Those of you who know me know that I love computers, marketing,
internet, social media. I consider myself a student always.

I’ve started a simple how to site that soon will be a membership
site. All of the videos will be shorter than 5 minutes and some are even less than a minute.

I’d love it if you’d visit SimpleHowToVideos and let me know what you think.

I’m not sure if this will always stay a free site…but for now it is. So hop on over and let me know what types of how to videos you’d like to see.

Currently I’ve only got about 7 videos–but trust me I have 100′s more to add.

Do you take password precautions? You should be especially with your twitter–if your friends are complaining that you’re sending “weird” dm’s (direct messages) from twitter; you need to change your passwords right now.

MSNBC recently published a post which states “Some users of Twitter, the microblogging site, may be the victim of a new phishing and account hijacking attempt on Twitter that specifically affects private messages — called “Direct Messages” or DMs — sent between users.”

What sort of precautions can you take?

1. Never give out your password; while that may sound obvious–even to your friends–they may write it down and leave it on their desk for others to see.

2. Change your password frequently

3. Never use the same password for every social site you use

5. Keep a password protected file for your usernames and passwords; so you don’t have to use the same one over and over again

6. Never, ever click on a link in your email; unless you know and trust the source completely. But remember that too can be dangerous. I have received emails that look perfectly legit from paypal, my bank etc. saying your account has been compromised. I NEVER click on the link provided no matter how tempted I am. I always go directly to the website login the normal way and then check for any messages that I may have in the backoffice of my site.

That’s it for now. I’m off to change my twitter password; which means I have to change my twollo and my socialoomph and my ping. Hmm what a pain; but I’d rather be safe than sorry.

Even more reason you should make those tweets count. Google announced on October 21, 2009  “…their agreement with Twitter to include their updates in our search results.

We believe that our search results and user experience will greatly benefit from the inclusion of this up-to-the-minute data, and we look forward to having a product that showcases how tweets can make search better in the coming months. That way, the next time you search for something that can be aided by a real-time observation, say, snow conditions at your favorite ski resort, you’ll find tweets from other users who are there and sharing the latest and greatest information.”

For more information visit the Official Google Blog

I want you to think about the impact this could have and why you want to start rethinking your tweeting. The smart marketers will think before they tweet. They will learn to use relevant “keywords” in their very limited 140 character tweets.

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Wow, if any of you have been following my story the past few posts; you’ll know that one of the first courses I bought and applied was the Magnetic Sponsoring Course.

Well, this morning I opened my email and received a “Congrats” from my friend Daryl. I’m thinking for what? So I scrolled down in the email; he sent me a current contest standing for the Magnetic Sponsoring Course Contest and I was listed!

How cool is that? Now I’m at #6–but I’m not complaining. Now let me tell you how ironic this is:

1. 6 years online almost to the month I quit my 9-5 job-October 13, 2009 1:34 PM

2. One of the first courses I bought online was Magnetic Sponsoring Online

3. The first affiliate check I ever received was from Magnetic Sponsoring Online

4. By applying the tactics in this course I started to grow a responsive list and build my online presence.

Oh so back to what does this have to do with you?

I’m going to be very transparent here. If any of my readers buys the course from my link I will have my Design Team create a custom social networking addme button for your website/blog. That’s a $93 value! After you purchase the magnetic sponsoring course; send me a note showing your receipt to hollybpowell(at)gmail.com

Here are some examples of what a custom addme button looks like:

After I verify that in fact you made the purchase through my link–I’ll have my design team to go work!

O.K. now listen…you should remove cookies first or I won’t receive credit and well neither will you. That’s it. I don’t even care if I win this contest; as I’m up against some pretty steep competition! But being listed–well it just made my day!

In my previous post I told you that I Quit my job. Now I’m going to share with you my journey to that wonderful day!

October 13, 2009 at 1:43 PM–I quit my job of 17 years to work my passion full-time–I walked out–with an email and a subject line that said “I Quit Effective Immediately”

I joined my first network marketing company in 1981–but my online journey started in November 2003. Well, no wait that is too early. Let me start from the beginning. I joined a network marketing company in November 2003. Worked that business the old school way for as long as I could. We made a few $1,000 over the next few months and then because my warm market had run out I had to find some way to reach people. So from mid year 2004 through 2006 I went on an educational journey.

I signed up for every newsletter, ebook, marketing course, etc. that I could find on marketing. I wasn’t looking to learn how to network market. I was on a journey and studied internet marketing. I spent $1,000′s educating myself.

I called 3,627 cold calls to Network Marketers from January 2005 through May 2005 and did NOT sign up ONE person in my business. But I never thought of quitting; call me stupid or just plain determined. I just knew that if I applied the techniques that I had learned “it” would happen for me!

In May 2005 I signed up for Magnetic Sponsoring and devoured the book; applied those techniques and created a 14 day bootcamp and started growing my list. My very first affiliate check came from Magnetic Sponsoring. I can’t remember when I earned it…and I think it was for $11 or so but it didn’t matter! Whoo hooo; I was on my way to my first $1,000,000! I knew it in my bones.

In August of 2006 I had a team of 7 or 8 in my network marketing company. I started implementing what I had learned and by January 2007 my team had grown to over 200. My team was creating capture pages targeting groups; stay at home mom’s, traveling nurses, etc. We captured the first–heck we had the first 5 pages of googled locked up for our keywords–it was incredible! If anybody typed in our opportunity–they were bound to click on one of my team mates pages.

I must have pissed somebody off; because May 18, 2007 I received my cease and desist letter from the legal department of my company. They listed out all of the pages I had built. I was terminated on August 6, 2007.

It was o.k. because by then I had joined another company and quadrupled my income in 30 days; what took me 4 years to build with the company who terminated me. Now I worked that new company until the end of 2008; they changed the comp plan; added products that had nothing to do with our company and well on and on and on. By then it didn’t matter. I had created my own products and was working real hard to build up that business.

I continued my online education and in October 2007 added my first video to youtube. From then on I have had the privlege to JV with some incredible folks; formed partnerships with some of the best marketers on the web. So from start to finish–actually beginning of my freedom from my JOB–it was almost 6 years to the month.

I know this is a long post; but I have to say thank you to Mike Dillard, Melanie Milletics, Pam Bennett, Diane Hochman, Dennis Karganilla (DK), Bill and Irma Frye, and the many more mentors I have had through this journey. I will continue to seek out new mentors. Heck, some folks were mentors and didn’t know. You see I didn’t complain. If my mentor said do; I did! If my mentor said jump; I jumped. I’m serious. They didn’t call me and say “Do”. I watched them, studied them, copied them–I CASE(D) everything they did. Copy And Steal Everything. I put my own spin on it…I was so busy I didn’t have time to complain.

I could not have done this without the incredible support of my family; my best friend and husband Jesse, and my three girls; Tammie, Christen, and Megan. They supported my dream while I worked a full-time job and then came home and worked from 5:00 PM until some morning 4:00 AM only to get up at 6:30 AM to start all over again.

And now I work for me full-time! October 13, 2009 is a day I will remember for all time! The day I gave myself permission to walk away from my JOB and well now I can finally say it…

I am “Throwing Out The Alarm Clock of Life and Living in the Moment”!

A couple of weeks ago I did a blog training class and my biggest advice was;

“If you are using YouTube videos on your blog and/or website STOP! Host them somewhere else. Because YouTube can suspend or delete your account at any time.”

A lot of folks boohooed at that BUT it happened to a lot of great marketers this past week.  So take my advice…

Go now and login to your YouTube channel.

Click on Account (top right)

Click on Manage Account (on the left)

Look at your Community Guidelines and Account Status

Don’t stop there. Go through all of your videos and if you are using copyrighted material; whether it’s pictures, music, etc. get rid of those videos!

What would you rather lose? All of your videos or just a few?

I use Veer.com for royalty free pictures.

So go now do some video “housekeeping”. This same thing holds true for your blog. Are you copying or are you using original material for your blog and/or website(s)? If you are STOP! That’s just dumb.

I’d just like to take a quick word to thank Holly for allowing me to bring this information to you.

My name is Gavin Mountford, many of you already know me or have heard of me before. I’m a regular guy, making money online, working from home and ‘partly’ living my dream. I’ve been making money online for the past 5 years, setting up automated website systems within various niches, maintaining those websites and moving on to a different niche to repeat the whole process.

I’m heavily into personal development, network marketing, attraction marketing and personal branding, much of which is reflected in my attraction marketing blog.

I’m currently building a network of websites in the MLM, attraction marketing and home based business industry and I’m offering attraction marketers and product owners to submit their biographies and stories for inclusion on my blog network which will be syndicated across my other 2 blogs, my Facebook, Myspace, Homebased Business network and remote blogs resulting in great exposure for you.

This service has only been live for the past week and you can see Richard’s biography as an example as to how it will look. http://www.mlm10weekchallenge.com/network-marketers-profiles/richard-van-beek/

The service is currently FREE, eventually increasing to $197 in the near future and your services and personal brand will be exposed to a brand new reader base along with gaining backlinks to your respective blogs and personal websites.

I will allow 5 links within the biography. These can include your Facebook, Myspace, personal blog, website, Twitter or Youtube. I’d rather not link out to business opportunities as this is aimed at branding you as an individual.

If you have product you’re about to launch, if you’d like to expose yourself to a new reader base or just wanted to get vital backlinks to your website, drop me an email with your biography and I’ll get it up on the site as soon as I can.

You’ll find more information at http://www.mlm10weekchallenge.com/would-you-like-to-be-featured-on-my-blog/