The past month has
been a very successful one for
my online
business in terms
of traffic going up, number of new affiliates going up, and money
in my pocket getting heavier. This
really inspires me
because after admitting
to being lazy about my
business over
the hot summer months,
I am just slowly starting
to get back into
the swing of things.
I am just slowly starting
to return to my daily
to-do list after having made
it more
manageable and motivating for me
to complete on a daily basis.
I am not fully back where I should be in terms of work I need
to be doing, and yet, it was my most profitable month
ever. I
have to say this really motivates me to work even harder, and be more
consistent if I really want to make money online.
I've realized
that you can do this too by
building your business momentum.
Many people who want to make money online
start a new program
with the hope
that they will make millions overnight. This just isn't realistic no matter
what some online business
owners may tell you. I've seen
the effects
that building
momentum can
have on
your business. I've been through some
ups and downs and everyone will
experience these. But if
you give up on
your online business even before a year has
passed, you don't even have
the chance to get the momentum going, or see
that next upward swing in your
results, and it will come if
you put the time and effort in!
Let me explain by example what I mean by building momentum so that
you can make money
onlineThere are four ways I have done this, which are: Forum posting; Article writing; Blog posting; and Link generating.
Forum posting means that you join some discussion forums on business related topics, or topics related to whatever your website is about. It's free to join these forums, and a great
way to get yourself into a community of other people who
are doing
exactly what you are doing. You can share ideas,
ask questions, look for information, help others, make new friends, and find out what
all the top dogs are up to. At
first you may think this is not at all really vital to your business and a waste of
time. Well, think again! I have made sales simply from offering helpful advice in forums after someone followed my signature link to my site.
A friend of mine who frequents a fishing forum told me that people won't even pay attention to you unless you have made over 500
posts. I thought he was full of it, until I had 500 posts, advanced in my
status, and then had 1000+ posts. Believe me, people will pay attention to your posts the more you have because they can see that you have been around for a while and must know what
you're talking about. This isn't to say you should go and
spam the
forums. That is a no-no! Make useful contributions to the forums and offer something of
value on a consistent basis, and you will be building momentum for your business through forum posting.
Article writing is the next way I have built momentum for my business. Again, this is something you don't do overnight not if you write your
own original
articles like I do. This is one of the best ways to advertise your business these days. Provide an
article with useful information, and submit it to an article distribution service that will distribute your article to thousands of publishers with your online business
links at the end in the author bio-box. You'll be amazed at how fast your links get dispersed around the net
One-way links
pointing back to your site! I have also found that the more articles you write, the more of an authority you become in your niche.
The more articles you have to your name, the more people will realize that you have something valuable to offer, you can be trusted, and your readers may decide you're worth buying from.
Similar to article writing is
blog posting. The more frequent your posts, the more traffic you will get to your site. I recently found a tool on the net that allows you to type in your blog address to get a monetary value of what your blog is worth. Now I have posted my own articles, as well as other people's articles to my blog, and have added special news and reports in addition to that. According to the value I got for my blog, I need to beef up my blog even more! Obviously this takes
time, and that is my point when I refer to "building momentum". If you quit early on, you will never have the chance to make your online business work for you or make money online.
Finally, link generating is another means I have used to build momentum for my business. The
search engines don't even like it if you gather links too quickly because they see it as a deliberate attempt to get a link back to your site. It is recommended that you gather links slowly, maybe
10-15 new links per week, and you want thousands of links pointing back to your site! This, too, will take time, and over time, you will see your link popularity grow if you continue to gather links by writing articles, posting your URL to the link directories, linking to the internal pages on your own site, commenting on blogs, posting in forums, and so on.
Building momentum means taking the time, and making the consistent effort to build your business. It means not
giving up pre-maturely,
thinking nothing is working for you, and that you are not making any money online. If you take consistent action over time by posting in forums, writing original articles, making frequent posts to your blog, and getting as many quality links pointing back to your site, then have what it takes to make money online!
Liane Bate owns a Plugin Profit Site web business, and is a member of Success University and the IAHBE. Visit:
http://www.HonestMoneyMaking.com and
http://www.HonestMoneyMaking.com/blog/
Did you know that you could build
muscle and become stronger
without weight training?
Its true.
Its called isometric training
and it increases
muscle mass, giving you that great-looking body you always wanted. And best of all, you can get fit
without going
to the gym or buying all that expensive home
exercise equipment.
Isometric
exercises involve muscular contractions performed against fixed resistance. The
System gained scientific acceptance
in 1953
when a couple of German researchers named Dr. Theodore Hettinger
and Dr. Eric A. Muller published
a study showing people who
did isometric exercises obtained dramatic
results by causing their muscles
to tense
for no more than 10 seconds at
a time.
This muscle tension
became popular
in America
when a young man
from southern Italy,
Angelo Sicilano, teamed up with marketing genius Harold Roman
to produce an advertisement
in comic books.
It showed how
a 97-pound weakling became a real he-man and punched out
the bully who had kicked sand in his face. This ad launched
the mail order
bodybuilding program called Dynamic Tension. Young Angelo went
on to win
the title The Worlds Most Perfectly Developed Man.
He changed his name to Charles Atlas, put on a pair of leopard
skin shorts, and
the rest
is history.
Probably
the only man
Atlas could
not help was Mahatma Gandhi. When the great spiritual
leader of India wrote a letter to Atlas asking for help, Atlas devised a diet and recommended a series of exercises to help restore Gandhis weakened
condition. I felt mighty sorry for him, Atlas said. He was nothing but a bag of bones.
A few years before Atlas started flexing his muscles, another strongman used
isometrics to build and maintain his strength. Like Atlas, Alexander Zassbetter known
as The Amazing Samsonoffered his training through a mail order course.
Zass was born in Vilna, Poland in 1888, but lived most of his early years in Russia and
after 1924 in Britain.
He
developed a great belief in the
application of isometrics and maximum tension for the development of strength. He believed such an approach was superior to the normal
use of weights in developing strength.
I aimed, first, to develop the underlying connective tissues rather than the superficial Muscles, he wrote in his instruction manual, Samsons System and Methods. I
developed tendon Strength. Without tendons, one would possess no control over the body, he continued. They and their development
are the secret to my strength. Muscles alone wont hold wild horses back. Tendons will, and do.
Sampson, so-called The Worlds Strongest
Living Man,
said muscles were an illusion when it came to strength, but he did encourage his students to develop them because well-defined muscles furnish
Quite a respectable physical appearance. Sampson said beginners
should practice tensing their muscles one at a
time then grouping the muscles together, tensing as many as
possible at one time.
He
outlined three methods of isometric tension: freestyle,
using no appliances; wall exercises for resistance training; and weight exercises in which the student held the weight in a rigid position instead of using curls or presses, the typical pumping iron method of weight training.
Most isometrics instructors agree not to exceed 10 seconds on each muscle contraction. That is perhaps the greatest appeal to isometricsa person can enhance muscle mass and strength with only a few simple repetitions in a limited time without heavy exertion.
In the 1960s, gym ratsnot wanting to publicly admit their
use of steroidsattributed their
sudden remarkable gains in strength and muscle mass to the use of
isometrics. This
association, however false, between the system and the abuse of steroids created a panic among the health
conscious, resulting in the American public shunning the use of
isometrics. But the system flourished in Europe, especially in physical rehabilitation programs among the aged.
Seeing such positive results in Europes
medical use of isometrics, patients in the United States also turned to the healing
aspects of the system.
Scoliosis is just one of the afflictions being
tackled by the medical use of isometrics. The Anti- Scoliosis Treatment Method is a Russian approach that consists of isometric and stretching exercises, vibration,
spinal manipulation and electrical muscle stimulation.
Travelers thrombosis is another ailment that isometric exercises can help prevent. Brought on by pressure on the upper thighs caused by prolonged sitting and
low mobility in narrow seats on long airplane rides,
this ailment is a greater problem than jet
lag or airline cuisine.
The low air humidity onboard passenger aircraft can favor the formation of blood clots in cases where passengers may be lacking fluids. Studies by
Medsafe, a business unit of New Zealands Ministry of Health, indicate the use of isometric exercises helps relieve this condition.
Not only can isometrics help the weary worldwide wanderer, the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration is out of this world when it comes to recognizing the benefits isometrics offer in the
close confinements of a
space capsule. On long space journeys in prolonged weightlessness, astronauts suffer crippling muscle and
bone loss. Future space trips will be longer,
say three years for example, when astronauts eventually explore
Mars. Longer durations in space mean increased muscle and bone losses.
Researchers at NASAs Johnson Space
Center recommend a variety of preflight fitness plans, training space travelers for in-flight use of the exercise equipment onboard the International Space Station, and monitoring their health after their return to Earth.
Muscle and bone loss in space
create an entire realm of biological concerns for astronauts, said William J. Kraemer,
director of the Human Performance Laboratory at
Ball State in Muncie, Indiana. Our challenge is to find countermeasure programs which allow the body to maintain proper structure and function.
Strength training for astronauts involves two types of resistance exercises: high-intensity isotonics, which shorten and lengthen muscles (for example, lifting and lowering a dumbbell), and isometrics, which fully contract muscles without movement (such as
pushing against a doorway).
While both types of exercises could potentially reduce muscle atrophy in microgravity, research suggests isometrics may be more successful than isotonics in protecting slow-twitch fibers, according mto a February 2004 report in NASAs Biological andPhysical Research Enterprise newsletter.
For the homebody,
massive muscle and bone loss may not be as much a problem as those extra calories packed on while watching football or soccer on the television. It might be good advice to roll yourself out of that easy chair and spend 10 secondsat a time doing isometric exercisesat least during the commercial breaks.
The only drawback to "free hand" Isometrics (without the use of any equipment) is that there is no way to measure your strength gains and you are limited in the
number of exercises.
But, there is now a way to increase there effectiveness by up to 1000%.
With the advent of new "hybrid" exercise equipment such as the Bully Xtreme home gym you can now maximize your muscle building results while being able to do more exercises up to 82 different movements.
While utilizing the powerful technique of isometrics.
For more information and a free report check out...
http://www.BullyXtreme.net/Frank Sherrill, is a former U.S. Army Ranger and Martial Arts expert.
After surviving a horrific weight training accident, he spent years researching and finally discovering an exercise program and home gym that was as effective as free weights but, without all the RISK.
