I don’t write a lot about the holidays. Somehow they don’t seem very appropriate for this blog, but today is one of the biggest holidays in the US, and with the economy seeming to tank, I wanted to write a special message to all of you.

Although it may seem to be a hard thing to do today, one of the things I want you to do today is to take stock of your life. Are you happy where you are at? Are you doing the things you want to do with your life?

If you’re not, then it’s time to reassess where you are at and take steps to get to where you want to be. Each of us is special and unique, and each of us has special talents and abilities we can use to make the world a better place.

No one can change your life but you. If you are waiting on the right politician, the right government, or the right circumstances, believe me when I say that you will wait forever for that one. The road to success is paved with hard work.

If you don’t already, today is the day for you to start believing in yourself. Believe that you can have, do, or be, anything you want and then take steps to get there.

Count your blessings today. Be grateful for what you have. Simply by virtue of living in the United States, you have more and you have more opportunity than any place on earth. If you can’t be successful here, you won’t be successful anywhere else.

The United States is still a land of opportunity. If it weren’t, there wouldn’t be millions of people coming here every year to have what most of us take for granted.

Be grateful. Negativity, unforgiveness, and unhappiness will never bring you anything more than negativity, unforgiveness, and more unhappiness. If you expect others to make you happy, if you expect others to fix what’s wrong in your life, you will be constantly disappointed. I know this because I have been there.

When you take responsibility for your own life, and you take responsibility for your own mistakes, then you have the power to change your life in the way you want. Life is not a dress rehearsal. It’s the real thing, and you only have one chance at it.

If you really care what others think, stop it today. Some of the best advice I ever got was to “consider the source.” Look at the person who is giving you advice. Are they giving you advice for your own good, or to serve their own agenda?

There are some small people in the world, people who will tell you that you can’t do it because of your race, your sex, your faith, or some other silly nonsense. Remember, that’s all it is: nonsense. Ignore it and move on.

The truth is, when you listen to people like that, it’s just an excuse to excuse your own behavior. It’s an excuse not to take action because deep down inside, you don’t believe you can do it.

Count your blessings today. Take stock of your life and decide what you want. Eat some good food and enujoy your family.

Henry Ford once said, “If you think you can, or you think you can’t, you’re right.”

Enjoy your holiday and then go out there and go for it. You deserve it.

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IM Jumpstart Package

Free IM Marketing Course ($147 Value)

I read recently that if you really want to help your customers, as well as keeping them coming back, you need to offer them a total solution to their problems. Sometimes this is easier said than done. Once in awhile though, such a solution comes along.

Internet Marketer Linwood Johnson has created such a solution. Johnson is the author of the wildly popular ebook Bandwidth Bling-Bling. If you haven’t read it, I highly recommend you find a copy of it and read it. (It’s still available on 1000s of sites throughout the internet.)

In this package, which comes as a physical product on DVD, you will find everything you need to start a profitable business in just about any niche you can imagine.

When you load the DVD into your computer, it opens a browser window where you have access to everything, right at your fingertips. There are articles and resources to teach you, as well as a link to the resources. Inside of this folder you will find hundreds of PLR and MMR products you can sell, as well as over 11,000 PLR articles you can rewrite and use to dominate your niche.

There’s also an HTML editor to help you build your websites, as well as a tool you can use to convert your Word docs to PDF.

Here is a short list of what’s included:

Getting Started
Resell RSS
Bonus Video
Bonus Audio
PLR Articles
PLR Content
Software & Scripts
Design & Graphics
Email Marketing
Cash On Demand
Adsense/Adwords
Web 2.0
Membership Sites
Advertising
List Building
Video Marketing
Product Creation
Traffic Generation

Affiliate Marketing
PayPerClick Mktg
Blogging
Audio & Podcast
Copywriting
Search Engines
Net Marketing
Public Domain
Clickbank
Article Marketing
Niche Marketing

This package also includes video, as well as tons of ebooks to teach you how to build a business, as well as internet marketing. Johnson has left out nothing in this package, and you can get it shipped right to your door. If you had to download this pack off the internet, it would take you days because there’s over 2 GB of information included.

I haven’t found anything like this anywhere on the internet, and you really won’t find a better teacher than Johnson. He’s done joint ventures with all of the big name marketers, and he really knows internet marketing inside and out. He also knows plenty about creating viral marketing campaigns. Viral marketing is the most effective way to put all of your marketing efforts on autopilot.

I highly recommend this package to anyone who is looking to start a business, and what better time to do it than right now?

At the very least, get over there and grab your free course. You’ll be glad you did.

IM Jumpstart Package

Free IM Marketing Course ($147 Value)

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Twitter Apps – Comprehensive list from Book iChapter #10

On Friday, I told you all about Digsby. It’s a new utility I have been using to keep track of all of my social networking and marketing.

The problem with Digsby is that it only works for those who use Windows. If you use MAC, then you’re somewhat out of luck. I recommended that readers on MAC visit the Twitter website.

However, even the Twitter website doesn’t have a whole lot to offer in this area. If you want a more comprehensive list of sites, with a few more details, then you need to visit Warren Whitlock’s Twitter blog.

Warren has coauthored a book with Deb Micek called The Twitter Handbook. In this book they explain how to get the most out of Twitter and use Twitter to make money from your business.

If you’ve been using Twitter and haven’t had very good results, or you’re want to learn how to use Twitter, Warren’s blog will definitely help you get started. You’ll find plenty of tools, tips, and good information on his site.

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Digsby

I love social marketing because I love meeting people. It’s a fun way to market your business, but it can also be very time consuming.

I personally had rather spend my time chatting and connecting with others than wrestling with these social marketing websites.

There is a very easy way to tame these sites and make it easier for you to stay in touch, connect with others, and market your products and services.

The software is called Digsby.

I found it when I was over on the Twitter site. Digsby is a chat client that allows you to keep up with the most important chat including Yahoo, MSN, Google, Facebook and others.

It’s also a whole lot more. It allows you to keep up with your other sites like Facebook, My Space, Linked In and Twitter.  This software makes it easy to check your messages, as well as find out what’s happening on each one of these sites.

Whether you have multiple email accounts or only one, this software will allow you to keep track of those accounts, as well as answer your emails right from the chat window.

To find out what is happening at each site, just roll your mouse over the appropriate site, and it will bring up a status window. You can see everything happening on that site at a glance. It really is very handy.

One really cool thing it allows you to do is put a chat widget on your site so you can chat with visitors. (That’s something I think I will definitely consider doing.)

I use lots of software in my business to get the job done. If I didn’t, I’d never have any time to do some of the other things I want to do.

As far as I know right now, this is only available for Windows users. If you want utilities for Mac, then I would recommend that you check out the Twitter site for more utilities you can use.

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Store Stacker

For those of you who have been to my other websites, you know that they are built on the Store Stacker platform. The reason is that for years I looked for a solution that would allow me to build websites that were easy to build. I also wanted to bring the best free and paid resources to my readers and customers, as well as customize my sites to my heart’s content.

Store Stacker allows me to do this because it allows me to add all different kinds of content from different sites as well as affiliate programs.

My friend Scott Trimble is now offering a deal on building websites that you simply cannot beat:

You can now sign up for Store Stacker for just $1. There’s a two week freee trial. You have a full two weeks to build as many websites as you want. They’re really not that hard to do either. You can easily build a site in just a couple of hours. Once you get your site built, you can put it on autopilot.

This package will include all of the plugins for Amazon, Clickbank, Ebay, RegNow, RSS, YouTube, Overstock, and Hotel Club. This gives you lots of choices for products to add to your site, and you can build sites on any topic that you want.

The Commission Junction plugin is currently in the works, and it will be available very soon. Commission Junction is one of the most lucrative affiliate networks on the planet, and you’ll find thousands of products there you can sell. The new plugin will make it easier than ever to add your programs.

With the RSS and YouTube plugins, you can add all kinds of really cool content like blog posts, articles, and videos. RSS allows you to add just about any content that is offered through RSS feeds, allowing you to build a real authority sites. Authority sites get a lot of traffic and sales.

According to Scott:

StoreStacker is the ONLY tool you need for affiliate site building. No outside software needed, just plug StoreStacker into your domains (domains is plural, because you can use StoreStacker on an unlimited number of sites) and start pulling niche products on virtually any market you want, relevant articles from article directories or RSS feeds and youtube videos on your chosen topic. In a matter of minutes your domain or website can become a one-stop-shop-and-information-hub in any niche you want.

What makes StoreStacker different than other store builders?

- More integrations. StoreStacker gives you access to pull more affiliate products.
- More SEO friendly. Many other store builders don’t create a new page for each product posted. StoreStacker does. Which means more keywords, more content and more pages to get ranked. (We have a new SEO update going live this week)
- More powerful. Post videos and articles, in addition to products. Have full control over store templates.
- More local. Built in geo-targeting and and localization for ebay stores, amazon.co.uk also supported. – More flexible. Add StoreStacker to any new domain or any existing website you want. Use it on unlimited domains.
- More user-friendly. Sell your own products and your affiliate links are automatically cloaked.

Having used Store Stacker myself, I have to agree. It really is easy, and it’s easy to build a lot of content rich, search engine friendly sites with this script.

It’s backed by superior tech support. There’s a forum where you can ask questions or look for answers, and you get your questions answered very quickly. There’s also a ton of resources there to help you improve your SS sites, as well as market them.

I contributed to this project by providing internet marketing information I had never talked about, and there’s an audio posted on the board to teach you how to optimize your SS store for the search engines and then market it to get a lot of traffic.

If you want websites that are working for you 24/7 and making you money without the hype, this is for you, and you’ll get all of the help you need.

Sign up for your free trial today: Store Stacker

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