I work with Lou Tice, a world-renowned teacher in the area of Success Coaching and Cultural Transformation and I always find his teaching to be helpful and insightful. It often forces me to bring a concept that I “know” to the surface and really think about it. This note from Lou is one of those and I hope it helps you to think about your own situation…

“Do you ever catch yourself saying things like, “Nothing ever goes right for me?” If so, pay close attention to what I have to say today.

Do you think that nothing ever goes right for you? Do you believe that you are just an unlucky person, and that no matter what you do, you will probably fail? Well, you are right, but not for the reason you think. We’ve been talking about beliefs for about a week now. You have probably surmised that each one of us has a set of beliefs, and we act in accordance with those beliefs.

Now, perhaps you had a few setbacks that you were taught to interpret as failures. Next thing you know, you have a belief about yourself that says, “I just can’t succeed, no matter what.”

Then, in order to make life match up with your belief (which is important for your sanity), you begin to act in ways that reinforce your belief. You may even unconsciously sabotage things, so that you will fail. But you will be acting like you know yourself to be, which is what all of us do. You create what is called a self fulfilling prophecy.

So if you want to change your life, what you need to do is first change your beliefs. And yes, this is possible. Then, you will continue to act like yourself, but you will see yourself differently, so your behavior will be different. And when you change your behavior, you change the results.” –Lou Tice-The Pacific Institute–

Now, I am not suggesting that you jump into things without looking at them…that would be ridiculous! However, there is a point at which you have to take a risk…take the plunge and know that you will do everything in your power to make it work! Just do it! Then, stick with it and only accept success!

This is a formula that creates success for winners and it will create success for you as well!

A friend of mine and online business colleague has created a system that is the answer to this question. The system is Marketing Burst - read my review below.

In spite of all the new courses and materials being created every week and billed as the “final answer” to Internet success, there is still a 97% failure rate. Why is that?

Well, there are a number of reasons. One, of course, is that people who join Internet programs often do it with unrealistic expectations - usually because of the stuff the gurus are continually creating and selling. New people simply aren’t willing to spend the time learning how to really become successful on the Internet. It does take some effort - but the rewards in time and money are worth it!

Second, the gurus aren’t telling you everything you need to know. In addition, the programs you are joining are telling you their will do all the work for you and make you successful .. but it’s just the same system as everyone else in the company has!

Gurus and the successful people in your company are telling you one thing and doing something else themselves. This is where Pam’s Marketing Burst system comes in. A little over a year ago Pam put her lucrative home business ventures on the shelf and created a system that would allow anybody to market like she had been successfully doing for 10 years - like the gurus do!

To be successful on the Internet you have to create a unique presence… set yourself apart from the other folks in your company/opportunity. However, most people simply don’t have the skills, the time or the money to do this correctly. Besides, it takes years to learn how on your own - I know because that’s how I did it!

Now there is a system that solves this problem and so many more. Marketing Burst is a feature rich system that was built combining the power of personal capture pages with autoresponders, fully functional contact management systems and state of the art followup practices that work. Using this system saves you time, saves you money and helps you to create a relationship with your prospects - read any new “marketing techniques” article and it will tell you that relationship is everything!

The major features are:

o unlimited capture pages on our own domain
o WSYWIG editor from templates (or you can create your own) so anyone can do this
o unlimited autoresponders
o voice broadcasting interface
o newsletter writing
o full lead and contact management - allowing you to track your prospects
o unlimited campaigns
o total “CAN-SPAM” compliance
o training on the system (live and on video) and on marketing itself (the marketing training alone is worth thousands of dollars)
o total web based - no software to download

Some of the new features include:

o integrating with Aweber (arguably the best autoresponder on the market for deliverability)
o immediate personal voice message for signups on your capture pages
o free hosting of audio and video on a new site

There isn’t another system on the market that does as much as Marketing Burst at this price point - or any price really! Whether you have an autoresponder already or not, you should check this out. Even if you can’t see how this system will help you, check it out. Listen to Pam and read what people who use Marketing Burst are saying about it.

In conclusion, I believe that Marketing Burst has filled a “black hole” in the “marketing universe”. It’s easy and it works. And, they just keep adding features all the time. I;m impressed and I’m sure you will be as well. Marketing Burst exposes ordinary people to extraordinary tools that will set them apart from the masses and get them noticed!

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Although I am a member of a number of Business Opportunities, Cruise to Cash is the only one that I am currently marketing because I believe it is the best overall program on the Internet in its price range right now. I am convinced that anybody who wants to earn extra money can be successful with this program. I am also impressed by the multi-dimensional nature of this program. The combination of product, company integrity and innovation and compensation plan make it totally unique in the marketplace!

I have decided that for the immediate future, my intention is to concentrate on reviewing products in this blog and providing marketing tips where possible. I am also a Project Director for an International “Success Education” Company, so you will see some “words of wisdom” from them occasionally.

If you are interested in new techniques as well as old techniques that are still working, etc. please stay tuned. To keep up to date you can fill in the form at the right and I will notify you when there is something new here.

As an internet marketer I believe that SEO is one of the biggest mysteries … the Holy Grail of Internet Marketing! How do we get ranked in the Search Engines without spending a fortune of Adwords? The gurus are always giving and selling you advice on how to do this… most of which doesn’t actually work. It may have at one time or another but not now.

There is a wealth of material on the Internet about Search Engine Optimization and some of it is very good. The problem really is how to week through the junk to find the gems! This is one of the gems…

Jonathan Leger has written this SEO Myth Buster Report and it is one of the most valuable ebooks I have downloaded in quite some time! No fluff here - just very useful information that you can immediately put to use on your websites.

Jonathan shares what really works and provides screen capture evidence - a picture is literally worth a thousand words! And the best part about this ebook is that you can download it for FREE. Even just one idea makes it worth your time to download and read it. Check it out for yourself

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In my opinion - YES!

According to merchant banks who handle home business - YES!
Cruise to Cash, along with G.A.P. are rated #1 with these banks.

According to the thousands who have joined Cruise to Cash since the beginning - YES!

According to the businesses that have used the certificates to bring in new business - YES!

Why do I believe it’s the Real Deal?

With every new program there are usually glitches - things don’t work right for some reason or another. There have been no real glitches with Cruise to Cash. These are experienced folks who know what they are doing and this fact alone inspires confidence in the membership.

There have been a number of travel programs come and many of them have also gone. I love to travel and have been looking for a travel program that I can personally use as well as feel good about promoting. A program that I believe other people can actually make money with. I have found that in Cruise to Cash.

It’s obvious that the product is in high demand… most of us like to travel and any way that we can save money doing it is popular! It’s important that the product be usable however. This has been a problem with some of the other travel businesses. Just get on one of the live conference calls and you will hear members that have redeemed their vouchers and have vacations booked. Since the resorts and hotels supported by these vouchers are National chains, once its booked you know what you are going to get.

Do the vacation vouchers actually save you money? Well, right off the bat I did a quick reveiw of this to ensure that I was comfortable promoting Cruise to Cash. I chose the flyaway vacation which is a weekend for 2 including airfare and hotel. I picked Las Vegas and checked out the airfare from Seattle (my home airport). I calculated my weekend to cost about 25% of the best price I could find without the voucher. This is good!

People can use these vouchers - I can use these vouchers! This is the key to all of marketing. Most of us have to believe in what we are offering. I know I do. To offer this to a business for use with their customers, you have to know that the vouchers are legitimate. To offer it to a person wanting to start a business, you have to know that the product and system are of good quality - that they can make money if they put the time in to do so.

Then there is marketing and support from the company. Cruise to Cash has one of the best sets of resources and tools for marketing available in any home business. I have been involved in a number of them and there isn’t anybody in the marketplace that has a better system…similar perhaps, but not more inclusive.

…Cruise to Cash puts every members website into a corporate rotator - although this isn’t going to alleviate the need to market, every little bit helps! It also shows a commitment to member success by the company.

…The company sponsors live calls 5 days per week - 9 calls in total. These are short, lively and interactive calls which are proving to help people evaluate the business. Members are excited - this doesn’t happen when the program isn’t good!

…The company provides a movie, capture page, website, free member email series and paid member email series - everything to get a person started with their business. They also have designed business cards and are working on postcards that members can use in their marketing. They also have a corporate sizzle call that can be used as a lead in to get people asking questions.

… The product can be marketed successfully online and offline - listen to the call and hear people successfully doing both everyday. This is a strength that many home business just don’t have.

Finally, (just because I don’t want this to go on forever) Cruise to Cash has been changing, upgrading and adding to the program since day one. Multiple vacations have been added. A new redemption system was put in place and I understand it is still being improved upon. More vacations are in the wings for 2008 and there is a plan for where people will be able to share their vacation videos.

I haven’t even discussed the compensation plan. That hasn’t changed from the beginning and it is terrific. In short, the compensation plan supports the success of the membership and helps them to stay motivated and producing. You can’t ask for anything better than that… people are making money with Cruise to Cash - right from the start! Even people who haven’t made money before are making money here! Why? Just look at all the reasons above.

This is one of few programs where I look forward to getting emails from the company everyday, just to see what the newest addition is going to be. I can’t honestly say that about any other program I have been involved with - at least not to the extent of Cruise to Cash!

So, the bottom line is Cruise to Cash is more than what it claims to be and it is still evolving. In its price-range, Cruise to Cash is the hottest business on the market and it doesn’t look like that will change for a long time! Anybody interested in an exciting and lucrative home business should at least take it for a ride!

For more information about my business, come and see my Cruise to Cash Blog

I wanted to share my wish for you to have a wonderful holiday season. Remember to stop and celebrate the great things that are happening in your life. To express gratitude for what you have.. most of us really have so much to be thankful for if we really think about it. So often we get caught up in thinking about what we lack - maybe a bill is overdue or a kid is bugging you or any number of things that continually happen on a daily basis. The world is moving fast and so are our lives. However, there is nothing like stopping for a moment and concentrating on the good stuff…it makes you feel great!

Most of us have a warm roof over our heads, food on the table, a car (or cars) to drive, a family to love. Even those kids that are bugging you today are precious when they are sleeping!

We have the ability to do anything we truly believe is possible and want to spend effort making happen. I have always said that I can do anything if I am willing to pay the price. I truly believe this is true. The trick is the commitment and maintaining that belief when the hard times come. They will come but they don’t have to stop the dream!

What is your dream? Do you want to start your own Home Business but have been holding back? Having a home business is really the only way to truly secure your future. How badly do you want it? Are you willing to do what is necessary to make it happen? If so, jump in and get started. And, be thankful that you have the option to make it happen. All it takes is work, belief and dedication. I recently got an email that summed it up like this…

Persistent thought is your ticket.

Persistent gratitude makes it easy.

And persistent action tells one and all, “There ain’t no way I’m settling for less.”

Are you ready to get started? If so, check out my Cruise to Cash Blog Wouldn’t it be nice to give the gift of travel this Holiday Season?

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“Today, I am going to give you the secret of success - in one word. Yep, only one word.

For nearly 40 years, I have been studying success. Some of the most successful people in the world have been my students, and I in return, have learned a great deal from them. I have also spent a lot of time in the company of some of the world’s most respected research psychologists, talking about what makes some people succeed and others collapse - the difference, in short, between the can’s and the can-nots, and the do’s and the do-nots.

So after all these years of studying and researching, I can tell you one thing with the utmost confidence - the secret of success is “attitude.” That’s it - attitude. And it isn’t really a secret.

People who succeed don’t have fewer problems than other people. They don’t start out with greater brainpower, or better parents, or more money, either. As a matter of fact, sometimes they start out working against incredible odds. But they have a way of looking at things, a way of seeing obstacles as possibilities, and a way of hanging in there and making the most of every opportunity, that almost guarantees success.

As celebrated climber Royal Robbins once told me, “When it’s been a long day of climbing, and I feel like I can’t go any farther, I concentrate on the next three feet. And then the next three feet; and then the next three feet.
Pretty soon, I’m at the top.”

Successful people are flexible, optimistic and hard working. If you want to sum it up in a word, it is not difficult to do: success is, more than anything else and without a doubt, a question of attitude. What is your attitude?”

Lou Tice
The Pacific Institute

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According to the “people in the know” Google lowered the ranking on Squidoo pages because there were too many marketers just putting up garbage pages to get traffic. However, that’s not entirely true…it all depends on content. Regardless, I don’t think that Hubpages have been hit yet - probably because the marketing world isn’t abusing them yet!

I know that I am working on getting my product represented on every platform that I can find so that I can get free organic traffic from the search engines. This is definitely not going to send tons of traffic your way right away, but it does begin to build over time if you continue to spread the word in different places.

So, the latest undertaking is creating a at hubpages. It is very similar to creating a “lens” at Squidoo - just different terminology. You get a tutorial pdf when you sign up that outlines how to create your hub. It isn’t hard… it just takes time. You can do this for any subject that you want… it doesn’t have to be Internet Marketing related at all.

Check out my first draft at Hubpages… Cruise to Cash Hub

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Today, the topic is WordPress. I mentioned when I first started this blog that WordPress is probably the best blogging platform for business related blogs. The reason is that it is loved by Google, has tons of plugins written for it to make different functions easier and finally, you can create one on the WordPress platform or host one on your own domain.

If you are creating a business related blog, hosting WordPress on your own domain is the best choice. This gives you the opportunity to be in total control of your own blog while still enjoying the benefits of being related to WordPress. This ebook recommends you use Recently I purchased a pretty good ebook that explains how to do this and I would like to give this to you as a gift for visiting my blog. If you would like to be able to give it away or sell it yourself, please let me know so I can send you the correct link. The link in the ebook is not correct.

To immediately download your and get your blog set up right away, Get Your FREE Download Here.

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Well, I guess that is one of the best features of Cruise to Cash. We all know that the only way to achieve financial freedom is to start a business. That doesn’t mean quit your job right away… or ever! If you love your job, by all means stick with it. However, why be limited to the salary or commission your job provides?

With Cruise to Cash, you can start a business that will also help you and your family have fun! At the same time you can start or continue on the road to financial freedom with your own business. Starting is very important! You’ve heard me say this before… put as much or little time into it as you desire, but get started.

Take that vacation you always wanted but couldn’t afford! Or, just take more of them! Cruise to Cash provides you with a ready made business selling a product that is universally desired and enjoyed. Members have literally made money in their first 24-48 hours from joining (not guaranteed, of course) and many are already planning trips using their product.

The Cruise to Cash program is unique in the marketplace… no other program or company has put together quite as good a combination of product features and compensation plan. Vacations work in every market and almost every group of people… from young adult to old, from newlywed to retiree. It doesn’t matter…

Everyone Loves Vacations!

Just a quick example of why this program is so powerful. Say you join at the Cruiser level which is $997. One of your vacation packages is 4 nights in Hawaii and one of the hotels included is the Outrigger. The standard cost per night at the Outrigger is approx. $250/night which would cost $1000 for 4 nights. Your cost is $30/night which is $120. So, with one vacation you have almost saved enough in lodging to pay for your membership fee! And, with the Cruiser membership you can do this for weekends and other full weeks anytime you want. There is no limit and every vacation voucher comes with options of hotel or destination or both.

Really, the Sky’s the Limit! And, we haven’t even discussed the business side. If you turn around and sell one of those Cruiser memberships, you pocket an additional $997 and now you have covered the cost of membership! If you want to get into a business selling a product, you will be hard-pressed to find a more attractive product than this…particularly when you combine it with the marketing materials, opp calls, support, etc. that you get with Cruise to Cash.

Take a look. You can join for free and see the products. Go to Cruise to Cash … just sign in and you will be immediately taken to the overview.

Listen to a an overview message at 1-618-355-1490

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