•10 Simple Ways To Control Adult Add
Both adult ADD and adult ADHD has drawbacks, though we know there are great benefits in creativity, intelligence, and the ability to hyperfocus. Yet, some of the mundane tasks in the world can be helped by following these 10 easy steps:
1. Color Code Your World: When it comes to things like what to do with the dirty clothes, color-coded bins that make sorting easier is a great way to streamline laundry day and to keep sleeping spaces neat for people with adult ADD. Rather than tossing...
•ADD - Assignment Mapping
If you have ADD, you probably have run into the cloudy communications problem more than once. Your ADD brain is just cranking at the speed of light, and what may seem perfectly right to you, may make other people step back and go, "Huh?" Though you think they get it, they don't and miscommunication like that can cause lots of trouble. How do you change that?
When you're asking for something, do you say, "Give me that, please," and point to the kitchen counter, which is laden with all number...
•ADD - Combating The Dreaded Clutter Monster
When you woke up this morning and went to your home office, did you see the same stack of newspapers on the floor that's been there since 1992? Or, what about your desk? Do you remember if it's mahogany or metal? If you're asking these questions, you may have ADD, and are suffering the dreaded clutter monster.
It's not uncommon for people with ADD to have clutter in their lives. Though we really prefer things to be nice and neat, we don't have the wherewithal to keep things that way. We hate...
•ADD - Do You Talk Too Much?
If you have an ADD brain, it's always working. Ideas are popping up like dandelions after a fresh summer rain, and as with a well-kept lawn, you need a way to get rid of them. You need to clear your mind. So, you want to talk. And it doesn't have to be anyone in particular. You can talk to a trusted friend, or a stranger, but there are times when you just belabor a point until the person is ready to fall asleep, even if they understand it's your ADD doing the talking.
You aren't terribly...
•ADD - Don't Wallow
I have ADHD, and if you're a person who has ADD or ADHD, you know that life can be frustrating and hard at times. I mean, we can zone out at very important times or we might have clutter stacked to the ceiling or we forget something really important. Those things happen. But whether you're ADD or not, you're going to have issues and problems, and that's just how life works.
ADD just adds a layer of issues to the ones that linear-thinking people already have. But you can't let those...
•ADD - Got The Day-to-Day Boredom Blues?
ADD people are bored very easily, as you well know if you have ADD. People call us lazy, but it's not that. We'll put tremendous effort into things that matter to us, and that we enjoy. But how exciting is washing dishes or cleaning up a mess of stuff? Not very and it just doesn't happen. We learn to live with our messes.
Am I right? The dishes could be overflowing the sink, and the dust in the house might be forming little clumps that are starting to resemble small animals. They're scaring...
•ADD - It's Not Real?
A British physician in the early twentieth century first discovered attention deficit disorder. But it's only since the 1980's that ADD has been noticed by the general population. If you're over 30, you may have experienced the symptoms of attention deficit all your life, but didn't realize that's what the issue was, until you were an adult. You may have been labeled disorganized, lazy, and flat-out "flaky" by others, and when you finally realize that you probably have attention deficit, you...
•ADD - What's Your Line?
When we're young, we take jobs just to earn money for a car or for clothes or for whatever reason. You might have worked in a bank, part time. Or, maybe you served food in a restaurant or you were a lot person in a car dealership. But how come you never left? It's true that ADD can make us uncomfortable with new situations, especially at work. You might have stayed because the money was good. Or, perhaps you just kept moving up the ladder. Or, you couldn't escape from the industry because for...
•ADD - When Your Partner Doesn't Get You
Are you dealing with your partner's unhappiness in your relationship? What are their complaints? Could they be that you can't remember things, that you're always distracted, or that you're lazy and leave things lying around everywhere? Does this sound like the arguments you've been having?
Consider that you might have adult attention deficit disorder. Your partners reactions to some of your behaviors are typical, especially when you aren't aware of your ADD and neither is your partner. First,...
•ADD - Worry Not, Lest Ye Be Lost In Despair
Do you worry a lot? I mean, are you someone who just finds all the pitfalls in life? Do you worry about money, your job, or your family? Do you worry about global warming, rising prices, or who will be the next President? If you have ADD on top of all that, you really have a time bomb waiting to explode within you. Plus, the ADD hyperfocus could cause you to spiral into a downward vortex, from which you can't recover alone. Don't allow that to happen to yourself. Recognize what's happening and...
•Add And 10 Tips To Help You Live With It
Have you gone through life uncomfortably? Have you had relationship issues? Career issues? Trouble with addictions? The signs and symptoms of what you may have experienced weren't readily evaluated by doctors until sometime in the 1980s, leaving those that grew up before wondering why they were having a hard time trying to cope. But don't feel bad when you learn that what you've had is ADD, just because it's labeled a "disorder." When you realize that attention deficit is what may have been...
•Add Hyperfocus, Determination, And Persistence
Two important qualities that all successful people have are determination and persistence. But when you have ADD, the persistence part can be quite difficult
But let's take a step back. What makes someone determined?
There are many meanings of that word, but the one meaning we want to concentrate on here is the "firmness of purpose or resolve." It's a "burning desire" the kind of determination that motivates you to action. Yet, determination alone won't lead to success. Only persistence...
•ADD: Adult ADD Symptoms Can Be Different
If you have ADD, you remember what it was like to have attention deficit as a child, and though you may think you outgrew the ADD symptoms, you could be mistaken. ADD symptoms manifest themselves differently when the complexities of adult life take over. Here are some examples:
Everyone knows the effects of hyperactivity in children, who are unable to stay in one place without moving for very long. But that ADD symptom can present itself differently in adults. They may be excessive talkers....
•Add: Come Out Of The Closet And Be Happier
When you have ADD, it's almost certain that you have a messy closet. You probably have racks for your shoes, but they're laying in a pile in the middle of the floor. You might have too many clothes, though you only wear about half of them, and they're all bunched onto the hangers and wrinkled all the time. Or, you have ties all over the room, slung over this and that. Well... what if you could come up with an ADD-friendly plan to stop the clutter?
Your first step should be to get rid of the...
•ADD: Emotional Issues Rear Up Early
How kids interact with other kids around them is one indicator of how well they will develop in life. Some will do well, and others will continue to struggle throughout adulthood. But if they have ADD, they will probably have trouble making friends or be outright rejected by their classmates when they're very young. If you don't recognize the signs, these ADD kids will often have the most trouble as they grow into adulthood.
Trouble with peers often shows itself early because some kids with...
•ADD: Feed Your Head
In a British study, scientists found that 80% of participants had a significant change in their mood disorders, which included depression, anxiety, and even encompassed ADD, since mood disorder often goes along with attention deficit. Both refined sugar and caffeine were found to have negative effect, while nuts, fruits, vegetables, and fish were proven to be beneficial.
One positive factor in brain health was water. It's important for all of us to consume at least 64 ounces per day or more....
•Add: Five Simple Tricks For Work That's Boring
Even if you have an ADD-friendly job, you probably still have certain tasks that have to b be accomplished that you just hate to do. So, you procrastinate or you avoid doing them completely. But that's not good. You have to pay the bills to keep your business running, or you have filing as part of your job. What's an person with attention deficit to do?
Some of us have built our businesses up to the point where we're able to hire people to do the stuff we hate to do. But what happens if...
•ADD: I'm Late!
Picture this: You just rolled out of bed. You have about half an hour to leave the house, but you're no good without caffeine, so you run to the refrigerator, looking for the coffee that you moved to the pantry six months before. Then, once you've managed to get the coffee going, you go into your underwear drawer, and while you're opening it, you see your brush, so you start brushing your hair. Then, you brush your teeth, and finally, you look back into the underwear drawer and realize that...
•ADD: Is It Or Isn't It?
In our busy modern world, the terms ADD (attention deficit disorder) and ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) is sometimes overused. Teachers who find kids to be unruly and daydreaming send notes home to parents and tell them, "Your child is not functioning. You should have him tested for ADD (attention deficit disorder)," or something like that. The problem is that not all behaviors that are disruptive in the classroom are caused by attention deficit. That's true of adults, as...
•ADD: Office Organization In A Nutshell
Is your office no longer recognizable? Is the clutter so bad that it engulfs every surface? Is seeing the computer screen getting harder and harder because there's so much dust on it? If you answered yes to these questions, I wouldn't be surprised to learn that you have ADD.
Attention deficit causes these things to happen, and what's worse, though everyone around you notices, you probably don't. Yet, if you're in a structured office environment, your boss may look at the mess and rule out any...
•ADD: Procrastination Spending Out Of Control?
Today is the day. You can't wait another minute longer. You have to get that report done, or you'll be in hot water with the boss. But it's so boring! Then, you see your keys on the desk in front of you, and you grab them and jump into the car. Getting away from that horrible boring thing you have to do, like filling out your student loan papers or preparing that special report. So...
You drive to the nearest store, and it doesn't matter whether it's Auto Parts Plus or CVS, you're there. And...
•ADD: See The Sunny Side
If you have ADD or ADHD, you may have the tendency to see yourself in a negative light. Don't do that! Don't focus on the bad things. Turn ADD traits around and see them in a positive light. When you do that, you'll be a happier person with a happier life. Let me show you how...
First, one characteristic associated with ADD is "impulsivity." So? You think fast on your feet. And when you're able to think fast in a critical situation and make a quick decision, then you're not impulsive. You're...
•ADD: Some Interesting Statistics
In an article by David J. Morrow of The New York Times, the author states, "Several recent studies estimate that 6 million to 9.5 million American adults have the disorder, making it as common as severe clinical depression or drug abuse." ("Attention Disorder is Found in Growing Number of Adults." Sept. 2, 2007) Even more surprising is the fact that more than 700,000 ADD prescriptions will be written this year. That's up more than three and a half times from 1992. What's doing that? Is it...
•Add: Still Haunted By Your Childhood Past?
Were you one of those kids who heard everything except what the teacher was saying? The clock ticking, noise in the hallway, or a bird singing on the nearest tree branch? Was it hard for you when the teacher called on you and you didn't have a clue about the question, let alone the answer? Of course, this only happened in classes that didn't interest you in the least--languages, history, or math. Or maybe you liked them. Maybe you hung on every historical event and could spout dates and...
•ADD: Using Learning And Hyperfocus
We know that ADD is a neurobiological condition, so isn't it important that you learn more about your brain? Not in what causes attention deficit, because nobody really knows for sure. Some scientists blame a shortage of certain brain chemicals. Others say it's because one of our lobes is smaller. But whatever the cause, that doesn't mean we have a deficiency in any way. I mean, we're really amazing. We are multi-taskers, think at the speed of sound, and we're more often than not, very smart....
•ADD: Ways To Stop Impulsivity And Spending
When you have attention deficit disorder (ADD), you may not be a great money manager, but even worse, you may have issues with your ADD impulsivity and spending. When that happens, it doesn't matter if you have 300 video games, you probably want another one the minute it appeals to you. That's your ADD talking.
This can stop, and it should. You're probably letting your ADD impulsivity drag you in directions that aren't good for you. High credit card balances, not enough money to make the...
•Add: When You Need To Get It All Together
Getting some things done is a constant struggle for women with ADD. And it can be depressing, too. Why can some people just seem to do everything so easily, and why is it such a major big-deal for you? Of course, it's because you have ADD and you have to allow that.
You needn't feel bad about things that really aren't within your control. But don't just walk away and blame your ADD. With just a few tricks, you, too, can have the dinner party of the century.
Let's break it down into chunks...
•Add: You Can Get Them To Understand
ADD and ADHD present certain personality characteristics that linear-thinking people don't understand. We live in the now, while linear-thinking people live in the past, present, and future. We can't change some of those things, even when we try to do it. We're just different, and those differences can sometimes cause problems.
For example, my partner, Jodi, isn't ready to be up and awake the minute she gets out of bed in the morning. I'm ready to go. I want to share ideas and just jump right...
•ADD: You Can't Live Without Food... Duh
Linear-thinking people take eating for granted. You go into the kitchen, get something to prepare, fix it, eat, and go. Simple.
ADD people are different. We're grand procrastinators, and we get bored easily. The thought of standing around in the kitchen waiting for something to finish cooking is totally alien to us. We can put a pot on the stove, walk away to do something else, and then the smoke alarm goes off because we completely forgot.
Forgetting to eat isn't out of our realm of...
•Adult Add And Cloudy Communications
If you're someone with adult ADD or ADHD, how often do you have circular conversations? You know the kind. You go 'round and 'round with someone, and you're both saying the exact same thing, but you can't make yourself understood? Isn't that frustrating? Is it possible for someone AD/HD to have less stress in their communications?
The frustration you're feeling comes from a sense of imbalance because you're misunderstood. Feelings of "Nobody Understands Me" promote your sense of loneliness...
•Adult Add And Women
Because girls with attention deficit don't usually have the hyperactivity component that accompanies ADD, they're thought of as being "emotional" or "difficult." When they do have the hyperactivity factored in, then people call them tomboys or think of them as flaky or flighty. These girls also have more fights with peers because of their emotional spikes, and still, nobody recognizes that the girl is ADD. The interesting part is that they share all of the attention deficit symptoms with...
•Adult Add: Eat To Live
Being healthy isn't easy, and if you have adult ADD, you may be skipping over this part entirely. You probably forget to eat meals and just grab whatever candy bar or fast food snack is at hand. You need to remember one thing, though. If you don't eat, you die. Its' as simple as that. So, even if you have to be led to the banquet table, you have to remember that healthy meals are not an option.
It's not that hard to eat things that are good for you, even if you have adult ADD. Forget that...
•Adult ADD: Focus Ideas, Complete A Plan
How does the ADD brain process ideas?
For most people, ADD shows up in early childhood. You’re sitting in the car and start asking questions of whomever is driving. “Are we there yet?” "What makes the car run?" "Why do the clouds move?" and on and on, until you get some answers!
ADD can be a blessing and a curse. When you are asking that many questions (unless you happen to have a parent, guardian, or teacher in your life, who really understands how your ADD brain works), this behavior is...
•Adult ADD: Forget The Yak Butter Tea
Have you ever gone into the grocery store and come away with a lot more than you ever intended to buy? Or, have you gotten home and realized that you forgot one item or 10? How do those things happen? Simple. Part of it has to do with your adult ADD. But don't worry. There's a way to avoid both sides of the issue, and it's pretty simple.
Because you have adult ADD, you can be impulsive, and grocery stores are all set up just hoping that people will impulsively buy. Think about it. Why do you...
•Adult ADD: Make Time For Distractions
Every day when you wake up, you probably have something that needs to be done on your mind. Like, I have to get my bills done, or I need to fix that chair that's been falling apart, or I have to disconnect my computer so I can take it in for service. It's usually something that needs to be done and has been hanging on your mind for a while. It may not be an emergency, but it just needs to be done. So, you start unplugging the wires from the back of your computer and the phone rings, right?...
•Adult Add: Making Time Your Time All Day
Do you know that there's more than one kind of time? Yep. There are three, actually--focus time, flex time, and free time, and it's important that you make each a part of your day, especially if you have adult ADD.
The first kind of time, focus time, should be a snap for people with adult ADD because it's "hyperfocus" time. It's when you really get into something that needs doing. Flex time is just what it implies---it's flexible. During this kind of time, you see clients and return telephone...
•Adult ADD: Myths And Legends
If you have adult ADD or ADHD, you've probably heard it all, and because it was only around 30 years ago that professionals started to recognize that attention deficit doesn't always go away, you may never have been properly diagnosed. Oh, well... you still have adult ADD.
So, let's discuss some of the reasons why or why not your attention deficit came to be:
1. Hyper people are the only ones with ADD
Not true. Even if you're as calm as an azure sky, you may still have attention deficit in...
•Adult ADD: Remembering To Remember
When you have adult ADD, it's not surprising that your memory is faulty. When you remember certain events or places, you might get a bit creative, let's say. Or, you'll be physically attending and mentally elsewhere. You may not remember things people did or what they said, or even places you've been until someone gives you just the right verbal cue and then, whatever it is you're to remember comes into view. None of this is unusual for people with adult ADD.
Yet, forgetting things may make...
•Adult ADD: Use ADD To Make Their Day (And Yours)...
If you’re not getting what your want out of life, it’s not because you have Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), you’re a bad person, you don’t have anything to offer the rest of the world, any learning disability, background, or how much money you have. It’s all whether or not you can communicate what’s on your mind in an effective way.
Where I'm from, people don’t generally walk around smiling and hugging you when they first meet you. What I found was that when I said, “How’s it going?” almost...
•Blogging For List Building Traffic
Do you have a blog? If you're an Internet Marketer, and you don't have one, why not? Is it because you're afraid that you can't write? Is it because you're afraid you don't know how to set up a blog? Is it because you don't think you have time for a blog? Well, you're wrong on all three counts. You're wrong!
Everyone interested in list building should be driving traffic to squeeze pages, and blogs are an incredibly easy way to do that. First, search engines love them, so if you start a blog...
•Bring Short Copy Up To Snuff
People ask me how to write good copy a lot, and often they're interested in how to make short ads better for classifieds, for GoogleAdWords, for co-registration, etc.
I usually send them back to a time before computers became such a hot business tool. Some of the greatest short copy techniques were working long before the Internet came alive for business. Marketers then, using newspaper advertising, were doing some of the very same things we do now electronically. They were just as thrilled...
•Fire Up Your List Building With Three Powerful Solutions
Are you new to list building? If so, how's it going for you? I mean, how quickly is your list growing? If you haven't gotten your list building up to the pace you want, let me offer three great solutions:
1. Create a report and give it away for signing up: You can buy private label rights articles or use some articles that you wrote yourself, then compile them into a report. You can offer it on your list building page, just above the opt-in box or as the primary copy on the page. It really...
•Getting Cooperation At Work When You Have Add
Can you believe that about 284 parents of 1,134 said they wouldn't want their kids to be friends with another kid who has ADHD? This study was reported in Science Daily and it wasn't 10 or 15 years ago, it was March 21, 2007!* What's wrong with these people? Could it be the medical community's classification of AD/HD as a mental illness?
That's just ridiculous. AD/HD does have its limitations, but is high intelligence and high creativity a disability? No! Get into the mindset that you rock...
•How To Keep It Together When You Have ADD
When you have ADD, one thing you're probably not great at is keeping your living space together. You might have piles of stuff everywhere, including laundry, which is all over the floor of the bedroom. We know what we need to do, but just can bring ourselves to do stuff that's boring. Looking around at the mess can get a little depressing.
Just remember that you're not the only one with these issues. All ADD people have the same stuff to deal with. We just hate being bored, and cleaning and...
•If It Weren't For Add, We Might Not Have The Theory Of Relativity
Were you a question machine when you were a kid? How come dogs can poop outside, but you won't let me? Why do raspberries have seeds? How do you know for sure that Santa Claus is watching me every single day? Doesn't he have more important things to do?
If you were lucky, your parents made up some kind of answer, if they didn't know it already. But, more often than not, kids that ask a lot of questions are told to keep still. If you have ADD, this was probably you, and it probably made you...
•Internet Marketing - An Opt-in Box By Any Other Name?
Are you making the most of your squeeze pages? Does your headline draw people's attention? Are your bullet points killer, just loaded with incredible benefits? And what about your opt-in box? Did you think a while before adding it to your page, or... did you just settle for what the autoresponder service gave you? Bad idea!
First consider that you need to ask for only the information you need--name and email address, first name only, even. The Internet marketing world is filled with squeeze...
•Internet Marketing - Finding A Niche
One hurdle people find difficult to overcome is choosing their first niche. What they're suffering is that old "paralysis by analysis" feeling. They're thinking so hard about what will make money via Internet marketing, that they're totally ignoring one very important rule of business: Do what you love. If you aren't having fun every day. What's the point?
So, what can you do? Here are some ways that you can jog yourself into a great Internet marketing niche:
Decide what has fascinated you...
•Internet Marketing - How Important Is Web 2.0 To Your Business?
Have you ever heard the word "folksonomie"? It's a combination of the words folks and taxonomy, and it's another word for tagging or social bookmarking. Sites like Digg, StumbleUpon, and Propeller are only three of the many dozens of sites popping up all over the Internet. There are sites for tagging almost any type of content, too, such as video, audio, graphic, or written. And unlike traditional search, where you get comprehensive results back for terms, social bookmarking sites give you...
•Internet Marketing - Talk Up Success
"How do I start with Internet marketing, Tellman," or "Where did you start?" are questions I hear a lot. Getting you into that is pretty simple, but it may take a while to figure out, anyway because you need a niche. You need to pick a niche to have your Internet marketing business in, first and foremost. So, sit down, think about what interests you, whether or not you know a lot about it, what excites you? What do you do as a hobby now that you could turn into a business? Just take some time...
•Internet Marketing And List Building: Making Others Work For You
Do you know what topic you're going to be list building around? If you want to succeed with Internet marketing, that's absolutely key. You need to figure that out, and it basically can either be something you want to learn a lot about, or it can be something you already know a lot about. Either one is completely legitimate. The next step is to go ahead and invite a lot of people who have been list building, and who have lists and products to sell to take part in your teleseminar interview...
•Internet Marketing And List Building: You Owe Yourself 9 Continuous Hours
Still confused about list building? You may have all the knowledge you need to get a good Internet marketing niche list up and running, but you don't know where to start. That's not unusual. We all get tons of mail in our inboxes, day after day. You may just be so overwhelmed by all the advice that you just shut down and don't do anything. Well, I have a very powerful way for you to make list building work for you and to get your Internet marketing business jump started.
Tomorrow, be sure...
•Internet Marketing: Boost Your Website's Income With These 5 Tips
Internet marketing people often start by monetizing their websites or blogs with Google AdSense. The ads just seem to blend seamlessly into your web page, appearing more like content than advertisements. If they're part of your site, when people click on them, you get money.
Some Internet marketing niches provide lots of income. The keyword "dating" for example, costs advertisers between $21 and $41 thousand dollars per day for clicks! If you have a dating site and use AdSense, you're...
•Internet Marketing: Hosting Wisely
This third article in our "Getting Started" series will address the issue of getting a hosting account. If you are serious about Internet marketing, you'll need your own website because trying to run a business off other people's web pages just doesn't work.
Though you can rely on affiliate pages to do the work, should you? Everyone else uses those pages. I'd say, "No!" You can use a free blog, too, but will it be the best blog for Internet marketing? No! The best blog is one hosted on your...
•Internet Marketing: Jvs Can Make A Huge Difference
So, here's the thing.... If you want to raise your list building efforts to the next level, especially when you're traveling and meeting people at conferences and such, find people in your niche. That's the first thing. After that, you want to see approximately how big their lists are. See if you can hook up with people who have lists of two to three thousand people.
Once you find them, there are a couple of things you'll want to do. First, you want to set up a cross-promo with them. If you...
•Internet Marketing: Putting Your Internet Marketing Site Online
This third in a series of "Getting Started with Internet Marketing" articles is about pointing your new web host (in article 2) to your new domain that you purchased in article 1. This linking is important because if you don't do it, you'll never see your Internet marketing site online. Period. But no problem! We're going to fix that right now.
A server (or name server or domain name server or DNS) is a computer that translates domain names into IP or Internet protocol addresses. These are...
•Internet Marketing: That Fickle Old Google
One of the most changing things in Internet marketing isn't how sales letters are written. It's not how videos are made or press releases submitted. It's how often Google changes its mind. One day, you're on the first page, and the next you may be nowhere to be found. It used to be that SEO (search engine optimization) people could just get links from anywhere in any quantity. Like, you could go out and buy a hundred links all on the same site and the search engines would think it was OK. That...
•Internet Marketing: The Double Whammy
Internet marketing is full of great ways to advertise your website, and many of them are free. But the thing is... Internet marketing people overlook one way that can be very, very powerful, especially if you take it to the next level. What am I talking about? Ezine advertising.
Probably the very first thing you think of when you hear "ezine" is paid advertising, and that's a really great way to get traffic and sales. Ezines are niche oriented, so your audience is highly targeted and the...
•List Building - Have A Good Article Foundation
Why do I write articles?
Hmm... I have 3 good reasons, actually.
The first one is because I like to help people. I do have a coaching program that's very expensive. Yet, I still like to give back some of what I've learned. When I was just starting out, I wanted the best people to teach me about list building, so I interviewed the people with the biggest lists I could find and I learned all I need to know to build a million-dollar business. This is proven information.
OK...
The second...
•List Building And Making Profits
List building is something we all do to make money, and if you're not list building, you should be. People are always saying, "The money is in the list." Because it is. You may be making some money from your list, but you won't make as much as you could be making if you don't go about list building the right way.
What does your thank you page say? I mean, after people sign up to join your list, does the submit button redirect them to a generic "thank you" page from your autoresponder? If...
•List Building In 7 Steps
One question that people often ask me is, "Tellman, I want start list building like you suggest, but I don't know where to start." OK. Let me give you the 7 simple steps to follow:
1. Find your niche: Everyone has something that really turns them on. Maybe it's chess or even NASCAR, acting or quilting. It really doesn't matter as long as there are enough people searching for keywords in that niche each month. So, in case the first idea doesn't have enough interest, maybe pick 2 or 3 things...
•List Building Via PPC
Pay-per-click is something you should know about. Pay-per-click isn’t something you absolutely have to know about immediately, but it's definitely something you should learn. But how do list building and PPC work together?
Starting your list building strategy with co-reg and JV deals are really the quickest, best, and least expensive ways that take the least amount of brain power for automatic list building. You’re really looking to build your list to several thousand as quickly as you can....
•List Building With Online Discussion Forums
Joining an online discussion forum can seem a little daunting, if you're new to the Internet Marketing world. You worry that you'll come off as a dumb newbie. Well, remember that we were all dumb newbies once and that the fastest, easiest way to get answers for what you need to do is by asking someone who already knows. In an online discussion forum, you can ask a lot of people at the same time.
Forums are all different, though, and have a certain etiquette to follow and it doesn't matter if...
•List Building: 5 Great Ways To Increase Opt-ins And Conversions
If you're just starting out with Internet Marketing, you probably don't know where to begin when creating your first list building page. Tracking and testing of whatever page you create is important, and you should start doing those things right away. But before you begin, you really have no stats to base your business on, so you may find it useful to use the stats of others. MarketingExperiments.com is such a place.
In 2004, MarketingExperiments.com conducted a survey about subscription...
•List Building: Are You Sending The Right Message?
The Internet is full of sound and color, isn't it? You have dynamic content, flash, video, and on and on. And when you start list building, you're setting up your autoresponder messages and may think that HTML is the way to go. But is it? Remember, you shouldn't be as concerned with look as you are with conversion. Which type of email works best? It's a toss up, but here are a few things to consider:
How do we communicate with one another, offline, list building aside? We speak to each other....
•List Building: Grab More Opt-ins Today
Do you think of list building pages as a headline, a set of three to five bullet points and an opt-in box? Most of us do. Yet, it's the underlying factors that get people to join your list, factors that you need to consider in order to make your list grow.
Your headline is the first thing people see, so you have to answer their age-old question, "What's in it for me?" The WIIFM question is all-important. If they see no personal benefit from joining your list, they just won't. It's that...
•List Building: Is Your Email Within The Law?
It's been almost three and a half years since the U. S. CAN-SPAM act went into effect, and though it didn't help to stem the flow of spam into our inboxes every day, you still have to follow the law.
"I'm just a one-person operation," you may be thinking. But even so, even if you're just starting out with list building, you have to remember that your'e still liable. One spam complaint could shut you down or worse. Though you're probably protected if you use an online autoresponder service, if...
•List Building: It's All In The Question
I don't know how many ways I can say this, but list building is the most important activity for you to be involved in, period. Everything you do should be geared toward list building, and along with that comes the messages in your autoresponder series. One of my students once asked, "I can't get the first message written. I don't know what to say."
Do you know what I answered, "Well... write the second one instead." That may seem flip, but if you can't get started, then just write anything....
•List Building: Message Mania
When you think of list building, are there little $$$ in your eyes? You've heard the old saying, "The money is in the list," no doubt. Or, "You make a dollar a month from every person on your list." Both tell you that your list is money, not people.
There's just one thing you forgot. Your list isn't made up of breathing leather wallets. It's comprised of people, just like you and me.
Some people complain that I send too much email because I send out to my list every single day, and the why...
•List Building: One Sure Way To Become A Successful Entrepreneur
I have an extremely important point to share with you today. I'm successful online, but I had to learn, just as you may be learning now. I did a few things that didn't work. I had no list, couldn't build a list, and then, I made a decision.
Here’s the way it worked for me, and I’ll leave it up to you as to whether or not you want to apply this. However, I had the exact same issues as you may be having now. It was, “Okay, what should I do first, what should I do second? Who should I listen to?...
•List Building: Selling Central Heating To People On The Equator
If you don't know by now that list building should be your primary objective, you're either a new marketer, or you haven't been listening. Why to you think the old adage remains... The Money is in the List? Because it's true! List building should be your primary goal.
There's no doubt that you need to have traffic in order to get people to sign up for your list. And you have several different ways to do it. But what kind of traffic should you be looking for?
People who know what they're...
•List Building: Should You Give A Hoot About Seo?
Do the words "search engine optimization" put a cold chill into the center of your heart? Does it seem too complicated? Do you even know what SEO means? Well, there's no doubt that it will bring lots of traffic to any website, which will in turn, intensify your list building efforts. However, to do it on a large scale, it takes very specialized knowledge. Can you do it? Should you do it? My answer is yes. There are some very simple techniques that can make your list building efforts go through...
•List Building: Should You Use Co-Registration, And Why?
Don't think of co-registration as "buying leads." That's a completely different ball park. Whereas a co-registration list is built with people who have chosen to be on your list, leads are just a list of strangers that haven't made that choice at all. Co-registration is much more in tune with the spam laws in effect today.
Co-reg is a great list building tool, and can build your list very quickly. You should definitely be looking at co-reg, if you're a new Internet marketer. The way it works...
•List Building: Three Ways To Develop A List
You probably read and heard a lot about list building before you realized the power in it. When you did, you may have gone all out, learning everything you could about list building, and you may have built a pretty good list. But though you followed the gurus' advice to the letter, though you're paying for an autoresponder service and you may even be growing your list fast with co-registration, you still can't make enough to cover the expense. You start to wonder, "Where did I go wrong?"
A...
•List-Building: Do You Love What You're Doing? If Not, Why Build A List?
I would be very hesitant to put any time, effort or energy into building a list for anything that you’re not absolutely passionate about.
If you spend time on a thing that you’re not really into, you’re training your brain to allow yourself to spend time on other things that you’re not absolutely passionate about. But... If you make the decision that you’re only going to be doing things in your life that you’re absolutely passionate about and you’re going to make vast amounts of money doing...
•List-building: Host Teleseminars To Build A Big List
When I started I didn’t know how to do a teleseminar, which is one of the reasons that I started the way I did. What I learned was that live teleseminars have a much higher conversion ratio and they're an excellent way to build a list. In the beginning, I ended up recording a whole bunch of private phone conversations between me and someone else, the interviewee.
The cool part about that was that they were recorded, they were short—30 to 45 minutes—and they were going to go up on a webpage,...
•List-Building: How To Become Top Dog In Any Environment
Here is an interesting idea: Once you learn to think like a marketer and you train your brain to look at things from this new perspective, what ends up happening is the tools almost become irrelevant. You can be in literally any situation and you can end up being the top dog in that environment.
That can mean all of a sudden you find yourself in Ghana, with no food and hopefully just a little bit of clothing, and you’re completely down and out. You certainly don’t have a computer. You...
•List-Building: Put Some Teeth In The Back End
People often ask, “We’re going to be giving away some ebooks—what’s the best way to monetize that?”
Ultimately, you want to monetize this by building a list. That’s the simple answer. If you’re not doing that, you’re shooting yourself in the foot.
But I would do two more things:
Number one is that I would do as much as I could to force the opt-in to your list before they get the ebook.
Number two is that I would assume that people are going to spread the ebook anyway. They’re going to give...
•List-Building: Start Where?
When I tell people, "The most important thing you can do right now is to build your list," they ask me, "What do I build a list about? Where do I start building this list?" That's pretty simple, actually.
Number one is pick a topic. This is as simple as taking a hobby, an interest, something that you like or enjoy. You can then think about and work on whether or not you make money on it from the start. Play to your hobby or interest when you’re first getting started.
Don't make the mistake...
•List-Building: Start With Your Passion; The List Will Follow
People new to Internet Marketing often ask me, "What’s the best way to start in Internet marketing?"
I’m going to tell you a story about myself as a case study.
When I started, I had no HTML experience, and I couldn’t put up a decent web page. I sucked at writing copy and I didn’t know how to edit audio. I didn’t know what an autoresponder series was, I didn’t know how to make a redirect, and I didn’t know how to approach people properly for a joint venture. I had no idea that building a...
•List-Building: The Mindset Factor
Let's talk about realizing what kind of list you're building. This is a very, very important consideration. You have to realize what mindset your list members are in.
So, maybe you're gathering an audience for a teleseminar about health and wealth product of some kind, the people you attract will be interested in health and wealth. They probably won't be interested in nonsense. They're not interested in wasting time. Of course, there's no doubt going to be some crossover.
The problem is that...
•List-Building: Why Sites Come Last And Lists Come First
People often ask me, "I bought a website, but it’s not really what I want it to be. Where do I go to find someone to help me get it right? "
"Whoa!" I say, "Back up." Finding a web designer is very easy. But should you even begin looking?
The problem is that when most people start out, they say, “I want a website and I think I want it to look like this.” They might pick out five or six different websites (by the way, I’ve done this). When I was first starting out, I hired five or six website...
•List-Building: Working With Your List
If you're on any of my lists, you may get multiple emails with the same subject line. In fact, it's pretty much the same email being sent to you multiple times, if you've signed up for my different products and promotions and have wound up on various lists.
You're probably wondering, "If you have people on multiple lists, can’t you tell it not to send it to these people multiple times?" No, I can't.
Here's the reason:
I have lists with AutoResponse Plus, 1ShoppingCart, and AWeber. I’ve...
•List-Building: You Need To Get Out There And Do The Split!
Your goal as a marketer is really to monetize your site as quickly and as easily as possible, and in the process, build your list along the way.
There are all sorts of different ways to think about doing this.
If you're an AdSense publisher, it might be smarter to have AdSense only after people subscribe to your list. And, it might be smarter only to show the AdSense after people have told a friend.
Do you see why?
The reason is because if you don’t have these people on your list and if...
•My People Are Duds!
Marketers are always concerned with one thing--the size of their lists. I mean, don't you check your stats every single day? Let me tell you, when it comes to list building, size definitely matters, but there's one thing that matters much, much more. How responsive is your list?
When you're gauging your responsivity rate, decide how many people from your list buy the products or sign up for programs you recommend. As an example, imagine that you have a 20,000 person list. When you send an...
•Pretty Blog - No Traffic?
Do you have the hottest looking blog on the planet? And you post to it every single day, right? You wait and you wait, but no traffic.
Are you going about things the right way? Check out these tips. They may help you:
Write What People Want to Read
So what if you aren't the best writer since Shakespeare? Maybe you haven't done much writing in your life and you're afraid that people will judge you for your style. Unless it really and truly sucks (and they'll be the judge of that, not you),...
•Responsibility And The Add Child
If you're one of those parents who think that ADD makes your child incapable, then get over it! You had better start believing that your ADD kid can do most things that any other kid can do. You just need to approach things in a different way, but if you don't, what will happen is that your child will grow up allowing everyone to do everything for him or her. That's not too bad, if you're a multimillionaire, but what if you're not?
Teach your child that ADD doesn't give them a free pass on...
•Sending Traffic To Your List Building Page, Part 5: SEO 1-2-3
This last article in our series is going to briefly touch on a subject that makes most Internet Marketers quake in their boots. Either that, or they just don't give a hoot. Me? I was one of the latter. I didn't really think SEO (search engine optimization) mattered, but over the past several months, we've been working it and let me tell you... it matters. If you want significant targeted web site traffic, then you need to understand these three basic principles, which we'll talk about today....
•Sending Traffic To Your List Building Page. Part One: Blogging
It took a long time getting your squeeze page built just the way you wanted it, right? Now, how can you get traffic? It's the lifeblood of the Internet according to some. So, how do you go about getting it?
There are several ways to get traffic, actually, but not all of them may be right for you. Let's explore the different ways of getting traffic in a series of articles.
The first will be about blogging.
Blogging! You're probably thinking, I can't write. Well, yes you can! You don't have...
•What Makes A Person Have Adult Add?
People often point the finger at parents when a child is diagnosed ADD, saying that attention deficit is the result of bad parenting. Though an exact cause for the disorder is unknown, it doesn't stem from bad parenting. Environmental, physical, and genetic factors may be to blame, and these are the reasons:
Environment: Indications are that mothers who smoke and drink while pregnant put their children at risk for ADD. And high levels of lead found in preschoolers are another suspected...
•When Women Have Adult ADD
Maybe you were shocked to learn that you had ADD when you took your child for an evaluation. The truth is that ADD runs in families. There's a 25 - 35% likelihood that if you have ADD, your child may have it, too. You can't feel bad about it and be depressed because you think that your son or daughter has ADD because of you. That kind of thinking is just depressing. On the other hand, you may have been relieved to learn that the feelings you'd had since childhood were actually ADD. You could...
•When You Think You Have Add
It's only been about 20 years since the medical community changed their thinking on ADD. Yet, many doctors still hold the belief that ADD disappears once people grow up.
Adults with attention deficit know differently. Though many learn to control their symptoms as adults, for others, it's impossible, and they continue to struggle with short attention spans for anything outside their sphere of interest and other symptoms related to attention deficit.
However, you may think you have attention...
•Writing Your Way Into List Building Nirvana
You may be saying to yourself, "How can you build a list from just words?" You need a squeeze page, an opt-in box, all those other things that list builders use to get names and email addresses into their autoresponders, right? There is a way to build your list using words, though, and you do it by writing articles.
If you think starting an article is tough, it's not really. You just have to think about what turns you on. It's a little like choosing your niche that we talk so much about, but...
•Zen And The Art Of List Maintenance
Do you have a decent-size list of a few thousand people or more, and are you asking yourself, "Why aren't they buying?" Well, how did you acquire them? From free advertising or from paid advertising? What do they want? Do you even know that? Are you sure you're selling them the right products? These questions are very important.
Let's discuss them in order.
How did you come by the people in your list? If they came from free advertising, they're probably not going to be a very responsive...
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