Both my wife and I have been huge fans of Danica from the time we saw her compete in her first Indianapolis 500.  We have watched and listened, for years, as critics and commentators doubted her abilities and questioned, “could she ever win?”  Many said no, it will never happen.

Never say never!  Here’s proof that it doesn’t matter whether you are male or female, black or white, or whatever you are in physical for… champion is in the heart… the relentless pursuit of that which drives us to be better than we are, day after day, month after month, year after year!

Congratulations Danica, you have earned this!  You now stand with the elite and we believe that with this win you will gain confidence and momentum!

Go get em’ at Indy!  We believe!

Cheers!

Rex & Tamara Harris

The further I delve into the world of Web 2.0, the more I see the spam issue for what it is.  It’s an epedimic of ignorance, fear and the inability to allow ones mind to understand that there is more than one way to accomplish and objective.

Most of the people I find using spam are people who don’t know any better.  They are being educated by people who don’t know how to market… thus… an industry of people looking for answers simply does what they believe is right… tarnishing reputations, losing momentum and, essentially, killing their marketing career before they even get started.

Spam, in it’s simplest definition, is providing ANYONE who has not ASKED with information concerning your business, opportunity or commercial interest.  If you are sending messages, posting blogs, or participating in forums with content as described here, you are wrong, and you need to stop.

I see so many people come so close to doing things right on the social networks, only to blow it by including some long affiliate link at the end.  If you believe that a real entrepreneur is going to click your link and join your opportunity simply because you “think” it “might” be great, think again.  If you are lucky, you are going to get a program hopper or two, at best… who will join you… generating false enthusiasm (making you think you did right) only to watch them quit 30 days later because you lacked the communication skills to empower the person who joined you to become successful.

Twice today I have been contacted by people who call themselves “business people” with message like “I don’t know if you are looking or not, but I think that “so and so” is going to be huge and thought you would want to take a look.”  NO!  I don’t want to take a look!  I don’t care!  I am 100% focused and dedicated to my business, my mentors and coaches, my team, my students and my mission… anything else is a distraction and I am not interested, and neither should you be.  You should be spending your time educating others so they will be attracted to you!  That way, you can use your knowledge to leverage people into your organization/company and educate them correctly.

Think about how dumb this would be.  Imagine that you owned a deli offline.  Your deli is the doing very well… you are sellling more sandwiches and salads than anyone else on the block.  The next thing you know, someone selling hamburgers and fries opens up down he street, comes to you and says “hey, how would you like to take the focus off of your business and join with me… it’s going to be big and great!”  You would think that person was a lunatic!  Does it really make anymore sense to do the same thing online?

I know this sounds harsh, but it’s the truth.  I want to see people succeed and that’s not going to happen by publishing bullsh** information that isn’t going to instruct others as to the correct way to do things.

People don’t care abour your business, opportunity, product or marketing system.  That’s why you are sitting there, at your computer, scratching your head and wondering why no one is signing up with you.  If you can’t lead people to the promised land, they aren’t going to join you and stay.  You have to empower others and lead by example.

When you understand how to meet the emotional needs of others, and what they are, you will then hold one of the keys to success in the home business industry.

This type of leadership requires education.  When you have the ability to take someone into a community like MySpace, Direct Matches, Wowzza, NING… or any of the others, and show them how to generate traffic, leads and sales, then you will have the power to build an organization that will help you become successful as you empower them to do the same.

Don’t advertise where advertising isn’t welcome… and don’t spend any more money on advertising until you have taken the time to find a mentor who is qualified to help you do things the right way.

For more information on how you can use Web 2.0 and social marketing to become financially free visit www.rexharris.net or Google rex harris.

Cheers!

Rex Harris

While teaching my students to finer points of creating a blog tonight, we chose a natural substance, using basic Google search, that would help us find a target market for our product.

One of my students had contacted me earlier today with concerns about blogging, and how to accomplish this task without risking the lost of created information do to spam complaints and posting guidelines.

The chances, that the two paragraphs above probably mean little to you because you are here looking for a natural remedy for gastric reflux, hiatal hernia or stomach acid.

Back in October of 1994, I had to have a Nissen procedure for gastric reflux because the medication I was taking were no longer having an effect.

Today, with what we have learned about natural remedies, there are several products available today that contain ingredients that will help, reduce and even eliminate reflux from excess stomach acid.

In my studies with my students this evening, we used a keyword selector tool to find the benefits of the ingredients of our product to our potential consumer.

What we learned about our prodcut is that it contains an ingredient called Amalaki, which according to Internet informational sources, is a great contributor in the relief of gastric reflux, hiatal hernia and stomach acid.

For more information on how you can learn and benefit from natural products that will help with acid reflux and other digestive issues, visit http://www.rexharris.net

If you and I are anything alike. you have a passion for this the Internet marketing industry.  Chances are, you have probably seen people come and go from your organization, just like I have.  The main reason that happens is lack of the right training. 

Finding a sponsor, in the world of MLM, that will help you at all is hard enough.  Finding one who actually has the knowledge to help you succeed is a task next to impossible anymore.  Most MLM‘ers, who have had any success, will probably have ties to old school marketing tactics… and that is a frustration that you do not need.

Here are some helpful tips for finding and becoming a good sponsor…

1.)  Find and become a teacher.  There aren’t to many champions in life that didn’t have the help of a good coach, mentor or trainer.  Your future growth will depend upon your willingness to learn and, then, teach.

2.)  Put leaders on your front line.  You wouldn’t start a business without hiring qualified employees and managers… why would you build the front line of any matrix without leaders?  Business is business… online business is the way of the future and there is no room for half a**ed recruiting effors.  Find people who can do the job.  Anything less is desperate and bad business, in my opinion.

3.)  Don’t be desperate, even if it means putting your online businesss of until a time when you can begin comfortably.  I’ve had people call me (true story) and tell me that they house was going to be reposessed the next day and what can I do to make $1200 by tomorrow.  If you are looking to the Internet to get out of a financially desperate situation, now is not the time for you to start.  You can’t start a successful online business without investing in it.  Don’t rob Peter to pay Paul… work hard to get what you need to start and do it the right way.  The greatest victories in life come after fierce battles.

Social networks like Direct Matches, MySpace, Yuwie and more are great places to find leaders to build your home based business, mlm opportunity or affiliate program.

Use the profiles of other Internet marketers and business opportunity seekers to qualify leaders for your business.  This will build a stronger downline and keep you in business through your retirement years and beyond.

Become an effective leader to decrease program hopping and attrition.  Using social communities, you can profile the beahvior of the people you bring into your business much better than just chasing leads.

For more mlm strategies visit http://www.rexharris.net

Rex Harris is co-founder and CEO of iBrand Professional Mentoring as well as a student of Val Smyth, the founder of Mentors In Motion, MIM Online Magazine and The Prosperity Cast Network.  Rex also receives instruction for industry seo guru Wes Wyatt.

One of the questions I hear the most from MLM‘ers is “how do I stop attrition?”  In other words, “how do I keep people from leaving my program for another, or just quitting in general?”

Here are a few techniques that you can use to build and keep a strong downline:

Leadership:  This is the number one problem in MLM.  People want huge downlines, but they don’t want the do the work of teaching others how to become successful.  Find a good mentor who can teach you how to become an effective leader.  If you are struggling with a failing downline, it’s time for a change and all change comes from the top… that’s you!  Don’t wait for someone else to get the job done, take charge and make things happen!

Delegation:  Most MLM sponsors only want the money that comes from having a huge downline and don’t care about the those who they bring into their business.  This is a mistake that will bring failure upon you fast.  People want to feel needed, so get to know the people in your group and delegate leadership to them so they can grow a successful business.  Find a good training platform, where you can refer people to learn.  As a leader, you should always be learning as well.

Commitment:  To most peoople, Internet business is a game or a hobby.  Business is business.  Treat your business like a business and it will pay you back!

Loyalty:  Be loyal to your downline and your business.  Program hopping, using traffic and lead generation programs that distract, money games, etc., are all damaging when it comes to focus.  If you are in charge, you control what resources your team uses, keeping the team focused and prosperous.

One of the best resources for prospecting online is a business community known as Direct Matches.  At Direct Matches, you step into an online world of would be leaders to build your MLM opportunity.  Having solid leaders on your front line, who care about the success of others, know how to teach and are teachable themselves, will make a monumental difference in the long term success of your business.

To use DM effectively, I require my students to join at the basic level (about $10 per month).  This gives them the ability to contact anyone in Direct Matches via the DM email feature.  As Direct Matches has a database in the millions, you will never run out of qualifiable leads!  Think about it… where else are you going to find leads that include photo, interests, business information and more? 

Each time a new member joins Direct Matches, I welcome them by getting them acquainted with my name.  Name recognition (branding) is the real key to success online.  Using this method I get a 99% response rate.  The only time I don’t get a response is if that person has created a phony profile.  Otherwise, it’s easy to egage people in conversation and convert them the qualified website traffic.

For more information on how you can use Direct Matches to build a POWERFUL downline, visit http://www.rexharris.net

14 years ago this summer, I answered a small classified, in a local newspaper, that changed my life.  I didn’t realize it at the time, but the skills I would learn by taking the risk I took, are skills that are helping me build my Internet based home business to levels of success that I only could dream of, all those years ago.

The ad that I answered was for a “set up and display” position for home care products.  Translated, that meant vacuum cleaner salesman.  I’m here to tell you that if you can go door to door and sell a $1500 vacuum cleaner to people you have never met before (in less than two hours) you can sell just about anything!

One of the biggest fears Internet marketers and home business owners face is the fact that it’s a “sales” based business.  It’s true.  If you are in business to make money, then 99% of the time, you have a product or service to sell.  In order for you to sell that product or service to people, you need to tell them about it.  That’s selling!

Selling is not complicated.  Selling is nothing more than knowing how to ask specific questions while building value in your product.  

Before this can ever happen, expecially in MLM and Internet based sales, you must build a relationship.  Most people here this term and think it will slow them down and that they won’t get the massive numbers they need to build their organization so they can make money fast.

The truth is, you can build an MLM, or any business, much faster, if you seek out quality, versus quantity, when it comes to prospects.  The easiest way to do this is to sell YOU!  Once people are sold on you, selling yoru product(s) is much easier.

Make a friend, make a sale!  It works!

For more information on self branding and promotion, visit http://www.ibrandonline.com

Rex Harris is a 14 year industry veteran educated in direct sales, marketing and advertising.  As an online business owner, he has been able to generate large six figure incomes consistently and has acquired the help need to take him to multi-millionaire status.  He is working online, right now, with one mission in mind… to share his successes with others and teach them how to do what he has been doing successfully throughout his career.

It happens upon this night that I am blogging in front of a live audience of students, in an effort to teach them how to research for blogging purposes, in the marketing and selling of products.  In doing so, I have learned that there are several really good products available, through multi-level marketing companies, that will help in the treatment of arthritis and other painful joint and tissue conditions.

For example, the product that we are researching as I write this article, not only aids in the relief of arthritis, it also helps with conditions such as irritable bowel syndrome, hepatitis, allergies and asthma.

According to our Google search, the product in question has given us the following information:

“boasts a proprietary whole–fruit formula, harnessing a concentrated rush of xanthones—a vigorous family of next–generation phytonutrients. Sounds complex. But here’s the straight scoop. Research shows xanthones possess potent antioxidant properties that may help maintain intestinal health, strengthen the immune system, neutralize free radicals, help support cartilage and joint function, and promote a healthy seasonal respiratory system”

Some of the key ingredients that aid the relief of the the issues listed above are:

man·go·steen – n. 1. an evergreen tree native to Southeast Asia that has leathery leaves and large edible fruit. Latin name: Garcinia mangostana 2. the fruit with a hard, reddish-brown rind and sweet, juicy pulp produced by the mangosteen tree. Also known as “Queen of Fruits.”   

xan·thone – n. C₁₃H₈O₂ a unique class of biologically active compounds possessing numerous bioactive capabilities, such as antioxidant properties. Xanthones—found in the whole mangosteen fruit—may help maintain intestinal health, strengthen the immune system, neutralize free radicals, help support cartilage and joint function, and promote a healthy seasonal respiratory system.

an·ti·ox·i·dant – n. any substance that inhibits the destructive effects of oxidation. 

Last year, I used a mangosteen based product, myself, and though I do not suffer from any of the conditions in this article, the issues I do suffer from were greatly aided by the effects of not only mangoesteen, but also goji, acai, and grape seed extract, amongst others.

Product I have sampled have been very easy to use, as they are fruit based and have (in most cases) a great flavor as well as providing a noticable increase in natural energy.

I have several friends and students who are promoting products that will help with these conditions and more, and am willing to provide information as to how you can obtain free samples of the certain products to see which one is right for you!

For more information, contact me through my website at http://www.rexharris.net

Back before I joined the Prosperity Cast Network, I remember my coach, mentor and friend, Val Smyth, sharing with us the details as to how the Master Key System by Charles Hannel had changed his life.  Now that I have become a student of The Master Key System, I understand why Val is worth millions today.

Success in business is about proper mindset.  Without the right mindset, your business is destined for destruction before you ever start.  The truth of the matter is that business is business, whether you are doing business off line or on the Internet.  Internet based business is not a money game, nor it should be treated as such.

I see new $5.00 and $10.00 programs popping up, every day, that get people just excited enough to waste a ton of time and traffic to generate a couple of hundred bucks, only to watch the same program fizzle and die within a few months time because it lacks substance and leadership.

I have found that quality beats quantity, all the time… and that mindset came through the meditations and teachings within the Master Key System.

The Master Key System is the gateway to the creation of the life that you want to live.  The essence of The Master Key System is learning how your mind, body and soul work together as the creative force, that when used correctly, will create the very environment that the energy you generate creates.  Negative thinking generates negative environments.  Successful thinking creates successful environments.

Education and a willingness to submit to those who have gone before and paved the way will undoubtedly open a portal that will change your life, if you CHOSE to allow it.

Pride, ignorance, fear, mental disease and addiction cause weak minded people to believe in a false hope the breeds failure.  You cannot possibly achieve a million dollar lifestyle if you don’t know how to create it and you can’t create it if you don’t listen to those who are willing to invest their time and show you how.

Pride and greed, my friends, are a killer.  If you continue to believe “you can” when you have not the knowledge to “can”, then you can plan on “can’t” because “won’t” has caused you to believe a lie.  That won’t is the pride that keeps you from reaching your “promised land.”  For those of you who are students of the Bible, look at what pride and anger did to Moses.

Submission is not weakness.  Pride is weakness, and pride will hold you back from reaching your destiny.

Acquire knowledge and develop wisdom so knowledge does not develop further pride.

Become a student of The Master Key System, apply what you learn to your life and you will see the change take place.

To obtain a digital audio copy of The Master Key System visit me online and contact me through http://www.rexharris.net

How to get top listings on Google… fast… using HubPages

I’d like to take a few minutes today and share with you a little known tactic for quick Google listings.  

Most of the marketers that I have talked with, over the last year, have had one thing in common…. they don’t know how to take their promotions to the front pages of Google in order to reach their target market.

Last week, at the advice of a friend, I signed up for a blog site called HubPages and wrote an article.  To my surprise, when I woke up the next day, I found that article on the second page of Google under my target key phrase.

For the last 8 months I have been studying keyword research for the optimization of my web site.  Using the Google AdWords tool and DigitalPoint.com, I am able to plug in my keyphrase and find out how many searches are done, daily, for the key phrase I want to target.

While this knowledge alone is quite valuable, without the knowledge to apply that information to my marketing efforts, those keyword search tools are useless. 

To succeed in the world of Web 2.0, people will need to know how to make things happen.  Perhaps you have heard, in your marketing circles, that blogging and article writing is one of those keys.  If that’s the case, it would be best advised to listen to those who know this, because it’s true… blogging can take you to the top of Google and more in record time.

To make this happen, you will need a few basic pointers to get started….

First, you will need to learn how to use the Google AdWords keyword tool.  You can access this tool by going to Google and searching the key phrase “keyword selector tool.”  Once that search has been completed, you will find the link for this tool in the top three listings of the page.  Upon arriving, simply enter the key words you want to research in the “keyword suggestion” box.

Second, you will need to know how to use DigitalPoint.com.  Upon arriving, if you scroll down and click “Webmaster Tools,” you will be taken to a page with multiple options.  Select the “keyword selection tool.”  You will then be prompted to enter words for phrase that you would like informatoin on.  The results given will tell you exactly how many searches are being done for your key phrase(s) daily.

Third, you will need to write an article on HubPages targeting your key phrase.  You will always want to include your key phrase is the title of all articles you want to optimize for the words/phrasing you have chosen.  You will also want to use that key phrase a couple of times in the early stages of your article because the search engines pick up the key phrase at the top of a document much better than when they are used in the middle or toward the end.

When writing your articles, stick to what you know.  One of the biggest mistakes most marketers make is to jump into someting before they know how to make it produce correctly.  It’s always best to take the time to learn and grow.  This process doesn’t mean that you have to quit working to learn.  Having the right mentor, you will be able to earn while you learn.

For more detailed information on how you can take advantage of social marketing strategies and Web 2.0, visit me online at www.rexharris.net

Start your campaign today at www.hubpages.com

The world of Web 2.0 is going to be an interesting transition for a majority of those who are marketing a business, product or service on the Internet.  Many of the marketers who I talk to online are not interested in being social with anyone in business, in fact, most won’t even pick up the phone or message someone through a social community. 

Fear won’t get you anywhere in this industry… and those who are afraid to be successful with fall prey to the statistic that states 97 out of every 100 people who try to become and Internet marketer… eventually fail or quit.

For those who are going to make the transition to Web 2.0, there are a few things you will need to know before getting started. 

First, understand that social marketing is about building a solid reputation as well as relationships.  A friendship builder is going to be successful in the world of Web 2.0 and reputation will proceed them when their name comes up in marketing circles, call and forums.

Next, it is important that you find a community where you can build a good profile.  Your profile should include a current, professional looking photo, truthful information about yourself, and a theme that represents a professional, organized business person who projects an aire of dignity and confidence.  Smiling never hurts either… angry, stern, hard pictures are not the image you want to send of yourself to others.

One of the most important parts of your profile are the “about me” section.  Done correctly, your “about me” section can drive interested traffic to your capture system or web site, making your job of prospecting much easier.  HINT:  for an example of a solid “about me” for marketing visit myspace.com/socialmarketingsuccess

Now, once your profile is done, begin adding friends!  Now you are on your way to having free or low cost web presence that will draw attention and bring people to you.  You might consider a few of these tools to help you.

Friend Blaster Pro (Google: friend blaster pro) … for MySpace.

GoToMeeting (Web Conferencing) 30 day free trial @ www.gotomeeting.com

Skype:  www.skype.com

Every day I train with people like Wes Wyatt, Val Smyth, Jeremy Henderson, Bob Riddell, Tim Henderson, Dave Gorby and Karin Hiebert.  If you are searching for success on the Internet, line yourself up with those who are successful! 

My recommendation to any Inernet marketer, new or struggling… before you join a business opportunity and spend money on something you don’t know anything about, get a coach/mentor.  If you are have been failing or struggling with business online for any period of time, you need to stop and rethink things.  Having a coach will save you countless hours and money that you may have spent to no avail.

Questions?  You can find me on Skype as user leadpower or www.rexharris.net