Internet Marketing

Affiliate Sales Increased with Reciprocity

March 27, 2016 by Rune Ellingsen

Reciprocity and the Law and Science of Persuasion in Affiliate Marketing.

Reciprocity is a concept that you should be familiar with as an affiliate marketer if you want to increase your affiliate sales.

Simply because if you learn the science behind the reciprocity concept you will understand how sales are made and how the art of human psychology can help you make more money.

In general all the average affiliate marketer does is try to present his pitch to the readers and hoping that some of them will end up buying the product he is promoting.

While this works perfectly most of the times, it won’t yield a high conversion rates all the time.
This is simply because the fact that…

People don’t always use all the information available to them in order to make a decision, that’s the harsh reality.

Instead people depend on certain rules and shortcuts that guides them into taking any decision.

One of these shortcuts and rules is Reciprocity.
Reciprocity is one of the basic concepts in the science of persuasion, which basically helps you as an affiliate marketer understand how to make people take a certain decisions, like buying your affiliate offer.

I am going to explain the Reciprocity concept and how to implement it in your affiliate marketing efforts to increase your sales and make more money.
The science of persuasion tells us that reciprocity is the obligation to give when you receive first.

So a real life example will be, when a friend invites you to his birthday party (you receive) then you feel obligated to invite him back to your birthday party (give).
If someone did you a favor then you feel the need to return the favor to him/her.

This all leads us to the rule that people are more likely to say “Yes! To you when you give them something first.

Of course people will not say yes to anything just because you gave them something first, you must ask them or expect from them something reasonable.

Also it might not be as easy as:

“I give someone something then he will be obligated to agree to do something for me”.

You have to consider how you are giving something to that person.

For example, when a waiter brings you your bill in most cases you will pay the bill and pay him a reasonable tip.
But if that waiter gave you a mint with your bill then you probably going to increase his tip, and if he said to you “this mint is for you my best customer” then you will give him even more tip.

This shows us that the way you give something is very crucial even more than what you are giving itself.

So for reciprocity to work:
• You need to be the first to give
• Give something personalized
• Give something unexpected

How to Implement Reciprocity in your Affiliate Marketing Plan

Using what we know about the reciprocity concept, I am going to explain some strategies that you can implement on your affiliate page to boost conversion rates and sales.

Strategy #1

Select a profitable niche that you want to sell affiliate products in, and then build a blog filled with content and perhaps free training course.
Try and promote this blog to get as much readers as you can. Over time you will see that all your blog posts got tons of likes and retweets which gives you more social media exposure.

And after sometime put an ad for the products you want to sell as an affiliate.
Because at this point many of your users will be regular visitors to your blog, and when they finally see a product that you recommend they will feel the need to buy it because you were so generous to them across the time they have been visiting and reading your blog.

Strategy #2

In your affiliate product review page tell your visitors to download something that goes well with the product you are trying to sell.
For example:

If I am selling (as an affiliate) a wordpress plugin related to SEO then I will offer them a 15 pages pdf guide on SEO as a bonus.

But his bonus will be given to them before they buy the actual product.
Here I was the first to give, and I did something unexpected because I gave them a generous bonus before they even buy, and it was personalized because it helps solve their problem and it goes well with the product they are considering buying.

Strategy #3

You know how nowadays every ebook, guide, software out there can only be downloaded if you opt-in or provide your email address, as much as that work it is still annoying to have to be the one to give first in order to take.

Try offering your PDF guide without an opt-in and tell your visitors that download doesn’t require them to give their email.
When you do that, at this point people feel how generous you are and how unexpected this is which is very important factor in persuading them to buy your affiliate product.
So what you do is at the end of your PDF guide, you mention the affiliate product that you want them to buy and introduce it in 1 paragraph.

People will feel the need to return you the favor of giving them something for free first.

Strategy #4

If you are promoting a software product or service, then try to contact the product owner and convince them to give you a version of the product that you can give to your visitors.

Except this version should allow a trial usage for free.
It has been known that when people are given the product for free for a period of time, they end up buying it at the end. They feel how generous you are and they may end up falling in love with your affiliate product, and that is more persuasive then any word you can type.

Strategy #5

In your blog, try to organize a monthly events and training sessions for your readers.
You can see Google hangouts or Skype group video chat for that or even any online webinar service that will help you host such events.

These events are amazing for selling affiliate products, because you get very personal with your audience via video or audio and you spend like 1 hour giving them advice and tips and tricks and at the end you sell them your affiliate product.

Using any of these strategies or even developing your own strategies that implement the reciprocity concept can really add a huge improvement to the way you do affiliate marketing.

These changes are cheap and not time consuming yet they can bring you more money.
As an affiliate marketer I think you should always try to find ways to convince people to buy from you as it mounts to higher conversion rates.

Also there are many other affiliate marketing techniques you can learn from this one. Combine them with what you have learned here so far and you can see sales increase.

This has been a guest blog post from Ibrahim Dahy of:

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Speed up WordPress

December 4, 2015 by Rune Ellingsen

Speed up WordPress with ease.

Speed up WordPress as soon as possible for your overall conversion.

Having a slow site affects your visitors experience.

You should really go the extra mile if you are a serious webmaster and take some steps and learn how to speed up WordPress for your own sites

If you read this then you should have a WordPress site or an interest in getting one.

Either way in this post I will share with you some of the tweaks I have done to speed up some of my sites.

First off you want to investigate WHY you would want a website with hypersonic page load speed.

Compared to a slow buggy design which loads and loads… and loads.

Truth is that most people abandon your site if it loads too slow.

Google states that anything OVER THREE SECONDS load time will repel your visitors. Take note of that.

So having a fast site REALLY matters in your overall experience to the user.

This affects clicks, trust,engagement and conversion as a whole, so it’s kind of a big deal.

We use a online tool called Pingdom for our initial testing to see how we perform with the settings and plugins installed.

From there you can enter your site URL and see how it performs compared to other sites they have measured.

Ways to speed up your WordPress site:

No.1.

To speed up your WordPress site from the get got it is worth mentioning that your server has something to say.

We use more than one hosting solution in our business and at the time of this writing we are using Hostgator.com for this site you are on.

Now the numbers vary, a lot. Reason is that we are on shared hosting.

When on shared hosting you can expect varied amount of resources being used by others and that affect your sites performance in the terms of exactly, speed.

*** JUST MADE A SWITCH – Now we use this other company. Read the details here: https://runeellingsen.com/best-hosting-for-wordpress/

It is much, MUCH better! AND it’s cheap!

Wanting to get better performance on my sites I went out and did my research.

I Googled some blogs that I was following which I knew did a LOT of blogging, hence the focus on a high performing site.

Spying on the fast websites with online tools I was able to find a couple of things in common for the fast loading sites.

First thing was that they used a really really fast server. For WordPress sites the common denominator was servers from WPEngine. These are servers made for WordPress sites.

Got WordPress and need fast hosting then you CAN check them out.

Would advice against it though, read why here: https://runeellingsen.com/best-hosting-for-wordpress/

Anyway they and others like them specialize in getting your site fast as it has been tweaked to fit into the framework more than many other solutions.

Other options include but not limited to Amazon S3 hosting or other CDN solutions such as MAX CDN which is recomended by none other than the creator of Yoast. The no.1 SEO plugin for many.

So server speed is vital for a really really quick site!

This is however NOT needed for everyone, as this site and many others do OK with shared hosting. But a site that receives a lot of hits may need to rethink their options when it comes to server speed in order to get the most visitors to stay on your site rather than bouncing off. You want to keep user interaction as high and motivated as possible and that is done with responsiveness.

No.2.

Speed up WordPress with a clean WordPress theme.

Your WordPress theme can be fast from the get go, OR you may have something more complex of a theme which requires some more resource off the bat.

Visual elements such as slider, images, videos and scripts can really slow you down and if performance is your thing then look for a fast light weight theme to do the job.

I can recomend Genesis Framework and a theme from Studiopress (These two Genesis framework and in my case Corporate Theme goes hand in hand. You can use the framework only also)

Also the 3 Clicks Theme is another contenders I have used personally. I got hold of these themes after doing a lot of research on the subject and just recent I had to go over this topic and I can happily say that these two themes gets the overall high score from a lot of site owners.

Difference is that Genesis is built upon a lightweight framework which you can customize to your own pleasing. But it is a little technical for newcomers.

The Three Clicks theme is also built fairly lightweight but offers a more click and drag option when it comes to designing your pages. This feature makes it a bit slower but both themes score highest as far as I have seen.

You can see the Genesis Framework with the Corporate theme in action here by the way: http://getgoodseo.com

Please bare in mind that this is just for educational services only and the site mentioned needs attention in regards of graphics and fresh content.

This site was the first I built with success so it had it’s period of shine but I moved on to other things and let it stand there un-updated for a long while.

It’s more of a testing ground waiting to be transformed into something new.

Right now I have changed the theme over to Genesis so it is fast. It will get more attention real soon though.

Sadly I have no sites up and running with the 3 Clicks Theme but if you visit their site you can see how it works and it looks real good after some tweaking. See their site here: 3 Clicks Theme DEMO

There are a bunch of WordPress themes out there and there are others that are fast also.

If you are looking for something else then be sure just to see how fast the theme you want is compared to others.

No.3.

Speed up WordPress with less plugins.

To check to see what slows down your site is drumroll… Your plugins.

Now, having a lot of plugins will obviously slow down your site, simple math will allow you to grasp that.

But what you did not know perhaps is that many of the plugins can be removed as they do not offer any great value for you.

Now all blogs are different in some way and people change around on what they use according to their needs for the particular site.

But the “red-thread” here (meaning the common denominator) is that a lot of high performing blogs use the same initial plugins to start with.

The plugins mentioned in this post are here to speed up WordPress.

Sometimes you need more than these but using these as a “core must have setup” for your blog will at least give you a solid ground for high performance off the gate.

Other stuff can be modified as your needs may require it.

For a new blog you can easily start off by Googling what you need and add +lightweight or +performance into the search command to get some good ideas.

Like this example: “lightweight wordpress theme”.

For an aged blog this is what we do:

Search inside your WP Dashboard for all plugins mentioned by the way.

Install the plugin called P3 (Plugin Perfomance Profiler) by Godaddy.

Run the plugin.

This will let you know what plugins you use that are causing your page load speed to be slow.

Outdated plugins with old code should not be used due to several factors but mostly security. They also tend to slow or even mess up your site.

So be on the lookout for that when running the plugin.

After you have run the plugin you can clearly see with the graph what plugins is causing you site to slow down.

Options would be to remove or replace the ones that you want.

When that is done you are on good way for a better performing site.

So the best WordPress plugin to speed up website is related to your cache.

The plugins we use on most of our blogs for speed is:

WP Super Cache which is an overall speed enhancement plugin.

A lot of options and a must have plugin.

Also worth mentioning is W3 Total Cache which is a similar plugin. Totally a personal choice which one to use but with our new host we use this on most sites.

Using WP Fastest Cache on this site at the moment though. Will change to W3Total Cache soon because of the new server. It fits better.

If you however use a LOT of images they can be also a huge drag on your resources as they load slow.

If you use Photoshop then you can choose how to compress your images before saving them and the smallest compression size will do for your images.

The quality of the images remain.

IF NOT however you are using that you may have some images that are too big.

To fix this we have the plugin:WP-Smush.

It let’s you downsize the images you upload and the quality stays the same.

Just to give you a feel of a slight more technical thing you can do to speed up WordPress is to use Lazy Load to only load images which are visible without scrolling.

When scrolling it loads the images further down on your page keeping the load time at a minimum.

There are more technical steps to make your site faster.

This post however covers the generic but “not to miss” (IMO) steps that will give you a faster WordPress site.

Excluding the Lazy Load.

Also worth mentioning in regards to get page load speed fast, is clutter.

This kinda goes hand in hand with disabling useless plugins.

The steps we have taken to speed up WordPress on this site has been visual optimization also as we saw it as a benefit.

Our front page is filled with just a few posts.

You can use excerpts for a fast loading front page.

And limit what is on the front page in general.

Get rid of disturbing widgets.

Think simplicity.

When it comes to share icons on a blog, for social recognition we use them primarily on our Blog page and not the Front page.

Do your own testing to see what gives you the best results in terms of user interaction and speed.

We use YOAST SEO plugin also which has more benefits also when it comes to speed as it has features in it which you can find as separate plugins.

Keeping it in one place gets less load time for your site.

Hope you have enjoyed this post as your site gets faster by the minute by implementing the above suggestions.

Already have a fast blog? Great! Think we missed anything vital for getting a faster website? Please share your experience in the comment section.

Speed up WordPress today yourself.

Outsourcing using Fiverr

November 6, 2015 by Rune Ellingsen

Outsourcing using Fiverr is one of the ways to cut down on your workload in order to get more things done faster and for cheaps. Starting from just $5.00!

In this post, I will discuss the ins and outs of outsourcing with Fiverr.

Outsourcing as a technique for getting tedious work done, or instead of learning a new skillset to operate with… is GOLDEN!

There are many sites out there which work as portals for people wanting to either sell or buy services.

First a little company overview:

Fiverr came online a few years back and quickly became a monster portal for online marketers to utilize.
Outsourcing with Fiverr became a given for many tasks such as:
Link building, writing services, video editing, video making, press release submission, blog comments, editing code, making christmas cards and a video of a singing man in a banana costume among others.

The gigs are plentiful and just as weird as you want ’em OR just as pro as you need ’em.

Outsourcing using Fiverr is a great timesaver and as you may suspect, if you did not already know, the gigs start at only five measly bucks.

Some gigs have extras, like if someone has done a great job and they take only a Fiverr for it and the gig is worth more, the seller may have an option of accepting extra donations for the exceptional work.
Also you have banner design or design in general where often times people who has outsourced that part of their project using Fiverr may get a design which needs a little refining.
In these cases the seller may have the option of extra editing or not. The prices vary from 5 bucks per extra and up to 20 bucks from what I have seen so far.

In these cases you open a dialogue and explain what exactly is “off” from what you were expecting and then you can state what you think would do the trick for you.

Communicating design is a skill of it’s own.

Often times you can get a really good design even though it is perhaps not what you had in mind exactly but it’s so good that you want to keep it. In these cases you simply have to either communicate better when ordering or simply accept that this is a part of the game and just do the best of what you have. You can always order a edit if the seller provides it. Use your own judgement in these cases so you have a good experience.

When you consider outsourcing using Fiverr you also may have concerns about the quality of the gigs.

Some of them are cheap considered to other sites and sometimes this comes with a catch.

On Fiverr however you will get good gigs at a low cost either way.

My experiences with Fiverr has been very good.

You have sellers with RATINGS and this is of course worth noticing before making an order.

Some vendors are new and have no particular rating or some may have poor ratings.

The ratings are given by the buyers who can choose to rate if they are pleased with the co-operation and the result.

There will always be some who are not pleased with the gig even if the vendor did their part. That is just based on customer behaviour.
Like for instance a seller may have 1000 good ratings and say 10 bad. Usually this means the gig is worth it.

Outsourcing with Fiverr is a breeze.
The websites design is easy on the eyes.
The order process is step by step.
The site is secure and will give you a great return on your investement, on average.

Click the image below this text to go to Fiverr.

And the results speak for themselves.
Fiverr started their online portal in 2010 and reaches over 110K U.S. monthly people.

Personally, I have been outsourcing using Fiverr since it’s early beginnings
The site has grown and appear even more serious (which it is and always has been) than before with more elements on the site stating it as a serious online vendor which is here to stay.

Today the site has gotten its own Forum where you can directly be in touch with other people just like you using the platform.

Fiverr Academy: This is a section of the site with sole purpose of helping you sell better by using tracking, marketing and more performance insights.

They also have their own blog where they share more insights from their own view. Newly added a to the site is a store where you can buy items with their logo.

The imagination is what stops you if you want to just do something fun and out of the ordinary for your friends also.
While outsourcing using Fiverr can get you tedious tasks done for cheaps, you may want to look at the other options, just for kicks.

Some of the other gigs offered on Fiverr are:
Pet models, human billboards, dares, stunts, or you can go to Fiverr.com and browse for Extremely Bizarre gigs like:

Basically you can order services for most things needed for a website owner.

But also have a blast out of the other weird gigs if you wish.

Outsourcing using Fiverr is easy.

How is it to sell on Fiverr?

The selling process is the same, almost.

You can easily write the details of what service you offer and post it onto Fiverr spending less than 10 minutes.

Depends on what you offer and how many extras you add of course but the process is simple and fast.

Anyone thinking about joining Fiverr for selling their services can do so by clicking here:

Yes! I want to do outsourcing using Fiverr

It is reported that some sellers get big paydays because of more than one factor:

Popularity of the gig is a thing.

Your skillset is a thing.

Speed of task, like if you are quick you an have a great turnaround time on gigs and process as many as you want to during the day.

Some gigs can be done by quick labor and some can be semi or fully automated by software.

Most gigs require a skillset none the less, but read on till the end to see how you can make money outsourcing using Fiverr without any particular skill.

And also how you market your gigs is a thing.

While Fiverr has it’s site where people come and order, you can always spread the link to you gig elsewhere for more traffic and more work for you.

Outsourcing with Fiverr should be something you check out before you get tired of doing the same time consuming tasks day in and day out IF you have enough for a cup of coffee…
Then you can skip the coffee, hire a worker and take that short break to rest your entrepreneurial head so it is ready for more productive tasks.

While Fiverr is cheap you can make money there you see. But did you know that there are many sites and clients out there wanting services like Fiverr offer?

You can totally use Fiverr and make a business out of outsourcing using Fiverr a task/gig/project a client you have corresponded with need.

This is where you can make EVEN more while not working so hard. All you need to do is to search for people looking to buy gigs like banner design or other.

Contact client and state what you can offer which is relative to his liking. State a price.

Often the price i.e an offline client, consultant service, plumber or other, looking to buy a banner for their website has a different view on what you offer cost.

You can expect to get a high return on your investement. Prices around $200 dollars are not rare for banners.

Which you can get FOR FIVE DOLLARS when outsourcing using Fiverr.

Anyone thinking about joining Fiverr for selling their services can do so by clicking here:

Click here when you want to do outsourcing using Fiverr

Best books for entrepreneurs

October 30, 2015 by Rune Ellingsen

Best Books for Entrepreneurs. Some of them are in the category, “must-have”.

Your pc monitor or tablet certainly work as a reading platform, but our eyes read paper material much easier.

Today I will make a list of some of the best books for entrepreneurs which helped shaped me, and also guided me into the entrepreneurial world.

But first, let me elaborate on the subject of why.

Why one should read books on top of all the information which is laid out online:

First off, less clutter.

Better for the eyes.

And also usually more sustainable information. This depends on what you read of course but “stick” with me here.

There are many books to choose from and many authors to follow.

First, let me start off by mentioning the first of the best books for entrepreneurs I remember reading over and over.

The first on the list of the best books for entrepreneurs is called “Think and Grow Rich” and is written by a man named Napoleon Hill.

If this is the first time you hear about his book and you consider yourself an entrepreneur or simply want to start a small business but lack some guidance and/or vision, then this is for you.

This book takes you far back into the depths of your mind where you visualize and suggests ideas ready to be materialized.

It gives you a mental direction with a focus on the task you have set yourself out to do. With this, you will have more focus.

And yes it is a MUST HAVE in your collection.

I cannot write about how much this book meant to me because it really is priceless. I have it in written form and on audio. Been through it several times.

The second of the best books for entrepreneurs is on fire in terms of thinking like a free individual in a fast pace is DRUM ROLL:

“The Four Hour Work Week” by

Tim Ferriss.

This book is very different than most of what you have read in the past, I would assume.

If you are familiar with it then great. If not, you should. This one should be in your collection AND you should follow Tim Ferriss on FB as he posts a lot there about his lifestyle.

And the lifestyle… Is very free. For some controversial. For others, a mind opener/blower or whatever you want to call it. That’s when you can’t put the book down and are getting intrigued by the “off the hook” approach to getting you to enjoy life at low cost, STILL living luxurious and without boundaries and willing and wanting to explore every aspect of life.

Totally another MUST HAVE for your collection.

The third of the best books for entrepreneurs in this post is called

“The Ultimate Sales Letter: Attract New Customers. Boost Your sales.”

You can find more info on the author Dan Kennedy(!) here: GKIC.com

It’s in the title. Proven Formula for creating an efficient sales letter.

Highly recommended from many big names in the industry. Do check it out.

The fourth of the best books for entrepreneurs is called

“Words that Sell: More than 6000 Entries to Help You Promote Your Products, Services, and Ideas“

Richard Bayan wrote this. His book gets the recommendation from About.com as the No.1 resource for the copy. Visit his site here: Richard Bayan

A powerful book filled with words that evoke special feelings in people.

Some grab you in and hold your attention more than others.

Really one of the books I open a lot.

Number five on the best books for entrepreneurs list book is called

“CA$HVERTISING: How to Use More than 100 Secrets of Ad-Agency Psychology to Make Big Money Selling Anything to Anyone“

Must have!!! Written by “The Direct Response Surgeon: Drew Eric Whitman. Learn more about Drew here: Drew Eric Whitman Official Website

Really one of the best books for entrepreneurs as it contains so many spot-on methods you can leverage in your business.

Love this one for its blunt talk and highly effective writings.

Number six on our list of the best books for entrepreneurs book is called

“Buy Now: Creative Marketing that Gets Customers to Respond to You and Your Product“

Man behind this one is no other than Rick Cesari. With help from Ron Lynch. Learn about Rick and his team here: Cesari Direct

Found it to be of interest even though it touches shopping network ads.

It’s about those commercials you see on tv. You know from the shopping channel.

Insights from this book can be used elsewhere in advertising also.

Very good read.

The Seventh of the best books for entrepreneurs book is called

“Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!“.

For those who are new to the game and have not heard of it before… The author is Robert T. Kiyosaki. Get to know him here: Who Is Robert T Kiyosaki?

The story of a kid growing up listening to two fathers. One poor and one rich.

The choices are obvious in some instances, financially, what decision should be made by either one of the two if faced with the same financial dilemma.

Observing this gives you an insight into making smarter choices for yourself.

Book number eight of the best books for entrepreneurs is called

“Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions“

Interesting book from Dan Ariely. Get to know him here: DanAriely.com

…Gets into the mind of consumers. When we go out and buy anything we are in a particular mode.

We can predict this but we as far as I can tell we have trouble letting it go completely.

Still reading this one.

Number 9 out of 10 of the best books for entrepreneurs is called

“The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business”

Harvard Business school in ONE book. Written by Josh Kaufman. You can visit his site here: JoshKaufman.net

Still reading this one. Impressed over all of the nuggets so far.

Marked so many pages for later reading and writing. Valuable.

The Tenth on the list of best book for entrepreneurs is called

“How to Practice Suggestion and Autosuggestion“

It’s an oldie but goodie.

Using brain power, thoughts… You can set yourself in a different vibration. A different mindset if you will. This book is old but covers the study of what you can call self hypnosis.

Author is the late Emil Coue.

Learn more of him here: Durbon Hypnosis – Coue And Here: Wikipedia – Emil Coue

I like this one a lot.

It was one of the first books I read on the topic.

*Note. The url: www.Emilcoue.com is not relevant.

This list would not be complete ever, without at least adding this;

“Influence“, by Robert Cialdini.

One of THE absolute best books on human buying psychology. You can use only this and get an understanding of what makes people buy. You can use it offline and online.

You can use it offline and online.

Combine this with Cashvertising and words that sell and you have a power house of knowledge. Apply this is every marketing feat you do if you want the powerful edge they bring,

Combine more of the books for more control, but these are the top three.

If you want to learn more see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Cialdini

These are just some of what I have in my personal collection. I tried to make the list comprehensive and varied.

By reading this best books for entrepreneurs post you have a very good advantage when starting out as an entrepreneur.
They fit each other well. So you’re off to a good start.

Some would say 10 Books for Entrepreneurs is not enough, ever. And I totally agree.
The best books for entrepreneurs are the ones that resonate with you and your desires and make you fired up and makes you take action.
These books do that.
There are more quality books out there but as mentioned, this is an excellent selection for anyone going into entrepreneurship and wanting to have the best start.

If you want to keep on growing then the list should only get bigger.
Take notes of the books in your community. The ones with the highest recommendations from your most trusted peers would do.
That is if you cannot find them on Amazon for yourself… There are always some nuggets hidden from your sight so go elsewhere also.

Be sure to TAKE NOTES WHEN YOU READ instead of skimming through the book for a quick read only to re-read it later and take notes then.
Best way to digest and program the tactics inside these gems would be to take notes actively.

All in all, I want you to enjoy the post.

Read books and grow.

The latest book I read was “ASK”.

About the ASK method.

Google it for more information if you liked this post.

Have something to add? Leave a comment 🙂

Hopefully you have enjoyed this list of the “best” books for entrepreneurs.

Keep Momentum

March 23, 2015 by Rune Ellingsen

Keep Momentum is my personal little story to you, based upon my own experiences.

I used to repeat this to myself out loud, “Keep Momentum!”… Momentum was the driving force that gave me increased energy for reaching my goals fast.

Some time ago, 6 months plus, my motivation for sitting in front of the computer stopped.

Sure it was summer and I love the outdoors and all but when night came I didn’t fire up either the laptop or the pc to get stuff done.

Emails and Facebook got checked on daily basis if i was home. “Sleeping brain symptom” you might wanna call it.

Been ages since I have written any blog posts also.

*For more info about momentum look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momentum

momentum

So what happened with my momentum?

I had worked a lot of hours since 2009 to be exact and needed a longer break from the usual.

My head was not in focus and needed to clear the clogged up channels within the information center of our body.

During the time away the need for nature was great. So hiking and exploring,travelling and various sports was in tune.

Still… I thought(!) I was working(…) for a while even though all I did was to keep up with the Jones’s of marketing… Reading emails is NOT doing efficient tasks that will propel your business forward. Making stuff to sell, taking action and promoting + scaling is what get real results that are measurable.

Text day in and day out, just input… won’t cut it. That’s what I figured at least. Again.

Earlier before getting traction in the business, I studied heavily how to alter my mind with meditation techniques and such to align myself into a healthier and wealthier mindset.
Momentum was mentioned many times. Alas…

At some point I stopped and it faded.

So the lesson was clear:

My mindset was good.

But it was not “sticky” enough for me to hold.

My old paradigms took over and made me less structured, less business focused and put me on a sort of a vacation basically.

When I started getting back into rhythm, the sufferings of bad conscious was all over me. I felt I had let myself and my fellow marketers down.

I can get kinda emotional about the work when the times are tough. Still I will never let it beat me.

So anyways the ride took me through some emotional moments and I figured out when I was at my desk by the pc again that this could not happen again.

I can take breaks and vacations alright. But I cannot evade from who I am. Who I have become.

The need to check in and do stuff on a regular basis will always be there. Just like when we read a good book. You will always learn more and read another one. And you should!

Join us and many others and give yourself traffic numbers you can measure to succeeed with performance marketing.

Keep momentum and you will grow.

Stop that momentum… Just for a day and you are set back a day or two.

Wait six months and you gotta rethink you whole business.

Perhaps the ultimate would be for anyone to find out their individual limit as to what is their threshold before stress.

We are not equal in every aspect of life… I think we can all suffer from a burnt out mind/body.

Be healthy. Meditate. Grow momentum.

And the ultimate lesson for me was that I could not let the momentum i had built, fade away.
Keep momentum and keep sanity 😉 Oh, and make money!

Stuff to look for in coming posts:

Diving into ADS

Diving into Teespring

Diving into Amazon sites

Top resources for online use plus much more.

Until next time.

I wish you all the best, but remember…

YOU have to keep momentum!
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New Product on the Warriorforum – Gaming Console Review Sites

November 15, 2013 by Rune Ellingsen

Gaming Console Review Sites is LIVE!

Today marks the day when the Playstation 4 is released.

Tons of people have been waiting just for this day to get their hands on this new gaming monster machine.

Playstation 4 has been revamped with a whole new infrastructure inside which makes it easier for developers to develop games for the console. Appears as if the old system was a little too complicated for most.

Most people buy their PS4 in the local electronic shops but in this case the online stores will also notice the impact of the requests from customers who were too late.

Given that these machines will sell out fast, a lot of people will go online in the search for their own. This creates an avalanche of traffic to sites like Amazon etc…

To help out those of you who want in on the trend I have put together a WSO giving you a review site with a lot of material for your own use.

This includes a review site embedded with your affiliate links. Amazon buttons. Videos. Review articles and more…

Products covered is not just the PS4. Here is the complete list:

Xbox One Console – Standard Edition
Xbox 360 4GB Console
Xbox 360 250GB Spring Value Bundle
PlayStation 4 (PS4): Standard Edition
PS3 500 GB Assassin’s Creed III Bundle
PS3 250 GB Uncharted 3 and PS Plus Bundle
PlayStation 3 – 320 GB System/PlayStation Move Bundle
Nintendo Wii U Console – 32GB Black Deluxe Set
Nintendo Wii Console, White (NEWEST MODEL)
Wii with Wii Sports Resort – White

Currently the price starts at $2 measly dollars because I want to give back to the community that helped me out when I got started. So yes, it’s a true WSO bargain.

Join in on the massive launch of the PS4 and capitalize on the early birds that will literally kill to get their copy of the holy grail of gaming consoles.

JV’s can reach out and get their links here: https://runeellingsen.com/jv

Thanks for being a part of this launch.

Look forward to the next one!

All the best from me to you.

P.S.

Now go out there and get Gaming Console Review Sites to the masses 😉