I’ve just re-written, updated, and seriously expanded a Surfing Lab I described about a year ago in this ezine. I think you ought to check it out. It may help you decide whether this is a marketing method you can use, and if so, what are the 8 steps to get started.
http://bouquetofenterprises.biz/N/surfingLab.shtml
http://bouquetofenterprises.biz/N/Surf4Traffic.shtml
ENCOURAGEMENT ~ Your Vast Stock of Seeds
In spring our thoughts soon turn to sowing seeds in our garden - at least our house. Maybe you’ve never cared for mucking about in soil, and fussing over seeds or seedlings.
Okay. So there’s a cleaner kind of seed to work with too. You can sow these any time of the year, but now we’re moving from the visible that you handle with your fingers to the spiritual - things that happen between people.
“Something you have been given will create anything else you have been promised.” (Mike Murdock).
[see Feature Article; Your Vast Stock of Seeds]
Here’s a quote from Mike Murdock in his book;
31 Reasons People Do Not Receive their Financial Harvest
“A seed is a tiny beginning with a huge future. It is anything that can become more. It is the Beginning. It is anything you can do, know or possess that can improve the life of another.”
So? What does your stock of such seed look like? And what are you doing about sowing them?
Dad and I have big double pink poppies, and some reds that volunteer to come up all over our garden. We do not need to sow them, as they take care of that all by themselves.
Now at the end of a summer, you should see the pods on these flower stems. Join your thumb and finger to make a circle. The pods are at least that big and deep. They are chock FULL of tiny grey or black seeds. The pods turn into salt shakers with holes in the top, and as the wind wafts them to and fro, they shake their seeds all over the garden.
Dad gathers lots of them into jars to keep from being over-run by poppies, and in the sping he hoes out a lot of them as they spring up between all other plants like eager weeds. still, we let a number grow up just to see the lovely carnation like pink flowers.
Did you know that you are like that poppy pod, full of invisible seeds, blessings you can scatter into the lives of others? You have quite a variety too!
There’s your love, a seed for relationships with your family and friends. You get the same 60 minutes every hour as anyone else. Each minute scatters on the wind never to return, so you might as well load them with blessings for others. Those minutes are more valuable than you realize!
Every time you show patience with someone you are dropping a seed gift into them.
Whenever you give your money as a gift, or spend it in a wise investment, you are sowing precious seeds.
A kind deed to a friend or stranger in need is a good seed too. A bit of a miracle seed besides, for you never know how that person will turn it into a huge blessing on others whom you may never meet.
Each prayer you say for someone else is a good seed. Remember Jesus could feed thousands with one boy’s lunch. When He answers your prayer tremendous things can begin!
Do you express gratitude to those who are kind to you? Those words of thanks are seeds too; they encourage that person to continue doing good. They may even avert serious discouragement and quiting.
Ah-ha, you do so have plenty of invisible seeds to sow! Put that idea out of your head, that you have nothing to offer.
In case you are not used to working in the garden, let me give you this exciting, thrilling seed-thought; after a seed is planted it springs up, and once it comes to fruit - it brings you a magnificient harvest of MORE seeds!
Yeah, let’s go out and sow with reckless abandon!
Another Whew! I’ve been busy night!
But oh, it feels good to be productive, doesn’t it?
I’ve worked steadily at least an hour a day for the last two weeks, to get this series of web page articles written and polished to show what I see as the best business models online, and how to go about getting started in them.
This is especially geared for those who are quite new to doing business online, and although they have pure motives, they are not necessarily sure where to start or how to avoid treachery.
I put in an extra busy evening tonight to polish all the pages I had started, and make one more, so now I can give you links to six or seven pages.
My dilemma now is to know how to share this with you in the best way. whether to divide it into chunks for this new blog of mine, or just to provide links.
Because of the lengths of these pages (copy writing gurus say long pages are okay, if you need them!) I tend to think I’ll just list the links.
Let’s do it this way. . . I’ll give you the links with a brief summary, so you can tell which ones you would like to go read. If you aren’t able to get online, just let me know, and I’ll zap the contents of those pages off to you.
[Go to Feature Article: How to Start an Online Business]
Choosing Your Online Small Business Model
http://BouquetofEnterprises.biz/N/BusinessModels.shtml
An overview of how to go about choosing a business model, and pointing out two that I have found safe to recommend.
The Most Important Requirements
http://BouquetofEnterprises.biz/N/Requirements.shtml
To my mind the most important basic requirements for an online business are self-discipline, willingness to read a lot, computer skills, web skills, another source of income, marketing skills, and yes, money too!
Plotting Your Business to Match Your Passion and Skills
http://BouquetofEnterprises.biz/N/Passion.shtml
An outline of steps, and an example of how to research, brainstorm, and come up with a business idea and model that matches your passion and your skills, or ability to learn them.
The SiteSell Model of Building an Online Business
http://BouquetofEnterprises.biz/N/SiteSellModel.shtml
How to set up a little web business of your own that you can operate from your computer at home; where you set the theme and rules, do any desk work yourself, and take all the income for yourself with clean, easy deposits.
The 3STEP with MoneyLegs Business Model
http://BouquetofEnterprises.biz/N/3STEP-MoneyLegs.shtml
The steps to sign up and use the MoneyLegs business model as a supplement to your income plans.
Guest Article: 3rd Rate Exchanges KILLING Your Success
http://BouquetofEnterprises.biz/N/3rdRateExchanges.shtml
Doug Williams’ article sent to Clickaholic members, about third rate exchanges that allow a lot of illegal and shady programs to list in them - he indicates clearly where they are headed.
Before you sign up for any money-making program, be sure to get yourself an extra email address to give at sign up. Especially if it can forward to your main address. You want to avoid giving away your good address — just in case that business turns out to be shady and to give or sell your address to others compiling lists of email addresses.
If they get your “good” address, you’ll be inundated with unwanted junk mail the rest of your life! If you’ve used a throw-away, you can always delete that one and get a new one, Or change it in your administrative area at the program, to your “good” one, once you are quite sure you can trust them.
March 3, 2005 Getting Yourself a Blog
ENCOURAGEMENT
Whew! Learned some new stuff tonight!
First of all, Doug Williams has promised to make some big announcement regarding TsunamiGOLD in three special iConference sessions today. One in the morning, one in the afternoon, and one in the evening. Rob Gehring was to conduct them.
I felt it would be most convenient to drop in the AM meeting, but none opened up in the High Speed Lobby of iConference, even though I waited there for an hour and a half.
So I tried again in the afternoon. Still no luck.
Despite the fact that I kept switching to my web editing window and trying to get some work done, it was rather distracting.
I tried again tonight, and lo, there was a meeting! But I seemed to come in half an hour late, so I still missed Doug’s big announcement.
Paul Hipp, my upline was present at this one, and all at once a smaller window popped up, and here he was greeting me in a little chat window! So now I have a rough idea how to use that.
Doug will be writing about his announcement in his emails over the next few days, so I’m sure I’ll get to see it yet.
FEATURE: Getting Yourself a Blog
~~~~~~~
Meantime….Remember my new BLOG from last issue two weeks ago? Well, ~~Blush~~ I completely forgot to give you the URL so I know you haven’t been able to go see it yet.
But that’s okay. I’ve been poking around, reading up on how it works, and trying to revise the template to suit my tastes. There’s still more to learn, but I’m feeling more comfortable with it.
If you go to this URL, you’ll get to see last issue as well as this one; http://bouquetofenterprises.biz/eAction/
(By the way, Paul, last issue explains some options re: blogging that may answer your question).
I don’t find the part right now about allowing other users to enter blogs. Just Comments. However, this WordPress script is free to download and install. If you don’t have a site of your own, you can always go sign up with one of the large public Bloggers. Just put ‘blogger’ into Google and you’ll find a long list of places where you can be set up in 5 minutes.
As I said last time, I plan to continue to send this out as an ezine for the benefit of those who prefer it that way. It only means pasting twice. I’ll probably be creating longer issues again though… 
I HAVE begun on a course to explain how to find the right online business model for yourself and how to get set up in the most economical way possible. I had hoped to give you a link to the first page, but with the above
frustrations today, it didn’t get completed. Hopefully in the next few days.
P.S. I’ve started uploading articles from my archives;
http://BouquetofEnterprises.biz/E/aA/index.shtml
