Business Mindset Is Everything | IM Training Paradise

Success comes in different ways. There are those that fail many times, those that don’t follow a plan, and those who don’t realise that having a business mindset is everything. To achieve success quickly, your reliance on focus is not enough.

Your MINDSET is how you learn to accept that you will fail, you will maybe feel like giving up, but you know that to be a success in your business you have to be consistent and keep going.

Never Forget To Ask Questions

Some people may feel a little proud, but that isn’t something that will serve you, because if you feel that way you may feel stupid asking questions.

If you think it’s a stupid question you may hold back and think that you should already know that and be able to figure it out. It’s not often the case, so don’t be afraid to ask the question of your mentor, a group you’re in or anywhere you can get an answer.

You never know, someone else could have exactly the same dilemma and feel just like you did and therefore you have helped those people too by getting the answer.

What Kind of Business Does This Apply to?

The answer to that is quite simple — every business! What inspired this article was watching an interview with someone in the same group as I am. He openly said that he had struggled for 3 years and only recently started to see success. Why was that he was asked, and he replied “honestly, it was my mindset”.

This person is an affiliate marketer and he used to think that being successful was measured on how much money he made. He didn’t see the “bigger picture”! He realised that he must get back into the affiliate marketing space, but try doing something different.

What did he do? He started out with going back to basics. Then he saw what he was doing wrong. He wasn’t following the plan that led to his success. He began to think differently because he needed to connect with people so he could help them with their own problems. He knew there were people out there struggling in the same way as he was. He had no money to spend on paid ads, so he looked at ONE way to progress. He did this, changed his thought process and his results changed.

Now, he is an ordinary person, just like you and me. He isn’t superman or some kind of genius, he found a strategy he could use, started to use it, and followed the steps until it actually worked! He stayed consistent and began to get results to grow his income too. This took 8 weeks!

In short, not giving up for 3 years and doing things the wrong way saw NO results. When he set his mind to practicing the right ways to get results, he started to get them.

Why Business Mindset Is Everything…

Having a strong mind is a great attribute, but having a strong mind that is set in stone and not flexible serves no one. We can all be guilty of thinking we know best.

One thing we must all realise is that business people make products to help other people. A lot of these products are a revamp of another product and may not even be of great value.

Some of these products are marketed in such a way as they turn our heads and make us take notice of them. Are they good quality products? Most are not, but because the IDEA is enough to create something that appears “shiny and new”, we can all get sucked in.

My mentor says the obvious, but it’s often ignored, which is if something seems too good to be true, it usually is. I have lost count of the products I have seen and thought “that will be useful” and bought it. Only to find out it is almost identical to something I already owned and tried and failed miserably with. There are no shortcuts to success, which is what the “Shiny objects” try to make us believe.

This is why having a strong will is so important. You need to stay consistent in your actions, keep yourself focused and know that having a business mindset is everything when you want to make progress in your business.

The interview was based on affiliate marketing and there has been a massive shift in making a success of it. Things have changed over the years so much and this is why I read and took notice of a book written by my mentor and friend Dean Holland. The book is called “The Iceberg Effect” and you can get it free of charge. You need to cover the cost of shipping and handling. The value this book will give you is immense and well worth the time to read it and possibly change your life.

Find out more about the book and get yours HERE.

Also, check out the interview HERE.

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7 Free Traffic Sources You Can Start Using Right Now! | IM Training Paradise

Everyone that has a website needs one thing above all things — Traffic! Free traffic is preferred obviously, but not all free traffic is of the best quality. In this post I will discuss 7 free traffic sources that you can take advantage of. In fact, when used properly, it’s possible to get anything from 200 visitors per day to your site just from one source. The more you use, the more potential you have to get good traffic to your site.

What Are The 7 Free Traffic Sources?

The first in the sources of free traffic is News 360.

News 360 is a leading news aggregator website with mobile apps for both iPhone and Android. It works very well on almost every category ranging from technology to beauty tips.

What do you do to get visitors from news 360?

Go to their website and click the news 360 publisher program. When you go to create your account, be aware that they don’t accept publisher accounts that come from free email providers like Gmail etc. Be sure to use an email created for you using your website or blog. For example, yourname@yoursite.com. You have a better chance of being accepted when you do this. When you are accepted you will start to get traffic to your site.

Second in the list is Mix.com.

Mix.com is a new traffic source for bloggers and publishers that has essentially replaced Stumbleupon, which closed in 2018.

How do you drive traffic to your website using Mix.com? Step one, submit your blog post to mix.com. Step two, add your blog posts to collections. Step 3 follow other people and add their blog post to your collection. They will then check out your profile and see your posts too.

Third is Medium.com.

Medium is the one of the best free traffic sources. You can attract high quality traffic to your site by posting your site’s old content on medium.com. If you can add a few related article links in a medium blog post, it’s possible to get more traffic in less time.

Fourth — Flipboard.

Flipboard is a content aggregator platform. You can create an account as a publisher. After you have your account you can set up some Flipboard magazines. Next, download the Flipboard Chrome extension, which enables you to submit articles to Flipboard magazines. Flipboard has over 90 million users so you can get a free traffic when you’re active on this platform.

The fifth of the free traffic sources is Quora.

Quora is the well known question and answer answer platform. When you post good answers to people’s questions you can easily drive traffic to your site. Quora questions are often featured as number one or number two in Google search results, so many publishers generate thousands of visitors per month, All possible by answering niche relevant questions on Quora.

Next, and the sixth on the list is Reddit.

Reddit is still a popular choice for getting free traffic.

The best way to success in Reddit is to join sub-reddits based on topics related to your website content. Some sub-reddits do not allow link sharing so check out which ones allow it before you join. Take an active part in the discussions in sub-reddits and only share the best and most relevant content from your blog. When done effectively it’s very possible to get viral traffic.

Seventh and last on this list is Pinterest.

Pinterest is the easiest way to increase traffic to your website.

First of all, you need to create a Pinterest business account. In order to to drive traffic from Pinterest, you must make sure all your blog images are sized and optimised for the platform. Set up your Pinterest board names using relevant keywords. Consistency is key, so pin regularly so you can grow your followers and reach. Then, you will be able to get more traffic to your blog.

There are other ways to get traffic to your blog or website, but I have found that these 7 are the best free traffic sources to help drive thousands of visitors to your content. Have fun using them to get more free traffic to your site. Please feel free to comment below. Thank you.

Originally published at https://imtrainingparadise.com on November 28, 2019.

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Make Money From Website Traffic | IM Training Paradise

When it comes to online marketing, there are 2 important things we need; website traffic and conversions of that traffic into sales. So, you have found great ways to get the traffic, but how are you going to convert that traffic into leads and sales? How do you make money from website traffic?

Getting Website Traffic Can Be The Hardest Thing To Achieve.

In the internet marketing space, getting traffic is one of the hardest things to do. You have a wonderful product or service that you think more people deserve to see. You know that if you get more people to see what you have to offer, you can easily make more sales.

If you compare your website to “prime real estate”, where everyone’s walking by then you will see good progress and growth in your business. But even when you manage to get traffic from great sources such as YouTube videos on your channel, getting views is not enough/ You need to convert that traffic into real business through sales and generating revenue.

I was in that situation not that long ago. Visitors and stats were looking good, but I wasn’t making money from website traffic!

I asked myself if it was a lack of value or something like that? So, I asked some friends to review what they were seeing and I was a little shocked by the simplicity of what I was actually NOT doing rather what I WAS doing.

An Example Of How To Make Money From Website Traffic…

I will go with a simple example here: I heard of a guy called Derek Muller, who shares the principles of science on his channel, Veritasium. Some examples of the content he shares and teaches about are: “Why does this physics principle work? Or how does that work? How do you do this?”

He has over a million subscribers to his channel. He has consistently put out content, which is something I also needed to do. The main difference between him and me was that he was principally a You Tuber first, where I was an online business owner first and You Tuber second. Yet, he was getting all the views and subscribers that I have been looking for.

After he posted a new video, it would quite quickly reach a million views. Pretty impressive, yes?. What if he had a business and something of value to sell? It would not really matter if it was a science event or a product created around his expertise.

After just a couple of years he did launch a product called Snatoms. He had an original funding goal of $42,000 according to Kickstarter, where he first launched the product. He posted a video about it on his YouTube channel and reached his goal within 2 hours. Within 5 weeks of the campaign starting, he raised over 1/2 million dollars.

He had the following, the right traffic for his offer all along. All he had to do was create the product.

That’s one way you can make money from website traffic. Sell your audience something they are interested in.

There is another way — advertising! You can make money on YouTube because they will show people ads relevant to their interests. YouTube will pay you 55% of that revenue, similar to Google Adsense program. It doesn’t have to be on YouTube. You can do that on your own website.

Some influential people use this tactic. How do they do it you may ask? Let’s say the person has a huge following on their Facebook page. They could post useful “how to” videos on that page. They could then post those same videos on their blog, where there is even more traffic viewing them. Because there is so much traffic, ad companies will pay a lot to get exposure to those people visiting the blog.

With this in mind, you can get a piece of this when you have a good following that visit your blog or You Tube channel because you will be in demand.

On YouTube, you need millions of views to be paid thousands of dollars. It can take a few years to get to the point where it will be a significant amount.

There is a huge opportunity on YouTube if you are an expert. For example, if you’re a coach or speaker or mentor, you have expertise. That’s how you make money. People buy your expertise. YouTube is the perfect place for you.

Here are 2 reasons why YouTube is so powerful:

1. You Tube is an amazing search engine. Being owned by google it’s only to be expected, right? If you search for videos on Facebook for example, it’s a nightmare! You may never find it! You Tube is much different. It’s stunning how easy it is to find what you want on You Tube.
   How is this relevant to you? If you have good titles and descriptions and well optimized videos, and because you’re seen as an expert, your videos can be found in the search.
   All over the world people are asking questions. If you have the answer and your video is well structured and optimized, your video comes up in the search. The person may not know you, but they soon will if you have the right message for them.
2. The YouTube partner program. The partner program is where you have the opportunity to partner with YouTube and they share the ad revenue with you. Isn’t that great? But there’s a bigger benefit to that partner program.
   If, for example, I make a video makes YouTube money, they will extensively promote that video. I don’t pay YouTube for that promotion, they pay me half of that ad
   Let’s say the video just got millions of views. Can you see where this is going?
   It’s quite normal for such a video to bring in subscribers, helping the channel grow, which then elevates other videos.
   So, if I can make a video that helps You tube to make money, they see my video as a good way to generate ad income. Because of this and the benefits of the partnership program, they will promote that video.

You Tube is one of the most lucrative ways to make money online. Getting traffic to your Tube videos is often easier than getting traffic to a website. Get people to You Tube and increase your subscribers. Attract people in by asking questions. Use a survey that you can share on Social media. Then direct people to your video. The more traffic you get, the better the chance that You Tube will let you into the partner program and, with the right offer or service, everyone wins.

How do you find the right questions to answer? If you can’t just make these questions up, you need to do keyword research and search for questions that people are asking. You can go to a site like Quora.com where there are thousands of questions. Also, in the Google search results there are often lists of frequently asked questions based on the search that is being made.

Answer lots of questions and you may be able to put together a video course. Yet another way you can make money from your You Tube and website traffic.

Share your videos on your website or blog. You can use the power of You Tube to get more visits to your blog too. Be sure to include a link in your You Tube description. People will want to find out more about you, so take advantage of it.

There are many ways to get traffic. There is “free” traffic (free of money but takes up your time) and paid traffic. Whichever way you choose, you need to find the best ways for you. Education is important and learning these skills is important. I recommend a course and opportunity for you to partner with great professionals to learn and earn. Traffic is essential but knowing how to get conversions is how you make money from website traffic. Find out more here.

Originally published at https://imtrainingparadise.com on November 24, 2019.

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Tools to Get More Social Media Traffic | IM Training Paradise

Getting Social Media traffic can be difficult. Why is this? The algorithms that the Social sites adopt are really tough and it’s getting harder to get traffic from the likes of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and, indeed, every other social media site.

Fortunately, there are some tools that can help get more traffic from Social Media. If you already get a ton of traffic from Facebook for example, these tools may not be of interest to you. But if they help you get even more, then you may be advised to read on. These tools will help you get traffic from all the primary social sites.

Social Media Traffic Tools To Take Notice Of

The 7 tools to help grow your Social Media Traffic are:

1. HootSuite
   Hootsuite has been around for a long time, but it’s surprising how many people don’t use it. Hootsuite allows you to schedule your social content. Not only can you share content on all social sites easily and a few clicks, but you can also schedule content many months ahead. This is important because sharing your content six times a year on Twitter for example (instead of just once as most do), that same content can get roughly two to three times more traffic. This simple strategy works well and well worth doing. Remember when you share content most of the people won’t see it. There’s nothing wrong with sharing that content three, four, five, six, seven times through the year.
   You can share content once every 2 months, which would be around six times a year. It’s a good strategy if the content remains relevant.
2. ManyChat
   If you’re struggling to get traffic from Facebook, ManyChat can help deal with that. It’s a chatbot tool that leverages Facebook Messenger and what you’ll find is click through and open rates are crazy! According to Neil Patel it beats email. He also said: “If you want easy traffic leverage ManyChat. What it’ll do is when people come to your website they can subscribe to you through Facebook Messenger and then when you have a blog post or message you can push it out through ManyChat. You’ll get open rates above 60% and you’ll get click through rates well above 30, 40, 50%. The numbers are crazy, over time it drops down, but even when it drops down you’ll still see your click through rate above 30%. It’s that effective.” Thanks Neil for the insight.
3. Buzzsumo
   You write a lot of content, yet you see that nobody is sharing or commenting on it. You need engagement to grow your reach, so what can you do?
   Buzzsumo is an ideal tool to help with this problem. It shows you popular articles within your niche market and the not so popular ones too. Look through the most popular topics and adapt your content to match those topics. Then promote that new content on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and again you’ll get more traffic. Writing .content that people show a real interest in and want to read can only be a positive for your traffic generation.
4. SocialBlade
   SocialBlade is a site that many people know about that works well with YouTube. The thing is, they do much more than YouTube.
   They do Instagram, they do Twitter; in fact, they do all the major social sites out there. SocialBlade will show you your subscriber growth over time as well as how much content you’re sharing. It can help you find patterns on things like if I send out five tweets, will I get more followers than when I send out just one tweet.
   You can also use with YouTube to monitor how many subscribers you get based on how much content you are producing. This can help you to optimize your efforts and how much content you need to create to get the maximum amount of followers and subscribers.
5. HelloBar
   What does HelloBar have to do with social media? Well, it helps you to collect emails from your website. Also, in the first hour of posting your content on any of the social sites, if that content does well, there is a good chance it can go viral.
   Use HelloBar to collect emails from your website, then when pushing out content on the social sites, you can send out an email to your subscribers pointing them in the direction of that content. You may say “Go check out this post on Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter.” This could help you get more likes, retweets and shares that could see your content go viral.
6. Subscribers
   Subscribers is a little like HelloBar with a slight difference. It doesn’t collect emails, but it helps to collect browser notification subscribers. When people are browsing your site on Chrome for example, they can click one button to subscribe and you can use push notifications to tell them about new content. You can even push them to the social sites where you share your content. Again, if this is done in the first hour after you release and share the content, you can get more likes and shares to possibly see it go viral.
7. Zoho Social
   Zoho Social is a tool that enables you to work with team members. It also helps you with keyword research. Using Zoho Social will help you determine what keyword you need to be targeting when you’re going after these social sites. If you’re not using the correct keywords in your titles, descriptions, and inside your text you’ll find that fewer people will see it. Many people are doing internal searches on the social sites. An example is a lot of people use Twitter search. By using the right keywords, you’ll get more

So there you go. I hope these 7 free tools will help you to get a lot more traffic from the social sites. It would be good to know what you think about getting more social media traffic, so please feel free to comment.

Originally published at https://imtrainingparadise.com on November 20, 2019.

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Internet Marketing — 4 Tips For Success| IM Training Paradise

Internet Marketing — 4 Tips For Success| IM Training Paradise

These days any business can make use of the internet. For internet marketing success moving forward, there are a few simple things that you, as a business owner needs to know.

In this post I want to share with you 4 great tips for online marketing success.

1. Influencer Marketing — These days it’s possible for everyone to take advantage of influencer marketing. It doesn’t matter what you sell or service you offer, everyone can be an influencer. Most, if not all of us publish something on social media.
   You don’t need to be a celebrity to become an influencer and today brands prefer to work with smaller niche influencers rather than with people who have millions of followers.
   This is one way that businesses target an authentic audience who are interested in their product and service.
2. Use Video — You can get more attention from your audience using live video. Getting someone’s attention is extremely valuable. There is so much information all around us that it’s difficult to stand out.
   By incorporating live videos into your marketing campaigns, you will get more attention from your audience for sure. Be sure not to do them just for the sake of it. If you have nothing valuable to share, it’s better to leave videos until you do. There is nothing worse than having someone say, “that was a waste of time”.
   The video needs to be at least 10 minutes long. Make sure you engage with your comments from people and reply to their questions. Make sure you do this for both your live and replay audience and advertise your video to both.
3. Purpose Driven Marketing — Avoid creating content that just sells.
   Instead, talk about some greater purpose and show who you are and what you stand for. Use emotion to build a relationship with your audience.
   Create your community and continue building it.
   There are some special techniques that big brands likeApple and Google use, so if you want to develop, you need to start using them as well.
   The first one is “go horizontal”. When you get a paying customer, offer them a variety of products and services and try to keep them engaged by using a subscription model.
   Create interesting campaigns and leverage your Brand and optimise your marketing strategy. Make use of every platform available to you.
   This is good enough for the four big tech companies, Amazon, Google, Apple and Facebook, so why not follow that example?
4. Content Creation — If you don’t have sufficient funds for content creation don’t worry, because today you can create great content on a budget.
   The most important things are:

Knowing your customers’ needs and goals. By knowing what your ideal customer’s “pain” is and what they want to achieve, you can structure content around helping them. This will enable you to offer products and services that will help solve their problem.
Run a user generated campaign to create content on a budget. This way you will get free authentic and really engaging content.
Research Authority Sites and Trends — It’s possible to create great videos these days just using your mobile phone so identify trends via influencers on platforms like Buzzsumo to create relevant content.

I hope you find these 4 internet marketing success tips on how you can succeed moving forward. Remember to build your brand by adopting these recommendations and get yourself out there as a leader and expert in your field. Good luck with everything you do.

Originally published at https://imtrainingparadise.com on November 19, 2019.

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