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Snow is falling again in my old school system. If I was still teaching the ninth graders, I’d be wearing my pajamas inside out and doing the “Snow Day Shuffle” – in the hopes that school would be closed.

Yes, it’s true – teachers love snow days even more than the students.

I’m no longer teaching school, but I can remember how much I took advantage of the snow days in the early days of creating my business.

So here’s a quick list of 10 things you can do in a single snow day to move your online business forward…

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One of the funniest things at NAMS was seeing Dan Morris wearing clothes with the tags still on. The author of the NAMS Preparation Guide had forgotten one critical element of the to-do list…

Check out his explanation, but don’t take any sips of coffee or tea before watching…

Check out Dan’s website at LettersFromDan.com, and be sure to get to the next NAMS so you can crack up with Dan’s sense of humor in person.

Bob

Is the success of your business really personal? Don’t you wish more people realized that?

Are you tired of feeling like all the emails you’re getting are just ways to extract more and more money from your wallet?

Me too.

Don’t get me wrong – I’m in business too, and I know that what I can teach and do for you is worth investing in.

But I get the feeling that most of the people who are trying to help you succeed online are not really taking this as seriously (or as personally) as they should. After all, it’s your life and family at stake here.

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At the Niche Affiliate Marketing System internet workshop in Atlanta, David Perdew challenged the attendees to sell a product during the weekend that had been created early on Saturday.

The product is a social media panel discussion, and David and a few volunteers put up the sales page during lunch.

The winner was Rafael Sanchez, from Venezuela, who sold 26 copies.

We held an impromptu interview with Rafael and his wife, to find out how he did it. And now, here’s Lynn Terry from Self Starters Weekly Tips with the story…

Become the next NAMS success story in August!

Bob Jenkins

p.s. Congratulations also to Cindy Brock who came in second!

I’m at NAMS now after an awesome 2 day mastermind in Las Vegas.

I’m a bit exhausted, to tell you the truth, since I had to fly overnight through Philly to get to Atlanta.

Anyway, I have a Friday freebie for you that I think you’ll really like.  

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As you think of how you’ll manage your time and resources for the next year, use this list of the top 5 profit activities to guide you.

1. Build a List

First and foremost you need to be building a list.  You need to be building a list.   Now this doesn’t just mean building a list of contacts.  It doesn’t just mean building an e-mail list in an auto responder.   It means you’re building up a group of people who know who you are, who anticipate hearing from you and are willing and able to follow what you’re doing and take action on what you’re offering.

So it comes in the form of an e-mail list like a service like Aweber.  It also comes in the format of your social networks like Facebook friends or fans or Twitter followers in other resources.  You’ve got to be the person that people want to connect to.  If you’re promoting something anonymously there’s no real way for you to build a list very effectively.  People want to connect with a human being.  They want to get to know you.  They want to get to know your business, your personal life a little bit.  They just want to get to know you so they know they can trust you.

So you’ve got to be focused on building up your list.

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One of my favorite ways to get traffic through Twitter is by using a Retweet This button or text link, so that the traffic to a page can go viral.

In fact, you likely came to this page because of this strategy in action.

Here’s how you do it….

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Tomorrow is National Pie Day in the United States.

And although that brings to mind delicious slices of warm Apple pie, with a flaky crust and vanilla bean ice cream on top, there’s a business metaphor in here as well.

Sorry to ruin your taste buds fun :)

In business, you’ll often hear people talk about getting a bigger piece of “the pie”. In the traditional marketplace, this means your slice gets bigger when you take more away from the others, i.e., your competition.

Unfortunately, this is a win-lose situation that typically results in a rush to take away from your slice, too.

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I’m on the internet marketer’s cruise, and I thought I’d share a lesson I learned this week from the trip.

As a former history teacher, the one thing at the top of my to-do list during this trip was to see Mayan archaeology. So during our stop in Cozumel on Monday, we took a trip to Tulum in Mexico.

Tulum was a walled city on the coast of the Yucatan peninsula. Today’s site still shows ample evidence of the amazing astronomical knowledge of the Mayans, and the importance of this particular site to their civilization.

But to be honest, without any context or background, the site is a bunch of stone structures on a cliff overlooking the Caribbean. If you didn’t know any better, you’d think what you saw there were the remnants of builders who gave up in the middle of a project.

That’s where Manuel comes in.

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Are you using Private Label Rights in your business?

These are articles, blog posts, autoresponders, reports, ebooks, even videos created by somebody else, but that you can use as if you were the author.

As a former high school teacher, I’ve always had a bit of a reservation about using PLR in my own business, because I’ve always thought that I needed to be the author of my own work.

But maybe I’ve been overlooking a great way to help more people by utilizing content created by somebody else who has given permission to reuse their work.

To help answer this “ethics question” about PLR, my friend Nicole Dean sent me this video to share with you.

Click to visit EasyPLR.com site

What are your thoughts on this topic? Please share with a comment below.

And if PLR fits your criteria, check out Nicole’s Easy PLR resource center for high quality niche PLR packs.

Bob Jenkins

p.s If you’d like to meet Nicole Dean in person and discuss how PLR can be used for your business, register for SIMPLE. Nicole will be one of a handful of VIPs I’ve specifically invited to help you in key areas of your business. She’s also a genius when it comes to outsourcing, managing affiliate programs, and quick product creation.

This week contains the final days of 2009. Like most people, you may be looking back at the past year and feeling a bit regretful about all the things you did poorly or failed to do. And so the next few days will include making some resolutions about what you will do better in 2010.

Making goals is a healthy thing.

But only focusing on what you did wrong (or not at all) in order to build up for 2010 is going to keep you from attaining the higher heights you truly aspire to.

And while it’s true we can learn a lot from our mistakes (and a lot more from the mistakes of others), it’s also instructive – and somewhat therapeutic – to learn from our successes, too.

Proclaim Your Accomplishments Over Regrets

So this week, I’d like to challenge you to spend some time thinking about the things you DID accomplish in 2009.

• If you started your business in the last 12 months, congratulations! You’ve stuck your neck out while other people are stuck in their routines. And if you’re still in business a year later – you’re way ahead of most entrepreneurs.
• If you made your first affiliate sale, or sold your first information product – congratulations!
• If you added even one more subscriber to your list this past year, it means you conquered the technical hurdles of creating your list – now you just need to build it up more.
• If you cut out wasteful expenses, unsubscribed from a handful of market molesters, or found a way too save $100 each month with a particular program – congratulations!
• If you created a website or blog that is now showing up in the search engines and giving people information and solutions – congratulations! You’re now helping people around the world, even while you sleep.

Take a few minutes and take stock of what you accomplished. This should help keep in perspective your successes as you consider what 2010 holds in store for you.

This positive reflection is important for me to do as well, so I’ll share what 2009 looked like for me.

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