1. Backflip : Backflip is a free service currently being run by volunteers. Backflip was started in 1999 by Netscape veterans Tim Hickman and Chris Misner. As a research tool, Backflip is clearly of value to the education community, and that community (or at least certain segments) has certainly embraced Backflip. A Google search of sites that contain the term “Backflip.com” results in numerous education-related links, including Teacher Tools.
2. barksbookmarks : BARKS=BookmARKS is a website that combines social bookmarking, blogging, RSS, and non-hierarchical editorial control.
3. BibSonomy :BibSonomy is run by the Knowledge Data Engineering Group of the University of Kassel, Germany. Its specifically designed for researchers, in sharing bookmarks and bibliographies
4. Blinklist :A social bookmarking site launched by Mindvalley. According to their site, they launch several web businesses a year and are focused in 3 areas. – Technology, media and Marketing. BlinkList does have a user friendly interface indicating that its being run well and efficiently. They also quote “fully profitable” on their site. Furthermore, you can label and comment about any web page on the Internet.
5. Blipoo :Meet Blipoo, a social bookmarking site for “cool” people sharing “cool” stories. It claims to help bloggers drive more traffic to their blog because they allow self promotion..
6. BlogBookMark : Designed specifically for Blog hunters, BlogBookmark.com claims to have the hottest news, gossip, and blog chatter from around the web. I highly sugggest that mainstream bloggers bookmark their entires here.

1. BlueDot : This basic social networking service allows users to save and share bookmarks.
2. blurpalicious : Get Blurped! Not too different from other social bookmarks, but I love the tagline.
3. Bmaccess : Social bookmarking with thumbs
4. Bookkit : BookKit.com is an absolutely free web service designed to facilitate bookmark (favorites) management needs.
5. BookMarkAll : Bookmarkall is an online bookmark community where users can create, organize and share their favorite web links online and access them anywhere.
6. Bookmark-manager : Organizer for bookmarks, calendar, diary and knowledge.
7. bookmarktracker : Free online storage, management, synchronizing and RSS sharing of your bookmarks.
8. Bookmax : You can store your bookmarks and links to your favorite sites online and access them from wherever you are : basic Social Bookmarking.
9. Buddymarks : The online personal, group and social bookmarks manager.
10. Bukmark : Bukmark is a social bookmarking website.
11. Chipmark :Another basic social bookmarking site.
12. Citeulike : A free service to help academics to share, store, and organise the academic papers they are reading.
13. Claimid : Manage your online identity. Although this is not a normal social bookmarking site, users can bookmark sites which reference their identity and build backlinks in this fashion.
14. Clipclip : Clipclip allows you to save images and text, with a “bookmarklet”.
15. Cloudytags : A unique word analyzer connects to your page, gets all the words and suggest you the real tags your site is showing to the world.
16. Complore : Derived from com-(with,together) and explore-(search, research). As the name suggests, complore is a vision to connect people from diverse backgrounds
17. Connectedy : Lets you establish a personal link directory online. As you surf the web, you collect links, categorize them in a way that makes sense to you.
18. Connotea : Social bookmarking (for researchers).
19. Contentpop : It has the latest Web 2.0 features such as social bookmarking, blogging & RSS. It also uses the word POP in the title which means it must be good.
20. coRank : coRank is a site where you can share whatever you find interesting on the web with people who value your opinion
21. Crowdfound : CrowdFound is essentially a social bookmarking website, but with a different vision in mind
22. de.lirio.us : Store, share and tag your favourite links. Open source clone of del.icio.us with private bookmarking, tagging, blogging, and notes
23. del.icio.us : THE social bookmarking site : It allows you to easily add sites you like to your personal collection of links and to categorize those sites with keywords. Not to mention that if enough people save your site in a bookmark, it will make their popular page and send a lot of traffic. Delicious is owned by Yahoo and is a MUST for your social media and bookmarking strategy.
24. Diigo : Social bookmarking on steroids.

1. Digg : The social news site that changed the Internet, Digg is a high power authority and a listing in Digg for a site, even if it only has a couple of votes, will rank highly on Google and other search engines for certain terms. If your site is shared and voted upon on Digg, and makes the Digg homepage, you’ll get a lot of traffic and attention from other bloggers who read Digg.
2. Dropjack : DropJack.com is a social content website and owned by the ExactSeek company.
3. Easybm : Allows users to bookmark their frequently visited sites on their private page, allowing 1-click access to their favorite web sites.
4. Enroll : Social bookmarking system based in India.
5. ez4u : Social Bookmarking – Ez4u to Bookmark : “Ez4u to Organize Ez4u to Share with Others Ez4u to Remember”
6. Favoor : Favoor is your personalized new start page. Collect your favorite internet addresses.
7. Folkd : Folkd is a social web-service about pages, news, audios, videos and blogs.
8. Freelink : Freelink.org provides free pages of links that you can access anywhere at anytime.
9. Freezilla : FreeZilla claims to be the first Web 2.0 freebies and promotions social networking site.
10. Fungow : Fungow was designed to help better organize and keep track of your bookmarks.

1. Furl : Like Delicious, LookSmart’s Furl.net is one of the first social bookmarking sites and considered an authority by the major search engines. Listing your sites in Furl will lead to traffic from organic rankings and its popular page drives traffic.
2. Gather : Gather is a place to contribute articles and content, blog, tag and connect with people who share your passions. (Plus you can link out from the articles in this authority site).
3. Getboo : GetBoo.com is yet another free online bookmarking service which allows you to store, edit and retrieve your bookmarks from anywhere online.
4. Google : Allows users to save and create bookmarks in their Google toolbar that can be accessed anywhere online. Google is getting more social by the day, so take advantage of their Google Bookamrks and citations, because one day they probably will have some kind of influence on external meta data considered by the Google ranking algortihm.
5. Hanzoweb : Hanzoweb – Bookmark, tag & share knowledge online
6. Hyperlinkomatic : Hyperlinkomatic – bookmark list manager.
7. i89.us : i89.us offers a free service which allows you to save your favorite website/links at one location that can be accessed from anywhere.
8. Icio : Danish Bookmarking engine.
9. Ikeepbookmarks : Popup feature allows you to add links while surfing the web
10. Iloggo : Simple web based bookmarking tool that you can use for attractively displaying your favorite websites on one page.
11. Jigg : Jigg.in is a socializing community with the latest stories / news submitted by users and has a familiar name
12. Kaboodle : Kaboodle is a 2.0 shopping community where people recommend and discover new things.
13. Kinja : Kinja is a blog guide, collecting news and commentary from some of the best sites on the web.
14. Lifelogger : “LifeLogger is a great way to keep things that matter to you alive and sparkling.” And worth considering in a bookmarking campaign.
15. Lilsto : Lilisto lets you store, manage and find your favorite links (or bookmarks) and removes the need to maintain them through your browser.
16. Linkagogo : Favorites and Social Bookmarking Application, its unique dynamic toolbars automatically adapt themselves.
17. Linkarena : German Social Bookmarking site.
18. Linksnarf : Social link sharing with groups of friends.
19. Listerlister :ListerLister is a social list building community where you can create, add to, and vote for both lists and the items added to them.

1. Ma.gnolia.com : Like Furl and Delicious, anoter major bookmarking site which lets users organize bookmarks, search other people’s favorites and make friends and contacts.
2. Markaboo : MarkaBoo is tool for saving websites, files, and notes from your browser, email or mobile phone.
3. Marktd : Marktd is a reference & voting system that highlights marketing articles considered valuable by the marketing community.
4. Memfrag : memFrag stores your favorites personal notes, making them globally accessible from any computer.
5. Memotoo :Lets users centralize and share your personal data.
6. Mister Wong : Mister Wong is a social bookmarking site that originated in Germany, and has since become a popular and widespread tool.
7. Mixx : An up and coming bookmarking and social news sharing network which should rival Digg, Reddit and others, Mixx blends popular photos, videos and stories.
8. Mobleo : Allows you to easily add, organize, and share your mobile phone bookmarks with your friends using your desktop computer.

1. Multiply :Florida-based social network Multiply, which reports nearly 3 million users and $6 million in funding,opened its social bookmarking site recently and has done well. Definite authority
2. Murl : My URLs is a free online bookmarks manager, think of it as a bookmarks community.
3. MyBookmarks : MyBookmarks – access your bookmarks anytime, anywhere. Free productivity tool for business, student or personal use. Another popular bookmarking site.
4. Myhq : Store your bookmarks in one central location. Fast, text-based, banner free!
5. MyLinkVault : A free online bookmark manager. Other bookmark managers can be so clumsy to use – trying to rearrange your bookmarks can be slow and frustrating.
6. mySiteVote : mySiteVote is a community where you can vote your favorite site/s and view how popular a site is.
7. MyWebDesktop : A collaboration and communication tool, designed to be as generic and easy to use as a telephone and email.
8. Newsvine : The mission of Newsvine is to bring together big and little media in a way which respects established journalism
9. Newsweight :NewsWeight is a democratic news, information, and entertainment resource.
10. Oyax : Oyax is a social bookmark manager which allows users to easily add sites you like to personal collection of links, categorize those sites with keywords.
11. Philoi : Person-to-person link sharing community. Save bookmarks and share links with your friends.
12. PlugIM : PlugIM is a user driven internet marketing community. Submit content, share articles, comment on projects and promote your favorites to the front page

1. Propeller : Formaly known as Netscape, AOL’s Propeller has become a great social bookmarking news community tool which is considered an ultimate authority by Yahoo Search and passes link juice in its news story profiles. Propeller is also going to redesign very soon, which should be quite exciting.
2. QuickieClick : QuickieClick is a second generation social bookmarking website with a visual twist.
3. Rambhai : An Indian social bookmarking community
4. RawSugar : A social search engine powered by user contributions. Its an online community, with over 130,000 URLs already tagged by their members.
5. Reddit : Timely and shocking news oriented, Reddit stories are instantly voted upon and if liked by the community as a whole, can drive incredible traffic and users.

1. Searchles : Owned by the DumbFind search engine, in my opinion Searchles is a much overlooked bookmarking tool and loved by Google, Yahoo and the other major search engines with its passing of link juice and high rankings for terms within search results themselves. Do not overlook Searchles.
2. Segnalo : Italian Social bookmarking site.
3. Simpy [late addition]: Social bookmarking & search, Simpy lets users “save, tag, search and share bookmarks, notes, groups and more.”
4. Sitebar : A solution for people who use multiple browsers or computers and want to have their bookmarks available from anywhere without need to synchronize them
5. Sitejot :Free online bookmark manager. Like every other social bookmarking site, it allows users to manage all of their bookmarks online in one convenient place.

1. Sk*rt : sk*rt is a social media ranking platform of “pure goodness”, targeted towards women. Given the right story, Sk*rt can send A LOT of targeted traffic.
2. Slashdot : The godfather of social news, SlashDot bookmarks are still quite powerful .. keep in mind the site has a heavy slant towards Linux and Open Source issues.
3. SocialDanger : SocialDanger is a Web 2.0 open source content management system.
4. Socialogs : A Digg-like Social Bookmarking Service.
5. Sphinn : Very popular search marketing oriented social news and discussion site run via the Pligg system.
6. Spotback : Spotback is a personalized rating system that recommends relevant content based on personal rating history using collaborative filtering
7. Spurl : Another cherished bookmarking and tagging site, Spurl lets users keep online bookmarks & tags while offering full text searching, recommendations & storing of entire documents.
8. Squidoo :Kind of spammed out, Squidoo is a 2.0 property which lets people and businesses set up a ‘lens’ which lists links, tags and relevant RSS feeds to different subjects.
9. Startaid : I’ve noticed that StartAid bookmark pages rank highly in Google and other search engines. This basic bookmarking service allows users to describe, tag and categorize sites.
10. StumbleUpon : Owned by eBay, StumbleUpon is an amazing blend of social bookmarking, voting, networking, web surfing, search and blogging. Best of all, StumbleUpon can send major traffic with its userbase of around 3 million users.
11. Stylehive : The Stylehive is a collection of all the best products, brands, designers and stores discovered and tagged by the Hive community
12. Syncone : SyncOne is an Internet aggregator of bookmarking and browsing.
13. Tagfacts : Basic bookmarking and tagging, a social knowledge base.
14. Taggly : Store, share and tag your favorite links.
15. Tagne : TagNe.ws is user-submitted, community voted links and resources related to SEO, Blogging, RSS, Tagging, Internet Marketing and more.
16. Tagtooga : Says that this bookmarking engine can be used to discover great sites difficult to find in Google/Yahoo by browsing categories.
17. Tagza : A very young Social Bookmarking site mostly being used by Indian and Pakistani web masters.
18. Technorati : Always changing and reinventing themselves, this recognized authority offers links to blogposts, tagging and a social bookmarking WTF section.
19. Tedigo : Personal and social bookmarking in Spanish and English made simple.
20. Thinkpocket : Lets users pocket websites you find valuable. It is a web service that aims to help store, organize and share your favorite sites
21. Thoof : Thoof is a user generated news and information service that claims to learn about what users are interested in and delivers news that they care about.
22. Totalpad : TotalPad is a new online news and article community where people are free to voice their opinions
23. Urlex : With URLex system users are able to leave a comment regarding any internet link on any site. Possibly good for linking
24. Uvouch : Another basic social bookmarking site, users can save their findings with one click, at one place and access it from anywhere.
25. Vmark : An online bookmark and online favorites manager.
26. Voteboat : VoteBoat is a user-controlled rating and voting site.
27. Votelists : VoteLists lets users create a list of rankable items. Other can add items, comment on them, rate them and more!
28. Vuju : Vuju allows user to submit/publish content which can be tagged and promoted.
29. WeTogether : Social bookmarking site where people will have great opportunities to promote their own sites.
30. Whitelinks : Securely store and quickly access favorite websites whenever connected to the Internet,:
31. Wink : A social search engine where users can share results and answer questions. Users build profiles which can link out to bookmark pages or other web sites (hint hint).:
32. Wirefan : Social bookmarking, news articles submission site.:
33. Xilinus : Organize and manage bookmarks online.:
34. Xlmark : xlmark is an easy social bookmarking site:

Frankly, most business people will just not go through the “detailitis” required to test – which is why it’s a very good idea to model proven promotions. And in some cases where you’re only going to use something once or twice or you’re dealing with a very small number, it’s just not worth testing; instead, you take your best shot. But let’s assume you’re working on something you intend to use over and over and over again in some significant quantity, so that it’s worth real effort to fine-tune it…

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I have some tips for you: first of all, there’s non-testing testing – huh? Well, I describe that in my book ‘The Ultimate Sales Letter’ (available at http://www.gkicresourcecenter.com/books-by-dan-kennedy-and-bill-glazer/the-ultimate-sales-letter/ ), where I talk about the steps to take with a finished sales letter before you actually mail it. Second, there’s split testing, which is the fastest way to test and get to a reasonable conclusion. Let’s assume you have a postcard and you want to leave everything the same but test four different headlines, and you have 4,000 similar addresses to mail to. You do “nth name testing”; that means Headline #A goes to every 4th name, Headline #B to every 5th name, Headline #C to every 5th name, etc.

So you evenly divide the list without bias among the headlines being tested. Some media (like Val-Pak or MoneyMailer) will let you split test within a single buy. Third, there’s testing against a control. A “control” is a marketing strategy that already works well and you’re using it on a continuing basis – maybe it’s a series of letters you mail every month. You have been using it long enough you know what it produces. You have a “known” to measure against. Now you can start trying to improve that control, ideally one step or variable at a time.

If I’m trying to beat a control, here are the “hot” variables I’ll look at closely, to see if there’s room for improvement:

1. The offer
2. The guarantee(s)
3. The urgency of response
4. The big idea or big promise
5. The overcoming of skepticism i.e. credibility and believability
6. The style or tone of the writing itself
7. The look of the piece

By the way, little, very testable things DO sometimes make very big differences. Recently I showed an example in my newsletter of a guy who just added four rubber-stamped words to the outside of his envelope, and beat his control by 300%. I once brought a TV infomercial back from the dead by raising the price of the product.

Gary Halbert saved the Pearl Cream advertising by adding a particular bonus. In 1984, after attending my seminar, a dentist in Sacramento changed five words on his Val-Pak coupon and went from getting two or three new patients a month to 15 to 20. This is the sort of thing that makes direct-response advertising as frustrating as golf. (Did you happen to see John Daly miss a put seven times and scratch himself out of the tournament a few weeks back? Ugh.)

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Obviously, you can’t test if you can’t, won’t or don’t collect accurate data. You have to code every offer, and track where every ounce of business comes from. If you have employees who are lax about this, you must educate them about the importance, discipline them if they goof it up, and ultimately can’em if they won’t do it right 100% of the time. I confess that I fly by the seat of my pants in my business more than I should, but I can’t fire me, God knows there are days I should. Anyway, I can assure you: the clients I have with the best profits and incomes possess the best information about where their business comes from.

Let me switch gears and talk briefly about another aspect of “testing”. This is actually how all highly successful entrepreneurs view everything they do…as testing. They do NOT see things in the context of “success” or “failure” like ordinary people do, and as a result they do not become “de-motivated” like most people do. See, most people drain all the vitality, courage, optimism and git-up-n-go out of themselves by focusing on all the things they do that don’t work out well, as a compilation of failures.

But successful people understand the powerful impact of that negative reinforcement on their own self-image (somewhat akin to the impact of pouring a gallon of toxic waste into a pint of clear water, drinking the result, and wondering why the stomach backs up into the esophagus). Instead, they carefully organize the things they do into a series or sequence of experiments, testing options, and focusing on the ones they find that work. And they fully expect to go through any number of experiments that don’t pan out before walking away from the lab with a winner. This not only has practical relevance, it has profound psychological ramifications.

Just like a little tweak in thinking can make a big difference in the results of say, an ad or a flyer, a little tweak in thinking can make a giant difference in the life results experienced by an individual.

DAN S. KENNEDY is a serial, multi-millionaire entrepreneur; highly paid and sought after marketing and business strategist; advisor to countless first-generation, from-scratch multi-millionaire and 7-figure income entrepreneurs and professionals; and, in his personal practice, one of the very highest paid direct-response copywriters in America. As a speaker, he has delivered over 2,000 compensated presentations, appearing repeatedly on programs with the likes of Donald Trump, Gene Simmons (KISS), Debbi Fields (Mrs. Fields Cookies), and many other celebrity-entrepreneurs, for former U.S. Presidents and other world leaders, and other leading business speakers like Zig Ziglar, Brian Tracy and Tom Hopkins, often addressing audiences of 1,000 to 10,000 and up. His popular books have been favorably recognized by Forbes, Business Week, Inc. and Entrepreneur Magazine. His NO B.S. MARKETING LETTER, one of the business newsletters published for Members of Glazer-Kennedy Insider’s Circle, is the largest paid subscription newsletter in its genre in the world.

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Tips on How to Optimize Your Google+ Page for SEO

In our last blog, we discussed the benefits of the new Google Social Search function, that integrates your Google+ posts into search results.  Today, we’ll focus on how to hit the basics of how to optimize your Google+ Page for SEO.  The Google+ Page, Google’s social media business page and answer to the Facebook Fan Page, was recently released by Google.  Google+ is very similar to Facebook but also has the following distinct features:

1-  Google+ Circles- Circles allows the user to sort their followers into specific group, which is ideal for target marketing.  With Facebook, you can send messages to personal and Fan Page followers only.  With Google+, you can segment your Circles into as many groups as necessary and target a message that only they can see.

2- Google+ Hangouts- Hangouts is a great video conferencing service available to Google+ members that allows you to share resources.  This function is a great and free way for companies to collaborate with different teams anywhere in the world.

3- SEO- A properly optimized Google+ Page will help you be found on the search engines.

With that last benefit in mind, let’s focus on how to optimize your Google+ Page for SEO so you may be found in the search engines.

Optimize Your Google+ Page for SEO | The 4 ‘Musts’

When you are creating your Google+ Page, for best optimization, pay attention to these 4 items:

1-  Page Name- if you are branding your business, then that should be the Google+ Page name.  If you are branding a product or service, then that should be the Google+ Page name.  And if you have a unique business and product, then create a Google+ Page for both.

2-  Tagline- you will have 10 words to briefly describe your product or service.  Use this opportunity to promote your keyword.  Consider that the combination of your Page Name and Tagline will essentially be the META description of your Page.

3-  Introduction- When writing the Introduction, consider writing this as you would the description of your site.

4-  Keywords- as you’ve probably figured out by now, you want to have your keywords throughout, but you don’t want to keyword stuff.  Make sure that you include your keywords in the tagline and introduction so the search engines will rank you.

Optimize Your Google+ Page for SEO | About Section

As is the case with any other SEO initiative, make sure in this section that you are writing thoughtful and engaging content when describing what your company, product, and/or service is about.  Massage the keywords into this description.  Also, because you are able to customize the anchor text, include a keyword in the anchor text where appropriate.  Finally, fill out as many of the fields as you can, making sure that you include photos and video components as well.  The more information that you complete in the Google+ Page ‘About’ section, the better your page will rank.

Speaking of photos and videos, everytime you upload, make sure you include a detailed description (using keywords) and provide a link back to your website.  Also, if you’re using a famous person, make sure to tag that person in your photo as well.

Optimize Your Google+ Page for SEO | Write Long Messages

Individual posts on Google+ get their own URL, so unlike Facebook and Twitter, where you are limited on how long of a message you can create, you are free to write content as long as you feel is necessary to get your point across.  And since it has it’s own URL, if the post goes viral, it will most likely rank in the search engines itself.

Optimize Your Google+ Page for SEO | Use Ripples

According to Google, Google+ Ripples creates an interactive graphic of the public shares of any public post on Google+ to show you how a post has rippled through the network and help you discover new and interesting people to follow.  You can find the Ripple of any public post using the dropdown to the right of the post.  At the bottom of the page, Google shows you the top Influencers, stats about how the post spread and the different Languages of the sharers.

Here’s an example of how a ripple works from SEOMoz.org:

Sometimes getting an influencer to share your content can be very difficult, if not impossible. Ripples provides an easy way for you to investigate who are the influencers of the influencers. Let me give you an example of how this might work in a real world situation. Let’s say I write a blog post on Google Analytics and am hoping to get Avinash Kaushik to share it, since he is a leader in the Analytics area. However, I don’t have a direct relationship with Avinash, so I need to find someone approachable who does.

Step 1 – Find an influencer

Look at Avinash’s Google+ page and see what type of content he is sharing with his circles. Find a post that he shared that has quite a few shares and view that Ripple. Look for a Ripple where the original poster has anaccount that is in a reasonable amount of Circles. Below is a Ripple I found that is perfect since it was originally shared by user with a small but strong following.

Since Avinash shared Michael’s content, there is some form of trust between Avinash and Michael. Even if it’s a fluke, there is a good chance that Michael may be an influencer on a different social network and could still be worth contacting.

Step 2 – Make a connection

Reach out to Michael and make a connection. All of his contact methods are displayed in his profile on Google+. Most users have linked their Google+ account to their Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn accounts which gives you plenty of ways to reach out and make a connection. Establish some sort of “relationship” before asking him to share your content. I suggest that you provide something of value first or other comment on something he has posted as the first point of interaction.

Once a connection is made, share your content with him via Google+ and ask him to share. With luck he will share your content and it will catch the eye of Avinash and he will re-share it exposing it to thousands of more people than you had before. Even if Avinash doesn’t re-share it, you did get Michael to share your content and expose it to another group of people outside of your norm. Plus there is a chance that he will expose your content on other social networks which he may have more visibility on.

Step 3 – Rinse and repeat

Obviously you don’t want to put all your eggs in one basket with Michael. Continue to see who Avinash is re-sharing and reach out to those people as well. Soon you will have contacted a large number of people who Avinash trusts and the chances of him seeing your post are much higher.

In summary, Google+ Pages offer more opportunities for SEO than any other social networking site.  Therefore, if you haven’t created your own Google+ Page yet, then you should absolutely do it and optimize it properly.  If you have a Google+ Page, then you should go back, follow the tips above, and optimize correctly.  As Google+ continues to grow in popularity and more people see SEO results from it, you can bet that the results of your efforts will be seen.

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My son, Jackson, has been no exception to that rule…despite the fact that he has a learning disability.  He’s taught me more in less than 2 years, than any other person alive.

I wanted to share a few of the lessons he taught me about running a business (I’ll share more of these lessons from time to time).

1. If Plan “A” Doesn’t Work, Don’t Worry. There are 25 Other Letters

While it didn't help the Texans in the playoffs, Jackson was a hit at school (and all around town) when he learned to sign "touchdown".

Kids with Down syndrome tend to have delays in verbal communication.

At almost 2 years old, the only word he says is “DaDa” and sometimes he even manages a spot on perfect “Dad”.

While I love being his one and only word, as a parent I know that he needs to be able to tell us when he’s hungry, thirsty, sleepy or wants to play. And even though we would love for him to speak like a typical child, the end result of  why we want our kids to speak is so that they can let us know what they want, right?  It’s not so we can hear an audible sound…its simply that we want them to be able to communicate.

Since speaking wasn’t happening, we had to find a different route.

Enter sign language (specifically, the Signing Times DVD’s).

Now, Jackson can let us know just about anything he wants using American Sign Language (ASL). He has over 15 signs he uses on an almost daily basis with us, other family members, his teachers and therapists.

LESSON LEARNED FOR BUSINESS: If you aren’t hitting your goals on your current path, find a different path to get there.

There are near unlimited ways to solve a problem. We tend to get fixated on the task at hand, and not what is advancing us towards the real goal.

When you are having issues, step back, reassess what you are really trying to accomplish, and see if there is a different path to the end result.

2. Don’t Be Afraid to Admit You Need Help

Dad, what the hell did you just stick me in?

Just like speech, children with Down syndrome often have other delays too.

Jackson was having problems with crawling, feeding himself, stacking blocks, etc.  Many of these things we didn’t even notice (he is our first child) at first. But as we spoke with other parents and doctors, we realized that he was getting further and further behind typical kids his age.

We took action, and hired several therapists and specialists to work with him. We have a Speech Therapist, Play Therapist, Physical Therapist and Occupational Therapist. At his school they also provide, Dance Therapy and Music Therapy.

These 6 (yes, SIX) specialists work with Jackson up to several times a week, on very specific things that they are an expert at individually.

We’ve seen a dramatic improvement since we got serious with Jackson’s therapy (almost walking, feeding himself with a spoon, stacking blocks, working with puzzles, etc)

LESSON LEARNED FOR BUSINESS: If you are having problems in an area of your business, hire a coach (or coaches) to help you. Get as specialized as possible.  I’m not a big proponent of Life Coaches, or Business Coaches.  I recommend going as niche as possible.

If you are having problems with your marketing, get a marketing coach. If you are having employee issues, hire an employee relationship coach.

Recently, I was having operational issues, and hired Beth Schneider to coach my team on setting up our processes.

But go even deeper than just coaches.  Maybe you can’t get your site to rank and you really need traffic to your website.  You would be better off using something like Instant Linkerati to do if for you, rather than learning SEO yourself. Same thing with graphic design and programming.  Just pass it off to the experts.

3. Don’t Constantly Compare Yourself to Others

I may not be walking yet, but that's cool. Cheerleaders dig dudes in sports cars.

If I compared Jackson’s milestones to other kids of his age, I’d be a hurting’ Daddy all the time.

Every year, I am reminded of how far behind he is when we visit the Down Syndrome Clinic of Houston. They assess and rank him on many different areas of development. As you can imagine, its tough to see your little boy falling behind kids even half his age.

But that feeling washes away when he hits the tiniest of goals.  Recently, he was able to finally get the star-shaped block through the hole.  His eyes got big, smiled the biggest grin and screamed at the top of his lungs.

He worked hard figuring out how to get that star block through the hole, and deserved to be that happy.

LESSON LEARNED FOR BUSINESS:  I always compare my success to others…specifically to others at a higher level where I’m at currently.

For example, both Masterminds I’m in have several people earning 7-figures a month. Some have massive lists, systematized businesses that run like clockwork, etc. When I compare my success to one of these guys, I want to jump out a window.  :)

But when I step back, and look at the facts…I make more in a month than most households make in 2 years…I work from home…get to wake up every day and do a job I love…I got a damn good life.

Do the same with yourself.  Don’t measure yourself up against the boss, or your friends.

Now, I’m not saying to be “happy where you’re at” either.  We should push ourselves to improve and be better…but not beat ourselves down because we aren’t doing as good as someone else.

If you enjoyed these 3 tips, give this a “Like” to share Jackson’s lessons with others..and leave a comment below.

That is one of the 2 big internet marketing events of the year…hands down.  The other one, is Yanik Silver’s Underground event.

That one is coming up very soon, and yours truly will be speaking there.  :)

I’ll be sharing some new SEO tricks and techniques that I have never shared live before…got some killer content planned…and as always, this is a “no pitch” event, so I’m just there to share.

Since I’m speaking, Yanik is letting me pass along a discount for the event.

But, there are only a few short hours left to get the discount…

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But before your deadline expires – I wanted to give you one last notice about this event because it truly is unlike any other seminar.

You don’t see the same speakers because Yanik only selects presenters who are making their money online actually “doing it” not just talking about it.

And that’s just one of the reasons it’s become THE networking and deal-making spot to go to. (Over 50% of the audience are online entrepreneurs pulling in 6, 7 and even 8 figure+ from their businesses and they’re not even on stage!)

Frankly, not being here means you miss out on that one good idea that turns the lights on to an entirely new way of looking at your business. (Or more likely dozens of easily actionable, game-changing ones.)

Plus, Yanik has added 4 BRAND NEW bonus sessions that are worth the price of admission alone. Everything from “Spy vs. Spy” with top online marketers working to out-duel each other with their best stuff to the ’007′ sessions where audience members participate with their best 7 minutes of new ideas.

Don’t wait – because if you do you’ll miss theses bonuses and end up paying at least $1,500.00 more for a ticket (if it’s even available).

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See You On Page 1,

Brian

P.S. Remember it only takes one good idea to make this worth it for you. Don’t you think from a group of people selling tens of millions online, all the incredible attendees and VIP guests you might pick up one or two new ideas?

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Should the day when the dead actually do walk, you’ll need to know what to do to survive…just so happens that these things will also help you get a top ranked website.

Here’s how you can survive a zombie outbreak AND get your site to the top of the search engines.

1. Keep Yourself Armed

A gun is a good thing to have in a zombie apocalypse, just like SEO weapons will help your site survive and thrive.

Firearms and other explosives are your best bet as far as weaponry goes as you can keep some distance between yourself and advancing zombie hordes.

If firearms are nowhere to be found many common landscaping tools can be quite effective. Axes, hatchets, pitch forks and hell even garden weasels can be used to crack undead cranium.

How SEO Teaches Us This Lesson: Read up on the latest SEO updates and advances (like you are doing right now).  Some other good resources is Keith Baxter’s  AffiliateRadio.com, SEOmoz.org, and SearchEngineWatch.com. Your mind is your best weapon, so you have to train it constantly with the latest info and techniques.

You should also engage in daily activities to encourage link building. If you are running a business, you probably want to outsource some of this task.  I recommend Instant Linkerati’s 60 day special being offered right now (pretty shameless plug, huh?).

You can also do press releases, participate in forums, upload Youtube videos, write guest posts for other blogs (see bloggerlinkup.com and myblogguest.com…these are just 2 of several that you can, and should, participate in).

2. Avoid Heavily Populated Areas

This is not the place you want to be when zombies are roaming the earth. Similarly, you don't want to only get links from sites that have tons of outbound links.

If the zombies can spread their virus, curse or disease, a densely populated area will be more of a breeding ground than a safe haven.

On the other hand, avoid being totally isolated, in case you have to face a horde of undead yourself.

You want a moderately populated area that affords quick exits and good protection.

How SEO Teaches Us This Lesson: Try to get links from sites/pages that aren’t full of links to other sites. The “link juice” passed by that page will be distributed evenly among the links on the page. So, the less links on the page, the greater distribution of “link juice” you will receive. 

Now, it’s not a BAD thing to get a link from a “crowded” page at all.  But, it would be much better to be one of a few links on a page.  

So, do what it takes to get noticed and get a good link from a strong page not full of other links. You can join my LinkHijack Coaching Club for just $10 a month to get strategies specific to this type of link building (it was an upsell to another product, but you can still get it from that link).

3. Beware of your fellow survivors

Don't trust all your fellow survivors (but I might still have to trust her)...and don't trust all the "SEO Experts".

Did you run into them while escaping a group of hungry ghouls?

More importantly can you trust them?

The safe answer is no. Other humans who want your supplies or who have lost their minds in the disaster could try to kill you.

Never let everyone know about all of your supplies, and never let your guard down completely. If someone is acting mysterious or weird, consider leaving immediately.

How SEO Teaches Us This Lesson: Don’t take anyone’s advice on SEO before you make sure they know what they are talking about.

Just because they say they are an “SEO Expert”, doesn’t mean they really understand the complexities of this rapidly changing industry.

I still see banner ads, and even come across an article or blog posts from time to time, that state that submitting you site to 1000 different search engines will magically make your site pop up to the top of the search results.

4. Secure Necessities

Necessities like water and food are required to survive a night of the living dead, but a reliable host and a way to monetize traffic is required to survive on the Internet.

Make sure to secure any food or water when ever possible.

You’ll need to keep your energy and wits about you. Carry with you bottled water, juices, trail mix, breakfast bars, canned goods, dry goods and other non perishable items.

How SEO Teaches Us This Lesson: Since we are talking about your website, having it up and running is the main “necessity”, right?

Get a reliable host. Don’t go cheap.  Shared hosting is OK start out with, but graduate to VPS (virtual private server) as soon as you can. You don’t want to be sharing a server with some spam site that causes it to crash.   

The other necessity is to make money with your site. Have a clear and easily identifiable call to action (CTA) on each page. This doesn’t have to be to buy something, or even to optin…you may just have an Adsense site and the goal is to drive repeat traffic. Just identify what the goal of the page is, and move toward that goal.

5. Start growing your own food.

You will have to learn to grow your own food...and you need to develop the skill to "grow" your site's content.

Why do I have to work on my f***ing gardening skills while the walking dead are terrorizing the earth?

You need to eat right? Canned food and Twinkies will only last so long.

Keep some seeds in your pocket or in your “go bag” in case you have to evacuate your current location.

How SEO Teaches Us This Lesson: You need to continually plant seeds to grow your site. Develop and add content on a regular basis.

Just like gardening, you’ll develop better skills the more you do it.

If you don’t have time to write it all yourself, get guest bloggers to write it for you in exchange for a link to their site.  Just make sure that they aren’t direct competitors of yours, and that their site is something you don’t feel bad about linking to (if you are a family friendly site, you wouldn’t want to link to a porn or gambling site).

6. Fortify your home base

Try to dress as strategically as possible.

If weather permits thick leather jackets can provide some protection from potentially lethal bites. While the thick cowhide may be effective with larger groups of walking dead masses it can also hinder movement.

If you find yourself in an arid climate this may not be practical due to overheating.

How SEO Teaches Us This Lesson: Strengthen your own site with internal linking. If a blog article on one concept mentions a concept you cover in another post,  make sure to link to that post.

There are several plugins that can automate this process for you (if you are on WordPress).

7. Stay prepared.

Don't get caught out in the open with a bunch of the walking dead...and don't get caught leaving your site open to hackers either.

It’s important to know you’re surroundings if you find a good place to hold up and defend yourself.

Come up with at least 3 good escape routes in the event that you’re over-run by a zombie horde.

Make sure to secure any doors and windows.

If possible create a watch tower; possibly in a second story window.

From here you will be able to see any advancing marauders and pick them off from a distance before they become a real problem.

How SEO Teaches Us This Lesson: Protecting a website or web server is possible only by continued efforts. Use open source scripts and update them constantly. use strong passwords and a secure admin email address

Use security plugins for that extra layer of security.

So..did I miss anything?   Leave your thoughts, so any other zombie survival techniques…or SEO stuff I missed.

Always use SEO-friendly URLs for your websites. If you use keywords in your URLs then your website will show up in a higher position in search results. Remember, hyphens in URLs are treated as spaces, but underscores or not, so for search engine purposes it is preferable to use hyphens in URLs and file names.

Do not forget that you should design your website for your web users, first and foremost. When your web users can find your site easily, and your site is well organized in its navigation and rich in relevant content, you site will do well in the ranks. A website that is organically optimized always does better in ranks than a website that is artificially pumped up with keywords.

Enlist your public relations and publicity departments in your SEO Miami efforts. Provide detailed and clear instructions about the structure of your press releases and media blurbs. Be sure to include a list of keywords that must be included in every piece and then indicate the number of times each keyword is to be included.

Use your strongest keywords in your site’s name, in the sub-folders, and in the page names. This will help your site, as well as individual pages, rank more strongly. Search engines will give relevant pages high rank, and you can link those pages to others in your site. All of this strengthens your entire site and helps it to rank.

If you want to increase traffic to your website, you should first look at your content, and focus on improving it. Users aren’t going to spend time at a site unless they can find the information they need, and improving your content is one of the easiest ways to drive-up traffic.

The most important part of SEO is making sure your site has unique and fresh content. If the content on your site does not appear elsewhere on the web, the search engines will weigh it more highly than copied content. On the same token, newer content is weighted more highly than aging content.

When your site ranks at the top for popular searches, you’ll get an incredible amount of traffic. Now that you’ve read this article, you know what you can do to get your site search engine ready. Put these tips to good use so that your site can achieve the success that you’ve dreamed of.

Will Google Social Search Change SEO As We Know It?

The Google social search update, known as ‘Search Plus Your World,’ blends Google+ pages that have been made public in with regular search results on Google.   Google released it’s new Social Search program in hopes of making it easier for people to find not only information on public webpages, but also content they and their friends have posted and made available to each other privately through both the Google+ social network and the Picasa Web photo upload and sharing site.

Ironically, the ‘Search Plus Your World’ update does not include any other Google features other than what’s listed above, nor does is include any of the other social media giants, like Facebook or Twitter.  Despite this fact, is it possible that this update has revolutionized SEO as we know it?

How Google Social Search Will Impact SEO

The goal of Google was always to have the most efficient search engine results possible.  If a user wanted to find an answer to a question, such as ‘how to order pet food’, then the user should be able to have the question answered rather than have to sift through a bunch of keyword stuffed sites that exist solely for the purpose of ranking and profiting from Google Adwords.  Google has released several updates, known as the Panda, with the hopes of reducing these types of junk sites and content farms to improve search results.  But will this release of the Google Social Search reduce the importance of key word stuffing?

Google stresses to bloggers and webmasters the importance of good, quality, and unique content.  Their algorithms are set up to see how much junk is on a site, what the duplication rate is, how long people stay on the site before bouncing to another, etc… One recent update started rewarding video sites more because video is generally unique content.

Social media has some impact as well because social media provides a great signal of whether or not a site is good or not.  If a site is shared multiple times, then the Google algorithms assume that it must be of good quality; after all, people aren’t going to share junk.

Now, with the release of the Google Social Search function, people will be able to see results relevant to them as posted by their friends and colleagues at the top of the search engines!  Good bye keyword stuffing.

Google Social Search Example

Here are some examples of the impact that Google Social Search will have on search results:

If you follow the excellent and erudite Jennifer 8 Lee and search for [general tso’s chicken], Google can surface this high-quality thread from Quora:

By the way, that’s a fantastic thread for Google to highlight, since Lee literally wrote the book about General Tso’s Chicken. It’s exactly the sort of “just works” user experience you’d want.

It’s not hard to find content shared on other sites. For a search [grand unified theory of snack food], Paul Buchheit shared a link on FriendFeed, and Google can highlight that:

Or if I search for [connectbot], here’s a link that Brad Fitzpatrick shared on Live Journal:

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/search-plus-your-world/

Google Social Search and SEO Summary

In conclusion, social media will have an impact in SEO thanks to the Google Social Search update.  Keyword stuffing will no longer carry as much weight as junk sites will be ignored by people, and as such, be pushed further down the rankings.  Putting out good quality content and focusing on engagement will allow you to move up the rankings.  Imagine looking in Google for a restaurant and finding one that 5 of your friends recommend; would that impact your decision?  This is the type of thinking that will influence SEO going forward and another reason why understanding social media marketing is so important in this economy.

About the Author:   Black Box Social Media (BBSM) is a ‘managed for’ social media marketing group.  Social media allows an unprecedented opportunity for businesses to connect and interact with their current and potential customer…if they effectively utilize social media.  We specialize in creating and implementing proven, successful social media marketing plans for their clients.  BBSM has also created Social Media in 7 Minutes (SMI7M) is a revolutionary do-it-yourself online training program designed to not only educate small business owners on how to apply social media into their marketing plan, but also to provide a practical tool which will allow them to implement their marketing plan in just 7 minutes a day.  This product is designed for small business owners who want to learn and implement a social media marketing plan for themselves without paying thousands of dollars for employees or outsourcing companies.

Additionally Google has a Beta test version of social search under its Labs tools that directly signals which social media outlet it has pulled results from, as well as the “+1 button” which is it’s answer to the Facebook “Like” button.

In SEOMOZ’s white board, Rand Fishkin revealed hard numbers that SEOMOZ had obtained from recent testing which gave direct correlation evidence regarding Facebook and Twitter activities and search results. This study shows that comments and shares appear to have more impact than Facebook ‘Likes’, but all showed a correlation, including Twitter.

So from all this, you can say that Facebook ‘Likes’ do affect SEO.

But the real question is this: How much weight does a Facebook ‘Like’ carry in SEO?

Facebook ‘Likes’ Affect SEO | How much affect does it have?

If you are a web master, where do you rank Facebook ‘Likes’ and the role is plays with SEO with other SEO strategies?

The answer is that focusing on Facebook ‘Likes’ is probably the least important strategy for SEO.  Focusing on proper linking techniques, for example, weighs far heavier on SEO rankings than Facebook ‘Likes’.

Facebook Likes may be slowly working its way into the Google search algorithm but all this truly means is that you should not put all of your eggs in one basket and have a more diverse approach to search marketing.  Good unique content and a strong link profiling are still the foundations for a profitable ranking and your social media marketing should work almost parallel to traditional SEO practices.

Facebook ‘Likes’ will promote social proof that you have good unique content and may help not only increase the likelihood of the visitor reading your article, but will impact whether or not they will share your blog.

Facebook ‘Likes’ Affect SEO | What’s the value?

Our company, Black Box Social Media, has tested the effects of Facebook ‘Likes’ generating more ‘Likes’ on an article.  Each week, we send out a newsletter to our readers with 5 popular articles.  Some of these articles are freshly written, and as such, have less than 10 ‘Likes’.  Then we’ll send out a link in the same newsletter to a more seasoned article that has over 100 ‘Likes’ on it.

What we’ve found is that an article with less than 10 ‘Likes’ won’t have many more Facebook ‘Likes’ added to the article.  But the article with 100+ ‘Likes’ will increase it’s ‘Like’ count anywhere from 20-30%.   As such, our analytics show that these ‘seasoned’ articles will have more views than the newer articles on the same newsletter.  Why is that?

When these articles are ‘Liked’ they are then shared on other Facebook pages and viewership of the article increases, thus leading to more ‘Likes’ and more views.  So while focusing on Facebook ‘Likes’ may not move you up significantly in the search engine rankings, they can certainly help increase your viewership and clicks to your blog page.

And isn’t this the point to social media marketing?

About Black Box Social Media: Black Box Social Media (BBSM) is a ‘managed for’ social media marketing group.  Social media allows an unprecedented opportunity for businesses to connect and interact with their current and potential customer…if they effectively utilize social media.  We specialize in creating and implementing proven, successful social media marketing plans for their clients.  BBSM has also created Social Media in 7 Minutes (SMI7M) is a revolutionary do-it-yourself online training program designed to not only educate small business owners on how to apply social media into their marketing plan, but also to provide a practical tool which will allow them to implement their marketing plan in just 7 minutes a day.  This product is designed for small business owners who want to learn and implement a social media marketing plan for themselves without paying thousands of dollars for employees or outsourcing companies.

In the book Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill reveals the secret using the words, “thoughts are things.” Dennis Waitley has worked with U.S. astronauts and Olympic athletes on their inner games. Author Tim Galloway explores the ideas of his books, The Inner Game of Golf, The Inner Game of Tennis and The Inner Game of Selling.

Interestingly, there is a never-ending connection between the inner game in sport and the inner game in business, allowing experts like Waitley, Galloway, ex-quarterback Fran Tarkenton and golfer Arnold Palmer, among others, to step back and forth between expounding on success techniques in the athletic and business worlds.

In all cases, these people speak much more about attitudes than aptitudes for a good reason. Surveys, studies and research consistently reaffirm that 85% of your success will depend on attitudinal factors, 15% on aptitude. Yet in your formal education and in most continuing education, the emphasis is on the opposite – 15% on attitude, 85% on aptitude.

Certainly technical knowledge and skills are important. In your profession, you must deliver excellence based on your staying up to date in techniques, products, materials and ideas.

However, such excellence alone will never build a successful, growing, profitable business. The excellence that will is an excellence created and sustained in your own mind. This is the most difficult, least tangible aspect of building your business that we’ll ever talk about, but it is also probably the most important.

Yeah, but what is it? So what is the inner game? The way I see it, the inner game can be broken down into four major components:

• Self esteem
• Self image
• Self confidence
• Self discipline

Quality in these four areas is a necessary foundation to personal and professional success.

Self Esteem

Self Esteem is essentially your feelings of worth. How much success do you deserve? How much money should you make? How much is your time worth? Here, briefly, are seven ideas for strengthening self-esteem:

1. Establish worthwhile, meaningful goals and values.
2. Take massive action to get your own financial house in order if it isn’t now. Reduce debt, bring expenses under income, and invest every single month.
3. Give yourself recognition for each and every accomplishment.
4. Manage your time productively. Procrastination and disorganization rob many people of their self-esteem.
5. Associate with positive-minded, happy people who encourage and motivate you. Don’t hang out with folks who are negative, unhappy, critical or jealous.
6. Continually acquire new know-how in you profession and in the areas of business, sales and communication.
7. Regularly invest in improving your office and home environments, tools and equipment, wardrobe and other external things that impact on your attitudes.

Self Image

Self-image is how you see yourself; it’s who you think you are. Your self-image is controlled mostly by self-imposed limits. Very few people ever perform beyond those self-imposed limits.

A salesman whose father never earned more than $25,000 a year in his life may well see himself as a $25,000 a year guy. And he will subconsciously screw up the opportunities to earn more that come his way.

In the financial area, the controversial Reverend Ike calls this a money rejection syndrome, and I am convinced that such a thing definitely exists. One man I know, who made over $100 million in his business in its first three years from scratch, had gone broke in business several times before. After the three years of remarkable success, he said, “Making $100 million is about the easiest thing I’ve ever done. Believing it could happen to me was the hard part that took 20 years.”

Your self-image was created and is sustained through self talk, the use of affirmations – and that is also the method you can use to alter and modify your self image, literally as you wish.

I call the process self image goal setting, because most people who set goals set only “to get” and “to have” goals; they fail to set “to be” goals. I encourage you to balance your approach to goal setting by including some self-image modification.

Self Discipline

Self-Disciple, the fourth component of the inner game, is quite possibly the most important.

Success lecturer Jim Rohn says that most people do not associate lack of discipline with lack of success.

Most people think of failure as one earth-shattering event, such as a company going out of business or a home being foreclosed on. This, however, Jim Rohn says, is how failure happens.

Failure is rarely the result of some isolated event; rather, it is a consequence of a long list of accumulated little failures, which happen as a result of too little discipline. I agree. I find that most people understandably tend to look everywhere but in the mirror for the sources of their failures as well as the victories.

I’m here to tell you it’s not the town you’re in, not your location, not the economy, not the weather, not your competitors – it’s your own discipline that makes the difference between excellence or mediocrity, between getting by or getting rich.

It’s interesting to observe professionals. I often say to my associates, “Let me watch the professional’s behavior before, during and after the seminar, and I’ll guess his annual income within a few thousand dollars.” It’s actually pretty easy to do.

Jim Rohn says that discipline is the bridge between thought and accomplishment.

I’d encourage you to take the self-discipline challenge very seriously.

Select those areas that you know are your weakest links – timely paperwork, punctuality, daily self-improvement study, being happy and enthusiastic first thing in the morning, whatever your personal stumbling blocks are – and apply new, tough, demanding disciplines to yourself in those areas.

You’ll find that success in these particular areas of your day-to-day life will roll over into greater success in all parts of you life.

For example, let’s look at the ultimate game players – professional football players. A pro ball player knows that every single moment of his on-the-job performance is recorded on film, to be replayed and reviewed later in stop-action slow motion, for critique by his superiors and co-workers.

If your day was filmed and reviewed, how would you feel during the replay?

Of course, the professional football players who have to put up with this sort of thing are highly paid.

Yes, the inner game stuff is tough. If being a big success were easy, everybody would be one. You’ve got to decide what you really want to be, do, have, accomplish – and decide whether or not you’re willing to adhere to the disciplines necessary to get it.

In order to have the opportunity to accomplish virtually any goals you honestly desire, you must accept the related responsibility for everything you get.

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