Success Is Up To You

You know some days I sit in front of my computer and think I can not go another day or even another minute.


“I Quit” is at the tip of my tongue and then I have to sit back and ponder a few  things. First of all, I am not a quitter. And I do pretty good at keeping those thoughts at bay but every once in awhile it creeps up on me.


When that happens I walk away from the computer and do something, anything. Start the laundry, wash the dishes, sweep the floor. All the things I hate to do anyway. Now wait–no my house is not a mess because I do neglect these things. My daughter helps me out more than she knows and that reminds me I have to thank her more often.


I have been online since November 2003 and well, let me share a little of what’s happened since then. Humor me, if you will.


November 2003 I joined YTB. Now this AFTER my hubby said I could NEVER join another business but it was travel so he let me and actually he worked it with me in the beginning. For the first few months I built my business the old school way; with fliers, family, friends, anybody who would talk to me, cold calls, bought leads and more.


Between January 05 through Mar 05 I made 3,627 cold calls and did not put one person in my business–all this while working my full-time job. That’s 302 cold calls every week. Phew can you imagine? BUT I never quit. I did quit making cold calls but I never thought about quitting my business.


From April 20505-July 0707 I studied network marketing, bought every ebook, signed up for every newsletter, even paid a personal coach. I was learning the trade. It was also during this time I spent over $15,000 on google adwords. I started implementing some of the things I learned. Had a NON-replicated website, captured my leads, worked my leads.


July of 07 I changed companies for reasons I won’t go into here.


Around August 2007 I watched a video of Dennis Karganilla talking about using Myspace and YouTube to build my business. It was not until I started using video to provide value that I finally “got it”. I stopped pitching my opportunity at every turn.


I started providing value for free through video, newsletters, blogs, etc. Since then I have grown my online brand and continue to do my best at providing value to everyone who I meet. I am here to help people! Truly that is our goal to help you get over the hurdle that makes you want to quit. That makes you want to start and stop. That makes you want to come and go.


See I NEVER quit. I may have gone through sometimes when I was learning or creating BUT I never quit on me! You may think that when you quit you’re quitting your business! You’re not really! You’re saying that all those dreams locked up inside you were just that “dreams”; never really meant to happen to someone like you. You’re saying you don’t deserve it. You’re saying you never could do it. You’re saying you only got in to “try” anyway.


You’re saying that your mother, father, brother, sister, wife, husband, friend or anybody else close to you were right! There is no such thing as “making” it. You finally started to believe their lies:


You can’t do it.
That’s a scam.
Nobody makes any money in those things.
Those people are liars.
Those people aren’t your friends.
Those people don’t have your best interest at hear.


They’re saying:

Stick with us. Work for the next 20 years; come on you can do it. Look at what you get.


Free medical; if you’re lucky.
Retirement; yeah how much?
Social securty; What a joke!


Your success depends you! Yes, it’s hard work but so worth it.

Holly Powell--Straight Up

Holly Powell--Straight Up

Me2Everyone Has Hit The Scene

Me2Everyone a totally different concept in socializing on the web. Move over FaceBook this looks like fun.

A virtual community that looks like fun. I joined Facebook ages ago and thought man I just can’t figure this thing out. I’m not going to pass up on this one.

me2everyone

So this is something you can invite your friends to…check out more info here:

me2everyone is going to be a cool new virtual world where you can meet friends, chat, shop, play, watch videos, create an art gallery, open a virtual newspaper, play the free in-world lottery and make money from your own online store! You and everyone your know make the decisions, shape the world, create real incomes and share in the profits. It’s a new place where you meet new people or invite your friends. Learn new skills or expand your business.

Membership is free and every member automatically becomes a shareholder in me2everyone Limited. This is an excellent chance for all of us to make some real progress in 2009 and beyond!

If you are looking for something really good in 2009: something that changes your view on the world, then you really have to spend just one minute and look at this website.

Holly Powell

Mindset vs. Marketing – Gavin Mountford Shares a powerful video response!!

Recently I posted the question on twitter… What is more important Marketing or Mindset??… You see I have been ask that question in the past and figured I would see what my good friends from twitter would say. Here are a few of the responses I got back.. Oh and by the way follow me if you get a chance @hollypowell

Please take a moment and watch Gavin’s video and listen closely to what he is saying. I think it’s powerful and very profound and thanks to Gavin for putting it out there….

Visit Gavin’s Blog at http://www.mlm10weekchallenge.com

hollypowell

Affiliate Marketing Using Link Connector

O.K. what is all the buzz about CPA offers. Most of us have heard about the Arbitrage report right? And for the most part the newbie will get eaten alive with the costs involved in setting up your sites and campaigns. What is the alternative?

Set up a “niche” blog. It doesn’t matter the niche. Then look at some of the sites you can get CPA offers to start generating a few dollars to your marketing budget. Don’t feel as though you have to start out with $1,000′s of dollars.

Step 1 Sign up for a hosting account–I use Hostgator

Step 2 Load wordpress to your site

Step 3 Research your “niche”

Step 4 Drive traffic to your site with LinkConnector Affiliate Programs!

When you get started for free with LinkConnector you can then go out and find products/websites to drive traffic to through your blog posts; and when you do you get paid. That’s right they pay you to drive traffic to their information.

You might ask is it really that simple? I’ll let ya know for sure. My goal for 2009 is to have 100 “niche” blog sites. Will I make that goal? Don’t know but I’m sure going to have fun trying.

Holly Powell

Video Marketing Is Not That Hard–Don’t Be a Scaredy Cat

Video Marketing is one of the easiest ways to “get the word” out about your business. If you’re not using it you absolutely must do whatever it takes to get over your fear. I remember my first video. It’s on youtube and I was a nervous wreck. It took me 44 videos and 12 weeks to generate my first lead.

Most folks quit after 10 or so. How sad is that! When I started providing value in my videos and realized that it was NOT about me–it was about getting my message out and touching as many lives as I possibly could.

Once you get over your fear it’s time to really take massive action and use the tools that most of the internet marketers use to get their videos out to as many sites as possible.

Traffic Geyser is a must have tool. Yes, there is a monthly fee but the return on your investment is ten-fold. I uploaded a video last night to our traffic geyser account and yes I put a weird title, “”video are not that hard”…go ahead and google that keyword in quotes. You’ll see at this writing I had 10 results for my video. I daresay by not using that tool you would not have those results for any title if you’re just using one video channel site.

So if you’re still a scaredy cat I say “Get Over It Already!”

Holly Powell

What Is A Self Hosted Blog?

After a previous post about list building I received the following questions:

What is a ‘self-hosted’ blog? Why is this different from a blogspot or freebie blog? Why is ‘self-hosted’ better?

Question: What Is A Self Hosted Blog?

WhoIsHollyPowell is hosted on our own server using the wordpress free software. We have a host server account using hostgator where we have loaded wordpress. WordPress is a very powerful open-source blogging platform. Some folks use wordpress for their websites because of the ease of use.

Question: Why is ‘self-hosted’ better?

As opposed to a blogger account or wordpress.com account you have control over adsense, content, EVERYTHING. Without your own hosted wordpress blog you lose control. I have heard of many horror stories where folks have blogged away and created beautiful websites using the free options ONLY to have them deleted for whatever reason; and guess what you almost have no alternative but to start over.

Now I’m not the blogging expert there are several resources on the web. Check out Michael Martine’s blog. He has incredible information about blogging tools and more.

Question: What is the difference in blogspot or a freebie account?

Nothing, if you use a freebie blogger account you run the risk of having your blog deleted on any given day without notice.

Again, I’m not the blog expert. These are just the basics.

Holly Powell

Free Leads For Your Business

Most of you know that I use online methods to generate our own leads. The best lead you can have is the one you generated yourself–hands down.

However, we also know that having a constant flow of leads is very important especially for the newbie marketer.

In the beginning of my online network marketing experience I spent literally $1,000′s buying leads. Then I learned that if I could create a simple newsletter, mini-course, etc. and give that away I could generate my own leads–so I developed a mini 14 day bootcamp–and that site that pulls leads almost everyday. Now that is nice for sure.

That is all well and good but most folks don’t even know what an autoresponder is much less how to create a page that will generate leads–so for those of you just starting out OR those of you who want more leads running through your funnel…we have a solution.

My friend Connie introduced me to a site that gives away leads. Yes, there is an upgrade–isn’t there always? I confess I haven’t upgraded yet but will soon–it just makes sense.

The whole purpose here is to get folks started through your funnel. Yes the leads are free and you can advertise your site as well–so go ahead and check the site out.

Free Leads For You


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