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Hey you guys! (that includes the female species, too)

I've been putting it off for the longest time… ignoring it.  It's such a big change, but I'm bent on doing it.  My website will be revamped and the change is scaring me!  But it's been one of my goals for a very long time - to fix everything that is broken; to fill in the blanks and make a mark.

I have written down several goals for this Summer - which is a working Summer for me this year. The kids are away on vacation and I am free to get anything and everything on my list done and completed.  Here are the top 5: 

1) Increase my Income (wow - not very original but my highest priority, nonetheless!)  I have several strategies for this.
2) A new car (for me - just want to qualify this - it doesn't have to be a brand new car - not as much pressure on me then )
3) Get organized in business and private life.
4) Attend important Internet Marketing seminars
5) Record new songs (gotta have SOME fun) and make videos (not music videos - videos for my business!)

I'll write something on how I intend to accomplish each of these in the coming days and weeks, "come hell or high water…".

Speaking of lists of 5 things, Carlos Garcia gives away the five top Ad-Networks, the 5 top CPA Networks and the 5 top Co-Reg Networks in a .pdf as a thank-you for filling out the survey after viewing the video. 

What are your top five goals for this summer or this year, and how do you intend to accomplish them?

Angela Wickenberg

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Best,

Angela Wickenberg

My Friends,

I want to share something with you.   I have been studying self-help/motivational writings and practices for over 30 years.  One thing I firmly believe is "your mind creates your reality".

An ultra-successful marketer, Lisa Diane, apparently also adapted this mindset and shares the reasons for her success.  She has created five multi-million dollar businesses when she discovered this for herself.  She started in over $50,000 in debt and had her car re-possessed.  She now earns $400,000 per month in automated income, so she is probably someone to listen to.  She started with direct mail.  She went from flat broke to earning $1,000,000 in one year, which is quite an accomplishment.

Here are two links that are free and you don't have to opt-in to listen to them.  The first one from a webinar last night.

http://www.6mprofitmethod.com/af/replay

The second link is here.

www.themilliondollardesire.com

Enjoy and please listen to what she has to say.  It may change your life.

All the best!

Angela Wickenberg

The inefficiency of multi-tasking in business is well-known. 

Checking emails, making phone calls in the middle of working on a project is called continual partial attention -

when your mind has something is it constantly tracking and never turns off.

When your business needs to shift gears it takes a while to shift back - as much as 30 minutes each and every time -

for me much more time - and the cost of it can become very high.

I know this from experience;

I have called myself "the multi-tasking Queen", juggling resources and time all of my adult life. 

It took me 10 years of study at the university,

a lost job,

a broken marriage,

the birth of four children,

and 10 years of failure at business to finally learn this one.

This is my greatest AHA this year.

Continuing to multi-task when my experience has taught me that it is extremely inefficient is just downright foolish. 

I have three kids at home and since our recent move, my office in the living room,

so how will I achieve real focus and "flow" in my work and business?

Obviously, I need to make some changes - more changes.

But they are good ones - these changes -

and I start by changing my self-description on my "about us" page on this site.

To Our Mutual Success, Both Online and Offline,

Angela Wickenberg

It’s what you want. The very popular StumbleUpon concept is simple: when you sign up, you provide the service with some of your interests, and you install the neat little toolbar. Once you’ve got the application installed, you can simply begin stumbling and you can tell the system how you feel about the page that was served to you. By clicking on the thumbs up “I like it” button or by clicking on the thumbs-down button, you teach the SU system what content you truly enjoy. By stumbling and sharing your finds to other users, you’re personalizing your own experience and the experience of your peers as well.

The personalization concept — where content is being provided based on your own desires — has proven to be quite successful. Since it was introduced two years ago, StumbleUpon now boasts over 1.8 million users, and is continually expanding. Version 2.90 of the toolbar, which came out earlier this week, is incorporating the relatively new video social search engine that it unveiled in December. StumbleUpon is truly growing…

And so is Digg.

At half the amount of subscribers that StumbleUpon has, Digg is aiming to emulate the SU concept, a recent BusinessWeek article has reported. Hot on the heels of StumbleUpon, Digg (which launched its own video extension five days after StumbleUpon did) is aiming even higher to SU’s core success model: a recommendation tool.

According to Kevin Rose, Digg’s founder who is quoted in the article, “Digg will be smart enough to know what interests you” and it will serve content that fits within the tastes of its users. For current subscribers, this means that Digg will serve content based on the stories users have dugg or buried. If you used the service to promote pages that you truly liked, the Digg system appears to not be much different from StumbleUpon.

More and more companies are involving themselves in what can be an imminent threat (well, perhaps not just yet — and it still depends on who you ask): personalization. Google’s personalized search is being promoted more heavily. As more and more people realize that there are only a few items that may be of interest to them when they search, systems are learning to adapt to user preferences through their own algorithms. As Google explains it, if you’re searching for “dolphin” because you want to learn more about the football team from Miami, you’re not overly concerned with results pertaining to marine life. Depending on the types of pages you visit and the domains upon which these sites are located, Google’s personalized search will rank these pages higher than the undesirable results, thus providing you with a searching experience that like that of no other user. To Google, this is a move provide quality results and reduce the unnecessary clutter.

 

To make our websites shine through these results and be obvious to the viewer, there will likely be obstacles that we’ll need to overcome. Good content is a necessity. Telling your friends is a good way to get the word out. Promoting these pertinent sites through social search is still going to be very useful.

We’re bordering on a new era, one with incredible challenge and obstacles, but one that does have the end user — you — in mind, and hopefully everyone in all communities will be happy with the results.

Rich Schefren recently published the second half of his "Attention Age Doctrine".  It's filled with the truth of where Internet Marketing is leading to today.  Visit this address to download the report.  It's a good read and won't take too long.

http://www.strategicprofits.com/blog/attention-age-doctrine-part-2-released/

But the purpose of this blogpost is to tell you about the video contest Rich is putting up.  I've decided to participate - so keep a close watch for my first video, which I will create in just two days without any prior experience and without a camera!!

<a href="http://www.strategicprofits.com/blog/66-seconds-internet-video-maven-contest/">Get Famous… in 66 seconds or less!</a>

 

Talk soon!

 

Angela Wickenberg

When people speak about driving traffic through social networks, the first site that comes to mind is usually Digg. Digg’s popularity is obvious: as the numbers increase above the “digg it” button, the likelihood for increased traffic goes up as well. There is a plefora of information on the Internet on how an extremely popular link on Digg can bring you traffic and links.

A lot of people want to get their page on the Digg main page, but in terms of popularity of other online social mediums, it stops there. There are other means of getting good — perhaps better, when considering that it’s targeted — traffic, such as StumbleUpon.

StumbleUpon is highly personalized traffic based on your interests that is served to you when you are actively looking for new sites to discover. The service requires a download of a very easily-integrated toolbar that sits right under the Address bar on your browser. To begin using the service, you click on the “Stumble!” button on your toolbar, and you can rate a site with a thumbs-up or a thumbs-down sign. As sites are continually rated with a “thumbs up,” the page is served to more and more SU users.

The toolbar, which was recently updated with more eye-grabbing icons due to StumbleUpon’s continuous desire to improve the user experience, is shown below:

StumbleUpon also allows you to “discover” new sites. In your regular browsing experience, you might find a site that you think would interest other people. The “thumbs up” icon works for all sites, and that is how new sites get into the database of StumbleUpon pages that are served to the end user during their stumbling session. When you “thumbs up” your site and it hasn’t yet been submitted, you’ll see this window:

The URL is inherited by default, but you can personalize your initial submission with a title and the brief description of the page. You can then categorize this into any one of the categories listed and you can tag it with whatever appropriate tags would benefit your visitors. Once the site is in the system, people will begin stumbling and learning more about the site you submitted.

How can you leverage your StumbleUpon influence to get your submissions noticed?

• Personalize your page. Upload an avatar, tell people who you are (fill out the “General” section), and share with the community what you like (the “Interests” section). If people are browsing the user community, they’ll get a truer sense of who you are.
• Join the communities relating to your interests and your business. To make sure that you are served pages that truly interest you, you’ll want to join targeted communities so that the traffic is desirable. You’ll also be able to contribute similar pages to the StumbleUpon engine so that they are added. If your page relates to these groups, they will be served to the group members. You can join up to 63 groups in the following main categories, which should cover just about everything:

• Befriend people who have similar interests. Adding friends whose pages interest you means that they will likely appreciate the pages that you’re submitting as well. It grows into a mutual relationship. People who like the pages you submit will befriend you and you will be serving them content based on the relationship. With the StumbleUpon network, you can have up to 200 friends.
• Stumble often. Just submitting and stumbling upon a single page doesn’t bode well for your reputation, and keen users will take notice of this. Stumble frequently. If people like the pages you’ve stumbled upon or submitted, you’ll likely also be rated highly in the community.
• Label and tag your submitted pages appropriately. When you tag your new submissions, be relevant. Pertinent tags will bring you the most targeted traffic from the users who specifically have expressed an interest in the topic you are serving content for. If you cover all the keywords (and tags) that you could possibly think of that don’t relate to your site, your popularity (if any) will be short lived when the thumbs-down button is pressed. Bear in mind that once the page is submitted, tags can be added and removed by the community members (which is a definite indication that they’re visiting the site!)

Why should you look at into directing StumbleUpon traffic to your site? Beyond the obvious benefits of extremely targeted traffic, the traffic doesn’t come