Kerwin Rae who is a business marketing & joint venture expert and an Internet marketer is one of my favourite speakers. I spent some time with Kerwin at his UK events during 2009 and really like his content and information and am really glad that he is back in the UK during February 2010 running his Power Up Your Marketing event.
Kerwin’s event is in London on the 5th and 6th February 2010 and you can book onto the seminar for free here –> Kerwin Rae’s Power Up Your Marketing
When I first attended Chris Howard’s 3-day Breakthrough to Success seminar in London in August 2008, I had no idea what NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) was and had never really heard of the ‘personal development industry’. I had no idea how to use & implement the tools that I would learn by attending this event into my Internet marketing business – which are now priceless to me.
I arrived at the venue in London not knowing what to expect really. I had received an invite by email from a mailing list that I was subscribed to so I had registered about 6 weeks prior to the event. Didn’t think i’d stay for all three days, but wanted see what it was like anyway.
The 3-days that followed really blew me away – the content that was delivered by Chris and his team was really fascinating; the showcase of information; the sleek arrangement and running of the weekend by ThinkBIG Education (then ‘Christopher Howard Events’) and the really friendly crew members helping to run the event.
After attending the Breakthrough to Success event in London, I started reading more about wealth creation and personal development (I bought Chris Howard’s book at the event called Turning Passions Into Profits) and a number of other books that Chris and his amazing event crew had mentioned to me throughout the weekend (such as Think and Grow Rich, The Alchemist, Rich Dad Poor Dad). I had never really heard of these books before the event and didn’t realise how ‘big’ they were in this industry.
The weekend also gave me a great networking opportunity with around 1000 other people and I made some great contacts who ended up becoming clients and/or suppliers. Not bad going for a free event!
Throughout the weekend, I learnt things that I had never even heard of before such as Strategic Visioning and the Decision Destroyer process that Chris takes the participants through from stage. The key to all of my new learnings was that anything that I want to achieve and accomplish is down to my mindset and the way that I thought. I learnt new ways of thinking, new ways of asking questions and new ways of communicating. The best part of it all was that all these new learnings & skills were totally transferrable and I could use them all in my Internet marketing business, as well as in my personal day-to-day life.
The Breakthrough To Success London weekend seminar with Chris Howard was a fantastic eye-opener for me in many respects. Not only did I see this great speaker but I saw the way the event ran as a business, albeit as a participant and spectator. I knew at the end of day 1 that I wanted to learn more about this industry from a business point of view and wanted to get involved in helping to run the event, because the crew seemed to be having so much fun! Now, I work with ThinkBIG Education to run the events and get to spend a lot of time surrounded by great people who have become very good friends.
A blog that I follow recently published this article about a blogger (Glen Allsopp) who hated writing at one point, but who went on to love the process of writing and blogging…ended up making a whole lot of money in doing so.
A great read if you are blogging and getting bored or frustrated writing your blogposts. Take some inspiration from Glen’s article below…
There are a number of differences between a Facebook group and a Facebook page that many people do not know about, or that are not very obvious to the uninitiated.
If you are thinking of starting a group or a page on Facebook, here are some things that you should know and consider when deciding which to go for to promote your business/cause/hobby etc:
Ten years ago the Internet was still in its infancy, let alone mobile Internet & telephony. Today, there are more mobile phones on the planet than human beings (apparently since 2004, actually) which tells its own story about how fast the technology has developed and made accessible to almost everyone. There was a point in 1985 when Vodafone claimed that where would only ever be ‘about a million’ mobiles sold..ever!!
The first decade of the 21st Century gave us so many new ways of using the Internet and communicating with our mobile phones in other ways than just telephone calls. We were introduced to Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Skype, iPod, iPhone, DAB, HD, PS3, 3G, MP3, MP4, GPS…the list goes on.
The question is, what does the next 10 years hold for mobile technology? Read on for 10 predictions…
So you’ve got a website or a blog…great. You are already one step ahead of millions of others who don’t even get to that stage (i’m not even kidding).
The biggest misconception out there is that by simply putting up a new blog or website that you will suddenly get bucket loads of traffic and visits quickly. I won’t beat around the bush on this point – that’s not how it works.
Having a blog is a great way to improve your online presence for both business and also personal reasons. You can build a blog for free using tools such as WordPress, Blogger and Typepad and begin posting content right away. However, if nobody is reading that content that you spent ages creating, then what’s the point of it all?
I hear people saying things like “blogging doesn’t work” all the time. It turns out that they tried blogging for a few weeks, published a few random blog posts and then expected the traffic to pile in. No wonder blogging didn’t work for them! My advice, which is hardly rocket science, is that you must treat your blog/website almost as a business in itself: you need to put the time and effort in and treat it seriously to make a success of it.
Here are ten things you need to be aware of when blogging for business or personal reaons:
The iPhone…officially the greatest gadget of the 21st century to date.
If somebody ten years before the iPhone had said that one day you would be able to run your entire business from a device that fits into your pocket…and is also a phone, most if not everyone would have laughed it off or just ignored the prediction.
The iPhone is not just a phone. It’s a mini-computer that allows you to maintain productivity for your business whilst on-the-go.
Below are the apps that I use on my iPhone to run my business. You will see that if I didn’t have an actual desktop computer, it wouldn’t really be the end of the world and I could still carry on my business as normal.
I have spent many days at a time researching different options which would allow me to implement the membership site model into my clients’ and my own websites & blogs.
The two options that I would recommend using are Nanacast or WishList Member, depending on your needs.
Below, I will outline some reasons as to why I only recommend these two options if you want to create a membership based website.
My very good friend Lee Rickler of Point and Stare who specialises in web development, in particular WordPress development wrote the “A-to-Z of Web Development” which really demonstrates his expertise of all things web dev. Everything listed is a technique and/or tool that Lee and his web development company employ when working for their clients.
Some of Lee’s clients include Apple, Microsoft, Canon & Nokia – i’m not just name-dropping but that tells you how good this guy is at what he does. Lee has kindly allowed me to re-publish his article here for the Internet Marketing Highway readers and will be providing more articles for us as a guest author.
Point and Stare specialise in WordPress development in London and I highly recommend visiting their website to have a look at the rest of Lee’s work.
A – Accessibility
This needs to be built in from the off, giving functionality and benefit to as wide an audience as possible.
B – Brand guidelines
Adherence to these promotes good front-end structure and balance throughout.
C – CSS
A Cascading Style Sheet is used to enable the separation of document content from document presentation, including elements such as the layout, colors, and fonts.
Any blog owner should have a few reliable ping sites that they use to feed their RSS updates to, in order to let the Internet know that their blog/website has something new on it.
Here is a list of reliable ping sites that I and other leading Internet Marketers recommend for use with your blogs… Read the rest of this entry
