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Marketing Monday

If you haven’t noticed, I’ve been on a blogging frenzy this month. My goal is to have at least one blog post every day. However, I’ve tried to do this in the past and every time I lost steam after a week or so and laziness kicked in.

But there’s a new plan!

The other day I was watching a video called YOU by my buddy Kyle Cease. Instantly after watching the video I jumped off my ass, went to the farmers market, and started creating some new content. Kyle always has that affect on me and inspires me to create like no one I’ve ever been around.

While driving to the farmers market I came up with an idea on how to stay more focused on this blog and how to entrench myself into the subjects and niches that I enjoy partaking in. So here’s the idea…

Each day of the week I’m going to blog about something different that I’m interested in. I’ve run into a bit of inner conflict before with this blog because sometimes I like to blog about marketing. Other times I’m into music or health. It’s not a very consistent theme going on here.

So Mondays will be all about marketing and I’m going to call it Marketing Monday.

Most of my other marketing info will now be available on the appropriately titled domain www.ProfitMoffatt.com. I’m going to start feverishly blogging over there as well.

So if you are interested in nitty gritty, money making info, that’s the place you are going to want to check regularly.

I know most of my readership came to know me from the marketing world and I haven’t always done the best job with message to market match and I’ve lost a lot of readership by injecting my own personal likes into my messages.

Some people don’t care about raw foods or the fact that I like listening to The Grateful Dead. They just want to know how to make a few bucks online, and I can dig that. So I’m doing my best to appropriately create content that will match exactly what it is the readers want while still honoring myself and what I want to do.

So…

Here’s what the daily/weekly schedule is going to look like here on this blog…

Marketing Monday (Marketing Tips & Strategies)
Tuesdays Tune (Cool Music Stuff)
Wellness Wednesday (Health & Growth Material)
Thursday’s Travels (Info About RV-ing & Travels)
Funny Friday (Jokes, Humor & Sillyness)
Saturday Snacks (Food, Recipes & Restaurants)
Sunday Spotlight (Spotlight An Amazing Person)

The reason I’m setting up each day like this is so I can focus on the items in my life that I enjoy and build a bit of structure to help me better accomplish the goal of blogging every day. If I can scatter the content around like this, I won’t get bored as easily and it will give me a opportunity to chunk stuff away ahead of time. For instance, I already have Thursday’s Travel blog done! So make sure you come back on Thursday as you’ll get to see which city you are destined to live in. More about that on Thursday.

So, without further ado, lets get into Marketing Monday!

Before social media was a household phrase, most marketers referred to it as “Web 2.0″. Everyone was quick to say that Web 2.0 was going to change the internet as we knew it and the old ways of selling items to customers was long gone.

Of course selling is never going to change much. It’s always going to be very similar no matter what the medium is. You find a group of people that are in need of something, you ask them what they want or listen to what they say they want, then you write an advertisement targeting their emotions and desires and you sell em the best product or service you can find. Easy peasy.

While droves of marketers were abandoning the idea of building websites or virtual real estate to instead spend time on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIN, etc I kept warning them that it might not be in their best interest to do so.

Now I’ll admit, I’m addicted to Facebook just as much as the next guy. In fact, probably even more so then 95% of people. However, I’ve never lost site of the fact that it’s so crucial to continue building your OWN web properties and not building other people’s all the time. Facebook is great, but guess who gets paid every time someone clicks a ad on the site? Exactly. Not you!

So while I think social media sites are great for networking, brand awareness and even traffic, they are a huge time waster for people who could be focusing on building and growing their own piece of virtual real estate.

This is the main reason that I’m focusing on writing on my own blog every day. When I create a post here, it’s in the search engine in seconds. Because of the history of this blog and authority status, I can dominate search phrases with relative ease if I keep the post on topic. If I build a few relative links to the post, it’s a great chance I’m cementing a spot on page one in the search engines.

So todays lesson is all about building your own stuff. Please don’t get me wrong and think I’m telling you to get off the social media sites, because even I’m not about to do that. But it’s a wise move to make sure you are spending a appropriate amount of time building your empire, not someone else’s.

Tomorrow I’m doing a webinar with niche marketing wizard Jason Drohn and he’s going to literally walk you step by step through the process that he uses to create money making mini sites with relative ease. If you are interested in making passive income online through FREE traffic methods then this will be the place to be tomorrow night.

Click Here To Register For The Webinar With Jason Drohn.

This will be CONTENT, CONTENT, CONTENT and he’s going to show you exactly how he works his mojo on this call.

Plus, I’m going to offering a bonus that is valued at $8000.00. And that’s a real world eight grand too, not just some inflated number that I created to build some perceived value. But the only way for you to get access to this $8,000.00 bonus is for you to be on the call on Tuesday at 6PM Pacific, 9PM Eastern.

Sign Up For Webinar & Eligibility For The $8000 Bonus By Clicking Here

Peace

Jason “Profit” Moffatt

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I’m kind of a word nerd. Usually in the morning I like to do the crossword puzzle to get the brain moving. I don’t always demonstrate my literary knowledge in my blog posts or writings, but I do try to study and learn a bit more each day.

Now that learning is getting so much cooler. With the new Scrabble application on the iPhone I’m in Hog-Heaven for some verbal Jujitsu.

Scrabble Game Against Gio via Facebook

If you have a iPhone, go to the “App Store” and search for Scrabble. I think it’s $4.99. Well worth it too.

If you don’t have a iPhone you can download the Scrabble app via Facebook as well.

So, if you are get the Scrabble app, make sure we are Facebook Friends. You can friend me up on Facebook at the link below.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=634453082

When we become friends and we both have the Scrabble App, we can battle back and forth.

Let’s get it on.

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Everybody was excited to learn that Facebook was going to allow users to now use “Vanity URL’s”. And when I say everybody, I really mean a few Facebook users and a whole lot of SPAMMERS!

Right this moment, spammers are running rampant on Facebook claiming up every popular name they can. It doesn’t matter whether or not they are actually affiliated with the name or the company, it’s just a big time online land grab. And Facebook has done very little to even stop it.

My profile has been jacked by some dickhead named Jake Smith. My buddy John Reese got his snatched too. Same with Frank Kern. And same thing with just about every popular marketer who didn’t sit around at the stroke of midnight last night to claim their name.

I’m assuming Facebook will give us the vanity URL’s back. At least they better. If not, Jake Smith is in for a world of hurt if he ever tries to use my name to gather traffic to his page.

If you don’t know what a vanity URL is, it’s basically just a shortened version of the URL. Right now, my personal profile URL is long and ugly. Virtually impossible to remember when it looks like this… http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=634453082

A vanity URL looks like this http://www.facebook.com/jasonmoffatt (which I should be the rightful owner of).

I’ve sent Facebook a message and sent the squatter a message. Hopefully it will be rectified soon. If not, I’m thinking of going Tony LaRussa on them as this is pure bullshit they allowed this to happen so easily.

I reckon they have a huge problem on their hands right now. There must be massive amounts of spam vanity URL’s at this moment, and growing by the minute. Facebook should of put some precautions in the way to make sure spammers didn’t have a wide open field to abuse people, companies, trademarks, etc. etc. So far, every vanity URL I’ve seen is a impostor.

If you haven’t gotten your own vanity URL yet, you may want to log into your Facebook account and see if it’s still available. That is if it hasn’t been snatched by some scum sucking low life bottom feeder.

Best of luck.

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I have a hard time letting go of the task of checking my own emails and such. It just seems a bit weird to let someone else handle this tasks because many of the mails I get are personal, or they just need my personal attention.

Many successful entrepreneurs might think I’m crazy to field all my own mails, but it’s just the way I like to do it. I like to stay in touch with what’s going on, and am genuinely curious about people’s problems, desires, and ideas.

However, with over 6000 people on my marketing list, my niche lists over 10,000 people, over 1100 Facebook friends, nearly 900 Twitter friends, 700 Myspace friends, and a pile of email addresses it is nearly impossible for me to respond to all the messages I get. And that makes me feel a bit bad because inevitably I know some people think that I am ignoring them, or simply don’t care. Nothing could be further from the truth.

I sift through all my own emails for a reason… to stay close to the market. I really want to know what is going on. Sadly though, I can’t possibly reply to all the requests I get by myself. So the dilemma arises about hiring a personal assistant to field all these inquiries. I’m not sure what to do.

For now, I try to answer the emails and messages that are really important. Customers are the first priority. If you’ve paid me money, then I really do try to answer every one of those emails. However, sometimes a few slip through the cracks. If that has ever happened to you, I do sincerely apologize. It was not intentional.

Also, I tend to ignore many messages because they are simply “time wasters”. Same thing goes with messages that are 30 paragraphs long.

Here’s a hint to getting a quick reply from me… Make your question or inquiry a “quick one”. State what you need in a couple sentences and be specific. Spare the drama stories (you’d be amazed at how many incredibly sad stories I get on a weekly basis) and focus on the main point you are trying aim at.

I tend to respond to people pro-actively doing stuff much more-so then someone who is having tons of problems and thinks I’m the compassionate ear willing to hear their tales of woe. I don’t mean to be insensitive but there is only so much time in this world, and to be honest, I’m more into paying attention to positive things then the negative.

Anyhow, I just don’t want anyone to feel like a neglected response is a personal insult or a silent attack in any way. The lack of response is simply because of sheer volume of mail and messages and it may have got lost in the clutter, or because I feel it’s a waste of my time.

Time is precious. Every moment of the day means alot to me. And I don’t like to have it wasted. Obviously, I need to get a assistant to handle some of this stuff for me, but for now, I field all my own emails, read them all, and try to reply when I can.

Soon I may add a “paid email service” that guarantees a response. I know some people wouldn’t mind paying a small monthly fee to ensure they had their questions answered.

Right now, the best way to get in contact with me is in the Easy Video Sales Mastermind area.

If you are not a member in there, I think you are totally missing out.

Check out the link below, and come join the Easy Video Sales crew if you think it’s a good match for you. Here’s the link…

http://www.easyvideosales.com/

Cheers,

Jason

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