Issue #2611
- WEALTHY: Setting up a successful affiliate website (George Dahir)
- HEALTHY: 12 migraine triggers in your food (Kelley Herring)
- WISE: Jean de la Bruyere on mediocrity
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE:
- 3 steps to persuasive speaking (Michael Masterson)
- Dusty old books that could be worth millions to you (Jason Holland)
- It’s Good to Know… about a ban on bad news
- Add “anagogic” to your vocabulary
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Dear ETR: “To join your affiliate program, must one have a website?”
“Please forgive a very basic question. To join the ETR Affiliate Program, must one have a website? I do not currently have one.”
Katarina
Hello Katarina,
I’m glad to hear about your interest in our new affiliate program. One of the best possible ways for you to begin making good money immediately – to create a second stream of income and, at the same time, develop skills (direct-marketing skills, copywriting skills, selling skills) that will help you get wealthy in the long term, is to join an affiliate marketing program like the one we offer. After all, we give you all the tools you need to succeed. You just have to put them into action and cash the checks!
Now you don’t technically need a website to join our affiliate program. We’ll talk about how you can do it “website free” in an upcoming ETR article. However, we do think that having a website will provide you with the best opportunity to make money with the program.
You can sign up to be an ETR affiliate before you create a site. And it’s easy to do. WordPress offers free software for setting up a simple site. Or you can use XSitePro, the beginner-friendly software we use to help our Five Days in July attendees build sites. It’s also the software we provide as part of ETR’s Internet Money Club Independent Learner Edition.
When you’ve got a site up and running, I recommend that you pack it full of useful, actionable content geared toward creating wealth, beating the recession, and making money online. Internet marketing expert David Cross has some guidelines for what a good website should include in his article “A Word Is Worth 1,000 Pictures.” And to get a better idea of exactly what topics to address in your website content, check out all of the products you can promote as an ETR affiliate.
This will give you a good understanding of how to structure the content on your website. And keep in mind that we have plenty of text ads, page peels, links, and other sales copy you can upload onto your site once you become an approved ETR affiliate.
ETR Affiliate Marketing Manager
[Ed. Note: 541 Early to Risers have already decided that they want to make cash as an ETR affiliate. We'll give you $20 just for signing up! Get all the details here. http://www.etraffiliates.com/
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"There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking."
Jean de la Bruyere
Double Your Personal Power by Mastering One Skill
Words are innocent and powerless in themselves, Nathaniel Hawthorne said, but they become immensely powerful in the mouth of someone who knows how to use them to persuade others to follow his lead.
And it doesn't take much. If you improve your speaking skills by just 10 percent, you will double your personal power.
Think of the many times in your daily life that you could benefit from being a persuasive speaker. Think of the conversations you have with your spouse, your children, your colleagues, your boss, and your employees.
Imagine if you could convince anybody of anything.
Imagine how much you could achieve.
Last Monday, I noted that many of the world's top financial, political, business, and entertainment figures were and are effective speakers. I told you, too, how my own life improved when I polished my speaking skills.
Becoming a powerful speaker is not that difficult. Like any skill, it can be acquired if you are willing to put in the time to practice. Today, I am going to outline three steps to becoming a more powerful speaker. You can take all three of these steps immediately. And you will notice the difference as soon as you start.
Persuasive speaking, like copywriting, involves strategic thinking. Inarticulate people suffer not so much from ignorance of how to use language but from the habit of lazy thinking. Lazy thinking results in half-baked notions and contradictory thoughts. And that, in turn, contributes to grammatical, syntactical, and diction mistakes.
If you have completed any of the copywriting programs from AWAI or copywriting master Bob Bly, you already know the basics.
Step One: Figure out what you want.
Let's say you've been invited to take part in a business meeting... or perhaps you're gearing up to have an important conversation with a family member. Spend some time beforehand thinking about the topic you will be discussing. Figure out how you can benefit from the meeting. Set a specific, measurable goal for yourself. Then figure out how you can achieve that goal.
This may seem like an unnecessary step. You might be thinking, "I don't need to think about what I want. I am always aware of that. It's not necessary."
In fact, most people don't know what they want. They have some general impressions about being wealthy or successful. But they don't analyze those impressions. They don't break them down. They don't understand how to achieve them strategically.
Step Two: Figure out what you can give others.
Contrary to what some self-improvement gurus will tell you, you won't get what you want in life simply by asking for it. (Possible exception: You look like Brad Pitt or Angelina Jolie.)
Everybody is ultimately motivated by self-interest. Achieving your specific goal, therefore, is a matter of figuring out how you can satisfy the desires of others.
If, for example, your goal for that business meeting you've been invited to is to be nominated to head up an upcoming project, plan for it by making a mental list of how your nomination will help each person attending the meeting. Think about what each person wants. Figure out how, in leading the project, you can provide that.
Most important, think about how you can direct the project so that it will achieve growth and profitability for the company. Spend some time formulating the phrases you will use to drive that point home.
By putting the company first, you will enlist the respect and support of just about everyone. You will establish yourself as a natural leader. And then, when you explain how the project will benefit people individually, you will see how quickly they line up to support you.
Step Three: Take time to consider the objections.
After figuring out how you can achieve your goal by providing benefits to others, make a list of the objections you might encounter.
Good copywriters do this every time they write a promotional package. Good public speakers do this before presenting a speech. You should do it too before making any informal presentation.
Of course, it's not enough to list objections. You must find good responses for them. You must craft concise arguments that will overcome those objections. You must show your listeners that you are sympathetic to their concerns and that you have a plan to deal with them.
Break the objections down into their component parts. Analyze those parts. Discover their weaknesses or find ways to minimize them. Base your thinking on research, if you have time to do it. But also think about your past experience. Remember that your ultimate goal is to find a goal that is good not just for you but for the people you're speaking to. If you do that, you will be able to find the solutions you need.
Ready, Fire, Aim
Most of us, most of the time, speak impulsively. We are stimulated by some event or remark and utter the first thing that pops into our heads. We don't stop to consider the effect our statement will have on those to whom we are speaking. And neither do we consider how our words will affect us. Yet they surely do.
"Words are all we have," Samuel Beckett said. When it comes to many aspects of our life, this is often true.
You can't force your colleagues to listen to your ideas. You can't force your boss to give you a raise or a promotion. You can't force your spouse to agree with everything you say. But if you learn how to think strategically, you can speak persuasively when you need to. And that will make a big difference in your life and your career.
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Free Content at Your Fingertips
Looking for material that you can use for your e-books and other information products? There are countless resources for finding content that’s in the public domain. By that, I mean content that was never copyrighted… or that was copyrighted but the copyright expired. You can repackage and republish that stuff to your heart’s content, without the author’s permission. And you don’t have to pay him or her a cent.
Do a quick Google search for “books public domain,” and you’ll find tons of possibilities. But as veteran copywriter and marketing expert Bob Bly points out, there is an “analog” method for finding public domain works too. And this one can be even better, because it allows you to thumb through the material to make sure it suits your needs.
Bob’s recommendation is to check out used bookstores for old books in your niche. Books published prior to 1963 that have not had their copyrights renewed are fair game, and you are free to do with them as you wish. (Check the U.S. Copyright Office records first – www.copyright.gov/records/ – to be sure.)
[Ed. Note: Award-winning copywriter and marketing consultant Bob Bly will show you how to secure your financial future with an Internet business at Early to Rise's upcoming Selling on the Internet Conference in New York City. It's a crash course in Internet entrepreneurship taught solely by Bob (www.bly.com)..To learn more, go here.
Dusty old bookstores can be a fun way to find public domain works. But if you're not a bookworm, why not let a couple of "pros" who have made $500K+ repurposing old books into new products show you their hassle-free, online system?]
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Got Migraines? Blame Your Belly
Blasting belly fat may have yet another health benefit: fewer migraines.
Recent research conducted at Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia evaluated 22,211 participants between the ages of 20 and 55. The researchers found that those with larger waistlines were more likely to have migraines than people the same age who had smaller waistlines. The results seemed most relevant for women. In those with excess belly fat, the odds of having migraines were 1.3 times higher than in those with trimmer tummies.
Belly fat isn’t the only thing that researchers have connected to migraines. There are many substances in food that can act as triggers, including tyramine (in red wine, aged cheese, smoked fish, chicken livers, figs, and some beans), monosodium glutamate (MSG), nitrates (in cured bacon, hot dogs, and lunchmeats), alcohol, salt, lactose, and tryptophan.
Migraine triggers are different for everyone. If you suffer from migraines, keep a food journal to help identify your personal triggers and stop the migraine chain reaction before it starts.
[Ed. Note: The first step to keeping slim is to eat healthful food. Nutrition expert Kelley Herring can help. With her e-book Guilt Free Desserts, you'll discover dozens of delicious and healthy recipes that you can easily make at home. Pick up your copy today.
Extending your life and living out your years in tip-top health is really a matter of making simple choices. For more easy-to-implement expert advice on how to lose weight, stay healthy, and live a longer, fuller life, sign up for ETR's natural health e-newsletter ]
It’s Good to Know: A Ban on Bad News
Bad economic news got you down? Well… just pretend it’s not happening.
That’s sort of what the United Arab Emirates is doing with pending legislation. Some government officials hope to make it a crime to report news that would “harm the economy.”
It’s a pretty vague rule, but, if enacted, coverage of tumbling property values, record job losses, and other serious problems could simply disappear when sources, fearing fines of up to 1 million dirhams (approx. $272,000), clam up.
This will, of course, allow the government to fix the economy in peace and quiet without meddling reporters and oversight getting in the way.
(Source: Boing Boing)
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Word to the Wise: Anagogic
Something that’s “anagogic” (an-uh-GOJ-ik) – from the Greek for “to lift up” – has a secondary spiritual meaning.
Example (as used by Joy Williams in a New York Times review of Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor by Brad Gooch ): “She was an anagogical writer, of that there is no doubt. The civil rights movement interested her not at all.”
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