Google Blog Search is a great tool for helping you to:

1. Get information about your niche
2. Assess your competition
3. Find blogs to network with

Google Blog Search is a search engine for blogs. Reading blogs from your peers and from mentors in your industry or niche can be very enlightening. By searching on a keyword or phrase you can find people to follow and subscribed to and you can get information that helps you in your own career.  Whether you’re a blogger, an internet marketer or a Jack / Jill of all trades online, the blogosphere can be very helpful.

Assess Your Competition

If you want to be a professional blogger or online marketer you can see how other people are selling what you want to sell. This can spark ideas for your own strategy.

Find Blogs To Network With

It’s no secret that commenting on blogs in your niche can help you multi-fold. It can help you get visitors to your own blog and help you with your SEO by sending search engine spiders your way.

Tools:

On the Google blog search site you an also create Google alerts from the page, subscribe to a RSS feed in Google Reader and add a gadet to your home page for quick access.

Have a most outstanding day.

Dana Prince
Internet Marketing Blog
www.SeanSEO.com © 2008

Take a minute to step back and think about your internet business for a moment. Are you still enjoying it? Does it make you look forward to getting onto your computer and seeing how much money you made during the night?

Change your perspective

Or have you been lacking in that excitement of late? If you have, then now is the time to do something about it.

Just because you have chosen to get involved in an internet business under your own steam, that doesn’t necessarily mean that you won’t go through phases of feeling a little bogged down and bored with what you are doing.

The Great News

The great news is that you can change things under your own steam as well – you don’t have to wait for a boss to come along and give you permission. To begin with, think about what it is you are bored with. All internet businesses have some dull aspects – like keeping records for example. There’s isn’t much you can do about that, although you can at least break it down into small and manageable chunks to do every now and again, rather than putting it all off until it becomes unmanageable.

By identifying what part of your internet business now seems like it involves too much effort, you can take steps to do something about it. If you’ve been slogging away trying to promote a new product for three months and you are beginning to dread doing it again, then don’t do it. Drop it and move on to something else.

The whole idea of having your own internet business is that you are able to enjoy making money, especially if it’s now your full time occupation. So don’t fall into old habits of settling for something you don’t like – shake it up instead!

Have a most outstanding day.

Sean Rasmussen
Internet Marketing Blog
www.SeanSEO.com © 2008

One of the great things about being an online entrepreneur is the freedom.  New months should have new goals and in fact, each day should have goals even if that goal might be to get balance and do some resting and relaxing.

Freedom comes at a price and that is the price of buckling down when you need to do so.  When you achieve goals, you need to set new ones and never become complacent.  Here are some tools that can help you with goal setting and getting things done.. Sometimes you need to kick yourself in the rear to get moving when you’re your own boss and these tools can help:

Day Planner:

A good old fashioned day planner can help you keep track of your to-do list and make appointments.  Despite technology, putting pen to paper is often a great way to brainstorm so set aside a section for your ideas even if you can’t work on them straight away.

Google Calendar:

Google has a great calendar feature that you can use to remind you and assign tasks for yourself.  Getting an online reminder can be very helpful.

Email Memo Services

Send yourself an email memo through a site such as Memo To Me or Freeminder.

Whether you want to be reminder to call your Mother-in-Law for her birthday or to make an appointment at the dentist or do your bookkeeping, a gentle nudge from yourself can be helpful.

Have a most outstanding day.

Dana Prince
Internet Marketing Blog
www.SeanSEO.com © 2008

What to do when you hit a milestone or goal in internet marketing?  The road to success is paved with challenges and rewards and the number of successes you achieve can be determined, in part, by how you handle your successes.

Celebrate

There’s nothing wrong with celebrating the arrival of a goal or milestone. In fact, you should celebrate reaping the rewards of your hard work! When you get your first ClickBank cheque or hit a specific number of hits per month on your website, go ahead and kick up your heels. You’ve worked hard for it! Don’t celebrate for too long though and whittle away your profits! Keep reading…

Assess

It’s a good idea to try to figure out what you’re doing right.  That way you can capitalize on your success.  Analyse your statistics and look at your customer demographic and figure out how you’ve hit those milestones so you can continue to grow your business.

Set Your Next Goal

Complacency is a success killer so don’t let it get to you! As soon as you hit a goal, set your sights on a new goal. With continued goal setting exercises, you’ll learn new and useful skills along the way and have an increased chance of more success in the future.

Have a most outstanding day.

Dana Prince
Internet Marketing Blog
www.SeanSEO.com © 2008

Of course there’s no single secret to success as an internet marketer but you can improve your chances of success with the right attitude. The laws of attraction are relevant to every single aspect of your life and if you apply the powers of positive thinking and surrounding yourself with positivity you’ll definitely be better off than someone who approaches everything with negativity and skepticism.

A healthy dose of skepticism is good for protecting yourself from scams but approaching new things with cautious optimism and approaching everything in life with a vision and passion for success will definitely impact your life.

In terms of internet marketing, treating your business with respect and integrity is vital. People will see through hype.  In terms of your business dealings, find mentors that demonstrate values and decency.

Tips for marketing (and life) success:

• Thou shalt not spam. Ever.
• Always provide value above and beyond monetary worth when you sell something and you’ll always have happy customers.
• Treat each customer as if they’re your biggest.
• Remember that dissatisfied customers will spread more hype than satisfied ones so strive for customer satisfaction always

Finally, get inspired to not only be more successful but to think as a successful person. You’ve heard the old adage, “Dress for the job you want instead of the job you’ve got.”

Well, how about also dressing  for the life you want?

Read Sean’s free new e-book The Secret Law of Attraction. Available free September 26, 2008 for everyone who joins the FaceBook group. No opt-in necessary!

Have a most outstanding day.

Dana Prince
Internet Marketing Blog
www.SeanSEO.com © 2008