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		<title>Less successful people want guarantees.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mr. Tracy was talking about what sets apart successful people from others. He said this: &#8220;Less successful people want guarantees. But successful people don&#8217;t. They simply think it over - and then take action, take a chance!&#8221; That&#8217;s advice to take to the bank. How true that rings in the Internet marketing niche! You rarely [...]]]></description>
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<p>Mr. Tracy was talking about what sets apart successful people from others.  He said this:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Less successful people want guarantees.  But<br />
successful people don&#8217;t.  They simply think it over<br />
- and then take action, take a chance!&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>That&#8217;s advice to take to the bank.</p>
<p>How true that rings in the Internet marketing niche!</p>
<p>You rarely see a sales letter without a wild, rock-solid, iron-clad performance guarantee.  The folks want it.  But honestly,</p>
<p>Who can guarantee ANYTHING?</p>
<p>I mean, you go to bed every night hoping to wake up the next morning, alive and healthy and with all else intact in your universe.</p>
<p>But is that GUARANTEED?</p>
<p>Really?</p>
<p>In all probability, yes, things WILL remain intact.</p>
<p>But that is by no means certain.  Some disruptive event or force may act on your world, throwing it into chaos and confusion as you sleep &#8211; so when you wake up, everything is different.</p>
<p>And there&#8217;s nothing you can do about that&#8230;</p>
<p>Except Adapt &amp; CHANGE</p>
<p>Any guarantee you have to the contrary isn&#8217;t worth the weight of the paper it&#8217;s written on!</p>
<p>Yet many people, especially in the IM niche, WANT a guarantee.  They won&#8217;t do business WITHOUT one.<br />
And that is the problem.  It creates a loop like this:</p>
<p>* A buyer insists upon a guarantee</p>
<p>* A seller/vendor cannot provide one that&#8217;s meaningful &#8211; yet because the sale won&#8217;t go through otherwise, s/he comes up with one</p>
<p>* The guarantee, out of necessity, focuses on something that isn&#8217;t important or relevant at all to the real value of the offer</p>
<p>* The buyer, who is focused on the guarantee above all else, makes the buying decision &#8211; FOR THE WRONG REASONS</p>
<p>* When the product/service delivers on the guarantee, the buyer realizes that it is NOT what s/he wanted or hoped for!</p>
<p>* But because it delivered on the guarantee, s/he cannot complain, refund or find any other compensation for what happened</p>
<p>No one is the winner in such a situation!</p>
<p>By not clinging desperately to a guarantee, by adopting the mindset of a SUCCESSFUL person, you&#8217;re instantly freed to focus on the RIGHT things&#8230; the ones that matter.</p>
<p>Your mind can now look clearly for what it is you NEED or WANT from an offer.</p>
<p>You won&#8217;t get sidetracked by hype-driven copy, but be able to look at the merit and value on tap if you do business.</p>
<p>And here&#8217;s the most important thing.</p>
<p>By taking RESPONSIBILITY for your decision to buy, by avoiding the &#8216;loser&#8217;s limp&#8217; of a strong guarantee, by not planning to blame the vendor<br />
if something goes wrong&#8230;</p>
<p>You Are Taking Control</p>
<p>No longer will you wordlessly accept every promise made, every feature listed, every benefit advertised&#8230; going by the logic that</p>
<p>* if it doesn&#8217;t fit the bill, you can return the product, or</p>
<p>* even if it doesn&#8217;t work, you&#8217;re guaranteed results anyway.</p>
<p>You are then forced to assess and evaluate things more analytically, with the full knowledge that IF something goes wrong, YOU are the one that<br />
is responsible!</p>
<p>Can you IMAGINE how strange that must feel to many people?  Maybe even YOU?</p>
<p>Can you see yourself taking that responsibility upon your shoulders?</p>
<p>Are you scared of it?  Does it feel a bit uncomfortable?  A lot?</p>
<p>Welcome to the World of SUCCESS</p>
<p>Yes, it IS uncomfortable.</p>
<p>Yes, it IS scary.</p>
<p>Yes, it IS different.</p>
<p>And&#8230;</p>
<p>YES, IT&#8217;S TIME YOU ENTER IT!</p>
<p>So, do guarantees have no place at all?</p>
<p>I didn&#8217;t say that.</p>
<p>Look, there are some things you expect to work &#8220;as advertised&#8221;.  Like tools and equipment.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s take a motor car.  You expect one to run when you fill the tank with gas.  You don&#8217;t see an advertisement, however, for a car that says:</p>
<p>&#8220;Guaranteed To Run When Full of Gas&#8221;</p>
<p>Why not?</p>
<p>That&#8217;s because advertising is designed to appeal to the HEART &#8211; and not the MIND.</p>
<p>Logically, the *only* guarantee you&#8217;d need when buying a car is that it run when you gas it up.  But that&#8217;s hardly ever an issue brought up during the course of the deal.</p>
<p>In a similar way, tools that you use in your Internet business must be guaranteed to work.</p>
<p>* If your autoresponder service doesn&#8217;t distribute your emails effectively, you have cause to complain loudly</p>
<p>* If your web host crashes often and visitors to your site see a blank page,<br />
you have good reason to object</p>
<p>* If your submission software conks out midway through a cycle, leaving your article undistributed to many places, by all means, cry foul</p>
<p>All these areas deserve guarantees &#8211; and consumers may rightfully insist<br />
upon them.</p>
<p>But when we move to more abstract areas like business coaching and training, all bets are off!</p>
<p>Asking for, expecting or insisting upon a PERFORMANCE guarantee convincingly labels you as one of Brian Tracy&#8217;s &#8220;less successful&#8221; people&#8230; because such a guarantee is practically impossible to make.</p>
<p>So many factors go into successful mentoring &#8211; and most of them are in<br />
YOUR hands.</p>
<p>Two people may take the very same course or program &#8211; and where one<br />
becomes wildly successful, the other may achieve nothing.</p>
<p>How can the coach or program creator offer a guarantee ON YOUR PERFORMANCE?!</p>
<p>So, how do SUCCESSFUL people decide?</p>
<p>Remember what I said before about choosing to TAKE CONTROL?</p>
<p>You do it by making some choices &#8211; after doing some research.</p>
<p>* First, decide what you want</p>
<p>* Second, find out who can help you get it</p>
<p>* Third, see if they will help you</p>
<p>* Fourth, ask what it will cost</p>
<p>* Fifth, decide if you can afford it</p>
<p>* Sixth, determine to make it work</p>
<p>See how ALL of these choices are YOURS, and none of them require &#8220;guarantees&#8221;?</p>
<p>When a seller/coach has prospects like this, do you think they need to indulge in hype-fests and pitch-a-thons to sell?</p>
<p>Of course not.</p>
<p>A simple, complete, clear description of what they offer is enough.</p>
<p>You&#8217;ll use that information, along with your own &#8216;Success Checklist&#8217; above, to make YOUR decision &#8211; to join/buy or not.</p>
<p>Do you want to put this new-found wisdom to the test right now?</p>
<p>Go on over to &#8220;The SMILENAIRE Way&#8221; page.</p>
<p>http://Smilenaire.com/build.php</p>
<p>You&#8217;ll see how little hype is needed to convey the value of this program &#8211; and how clearly each element of it is explained.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t need to gloss over the fact that</p>
<p>* it will take time (10 months)<br />
* it will involve work<br />
* it will demand your focus</p>
<p>No &#8216;copy-and-paste&#8217;, &#8216;shake-and-bake&#8217;, &#8216;easy as falling off a log&#8217; dream weaving here &#8211; and that&#8217;s because ALL our members are SERIOUS business owners and people focused on achieving SUCCESS.</p>
<p>Not those looking for a guarantee, a person to blame for their failure, or an excuse for why they aren&#8217;t living up to their fullest potential.</p>
<p>And that&#8217;s the reason 1 in every 15 people that visits that page signs up to the program.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s also why only 2 people have ever canceled their membership before the 10 months were over.</p>
<p>Ok, let me wrap up this message in a nutshell.</p>
<p>DON&#8217;T look for guarantees.</p>
<p>DO look for value.</p>
<p>TAKE responsibility for your decision.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s the way successful people think.</p>
<p>Join them.</p>
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<p>All success<br />
Dr.Mani</p>
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		<title>Five free ways to generate traffic</title>
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<h2><span style="color: #ff0000;">5 Free Techniques for Generating Website Traffic</span></h2>
<p>If there is one absolute rule for making money from your website it&#8217;s that you need visitors or &#8220;traffic&#8221; as it is commonly called. If hardly anyone visits your site the chances of it generating an income are slim to none.</p>
<p>Many people think that they need to spend a lot of money to generate a steady stream of website traffic. This is not true at all. Yes, there are plenty of ways to pay for traffic but there are also a lot of free traffic techniques that work very well.</p>
<p>Here are 5 free techniques for generating traffic to your website:</p>
<p>1) Article Marketing</p>
<p>There are countless article directories, ezines, and websites on the internet that need a constant supply of content so they are willing to accept article submissions from others. This is a great opportunity for you to create free website traffic by writing and submitting articles.</p>
<p>All you have to do is write articles that are themed along with the niche of your site. Write on topics that you have some knowledge on so that when people read your articles, they can see your expertise on the subject and will want visit your site for more information. Your articles should be well written, informative, and useful. The higher the quality, the better your chances of gaining traffic and making money.</p>
<p>At the end of each article include an &#8220;about the author&#8221; box with a little information about you or your business and a link to your website. This is how you will get traffic from the article.</p>
<p>2) Link Exchanges</p>
<p>This technique has been proven for years as a great free traffic method. Exchanging links isn&#8217;t nearly as effective as it once was but it&#8217;s still more than worth doing. Rarely will you ever see a site where there is no links other sites. Many webmasters are willing to exchange links with one another so that they can provide more options for their visitors and get traffic from the other site. After a few months of link exchanges you will begin to notice the steady increase traffic coming to your site from other sites.</p>
<p>Link exchanges also boost your rankings in the search engines such as Google or Yahoo. It&#8217;s well known that search engines rank websites higher that have a large amount of inbound links. With a good ranking position in the search engines, you will generate more free traffic to your website than with virtually any other method.</p>
<p>One thing you need to make sure of before you exchange links with any site is that it&#8217;s a quality site and at least somewhat related to yours. Exchanging with just any old site can do more harm than help to your site.</p>
<p>3) Traffic Exchanges</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not a big advocate of traffic exchanges because I haven&#8217;t ever had great results considering the time you have to put in. However, some people do well with traffic exchanges and they are free.</p>
<p>Basically what you do with these is view another person&#8217;s website in exchange for a view of yours by somebody. You both benefit from each others efforts to generate free website traffic. The other sites visitors can visit your pages and see your site as well as theirs. The conversion rates aren&#8217;t usually very high but if you can get enough free traffic from this method then it may be worth trying.</p>
<p>4) Build a List</p>
<p>This can be one of the most difficult free traffic techniques but it&#8217;s certainly possible to do and will reward you many times over for your hard work. Offering a free ebook, a free report, or a free informative newsletter are a few of the best ways to build a list of subscribers. Plus, there are many people who are willing to provide free content for your newsletter as long as they can get their name in it. Be sure to provide valuable information for your subscribers and as your list grows you will be able to make money from sending them an affiliate promotion every once in a while.</p>
<p>4) Internet Marketing and Online Business Forums</p>
<p>This really only requires your time and no money at all. You just share your knowledge and expertise in online business forums, with a link to your website in your signature, and you can get a lot of free traffic over time.</p>
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<p>1. Get F.I.T. (Get Free Internet Traffic)?2. The P.I.T. (The Paid Internet Traffic)<br />
There are dozens of ways to generate traffic to any offer, at anytime, anywhere.<br />
However, there are methods of traffic generation that remain solid and fundamental to successfully making money online.</p>
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