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Napoleon Hills Principles of Personal Achievement

It was a long time since I wrote on this blog so time to update. The reason has been that I have been very busy working on the www.site-hype.com/wordpress site, all articles on web traffic generation has been posted on that blog as well of a lot of text about Twitter.

I want to focus this blog on personal development, mostly for my own references. So to get this blog going again here are Napoleon Hills Principles of Personal Achievement listed.

1. Definiteness of Purpose
2. Mastermind Alliance
3. Applied Faith
4. Going the Extra Mile
5. Pleasing Personality
6. Personal Initiative
7. Positive Mental Attitude
8. Enthusiasm
9. Self-Discipline
10. Accurate Thinking
11. Controlled Attention
12. Teamwork
13. Learning from Adversity and Defeat
14. Creative Vision
15. Maintenance of Sound Health
16. Budgeting Time and Money
17. Cosmic Habitforce

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Getting Projects Done

Recently I have been doing lots of work to get my site-hype project going. Site hype is a service that helps people get more traffic to their web sites but that is not what I am going to write about today.

We are not done with the project yet, in fact, we are just about getting started. Still, I wanted to take this chance to write down a few things that has helped the project so far, perhaps the same ideas can help your projects.

The first thing I did was to take in a partner.

If you can find a partner you can work with and that complements your skill this one small thing can be the difference between a successful project and a total failure. If you don’t take a real partner in the project at least find a mastermind group or a mentor.

You need someone that makes you accountable to get things done. Someone who motivates you when it’s a little touch and I can promise you, all non trivial projects will have a period where it’s not just sunshine.

There will always be a phase where everything is almost done but not quite done, this is where projects get delayed, this is where you need your motivation. Work that little extra to get past that speed bump.

Set goals. This should be obvious, but it easy to forget especially with your own projects. You are probably very motivated at the start and then it might seem like a waste of time to set your goals.

Its not!

Set long term goals, set medium term goals, set weekly goals and even set your daily personal goal.

And set dates.

We have a long term goal to have 100 members using the site-hype system. We have a short time goal to have completed out beta test at the end of February and each week we set goals on what to do.

And follow up on your goals, we do a weekly project review

Communicate. You don’t have to meet in person, if you do internet project that might be hard or even impossible. We use Skype to make sure we keep in touch each and every day. We motivate each other, can discus questions we have. And we always have an open Skype chat window where we can write down ideas or ask questions.

Systemize and Make visual plans. You should write down plans and system in plan text but making diagrams as well. It just makes everything more clear, not only for your partner but also for yourself. For our marketing strategy I have made Visio diagrams, they are easy to follow and helps us communicate.

That’s it for today. The project is coming along fine, can’t wait to share more progress with you all.

9 Sites That Turns Your Web Traffic Into Gold

You want to earn money from your sites visitors, right? One easy way to do that is to put up some advertising on your web pages. You can sell your advertising space yourself but that takes time. An easier and better way is to join one or more of the available advertising network.

After you have joined a network and have been accepted you will receive custom html/JavaScript code to add to your web pages. When your web page loads the add-network inserts their advertising on your page where the custom code is. If your web site has traffic you will eventually get paid.

There are typically two ways people buy advertising on these networks, either based on the number of views of the advert (CPM) or based on the number of clicks on the link in the advert (PPC).

You probably already know about Google AdSense which is the largest network by far. But there are a lot of other smaller alternatives that are worth testing. Generally Google can pay you less since they are so large. There are also sites that AdSense don’t accept but are accepted by other networks.

Here are 9 advertising networks you need to test if you want to transform your visitors into gold.

7search.com
Google adsense
Clicksor
AdsDaq
AdBrite
BidVertiser
UggiTraffic
WidgetBucks
Snoork Ads

The amount of money you will make from your site is directly related to the number of visitors your site has. Subscribe to my free daily web traffic newsletter, and get free ideas on how to increase the number of visitors to your site. You can also implement the Site Hyping system.

Finally, more visitors to your site!

After much work, more than I anticipated, the Site Hyping report is finally up and available

I have been writing a lot lately about web traffic generation here and you might already be getting my free web traffic tips from YourTrafficTips.com, if you are not getting it you should signup. YourTrafficTips is all about easy to use ideas written down as a few steps, easy to follow. Like a smorgasbord of tactics to pick from.

Site Hyping on the other hand is a step by step system to bring more visitors to your site using social networking and web 2.0. Its much more comprehensive. You will learn from the very beginning how to get more visitors to your web site and exactly what you need to do. You can use the site hyping system as a base and then complement it with ideas from the free newsletter.

This is my first info product targeted at web masters. When I started to write on it I never really intended it to be released as a product, it was just meant for a few selected friends….

In a project that I do with a couple of friends we have a few people that are quite new to site promotion. They know how to create web sites, they are experts in their field and know how to write content, but what’s the point with no visitors.

Me being a bit lazy, I didn’t want to work on all web traffic generation myself. So I decided to write down what has been working for me so far, so that they could do all the work. The one page explanation quickly grew to a 20 page report. I gave the report to the people in my group and… got a lot of questions back… now it was no longer a simple report but rather a step by step system. There is a flow chart to follow on what to do each day and forms to follow and fill in as you do your work.

So I figured, now I have a system that anyone one can follow why not share it with the rest of the world and make some money…  Money is nice to have and I have always wanted to do an info product.

So, if you want more visitors to your site and can follow a step by step system, take my system for a test and let me know what you think.

The 5 second task that will jumpstart your day

Here is a simple thing I do every day to help me be more productive and it only takes about 5 seconds.

When you wake up from sleep each day your body is as most dehydrated. Your body is in need of fluid… Spend 5 seconds as the very first thing you do when you wake up and drink a large glass of water. You will re-hydrate your body and almost instantly feel a buzz of energy. If you can turn this simple action into a habit, I promise you that you will get more done each day.

To form a habit your will need to do the same thing at every day for at least two weeks in a row. Write a note and put on the door to the shower and other places where you know you will notice it each day. Form your new habit a day at a time until that first glass of water is a habit of yours.

Another simple thing that does wonders to boost your productivity is to begin your day writing down on paper what you intend to do this very day. Combine the planning with the simple glass of water and you will most likely double your productivity and feel much better!

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Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas everyone!

I am writing this as my little girls are outside with their grandfather getting this years christmas tree. Last couple of weeks has been kind of slow here mostly because my Wife has completed her PhD and I have had to take care of the house and the girls. If you read this blog the last year i hope you have found some of the tips useful.

Next year i promise many more tips in this blog, i will add more tips to my web traffic tips ( http://YourTrafficTips.com ) and you will see the launch of site-hyping… Its going to be an exciting year!

Merry Christmas!

Fredrik Lönn

You need to beta test your info products

I have been working hard lately to get my first info product ready. And todays lesson is this… people don’t understand all you write even though what you write seems obvious to you….

I already have quite a few software products, but this is the first time I am trying my luck on a pure info product. The product is about how you can use social bookmarking and other web 2.0 technologies to bring free web traffic to your web site ( you probably know you can get a lot of free tips from me at http://YourTrafficTips.com ).

So I have the product finished and I am writing on the sales letter. Meanwhile I thought I should let a good friend test the product, to actually use it. Revolutionary idea…. When you work with software its so obvious you need to test, why shouldn’t you test an info product as well? and you should!

Turned out that my instructions wasn’t all that clear, I had missed a few vital pieces of information. So the result of this simple testing is now a much better product and one important lesson learned.

Always Test your stuff!

That’s all for today, why not follow me, frelo, on twitter?

Site hype waiting list

I just put up a waiting list for site-hype at http://site-hype.com signup to get update on the progress on the project and get an early notice when its about to launch.

Site-hype.com will be the main site for my upcoming web traffic software when it is released. I expect it to be launched early next year. In the first round I will limit the number of copies to 100, to make sure everything runs as smooth as possible. There will also be a number of bonuses and a member area.

So signup to the waiting list and be first in line.

Facebook to drive social web site traffic

Facebook just this week announced that they will integrate their service more closely with their partner sites. When you use Facebook you will be able to access your accounts on sites like Discovery Channel, Digg, Twitter, Evite, SocialThing, StumbleUpon, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Geni without an extra login.

Some of these sites are quite well known. I already use Digg, Twitter and StumbleUpon to help promote my software and web sites and you should to.

Geni is a really good service to build you family tree. I use it together with some of my relatives. It is good to get reminders on people’s birthdays and quite fun to see your family tree grow.

EVite is a nice free service to create and send out invitations of any kind. I have really not played around with this but I will take a closer look. If you have experience with the service please leave a comment below.

SocialThing is still in closed beta so you will require an invite to use it. The site allows you have a place for all you friends to see what you are doing on other sites.

Learn about how to use social web sites and more in my traffic tip newsletter, sign up is for free and you get a new idea for at least the next 40 days (and by the time you get there probably even longer).

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New free search based keyword tool from Google

Google just recently released a new cool search based keyword tool for keyword research. You can use it for free at:
http://www.google.com/sktool

The Search-based Keyword Tool generates keyword relevant and specific to your website. The result from the sktool is based on real searches on Google.

As usual with Google the tool is labeled as beta. Google always seem to put beta after everything they release even if its been tested by millions of users. Anyway, this tool is actually really useful today.

The sktool is created for Google Adwords users but anyone can use it for free. If you are logged into your Adwords account while you use the tool all keywords you already have in your campaigns will be filtered out. You can also specify your own filters to get more specific results. For example you can filter on a range for the bidding price. You can filter the results for a specific page by filling in the URL contains field with the name of your page (ie the part of your domain after the url).

Also note that by default the results are filtered on your billing region. In other words I got my results tailored for Sweden which is not what I wanted since my targeted market is really not Sweden. In the manage settings box in the left hand column simply change the setting to what you want.

When you do a search the tool tries to get keywords from your web site and the keywords you provide as a starting point for its suggestions. The results you get from the keyword search are always matched to the site you provide. Each search returns a list of suggested keywords with an estimate on monthly searched, how much competition there is and a suggested bidding price for the keyword.

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