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Retiring Pay Per Click

by John Stiles

Yep, not a typo! At least semi retiring from pay per click marketing.

Quite frankly, I’m having way too much fun building a virtual niche site empire. With the freedom to build sites on any subject I choose, tap into natural search engine traffic, it’s much more set and forget than using pay per click. Done right, the free traffic can be very good too.

While the focus on paid traffic was very lucrative and a great learning experience, it really wasn’t all that fun for me. There is more to business than making money, having fun and more freedom come to mind. Buying traffic will always be part of the mix, just not to the degree that it once was.

With so many directions to take in building an internet marketing business, it pays to find a good fit for your own personality. My take away from all the experiences is that focus is a key ingredient to success. Focus on one technique, follow it through to the end. Then take a good long look at what you learned along the way and decide if that is the business model you want to follow going forward.

Life can help decide the right direction for you

In my case, nothing like a family crisis to get me to evaluate the path I was on and my chosen business model. We’ll leave that story for another time, shall we.

Far too often, I’ve seen people jump around from one hot idea to the next, without seeing any of them through to the end. Hell, I’ve been guilty of that, I think most people have to some degree. You only know what fits your personality if you see it through, all the way to profit or not. Complete whatever system or business model with total focus, only then will you know for sure if it was a good fit or not.

Look for some change in direction here in the future. In case you haven’t noticed, the products showcased on this site have been shifting away from pay per click. Simply because I enjoy creating niche marketing sites more.

Find your focus…

John Stiles

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Our Son will be missed

by John Stiles

One of the hardest things in life is losing a friend, my friend was like a son to me. The son we never had, his name was Cottonball. He comes from Siberia, since we adopted him, we didn’t know until recently that our son was a Siberian cat.

Here is our son, relaxing and looking proud as he always did.

Cottonball, our son, my best friend

The world of internet marketing can be a lonely one. Having a faithful pet to keep me company made working on the internet fun.

Saving his life many years ago

We met Cottonball at the Humane Society. They had him in a cage along side many other cats and dogs. He was slated to be put to sleep, which is what they do to animals that don’t get adopted.

He was not happy about being in a strange place, let alone in a small cage. When we tried to pet him, he growled and lunged at us through the bars of his prison. I suppose if I were in his fur, I would be pissed off too!

What can an innocent animal do to deserve the death penalty?

My wife and I looked at each other and said, no one is going to give him a home since he acts like a wild animal. We knew he just didn’t like being caged up, could be he knew his days were numbered and that made him mad too. We figured he must have come from an abusive home based on the way he was acting. That was nearly 12 years ago.

Our only concern in adopting him was how would he be with our grandchildren? We decided to take the chance and brought him home that day. While the first few days were a little touchy, he mostly hid and acted scared of his own shadow. It took a great deal of coaxing to get him to come out and eat.

It became clear that he was abused when he would freak out at the sound of paper being crinkled. Amazing that such a beautiful Siberian cat would ever be abused.

Here is our son sleeping peacefully:

Our son sleeping peacefully

We had roughly 12 good years with our son. Yes, I called him my son because he was a member of our family. Always there to greet you with his purr and innocent love.

We will miss our son

Cottonball came down with irreversible kidney disease and he may have suffered a stroke too. The vet said there was nothing they could do. Since he showed no sign of suffering, we brought him home. We kept him comfortable and he purred all the way to the end. We let him go out on his own terms, much like mom and grandma did, with dignity.

There is now a hole next to me where Cottonball would keep me company while working on our internet marketing business. I find myself reaching over to pet him and seeing shadows behind me when making coffee. In our hearts, he is still here and always will be. We miss you big guy, we’ll see you again when we get there.

John Stiles

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Increasing Productivity Secrets

by John Stiles

So where the hell does all the time go?

What is it with all the secrets anyway? Psst… Step inside this article for the secret to increasing productivity, saving time, and having more time for family, fun or just goofing off.

Let’s face it, time is a luxury that gets sucked out of us at every turn. In learning ways to increase productivity, maybe we can’t turn the clock back, but we can sure have more control over our time. We are all busy and it just seems to get more crazy the older you get. Just wait till you get to my age, it’s as though time flies by in dog years.

The elusive internet marketing lifestyle

Yea, many people dream of making millions on the internet. Starting a business has never been this easy. The secrets to success are everywhere, for a price. Not just the price in monetary terms either, many of the secrets to success are given away for free. The real cost is all the time that gets sucked out of your life as you work toward your dream.

The Rolling Stones wrote about time with the song Time Is On My Side. Wonder how Mick Jagger feels about it now? For me, time has become a luxury that I can always use more of. More time for spending with our grand children is a big motivator for finding ways to increase productivity.

Increasing productivity the easy way

No matter what methods are used to increase productivity, free up time and get more done. It is imperative that it is easy to learn as well as easy to do. If our methods for increasing our productivity are a pain in the rear, lets be honest, who will follow through and do it? That’s why most of the methods for getting more done and saving time, fall short.

Meet Michael Tipper

In looking for the real answers to getting more done in less time, I met Michael Tipper.

Michael Tipper

Better to find the real experts on things you want to know more about. Michael happens to be an expert on memory, speed reading, and mind mapping, just to name a few.

Michael Tipper is also a highly sought after speaker, helping thousands of people become more productive. In fact, Michael won the Silver Medal at the World Memory Championships earning the rarely awarded status of Grand Master of Memory.

Seems to me that Michael has the kind of knowledge needed to help anyone become more productive in anything they do. Exactly the knowledge I can use to free up time for our grand children.

When we met at a recent internet marketing seminar, it was as though a couple of old friends met again after being away for a long time. We’ve since become good friends.

The Secret to achieving the Internet Lifestyle Dream

Starting an internet marketing business is easy. You know the dream of automated websites, life on the beach, complete financial freedom. How are you doing?

For most people, the dream of a prosperous internet marketing business has become more of an expensive hobby, than a real profitable business. Even if you do make great money with your business, taking things to higher levels is the goal, right?

The real secrets to how the rich gurus do what they do are revealed in Michael Tippers Business Profit Productivity Blueprint. Want to see how the big shots really do what they do? It’s in there!

Business Profit Productivity Blueprint

While my intent is not to turn this into a fluff piece on the course.

I do want to stress that Michael has gone all out to help people with this. At first glance, it may just seem like a mind mapping course. Yea, mind mapping is used as a tool, but the course is much more than that. Some people may even be intimidated in using mind maps for their business.

The thought of high priced mind mapping software may cause some people pause in taking the course. Michael thought of that too, and includes lessons on using free mind mapping software.

Want to take your online business to the next level? How about having more time with family or grand children, if you have any yet.

I’ve been through the Business Profit Productivity Blueprint from beginning to end. The impact on my life and time has been very cool, more time with my little buddies is a great bonus.

The course includes over 8 hours of videos along with illustrated manuals that make it all very easy to implement into your business. Remember earlier? If it’s not easy to gain from using these techniques, what is the point. Michael has made it simple, you’ll see.

John Stiles

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Brainstorming Techniques

by John Stiles

Using mind maps to expand on our gathered ideas is an extremely powerful method to turn our ideas into products or new businesses. I recently had my world turned upside down, when I saw how the guru marketers do it.

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Internet Marketing Ideas

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What does a good internet marketing idea look like? The real judge for any idea is the consumer. When a really good idea hits the market, customers will spread the word.

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Mind Map Marketing

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WordPress marketing sites made easy with mind maps. With the popularity of Word Press, managing multiple niche marketing sites becomes simple with mind maps.

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Mind Mapping Internet Marketers

by John Stiles

The secret power of mind maps, Mind maps are the secret weapon of the Internet marketing gurus. Is it any wonder the gurus are kicking our royal… well you know?

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Success with Participation

by John Stiles

Success with participation is not that tough, it all starts with all of us participating in the markets we want to get into. Hiding behind user names or just lurking behind the scenes will not get any of us anywhere. We all have something to contribute, don’t be shy, toss out what you think and see what sticks.

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First Mothers Day without Mom

by John Stiles

Mom and I would talk at length about my quest for an Internet marketing business. We had many conversations about life, careers, and my quest for success in Internet marketing. She would always have some words of wisdom and advice to share.

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