Brian Gosur

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Graduating From The School of Hard Knocks

Many of you out there have a college degree, and probably some student loans to pay off as well. I also received a degree, but mine was free. No loans for me to pay back, but there was a price to pay when you are graduating from the school of hard knocks.

Maybe some of you have taken a few courses from this very prestigious school.  I’ve seen lots of friends there, but it has been some of the hardest training that I’ve ever had to endure.

Graduating From The School of Hard Knocks

Coming out of Ford Motor Company after thirty-five years of successful service, I was looking for a new career. I didn’t want to go back to school, but I eventually signed up for some classes from the University of Hard Knocks.

I want to give you five pointers, that I learned during my time there, so that you won’t ever have to take the same courses that I did.

 

1. Do One Step at a Time

When I left Ford Motor Company and decided to change the direction of my life, the one thing that I didn’t want to do was flip burgers at the local MacDonalds, nor did I want to be a greeter at Walmarts.

I was introduced to network marketing and discovered the power of large numbers, and leveraging through a network. It’s a 120 billion dollar a year industry and many people are starting to discover this, “Business of the Future,” as Robert Kiyosaki and Donald Trump have labeled it.

But the first thing that happens is you get bombarded with business offers and solutions to help you in your business, and it can be very overwhelming to the newbie, such as I was.

Fortunately, I got introduced to some of the top marketers in the industry and I have learned so much from them.

Focus on one strategy until you master it and then use it in your pursuit of growing your business. Don’t try to spread yourself out to doing fifteen things all at once, like I did. You will just get frustrated and want to quit, it won’t work, so don’t even try it.

2. Pick a Strategy That is You

Find a marketing technique that fits you. One that your comfortable with and you can use to produce results.

Believe it or not, the best marketing strategies are free. Don’t get sucked into paying hundreds of dollars for stuff that you will never use and it will just sit as an empty desktop icon staring at you when you get on your computer.

You will go down this road, I did, we all did, it’s a class that they offer at the school of hard knocks. Learn this lesson well and as fast as you can, because you don’t want to have top repeat this class again, it can become very costly.

3. Put a Plan Together and Follow It

This was another hard lesson for me to learn. I was all over the map, because I didn’t have a blueprint mapped out to follow.

Find your one or two marketing strategies, master them and then put a daily and weekly plan of action into action, and implement your plan to success.

4. Keep Track of Your Results

Another class that is offered at the hard knock school, that I failed over and over, because I didn’t keep track of my results, whether they are good or bad.

You need to know if what you’re doing is working or not, otherwise you maybe walking down the road to failure and not even know it.

5. Make Changes When Necessary

If you aren’t getting the results that are leading you to success, then don’t ever be afraid to make changes. I was always afraid to make changes.

I’m a very patient person, and sometimes I can walk down the wrong road for a lot longer then I should, before I realize this isn’t working. I’m always trying to squeeze out every single drop of use from what I’m doing, before I abandon it.

Learn to follow your results and only do the things that are producing. Don’t be afraid to make the changes when they need to be done.

It’s all a part of the classes offered at the school of Hard Knocks, which are not all bad, as long as we learn and grow from them.

Just because it’s Christmas, I’m going to give you a free strategy that I use all the time. It’s seven videos that will explain free strategies that will get you up and running your business on the road to success, and avoid any classes in the school of Hard Knocks.

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God bless your endeavors and have a Happy and prosperous New Year.

 

 

Network Marketers Need Tools

I have a friend who is a carpenter and my son is an electrician. In order for them to do their jobs properly, and make sure everything is in the right place, working the way it’s supposed too, they need the right tools. They have spent thousands and thousands of dollars on tools. They have to maintain those tools also, which ads another expense to their business.

Doctors also need the right tools to perform the delicate surgeries that they do. It costs them in the millions of dollars to operate or lease the complex things they need to perform they’re procedures on us. Would you want your doctor operating on you with old tools that were outdated or haven’t been calibrated in a long time?

Network Marketers Need Tools

1. Computer 

It’s no different when it comes to online marketing. Network Marketers need tools too. You need a computer, and you need a good one. Working on that ten year old computer, is not going to cut it. Technology changes so fast, you almost need to buy a new computer every five years or so. Expect to pay about $400-$600 dollars for a good computer.

2. Auto-Responder

Next, you will need a good auto-responder. I don’t care what business you’re in, you need to build a list of followers or leads, and you need to keep in touch with them. You need to constantly be feeding them the information and value that they’re looking for to help them with they’re businesses. This will generally cost you about $20 dollars a month.

3. Domain Name

You have to have a domain name to brand you. You are the business and you are the company. Get a domain name, preferably with your name dot com. A domain name is like owning a piece of the internet. It belongs to you and no one else. It’s like owning a piece of real estate that you control and build on.  Domain names run anywhere from $10 to $15 dollars a year. There are very inexpensive.

4. Hosting Account

You must have a hosting account in order to put your domain name on it. This hosting server gives you the place top park your domain and keeps it running on the internet. They vary in price, depending where you get it from, but they have come down in price.

You don’t want to get a cheap one either, as they don’t always have the best service or tech support when you need it. The price for a good hosting account can run you about $150 dollars a year.

5. Video Producer

Video marketing is growing every day. If you aren’t doing some type of video campaign, you are going to get left in the back of the room. 52% of people will be more likely to opt in to a site that has a video, then one that doesn’t.

People love to connect with a friendly face, that they can see and hear. It’s almost like being there right in front of them, and I guess you really are, but in video form.

You can do free videos on YouTube and other sites, but beware, as these sites have been known to shut down accounts for no reason at all. If that happens, you lose all your videos and complete access to your account.

The best way to go is to a video hosting site, where all your videos are safe, and you don’t have to worry about getting shut down. There may be some restrictions as to home many videos you can have, and they can get pricey.  The cost for this is around a $100 dollars a month.

Excluding the cost of a computer, your marketing costs will be about $1400 dollars a year, or just under $120 dollars a month.

Remember, every business or profession needs tools. Weather you’re in real estate, electrician, or a doctor, you need tools and you need training to be the best that you can be, and to earn the type of income that you want to earn. There are no free lunches.

I talk to people all the time, who want to come into network marketing and start to market online, but they don’t want to spend any money for tools or for their training. Nothing works like that…I know…I tried it.

I have something for you to use that can get you started on the right track right now, and the cost is free.

It’s got an auto-responder, domain names, hosting, conferencing, video producer, blog builder, lead capture page system, and some of the best training for online marketers, that will get you firing on all cylinders right out of the gate.

Instead of paying almost $120 dollars a month, you get it all for under $10 dollars a month.

That’s not an introductory offer either, that’s what it is every month. As a matter of fact, you can try all the tools that they have for a whole two weeks for free. No credit card needed…it’s free.

Click here to get all this for free.

If you’re ready to get your yourself branded online, and to get your network marketing business off and running, you need the right tools and you can get them all right here for under $10 dollars. I guarantee you won’t find anything better anywhere.

 

Do You Need To Be Empowered?

I remember a cartoon show that my kids used to watch when they were little. I think it was called Power Rangers, but I remember all of these little kids would stand in a circle and put their hands together and reach to the sky, lighting would flash and hit their hands, run through their bodies and transform them and empower them, into these Power Rangers, with super powers and strength. They would go out to defeat the bad guys.

The dictionary defines the word empower as; to give power or authority to. I guess that’s what the Power Rangers kind of did, but to be more realistic, that’s what David Wood and David Sharpe have done. The Empowered Network won’t give you lightening bolts running from the skies into your hands and arms, but it will give you 100% commissions running into your bank account.

The Empower network is doing exactly that, to the tune of over 800,000 dollars so far. David Wood and David Sharpe, just started Empower Network on October 31st…Halloween night, but there is nothing spooky about what their doing, nor of the results that their getting.

Check out this Alexa Ranking on Empower Network.

In just three

weeks the Empower Network has jumped up, and jumped way up in the Alexa Rankings. From the bottom, all the way up to number 435 in the US. That’s viral folks to the emf degree. You don’t get any better than this, and I think that we will be at the top in the next three weeks.

Imagine if your blog was ranked like this? Do you think that you just might get a little bit more traffic to your site? I definitely know you would. Well that’s the power of the Empower Network can do for you.

You get a blog and can write about anything. You don’t have to get a domain, or pay for hosting, and as people come to read about your blog posts, they are going to see everything in the store. You get all this and much more.

See for yourself, right here.

 

Listen to me! Don’t quit! You just need to be empowered! Get empowered right now!

 

 

 

 

Want to be Rich? Do What the Rich Do.


How many times have you heard that said before? Just imitate someone and you will become like them? That just doesn’t sound right, but if we examine that just a bit closer, I think we will see something that is very rich and valuable…no pun intended.

When I was growing up, I always wanted to be a professional baseball player. I had living on the street behind me two of my idles and favorite ball players, that played for my hometown team, the Detroit Tigers, Jim Northrup and Dick McAuliffe. Now this is going way back, but they played for the 1968 World Champion Detroit Tigers. I also got to see another hero of mine, Al Kaline, but never was able to talk with him or get his autograph.

Now I played baseball and I loved the game, but I was never able to get to the big leagues. Just mimicking the moves and actions of others doesn’t mean you will have the same results. You have to get into the mind and heart of a true champion before you will ever be able to act like one. There is a mindset that has to be in place before you can  ever expect any real results.

There are many people who want to be rich, but very few that will actually attain it. All those people who are protesting and camping out on Wall Street, are so mad and angry at the rich simply because the rich are rich and they aren’t. Rich people didn’t get rich by complaining about those that were, or camping out in protest, they went out and changed their mindset and positioned themselves to gain the wealth that their heart and mind was set on.

If you look at the wealthiest people in the world, they didn’t attain their wealth in an instant. Statistics show that most millionaires have gone broke three or four times before they ever finally got it right, and it has taken them from between fifteen and twenty years before it all comes together.

I have a person that I’m coaching and they said that they have put out a couple of ads and still haven’t received any replies. It’s been a whole ten days and they are just about ready to quit. That’s why they will not only never attain any success or wealth in the network marketing industry, but I doubt if they will ever attain any success in anything because they have no drive, persistence, or patience to pursue their dreams…if they have any.

These are the people who feel they can mimic the actions of another and attain the same result, but without the heart and the drive and the correct mindset, they will fail and quit every time. That’s OK because not everyone is fit for network marketing or wealth, just like not everyone is fit to play professional baseball either. I don’t think there is a successful wealthy individual in the world, who hasn’t thought of quitting sometime, but winners never quit and quitters never win. You’ll never drive that BMW by quitting.

You have to decide who and what you want to be when you grow up and then pour all your energies and resources into that, and you still are never guaranteed success. Read Robert Kiyosaki’s book, “Rich dad, Poor Dad”, and see the mind-set change that had to occur in this self-made millionaire.

Now I have not attained the wealth or position that I want too, but I have a plan and I have a goal in the crosshairs, and I’m always moving forward to it. It’s not if, it’s when I reach it.

Here’s a couple of actions steps to get yourself moving in the right direction.

What Exactly Do You Want?

I was asked that by one of my mentors, and I said that I wanted to make 10,000 dollars a month. I thought I was shooting low, I just didn’t want to come out and say that I wanted to earn as much as I can. But she asked me what and how was I going to do to reach this goal that I have set before me, because she said it’s going to be harder than you think. She put some reality into my goals, not to discourage me, but rather to get my mindset on the right track so that I wouldn’t be discouraged when I hit some of the bumps in the road, and you will hit some.

Make a Realistic Plan

There will be people who want to suck all the time and energy out of you, so you have to plan to handle and train the people who come into your system or funnel of wealth. If you don’t you will become the personal tech support for all these people and you won’t have time to do anything else.

Gather All the Wagons Together and Move Out

Get moving and don’t take so much time sharpening all the pencils and lining all the chairs and desks up either. Put your plan into action today. Yes, you will hit bumps in the road and you will get an occasional flat tire once in a while, but don’t let that discourage you and don’t let that drain all the air out of your sails.  Someone told me that the reason we fall down is so we can learn how to get back up. When you fall down, you brush yourself off and you get back up and move on.

I guess these are things that I’ve talked about before, but I never get tired of, and I always have to be reminded of them, because it’s so easy to get discouraged from family, friends, or others that just might not be on the same page as you are, and even though they all may be well-intentioned, it’s always a good idea to have mentors or business partners that you can engage in and communicate with to keep your heart and mind focused on the path and the plan that you have set for yourself, and keep to it and success will come. Your financial future depends on it.

 

 

We Are All Born Sales People

Just think about this for a minute. The ability to give someone the facts and the information in such a way as to lead them to where you want them to go. Not manipulation, although sometimes that’s the way we are perceived, and not deception, which is another way we are looked at, but the ability to give someone the truth and doing it in a way that they go to where you want them to go with that information.

You are giving them true factual evidence and information on products and services that will be beneficial to them, and will meet or exceed the  requirements that they need and are looking for. This is the picture that you want to paint for them. That there is not another person on the planet that can or will make this type of offer to them. If they say no to you today, they may never walk this way again.

Some will say that sales is all in the hype, and we do see plenty of that today with the very emotional pleas and rhetoric that a lot of sales people use, but I’ve never really been a big hyped up kind of person. Show me how both ends meet and that’s all I need, and I’ve always felt that kind of pitch usually gets washed away and you are left with the practicality of the product or service. If it doesn’t do and say what it’s supposed to do, it doesn’t matter how much you hype it up, it just won’t go.

The downside to that is that’s the way people will start to look at you, and when you come by again, that will be fresh in their minds and they will just tune you out. Nobody likes a used car salesman chasing you up and down the isles shouting all his hype at you.

This is the heart and soul of what direct sales is all about. Those who say that there is no selling in this marketing are not being real because there is. It may not be in the same way as other sales are but it still has the idea of you first selling yourself and then the product or service that you are representing.

But this is my point…we are all born sales people. When I talk to someone and they say they don’t want to sell anything or they can’t do sales, I will always come back at them and say, “yes you can, you’ve been doing it all your life.” Let me explain.

Remember when you were a kid and you and your brother found that lost puppy? Remember how you and your brother were putting together a sales pitch and platform, that you were going to use on your parents to convince them how they and you, needed this cute little puppy in their lives. All the while, when you were walking home, you were having a meeting as to how would be the best method to use and get mom and dad to come on board with you and your brother. You may not have realized it, but you were selling.

This is when your best sales skills come out.

 

What about the time when you were in a rush and you got pulled over by that nice police officer. It takes a great deal of persistence and cunning to convince that officer that you were either, not speeding, or that you were justified in speeding, and he should give you a break, and you won’t ever do it again. That’s sales.

Or trying to convince your boss that you really need that week’s vacation. You’ve been working hard and you haven’t really had a day off in long time and you are really getting stressed and you could use some time to get away and refocus. Again…sales.

You see if you really look at your life and the situations that you’ve been in and how your incredible ability to talk and maneuver your way around people and those situations, I think you will be able to see that you really might have a very bright future in the direct sales industry.

If you’ve been laid off, phased out, or just simply cut by your employer, and you are running out of resources, why not take a look at running your own business in the direct sales industry? Many people are looking and entering this industry, that Robert Kiyosaki says, is the business of the 21st century. Weather your degree is in sales or not, this is a place where you can grow and thrive owning your own business. Set your own hours and run your business on your schedule, not the boss’s.

This is a 120 billion dollar a year industry that is growing more and more every year. If this is you and you’re interested in getting more information, click right here. You will be taken to an application site. Fill in your information and I will call you personally. If you want to work with me and starting and running your own business has always been something that you wanted to do, click right here.

God bless you and your very bright future.

Leads Are The Wheels That Make Your Business Move Forward – Do You Need a New Set?

Leads leads leads, that’s all I ever heard about when I came into the network marketing industry. Well it didn’t take me long to figure out why either. I soon realized real fast, that without a funnel of leads, you’re not going anywhere with your network marketing business, especially those trips to the bank. You won’t be making many of those.

Leads are the wheels that make your business move forward. Do you need a new set? If you do, I would like to introduce you to one that will not only take you forward, but will make the trip faster and so much smoother than you ever dreamed of before. It’s the luxury liner of business leads.

The first thing you need to understand is attraction marketing. I get a lot of questions from newbies that are just joining the network marketing arena, and the first thing they want to do is go out and hammer everyone and their uncle about the next best business that there in. After they’ve chased everyone away and they’re left there standing all alone, penniless, they come to the conclusion that network marketing is a scam and they quit. They pass this onto all their family and friends and that’s why network marketing has received such a bad name. Quitters never win and winners never quit.

Next is to get involved with a marketing system that will teach you how attraction marketing works and how you can generate leads, most of them free, when you implement the right strategies. Now I know that there are a lot of them out there and they vary in prices, and I’ve seen quite a few of them myself, but the best one is My Lead System Pro. MLSP will not only give you training from some of the top earners in this industry but,  you will also be introduced and meet some of the up and coming stars. MLSP is by far the best marketing system on the planet.

You have to get the proper introduction and education as to what attraction marketing is all about, from the one who put it all together, Mike Dillard. If you’ve never heard of or seen his explanation of how this system works and how it’s made for him over 7 million dollars, and how it has revolutionized the network marketing industry, you need too as soon as possible. As a matter of fact get seven training videos from Mike Dillard on this subject, absolutely free right here, and start yourself on the right road to leads and prosperity. Listen to Mike himself explain it all to you.

The next step, after you’ve learned some of the basics to attraction marketing, is what I call the grand daddy of all lead system generating tools, LeadNetPro. This is the by far the best that I’ve ever seen in generating leads for any type of business you might have. Once you get your system set up you will never have to pay for a lead again.

Delivering 99% accurate data from some of the top search engines, Google, Yahoo, and more, your business will start to climb very rapidly. You will have more leads than you can handle.

They also have a voice broadcasting system that is just incredible. I’ve never seen anything like it and so easy to do. Once you set it, you can go about your other tasks and come back to leads that want you to call them back, because the system has done all the separating for you. If you’ve ever done cold calling, like I have, you won’t ever have to go through all those hang ups and nasty people again. This works!

Last, but certainly not least, is another favorite of mine and one that I use all the time, IMToolSuite. This is the one stop, has all the tools that every business needs. There is the capture page creator, voice and text messaging, video email, web conferencing, contact manager, fanpage creator, Face book greeter, and nine other tools that are all under one roof. No more having fifteen pages open trying to do everything, this is all at one page for you.

Some of these tools you may have already, like I did, and I was able to save over $100 per month when I could cancel them, because IMToolSuite already had them for me. Kenny Gregg, Cedrick Harris, and Jim Choa, know what it’s like being in the trenches all the time themselves, so who better to put together one of the best business tool boxes that every business owner should have, weather it’s internet or a brick and mortar business, this is a must have for all your business needs.

Leads are the life blood of any business, and without them your business will be heading south real quick. I hope I’ve given you a guide and a road that will help you, and maybe ease all the confusion that is out there.

I know lots of things get thrown at you all at once, but these are the ones that you can hook up too, and will get you to where you want your business to go, and that’s straight up.

God bless

Brian Gosur

Business is People People and People

Remember the song that Barbara Streisand sang; “People who need people, are the luckiest people in the world”. Good thing you are only reading this and not hearing me sing it right now, I would lose you for sure.

Let’s just think about that for a moment. People who need people; who doesn’t need other people? Now I’m a very independent person, but I would be absolutely lost without other people in my life, and so would you. People make the world go round, we need each other whether you want to admit that or not.

I remember an old Lee Marvin movie, “Hell in the Pacific”. It’s a story of an American marine pilot and a Japanese naval officer, stranded on the same island back in 1944 during World War II. They are naturally enemies but it’s very interesting how they finally realize that they need each other if they are ever going to leave the island alive.

People and relationships are what make our lives move and have meaning. A relationship is what got you married, if your married. A relationship with your friend is what got you in trouble, when you egged that house way back on a cold dark evening in October, and it’s relationships that keep your business growing and thriving. The same trust that comes from relationships where we are saying, “I do”, is the same trust that’s going to turn a curious lead into a valuable customer.

Here are four steps you can take to get yourself and your blog out there where other people can see you and come over to read what you have, that will allow you to make that very important connection.

Join Social Networks

More than 80% of Americans use social networks

I don’t mean to just get a twitter or a Facebook account and start sending out friend requests. Join some groups and get to know some people. Talk to them and ask them questions. It’s like the new neighbor moving in, you come down to their house with a pie and introduce yourself to them by being a little neighborly.

That may be the old-fashioned way of doing things but it works, and people will get to know you by seeing you around, and they will eventually ask you about what you do. It happens all the time. Having the right tools in place will give you that extra edge.

We live in a social networking world, even governments can’t get away with doing things without the whole world knowing about it, or even some of our political figures. You have to be careful what you send and say on your cell phone and your face Book account because everyone will read about it.

Join groups where the people have a need for your products. Don’t join weight loss groups when you have a cake decorating business.

It’s Not All About You

This is a big mistake that I’ve learned the hard way. Don’t just write content about you and your business, write about others and those that can contribute value to your readers. Give them content that will enhance them and thus you will be enhanced in their eyes. You will now become that someone who they want to come back for more and pass you onto others.

It’s even good to have guest writers on your blog, something that I’ve not done as of yet, but will definitely do in the future. Forget about yourself, and think about your customers. What are their problems? What matters to them? That’s what you need to be bringing to the table.

There’s nothing more impressive than stopping by the side of the road and helping that person fix their flat tire, and ask for nothing in return. People will remember that and you.

Give Them What They Want

Sometimes we get caught up as the expert in our field, and we know exactly what the customer’s problem is. I don’t mean the symptoms, or the issue that they want to fix right now — I mean the real problem that lies deep down at the root of it all. The trouble is that people don’t always know that, and so they aren’t looking for that solution. Start by introducing them to what they want and then you can deliver what they need later along the way.

Give Them a Call

This is the most important one. More than 80% of your business depends on this one.

I don’t care how many leads you can generate, if you’re not on the phone and connecting with people you will never make a dime in this industry. Even if you don’t make a sale, you’ve made a connection that might come back later to a sale. That has happened so many times.

I’ve talked with people and never closed a sale, but I’ve helped them with something that they may have been struggling with, and they are grateful and are going to remember me.

This was the hardest thing for me to learn to do, was to pick up that phone and give that person a call. I remember doing all those cold calls back when I was in the mortgage industry. I hated doing them, but they were a great training ground for what I’m doing today. It’s like riding a bike, once you learn how to do it, you never forget and it gets easier and easier as you go along. Sure you will fall down and get bruised up, but that’s how you learn.

Just do it and that 800 pound gorilla, we call the phone, will become as light as a feather, and your bank account will thank you.

Two Tools That Will Make Your Headlines Stop People

Weather you’re just surfing some of your favorite blogs, going through the internet, or even just a magazine in the doctor’s office, have you ever just stopped at a headline that caught your attention? Than the doctor calls you in and you don’t want to put down the magazine. Like a deer caught in the headlights is what your headline needs to do to your reader.

Now I don’t mean some of the todays headlines that I’ve read in the past like; “Read This or I will Kill You!”, “My Drug Secret Has Come Out in the Open”, or ” Shut Up You Make Me Sick”. Now there is no doubt that these might get you to stop and start reading, but they usually won’t keep you reading all the way through to the end. I think that headlines like these will start to train people to stay away from your articles rather than attract them to you.

It’s like the boy who cried wolf. At first you will get people to come, but once they catch on that this is just one of your tactics to draw their attention, they will learn to stay away. Once they start reading and find no relevance to your title, they will be gone. People are not dumb and we should never treat them like they are.

The headline has to have the ability to catch someones attention rather quickly and then draw them into what you’re saying, step by step. It’s a process that takes a little bit of practice and definitely some understanding of human nature. That doesn’t mean that you have to be a psychologist or a professional writer, just being who you are, and giving people what they are looking for.

I guess if you were writing for “The National Enquirer”, you might get away with headlines like the ones I just spoke of, or if you believe that a women could give birth to an eight pound baby elephant, or the story of a bat child being found in a cave, than you might want to quit writing and check yourself into the nearest hospital.

The National Enquirer also carries a reputation for that kind of writing, and those kind of headlines are not surprising to see, but unless you want that type of reputation also, you might want to stay away from those kinds of headlines.

There are other ways to get people to read your blog, and I want to give you two tools that will make your headlines stop people. I use these all the time when I’m writing and they are extremely good.

1. The first one is free, and I don’t know anyone who doesn’t like free. It’s called, “Advanced Marketing Institute”, and there is a tool that is used for measuring the effectiveness of your headlines on that site called the “Headline Analyzer“. You type in the headline that you want to use for your article and it will give you an EMV score for your headline. The “Emotional Marketing Value” will tell you if your headline will appeal to the spiritual, emotional, or intellectual side of your reader. You will be given a little summary and explanation of this process.

The headline of this article that you are reading right now was given a 37.5 % ranking and that’s not bad. I hope that you haven’t been disappointed with it either. I’ve had some headlines go as high as 58%. For comparison, most professional copywriters’ headlines will have 30 to 40%  EMV words in their headlines, while the most gifted copywriters will have 50%-75% EMV words in their headlines.

I love this tool and I use it all the time. Try it out for yourself and see if it doesn’t improve your headlines and the kind of response to your articles that you’re looking for.

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I have been writing now for a while and I can get my articles ranked on the first page of Google with relative ease now, by using some very simple tools.

This doesn’t diminish the fact that you still need good relative content to attract people to your blog and your writing style, but with a little work and some good tools to help you out, you can climb up the search engine rankings, and watch the people line up to see what your writing about this week.

The Banks and Financial Institutions Want to Keep You in Debt

I used to work in the mortgage industry years ago. I was a loan officer and I had to deal with customers and the banks that were going to lend these customers the money for their mortgages. Not everyone, but definitely some of these people acted like you were borrowing money from their own personal bank  accounts. Banks are like that.

A few years ago our economy almost came to a complete halt. A couple of major companies were on the verge of bankruptcy, Freddie Mack and Fannie Mae, were going under, and America’s downward economic spiral began.

The government felt that pumping 700 billion dollars into these financial institutions, and keeping them afloat, would be the answer to righting the ship. They were wrong.

Instead of righting the ship, the banks and financial institutions, invested this  money from the government and made a lot of money for themselves. They paid the government back in record time, and then sat on the pile of money that they made, instead of putting it back into the economy and getting the ship back on course.

This is what the Banks did with the stimilus package

Oh, they did use the money for some things, like building a new company resort for their CEO’s and high officials, so I guess it wasn’t a total waste.

Just a little place to unwind

The one thing that I had a very hard time in dealing with was the total difference from the way these corporate higher-ups viewed people like you and me. We are just a means of business to them.

About thirty some years ago, I was in a financial situation were I was advised to file bankruptcy. I had a wife and small children to take care of, but I also felt that filing for bankruptcy wasn’t the right think to do. I owed this money and I was going to pay it back, and that’s exactly what I did. All the fees and late charges, I paid it all.

It took me years to pay it all back, but what did I gain from taking this noble route…nothing. My credit was still damaged and it took me even longer to get that back, and the banks and financial institutions that I was dealing with, still treated me with disdain, no respect, like I was a third class citizen.

I found out years later, when I was in the mortgage industry, from banking people who I started to develop friendships with, that banks don’t care about you or me, all they want is their money and they want it with interest. Legal loan sharks is what I like to call them.

They monitor your financial situation very closely, and even though you have a good credit rating, and you pay all your payments on time, or you may even make extra payments, it doesn’t matter. When they see activity that might send a red flag to them that you maybe starting to get into trouble, like making utility payments with a credit card, or buying food with a credit card, they will see this as a sign that you are in trouble.

Do they offer to help you…no way? They see this as an opportunity to make money. They drop your credit limit for no reason, and this shows the credit bureaus that you are maxed out, and this will drop your credit score. Then they raise your interest rate, which is going to make it all that much harder for you to make your payments on time. Once you are late, the fees and late charges start to pile up, and you start to sink like a rock, which is exactly what they want.

You see, they don’t make any money from people who use their credit cards as cash, and pay off the balance at the end of every month. They only make money from people who are sinking in debt, and just like a shark that sees blood in the water , they swim around for the kill, and they will milk you and milk you for all the interest and late fees that they can legally get.

Ever wonder why, as you are in this financial downward spiral, you’re still getting credit card applications in the mail? Or, even after a bankruptcy, you will get bombarded with enticing advertisements for credit? I know of people who have gone through bankruptcy, and within a year or two they are getting offers for credit cards and loans again that will lead them right back down the hole they just crawled out of.

Why, because the banks and financial institutions know that you are a good target to get back into debt, and they will make a lot of money off of you.

This is why the banks and financial institutions want to keep you in debt. By keeping you in debt, they make money.

Don’t let them do it. If this is you, stop this merry-go-round and get into a good financial class that will train you on how to use money and credit. Don’t be a slave to your money, make it a slave to you, and learn how to use it to make more money for you and your family.

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Nobody Will Change Anything They Are Doing Until They Are Forced Too

We all love comfort don’t we? As a matter of fact, I believe I work hard enough and it’s my right as a man and an American citizen to demand a comfortable life, one that I can sit back in ease and pleasure. Ahhhhh, where’s my easy chair?

This is the Life

But unfortunately that usually is not how life goes, as all of us can attest too. Life is anything but easy and comfortable.

The attitude that a life of ease was owed me made me lazy. I found myself indulging in watching to much TV and not enough physical activity, and eating way to much of all the wrong things. Pizza naturally goes best with watching football on Sunday afternoon. I don’t drink alcohol, but Coke or Pepsi weren’t good either with all the sugar, and I always had to have my ice cream as a desert.

Needless to say my weight and blood pressure both started to go up and my waist started to go out. Instead of playing basketball, I started to look like I swallowed one.

My doctor kept warning me that as I got older, this type of lifestyle that I was living, would eventually catch up to me and the ending would not be good. He said he’s seen more than one of his patients go through this same scenario.

Most of us live in that comfort zone and we aren’t moving unless we are forced to or something happens to us and pushes us out. I didn’t want this to happen to me, so I started to think of a plan of action.

Well a friend of mine, Larry Beacham, sent me an email about a 90 Day Health Challenge. If Larry is in something, it’s worth me taking a look at also.

The company is the fastest growing company in the network marketing industry, according to the “Wallstreet Journal”. Yes, I said the “Wallstreet Journal”. When was the last time you read about a network marketing company in the “Wallstreet Journal”?

Visalus on the cover of "Success From Home" magazine

This company is also on the cover of “Success From Home” magazine for the month of August. This is the second time they have dawned the cover of this very prestigious magazine, in the past twelve months.

In the month of July, 2011, over 48,500 people signed up to take the 90 Day Health Challenge. 48,500 people is a lot of people. These are people who want to lose some pounds and get back in shape, and most of all, the product that is going to take them there…works.

The company is Visalus Sciences, and it has been around for six years and the Challenge works. Story after story shows changed lives and healthier people. People who are getting in shape and staying in shape.

80% of all Americans are obese, and our young people are over weight and do not get any type of exercise or physical activity in any way shape or form. Ladies and gentlemen, America needs to take the Challenge. You need to take the Challenge and I need to take the Challenge.

Well I joined the Challenge on July 21, 2011. I weighed in at a plump 206 pounds. As of today, August 18, 2011, I weigh 196 pounds. I’ve lost ten pounds and I feel great, and I’m getting to the point where people are starting to notice. That feels real good when someone comes up to you and asks you, “Are you losing weight”? You become a walking billboard for the Challenge.

Not only can you lose weight and get healthy again, but you can make money by promoting the Challenge, but if doing the business is not for you, you can still join the Challenge and get your product for free.

Yes get on the road to a new you without it costing you any money, and maybe even get paid for losing weight and getting in shape, because the company gives away over $10,000,000 a year in free product, prizes and vacations and maybe you could be one.

Did I also mention that there is a BMW bonus for those that do the business, and over 5000 people have been awarded a brand new black BMW already. Larry got his and it only took him 30 days to get it.

How would you like to lose weight, get in shape, make some money, and maybe get a black BMW, all for just promoting the 90 Day Challenge. Just click on “Join The Challenge” below and get your Challenge started today.