March 5th, 2010 by John

Numismatics, the study of money and the collection of coins, began hundreds of years ago. Numismatic coin collecting became known as the “hobby of kings” because typical coin collectors were royals, nobility and people of privileged backgrounds. Today anyone can enjoy the fascinating hobby of collecting coins.

In ancient Rome, Ceasar Augustus, the Roman Emperor, was known for distributing all kinds of coins to the people as Saturnalia gifts. In 1355, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV was presented a collection of coins by Petrarch. Petrarch, an Italian scholar and poet, is considered the first Renaissance coin collector.

Other well-known collectors include Pope Boniface VIII, Holy Roman Emperor Maximillian, King Louis XIV of France and Ferdinand I. The very first book about coins, De Asse et Partibus, was written in 1514 by Guillaume Bude.

In the early 19th century, coin collecting societies and associations began. The Royal Numismatic Society began in 1836. It still exists today and publishes the Numismatic Chronicle, a journal of coin collecting. The American Numismatic Society began in 1858. In 1866 it began publishing the American Journal of Numismatics. Today the largest coin collection in America is owned by the society. Located in New York City, it has 800,000 coins of all kinds.

Over time, more and more people discovered this fascinating hobby. Most are amateur collectors who simply enjoy the coins. Others are professional and grade coins according to the Sheldon Scale. Numismatics has room for every kind of coin collector.

Collecting coins is an easy hobby to begin and is enjoyed by people of all ages and walks of life. It does not cost a lot of money and most of the supplies to get started are already in most homes. If you are beginning a collection with little to no budget, all a person needs to start a coin collection is a box, coins and an interest in them.

If you have a bit more to spend on supplies you will want to purchase an album and/or small paper envelopes. These things are used to protect the coins. You will also need a magnifying glass between 5x and 8x and a book for identifying and pricing the different coins.

Advanced coin collectors can purchase as many supplies as their budgets allow. The sky is the limit. Advanced coin collectors may want to specialize in collecting coins from a specific era or part of the world. Some coin collectors may want to collect the same coins in each year they were minted. Others may decide to learn how to grade the coins.

Numismatic coin collecting is a great hobby for people of all ages. The degree of involvement can be tailored from very simple coin collecting for children all the way up to the level of a professional coin collector. The most important thing when first beginning to collect is to take it slow and have fun with your new hobby and share it with your friends and family. Who knows, maybe you will get them involved in coin collecting, too.

If I told you that I knew how to get free silver and gold every month, would you want me to tell you or keep it to myself?

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February 24th, 2010 by John

There are many factors to consider when choosing the correct MLM company to partner with. You will want to look at and investigate the leadership. This will give you a future view of how the company will run.

Investigate the compensation plan thoroughly. Make sure you will get paid for your efforts and time.

Check out the products offered. Make sure that the product can stand on it’s own.

Most importantly, You need to be a product of the product! If you don’t use or truly believe in the product, your prospects will see right through you. If they can not see the passion in you they will not purchase your product.

When you make your decision and commit to the company, make sure you participate in their auto-ship program. The auto-ship is where the bread and butter is. If you don’t participate then what do you think your distributors will do?  If your distributors are looking to you as leader, they will do whatever you are doing.

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February 16th, 2010 by John

How To Conquer Your Fears

Everyone is afraid of something. That is simply human nature. You would have to go a long way to find someone so completely self assured that they are not afraid of anything at all and when you did find someone who said that they were afraid of nothing then they would simply be lying. Most commonly people are afraid of things like public speaking, flying, spiders and insects or water. There are lots of phobias that people have and everyone is subject to some sort of weakness somewhere. If you think of someone rich and powerful – what could he possible be scared of, you might think? but of course if they do not have some sort of irrational fear like that of claustrophobia they will almost always fear the thought of losing the power that they have. The point is that no one is infallible and everyone has a weakness. If you are someone whose fears are getting in the way of your goals then you might want to find a way to conquer your fears so you can get right on with your life.

In order to conquer your fear there are several steps your can take and tips you can consider.

First of all, analyze yourself and be totally honest of what your fear is. You will never be able to kick the fear if you are not honest about what you are feeling. The first step to getting over any fear is to recognise it.

You then need to stop nourishing your fear. When you confront the thing that you fear do not let it get ahold of you. If you are afraid of the dark do not allow this to stop you sleeping. Think rationally about what your fear is and bring it back to earth. You need to face the think that you are afraid of and should not allow it to get on top of you.

Therefore, if it is the dark that you fear then go and sit in a blacked out room. If you are afraid of public speaking then do not back away from it whenever you are put in the position to do it. Face it with confidence and your confidence will grow with you.

You need to stop nourishing the fear and trying to avoid it and instead nourish your courage and meet it head on. Avoiding situations where your fear might arise will only restrict you in your life. Instead, have the confidence to confront your fear with courage and you will grow as a person.

The most important part of actually getting over any fear is understanding why you have that fear. Many people are afraid of heights and the reason why this is is because of the fear of falling and hurting yourself. This is totally rational. However, other fears that people commonly have such as fear of rejection are things that will only hold you back in life. You need to understand what exactly the fear is and then realise that life is too short to worry about something so trivial.

In order to conquer your fears, therefore, you need to recognise, understand and confront what it is you are afraid of.

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February 15th, 2010 by John

Google Buzz is a sharing application released by Google. Buzz lets you easily share videos, photos and updates, as well as start discussions on topics you find interesting. If you use the Google mail client, you can access Google Buzz from your mail box. Just click on the small Buzz icon that appears on your screen. Buzz lets you easily follow those you already have contact with. Since it can use your current friends list, Buzz needs no setup. Just click the Buzz link to get started and it will connect to all your contacts.

Google Buzz marketing has tremendous potential. It allows you to share your message with a small group, or publicly with the world. One of the most useful features of Buzz is that it lets you connect all of your social sites in one place. With this feature, you could send your marketing message to all of your social sites within a few seconds.

Buzz can instantly play videos, pull images from Web links, and it even allows you to zip through large photos quickly. Buzz is also a great management tool. It allows you to see responses to posts from your social sites. These comments are automatically sent to your inbox, where you can respond immediately. You can also send a quick note to someone by using an @ reply. This will allow the person to see your note right away.

One great feature with Buzz is that it can crawl social networks and recommend posts that you may find interesting. These posts may be from people you are not following. But it gives you the option to check them out without any work on your part. With this feature, you can be the first to know about latest happenings on topics you follow. You can find out about new technologies to help your business. You can keep a close eye on competitors who are releasing new products or services. You may even learn a new way to cook your favorite dish. This Buzz feature has endless possibilities.

Buzz can be used on your phone, which is another great way to keep up with your buddies on the go. It also lets you see what people in your area are chatting about.

Buzz makes it easy to send a post from wherever you are. You may be sitting at your computer. You may be out in the field. You may even be on vacation. Wherever you are, you can easily send a quick post to let people know what is happening in your world.

There are dozens of ways to use Buzz for marketing. Use it to share your latest promotion with customers, or discover prospects to share your message with. With Buzz, you can easily build your contact list, or find out what your target audience is buzzing about.

On the downside, there are some privacy concerns surrounding the first version of Google Buzz. The service can expose email contacts that you may prefer to keep private. However, most applications become better and better as new versions are released. No doubt, Google Buzz will be no exception. In the next version of Buzz, there may be an option to hide your contact list.

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February 13th, 2010 by John

What To Know About Numis Network

Numis network wants to help people create wealth using network marketing to sell collectible silver and gold coins and to assist others to learn to do the same.
They have joined together a team that has experience in the marketing field and numismatic industry so that they can help others harness the power of using this form of business.

Becoming a part of their team now means getting to be one of their first independent representatives who can make money through sales to those who are interested in collectible coins or by teaching someone else to become a representative. The beginning of a business like this is the best time to start.

Every human being seems to have the desire to collect something. People all over the world enjoy collecting coins and now with Numis this is something that anyone will be able to help them acquire wherever they are located and at any time they want. No more worrying about where a business should be located or the expense of running one. With a computer and an internet connection anyone can run this business from anywhere.

Numis will provide a website, training videos, conference calls and other business building tools. All of this comes with a low start up cost and no worry about carrying your own inventory.

Using network marketing is a not a new concept for selling something, there are companies out there selling many different things. Numis states that what makes them different than other MLM companies is that they offer a thirty day money back guarantee, they are competitively priced, and their product is the highest grade of silver and gold collectible coins in the world.

When a collector buys coins from a representative of the company they are obliged to let the customer know that they should view their purchase strictly as a collectible item and not as an investment. Any collector item varies in price according to the demand.

A few good tips for those who are new to network marketing in any form are, to always research the company working with them, in the case of collectibles, check on a reputable auction site to see if the items are selling and at what cost. Find out exactly what the start up costs will be and see if as a representative there is anything that must be purchased on a monthly basis. Find out how leads will be generated, will Numis supply them or will a list need to be purchased? Also find out about any marketing campaigns the company offers and if as a representative will be any extra cost.

Before working with Numis Network all of the information needed to make an informed decision should be found on their website. Be sure to read it carefully. If there are any questions contacting one of their customer service representatives should be easy to do. There are no money back guarantees in network marketing for the independent representative, so read all that can be read, watch every video offered and if not satisfied ask questions. If you would like to know more about the Numis Opportunity Click Here.

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February 10th, 2010 by John

The Advantages Of Article Marketing

If you are an internet marketer or a website owner, you know that one of the best ways to get the word out is through article marketing. This particular method of online marketing is highly ideal because people use the Internet to find information. When you write informative articles with links back to your site, you can expect traffic to come in consistently.

Article marketing is very consistent in terms of trending. Its effectiveness has not changed over the years and is definitely something that will be here to stay. Because of its effectiveness, a lot of businesses use this method to market their products and services. If you are new to this online marketing method, you might be wondering how it will be able to benefit your business. Check out the benefits of article marketing below.

With this method, you are establishing yourself as an expert on a certain subject. A lot of people actually go to article directories to discover new ideas and thoughts. Thus, if you submit an article to these article directories, it is like bringing your site to the public eye.

Subtlety is the name of the game when it comes to these article directories. You have to write a relevant article on the product or service you are offering and likewise, highlight its features and benefits. A compelling and quality article will then encourage people to visit your site for more information.

One other reason why marketing using articles is effective is because you can optimize each article for a certain keyword. When you sprinkle these keywords into your article in a normal way, search engines will begin to take notice of it. Keywords are very important in search engine optimization. The more keywords you target with different articles, the higher your site will go in search engine results.

Article marketing is also ideal for small business owners because submitting articles to the thousands of article directories in the web is free. You can write your own articles or have them outsourced. The key to effective marketing is to place a link on your resource box so your readers can follow through to your site. The more article directories your articles are published in, the more backlinks you will get. With a lot of backlinks, you can expect a large traffic volume and an instant high-up from search engines.

But it doesn’t stop there. After you submit your articles to article directories, you need to do everything you can to let them gain exposure. For example, you need to ping your article every time you upload them so that it is easier for search engines to find them. It is also recommended that you bookmark your article with different bookmarking sites to add more backlinks to it. And don’t forget to ping the bookmarked URL so that you will go higher in search engine rankings.

If you come to think about it, content is indeed king. People are looking for information everyday. Take advantage of this fact and venture into article marketing. For sure, your traffic volume will increase immensely.

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February 1st, 2010 by John

I left Some Of My Baggage At The Airport. What A Beautiful Day!

I had just flown into Columbus airport, de boarded the plane and made my way to the baggage carousel. While I was waiting at the carousel I struck up a conversation with a gentleman I had seen on the flight.

We made small talk at first talking about weather and the flight. After a little while of talking I gave a pause and then extended my hand and said, “My name is John Stone. Can I ask yours?” The gentleman responded, “Ed, Ed Smith.” I then asked him more detailed questions about what kind of business he was into. Mr. Smith told me that he was a salesman for a company that manufactured compressors. He began to describe these industrial compressors and what use they had In the manufacturing world.

The more Mr. Smith talked the more I began to figure out that he was very successful as a salesman. Mr Smith told me that these compressors can be quite pricey and the commission can be quite substantial.

Now my brain starts doing flip flops. I was thinking what a huge asset Mr Smith would be to my organization. While Mr. Smith continued to talk, my brain kept saying, “Tell him about your business.”

Then emotion of fear set in. I wanted to tell him about my business but my inner voice kept saying, “He doesn’t want to hear it.” “He will just tell you to get lost.” “He is probably a millionaire and doesn’t want to hear about a network marketing scheme.” “What can you offer him that he doesn’t already know?” “Who are you to think that you even have a chance to be successful!?”

At that point I was becoming infuriated at myself for not having the courage to even ask. What the hell was I afraid of? Why couldn’t I even ask somebody that I may not ever see again?

Then Mr. Smith asked, “What is it that you do John?” My mind said, “Here is your chance John.” My inner voices were saying, “Don’t do it. You will be rejected and fail again.”

I decided to shut down the inner voices, I was sick of listening to them. I began to tell Mr. Smith all about my network marketing business. Mr. Smith became very interested in my business and started asking me pointed questions about commissions, how you make money by getting others in the business. He wanted more details on the bonus pools and fast track bonuses.

We kept talking about my business for another 30 minutes after we had collected our bags. We exchanged business cards, shook hands and then parted ways. So I thought.

I live about 40 minutes away from the airport. On the drive home I was running the conversation I had with Mr. Smith through my head over and over again. Questioning myself, Did I say the right things? Did I puke the opportunity all over him? Will I hear from him again?

Then it hit me. I had left some baggage at the airport! The baggage was actually better left at the airport than it was in my possession. I carried that baggage around with me for years and it was actually a relief to leave it behind. The baggage really contained nothing of any value to anyone. My baggage was packed to the brim with fear. Mostly the emotional baggage of rejection.

That was over fifteen years ago and I have never picked up that emotional baggage again. To this day I don’t know what I was truly afraid of.

Now I kind of appreciate rejection because it makes me work harder on myself.

Back to Mr. Smith I finally made it home and checked the answering machine since I had been gone for a few days. On the machine was Mr. Smith and he wanted me to call him right away, he wanted to know more about my business.

Long story short. I signed Mr. Smith the next day and made it to the next level of my company.

The company no longer exists and I have lost touch with Mr. Smith but I still think about him whenever I do face to face marketing.

Whatever your emotional baggage is that is stopping you from attaining the success you desire, just set it down and walk away. I know it sounds simple and it is really that simple.

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January 18th, 2010 by John

I have found Article Marketing to be a challenging subject but a rewarding one.

I actually became aware of Article Marketing only a few weeks ago. I was invited to attend a free webinar. This webinar totally blew my mind. The presenter of the webinar hit us with one technique after the other. Every technique he shared with us was totally out of the box thinking. This guy was generating a tremendous amount of leads on a daily basis. His record day was 76 leads in one day! At that point I was ready to absorb all the information he was dishing out. I could not get enough! Well folks, I watched that webinar over and over again, just letting the information sink in. He shared with us how to get our articles posted to over 200 bookmark sites and 20 social sites with a click of a button. Wow! How powerful is that? That is like having 220 fishing hooks out on the web. Let’s take it one step further,

If you write one article a day for 30 days that would give you 6600 fishing hooks. Now what if you took the challenge a little further and wrote one article everyday for the next 100 days. That’s a lot of fishing hooks out there. This how the big dogs market.  I then began to implement what I had learned. I followed his 4 step action plan and applied it to 2 blog post. When I posted my blog I achieved the #3 and #4 spot on Google for the key words I selected for my post. Wow! The leads started flowing immediately.

I am now currently honing my skills for Article Marketing. Just when I thought I had it figured out, he conducted another webinar to show more techniques. This webinar was just as powerful as the last. Just like the first webinar I watched the second webinar over and over again. Each time I watched the webinars I picked up more nuggets of information I missed the first couple times around. As with any marketing technique we are always on the learning curve. We never stop learning.

I can see that this is going to be a powerful weapon to put in my lead generating arsenal. The best thing about using Article Marketing is that it costs no money to implement.  When you can market for no money and acheive the same or better results with paid advertising, why not?

I am also a restaurant owner and have spent an enormous amount of money on traditional advertising. I have decided to drop most of our old school advertising and to begin implementing the leverage of the internet and begin promoting our restaurant for FREE. I will track the results of my experiment and write about them at a later date. I encourage any serious Internet marketer to get a grasp on Article Marketing and begin generating more leads than you can handle. As internet marketers we must continue to take action on a consistent basis to get the results we desire.

So jump on Article Marketing and begin generating hoards of leads!

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January 13th, 2010 by John

Xyngular has just launched in 2009 and I believe will explode the network marketing industry.

Xyngular has a unique super juice beverage and a very unique compensation plan. I have only seen one other company with the same plan and they have skyrocketed after only one year. I predict xyngular will do the same.

Don’t worry about Xyngular being a scam. They are a solid company with experienced leadership.

I want to focus on the training aspect of Xyngular. To be successful in this industry it is imperative that you learn how to market yourself on the Internet.

Notice I said, “Market yourself.” I did not say market your company or product.

There is the old school method of marketing your business. Such as making a list of 100 family and friends, dragging people to meetings, conducting hotel meetings, cold calling, etc…

Nothing wrong with the old school but you need to incorporate the new school methods into your team building efforts as well.

The new school techniques will allow you to generate leads for your Xyngular business automatically. The leads you generate using the Internet will contact you first. You will not have to chase them down or drag them to meetings.

Here is why the Internet method works so well. The Internet exposes you and your opportunity to thousand and thousands of people every day. When using the list of 100 people you created, what do you do when you have exhausted your list? You need to find more leads.

The statistics show that only 3% will say yes to your opportunity. So for every 100 people you talk to you will only recruit 3 people into your business. You will have to talk to a lot of people and cover a lot of geographic area if you want to be successful.

The Internet will allow you to cover the globe and attract up to hundreds of leads a day. Wouldn’t you like to wake up in the morning, check your email and see all the leads that want to know about your opportunity? That is what I do every morning and you can do the same..

Marketing on the Internet is a completely different beast than traditional marketing. Your marketing efforts, on the internet, will involve social media sites. On the social sites you will not want to blast your product and opportunity to everyone. Most people will run from you because they do not want to be sold. When I first started I blasted my opportunity and product and could not get a single lead. I then learned about a philosophy called attraction marketing.

When I finally grasped the concept of attraction marketing, my business took off almost overnight. I quit blasting my business and began to provide value to my social community. Value can come in many forms. I would provide tips and techniques on how to build an mlm business. I would often be inspired by a quote or a scripture and share that with my contacts on the social sites.

This helped position me as a leader and a “go to” guy. I helped many people that were involved in other businesses. Many of those got involved in my business because I was able to provide more value than their sponsor in their other business. That is the magic of attraction marketing.

You need to join some social sites and begin to develop relationships with people on those sites. After a relationship is developed and a trust established, that is the time to present your opportunity. People don’t join businesses, people join people. I joined my opportunity because of the person who introduced me to the opportunity.

So get on board with the internet and attraction marketing and make your sponsor jealous.

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January 8th, 2010 by John

On Target

 Some of you may know that I am an avid hunter and love to target shoot. I love to shoot targets with my bow and gun and I do have a favorite bow and gun to shoot with. I will speak about my favorite weapons in my marketing arsenal in a minute.

The first rule of target shooting is to identify your target. You identify your target for both safety and accuracy.

Just like marketing on line you need to identify who your target is. On line marketing is a totally different animal than paper, radio or billboard advertising.

Many times this type of marketing is called “shotgun marketing”. They call it “shotgun marketing” because when you shoot a shotgun, many pellets come out of the end of the barrel and scatter in random patterns. You will never know precisely where your shot is going to land. When using newspaper, billboards or radio you can not focus your aim on your intended target.

If you want to shoot a target with any amount of accuracy you would want to choose a rifle. A rifle, when shot, will expel a single bullet and hit exactly where you aim it, if you are experienced with the rifle.

On line marketing is the same way. You will want to identify your target and use a weapon with great accuracy.

Keyword research is your weapon of accuracy and how you will identify your target.

The prospect you are trying to acquire will search the internet using specific key words.

 Let’s stay with the gun analogy. Say you market a hand gun and it is a 32 caliber and it is brand xyz. The first thing you want to do is research keywords related to 32 caliber and brand xyz.

I use Google Adword Tool to conduct my research. The tool is free and it will give you suggestions on other highly searched keywords related to your original keyword. This is a very powerful tool and can really narrow down your target.

Put your keyword or words in the adword tool and look at the results. You will see which keywords relate to your original keyword and you will see the amount of searches done for those keywords, on a global level.

Now look at the keywords with the most searches and conduct a Google search on those keywords.

On the upper right hand corner of the screen you will see the number of results competing for that particular keyword.

I have found that I can get top ranking when the results show 10 million results or less. I have not tried keywords with over 10 million organic results but I will as I hone my marketing skills.

The next thing you need to do when you have the keywords you want to target is create some content. Your content can be a article or maybe a video. I use a combination of the two to dominate the keywords I choose.

Once you create your content you need to get it distributed on the Internet. I use an awesome software that helps me distribute my articles to 300 different article sites. This software will get you top ranking almost overnight.

I will then create a video discussing the article I just created. I use a distribution service that will distribute my video to various sites and I have seen top ranking in as little as two hours..

Keyword research, article marketing and distribution are my favorite weapons to hit my target accurately and consistently.

Utilize these weapons in your marketing arsenal and you will see dramatic results in your business.

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