Are you tired of people spamming the living daylights out of you on social media? Worse yet, are you doing it yourself?  It doesnt matter if it’s Facebook, MySpace or Twitter; I’m teaching people to make real money using social media by connecting, building strategic relationships and thus cement both the credibility of your brand as well as the viability of your business.

Of course you have a priority to make money.  We all do! We don’t want to do this for free.  It isn’t a charity. But for the “love of God” can we all agree that we bring more to the table than purely being a billboard for our chosen business?  Seriously, you’ve got more tools in your tool box than that. 

You’ve got to discover or re-connect with your cause and then champion that with what you uniquely bring to the table. Don’t be another talking head. Be unique, be yourself and connect. Sure, I’m all for automated tweets and messages as a method to support your efforts but you’ve got to engage.  If you dont engage people and listen then they will treat you like you’re the equivalent of an online telemarketer.

Remember, you started this business to be different. Don’t undo all of that great foundational motivation and undercut your credibility in order to shrink yourself to the lowest common denominator of social media marketing. Besides, the number of social media followers mean absolutely nothing if you can’t get your message across because neither party is listening. (Note: See “Effective Social Media Marketing” Video Training In Video Coaching Tab)

It’s all about being different and getting noticed. You can’t do that doing what the crowd is doing so find ways to stand out. You’re unique, with unique skills and abilities so reconnect with that.  Be more than just a spamming billboard and let your unique light shine to attract them to you because you’re specially suited to the business you design to cater to your strengths. 

Now take the reins off auto-pilot, engage, be unique and make some real money!

Your coach & fan

Patrick Daugherty

The “Biz Coach”

CEO of Learn2earn it now Training & Support

Author of:  “The Success Steps For Building Wealth Online” for Online Marketers AND  

                 ”The Success Step Training System” For Network Marketers

So you’re all jacked up because you’ve just started a Facebook group and you want to invite all 3000 of your friends to get your message out.  You select the “suggest to friends” button and you discover the painful fact that those “knuckle-heads” (which sounds best when said like Charles Barkley) at Facebook won’t let you invite all your friends unless you go one by one.

HELLO!! Can you say “TIME HOG”!  Ugh!!

Well, being the rebellious and competitive dude that I am, I went on a mission to find a way to do this because I didn’t want the Facebook ”axis of evil” keepin me down. Well folks, after much investigation I bring you “mission accomplished!”

It’s a little sneaky but it’s not black hat, just more like ”java-ninja”. 

Here’s what you do:

1. Go to your Event, Group or page and click “Suggest to Friends” OR “Invite People”.
2. Once the page has loaded you should see all of your friends, but they are not selected.
3. Right click on any friend and select “open in new tab” (special thanks to Nazif Razzaque for that little trick)
4. At this point, copy and paste the java script below into your Web browser’s address bar on your Facebook page &  hit “Enter”.
5. It might take some time but it will select all of your friends!
6. Now just press “send invite” and BAM! Yer done baby!

javascript:elms=document.getElementById(‘friends’).getElementsByTagName(‘li’);for(var fid in elms){if(typeof elms[fid] === ‘object’){fs.click(elms[fid]);}}

If you have lots of friends then be patient as it may take time to select all of them.  This is especially true if you have about 5000 friends (like me cause I’m cool like that). In that case I would advise you to throw the javascript in, click enter and walk away for dinner or work in another window.  Don’t worry however, it has always worked for me if you give it enough time. 

You’ll also have to be patient when it comes to the invites all going out as they go into a buffer or queue and sends them one at a time but hey, in either case you can be doing something else as the system does it’s magic. It might take a few hours to get them all out however, they WILL get out and it only takes ya 2-3 minutes of my time.  I don’t care who ya are ya gotta think that’s cool…. cause I did. 

So have fun with your little Java-ninja toy and spread it to all your friends.

Your Coach & Fan

Patrick Daugherty

The “Biz Coach”

CEO of Learn2earn it now Training & Support

Author of:  “The Success Steps For Building Wealth Online” for Online Marketers AND  

                 ”The Success Step Training System” For Network Marketers

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In the 3rd Video in the “Living The Fulfilled Life” series we use an exercise to accurately define “Failure” and use that definition to inspire the action in your life that will bring about the success you’ve always wanted. As I state in the video, I believe that: ”Our lives, like computer programs will begin to run correctly when we replace errant lines of code.  When the inaccurate definition of failure is realized and replaced by the correct one, the program of your life will change as a result and inspire success.

Your Coach & Fan

Patrick Daugherty

The “Biz Coach”

CEO of Learn2earn it now Training & Support

Author of:  “The Success Steps For Building Wealth Online” for Online Marketers AND  

                 ”The Success Step Training System” For Network Marketers

You can also connect with the “Biz Coach” through:

• Join Patrick on Facebook! http://tgli.de/E4E 
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• Connect on LinkedIn! http://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickdaugherty

Anyone who has taken the time to create a blog has done so with the desire that it would be read by many.  For online entrepreneurs and internet marketers, their blog is seen as a valuable tool to be used to gather traffic and funnel it to their “money site”, that is; the site where an anticipated transaction will occur.  Most mistakenly believe that their function in writing their posts is purely to gain traffic.  Although that is the goal of the blog, that is not your function and in order to run a successful blog you need to know the difference…. Your goal cannot be to write posts mainly to promote your widget or business opportunity if you desire it to be successful. That may seem confusing right now, but hang in there because it will make complete sense to you shortly. 

Foundational Blog Marketing

I am fully aware that there are blogs that are created to be product driven “money sites” where transactions are designed to occur.  Understand that we will be discussing creation, marketing and writing of blogs that will serve as what is called “feeder sites”.

Let’s start with some foundational blog marketing principles.  I am a firm believer that one needs a good social media marketing push to help promote the blog.  This can be done simultaneously as you get the blog off the ground.  The main focus is to increase the number of those who will receive announcements and updates for new posts and general promoting of your blogs mission and what you want to accomplish through the blog.  Let’s say you’ve decided to use Facebook and Twitter together for social media marketing.  You also decide to duel-publish your posts as articles through a site like Ezinearticles.com with your blog promoted in your signature at the bottom of the article.   Facebook and Twitter will allow you to reach out and build targeted relationships that you can point to your blog for insight and information that they would find valuable.  Ezinearticles will publish your posts as independent articles that will not only gain readership themselves but will also rank high when they appear in Google searches for the keywords and title it contains.  You can also create quick videos that promo your blog and throw them on YouTube making sure that the keywords you want to be ranked high in are consistant in the blog, and videos containing your blog link. (FYI, you can refer to blog the post “Making the Video: Internet Marketings Inexpensive Money-Making New Frontier” for executing a video campaign.)

You then begin posting on forums and interacting with FB & Twitter followers where your potential readers might read or contribute.  As you interact make sure your blog link is below your signature.  This serves not only to highlight your credibility but also creates what’s called “inbound links” (aka. back-links) which are incredibly important when Google ranks your blog page.  The more incoming links on other sites the higher the ranking for your keyword searches by potential readers. You’ve just been indoctrinated into Site Marketing & SEO 101.  Congrats you got an “A”!  Marketing your blog (or any site) should typically have some variation of this multi-facetted approach in it’s marketing strategy to be optimally affective.  It can and should be just that simple!

Soap Box Time-Out!

By-The-Way; I could expound the marketing strategy I just threw out there, with tons of  overly mondane details surrounded by lots of fluff, but I don’t have the patience and you don’t need to read 40 pages and be sold some ebook strategy under the title of “Blogging For Riches” for $45! 

Can you tell I abhor worthless ebooks that are marketed to be a real solution to create wealth, just for the sake of creating a product that makes the author money. Sorry (really I’m not), but I see them every day and they drive me bonkers! You guys are smart enough to execute what I threw out there in one paragraph.  If I write much more I run the risk of insulting your intelligence and alienating most of you by giving you useless info that makes me look smarter than you and keep you searching feverously like a crack addict to learn more tactics that will make you successful.  You all know you can just let me know if you have questions unique to your business and as always, I am more than willing to help you guys anytime. 

But alas, I digress. So, imploring that strategy is a great start.  It will gather interest from targeted readers but there are some real questions we need to address.  How do you keep them coming back for more? What should you write about to create good blog content?  These are important questions my friends, so listen up because EVERY new marketer and blog geek totally miss the answers to those!

Completely Ineffective Blogging

I know incredibly intelligent people who love to write incredibly detailed posts about new marketing software gadgetry or technological wizardry that allow you to implore Jedi-like marketing powers so that you can be the king of the geeks and rule over your marketing kingdom until the next thing that is reviewed next week….yeah well, to that I say, “Whatever…enjoy your hamster wheel of futility”. 

I have also repeatedly heard it preached that if you don’t know much technical jargon or new cutting-edge insights for the segment your online-business is going after, you should read those same articles and then recreate (i.e. regurgitate) that information in a post on your blog. I would say that yes, you can do that…..if you really want to be like EVERYONE ELSE!  I often ask those I coach, why does the desire to appear intelligent make you want to duplicate something that for you was so difficult to read through originally without wanting to poke your eye out with a pencil, that you would subject your readers to that same torture.  The normal “non geek” reader is screaming for someone to speak their language… and lets face it, so are most of you! 

Should Blog Traffic Alone Be Your Goal?

You have to understand the purpose of your blog is far more than just to gain traffic.  It’s to gain a following.  Read that again because it is paramount! In order to do that you need to connect with your potential targeted audience.  The easiest way to accomplish that is to write in a way that conveys who you are as a person, a human being beneath the online entrepreneur, while you sprinkle in communicating targeted information that they feel is valuable. 

Now, I am a HUGE proponent of continuous learning. I wade through the technical geek-speak that those from “Geek-o-slavia” write, in between their “World of Warcraft” games where they throw their Mohawk-grenades (Ya gotta love Mr. T’s commercials!).  Recognize that what they write becomes so weighed down in the minutia that extracting the useful points becomes as tedious as brain surgery. To a certain extent, this is a necessary evil as an online entrepreneur because you have to continuously be a student concerning your business area of focus, your marketing and personal growth.

In my experience, most underachieving business bloggers fit into 2 categories.   The first are those that read and duplicate content from tech focused authors of blogs often revolving around such things as SEO, Internet marketing and web technology, who are incredibly likable but write with the appeal of a college astrophysics professor. Then there are others promoting their “widget” or business opportunity who are akin to a little kid crying out for attention “Hey Mom! Look what I can do!…look what I can do!”.  If you have been led astray to adopt either of these marketing philosophies then I have a message for you…. please understand that the vast majority of people online do not care.  I’m serious!  That methodology, though popular, serves only to make people roll their eyes and click the “back” button to get out of your blog or advertisement like it contains a computer virus.  When we are talking about personal branding please recognize that doing so is “Committing Self-Branding Suicide” (See previously written post with that title). 

Who Are You?

Be incredibly careful to guard against treating the reader of your blog as a potential customer.  If you can view this process in a dating context, then you obviously want to show your pure motives to foster a strong relationship where the reader feels you both can continually see each other and eventually “seal the deal” with a transaction.  If they feel that you want to hump them like a horny Doberman as soon as they walk in the door then you’ll scare them away, never to return! 

Having said that, recognize that like Christmas and birthdays, the most important part of whatever you write to your desired audience has to do with what’s inside….i.e. YOU!  So many business blogs fail to gain readership because they believe that the business opportunity or the service they offer is the “gift” when it is not.  This is different when readers eventually become prospective customers and are at an “opt-in” or “pitch page” of your “money site”. Within the blog segment of the relationship, the gift is you! 

It doesn’t matter if you are marketing a stand-alone business, a fitness blog, marketing an MLM or any other business opportunity.  You need to realize that transparency; allowing them to see the real you, is the most important thing. If you write what equates to a textbook, white paper or fax machine user-manual then you’re not going to be very popular. If you have a blog that appears to visitors to obviously have the goal of selling the reader they can’t relax, let their guard down and get to know you. It’s a proven fact that people want to buy from people who talk like them and who they feel they could be friends with.

Forging The Path To Credibility

As you begin to write, commit to letting your personality come through.  Write as you would talk to a friend.  Have a rough outline in order to work points into the post that help deliver value to your audience and thus credibility as you would in any conversation with a friend looking for advice in the market you’re pursuing.  Affectively doing so will position you as a friend who is perceived as intelligent and credible.  If you make certain your main motivation is to make a connection with the reader for the overall purpose of helping them, you’ve then established yourself as an intelligent friend who they also desire to learn from.  They will continuously return to seek guidance, to seek information and return to see what new posts you’ve written because of the relationship you’ve established.

Case In Point

I know of a blog written by a female online coach who has written an SEO ebook.  It’s very basic but I know for a fact that she seriously sells the heck out of it solely from her blog.  How? She writes almost totally about her life, her husband, her obstacles during the day, crazy stuff that happens as she grows her online home business etc.  She proves my point to the extreme.  You see, she also has a habit of cursing needlessly and profusely to the point it would totally offend most people! It’s hilarious how many times she drops the “f-bomb” in a post and yet still attracts readers and customers hand over fist as much as she offends others…because she’s real. 

She includes practically no technical content in her blog other than once or twice every month or so, at which time she either promotes her product or one of a fellow marketer she is affiliated with.  The result is that she not only draws others like her but she connects far more with those that respect how real she is even if they don’t talk like a sailor.  They follow her like the “Pied-Piper” purchasing everything she points them too.  Now that’s not my personality-style at all but you know what, I read that blog every week because it cracks me up so much and I relate to her struggles. It’s a great read!

Conclusion

The key is to be real to the point that people can feel that they can relate and connect with you emotionally.  Your credibility lies in how earnestly you desire to connect with your readers to create long-term followers in order to offer the service or product that helps them in some way. That my friends should be the way you see your function within your blog which will in turn, stand apart and delineate itself from the masses, allowing you to reach your goals.  You’re uniquely different and your blog should be too. The end result will be the consistent building of a loyal following that will regularly return to read what you share and follow your recommendations.  Happy blogging!

Your coach & fan

Patrick Daugherty

“The Biz Coach”

CEO of Learn2earn it now Training & Support

Author of:  “The Success Steps For Building Wealth Online” for Online Marketers AND  

                 ”The Success Step Training System” For Network Marketers

You can also connect with the “Biz Coach” through:

Effectively using social media is becoming increasingly vital for any online business marketing and branding.  Simple tips that are (what I call) “effort-efficient” to communicate with your network in order to move them to action is paramount to accomplishing aggressive marketing goals for your online business. Sending mass e-mails using Facebook is of course easier and faster than sending separate e-mails to all of your Facebook friends yet many do not know how to do so.

It’s important to learn how to use this feature to simplify your life and save your time. It’s quite easy to learn, and takes only a few minutes to execute, even for the initial setup.

Step 1

Sign into your Facebook account, using the user name and password.

Step 2

From your dashboard, find the ‘”Friends” link on the left side of your computer screen. When you’re taken to the next page, look to the left of your screen again and you’ll see a link titled “Lists.” If you’ve never created lists in Facebook, you’ll have to create them in order to send mass e-mails.

This is where I emphasize that you create and maintain a list of your Facebook friends.  If you haven’t done this before then you might want to start by making a list that includes all of your friends.  This is the only real “donkey work” that you’ll have to do in the front end. There are many justifications for multiple lists to organize your business friends, such as if you have certain competitors that you don’t want taking your ideas or if you have both friends & business relationships using the same page. 

I typically suggest that there be 2 different accounts that are applicable to both but there are arguments on either side of that issue. You will also want to create a list if you start a “group” as well in order to have a list of those that have joined and communicate with them separately.

Step 3

 After creating your lists, visit your inbox using the link at the top of your screen. You’ll see to the right a link which will allow you to “Compose a New Message.” Click that link, and an option will come up, allowing you to e-mail a list or individual friends. Enter the list that you’d like to mass e-mail.

NOTE: New to Facebook is a requirement that each list can only be 20 people or less. This basically means that you need to make a list for every 20 then put all those lists in the email “To:” section.  This adds a little more donkey work in the front end however it is still just as easy to execute once set up.

Step 4

Paste the pre-written message into the text box, and create a title for the message so your friends will know what you’re writing to them about. When you’re sure that the message is pasted just proof it and correct. I typically write it in Word and then paste so that I can use the editor and auto spell-check.

Step 5

Click the send button below the text box.

Again, organizing and maintaining your lists are important and more laborious to do if you wait till your over 1000 friends.  The better your lists are maintained the more effective you will be at moving your network to action.

Good luck & happy Social Marketing!

Your Coach & Biggest Fan

Patrick Daugherty

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I’m on a mission to reclaim lives, to inspire those of you who have muffled your inner-voice, conformed and accepted less of yourself in order to fit in; to empower those who have realized that they’ve accepted merely existing in the past but believe that there must a more fulfilling way to live.  A mission to connect with those of you who admit you have a torch of light burning inside that you’ve kept hidden.  I invite you to come closer my friends, because I’d like to pour my gallon-jug of gasoline on it, to ignite your passion and fuel you for greater things. 

I am a strong proponant of creating the life you want through building a business you can become passionate about.  A business that both utilizes and develops your strengths while fulfilling you deeply and providing financial freedom. To serve that purpose, there isnt any better platform than creating your own business online to take back control of your life.  Trust me, I’m fortunate to see lives transformed everyday.

 It’s for this reason that I created a system that can teach you everything you need to know to launch & grow your business in a few short weeks. This blog plays a vital role in the coaching & training offered by “Learn2earn it now”; an online-education & support portal for aspiring web based entrepreneurs and marketers who seek straight talk coaching and easy to use training.  It is designed to work hand-in-hand with the “Success-Steps” Training Systems” to empower you to create the fulfilled life you desire to achieve.

This blog along with the training systems & resources were created because I couldnt sit on the sidelines anymore watching those that have become successful purely by preying on people like you who are starving for credible instruction & insight only to be utterly demoralized and convinced YOU were the problem. Whether your business opportunity involves affiliate marketing, internet marketing or a multi-level model; if you desire to gain instruction, insight and inspiration that is intended to transform both your business & personal life, then you’ve come to the right place.

I’ve been fortunate enough to provide consultative coaching to business owners and corporate leaders to assist them in reaching their revenue goals for over 15 years. Due in large part to the economy, over the past 2 years the number of entrepreneurs who have launched Internet based businesses have  increased at an astonishing rate.  The fact is that whether you’re an aspiring Internet or affiliate marketer, creating an online business or growing an MLM organization, if you don’t know how to use SEO & advanced internet marketing techniques then you’re doomed already.

With 9 out of 10 new online business owners and Internet enterpreneurs failing in the first 63 days I have felt passionately compelled to share the knowledge that I have been fortunate enough to accrue from both my extensive corporate training & online business building experience.

The Biz Coach Blog  and the “Learn2earn it now” training & support portal are great opportunities for me to do exactly that.  After all, let’s face it, deep down inside we all want the same thing; to live a successful & fulfilled personal and business life.  Both sites are intended to work hand in hand with the Success Steps To Building Online Wealth training system as well as the Success Steps Training System For Network Marketers .  

In this economic climate there are more people taking stock of their life, rethinking their definition of job-security that they’ve bought into for so long and what it means to truly live rather than just “exist”.  Many of you have come to place where you shake your head and say “I feel stuck in my life, almost imprisoned and feel that I’ve been stuck like this for a long time.  There has to be something more…”.  If you’ve asked yourself this question then my answer to you is emphatically  “Yes, there is!!”.  I believe everyone deserves to live a fulfilled life!  This year I’m committed to teaching at least 1000 people how to earn over 6-figures online, get off the “hamster wheel” they feel stuck in and live life fulfilled. 

I invite you to become one of them  by soaking up the valuable information and video coaching I provide through this blog and taking advantage of either the Success Steps To Building Online Wealth or the  Success Steps Training System For Network Marketers.  The “Success Step” training systems are the only programs on the net that combine a full-spectrum curriculum of both written & video training, designed specifically for “non-geeks” to make an immediate dramatic effect on your online business.  They have been created to give you EVERYTHING you need to help ensure your success to build a thriving organization online no matter what business opportunity you’re marketing! 

Those that have had their businesses and lives transformed by the “Success-Steps” have said that it was the difference maker they desperately sought after!  When you click on the link & review the information about the training systems, be sure to check out the testimonials at the bottom of the page. Like a dad, I’m super proud of them. Spend any time here and you’ll quickly learn that I’m “passionately  committed” to transforming lives!

Your Coach & Biggest Fan!

R. Patrick Daugherty

The “Biz Coach”

CEO of Learn2earn it now Training & Support

Author of:  “The Success Steps For Building Wealth Online” for Online Marketers AND  

                 ”The Success Step Training System” For Network Marketers

You can also connect with the “Biz Coach” through:

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