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Not the Oroud Owner of MakeMyMisspellings
I guarantee you that the designs I make for you will not have any misspellings or typographical errors! That shouldn’t have to be said, but I’ve seen at least 2 splashpages from another designer with mistakes, and those were in rotation by the customer who may not even be aware of it yet. No matter how nice the design looks, a glaring error will detract from it, and turn off some people who are looking for any reason to be turned off FROM the business that’s being advertised, causing a loss to the person who spent money on the design, therefore causing a double loss.
I almost hear Donald from TV’s Apprentice show, yelling, “YOU’RE FIRED!” 🙂
I’ll just say, “SEE MY SPREECAST!” 🙂
When you pay for design, you shouldn’t even have to wonder if the spelling is correct, it’s not up to you as the customer to proofread it, that should be done by the person you paid: the PERSON you PAID to do a JOB for you.
When you want great design AND spelling, bookmark TopBizToday.com gallery or my landing page or order page. Thank you!
Sincerely, Kathleen VanBeekom
So how’s the design biz going, Kathleen? ;)
Some people don’t like mentions of money,
and some people don’t like to be told not to
try a new business venture. I fall into the
latter category. Why are we in marketing?
Not to be all hush-hush about money, and
not to be swayed away from starting our
own business.
I received $66.91 today from design orders,
if that happens daily, at minimum,
that would be $24,422.15 in a year.
That’s nearly a 50% increase above my previous
high day of $44.97.
Earning multi 5-figures is enough to live on!
It’s not a perfect world, maybe it won’t happen daily,
or maybe it will be more daily.
Saying nothing won’t make it happen.
Saying something could get on peoples’ nerves.
Saying something could make it happen faster
in larger amounts.
Saying nothing is less likely to get on people’s nerves
and zero likelihood of earning money.
Say something, promote your business heavily…
Or let someone who promotes heavily, also promote you.
Someone recently told me that design is only
a 4-figure per year business. I had my doubts about
that statement.
I’ve only been offering designs (with promotion!)
for a few weeks, I wonder if years of online
photo/name branding has something to do with
larger orders arriving. 🙂
I also offer promotions for your designs,
and that may also have something to do
with gaining business more easily than
if I only offered design.
Branded designs with promotions for you,
that’s what I offer, that’s what I sell,
that’s what customers are ordering,
that’s what customers are getting.
How is this happening?
Because I promote heavily…
Because of years of photo recognition…
Because of uniqueness.
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http://www.topbiztoday.com/tbt.html
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Sincerely, Kathleen VanBeekom
You Believe Your Disbelief System
People have lots of discussions about how much we can earn per month online. If we’re going to use the word “can”, we can have unlimited income, because “can” is a word of realistic potential.
Let’s look at the reality of the internet: There are billions of people online, 24 hours per day, and digital products are a multi-billion dollar industry.
Here’s where peoples’ Disbelief System comes into “action” (or inaction): Most people have never earned 5 figures within a month, so they don’t think they ever will, and that Disbelief System is what drives their “inaction” to make that stay their reality.
Here’s the process of making your Disbelief System your Reality:
* You immediately disregard anything that mentions larger amounts of income than you’ve ever had before.
* If you do decide to join after thinking about it, and if you don’t earn a large amount of income, you say it’s because it never would have happened anyway.
* Your thought process during the time you were a member, “It never would have happened anyway”, was in your mind and in your actions/inactions, giving you a reason to justify your lack of focus and lack of longterm effort.
Here’s the process of Taking Action on the Belief That It Can Happen For You:
* Join a quality business and focus on promoting it with your full belief that it can provide you with a large income, starting in your first month, because there ARE billions of prospects online, 24 hours per day, and you are offering them a proven service/product that generates multi-billions of dollars in sales.
* Keep your FULL FOCUS on it, and that means NOT jumping around with a dozen different opportunities. That means promoting it in EVERY advertising site you go to each day, that means being enthusiastic in promoting & following up, that means being knowledgeable about the business.
* Plan to stick with it for the longterm, at least put in your DAILY FULL FOCUS for the first 30 days and find out if you can earn more in your first month than you’ve ever earned before.
Thank you for seriously reading this! Click here for a business that CAN help you generate more than you’ve ever earned before, and look at it with your belief that it CAN happen for YOU.
Sincerely, Kathleen VanBeekom
What are you NOT doing?
This is sort of a hodge-podge post about several different things.
Many of us “live” online, and completely forget about offline promotions.
15 years ago, before I got online, I was working for an offline mail-order book company that provided me with small sales flyers and directions to go to every laundromat, bowling alley, grocery store, and any other business that had a bulletin board, and post those flyers, and keep repeating that activity every week or every 2 weeks, and I did, and it resulted in sales of that book, and I got paid! 🙂 WOW!
We can still do that NOW! We can create our own sales materials and print them out, and post them on offline bulletin boards and get leads & sales for our offers. Some online companies have graphics for flyers, salesletters, and business cards in the backoffice area online, and all we need to do is print those out.
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Another offline marketing method is “Testing & Rollout”, that’s a mail-order term for testing small mailings of different sales letters, and then “rolling out” with those that performed best. I’ve been doing “Testing & Rollout” recently with several of my banners at NerdBux. I’ve been testing many different banners with small amounts of impressions, about 2,500 impressions, to see how many clicks I get, and then try 5,000 impressions and see if the clicks double, and then 10,000 impressions to see if the clicks quadruple from my test of 2,500 impressions. Then I ROLL OUT with the banners that got consistently high click-thru-rates in the tests.
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Anyone who’s not using AdKreator yet, you’re missing out on a potential career-path! I’ve built a fantastic design service at TopBizToday.com displaying the splashpages I’ve made at AdKreator! I had to learn how to use it, of course, it’s different than HTML. AdKreator is moving text & graphics around with our cursor, and choosing font styles & colors. Look at the clip-art and shapes while you’re there, you can really do a lot with it! This is one of my masterpieces: http://kreate.me/hrz I first made the black splashpage http://kreate.me/EfG and then right-clicked to save it as an image, and then chose the rainbow background at AdKreator and uploaded the saved image of the black splashpage and reduced it into the center of the rainbow background 🙂
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I learned HTML in 1999 and made a lot lot lot of sites, so many that people used to say I should concentrate more on promoting and less on web-design. Here’s one from a few years ago that I edit occasionally: http://www.topbiztoday.com/adsource.html …that design is also good for displaying products, I made one featuring Tiffany-style lamps and watches when I was promoting “real products”. Here’s one of my recent HTML designs: http://www.topbiztoday.com/universe.html
I hope you like those! Have a great hodge-podge day online AND offline! What are you NOT doing today to drive your sales? You can start doing anything at any time and become successful at things you’ve never done before. Start today! 🙂
Sincerely, Kathleen VanBeekom
Supercharge Your Safelist Ads on Video:
I had a lightbulb-moment: I decided to do a Spreecast and put my recent ListNerds safelist ad into the chat area of Spreecast, line by line. ***WOW!!!***
People need to see people on video, people need to know we’re serious about our promotions.
No hype. Thanks for watching/listening/reading:
http://www.spreecast.com/events/kathleensaturdaynerd
Sincerely, Kathleen VanBeekom
What’s Your Brand? It’s YOU!
I recently created a new splashpage design service, offering you photo/name branded splashpages and banners: ==>> http://www.topbiztoday.com
Personal branding is absolutely necessary in online marketing, you’ll get many much more recognition and build a much more loyal audience when you use your photo and your full name on your splashpages/sites and banners.
There’s a business called BrandMeTool that can supercharge your personal branding while also helping you build dozens of downlines, lightning fast! BrandMeTool offers free members dozens of personally branded splashes and banners. A large percentage of members are choosing to upgrade, and if you do upgrade, you can get random referrals and more great benefits!
==>> Join BrandMeTool today: http://kreate.me/hhD
Thanks for reading and have a great day!
Sincerely, Kathleen VanBeekom
Do You Have It?
What does it take to be successful online?
The same things it takes to be successful offline.
First, I’d like to tell you about my sister. She was absolutely driven toward her goal of being successful, regardless of what anyone else said or thought. She accomplished great success, multi degrees and teaching certificates and recognition in the career path of occupational therapy, and eventually became a university instructor. She accomplished all that without ever having a drivers license or owning a car, she accomplished all that at snail’s pace, because she had been born with cerebral palsy, she walked much much much slower than everyone else and she also had some disability in her hands. She used canes all her life since she was 2 years old, and into adulthood while walking to wait for public transportation. She was extremely independent and fiercely determined. My sister had relentless guts and focus every minute of every day, that was obvious since she was a teenager. Just getting dressed and putting on her shoes was difficult, since she was a small child, but my parents tried not to treat her differently, she still had to do chores around the house just like the rest of us did. We didn’t always get along, but we’d defend each other against anyone who badmouthed either of us. She will always be my #1 hero for as long as I live. She died suddenly in October 2009 at age 50.
What does it take to be successful? Being a self-starter, longterm and daily motivation, inner drive, focus, and absolutely unswayable determination toward goals.
What does it take in online marketing? The same things mentioned above, in addition to personal branding, which means using your photo and full name, if you expect to be taken seriously, use a photo of yourself, and your real name, if you want the recognition that’s due to you, you need to put yourself out there as yourself.
Unswayable focus and determination toward your goals. What are your goals? Put in the daily time, for the longterm, and don’t be swayed away from what you want to accomplish. There are lots of obstacles thrown into our pathway, some have always been there, we need to get over the obstacles that are already there, such as our own fears or disabilities, whether physical or emotional drawbacks, and then also prepare ourselves to stay on focus every day and not be swayed by every new thing that’s put into our pathway.
Decide what you want, and stay on course toward it, relentlessly, daily and longterm, with your full drive, with your full maximum overdrive.
Do you have it? If you do have it, other people will know you have it, it will be obvious.
There’s an expression, “Either ya got it or ya don’t!” Some people always have “it” but they don’t use it. Do you USE what ya got? That’s the real key to success, USING everything you’ve got within you, daily and longterm, regardless of what other people say or think, regardless of any longterm or daily obstacles. Do you have it? USE it!
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Would you like a 3-step FREE system to bring you more branding & traffic?
1. Fill in your CTP profile & put it into rotation in traffic exchanges, also in safelists & other communities and classified ads.
2. Chat in CTP chat while you’re surfing at ThumbVu, StartXchange, ILoveHits, and Sweeva.
3. Play ThumbMaster game on ThumbVu!
Doing all these simple things every day can bring you LOTS of friends, business-relationships, leads, signups, upgrades, all day & all night, every day!
WHY are so few people putting their CTP profile into rotation?
WHY are so few people chatting?
WHY isn’t every surfer on ThumbVu putting their photo into ThumbMaster?
Not doing these things is causing you to lose potential recognition/branding, lose potential relationships, lose potential income (in a small way from potential loss of ThumbMaster winnings, and in a big way from potential loss of business signups!)
If you’re sitting there asking why some people are easily gaining more, while you’re not, start doing the 3 simple free things above!
In my opinion, ThumbVu should be ranked much higher everywhere, and get many more signups per day. Start promoting ThumbVu in other traffic exchanges, the ThumbMaster game itself is well worth it!
You have so many free easy ways available to you to gain more online, all you need to do is utilize those!
Thanks for reading! I hope to see your photo on the ThumbMaster game at ThumbVu, and see you in chat, and see your CTP profile in rotation! (What’s the key idea? BE SEEN!)
Sincerely, Kathleen VanBeekom
P.S. Break thru your shyness, break thru your anxiety, have a breakthrough, and you’ll break thru your lack of branding & signups and your success will go higher, very soon!
What’s with being a Human Being, anyway?
Even though Father’s Day is this weekend, my thoughts are on my Mom. She passed away last August from Alzheimers. That took away the “grieving process” for me, because she slowly slipped away for a couple years, and wasn’t her usual vibrant kooky self for a long time. Was that easier or more difficult? I don’t know. For awhile I thought it was easy, now it feels like a ton of bricks. She always said the strangest & funniest things at the wrong times, or maybe the most direct statements at the right times.
Sometimes we have crummy days on sunny days, and I remember my Mom would say things like, “It’s too nice of a day for a funeral.” I was thinking that as I walked home the other day, in dazzling sunshine, so much that I put my hoodie up over my head, I thought, “It’s too nice a day to feel unhappy.”
People wonder what they would do on their last day or their last week. People think they’d call all their relatives or take a nice trip somewhere. Really? Maybe you’d just do what you always do, because that’s what you enjoy doing. Maybe you’d just sit in your backyard and look at the trees, maybe you’d just enjoy hearing other peoples’ voices and chatting with people online.
Online? Lots of people don’t “live online” like we do. They have their own reasons, and one of those reasons may be because we feel the humanity that surrounds us all the time. Sometimes it feels like a crush of people, and sometimes we feel the emotions of one person, and either way, it can be very heavy if we’re sensitive to it.
What would you do if today was your last day, by midnight tonight? What would you do if you “live online”? Not making any phone calls, not taking any trips offline, what would you do online by midnight tonight if this is your absolutely last day?
Would you tell someone they made a positive impact on your life? Would you push yourself harder to be great in your online efforts than ever before? Would you feel each person’s emotions as you read their comments? Would you hope for another day to feel that? Would you appreciate the humanity, efforts, love, (yes, love, because we love this online life, it’s our life!)?
All In 1 Day Today 