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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.

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It’s peculiarly crucial now to be at the front in your customers’—and potential customers’—brains. While this action is totally counterintuitive to all the foul news, you have to effectively and aggressively promote yourself and your business if you're going to exist, prosper, and acquire market share from your rivals.

Plainly, you wish to be smart about this maneuver and prevent spending money on techniques that don’t work. When things become sluggish, step-up the amount of time you spend on promoting and prospecting for fresh business. You’re commonly able to acquire the best price for traditional ads and marketing efforts during lags as others are doing less ads. As well as traditional approaches, research and apply originative ways to make your organization more widely recognized inside the circles and communities in which you market. For example, if you commonly commit ten percent of your time and energy to promoting and prospecting when things are reasonably busy, you could increase this to fifty percent once things are slow.

As we’ve talked about previously, a lull in business demands that you use extra effort to draw in customers, follow through on leads, and remain in contact with and extend your place of power. While you are able to achieve this through traditional ads, you are able to likewise use a few activities that don’t cost any revenue: calls, personal visits, mail, e-mails, flyers, social networking on the Net, church activities, e-zines, seminars, briefings, “great news” e-zines, videos, community participation, speaking at rotary clubs, training your kid’s soccer team—etc.. Most if not all of these techniques are reasonably original,build enormous goodwill, get you better acknowledged, and cost zip but your time and energy!

The 2nd part of this plan of attack dictates that whatever you do, make sure you stick with it. Conduct action consistently and aggressively daily, weekly, and monthly and throughout the year. You have to commit to a promoting program throughout the year—not simply when you require the business. Whether it’s a traditional ad or some of the other, more groundbreaking marketing techniques make certain you can stick with it as all marketing demands some time to take hold.

When planning a PR or ad blitz, I consider how much it will cost to run that plan over the course of a year, not a week or month. While this strategy ensures a regular stream of fresh business contacts in the future, it isn’t guaranteed to harvest prompt results. The promotion you carry on now launches a selling cycle that will result in fresh business when you require it 6 months into the future.

It's even as crucial that this campaign raise your reputation throughout the community or rings in which your merchandise is required. Additionally, the fact that you're out there doing something about your business—rather than simply sitting lazily at your desk, waiting for matters to reverse—will provide you added self-assurance.

The sorts of marketing that work best in all economies, as they're most effective—are a combination of results - oriented direct marketing (direct-response print ads, sales letters, self-mailer, special offers) and low-priced or no-cost visibility heightening publicity strategies (press releases, articles, speeches, books, seminars, e-zines, radio and television interviews). Yeah, it costs time and energy, but not doing these things risks the company. Don’t consider marketing in terms of simply costing money as many efforts may be made without any budget simply by using your energy.

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The first step to self-motivation is to get out of your own way. Fear, procrastination, worry, and low self-esteem are deal-breakers for getting the motivation you need for achieving success.

While some people may argue that we’re all too crazy busy these days to constantly walk around with a calm spirit and a peaceful attitude in our hearts, there’s only one solution for getting motivated.

You have to WANT to get motivated. No other human being can make you or cause you to become motivated.

Yes, there are motivational tapes, motivational books, and even motivational coaches that you can hire to get you motivated enough to push forward. But unless you mentally and physically position yourself for achievement and success, you’ll think that it doesn’t matter.

Here’s a quick exercise to try when you want to build up your motivation.

For the next 30 minutes, think only positive thoughts. When negative thoughts arise, think the opposite. Next, focus on whatever words come out of your mouth. Are they positive words? The mouth speaks what’s in the heart. What’s in your heart today? Speak it and think it and it will be so.

If you want success, tell yourself that you’re already successful. If you want success, speak as if you ALREADY have it. But you have to believe it!

Just like the opposite of telling lies, when you speak truth and success into your life, you’ll begin to believe it. Then you’ll begin to act like it already exists. Then you’ll achieve it.