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How to Get Viral Blog Posts Done For You??

By Swapan Bairagi on December 31, 2022 in Blog

How to Get Viral Blog Posts Done For You

Let me preface this by reminding you that the greatest selling tool in all the world isn’t the internet, or sales letters or sales videos or even word of mouth. It’s stories.

Stories sell like nothing else because we are hard wired to listen to and love Stories. It’s in our genes. There was a time when storytelling could literally save our lives. Think of a primitive man coming back from a hunt and telling everyone in camp the story of how ‘Bob’ was killed by a saber tooth tiger in the sixth valley to the south.

Do you think anyone would venture into the sixth valley to the south after that? No way, because they knew the story of how Bob got killed by the tiger who lives there.

Now then, here’s how to get experts to practically write your blog posts for you AND get them to do it in story form:
Ask them a question that invites a personal story.

For example, your blog is about investing in commodities. This week you want a blog post on pork futures (I’m making this stuff up right now) so you send out an email to every commodities expert you know of, asking them about their most memorable pork futures story. It doesn’t matter if they made or lost money, you just want to hear their story. A dozen of them write back and you put those stories together into a post.

You’re doing a few things here:

First, you’re getting experts to weigh in on an interesting question, which means you get to ‘borrow’ on their credibility, making you look good to your readers and customers.

Second, you’re doing this in story form, and since people love stories, they are coming back to your blog every week for more of these stories.

Third, you’re building a relationship with these experts. Sure, some of them won’t respond to you, but others will be eager to share their stories. And down the road, who knows what might happen. They could end up promoting your product to their lists, or asking you to do a JV, or even becoming good friends with you.

Fourth, blog posts like these tend to get shared on social media which brings in more traffic.

Fifth, your experts might also share

your posts with their followers. “Hey, my hog futures story is featured in thi post, check it out.”

The trick here is to phrase your questions in such a way that it invites personal stories.

And don’t forget to ask your readers the same questions. Sometimes it’s the everyday guy or gal you don’t kno who has the best story — the one that makes your article go viral or even get referenced on other major sites.

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Using Emoji to Boost Your Marketing.

By Swapan Bairagi on December 27, 2022 in Blog

Using Emojis to Boost Your Marketing :

Emojis aren’t just for friends; they’re also dynamite at capturing your customers attention, increasing user engagement and even helping to close sales. The funny thing is that most businesses think emojis are best left to 16-year old girls: “We want to maintain a professional appearance to our customers which is why we will never use emojis in any of our communications,” said the out-of-touch company executive to the marketing team struggling to increase lackluster sales.

In the last 100 years of advertising, there has NEVER been a time when the personal touch didn’t increase the value of business to consumer communication. It doesn’t matter if it an email, a social media post, an article or a sales letter. Giving all of your communications a personal touch with emojis just makes good marketing sense.

What are emojis? ++

Emojis are small icons and images using Unicode Standard. They’re used in all forms of digital communication. Emojis can be yellow smileys or represent common objects such as food, animals, sports, transportation and more.

In marketing, the vast majority of the emojis you use will be emoticons – emojis that represent emotions with facial representations. @ And it’s emoticons we’ll be referring to in the rest of this article, even though we’ll still use the term emoji.

Why do emojis enhance your marketing message?

There are many reasons emojis improve marketing, and here are a few:

They capture attention. You receive a hundred new emails. 99 use 100% text in the subject line while one uses a smiley face or a heart. All else being equal, which one do you notice first?

They convey meaning. A text message that ends with a period gives a slightly different feeling than one ending with an exclamation point. Let’s see what happens if we use an emoji, too.

“I’m excited about this.”

VS

“I’m excited about this!”

Visual is faster than text. Your brain processes visuals 60,000 times faster than text. And since emojis are images, the brain can process emojis in a flash.

More likes, more shares, more comments. Based on multiple studies, emojis in Facebook posts lead to 57% more likes, 33% more shares and 33% more comments compared to Facebook posts with no emojis. Do you use emojis in your Facebook ads? If not, you might want to start.

Your brain sees emojis as an actual face. A study from the School of Psychology in Flinders University, Australia shows the brain behaving the same way regardless of whether it’s seeing a human face or an emoji. That’s why emojl user engagement is higher than plain text user engagement.

Human faces – and now emojis – increase engagement . For decades we’ve known that people will look at human faces longer than at almost any other image in an advertisement. And now that we know the brain sees emojis the same way it sees faces, it’s pretty obvious we need to use them in all of our written communications.

Emojis make your customers happy. €} Not only do your customers feel happier when they use emojis, they also feel happier and like the sender more when they receive emojis, too. And happy customers are almost always more likely to convert, whether it’s to join your mailing list, forward your message or buy your product.

“Humanizes your business. Emojis can be the perfect way to convey the fact there is areal live person sending the message, rather than some faceless company.

Better connections. According to the Emoji Trend Report, emojis help users better communicate their thoughts and feelings and connect to people.

How to Find Your Emojis

Because you can’t create most emojis using your text keyboard, you need to download or open a separate one.

Here’s how:

iPhone and iPads

iPhones and iPads have the emoji keyboard built into the operating system. To add the keyboard…

* Open Settings .

* Tap General > Keyboard > Keyboards

* Tap Add New Keyboard > Emoji

To access the keyboard, open your Messages or Mail. Tap the @ next to the microphone, which should change your keyboard. If you have any other keyboards added, you might have to tap the icon acouple times.

Android

Newer Android phones have emojis built into the keyboard. But older models require you to download a third-party app like Kika, SwiftKey, or Textra.

From there, apply the new emojis to your keyboard like this:

Settings > Language and Input > Virtual Keyboard > Manage Keyboards

Now select the keyboard you’d like to download.

Mac

On both Mac and Windows you can Google an emoji and then copy and paste it into your message. But there is an easier way to do it:

When you’re typing on your Mac and want to insert an emoji, simply tap Control + Command + Spacebar to pop open the emoji keyboard. @

Tap the emoji you want to use or drag and drop if it doesn’t insert automatically.

You can also turn on the emoji keyboard on your Mac by tapping the Apple icon in the top left corner. Then, open System Preferences > Keyboard and click Show Keyboard and Emoji Viewers in Menu Bar.

This places a shortcut in the menu bar, and with one tap you can access all emojis and symbols.

Windows

Again, you can copy and paste if you’re so inclined. You can also use the keyboard shortcut for Windows which is…

Windows Key + Period or Windows Key + Semicolon @

This shortcut brings up the built-in keyboard from which you can tap the emoji you want to use.

Most Popular Emojis and When to Use

Laughing Emoji @ is the most commonly used emoji on Twitter, and also the most popular according to Apple’s data. Use this in conjunction with humor, such as when you regale your readers on the stupid thing you did last night.

Red Heart Emoji & and Heart Eyes Emoji @ can be used when you are referring to something or someone you love as well as how much you appreciate your customers. A little trickier but worth trying: Use it to indicate just how much your prospect will love your product.

Embarrassed/Flushed Face Emoji @ can demonstrate your humility and gratitude when receiving praise or an award.

Side Eye Emoji @ is good to use if you want to show the playful side of your brand or if you’re making a joke and you want to indicate that you’re kidding.

Eyes Emoji «* can be used to draw attention to a link or image.

Thinking Emoji @ shows you are deep in thought, such as when you’re not sure about a controversial issue, or when you’re explaining the thinking process you went through to arrive at your conclusion.

Sweat Emoji @ is used to express a Close call. “Whew! That could have been bad”.

Hand Up Emoji @ is great for getting social media participation. For example, you could post, “Who thinks smooth peanut butter is better than crunchy? Give me a “@@” if you agree!”

Tips for Using Emojis in Business

* Let your customers use emojis to give you quick feedback. The preferred choice of customers to let a brand know they’re doing a good job is the thumbs up, @ followed by a star .+ or asmiley face. @

¢ Avoid anything cryptic or ambiguous. If the emoji doesn’t clearly communicate your intended message, don’t use it. @ (Pizza, anyone? You see what I mean.)

* Emojis are for complimenting your message, not replacing it.

– Since women @ tend to use emojis more than men 3, consider your target market when deciding how often to use emojis.

* Don’t think that only young people use emojis because they are popular at all ages, although the meaning of certain emojis can be slightly different for a 20-year old and a 60-year old.

« Use emotional emojis to break down barriers and humanize your brand.

* Consider creating your own emojis for your brand. For example, they might look like other emojis except they are wearing something like a hat or bowtie that identifies them with your business.

* Ifyou are communicating with an individual in business and you are unsure, use social mimicry for clues. If they are using an informal tone or if they use an emoji themselves, then it’s fine to send your own emojis.

« Use only common emojis that are easy to understand or already universal. The idea is to improve your communications, not bewilder your audience.

Know that a small segment of your audience will be totally clueless about emojis and another small segment will take emoji use to an artform. For example, Cosmo published a 2,200 word article on the importance of choosing the just right color and style of heart emojis for the right occasions.

It’s all the people in between those two extremes that you are targeting with your emojis, so don’t sweat it if you don’t always get your emoji usage exactly right – almost no one does.

Emoji Pop Quiz:

One: What year were emojis invented? Bonus points if you can name the country that originated them.

Two: What year were emojis incorporated into and standardized by Unicode, which allowed them to be used outside of Japan?

Three: How many emojis are on the Unicode Standard list? (Hint: It’s probably a LOT more than you think.)

Four: What were the 3 most popular new emojis in 2020? If you can name just ONE of them, we’ll consider you an advanced emo’ user.

Five: Which emojis, according to user votes, best represented the year 2020?

Answers:

One: 1999 by acoder employed by NTT DoCoMo, a Japanese mobile service provider.

Two: 2010. Yup, believe it or not, emojis have only been worldwide for over a decade.

Three: +3,300. Seriously.

Four:

¢ First place: The White Heart.

. Second place: The Yawning Face. .
. Third Place: The brown Heart.

Winners were determined by which were most used on Twitter.

Five: The winner was the Raised Fist with Dark Skin Tone @

And the runner up was the Microbe %

Frankly, | thought it would either be the ‘Screaming-in-Terror’ emoji (if there is one) or the ‘Pile of Poo’ emoji. @

The T-Spring Method of Guaranteed Profits:

By Swapan Bairagi on December 25, 2022 in Blog

The T-Spring Method of Guaranteed Profits

This isn’t about selling t-shirts, but rather the lesson we can learn from tshirt sellers that will put money in our pocket before we even create the product.

When you sell shirts on T-Spring, youre not committed to investing any money until you have the orders in hand. Let’s say your goal is to sell 50 tshirts at $15 apiece. You advertise on social media and buyers commit to purchasing the actual shirts.

But until you reach the 50 order mark, or whatever number you’ve specified, you’re not obligated to pay for any shirts. Once you hit 50, the customer are billed and the lot is created and shipped. But if only 49 people pre-ordered, then the t-shirts are never made.

Why don’t more marketers use this business model for their own products?

You could open a course for *x” number of people and presell it. The course will start in 3 weeks time, but only if all the seats are filled. Or you could outline a product and presell it. If you get enough orders for it (whatever number you deem that to be) then it will be delivered on the date you’ve specified.

The point is, you are charging for a product prior to creating that product. And if you discover there isn’t enough demand for the product, you simply refund the orders that you’ve received and try it again with a different product.

The benefits to launching this way are two-fold: First, you find out up front whether or not people are willing to pay for the product you propose to create. This way you will never again create a product only to discover no one wants to buy it. Second, you get operating capital up front. If you need to outsource the creation of the product, you can simply use the money from your advance orders to get it done.

Of course, the one thing you need for this business model is a good reputation for delivering on your promises. |f you’re completely unknown in your niche, this might not work for you. You’ll need to at least put out some great content and create a following before you use the T-S method for pre-launching your first product, but it will be well worth the effort.

Two more benefits of this business model are the ability to head off problems before you do a full-blown launch, as well as getting proof that your product works. By doing a prelaunch to a smaller number of buyers, you can get feedback on what your product lacks, what might be confusing or anything else you need to improve your product before doing the full-scale launch with affiliates.

And you can ask your first buyers for their testimonials as well, which will help you to sell more of your product once you launch it full scale.

| can’t see any downside to using the TS method to launch any virtual product, while there are tons of benefits to doing it this way. And yet, most marketers won’t do it. Why not? Maybe it’s because they have a belief that things can only be done acertain way because ‘that’s how it’s always been done in the past’ Which is nonsense.

Just because most everyone else spends a month or two creating a product before they even know whether or not it will sell doesn’t mean you have to be brain dead, too. (Too rough?)

Let me tell you a quick story and then I’ll close with one last thought:

When my cousin’s daughter turned 16, she wanted to get a part time job to make extra money. | suggested a method that | knew for a fact would get her ajob in 48 hours, but she flat out refused to do it because, “No one else does that”

| dutifully drove her around anyway | and she put in applications at a dozen or so businesses. A month later, not a single one of them had called her in for an interview, much less offered her a job. I asked if she was now ready to use my method, and she reluctantly said yes.

That’s when | helped her write out a letter that told a little bit about herself and her qualifications. Then we added something like this (I don’t remember the exact wording we used):

“I realize that since I’ve never held a real job, it might seem like a gamble for you to hire me. That’s why, to prove my worth, | want to work for you for 2 weeks for free, to demonstrate to you what an asset | will be to your business.”

I again drove her to about a dozen businesses, where she filled in the applications and attached a copy of the letter. Within 48 hours she had 5 interviews scheduled, and within 96 hours she had 5 job offers and requests for 3 more interviews.

That is the power of doing things differently from everybody else.

If someone tells you that you MUST create the product FIRST before you launch it, just Know they have been as brainwashed into ‘right thinking as my second cousin.

Frankly, I think it is often best to ignore ‘established methods’ so that you can find a way that reduces risk, increases results and in this case, saves you from creatine a eroduct that won’t sell.

A few tips on selling your product prior to creating it:

* Choose a topic you’re familiar with so that you can make the product quickly.

* Outline the product prior to offering it for sale. This will make it super easy to write your sales offer.

* Include plenty of enticing bullet points in your offer.

* Make it super clear that the product has not been created yet but will be available on “x” date.

* Also make it clear that if there is not enough response, they will be refunded and the product won’t be made.

If possible, promise to have the product ready no more than two weeks ahead of when you’re making this offer. If you have a list of your own and you’re fast at making products, reduce this to one week. For example, you make the offer on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, with the product becoming available the following Tuesday.

If you offer something like group coaching with one call a week for six weeks, you only need to get the first call ready.

Let them know they are your beta group and you’ll be looking for feedback from them, as well as offering more personalized service. Solicit their questions and comments so you Can improve your product prior to doing your full launch.

One last thing… Oddly enough, tests show that conversions for lead
One last thing… Oddly enough, tests show that conversions for lead magnets are generally HIGHER if the lead magnet is not yet created. | don’t know if this is also true for products, but it may be. | think it’s the allure of a brand new, totally up to date product (or lead magnet) that no one (NO ONE!) had yet to get their hands on.

Action Point: Make a list right now of products you’ve considered creating but you weren’t sure they would sell. Choose one and write an outline for the product and a simple sales page. Then send an email to your list and see what kind of response you get. Start to finish, you can probably do this in less than two hours and begin to see orders come in shortly thereafter.

Make Money from Other People’s Content:

By Swapan Bairagi on December 25, 2022 in Blog

Make Money from Other People’s Content

| want to be clear right up front — there is NO stealing required to do this. In fact, professionals have been doing this exact same thing forever, or at least since people have been creating stories, content and so forth.

I’ll give you some movie examples:

Bridget Jones Diary (2001) is really a modern version of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.

Clueless (1995) is based on Jane Austen’s Emma.

Cruel Intentions (1999) is a modern version of Pierre Choderlos de Lacios’ Les Liasons Dangereuses (1792).

Pretty Woman (1990) is based on George Bernard Shaw’s 1912 play Pygmalion, as is She’s All That (1999).

10 Things | Hate About You (1999) is really Shakespeare’s play, Taming of the Shrew, in disguise.

Star Wars is Akira Kurosawa’s 1958 Samurai classic, The Hidden Fortress, Only in space. In fact, | would wager that at least 9 out of 10 Hollywood movies are based on stories from other movies or books. And yet these movies earn millions of dollars. So, the question is, is it ethical or legal to ‘borrow’ other people’s ideas?

Yes!

It’s a fact that you can’t copyright an idea. All the best artists (who are honest) will even admit they steal like crazy, which is what makes their art so awesome.

There is no need to continuously reinvent the wheel. The wheel was invented once, and ever since then people have copied that idea onto their own products, whether it was for wheelbarrows, carts, Carriages or cars. Using other people’s ideas (not their work) is 100% legal, ethical and even required if we are to move forward as a society.

Now let’s say you’ve run across a 50page ebook on how to do something. You cannot copy the actual writing, the author’s name or the cover of the book. But you can use the idea of the ebook to create your own.

West Side Story and Disney’s High School Musical used a famous playwright’s plot in their stories. Can you think what that might have been?

A little play called Romeo and Juliet.

So that book on driving traffic that inspired you to use the method yourself… you can’t copy that book and sell it. But you can write your own. Or record your own videos. Or offer a coaching program that teaches the method. As long as you do not use the author’s copyrighted stuff such as their writing, their screenshots, their images and so forth, you can write up the method as your own and sell it as much as you want to.

And if you’ve used the technique taught in the material yourself, which hopefully you have, then you can speak with authority on the subject.

If this makes you uncomfortable, then the solution is simple: Don’t do it. Instead, take something from an entirely different niche and adapt it to your own niche.

For example, you read a great book on dog training and you realise that many of the techniques in that book could work equally as well on your three-year old. So you try it out and sure enough, you’ve gotten your three year old to stop screaming when she wants attention, to eat her food when you give it to her, to follow your simple instructions without throwing a tantrum and so forth.

Yes, I’m probably going to get emails from people who are upset | equated training a puppy with training a child… © The point is that what you learn in one area of life can often be used in other areas as well.

Take a look at the millions of how to books out there and find something you can adapt to an entirely different niche, and you’ll have all the inspiratio you need to create unique products without having to be brilliant yourself.

Although incidentally, people will think you are brilliant.

This Mind- Flip Makes it Impossible to Fail.

By Swapan Bairagi on December 22, 2022 in Blog

This Mind-Flip Makes it Impossible to Fail.

Sitting aside every self- help book out there, I’d like to propose the theory that there is One think you need to be successful, and that you are already incessant of this thing. You just don’t know it yet.

Teen years ago to market us started their online journey. There both Android similar pitfalls and setbacks. One went on to make millions. The other on field miserablely and works a 9 to 5 job. What made the difference?

The mind-flip.

Imagine you have a switch in your brain and every time you have any kind of send back whatsover, you sleep that switch into finding the positive in it No, I’m not talking about pie -in -the- sky rainbows, and magic pink unicorn thinking.I’m talking about flipping your own switch because no one else is going to do it for you.

Instead of getting discouraged, angry or sad, find the good or the lesson in everything that normally gets you down. These is called resilience.we’re told to be resilient, two bounce back from defeat and just keep moving but no one tales as how to do that.So, let me try, and see it this resonates with you.

You get an angry email from a customer.Yeah! This is your chance to make it right while also finding out if there is perhaps a flaw in your product. What awesome thing to have happen! Your formaly angry customer now understands. What happened, they’re thrilled with the attention you paid to them and how you resolved the issue,and you have feedback on how to improve the way customers use your product.
You have trouble with your website.Yeah!now you get to call your host or your website builder or whoever and let them show you hot awesome service they provided.You’re not happy with the result? Yeah! Now you have the perfect reason to go find a new host or webmaster who will make you happy!

You dropped that dish of saghet on the floor,for weeks and this is the perfect motivation to get it done. Now look at it shine!

You missed the light and now you have to wait 3 minutes to get through the intersection? Yeah!if you had made the light perhaps you would have been involved in a fatal accident that you’ve now missed!

All of this sound a bit crazy? Maybe… But your experience is exactly what you make it. Ions went camping with a friend. As we arrived eat started to rain and it didn’t stop raining for two days and two nights.Yeah! I took it as a challenge and it was one of my best vacation ever. I sang in the rain, dance in the rain,hiked in the rain and listened to the rain on my tent as I fell soundly asleep each night.

My friend, however, decided to be miserable the certain time. He grumbled, complained, got angry licked fights and spent the inter time wishing he was someplace else. He also wasn’t too happy that I didn’t share his attitude but oh well.

We share the same experience and yet it was positive for me and horrible for him.The only difference was how we chose to do what was happening.

I might be oversimplifying here but when you boil it all down, I think the only difference between the successful person and the failure is resilience
Look for the bright side of everything. Sure it’s a cliche, but it is a fact that your experience is hot you choose it to be.

Have you ever felt sad or depressed about something, and then you drank some coffee or you took a walk, and then felt 10 times better about it?The situation didn’t change you did and ones you have the positive mindset, you can move forward and do whatever it is that needs to be done.

Here are 9 tips for flipping your mindset to the positive side of life.

Play opposites:-when you think a negative thought such as,”I hate getting on these Zoom meetings,”ask yourself,”what if the opposite were true?

Friends:- support groups are wonderful for helping you to build this resilience.Talk it out and help each other to see the positive. If they insist on being negative-and let’s face it,some people reveal in negative then get a new support group.

Greatest Hits:- when you’re feeling down about yourself or your abilities, think about times when you did awesome things that totally worked for you.

Self- Care:- Get enough sleep and eat well Exercise. All of these things will help you to stay positive and keep moving forward in your business and in your life.

Is it True?:- when you notice your negative thoughts are spiraling out of control, ask yourself if those thoughts are true.9 times out of 10 you will realise the negative thoughts are a distortion and out of touch with reality.

Acceptance:- instead of negative judging yourself for being passimistic except your current mindset and stop fighting it, Then set it aside and move on.

Humor:- can’t find the positive in the situation? Then pretend 5 years have gone by and you’re telling someone the story of what just happened find the funny in it and make your friend laugh .

Use Your Power:- you always- ALWAYS -have the power to choose how you will be circumstances.Maybe right now you choose to feel bad, but realise that is indeed your choice. Try choosing to feel just 1% better and see what happens.

Body Language:- emotions follow the body and not the other way around. When you force yourself to smile, stand tall and rise your arms overhead in a victory gesture, you feel better. Even holding a pencil sideways in your mouth will activate your smile muscles and improve your mood.

Now I know that some people reading this will have a strong rebuttal for me that goes like this:We’rein the middle of a pandemic my life is upside down and people are getting sick and even dying. How am I supposed to mind shift unto positivity?

All of that is 100% true.but can you think of a better or more important time in your life to practice resilience and the good in everything you possibly can?

The next time something is getting you down, go take a walk. Or play your favourite music. Or pet your dog or talk to someone. Taking a break is a good thing because it gives you the perspective you something need to keep moving forward.

Practice flipping the switch in your brain each time things don’t go the way you planned. This life -skill will see you through the tough times and ensure massive success in the good times.

Flip the switch. No that resilience is your strongest defence .Find the positive. I promise you that eat there somewhere. And smile, because no matter what it is this to shall pass.

Case study: $4,200 a Month Part-Time with No Specialized Knowledge and No Product.

By Swapan Bairagi on December 21, 2022 in Blog

This is a part time business that quite literally requires no a specialized knowledge, and you don’t even need a product.one thing you do need is just enough people skills to build report over the phone, Skype, zoom or whatever mood of communication you choose.

I know a guy who is doing these part time and best on my own math he seems to be making about $4,200 a month doing this 2 hours a day. He charges his clients $35 a week of a 20 minutes phone call, and he books about 6 clients per day during his lunch break and after work. And he takes his weekends off, too.

Have you guessed hot he does? If you said coaching, you’re right. But this is a rather narrow, a specialised coaching niche. He calls himself an accountability coach.he let’s his clients tell him what they’re going to accomplish over the next seven days. He asks what their plan is to get it done. He points out potential problems and asks the client was s/he will deal with them if they arise. Basically, he ask a lot of questions and once in a while he gives a little advice.

Then when he calls them the following week,they have to be 100% honest and tell him exactly how much they did or did not get done. personalty-wise he comes across as a father-figure,and his clients don’t want to disappoint him so they get busy and do hot they need to do.

He bills weekly automatically with people because he says that when they see that money come out of their account every week, it’s a remainder that they need to get in gear. He tried billing monthly but his clients would just relax for three weeks and then get busy in the fourth week. He says he doesn’t exactly understand the physiology of why weekly billing works better than monthly but that it doesn’t matter to him as long as his clients are getting results and he’s getting paid.

He has a full -time job but he does have some flexibility. He does some calls during the day and the rest in the evening when he gets farm about only having 30 clients a week because he says more than that is too much. And he’s got a waiting list of people who want him to be their accountability coach.

He’s Strict with his clients about being ready to receive his call. As much as possible,he lets the client choose the day and time for the weekly standing phone appointment. He explains to them that they MUST be available at that time to talk to him, no exceptions allowed.He doesn’t care if their house is on fire they better answer the phone when he calls.

When I asked him how he arrived at $35 a week, he said it seemed to hit a sweet spot for clients. At first he was charging too Little ($20) and the clients were’nt talking the call all that seriously. Then he went overboard in the other direction and charged too much ($100) and the clients usually cancelled after a couple of weeks, if the signed up at all.

He was once referred to a potential client who desperately wanted his help but $ 35 was out of reach.Obviously these persons first goal was to make more money.Since he doesn’t charge for the initial consultation anyway, here’s what he told the new client.

“our next call is in 7 days.right now you’re going to tell me 5 ways you could add an extra $100 a week to your income starting this week. Then you and I are going to choose one of those 5, and you’re going to tell me your plan for making it happen.

And that’s exactly what happened. Within a week that man had a new income stream, and within a month he was making an extra $1000 a month, 9 months later hi quit his job and open his own small business, all thanks to having an accountability coach.

You probably need a certain personalty to make this work. If people naturally look up to you or naturally want to please you, then this might be an idea for some part time income. Goodness nose there are planti of people who just need a weekly fire lit underneath them along with some encouraging words to help them reach their goals.

What’s the Secret in ‘Think & Grow Rich?

By Swapan Bairagi on December 20, 2022 in Blog

What’s the secret in think & grow rich?

If you’ve ever r tvead Napoleon Hill’s’think and Grow Rich.”you know that he repeatedly alludes to “the secret”without ever starting exactly what the secret is.

A quick aside here- I wonder if his book would still be popular to this day if he had simply STEAD the secret, rather than leaving it a bit of a mystery? I don’t think so.

Some have said the secret is to, “Conceive it, believe it and then achieve it”. That is, you need to decide what you want, believe with all your heart that you can and WILL achieve it, and then take the action necessary to make it happen.

Others have said the secret lies in chapter 2, where even Napoleon’s own son said he was able to identify the secret. That chapter is about “Desire, the starting point of All Achievement.”

Chapter 2 reads. The method by which desire for riches can be transmitted into its financial equivalent consists of six
definite, practical steps.”

“First. Be definite as to the amount”. Designing a lot of money or to be rich won’t work. Making a goal of $ 5.000 a month in income will.

“Second. Determine exactly what you intend to give in return for the money you desire.,”you don’t get something for nothing-if you did, you could simply make a wise and your desire would appear. Yoy’ll need to exchange your efforts for the money you desire, so what is it you can do? How can you give tremendous value to others?

“Third.Establish a definite date when you intend to process the money you desire,”Never underestimate the power of a deadline, or the need to be accountable to someone.Tell the person you least want to disappoint of your deadline, and be sure they hold you to it.

“Fourth. Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire, and begin at once, weather you are ready or not, to put these plan into action.”decide what you’re going to do, and then just do it. Don’t wait_procrastination leads to excuse which leads to more procrastination. Begin immediately.

“Fifth. Write out a clear,conscious statement of the amount of money you intend to acquire, name the time limit for its acquisition, state what you intend to give in return for the money, and describe clearly the plan through which you intend to accumulate it.”you’ve heard this before-write it down. Make it concrete. Make it REAL.

“Sixth. Read your written statement aloud, twice daily, once just before retiring at night, and ones after arising in the morning, AS YOUR READ-SEE AND FEEL AND BELIEVE YOURSELF ALREADY IN POSSESSION OF THE MONEY.”Twice a day? I would suggest several times a day. Keep your goal right in front of you so that it’s on your mind always, like a mantra. It should be the last thing you think about as you fall asleep, the first thing you of upon waking,and your predominant thought throughout the day. As you think about it, BELIEVE it is already done-you are simply going through the formalities.

You’ll notice that these 6 steps assume one thing-that you will take ACTION and do whatever it is you need to do to make it happen.

Six steps,Plus action.

If we were to boil this down to its essence, what would it be?

Conceive it
Believe it.
Achieve it.

And there you have it-Napoleon Hills secret to Thinking and Growing Rich.

Famous sales person Ben Gay tells the story of being on a ocean going fishing boat with a very successful friend. His friend hooked a whopper of a fish on his line. The crew went crazy with someone shouting out “show down, speed up hard to port, etc,”crew members were running around doing whatever they do and the enter boat had a feeling of total chaos while his friend was working on landing this fish.

But his friend was as calm as could be. When Ben asked his friend how he could stay so calm amid all this frenzy, his friend replied,”while the fish and the crew don’t know the outcome of this struggle, I do.”

His friend had already conceived and believed he would catch a giant fish. All that was left was to claimly and serenely land him.

How to Add an Almost Instant Five Figures to Your Business While Changing Lives .

By Swapan Bairagi on December 16, 2022 in Blog

Imagine a business that can make you 4.5 or 6 figures for year,takes very little time to run and has the power to change your life in dramatic ways above and beyond the extra income. This is the crazy but true story of perhaps the best business model in the world. Running Mastermind Groups.

I’m going to assume you’re an online marketer you’ve probably got a sales funnel or you’re building one. If it’s like most sales funnels, you’ve got in expensive products on the frontand and hopefully more expensive products on the backend.

Here’s my question about yourself funnel-do you have a flagship product? Something for which you charge serious money?something that really, truly CHANGES people’s lives for the better? and if not, then why not?

I’ve mentioned before that if you don’t have a big, expensive flagship product, then you can create one in a day by offering coaching some people who are new to coaching like to charge $ 200-$ 300 a month. More experienced people who are confident they can get their clients results are able to charge 10 times this amount and more.

Coaching is awesome for getting people results, and if it’s right for you, then I suggest you do as much coaching as makes you happy and prosperous. But the fact is coaching isn’t for everyone. You might not feel comfortable coaching, or you might not want to spend the time working with pupil one-on-one . Or you might want something different then coaching, something that has the potential to dramatically change the lives of a group of people while taking pressure off of yourself to perform.

For you, I’d like to suggest starting one or more mastermind groups. Masterminds can take less of your time then coaching, require less exparties then coaching and can potentially earn you as much or even MORE than coaching.

What is a mastermind group?

Loosely speaking, a mastermind is a select group of people who meet regularly in person or through video conferences to share ideas help each other overcome challenges, keep each other accountable and achieve their goals.

Napoleon Hill coined the term “Master Mind” and defined it as..…. A coordination of knowledge and effort in perfect harmony, between two or more people for the attainment of a definite purpose.”

Hill survyed hundreds of the most successful people in the world and found that may many of these people attributed their successes to being in such a group. The most notable of these people was Andrew Carnigue, who attributed his entire fortune and success to his mastermind group.

Mastermind groups aren’t just for the reach and famous, either Almost any group of people with a common interest or niche can benefit from a mastermind group. Here are three examples, but really the possibilities are nearly endless.

Children-there are could be masterminds for new parents, parents of children of a certain age, parents of children with particular challenges, new empty nesters end so fourth.

Online marketers-this is a huge area including new marketers, seasoned marketers, marketers in every possible niche as well as specialities such as social media marketing.

professionals at any stage of their career- for example think of law students, brand new lawyers and seasoned lawyers in every area of law and you’ve got a hundred possibilities for mastermind groups in single profession.

What’s So Great About a Mastermind Group?

if your personality, knowledge and success is the average of the five people you associate with most, it just makes sense that people in a mastermind group will enjoy more success and do it faster than those who are going it alone.

I’m remainded of a certain Irish marketer who participates in a $100,000 a year mastermind Group He is found to telling the story of how one Idea he got from this group yileaded him a multiple 7 figure income and no doubt you’ve hard stories, too, of how mastermind groups have been the catalyst that propelled interpreneurs from nothing to ultra- successful, sometimes even selling their businesses and rating after just a few years.

The chronicles of Narnia and The Lord of the rings luckily never would have been written if not for an English mastermind Group of writers and poets that included CS lewis, JRR Tolkien, Charles Williams and on Barfield.

President Theodore Roosevelt felt out of his depth when he entered office at the age of 42 the youngest age ever for an American President.He needed help working with much older and more experienced politicians so he created a mastermind group for guidance support and help.

No doubt you’ve hard of Henry ford, Thomas Edison, President Warren G, Harding and Harbe Firestone, but did you know they where all in the same mastermind group and called themselves the Vagabonds?”
It’s truly amazing hot can be accomplished when you’re in a mastermind group.

What Are the Benefits of a Mastermind Group?

That’s going to depend on the particular group, but in general….

1: support
Members have a group of people who help them to succeed how valuable is it to have a group of like minded people cheering you know and giving you ideas to become successful? It’s no understatement
to say that a mastermind often makes the difference between success and failure.

2: Resources and Connections.
If a group has 10 members, and if each member has 20 powerfull knowledgeable or influential contacts, then each member of the group now has potentially 200 contacts to help their business grow.if you weren’t born into a family with vast resources and contacts, a mastermind group might be the next best thing.

3: Ideas.

They say two heads ate better than one and ten are better than two. A mastermind group can give you new ideas, different perspectives and crucial feedback and you don’t even have to be in identical businesses.for example, what’s working for all marketer in a particular niech can often be applied to many other nieches as well.

4: accountability.

A mastermind group keeps its members inspired and accountable to achieve their goals. There’s nothing like knowing your fellow members except you to implement what you decided upon in the last session and report back your results in next session to keep you moving forward.

5: Shortcuts.

Mastermind members possess skills and ideas that took years to develop, yet they can share them with you in minutes.

6: Partnerships.

you may find other members in your group with complementary businesses with which to partner on a single venture or even and ongoing basis.

How much do people pay to be in mastermind groups?

While there are no hard and first rules on the low end $ 500 a year to be in amastermind group of beginners or non business pupil is some hot common on the high and I know of to mastermind groups of online marketers us that each charge$100,000 a year. This are wrong by invention only and while the intenrence fee since high members report the entrance fee pays for itself many times over.

It wouldn’t surprise me a bit if there are a handful of mastermind groups that charge a million dollars a year ans whose members are all billionaires or aspiring billionaires.

How much you charge will depend on a variety of tractors, including what kind of group it is and how much expertise your members bring to the table.And keep in mind,other is nothing stopping you from starting as many mastermind groups as you can comfortably handle.

Weird Case Study of Amazon Book Trading Business Earns Up to 6 Figures From Home.

By Swapan Bairagi on December 12, 2022 in Blog

Weird Case Study of Amazon Book Trading Business Earns Up to 6 Figures from Home.

when I first head this one I dismissed eat as something that couldn’t possibly make all that much money. I was wrong.

Here’s what a friend of (mine we will call her Beth) is doing with Amazon to currently clear severaly$100 a day and quit possibly rich the six figure mark this year.

She is in a nutshell, buying and selling books.

But that’s not hunting storage or yard sales to do this in fact, she never leaves home. She has 2 to methods she use that go hand in her sometimes clearing over dollar 1000 PER BOOK.

Beth’s first method takes advantage of the fact that most Amazon shoppers hot to use their prime account to get free. First shipping because of this,they will often pay for more for an item then they need to.

She looks for new and used books (HINT: text books work really will for this!)that have a large prime price tag and a much similar price if you buy it directly from the seller for example,she should me a textbook that is selling for $ 170 on prime and $12 Plus$ 3.99 shipping directly from the cheapest seller.

There were actually a couple dozen copies selling for dollar 50 or less, she buys of all of the cheaper copies sheeps them to Amazon and then sales them through Amazon prime for much larger prices.

I know, this sounds like needles in haystacks, except to say that she perfected eat on rainy afternoon when she had nothing else to do.

She also searches other book sides beyond Amazon,and she says that sum of her very best deals come from purchasing books from other sites and then selling them on Amazon.

That’s the first half of her business. The second half is weirder steel.

if you have ever looked closely at Amazon book listing you have seen that little box on the right of some listing that say.”do you have one to sale”? Amazon will pay you to send them books that they can then sell. But there’s what’s so weird.

there are times when you can buy used books from Amazon sellers for a lot less than Amazon is willing to pay for the books. And when you tell Amazon you have a book to sell they lock the price for 25 days.These gifts you time to receive the book you purchased and send it on to Amazon. If the price Amazon is willing to pay goes up in this period,you cancel the price you were going to receive and get the new hair one.

You can buy more than one copy of a book and trade it in.you can also find cheaper books on other book sites and then sale those to Amazon. You can also find other websites that will sometimes (often?) Pay more than Amazon.

Here’s another weird fact: every books site that buys books pays you in cash except for Amazon. They pay In gift cards. That seems like a flaw in the system.right?But Beth uses this gift cards to buy more cheap books that can be resold at higher prices, making even more profit. Gift cards may also save you on taxes but you didn’t hear that from me. Consult your tex person.

Beth handles the books herself-bahut incoming and outgoing by purchasing a scale and a thermal postage printing machine that makes everything simple and easy. But I understand there are also third party process centres that will handle the books for you for a fee. These includes both receiving the books from individual sellers and packaging them up to send to the book websites of your choosing.

: And there you have it:A weird little arbitrage book Business that almost anyone can do. The downsites as I see it are you need money Up front to get started because you’ll be purchasing books. The more money you have the faster you can build your business.

Also , if you’re selling books to individuals . you will have to sometimes wait to make the sales. That’s fun, though,because you never know now many sales you might wake up to each morning. If you’re interested in this,start with books you know sell for high prices such as text books and branch out from there.It could be a great way to make your mortgage payment each month, aur possibly even build a full time five five or six figure income.