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Isobux Explained Personal Use Ebook

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IsoBux is a PTC website that if used correctly will make you money just by clicking on 4 ads a day or around three minutes work. How much you make depends on you. There are three types of membership standard, golden and ultimate. De-pending on the type of membership you have will determine just how much money you will make from clicking those four ads a day.

As a standard member you earn $0.05 per standard ad and $0.002 per referral clicking a standard ad. With a max of 150 direct and 100 rented, this gives you a max earning of $2.02 per day if they all click on four standard ads + your clicks.

As a golden member you earn $0.01 per standard ad and $0.005 per referral. With unlimited direct and a max of 2000 rented. This gives you the opportunity to make a max of $40.04 per day from just your rented referral and unlimited from direct depending on how many direct referrals you have + your clicks. A golden membership cost $70 per year.

As a ultimate member you earn $0.02 per standard ad and $0.015 per referral with unlimited direct and rented. So earnings are unlimited but lets base it on golden limits, this would give you $120.08 per day for rented if they all 2000 click their four standard ads + your clicks. A ultimate membership cost $799 per year.

Believe it or not most people who join these sites give up and fail because they don’t understand the principle of it. To put it into a nut shell it is a numbers game the more referrals you have the more you make and the less work you have to do.

You can achieve this through no out of pocket expense by this I mean non of your own personal money. You will need to invest back into the site the money you make through your clicks and referrals till you reach max. This will take some time though.

Most will start off as a standard member so your earnings are limited. Your goal is to get 150 direct referrals or as many as you can. These will not cost you any-thing to keep rented referrals do.

How do I get direct referrals the best way is get friends and family to sign up un-der you. Use social media like Facebook to post your referral link. Once you start getting direct referrals your earnings will increase. Once you have made $1.00 you need to rent your first 5 rented referrals. Transfer the $1.00 to your pur-chase balance. Now $1 will buy you 5 rented referrals for 30 days.

**As a standard member do not turn on autopay you do not make enough per referral to afford it. **

To make money on IsoBux you need to click on your advertisements every day. These ads reset everyday at a specific time know as server time. For IsoBux this is 00:00 server time, which works out to be 7pm eastern standard time (USA). You will know when the server has reset because on the top of the ads page you will see this.

Now all you have to do is click your ads for the day to earn your money, and earn from your referrals the next day. This forces members whom have referrals to click daily so they can earn their commis-sion from their refer-rals.

As you can see your not going to get rich quick, and that is the #1 reason why people quit this. Your not going to make the money by just you clicking alone you need referrals. Whether rented or direct you need them end of story. Below is an example of each of the different memberships earnings.

How to get direct referrals:

Anyone can get rented referrals you pay for them and you get them, direct refer-rals can be a little harder to get. To do this you are gong to need some good strategies. Below you will find some ways that I use personally to get new direct referrals.

This eBook believe it or not you can actually get new direct referrals for Iso-Bux by giving away this eBook for free. What better way to get and keep a referral active by teaching them how to use the site and make money. But in order for it to work you need to be a member of the site which is free to join as a standard member.

Ok so as a member you are one step closer to getting your own IsoBux refer-ral system. The next step will give you two options option one is free option two will cost you the price of a cup of coffee.

Special offer for RRW members is included at the end of this book

Using new PTC sites to promote IsoBux, new sites are popping up every day and we must use these to our advantage. Because they are new they usually offer free limited upgrades or purchase money for signing up. This is good because there are not a lot of ads on these sites so your completion is lim-ited. A great way to find these new sites is from ads you click on like this. These sites show us new sites and what's for offer. All we have to do is sign up and decide what is the best option to get members from this site to join IsoBux. I use this method a lot and get some good results from it.

Simply look and see what every-one is not doing, for example on one site no one was using the login ad. This is the banner ads you see when you login at serv-er reset. So for $2 they were offering a 10 day special for $2 usually you will get 1 day for that amount. So for the next 10 days My IsoBux banner will be shown to every member of this site when they login. So use the ads to your advantage, it may cost some money but it is worth it in the end. If you get 50 referrals from a campaign that’s $1 a day if you are a golden member if they only click on 4 ads per day. So after 2 days you made your money back from then on it is profit.

Traffic exchanges these are sites that you visit other members sites in return you earn credits for views of your sites you wish to promote. Its kind of like the PTC but instead of money you earn web views.
These are just a few ways to promote and get direct referrals to IsoBux, all it takes is a bit of imagination and the list is endless.

Facebook Live Marketing Personal Use Ebook

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Introduction

Since it launched last August and became available to all users this January, Facebook Live has quickly become a game changer. Media companies like CNN, Viacom, the New York Times, and Buzz Feed have used Live to experiment with new video formats and expand their audiences.

Facebook isn’t the first social platform to debut a live streaming feature. Periscope and Meerkat broke ground in early 2015; YouTube has supported live streams for years; and Amazon built a massive live gaming community through Twitch. Nevertheless, Facebook Live, in particular, holds a clear appeal for brands.

Many brands have already carved out a chunk of the social network’s massive user ship. Now they can easily share Facebook Live videos with fans, friends, and followers without having to build a new audience from the ground up.

Facebook is also sweetening the pot with helpful capabilities such as live events, twoperson broadcasts, comment feeds, and filters. And they might launch mid-roll ads soon, which could give brand an alternative revenue source.

Given these benefits, many businesses – from auto manufacturers to makeup companies – are using Facebook Live to grow their audiences. Brands that are new to live streaming, however, might be wondering how to plan and launch a successful Facebook Live video.

We’ve created a comprehensive guide that covers everything you need to know about Facebook Live Marketing.

Let’s get started!

Chapter 1

Facebook Live: An Overview

What is Facebook Live?

Facebook Live is the social network’s live-streaming video functionality. Users can broadcast live videos using only their smart phones. It’s available to all Pages and profiles on Facebook for IOS, Android, and the Facebook Mentions app. additionally; live broadcasts can be streamed in Facebook groups and events.

When the network first introduced live video in August 2015, the feature was limited to Facebook Mentions, an app available to public figures such as celebrities, athletes, musicians, politicians, and other influencers.

Then in December 2015, Facebook began to make the feature public, releasing it to a small subset of users in the U.S. and verified Pages, then to the rest of the country at the end of January 2016. It became available outside the U.S. at the end of February 2016. Facebook has since introduced a number of live video features.

Why live video matters so much for marketers?

To truly understand why live video is a big deal, you have to look at the ever-increasing prominence of social video.

While video has always been popular online, the dominance of social media and the rise of mobile usage have all but ensured social video’s position as the reigning monarch of content. Users continue to produce—and watch—more video at greater rates than ever before.

What you should know about social video:

One-third of all online activity is spent watching video

Online video streaming will grow to more than 80 percent of all consumer internet traffic by 2020, according to predictions from tech company Cisco

92 percent of mobile video consumers share videos with others, according to strategic consulting and digital business firm Insivia

What you should know about Facebook video:

Native Facebook videos get more organic reach—that is, they’re seen by more users, even without promotion—than any other type of content (a whopping 135 percent more than photos), according to Social bakers

Users watch 100 million hours of video on Facebook every day

Facebook boasted 8 billion video views daily as of November 2015 (the last time the platform released video numbers)—double the amount it had in April of that same year Beyond the popularity of social video in general, Live video brings with it specific benefits.

What you should know about Facebook Live:

People comment 10 times more on Facebook Live videos than on regular videos.

The average time people spend watching Live videos is more than three times longer than video that isn’t live.

One in five Facebook users watches Facebook Live.

People in more than 60 countries can share Facebook Live video.

More than 50 percent of people watching live videos are using Android devices.

Facebook has invested heavily in Live video. The platform has signed as many as 140 contracts with media companies and celebrities to produce Live videos—including the likes of the New York Times, Buzz Feed, comedian Kevin Hart, and chef Gordon Ramsay—paying a total of $50 million.

It’s fast—for the final 2016 presidential debate, a study by media streaming service provider Wowza found that Facebook’s live-stream had the lowest latency, beating out satellite and cable for some viewers and delivering its stream at an average 13-second delay (as low as seven seconds for some viewers)

The previous record was held by Buzz Feed’s exploding watermelon video, which garnered more than 800,000 simultaneous viewers while it was streaming live and has since racked up a grand total of more than 10 million views—#watermelon even ended up trending on Twitter And of course, when it comes to that most critical of Facebook marketing elements—organic reach—live video can be a huge help.

Facebook considers Live video a distinct content type from other video shared on the platform. This distinction is important for brands because it means that the Facebook algorithm treats native video and Live video differently, with Live videos more likely to appear higher in News Feed while they’re live.

Facebook Live video also has its own notification system. The network explained that when someone goes Live: “People who frequently engage with or have recently interacted with a person or Page going Live may receive a notification.” This feature gives greater prominence to live videos and helps keep brands who broadcast top-ofmind. And let’s not forget expectations for live video. While viewers expect social video to be polished, audiences often enjoy the opposite in Live video.

In other words, there are plenty of good reasons to give Facebook Live video a try.

A. Facebook Live: Features

Not only does Facebook Live give brands access to an immense audience—potentially the entirety of Facebook, which currently boasts 1.13 daily active users—it also offers a range of features.

Notifications

It has its own notification system. By default, users’ live video notifications are set to ‘on’. People who frequently engage with or have recently interacted with a person or Page going Live may receive a notification.

Invite friends

When a user is watching a broadcast, they can choose to send an invitation to a friend to watch with them. This option is available from within the live video.

Image via Facebook.

Maps

The map displays all live broadcasts currently happening around the world, each one represented by a blue dot, with larger dots indicating more popular broadcasts.

Hovering over a dot pulls up a preview of the stream, including a counter showing how many people are currently watching it, and a timer showing how long the broadcast has been playing. Users can choose to zoom in to explore broadcasts in more specific areas.

Image via Facebook Live Map.

Additionally, a panel to on the left side of the screen features a list of the most popular current live broadcasts. As with the dots, hovering over one shows both where the broadcast originated and where people are streaming it from.

Generating Big Traffic Using Link Exchanging Resale Rights Ebook

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CHAPTER 1

METHODS TO GENERATE WEBSITE TRAFFIC

Developing just a website on the web does not make much sense these days. With the increasing number of websites worldwide individual websites all suffer from decreasing visitors if they get any at all. Webmasters try different techniques to attract visitors to their websites and gradually these techniques have emerged into strategies that people use in order to generate traffic on a regular basis. Although according to the philosophy that if more visitors arriving on your website this would result in more conversion from visitors to customers, but then generating traffic on the website is just not enough to convert the visitors into customers, rather it requires smart techniques to attract only relevant or potential visitors on your website. Many marketing forums and blogs communicate various strategies to generate more traffic to your site, but it is important to figure out which strategies work for you and your web business.

There are various ways that can generate potential traffic to your websites, some of these may seem awkward in implementing but at the end of the day if these techniques are implemented perfectly, they can be highly productive. Some of the major web traffic generation strategies are discussed as under:

Method # 1- Public Recognition

Public recognition of the websites is a good way to generate traffic. In this kind of strategy you actually create awareness about your website which eventually reaches the potential visitors who visit your website. Public Recognition is a broader term, as several strategies have emerged which include website banner exchange, social media pages, and viral marketing. Moreover

Public Recognition is also possible through Press Release. Press Releases can give massive spotlight to your website.

Method # 2- Classified Advertisement

Many marketing professionals have discouraged to use promotional techniques like posting free classified advertisement to your website. However, there are some tools of the trade that can work best for your business. Offering free classified posting on your website can generate great amount of potential traffic if applied with good effective techniques.

Method # 3- Blogs

Blog posting is a widely used mode of creating back-links to your site that also supports your website ranking on search engines. However it is important to be cautious because web masters do dislike spamming.

Method # 4- Posting on Craigslist

Although many web developers have misused Craigslist to generate traffic to their sites in the past, but if used smartly, it is a productive method of attracting visitors and can help you a lot in providing good quality traffic.

Method # 5 - Promotional Game

Are you the one who is selling your own product? Then this lesson will work best for you. For promotional activity you can distribute your product to well known marketers or marketing forum to get publicity and good word of mouth popularity. Eventually this will increase traffic to your site. But for this to happen you have to confirm the quality of your product and ensure that it’s of competitive standard.

Method # 6- Subscribers

This last lesson has gained great amounts of popularity among the web developers. The unique feature of this method is building and maintaining long term profitable relationship with your

visitors. Of all the traffic generation methods, this precise system is well known for not only attracting new visitors but also sustaining them for future and this correlation is mutually beneficial.

Method # 7- Link Exchanges

A widely used methodology from recent past by the marketers from all over the world- reciprocal link exchange is presently also a productive method attracting visitors to your website. This technique works in a 3 way linking system or through driving the traffic from the authority sites to your sites.

From this chapter you have learned seven basic lessons to generate traffic to your site. However, the technique for building high volume traffic to your site is not limited to these seven lessons but in fact they provide you with broad guidelines. These guidelines when applied can be beneficial to your online business.

CHAPTER 2

WHAT IS LINK EXCHANGE?

With the advent of dot com world, links were a simple and straight forward path to assist visitors in finding desired information on the website. With the passage of time and innovations in the internet arena, the importance of links grew much stronger. Many search engines were developed due to which the significance of links grew among webmasters than in visitors.

The importance of links grew when Google initiated the concept of “Page Rank”. This Page Rank was basically system of website categorization on the grounds of its significance and pertinence to the subject matter. Google’s idea was that the site and the links that points that site are both important. The popularity of sites increases when the link pointing to that site bares sound fame and importance among the visitors.

Therefore, “Page Rank” has gained a significant amount of importance and if you want to have more relevant information on your website you will choose the best link exchange partner so that your visitor doesn’t get lost in this global information network. This will ultimately increase the importance and view ability of your site.

Link exchange or as you may say link partnering is beneficial to your online business in two core forms:-

i. Traffic Generation Source: Link exchange will increase the volume of visitors to your website as it will be clicked more placed with relevant exchanges.

ii. Search Engine Exposure: Your website will have increased exposure on search engines as it’s located with specific keywords.

Generating Traffic for the beginners

The new web master will be more anxious to getting traffic to their site. For this reason in the initial few months new sites can get the borrowed traffic from other websites. They can bargain with different relevant websites to post their links which can give them a way to grab more visitors.

Improving Search Engine Exposure

Search engines are an important source of providing incoming links or back links. These search engines certify your website by posting your link of their website. This patronage is carried forward in search engine or page ranking. This long way forwarding link from one site to the next passes the page rank without harming its own ranking. This in turn will benefit both back links and search engines. Firstly by increasing page rank of back links and escalating the standard of search engine and secondly by helping the back links sites gets more targeted traffic.

Now you must be wondering how to get back links? Well, this depends on the methodology adopted either you are going for pure back links or reciprocal links. Any of the strategies taken up is made applicable via expresslinking.com. Back links in whatever form are basically favors. More effective links considered are pure back links and forward links.

Both links, one way links and reciprocal links are discussed below.

One way Links

When you post a link on other site on which you don’t require any return. This is done when your site is linked by article, request, directories or citation. Expresslinking.com can be effective source of getting this link by signing into it and it accepts its subscriber into accepting the link without any codes of reciprocal links.

The New Guide To Seo MRR Ebook

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Chapter 1: An Introduction to SEO – Still Kicking

If you want to get the maximum amount of profit from a website, then you need to get as much traffic as you can. If you want to get the maximum amount of traffic to your website, then you need to get to the top of Google.

And if you want to get to the top of Google, then you need SEO or ‘Search Engine Optimization’. Search Engine Optimization is the process of optimizing a website so that Google will be more likely to index it and ensure that it ranks highly for the most relevant key words and phrases. For example, if you have a website the sells hats, then you might try to get it to rank for the phrase ‘buy hats online’. To do this, you would go through an optimization process that would involve both ‘on site’ and ‘off site’ strategies.

With any luck, you would eventually be able to get your website to the top of the SERP for that term (‘Search Engine Results Page’) and thereby attract a huge amount of traffic. More importantly, that traffic would not just be from random visitors but would rather be from specific people who are looking for hats. Better yet, those people will be looking for hats at the very point that they came to your website (why else would they search for hats?) which thereby means that they’re ready to buy and it should only take a small push to get them to make that decision.

SEO can be a slow going process but it is still possible to very reliably climb the ranks and to get your website to a point where it will start getting more and more organic traffic from searches.

How SEO Works

SEO essentially works by attempting to second guess the algorithms used by Google to decide which sites to index and where to rank them. Google works by using bots, an index and an algorithm. The bots,
also known as ‘robots’ or ‘spiders’, are small pieces of code designed to head out onto the web and look for content. They read webpages and they add that content to a massive index, that Google can use as a reference.

From there, Google will then use an algorithm to identify which content in that index is relevant to which search – and which is offering value to the end user. Ultimately, the aim of Google is to help people find interesting content that will be relevant to what they’re looking for.

This involves a lot of factors and the algorithm will look at how many links the content has, how visitors behave on that website and the use of key phrases within the content. If a word or phrase is repeated often enough, then it is possible to deduce that said word or phrase is likely to be the subject matter – and thus it should come up in searches for matching terms.

SEO basically works by predicting and guessing how the algorithm works (because no one can be completely sure) and then using that information in order to engineer your website to get the maximum number of hits. It means gaming the system and this in turn can allow you to ‘trick’ Google into believing that your site should be number one.

Of course it’s not quite that simple though and actually, as we dig deeper, we’ll see that there are other ways of looking at SEO that are more efficient. Apart from anything else, Google is constantly updating its algorithms (usually with words beginning with ‘P’ like Penguin, Panda and Pigeon) and that means that second guessing Google can get you into trouble.

Being effective at SEO means having an up-to-date understanding of how it works and it means knowing the core principles that underlie the different strategies. That’s where this book comes in. Read on and you’ll learn which old, outdated strategies you need to avoid, how to work with Google to get the very best results and how to future-proof your site for upcoming changes.

This is the modern guide to SEO for modern marketers and site owners. This is your SEO bible and your key to unlocking incredible success on the web!

Chapter 2: SEO – What it Used to Mean

We’re going to start this book with a little history lesson.

Why? Because understanding how SEO used to work, how it has progressed and what you now need to avoid is a very good way of creating context and helping you to understand what SEO means today.
When SEO was first born, Google’s algorithm was a lot simpler and manipulating it to your own ends was a lot easier as a result. Back then, Google looked at two key factors in determining its rankings. Those factors were:

Keyword density Links profile

Your links profile (also called ‘backlinks profile’) is essentially determined by how many links you have pointing at your website, coming from other sites. This serves two important roles. Firstly, links help Google’s robots to find your website. Bots ‘crawl’ the web by reading content and following links from one site to another. If you have a link on a site that Google has already indexed, then this will allow it to find yours and add it to the network.

At the same time, Google views links as testimony – assuming that a website would only link to another website if it though that said website was good and had something valuable to offer its users. Google would also assume that if you have links from 20 websites about hats, then your site is probably going to be about hats as well (especially if the anchor text has your search phrase in it).

The other factor was keyword density. Keyword density meant how many times your website would repeat the words that you were trying to rank for. The more content you had and the more often you repeated the same phrase throughout that content, the more likely you would ultimately be to get ranked for that search term and to show up high in the SERPs.

Of course it was also important to research the keywords and to make sure that they were actually being searched for. For this, marketers could use Google’s keyword research tool in order to check the volume of searches and to get an idea of how much competition was there. A savvy optimizer would be able to then look at the terms that had the highest search volumes and lowest amount of competition – and then try to rank for those phrases specifically.

Enter Black-Hat SEO

This simple algorithm makes a lot of sense in theory and should have helped Google to find content that people would be looking for quickly and easily. It would read the content in order to see which site was most relevant for that term and it would look at which sites had the most links from other websites!

But the problem was that people eventually cottoned on to the way this worked and began to take advantage of it. SEOs realized that all they had to do to get to the top of Google was to create as many links and as much content (with keywords) as possible.

Thus, webmasters began to spam link directories and content farms – submitting their links everywhere they possibly could. They began to pay other content creators to place their links on their pages and they would also ‘trade’ links. Most websites ended up with a massive list of ‘links’ somewhere on one of their pages, which would just be other random sites that had contacted them and asked to exchange links.

Worst was what started to happen to the content. In a bid to create as much content as possible and to use the keywords as often as possible, creators began to churn out content in huge quantities while giving no regard to quality. They also began using ‘keyword stuffing’, which essentially means repeating keywords over and over again, even when it doesn’t make any sense.

A typical website from the early 2000’s might read:

“Are you looking to buy hats online? Then you have come to the right buy hats online website! This is the best place to buy hats online for anyone who wants to buy hats online Carolina.”

As you can see, this content gets completely nonsensical and would be highly off-putting for any real visitors looking to make a purchase!

And then it got worse still. Creators began to actively steel content from other site owners and then ‘spin’ it in order to make it unique (Google won’t rank duplicate content, otherwise it would risk making every search result identical!). Content spinning essentially means that you are taking an article or a blog post and then using software in order to exchange many of the words for synonyms.

Thus a sentence that read:

“These are the softest, warmest and most attractive hats on the net!”

Should become:

“These are the most comfortable, most insulating and most beautiful hats on the web!”

And because the site owner didn’t have to write that content themselves, this means that they can publish thousands of posts in a short space of time and ‘bomb’ Google.

That’s the theory at least. The reality is unfortunately that most spinners do this instead:

“These is the squishiest, hottest and very best beautiful hats on the fishing net!”

Again, it’s just gibberish.

So by placing thousands of links on other sites using their keywords as the anchor text and by filling their site with tons of useless content, website owners were able to get themselves to the top spot of Google. This system was so easy to abuse, that some people could even get completely unrelated websites to the top of specific SERPs against the owner’s will. You could make it so that searching for ‘big idiot’ would bring up a picture of your friend for example. This was called a ‘Google Bomb’.

Obviously this started to make a mess of Google’s results and so Google had to adapt and get smarter…

Sales Psychology Personal Use Ebook

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Introduction

Salespeople have been using human psychology to their benefit to close sales for hundreds of years. Since the days of the ubiquitous “snake oil” salesmen, the way the brain works in response to negotiation and purchase has been examined in depth to figure out exactly how and why we respond to an offer in the manner that we do.

Luckily for everyone involved - salespeople and prospects - we’ve advanced to a point where we can sell without being deceptive, simply by matching the prospects’ wants, needs, and desires to the product, service or ideas we’re selling.

The very best salespeople have always been the ones who use their intuition and empathy to learn about their prospects both as a group and individually. They generally have an open mind and a wide-open view of the world. Top salespeople enjoy learning new things that directly oppose their own views, and they love a good debate. The ability to study each potential buyer and respond immediately and appropriately to their verbal and physical cues is essential to anyone who depends on sales for their livelihood.

In this e-book, we’ll take a look at the history of psychology in sales, what makes psychology so important in sales, and the key strategies we can utilize to best close the deal. We’ll also discover how to best use psychology and reverse psychology in our negotiations with prospects.

History of Psychology in Sales

Interestingly enough, snake oil salesmen really did sell oil - but it had no oil in it that came from any snake. Usually, a mixture of mineral oil, beef fat, camphor, and a few other ingredients, the original snake oil salesman, Clark Stanley of Stanley's Snake Oil Liniment was sued by the United States government in 1917 for misrepresenting the ingredients of the oil. A $20 judgment was placed, and thereafter, anyone doing shady business was deemed a "snake oil salesman".

During the late 1800s to early 1900s “Pyramid Selling” became a popular means of sales of cash registers, and was originally started by John H. Patterson. The idea behind pyramid selling was that a business owner would purchase a cash register, and then be tasked with demonstrating his cash register to other business owners within his geographic area and selling them on the cash register as well. Pyramid selling (also known as pyramid scheming) is today defined as financial fraud, and shouldn't be confused with Multi-Level Marketing, which is a legitimate sales platform, usually selling a physical product.

In the early 1900s, several different sales techniques came to the fore - both legitimate and otherwise. In 1918, a man named Grant Nablo claimed that he could size up a prospect by looking at the shape of their forehead. Reportedly, a prospect with a “high” forehead would be an easier sale to close as they had more room for creativity and imagination, and would be less likely to be put off by new ideas and ingenuity.

Interestingly, in 1923 the Ford Motor Company adopted Nablo’s theory and began including its instruction within their sales training. “Sell the vehicle according to the shape of the prospect’s head”, it read.

The 1940s and 1950s were huge when it came to developing sales techniques, strategies, and methods. Relationship selling, barrier selling, and the SELL method (Show, Explain, Lead to benefits, Let them talk) were all developed in the early-to-mid 1940s. The most popular of these was relationship selling, created by Dale Carnegie, and still very widely used today by most sales professionals.

During the late 1940s and early-to-mid 1950s the ADAPT method (Assessment, Discovery, Activation, Projection, Transition), ARC method (Ask, Recommend, Cross-sell, Close), and the AIDA method (Awareness, Interest, Desire, Action) were all developed and many of these methods, and hybrids of them, are still in use today.

All of these various methodologies paved the way for the future of sales. There was now a much deeper understanding and appreciation of how human psychology affected negotiation and sales. As businesses grew to sizes never before seen, the need for more advanced and complex sales methodologies grew as well. And while everything that came before had been sufficient, if not necessarily ethical, there was now a need to create new methodologies.

Before the 1960s, most sales methods relied heavily on manipulating people in a rather questionable nature. When you consider that some tactics aimed to trick the buyer into saying "yes" to a sale (barrier selling), or the canned and impersonal presentation of formula selling, there was now a distinct need for a sales methodology that was based on honesty.

Enter Xerox Corporation. Yes, the copy machine company. You simply can’t talk about innovation in psychological sales methodologies without highlighting how Xerox changed the sales playing field forever.

Back in 1968, after Xerox had lost the patent for dry photocopying, the corporation found that their sales representatives now had much more competition, and “old” ways of selling just weren’t working any longer. Xerox needed new sales strategies, so they invested over ten million dollars in research to do just that.

What this research revealed would become a brand new approach to negotiation and sales entitled Needs Satisfaction Selling. Prior to this, there really was nothing new in sales methodologies. There were crossovers and hybrids of already developed methods, but this was the first time that salespeople were actually encouraged to create longlasting relationships with their prospects and clients instead of just chasing the close.

No longer were canned presentations utilized, and trickery and excessive manipulation were now a thing of the past. With Needs Satisfaction Selling, salespeople were aiming to get the prospect involved in the sales process, instead of solidly controlling the process themselves. It was the first time that salespeople were trained to ask questions, find out what the buyer wanted and needed, and then present the features and benefits of their product or service, and explain how it filled those wants and needs. This was the very first time that salespeople were told to truly interact with their prospects

During this same time period, others were noticing that the old methods of sales weren’t effective any longer. Because of this, a deeper look at the new science of psychology had begun. Many top sellers dove into learning basic psychology as a way to tailor their sales methods to their audience, with varying degrees of success.

One of the most famous of these sales pioneers was David Sandler, a motivational sales professional who developed the Sandler Selling System, still very much in use today. The Sandler Selling System is aimed at placing the salesperson at the same level as the prospect, with mutual respect and appreciation. The system is based on honesty and the psychology of human nature and that’s the very reason why it works so well.

The 1970s and 1980s brought a few new methods into play but it has been argued that nothing truly earth-shattering happened until the 1990s ushered in the era of Relationship Selling which is still the most widelyused selling foundation today. Relationship selling is based on the fact that with growing technologies, buyers have become more intelligent and thoughtful. Relationship selling means that you work to create genuine relationships with your buying prospects, and sell to them what you know they need based on what you know they want. Building the relationship as the foundation for the sale breeds trust, loyalty, and greatly increases the chance of a referral from a satisfied client.

Sales Funnels Personal Use Ebook

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INTRODUCTION

A sales funnel is a system set up on your website that builds rapport and trust with new and returning visitors, qualifies leads and encourages them to make a purchase.

By the time you finish this guide you'll understand what a sales funnel is, why it's so important and how to set it up.

At the heart of your sales funnel is the idea of conversion - turning casual visitors into buyers.

What is a Sales Funnel?

The sales funnel is an often used metaphor that describes the process of attracting potential customers to, and moving them through, your sales process to sort those who would be your ideal customer from those who would not.

Surely all customers are ideal customers?

That is not so. Your ideal customer is one who not only benefits from your product or service greatly but understands why they do so and are happy to act as brand ambassadors. A less than ideal customer might be one who buys your product because they like the packaging, advertising or heard about it by word of mouth - yet they might not fully understand how it works or its benefits to them. Such customers often ask for refunds or spread false information by word of mouth.

There are other reasons your potential customers or clients may not be a good match for you: their budget may not reach your product, they may already have a supplier that offers them a product they are happy with, and others may have requirements from the product that yours cannot provide.

In the offline world of sales, a sales funnel is the equivalent process of qualifying your leads.

Understanding this concept explains why you should vet your prospective customers to find a perfect match between your product or service and your customer. That's why sales funnels exist - and that's why it's vital you take the time to build and understand your funnel.

Like many systems and processes in digital marketing, your sales funnel will require consistent monitoring and tweaking to make it as effective as possible. Sales funnels may also change seasonally which demonstrates how important it is to understand your funnel and how it converts.

The sales funnel isn't just a system that moves your potential customers through a qualifying process. It's also a tool that allows you to predict how many customers you can expect to convert. Without understanding how many customers you convert it's impossible to properly budget for your advertising.

For example, if you understand that as part of your sales funnel, 12% of those potential customers who are exposed to your PPC advertising campaign become customers with a dollar value, then you can gauge appropriately how much money to spend on advertising and still realize a profit.

Sales funnels also show problems in your sales process, such as not having enough sales people to follow up on leads, a lack of knowledge about the product on the part of your sales people, a financial leak in advertising expenses, and more.

All sales funnels should involve a flowchart where the sequence can easily be visualized. It might be cliché, but what gets monitored gets managed. The sales funnel will include several steps and each can be evaluated separately.

It's important to spend some time monitoring your sales funnel. Analyzing how changes affect the conversion rates of each part of your workflow helps you fix what's losing you revenue.

It takes several months to build up a picture of your sales funnel, so be patient. You can't expect to learn anything by skipping the process and it's a huge mistake to do so. That means changing one thing at a time and giving it enough time to make a difference or not.

Making more than one alteration to the process doesn't allow you see which one is making the difference to your funnel, or what that difference is. You'll only end up confused about what's working.

Why Build a Sales Funnel?

After that overview, you may recognize how you’ve become part of other people’s sales funnels when you have visited their websites, read content, taken advantage of free offers or discounts, downloaded free information products or tools, or booked a free consultation.

That experience should hint at why you need to build a sales funnel. Simply put, a sales funnel is a highly effective tool to maximize your profits, with minimal human intervention.

Sales funnels take cold leads – those whose prior knowledge of you or your product was non-existent – and warm them up.

Creating warm leads is a process that depends on content marketing to a large degree and that’s what the outermost layer of your funnel will consist of: web content.

Web content comes in many formats, each appealing to a different kind of customer.

Many businesses offer discount fliers to the public, offers like buy one get one free, and free samples. They are all examples of businesses turning cold leads into warm. They want to build a rapport with you without pressuring you into a sale.

The idea is that if you like the sample or freebie, you're going to trust the business enough to buy from them.

That's how cold leads are turned warm in the offline, real world. Online, it's not so different. Even in today's highly connected society, we tend to distrust a website where the landing page asks for our credit card number in return for a product. We need to be wooed a little. We need to learn more about who's behind the website and why they are a good choice to buy from. We need to trust that they are an authority in the niche and not some shyster who set up a website to dupe us out of our money. That's why businesses who sell through a website face the greatest opposition to the sale and it's also why you need to establish and maintain an effective sales funnel if you hope to make your site profitable. Doing anything else only strengthens the perception that your site is untrustworthy.

Imagine if you found a website when searching for a wedding photographer but there were no photos of previous weddings, no blog posts that shared information about the site owner, and no pricing breakdown. Instead, there was just a button asking for you to click the buy button on an expensive photography package.

Your first reaction would be to leave the site and go look elsewhere, right?

Now imagine the same search, but instead of the last website, you found a site where you could browse through lots of photos from previous weddings, see the social shares of other pictures, read customer testimonials, see the pricing structure and a breakdown of services offered, and download a free guide to getting the most from your wedding photographer.

I'm guessing that given the choice, you'd go with the latter. Take this analogy a step further. You're not fully committed to the second photographer but continue to look for your ideal guy or gal. In the meantime, you receive emails from the second photographer who shares valuable tips and insights with you about making the most of your wedding photography with fun ideas like leaving disposable cameras on the dinner tables for your guests to use. He even sends you a discount voucher for his own services and offers free framing for a photo of your choice.

Selling T-shirts For Fun And Profit Personal Use Ebook

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T-Shirt

4 Tips to Help You Design and Sell a Successful TShirt

For the past several years, the t-shirt market, or rather the market for selling t-shirts online, has been exceedingly hot. Just Google "T-Shirt Success Story" and you'll find example after example of people who've started a successful t-shirt marketing business on literally nothing. Many of these people now have steady five figure monthly incomes all based on selling well-designed t-shirts. Obviously, this is of interest to anyone who wants to break out of the nine to five employment world.

So, why are designer t-shirts so popular? In a nutshell, it's because they are the ultimate niche product. As such, they appeal strongly to every person's desire to be individualistic and share that individuality with the world. It doesn't matter what your particular interest, hobby, lifestyle, personal ethos or identifier might be. Whatever it is, it can be expressed on a t-shirt that then "brands" you when you wear it. In other words, tshirts remain popular because they make individual people stand out against the bland background of the day-to-day world. For $20, they allow everyone to break the bonds of anonymity and proclaim their allegiance to whatever it is that floats their personal boat.

What’s endlessly interesting, is that the t-shirt started out, and to some extent and in some form, remains an undergarment. It was only in the latter half of the previous century, that the “plain white tee” known to millions became a blank canvas for marketers who wanted to connect brand and lifestyle to the individual ego.

Today’s t-shirt phenomenon can trace it’s lineage back to the concert tshirt of the 1970s and 1980s. Back then rock and roll was becoming big business. Big bands began to realize that they were a brand and that they could sell more than music to their fans. The fans, on their part, were devoted to particular bands and were proud to express that devotion publically. Additionally, attending concerts by big name bands carried social cachet. Someone who was able to score ticks to see Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd or the Rolling Stones not only wanted a memento from the big night, they also wanted a way to tell their peers that they had been there.

Bands, on their part, realized that the profit margin on a mass produced and branded t-shirt was enormous. The public was more than willing to pay 10 times what it cost to produce the shirt. As a result, the t-shirt became a social statement and more and more marketers realized that there was a viable business market in selling swag to fans.

Fast forward to today and that business model is hotter than ever. The internet has made it possible to take the band/fan dynamic and apply it to any group of people, no matter how obscure their fandom might be. Sites like Teespring, Tees in the Trap, GearBubble, RedBubble, and dozens more allow savvy entrepreneurs to create and sell t-shirts to the tiniest of micro-niches. There is still a great amount of gold in them t-shirt hills. In this article, we’re going to focus on specific tips that you can use to mine some of that gold. We’ll look the things that you can do to improve your t-shirt designs so that they appeal directly to the niche you’re targeting. We’ll also look at the things that you can do to sell more tshirts to that niche.

Know Your Market

A lot of sellers get into trouble because they don’t understand the concept of a t-shirt market versus a t-shirt niche. The niche exists within the market, but you’re never going to find the niche unless you understand the larger market that supports it. Let’s take a look at some of the more popular t-shirt markets that are out there.

Commodity Shirts – There are fairly straightforward t-shirts that are defined by need rather than want. These shirts are usually work or event related and contain a specific logo or brand as well as a designation like "STAFF" or "SECURITY". Now there are numerous niches within this market but, by and large, customers here are looking for the lowest price available. Think $10 per shirt or less.

Novelty Shirts – These are shirts that are you probably only wear once. They aren’t strictly need based like commodity shirts, but they aren’t something that anyone really wants either, except during a specific event. So, think about t-shirts for a pub crawl or that contain a funny saying that references a specific occasion and you’ll get an idea of what we’re talking about. Customers here don’t want to spend an arm or a leg. Think $10 to $20 a shirt.

Pop Culture Shirts – Now we’re getting into the meat and potatoes of the t-shirt market. These type of shirts definitely are squarely in the “want” end of things. Customers identify with the movie, tv show or game that the shirt is designed around and will easily pay $20 to $25 per shirt to broadcast their affinity. While this market is popular and profitable, you do have to watch out for copyright infringement.

Specific Interests – These shirts are distinguishable from pop culture shirts because they don’t revolve around bands, movies or games. Instead, these shirts are all about individual interests and hobbies. Think home brewing or Frisbee golf and you’ll get the idea. This is another popular and profitable market that has the added benefit of being relatively free of copyright or licensing issues. Customers will easily pay $20 to $25 per shirt.

Know Your Customer

Right now, there are people out there who want to buy a t-shirt. It doesn't take magic beans or a Ph.D. in sales to get them to buy yours. All it takes is an understanding of why they want to buy a particular shirt. When you figure out this reason, motivation or desire, then you have the keys to the kingdom for that particular niche.

For example, people may want to show support for a particular political figure or issue. They may need a cool gift for a family member or friend. They may have seen someone else wearing a similar shirt and they want to follow suit.

Child Safety Lockdown MRR Ebook

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Introduction

At one time, protecting your children was as easy as ensuring they were in at dark, brushed their teeth and had a delicious and healthy dinner. The world has changed throughout the years, however, and nowadays it is a much scarier place to live than we ever could have imagined 15 or 20 years ago. It seems that we live in a world where dangers lurk at every corner; especially for the harmless, helpless children that we love so dearly. Keeping your kids safe is a never-ending, tireless task, yet one that you’d go to great lengths to secure for the most precious beings in your life. From the very first day that you bring your children home from the hospital until the day that you leave this earth, protecting your kids from harm is something that you’d go to great lengths to do.

Friends and family are always there to provide you with advice and guidance for child-rearing and maintaining their safety and while their advice is always meant-well and accepted, it sometimes isn’t accurate, up-to-date, or something that you’d ever consider as a parent. Since there is no manual for child safety and the advice of others may not always be the best, it is up to you to ensure that you are always aware of the right ways of protecting your little ones. With this guide you’ll learn professional tips and advice for child safety. Whether you’re the parent of a baby, a toddler, or a school-aged child or teenager, the information inside of this course is provided to you in an effort to help you keep the people that you love most in life safe no matter where life may take them. We’ll provide you with tips and information for child safety when they’re at home with the babysitter and while they ride their bike; there is safety information for babysitters and dealing with strangers. There is an abundance of safety information covered here. Everything that you need to do can be found within this course and thanks to its easy to reference sections, you can come back and go through any information once again easily. Going through this course offers insight into the following child safety topics (and many others:):

Drug use and children: We never want to think that it can happen to our children, but the staggering statistics show that drug use among children is rising. Learn what you must know to protect your kids.

Babysitters and keeping your kids safe: Entrusting a babysitter to watch your children, whether to enable you the ability to work or for an occasional night out, is never easy for a parent. We’ll share with you great tips and information for keeping your children safe while you are away.

Bullying and your child: Bullying isn’t a new problem, but it seems that things have been taken to the next level these days. Bullying occurs not only at school but online, at school functions, and elsewhere. How can you help protect your child? We’ll give you the details.

Protecting your child from abuse: Abuse comes in a variety of forms, none of which you want your child to experience. Protecting your child from any of the types of abuse isn’t always easy, since abusers aren’t masked with signs alerting anyone of their dangers. Even people we know in the media have been accused of heinous acts of abuse against children (i.e. Michael Jackson; Jared, the Subway guy,) causing greater difficulty in detecting abuse. Here we will discuss various method of preventing and protecting your child against abuse.

How to talk to your child about safety: When it is time to talk to children, parents sometimes find it difficult to choose the words that little ones understand. We’ll share practical advice for talking to your kids about their safety at any age.

How to stay safe while playing outside: Many dangers lurk beneath the confinement of the front door to the home. Dangerous insects and creatures, predators, poison, and more worries are unbeknownst to children looking forward to a day of excitement and play in the sun.

Internet safety: Many parents say that protecting their kids while on the Internet is one of the most difficult aspects of keeping them safe. We agree that it isn’t always easy to know what your kids are up to in the virtual world; until now.

How to stay safe around the house: What kind of dangers lurk around the house? Many that the eyes can see, as well as those sometimes unimaginable. We’ll cover a variety of scenarios and provide tips to keep your kids safe.

Strangers: Who is a stranger? Is the police officer a stranger? What about the teachers at school, or the bus driver, or even the postman? In the eyes of a child, a stranger may not be the same person as you see them to be. It is important to help your child learn stranger danger information and we’ll give you a head start!

School safety: Growing concerns over children’s safety in school are alarming to a number of parents in wake of the numerous tragedies taking place at schools around the world. How can you send your child to school safely? The information inside of this course will help you send your little one off to learn with peace of mind and comfort in your heart.

Safety in the car

Safety while on a bicycle/skateboard or other riding devices: For a child, bicycles, scooters, skateboards, hover boards, and similar devices bring on the excitement needed to live life to the fullest. Parents know all-to-well, however, that these fun toys also present a variety of dangers for their unsuspecting children. We’ll help you keep your children safe while also allowing them to enjoy the adventures their heart desires. This guide is structured in a manner that allows you to easily access information when you need it the most. While you want to go through this from start to finish, it is easy to pinpoint details you want to recollect upon to your kids; important details; and situations that pertain to your child. When all is said and done, the purpose of this course is to inform parents, to keep children of all ages safe and secure, and families thriving.

Internet Marketing For Newbies MRR Ebook

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Chapter 1: What is Internet Marketing and Why Should You Care?

Internet marketing simply entails promoting your business on the web. Any marketing activity that is carried out online is considered ‘internet marketing’ and that includes:

Search engine optimization (SEO)
Content marketing
Social media marketing
PPC advertising
Influencer marketing
Press releases
Email marketing
And more…

These various pillars of internet marketing can each help you to bring more visitors to a website or a blog and that in turn then gives you the opportunity to promote your business and hopefully drive ‘conversions’ (i.e. turning visitors into customers).

What makes internet marketing so effective is that it doesn’t have to cost a huge amount to be successful. You can spend an awful lot of SEO and content marketing and thereby try to get your site to the top of Google, but sometimes it just takes one smartly placed link to drive huge amounts of traffic to your site.

And if you’re willing to put in consistent time and effort, then anyone can build a massive, loyal audience thereby become a big influencer in their niche. Thus, internet marketing is the ‘great equalizer’. Marketing no longer requires a huge budget: it is now something that you can do just as well as the largest organizations – as long as you’re smart with it.

Internet marketing has other advantages too: it allows you to actually engage with your audience for instance. Using social media or running contests means that you’re able to interact with the very customers you’re trying to obtain and get feedback from them. Then there’s the simple fact that the web is capable of reaching such a huge audience – including people from all around the world. If you’re selling something with international shipping, then this is by far the best way to reach a global audience.

Who is Internet Marketing For?

For all these reasons, internet marketing is for everyone. No matter what type of business you are running, you should be able to benefit from internet marketing and find that it can help you to increase your brand visibility, to grow your audience and to make bigger profits.

Some businesses are only able to exist thanks to internet marketing. These are the entirely online businesses, such as people who sell ebooks. Ebooks are digital products with no overheads and by marketing them correctly, it’s possible to make huge amounts of sales that will earn you almost entirely profit. Ebookscan be something of a hard sell, but the fact that you can reach such a massive audience and engage with them directly means that you can get enough turnover to earn big profits. These businesses only exist thanks to internet marketing!

Other businesses also rely very heavily on internet marketing. If you sell a service online, such as web design or copywriting, then using internet marketing will allow you to ensure that the maximum number of potential clients sees your website and considers hiring your services. Knowing how to reach that audience online is the difference between long dry spells where you aren’t bringing in any cash and a steady flow of orders and income. Of course, the same is also true for an ecommerce business which exists to turn visitors to a website into paying customers in a similar way. Amazon actually spends over $1 million a day on Google AdWords alone, which shows you just how much the company values its internet marketing.

But it’s not just online business that can benefit from internet marketing. Big brands like CocaCola, Red Bull, Marvel, Ford, Best Buys… they all spend huge amounts on internet marketing because they know that it is now more effective than spending that same money on print media or television.

And the same goes for small businesses like hair dressers, restaurants and highstreet stores; and sole traders like plumbers, builders and lawyers. As we will see, anyone can benefit from internet marketing and it is the single most efficient way to increase footfall for your company.

Let’s Do This! What You Will Learn

The only thing holding most people back of course, is the simple fact that they don’t know how to go about internet marketing – they don’t understand how SEO works, they’re not sure how to reach ‘influencers’ and they find social media awkward. If you find yourself in that situation then don’t worry; this book is going to teach you everything you need to know in order to develop any kind of internet marketing campaign with confidence. Best of all, we’ll help you learn to create smart internet marketing campaigns – the kinds that get maximum results with the least amount of cash and time.

We just said that Amazon spends $1 million a day on AdWords and that might make you wonder how on earth you’re supposed to compete. The answer? You’re not! Our aim is not to take on huge corporations head-to-head but rather to find the path of least resistance – to identify those corners of the web where lots of potential customers are waiting and no one is currently marketing to them. You’re going to learn how to do that and much more over the course of this book.

Specifically, you will learn:

How to choose a niche and find your audience
How to create a stunning website in no time at all
How to drive conversions so that visitors = customers
How to climb the ranks of Google using smart SEO
How to provide value through a blog and become a thought leader in your industry
How to build and run a mailing list
How to create a thriving and popular social media channel
How to write stunning articles and killer sales scripts
How to use press releases, video sales letters, sales pages and other tools
How to work with other internet marketers
How to create your online business
And more!

So let’s get down to it…

Chapter 2: Starting With Solid Foundations

As we saw in the introduction, internet marketing is for everyone and can apply to many different types of business. For the purposes of this book though, we are going to broadly categorize readers into two groups:

Those with an existing business they want to promote
Those wanting to set up an online business or make money directly through internet marketing

And for now, we’re going to concentrate on the second group. If you already have a business, this is still worth reading but if you’re in a rush to get to the good stuff, skip through to the section on website creation.

Choosing a Niche

If your plan is to build an entirely online business and to make money either directly from a blog, or perhaps by selling digital products, then the first thing you need to do is to choose a ‘niche’. The term niche in this context essentially refers to a subject matter, an industry and an audience. In other words, a niche can be ‘health’ or it can be ‘knitting’. This is what your blog is going to be about, it is what the products you sell should be about and it will determine precisely who your business is marketed at.

Choosing your niche is one of the most important steps in creating a successful online business and the reason for this is that it will directly impact the amount of competition as well as the size of your audience. If your subject is ‘health’ then you’re going to be going up against millions of other websites and this is going to make your life very difficult indeed.

When you write a blog post on ‘how to get abs’, it’s going to be incredibly difficult to get that to the top of Google seeing as there are so many other blog posts on getting abs.

Likewise, if you post in a fitness forum and mention your ebook, then it’s not going to stand out or be interesting because there are so many others.

Conversely though, you also need to avoid choosing a niche that is too narrow. If the niche you choose is ‘earwigs as pets’, then it will only be a matter of time before you have marketed to the majority of that audience and there is no one left to buy from you…

Another important consideration when choosing a niche is what you can offer the audience and how much they are likely to spend. When creating a product, it is always useful to think in terms of the value proposition. This basically refers to what your product is offering to the buyer and what gives it its value, which should be much greater than the face value.

When you sell an ebook on getting fit for instance, the value proposition comes from the fact that your buyer will hopefully be much fitter after reading your book and applying the knowledge they learn. You’re not really selling a book at all, but rather a sexy, toned body. You’re selling confidence, you’re selling energy first thing in the morning and you’re selling physical attractiveness to the opposite sex.

People are willing to pay a lot for those things and thus you can afford to charge more for your ebook.

Bodybuilding Guide MRR Ebook

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Introduction

Bodybuilding is described as the process of developing your muscles by using a combination of weight training, specific caloric intake, and getting proper rest. Bodybuilding goes beyond building muscles simply to be fit, and requires more intense workouts. Some people get into “professional bodybuilding” so they can compete against others who show their physiques to a panel of judges.

People involved in competitive bodybuilding, are bodybuilders who work to develop and maintain an aesthetically pleasing (by bodybuilding standards) body and balanced physique. The bodybuilding competitors will then show off their bodies by performing a series of poses. Those involved in competitive bodybuilding will spend time practicing their pose, as this will have a big effect on how they are judged.

In competitive bodybuilding, a bodybuilder's size and shape are more important than how much he or she can lift. The sport of competitive bodybuilding should not be confused with powerlifting, where they are judged on actual physical strength, or with Olympic weightlifting, where the main objective is equally split between strength and technique. Though these sports may seem superficially similar to the casual observer, each one entails a different regimen of training, diet, and basic motivation.

While exercise is certainly a key component in bodybuilding, so is nutrition. If the body doesn't get the proper nutrients to help the muscles grow, they will never reach their full potential. Since bodybuilders require high levels of muscle growth and repair, they require a specialized diet.

A bodybuilder needs more calories than the average person of the same height and weight, because it takes a higher number of calories, above their “maintenance level”, in order to continue to increase muscle mass. A maintenance level of food energy, combined with cardiovascular exercise, is needed to lose body fat.

Before beginning any change in your exercise or diet routines, you should consult your doctor.

Body Building Exercise Tips

When you first begin an exercise program, regardless of whether it’s weight training or cardio, your muscles immediately begin to use energy to allow them to work. For optimum health and fat burning, your bodybuilding workouts should consist of both anaerobic, and aerobic training.

Many weight training programs will tell you to do 12 repetitions of each exercise to gain muscle. The problem with that is, this approach leaves the muscles without enough tension for effective muscle gain.
High-tension, such as heavy weights, provides muscle growth, which in turn allows the muscles to grow much larger than without high- tension, and also leads to a maximum gain in strength. Having longer tension time boosts the muscle size by generating the structures around the muscle fibers, which improves endurance.

The standard prescription of 8 - 12 repetitions provides a balance. But, by only using that program when you exercise, you do not generate the greater tension levels provided by the heavier weights and lesser reps, or the longer tension achieved with lighter weights and more repetitions. Change the number of reps, and adjust the weights to stimulate all types of muscle growth.

There are also those who perform the 3-Set rule, and while there’s nothing wrong with the 3 sets, there is nothing amazing about it either. You see, the number of sets you perform should be based on your goals, and not on some half-century old rule. The more repetitions you do of an exercise, the fewer sets you should do, and vice versa. By using this technique, you will keep the total number of repetitions performed of an exercise equal.

Doing 3 - 4 exercises per group is also not a good idea. Here’s why: Combined with 12 reps of 3 sets, the total number of reps amount to 144. If you’re doing this many reps for a muscle group, you’re not doing enough. Instead of doing too many different kinds of exercises, try doing 30 to 50 reps, so it should be anywhere from 2 sets of 15 reps or 5 sets of 10 reps.

Some who first start out will make the mistake of thinking the more reps you do, or the longer time you spend working on the equipment, the more muscle you build. A principal of bodybuilding says that you workout until the muscle is fatigued. Each exercise set you do is different. Depending on what your set is like, if what you do taxes the muscle, it is possible to fatigue the muscles in the first set. A good rule to follow is to create an intensity in your workout by dropping, or breaking down sets, in which you rep out or lower the weight, and continue to do reps until you either cannot do another one, or you run out of weight.

Sorting myth from truth about bodybuilding can help you design your workout, so it will be healthier and more productive. Training your mind to follow the truth about bodybuilding is like training your body. You can have discipline on two levels: body and mind.

Benefits of stretching

Before beginning any exercise routine, you should do some warm-up exercises. This is usually done by performing stretching exercises, which helps prepare the body for more rigorous activity. Here are some of the benefits of stretching.

1. Gives Your Body More Range of Movement

If we are consistently doing the stretching exercises, the length of the muscles and tendons will increase. This helps expand the range of your movement. Therefore, the limbs and joints will be able to move more freely.

2. Increases Your Ability to Perform Skills

When you have a wide range of movement, you will find yourself able to do more things. For example, you can jump high without feeling any pain when you come back down on the floor.

3. Helps to Prevent Injury

By stretching, you can help prevent injury to joints, tendons and muscles. When the muscles and tendons are well flexed, they are considered to be in good working order. The muscles of the body will
be able to take on more exhausting and rigorous movements, with less probability of being injured. It will also promote faster recovery from injuries (should they occur), and you’ll have fewer sore muscles.

4. Helps to Reduce Muscle Tension

If you perform regular stretching exercises, it is less likely the muscles will constrict. This will definitely relieve you of any muscle pain or problems.

5. More Energy

By stretching, you’ll not only be able to move more freely, you will also have more energy. Stretching will also help enhance your mood.

Many people find it improves their overall confidence and well-being which makes you ready to tackle more things knowing your body is capable of handling it.

The Importance of Working Your Core Muscles

What Are Core Muscles?

Your core muscles are those muscles found in the obliques, abdominals, lower back, and the glutes areas. These 4 areas of the body are the ones that usually frame the posture of a person.

Therefore, a good posture reflects the good condition of these muscle areas.

What many people don’t know is that core muscles are actually the “core” or central part for all the strength needed to carry out different physical activities. This means if an individual’s core muscles are physically fit, they will maintain equilibrium of the body, and will stabilize the system every time the person is working out or moving around.