Are you ready to have your own radio show with Blog Talk Radio?

Mastering Blog Talk Radio is so much easier than I thought it would be

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Joe Marsh and Cindi Dawson revealed their Blog Talk Radio secrets in a special webinar.

In a another life long, long ago, I ran from a radio station recording booth where I had been trying to tape a commercial for the newspaper I owned then.

When I heard my voice on the playback, I freaked out.

The thought of hearing myself hawking my papers on car or home radios was too much for me at the time. My self-confidence was so low, that I afraid of embarrassing myself in front of thousands of listeners in my hometown, many of them that I knew personally.

So I decided never to try radio again.

That was 30 years ago. Since then, I have been a talk show guest on major metro television programs as a local expert on some aspects of the news business. In the past year and a half I’ve hosted nearly 100 webinars. And I regularly speak in front of large crowds. But until today, I still was nervous about using radio. And the idea of my own radio show still freaked me out a bit.

Like many others, I had established a Blog Talk Radio station a couple of years ago and had actually produced a few programs, but BTR was too complicated and too inefficient for my taste. (And it still felt too much like radio.)

When Blog Talk Radio changed their business model to a paid model with a nearly-invisible free option, I wasn’t willing to spend the money if I didn’t know how to use the program effectively.

Boy, was I wrong about Blog Talk Radio!

Joe and Cindi spent an hour demonstrating how BTR – the free version – can be an important part of your marketing arsenal generating great traffic to you products and services.

Blog Talk Radio, they said, can be used for content creation to create articles, reports and even blog content material. They also emphasized how BTR can help you get more exposure for your current or new businesses by taking advantage of one of the key benefits: Getting ranked in the search engines quickly.

Of course, free organic search engine traffic puts more dollars in your pocket as well as your clients if you service clients.

But isn’t producing a live radio show a pain? Not if you do it the way Joe and Cindi show you.

In fact, it doesn’t have to be live at all. You can upload pre-recorded shows to take advantage of BTR’s exposure. Of course, you can host your shows live too to interact with your audience.

Speaking of free, Joe and Cindi smashed my concern about having to spend money at Blog Talk Radio to get the most benefits from the service.

You don’t need a paid blog talk radio account to get started.

With BTR you can create radio programs, series, audios magazines, e-books, reports, articles, CDs and DVDs, as well as physical books and Kindle books.

Be sure to watch the replay of the BTR webinar. It’s great stuff.

But be sure to sign up for their four-part webinar series before June 6 to discover how to really master Blog Talk Radio. Joe and Cindy will reveal in depth how to use blog talk radio most effectively to drive massive traffic to your business and while creating massive products on the fly.

Because you’re a friend of mine, I was able to secure this special deal on the 4-part Mastering Blog Talk Webinar series for you.

The low price is guaranteed until June 6, then all bets are off. The price will go up substantially..

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I used to be a pretty good newspaperman. I loved the business. Each night, I’d go home with ink on my fingers and the flinty odor of freshly printed papers clinging to my clothes. It was the same smell that wafted through the building as huge presses rolled in the basement.

News-Republican-Crew-1978 — That’s my newspaper crew in 1978 – I’m the one in the middle with dark hair

I’d stand in the typesetting room as the union setters placed each letter in the tray to build a page. Later, the printing plates were made from chemical negatives in a much cleaner, but less nostalgic way. With satellite transmission technology, the printing presses moved to the suburbs in search more reasonable rent since all that was needed was a dish to catch the pages as they returned from a trip through space from the newsroom miles away.

Things change.

The great novelists of the early 20th century were good newspapermen (and women) too. Their daily journalistic training as a wordsmith shaped their writing and their view of the world. John Steinbeck was a war correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune. Ernest Hemingway did a stint at the Kansas City Star as a police reporter. There he learned a style that forged his fiction writing: Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative.

Who is the guy named REWRITE?

During Hemingway’s days as a newspaperman, there was a common refrain that blasted from the news editor’s desk (usually in the center of the room or bullpen as it was known). “Get me REWRITE!” was newspaper-speak for rounding up the copy editor on duty who reshape someone else’s prose.

Editors are notoriously callous when it comes to chopping up some poor reporter’s hard work, stripping the flowery language and getting straight to the facts. It was Rewrite’s job to do just that. Some great rewrite men went on to become columnists and authors. These guys could pour out words in the right order to mesmerize readers faster than a transcriptionist could type them.

Not everyone is so blessed. Most of us have to struggle a bit to find the right word or to start a paragraph. Too often, we sit and stare at the blank page (or screen) hoping something will come. But one lesson I learned in my many years of newspapering was that it’s much easier to rewrite something than it is to start from scratch. That’s why I like to start with a press release or a private label article.

The problem with most private label content is suspect quality. Often, a non-native English speaker from another country tries to throw in the slang they hear on TV, or they just doesn’t quite get the nuance of word meanings. And it’s not subtle when it’s botched.

How do you fix the quality PLR content issue?

But I’ve found a solution to the PLR quality issue. In fact, this PLR source is so good that I don’t even rewrite it much when I use it. It’s Nicole Dean’s EasyPLR service. I’ve bought just about every piece of content she’s produced. And I use it all the time in many niches. Usually, I don’t give away my sources for such great content. But Nicole’s content is so good that you could sue me for negligence if I didn’t tell you.

She’s single-handedly changing the PLR game.

And she’s doing it at ridiculously low prices. I can’t figure out how she’s making money on this yet.

Check it out and let me know what you think in your comment below.

With Freemind, organize your business and your life…

By David Perdew 5 Comments

With Freemind, organize your business and your life…

I’m organizationally challenged.

It doesn’t appear that way to friends and colleagues until people get to know me when I reveal “my process” – or lack thereof. Then, they are totally shocked.

The problem is that I don’t think like most people. My mind jumps from thing to thing. I think if they’d known what Attention Deficit Disorder was when I was growing up, I would have been diagnosed. Years ago, I realized that if I didn’t have some method for collecting my thoughts in a non-linear way, I’d lose the ideas. It’s all about the good and bad ideas, right?

As a freelance writer and photographer years ago, I captured ideas on 3×5 cards and kept them in a drawer until I had time to work on them. Often, I couldn’t find the cards, so the ideas were lost.

Freemind software tutorial from Bob The Teacher Jenkins — Traffic Mindmap top level hierarchy

Then someone told me about mindmapping software. “Mindmapping! What a ridiculous concept,” I thought. “How can someone map their mind – and in my case, who would want to.”

Little did I know that mindmapping software would become one of my prime success secrets. But choosing the right mindmapping software can be very tricky and expensive if you’re not careful.

With many mindpmapping software tools available, you can spend anywhere from $47 to $497 on tools such as:

iMindMap
Creately
Inspiration
MAPMYself
MindGenius
MindJet
MindManager
XMind Pro

The key is to get the tool that you need. And if you don’t need something fancy, Freemind – an open source, free mindmapping tool may be exactly what you need.

Mindmapping is not the best descriptor of this tool. Capturing brainstorm is more accurate. Without a tool to structure and focus my tasks, I’m flailing at different things all day because I’m constantly brainstorming.

The central benefit of a mindmap is speed and spontaneity. A mindmap reflects what you think about a single topic, which can focus brainstorming into actionable ideas.

With Freemind, I jot down thoughts, projects, ideas, tasks and rearrange them into coherent step-by-step processes as they gel. Now, I use it for all kinds of activities like:

Personal coaching with my clients: I use it real time to work with clients via a webinar so that we organize and build out the goals and actions live so the client understands exactly what needs to happen before the next session.
Product creation: I outline features of a software or information product before I create it in a Freemind mindmap. Then I have a basic prototype that I can share with my own coach to get additional input.
Process improvement: Everything is a process. Going to the grocery is a process. Some processes need diagrammed and immproved. For example, creating a workshop like the Niche Affiliate Marketing System consists of multiple processes. I mapped each of those in Freemind.

Since I began using Freemind, I have made thousands of dollars both in the corporate world and in my internet business because mindmapping has become my first step. For example, every product I’ve created starts as a mindmap diagram. Each NAMS workshop is a mindmap first.

Every corporate project can exist first as a mindmap. And every person on my corporate team now uses Freemind to “think” outloud.

So, why haven’t I created a product to teach you how to use Freemind (a free mindmapping tool, remember) effectively. The answer is simple: Bob The Teacher Jenkins has already done that.

If you don’t know Bob, he’s a great teacher. In fact, he was a classroom teacher for years until he realized he could teach more people using the Internet to deliver his lesson plans. Lucky for you and me, he’s teaching more than junior high history now.

That’s why I invited him to be an instructor at the Niche Affiliate Marketing Workshop in Atlanta.

I went through his training even though I’d been using Freemind for years (and thought I was pretty good at it). Man! I’m glad I did! He showed me tips and tricks that really extended my use of Freemind.

Now, I’m even faster and more efficient in capturing my ideas, but more importantly, I can find those ideas and work on them at will.

So, discover how to use Freemind mindmapping software to make sense of what goes on in your head and improve your productivity at the same time. You’ll be glad you did.

Mastering Blog Talk Radio is so much easier than I thought it would be

Joe Marsh and Cindi Dawson revealed their Blog Talk Radio secrets in a special webinar.

Boy, was I wrong about Blog Talk Radio!

You don’t need a paid blog talk radio account to get started.

Who is the guy named REWRITE?

How do you fix the quality PLR content issue?

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