Joining Google+ Communities

Hopefully, from part 1 of this discussion, you’re starting to get a feel for how Google+ works. You can join other communities so you can get a real feel for them before you create your own. It’s best if you join one or more in the niche you are considering creating your community about.

I’ll assume you’ve already created your own Google+ profile, but if you have not, go ahead and do that now. Then, go to the upper left-hand corner of your Google+ profile. Find the communities box and click on it. A search box should appear where you can search for keywords related to your niche. Click through the one or ones you want to join.

You can go ahead and start to interact to get a feel for how it works. You never know – you might meet lifelong friends and business partners in these communities. It’s always important to network and meet others.

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Taking Chances

Today’s bonus recording is all about taking chances and risks, in business and in life.

There are 10 sections, as follows:

  • Is taking a calculated risk the same thing as gambling?
  • Don’t like to take chances, try hiring a coach
  • Does high risk equate to high returns?
  • Are you afraid of success?
  • Are you afraid of failure?
  • Why people don’t like to take chances
  • Taking more chances leads to a more fulfilling life
  • Taking chances on starting a business
  • Taking chances on a new career
  • Taking chances for bigger thrills

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All About Google+ and Google Hangouts

Why Google+?

Google+ is excellent for social marketing these days. When most marketers think of Google, they think of SEO. Well, those days are gone—these days, Google is all about community and interaction. Google is a company you want to cozy up to if you want a huge market reach and a surefire social marketing campaign.

There’s definitely more than one benefit to paying attention to Google+. You’re not just forming a community on one platform. You’re also taking advantage of Google+ as a social network, Google+ as a community platform, your YouTube channel, and Hangouts. You’re really killing FOUR birds with one stone when you sign up for Google+. Google’s made it so that all of these things are integrated—you really can’t help but go for them all if you so much as sign up for something like a Gmail account these days.

Not only that, but Google+ communities are easy, free, and fun. There are many opportunities to tie your Google+ interactions with your other business ventures. You can even make it so that your Google+ community is free or paid. In this case, and for maximum growth and maximum exposure, I’m going to assume that your focus is on free for now. Though, I have seen some successful paid Google+ communities and events as well. People happily pay for them and get a lot of value out of them as well.

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They Stole My Product Idea!

You’ve had a hit of amazing inspiration. You know that THIS is going to be your million-dollar idea.

You couldn’t be more excited if you tried. It’s as if you’ve been handed a gift from above. It’s what you’ve always waited for.

It seems almost too good to be true that you’ve finally come up with an amazing, highly profitable idea for a product.

And it is too good to be true… because someone else has STOLEN your idea!

What do you do now?

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Maintaining Local Business Websites for Clients

Offline marketing can be extremely profitable. You’re an online marketer, so this may not have occurred to you. That’s actually a good thing– it doesn’t occur to many online marketers that there’s a whole wide world of offline businesses out there and that they could be making a very solid income from those businesses.

Offline business owners are used to spending quite a bit of money on advertising and marketing. They take out ads here and there and spend a lot of money on those ads and often aren’t even sure of the return on investment of those ads.

As an online marketer, you have a whole lot to offer to these business owners– and you can help them be sure of their return on investment. They’ll likely want to hire you again and again (hence the recurring and/or passive income) because they’ll be so pleased with the results.

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