Thursday, August 26, 2010

    Where Does Your Inspiration Come From?


    Its been a while since I last posted, honestly haven't been inspired to write a good post lately. So I decided to dedicate a quick post to a very important topic I think.
    What inspires you to do what you do?
     Without inspiration I don't think a person would be able to come up with good content - and in this case content can relate to either a blog, website or anything in your daily life.

    As for me - honestly I usually get my inspiration while I'm either walking around, browsing, thinking,etc.
    I could be walking in a middle of a street and then see something that I feel relates to me and I feel I just need to do something.

    Also I have this awesome widget on my HTC Hero - its an Android application and its called Success Quotes. For example today's quote was:
    Obviously, there is little you can learn from doing nothing. - Zig Ziglar
    Please share your quotes of inspiration or people who inspire you in your comments below!

    Friday, August 13, 2010

    Using Google Wonder Wheel to Find More KeyWords

    Today I would like to spend a minute talking about keywords! The real importance of picking the right keywords.

    In my example below I will start with 2 basic keywords - "credit card".  If you try to master and rank for these two specific words first in Google - trust me that will probably never happen as the big shots such as banks, financial institutions,etc have already taken up that niche.  So what is it that you and I can do to try to get a share of this huge pool of money going around? First off you have to go deeper!
    For example people who have a credit card might be searching for a card that they can pay less interest on, there you go. You have your main keywords to work with -  "low interest credit card".

    After entering "low interest credit card" into a Google search box and selecting "Wonder Wheel" from the left-hand menu, the standard view changes to display your keyword in the center of an orb that's surrounded by a few different related terms.

    NOTE: You may have to click the "More search tools" link first before you can see the "Wonder wheel" option.
    After you select the Wonder wheel view, the keyword you searched in Google will look like this...

    As you can see, the Wonder wheel lets you dig deeper into your keywords to find others that Google believes are related to it.
    While my initial keyword research from the last step already uncovered the keyword "0% interest credit card", looking at the Wonder wheel helps me understand that Google thinks the names of credit companies are closely related to this search term.
    Given that information... I would take those keywords and use them as modifiers to pretty much all of the keywords I find.
    Here's what I mean when I say that...

    Instead of only having "0% interest credit card" or "0% apr credit card" as keywords on my list, I'll add the credit card company names before each phrase to expand my list further.
    Using this kind of logic, I can easily turn 2 keywords into 10:
    • discover card 0% interest credit card
    • American express 0% interest credit card
    • capital one 0% interest credit card
    • Citibank 0% interest credit card
    • bank of America 0% interest credit card
    • discover card 0% apr credit card
    • American express 0% apr credit card
    • capital one 0% apr credit card
    • Citibank 0% apr credit card
    • bank of America 0% apr credit card

    No matter which niche I want to target, there should always be opportunities to expand my keyword list using simple modifiers - fast, quick, best, quality, city names, state names, etc.
    If I'm having a hard time coming up with modifiers I can use to expand my keyword list, I'll spy on the competition to see what they're doing.

    Although there are quite a few different options available (SEMRush, SpyFu, KeywordSpy) when it comes to spying on the keywords your competitors are using, they limit the number of results you can see unless you pay for the service.

    Since you need to pay a monthly subscription to see the full list of keywords, you can use the Google Search-based Keyword Tool instead which is FREE.

    Although the number of results will still be limited as they are for those with free accounts at the keyword spy services listed above, you should be able to get what you need from Google.

    This is pretty much it, have a wonderful weekend everyone and see you back next week!

    Tuesday, August 3, 2010

    Find that Passion in you and Make it Happen!

    Millionaire at the age of 14?  Today at the age of 24 Dr. Farah Gray ... is named as one of the most influential black men in America!


    I just want to quickly quote the following, I feel are very strong statements.

    "Create a healthy fear, of not doing what we want to do"
    "Amazing what you can accomplish when you don't know what you can't do yet"

    "You imagination is more powerful than your knowledge of the situation"  Einstein

    Now ask yourself these 3 questions:
    1. What comes easy to you, but harder to others?
    2. What would you do and want to do for years and years to come and never have to get paid for it?
    3. How can you be of service? How can you give back?
    If you can answer all three questions easily, then all I can say is congratulations.  You are a step closer to realizing what your passion is and what you would enjoy doing all your life.  

    "When you think you can't do it and make yourself, that's when you get all the growth.   Everything else was getting you ready"    Tony Robbins

    A little to think about and get you inspired.  You don't have to look at successful people and just say, oh he is lucky, he is just one in a million to that managed to do it.  You too can be a part of that, be the ONE people would be saying that about! To our Success!




    "Lead a life of your own design, on your own terms—not one that others, or the environment have scripted for you"    Anthony Robbins





     

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