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The series of interviews conducted by Thad includes …..
Paul Evans (President, Info Market Results LLC)
Discover your unique personal value and profit by sharing just that!

Deb Ingino (President, My Wired Style)
Harness your Passionpreneur strengths to achieve peak performance and profits.

Carrie Wilkerson (The Barefoot Executive)
Attract a horde of raving fans and paying customers to your business!

Barry Chandler (The Bar Blogger)
How to use a simple blog to kickstart your Passionpreneur empire.

Perry Lawrence (Ask Mr Video)
Use video to create celebrity-like recognition and influence that leads to profits.

Snowden McFall (President, Fired Up! Professional Speaking)
Get fired up to succeed without stressing out and burning out.

Marta Costa (President, VA-4-Hire)
How to design the ultimate Passionpreneur business around your dream lifestyle.

Laurie Taylor (President, Flashpoint! LLC)
Plan your Passionpreneur business so that you make and keep more profit.

Sarah Cook (CEO, Raising CEO Kids)
Create a culture of entrepreneurship in your family.

Bob Burg (Bestselling Author with John David Mann of The Go Giver)
Why giving is the key that will propel you into stratospheric profits.

I know that you’re going to enjoy this series as much as I have been, and you’re going to be inspired by all the valuable insights given in each interview. This is a truly giving crowd of talented entrepreneurs.

Have a fantastic weekend!

Kind Regards,

I come to you today with much sadness on my heart. The WAHM community has been rocked with so much tragedy these past few weeks. Today I come to you and ask you to pitch in and help out a friend, a neighbor, and someone you likely already know. Melissa Ingold, aka Internet Marketing Sweetie has made her way into our hearts and minds by providing quality content and great information and helping as many work at home moms as she can reach out to in a day.

Today I ask you to repay Melissa’s kindness by sending a loving thought her way after the death of her son Kyle, and if you are capable sending a few dollars her way to help ease the burden of funeral expenses for her family. Kelly McCausey has stepped up and organized a fundraiser page and I strongly encourage you to click on one of the options you’ll find there http://www.wahmtalkradio.com/fundraiser-please-help-out-a-wahm-her-family/

Kelly has generously offered to donate profits from two of her products if you would like to buy a Mom Masterminds Membership or a Blog Internship package, and there is the third option of donating directly via Paypal to Melissa and her family. I personally chose to donate directly to the family and sent what I could from my Paypal account.

I only wish that I had been able to donate more to help Melissa out. Remember, every single dollar counts in a time like this. Regardless of what you do, think a positive thought and send a virtual hug her way today, then go and hug your own children a little extra today too. I know she will appreciate it.

Here’s the link to the fundraiser page again: http://www.wahmtalkradio.com/fundraiser-please-help-out-a-wahm-her-family/

Kind Regards,

I had tried various other mastermind groups before and been extremely disappointed. Then I made the decision to joining Lynn Terry’s Elite Mastermind Group upon the recommendation of my good friend Lisa Roberson who was a member and having a great time.

First, I attended several of Lynn’s free Tuesday webinars. After a particularly valuable session one Tuesday I emailed Lynn for some domain name advice….. and an amazing thing happened. She emailed me back. You probably remember this story from my previous blog post about it.

At that point I was so impressed with Lynn’s integrity that there was no doubt in my mind I wanted to join her mastermind group. Besides that, I couldn’t let Lisa have all that fun and success by herself, right? So, I joined up not expecting a whole lot of action.

What happened after I joined was just unbelievably and incredibly amazing, I can’t even tell you in words how much I’ve learned, how much I’ve grown my business, and how many great business connections I’ve made since joining. I have now been a member for two years and continuing to love it and make great connections and progress in my business every day step by step. (Or as Lynn would say, “From Start to Profit”)

I visit the private mastermind forum almost daily and there’s always something going on, whether its me learning from someone else or the opportunity to help out a fellow group member, there’s always something and it’s always valuable.

For quite some time group membership was closed to new members while Lynn made some changes and improvements to the format we used to connect with each other. This week Lynn re-opened the doors to new members again and we’re ready and waiting to meet you and brainstorm your business goals with you.

Elite Mastermind membership also comes with a few awesome perks in addition to the forum and weekly live brainstorming hour….

We have a monthly challenge to help keep each other accountable and growing our businesses. We receive FREE download of Lynn’s reports and guides that she currently offers, as well as free products from other merchants that Lynn has made special arrangements with from time to time.

You’ll also find live cases studies and website reviews from both Lynn and other members of the group. This is one of my favorite parts of the group, there’s always so much to learn and see in this section. We’re even working on a secret project as a group!

You’ll find all the registration information at http://www.lorettaoliver.com/ likes/sswt/ and I look forward to seeing you on the other side during our weekly live brainstorming session this Thursday (tomorrow).

To Your Success,

The contest details are all at: http://wahumor.com/1606/

What you do…. write a guest post for Dan’s blog about any of these topics: Blogging Tips, SEO, Blog Promotion, Social Media, Press Releases/Publicity, Making Money Online, Internet Marketing, and/or Web Design and in that post you must humor effectively and appropriately while being informative about the topic. That’s easy enough, right?

Holy prize monsters Batman, look what you could win if you’re among the lucky winners….

Mike Holownych – 3 month beginner hosting package, domain not included from http://pgesystems.com/linux/ valued at $21.00

Brian Waraksa, Houston web design – A Flip MinoHD One Hour video camera valued at $200

Gerald Weber, Houston SEO – $100 cash via Paypal

SEOdojo http://www.huomah.com/dojo/ – A one year membership valued at $250

Veronica Davis http://www.vgal.info/ One free custom short report for the winner in their niche for list building, sale, etc.

Kiesha Easley http://weblogbetter.com/ 2 copies of her anticipated ebook, “A Step By Step Guide To A Better Blog” valued at $10.00 each

Shannon Cherry, The Power Publicist’s latest, the Press Release Success System. Learn how to market yourself easily – without the high cost of advertising and other marketing methods valued at $67.00.

SEOcopy – $100 in cash via Paypal

Alisa Bowman’s marriage advice blog – $100 cash via Paypal

Adriana Copaceanu’s keyword research service from http://www.myonlinebusinessjourney.com/keyword-research/ for the top 3 contestants valued at $90 total

Neal Schaffer’s book about social networking and LinkedIn at http://windmillnetworking.com/book for ALL 5 winners valued at $25 each for a total of $125

Get Fast Profits GOLD Coaching ($80.80 value)
(http://www.getprofitsfast.com/limited-blg.html)

That’s a lot of great stuff! So, Ill wish you happy guest blogging and get my butt moving to write an entry into the contest myself. Good luck blgogers

1. Digital delivery – This is sending out ebooks, reports or ecourses. If you are sticking to digital products then you want a program that will give out a cloaked link for delivery. Like WAHMcart or E-Junkie.

2. Physical products and shipping – This is sending out products to a person’s address. Cd’s, paper books, candles and other products to shop. This will require a shopping cart to calculate shipping, local sales taxes if necessary, and a good program will give you a clickable shipping label link! Zen cart is a good source for this and free. It does take some learning curve though, but if you have multiple physical products, I highly encourage you to look into it. WAHMcart does also do physical products, but I haven’t used it so I can’t give a review of it.

3. Affiliate program – As I’m in the affiliate manager marketing department, I have a few more of these to list. WAHMcart, E-Junkie, aMember, and Wishlist.

These are just three of the major things you need to look at before choosing a shopping cart for your products. Your price point per month or per sale and other aspects also come into affect, but get a list of those that hit the above areas first and then go by price.

I decided to start my software review process with Easy Push Button Traffic for a few reasons.

First, the software is from Willie Crawford whom I met in person at NAMS 2 last August and at that workshop he gave us some great information about using articles and videos in your marketing efforts. I think that Willie does a lot of great things in the internet marketing circle and I admire his work ethic tremendously.

Second, I read a few glowing reviews of the software online. Although a lot of those reviews were older I figured it was worth giving it a try.

Third, price. I won’t lie to you, my budget is very small and Easy Push Button Traffic was affordable. In addition to the monthly price being reasonable ($27) and budget friendly there was an offer for a $1 one week trial. Perfect.

Above is what you see when you login to Easy Push Button Traffic. You can use it to submit to a handful of articles directories, video sites, press release sites, and podcast/audio websites. A little bit of everything all in one place. Awesome!

During my one week trial I submitted articles, videos, and press releases. I didn’t get a chance to play with the podcast submission.

Let’s start with articles and press releases, because that’s probably the most commonly used feature of the software. There’s a decent handful of nice article directories in the list, including EzineArticles.com, which if you do article submissions already you probably already have your account set up at. Unfortunately, none of the articles I submitted uploaded to EZA successfully. I think that may be because EzineArticles changed their submission process and the software isn’t communicating with it correctly, but I can’t be sure.

A few other article sites failed to receive my submission as well. This is where the first con comes onto the pros/cons list. You get a stat listing that shows whether or not your article, video, press release, or podcast was uploaded successfully. Basically it will say successful, or failed, and you have no way of knowing why it failed if it failed. This happened more often with my video submissions (which I admit I only did two video submissions during my trial period), which leads us right into videos.

Uploading the videos seemed to be almost too easy at first. Like I already mentioned, I had quite a few failed submissions and you have no way of knowing why those failed. You can either go manually add the videos to the sites yourself or just shrug it off and move on to the next thing you want to submit. The nice thing about video sites is they don’t have the same long awaited approval process that article sites have, in most cases your video is up within minutes or at least in an hour or two.

In general you receive links from the video description and/or your profile on the video site. I noticed in checking to see if my videos were added that a few of the sites being submitted to were no longer making those live urls, they were just plain text, not clickable, and not linking back to my websites. I’ll know to avoid those in the future.

The other problem I noticed with video submission was that on occasion it would say it was successful, even though it was not. This was most disappointing to me. For example, the videos said they were uploaded to YouTube successfully, but were no where to be found in my account. I checked periodically over a 24 hour time span to see if they showed up and they did not.

My one dollar trial period has ended and I have actually decided to cancel the subscription and not buy into the first month (which would be 27 dollars, very reasonable) … I’m going to check out some other software solutions first and then possibly come back to this. I like how simple and easy EPT is to use, I like that it chooses only the best sites to submit to, I’m just not ready to buy into the first product I checked out, I need to compare

PROS of Easy Push Button Traffic

• super easy to use
• video tutorials are included
• articles, press releases, videos, and podcasts all in one place
• very affordable solution

CONS of Easy Push Button Traffic

• no report on failed submissions
• some sites not linking to your website any longer
• some uploads listed as successful when they really aren’t

To that I would like to add that having a limited number of sites for each form of media is both a pro and a con. It could be a con because it might make you feel limited. It’s a pro because it keeps you focused and submits to quality directories.

I hope this review helped you if you are considering Easy Push Button Traffic. I’m going to be looking into some other article and video marketing tools over the next few months as well and I will definitely be sharing those with you. If you have one in particular that you would like to learn more about please let me know in the comment section and I’ll check it out for both of us.

Kind Regards,

Disclaimer: Easy Push Button Traffic is a software program that will help you speed up the submission of files to file sharing sites. Proper use of file sharing sites has been shown to increase traffic to websites. Easy Push Button Traffic is a tool. Using it does not guarantee that your traffic, sales or rankings will increase.

Not all people are as fortunate as those of us that know the importance of blogging. Speaking on a local level if you’ve ever had a conversation with a small business owner who has a brick and mortar business you have probably come to the conclusion that some of them don’t even know what a blog is!

That’s where a Virtual Assistant who loves Wordpress, has a creative side and doesn’t mind working mostly behind the scenes can utilize their services by becoming a blog consultant. Then you can start evangelizing to small business owners in your local community not only the importance of blogging but the truth – blogging is smart for business.

So exactly what is a blog consultant?

It’s someone passionate about blogging. They love blogging in general but more importantly they understand the importance of blogging for small business owners and want to share that understanding with small business owners especially on the local level.

So if you’re that VA mentioned above and are passionate about blogging and want to share that passion with others then be sure to check out Become A Blog Consultant. If you’re not a VA that’s ok too, this course was created for anyone who has a passion for blogging and wants to share it with local small business owners.

Be sure to visit our site where you can watch a quick two minute video and see a real life client example and sign up for a 16 minute audio that will help you decide if this is for you. Become A Blog Consultant

I wanted to put together a project, an informational site about transcription. I had been faithfully attending Lynn’s famous free Tuesday webinars trying to absorb all the bits of info that come out of them, and choosing domain names had come up in one of them.

I took a chance and emailed Lynn that week and asked for her opinion because I was just not coming with domain names that made sense or sounded good for learning transcription. Imagine my surprise when she emailed me back with some ideas! We went back and forth a little and came up with LearnTranscriptionatHome.com

Obviously, shortly after I managed to sneak in the doors of the Elite program when they were open. Between the webinars and that one on one help I was just moved and motivated above all else.

Now, here’s the part where I’m bad. There’s nothing on that domain. Other things came up and I didn’t put it up. However, while at NAMS in August I decided this was going to become “my info product” and eventually it’s going to have an ecourse, a transcriptionist directory, and services available on it.

Obviously, I changed few things about the product I was creating, but I did get it done and you’ve probably figured out by now that it turned into Transcription Crash Course, my recent product release, which went completely from Start to Profit behind the scenes in the Elite Members area. I posted my idea, talked it out, shared my draft, and got great advice from my fellow Elite Mastermind Members, including a little help with the Clickbank process. I don’t know what I’d do without this group, I’m grateful for every single one of them and their participation in the group.

What’s the point here? Lynn reached out and helped me before I was even an elite member. She could have just ignored my email. Most people in her position probably wouldn’t have even opened it up at all. That is what makes Lynn Terry different and puts her above the other affiliate marketing mentors in my eyes. Her integrity and willingness to help.

Kind Regards,

P.S. I heard a secret from a little bird that Lynn is closing the doors on Elite Membership again soon, like within the next few days, and the price may possibly be going up as well. I don’t really know all the details but if you’re on the fence, now is a good time to hop on over to this side and mastermind with us! We’d love to have you. I know you won’t be disappointed.

I’m happy to say that so far the report has been receiving great feedback from all around the web! Here are just a few reviews and interviews that have come up so far… (and there’s more to come in the very near future)

Mark Mason of MasonWorld.com was one of the first to review the course – http://www.masonworld.com/make-money-online/transcription-crash-course-review/ – Mark is actually one of my transcription clients and I was thrilled when I saw he had purchased a copy of the report to review for his readership.

Erica Cosminsky of TheSmallBusinessTranscriptionist.com also did a wonderful review and shared some insight into the use of foot pedals as a fellow transcriptionist. http://thesmallbusinesstranscriptionist.com/transcription-crash-course I really appreciate this extra tidbit, because I don’t use a foot pedal and therefore was not able to make a recommendation in that area.

Rick Wilson at eBizRantzandRavez.com was also an early reviewer of the product and shared the information with his blog readers at http://www.ebizrantzandravez.com/467/transcription-crash-course-starting-a-general-transcription-business/ touching on various points in the course.

I was pleasantly surprised when a quick review and announcement popped up at WahmTalkRadio.com - http://www.wahmtalkradio.com/learn-how-to-start-a-general-transcription-business/ – Impromptu and unexpected posts are always the best surprise when I check my email and see those little Google Alerts telling me where to go on the web.

I’ve been doing a few quick interviews, and of course those aren’t as much of a surprise when they pop up since I already know about them in advance, but they’re still fun to read and reply to the comments on.

It’s no surprise that Val Selby was the first to take me up on an interview opportunity to share with her WorkingWahm.com readers. You can see the full interview at http://workingwahm.com/transcription-crash-course/ where we talk about work time involved and different types of clients.

Shannon Weidemann at MarketingElf.com was next on the interview circuit and you will find our conversation at http://marketingelf.com/work-at-home/transcription-crash-course-review/ where we discuss the personality types that are best suited for transcription, how to find clients, and how I got started.

That’s all for today, but there are more interviews and reviews to come online. In fact, if you have an audience that would be interested in a review or an interview of Transcription Crash Course I invite you to send me your questions. Just leave a comment here or email me and I’ll be in touch soon.

To Your Success,

Wow. Scary to think about, isn’t it. What would the ramifications be if you did? And, how long would it take you to recover from that?

- Lost programs.
- Lost documents.
- Lost pictures.
- Lost emails, even.

And, that’s just from a cup of coffee. Heck, that’s an accident.

What about intentional malice? Hackers, viruses, identity theft — eek!

Well, Nicole Dean, is an online business owner like you – and she was worried enough about these issues to write a report to address them.

In it, she covers the following:

The do’s and dont’s of creating and using passwords - so hackers can never guess or copy them and the no-sweat way to manage all your passwords, never worry about forgetting, losing or having your passwords stolen.

Why your business needs an emergency manual in case you get sick for an extended period, or worse. And, what to include in your emergency manual.

Why an external hard drive backup is not enough. And, what to use in addition to your external drive backup.

What files you should back up – so you know you’ve got all your bases covered.

—> Here’s the link again: http://easywahmwebsites.com/backup/ <---

Don’t put this aside for later. I, personally, have had to start business projects over three times from computer crashes and from malicious hosting attacks in the past (one happened very recently) and don’t want to see you go through the same thing.

To Your Business Success,

P.S. I’m a fan of Mozy for remote backups, it’s hands free and I don’t have to worry anymore!