For some, it was a daunting task to be up before 9am and secure a perfect seat in the meeting rooms of the Venetian Hotel. Still, many people who had just flown into Las Vegas made it in time for registration and secured some of the best seats on Friday, July 9, 2010. The event was kicked off by Jimmy Davis as emcee and the weekend contained an inspiring panel of successful entrepreneurs who put on their “teacher hats” for the weekend.

From then on, it was a nonstop buffet of learning and value for small business owners and Internet entrepreneurs. On Saturday, the audience was wowed by presentations by Mike Dillard, Todd Falcone, and Jonathan Budd, who are some of the most successful minds in Internet marketing.

During lunch and breakout sessions, we met amazing new people who all had something to share about their own business-building journeys. Some were eager to start implementing the advice they got from the presenters, but there was still one more day of learning to go to gather even more information from folks like Jim Yaghi, David Schwind, Katie Freiling, Joe O’Day, Adam Holland, and the hosts of the event, Raymond Fong and Fernando Ceballos.

Sunday definitely had people moving their pens like wildfire over their notes (I’m pretty sure I saw smoke coming off of Natasha’s page…which meant I didn’t have to take any notes!), hoping not to miss a single piece of information. I sat back and absorbed everything being offered in various topics ranging from PPC, Search Engine Optimization, Blogging, and Back Linking. And if you think this all sounds nerdy, you’re probably right. Some of these guys were formerly rocket scientists, and that’s not an exaggeration.

Still, they’ve made it clear that we don’t all have to hold the same degrees or be super geniuses of some kind. They’ve offered the keys to success and made them easy to learn and easy to use. No matter what your background, there are No Excuses for failure. They wanted to make sure everyone took that lesson with them, that no matter where they come from or where they are going, no excuses should stand in the way of your success.

If you were at the No Excuses Summit, leave a comment below and let us know your thoughts on this great event.

To your success,

Rich Hazlett

Natasha and I had a great time at the Marketing Funnel Mastery event on June 26. The things we’ve learned from Mike Klingler in this course are so powerful, that we have put everything else in our business on hold in order to get our new funnel in place.

If you missed the event in Portland I highly recommend that you check out one of the upcoming events that will be held in different cities around the country.

This weekend we are heading to Vegas for the No Excuses Summit, and then in August I’m heading to another event featuring Mark Hoverson and Ann Sieg in San Francisco. I’ve got some great things to share soon, so stay tuned.

In this video I compare two articles I’ve written and share the changes that I made in my article writing strategy to improve my views and click through rates. Click here to view the video.

To get the training you need to build a successful network marketing business in today’s marketplace, go here now for free access to my Attraction Marketing Manual.

Please leave a comment below, and let me know if this video was helpful, or if you have any additional article marketing tips to share with the community.

To Your Success,

Rich Hazlett

I was at home this weekend working on the final touches to my upcoming product launch when my doorbell rang. It was a little annoying because I was right in the middle of something, but I hopped up and went to the door. When I opened it I looked down and saw a little boy, who was probably about 6 or 7 years old, looking up at me.

As he held up two worn out looking plastic bags filled with rocks, he asked me if I would like to buy one of his rocks. Then he made me an irresistible offer…I could buy one for either $.25 or $1. Well, despite the fact that I was not in the market for a rock as well as the fact that the “product” in this case was not even particularly special, my wife scrounged up some change and we told him to pick out one he thought was worth $.75.

Now I realize some of you diehard networkers would have tried to recruit this young entrepreneur into your business but we just happily took our new rock and got back to work. After he left we couldn’t help but wonder how long it will take him to become a millionaire…

When I thought about why I was happy I had purchased something that I wasn’t in the market to buy, wasn’t even that great and was presented to me while I was busy doing something and didn’t want to be interrupted, it made me think about one of the key concepts that I have learned over the past couple of years in network marketing.

It’s really not about your product or business opportunity, or their incredible features and benefits…sure, it helps if they are at least reasonably good. But really, in order to even get to the market these days that is pretty much a given.

People ultimately buy from you or join your opportunity because of the personal relationship you have established with them, the connection you have made with them or the desire they have to do business with you for whatever reason (I bought a rock I didn’t want or need because I wanted to help out an ambitious young entrepreneur).

In my last video I shared how you can save some time setting up new pay per click campaigns. In this video I show how I generated leads for $.17 each this month in one of my pay per click campaigns. You may want to click on the button next to the volume to watch the full-screen version of this video.

To get the training you need to build a successful network marketing business in today’s marketplace, go here now for free access to my Attraction Marketing Crash Course.

This video shows how you can download campaigns from your Google Adwords account and upload them into the Yahoo PPC platform.

To get the training you need to build a successful network marketing business in today’s marketplace, go here now for free access to my Attraction Marketing Crash Course.

This video shows how you can maximize your efforts with the ping update services you notify when you post new blog content. Make this easy update and give your traffic a boost.

This brief video provides some tips that you can use to help you build your personal brand in network marketing.

To get the training you need to build a successful network marketing business in today’s marketplace, go here now for free access to my Attraction Marketing Manual.

This video tutorial shares some tips I’ve used to get #1 search engine rankings in just a matter of hours.

To get the training you need to build a successful network marketing business in today’s marketplace, go here now for free access to my Attraction Marketing Manual.

Click here for my free Attraction Marketing Crash Course

There is something building a buzz around the web this week. It’s the launch of Katie Freiling’s new content syndication community called the The Unified Tribe. Doors open today at 9 AM PST, and Katie is offering some sweet bonuses for those who move quickly on her special launch offer. Based on the incredible content that she has been putting out during the pre-launch of The Unified Tribe, it looks like this community will be a great way to help you promote your content and build your business to new levels of success.

Quite simply, content syndication is a way for you to increase the reach of your valuable written or video content. Imagine that you write a blog post and decide that you want to promote your new piece of content to all of your social media connections around the web on sites such as Twitter, Facebook, Stumble Upon, and Digg.

Now let’s suppose that you have a fairly good sized sphere of influence on these sites and you’re total number of connections equals 10,000 people on all of the sites combined. When you send out messages to promote your content, you have a potential audience of 10,000 people. Not bad, but consider the possibility of forming a “tribe” of 5 like-minded people who all agree to syndicate the promotion of each other’s content.

If each member in the tribe has 10,000 social media connections, every time the group promotes your content it would have a potential audience of 50,000 instead of just 10,000. That is HUGE, and the numbers don’t have to stop there. The Unified Tribe offers you a chance to form relationships with other members of the community and be able to greatly expand the reach of your content. For more information on this powerful concept, check out the free report available by clicking here.

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You should assume that the author of information provided on this blog has an affiliate relationship and/or another material connection to the providers of goods and services mentioned on this site and may be compensated when you purchase from a provider. You should always perform due diligence before buying goods or services from anyone via the Internet or offline.

One of the potential drawbacks to building your business using the internet is the lack of personal interaction that your prospects are able to have with you…compared to what they get when considering joining a team that uses local meetings to introduce people to their opportunity.

Building your MLM business using the internet and phone allows you to reach people all over the country and the world, but can limit the connection that you are able to build with your prospects. One way you can massively increase the level of connection you are able to build with a prospect after talking on the phone with them is to take a couple of minutes to shoot a quick personalized video message using your webcam.

You can take this time to build on your relationship and also show them your product, so they have a vivid image of what it is that you were describing to them about your opportunity. Add a compelling message about whatever your greatest selling point is to help them put money in THEIR pocket and invite them to get started with you.

Some things to consider when you are putting this video together:
1. Reinforce any personal connections you may have established during your conversation. (Shared interests, sports, etc.)
2. Use the best camera that you can afford to use. Using a terrible camera that produces poor video quality will make you look like an amateur in your prospect’s eyes.
3. Make sure you set up your webcam so that you have an appealing background when you create your video. You may be used to looking at the huge mess behind you and think it’s no big deal, but first impressions are huge, so do what you can to make the best one possible.

To Your Success,

Rich Hazlett

This is a tutorial about how you can use a couple of cool free tools with your gmail account to connect with other network marketers and share your content.

To Your Success,

Rich Hazlett
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This is a brief tutorial that shows how you can use Google Alerts to find MLM leads as well stay on top the latest industry news.

To Your Success,

Rich Hazlett