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For some reason it took me a long time to get round to reading Cialdini. People from different fields of knowledge and different professions gave me the advice and I ignored it.

Finally I ignored ignoring Cialdini and I now join the chorus telling you to read this guy.

Also, listen to him!

Rich Schefren interviews Robert Cialdini and you can download the interview with no optin.

Thank you Rich

And the short version of why you need to read Cialdini is that Marketing relies on an understanding of human psychology and behaviour and that is what Cialdini researches - and this is often startling stuff and a good read!

Alex

I have avoided using Google Analytics for far too long. Frankly it just sounded way too complicated and mixed up with Adwords and …well it's Google and I rather distrust Google knowing too much…yada yada.

But it's time for me to come out with my hands up and face the music! 

Ed Dale is describing what to do in this video. Please be more sensible than I have been and pay attention to this stuff.

Alex

In an interesting post on Clickbank's blog, come on now admit it, you didn't even know they had a blog - Jeff Leget, one of the Directors, describes how Green Clickbank are already.

1. They supply digital products so there are no fuel problems and no dead trees
2. One of the data centres is in Idaho which has 80% renewable energy
3. And Jeff is impressed that some Clickbank employees bike to work

Sadly Jeff does not relate where the other data centres are and he does not tell us whether he bikes to work. You can read the full post and sniff out some clues for yourself.

And if you are a Clickbank employee tell us how Green you reckon Clickbank is. As an affiliate marketer of Info products I love Clickbank for making things easy for us (mostly!)

Alex

"Reboot Your Brain", is the title of a video produced by Internet traffic specialist John Reese. We are used to rebooting a computer when it gets jammed up with crap - but rebooting your brain is not something we think of doing.

In a way of course, we do a reboot every night when we sleep. What Reese is doing is taking us through a process that clears out a load of "old files" that no longer serve us.

To me that is akin to the process i follow sometimes when I go to Start =>  All Programs => Accessories => System Tools => disk cleanup and disk defragmenter!

But let's not be too literal here. The video is 67 minutes long and the process he describes will help to focus you, clean out fears that are clogging your system and requires no more than pen and paper.

And if, like most of us you have debt issues, this process is a real life saver.

Here is the video and let me know what you thought of the Reboot Process.

Alex

Kevin Gianni is well known for his health show so what is he doing here in a blog for Internet Business? Kevin is talking here about resources and success  - two topics close to my heart.

So here goes! Listen to his top ten resources for success.

Webpages on Squidoo are called Lenses and I've made a few. This was partially out of curiosity-just wanting to see whether all the fuss about Squidoo amounted to anything.

Just now I'm on a project I've mentioned in the Feed blog post.

Now that we've built a few feed blogs it's time to promote them. On the Net that means building links to them. Yesterday I wrote and submitted an article about software to boost my software blog and today to promote my Gadget site I just could not summon the required enthusiasm to write an article.

Everybody runs out of steam sometimes and this has to be built in to your strategy. My fall back for article writing is to create a Squidoo lens. And so today I was playing with Squidoo.

In direct linking terms this does not get you too far. Yes you can link from your Lens but of course a new Lens has very little link power. Anyhow it is one more piece of Internet Real Estate and that is worth claiming while it's there!

In the longer term of course the Lens itself has to be promoted and that may surprise some. There is no magic to marketing and promotion just a lot of hard work following along a well though out plan.

Anyway the first version of my gadget lens is here.

I like revising things so this will develop as I give it more attention. If you have any tips on making the lens better leave 'em in the Comment section. 

Thanks!

Alex

An article By Clayton Makepeace

• The hard truth "get rich quick" gurus never tell you …
• What it really takes to hit the big time …
• Why what you do the rest of today matters …
• Much more …

Dear Business-Builder,

My great - whatever - Ty Cobb: Hard as nails.

My mom’s cousin married Ty Cobb’s son, Herschel. Since I’m not good at math, I can’t really tell you what that makes me. Ty Cobb’s grand nephew once removed? I dunno.

But still, I’ve always been proud to be related — even distantly — to the man who invented modern baseball. So a few years ago, I read Cobb: A Biography by Al Stump and later, watched the movie starring Tommy Lee Jones.

Great book; good flick. Not because they heralded Cobb’s exploits on the field, but because they painted a crystal-clear picture of the man behind the legend.

Cobb was not an easy man to like. He was aggressive, abrasive and quick to use his fists (or even a knife) on those who provoked him. He once jumped into the stands and mercilessly beat a heckling fan who had no hands.

He was also, some say, a bigot of monumental proportions — despite the fact that he funded a hospital and a scholarship fund that both welcomed African-Americans.

Cobb also publicly supported the decision to integrate baseball, saying that black athletes" … are to be complimented for their gentle conduct both on the field, and, as far as I know, off the field."

But what I love most about Ty Cobb is not his legendary ball-playing skill. I love him for his cantankerous, independent personality. Cobb was intense. Driven. Uncompromising. Disciplined. Hard as nails.

And he had a work ethic that was unrivalled among his peers.

As a result, Cobb set 90 Major League Baseball records during his career — and 80 years after he retired in 1928, he still holds the all-time record batting average and the record for earning the greatest number of career batting titles.

That’s why, when the Baseball Hall of Fame was inaugurated in 1936, Ty Cobb received the greatest number of votes for admission — more than the great Honus Wagner and more, even than the legendary Babe Ruth. Cy Young, the winningest pitcher in history, came in a distant eighth.

You have no right to be successful

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Lookout another launch coming! Our inboxes will be pounded mercilessly. Google Massacre is the latest from Steve Jones to rewrite how we do Adwords marketing.

I have not yet seen a review copy but judging by previous publications which I have bought it will be worth it. How the heck you can come out with so much about Adwords I find amazing. 

I'll blog some more when I know more.

Here is some of the advance publicity

and of course Google will make loads of money out of Google Massacre when affiliates pay for Adwords campaigns to promote it!

Alex

Blogging is fun apart from the time you forget your password or username and have to battle your way in. Or when you absentmindedly change the DNS of a bunch of domains and find that your blog has, GULP, Gawn!

Well that's why there is a gap in the postings!

In the meantime I have been investigating what I am calling Feed blogs. These are a kind of automatic blogging system with the posts being a merchants products.

As an example here is a Feed blog I produced a few days ago. And another, quite different product feed blog here

So many different kinds of software that I just wrote an article on that and submitted it to www.ezinearticles.com 

There have been many technical challenges to overcome. With no training in this stuff it comes down to determination and help from others!

As I develop this I'll explain the system further.

Alex

How To Make Money Online (yes, even if you're a newbie)

Have you noticed how difficult it is to actually get any REAL information about how to make money online?

It's a nightmare isn't it? You start off buying up everything you come across - all promising your overnight riches but only to disappoint you and leave you out of pocket. Well it doesn't have to be like that as Michael Cheney is about to explain in this interview.

Michael Cheney, one of the most-respected names in Internet marketing, has been online since 1995 and is the man behind the 6-Figure launches of AdSense Videos, 11 Days To List Profits and Michael's Traffic Videos.

After receiving 1489 responses to a survey he put out to his list one big request came back from almost everyone;

"Give us something easy, step-by-step and proven to make money online that anyone can do!"

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Comments please

Well I'm 10 days behind the "Write a Better Blog" series being blogged at Clicknewz.com The idea of spending a month on your blog and tking a step forward each day is an appealing one. It is short enough to hold it in mind and to complete and long enough to get lots of change.

There are probably lots of areas of our life which we could focus on for a month to get a makeover! I'm not even going to list them!

I'll just follow along and see what improvements I can make in newbie on the net blog. And why not do the same with your blog?

 If you do not know where to get started pop on over to my membership site and sign in and get a free membership. That will get you a whole bunch of free lessons into your in-box. You will soon know where to get started!