Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Good Press Release Site - Very Cheap

Press releases are an excellent way to promote your new business or website. You can gain massive free exposure with the help of press releases. Whenever you launch a new website, product or service, try submitting a well-written press release to the top sites. You may instantly gain lots of traffic and top Google rankings.

The problem with many press release sites is that they are either too expensive to submit to, or the cheap ones don't fare too well in search engines. However some sites are free to submit to and can help in getting a lot of attention from the search engines.

One such site is the http://www.free-press-release.com

Their press release submission service is very cheap. You can even submit a free press release, but it is recommended to pay a small fee and get some additional features. The paid submission is quite affordable with price ranging from $5-$30 or so.

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Tuesday, January 5, 2010

How to Sell An Idea or Product to Anyone - How to Make it a Best-Seller

There is an excellent short report by Seth Godin about how to make your products sell like crazy. You can get a free copy of the book. Download link at the end of this article.

Step 1 of the Plan:
The plan presented in this short report is simple - approach just one person with your novel idea or product and convince that person to try it out. Once you are able to sell to that person and after trying it out, the person should fall so much in love with it that he cannot help but recommend the product to dozen other people.

The person should become crazy about your product. He should consider himself very very lucky that he was able to get his hands on this product. He should be smiling to himself whenever he uses your product or service.

He should run to tell others about it. He should talk in an excited manner while talking about your product.

Imagine how this person would recommend your product to others. He wouldn't get tired of recommending your product to others. He will send an email to all people who he knows might benefit from this product. He will not recommend your product just once or twice but will keep on doing so whenever there is an opportunity for doing so.

If one such person falls in love with your product, then others who will try out are likely to do so too. They should get so used to your product that they cannot imagine living without it anymore now.

You can very well imagine the viral effect when 10 or 100 people start promoting your product or service in such a manner.

This is how quality products rise to fame. It is not a single person or company which will promote it, but many others will do so out of their own free will.

If your idea, product or service doesn't cause this level of excitement, then you are better off thinking of the next idea or product instead of working hard at marketing something that is not making people go crazy.

If just one idea or product of yours can make people go crazy then you might enjoy success comparable to that of Walmart, Microsoft, HP, Dell, Yahoo, Youtube, Google, Amazon, Ebay, Squidoo etc.

A New Perception about Marketing:
This book will give you a different perception of marketing. It is now about finding such winning products or ideas which will inspire people to tell others because it benefits other people and not just you. You will then no longer need to market your products too much as others will do it for you.

Your website is a product, your book or even a short article is a product. Your blog post is a product, an idea which you want to spread to others is a product, a service you are providing is a product.

Almost anything you are trying to market is a product and the above guidelines apply to it. When writing an article, try to make it so powerful that people will feel compelled to forward it to others rather than just read and a little later forget about it.

Finally, here is the download link to this short 5-page report:
http://www.changethis.com/50.01.Tribes

Hope you will enjoy the book as much as I did.

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Improve Your Listening Skills by Paying More Attention

In order to be a good leader and exceptional speaker, I feel you need to be a good listener too. Too few people I guess have this ability whereas it is such an important one to have.

If you have a hard time focusing on what others are saying then you need to improve your listening skills a great deal. If you can easily pay attention to other people and don't interrupt in between then you probably have good listening skills already.

If you improve your listening skills you can become a good communicator. Your speaking skills can improve automatically too.

One of the better tips to improve your listening skills is to pay full concentration to other people. When they talk, do not keep thinking of your reply. Pay full attention to their talk.

People will appreciate this a lot. They want to be heard and listened to. In turn, they might listen you out more carefully. In this way you can get your message across to others more easily than being hasty in speech.

It also lets you understand others more easily and better. Hence you can craft out your replies in a better fashion. So you see, it is important to improve your listening skills by paying more importance and attention to others.

If you believe that what the other person has to say is important, then you might find it easier to listen to him. Having such a belief and attitude can greatly help in improving your listening skills.

If you feel the other person and his views are not important and if you have a closed mind, then it is difficult to pay attention to their talk.

So you see it is a matter of belief and attitude. Having the right attitude when it comes to communication is a great benefit for yourself and others with whom you are interacting.

Monday, November 23, 2009

Break Out from Limiting beliefs with Mandy Evans: Beware of Your Hidden Plans

This is a great post. I loved reading this one out.
Break Out from Limiting beliefs with Mandy Evans: Beware of Your Hidden Plans

Here is another post from the same author (this one introduces a very useful method of finding out limiting beliefs):
Kinder Approach to Motivation

Enjoy the posts!

Sunday, October 25, 2009

You Can Lose Weight By Giving Up One Habit

What is that one habit which will help a lot in weight loss?

It is the habit of watching TV. Everyday so many people sit in front of TV all evening, doing nothing useful.

Think about the time when TV wasn't invented. People would be busy doing something useful. Or atleast they would play some games in their leisure time.

Now, so many people come home from their offices or colleges and their evenings are usually spent in front of the idiot box.

This has made so many of us lazy. As it is, technology has made humans a little bit lazy. Watching TV for hours will add to that.

And most people will have something to eat in their hands while watching the idiot box. A bag of chips, a cup of coffee etc will usually accompany this TV watching habit.

Giving up this habit can go a long way in helping lose weight fast. Once you give up this habit, you will struggle to find ways to pass your leisure time. Soon, you will discover or try out newer and hopefully healthier ways of spending this time.

So stop watching TV and start losing weight. I know it is not easy to give up an age-old habit. You can check out the power of positive habits for this purpose. You can also discover how to change a habit in 21 days or less!

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Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Tips to Prevent Panic Attacks - Tricking Your Brain

One of the major problem with panic attacks are not the attacks themselves, but constant thinking and worrying about when you will get the next attack.

Constant worrying about panic disorder will make you feel stressed out and can cause complete mess in your life. Effective tips to prevent panic attacks should address this problem and help you overcome thinking about it all the time.

Once you have had a few panic attacks, your mind may repeatedly dwell on the prospect of another such occurrence. You will always be thinking about the next panic attack. You will be wondering when the next attack happens, what will happen and how you will face it etc etc.

All such thoughts and constant dwelling of the mind will make you fearful and make you avoid various kinds of situations, places and people. This can have a huge impact on your life and cause unnecessary problems for you.

When any thought becomes an obsession in your mind, it is difficult to get rid of it in a hurry. The more you try to stop thinking about it, the more it appears to keep popping in your head time and again.

Human Brain and Panic Attacks Disorder:
However the good thing is that the human brain may get tired and bored of thinking the same stuff repeatedly over a period of time. When the brain gets bored of a thing, then it is unlikely to return to it and you may find yourself thinking less and less about that particular thing.

The same can be true for your fears, phobias and panic disorder. Once your brain gets tired of thinking about panic attacks all the time, you may find yourself thinking less and less about them.

So one of the best tips to prevent panic attacks is to make yourself feel really bored of thinking about it. Instead of trying to get rid of the thoughts on panic attacks, make an attempt to get your mind bored of it.

Simple Technique to Stop Thinking About Panic Disorder
One interesting technique I found on this forum thread is to constantly and repeatedly think or say to yourself - "I am getting bored of this now" or "I am already bored of this now", "this panic stuff is so boring" etc.

Repeating such phrases out aloud or in your mind for a few days can trick your brain to get bored of the panic attack thoughts pretty soon and hopefully this will put a full stop to your panic attack obsession.

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Stop Binge Eating Disorder - 1 Succesful Technique

One of the ways to stop binge eating disorder forever is to slow down the pace at which you eat. Whenever I eat uncontrollably and find it difficult to stop eating even when I'm full, I have noticed that most of these times I eat at a frantic pace.

It is as if I want to finish the food as quickly as possible and eat as much as I can. Slowing down eating can really reduce the food cravings and uncontrollable urges to a great extent.

But when you are having a bout of binge eating attack, then it can be very difficult to reduce your eating speed. You really have to force yourself to slow down. You may slow down for a couple of bites, but again unconsciously pick up speed. I know it can be very difficult to control your speed while eating.

Eating Slow is Very Important
But reducing the eating speed is very essential in order to eat less and control binge eating. While binge eating, we are not really enjoying the food. We are just gulping down as much and as fast as we can.

Slowing down means to take smaller bites, chew them more, and take more time between successive bites. When you are eating slowly you will enjoy the food more, chew it properly so that it is easily digested and will not tend to overeat. So slowing down your eating pace is of paramount importance in order to stop binge eating disorder permanently.

An Easy Technique I Have Tried .....
I will tell you one technique to easily reduce pace while eating. Just before you start eating, take a moment to close your eyes and visualize yourself eating the food which you have in front of you at the moment. For example, if you are sitting down to eat apples, visualize eating them in your mind first.

Notice the pace at which you eat in your visualization. I think that if we are eating at a higher speed in our visualization, we will tend to do the same in reality and vice versa. Imagine that you are watching yourself eating the food on TV. Now try to run the movie in slow motion so that you are watching yourself eat very slowly in your imagination.

Carry this exercise just for a minute or so before eating. You may notice your eating speed has automatically decreased. If you can successfully reduce your eating speed then you can stop binge eating disorder successfully in a short period of time.

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