose a guest blogger. You can decide on more than one if you like. However, if this is your first time, I suggest inviting just one to see how they work out and how your audience reacts to their posts. Here are a few tips for you to proceed:

Choose someone in a similar but non-competing position.
Be sure they run an honest blog or business (not the antagonistic type, always causing controversy).
Check to see if the potential guest has positive feedback from their own readers.
Find someone whose style you are familiar with and like.
If you’re giving them topics, they should agree to write about (and have some knowledge on) the topics you choose.

You don’t want any surprises here. Anyone blogging for you is attached to your reputation. They may be well-known in some circles, but not necessarily to your readership. By letting them post, you are telling your fans that they are okay. Remember your readers already trust you, don’t give them a reason to stop now.

Some people don’t think about that crucial point. Let’s say that your writer wants to write on their choice of topics. Something they say elicits negative comments from your readers. As a result, your readers may become leery of your judgement and leave the blog.

It won’t happen all at once like that, but it can happen. One way to head off such a potential problem is to let your guest writers upload their posts to have them published pending your administrative review. Don’t just give them free reign to go in and publish their posts immediately. Take the time to read over what they have written before you put it out there for the world to see.

Having others guest blog for you is a great way to give readers a treat. Just be sure the writers you choose are worthy of your audience.

Also read:  Guest Blogging – a Powerful Way to Build Your Brand
Ebook published by Claus D Jensen: Blogging for Profit

Guest Blogging – a Powerful Way to Build Your Brand

This is my post number 9 in Connie Ragen’ 30 days blog challenge.

Two days ago I had my friend Trapper Sherwood to write a guest blog on my blog, The Sleep Secret. It was a huge success. We recieved lots of kind comments, and I had the second highest number of visits to my blog ever that day!

This has inspired me to bring a series of blog post about guest blogging:

Build Your Brand through Guest Blogging

Blogging is such a big business these days. It is a great way to communicate and connect with other business people as well as customers or even just friends. As an online business owner or professional blogger, writing for others can get you noticed and build your reputation.

Your brand is your unique stamp. With big product companies like Coca-Cola or Nike, it is their trademark product and tag lines. But, they didn’t start that way. No one knew who either of them was or that they were solid products until they were marketed and that brand reinforced with endorsements and such from people we did know.

So, how can guest blogging help? Well, first of all you have to have a blog or website of your own. You can’t establish a brand unless you have a place to showcase it in the first place. It may take a while, but your blog can establish a loyal following you can count on to follow you other places.

Bloggers are smart people. They will know if you are just after them for their name. Before you approach them with your request (probably one of hundreds more popular bloggers get), get involved in their blog. Post comments on a daily or weekly basis. Pose thought-provoking questions. Show that you have something to offer!

All of this shows that you are attempting to understand what has made them such a valuable brand on the Internet. Also, they get to know your “face” as it were because you are always around. The only thing that works better for a new blogger trying to establish them self is nepotism (and it is always welcome!).

You will probably later want an endorsement for your brand and/or your product, so offer the blog owner a free product or a trial of your services. Doing so is a courtesy that will pay off for you in the end.

Writing for another blog gives you a chance to talk about other topics in front of a new audience. If you talk about the guest spot on your own blog, many of your loyal fans will pop on over for a look see. And, through your bio blurb, the existing audience on that blog will know where to find you. This is not to steal their readership but to share it since you are not necessarily in a competing market.

In an effort to put your stamp on the world of Internet business, try guest blogging. When done correctly, you can gain increased traffic and new business connections that will serve you well into the future.

Ressources:
Ebook published by Claus D Jensen: Blogging for Profits

Snow, snow, snow…

Blogpost number 8 in Connie Ragen’ 30 Days Blog Challenge.

“Wow, snow!! ”

My daugters voice was exited this morning when she woke up and looked out of the window. There was snow every where! She couldn’t get outside quickly enough to play in the snow! I guess kids always love snow, but it made me think about how often my daughter, who is 7 has experienced snow..? Not many times!

I don’t know if it is because of Global warming, but it is a fact that the past ten years we rarely have had snow in Denmark during winther. Actually my daughter has only been out sledging once in her life.. We have had snow a couple of times but mostly it melts almost as soon as it hits the ground.

So today is a snow post! Today we are dreaming of a white christmas!

Here are three pictures of Danish snow scenery:

Snow Scenery Denmark 1

Snow scenery Denmark 2

Snow scenery Denmark 3

The Sleep Secret Audio

Blog post 7 in Connie Ragen’s 30 Days Blog Challenge.

This blog post is a guest post written by a dear friend of mine:

Hello,

 my name is Thomas “Trapper” Sherwood.

 I want to thank my good friend Claus D Jensen for asking me to write a blog post on how “The Sleep Secret Audio” came into existence.

Claus and I “met” through the forum at Milagro world over a year ago, and it has been an incredible friendship ever since.

Let me set this up for you, and how it all ties together.

Back in November 2003 I went through some deep problems in my personal life (divorce). These problems lead to an incredible lack of sleep, aka; insomnia. As a small business man, I felt like the weight of the world had fallen on me going through a divorce. Not only was I trying to run a business, but couple that with the responsibility of raising my daughter who was nine at the time, well to be truthful, I just didn’t know how I was going to do it all.

During that first year I lost a lot of sleep. Some nights I was awake all night worrying how I would pay the bills all by myself.

 Some nights I worried how to raise my daughter. Still other nights I worried who would want a single middle-aged man with a child.

It seemed liked I tossed and turned or stared up at the ceiling all night for many, many months in a row.

One day I came across an out of print book that dealt with how to get a good night’s sleep. I needed this book & the secrets within. As I read this book, and applied what I learned, I soon discovered how to put myself to sleep, and most importantly, stay asleep all night and get the much deserved sleep I so desired.

After about thirty days of using the techniques I learned in this book, I knew I needed to let other people with the same problems know about this. This lead me to putting up one of my first websites and offering 
this out of print book available as an “ebook.”

During the next eighteen months or so, with my limited knowledge on how to build a business on the web, it sold surprising well. But about June of 07, I noticed sales starting to drop off. I couldn’t do much about it at the time as my full-time business was keeping my very active.

Somewhere around October of 08 I was discussing with a buddy of mine what was going on with it and he simply blurted out “No one wants to read on their computer how to fall asleep.” This got me thinking and put my wheels in my brain housing group into gear.

One day in Milagro World I read about this man from Denmark (Claus D Jensen) that was doing audios to help children and their parents be calm and serene before, during and after childbirth. Pretty cool, but the light didn’t go on over my head…yet.

Fast forward to the day after Christmas December 26th, 2008. I had just dropped my daughter off at the Mother’s house for the Christmas Holiday, and I was sitting at my kitchen table. All alone, and deep in thought. I was thinking about my sleep book. Maybe I should start recording the whole book. Nope, that idea wasn’t lighting a fire under me. The “Clearing Audio” by Pat O’Bryan & Joe Vitale played in the background as I sat there thinking.

Then the thought occurred!

I will record the “How To” part of the sleep secret ebook. The part that actually teaches people how to fall asleep and stay asleep! Now I felt I was on to something!

I thought all the steps through, to do this, but I needed some music. I remember the interview with Claus Jensen. I went back to Milagro World, and reread it. Maybe he is the guy? Then again a doubt crept in, maybe he wouldn’t do. But I had been reading Joe Vitale and taking inspired action. In my mind, this was something inspiring!

So I emailed Claus, introduced myself, and my crazy idea. And then waited. I figured if he got back to me, it would be in a couple of days. About an hour or so later I decided to check email, to see if Mum & Dad had written or any of my friends. Lo & behold, there was an email from Claus! Do I dare open it? What if he said no? But what if he said yes?

It was an answer, and the answer was YES! He would love to do something like this with me! As we exchanged emails back and forth on the idea, the CD now known as “The Sleep Secret Audio” was born! I would do some trial recordings, and email them to Claus, he would listen to them, email me back suggestions on how to get the right recording levels. This went on a few times, until I got the “OK” from him. He would send me samples of his inspired music. This was pretty exciting for me.

Now the time had come for me to do my recordings. I set my little recording studio up, took a deep breath, and knocked out the recording in one take!

And the rest they say is now history!

Claus has mixed and mastered “The Sleep Secret Audio”, and within a month we had a website up, and a product to sell. Within two weeks we had out first sale, and we have not looked back! I am truly grateful for his talent, but most of all for his friendship.

Thanks again Claus,

Thomas “Trapper” Sherwood

Ressources:
The Sleep Secret Audio
Mind Vacation Meditation
Free “Peaceful Recess” Audio

BudURL

This is my blog post number 6 in Connie Ragen’ 30 Days Blog Challenge.

There are many URL shortening services available.

Recently I learned about BudURL.com and I think it is a pretty cool service. In many ways it is similar to other URL shrinking services, but it has some great features that makes it different from other services. It’s easy to use, and with a free account you can create & track up to 250 BudURLs. If your needs go beyond this you can pay for different kinds of pro accounts.

One of the coolest things is that you can name your shortened URLs using 4-20 characters.

A couple of examples taken from my BudURL account:
http://budurl.com/powerfulaffirmations
http://budurl.com/customersareking
(These are opt-in pages for two freebies I’m offering)

Other BudURL features:

• Manage all of your links in one easy interface with custom notes to keep track of your placement
• Instant click stats in your personal Click Stream
• See referrers, click charts, and more!
• Create multiple BudURLs that point to the same destination so you can tell which source generates the best ROI
• See which cities, states, and countries drive your traffic
• 301 and 307 redirects ensure the best tracking and search engine benefits
• Twitter integration to schedule your tweets from BudURL!

Here is a video that tells more about BudURL:

I hope you found this post useful!

Thank you!

Silent Night

This blog post is post number 5 in Connie Ragen’ 30 Days Blog Challenge.

Dear reader, I want to tell you that I really appreciate that you have taken your time to visit my blog and read this blog post. I want to wish you a Merry and blessed Christmas!

I have created a musical Christmas card with an instrumental version of Silent Night that I hope you will take the time to listen to.

Silent Night has always ment something very special to me. When I was quiet young I heard a version sung by Mahalia Jackson, and I burst into tears. I had the recording on a cassette tape, but unfortunately I have lost it, and haven’t been able to find exactly that same recording again. Later I heard Elvis Presley singing Silent Night, and that is a heavenly version as well.

In respect of these versions and the beautiful song, I have created this version:

Here are the lyrics to Silent Night:
Silent night, holy night
All is calm, all is bright
Round yon Virgin Mother and Child
Holy Infant so tender and mild
Sleep in heavenly peace Sleep in heavenly peace

Silent night, holy night!
Shepherds quake at the sight
Glories stream from heaven afar
Heavenly hosts sing Alleluia!
Christ, the Saviour is born
Christ, the Saviour is born

Silent night, holy night
Son of God, love’s pure light
Radiant beams from Thy holy face
With the dawn of redeeming grace
Jesus, Lord, at Thy birth
Jesus, Lord, at Thy birth

Have a Joke and a Smile!

This is my blog post number 4 in Connie Ragen’s 30 Days Blog Challenge.

I have dedicated this blog post to laughter. We all need to laugh now and then – well actually we should laugh every day. We know from science that certain beneficial hormones and chemicals are released in our brain when we are happy and when we laugh. And being with happy, smiling people is so much more fun than spending time with grumpy people.

So today I will share 5 jokes with you that I have found different places around the internet. On of them even gave me a victory in a Twitter joke contest!

Warning!! Some of the jokes might be a bit “dirty”!

Here they are:

1. The Nudist Camp:
A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall.
The police are looking into it.

2. Sheep in a Fence:
Johnny, George, and Bert were driving along in their pickup when they saw a sheep caught in the fence with its hind end up in the air.

Bert said, “I wish that was Sharon Stone.”

George echoed, “I wish it was Demi Moore.”

Little Johnny sighed, “I wish it was dark . . . ”

3. The Vase and the Blonde:
Two friends, a blonde and a redhead, are walking down the street and pass a flower shop where the redhead happens to see her boyfriend buying flowers.

She sighs and says, “Oh, crap, my boyfriend is buying me flowers again.”

The blonde looks quizzically at her and says, “What’s the big deal, don’t you like getting flowers?”

The red head says, “Oh sure, but he always has expectations after giving me flowers, and I just don’t feel like spending the next three days on my back with my legs in the air.”

The blonde says, “Don’t you have a vase?”

4. The rich Widow:
A rich lonely widow decided that she needed another man in her life so she placed an ad, which read something like this:

RICH WIDOW LOOKING FOR MAN TO SHARE LIFE AND FORTUNE …NEEDS TO HAVE THESE QUALIFICATIONS:

1) WON’T BEAT ME UP
2) WON’T RUN AWAY
3) HAS TO BE GREAT IN BED

For several months, her phone rang off the hook, her doorbell was ringing constantly, she received tons of mail, etc., all to no avail: none seemed to match her qualifications.

Then one day the doorbell rang yet again. She opened the door to find a man with no arms and no legs lying on the welcome mat.

Perplexed, she asked, “Who are you? And what do you want?”

“Hi,” he said, ” your search is over, for I’m the man of your dreams. I’ve got no arms so I can’t beat you up and no legs so I can’t run away.”

“Well, then,” she said, “what makes you think that you’re so great in bed?”

To which he replied,….. “Well, I rang the doorbell, didn’t I?

5. My Prize Winning Joke:
Q: Why do men get their great ideas in bed?

A. Because their plugged into a genius!Have a joke and a Smile

Thank you!

Disclaimer: This blog post includes no affiliate links and no promotional links! But reading the post you might risk getting a good laugh! ;-D

Law of Attraction in Action…

This is my blogpost for day 3 in Connie Ragen’s 30 days blog challenge.

When I created my site, Powerful-Affirmations.com I did a Google picture search to find pictures for my header. I found a very beautiful picture with the word Success written in sand at the beach. I just had to use that picture!

Success

I wanted to find out who had made it, but didn’t really know how to.. So, I downloaded it and put it in the header of my site.

This week I recieved a comment on my blog from Suzie Cheel from the Gold Cost in Australia. She told me, that it was her photo! She had joined Connie Ragen’s 30 days blog challenge, exactly as I had, and she saw my name and clicked my link to my Powerful Affirmations site!

I apologized for using her photo without permission, but she has now given me the permission to use it. Thank you Suzie Cheel.

I love it when I have these kind of experiences!

I entcourage you to visit Suzie Cheels site:
whatamigratefulfortoday.com

There are lot’s of beautiful pictures!

Thank you!

Joint Ad-Venture

This blog post is my post for day 2 in Connie Ragen’ 30 Days Blog Challenge.

You’ve probably heard of joint venture marketing and how it can benefit your business, increase your customer base and maximize profits, but have you taken the leap and truly put yourself out there?

Whether you are just getting started and seeking to team up with an established business owner in order to gain visibility and grow your customer base, or already own a successful business and seeking to maximize your profit-earning potential, joint venture marketing can be an adventure and should be treated as one.

Most likely, you are entering into uncharted territory. You will have to get to know your coming partner, their business, their existing strategy and their customer base. It has taken them months, maybe even years to build their business, therefore, you can’t expect to know and understand it over night. Take the time to study the history of the business, where it came from and how it became what it is today.

You could make a list of the Top 20 people from your niche, connect with them on Twitter and FaceBook, subscribe to their newsletter, and start building a relationship with them.

Then after a while you can start to introduce your business to them. Make sure they know and understand what it is that you do, why you do it and who you do it for. Getting to know each other seems like such a menial task, but in reality, it will serve to be the very foundation for the success of your joint venture marketing campaign. Also, remember to ask them what you can do for them.

It will take time, effort, planning and require a certain vulnerability that can be intimidating for any business owner. However, don’t be scared or put off by joint venture marketing. Embrace the adventure, take a risk and watch your business grow. The worst thing that can happen is that you can get a “no”!

Thank you!

Disclaimer: In this blog post I have promotional links to the ebook:
Joint Venture Marketing

Also read:
Benefits of Joint Venture Marketing

Blog Content

I have joined a 30 days blog challenge created by Connie Ragen Green. A part of the challenge is to write a blog post every day!

So I thought it would be a good way to start with a post about Blog Content!

First I want to state that in my point of view there is no fixed scope that your blog should have, which means you can write about whatever you’re interested in.

However, the difference between a profitable blog and a non-profitable blog is the way the blog is written. Just imagine, would you prefer to read your university professor’s lecture notes or the latest novel by your favourite author?

You may prefer to read the novel because it appeals more to your interest, or because it is not as mind-numbing as the lecture notes by your professor. However, the most important point is people like to read “light” stuff most of the time. You see, when people log on to your blog, they are not only looking for information – they are also looking for information they can obtain easily, and better still in a relaxed manner.

So, to attract more visitors as well as to keep your current visitors coming back for more, it is very important to add a human touch to your blog posts. This can be done by simply imagining you’re talking about a certain topic with your personal friend. An extra bonus for your readers would be a great sense of humour, so try to add funny comments in your articles where they are suitable.

Another important key point is that you should write as if you’re having a conversation to a single person because this will make your visitor think of you more as a personal friend rather than a person of higher authority.

Besides that, it is also very useful to establish your own personality through your words. Human beings are very curious creatures, so naturally your visitors would want to know as much about you as the information you’re offering them.

Having a distinctive personality in your blog would make a world’s difference between your blog about gadgets and all the other blogs about gadgets out there. This is a lot like creating your own brand name, where people immediately remember your blog’s name when they need to find out information about gadgets, just like how people immediately think of McDonald’s for fastfood or Nike for sportswear.

So, the lesson in this post is to simply write as an equal friend to your visitors, write to them as if you’re talking to a single person and establish your own personality on your blog.

Thank you.

This blog post is inspired from the ebook:
Blogging for Profits

Squeeze Page

When I first started doing business online,
 I kept hearing the word “Squeeze Page”. At that time I was a total newbie, and really didn’t get 
what a squeeze page was, nor the importance
 of knowing it and knowing how to make one.
We often hear that “The Money is in the List”. 
But did you know that one of the most effective methods 
in list building you should master your skills on 
is creating your own Squeeze Page?

A Squeeze Page is a simple web page that does nothing else 
but convert your visitors into subscribers for your opt-in mailing list.

Here you can see two of my squeeze pages:
budurl.com/powerfulaffirmations
budurl.com/customersareking

I’m now offering an ebook, Squeeze Pages for Newbies.
budurl.com/squeezepagesebook

It is an 18 page guide that shows you 
how to create your very own Squeeze Page and it takes you behind the simple yet ingeniously designed system 
to online riches as used by some of the leading Internet Marketers 
and Direct Response entrepreneurs in the world!

Table of Contents

1 – Introduction to Squeeze Pages

2 – The Squeeze Page System

3 – What You Need Before Getting Started

4 – Planning Your Squeeze Page Theme

5 – How to Write a Squeeze Page that Converts

6 – Tips on Increasing Your Conversion Rate

7 – Driving Targeted Traffic into Your Squeeze Page

For instant download of this ebook:
budurl.com/squeezepagesebook

Sweet World – Dejlig er Jorden

It’s soon Christmas! In Denmark there is a song that eveyone sings at Christmas time. It’s called Sweet World (In Danish: Dejlig er Jorden). I have made an instrumental (rock!!) version of it, and put it in a video. You can watch it here:

Many of you know me as a composer of relaxation music, but here is another side of me! ;-D

Enjoy!

Benefits of Joint Venture Marketing

Are you looking for a way to advertise more and pay less? Do you Need to build your list and grow your customer base? Do you want to gain credibility and increase customer satisfaction? If you answered yes to any or all of these questions, then joint venture marketing is for you.

Joint venture marketing is a great way to gain visibility!

Joint venture marketing is a great way to gain visibility, grow your business and maximize your profit earning potential by joining forces with another business. You can save valuable time and money by combining resources, trading services, and sharing your
lists. Before you know it, you will be spending more time on what ís important, like providing your customers with the best quality service or product, and less time worrying about advertising, searching for quality leads and dwindling resources to pay for pricey marketing campaigns. With joint venture marketing, you can decrease your expenses and increase your profit by sharing the burden with another business.

In addition to saving time and money, joint venture marketing provides you with the opportunity to build long lasting relationships, not only with your joint venture partner(s), but with customers as well. As you increase your credibility amongst your peers, and especially with those you are teaming up with, you will also increase your credibility with your clients. With joint venture marketing, you will prove to your customers just how valuable your product is in addition to providing them with excellent recommendations, resources and special offers they canít refuse. Remember, this is a joint effort and requires teamwork. When your joint venture marketing partners succeed, you succeed.

Thank you!

Also check out:
Joint Venture Marketing Ebook

The Rainbow – Going for the Gold!

I get a lot of my inspirations in nature. And yesterday I had a lesson from nature.
I live a very beautiful place at the sea side, and yesterday I took this picture right outside our house:

Rainbow

I shared the picture on my FaceBook profile, and for fun I asked: “Should I go for the gold?”. Emediately I got two responds from two of my friends: “YES!!”

I realized that I could highly use this picture as a metaphore. Of course you should always go for the gold when you see a rainbow! Dream big! Don’t just be content with… What would you go for if there was NO limits? If you forgot your limiting selftalk for a moment, ask yourself, what would it mean to you to go for the gold?

In this case if I should follow the rainbow I would get wet! But so what? What if it requires to get wet or something else that scares us or feels uncomfortable?

At the end of the rainbow, you’ll find the gold, and there will proably be a towel and some dry clothes for you as well!

Thank you!

PS: If you need to reprogram your mind for going for the gold I invite you to download my free Powerful Affirmations Audio.
Also check out my new version: Powerful Affirmations for Attracting Money.

Powerful Affirmations

I produce audioprograms for reprogramming the subconscious mind. You know that if you have downloaded my free Powerful Affirmations audio, or you have purchased Powerful Affirmations for Attracting Money.

I want to tell you, how I got into working with affirmations.

Three years ago I had a serious stress breakdown. It was so serious, that it almost killed me.
The time that followed was a bit tough. My body felt like a 80 years old, and emotionally I also had a lot to deal with….

In this period of my life I had a lot of time to think about my life, and one day I suddenly realized that most of my life I had spent thinking about and talking about all the things I didn’t like and didn’t want in my life. I had convinced myself, that I surely did know what I wanted in my life but honestly, all I knew whas all that I did NOT want.

I had this picture in my minds eye of me walking on a bridge with water on both sides. To the left the water represented all the things I didn’t like and didn’t want to be a part of my life (but it was!), and to the right the water represented all the things I longed for, and all the things I really, really wanted!

Most of my life I had been looking to the left, only seeing what was there.

This was a moment of aha! I was happy. I knew that the reason why my life was like it was had to do with my focus. I thought that saying what I didn’t want and feeling pitty for myself would bring me to the life of my dreams, but instead I achived the opposite. As they say: “Where your focus is, is what you get!”

So, piece of cake. All I had to do if I wanted changes in my life was to look “to the right” instead. I was so exited about this and felt a change happening on a deep level.

Then, after some weeks, I suddenly realized that I was “looking left” again…!!

This was when I realized the power of habits. As humans we are habitual, and when we do things we are not used to, we often feel uncomfortable, and we are “drawn” back to the old wellknown habit. It doesn’t matter if the old habbit is not appropriate. The fact of making a change feels more uncomfortable than being in the old inappropriate habit.

I realized that to really make changes – and I really wanted these changes – I had to reprogram my mind. I also realized that I had some unconscious beliefs and patterns of thought that prevented me from attracting the things I wanted into my life.

I also realized that a big part of it is pure science. That to create a new habit of thought or/and action, your brain needs to create a new neurological pathway. Not until it is created will the new habitactually become a new habit and feels comfortable. There is only one way of creating new neurological pathways: repetition! You have to do it or think it over and over for a certain period of time.

That’s why I created Powerful Affirmations.

As a tool for reprogramming the subconscious mind, so that what we think and do will support what we want to attract into our lives.

Thank you!

Also read: What is your RAS set for?

Customers are King

- Understanding Your Customers

The inability to know your customers is the greatest loss, you, as a potential service provider can face. Since you are nothing without your customer, your first priority should be to know them and what they want and expect from your company or product.

Moreover, knowing them not only increases your chances of selling them more goods, leading to your profit, but also causing the inflow of more customers through recommendation. Hence getting to know your clients, greeting and treating them to their liking is crucial to the success of your business venture.

This kind of rapport with your client is even more essential if you keep in mind the nature and the degree of aggressive marketing your fellow business rivals conduct everyday. Your primary asset in business are your clients, this is because if you know their mentality and gauge their buying trends and their preferences, you have the market in hand.

This kind of valuable customer information will also enable you to replenish stock, get the most viably trendy products in the market, thereby satisfy your customers and in the process entice them into come back again to be serviced.

Moreover not knowing your customers will only hinder your chances at success to a greater degree because if you do not know what pleases your customer, you will never know how to approach them. Some might like curt matter of fat dealings, while another might like that occasional chitchat and “hello.”

So if you do not know who likes what you will only end up causing them dissatisfaction and yourself economic loss, due to sheer ignorance and simple lacking of planning. Moreover if you sit down and think about it this abstract ‘market’ that you talk about is no one but the sum total of your customers. So if you want to target the market, then this is the bunch you have to satiate and cater to.

What your customer says is very important for you and your overall success. After finishing one deal you instinctively try to convince them to buy something else; this is only natural and can be called maximizing profit.

But what you should also be doing simultaneously is trying to egg out information about their economic status, what they can afford and what not, what thy need next in their household which might come from your shop.

All this will help you in fixing future deals with them and wooing them back to your shop. So always engage in conversation with them and most importantly listen to them, they might be unconsciously divulging information that might eventually give you an edge over you’re your next door rival service provider.

From the free ebook: Customers are King

Binaural Beats and Alpha Brain Waves

My audios, Powerful Affirmations, are designed to speed up the process of reprogramming the subconscious mind.

To the originally composed music, I have added binaural beats and “hypnotic” sounds of waves to bring you in a state of alpha brain waves.

In this blog post i will shortly explain about binaural beats and alpha brainwaves.

Binaural beats operate by playing two different tones, one into each ear. The tones are very slightly different, which causes your brain to attempt to reconcile the difference. In doing so, your brain is placed into a pre-determined level of activity. If for example a tone of 220 Hz is played in the left ear, and a tone of 210 Hz in the right ear, the brain will get into a state of 10 Hz waves, which is alpha waves.

Because our brains operate in quite similar ways, it’s a relatively simple process to find out which range of frequencies (or beats) will place our mind into a creative state, a deep meditative state, etc.

In my Powerful Affirmations audios I have designed the binaurals beats so that they start in one frequency, and slowly takes the listener to the wanted state of brain waves.

Our brains produce waves of different frequences, which can be measured with an EEG instrument. The brain waves are classified into four groups of waves: Delta, Theta, Alpha and Beta. Alpha brainwaves cycle in the range of 8-12 Hz, with 10 Hz being the norm. They are usually active when the body and mind are relaxed and stress-free. In the Alpha state, you are relaxed but mentally alert. Creative people and children tend to have higher levels of Alpha activity.

When it comes to learning new information, research shows that the best way for the human brain to pick up and retain new knowledge is to be in a relaxed but aware state. Relaxed, obviously, doesn’t mean sleeping in this context. We want the brain to be lucid and aware, but the body to be relaxed. This gives the your brain free reign to fire and helps your brain to learn.

This state of relaxation is called the alpha state. The alpha state is proven to be effective in learning; however, achieving the state isn’t the easiest thing in the world to do. Although it can be achieved in a number of different ways, the point of relaxation required is specific, and this is what my Powerful Affirmations audios is designed for.

Alpha brain waves are considered invaluable in everyday human life. When you first wake up in the morning, your brainwaves are functioning highly. Research shows that immediately becoming alert and perceptive of your day’s plans upon waking is a great way to get them done. Telling yourself what to do, like positive reinforcement, when your alpha brain waves are firing properly and frequently is a great motivational tool. This is why affirmations work at the best during a state of alpha waves.

If you haven’t already downloaded a free version of Powerful Affirmations, I invite you to download it from:

http://www.powerful-affirmations.com

Thank you!

What is your RAS set for?

I’m not into whoo-whoo and hairy fairy stuff!!

I like facts!

And a huge part of creating changes in your life and to get from where you are to where you want to be, is pure science! And a lot of this science is related to brain science!

The RAS, Reticular Activating System, is a function in our brain you might call the “Search Engine” of the brain!

Let me share two stories to illustrate how it works.

My first car ever was a Daihatsu Charade. When I bought it, I had never heard of Daihatsu before, neither had I ever seen this model! I thought it would be cool to be the only one driving around in a Charade! From the very day I bought it, I began to see Daihatsu Charades everywhere!! Like someone had thrown hundreds of thousands of them down from the sky!

When my wife was pregnant with our daughter, I realized, that almost every single woman I saw was pregnant, too! I thought: Wow, this is a serious baby boom!! I had never seen so many pregnant women in my life before. When our daughter was born, all the pregnant women dissappeared, and suddenly every woman I saw was driving around with a baby carriage! Just like us!

Now how come?

If you see the RAS as the search engine of the brain, you should see your thoughts and inner pictures as the text you write in the Search Engine Field. The function of RAS is to filter all the impressions from the outside world, and just let in what you are focused on.
To make your inner world harmonize with the outher world!

Now, this is interesting. Take a look at your life! It is the search engine result from what you have put in the search field! Perhaps a bit scary!!??

One thing is cars and baby carriages. More important: If you have beliefs like: “I never succeed in anything”, “I can never afford this”, “I’ll never find the love of my life” etc., then your RAS will affirm this for you in your life!

The good news is, that if you don’t like what you see, you can change what you are searching for! By changing habits of thought and action!

A powerful way of doing this is reprogramming your conscious and unconscious mind using Powerful Affirmations. If you use Powerful Affirmations, and you add visualization and the feeling of how it would be if it was already true for you, you have started the process of making changes in your inner world, and as a result of this, your outher world will change, too!

Your RAS will start to show you new “search engine” results!!

“Imagination is everything. It is the preview
of life’s coming attractions.”
- Albert Einstein.

Reprogramming your subconscious mind!

To reprogram your subconscious mind with powerful affirmations, you must listen to the affirmations at least once a day for at least 30 days!

Why 30 days?

We humans are habitual, and science claim that 96-98% of all we think and do is out of habit! If you want to make changes in your life, you must develope new habits. And to create new habits, your brain has to create new neurological pathways. and to do so you must repeat a new way of acting or thinking in a certain amount of time before the pathway is created, and it feels natural to do or think in the new way.

Through teacher Jack Canfield, I heard about a very interesting research done by neuro- scientists that work in NASA. The research showed that if you want to do a belief change or some kind of paradigm shift you have to do the process like visualization or repeting affirmations every single day for 30 days without one day missed!

It takes 30 days to reprogram your subconscious mind!

In the research they made astronauts wear some glasses with special lenses that made the world appear upside down. What they found was that 25 – 30 days into the experiment every single astronaut, even if they had these lenses on 24 hours a day, in their brains created new neural pathways so that they were now able to see the world right side up! Even if the image still came in through the eye upside down!

In a subsequent experiment they had half of the astronauts take off the glasses on day 15, keep them off for 24 hours, and put them on on day 16. It took another 25-30 days before their brains created those new neurological pathways!

This means you can’t skip a day!!

The same with changing a belief system or habit of action.

So be persistant when listening to your powerful affirmations!

Thank you!

PS: You can get a free Powerful Affirmations Audio by visiting:

powerful-affirmations.com

WordPress Security.

Do you log in as “admin” on your WordPress blog?

If you do log in to your WordPress Blog as ”admin”, you should change that!

I will tell you exactly how to do it in this blogpost, but first I will tell you why you should do it!

When you upload and start a WordPress blog, WordPress will, as default, name the administrator user account as “admin”.

A lot of WordPress users don’t change this, and keep the “admin” log in.

The problem with this is: there might be people out there wanting to gain access to your blog, and they would just need to keep using the “admin” user name with a bunch of passwords combinations. This is called brute force attack, and with automated tools it works quite often. They know, that many WordPress users log in as “admin”.

So I would highly recommend that you change this if you haven’t already done that! And – it’s very easy!

When you are logged in, go to the Dashboard>Users>Add New. Now you can add yourself as a new user. Give yourself a new username, and remember to make you Administrator!

IMPORTANT!!

As you choose your new user name, make sure that it is not similar to the name you display publicly on your blog, and you use to sign your posts!  If you sign your posts as My Name, for instance, naming the administrator user as “My” or “myname” wouldn’t help. Choose something that others won’t be able to guess easily!

Then log out, and log in with that new user and delete the old “admin” user. Don’t worry if you have many posts written as ”admin”, WordPress will ask whether you want to delete them or re-assign them to a new user (choose the latter obviously).

I hope you found this post helpful!

WordPress Ressources:

New-bie or  Wizard?

Are You a Newbie or a Wizard or both?

Let me tell you a funny little story.

A couple of weeks ago, I went to a forum on a specific technical subject and asked a question. One of the persons, who answered me, directly wrote: ”Ha, you’re a total beginner, right?”

I didn’t mind being called a newbie, I got my answer.

The very same week, I was on another forum, where people help each other on all kinds of subjects.
In a topic, somebody referred to me as a Wizard, and recommended the questioner to ask me for advice!!

And – this was related to exactly the same technical issue as in the first forum!!

So how come, that in the same week I was called a new-bie
AND a wizard on the same subject?

Well, I will tell you: The first forum is a forum for what I would call technical nerds!
And by nerds I mean people who know ALL (almost!) there is to know on a subject!
You know, people that can literally build their own computer etc. Real wizards!
On the other forum, people just didn’t know as much as I do on this subject!

So it is true: I AM both a newbie AND a wizard!

You can always find somebody that knows a lot more than you do,
but you can also always find somebody that knows a lot less that you do!!

This is an important lesson!

Let’s say you want to create an info product. Who will you make it for?

You will make it for those sitting ”behind you” in the classroom!
Maybe you can even do it a lot better than the socalled wizards,
because you are ”closer” in your knowledge to the buyers than a nerd is!

Let’s say you would create an ebook on how to write a blog.

The nerd would say: First set up a Word Press blog. Then…..

Well, maybe you should explain step by step how to actually put up a WordPress Blog!!
You see what I mean? the Nerds don’t see this as a problem, but you know, that it is for a lot of people.
Maybe you should even start explaining what a blog is! Many people don’t know!

So, where are you a wizard? And to whom are you a wizard?

My newest ebook How to Use GarageBand Vol.1 – Recording Your Voice
is not made for professional music producers.
It’s made for people who know nothing or just a little about recording techniques,
who would like to learn how to create audio products! It’s made for newbies!

By the way: To me the word ”newbie” is very positive!
That means you have a lot of interesting stuff ahead of you to learn!!

Thank you!

Also read: How To Use GarageBand

How To Use GarageBand

How To Use GarageBand

How To Use GarageBand

- Recording Your Voice

I have just released a new ebook called How To Use GarageBand  Vol. 1– Recording Your Voice.

It’s for Mac users, who want to learn how to produce audiofiles and audio products, such as audio books, podcasts, CD’s, mp3’s for a website etc.

How To Use GarageBand is a 38 pages pdf and a step by step guide, that will take you by the hand, and teach you everything you need to know, so that you can record your voice and share your recorded audio.

How To Use GarageBand includes 58 screenshots!!

GarageBand is a software for Mac for recording and producing audio.

It is a part of  iLife. So if you have iLife ’04 – ’09 installed on your Mac, GarageBand is already on your computer.

On newer Macs iLife is already installed from the store.

This is what you will learn from How To Use GarageBand Vol. 1:

•    How to find out if your Mac has a built-in microphone
•    How to open and save a session in GarageBand.
•    How to set it up for recording.
•    How to actually do the recording.
•    Some basic editing tools.
•    How to add a music file to your voice.
•    5 different ways of sharing your file.
•    How to make an mp3 file from your recording.
•    How to burn a CD directly from Garage band.
•    How to record using an external mic.
•    How to add your recording to a WordPress blog/site

To purchase my ebook, How To Use GarageBand, please visit this link:

How To Use GarageBand

Here you can also read some testimonials.

Please write a comment if you have any questions regarding How To Use GarageBand.

Thank you.

The Sleep Secret Audio

I have earlier written a blog post about The Attractor Factor by Joe Vitale. In the book, Joe Vitale says, in order to prove if the techniques work, that the best way is to use The Attractor Factor yourself, and see your own amazing results. Nothing will be as convincing as that!

In this blog post I will share with you how I created the music for The Sleep Secret Audio, an audio program for people with sleep issues, that I have made with my friend, Trapper Sherwood, from Nashville.

One day, Trapper Sherwood asked me in an email, if I would be interested in helping him produce The Sleep Secret Audio. I said yes! I could feel that this was a great project, and I decided to try to use The Attractor Factor in the creation of the music.

Step 1. Know what you don’t want.

Step 2. Select what you do want.

The same evening, before I was falling asleep, I made an intention and a wish of creating the perfect music for the sleep secret audio (I skipped step 1 in The Attractor Factor, because I knew what I wanted!). I had no clue at that point what the music should be like. I just had the wish to create the best music possible!

Step 3. Clear all negative or limiting beliefs.

Step 4. Feel what it would be like to have, do, or be what you want.

After that I made a picture in my mind of me having already created the music, and I also imagined what it would feel like having created it. (That was a great feeling!) I told myself, that I could do it, and thereby cleared all negative thoughts and doubts. Then I let go! I simply imagined that my wish/intention was sent up to the sky, and then I felt asleep.

Step 5. Let go as you act on your intuitive impulses, and allow the results to manifest.

Next morning, literally before I was awake, I heard some music. Yes, I heard it just like you hear music from your iPod. But I didn’t wear an iPod, and nobody was playing music in the house. It was very early. I knew, that I had to act on this, and I hurried into my music room, and grapped my guitar and a piece of music paper. 15 minutes later, I had played and written down the music that I heard in my head.

Later that day I recorded the music, and sent it to Trapper.

And he loved it!! And so did I!!

As Joe Vitale says, that was amazing!
Listen to a sample of the music:

sleep-secret-music

Read more about The Sleep Secret Audio here