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      • Jul 12th, 2007
      • My Unsolicited SINGLE TIP to doing ANYTHING online

        Posted in Online Business, Personal Baby Steps, Things I learned Today, by Andrea Yager
      • 1 Comments

    •  
      I seem to always be missing these blog contests of the top x lists for such and such and what have you.. After all, I am still pretty new to this blogging thing.
       

      George , a fellow IM Blogger, has included his top 20 faves for a top 3 tips writing contest.
       

      These are not your ‘tips on how to know if your boyfriend picks his nose in private’, these are mostly good selections that will help improve your blogging, your focus, and hopefully help that which I have neglected so much as of late - your bank account!!
       

      Since I wasnt asked, but was on my way to write a post about this anyways.. I will join in with my ONE TIP that I can offer. I cant say it will make you money, I cant say you wont make money without it. I can say that it makes this whole working on the web idea / concept attainable and a lot less scary or overwhelming if you possess it…
       

      I am referring to basic HTML and FTP.. HTML is the simple language used to create a basic web page with tables, fonts, images, etc. and FTP is knowing how to upload what you have created up to the internet.
       

      I strongly STRONGLY advise ANYONE interested in blogging, internet marketing, ecommerce, etc. to spend ONE DAY, since it will not take that long, and learn HTML, and FTP. I cant even count the money and time I have saved by knowing these basic tools that are probably taught nowadays as a matter of course to elementary school students.
       

      The reason I was able to learn something and actually remember it (unlike CPR which I forget after learning), is that I RIGHT AWAY used the tools to create something. It doesnt have to be your major plan, but learn the tools and put them into action RIGHT AWAY - make a site about your pet, your child, your garden.. just dont learn the skills to have them in CASE. That never works.
       
      If that sounds unrealistic, so go create a MySpace, or a Squidoo, and see how beneficial it will be to know how to create a page break, how to center, make something stand out, embed a code from YouTube, etc.. unless you want to outsource absolutely everything!
       

      I am sure you can find something easy and free - just Google FREE HTML tutorials. I am a big fan of the point and click web design era and I am sure it has helped countless people with the confidence needed to break into internet marketing.. Maybe I am just a geek..
       

      What do you think?
       

      ~~ andrea

      • Jul 10th, 2007
      • Who knew I was in HIGH Demand??

        Posted in Affiliate Marketing, Blogging, Copywriting, Email Marketing, HOW TO's (NEWBIES...!!), Information/Ebook Marketing, Online Business, Outsourcing, Personal Baby Steps, Resale Rights Marketing, SEO / Traffic, Social Network Marketing (Web 2.0), Traffic, Viral Marketing, by Andrea Yager
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    •  

      I was sitting down with company this weekend, and was asked, as I am often asked…

      what do you do for a living?

       
      I dont actually have a ‘pat’ answer, its rather a continual moronic way of using whatever words come to my mind at the time, usually something that will have the listener nodding and thinking.. ‘oh my gosh, poor girl CANT even explain what she does for a living!!’
       
      BUT Internet Marketing is REALLY hard to explain :)!!
       
      Not to mention, can you call something a living if it is not your primary earnings, and it is not enough to be called an income… YET.
       
      I explain to her as mentioned above.. and you know what she said??
      Continue reading Who knew I was in HIGH Demand??

      • Jul 7th, 2007
      • My Successful Failure - Rich Schefren Part Deux

        Posted in Online Business, Personal Baby Steps, by Andrea Yager
      • 6 Comments

    •  
      This should have been my first post on this subject, but I almost forgot!! Yes… failures we try to forget :) (after learning from them!)
       
      This is the short story:
       
      When I first decided to plunge into earning a passive income, I knew I needed a LIST. I came up with this FABULOUS idea (cuz it was mine so it was fabulous). I was going to help people develop their OWN Internet Marketing Strategy based on many variables.. such as time to devote, knowledge + what they liked to do (it’s not enough to know how to write - you also have to enjoy it), financial situation, etc. etc…. I was setting it up like a ’smart’ questionaire and had outsourced a script that would allow the flow and lead to a final outcome.. all I had to do …

      ALL I HAD TO DO

      .. was put together all the outcomes based on all the different possible options..
       
      After spending money on advertising this free service that I was lauching, and working on the backend for ages.. with such scenarios of person A has 10 hours a week to spend, knows FTP and HTML, but not copy, thinks $100/month is a reasonable amount to spend on products, is not a newbie, but not making money yet, has a website (other than a blog)…It didnt take me long to realize that I bit off more than I could chew..
       
      However, in a short time I did manage to collect 170 emails, RICH SCHEFREN being ONE of them. Clearly my copy grabbed him, he either was looking forward to my service as a compliment to his services or a potential competition.. hahahaha.. thats funny..
       Check out Rich Schefrens name on my AWEBER name log
       
      The point people… and I wish I wasnt writing this after 1 am when I am sick and tired… but the point is that I already successfully got Rich’s attention ONCE..
       
      The other point…. whenever hoping to launch a product/service, etc.. make sure you have thought it through very thoroughly and can handle it! If not, and even if so… bring in a partner!! Nothing gets a Butt in gear like knowing someone else is counting on you!
       

      Dont forget to pick up a copy of Rich’s FREE report!
       
      ~~ andrea

      • Jul 6th, 2007
      • My Challenge to Rich Schefren and the ATTENTION AGE DOCTRINE

        Posted in Online Business, Personal Baby Steps, Viral Marketing, by Andrea Yager
      • 9 Comments

    •  
      Rich Schefren, one of the top business coaches online today, has done it AGAIN!!
       
      A year or two ago he sent waves through the net with his Manifestos, drawing attention to how many businesses/individuals lack a good business strategy. Following this, he opened up his coaching program, and became a household name among online marketers (and probably started getting flooded with credit cards).
       
      This time, his report highlights how we have accelerated quickly past the information age into the interruption age, and are sitting pretty in the attention age.. There is so much technology and ‘life’ being thrown at us, that small business owners have to work double time to acheive the same results, and we spend most of our days being unproductive..
       
      Check out this free report HERE.
       
      I for one can attest to that. I know that I have children, including a baby who likes to be held, but why does it take me days sometimes to get one complete blog post written?
       
      Rich is offering a nice bonus for the individual who drums up the most attention for his new report.
       
      I created 2 videos. The first was meant to be the only one, but the comments I heard encouraged me to make another one:
       
      “disgusting”
      “immoral”
      “awesome”
      “you may finally have success”
      “bad taste”
       
      It was that last one that didnt sit well with me. I am quite the G-d fearing girl and didnt want to be leaving videos around the web with ‘bad taste’. Although, since it was totally a matter of opinion, I still left it up to be seen and will include the links here..
       
      In the 2nd video, I removed the ‘offensive’ material and made some other changes.. This is called the ‘clean version’ and used most of the material of the first video changing the last 30 seconds or so. Maybe less people will wonder what the heck is going on when they view this one!
       
      My video example highlights more how I personally am trying to juggle my work, family life, other commitments.. I imagine growing up in a Mom and Pop rural town before the new technology must have had it’s advantages.. Well in a matter of years we have gone from Mom and Pop to everyone being able to peek into each others rooms, lives, culture, etc.. One of the reasons I want to earn more money is to actually have more time to enjoy all the new technology, information, entertainment the world has to provide (sans the smut)

       
      My first video I attempted to do something attention grabbing. Check out this video and be warned… you may not want to watch with children around.. Second to stripping (not happening) I tried to use whatever means I had available to me and my NON existant video creation skills to illustrate that I know how to grab attention!
       
      Here is video 1: Rated R
       

       
      Let me know what you thought of it :)
       

      Here is video #2: Rated G
       

       
      I hope you guys enjoyed my efforts. I worked very very VERY VERY hard. I may have used some other props, but that baby is all MINE + the Mom who needs computer help + the other 3 children + job + working for myself + a car with no a/c in the MIDDLE EAST heat…as I write this my children are playing doctor as me being the patient.. but Rich, I am all HERE. 100% focused :) and ready for part II.
       
      ~~ andrea

      • Jun 21st, 2007
      • Are you a Creator or Implementor.. Either Way.. I got you covered!

        Posted in Blogging, Information/Ebook Marketing, Online Business, by Andrea Yager
      • 3 Comments

    • I was sitting down today trying to decide what to write about. I had a post all ready to go about a friend who is offering cheap hosting for life - as in you pay a fee one time, and then you never pay again. Sounds exciting right? Well, as I was asking for some more details, he informed me that his server was hacked and *expletive*, *expletive*, *expletive*… 

       

      so I had to regroup… and a post will be coming about top rated hosts. I am in the middle of switching and have lots to share.. such as how I wrote this ENTIRE post, went to sleep, and woke up to see it GONE, since the migration of my site happened BEFORE I wrote the post, and it was LOST… *expletive*, *expletive*, *expletive*…

       

       

      So get used to todays topic, since It is also a MISSION…

       

       

      I have been around the workforce enough to recognize 2 types of workers (there are MANY more, but we will focus on these for now) 

       

      Continue reading Are you a Creator or Implementor.. Either Way.. I got you covered!

      • Jun 11th, 2007
      • Will it be ME??

        Posted in Online Business, Personal Baby Steps, by Andrea Yager
      • 0 Comments

    • I thought I was going to get my life back… as in back to regular full time mommy, full time part time job, full time part time running a small business, full time part time running this blog, full time part time working on other residual streams of income, etc. etc.. but then.. 2 things happened:

       
       

      1) I MADE IT TO THE TOP 50!!! for nextinternetmillionaire.com. I have to submit a new video by tomorrow night (aka tonight since its after midnight) and try out to get a spot as one of the ‘lucky 12′.. if you call going on a show and possibly getting humiliated and kicked off right away lucky that is! Well.. I am not so pleased with how my video is turning out. I think I like the idea, but I cant do it properly without professional video graphics, of which I dont have access or knowledge of.

       
       

      Check out the top50

      2) My continuation with StomperNet - I orignally signed up last month for a $1 trial period of a month. They are otherwise known as the group that ‘Stomps the search engine’ and has a pretty large group of successful online entrepreuners paying $797 per month. Knowing full well that I could not continue at that price, I expected it to be a one month glimpse. However, they rolled out their $97/month option and I decided to do it for at least this month. First of all, they deserve it for what they gave me for $1, second of all.. I did not have the time to follow through last months work due to number 1) above!!

       
       
      Continue reading Will it be ME??

      • Jun 8th, 2007
      • Outsourcing Blues…Avoid the Mess I am in..

        Posted in Online Business, Outsourcing, Things I learned Today, by Andrea Yager
      • 0 Comments


    • Outsourcing is 2 things:

      1. Hiring someone to do that which you CAN’T do:


      Need a better design, database programming, or blogging plugins, but technically unable?? Go on over to my outsourcer of choice -Scriptlance (BUT FIRST READ THIS ENTIRE POST!!) and get it done for a great price…


      2. Hiring someone to do that which you dont WANT to do:


      Due to number 1, Outsourcing is ‘Kosher’, otherwise its a little Elitist - those who put a higher $ to their time, outsource ‘time consuming’ or ‘menial’ tasks to those who are willing to work for less.. Except for my cleaning lady who earns more than I do.


      People even use outsourcing to order tasks and then hike up the prices to clients / consumers, but thats a story for another time.


      Read my story to know how to OUTSOURCE WISELY:


      A few months ago I wake up in the middle of the night with an Awesome idea..

      Continue reading Outsourcing Blues…Avoid the Mess I am in..

      • May 31st, 2007
      • If you WANT something you have to ASK FOR IT

        Posted in Online Business, Personal Baby Steps, by Andrea Yager
      • 5 Comments
    • Yes, I have taken my small life and put it OUT THERE. For the world to ridicule, judge, love.. and VOTE.. I hope…


      I know I am in good company with the quality of video created and I used that as an excuse to allow me to say enough is enough. Part of me kept saying ‘this is an opportunity that does not come up EVER!’ The other part was saying ‘this is one more distraction you cant afford to allow in your life right now’. So I combined both and spent HOURS (and DAYS) to offer a crappy submission :)

      I am sure you are all RUNNING to vote for me now. Really. Go. NOW and VOTE 10 (or I will come after you).

      http://www.nextinternetmillionaire.com/show.php?id=1232

      or Watch Here.. But when you are done - click on link above, or if you move over to YouTube click on link in the description to the right of the page - it will take you straight to my voting page (no sign up).

      Afterwards I regretted not saying MORE about myself. So I uploaded to YouTube a blooper video. However I ended up not not accomplishing what I set out to do.. except for having FUN! (watch to see a Shameless PLUG for a Music Group)

      Thats enough for today… ~~~ ANDREA

      • May 29th, 2007
      • You Want to do Flexible Jobs Working from home with Good Pay?? No problem!

        Posted in Idea of the WEEK, Online Business, by Andrea Yager
      • 2 Comments

    •  

      So often I will speak to other women who work from home and then I realize I kind of live in a vacuum. Working from home for me translates into one thing: Internet Marketing. Using the WEB as a TOOL to make money. Period.  

       

      However there are SOO many people who work from home and actually DO THINGS!! Like Continue reading You Want to do Flexible Jobs Working from home with Good Pay?? No problem!

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