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Introduction

Positive thinking is a state of mind that naturally expects a positive outcome to events. Not all of us were born to be positive thinkers. The good news is that this mindset is a habit that can be developed and enhanced. The benefits are greater happiness and the increased likelihood that you will be able to achieve whatever goals you create for yourself. Positive thinking knows no limits, while negative thoughts only create limitations.

Is positive thinking a guarantee to success? No, it is not. Life has a way of throwing us unexpected curves. But a positive mindset will help you deal with the setbacks and move on. It prevents you from being a victim of circumstances.

Successful people rarely get to their destination because life looked upon them with specific favor. They created their success by believing that personal and professional success can happen if they remain in control of their thoughts and actions. Positive thinking is reactive, which negative thinking is passive.

A positive mindset involves more than simply telling yourself, “Think more positively!” It’s going deep down and understanding ourselves well enough to become confident of a successful outcome. We need to genuinely believe that we can make it happen. Equally as important, we’ll discuss how a positive mindset can create a state of preparedness. Positive thinking provides us with the power to think ahead and anticipate the challenges that life keep tossing at us.

Positive thinking is anything but luck. When we change a negative mind of state, we open ourselves up to greater opportunities and possibilities. When life looks bleak, it’s remarkably easy to become negative. This book will give you a few tips on how to change negativity into positivity until it becomes a natural lifestyle.
In addition to greater success in life, positive thinking decreases stress, increases our health, helps us gain confidence, and helps us live longer due to our ability to handle stress and adversity.

Seven Ways to Boost a Positive Mindset

We are frequently taught caution and negativity early in life by those who love us the most – our parents. Parental concern can convince us that it’s a dangerous, dog-eat-dog world out there, and we are at its mercy. Even well-meaning moms and dads can douse our dreams with what they believe is some cold reality.

“Just find a job with a nice pension, dear.” “Don’t ask that pretty girl out. She’ll turn you into mincemeat. Invite the secretary next door. She’s bound to be grateful.” “No one ever supported himself as a struggling artist. Get a job.”

And these are the helpful parents! They can ensure we always expect the worse. And we wake up at the age of 40 and wonder why we are miserable.

It’s never too late to change years of negative thinking. Here are a few of the best ways to ensure you see the sun instead of the smog.

Use Words that are Positive

We’re sure you’ve heard, “whether you think you can or think you cannot, you are right.”

Our choice of words matters. If you tell yourself you’re stupid, unattractive, or boring, that’s exactly what you will be. Life has a way of making our thoughts come true. It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy. When confronting a problem, use positive words, such as “I can,” or “I will.”

Think of words as building blocks. We use them to build (or make) conversation, ideas, and thoughts. These building blocks determine our relationship with others. Two people can be in the exact same situation and think about it very differently. “The people at this party are so boring.” “This party may be a good opportunity to build my social skills.” Same party – two attitudes. Which attitude will be more successful? We invariably get more out of any situation when we make a choice and look for a positive. Thinking positively is always a choice.

Keep a Notebook

Think of the things in your life that have you feeling negative. Write them down. For example, “I haven’t had a good date in months.” Below it, rewrite that thought in a positive way. “If I join a gym or book club, I might meet some interesting people.”

Do this exercise regularly. Don’t deny the negative thought. State it, then turn it into a positive. This is an excellent habit to get into. Review the notebook periodically and check out your progress.

Listen to Others

People love to complain. As you listen, keep track how often people emphasize the negative. Don’t correct them (that would be rude), but this type of active listening will reveal just how widespread negative thinking can be. And it will help you monitor your own negative thoughts.

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Millions of people tune in to hundreds of thousands of podcasts every single month. And this number is expected to grow year on year. If you want to get your fair share of profits from podcasting, then this short report is for you.

Today, you’re going to learn about the top 5 methods you can follow to generate income from your podcast.

A Quick Disclaimer On Podcasting

Before you start thinking podcasting is a get-rich-quick kind of scheme, stop. The people who make a good amount of income each month with their podcasts did not get there overnight.

The truth is podcasting is hard work. You need to produce valuable content on a consistent basis, and you need to build your audience before you can even start thinking about monetizing your show. If you’re a newcomer and you immediately start selling to people, then you’re going to scare people off. That’s the harsh reality.

If you’re looking for some quick cash, then podcasting isn’t it. There are other ways to make money easily. Blogging, YouTube marketing, freelance writing, etc. are relatively easier and faster ways to make some money.

Many podcasts don’t even get to the point of making a profit. For many podcasters, they do their shows because they love it. They love the idea of building relationships with their audience or networking with like-minded professionals. They use their podcast as a means to grow their knowledge and to engage with people in their industry.

So, how long would it take before your podcast becomes profitable?

Many podcasters were able to realize some profits once their audience grew to a respectable size (around 5,000 to 10,000 subscribers). However, this isn’t a guarantee that you too will make some money when you reach the same number.

The Right Audience Matters

In podcasting, you want the right people tuning in to your show because they’re the ones who are going to be benefiting the most from your recommendations. They’re your “fans.” The more engaged your audience, the higher your conversion rates for whatever product or service you’re going to put in front of them eventually!

But how do you capture the right audience?

The answer to this may surprise you: you need a podcast that talks about a specific niche. The more specific your niche, the more you’re able to target the right kind of people you want to help.

The most successful podcasts are those which cover a specific niche. The hosts of these shows know their niche inside and out. Thus they’re able to provide tons of value to their listeners. Over time, as more and more people tune in to their show, they eventually become known as THE podcast in their niche, or at least one of the popular ones.

Let me give you an example. If you want to make it in the Internet Marketing niche, then you need to create a podcast that talks about this topic. Your podcast is not going to be known as a top Internet Marketing podcast if you also talk about how to take care of animals, how to make pottery, how to become a good parent, and so on, in your shows! In short, you don’t want your podcast to talk about everything and nothing!

Now, Internet Marketing is a very broad subject area. There are many different sub-niches, so you can niche down and talk about these different sub-niches. Just remember, you don’t want to be trapped in a too-small niche where the possibility of running out of things to talk about is high.

The Top 5 Ways To Make Your Podcast Turn A Profit

Alright, so now you’ve arrived at the meat of this article. If you’ve just scanned this report to get to this section, then know that there are two essential components if you want to maximize your conversion rates and your profits. These are (1) choose the right niche, and (2) target the right audience.

With that said, here are the top 5 ways to monetize your podcast:

1. Affiliate marketing

Affiliate marketing isn’t all that complicated at all. If you’ve ever searched for product reviews on the Internet, clicked on a link and found yourself on Amazon, then chances are you clicked on an affiliate link. This means that if you bought anything on Amazon, then the website which published that product review got a commission from your purchase!

So, how does affiliate marketing work?

In a nutshell, you simply need to sign up as an affiliate for the product you want to promote. If you want to promote Amazon products, then you need to sign up for Amazon Associates.

If you want to sell Udemy courses, then you can sign up to be a Udemy affiliate. There are thousands, if not millions, of affiliate products and programs you can join.
Now that you know affiliate marketing is relatively easy, it’s important not to be trigger-happy and sign up for every affiliate network you can think of. Put yourself in your audience’s shoes.

How would you feel if you were listening to a bass fishing podcast and the host suddenly recommends you check out a toy for toddlers? You’d probably scratch your head and think, “What on earth did he just say?”

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For many, it is often much more comfortable to remember the bad experiences in their lives, rather than the good. When unfortunate things happen to us, we tend to spend a significant amount of time and energy on thinking about what went wrong. By taking the time to increase our experience and depth of gratitude, we can start to balance out these negative thoughts. When we focus on the right thoughts, memories, and feelings from our lives, we can begin to gain numerous positive benefits and opportunities that further enrich our lives.

Genuinely feeling grateful in your heart, and choosing to articulate it through your words and your actions, you’ll be able to grow beyond your self-imposed limits and achieve a life of greatness and happiness. Being able to put your problems into perspective and find the good in every situation will help to keep you grounded and encourage you to nurture those in your life that you love.

Practicing gratitude can have numerous positive benefits, both physically and psychologically, so why do so many of us fail to practice gratitude in our daily lives? The most straightforward answer is that we are taught to be ambitious and are always striving to be better. However, when you practice an attitude of gratitude, you can open your life to more possibilities and achieve the greatness that you seek. Learn how to practice gratitude for a life of greatness and Happiness.

Step 1 – Understand Gratitude is a Choice

In the same way that you can choose to be optimistic or pessimistic, you can also choose whether or not you are going to be consciously grateful for your life. When you practice gratitude, you're actively choosing to have a more positive perspective on life. When you learn to focus on the things you have to be grateful for, you can gain greater happiness and experiencing a better quality of life. All it takes is you actively changing your outlook.

Choosing to be grateful is easier said than done. Not only will it require you to have a desire to be more thankful in your life, but you will also have to practice it on a regular basis. Just like with any other skill, developing a habit of gratitude takes time and practice. As you practice gratitude more and more, you'll notice that you'll find it easier to see the things that you are thankful for in your life. As you practice gratitude more and more, you'll start to feel more positive and happier overall. When times get tough, you'll be able to look at what you should be grateful for, which will affect your attitude and outlook.

You can actively begin to practice gratitude by participating in the following consciousness exercise.

Find a quiet place for ten minutes. Try to think of ten things that you are grateful for at that moment. They don’t have to be big, monumental things, they could be small things that happened to you during the day or even essential people in your life. Write down the ten items on a piece of paper or notebook. Take the time to look at each one and ask yourself why you are grateful for it.

Over the next 24 hours, try to stay conscious of your gratitude. Take note of the positive things that happen to you and the things that you are grateful for in your daily life. To help you begin to practice gratitude, you can start keeping a gratitude journal. When it comes to incorporating gratitude into your daily life, it can help to write down what you are grateful for in your life and refer back to it when you are stuck in a particularly tricky situation.

To start a gratitude journal, pick up a journal or notepad that you can use to write in every day. There are also many smartphone applications that are designed for this same purpose. One the first page of the journal, write down three things that you would like to achieve by practicing gratitude. Then, for the next four weeks or longer, start writing down three things that you are grateful for each day. While it's alright to repeat things from day to day, you'll get more out of the exercise when you can come up with specific things that you notice each day. As you write these things down, be sure to include why you are grateful for them.

Try to make a mental note of each thing that you are grateful for in the day to help you complete the exercise before you go to bed. Try to be conscious of the positive things you experience and kind actions you notice, throughout the week. Once a week, look back over your entries and take in the positive energy that you’ll get by revisiting all the things that you are grateful for in your life.

Step 2 – Learn to Counteract Negativity

When you begin to practice gratitude in your life, it can help you to cope with the negative emotions that you feel and the challenging situations that you face. As you worked through the consciousness exercise, you should have started to notice that you experienced a sense of increased positivity and contentment. This happens because when we think about the things that we are grateful for, we are actively choosing to focus on the positive emotion and good things in our lives. This positivity can be harnessed to help us through the more difficult and challenging times. By bringing positivity to stressful situations, you can shift your focus to a more positive response, which can lead to more energy and positivity to deal with the problematic situation.

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Introduction

Everyone, at one point in their life or another, have set goals they want to achieve. Unfortunately, more times than not, we seem to work endlessly toward our goals, but never quite accomplish them. Eventually, we may even begin to realize the great hurdle we're facing and give up on achieving our goals. This can lead to you feeling defeated, worthless, and like a monumental failure.

Everyone who has ever achieved success in their lives has done it through persistence. Persistence is at the very core achievement. Those who have managed to find success know that even if they fail, they have to get back up and carry on. They never give up. Unfortunately, for the majority of us, staying persistent can be extremely challenging. In the face of challenges, it can be hard to remain persistent.

Being able to imagine success vividly is a way to remain persistent on your path to success. And, since persistence has been shown to be at the heart of every successful person, it goes without saying, that your ability to clearly envision your dreams has a lot to do with your chances of success.

The Importance of Persistence

If you want to reach your goals, you have to harbor an unwavering resolution to see it through. Persistence is central to every goal that you have in life. Without this single

core tendency, it can be straightforward to give up when the going gets tough. Unfortunately, we live in a society where instant gratification rule. We've become used to having everything on-demand, and we've forgotten how necessary it is to have the patience to reach our goals. Patience is a skill that we have to develop over time, but there is a lot that works against us when we are learning to have patience.

The worst part about this happens when we experience failure. When we experience failure, we equate it to massive amounts of pain, and rather than suffer through that pain; we tend to take the easy way out and just quit. We all tend to have an intense fear when it comes with the potential for failure, that far outweighs our need to stay persistent in our quest to achieve success.

How do we overcome failure? Through persistence. As long as we can remain persistent, we can push through challenges and overcome failure.

#1: How to Embrace Unfailing Persistence

Much of persistence is grounded on the fundamental prerequisite of focus. When you focus on something, it has your undivided attention, which allows you to approach it persistently. However, it is when we lose our focus that we can lose our ability to remain persistent in our pursuit to achieve our goals. Becoming more focused is the pathway to remaining persistence on your path to success. While nothing in our lives, related to our long-term goals, can be categorized as direct or straightforward, there are some effective methods for staying focused and remaining persistent in your journey to accomplish your goals.

#2: Figuring Out What You Want

If you want to achieve a high level of focus, you have to figure out what you really want. You need to be precise and exact. For example, say you think that it might be good to move into a new house. What happens then? Do you say to yourself, "I wish I could move into a new house?" Of course not. When you want to move, you take the time to do research and figure out what kind of house you want to live in. You figure out if you're going to rent or buy.

As you start to figure out the exact kind of house you want to move into, your focus automatically increases. You begin to zero in on what you really want, shaping it and refining it in your mind until you have an exact picture of your dream. At this point, you start to search online for a match to your vision and maybe even begin to talk to realtors and touring available homes in person.

Similarly, with the rest of your goals, you need to determine precisely what it is that you want, right down to the very last detail. When you talk about abstract goals, like "I want to be rich," or "I want to lose weight," you're doing yourself an incredible disservice. When your goals are abstract like these, they are less and real, and you are less likely to achieve them.

After you've determined precisely what you want, write your goal down. Make sure that you are extremely precise in what you want, and be sure to include a due date for accomplishing the goal. The more detail you can add when writing down your goal, the higher your chances of achieving your goals. One study determined that you have a 42 percent higher chance of making your goals if they are written down.

#3: Continuously Remind Yourself Why You Want It

If you want to remain persistent on your path to accomplishing your goals and achieving success, you always have to remind yourself why you're doing what you're doing. If you want to achieve your goals, you have to have a strong reason to motivate you to remain persistent in your pursuit. If your reason for wanting to achieve a particular goal is superficial, then you can forget about ever achieving it. Your reason for setting the goal has to run deep.

One of the best ways to stay focused and persistent on your path is to have profound reasons for wanting to achieve your goals. Think about this for a minute. Think about a time in your life when you really wanted something, and you had a deep-rooted reason for wanting it, did you do just about anything in your power to achieve it? Think about a single mother who is working three jobs only to provide her children with a comfortable life. Why is she working herself so hard?

A single mother with no other alternatives has to do what she must to survive. While her goal might be survival, she might have a different purpose entirely. Take J.K. Rowling for instance. When she first set about writing Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, she was living on government assistance as a single mother. Clearly, she wasn't merely interested in survival but was interested in finding a way to thrive. She had a deep-rooted reason to do just that.

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If you are working on your career and it seems like you're not going anywhere, please understand that it may not be your intelligence. That's right. You maybe be the sharpest tool in the shed, but smarts alone may not take you where you wish to go. You maybe be very good-looking but sadly, looks can only go so far.

If you find yourself struggling in any area of your life, despite the amount of work and time you put into it, you may have issues with emotional intelligence. Either you're completely clueless about it, or you haven't fully refined it. Regardless, you are suffering because you are lacking in this department. Here are eight ways to know if your lack of emotional intelligence is holding you back.

Do you find it very hard to hold back your words to a loved one? You often say the wrong things at the wrong time with the people that matter most in your life.

Now, it's very easy to pass this all off as "being real” with them. You can say to them that you’re just being sincere and authentic, but unfortunately, such excuse will ring hallow. They can easily ask you a very question that will shut you down: “If you truly respect and love me, why do you choose those words to communicate?”

There are many ways to communicate the same idea. Unfortunately, if you are in an emotional state, it's too tempting and easy to say things in the worst way possible. Instead of simply communicating information, you may say things in such a way that they cut and demean the people you’re talking to.

People can only take so much of this until they start suspecting that you don’t respect them, much less, love them.

If you’re suffering from any of these, click here to get out from under the negative emotional habits that you may have developed over the years. Your problem can be fixed but you must first admit that it's a problem.

Do you feel that you’re always saying the wrong things to the people you love the most? Does it seem like your relationships can only go so far? Do you feel that you are somehow trapped in a negative range of emotions that no matter how hard you try and care about people around you, they just can’t seem to understand you?

It’s very tempting to look at that situation and assume the role of a victim. It’s very tempting to say that you were just “born that way". No you’re not. Everything about you, believe it or not, and like it or not, is a choice. Everything from your appearance, to the way you talk to the things that you choose to talk about, and how much money you have in the bank, all of those and many more are results of your choices.

Guess where else they come from? They are from inside your mind. Don’t for a moment think that your personality has somehow "doomed" you to a certain life. That’s an illusion. You’re not stuck. You’re definitely entitled to feeling frustrated, but you can make a choice because it is your life.

If you’re sick and tired of feeling stuck in a personality that you didn’t create, click here to learn the techniques that you need to reprogram yours for a better life.

Emotional intelligence is built on the solid foundation of self-awareness. When think that you are somehow stuck with a certain personality that produces negative results, you’re not.

Let me tell you, feeling like a victim is very attractive. It really is. In fact, it’s quite seductive. If you think that you’re bearing the weight of the world and that people are expecting all sorts of things from you, you can gain a tremendous sense of freedom by simply assuming the role of a victim.

When you’re the victim, you feel that you’re not going to be held accountable. After all you’re the person who already suffered. Why beat up on you some more, right?
When you’re the victim, you feel that whatever you do from that point on really doesn’t matter because the harm was already done to you.

It is no surprise that a lot of people who consider themselves victims, are in their own right victimizers of other people. They give themselves a pass. In fact in many cases, they feel that they have some sort of license to be mean, abusive or disrespectful to other people because they’re already victims.

When people get harmed in the past, they feel that their shame, humiliation, and frustration gives them a right to hurt others. If you feel like this, it’s because you chose not to exercise your emotional intelligence.

Emotional intelligent people do not resort to victimhood. They know that it’s a dead end. When you are a victim, you are essentially saying to the world that you have no choice over your life. You’re the person that things happen to, instead of the person that makes things happen. You’re always looking for a break and the benefit of the doubt even though you did not earn it.

I’m telling you if you assume the role of the victim, you are going to be settling for the crumbs that life has left over. This is not exactly a winning position. Click here to get out from under victim mentality. It’s actually easier than you think. It all boils down to emotional intelligence.

People who suffer from low self-esteem often misread their emotions. They think that they’re just sad they think that the world can be reduced to black and white. The problem is that this is a case of interpretation.

Maybe you’re looking at the total picture of your life in the worst way possible. Maybe you are exaggerating other people’s achievements and putting yourself down. If you’re completely honest with yourself and practice emotional intelligence, you would see the big picture. More importantly, you would see things in the right perspective.

Given enough perspective, it often turns out that we’re not as bad as we think we are. We quickly discover that were really not at the bottom. No matter how ugly, dumb, poor, stupid, or unappealing you may think you are, when you look at your life with the right perspective, things aren’t that bad. In fact, if you are reading this book in the United States, you are in the top 10 % of the world’s population. Chances are you don’t have to worry about a roof over your head, food in your belly and clean water.

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Instagram is a traffic behemoth. There’s really no other way to describe this traffic platform. After all, it has more than one billion active users.

Just how active are these users? Well, we’re talking about five hundred million people interacting with their accounts every single day. That is huge.

Whether you’re viewing traffic in terms of page views, ad clicks, or what not, Instagram has a lot of potential. If you have not tapped into this amazing traffic resource, you are leaving a lot of money on the table.

In fact, it’s worse than that. It’s only a matter of time before your competitors leave you completely in the dust. It doesn’t matter how solid your online store brand has become, it’s only a matter of time until your competitors destroy you thanks to their solid Instagram persona.

You need to get in there. You need to tap into Instagram so you can gain or maintain a competitive advantage. With that said, too many people who try to market on Instagram flat out fail. They really do.

They don’t get the results that they’re looking for and eventually, they quit. As we all know, the only way to lose at something is to quit. That’s the only way you can fail.

Unfortunately, if you don’t play the Instagram marketing game the right way or you have no idea, then the chances of you failing are quite high. Here are just ten of the many reasons why most Instagram marketing campaigns fail.

You can’t look at Instagram as some sort of one-time-big-time traffic source. You can’t just go in there with a big budget, buy up as many ads as possible, and just come in with both guns blazing. It doesn’t work that way.

For you to truly benefit on Instagram, you have to run a campaign. Optimize it. Then, run another campaign until you get the results you’re looking for.

The key here is to run free and paid campaigns on a slow and low basis. In other words, you’re just experimenting. You’re just trying to figure out what will work.

It’s like throwing spaghetti at the wall. You keep throwing from different angles and in different ways until you find something that works. At that point, you then scale up. That’s when you spend real money.

Unfortunately, if you go in there with a one-time-big-time kind of mindset, things are probably not going to work out unless of course, you already know what kind of ad campaign would work well with Instagram.

Most companies don’t have this strategic advantage. They’re coming in completely blind. It is very dangerous to come in with too much money with a tremendous amount of impatience. You have to be patient. You have to attack this on a piecemeal basis.

I’m a very big Instagram marketer as well as a user. I love using Instagram. In fact, I’m one of those stereotypical Instagram users who check their IG updates every couple of hours.

From my perspective as a consumer, I can see why a lot of Instagram marketing campaigns fail. Many of these marketers would buy a good-looking ad on Instagram.
However, when you click on the link associated with that picture, it takes you to a page you know nothing about. A lot of these campaigns take you to a sales page.

This is a serious problem because people are thinking at the back of their heads, “What is this company about? How will I benefit from this company? How does this company and its products and services address my situation?”

There are lots of unanswered questions. People who clicked-through may not have been fully convinced yet, but unfortunately, they are dumped on a sales page.

They don’t know what to do. When consumers get confused, they can be relied on to click the back button or not do anything. In other words, they’re not going to buy. They’re not going to convert.

This is why promoting direct conversion links usually leads to failure. You have to qualify your prospect. You have to answer their questions. You have to build trust in their eyes.

This requires content. You can’t just dump them into a sales page or an email recruitment page. It doesn’t work that way.

A lot of accounts on Instagram get paid a lot of money. These are regular people like you and me who created Instagram accounts. Advertisers cannot give them enough money. Why?

They’ve developed very loyal fans. These accounts may post pictures of luxury watches. Who do you think would want to buy advertising space or ad mentions in their posts? That’s right. Luxury time-piece brands.

Regardless of the niche, there are sure to be influencers who command top dollar. Now, this may sound awesome and everything, but the problem is there are lots of unscrupulous business people out there making up fake influencer accounts.

These are accounts that are just intended to get advertising revenue. To make matters worse, they also have fake followers.

Let me tell you. If you were to spend $20 on a shoutout to these accounts, you might as well just take that $20 bill and burn it. You’ll get the exact same result. You’ll get a whole lot of nothing.

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Introduction

In recent months, blockchain technology has dominated the news. However, if you're like many, you may not be able to wrap your head around what is being said completely. In fact, according to the latest surveys, blockchain is one of the most complex emerging technologies out there today. While it is still a relatively new technology, blockchain is one that could dramatically shape the way businesses, and marketers work in the not-so-distant future.

The blockchain was first defined in the source code for Bitcoin and is the underlying foundation for all cryptocurrency transactions. Bitcoin was invented in October 2008, when Satoshi Nakamoto published a white paper titled Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System. The code for blockchain was released as open source in January 2009. Over the last decade, blockchain, the technology that runs Bitcoin, has developed into one of today’s most significant, ground-breaking technologies with the potential to have a tremendous impact on every industry from financial to educational, to manufacturing.

Currently, Bitcoin is just one of the several hundred applications that utilize blockchain technology. It has been an impressive decade of transformation for the technology with no signs of it slowing down in the next ten years. If you are interested in learning more about what blockchain is, here are five of the most asked questions about the technology answered.

What is Blockchain?

The blockchain is merely a digital method of economic transaction record-keeping, or in layman's terms, it's a digital ledger. The thing that differentiates it from any other digital record-keeping system is its security. While the data recorded in blockchain can be viewed openly by everyone within a given network, no one is able to edit or delete existing records. You can think of it as a giant, shared public spreadsheet that can only be updated by solving a complex math problem. If a new file needs to be added to the blockchain, a complex mathematical problem must be resolved.

To solve the encryption, computing power is used where a machine uses it capabilities to mine for the answer to the problem. If this concept sounds familiar, it might be due to the fact that you’ve heard the term “mining” before in a similar context.

Once the computer has discovered an answer to the encrypted problem, the solution is then verified by everyone on the network. If the answer is right, the new block, with all the transaction details and other new information is added to the ledger; a receipt is generated as proof, which is often in the form of a token or coin.

While there are various elements of blockchain technology that make it rather important, its two key capabilities are the recording of digital asset transfers that proves transactions took place and that ownership exists, and the inability to tamper with or overwrite its ledger.

Since the blockchain ledger is distributed to everyone within the network, even if one person manages to falsify a block, the technology keeps several copies of the correct version. This means that the technology can reject a false input like this because it recognizes that it doesn't match the other records in existence. This is what makes blockchain technology so unique. While it is entirely transparent, it is also kept altogether secure.

What’s more, the public distribution of blockchain lends itself to the decentralization of the digital ledger. This means that there’s not a core database that is vulnerable to attacks, which contributes to the technology’s somewhat tamper-proof nature.

How Does Blockchain Work?

Instead than having a primary administrator like a traditional database, a digital ledger has a network of replicated databases that are synchronized through the Internet and visible to anyone on the system. Blockchain networks can be public, like the Internet, where everyone in the world has access to it, or they can be private, where there is a restricted membership that is similar to an Intranet.

When a digital transaction is completed, it is grouped together with other transactions that have occurred within the last ten minutes. They are grouped into a cryptographically protected block that is then sent out to the entire network. Miners are members of the system with high levels of computing power that compete to validate the transactions in the block by solving complex coded problems. The first miner to correctly answer the challenge and confirm the block receives a reward, usually in the form of a coin or token.

After the block of transactions is validated, it is timestamped and added to the chain in linear, chronological order. New blocks that have been confirmed are then linked to the older blocks, forming a chain of blocks that show every recorded transaction made in the history of that particular blockchain. The entire chain is updated constantly so that all of the ledgers in the network is the same, giving each member of the blockchain network the ability to prove who owns what at any given time.

The decentralized, open, and cryptographic nature of blockchains allow members of the network to trust each other and make peer-to-peer transactions, effectively eliminating intermediaries. It also brings with it unprecedented security benefits.

Is Blockchain Technology Secure?

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Let’s get one thing clear. ClickBank is an amazing affiliate program. It really is. In most cases, it covers most niches. Regardless of what kind of niche you are interested in, usually ClickBank would have a product that is either directly related or indirectly relevant to your target niche.

ClickBank also has a tried-and-proven tracking system. It is a battle-tested platform. People cannot say that this is some sort of scam affiliate system that is unproven. In fact, it's been around for several years and as long as you play by the rules and you know what you're doing, you can make good money with ClickBank.

With all that said, it is also a reality that the majority of people who try their hand at ClickBank marketing flat-out fail. Either they fail right out of the gate or they fail eventually. What gives? Why do most of these people fail to make money with ClickBank?

There are nine distinct reasons. Make sure none of these apply to you if you're serious about making serious bank with ClickBank.

Niches are subject matter categories. These are basically a set of problems and concerns as well as interests. Niches involve products that address those interests, problems or concerns.

A lot of marketers don't think in terms of niches. They don't even think in terms of audiences who would have these problems. Instead, they hear that there is this amazing program called ClickBank and that people make thousands of dollars on every single month .That’s all they need to hear so they sign up, get an account and they start throwing ClickBank links all over the place. These individuals crash and burn.

You have to understand what niche marketing is all about and get into the heads of people you are trying to reach. You have to understand that people are not going to give you their hard-earned dollars because they have nothing else better to do. They're not doing it out of the kindness of their heart.

They’re doing it because they have a problem to solve. This is how niche marketing works. You target certain niches because there are certain problems there that your products address.

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Many ClickBank marketers think that the more streams of traffic they get, the better off they will be. In theoretical terms, this makes all the sense in the world. After all, just like with real rivers and streams, when you have many small tributaries getting together, it turns into a bigger and bigger body of water until you have a raging river.

Unfortunately, on the Internet, things don't actually work this way. You have to specialize and master certain channels before you scale up to other channels. Sadly, too many people marketing all sorts of ClickBank products end up marketing on so many places that they never master any of these traffic sources. As the old saying goes, jack of all trades; master of none.

Don't commit this mistake. Instead, build a niche-specific self-reinforcing traffic system from the ground up by clicking here.

I can’t even begin to tell you how many people are impressed by Facebook traffic. Now, I wish I could tell you that they have such a favorable view of Facebook because of direct first-hand experience.

Unfortunately, most of these people are just repeating what they've heard before. People keep saying that Facebook Ads delivers solid results so they buy into the fantasy. Once they start putting their money where their mouths are, they find out, in the worst way possible, that a lot of this is hype.

I'm not saying that Facebook Ads will not convert. That's not my point. My point is if you are completely clueless regarding Facebook Ads, chances are your first, second and possibly even first hundred campaigns will fail or will at least yield disappointing results.

Make no mistake paid traffic can pay off, but there is a steep learning curve and it's also very expensive. This is why a lot of ClickBank marketers fail. They have a few thousand dollars lying around so they blow it all on Facebook Ads.

They don't have a system for filtering Facebook Ads or qualifying Facebook Ads. They don't even know how to post content-based ads. Let’s put it this way. They probably would have gotten the same results if they have taken those thousands of dollars in hundred-dollar bills and set them on fire.

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Please understand that even though you’re not paying with actual dollars, you can still be losing money with your traffic generation efforts. Time, after all, is money. Unfortunately, it's very easy to waste your time on different manual traffic methods.

You think you're making a lot of progress because people are clicking on your links. You might want to think again. Look at your conversions. Please understand that just because you put it in a lot of time, effort and energy to drum up traffic, this doesn’t necessarily mean that traffic will convert.