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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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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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There are so many different types of affiliate programs out there to choose from.  It’s often difficult to know which are the best programs to promote.  Here are a few tips to help you find the best affiliate programs:

Life-time cookies – A really good affiliate program will offer life-time cookies.  Unfortunately, some shopping cart systems don’t allow the vendors this feature, which isn’t so great for you – the affiliate.  A life-time cookie means that you will get paid for referring a customer who makes a purchase through your affiliate link even if they buy at any point in the future.

Training and Customer Service – A good program will provide training tools and resources for their affiliates.  Ideally, they should have a member’s area where you can log in and grab promotional materials, your links and check your stats and commissions.

Good communication is also important.  If you email an affiliate program with a question and don’t hear back from them or hear back from them 2 weeks later, what will it be like if you ever have an issue with payments or other important question?  A good affiliate program will respond to your questions in a timely manner.  By the same token, a good affiliate will make sure they read all the provided materials provided on the website before contacting the program.

Sales Pages that Convert – Before promoting a specific product, have a look at their sales page.  Does it look like it will convert into sales?  If a sales page is sloppy, has grammar and spelling mistakes, or just looks unprofessional, you may not make too many sales – no matter how good the product is.

Now that you know some of the things you should look for in a good program, here are a few things you should be careful of!

Advertisements and Google Adsense – If you’re promoting an ebook and sending customers to a sales page, be weary of sales pages with Google ads or other types of advertisement on the sales page.  If you’re working hard to send traffic to that page, it’s not fair that your traffic will be used to make someone else money through ads (without you getting paid anything in return).

If you see a sales page with other ads on the page, I say stay away.  You work hard as an affiliate and you don’t want to waste your efforts on generating traffic to your affiliate program only to lose sales to the other ads on the affiliate webpage.

High Sales Minimum – Watch out for programs who ask you to sell a certain amount before being paid.  For example if the commissions on a $20 eBook are 10% (that’s $2 per sale) and they ask you to accumulate a minimum of $200 dollars in commissions before they send you payment, that’s a whole lot of books you need to sell before getting paid – 100 books to be exact.

Get some instant pay and direct pay affiliate programs to promote.  You get paid instantly and directly into your account and don’t have to meet any minimum requirements before you can be paid.  These type of affiliate programs should be simple to promote and offer a great product or service at a reasonable price.  There are several of these types of affiliate programs listed here that I have received many payments from.  These programs are affordable for everyone, pay you instantly and are easy to promote with all the resources and tools you need to be successful with them.

To Your Abundance and Prosperity,

Jill Lillvis

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If you wish to earn money online, and let’s face it, who doesn’t, then starting a home
business is a smart way to go. To make fast cash you first must come up with a
business idea that will sell.

Ask yourself the right questions in order to fine-tune your business idea. Here are a few
suggestions to get you going:

-Is the product or service that you wish to sell something that is in demand? Is it
something that people need all of the time or it is more of a seasonal thing?

-Have you researched your market thoroughly? Do you know what demographic

you are aiming for?

-Do you know what type of prices is in line with the market standard for your wares?

-Is there a tremendous potential for growth in terms of the industry of your choice?

-What will make your products/services stand out and be recognized?  What makes

them special?

-Do you know who your competition is? Is the competition stiff?

-Will you manufacture your own product or buy it from a supplier? If you choose to go

the supplier route then can you guarantee that your supplier is responsible and
reliable?

One viable option is to get involved with direct pay programs. If your wish is to work

at home and make money online, this is the way to go. Direct pay programs are the
key to making good money on the web. These programs are designed in such a way
that you the business entrepreneur get paid directly after you make sales, before the

company then get their part. That is right- you are paid first! That is the beauty of

the direct pay programs!

Most companies are the complete opposite. First the company gets their cut, while

you, the overworked business owner must patiently wait for your money to come

through.  No more! Direct pay programs are in place to get you the money that

you rightfully have earned.

Another good point about direct pay programs is that the majority of them use the

“reverse margin plan”. YOU make the highest percentage of returns. For example,

you will make 75 percent and the company will make 25 percent, as opposed to

the other way around. You get paid directly from the individual who is buying

from you and you get paid well.

To Your Abundance and Prosperity,

Jill Lillvis

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Ever since the Internet first made an appearance, people have been looking for ways to earn money online. And why not? Earning online is a viable way to bring in extra money and in many cases can earn a decent full time living for those who know how to generate the right kind of business. The opportunities that await you in cyberspace are many and they can be profitable for those who take the time to learn all of the ins and outs of running a home business from their computer.

One method for earning income online is to become involved with affiliate marketing. This type of online marketing is comparable to revenue sharing whereby entrepreneurs work together to sell products and services and to lend each other a helping hand.  In the end everyone is happy. Businesses sell their products and make money while affiliates do the proper promotional work and make money.

A company online is essentially paying a commission to have customers referred to their business while the affiliate is in a public relations role. To become a part of an affiliate program is very easy. The key is to find the one that is most appropriate for you.

The beauty of affiliate marketing is that companies need your services to sell theirs. Even if you are not a born salesperson you can find ways to hone your skills.  Becoming an affiliate for the first time is not expensive to do so it is a win-win situation for you and the risk is very minimal. This is in sharp contrast to a business started offline that can leave you penniless if it does not prove to be successful.

Affiliate marketing can make you prosperous and it can also be an enjoyable way to
network and meet new people. You do not have to quit your present job or put
your home business on hold while you work as an affiliate.

Should you give affiliate marketing a try? I did and I am reaping all of the benefits! Say
yes today to a fantastic opportunity online!

To Your Abundance and Prosperity,

Jill Lillvis

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