A loving tribute to my dear cousin, who was like a sister to me.  She was my angel on earth, gone too soon.  Poem for Jackie by our cousin Terri:

Sleeping Princess

The smile of a gleeful child, with deep eyes

So blue they drove him wild.

She is full of wit and logic true.

Her womanly magic he did pursue.

The petite Jackie became his bride

And Peter beamed with adoring pride.

Between them each glance, each touch, embraced awe and wonder,

For they had formed a love that would rock the thunder.

Their bond is rare; a lasting, mutually-caring union.

Mimicked before in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet’s tragic confusion.

But now, he, loyal and steady, waits by her side

For a glimpse of his joyful bride.

She sleeps like a princess awaiting his kiss

Unable to awaken from a slumberous bliss.

Leave first, her soul did perpetuate

Because he is stronger and a good guardian he makes.

He cries, “Rest gently, Oh, Love, and when ready let go

For if there is a heaven, they call you, I know.”

You are my angel, my friend and confidant

And the stars are lucky to have you if I cannot.

6/17/2010

In memory of Jackie

With love~Cousin Terri

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Do you ever feel that some parts of yourself are fighting against your best efforts? That they’re holding you back from achieving your goals?  The part of self that most people have the greatest problem with is the “border guard” in charge of keeping you inside your comfort zone. In fact, it’s common to hear people refer to their guard as some kind of enemy or mindless adversary.

But he (or she) isn’t an enemy. It’s just trying to do the job it’s been given. It hasn’t been very well trained in the past, however, so it’s grown a bit meddlesome over the years. It almost certainly needs a bit of re-educating, but it is basically a well-meaning friend.

Remember this: every part of your self is a friend, and not an enemy — ever. It’s only our incomplete understanding that leads us to divide our self up into enemy camps. If you have an immovable block or obstacle that you just can’t get past, it’s often because of this border guard in your mind, and your testy relationship with it.

Let’s say you need to increase your income, but every way you turn seems blocked. Nothing you try ever works, and you continue to be short of money.  Well, you might want to stop trying to figure it out. In fact, stop looking for a solution altogether. After all, nothing in your outer life is going to change until something inside your mind changes. Finding a “solution” will remain basically impossible until you find permission to HAVE what you desire.

HERE’S THE TRICK: INSTEAD OF STRUGGLING, TRY SMUGGLING.

You can stop struggling to take a step or two outside your comfort zone. Just use your power of imagination to bring new situations inside the zone. This is a non-threatening way to smuggle in new ideas and effectively brainwash your border guard.

In a surprisingly short time, it starts thinking that all this new stuff is a natural part of “it’s” territory, and it’ll begin forcing you to stay inside with all this happiness, prosperity and success.

If you have problems that you’ve been unable to figure out after years of thinking, then more years of thinking won’t produce significantly different results. This is a glaring indicator that you’ve been pouring your energies into the wrong activity.

You see, deciding how the problem gets solved isn’t really your job. Your job is to mentally imagine a new situation where the “problem” is completely behind you. It has already been solved. Imagine this vividly and often. It’s the Universe’s job to come up with the how and the when.

Doesn’t matter how impossible a situation seems. The Universe has resources and connections you and I could never dream of. So your job is to simply place your order. Do this by dwelling on your future vision, not the path TO that vision.

Just remember, it’s the Universe’s job to create the path that leads to what you desire. It’ll bring you opportunities that you probably never expect nor imagine. But you do have to put in your order. Do that by clearly imagining what you desire. Simply that.  In effect, you’re smuggling in new “facts” about what belongs inside your comfort zone.

In a surprisingly short time, your border guard will allow you to take the steps that the Universe places before you.  But when imagining your future vision, just always be sure to add the insurance phrase, “do this or something better in ways that are for the highest good of me and everyone involved.”  This makes sure you get solutions that are gentle rather than jarring or abrupt.

I want to see you putting your energy into imagining your result, your outcome, not your problem. Start smuggling in your new future vision and let the Universe build you a path to that exact, specific future.
Do this and see if you notice a dramatic change of your fortunes!

To Your Abundance and Prosperity,

Jill Lillvis

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There’s no diploma you can strive for to be in the Internet marketing industry. You have to learn as you go – on your own – soaking up information along the way.  The first thing you need to know is what it means to be an Internet marketer, because it isn’t always clear to everyone.

Let’s start with what Internet marketing is not.  It’s not being a con artist. It’s not being a spam king.  It doesn’t just mean selling on eBay or having your own website and products.

In reality, Internet marketers can pick and choose from a whole host of options available to help them make money.  Your opportunities are virtually endless, and include one or more of the following:

• Selling digital downloads (information products like eBooks)
• Promoting other people’s products for a commission (affiliate marketing)
• Selling on eBay or other auction sites
• Running a membership site
• Selling your online services (writing, graphics, etc.)
• Owning a website that sells dropshipped or wholesale items

And this is just the tip of the iceberg.  Being a newcomer to Internet marketing, you might be worried that you don’t have anything to sell.  That’s okay – most people don’t start out with anything, and you never have to stock a tangible inventory if you don’t want to.  That’s the beauty of Internet Marketing, flexibility, you are in control and you choose what and how you will run your online business.

Internet marketing creates no gender or age boundaries for you.  There are teenagers who have launched multi-million dollar companies as budding Internet marketers whose ideas sprung to life and catapulted them to instant success.

You don’t have to do anything unethical or shady to succeed at Internet marketing, and in fact, launching a respectable business with a solid reputation is the secret ingredient that will allow you to hatch an empire on the ‘net to fulfill all of your dreams and those of your family.  The sky is the limit!

To Your Abundance and Prosperity,

Jill Lillvis

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There’s no doubt in my mind that Internet marketing has a pretty steep learning curve.  While it may be true that some new marketers hit it big quickly with some good timing, offline experience, luck, great contacts, and being correctly positioned, the majority of new marketers find success at a much slower pace.

What makes the pace even slower is getting stuck.  It’s like getting your car stuck in the mud – you spin your wheels, waste gas, waste time, throw mud all over… and don’t get anywhere.  You’re tired and frazzled and you’ve got nothing to show for it.

When I get stuck with my Internet marketing, I try to stop banging my head against the wall and come up with something that will be a positive action such as:

1.  Google the problem.
2.  Go to the Warrior Forum and look it up with the search function.
3.  Look in Yahoo Answers.
4.  Email my techie friend, my marketer friend, or my WordPress friend (which is one reason I love networking with other marketers.)
5.  Post my problem on a forum.
6.  Look for You Tube videos that might explain how to do it.
7.  Submit a help ticket.
8.  Just take a break, sometimes just stepping away and coming back later gives me a fresh perspective.

What do you do when you are feeling stuck?  Please share some of your getting unstuck methods.

To Your Abundance and Prosperity,

Jill Lillvis

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Traffic who doesn’t want more of it? It’s key to success in any online business. Without traffic, your business doesn’t exist. So how do you get more traffic? Here are a five simple but highly effective tips.

1. Write articles. By just writing one article a day and distributing it to a few article directories, you’ll start building a good amount of incoming links to your website.  People will read your articles and visit your site and the search engines will love the increase in incoming quality links.

2.  Advertise. Advertising on high ranking related websites is a great way to get exposure for your website as well as incoming links. Check to make sure that the website you’re advertising on does indeed get a large amount of traffic.

3.  Participate on forums. Forums are still a great way to gain incoming links and website visitors. More importantly, if you set yourself up as a trusted expert on the forums people will want to learn more about you and what you have to say.

4.  Use social networking. By building a large responsive following on Twitter and Facebook you can easily advertise your website for all to see. If people find your posts interesting they will want to know more about you and your business.

5.  Distribute a viral report. This is a fantastic way to gain publicity and visitors to your website. Write a free viral report on your topic and give it away for free.  Invite others to give it away too and you’ll soon have a viral tool making the rounds and bringing more visitors back to your website.

Driving traffic is key to your success and these easy tips are a great starting point. To learn more about affiliate marketing like a pro check out Super Affiliate Handbook.  I highly recommend this e-book for anyone serious about earning money through affiliate marketing.

To Your Abundance and Prosperity,

Jill Lillvis

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Building a business is a fantastic and challenging experience.  You wake up exhilarated to begin your day and you can go to bed feeling overwhelmed and frustrated.  The key to success is to maintain a positive, yes you can do it, mindset.

Easier said than done, right?  Here are 5 keys to help you create and sustain a positive mindset so you too can attain the abundance and prosperity you desire.

1. Surround yourself with successful and positive people.  This is so true, the influence people have over our own personal energy is amazing. Moods and attitudes are so easily spread – think about how much of a difference a simple smile from a stranger can make for your day and then magnify it 1000 times to demonstrate the power of positive and successful friends, family and associates.  When you have people around you who inspire you, believe in you and want you to succeed, there’s no room for doubts and even when they creep up, they’re quickly swept away.

2. Create a mantra or an affirmation.  Repeating positive affirmations has been shown to get people through tough times and to actually help them truly believe what they’re saying.

For example, “I am building a powerful and profitable business.”  Many of the most esteemed business professionals have used the same affirmation strategy to attain their success.  To find the right affirmations for you, consider writing a quick list of your doubts, insecurities and complaints.  These can then be quickly turned into affirmations.

For example, if you write that you’re always feeling disorganized then your affirmation would be, “I am organized and in control.”  Repeat your affirmations several times a day and feel the power of positive thinking.

3. Capture negative thoughts.  We all have negative thoughts from time to time, however, negative thoughts and emotions can derail us and prevent us from achieving all we desire.  Of course catching those negative thoughts takes practice and persistence.  When you find yourself thinking negative thoughts or having negative emotions, find a trigger to turn them around.  The affirmations mentioned above are a great way to turn the negative into the positive.  You can also find quick pick me ups like a favorite song, a walk outside in the fresh air, or some exercise to help improve your mood.

4. Set goals/intentions and then be willing to let it go.  The law of attraction says that we attract what we focus on the most.  However, desperation, needing your business to be a success, sends mixed messages and a lot of negativity into the universe.  Set your goals and intentions and then let them go.  A certain amount of faith in yourself and in the power of attraction is necessary.  Give it a try.

5. Be grateful.  Gratitude is perhaps the single most powerful and positive tool for success.  When you’re grateful for all of the wonderful things and people in your life, the challenges you face seem significantly less important and are more easily dealt with.

Consider keeping a gratitude journal and make a practice of entering into it daily.  That way, when you’re facing challenges a quick peek at all the amazing things in your life will make you feel as if you can tackle anything.   Additionally, an attitude of gratitude helps you maintain a positive perspective and to face challenges as opportunities rather than obstacles.

Success is within your reach and with the right attitude you can accomplish anything you set your sights on.  Embrace these five powerful mind success strategies and you’ll build a better business and live a happier, more satisfying life.

To Your Abundance and Prosperity,

Jill Lillvis

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Affiliate marketing can be a great way to make money.  Finding a niche market with products and services you trust and believe in is the first step to success.  There are tremendous affiliate programs which offer you an abundance of tools and materials to promote and market their products. However, what you do with those tools and materials is entirely up to you.  You can be just another affiliate or a super affiliate.

What Is A Super Affiliate?

Technically speaking a super affiliate is someone who generates a significant amount of profits for the products or services they represent.  A super affiliate can make a healthy living from their affiliate business alone while a standard every day affiliate may need to supplement their affiliate income with, gasp…a 9-5 job!

Benefits To Being A Super Affiliate

The most significant benefit to being a super affiliate is the income.  Many super affiliates make six figures simply promoting the products and services of others.

Additionally, if you’re one of the main contributors to a company’s affiliate program they’re going to pay attention to you and your needs. You may receive a higher percentage of sales you may receive first shot with new marketing materials and programs and you’ll get the support you need when you need it.

Here Are A Few Steps To Become A Super Affiliate:

Step One – Commit to publishing content every single day.  Content has proven time and again to be the best sales tool available to affiliate marketers.  Nothing, not even strategically placed ad copy works as well as providing quality content that pre-sells any product that you’re promoting on your website.

Possible content includes:

* Autoresponders.
* E-newsletters.
* Blogs posts
* Social networking via forums, social networking sites, and chat rooms
* Articles
* Press releases

Step Two – Track and test.  Make sure you know where your prospects are coming from, what motivates them to click through and what information they read and respond to – then give them what they need.  Tracking and testing is the only way to hone your affiliate program into a smooth running, money making machine.

Step Three – Use the provided marketing materials and be willing to take it a step further.  Many affiliate programs do a great job of providing their affiliate with ready to marketing materials including:

1. Banner ads
2. Buttons
3. Email copy
4. Articles
5. Free promotional reports

Use the materials your affiliate manager has provided.  It’s been tested and developed for results.  That being said, be sure to create your own content too.  Even as an affiliate you are your own company and your website needs to reflect your personality and brand.  Building a community around your website and providing valuable content is a sure way to create a following that trusts you and your credibility – which will result in click throughs and affiliate sales.

Step Four – Pre-sell.  The good news is that your job as an affiliate is to pre-sell products and services.   Pre-selling means your content, whether it is a review, article, tutorial, course, or blog post, speaks honestly about the products and services you promote.  Pre-selling is about providing value to your website visitors and prospects, making them comfortable with you and your authority to generate interest and a click through to the company website, where the selling happens.

Step Five – Follow up.  Just like your affiliate manager follows up with you to see how you’re doing and what you need, follow up with your prospects.  A great way to do this unobtrusively is to create a lead list by providing a newsletter visitors can subscribe, a free report, or any number of products in exchange for an email address and the permission to contact them with valuable information and special promotions.

Being a Super Affiliate is the only way to go if you want to build a successful affiliate marketing business.  Find products and services you trust and believe in and then create a strategy to share information to your target audience.  Test and track your efforts, focus on providing value to your prospects and leave the selling to the companies you represent.  Helping others live better lives, without having to provide the products or services personally, is a great way to make a living.

There are affiliate programs listed on this blog that are instant pay directly to you, easy to do from the novice to internet pro, and are affordable to everyone.  I invite you to check them out for yourself and please join to get started with your own home-based business.

To Your Abundance and Prosperity,

Jill Lillvis

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We all know somebody who seems to always get it right. No matter what happens the person seems to always land on their feet. While others are treading carefully so they will not step on land mines, this person is coasting through life and doing just fine. In other words they are manifesting abundance.

The good news is that the Law of Attraction teaches us that manifesting abundance is something everyone can learn with practice. The person in the above example has simply become so good at attracting good things that it comes to them naturally. So can it be with you as well. I know it has worked for me. Since I have put the Law of Attraction to work in my life I have attracted so many good things.

We attract good into our lives. This includes the abundance and prosperity that comes from a home business. If you wish to work at home and the thought of making money online appeals to you, then believe that it can happen for you. This is not simply the power of positive thinking but it is instead a law of the universe that has worked for centuries. The great news is that it is still working today and it can work for you as easily as it worked for me! We are both a part of the same universe after all!

You need to redefine your present reality and create for yourself the reality that you want for yourself. Do this by focussing on having what you want in life. Stop focussing on the “have nots” of life. Realize that the hope for a successful home based business is within your grasp. Of course it will involve a great deal of work and commitment but whether it is weeks, months or years down the road, it is possible! Trust in the wise ways of the universe and make your dreams come true!

To Your Abundance and Prosperity,

Jill Lillvis

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Once I knew and understood this very special and important law of the universe, how could I use it to help me in my life as opposed to having it hinder my attempts to better my life?

The Law of Attraction has the betterment of all people in mind. It is a law that is concerned with abundance and prosperity. As described in the book “The Secret” written by Rhonda Byrne in 2006, the Law of Attraction is rooted in Quantum Physics. The idea behind it is that like energy attracts like- positive thoughts attract positive results and the same works for negative thoughts and results.

In order to receive the abundance and prosperity that you desire in your business life you must follow a simple rule- ask, believe, receive. First you must know exactly what it is you want. Be clear as the universe loves clarity. Then you must ask for what you want from the universe. Then you must believe that it is within your reach. Feel and act as though what you want is on its way to you. It is as if you have ordered an item from a catalogue and are waiting for it to arrive. Finally you must be open to receive what you have asked for. Sounds simple and easy, right?

It can be if you are open to all that the universe has to offer you. Abundance and prosperity can be yours!

To Your Abundance and Prosperity,

Jill Lillvis

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If you have been in Internet Marketing for a bit, you have most likely heard the term “social marketing.”  It’s another term for social bookmarking.  That’s not the same as bookmarking a favorite site on your own browser.  What you do in social bookmarking is save favorites to a particular site on the Internet.  This makes your favorite places public (if you want them to be) and friends and family can see what you like as you cruise about the web.

There are a lot of social bookmarking sites and most of them require you to register.  Once you do that, you can save all your bookmarks for public view.  Most sites allow you to mark some things as private if you only want to share with a few friends rather than the entire world.  When your bookmarks are public, visitors can do a search by keyword or even by your name and find out what favorites you’ve saved.  This works the other way as well.  If you hear of someone whose product you find interesting, do a search for them on the social bookmarking sites to see what they’re doing.

The biggest advantage to social bookmarking is driving traffic to your sites.  It is really a form of free advertising and a way to promote your sites with only a small investment of time.  It will give you a leg up on other marketers in your particular niche.

It’s best to update your bookmarks on a regular basis.  This is the easiest way to bring visitors to your sites.  One popular bookmarking site is delicious.com.  This site automatically organizes your bookmarks by what tags you put on them.  A tag is a description of the bookmark and you can use as many as you want.  The more tags you have, the better your favorites will be organized.  You will see traffic in a very short time once you start submitting to delicious.com and similar sites.

Bringing visitors to your site through social bookmarking happens in a variety of ways.  For instance, the more links you have pointed at your site, the higher your page rank is with the search engines.  Because social bookmarking sites have so many links on them in the first place, their own page rank is higher.  This gives links back to your site more value with the search engines.

What happens next with all these links pointing to your site is that you’ll get higher search result rankings.  This means that being on the first page of the search results out of 10,000 pages of results will bring in a ton of new traffic.  People are much more likely to click on a site that sits at or near the top of the page than they are to wade through thousands of results.

A lot of people browse through these social bookmarking sites every single day.  If you have enough links on there to capture some interest, you’ll get some clicks to your site.  Also, people search the social bookmarking sites constantly because they know a real person is behind the bookmarks.  Random search engine results are not as appealing as seeing what other people are doing.

People are always interested in people.  Get busy developing the art of social bookmarking so you can bring some of that traffic to your own site.

To Your Abundance and Prosperity,
Jill Lillvis

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