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Virtually Free Personal Use Ebook

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This section of "Virtually Free" offers hints and tips that will ensure that you start off on the right foot and maintain a great working relationship with your virtual assistant in the future.

One of the best things you can do before entering into a relationship with your new virtual assistant is to decide what your exact relationship will be rather than immediately begin sending long lists of tasks to do.

This will involve talks and a carefully laid out plan that you both agree on and that will determine you're both on the same page. If you're looking for a virtual assistant who can take over and manage projects, that requires that when you delegate the projects, you let go and let him do his job.

If you have tasks that require him performing business tasks such as bookkeeping, you may need to keep a closer eye on the virtual assistant to make sure he knows the inner workings of your business. Later, you can let go in bits and pieces as you see that he's getting a good grasp on the situation.

Here are some issues to keep in mind when beginning and continuing a good relationship with your new virtual assistant:

Recognize the learning curve. Don't expect the VA to jump right in and take over the tasks you specified. Every business and person does things differently and you'll need to be patient during the learning curve.

Don't micromanage. When you've hired a professional virtual assistant, he will have a learning curve in which he'll familiarize himself with the way you do things, but be sure to relay that you're helping in the beginning and then when you feel comfortable and the trust is there - let go and let him do his job. If you have to continue micromanaging, you've likely hired the wrong VA.

Get to know your VA in the beginning. Rather than signing up for a longterm contract in the beginning, begin with a few minor jobs to get to know each other and the expectations you have as well as those of your VA. Make sure the virtual assistant knows that he's on a trial basis before you relinquish large projects and a heftier pay.

Keep your most important projects close. Don't delegate your pet project or important activity at least until you know the capabilities of the VA and know he can get the job done.

Remember - the VA isn't you! No matter how many skills the VA has or how much you're paying, he or she will never be able to do things exactly as you would. But, the good news is that you might find a way of doing things that you hadn't thought of or considered before and it might be better than your old ways of doing things.

Remember why you hired the VA. Whether you hired your virtual assistant to help with tasks that are tedious and time consuming or for a particular project that you need specific skills for, don't overstep the boundaries that you originally projected.

After you feel comfortable with the VA's skills and capabilities, don't let the project keep absorbing your time and energy. You'll be defeating the very purpose of why you hired the VA in the first place.

Main Learning Points of Section 4: Best Practices for Working with Your Virtual Assistant

After you've hired the "perfect" VA, you'll want to know how to work with him to ensure that you have a long, working relationship. Section 4's top learning points include:

Recognizing the learning curve associated with the way you do things. Everyone performs tasks differently and there might be a bit of hand-holding until your VA learns the way you want things.

Handle the important projects yourself. Don't hand off the creative parts of your business or things you know you're hard to please about.

Don't overstep the boundaries of why you hired the VA. You should have reached an understanding in the beginning of how much work there would be and how it would be done.

If you're currently faced with tasks that prevent you from focusing on the core parts of your business, you're a perfect candidate to hire a virtual assistant. In "Virtually Free: Free Your Precious Time by Offloading the Things You Hate," you learned what a virtual assistant is and the ways they may be able to free you to concentrate on the creative aspect of building your business or managing your personal life.

Think of all the things you could get done if you just had someone to take care of certain time-consuming tasks. If you're an Internet marketer, you may have a blog that needs responses on a regular basis.

Or, you may have introduced a beginning service or product that made you lots of money but now you need to create a new one. You've got lots of ideas, but no time to research and formulate them. This is where a virtual assistant can take over and set you free.

Let your VA compile reports that will give you a much better idea about what people expect from you and what you need to do to take your business to the next rung in the ladder.

"Virtually Free" has given you an overview about what steps you need to take to hire a VA. Remember that it doesn't always boil down to hiring the cheapest VA online. That person may be a beginner or lack the skills needed to take over immediately and freeing you for other things.

An extra set of hands and eyes can mean so much to a developing business and effect how you spend your valuable time. A VA can be hired on a part time or full time basis or for a specific project that you need help with. They're also helpful during crunch times or seasonal business efforts.

Continue to research the good things that can come your way when you decide to hire a virtual assistant. Many successful entrepreneurs are finding that a good VA is the answer to their time management problems.

Keep in mind that the valuable time you spend on mundane administrative work and other tasks may actually be hindering your business. Think about hiring a virtual assistant that can free you up to do what you do best.

Online Organization Personal Use Ebook With Audio

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ORGANIZING YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS

Who doesn't have at least a couple of social media accounts these day? Just about everyone does and it can be time consuming to keep posting content to them all on a regular basis. By using some great online tools you can easily organize and schedule your posts. So instead of thinking about what to post, you simply sit down and schedule posts at one time. This way you don't have to worry about what to post for the next few weeks.

So how can you accomplish this? Well there are a number of online tools that you can use from. Buffer, Hootsuite and Tweet Deck are some that first come to mind. Most of these tools have a free and a paid version.

Buffer allows you to schedule posts across your social media sites. At the moment you can Buffer posts to Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and Google+. With the free account you do have a limit to how many posts you can schedule. They do notify you when your stream is full, the paid version of Buffer is very reasonable and allows you unlimited scheduling.

A nice feature of Buffer is that if you find some newsworthy item that you want to share, they have a Share Now feature. This allows you to stay on top by posting news as it happens in your business.

Hootsuite is another great tool for organizing your social media posts. The free version is great for personal use and allows you to have up to 100 social media profiles. There is a paid version that may be more suitable for businesses.

Once you log into your account you can set up all of your social media accounts, you now have access to all of them from one main dashboard. You can easily post the same content to all of your sites, or decide which content you want posted where.

With both of these tools you can choose to have any links in your posts shortened. This is good for tracking purposes and for staying within character limitations.

The ability to schedule your posts is something we definitely recommend you look for in any type of social media management tool. Plus you may want the ability to have another team member or virtual assistant log into your account and schedule your content for you. Not all tools offer this feature.

Using a social media organizational tool will really free up your time. You will get into the habit of planning ahead not just with your social media marketing but with your entire business.

USING GOOGLE DRIVE TO STAY ORGANIZED

Google Drive is a great tool for staying organized online. As well it allows you to save, create and share content with other people. Currently you can save up to 5GB's of content for free. If you aren't utilizing Google Drive then it is an option worth considering.

The added benefit is that if you use any other Google services these will be seamlessly integrated into your account. In addition you can create documents within your drive and these can be edited and shared with team members. This could actually be a viable option for replacing tools such as Microsoft office.

Currently you can create the following documents from inside your account:

Documents

Presentations

Drawings

Forms

Spreadsheets

Google Drive operates in the Cloud but can also be downloaded to your computer. This way you can access any files or photos while off line.

If you are working on a project with other people as soon as someone edits or makes changes to a document you will be notified. Being able to share your documents with others means that you don't have to keep updating copies and checking that all changes are tracked. Just one copy is saved and updated by all contributors.

Google Drive is great for personal use as well, everyone should have backup copies of their important data and photos. By saving a copy to Google Drive you are protecting your files in case your computer suddenly crashes. Nobody wants to lose their treasured photos of family, friends and pets.

Google Drive is fairly new and replaced Google Notes, so you can still expect improvements and updates to this service. Many other service providers charge for 5GB worth of storage, so it is well worth taking advantage of this just for the free storage space alone.

You can also download additional Apps that will help you when creating documents in Google Drive. For example the Google Drawings App will help you create drawings and diagrams. Another App is the Drive Notepad and they even have an AutoCAD App.

To find the Apps go into Google Drive and then click on the drop down, under your photo and then click on Manage Apps. Then simply select the Apps you would like to install.

Now that your Google account works like a passport it is much easier to use features such as Google Drive. You don't have to keep logging in and out and remembering various passwords. If you haven't visited your Google Drive account in awhile, go in and check it out today.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT TOOLS

Running an online business usually means that you have team members in different locations, sometimes worldwide. Being able to connect with everyone from one central location is important in running an efficient business. The great part about running an online business is that you can incorporate the use of project management tools.

There are various tools available and some are free while others are paid options. Two of the most popular project management tools are Basecamp and Asana. Both of these tools run in the Cloud so no set up is required.

The nice thing about these project management systems is that you can upload files and leave messages for team members at any time. Everyone knows they need to log into their account daily to receive updates and new assignments.

This really makes it easy to manage team members who are spread around the globe in different time zones. All that is needed to access these tools is access to the internet. Plus many of the tools are accessible via your mobile devices, which makes it simple to stay up to date with any project.

When using a project management tool you can create tasks or projects and assign certain people to them. You don't have to give access to all of your team members at one time either. You simply add them as required.

Work Life Balance Personal Use Ebook With Audio

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GETTING THAT BALANCE WORKING FOR YOU

To successfully balance your life and feel as though you are accomplishing your desires there are several things you can start to do. One of the first ones is to simply create a schedule.

If you haven't used a calendar then you should start using one. It is an easy way to see what you have going on and when. Plus it allows you to make time for those important things in life.

You should try and use two different calendars, one for work and one for your personal life. When you have a large project to complete start planning it out and allotting time on your calendar.

Schedule in your breaks and be aware of any appointments or errands that you have to run immediately after work. This way, when you know you have to pick up your children, you won't be tempted to stay a few minutes longer at work.

For your home calendar get into the habit of scheduling family time, along with time for housework, shopping and some alone time, just for you! When you do this you will know that your child has a baseball game that you don't want to miss. Simply schedule this time on your work calendar as well, so you don't forget!

Another way to get a balance between work and home is to avoid as many distractions and interruptions as possible. Maybe you can put your phone onto voice mail, or use headphones if the office is busy.

One huge distraction is your inbox. You don't have to check your mail every 10 minutes. Instead make a habit of only checking it just a few times per day. This way you won't be tempted to start answering unnecessary emails or start chatting with a friend.

This next item is super important and has to do with your mindset. Stop thinking that you have to be working on overdrive, or that you have to be a superman or woman. You don't and you can only accomplish so much each day.

Don't get into the habit of skipping your breaks or working through lunch. Instead always make a point of taking these breaks and recharge and refuel. You will find that your energy and concentration levels are renewed.

In addition to this learn to say 'no'. You don't have to accept every invitation you receive, and you don't have to always be the parent that volunteers at school. You will have more peace of mind when you refuse certain things and only take on those that you truly have time for.

FINDING TIME IN YOUR BUSY SCHEDULE

Do you feel as though you are running around like crazy, you feel as though you are being pulled in all directions, and don't know where to turn next? This is not an uncommon feeling and is a sign that you need to discover ways to free up time in your busy schedule.

When you have achieved a work - life balance you will be enjoying life every day. You can handle pretty much anything that life throws at you, you are happy and content with the person that you are.

To find time in your schedule you need to try and find a way to remove unnecessary things. Your goal should be to live a much simpler life.

To achieve this try and make a list of all the things that are important to you. Then narrow this list down again and have just two or three main priorities in your life. Just doing this removes a ton of stress and gives you more time.

For example you may be trying to juggle work, studying for a degree after work and saving for a new home, as well as spending time with your family. If you are feeling overwhelmed with all of this is there something that you can put on the back burner for a while?

Is studying for your degree just an interest or a way to get that new home? If it is only for your pleasure can you spend less time on it or put it off for a year. This would free up your time to focus on saving for your home or having more family time.

Once you can limit some of your activities you will find that having more free time makes you feel happier and more relaxed. You automatically feel less stressed because you can envision getting home and playing with your children before they go to bed.

Sometimes it can definitely be difficult to cut things out of your schedule. If your work hours are getting longer and longer, take a look at what you do all day. Actually write out a calendar and allocate times to everything you do.

Say you work from 8am to 4pm - write down everything you do for a couple of days. This way you can see any patterns emerging. At the end of the day you can tally up how much time you spend on certain projects and how much time you spend on emails. You may be surprised at what you discover. Then see what you can cut back on so you can leave work at the right time each day.

DOES YOUR LIFE FEEL LIKE RUNNING A MARATHON?

When you are attempting to balance your life and your career you are often left feeling as though you are running a marathon. You just keep going and going and never seem to find, let alone reach, the finish line.

At work you may face a full calendar of meetings and deadlines for projects. While at home you have children to take to after school activities, homework to deal with and more. Let alone laundry, grocery shopping and dinner preparations.

When you feel so overbooked a natural reaction is to start putting more hours in to get everything done. You may find yourself staying later at work, or you may stay up late at night to finish that load of laundry.

Most people are struggling to find a way to balance their work and their personal life. Many actually have this as a priority over making more money or getting that promotion. They are looking for balance!

Affiliate Marketing Kickstart MRR Ebook

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CHAPTER 8 Using Camtasia Video to Generate More Clicks

Since there are already lots of people getting into affiliate marketing, it is no wonder that the competition is getting stiff. The challenge is to try and outdo other affiliates and think of ways to be able to attain this.

There are also many tips and techniques being taught to these affiliate in order to best plan their strategy for their program to work effectively so that more earnings will be achieved.

What better way to wow your prospects and customers than to record and publish top notch, full motion and streaming screen-captured videos. Nothing like feeling your hard work getting paid by having your customers jumping up excitedly in great anticipation to buy your product right there and then.

This is Camtasia in action. It is a proven fact; giving your customers something they can actually see can explode your online sales instantly.

You do not need to have trainings and education to be able to know how this system can work for your affiliate program. Anyone can create stunning videos, from multimedia tutorials and step-by-step presentations available online. The process is like having your customers seated next to you and looking at your desktop, as you show them the things they need to see and hear. All this done step by step.

For those who does not know it yet, how does Camtasia works?

It can record your desktop activity in a single click. No need to have to save and compile all your files because it is recorded right there and then.

Can easily convert your videos into web pages. Once converted you can have your customers visiting that certain page. Videos are easier to understand and take in unlike reading texts which oftentimes is a trying thing to do.

Upload your pages. Publish them through blogs, RSS feed and podcasts. You may want your Camtasis videos to get around and reach out to other people that may be potential customers in the future. Nothing like being visible in many sites and pages to advertise yourself and get your message through.

There are other things you can do with your affiliate program using Camtasia. You can...

Create stunning multimedia presentations that are proven to increase sales because all the senses are engaged. This also has the tendency to reduce skepticism among hard-to-please customers.

Reduce refunds and other customer issues by demonstrating visually how to use your product and how to do it properly. Complaints will also be minimized because all the facts and the presentation are there for the customers to just see and hear about.

Promote affiliate products and services using visual presentations. This is an effective way of redirecting your viewers straight to your affiliate website after they are finished with the video. Make the most of the presentation by putting your site location in the end and make them go there directly if they want more information.

Multiple your online auction bids exponentially when you give your readers a feel of what you have to offer. Based from reports, auctions that includes pictures increases bidding percentage by 400%. Imagine how much higher it will be if it were videos.

Publish valuable infoproducts that you can sell for a much higher price. It will be all worth the price because of the full colored graphics menu and templates that you will be using.

Minimize miscommunication with your customers. Instantly showing them what you want they wanted in the first place is making them understand clearly the essence of your affiliate program. The good thing about multimedia is, nothing much can go wrong. It is there already.

These are just some of the things you can do with Camtasia that can be very helpful in your chosen affiliate program.

Note that the main purpose of using Camtasia is to boost the income that is generated from your affiliate program. Although it can be used for entertainment and enjoyment purposes, which is not really a valid reason why you choose to get all through that trouble.

Try to focus on the goal that you have set upon yourself to and achieve that with the use of the things that may be quite a lot of help in increasing your earnings.

CHAPTER 9 Boost Commissions Overnight

The ideal world of affiliate marketing does not require having your won website, dealing with customers, refunds, product development and maintenance. This is one of the easiest ways of launching into an online business and earning more profits.

Assuming you are already into an affiliate program, what would be the next thing you would want to do? Double, or even triple, your commissions, right? How do you do that?

Here are some powerful tips on how to boost your affiliate program commissions overnight.

1. Know the best program and products to promote.

Obviously, you would want to promote a program that will enable you to achieve the greatest profits in the shortest possible time.

There are several factors to consider in selecting such a program. Choose the ones that have a generous commission structure. Have products that fit in with your target audience. And that has a solid track record of paying their affiliate easily and on time. If you cannot seem to increase your investments, dump that program and keep looking for better ones.

There are thousands of affiliate programs online which gives you the reason to be picky. You may want to select the best to avoid losing your advertising dollars.

Write free reports or short E-Books to distribute from your site. There is a great possibility that you are competing with other affiliates that are promoting the same program. If you start writing short report related to the product you are promoting, you will be able to distinguish yourself from the other affiliates.

In the reports, provide some valuable information for free. If possible, add some recommendations about the products. With E-Books, you get credibility. Customers will see that in you and they will be enticed to try out what you are offering.

Facebook Ads Mastered MRR Ebook

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Click Farms and Your Facebook Ad Campaign

If you are a business that looking for exposure from Facebook using Facebook ads, you aren't alone -this option has become very popular. After all, there are around 1.2 billion users, making it a powerful place for an ad.

Your Campaign

Many an advertiser has been hooked by Facebook's 'Suggested Page' or 'Suggested Post' - both are offered at a reasonable rate. The purpose of these ads it to earn likes for your advertised pages, and earn business an increase in audience for the posts they make.

At a glance, it would seem like a strategy that was worth pursuing - after all, it appears to work. Many a business has increased their likes through this exposure. When a person 'likes' a business fan page that person will see your updates on their newsfeed and they might also share those poses with their friends, which is the main way of gaining a Facebook audience.

So What's the Problem?

Recently Business Insider published an article that talked about the complaints being made by a number of Facebook page owners, saying their ads have created chaos on their pages. The businesses say that far too many of their new likes are actually coming from 'click farms.' This is a practice where a company hires low paid workers to conduct a number of tasks that are designed to boost traffic to a site.

But these Facebook page business owners are paying for legitimate traffic so these 'click farms' are very annoying.

Why Are There Click Farms?

The next problem becomes "Why would click farms pay people to click like on Facebook pages?" They do this because 'likes' help to legitimize a Facebook profile, and give the appearance there is a real person associated with the profile.

Facebook knows there is a problem and has been working on pinpointing and deleting fake accounts from the site. There is an estimate that 0.4% to 1.2% are Facebook likes. Flowever, when 1% of your base clicks the button thousands of times in a day this creates a real problem - a serious problem.

Flow to Empower Your Business

One request Facebook business page owners have made is to give them the ability to delete fake accounts in bulk. Currently you need to delete them one by one, which is tedious and a waste of time leading to hundreds of thousands of fake profiles building up.

They've also asked Facebook to eliminate access to the countries that pose the problem such as India, Brazil, Portugal and Mexico among others.

Currently this remains a Facebook issue for advertisers. Facebook seems to have bigger worries than advertisers voicing their displeasure. These fake profiles are said to have disrupted Facebook's ad revenue by about 63% in just the last quarter.

How to Choose an Effective Image for Your Facebook Ad

One of the most important areas of creating your Facebook ad is the choosing the image. Your images can actually make or break your ad. When you are choosing your Facebook ad images you should keep the following in mind.

#1 People like to click on an image of a person. A friendly face seems inviting and is known to work very well on Facebook. This is even more true when the image is of a person that people are familiar with. For example, a picture of the spokesperson for your company.

#2 People like to click on video play buttons. Whenever a person sees an image with a video play button it, they tend to click it. For ads that are going to redirect to YouTube or another video host, this is pure gold!

#3 You never want to ask a lot of questions. Most times it is better to be direct. If you are running an ad that uses images don't also ask a question in the ad copy. If you ask too many questions viewers are going to pass by your ad.

#4 Don't over think your ads and try to be too clever. Be funny, be witty, but never make a joke unless you are positive that everyone is going to understand it.

#5 Always keep your ads simple. Remember that your ad is exactly 100 x 72 pixels (WxT). When you have small images or graphics, try to minimize the color. If you select the wrong image it will often look messy and that will stop viewers from clicking on it.

#6 Ads that use all caps do not appeal to viewers. What is appealing is when your product/service handles a problem/need that the viewer has. When you are advertising items from your store having a discount, such as 25% off, don't use an image. Use a discount ad to motivate your viewers. This also works when you are giving away something for free.

#7 You need to always be on top of your Facebook ads. Take note of the look of your ad. Look at ads done by professional social media experts like Melanie Duncan or Amy Porterfield. Does your ad measure up? Make your own ad resemble one of their professional ads.

Your Facebook ads offer an affordable way to advertise - in fact, It's a powerful tool so make sure you take full advantage of it.

Get More From Your Facebook Ads

Facebook ads can be a powerful tool to increase your targeted traffic. Let's look at 5 ways you can get more from your Facebook Ads and really up the rewards.

#1 Sponsored Stories

If you have an app and you are going to be advertising using Facebook ads, make sure you take advantage of Sponsored Stories on mobile. Getting these mobile clicks is important if you want them to download your app. E-commerce research shows that when a user downloads a retailers app they generally spend more with that retailer.

#2 Do Your Own Bidding

Make sure you do not let Facebook bid for you. It can look like that's your only option when you are creating your ads, but that's not so. In the small print you can select the 'advance pricing model/ which puts the control back in your hands letting you set your own CPM or CPC. Your credit card is on file with permission to placed charges on it. If you let Facebook do your bidding you could be in for a big shock!

Procrastination Killer MRR Ebook

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Look, you're a smart individual. A creative individual. A dedicated individual. I'm pretty certain about all of that, or you wouldn't be an ambitious dreamer, or reading this e-book. So, how come you can't resolve a little procrastination issue?

If you're like a lot of people, that question has haunted you for a long time. Among the most frustrating things about procrastination is that it appears like it would be the simplest issue in the world to resolve. Actually, it's among the hardest. Really, that's not quite true. Any issue is difficult to solve, if you're not truly solving it.

I mean it: the only way to resolve an issue is to resolve it. If you attempt to resolve an issue utilizing actions designed to resolve some other issue, or actions designed to resolve no issue at all, but rather to maintain the status quo, then you're bound to bomb. You may try from here to the moon, reining in all the mental capacity, creativity and passion you may muster, and you'll still never resolve the issue.

The Problem

You likely believe the root issue causing your procrastination is laziness, lack of discipline, lack of self-control, immaturity, lack of commitment, or some similar character defect. But guess what? It's probably none of those.

Firstly, most procrastinators are not I repeat, not lazy, undisciplined, etc. As a matter of fact, most tend to be dynamos in areas other than the one they're procrastinating in. Among the peculiar agonies of procrastination is that we're frequently productive in areas of our lives other than the one closest to our heart.

Secondly applying damaging labels like "lazy" or "undisciplined" to yourself is, from a problem-solving standpoint, worse than worthless. Not only do those labels misidentify the issue, they really make the situation worse by sabotaging your self-assurance and predisposing you to failure.

Moreover, people frequently live up or down to the labels; so that if somebody repeatedly calls you, or you repeatedly call yourself, lazy or uncommitted, you're likely to live "down" to that label.

More often than not, solving, or resolving, an issue is a rather trivial exercise when we understand what the problem is. Treating procrastination as a symptom of laziness or a lack of discipline doesn't work, as those are not the causes of procrastination. Instead, they're symptoms, just like procrastination itself is a symptom, of a deeper issue. That issue is commonly either:

You were never taught the habits of productive work. As we live in a vacuum, this likely means you've rather learned the "default" habits of low productivity or non-productivity.

This results in what I call Behavior Based Procrastination.

Or,

Fear of change, success, failure, etc. This results in what I call Dread Based Procrastination. Frequently, individuals suffer from both.

Behavior Based Procrastination is a comparatively easy issue to define and solve.

Dread Based Procrastination is more complex. Unlike Behavior Based Procrastination, which is commonly caused by a lack of data or training, dread Based Procrastination is caused by, as its name implies, concern.

Dread is unfortunately a major force in a lot of people's lives: it's frequently a rational, if not optimal, reaction to the troubles and stresses of life and an ambitious path.
Success Obstacles

Dread Based Procrastination's disguises itself by mimicking productivity. It does this, commonly, by generating one of four characteristic anti-productive behaviors: perfectionism, negativity, hypersensitivity and panic. Most procrastinators are prone to at least one of them, and most are prone to all 4.

Panic deserves a special mention. It's not truly an obstacle in and of itself, but acts as an obstacle "amplifier", blowing your fears out of symmetry and increasing the odds that you'll move back into one of the anti-productive behaviors. The job of defeating dread based procrastination is basically the job of overcoming panic, so that when you experience an instance of dread, doubt or discomfort, you don't become overwhelmed by it and get bumped off your course."

What Holds You Back

There are likewise 2 other categories of obstacles that are not in themselves dread based, but that are frequently present:

The first are Logistic Obstacles, which are commonly caused by simple ignorance. For instance:

Deficiency of a clearly outlined mission and/or path to success

Deficiency of time management

Deficiency of planning, skills, resources and/or facilities

Deficiency of mentors or other support

Put differently, you either don't know what you're supposed to be doing, or lack the skills or resources to do it. A typical individual suffering from a logistic obstacle would be a business owner who doesn't recognize she ought to be spending at least half her time promoting and selling, and thus spends her time on more insignificant jobs.

Basic resolutions to logistic obstacles include: doing mission management and time management, organizing your office, purchasing some new equipment, taking a course, and setting up regular consultations with mentors.

When you commit to overcoming a logistic obstacle, it's frequently not hard to do so. If you do have trouble overcoming yours if you appear to lack the "self-control" to make the resolution work, or can't even find the time to consider the issue then you likely also suffer from dread based procrastination. You'll likely have to deal with the dread first, before you may move on to the more superficial logistical fix.

There are likewise what I call Situation Obstacles, which involve others or additional conditions outside your full control. A hard day job, heavy family responsibilities, and an unsupportive mate are situation obstacles. So are a disability and serious ill health.

Situation obstacles are frequently the hardest to overcome. Their resolutions frequently involve major life changes like changing jobs, leaving relationships, changing life-styles, compromising on one's treasured goals, or committing to person or couple's therapy.

Like logistic obstacles, situation obstacles commonly occur alongside dread based procrastination, and so you'll first have to deal at least partly with your dreads before you may effectively begin changing your situation. But even once you work past the dread, you're still left having to deal with some really hard circumstances.

The most crucial thing you have to know about your obstacles is that all of them may be overpowered. It doesn't matter who you are, how you were raised, what race, religion, nationality or sex you are, or how much cash you have. All of your obstacles may be overpowered.

Cash From Google Helpouts Give Away Rights Ebook

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It’s not difficult to set up a Helpout, but there are some tips you can use to draw more attention and more sales to your Helpouts.

Create a Great Intro Video

You’ll be able to create a 30-second promo video for your Helpout that can introduce you and your expertise to potential customers. This video gives you the chance to go through the different reasons people should choose you over other people offering similar Helpouts. Let them know what makes your service different, how much experience you have, etc.

This video also lets people see if they like your video style and your mannerisms. The more personable and interesting you are in your intro video, the more likely people are to buy a session from you.

You can record your video straight from your webcam, or you can create a separate video presentation and upload it from your computer.

Link to Google Analytics

Another important feature is the ability to link your account to Google Analytics. This will allow you to see stats on your Helpouts, including who has booked sessions with you, who has cancelled, and how many people have viewed your listing.

This is extremely helpful, because you’ll be able to compare how many people view your listing to how many people are actually booking a session. If your ratio seems low, you can work on tweaking your listing in order to improve its ratio and get you more bookings.

Build Up Reviews

The biggest thing that will help you get more sales is to build up a significant number of positive reviews. The more reviews you have, and the higher your star rating, the more people will want to book you.

You might want to start your Helpout at a low introductory price to build up some reviews before raising the price. In fact, you can even convert a free listing to a paid listing, thus getting a large number of positive reviews before starting to charge for your services.

The great thing about free sessions is that people are reluctant to leave reviews that are less than five stars, because they appreciate your time even if for some reason they weren’t 100% satisfied.

Improving Your Search Position

Another thing that can greatly improve your sales is to improve your rankings in the Google Helpouts search. Google has a list of ways to improve your rankings, so they really make it easy to understand what you need to do to rank well.

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Believe it or not, offering visitors something for free can actually be one of the most powerful sales motivators you’ve ever seen, because it’s all about reciprocity.

You see, most people have a sense of conscience. When someone does something nice for them, they feel they need to do something nice in return.

For example, if someone in a grocery store gives you a free sample of a product, you feel somewhat obligated to buy the product. Some people will buy it even if they don’t like it simply to avoid hurting the person’s feelings who gave them the free sample. Others may like the product and decide to buy it partly for that reason, and partly because they feel obligated. Some won’t buy at all, but a lot of those people still feel some guilt.

The same thing may happen in a mall food court. Someone offers you a taste of their food, perhaps some sesame chicken, and then you end up eating Chinese food instead of the burger you originally decided on.

You can even make the sense of obligation even stronger by subtly mentioning that you just gave them something for free. Companies use this all the time.

Have you ever gotten a free trial of something and the company sent you a message saying, “We hope you’re enjoying your free, no-obligation trial!” They’re reminding you that they’ve given you a gift, subtly hinting that it’s time for you to reciprocate by purchasing the full version.

The great thing is that it doesn’t have to be anything of significant monetary value. Something very small can accomplish the same effect. For example, a short free report or even a 10-cent ink pen. You’ve given them a gift, and they feel they need to reciprocate.