If you’re even thinking about running for political office, you’ve probably already heard of political action committees (PACs). PACs are groups organized to support political candidates by making contributions to their campaigns. These PACs raise money from their membership for the specific purpose of getting people elected who agree with them on one or several specific issues. So, how do you get your share of the political money from PACs? Well, I’m going to give you five tips to ensure that you receive the maximum number of contributions from PACs in the shortest amount of time.
Complete every questionnaire. Once you announce your campaign, you will begin receiving questionnaires from PACs. Quickly identify PACs that are in line with your platform, complete their questionnaire, and mail it back. Time is of the essence because many PACs have deadlines for receipt of their questionnaire. Be sure to complete your own PAC research so as not to rely solely on receiving the surveys in the mail. You can find a complete list of PACs at my blog, www.spatterblog.com. If you discover a PAC that shares your platform but you have not received a survey from them, call and request the survey.
Don’t try to be everything to everybody. If you’re not pro-guns, don’t complete the questionnaire you receive from the National Rifle Association. You’re only wasting your time, or even worse, compromising your values. Don’t change who you are or what your campaign is about in order to get a fat check from a PAC. It will only hurt you later in your campaign when your opponent discovers you’ve flip-flopped on an important campaign issue.
Prepare for the interview. Most PACs will require an interview for campaigns where there is more than one candidate competing for the party nomination. Before the interview, you should be well versed on ALL policy positions of the PAC. You can usually find this information on the PAC website. The panel assembled by the PAC to interview you will usually ask you questions regarding recent and pending legislation, hot button issues, and your views on a variety of subjects. You’ll need to make certain that you are clear on position.
Publicize your endorsement. Once you receive your endorsement (and contribution) from a PAC, include the PAC logo on all your campaign material and add it to your website. It lets supporters of the PAC know that you have received the seal of approval.
Request the PAC send out a mailer on your behalf. Many PACs send out a periodic newsletter. If they include you as one of their endorsed candidates on their newsletter, it increases your profile. So ask the the PAC if they will include your candidate and contact information in their upcoming newsletter.
At my site, www.spatterblog.com, you can find a list of PACs with contact information so you can get started raising money for your campaign!
Yvette Carnell is a political consultant and founder of www.spatterblog.com. She is a former Hill Staffer and member of the American Association of Political Consultants and the American Association of Political Scientists. She can be reached at admin@spatterblog.com.
One of the hottest new technologies available online today is Twitter. It is an amazing piece of software that has adults socializing like teenagers and creating quite a stir in offices, and around water coolers worldwide. Simply put, Twitter is a social networking tool that can be access from a PC, a PDA, or Internet-ready cellphone twenty four hours a day. Of course, network marketers have joined in the fun too, looking for ways to make money with twitter.
If you are like me, and you have found yourself on the mailing list of several marketing gurus, you would have received at least one e-mail encouraging you to become a twitter follower. If you want to have people know your every move, twitter is the place to go. This tiny blog that only allows 140 characters of posting, can send out quick messages to thousands of people. And as you know, where there are people with the technology to use Twitter, there is an opportunity to make money from it.
Twitter is really a blog. It allows you to keep in touch with your friends and customers online, and to keep up with them! When you send out a message to your followers, it is known as a “tweet”. You can “tweet” by logging into your account and sending a quick message to everyone who is following you. Your “tweets” will be sent out immediately. Let us say that you are a photographer and you just won a prize for your photos in National Geographic. You can alert your 10,000 followers immediately. Who knows. You could have flowers, or other gifts waiting for you at office or home. It is that fast! You can also set up twitter on your mobile phone.
But how do you make money with twitter? Savvy marketers have found several ways to cash in on this “tweeting” phenomenon. Here are several things you can do to monetize your twittering activities and start making some cash today.
1. Create your own tools to customize twitter. This is very cool. You can either do this yourself or hire a programmer to do it. Just like they do on mySpace and Facebook, people want to be different. Get them that unique add-on application and they will buy it from you. You in turn make money from twitter in an indirect way.
2. Find tools that are already in use, and further customize them! You can make quite a bit of cash by piggy-backing on technology that is already in place. Even if someone has a customized application for twitter, you can still do something they did not think of. You can create an application for a particular phone that is popular, or some other device. The thing is to be creative in what you are doing and you will make money from twitter.
3. You can also make money by becoming an affiliate for people who have already created tools and services for twitter. This is by far the most popular way to make money with twitter. Some of these tools are available at Clickbank. You can simply get a free account there, and start selling these tools as an affiliate. The commissions are usually good, and it takes less than 5 minutes to get set up for this. Just remember to buy the product for yourself first. See how it works. Use it for a while. You can enjoy the best of both worlds; a good product to enhance your twitter experience, and commissions for sharing that experience with others.
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If the new year is approaching then get ready to buy a couple of new year calenders. Some for you and some for your near and dear ones. You can buy calenders for gifting your friends who would always use them as well as remember you because it is you who gifted them. Just do not buy any calenders. When you are spending money then buy calenders which are really beautiful. Do not have time to go to the high-street shops ? Then just log into a couple of websites and place your order.
There are many websites on the world wide web. Get to the one which is good and has well-known name for selling quality calenders. Choose the calenders which are loaded with beautiful pictures. Pictures are inseparable from calenders. You should check out the pictures which really win affections. When you are buying calenders to gift your near and dear ones then buy calenders having pictures which directly or indirectly express your feelings for these people.
Always effort to buy calenders in bulk so that you can make use of the online attractive offers and discounts. It can really save your money. It is like buying many calenders at less money. When you place the orders you would receive your much awaited calenders as well as your friends and near and dear ones would receive them. The payment system in most of the websites is safe and secure. You need not worry about them.
When you buy calenders never get tempted by only one website. Do research on a couple of websites ? Finally, decide one website which you think to be the most appropriate one. Never forget to make use of the necessary information which are published on the websites. These can be really helpful for you while you buy the calenders online.
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I’m not sure whether or not to pay attention to all the negative news reports about the state of the economy. For the most part, I’ve discovered that virtual businesses don’t quite suffer the same economic highs and lows in the same way as the rest of the country (or the world). However, in the life span of every business, there is a “recession”, or a point in which there’s a downturn or a decline of income. Typically, this recession period is short and cyclical, which puts the service business owner on an income roller coaster at times, especially if the business owner hasn’t developed multiple streams of income.
In a downturn, what’s the first thing to go? The marketing budget. Suddenly any and all marketing activity is canceled or suspended because of a fear of spending money when less money is coming in. If you don’t continue to marketing your business, even in times of recession, how will people continue to find out about you? A recession, or a slow period, is the perfect time to ramp up your marketing efforts. Why? Because you’ll stand out in a sea of businesses who’ve given in to their recession fears and reigned in all marketing efforts. Consequently, your marketing efforts will be that much more effective.
Here are 7 inexpensive strategies you can use to jumpstart your Internet marketing even when business is slow and you’ve got more time than money:
1. Comment on blogs. Use Google Blog Search or Technorati to locate higher traffic blogs that your target market might read. Use a blog feed reader, like Bloglines, to receive regular updates on these blogs. Make it a part of your daily habit to read the updates each day and post thoughtful, relevant comments on those posts (not just “Hey, great post”) where you have something to add. Adding your email signature file and your call to action is a no-no when commenting on blogs, so instead, use the name field of the blog comment form to your advantage. Instead of just entering your name, enter a quick nickname for yourself as well, such as Jane Smith Sales Diva or Holly Johns Marketing Maven. Compel those readers who have learned from your posts to check out your website.
2. Submit articles. If you’re not busy working with clients, get busy creating content. Writing and submitting articles to major article directories will drive traffic to your site, establish you as an expert in your target market’s eyes, and give you content to repurpose into information products. Tips-based articles, like this one, are the easiest to create, the easiest to repurpose, and are the easiest for the Internet surfer to digest.
3. Host teleseminars. With the vast availability of free bridgeline services, it’s quite easy to hold a teleseminar. You can use one of your tips articles as your starting point, put together a description, list the teleseminar in various places online, and record your class. You’ve engaged your audience by delivering valuable content to them (part of the like, know and trust process), have added subscribers to your list, and have a complete info product that you can sell or make available to your website visitors.
4. Embrace social networking. No longer do you have to get dressed in your business suit, jockey for a parking spot, and pay a fee to attend networking events. Online social networking, like on Facebook and Twitter, can now be done from the comfort of your home office, with comparable results to attending a face-to-face networking event. Determine where your target market hangs out in the social networking arena, and create accounts with those services. Complete your profile and start making friends and connections. Ask, questions, provide answers, be helpful, and build your business.
5. Speak before groups. Have you created your signature speech or teleseminar that you can present whenever you’re asked to speak to a group? If not, there’s no time like the present to create one. Research groups that contain your target market both in your geographic area and online. Contact the meeting hosts and offer to speak to that group and provide the host with your signature speech descriptions. Make it as simple as possible for them to invite you to be the speaker. Once you’ve landed the gig, strategize your best call to action for the group — do you want participants to sign up for your email list, purchase a product, or book a consultation?
6. Seek out strategic alliances. Brainstorm a list of business colleagues with whom you’d like to create some type of alliance. Make a phone call or send an email to set up a get acquainted (or reacquainted) meeting and explore the options of what each of you can offer to the other’s business. Perhaps you can offer to interview your colleague and invite your list, or maybe you’ll think of a project you can work on together. In slow times, who you know becomes more important than what you know, so make the most of your down time and create some strategic alliances.
7. Start a podcast or create a video. With the download of free recording software, like Audacity, or purchasing an inexpensive video camera like the Sony Flip, you can create an audio podcast or a video quickly an inexpensively from your home office, and list it in various podcast directories, like iTunes, or in video hosting sites like YouTube. If you’re not sure what to talk about in your video or podcast, take a look at your articles and read one of those for your audience. Don’t forgot to include your call to action for your listeners/viewers.
A recession doesn’t have to mean gloom and doom for the savvy business owner. Take advantage of this slower time and ramp up your Internet marketing efforts by using strategies that won’t break the bank. You’ll become better known, have content ready for information products, and become the “top of mind” expert in your industry.
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In this article, you will learn how to double your income, 16 different proven ways.
1 … DOUBLE YOUR INCOME by Learning What Your Clients Want
How are you learning what your clients and prospects really want? Listen carefully. Do surveys. Talk to them. Read the comments cards. Sell them what they just told you they want.
2 … DOUBLE YOUR INCOME by Interacting With Your Clients
You can interact with your clients and prospects in many ways:
by inviting them to join you on Facebook
by inviting them to join you on Twitter
by inviting them to watch your videos on YouTube
by answering EVERY single comment left on your blog
Now, think of ways you can interact more with your clients and prospects to find out what they REALLY want.
3 … DOUBLE YOUR INCOME by Solving Their Problems
By messages that come to you through Twitter, Facebook, comments on your blog, emails to you, questions asked on your Teleseminars, and in many other ways, you can learn of problems which your clients and prospects have and then solve them. This creates wonderful feelings of reciprocity which supports sales.
How are you finding out about, and then solving, the problems of your clients and prospects?
4 … DOUBLE YOUR INCOME by Encouraging People To Refer Their Friends
How are you encouraging referrals?
5 … DOUBLE YOUR INCOME by Being Enthusiastic
You must be excited and eager and fun-loving. Your prospects likely will like you if you are even more enthusiastic.
What one way can you enact right now to be more enthusiastic?
6 … DOUBLE YOUR INCOME by Offering, then Delighting, then asking for the Sale
You are reading this article, maybe only because it is free. You get value. Hopefully you get HUGE value. Later, I may offer a product. If you like what you got free, you will more likely be agreeable to invest in wonderful educational products.
How are you first offering free stuff to and delighting clients and prospects?
7 … DOUBLE YOUR INCOME by Offering Options to your Clients
Offer lots of options. Make sure your clients and prospects can get your information:
by Teleseminar live
by archived Teleseminar later
by blog
by ezine article
by Special Report
by eBook
etc.
How are you offering options to your clients and prospects so that they can get what you offer in the way(s) they prefer?
8 … DOUBLE YOUR INCOME by Starting a Blog
When you launch a blog, you may get only dozens of hits a month, then after a while there may be many many thousands of visit a month. Google highly respects blogs because they offer fresh new contest regularly. Start your blog and talk about whatever you sell. People will actually begin reading it. It’s free and it’s easy. Simply go to the WordPress website and fill in the blanks.
Have you launched your blog yet?
9 … DOUBLE YOUR INCOME by Opening a YouTube Account
Register with YouTube. It’s really really easy and you can also include your photo and a bio about yourself. Just your bio and photo will attract prospects and customers.
Have you opened your YouTube account?
10 … DOUBLE YOUR INCOME by Posting Your Videos
Now, take lots of videos and simply begin posting them. If you have a video recorder, then use it. If you don’t, simply go to a high tech store and buy a FLIP video. They cost about $160. Just make a video and post it. It does not have to be great; you just need to get started.
And, here is a hot tip for you. Take whatever is exciting in the news and think of some bridge that will allow you to begin with the hot news and then bridge to your topic. For example, Obama’s Presidency is still hot news and maybe you are a Realtor. Then make a video which begins with the question “How will Obama’s presidency impact real estate prices?” and then answer that question to the best of your ability. In the tags, you can list “Obama” and “inauguration” besides the ones you would have used anyway like “real estate”. In this way, all the people who use Google or YouTube to search for “Obama” – tens of millions of them – have some chance of getting to your video.
Are you posting your own videos on your YouTube account?
11 … DOUBLE YOUR INCOME by Opening a Facebook Page and a Facebook Fan Page
It’s really easy. You will be shocked – almost immediately, people will find you and ask if they can be your Facebook Friend. I accept everyone, even if I do not recognize them.
Once you have a page, open a group which is a group of people you want to sell to. If you are a Realtor in Miami, then open a group called “Get Rich In Real Estate In Miami” or “Sell Your Home Fast in Miami” or “Buy Real Estate at HUGE discounts in Miami”. People will join and then you can send messages to them. They will be your clients. And, it’s free. This is, by the way, how Obama won the election – he was more savvy about Facebook and the other social networking sites than McCann. Now, it’s your turn.
Have you opened a Facebook page and have you opened a Facebook Fan Page?
12 … DOUBLE YOUR INCOME by opening a Twitter account
I had never even heard of Twitter. Then someone asked me to follow them. I did because I knew that person well. So, I opened an account – it took seconds – and then I sat and waited. Wow. Today, thousands of people follow me.
Have you opened a Twitter page?
13 … DOUBLE YOUR INCOME by “Salting” Your Clients and Prospects
You can lead a horse to water, and you CAN make him drink!! Just salt the oats. Just add salt to the horse’s rations of oats and then when he gets to the water, he will drink like crazy!!
You can do the same process with your clients and prospects. Get them all excited about something so that they are really eager when the time comes.
Have you committed to at least experimenting with this idea of “salting” your clients and prospects?
14 … DOUBLE YOUR INCOME by Inspiring Your Clients
“Snowmen fall to earth, unassembled” – It is your job to see snow, but envision snowmen. Most people see snow, and envision traffic jams and snow-shoveling.
“You never know how far you can go till you risk going too far” T. S. Eliot – I risked going to far when I joined Polar Race, a 350-mile foot-race to the North Pole braving -40 degree cold and hauling a sled with all my provisions weighing 100 pounds. That foot-race took me one entire month, April 2007. I risked going too far and I made it. You will have fun taking risks. It’s way more fun than watching TV!! Take risks in your life and in your business.
In which ways are you risking going too far to inspire your clients?
15 … DOUBLE YOUR INCOME by Finding a Product or Service you can Sell
Start by creating an educational product on anything you know even a little about.
How are you offering the same products and services you’ve offered for years? That is not a good recipe for success. Be bold.
16 … DOUBLE YOUR INCOME by Getting Content for your Products
If you do not know much, then interview those who are really knowledgeable. If you like chocolate cookies, then interview people who are expert at making them and selling them and then you have a product!! Also, video tape them and use those videos on YouTube to sell your website and product. Or, sell the videos.
There are THREE ways to get great content – for free – which you can then sell for money !! Here are the three ways:
Your own Wisdom … You already know a certain amount about the topic. Type, audio or videotape what you know.
Google … Simply type your questions or issues into Google and get lots of information.
Experts … Interview experts in your field. Interview anyone making a lot of money doing what you do. Why will experts give you their wisdom for free? Because Experts LOVE to share what they know. Audio or video their interviews and you suddenly have wisdom in your educational products.
These are 16 ways to double your income. I use all 16. Select ONE that resonates with you and begin it. Best of success.
Raymond Aaron,New York Times Top Ten Bestselling Author, “Double Your Income Doing What You Love”
There are plenty of ways to generate leads for your business. We are going to go over the top seven.
I woke up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat after waking from a dream about how all of my traffic (leads) had disappeared. Why? I had gotten away from the basics and was marketing using some played out tactics that no longer worked.
In today’s day and age, you need to use a variety of marketing methods. Get really good at mastering 2 of them. Notice I said 2 not seven. To find the two, you are going to have to use 7 to see which ones generate the most leads and traffic.
The 7 venues I feel are the best of the best are Blogging, Article Marketing, Google Adwords, Video Marketing, Banner Advertising, Forum Marketing and Direct Mail Postcards.
Blogging
There are tons of blogging platforms on the web. Word Press, Blogger and Type-Pad are just a few. Blogging has become very popular in todays day and time and a lot of people use it to brand themselves with. It is a person’s hub or home base if you will.
Blog posts can show up in search engine results on Google and many other search engine sites for the specific keywords that were used in your post. For instance, if someone did a blog post on “The Top 7 surefire ways to generate leads for your online or offline business”, and someone types in “surefire ways to generate leads”, your post could show up.
Some of the benefits of blogging are very easy to publish. If you can type, you can blog.
Blogging allows your audience to easily find your content or the content they are looking for.
It’s a very social way for you to become a part of the online community and share your thoughts, feelings or attitude with your audience.
Blogging is viral. It makes your message available to countless people around the world.
It allows ease of linking. It is easy for people to link to and from you.
It is easy to take a blog post and then turn that post into an article and post it in article directory’s, blog directories, etc.
Article Marketing
Article writing and marketing is a very cheap way to drive highly targeted traffic to your website. It helps build trust between you and your reader and allows you to establish credibility. By no means to you have to be an effective writer to have a killer article campaign.
Once you write an article, it is important to get it out there to as many sites as possible with different variations of your article. My favorite program to do this is Automatic Article Submitter, which blasts your article out to over 200 article directories. This drives mad traffic to your site and creates backlinks to your original content, which creates very relevant information for Google to index. I go more into this process on a previous post on my blog.
You can optimize your articles with relevant keywords that people search for and your article will then show up in the search engines when people go searching for them.
Next we are going to discuss the God Father/Mother of Internet Marketing and Lead Generation. Google Adwords.
Google Adwords
Google Adwords is the fastest way to get immediate traffic, HANDS DOWN!! It can also be the most intimidating of methods. You don’t want to just dive right in. You want to at least read Perry Marshal’s definative guide to Google Adwords. You want to make sure that you are putting your marketing dollards where they count. Google is the place to generate hoards of traffic, however, it’s not the place to sling mud against the wall and hope something sticks, cause you’ll go broke quick.
If you want to know where people are creating 7 figure incomes online, it’s done through GOOGLE, PERIOD! Case Closed! People are always searching for what you have to offer online. If they click on your Google Ad, you are one step closer to having a lead and new business partner or whatever it is your selling or offering online.
The next way to generate leads and traffic is through video marketing.
Video Marketing
This is my absolute favorite way to market online. I love it and I am damn good at it. I use a FLIP cam for all of my vidz ,but there are hundreds of cams you can use that work just as well. Right off the bat I will tell you, if your going to do videos, you need Traffic Geyser. Yep, you get it 30 days for free (I think). Then it’s $97 a month and well worth it. I don’t know anyone who has had success with videos without using the Traffic Geyser software to blast the videos and content everywhere on the web.
Here are the stats on who watches videos:
* 71% Employed, 15% are students * Median Income $75,000 * Almost 50% are married * 70% are college educated That is a GREAT audience!
People like to watch things rather than read them and videos gives them a chance to see and feel who you are as a person.
Next, I will briefly discuss Banner Advertising.
Banner Advertising
Banners are the little or sometimes big squares or rectangles that you see on people’s websites like such:
The awesome thing about banners is that you can target the exact person your looking for, right where they hang out online. You simply put your banner ads on the websites that your audience is looking for and presto. Banner ads provide a consistent flow of traffic and you can plan your advertising in advance.
Another free source of traffic can come from Forums.
Forum Marketing
Forum marketing is one of the easiest and cheapest ways to generate traffic as well as brand yourself as an expert online. All you have to do is participate in the discussions that you are interested in and provide value to the “threads” in the forums.
Keep in mind. This is not the place to pitch your business or you will get eaten alive and lose all credibility. It is a place to learn, share knowledge and gain trust, period! I recommend The Warrior Forum.
Last but not least is direct mail.
Direct Mail Postcards
A lot of marketers are missing a whole market here. Direct mail is not dead and can be an awesome source of leads and new business. It can be quite expensive, so this is not for the person on a budget. We have a company that does the printing and mailing of them. You will have to shop around. I highly recommend a campaign, meaning, don’t just send out 10,000 postcards. Sent out 3 waves of 10,000 postcards about 2 months apart. This is the drip method and your recipients will start to remember you.
Well folks, I would have liked to be more specific for each of the 7 traffic methods, but that would be like a course and I would have to charge you for that. So for now, you just got like thousands in information for FREE so enjoy it and put it to work.
Sure Firely yours,
Josh Boxer
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A great thing about Wordpress is that it is a storehouse of tens and thousands of free and highly customizable themes that you can download from the internet. Now the question that may come to your mind is that why would the designers offer the themes for free, particularly those known for their stunning and professional looks! Well, by doing so, they are in a way increasing their credibility amongst the common mass!
Now with so many themes available online you may find it a bit complicated when it comes to choose best Wordpress theme for your blog…I guess I’m right! Well, this is where the contents of this article come into play. Here you will find innumerable considerations such as personal taste, monetization, niche and much that helps you to choose best Wordpress theme without much hassle.
Choose your niche: Yes that’s the most important…I mean you need to decide what you blog is about…whether you’ll be creating a photography blog, a marketing blog and so one. None of us aren’t that insensible to choose pretty flowers or puppies as themes to create business blogs…isn’t it so! However, the same themes can work well when it comes to creating your personal blog. What I intend to say is that you choose your niche; you can choose the relevant themes accordingly!
After choosing your niche, your next job lies in flipping through the designs available in that category. Design does play a viable role when it comes to creating a blog. Make sure you choose best Wordpress theme to give an attractive look to your blog. If you succeed in doing so then you are sure to attract more and more visitors to your blog.
If you are interested to make money from your blog then choosing the right design is of utmost importance. Layouts without any sidebars may be your personal taste but are you sure they will work wonders for your ads? Instead why not go for multiple and “widgetized” sidebars together with three column layout!
And there comes your personal taste…you are free to choose any Wordpress themes for your personal blogs…all you need to do is use large fonts so that the text is readable.
A good thing that you can do when it need to choose best Wordpress theme is downloading anything and everything that you find appealing. You can then sort the ones that look promising. Practicing this sorting procedure for a number of times will help you get your dream Wordpress theme!