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What do You Recommend?

Posted on August 8, 2006

This article originally appeared in the August 4th issue of our ezine, MTN News. Subscribe at www.transformmarketing.com and claim your free bonuses.

Engaging PR and
Marketing Tips to
Create Business
for Your Business

Before we dive into this week’s
issue, I have some big news.

The Marketing Transformations
Network blog is up and running at
www.mtnlive.com. 

You’ll find it’s loaded with every
MTN News issue, video clips,
photo albums and insights
all packaged up and ready
to click on for your perusing
pleasure.

So, you have two choices:
read this issue right now or
check out www.mtnlive.com
and find out who I had
coffee with last Saturday.

What do I recommend?

I recommend you read this issue right away.

What do you recommend?

Over the course of any week,
you’re probably asked at least
a few times for a recommendation
for something.

Could be for an accountant, a printer,
phone service, a vendor, a contractor
or a restaurant.

When your clients know you, like you
and trust you, they’ll seek out and
follow your recommendations.

As their trusted advisor, they
count on you as a time and money
saving resource with good connections.

In fact, offering a list of recommended
resources is often the valued-added
edge that differentiates you from
your competition.

Do you have a list of recommended 
resources to connect your
clients with the help they need
when they need it?

Why not add recommendations to 
resources that pay you every time
someone clicks on the link you give them? 

There’s a whole industry dedicated to
helping you make connections like these.

It’s called affiliate marketing and it’s
rapidly evolving into big business.

Read the latest affiliate marketing
industry news at www.revenews.com.

For affiliate marketers, positioning
yourself as a resource for recommendations
(not just another pesky salesperson)
is a critical concept to grasp at the outset.

Becoming a trusted resource for your
audience/list means that you’re perceived
as the short cut express lane to
their ultimate solution.

That’s why you want to ask your
customer list what they want and
then deliver it to them right away.

They’re happy because you
saved them time.

You’re happy because you
made money.

Everybody wins.

Sounds simple, but is it?

Glad you asked!

Here’s all you need to get
started adding affiliate income
to your revenue stream:
www.theaffiliatemarketingintensive.com.

Six top affiliate marketers
tip you off on what it takes to
open up additional income streams.

The ecourse registration costs you
nothing to get in – check it out at
www.theaffiliatemarketingintensive.com.

By the way, the press release
I wrote about this ecourse wound up at:

#2/28,880 Google News How to Make Money from Home 
#3/13,360 Google News Internet Marketing
#2/1,360 Google News Affiliate Marketing
Listed in Online Case Studies on Blogger Search
#5/11,367 Yahoo! News Internet Marketing

How did we get so high?

Perhaps the headline floated our story
towards the top . . . 
Affiliate Marketing Intensive Enrolls 5,592 —
Reveals How to Make Money Online 

Do you suppose the keyword
seasonings and our secret sauce
spiced up the entrée’s ratings?

Whatever it was, we made the
search engine rankings rock.

Now, go check out
www.mtnlive.com and
then recommend something
to someone – like reading our
blog!

To your off and online success~

Barbara

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X Games 12 Our Takes

Posted on August 6, 2006

This may be the only weekend of the year when my husband asks me to stop yelling at the TV. Of course, it’s okay for him to noisily cheer on soccer players, the Minnesota Vikings, Formula One racers, etc. with hoots that are more appropriate for an open air stadium than our family room. But we won’t talk about that now, will we?

For most of the weekend the boys, P.d. and Warren,  glued themselves to the biggest open screen in the house to kick back and comment on events like Moto X.  Yes, it was me making all the noise. Why?

Let’s go back to my first live extreme sporting event in a barn called WARP in Woodstock on July 3, 2002. Tony Hawk’s Gigantic Skateboard Tour rolled in with a star assortment of skaters and bikers. It was no surprise that the place was packed, but what shocked me was how hot it was inside. With no ventilation and all that body heat, people around me were literally dripping with sweat. I stuck it out for a few hours and then had to go chill with an Icee at the local Kmart. P.d. stayed behind to watch. I was nervous about leaving him, but it was either faint or take him home. When we got back, he had some excellent footage and a tour t-shirt that only went out to kids with video cameras.

Up until that point, I took P.d’s love of skateboarding as something for him, not for me. What impressed me (and converted me to an avid skateboarding fan) was the tenacity and courage these athletes showed. Apparently fearless and made of something much less fragile than most humans, these guys kept trying tricks over and over and over again. Now, watching a guy try to ride a skateboard and land on a ramp a dozen times could get boring. With the crowd cheering louder and louder with every retake, eventually the skater got the trick. I got to see all the pros live and up close. Being in a crowd of kids watching risky and artistic action was a rush.

That’s how it is for my son. He has a list of tricks in mind he’s working on. Try and try and try again is what it’s all about.

What do P.d. and Warren have to say about X Games 12? Warren remembers his first remote control Travis Pastrana motorcylce. "I can’t keep up with Travis!" was his lament as he chased the speedy toy. If you watched Friday night, you know Travis did a double back flip – a history-making feat that had us all up and off the couch as the announcer instructed.

P.d. will remember Remi’s story. Remi came into LA from France two days before without a bike. One of the riders loaned Remi his back up bike. He wiped out after attempting a trick that only the top guys would try. Travis yelled, "You’re my hero!" as Remi rode out on a gurney.

Other X Games comments: "I can’t wait to shave. It looks like the razors are really good now." – after watching commercial after commercial about razors.

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Who did you have coffee with last Saturday?

Posted on August 3, 2006

For the 5th time in 7 days, I found myself in Chicago last Saturday. This time in the lobby of the Westin hotel in a seating area next to a chatty group anchored around a Harlequin Great Dane who probably spent Friday night in a king size bed all by himself. While waiting for my celebrity client, a little guy kept buzzing around me just out of his father’s apologetic and embarassed reach. Even though I told him I’d raised 2 boys just like his, he didn’t seem to get it. So I put the lid on my coffee to make him feel better.

A few minutes later, Harris and Merlin arrived with news of their night at moto. This futuristic food/space station is a zen zone that delivers bite sized bits of sci-fi food cooked up by a geniously mad scientist chef. After we went through the Affiliate Marketing Intensive press release, the guys kicked back in the window seat and spent some time filling me on what’s going on behind the scenes.  Sorry that I can’t share all the excitement to come, I’m not an Internet marketing celebrity reporter -yet. From what I can see, all I can write about is how nice and down to earth everybody is. And that’s even more true with Merlin and Harris. Merlin__barbara_and_harris_in_chicago Thanks guys!

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Affiliate Marketing Intensives PR is Intense

Posted on August 3, 2006

How did we get so high? Maybe adding Harris’ handsome headshot cranked up the results? Perhaps the headline floated our story towards the top: Affiliate Marketing Intensive Enrolls 5,592 — Reveals How to Make Money Online.  Do you suppose the keyword seasonings and our secret sauce that spiced up our entrée?
Whatever it was, we made the search engine rankings rock:
#2/28,880 Google News How to Make Money from Home 
#3/13,360 Google News Internet Marketing
#2/1,360 Google News Affiliate Marketing
Listed in Online Case Studies on Blogger Search
#5/11,367 Yahoo! News Internet Marketing
Curious ami? Read the Affiliate Marketing Intensive (AMI) release or skip it and sign up now for THE free affiliate marketing ecourse. 

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Success Intesives PR Comes in at Number 1 and Number 1/2

Posted on August 3, 2006

Not content to be only number 1, but numbers 1 and 2, we made our mark(s).
Read the story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/Harris_Fellman/Internet_Marketing/prweb415168.htm
Check out these day of rankings:
Google News Internet Marketing Stories: 2/14,400
Yahoo! News Internet Marketing Stories: 1&2/10,626
And, find out what all the fuss is about.

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