I am so thankful for all of the wonderful people I have been fortunate enough to have friendship and form alliances with in the internet marketing community. Thank you God.

As I often say, I have never been happier than since I have been working from home on the internet. I feel like I actually live in the virtual world, since I do so many things online now. Before finding IM, it was banking/paying bills, sending emails, taking online courses, playing games and a little shopping.

Now I can add my work as a virtual assistant for a popular affiliate program, my internet marketing endeavors, online conferencing, forum participation, personal development, and a little more shopping.

Did I mention shopping? I am anxiously awaiting the link for a download of some far-out “brainwave entrainment” which promises ’scientific technologic human excellence’. I just had to get some!

I have other recordings that use ‘dual induction binaural beats and isosynchonous tones’ (and words) and I must say it is a natural high. (see InfiniteMindz.com)

This technology is related to NLP (neurolinguistic programming) and I must say it is something that has helped me to be motivated and productive at times when I just want to curl up in a fetal position and cry. Hey, ‘digital euphoria’ beats pharmacology anyday.

While the supernatural high (communion with the Holy Spirit) is the superior state of being, hands down, it is hard to stay in the higher-consciousness at all times, while living in this world of trials and tribulations and quite frankly crashing disappointments.

So I will tweak the alpha, theta and delta waves that God has included with our amazing brains and stay as high as possible (”trip the light fantastic”).

So anyway folks, stay up there no matter what you have to do. If you feel discouraged, get determined instead. You “cannot fail unless you quit” so don’t ever quit trying! Change the music, change the patterns, but just keep moving on UP!

Make this YOUR year to triumph!

God bless you all always!

Patricia
The e-MoneyMuze
http://www.the3rdpartynetwork.com

They are perfect for customer support. Customer support on the internet leaves a lot to be desired and I think the web conference room is just the right solution.

You want to interact with people. Not tediously email back and forth trying to get the point and then to have the answer really understood.

With Intetekks’ Vereconference VoIP web conference room system, you have the ability to speak to them in real time and to demonstrate what you are saying on the white board.

You or they can record the conversation both audio and visually so as to document the information for future reference!

You can drag websites and other images and files into the room casually, or prepare a formal presentation in PowerPoint and just upload it to the room from your hard drive.

All you or they need, since Vereconference is 100% web based, are inexpensive speakers and microphone for your PCs.

Want to try one out for free? Just go to http://www.3rdpartynetwork.vereconference.com and bring 2 friends. No obligation and no pushy sales people are there.

You can afford this solution because almost anyone has under $12 a month for a 3 person room – with no contracts or commitments. Room capacities reach up into the 1000s and are available at similarly reasonable rates.

Patricia Brucoli
Internet Marketing Solutions
http://www.the3rdpartynetwork.com/

I did not wake up one day and say, I think I would like to be a mentor. However, just in the course of things, I find that I am actually becoming one. I love it, too! I can’t think of any other aspect of starting a home business that I like any better than helping others along the way, in much the same way I have been helped.

It happened through networking with other internet marketers and the beauty of it was I didn’t really have to know all that much to start with. As I learned, I had that much more to share. I think just that I had the nerve to offer my advice a few times in a forum, people began to send me private messages, asking me for more advice!

The great thing about this is there will always be someone who knows less than you do, even if you have only a small head start on them.  These are the ones that need your guidance.

In my opinion, a mentor can have a huge influence on you. A true mentor – is not just a ‘coach’ who will give technical or specific information. A mentor is someone who does have technical knowledge and information, but more than that, they have some insite into human nature and can empathize with others.

This has been so spiritually enriching for me, that I can’t imagine charging money for doing it, as somehow this may detract from the atmosphere created when we reach out to each other for help. Then again, I can remember a time when it was getting to be a full-time job without pay, just answering emails from people asking for my input. Giving is great, but I do have a business to run as well!

However, in that the core strategy of internet marketing is building relationship and trust with your prospects, mentoring may be the perfect way to recruit. Although like networking – to ’know and be known without an agenda’ – we can’t exploit people and pretend to have their best interests at heart, if we just see them as a prospective customer.

You see, in addition to being a coach and cheer leader, a mentor needs to really be a friend. With your friends you share everything that you have to give. If you are to be an effective mentor, you need to feel this way about those who turn to you for advice.

I would like to quote something here that has really been an inspiration to me and hope that any would-be mentors may also be strengthened by it. I don’t remember where I found it, but no matter how many times I read it, it is profound.

The Parable of the Spoons

A holy man was having a conversation with the Lord one day and said, “Lord, I would like to know what Heaven and Hell are like. “The Lord led the holy man to two doors. He opened one of the doors and the holy man looked in. In the middle of the room was a large round table. In the middle of the table was a large pot of stew which smelled delicious and made the holy man’s mouth water.The people sitting around the table were thin and sickly. They appeared to be famished. They were holding spoons with very long handles and each found it possible to reach into the pot of stew and take a spoonful, but because the handle was longer than their arms, they could not get the spoons back into their mouths. The holy man shuddered at the sight of their misery and suffering. The Lord said, “You have seen Hell.”They went to the next room and opened the door. It was exactly the same as the first one. There was the large round table with the large pot of stew which made the holy man’s mouth water. The people were equipped with the same long-handled spoons, but here the people were well nourished and plump, laughing and talking. The holy man said, “I don’t understand.”

  

 

 

In the context of people doing business, the true meaning of the word networking, is to know and be known without an agenda. There are some lines you don’t want to cross or you will not achieve the result you may have anticipated.

The idea is that you build a relationship. You allow yourself to share your thoughts and feelings, although you want to keep those on the positive side. You make an effort to know the other person and what their interests are.

Your attitude should never be one that illicit’s a feeling that you are being patronizing. You should be genuine in your casual interest. Don’t rush or push it. Nothing more obnoxious than someone who has no boundaries or is presumptuous. Always be polite and respectful. Be open, but don’t let it all hang out. This might be your new best friend, but right now you are a stranger.

Some of the rules of networking are pretty rigid, though. Such as even to offer your business card too soon can be seen as a blunder. I will never forget back in the day when the networking concept was coming into play, when someone said, ‘let’s do lunch’. I was so naive I actually called the person to make a date for lunch. They were like ‘who?’

I have heard for a long time that networking is THE best way to find a good job or opportunity. It seems that only undesirable jobs or one’s that can’t be filled hit the classified ads. With the advent of online employment ‘boards’, the classifieds are even more so the dregs. So, I suppose that means that if you know someone who knows you, and then an opportunity arises, they will naturally consider you and want to help you. This is very different than meeting someone for the first time when you want something from them.

Networking in the internet marketing field is not too far off from this.  No one likes in your face advertising or running from the Avon lady in the family because you will be made to feel obligated to buy something you don’t particularly want.  You don’t have much ability to meet the good folks that comprise your ‘list’, considered by some to be the heart and soul of any business. None the less, there are other ways to establish relationship.

One concept in the context of establishing a relationship of trust, is that of giving away information. Possibly for quite some time giving away free information and maybe only extremely subtly including any reference to what it is you are actually selling. The idea is that subliminally, since you have been generous by sharing freely with them, something that they value, they will grow to trust you. Should they ever decide to make a purchase, they may feel that they owe it to you to give you the sale. Pretty logical, if you ask me.