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The First LIVE International Satellite Television Broadcast - Love Is All You Need

Thursday, January 1st, 2009

The story behind this classic from The Beatles…

In 1967, the BBC produced the first live, international, satellite
television broadcast.
Performers from 19 nations were invited
for the event. And it was broadcast to more than 400 million viewers
worldwide.

The Beatles were brought in to perform the United Kingdom’s portion.
They were asked to write a song especially for the show. The result was
All You Need is Love, one of the band’s most famous songs.

Look how far we’ve come with technology :-)

Willie

Internet Marketing On A Shoestring Budget - Part 1

Thursday, January 1st, 2009

Internet Marketing On A Shoestring Budget - Part 1
Copyright 2009 by Willie Crawford

The current economic recession is causing many people
starting online businesses to make some tough decisions.
Often these are also BAD decisions.

During tough times, businesses traditionally cut the
one expense that they often DON’T need to cut… which
is advertising. Instead you just need to spend wiser,
and you will gain market-share BECAUSE your competitors
are cutting back.

Still, many online marketers today are looking for ways to
grow their businesses on a shoestring budget.

One of the most obvious ways is to go out and find things that
you need for your business that you can get for free.

For example, unless you’ve lived under a rock for the past
year, it’s difficult not to notice all of the free
cooperative list-building giveaways being organized by
internet marketers.

Sometimes, hundreds of marketers come together and each
contributes one (or several) free items. They list all of
their items on one central website, but usually require you
to visit the individual contributors’ sites to download each
item.

The gift contributors are willing to do this because it’s
a proven effective way to build their subscriber lists.

You can find free:

- Ebooks and courses
- MP3 audios
- Videos
- Access to membership sites
- Advertising credits
- Resale Rights Products that will readily sell
- Private Label Rights Products that you can rework and
turn into best-sellers
- Software that allows you to operate your business more
efficiently and effectively.
- A tons of other free items…

There is one BIG problem with free stuff though… you often
get what you pay for. Sifting though all of the freebies to
find the gems is often more trouble than it’s worth.

It does take time to examine this stuff and determine
whether or not it’s worthwhile to download. We sometimes
get back to the question my older relatives use to ask me…
“Do you have more time or money?”

Today, time is my most limited resource, but I realize that
is not the case for everyone. So, if you have lots of free
time, it IS worthwhile to visit these free giveaway sites
and look for tools to grow your business on a shoestring
budget.

If you DON’T have a lot of free time, but still want to take
advantage of the free giveaways, there is a solution.

That solution is to trust the recommendations of an ezine
publisher or marketer who has EARNED your trust by making
only “solid” recommendations. Check out the free giveaways
that they recommend.

I actually feel like I fall in that category :-)

However, if you want to find the very best free giveaways
that offer top quality free items that you can use in
growing your business, I recommend that you frequent:
http://InternetMarketingOnAShoestringBudget.org

There, you’ll always find links to free giveaways that the
staff has actually taken the time to go through and VERIFY
that they are not filled with worthless JUNK.

As an example, today, they point you to free giveaways that
have reports such as:

“Clickbank Insider Secrets - For Clickbank Affiliates And
Merchants” an MP3/PDF combination that shares knowledge I
have never seen shared anywhere else.

“How To Actually Make Money With Squidoo - In-depth MP3 Audio
Interview”

“Total YouTube Domination - Audio with MRR/PLR” - This audio
taught me how to divert traffic from the most popular existing
videos on YouTube… one of the best audios I’ve ever listened
to!

“Hidden Methods That I Use To Sell More Big Ticket Items -
PDF Special Report”

“Explosive Traffic System - FREE Report Reveals The REAL Secrets
Of Easily Getting 10,000+ Unique Visitors Per Month For Free!”

“The Secret of Domain Pagerank 3 - How to Get A Domain with High
Pagerank Instantly and Monetize It to Get Monthly Income from
Online Programs”

… and literally hundreds more titles.

Yes, one way to build your business on a shoestring budget IS
to sift through and download worthwhile items from free
giveaways. Again, the key is that you need to know which ones
have the good stuff. For that insight, you can trust:
http://InternetMarketingOnAShoestringBudget.org

Before we leave the topic of free giveaways, they ARE a great
way to build your email list too.

I’ve used them to accelerate the growth of my huge database.

My friend Odinn Sorensen used them to get his business off to
a great start… one that grew so fast that in just over a
year, he QUIT his six-figure job. He felt that secure in his
online business, and it was due to the list he’d built largely
using free giveaways.

If you’d like to know more about how YOU can use free giveaways
to build your list, you’ll also find that info at:
http://InternetMarketingOnAShoestringBudget.org

Ok, that’s it for Part 1 of this article. In the next part
we’ll look at getting that first website up and running on a
shoestring budget… like for free :-)

Be on the lookout for Part 2.

In the meantime, start implementing what you just learned.
Without taking action, you’re no better off than if you didn’t
know!

——————-

Willie Crawford is an internationally-acclaimed speaker, author,
seminar and radio show host, and leading Internet marketing
expert. When not out fishing in the Gulf of Mexico, Willie can
be found sharing his 12 years of online marketing experience
with members of The Internet Marketing Inner Circle.
Join them at: http://TheInternetMarketingInnerCircle.com

Do You Hate Your Mirror

Thursday, January 1st, 2009

One of the emails that grabbed my attention
had the headline “I Hate My Mirror!”

Although I had an idea what it was going to say, my
curiosity still got the best of me.

Here’s what the email said:

Hi Willie,

I don’t mean to offend anyone, but I was just looking
in the mirror and was shocked. Sitting at home working
on all my projects without enough exercise and eating
convenience foods has taken its toll on my body. Well it
is that time of year for a New Years Resolution and
weight loss will be mine…again.

Anyway I am not going to fail this time. I just
purchased Weight Loss for Idiots…since I seem
to be an idiot.

Simple enough you eat the right foods and you lose
weight. LOL… Why did not I think of that!

That said I need something to keep me honest and
remind me that I want to live a better lifestyle
and be around to see my kids grow up.

You should check them out if you have a similar
New Years Resolution.

http://SageMarketer.com/FatLoss/

I hope you did not party too much last night ;-)

I had to smile because I could see myself writing a
similar email.

In fact, I’m a BIG fan of Fat Loss For Idiots.

If you haven’t checked it out, maybe you should
now. It’s helped a LOT of people actually keep that
New Year’s Resolution:

http://SageMarketer.com/FatLoss/

How Marketers & Addicts Differ Yet Are The Same

Thursday, December 18th, 2008

How Marketers & Addicts Differ Yet Are The Same

If you spend any time at all really studying people with
addictions, you’ll realize that often the hardest thing
for them to do is to admit that they’ve gone beyond the
point where they can help themselves, and that they need
someone else to help them.

That’s why you see popular shows on television showing
family members running “interdictions.”

Without reaching out for help, many are doomed to just
stay locked inside that prison that they’ve built for
themselves.

Many internet marketers are the polar opposite.

They are forever looking to outsiders to help them build
their businesses. They want to turn control for their
success over to some outside force.

Without stepping up and taking full responsibility for
their success, and acknowledging that they just need to
really study their chosen profession, and then take
massive action, applying what they learn, they too are
doomed to failure.

In the case of these marketers, fear is often what’s
holding them back, but since fear resides in the mind,
THEY are holding themselves back.

Only they can help themselves, yet I guess a post like
this, delivering “a whack across the head” could be
considered “an interdiction” :-)

Like the addict, the marketer builds a prison where
they comfortably, yet unhappily reside.

Like the addict, what the failing marketer often needs
is CHANGE.

How have YOU changed lately?

Willie

Remembering MY First Time… So Long Ago!

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

Yesterday, I read a post by my friend, and inner
circle member Dr. Mani.

He was talking about “his first time.”

Having my curiosity arounded, I read Dr. Mani’s blog
post
here, and saw that he was actually talking about
his very first website.

Next, I saw that my friend Case Stevens was talking
about his first time, on his blog here.

So, I thought that I’d share mine.

My very first websites were on FreeYellow, Angelfire,
and Geocities. I don’t remember the urls although
they are probably in notes somewhere in storage

That was back in 1996.

By 1999, I had moved to “professional hosting.”

Back then, setting up a shoppingcart and getting
all of the credit card processing hooked up was a
BIG deal.

This shoppingcart that I had hosted on Hypermart back
in 1999
is still in The Way Back Machine:

It’s neat to see how we evolve over time… and how the
products/services that we offer change over time.

By comparison, here’s where I offer one-on-one
coaching/consulting today:
http://WillieCrawford.com/mentoring.html

I found SEO to be entirely too much work :-)

Willie

Gift Certificates For Naughty Or Nice Internet Marketers

Sunday, December 14th, 2008

Now, only Santa knows if you’ve been naughty
or nice this year, but we’re going to give
you the benefit of the doubt and say you were
nice. :-)

The Great Gift Certificate Event

http://FriendsOfWillie.com/1000DollarGiftCertificate/

20 top internet marketing experts agreed
to offer you $50 gift certificates, good towards
any of their products - good for ONE-YEAR!

That’s over $1000 in real world value - same
as PayPal on any purchase - WOW!

http://FriendsOfWillie.com/1000DollarGiftCertificate/

Hope all is well with you and yours,
Willie

The Perfect Gift For An Internet Marketer

Thursday, December 11th, 2008

By the end of this post you will know the secret to Internet
marketing success.

But first, I want to ask you a simple question which is very
important to your understanding of this secret.

Here’s the question:

What happens when you drop a drinking glass (a real one, made of
real glass) on a ceramic tile floor?

If you answered that the glass breaks, you are correct. Sounds
like an easy question, doesn’t it?

Now, the reason it breaks is because there are physical laws in
play, gravity, force, the structure of materials type laws, which
determine the outcome in advance.

In Internet marketing, as with all forms of business and
commerce, there are certain laws in play.

The trouble is that fewer people seem to know them — fewer
people than know that the dropped glass will break.

For these people Internet marketing…the SUCCESS of Internet
marketing is a mystery.

But it doesn’t have to be that way for you I’m going to share
the secret found by Top Internet Marketer, Carl Galletti.

He’s had numerous successes, among them…

He generated $55,835.00 in sales in 18 hours.

He generated $106,287.00 in sales in 24 hours.

He even generated $458,949.00 in sales in ONE hour!

These are just three notable examples. There are many others.
And in every case he used the “secret” which I am about to reveal
to you (with his permission).

The actual knowledge which led to the above and other successes
was a little different for each instance. Yet, like the physical
laws which predict the fate of the dropped glass, they were just
as knowable.

And there is one secret which is “THE SECRET” which leads, just
like a physical law, to what you need to know to generate
similar successes.

That “Secret” is to find someone who has done it before, not a
fake but a “real, live, genuine” success, and to find out the
methods, techniques — laws, if you will — of the area you wish
to be a success in.

Model that person’s success. Notice I say “model” not copy.
There IS a difference.

Now, for Internet marketing there are many things to “KNOW” and
many successful people who know a piece.

Remember the story of the three blind men who had come across an
animal and were asked what kind it was?

One said it has a tail, the other said it had a leg, another said
it had a long nose. They were feeling different parts of the
same animal, no one piece of which could determine the animal
until they all knew what the pieces were and determined that it
was an elephant.

In the same way, knowing one piece of the puzzle does not
complete the puzzle or, in this case, make you an Internet
marketing expert…despite the number of people who are shouting
at you “buy my product and you’ll be rich.”

It is only when you study the masters and enough of them that you
get the whole “picture” of the knowledge you need to become a top
Internet marketer.

In that direction I’ve assembled a brain trust of over 103 of the
top Internet marketers in every area of Internet marketing and
put them all together in one gigantic package.

A veritable “Encyclopedia of Internet Marketing.”

Now you can have more than 103 of the world’s greatest experts on
Internet marketing at your beck and call to enlighten and inform
you.

Normally, you’d have to pay thousands of dollars for this. And
it would be worth it because you would then be capable of making
many more thousands of dollars by putting it to use.

But I’ve lowered the price to less than ten cents on the dollar.
Why?

Because our economy needs a boost. And that can only be done by
people who KNOW what they are doing and going out there and doing
it…being successful. Generating sales so effectively it seems
like it is drawing water from a rock. But we know better. We
know it will be by knowing and following the laws of Internet
marketing.

Also, it’s the holiday season and a time to be giving to others.
So this is my gift to you.

Yes, I’m going to charge you for it. I am, after all, a
marketer, no?

Now, I’m not beyond giving something valuable for free — that
you got in this note.

Use this “secret”, whether or not you take me up on my offer, and
you will profit handsomely. You WILL succeed.

And if you want to accelerate that success, here’e a
“Holiday Special” for you…

But it’s limited to only 12. That’s how many packages have been
made up and are ready to go.

Go here now and read further details about it:

http://SageMarketer.com/Galletti2008HolidaySpecial/

Merry Christmas,
Willie

Send Your Christmas Cards Online From Home and Earn Holiday Cash

Saturday, December 6th, 2008

If you haven’t sent out your Christmas cards yet, consider
sending them over the internet. That’s what I’ve done for
the last several years!

There is one very cool online service where you can design
your cards (even upload your own digital pictures to the
front), enter your message (even in your own handwriting)
and hit send.

You can import an existing contacts database, choose the
mailing date for sometime in the future and a company will
print full-color cards, and mail them using first-class
postage for you… to anywhere in the world.

All for about $1 each.

You can’t beat that for saving time and money!

I also know several people who are making HUGE amounts of
recurring income with this company so if you love the concept
and want to share it with others, let me know.

I’ll get someone to share the details with you.

You can see the system demonstrated here, and even send
a sample card on me. Send it to someone in your household
so that you can see the quality.

===>>> http://GreetingCardTestDrive.com

Willie

Being Thankful - A Powerful Video Reminder

Thursday, November 27th, 2008

I love this video of Clay Dyer, which reminds me that
we choose how we interpret and react to the hand that
life has dealt us:

A Youtube Video On Gratefulness

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008

A link that was passed to me…