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Once you have chosen your overall topic (and this can take a bit of time, so be sure to carefully evaluate the markets before settling on one), it's time to consider your overall platform.

A membership site platform is simply the type of membership website you intend to offer, whether it's free or paid as well as how you plan to deliver the goods and communicate with your subscribers.

To begin, there are many different options available to you and depending on your niche market you will need to determine what is likely to work best.

One thing to keep in mind is that it's important to thoroughly evaluate the platform that your competitors are using. The reason for this is an obvious one; people get used to certain things and not everyone adapts easily to change.

If subscribers are used to logging into a traditional membership platform, where they enter in their username and password to access content on a monthly basis, you might want to stick to this format, simply because it will save you a lot of time and work explaining how a new concept or format works to the same subscriber base.

That doesn't mean that your actual content or your overall sales funnel should be a replicated version of a competing site.

In fact, I am going to show you exactly how to ensure that you are squeezing every last dime out of your membership site, while competitors are consistently allowing leaks to cost them thousands of dollars in lost profits.

What we are talking about now however, is in evaluating the layout and platform of competing sites, such as whether they are offering a free membership site with upgrades, a traditional site, and so on.

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Au Courant - This companies’ Bronze Face Gel, Dark, is a fine lite-scented sunless tanner for the face. Going on easily, drying quick and light, it boasts AHA to help with skin exfoliation while it colors. Their Instant Sunless Tanning Lotion is said to have a slight odor and be a little thick for easy application, but overall helps with good coloring for people with light to medium skin tones.

Bain de Soleil – Their Soleil Streakguarde Tinted Self Tanner Foam rates as a super foam self tanner and sub-par lotion. Great color results, light nice scent and ease of application are other highlights. Many recommend the product for light skin, although there is a "dark" version for those with darker coloring, too. Note that reviewers did not prefer lotions or foams from Bain de Soleil, though. They shared dislikes for the products’ bad scents and too light coloring.

Banana Boat Product Line – Highly recommended line of tanners. Some double as good moisturizers. They boast vitamins A and E and a snappy fragrance of coconut mixed with mandarin. By rubbing their lotion on prior to your tanning sessions can help keep your skin moist, allowing it to tan better. Their crème version is said to go on light and smooth with a good scent, but is not the choice for those wanting darker tanning. When using the instant sunless lotion version, results improved when mixing or diluting it half-and-half first with a moisturizer. And although their so-so tanning accelerator boasts a great coconut oil scent, this product’s SPF 4, not from titanium dioxide, avobenzone or zinc oxide, is not said to be effective against UVA rays.

California North – California North Titanium Self Tanner is a preferred product with a nicer scent than most competitor products, good coloring, fading and good ease-of-application. Not ideal for darker tanning, though.

Clarins – Their gel has reportedly been more like a lotion and their product pricing a little high, application greasy yet quick-drying and lightly fragrant.

Coppertone - Beware permanent fabric stains, color bleeding off on everything, and somewhat strong smell (that fades) reported with this self-tanning product line. Quick, long-lasting and attractive coloring results, though. Great results reported with red heads and exfoliation beforehand. For some products in this line, only a thin application is needed.

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Formulate an interest in the subject you're attempting to remember. When your emotions are affected, you heighten your memory.

Pay attention, be intrigued and take notes. Taking notes is a great way to get centered and you hold the material to recap later.

Make certain you've a real understanding of the info or concept; if there's something you're not understanding, you most likely won't remember it. (that's where the note-taking comes in convenient)

Categorize views and concepts that are similar. Keep it easy; don't place more than five to seven items in your category and attempt making it alphabetical or chronological.

Repeat or recite aloud what you wish to recall. Simply keep stating it till you get it (ever question how you recall your favorite song from fifteen years ago and you haven't listened to it in ten years, that's because it's implanted deep in your mind).

Making a mental image of what you wish to remember is likewise really helpful. Envisioning makes us utilize different parts of our brains. The more senses you utilize, the deeper the info goes.

Studies have demonstrated that exercising both sides of the brain will step-up your brain powers which reduces the chances of Alzheimer’s. You are able to do this by utilizing the left hand while cooking, or by learning an originative fresh thing like an instrument or a dance. This uses the side of the brain that we might not utilize enough of depending upon what we do daily.

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If you manage to get out of bed before afternoon tea, why not try breakfast cereal with a nip of whiskey. Apparently, there's something about the combination of wheat, milk and Scotch that's supposed to make you feel born again, although not in the same way Christianity would.

After a boozy night of wanton debauchery, add two cupfuls of Epsom salts and a cupful of vinegar to a bath that's as hot as you can bear. It's claimed the salt and vinegar draws the poison right out of you. Added to that, the steam clears your head and relaxes you. So beware, don't nod off, drown and spoil what was probably a pretty good evening!

Lemon coffee anyone?

How about a drop of rose-scented essential oil rubbed on your temples to dilate the capillaries and boosts blood flow to your brain. What sweeter way to ease a skullcrushing headache while being molested by a swarm of psychotic African bees?

Ideally you should drink loads of water before going to bed, but if it's too late for that, get your dried up prune of a body over to the tap and drink, drink, drink until your stomach's so full it hurts, then wait. Five minutes later your mouth will be parched again and ready for more. Carry on until you feel better, or explode.

Some say you should exercise vigorously before going to bed. These charlatans have obviously never been drunk. Trying to undo your shoelaces is exercise enough!

The infamous Red-eye. Whiskey, Tabasco sauce, coffee, a raw egg, pepper and orange juice all blended together. [Measures are at the makers discretion]. Please ensure your stomach lining is made of asbestos before trying this one and do yourself a favour - put a toilet roll in the refrigerator.

The ancient Romans would eat deep-fried canaries, which must've been a real tweet - Boom! Boom!

As for the ancient Greeks, well they found relief by munching merrily on a sheep's lung, or two. Add two owl's eggs alongside and it simply made your mouth water.

During the second century, Galen the Greek thought it would be a good idea to wrap a hangover sufferer's head in cabbage leaves. He was a card that Galen.

For our ancestors in general, eating boiled cabbage before a binge was widely thought to be the best preventative. And the next day, you got your nostrils cleared for free.

According to folklore, Native Americans would work up a sweat, then lick it off their skin and spit it out to rid their bodies of 'poison'.

Asian Indians like to guzzle down a long cool glass of their own wazz, of which there must be an endless supply!

A nice hot cup of tea. Ah yes, but we're not talking Earl Grey here are we, no no. Try an agricultural blend that you won't find in your corner shop - rabbit-pooh tea. This is a hangover curative concocted by those happy-go-lucky gunslingers of the old wild west.

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Face to face store visits and Phone calls

Understandably, these are the two most uncomfortable ways of prospecting and selling for many people, mostly because they fear rejection, but trust me, landing a couple of sales, and collecting some money will help you get over that fear pretty quick.

Alternately, you will find a section below that you can use to actually hire someone on a commission only basis so that you don't personally have to do any of the selling, so either way, this is something that you should be able to do.

In this example, I'm going to walk through how things might go if you were just walking into a business, or if someone you hired was just walking into a business. I'm going to use a Bar as the example business as well because quite honestly, bars and places that provide some sort of live entertainment or frequent specials are my favorite businesses to target for this kind of service.

First of all, the great thing about Bars is that the owner, or a general manager that can make decisions is normally on site just about all day and all night long, so getting in touch with someone that can actually make a decision is generally pretty easy to do.

Normally, what I will do is walk in, and go straight up to the bar, and have a seat. When the bartender comes over, I'll order a Coke or a glass of water, and ask if there is an owner or manager around. There almost always is.

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Since love is less lasting and friendship more long-lasting, every endeavor must be made to make our mate isn't only a lover and a partner, but as well a friend. Friendship is observable manifestation of matureness. Marriage is a duty larger than life, and may be a source of bother or sound joy. Only if we turn those bothers and joys into building blocks for a lasting friendship may we say that we’ve taken the firm path to a union made in heaven.

If there's true friendship between hubby and wife, the marriage avoids ending up on the rocks. Rather it becomes a rock-hard marriage where no person or condition may put it asunder.

Friendship in a union means that the union will be significant with memories of laughter and wit, for didn’t we pick those friends who made us laugh the most? Friendship likewise means open and honest communicating; a no holds barred type of coupling where our comfort level with our mate goes beyond a hundred percent, guaranteed that what we state and how we say it won't be labeled or taken in a damaging light.

Friendship between couples returns wholesome feelings of good will and faithfulness. Our spouse – our friend – has our concerns at heart, won’t cheat on us and will be our most steadfast supporter. Friendship likewise makes mates stronger; this durability is reinforced by the pleasure of shared history, of nostalgia and designs for the future.

Romance is a great thing, and we may utilize heaps of it when our relationships get rough. But mature friends are cognizant that romance maybe a roadblock to friendship. How come? As romance blots out the darker side of our being – our concerns, anxieties, and insecurities. Yet, it’s those fears, anxieties and insecurities that by nature draw us to our friend.

Familiarity doesn't spawn contempt. It spawns content. A sense of contentment corresponds with satisfaction, warmth, and firm assurance. Partaking in a life together in love and friendship makes for a book that's deeper and denser in shared histories, in content. If you were to ask a content bachelor and a jubilantly married man to each author their stories, you’d get a favorable narration from both. The single individual’s position would however be I, me and myself – and perhaps a string of blind dates and Saturday nights alone. The husband will discuss “us”, of mutual interests – a story decidedly made richer as there are two stories, not one.

Much as it sounds awfully passé, marriage is a commitment, and people have to make every attempt not to degrade that commitment in any way. Remaining married is a lifelong, missionary-like enterprise. It calls for guts. It calls for nerves of steel to make a union work. A sense of humor and a humbler degree of egotism may sustain us in that work.

The obstructions will be many, and there will be spots where we'll question our saneness, uncertain if we may truly hang in there. It will be a massive effort to stay attracted to the same qualities that pulled you to your spouse on the first day you got together. Your spouse is yet the same individual you fell in love with, he hasn't altered his soul, his being, only his closet.

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How Free Professional Speaking Gigs Help You

One of the primary reasons people get into this business is because they want to earn some serious cash. With dreams of stardom and hopes of owning the Mercedes and the million dollar home, they set off in pursuit of getting highly paid gigs only to get knocked down by rejection after rejection. After doing some research they find that most of their starting events will be free speaking events. What?

If "free" is a horrendous four letter word in your career vocabulary, you'll need to learn the importance and value that "free" can really provide. There are tremendous benefits that come with speaking for free including having the ability to promote your back of the room products where you can actually profit. You'll be gaining new experiences and building your clientele list.

"Free" still gets your name out there. The more people who hear you speak, the more people there will be to purchase your product and refer you to other people are looking for professional speakers. For example, speaking for free for an organization like a Rotary Club or Elks Club can lead to paying jobs because many of the members who belong to this organization have businesses of their own or are in positions in their careers where they are the decision makers to "hire" speakers.

You can still have the opportunity to sell your products at these free speaking engagements. Statistics show that back of the room products account for over 50% of professional speaking profits. Promote your business and promote your products in the same place! At the very least, you will be able to refer them to your website for more information or additionally, to purchase products and books. The more people that hear you, the more opportunities you'll have.

Free speaking opportunities are still opportunities where you can create a video tape of yourself. Many speaker bureaus and meeting planners will not hire you without seeing a video tape of your presentation. On top of that, many organizations like the Rotary Club or Elks Club have people who can help you create your video. Can you trade services?

Free speaking engagements are a great place to network. Hopefully by now you understand that you have to get your name out there. In order to get your name out there, you'll have to be out there. You can still mingle with your audience as well as network with meeting planners for the function.

A free speaking event is still a great reason to send out a press release. If you're looking for a reason to send out press releases about yourself or your career, use free speaking engagements. Submit them to local newspapers and various online sites that have a "to-do in your area" section. This is just another way to get the word out about your business.

Speaking for free has its benefits. What you'll need to learn next is how to leverage these free events into referrals and product sales. As you do this, more people will know about you and your business will be well on its way to success!

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Hosting Your WordPress Website

Step 1: Finding a host for your WordPress Website I'm going to recommend only one host to you. There are hundreds out there but this is the one I have used for years and their hosting and customer service is excellent. Of course feel free to look around or if you're ready to just get going you can take my recommendation below. Sign up for your hosting at Bluehost:

Here's what you need to know about choosing any host if you want to install WordPress and have no programming experience:

- Host needs to have cPanel - Host needs to have WordPress one-click install through Fantastico or Simple Scripts - Multiple Domain name hosting is ideal (because once you've got the bug you'll want to make more than one website!) Ok, so you've got your host. Next you need to follow these steps:

1. Log into your control panel.
2. Scroll to the Software/Services tab and click on Simple Scripts. NOTE: In Bluehost you can click Simple Scripts OR WordPress
Note: If you use another host you may need to use Fantastico instead. Please check with your hosting company for the details on how to do a quick install.
3. Choose WordPress under Blogs to install, click install, choose your blog location, agree to the terms and conditions and then click 'Complete'
4. Congrats! You've got yourself a WordPress installation.

After you install your WordPress site you'll need to log in to go any further. Your login will be given to you upon installation – make sure you save it for later. Then, whenever you want to edit your website you will need to basically log into it and start working in WordPress.

Now, before you go too much further I recommend you take at least an hour or two to PLAY with your new software. Click around, look around, create a post, make a page, see if you can make a link or upload an image. All these things are possible and so much more. In fact, there are so many things you can do I won't talk about them all in this report as I don't want to overwhelm you.

But – I also don't want to underwhelm you! I want you to understand how powerful and fantastic the program you just installed really is! To help you along, let's do a quick overview of the different sections of WordPress:

The image you see to the left is on the left side of every page inside your WordPress dashboard. If you click on any of the words you see in the image you'll get a drop-down menu with more options. Let's go over what each general section does.

Dashboard – Click this to bring you to the main page of your WordPress. Here you will see various items relating to your WordPress site. It will give you a summary of your posts and pages, comments, etc. You will also see links to the WordPress.org site, recent comments, incoming links, etc. You can customize this page.

Posts – If you're going to set up a blog on your site this is where you create, view and edit your posts.

Media – You can use the media section to upload images, videos and documents.

Links – If you want to use the links 'widget' so you can link out to other people this is where you would fill in the links.

Pages – This is where you create, view and edit your pages.

Comments – Here you can view all the comments you've received, check your spam comments, edit or delete comments.

My Theme – This is actually part of my Builder theme – not everyone will see this! It is what I was talking about when I said some themes have custom settings. They will show up on your sidebar in some form like the 'My Theme' you see to the left.

Appearance – This is where you upload a new theme, you customize your widgets and you can also set up a custom menu. You can also work in the css and php files if you have some advanced coding knowledge.

Plugins – We've yet to talk plugins but here is where you can upload and activate them.

Users – Lets you set users to your site or update current users.

Tools – Import or export WordPress files.

Settings – You can set options about how people read your blog, how many posts they see, how the permalinks are set, etc. Any plugins you install will often show up here too.

That's STEP 1. You can rest here if you want but I suspect you're probably rearing to go and ready to move on to Step 2, Setting Up a Static Homepage

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Chapter 7 How to Improve Your Multilevel Marketing Skills

In this chapter we will discuss a few guidelines that will help you improve your skills as a multi-level marketer. It is essential for a marketer to understand that, no matter how great the company he selects and how demanding the products are, what one must not forget is that multi-level marketing demands hard work and commitment. It is not possible to make huge sums of money just by signing up once and then sit back and wait for the cash to flow in. You need to constantly train and update your self and improve your efforts to ensure long term gains and maximize profits. Here are a few tips that will help you improve your skills as a multi-level marketer.

Managing your downline: Remember your down line is your asset and a source of your income. Hence it is important to manage your downline properly and keep motivating your downline to produce maximum results and generate maximum sales.

Understanding different people: It is important for a marketer to understand that he or she is dealing with a number of people at a time, all mostly from different backgrounds. It is essential for him to train each of them appropriately as each may require a different set of information and skill to improve their efficiency. Also in order to convince people to act as sales rep you as a marketer should persuade them according to their needs and level.

Learn to accept rejection: Multiple-level marketing has a high rate of rejection, hence it is important to stay positive and accept to take ‘NO’.

Keep Focus and be persistent: Some people tend to lose interest quickly if they think their plans are not working up to the mark. A multi-level marketer should avoid this as it requires persistency and focused efforts in order to achieve success.

Undertake constant research: Again your success as a marketer highly depends on the company and product you select. Therefore it is imperative to research well before entering into the venture.

Constantly train and update yourself: Try to pick up companies that provide constant training to their marketers, this well help you to keep your self updated. If you understand the latest trends, technologies and the product features well, you are in a better position to persuade customers, generate sales and lead your downline.

Improve your communication skills: Effective communication and selling skills are keys for the success of every marketer; hence an multi level marketer should constantly improve on his communication skills.

Walk the talk- reliability: In order to achieve repeat sales, you need to provide reliable information. Hence you should responsibility market your product and avoid unethical ways of generating sales and prospects.

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Education is one of the fundamental principles on which one?s success depends. To understand the role of education and its impact on success, one has to first understand how they measure a successful life. A successful life can be denominated by a person's wealth, fame, career position, property, assets and most of all, their personality. While many argue that one needs to have luck for success and those who are born with wealth and assets are already successful, we do need to realize that being born with assets would not make us successful until we prove ourselves to be worthy of it.

So regardless of the fact whether you are born rich or poor, you need to focus on how you can be successful and how you can maintain this position of yours. Now comes the question, why do people press on being educated in order to be successful! Well, its quite simple. Education gives you the sense of direction, the knowledge, the skills and the focus which is needed in order to be successful. Of course, good rationale is also important as many, who have succeeded in their career paths have done so because they made good decisions. But our decisions eventually depend on our education and are in some way affect by our level of education and experience.

An educated entrepreneur and an uneducated entrepreneur have different approaches, strategies and planning tendencies. Moreover, education makes you stand out amongst the others, gives you dignity and grace. The chances of having better paid jobs and even better careers are all dependant on your level of education. College dropouts such as Bill Gates – Microsoft, Michael Cell – Dell computers and Steve Jobs of Apple are some of the exceptions who were either so intelligent or hardworking that lack of education didn?t stop them to be successful. But following their path is not everybody's rule of game as we have to face the reality rather than dream about exceptions. Despite not having a college degree, these men were so hardworking and intelligent, that they are today's billionaires. However, not everybody can follow the footsteps of these exceptional men as we don't have the required intelligence or the luck in order to make it as big as them. So, what exactly do we do in order to make it as big? We can't just sit down and start dreaming.

The best thing to do in these circumstances is to take charge and get educated. A Masters or any Professional degree is the key to success as these degrees would not only land us in better paying jobs, but also make us worthy of it. Our personality and values would be shaped by the education we get, which would help us to deal with the numerous business and corporate situations that otherwise leave us confused. Moreover, our inner self would also be strengthened via education as the values that our education would give us, would also help us to portray our self in a much better way to the society.

So always remember, the key to success is good education as it transforms our knowledge, values and our approach towards the way to success.