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If there’s a business model entrepreneurs should strive to succeed in, it should be those that generate passive income.

Why? Because with passive income you’re literally earning money with minimal to no effort on your part. Sounds like a dream, right?

Yes, it’s quite the dream life when you get to that point. But obviously getting there is not easy. Otherwise, everyone will be living off of their passive incomes and traveling around the world!

So, how do you find the perfect business that will generate passive income for you?

If this is something you’ve been meaning to ask, then you’re in luck because in this short report, you’re going to learn 5 of the best passive income businesses you can start today!

Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is often one of the first methods newbies try out when they first get involved in Internet marketing. The idea behind this business model is very simple and is a proven profitable method. You simply need to promote other people’s products as an affiliate, and you get a commission every time someone buys those products through your affiliate link!

Commissions vary wildly. In some places like JVZoo and Clickbank, you can get commissions as high as 90% or even 100%! If you’re an Amazon affiliate, the maximum commission you’d get would be 10%, but the good thing is you get a commission for all items bought on Amazon (not just the ones you’re promoting on your website).
The key to getting good income with affiliate marketing is by sending plenty of traffic to your website. It’s a numbers game basically so you’d need to look for where your target audience is hanging out and promote your affiliate products to them.

One great advantage of affiliate marketing is that it’s relatively easy to setup. In fact, you can promote products anywhere you want – on your blog, on your guest posts, on forums, on social media, on your emails, and many more places!

All you have to do is just sign up to be an affiliate of a product you like, and then use that special link and promote it. That’s it! Of course, not all affiliate networks and product owners are going to approve your request. Most networks do have standards in place.

Most of them will ask for your website address and ask you questions on where you plan on promoting their products. If they don’t like your answers, then you don’t get approved as an affiliate.

In most cases, product vendors require you at least have some solid online presence before they approve your request. Product vendors do get scammed too, so they tend to be pretty careful when it comes to approving affiliates.

If you find it difficult getting approved on a network, it’s best to establish your online presence first by building your own website or blog, and letting it age for a few months before re-submitting your application.

When your application gets approved, and you create valuable content around the affiliate product, then you can pretty much get passive affiliate marketing income for as long as the affiliate product is available.

Sell eCourses and Info Products

If you are an expert in a particular subject, and you want to share your expertise with the world, then you may want to create your own course and info products. However, if you don’t have specialized knowledge in anything, don’t fret.

It’s not the end of the world. You can still sell eCourses and info products even if you don’t have first-hand experience in any subject!

You’ve got two options basically.

First is you take the time to learn the subject, research it thoroughly and then apply what you’ve learned when you create your course.

The second option is to just outsource the content creation to someone who actually knows the subject.

There are plenty of freelancer-for-hire platforms. You can go through any of them and place an advert for a qualified freelancer to come help you out with your project.

The great thing with selling your own course and info products is that you can set your own price. Unlike affiliate marketing where your commissions are capped at a certain percentage, selling your own products allows you to put your own price tag! If you think your course is worth $197, then set that price.

If you think $17 is a suitable price, then by all means choose that price. For best results, however, you should, of course, do your own research to find the best price for the product you’re offering. Look at what similar products in the same niche are priced at. Check out what your competitors’ prices are and go from there.
To boost sales, you may want to consider creating an affiliate program so other people can help promote your product. If you offer your affiliates a good share of the profits, you’d have plenty of applicants knocking at your virtual door.

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Introduction

Have you ever found yourself wondering how much different life might be if you were able to actually sit down and plan out the future of your dreams, and actually start to live it? That may not be as crazy as it sounds. In the book, Planning for Success: A Step-by-Step Guide to Turning Your Dreams into Reality, readers are provided with the crucial outline for success.

Gone are the days of sitting at home wishing for better. You can begin working on your ideal life right away, simply by picking up this guide and providing yourself with the necessary tools for developing a plan for success. Whether you feel like you work well with plans and goals or not, this book is of tremendous value to any reader who is hoping to get out of the rut that living in day to day life can dig us into.

There is no reason to believe that success is elusive and only falls into the hands of those who are already granted every opportunity at birth. If you are willing to work hard enough and break your goals into manageable pieces, then there is no reason why you can’t also start planning for success and turning your dreams into a reality. Let’s get started!

Chapter 1: What is the Point of Planning for Success?

The truth is that a lot of us are discouraged. There seems to be an unspoken system in the world that oppresses people who are not born rich and gives those who already have a lot more and more. Whether this is true or just a common misconception about the way things work, the fact is that anybody, regardless of location or circumstances, can begin to make a plan that will make their lives better.

Whether your goal is simply to move out of your house or to start a world changing business, there is nothing that you can’t accomplish if you are willing to really put yourself out there and work hard to do so. Planning can be a tedious process, especially for people who are used to failure and are afraid that all of the efforts that they make will ultimately amount to nothing.

This is unfortunately a common mindset, because most of us are inherently discouraged because of the negativity bias in our brains that most humans have. We overvalue the negatives situations in our lives and undervalue the positive situations. That means that happiness and optimism can often take a lot more work than simply succumbing to the negativity that our minds seem to be obsessed with.

No matter where you are in life, there is absolutely something worth working toward. There is always room for improvement, no matter how successful you may be already. Instead of fighting against that improvement by denying that you are struggling to make a plan and stick with it, what you can do is accept that you have goals that you want to accomplish, and one of the greatest assets that you have in your favor is your ability to plan something and dedicate yourself to that plan wholeheartedly.
Sure, making plans can be scary and dangerous, especially if you put all of your hopes into one basket and you are not flexible or realistic about those goals. You have to expect that challenges will arise and you may find yourself lacking in motivation from time to time. If you are willing to see your goals realistically and plan ahead to make allowances for unforeseen circumstances that will probably be discouraging and frustrating, and there is no reason why you wouldn’t be able to make steady and consistent progress toward achieving your ultimate goal.

Why bother planning for success? The question is more like why wouldn’t you? Every day that you are not working towards something meaningful, you are wasting. If you want to make a difference in your life and actually move forward, you have to believe in yourself and your ability to make a change. Reading Planning for Success will show you how!

Chapter 2: Are You Willing to Succeed?

Oftentimes, when it comes to setting goals, the question becomes “do you have what it takes to succeed?” Planning for Success will never ask that question. In this guide, it is already expected and accepted that everybody has what it takes to succeed. No matter what your circumstances might be, you have the resources within you to become successful.

The real question is, are you willing to succeed? Sometimes it takes more than simple willingness. If we find that we are actually afraid of success, that means there is probably something that is causing that fear. Ask yourself these questions: were you encouraged as a child or discouraged? Were you met with success in your adolescence or were you ridiculed or overlooked? When you were able to succeed, did it come with a price? And was that price worth your success?

As adults, it can become difficult for us to believe that we will ever be more than what we turn out being. We set up rigid goals and get stuck in stuffy jobs that consume the majority of our time and energy. It can seem impossible to break out of this routine, because it is this routine that allows us to survive. Trying to break out is actually very terrifying.

It makes sense that you might be afraid of success. In fact, most people are for one reason or another. Sometimes, it can help to talk to a qualified professional about what is holding you back, while other times you can begin to evaluate yourself without that type of help and ask yourself important and introspective questionsso that you are truly willing and able to face your demons head on and walked down the path for success.

When you become willing to succeed, that means that you are willing to take on whatever comes with it. You are willing to sit down and figure out the plan that you need in order to follow your goals all the way to the end. Sometimes this can mean making sacrifices, and that is another thing that many people are afraid of or unwilling to do. Rather than spending leisurely Saturday nights out drinking, you might find that it is more productive to spend your time working toward your goal. Or maybe instead of watching hours and hours of television, he realized that it is more productive to start taking the steps that you need to take in order to cross off your many goals from your list so that you are beginning to fill in the puzzle pieces that make up the big picture.

All great things require some iota of sacrifice. If you want to accomplish something big, you can’t expect it just to fall out of the air and into your lap. Fortunately, by reading Planning for Success, you will be equipped with the motivation and the tools and resources that you need to make the sacrifices worthwhile and work toward something that only you can accomplish.

Your goal is yours alone, and whether or not you share that goal with others, it is your willpower and perseverance that is going to make it a reality. While the guide can provide you with the tools and resources that you need, it is up to you to decide whether or not you are going to stand in your own way, or turn your dreams into a reality. Choose wisely!

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The Internet Marketer’s Tool Kit Report

What is it that sets the most successful online brands apart from the lesser known ones?

Why is it that some marketers can spend huge amounts of time and effort trying to build a website and promote affiliate products, only to get nowhere and to eventually give up?

The answer, as it happens, comes down to skill and passion. Sure, there is an element of luck involved. But if you take a look at all of those highly successful brands, you’ll find that skill and passion is the thing that they largely have in common. When you look at these successful online brands, it becomes abundantly clear that a huge amount of time and effort has been put into every aspect of their presentation and that the creator really knew what they were doing.

And if they didn’t? They hired people who did!

This is good news for you. It means that by acquiring the right skills, or by working with the right people, you can potentially do the same and get ahead of the legions of marketers that really don’t invest the time or the skill that they need to.

In this report, we’re going to briefly run down what those skills and areas are and we’re going to see where you should begin investing that time and effort in order to really see differences in your growth and your profits.

Branding and Design

You might at this point still be wondering precisely what I’m talking about. Don’t worry, hopefully this first example will elucidate you a little by looking at the huge difference that just investing more time into your branding can make – and by taking the time to learn how to handle design properly.

So, an unfortunately huge proportion of internet marketers will set out with entirely the wrong objective. Specifically, they set out with the hopes of making money quickly online simply by promoting things that others have made. They see this as a ‘get rich quick’ solution and as a way that they can make money from home with no risk.

And they don’t really care as to whether they are providing a good experience for the customer.

Nor do they care about their brand’s quality for that reason – or about how they could ensure they were presenting themselves in the best way possible.

Take the logo for example. Logo design and design in general are skills that countless businesses and individuals just have no interest in pursuing. And nor do they want to invest the money necessary to get a good logo.

So, they end up a) creating a logo themselves using rudimentary tools (we’re talking MSPaint or Photoshop here, rather than the required Illustrator) or b) not having a log at all.

They combine this with a website name that is nothing more than a keyword. We’ve all seen sites like ‘HowToGetAbs.com’ or ‘EasyWayToMakeMoney.com’. These are highly uninspired names and things that communicate to the visitor that you are interested in making a quick buck from them and nothing more.

Not only does this mean that it’s highly unlikely that people will remember your brand and want to follow it. Not only does it mean that you’re unlikely to ever get any ‘true’ fans or loyal subscribers – but it can even hurt your Google ranking. Google has come right out and said that it prioritizes and promotes sites that have a strong brand rather than a keyword for their name.

A logo should exist to adorn your site and make it look instantly more attractive and interesting. It should decorate your page so that the entire site looks more professional and thereby is able to inspire more trust and confidence.

But more than that, it should also be used to communicate to your audience precisely what your site is all about and why they should consider subscribing.

A great logo shows what your site is about, what your principles and values are and who you are aiming at. It doesn’t try to appeal to everyone but it makes a big impact on the right kind of visitor.

Now, when someone visits your site, they right away think ‘wow, this looks like my kind of site!’ and hopefully as a result, they consider subscribing. And hopefully, they recognize your logo on all the digital products you sell and on all your social media and they see that as a stamp of quality and a mark of something they want to follow or look into.

To do this, you need a great quality logo. And the only way to get that is to hire someone, or to have the skill to make it yourself.

How to Make a Fantastic Logo

Speaking of which then, here is your quick primer on how to craft a superb logo:

Create a moodboard. A moodboard is effectively a collage that is made up of images, videos, words and anything else that you feel expresses what you want your site to express, or that you just like the looks of.

Combine the elements of the moodboard in different ways to try out different ideas.

Take a few you like and survey your audience to help choose the best one

Create the best one using Illustrator

Here is where the skill comes in. It is highly recommended that internet marketers take the time to learn illustrator, as it is one of the very best tools on the market for growing your brand and will give you fantastic abilities that you can also outsource to other brands and companies.

If you can’t make the logo yourself, outsource it! There is no substitute for skill and know-how.

Web Design With WordPress

Here’s the good news: web design is actually something you can acquire or accomplish rather easily today and it shouldn’t take you long at all to learn the basics.
That’s because web design today largely uses WordPress. WordPress is a tool that is referred to as a CMS or ‘Content Management System’. This means that it is a tool for adding, editing and removing content from your site. By ‘content’ here though, is also meant the design and look of your site. In other words, you can use WordPress to additionally edit such things as your background, the design and more.

WordPress actually powers an incredible 25% of the web and is used in some of the biggest and most successful site designs around. These include the likes of BBC America, Forbes, Mashable, Wired… you name it! In other words then, this is a tool capable of making highly competent websites and is in no way a kind of ‘site builder’ just for amateurs.

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Introduction

Many people dream of being full time digital marketers and they tend to picture something specific when they do.

People who want to work online often picture it as giving them total freedom over how, when and where they work. They might imagine themselves working from bed, or perhaps from an exotic beach out of a café, listening to local music and sipping local drinks.

Or scratch that: maybe they think they’re going to be working primarily off of their private yacht. Because they will be rich: super rich. That’s what all of the adverts say, anyway!

But before you give up your day job and pursue that dream, perhaps it’s worth taking a step back and thinking about what life as an internet entrepreneur will really be like. Maybe you should consider the potential risks involved? Or the way that it can end up hurting your freedom too?

In this report, we’ll look at what it is really like to be a digital marketer, what you should really expect and how you can make sure that you have the best experience of it possible.

Chapter 1: What it is Really Like to be an Internet Entrepreneur

When you picture yourself as a digital marketer, you might imagine yourself wearing a sharp suit and standing atop a skyrise building.

Well you can forget that image right away! After all, working online generally means working on your own. AKA, there is no reason to wear a smart suit!

And most digital marketers aren’t rich – despite what the ads tell you.

Very often, being a digital marketer means doing a lot of work pedaling things that you aren’t particularly passionate about or interested in. This can be fairly soul sapping work, as you spend hours writing content for blogs, or paying other people to write it for you. You then watch sales, scour for products and send angry emails when a service provider lets you down.

If you’re earning money on the side by marketing other small fry companies on the web, then you probably get shouted at a lot by them too when you don’t get them to the top spot of Google.

That’s right: internet marketing can be stressful and often this is all done while living out of a single room in a small flat. And because you never have to leave the house, you often end up not looking your best.

You’re not quite earning what you thought you’d be earning because you don’t have the budget to invest big time into Google Ads. All the while, you’re promoting the ‘digital marketing lifestyle’ and persuading other people to buy your internet marketing ebook. You maybe even took a photo in front of your friend’s fancy car. And you kind of feel like a bit like a fraud.

So, you keep pushing and keep working, meaning you end up working all hours, all without making much headway. And meaning that you don’t actually get to go out and enjoy the cash you have earned. And it’s not like you can grab drinks with your colleagues after work…

Chapter 2: Switching Gears: Doing Something You Love

There are plenty of posts around the net on how to make money online, but they never describe how it can go ‘wrong’ this way.

So, every now and then, it's worth taking a look at yourself and asking whether you are really doing what you should be doing. Do you actually enjoy the work you do on a day-to-day basis? Do you find it rewarding? Or have you lost sight of that in favor of repetitive work that you can be sure will pay the rent?

Are you dispassionately selling products that you don’t care about? Were you nodding along when I described the ‘digital marketing’ guru sitting in their front room with their hair a mess and their face wired?

As with any type of work, it's worth taking the occasional step back to think about what you're doing, and to see if you couldn't be having more fun doing another kind of work. Let's take a look at how to do work on line that will prove to be truly rewarding and fun. Because like they say, if you love what you do, then you will never work a day in your life…

Creativity

One of the things that can make any type of work enjoyable is creativity. If you get to create something different, to think outside the box, and to 'put your stamp' on what you do, then you will find that it's more rewarding and better for your overall brain development too.

Generally, we think of 'creative' work as being things that involve art or self-expression in some form. So, if you're a creative type, then you might well enjoy working as a web designer or as a writer. But what's also important to bear in mind is that you can make almost any type of work creative as long as you approach it with the right attitude and in the right way. Creative thinking can be applied to jobs that aren't typically creative, whether that means coming up with a unique way to market a website, or whether it means being creative in the way that you solve a programming problem you've been having. Even if your job is to check for typos, you may be able to get creative about the way you do that. So, if you are finding your work boring, then perhaps it just requires you to approach the task with a fresh perspective?

Ownership

Ever since becoming an entrepreneur, I have worked harder and longer hours than I ever did when I worked in an office. The reason for this was that I was now working for myself, and that the work I put in was solely my responsibility.

This gives you much more of a sense of ownership of the work you do, which in turn makes you more invested in the quality. You are working towards something, and you will directly benefit from doing a good job.

One way you can increase this feeling of ownership though is to create your own commercial product. That means running a blog or selling an app as opposed to providing a white label service to other clients. This way you get to have your name on the product, and you will get feedback from customers/visitors /fans who appreciate your work. At the same time this will also give you more creative freedom as you won't have to answer to anyone else. So, while selling an affiliate product or a PLR product might seem like the quicker and easier way to earn cash, the truth is that you might find yourself even happier if you built something of your own that you were truly proud of. What’s more, is that this would then come across in your marketing – you’d know the product inside out and your genuine enthusiasm would help it to sell!

Bear in mind though, that when you create your own product this way, you will end up working a lot more and your income will be even less stable. This can be a stressful process and it might mean working for months on a single project only to see it flop. That's not so fun.

This is why I always recommend taking a ‘fail fast’ approach to developing digital products. Don’t spend more than a few months on a single product without first ‘verifying’ that product. That means opening up a beta, selling a beta or otherwise just testing that there really is an audience for it before you waste years on something that won’t sell.

And make sure that you enjoy the process too: make the kind of product you’ll enjoy making as well as the kind you’ll enjoy selling.

Variation

Something else that can help to keep your work more interesting is variation. If you run a blog on a single topic and write articles on it day after day, then you could find yourself starting to get bored of that subject and struggling to differentiate between one day and the next.

A simple way to make blogging more enjoyable then is to blog on more than one subject. If you run four different blogs say, then you can always write for one of the others whenever you get bored of writing on that same topic.

Better yet though is to try something different from blogging altogether. For instance, you might opt to include a questionnaire on your blog which requires some Javascript algorithms to run, or you might decide to try and build your own forum or handle your own marketing. The more aspects of your work you get stuck into, the more you will feel challenged and the less repetitive your work will be.

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Introduction

Everybody has a time in their lives when they are not on top of everything. Sometimes, those times are worse than others, and we find ourselves hitting rock bottom with no apparent chance of making things right again. It can be very difficult and scary to realize that the things that have been working on are not working out in our favor. We feel worthless at times, maybe even hopeless. And that is natural. Everybody feels badly if they fail.

However, failure is not the worst possible situation. In fact, it can be quite a learning opportunity. Instead of allowing yourself to beat yourself up over your supposed failures, there is a way to look back on them and learn how to accept them and grow as a person. It may seem strange, but it is possible. Instead of feeling upset and useless, we can begin to see ourselves as beings full of great power and potential.

In this book series, you are going to learn exactly what it takes for you to pick yourself up from your bootstraps and succeed. It is possible for you to rise from the ashes, no matter what the situation may be, and by reading Rising from the Ashes, you are going to learn exactly how you can do that. Don’t waste any time! Get your hands on your copy today!

Chapter 1: Why Not Just Give Up?

Sometimes, it seems that the easiest path that we can take is to give up on our current accounts and move on to something new. Sometimes, yes, this can be more productive. However, if we are already feeling like we have hit rock bottom, giving up is the worst possible thing that you can do. Instead of telling yourself that there is no reason for you to keep trying, try and remember that there are many reasons for you to pick yourself up off the ground and move on toward your greater purpose.

There are many reasons not to give up. There are so many opportunities waiting for us, if we are only open to the possibility of seeking them out. Nobody wants to find out that they have been sitting inside and sulking when if they had just stepped outside for a moment, they would’ve realized there was a great parade full of opportunities walking down their street. If you are willing to resign yourself to the possibility that your options are limitless, it is much more difficult to stay on the ground when you fall and find yourself struggling.

Giving up is never truly an option. All of us are capable of so many great things. But what we have to do is learn how to believe in ourselves and give ourselves everything that we could ever possibly needto succeed emotionally and mentally before we will ever be able to go about it.

There are times when it would be much wiser to try to find a different path. There are times when it is smart to evaluate your progress honestly and decide whether or not it is time to take a different route. You can always be flexible in the way you approach your goals, but if something isn’t working and it continues not to work, it is better not to dwell. That is the only time when it is acceptable to give up. But you are not giving up entirely. You are just giving up on a particular plan of action that was not helping you to achieve the things you needed to achieve.

What is important most of all is to know that you matter and you are capable of doing great things, even if you encountered challenges and obstacles in the past. You have to fully believe in yourself. Never let yourself believe for one second that you aren’t capable of getting yourself up off the ground. Reading Rising from the Ashes will give you the tools and resources that you need so that you no longer fall back on the comfortable belief that you aren’t capable of doing anything right, and prepare you for a chance to create your own opportunities and pick yourself up from your bootstraps so that you can succeed.

Chapter 2: Priming Yourself For Success

Let’s face it. If you didn’t want to succeed, you wouldn’t be reading these books. However, you have to remind yourself that this is something that you want to do. You truly need to set aside the mental resources that you need before you will be able to embark upon your journey. If you have struggled in the past with success, that struggle will soon prove to be very valuable. Because, when you struggle, you are learning.

A lot of success depends on your mentality. You have to make sure that you are prepared fully for the possibility of failure and primed for the likelihood of success. You cannot let yourself be convinced that you will never succeed. Instead, begin to focus on the future. See every way that you are making decisions in your life daily that will ultimately become collected into one intention.

For example, if you are busying yourself every day with a stronger team, such as healthy eating and exercise, over time, you will gradually begin to lose weight and feel good about your body. However, if you are making decisions every day to eat fast food and sit around rather than exercise, then ultimately, you are creating a negative future for yourself and your body.

It is very important to remember that the future is in your hands. Every choice that you make now in the present moment can affect you later on. You have to try your hardest to make good and conscientious choices that are going to help you to thrive in the future rather than come back to bite you. Everybody has a vice here or there, but if you are willing to look at yourself objectively and understand that you do not have to be a victim to your own vices and that you do have power and control over what happens to you and your destiny, it is that much easier to prime yourself for success.

This may seem more difficult if you have faced failures in the past. You may feel like there is no point in trying anymore. However, that just proves that there is far more reason to try now than ever. You are on a downward spiral if you find yourself stuck in that way. The only way out of something so defeating is by taking your power back and believing that every choice you make is going to make a difference. Don’t fool yourself into believing that you are stuck. Instead, take your power back into your hands and move forward rather than backward.

Reading Rising from the Ashes will provide you with many ways that you can begin to utilize these methods and take control of your future!

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How to Use Powerful Smoothies to Increase Your Health in EVERY Way

Over the years, good old fashioned nutrition has become sorely overlooked. Too often we focus on trying to improve our health using confusing and elaborate fitness programs, fad diets or mysterious supplements. In reality though, the key to good health is very simple:

- Get lots of sleep
- Get lots of exercise
- Spend time outdoors
- Eat your fruit and vegetables

The problem is that most of us fail on every single one of these factors. And to be fair, we are not entirely to blame. Our modern lifestyles actually make it very difficult for a lot of us to meet these goals and simply aren’t conducive to a well-balanced diet or getting lots of activity.

In terms of exercise, activity and time outdoors, we need to contend with our working schedule. Most of us will get up in the morning and head straight into work by taking some form of public transport or driving. When we do this, we are sitting.

We then get to work and what do we do there? We continue to sit of course! Sit in the dark. While being stressed out.

We come home (sitting) and then we crash out in front of the TV because we’re so exhausted from all the stress of the day. We stay there until bed, having gotten no sunshine and no exercise.

And what are we using to fuel ourselves through all of this? For the most part, the answer is garbage. Most of us live on primarily processed foods, which include things like sausage roles, shop-bought quiche, ready-meals, crisps, chocolates and soda drinks.

These foods are high in calories but they’re low in actually useful nutrients. These are what we call ‘empty calories’ because they don’t actually contain anything that is particularly useful for the body. You can gain weight with them easily, spike your blood sugar with them easily and generally impact your health negatively. But what you won’t get is any positive effect from filling your body with vitamins and nutrients. Thus your hair, skin, teeth and nails start to become grey and brittle. You don’t sleep as well. You gain weight. Your hormone production gets out of balance. You feel listless and depressed…

Why are we eating like this? Because these are the foods readily available. Sure, there are all kinds of amazing superfood seaweeds, legumes and wild berries out there – but you just try and make these a part of your regular diet and you’ll quickly find it’s not so easy. You’ll quickly find that preparing these foods takes a lot of time and that you don’t have the money to keep buying new fresh fruits from exotic organic shops.

The answer is simple: smoothies.

Smoothies give us a convenient, tasty and affordable way to add a ton of extra nutrition to our diet. Instead of trying to improve your entire set of eating habits, you’re instead getting a sharp ‘hit’ of nutrients in one bottle.

And as we will see, smoothies can completely transform your health in more ways that you can possibly realize…

The Endless Health Benefits of Smoothies

We all know that we’re supposed to eat our five fruit and veg a day. What less of us understand is why that is so important and how precisely this helps to improve our health.

The answer is that eating your five a day provides you not just with the ‘fuel’ to power you through your activities but also the raw materials that your body uses to build and maintain your body. This is what you are made out of.

When you don’t get enough of the crucial nutrients that are found in fruits and vegetables, you start to see your mental performance deteriorate, you become more likely to get ill, you feel hungry throughout the day and even your mood takes a hit. But what’s worse, is just how much long-term damage is caused when you continue to be malnourished for long periods of time. If you have a deficiency in any major micronutrient and you don’t do anything to fix it, then the damage will build up cumulatively over time.

Perhaps the best way to illustrate this, is just to show you what some of those crucial nutrients actually do for you…

Vitamin C

Vitamin C is something we all know is highly good for us. But do you really know why it is so good for you?

For starters, vitamin C does amazing things for the immune system and this makes your body more fortified against outside invaders. In real terms, that means you’re less likely to get colds, flus or any other type of illness. And in turn, that means you’re less likely to have to take long periods of time off of work or exercise. This also means you’re less likely to see the damaging effects of ‘pro inflammatory cytokines’ that are released when we’re ill. These make us experience ‘brain fog’.

You are probably aware that you have brain fog when you’re unwell. But what about those ‘lower level’ infections and illnesses that affect you the rest of the time and that you’re probably completely unaware of? You might not see the physical symptoms of being ‘ill’ but that doesn’t mean you’re performing optimally. Vitamin C can help that.

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The Future-Proof SEO and Internet Marketing Plan

Good SEO means understanding what Google is looking for and making sure that your websites and your clients’ websites meet those criteria. But great SEO means preempting what Google is going to look like in the future and where it is heading. This way, you can ‘future proof’ your SEO against changes to the algorithm, or Google’s overall direction.

This is a lesson that SEOs have learned hard in the past. The original version of Google worked purely by looking at the number of links pointing at a website and by looking at the number of times the keywords were repeated in the text. If you wanted to get to the top of Google back then, all you had to do was to post hundreds of articles, each with keywords stuffed into it, and likewise buy lots of links, swap lots of links and upload your site to link directories.

But then Google did a U-turn. Suddenly, Google didn’t want people gaming its system any more. Suddenly Google didn’t want people creating poor quality content by ‘keyword stuffing’ any more.

And let’s be honest: it was obvious this would happen. The current system meant that anyone could get to the top of Google with a low quality site, without caring at all about the user. Google would not want to support that, because it would ultimately result in Google losing traffic.

Anyway, Google made its updates: it introduced Google Panda and Google Penguin and suddenly, thousands-if-not-millions of sites were massively downgraded. Businesses closed their doors. Entrepreneurs had to get real jobs. It was chaos!

People ranted and raved at Google for not giving warning, for not telling people what it wanted.

But Google was doing what it always did: serving the customer.

And a few clever SEOs who saw this coming were ready. They had built sites using smarter strategies and their sites were aimed at the visitors more than simply being designed to serve Google.

That is what great SEO means now. SEO is in permaflux. The algorithms are never changing. In fact, the whole point of the ‘Hummingbird algorithm’, is that it allows Google to update its index constantly and in real-time.

So you need to do better. You need to get inside the mind of Google to create a future proof SEO and internet marketing plan…

Google’s Master Plan

The Pixel 2 is Google’s second serious foray into the hardware game and represents another step in the company's grand plan to be an 'AI first' company. This may sound a little strange to those who still think of Google as a ‘search first’ company. But the truth is that these are one and the same thing. Google’s focus is still on indexing the web and on providing users with an easy way to find the information that they need. 

Remember, Google’s mission statement starting out was to:

“Organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”

And that’s also the way that Google makes most of its money thanks to advertising. Other ventures, such as YouTube, are famously still not profitable!

So, Google is all about search and AI just so happens to be the best possible tool for doing that better. One example of this is ‘RankBrain’, which is a machine learning algorithm that helps Google to better understand what people are looking for and how that matches the content it has indexed. Instead of just looking for precise word-matches Google now tries to look for content that provides the answers to your questions. Google is starting to understand what you say to it and dish up the best results as a response. Like talking to my sage-like Granddad (by which I do not mean the herb).

This allows for smarter search results, but it also helps to improve the natural evolution of Google Search: Google Assistant.

Google Assistant uses machine learning and AI in order to:

Present us with information from the web before we even ask for it (routes home, train delays, upcoming appointments, snippets from emails)

Present us with content it thinks we might be interested in

Answer natural language queries with equally natural and organic responses - even letting us continue conversations about the same subject matter

Thanks to Google’s constant development, its software can now listen to your questions and answer them with information it sources from the web. That means we can say:
“Okay Google, what is the weather going to be like tomorrow?”

Instead of:

“Okay Google, BBC weather London”

Google Lens gives us another example of this, by allowing us to simply take snapshots of the world around us and use that to bring up relevant information from the web. Again, this is only possible thanks to machine learning and computer vision. Essentially, "AI first" is not a step away from search, but a natural progression.

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Introduction

Each and every one of us has probably found ourselves stuck at some point. Whether we are stuck in a dead end job, or stuck in a relationship that doesn’t serve us or contribute to our personal growth, it can come as a surprise to realize one day that we aren’t happy.

When we aren’t happy, that is a huge red flag. It means that we are not serving our purpose. We are each born with special talents, passions, and interests that can help to move our lives in a plentiful direction, and sometimes even positively impact the world around us. When we aren’t being true to that purpose, we find ourselves unhappy and lacking in energy, just treating each new day as a monotonous drudging routine.

If you’re tired of living your life feeling as if you are not serving your purpose and taking the steps necessary in creating the best version of yourself that you can possibly be, then look no further. The comprehensive “Mastering Your Destiny” ebook will give you all of the tools you need to go from looking out at the world with dread to looking forward to the potential of each new day. Let’s get started!

Chapter 1: Why Bother Mastering Your Destiny?

A lot of people might wonder what is the point? Why try to get yourself all excited to be a great version of yourself and start acting like one of those annoying over-achievers you see on infomercials who are always trying to sell you something? Isn’t is just a big waste of time and energy, when we ultimately tend to stay stuck on the same track no matter what we try?

Well, sure, someone who is stubbornly bound to that way of thinking will most certainly find it difficult to progress and move forward with self-improvement, but for those of us who are actually dedicated to the art of mastering our destiny, there is a lot in it for us!

Life seems designed at times to bring us down and keep us oppressed. Even our own bodies seem out to get us at times; creating patterns in our neural pathways that make us hard-wired to accept defeat and stay stuck in bad habits. What many of us don’t seem to realize is that becoming the best version of yourself isn’t some simple task that can be accomplished overnight with the right mantra. It is a life-altering event that will alter the course of our future and make us rethink the past, providing us with all the insight we need into creating the life we’ve always imagined!

But why should we try to take the effort out of our already hectic and demanding day to chart a course toward the stars, especially when it seems that no matter how hard we try to better ourselves, we come up short? Isn’t there some comfort in clinging to the chaos theory, and believing that we are floating about in life and will end up where we need to be without too much effort on our part?

Sure, maybe for some that type of mindset can be helpful, but for others, it is a trap. When we allow ourselves to be swept away in a fate that we believe we have no hand in, we give away our power and allow the suffocating world of consequence to take the reins in forging our destiny. Why should we allow the consequences of other people’s choices to affect us so deeply when we could be making our own choices that will help us move toward the greatest possible good?

By following the steps in the comprehensive “Mastering Your Destiny” ebook, you will be equipped with the tools you need to begin to pave the way toward forging your own destiny. It is time to stop letting other people’s choices and influence affect our ability to be happy. We can take our power back and become the best version of ourselves possible, and “Mastering Your Destiny” will show you how!

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The Power of Visuals in Social Media Marketing

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The Power of Visuals in Social Media Marketing

Capture Short Attention Spans - Stand Out From the Crowd - Enhance Your Social Marketing Message

Trying to succeed on social media is a little bit trying to get your voice heard in a room filled with people speaking loudly and all fighting for attention.

That’s pretty much precisely what social media is – a platform where a whole lot of individuals and companies will fight for the attention of the masses and do whatever they can to stand out from the crowd.

This is what has led some brands to resort to some pretty underhanded tactics. Enter the ‘clickbait title’. This is a title used in social media that is so outrageous or shocking or mysterious that people feel they absolutely must click it and can’t pass up the opportunity to find out what it is really all about.

Of course, this being clickbait, they are almost always left with a feeling of disappointment when they find that the content really doesn’t deliver on its promise and generally offers very little of value.

So then, what can you do to stand out and make more of an impact? What can you do that doesn’t mean tricking your reader or selling them short in terms of value?

How can you get more attention while actually enhancing your value proposition and raising the class of your brand?

The answer is to use the right visuals. And that means bold, dynamic, beautiful images that are striking and that grab attention. That means using images that are well shot and that can’t help but draw the eye.

And you’re going to learn how to do that right here.

The Role of Visuals in Social Media

Visuals play a very important role in multiple aspects of social media.

For starters, a lot of what you will be sharing from your social accounts is likely to be blog posts, articles and other forms of content. It is normal – and actually practically a requirement – that this content be adorned with images.

The alternative is that your visitors land on your website and are greeted by a wall of plain text. This can be a highly off-putting and especially in a world where people don’t have much time and where there is a whole lot fighting for their attention.

Breaking this up with images serves multiple roles.

Firstly, it increases the production value of your page. This adds just that small amount of detail that makes the page look like it was created by an organization with skill, talent, equipment and funds – rather than looking like something someone made on their Mum’s computer.

At the same time, the right image breaks up the text and makes the page much more welcoming. But what it also does, is to add narrative. Images tell stories. In fact, you’ve probably heard the old adage that an image can convey ‘a thousand words’. And what this means, is that your image will help to convey more meaning immediately in much the same way that gesticulations and expressions help us to communicate more with our words.

Now when someone lands on your page, they will be instantly more aware of what the subject matter is, what the tone is and how they should feel. This instant reaction tells them whether they should stay, or whether they should leave.

And what achieves this same end to an even greater effect is having an ‘infographic’. Those that work online will have a better idea about what this means, but in short, an infographic is an image that also conveys information. This can mean data plotted and displayed in a very interesting way, it can mean a kind of visual mind-map or chart or it can mean a host of other things.

Either way, an infographic will allow you to put across a whole lot of information more quickly and these – as it happens – are highly sharable.

Images for Clicks

Images do more than this though. As well as convey meaning, they also convey and invoke emotion. That is to say that an image can make us feel something.
And unlike writing, an image can make us feel something instantly. We might feel that something is very awesome instantly, or we might feel that something is inspiring, desirable or even disgusting.

So, if you want your content to have a gut reaction then a great image can do that. Remember: when you place an image on your content, one of these will be shared when someone clicks to share your content.

And if your content has the effect of creating a strong emotional reaction, then of course people are going to stop and notice what has been posted and therefore be considerably more likely to click and read.

And guess what, it goes even further than this because what many people don’t realize, is that a lot of people will actually click ‘like’ or click ‘share’ before they have even read the content.

People are lazy and impulsive. A lot of us don’t have time to read but if we see something that looks funny, looks cool, or we think will make us look smart, then we might click like or share on a whim before we’ve even actually checked it out.

So, your image can get shared on its strength alone.

Note: In terms of images that are best at catching our attention, psychologists unanimously agree we are most likely to look at people’s faces. Attractive faces? Now that’s just a bonus. Better find some model friends!

And of course, the image can be the content itself.

This is much more likely to be the case on Instagram of course but it can also be the case on Twitter or on Facebook even. It’s certainly the case on Pinterest too!
Here the image itself must provide value. And that’s where things get a little trickier.

Infographics of course get around this problem inherently, as do memes. And what you can also do is to use images that contain the kernel of a useful tip – for instance an image of a lifehack or a smart décor tip.

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Are you tirelessly working away on your website only to see very little return? Is your view counter perpetually stuck in the hundreds rather than the thousands? Are you afraid you’ve plateaued?

Never fear! There are countless more ways you can grow your site and gain more traffic! Here are 21 hacks you might not have thought about.

1 Guest Post

This is the oldest trick in the book, but in case you missed it… it’s also one of the best! Simply write posts to go on other websites and then give them to those websites for free. You’re not giving them something for nothing though: you’re going to ask in exchange that they include a link back to your website.

This does a few things. Firstly, it gives your site the free exposure: the readers of that site will see your link and this will help you get discovered. Better yet, the link will act as testimony by someone they trust.

At the same time, this also acts as a great way to get link juice that Google will love to see and that will help you climb the search engine results pages (SERPs). To get the most from this, make sure that you include your link naturally in the text rather than in the author box at the bottom. This is better for search and for the traffic!

2 Ad Swap

An ad swap is like a guest post but concerning emails. The idea is that you share a mention of another brand in your mailing list and they do the same for you. Like the above, this can lead to a lot of organic views and also have various knock-on effects.
3 Shout Outs

But you know what? Just getting a shout out on social media or in a blog post/on a YouTube video can also be highly effective. The hard part here is just getting those big influencers with the millions of followers to actually respond to your messages. Which brings us to the next tip…
4 Work Your Way Up

If you want to get the best guest posts, the best ad swaps and the best shout-outs, then the key is to not start by going for the biggest name in your niche. We don’t start by emailing Tim Ferriss!

Instead, the best strategy is to start nearer the bottom and then to work your way up. So for instance, that might mean that you begin by messaging someone with the same number of monthly visits as you or even someone who has fewer visits than you! That way, you are much more likely to get a response but actually, this can still double your exposure overnight.

That then can lead to your numbers swelling, meaning you’ll be better poised to then message someone a little bigger. And a little bigger!

5 Network!

A lot of people start working online because they want to make a living while still be unsocial. A lot of online workers don’t like socializing or picking up the phone! But you know what? If you never pick up the phone or meet anyone in person, then you will drastically limit what you can accomplish – even through working online!

Actually meeting people in person and networking is a far more effective way to get people to respond to your messages and to make a lasting impression quickly. So don’t be afraid to talk to people in person. Go to those networking events in your city!

6 Facebook Ads

This might not sound like a hack. After all, you probably already know about Facebook Ads. The surprising part is just how effective this tool can be when used creatively.

So, Facebook ads are PPC or ‘Pay Per Click’. That means that you only pay when someone actually clicks on them. No clicks? No expense.

You also get to set what your maximum expenditure per click will be. This is your ‘maximum bid’. By choosing this number and by knowing your ‘CLV’ (customer lifetime value), you can calculate your campaign to make sure that it is only ever profitable. You never pay more for a visitor than you know each visitor is worth to you!

7 CPA

CPA is Facebook’s ace in the hole. This is ‘Cost Per Action’, meaning that you pay only when someone takes a certain action. For example, this might mean that you only pay when someone likes your Facebook page.

Now you are paying only for people who you’ll be able to communicate with for years to come – making this a highly worthwhile way to spend your money. CPA can also mean paying only when someone installs your app, when they watch your video or when they redeem a special offer. There is endless potential here!
8 Ask Nicely

Here’s a way to get more traffic that you might not have considered… ask nicely!