What Do Your Users Want?

by Eric Transue on July 18, 2010

You’ve spent long hours putting up your website.

You think it looks great….but hold on one sec.

Before you go spend the next couple minutes patting yourself on the back, think about this.

What does your user want when he or she visits your site?

Are they looking for reviews? Articles? Videos?

…and are the things they are looking for easily accessible?

Often times they are not, because you are busy building your site for the Search Engines.

You want to rank high, so you do keyword stuffing and other things you’ve been told work because you think they will increase your rankings.

I recently came across this video from Matt Cutts, the head of the Google Webspam team.

Matt offers some great tips and does quite a few site evaluations.

Check it out!

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Achieving Successful Failures

by Eric Transue on June 29, 2010

As the great Butthead once said “Warp speed, Mister Zulu!”

This is how I have felt lately. I set a target and have headed towards it at warp speed with full focus!

I spend most of my time setting up sites for affiliate marketing. A majority of my income online comes from promoting affiliate products, products on eBay, Amazon and through Adsense.

I knew eventually I would have to expand. Now is that time!

I’ve decided to start creating some of my own products. My goal is to make products that are simple to use and implement.

I want everybody that uses my product or guide to see results!

It’s great to have a nice product with fancy packaging but if it doesn’t work you basically just wasted money on a pile of crap.

We’ve all done it. We’ve read the fancy sales letter or watched the fancy video and made the purchase.

One of three things usually ends up happening.

1. You never even bother trying the product or course.

2. You start using the product or course, but never complete it.

3. You start and finish the course and find out it was a bunch of garbage and doesn’t work.

A majority of us will usually fall into the second category.

The reason we quit is usually overwhelm or a lack of focus.

I too have given up before completing courses I have purchased!

I have actually given up on courses that were actually showing results! What an idiot I am!

But you know what, I’m happy I did!

Why?

Because I know exactly why I gave up.  I realize while creating my own products, I need to combat the feelings I had when I quit.  I need to help my customers push through these urges to give up.

I took something that I didn’t finish, or failed at, and I learned from it.

You should look to do the same.

Sit down and think about all the stuff you ‘think” you failed at, or gave up on.

Now think about what you learned from that experience.

By learning something you can turn that failure into a positive and become a better person because of it!

Now get out there and fail…that’s right fail…fail until you learn enough to succeed!

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Drinking Beers With Frank Kern

June 7, 2010

Last weekend I attended Frank Kern’s List Control event in San Diego, CA. I live in Long Beach, CA, so it was a short drive.
I’ve seen quite a few Internet Marketing events over the years, but never had enough motivation to actually get off my ass and go to one.
See, for the past several [...]

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Wealthy Affiliate – Can You Afford Not To Join?

May 13, 2010

I’ve posted about Wealthy Affiliate before so you probably already know what it is.
If you don’t here are the basics.
Wealthy Affiliate is the site I recommend the most for people who want to learn how to make a living online.
I’m not talking about 10 cents here and 15 cents there from Adsense. I’m talking [...]

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Change Your Mindset, Change Your Outcome

May 10, 2010

I hear it all the time.
“I’ve tried everything, but can’t make money online.”
“I’ve signed up for membership sites, I’ve bought the ebooks and I’ve even done the challenges that walk you step by step through creating a successful business.”
I’m going to tell you the problem…and this may shock you.
The reason you haven’t been successful at [...]

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Google Loves Content

April 26, 2010

I was just reading a blog post by Kyle over at Wealthy Affiliate and thought you might like it.  When building a website one of the first things we worry about is making it visually appealing.  Kyle’s post talks about how he has found success with some crappy looking websites…and why they still work.
Google loves [...]

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Michelle McPhearson’s Rank Decoding Engine Software

April 16, 2010

Yesterday, I alerted my list to this new software Michelle just released.
The software is called the Rank Decoding Engine. >> Available Here
Here’s a brief overview of how it works…
You enter keywords that you target with your site or niche into the software.
The software then spits out a list of the authority sites that rank the [...]

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Knee Deep In Courses

April 7, 2010

Sorry, it’s been a while since I last updated this blog. I hope you are doing well.
I’ve really been focused lately on expanding my online business and have been taking part in some pretty powerful courses.
Right now, I’m in the middle of Frank Kern’s List Control and I’m really learning a lot. Frank [...]

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Gary Vaynerchuk Says Do The Shit You Love

March 20, 2010

Are you happy with what you are doing?  Or are you one of the many that bitches and moans about your job, but continue to get up and go each and everyday?  Check out this video of Gary Vaynerchuk. It may be the kickstart you need to get moving in the right direction.

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