Well not quite, there are a couple of things to know here. First of all Keyword research is, of course, important, but when you are on Squidoo you will notice that as you build your lens, there is a place for you to put your tags.  This is NOT the place to put all those great keywords that  you just painstakingly researched. You see Squidoo is very stong internally as well as externally. Those tags that we put into the lens as you are making it are for comparison to other lens that may have been made for the same topic or at least the same tags. And shoppers will find your lens if you choose your tags well according to popularity on Squidoo.

This will usually not be the same keywords you research for Google. But you need those keywords too. Because when people do a search on Google for your product they will find you according to the popularity of the Google Keywords that chose and because Squidoo is so popular with Google, your site will show up near the top of the list.

So you see you have two ways of getting your product found. Someone can go to Google and type in the keywords you researched and then peppered into your Squidoo lens and be found. Or someone could go to Squidoo directly and type in the tags that you put into your lens as you built it and find your lens that way.

Either way you have the opportunity to make a sale at Amazon. Sweet. Here is my marketing lens that I made about Flavorwave Turbo Oven. I really hope you’ll take the time to think about this and help me out by looking at my lens. You know that traffic thing.

Flavor Wave Turbo Cooking Oven

Everything we do should move us toward our goal of independence. We must remember that.

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What is keyword research? When you go to Google and type in something you are looking for…that thing you typed is a keyword. You might think a keyword is just that,  A Word. Well that is wrong information. A keyword is a word or phrase that is typed into a search engine by someone looking for something.

Okay, we know what a keyword is, but what now? ;Here is the deal. You want to find a keyword that is popular by the fact that a good number of people search for it every day. AND there is not too many people out there that are already working it. Low competition.
So how do you figure it out. How do you choose the keyword you want to build your empire on. Well you might think it is really difficult. We are talking about millions of people using the internet, but it doesn’t have to be.

You need the right tools.  I have talked to you about the thirty day challenge. It is an annual event hosted by Ed Dale for teaching people like you and me how to make money online. Well through the thirty day challenge I learned about Market Samarai.

Market Samurai is a marketing tool that is so advanced it cannot be easily explained, but let me tell you, keyword research becomes the easiest thing ever with it.

Here is a video from the thirty day challenge 2009 that is an introduction to keyword research with the Samurai. It is extremely interesting, and it is important that you get this mastered. Have a look.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq0BvBb7QI4

Market Samurai has a free trial version. It is not the complete power of this tool but it has all the keyword research included. You owe it to yourself to check this out.   http://www.marketsamurai.com/

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1.  Lack of confidence

2.  Everything from here to the moon demanding my time!

We’ve already talked at some length about what not to do when you are working at home in a previous post. Well I let most of those things cause me to lose focus this last month. Very disturbing when the teacher doesn’t even abide by her own rules. Well I tried, really I did. But anyone that works from home or even tries to start working from home will run into this. It is amazing how many things get in the way of your staying productive.

Now the wonderful thing is once you are actually making a living online. You will no longer even have this problem. I promise. It is getting established as a work at home entrepreneur that causes the problem.

Everyone in your life is so much more in need of your time and attention. And if anything can go wrong in your home it will. For instance, my precious dog, that I love with all my heart, out of the blue, developed separation anxiety. One day while I was at the hospital at my JOB, she ate my kitchen door frame. Both sides as high as she could reach. ATE IT! I am not exaggerating! Well for the next few days I was occupied with plaster and sanding and painting. What a mess. But it crunched into my internet time. See what I mean.  Thank goodness I don’t have human children. I can’t imagine the time consumption in that area.

The second thing was Lack of confidence. This one is more difficult to talk about.

I have been approached by so many different people that are well meaning and of course have the solution to my problems. But you simply can not afford to get caught up in that. Everyone is actually trying to make a living online. Just like you. And many many of them are wonderful people that really  do know what they are doing. But…it may not be the thing that you need to include in your online business. But how do you know?

Here’s the thing, it may actually be that whatever is being offered to you could be the best thing to ever come along since sliced bread. But if it is distracting you from moving forward with your business. It’s garbage, at least for today.

See, despite what they say about being your last opportunity and you’ll never see this offer again. So what? Internet marketing is always going to be there and it is recycled from time to time. What works works. It just gets packaged in a new box with a new ribbon ever so often. If you like research, check it out in the history of internet marketing.

That is what happened to me, I became afraid that I was going to miss out on some spectacular something or other. And remember what I told you about information overload?

It is paralyzing.

I was paralyzed. So I listened and read and watched and worried and basically did nothing. Then I read the most amazing Blog entry by one of my mentors that I sort of forgot about or at least pushed to the back burner, and it was like a two by four to the forehead.

Well, I am back. Here is my advice to you.

Please, please, please, choose one or two mentors, people that you just feel good about. People that have steered you right a couple times. And people that do not constantly ask you to open your wallet. Sure they have things to offer but you know it and you’ll take care of that when you can afford it and in your time.

You must decide on your business model. What method are you going to use to get traffic to your site? What is your site? What is your product? When you choose your mentor you will figure all this out. It will make sense to you. Model what you are going to do after someone who is already doing it successfully. That is all there is to it. Why re-invent the wheel? It rolls pretty good already.

Once you decide these things, don’t let ANYTHING distract you from moving forward. One of my mentors actually has a list of things for me to do, in order, and then boom things start happening. When I finally came back to my senses and followed that plan… Well, surprise, surpise…it worked.

Internet marketing is not hard, but it is necessary to be paid attention. You must work it. You must follow the steps. You must NOT be distracted.

I am seriously going to follow my own advise. I hope you do too.

To our success!!

Susan

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I don’t want you to miss out on an opportunity that only comes once a year.

It is called the Thirty Day Challenge. It is a Free internet
marketing learning seminar that lasts literally 30 days. It is
intense training that is 100% free. You will not spend one penny.
It is put on by Ed Dale and Dan Raine, both very
successful internet marketers. They say they will take your money
11 months of the year but for one month they will give it all back
by teaching you how to make money online.

It is really remarkable. I took the challenge last year and I
thought my brain was going to explode because of all I learned.
It was really exceptional.

You would not believe the tools that are available for
FREE! and of course, the knowledge and know how that you learn is
amazing.

This is the fourth 30 Day Challenge and it starts August 1, 2008.
But Pre-Season started today. For the next 60 days we learn all
about the new tools for this year and all the things necessary to be
successful in this challenge.

I am telling you, some people from these challenges are now very
successful internet marketers that have quit their J.O.B.s. And now
they are assisting to put on the challenges.

Isn’t that what we all want?! To quit our J.O.B.

Well go on, check this out. You will not regret it.
If you are interested in becoming successful on line and quiting that J.O.B. you must
check this out.

The Thirty Day Challenge

Please don’t deny yourself the opportunity to learn
from the best.

The Thirty Day Challenge

To your success,

Susan Kaul,

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I believe that we all have dreams. I know I do. I am still working a JOB, but am closer to becoming full time in Internet marketing. How about you? Are you pursuing your dreams?

We baby boomers are really taken advantage of. We have been brainwashed into believing that there is no other way but to work work work until we are seventy or more!! Well it doesn’t have to be that way, I promise.

Yes, we must learn to think outside the box. And that is more difficult than you may think at times. Why? Because of fear. Oh my, what if I fail? or What if I am not good enough? or What if I look silly? or What will my friends think?

Well don’t tell them, and Of course you are good enough, and you will fail, at least in the beginning. There is a learning curve, which is only reasonable.

I have been a nurse for nearly 40 years. You bet I was afraid. I didn’t want to feel stupid. I was way outside my comfort zone. But you know what I am pretty tired of the same old thing. I am getting older now and really need to slow down physically, and
my brain is thriving on Internet marketing. I love it!!

I want you to love it too. There is no reason not to.  Don’t give up. Keep working at it.

Find someone that is already doing it right. Is already successful, and genuinely seems interested in your success and is willing to help. Then copy what they do. It really is a simple formula. I used to use it in nursing. You’ve heard of mentoring. I have mentored so many people I can’t count. But I also had the most terrific mentors along the way.

I want you to be successful in Internet marketing and quit your JOB, maybe in a few months or maybe a couple years. But when you are ready, and you have found your success you will do it. Me too

Today I a for your list, as a giveaway from your site or to attract subscribers. You can even sell it if you like. However you must not change it in anyway.

It is: How To Break Into The ‘How To Make Money Online’ Niche By Sara Brown (who is, BTW, one of my mentors)

http://www.jskmarketing.com/howtomakemoneyonline.pdf

It is amazing what you will learn in this book. The main thing is not to be intimidated and to not listen to all those people, gurus, that try to convince you can not do something. Well you can and this great e book will tell you how.

http://www.jskmarketing.com/howtomakemoneyonline.pdf

Also take a look at the other e book offered inside this

e book. It is one of the books that have most heavily influenced my decision to replace my income with Internet marketing and even more!

It is called ‘License to Quit’ by Sara Brown, You must check it out. It is worth your time. You won’t regret it. I didn’t.

http://www.jskmarketing.com/howtomakemoneyonline.pdf

Well until next time.

Get to marketing!!

Susan

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Then you open your email. Wow, you say, I have 79 new e-mails. Yikes. Of course, you did just join that latest giveaway and they had some great free downloads and all you had to do was give them your email address. That’s pretty simple.

So now you are on their lists. And they want you to buy something… anything!  The next greatest and latest, the best must have thing for your new internet business. Well, what are you to do? What if they are right? What if some of the stuff they are selling really would help you in some endeavor you are aspiring to? What if it might save you some time or effort? What if it really would let you become successful? Afterall, you do have a limited budget for growing your business.

So…you start opening and reading and clicking…

what do you mean 4 hours have passed!! I must get dinner, the kids will be home from school, the dog needs to be let out.

How could this have happened. I had a list!

Sound familiar. Well it certainly does to me. This has happened to me over and over. I love those giveaways and I have been around long enough to have gotten on a few lists that keep me informed of the next one coming. It’s free! You have to check it out.

Or do you?

Here is my take on this. There are just a few things you must do to make money on line.

• You need a product, be it yours, an affiliate’s or google’s (adsense)
• You need a way of contacting people, be it a blog, a website, email campaigns
• you need people to sell it to

These are the essentials, albeit extremely oversimplified.

So you know you have an idea of what you need to to do to accomplish this, remember you had a list, but distractions are killing your efforts. Day after Day, and week after week and soon month after month of your precious time away from diner, the kids and the dog keep slipping away and you are no closer to your dream of working from home.

What can you do?

Well there is something you can do. It took awhile, but I finally learned this and it has made a huge difference in my online life.

You must be aware you are being distracted!

That’s it! That’s the big secret! All the internet gurus know this secret, but they will not necessarily share it with you. They figure you’ll probably figure it out but until then they will continue to be part of the distraction.

So are you going to ignore your email. Tape it shut with duct tape so it can’t get you again. No, of course not. But…

Have a plan…a little better than a list. Here’s what I do.

1. I plan my time to do my online work every week just like a real work schedule.
2. I share this plan with my family. I, of course, made the plan with home life in mind so that no one is neglecte, not even the dog,  and everyone in the family can help me be successful by respecting the plan.
3. When I sit down to my block of time to work online, I have a designated 30-45 min of time to look at email. Now this means peruse. If you have 79 new emails. YOU MUST NOT LOOK AT ALL 79! You are going to have to good at glancing through them, prioritizing them and looking at the ones you feel are really important or interesting. You can always come back to this later and continue to clean it up while you are watching TV with the family with your laptop in use.
4. Here is where you list comes in. Nothing feels as good as being able to check things off your list. Let me repeat that. Nothing feels as good as being able to check things off your list. You feel like you are really internet marketing. You feel like this really is important and you are doing something toward your freedom from the JOB. You are really working from home. IT IS GREAT! Try it!
5. Work your allotted time for the day. Check off a thing or two from your list. Stand up feel proud and go cook dinner and oh, let the dog out.

Feel really good about yourself. You did it! You worked at your internet marketing business. You know you can’t help but be successful if you can behave as a professional and take your work seriously.

Give this a real concerted effort. You may not be perfect at it for awhile. It is really hard to get away from the email and distractions and it takes a minute for the family to fall inline. But it will happen. I promise. It did for me. It will for you.

Next time we’ll talk a bit about that next great thing, that must have something or other. Until then, please be good to yourself and keep working to quit your JOB.

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You see these are the things that make us baby boomers. Memories of a time gone by. We should all be proud to be of that post war generation. A difficult time our parents suffered through to give us life. I am grateful, aren’t you?

But now it is today 2008. I am 55 years old. I am still working. Really hard work.   I have been working for nearly 40 years. I am a bit tired. I want something else for myself. But…

I have two mortgages, credit card debt and a life style that I enjoy and am not willing to give up. So I continue to work. Cost of living keeps rising. I can’t afford to take a driving vacation anymore because of the expense of gasoline. Food cost keeps rising. Gas and electric are higher than they have ever been. In the city I live in it costs $9.oo just to go to the movies. It used to be $2, remember??

I can’t afford to quit working. I’m too young to collect retirement or social security. But I am a bit tired, (did I mention that already )

So, recently I have begun exploring new ways of thinking. New ways of making money. Attitude changes. Paradigm shifting. I have been doing internet marketing. I should say most of this time (about 6 months) I have been doing internet marketing education.

Unfortunately, you don’t just start doing something with no knowledge base at all. So I started learning. OMG! I have never had more information overload in my life. School for nursing was a bit challenging. Learning how the human body works and why, and then how to fix it. You would think that would be intense, which it was. But this is amazing.

Here is the problem. There are some shysters out there. They are no more interested in your advancing on their turf, than the man in the moon. But they say they are. They say they want to help you and all you need to do is buy this and that and the other thing and in the next week you will be a millionaire too. Well, before you know it you are more broke than you ever were. It is shameful. It is even embarrassing as to how gullible I was.

But finally I got connected to some really awesome people who although they admit they are making a living online, they are also really interested in helping you do the same. It is also amazing how much FREE stuff there is out there to advance your effort.

And you know what I learned from these people. You must care about someone other that just yourself.

So that is what this blog is for. I plan to journal my journey into the world of successful internet marketing. I may make some mistakes but I will become successful. I also plan to share some things with any readers I may have. I have learned a lot. I have some good recommendations and can maybe even help you avoid some of the pitfalls.

You see we have two choices. Keep working until we are seventy. Or get out of the rat race now and start learning something new.

I am getting out!

If you want to comment on anything about baby boomers. Internet marketing, or share your own experiences or things you have found please do. Together we will move forward!

To our success!

Susan

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