Website Content Ideas

Internet Marketing is about making money by using the internet to generating leads, building a relationship with those leads and turning those leads into valuable customers who find enough value in the information you offer that they are willing to buy your products (whether these are products you have created or affiliate products that you recommend) or join your team. The most important part of that process is building that relationship by offering top-noch value in the information you share, whether that is emailing your list on a daily basis or writing content on your blog.

However, the biggest stumbling block that internet marketers experience is WHAT to write about. In order to write a post on your website, you need to know where to find website content ideas. To write a valuable email to your list, you need to have some kind of idea of the content you are going to share.

As you continue in your education into Internet Marketing, you will learn new things every single day that will develop your Knowledge, Skills and Attitude. Your website content ideas or email ideas will come from the new things that you have learnt. It is by passing that information on to your list/readers that brings them VALUE.

Here is a list of ways to find website content ideas:

1. Share something new you have learnt that day (whether skill based, or mindset based)
   
2. Always have a Personal Development book on the go. I often get  ideas of what to base my emails/blog posts on from something I have read in a PD book.
   See my list of recommended books here
3. Subscribe to other internet marketers lists and save their emails in a folder. Look through their emails when you are stuck for ideas
4. Look through the feeds on Facebook fan pages that are relevant to Internet Marketing and get ideas from there
5. You can also ideas from questions that your list have asked you. For example, if you are asked why it is important to have an “About Me” page on your blog, you can base your next email/blog post on the importance of branding yourself to build trust
   
6. There are also lots of ideas to be taken from non-Internet Marketing related sources like books you have read, films you have watched or songs you have heard

   Click these links for examples of this:

   http://nataliebuhagiar.co.uk/personal-development/mcintrye-comedian-you-need-to-be-more-like-michael-mcintyre/
   
   http://nataliebuhagiar.co.uk/personal-development/the-kings-speech/

The content you share will either be focused on increasing your audience’s Skills (e.g. How to set up autoresponders), Knowledge (e.g. How the process of internet marketing works) or Attitude (e.g. Why positivity is important)

So the most important thing is to be clear about the MESSAGE you want to put across in each piece of content.

The other important thing is to be consistent with your writing. Email your list every day. Write a blog post once or twice a week. Get into a routine of finding and sharing content and it will become as natural as brushing your teeth!

Happy writing!

To learn more about me and how I can help you in your Internet Marketing business, head to my blog: http://nataliebuhagiar.co.uk

Natalie Buhagiar

McIntrye Comedian: You Need To Be More Like Michael McIntyre!

If you haven’t yet heard of Michael McIntyre then you really should have. He is by far my favourite comedian and is probably the UK’s most popular comedian of the moment. So why am I writing about him on my website which is predominantly focused around Internet Marketing? Well what I do as an Internet Marketer is help others to also become successful in Internet Marketing. And there are many things that can be learnt from Michael McIntyre (comedian) that can be applied to your work ethic, your desire and your determination to “make it” online.

You see, I first come across Michael McIntyre on a stand-up show he did in the UK called “Live at the Apollo”. He was great! He was funny! No, he was hilarious! And he just seemed to appear from nowhere! It was only when I read his book “Life & Laughing: My Story” that I learnt of the continuous gigging, the thousands of pounds he spent to perform at the Edinburgh Festival (the festival where “stand-up stars are found,” as Michael puts it) TWO years running (yes, the wannabe comedians had to pay £4000 just to perform there in the hope to get noticed), the endless knock-backs and the mountain of debt he got himself into while trying to become a successful comedian.

And I must say…the two chapters-from-last of his book were so inspiring that I had to share this with you. Here is the gist of those chapters (including a summary of what lead up to that point in his life) and what YOU can take from them:

Michael had been trying to make it as a comedian for about 6 years. He had an agent who got him gigs but they seemed to be the same gigs in the same chain of comedy venues each time. Only the city varied. He was always the opening act, and despite working hard and continuously improving his material, he was never given the opportunity to headline.

Michael was FRUSTRATED.

He was £30,000 in debt (approx. $50,000) when he discovered the news that his new wife Kitty was pregnant. Rather than being able to rejoice at the prospect of becoming a dad, all he could think was, “How am I going to pay for this”.

It was at that point that Michael thought, “I have 9 months to sort my life out. 9 months to take control of the mess that is my life and provide for my family”

[CLUE: We all have our “reasons why” when we get into Internet Marketing. If your “reason why” is big enough, you will find a way to succeed.]

So what did Michael do? The first thing he did was to work harder on his act. He had been told by the critics at the Edinburgh Festival that the strongest part of his performance was his improvisation rather than his pre-written material. He knew that it was the improvisation that got him the most laughs and therefore he enjoyed that the most. So he focused on developing that.

[CLUE: There are so many ways of getting the same result in Internet Marketing. E.g. there are many ways to generate leads. There are many ways to build a relationship with those leads. Pick a method that you are best at and enjoy the most, and focus on that one.]

He also used his current situation as a source of material for new jokes. For example, he wrote a joke around the old wives tale that having sex and eating curry are the best things for inducing labour, and how it was obviously men who made that up. That there were men all over the world sitting in pubs saying, “I can’t believe we got away with that!”

[CLUE: One of the biggest stumbling blocks for budding Internet Marketers is finding content to email to their lists or write on their blogs. There is so much inspiration to be found just in the things that are going on around you, in your lives, in the media, in books you have read, etc, that are relevant to Internet Marketing and lessons that you can share with your list/fans/readers. This blog post is a great example. I finished reading Michael McIntyre’s book today and here is a blog post on it!]

So Michael had been working on and improving his material for 9 months but by the time his baby son was born, nothing had changed. His career still hadn’t progressed and he was even more in debt than before.

CRUCH TIME. What did Michael do? What would you have done in this situation?

Michael had been trying to be a comedian for sooo long. 7 years, £30,000 and a son later, was it time to say, “Enough is enough. I have tried, I have failed, it’s time to settle down and get a ‘proper’ job”?

Certainly not!

He assessed what he had been doing for the past 7 years and decided it wasn’t working. That it was time to try a different route. He had been with his agent for 4 years and it wasn’t working out. He started to research which agents had successful comedians on their books.

Then he found the agency that was obviously the best in the industry with names like Jack Dee, Lee Evans, Jonathan Ross, Dara O’Briain and Alan Carr on their books. He called them and arranged a gig where he could perform and two guys from the agency could go to watch to see if they wanted to work with him. They loved him and through this agency, Michael got the gigs and the TV exposure that launched him into being the highly successful and well known comedian that he is today.

[CLUE: Surround yourself with the best in your industry and you will have a MUCH better chance of success.]

When Michael asked his new agent, “Are you going to make me famous?” his agent replied “It will be a couple of years yet.” The truth was, it was only MONTHS.

Have you heard this quote before:

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” ~ Thomas Edison

This could so easily have been Michael McIntyre. He had been battling for years and was expecting success to be at least another 2 years away. As it turned out, it was just around the corner.

I think we can all take a lot of lessons from Michael McIntyre. It is these qualities of desire, determination and doing whatever it takes to succeed that will bring your success.

Never ever give up.

To learn more about me and how to join the successful community I have surrounded myself with, visit http://NatalieBuhagiar.co.uk

Natalie Buhagiar

Ways To Become A Good Leader

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Ways To Become A Good Leader

In order to build a strong team of loyal people in your business, you must position yourself as a good leader. When you are a good leader, you attract people to you. Your list respects you and finds value in the content you offer. The respect they have for you leads them to want to keep reading/listening to/watching the information you share, and that builds trust. Trust, in turn, brings sales and recruits. So what are the ways to become a good leader?

The first thing to do to find ways to become a good leader is to ask yourself what do YOU look for in a good leader (or sponsor or mentor). And these are the things you should be. For example, if you want your mentor to be a good emotional support of reinforcement when you are having doubts in your ability and for them to give you encouragement to keep going, then this should be something you offer your team. Everyone has their down days or days of frustration in their business, especially at the beginning. Being a rock of reinforcement can be a great quality to offer your team. If you want a mentor who answers your calls when you ring, or returns your calls if they can’t answer, then ensure that you also do the same.

You will attract like-minded people to you, so it is highly likely that the things you seek in a good leader are the same things that your team look for you to be.

There are a number of ways to become a good leader, but the most important thing in my eyes is offering good value. I only stay on the lists of people who offer me good quality, high value content in their emails, audios, blog posts and webinars. I therefore offer the same as I know that people on my list will only stay on my list if they are receiving good value from me. So be prepared to share all the knowledge you have.

“Your success will only come from the success of those who come AFTER you.” – Daegan Smith

“Be willing to GIVE without WANT before you can HAVE” – Mike Dillard

So do you consider yourself to be a good leader? In order to answer this question, ask yourself this: “Would YOU sign up with YOU?”

Find out more about working with me on my blog http://nataliebuhagiar.co.uk

Natalie Buhagiar

Getting Into Action to Create Results

Getting into action in your business is so important. It is what creates results. When you’re working on your home business there is always so much information that your could learn, and it is definintely important to increase your knowledge and therefore your value to your prospects and team. But it is so easy to spend so much time learning that you don’t actually get around to implementing the things you have learnt!

This is typical of people who are quite new to internet marketing and network marketing. They get totally overwhelmed by trying to learn all the things there are the know about the how to make money online that when it comes to doing the things they have learnt, they get a mental block and dont know where to start!

It’s not about learning everything there is to know. Its about learning a few things and getting good at them.

This was me at the start of this year (2011). I was determined to work on my business a little bit every day when I got home from work. So I would turn my laptop on and get bogged down with reading emails that had been sent to me by people whose list I was on, and watching videos on people’s blogs, and attending webinars. I was learning loads! But by the time I had done that, I had run out of time to actually implement any of what I had just learnt! Yet I would think, “I’ve done some work today…TICK!”  But I soon realised that I wasn’t taking any actions that would create me an income. I was doing the theory but not the practice!

So I wrote myself a little post-it note that said “What have I done to make money today?” and stuck it to the top of my laptop, so everytime I opened my laptop I would be reminded that, as important as learning was, I needed to put what I had learnt into action.

TIP: I  find that having a routine of actions helps. So I have set days when I learn. And there are certain activities that I do with set frequency. e.g. I email my list every day, I run a solo ad twice a month, etc

You are in network marketing to create results that will lead you to your freedom (freedom from your job, freedom to have more time with your family, freedom to go on holidays when you choose,, etc) and the results you need are to generate leads, convert those leads into happy customers and turn those happy customers into repeat customers. So if you focus on the ACTIONS the RESULTS will follow.

Natalie Buhagiar

How To Use Google SEO Tools to Generate Free Leads

Would you like to know how to be able to generate free leads via your blog using Article Marketing? And would you like to know which google seo tools to use to help you do so? Well this article and video show you how to do so. The first thing you need to know is which keywords are highly searched for but are not already being heavily targeted by other websites. This gives your articles (and hence your blog) the best chance of appearing on the first page of google when people search for the keyword that you have targeted.

So you are looking for keywords with high searches (ideally >2000 searches per month) and low competition (ideally <30,000 competing websites). So how do you get that information? Well there is a great tool I use called Market Samurai, however, that does incur a cost. (Worth every penny, but this article is focussed on getting you free results). So you can use Goolge SEO tools to get the information you need: namely the Google Adwords Key word Tool.

Watch this video for a step by step explanation of how to use the google adwords key word tool to produce good keyworded articles and get your content infront of as many relevant people as possible.

http://nataliebuhagiar.co.uk/google_seo_tools

For more useful information on internet marketing, head to my blog.

Natalie Buhagiar

Internet Marketing Training Course

With the economy becoming more and more unreliable, thousands more people are turning to the internet to generate an income and secure their financial future. This is SUCH a good idea, as there is just soooo much money to be made on the internet.

But at the same time, where to start? There is so much to learn, from blogging to list building, to keyword research, to video marketing, to social media. The list goes on! And it can be very confusing and extremely overwhelming when you first get started.

When we become confused and overwhelmed, we naturally get frustrated and end up giving up. This is not the ideal solution!!

So what IS the ideal solution?…An internet marketing training course! How would you like to have access to an internet marketing training facility that guides you through step-by-step tutorials? Well the Platinum E-Lifestyle internet marketing training course does exactly this. It is filled with training videos that you can work through at your own pace and re-watch over and over again as many times as you need to.

The best thing about this internet marketing training course is that it comes with pre-made, ready-to-sell products that you can promote and make money from WHILE YOU LEARN! And the money you generate from selling the affiliate products within the site cover the cost of your monthly membership!

Watch the video on THIS PAGE for a guided tour around the inside of the Platinum E-Lifestyle site and click the button below the video to get signed up!

Natalie Buhagiar