Author Archive for JClark81
Changing My Niche
Hello Everyone,
Jarrod Clark here, I hope this blog finds you well. I know I haven’t been posting blogs on an ongoing basis like I used to. I have been pondering for sometime now on a more suitable topic for me. I am an entrepreneur and I enjoy encouraging others which was the reason for this blog to begin with. However, I have decided to go with a slightly different niche.
I will still be encouraging you to persue your dreams and visions but I will be focusing more on the positive mindset part of it as well as encouraging you spiritually.
So I want to apologize for the lapse in blog postings. I do understand there are a few of you who have subscribed and are looking for tips on how to become a successful entrepreneur but I want to let you know that you will be getting the same encouragement just with a little twist to it. There won’t be as much "how to" advise but I will be speaking along topics encouraging the right mindset with anything you do wether it be entrepreneurship, loosing weight, or accomplishing any goal.
I will be blogging about the importance of having a positive mindset and how a negative mindset can be bad for our health. I am not sure if I am going to change the domain just yet or leave it as JarrodClark.com. I hope you will stay tooned because I am sure that you will not be disappointed at what I have to talk about.
Stay tuned…
Jarrod
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How to Start a Blog
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Perhaps you have a passion to start blogging and have no clue as to how to start a blog. There are many ways of starting a blog. You can set up a blog for free at no cost to you. Personally I prefer WordPress blogs because their blog system is more secure with much more features than blogger or typepad. You also get the added benefit of backing up your blog with WordPress. To start a WordPress blog just go to WordPress.org and you can sign up for free. Blogger.com is another source that you can visit to sign up a blog for free.
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The Power of Personal Branding For Entrepreneurs
"People don’t join companies. People join people" are the illustrious words of Michael Dlouhy, founder of Mentoring for Free, an organization that provides entrepreneur ideas for entrepreneurs in the network marketing industry by teaching them the right way to approach their prospects. I agree whole heartedly with these words.
Network Marketing, or Multi-level Marketing, is among one of the highest trends in the work-at-home industry. Network Marketing allows entrepreneurs to earn an impressive income by building an organization of people. Through network marketing entrepreneurs not only earn income through building an organization of like-minded individuals, but they have the opportunity to promote and sell products for various companies in an effort to be compensated for royalties on the services of those products.
| No matter how impressive the compensation plan, it is all about who is giving the presentation… |
Unfortunately, many individuals who are being recruited into companies are being told to sell, sell, sell & recruit, recruit, recruit. Without any prior experience in sales or recruiting, it has become frustrating for newcomers in this industry because of a lack of training. Granted, many companies do provide their organization with a game plan of how to recruit and sale by getting everyone on the weekly conference calls and telling them to make a list of their closest friends and family, give them the sales pitch and "close the sell."
Many of the top notch gurus in the network marketing industry live by the sell, sell, sell & recruit, recruit, recruit rule. Their is such a thing as personal branding or building personal relationships with prospects. The first thing that prospects look for when joining a network marketing company is who is doing the presentation. The prospects will query upon this seemingly insignificant but very substancial question. Which leads back to the first statement in this article:
People don’t companies. People Join People
No matter how impressive the compensation plan, it is all about who is giving the presentation. The compensation plan falls a few points down the list of things that prospects are looking for when joining you. And while the numbers can be very intriguing, the compensation plan is not the ultimate concern. When you first pick up the phone and get acquainted with the prospects, they are subliminally pondering questions such as: Is this someone I like? Can I count on this person? Can I trust this person? Can this person help me to be successful?
Many times network marketing companies will tell all of the newcomers to 3 way their prospects in with the upline due to the lack of experience on the newcomer’s behalf. This is not such a good idea. It has been said that much of the deciding factor for the prospect joining you is your ability to answer their questions personally.
Avenues of Personal Branding
I make mention of MySpace quite a bit in my blogs because I see Myspace as a great way to market yourself. I personally use MySpace and I get a great response from people inquiring about what I do. Often enough, the people I have encountered on MySpace are already in a business and are trying to sell me on something or they are hungry for something and they are looking for tips and ideas on how to become an entrepreneur, which was my inspiration for starting this blog.
Many times I will just ask them personal questions, inquire about their background, or ask what it is they are looking to do in an attempt to determine what to recommend. Ultimately, MySpace is a great networking avenue to communicate with other like minded individuals and build long lasting relationships.
Online blogging is a great resource for putting out information for readers to view what you have to say, but it is also a great avenue for building relationships with your audience. By placing quality content on your site and staying consistent and publishing blogs at least 2-3 per week, you will gain an audience to your blog which will in turn gain you exposure to more prospects looking for something that you have to offer.
Personally I don’t offer my business opportunity on this blog site. I choose to focus solely on publishing quality, helpful content to entrepreneurs who are looking to take their business to another level. In fact, I can’t count the number of responses I get from people who visit my blog site expecting to get a sales pitch or be sold on something. The very response I get is "Why don’t you make mention of your MLM company at all on your blog?" People are literally surprised that I don’t mention a company, a product or a compensation plan of any sort.
I must admit, I do use some form of monetization on my blog but it is very minimum, and my blog content is not centered around those products. I do want to stress that the purpose of my blog site is not to sell individuals on a company but to provide useful information and tools for entrepreneurs.
Remember focusing on building long lasting relationships in your organization is a must. For more tips on how to succeed in your network marketing venue visit JarrodClark.SuccessIn10Steps.com and download the free e-book Success In 10 Steps by Michael Dlouhy.
To Your Success,
Jarrod Clark
What Would You Do If You Knew You Could Never Fail?
Seeing is believing… entrepreneurs are usually optimistic individuals by nature and many entrepreneurs have a high belief level to aspire in their business endeavors. They have the ability to see the glass as half full even in the face of adversity. They don’t have to see the end result in order to believe that only a good outcome will be the end product.
Many people who are not as ambitious may not realize their true potential to achieve what may seem impossible. What if it were foretold that tomorrow you will win the lottery in the amount of 2 million dollars. What would you say? What if someone told you that in 5 years you will be the CEO of one of the worlds most major corporations. Would you believe it?
What if…
What if we could all reenact the story of A Christmas Story by Charles Dickens, not to say that we are all scrooges of course. I will be the first to admit that the word "Bah humbug" doesn’t exist in my vocabulary, but just imagine if you could take part in a real life Christmas past, present and future, only you’re looking at your entire future and not just your Christmas futures.
The Dream
Let’s fantasize here for a moment. Imagine that you had a dream and in that dream you were a major positive force in your community. You reach out and helped so many people and had major influence. Envision yourself coming to a wonderful dream home and driving a fancy car or two.
You have awaken from that from that dream only to find yourself in a negative state of mind of disbelief that none of the things in the previous dream could never happen to you even if you tried. You are in a negative state of mind because it felt so good to achieve so much and accomplish so many goals with in the dream that it felt to good to be true. You wish you could achieve those accomplishments.
The Confrontation
As you prepare to get out of bed, you are confronted with a spirit… a spirit such as the ghost of "A Christmas Story" This is not a spirit of life’s past, neither a spirit of life’s present but a spirit of life’s future. After announcing himself, this mysterious spirit leads you to a time in the future where you are able to witness the same achievements and prized possessions that you just dreamed about.
Your belief is now strengthening
Assuming that you’re still dreaming you’re not fully convinced that these things are achievable on your behalf but your belive is now strengthening. You are now seeing the affects of the hard work that you’ve put in to arrive at this level of success. You don’t know how you got here but all you know is that you are witnessing a whole new lifestyle that you never believed you would have.
After awakening once again, you embrace a brand new day with a totally positive outlook and a more powerful belief level in your abilities. In your dream you were able to see and feel what it is like to overcome obstacles and have a life of success. Your belief level is stronger, you now feel empowered because you’ve had a dream. A dream that you believe in so strong that you are willing to take avenues beyond measure to make that dream come alive.
It’s amazing that looking at the picture from the future end of the spectrum you are able to see the result of the hard work but you don’t know what you’ve done to achieve the success. Where as, from a present day stand point, you can envision the dream with a faith and belief so strong that you realize that you won’t stop until you reach your goal. You know what it takes to achieve the success but you can’t experience that tangible part of dream.
I am here to tell you that you can achieve anything that you put your mind to do. Think for a second, what would you do if you knew your could never fail? The question is would you believe in yourself? Perhaps you would make an effort to start your own business. Maybe you would invest in the stock market or start eating healthier and exercising.
I pose a lot of "What if" type questions throughout this article because my aim is for you to examine your ambitions. True self belief comes in realizing that you can indeed succeed at anything that you set your mind to do. It all starts with putting one foot in front of the other and going for what you want. It does take a dream to spark up the passion and want for success but it shouldn’t take a "spirit of life’s future" to come and show you the end result, your belief should be at a level that you approach everything you do with ambition knowing that you can only succeed.
The sky is the limit and It’s never to late to make a change for the better. James 2:20 says that "Faith without works is dead…" The most difficult part of starting a business is putting one foot in front of the other and shooting for the best. Once your belief level is such that you know you can’t fail in your business or whatever your aspirations maybe, making the first steps will put you much closer to your goal. Keep striving and aim for the best. Remember to keep a consistent prayer life and a positive mind set and you will find through a consistent prayer life you will realize that you can never fail.
To your success,
Jarrod Clark
WordPress Plugin WassUp 411
We’re not re-inventing the wheel here, we’re merely just tweaking it a bit. The popular WordPress plugin WassUp is more than just a thrifty gadget for online blog sites, it provides a bit of 411 on the whens and the where-abouts of your blog site traffic.
Accessing the maximum potential of what the WassUp offers us, and using it to our benefit, can be a helpful tool in optimizing our blog site.
Today’s blogging entrepreneurs go through all the steps in optimizing their blog sites and with a little help from all the impressive plugins, it is a guarantee that our blogging experience will be more pleasurable. It’s no wonder WordPress has gained the credibility that they’ve rightfully earned. With the creative genius of quite a few WordPress plugin inventors, we have access to the perfect WordPress plugin tool WassUp.
Got WassUp?
Compatible with WordPress versions, 1.4.9 - 2.5, WassUp has taken many WordPress users by storm. By installing itself as an additional tab in the WordPress administration area, WassUp provides blog site traffic information to WordPress users indicating when and how often a visitor visits your site. It also provides detailed information such as what sites refer your visitors, which search engines referred those visitors to your blog, the visitor’s IP address, search engine spider, S.E.R.P and Keyword..
I must say it took me a while to really understand and appreciate the usefulness of WassUp. While it was very helpful to be able to see how often I have a visitor and how they were referred to my site, I did not maximize the full potential of the plugin until I recently analyzed every specific detail of the information that it provided me.
It is nice to be able to keep a track on your site traffic progress, which ultimately was the reason I downloaded this plugin, however I want to share with countless entrepreneurs out there an idea that sparked my attention as I was analyzing one of the great features that this plugin has to offer.
I do understand, as a blogger myself, the importance of optimizing your site and keeping tab on how well your blog is ranking with the selected keywords. However, in addition to my chosen keywords, I found it interesting that my site is ranking fairly well for keywords and keyword phrases that I didn’t know it is ranking for.
The aha moment
As we all know, when someone is looking for information on a particular topic, they go to a search engine and type a keyword phrase based on that topic. That being said, wouldn’t it be nice to know how well your site is ranking with keywords that you didn’t even know you rank for.
If someone goes to google and keys in a keyword related to your site and they see your site in the Search Engine Results Pages (or S.E.R.P) and they click on your site, WassUp will let you know what keyword the visitor used to find your site. Which I think is a helpful tool when keeping tabs on what keywords your site is ranking well for. I was able to find quite a few keywords and keyword phrases that are related to my site. These keywords are very similar to my main keyword, only they differ in a slight variation.
WassUp will also tell you what S.E.R.P page those keywords will appear on. It turned out that many of the keywords that I discovered through WassUp were keywords in which my page landed on the first page of those Search Engine Result Pages.
WassUp is free and available for download at http://www.wpwp.org/
To Your Success,
Jarrod Clark
