2008-11-25

Your To Do List

To start a business on the internet, the first thing we have to
do is get organized.  I know, to some of us that is a dirty word.
Organized? How can I get organized? I have this and this and
this to do and there are always interruptions and everything is
a priority. What do I do first?

It is silly, because I have been on the internet for 5 or 6 years
and I never thought to do this.  Oh I know about making folders
and copying and pasting but it is unbelievable how you can have
these tools and still not use them to their fullest extent.

Now all you organized people can leave, you won't need to read
this article.  The rest of you, give this a try;  go to your desktop,
right click with your mouse on an empty spot on the screen.
A box will open, go down to 'new' another box will open. You
will see 'Folder',  click on it and a folder will be made on your desktop.

Now the next thing you do is name it 'To Do List' then double click
on it.  Now do the same thing inside this 'Folder' called 'To Do List'.
Right click, go down to 'New' , go to 'Folder' and click on it.  Now you
have another 'folder' inside the 'To Do List'.   Again you have to
name it.  You can make as many folders as you would like inside your
'To Do List' folder. 

Actually you don't have to make any folders inside the 'To Do List' folder at all if you don't want to. It can be the one you save your list of things to do, that you have made in your notepad, that you save it to. It will be on your desktop and you can just double click on it and then click on your notepad file and there is you list.

So far I have 7 folders inside my 'To Do List' and you never
know, I may create more.  You can name your folders what ever you feel you need to always be trying to find.  For example, these are the names I have given my folders:  Email, Business, Phone Calls, Housework, Activities, My Domain, Blogging, Chocolate  and so on. What ever occupies your time and what ever  you need to get done.

The last action you need to take, is to write in your notepad  what it is you need to do then save it to the folder you have made for that topic.  Otherwise those Folders will do you no good at all.

Patricia Downing

2008-11-08

Blogging in BlogEstates

I have a lady who has just joined BlogEstates and
she has been a bit frustrated by it. So I thought
since I had not written in my blog for far too long
that I should maybe write one on how to navigate
BlogEstates.

So after you have verified your signup, bookmark
your page. Log in to your back office by clicking
on 'Log in', add your information along with the
security code.

Once inside, click on Account, check out the
information, add anything new that you would like
listed.  Now click on Prefs, check where you put in
the title you want for your blog then the subtitle.
It can be whatever you want it to be as long as it agrees
with the TOS or Terms of Service. See where you can add
your domain name if you want your blog to be your own.
Next check out if you can add advertisements, then below
that the description of what your blog is going to be
about. The rest is the color of your page and your photo.

We are just checking out the back office for now, we are
not adding anything. So go to 'Mail' and click on it. I don't
know if there will be anything in there unless admin sends
a welcome letter. Leave that one and go to Upgrade. You can
study this if you are a regular blogger but if you are just
new then just glance through it  because you need to get use
to writing before you try to sell to anyone.

Click on 'Support' next and read all the information but be
prepared to be logged out if you aren't a fast reader.
Blogestates has fairly high time out setting. But I will
get to that later. I find for myself, the best way to read
something on the net if it is fairly long is to highlight
what I want to read, right click and then left click on copy.
Open wordpad or similar and paste the information there.
If you have a printer, print it out where it will be
much easier to read and you don't have to worry about the
page timing out. I would read all the information on this
page for it does explain much of what you need to do to
have a blog on BlogEstates.

On we go now to the next link, your 'Banners'. These are banners
which you can use to advertise your blog. You can put them
in other exchanges, on your own website or anywhere they
allow banners. In the code listed is your BlogEstates referral
URL, you can use that in other exchanges as well. This is my
url;  http://www.blogestates.com/index.php?ref=PrairieMade

As we go across the top you will see 'Offline Promotions'. If
your are just a free member it may not be there. At least it
probably isn't anything you need to worry about for now.
Skip over the 'GJWForums' for now because it takes you to a
separate browser window. Go back to the left side of the page
and click on 'FollowMe Directory'

These are all the programs in the Moneylegs Network Development
Club.  You can put your member ID in the boxes of which ever
program you have joined so far. You then click on 'submit changes'
at the bottom of the page. This way when your BlogEstates referral
signs up to the program in their back office they will automatically
go under you. The more of these free programs you join the more
chances of your referral going under you in the programs rather
than signing under your upline.  The paid programs can wait until
you learn about the free ones and get use to them.

The rest is fairly self explanatory. Your 'Referrals' are who signs
up under you and your 'Network' is all who signup under you and
under your referrals.

You may only be able to send newsletters to your downline if you are
upgraded. You will know if the 'Send Newsletters' is listed. Then
what is left is the 'Photo Gallery'.  It is a good idea to add your
picture so that people get use to seeing your face and get more
comfortable with you. That is your preference and whatever you feel
comfortable with.

So, now that we have gone through your whole back office, you may now
feel like writing.  The first thing I want you to do is log out of
Blogestates and open a 'Notepad'.  This is what I referred to at the
beginning. Blogestates has a high timeout setting, meaning if you sit
in your back office too long it will time out and you will have to log
in again. If you have been going through the different links you will
be ok. Otherwise if you are in the 'New Entry' area and are planning on
writing an article then you don't want to be inactive for too long.

Here you are diligently creating an article for others to read, you are
correcting it here, adding there,  then, 'now it is ready to go'. You
click on submit, then you click on 'Home' to get to your 'Member's Area'.
You look to see the title of your article and it isn't there. WHAT!
You are angry! Where is your article? You went to all that work, you don't
have a saved copy! How discouraging! You won't remember everything you just
wrote!  You aren't doing this over again, this is a useless blog program!
You log out and you go on to something else and don't plan on going back!

Well I want you to come back, because this is a good program. So you know
now why I want you to log out after you have checked out all the
information in your back office.  This is why I want you to open Notepad,
where you can write your article , take as long as you want and save it as
you go. Make a folder on your desktop if you like to write a lot and save
each article there. Also before you paste your pre-written article into the
'New Entry' area, be sure you click on the 'Private' box, so that if you don't
like the looks of your article you can go back and correct it without anyone
on the web seeing what you don't want them to see.  When you have fixed
it to your satisfaction then click on the 'Comments' box. Make sure only
one of the boxes is clicked at a time, they both should not be showing a
check mark. Then last of all, click on the ' Save Changes' box and 'voila'
your first blog is on the net and the link is there for you to click on and
read.

There is more to this blogging but this should keep you occupied for a
while.  Can't wait to see your first article!
Patricia Downing

2008-06-22

Surf's up at 10K

Any one not surfing 10K is missing out!  The more you surf the happier Mike is. If
Mike is happy you will be happy. Mike loves to reward his members when they
increase his ratings. Don't miss out!  If you are surfing  and promoting 10K you may win extra credits. While you are surfing click on the contest link, find out what
you can win if you surf, get 10k seen and bring in referrals.

Plus there is also the BIG prize..... a free Moneylegs Senior Upgrade!   If you already have a Senior Upgrade then this is a great opportunity to help out
your downline.  Isn't that what Moneylegs is all about; --a community of workers
guiding and assisting their fellow members bringing each other to their ultimate goal of a successful internet business.  10K is just one of the nine programs in the
Moneylegs Follow Me directory.

Patricia

2008-06-09

Surfing Traffic Exchanges

This is one thing that I have thought about writing for a while now.
When you advertise your sites on traffic exchanges, please do not
put  pages on, that have the videos, music or actors going on and on
about how wonderful their product is.  It is just a pain to those
who are surfing for they just turn their sound off.   I mean sure
you can turn off your sound but sometimes you need it on. 
Then there are the videos which take so long to load that
you are clicking to the next site before it is even done.

So save your main webpage for classified ads, forums, blogs or
where ever you like to advertise your business.  What you need
on traffic exchanges are splash pages or lead capture pages.  These
are small, to the point pages, that a person can read at a glance.
If it is interesting enough they will click on the link that takes them
to the main page.  With a lead capture page they can fill out their
information which can be as little as their name and email address
or as much as you think a person may want to tell you about themselves.
Less is probably better. Then you can send them the link to your main
business page. 

When making a splash page or lcp or having one made for you, make
sure your picture goes on it.  This is called branding yourself.
People are more likely to join with a face that they are used to
seeing as they surf, rather than any generic page with no information
on it about who the page belongs to.

You can get someone else to make you a page but that will cost you
money each time.  If you learn how to make one then it will cost
you very little and you will be branding your own style.  If you come
to Prairiemade.com my leg of Moneylegs.com , I will show you
what you need to do to start branding yourself and help you to be
a business success online.
Patricia Downing

2008-06-03

Online Marketing with Moneylegs

Prairiemade an Online Marketer
I posted this in April of 2007, and I think it still works for today as
well so I am posting it again with a few changes.

Hello fellow online marketers!  Are you struggling to make your business succeed online? 
Does everyone else seem to know something you don't?  Are they confidently  forging ahead and you feel you are being left behind? 
If so,  I know where you are coming from. 

Sometimes you plug along and don't seem to get anywhere.  There is so much to learn and sometimes it seems there is so little time! 
You see ads saying how you can make so much money if you join this site or that site.  You join and the money doesn't start flowing in. 
What are you doing wrong?  They said it was so simple,  you must not be cut out for this business, maybe you should quit.

I'm here to say , 'don't quit'!  If you are like me and you enjoy working on the internet then don't give up.  If you are a persistant, diligent,
steady working individual then you can make it on the internet the same as anyone else.

I belong to a program that shows you how to start your own business. Then it guides you through all the processes to get you established
so you can go on your own.  You start out as a free member and then as you get more confidence you can buy the lifetime senior
membership.  At each step you can join more programs that will enhance your learning and promote your business  which is YOU!
To succeed for yourself on the internet you have to learn how to brand yourself.  You have to be the one that people want to go to or
they will  just pick anyone.

Blogging is a great way to brand yourself, and it really isn't as hard
as it may seem.  I find the hardest part is working it into my schedule.
Moneylegs will teach you about blogging and how to get your blogs
on the internet.

But it all takes work, this is not one of those get rich quick , easy come easy go 'pie in the sky' promotions.  So be prepared to work and use
that persistance I mentioned at the beginning.
Prairiemade.com is one leg of the Moneylegs program.  It is my leg of the program and I am proud to be part of the Moneylegs team! 
So if you  would like some training then come and join me for our  free startup business training. 
            Let us give you a leg up in your business adventure!

Patricia Downing

2008-04-09

To Blog or Not to Blog

To Blog or Not to Blog
Are you blogging?  If not, why not?  You think,' what would I write about, who
would care?'  You might be surprised.  Isn't your opinion as good as anyone else's?  So the guy next door will laugh, laugh with him. He gives his opinion, so use that and write your opinion in your blog.  There will be others out there who have a similar experience and so they will want to read of your way of dealing with critics.
 
So is there not something in your life that interests you?  Is there anything
you have a lot of experience with?  Do you know how to fix a leaky tap?
Do you have a garden or house plants that your neigbours comment on? 
Have you raised children, would your experience help other parents?  There are more fathers raising their children can you share your upsets or can you be encouraging? 

There are so many many experiences a person has in their lifetime, please share it.  Most people are grateful to be able to read of experiences that are similar to theirs and so they feel that they are not alone.

So what are you waiting for?  Open up your notepad and start writing.  The wonderful thing about a computer is you can make all the mistakes you want, and then you can go back and fix them so easily.

Will I see you in the blogs?  I hope so, because as a very savvy lady said, " You
ARE,  you count, your opinion is what makes you who you are, so unless you are
willing to express it, then how can you edcucate yourself fairly on how and when to
adjust it?"

Patricia Downing
aka  Prairiemade

2008-03-08

Go To Conferences and Gain

2008-02-05

Search Engine Optimization

My Concept of Doug William's - Myth & Magic of Search Engine Optimization

 There have been a few changes in Moneylegs since I joined I believe in 2005. Doug Williams died
which left most of us heart broken. Rob Gehring of 10KHits4UNow.com whom Doug had mentored plus
Mike Jeter  both decided to take over the reins.  They had big shoes to fill and they filled them
quite nicely. With so much on his shoulders, Rob decided that he was neglecting his family who were
his number one priority. So he decided to step down from his position of administrator after about a year
and some months.  He passed his share on to Robert Palmer of Mystical Maze.  Mike and Robert are
working hard at getting everything straightened out but it does take time so we have to be patient if
everything doesn't click exactly right. Doug built many gears in his programs to bring people to success
on the internet so they all have to mesh.  We are the oil that helps it to run smoothly.
Moneylegs.com is free to join.
 
For a quick overview of what Moneylegs will offer you, Our Site FAQ
and for more information on joining a blog visit my Moneylegs Blog.

Moneylegs has been redesigned since Doug was owner for we know the internet is always changing.
Doug had changed his 3Step program to SeoSquid just before he died.  He called it a paradigm shift
and he wanted both his programs, the BlackHOLESeries and the 3Step program to tie  into the
Blogestates.com progam to offer Internet Marketers easy to follow and understandable training on
how to effectively use blogs. He wanted us to land our personal interests on the top ranking
positions of the biggest search engines.  He believed that if you had a common name as his was that
doing a significant amount of promotion with your personal name was always a benefit. He said that
before he started to use blogging his name was not often in the top ranking positions of the search
engines.

By December of 2005 he came out on top of page three of Google with his corporate website. At times
he was on page one with Blogsearch.google.com.  He was on page one of Msn and 18th on Yahoo with
HowlingWolf plus 37th for ZSWAZ.

With his method of training in the effective use of keyword ranking of the major search engines he
was able to put dozens of keywords in top ranking positions in Google, Msn and Yahoo. So when you
have nearly run out of money trying to get top ranking on the search engines come join us for free
at Moneylegs.  If you are a full time Internet Marketer and want to go to the next level then try
our 30 day free trial at SeoSquid then pick out one of the four Total Marketing Solutions. As Doug
liked to say:
Help Make it Happen
Sit Back and Watch it Happen, or
Look Back and Wonder What Happened!

2008-01-29

Today is a day to stay..

Well today is a day to stay inside and do online marketing.  I am
glad I have a nice warm house.  It is , now wrap up because even
saying it will make you cold, -32*C (about -20 or so F*)   With the
wind chill,  it is about -52*C.  Now do you have anything to complain
about? lol

They say your skin will freeze in seconds and my husband goes
outside bareheaded and barehanded.  Men!  As a mother I have
to worry about my son who is off at university.  Will he dress properly
since he has to stand waiting for a bus or will that be uncool? 
What age is it that they decide to think of themselves and their safety
rather than what others will think.  With some it seems to be when
something bad happens but there are those who do use their brains. 
Hopefully he is one who uses his brains.  He is always telling me,
"Oh Mom, I'm not stupid"  Is there a degree of stupidity? You know
the mother's degree and the children's degree.  What's that saying
about , 'never the twain shall meet'?  Will have to look that up, may
have  nothing to do with this subject. lol

So I will sign off and go about my continuing emarketing with my
home based business using the information in my SeoSquid
back office.

2008-01-28

Junior Hockey and roasts

   What do you do with a 22lb roast for a supper that isn't going to
happen?  Have you ever cooked a 22 pound roast before?  I don't think I
have. I've cooked plenty of 4 or 5 pound roasts but not 22 pounds.  Well I
had to trust my cookbook which I have had for 40 years. It is a good
cookbook but I would hate to have to eat roast after it was cooked as long
as they suggested.  They must cook awfully tough roasts.

  A young man from my town, whom my son played hockey with a few years ago
had the opportunity to be picked for the Canadian Junior Hockey team that
played in the World's in the Czech Republic.  He helped the team bring home
the Gold for Canada.  My town decided that he deserved a supper put on in his
honour. I was asked if I would cook one of the roasts.   

  The cookbook said for a medium well done roast I should cook it for
24 to 29 min. per pound.  Ok, you do the math.  22 times 24 is ..yes.. 528
minutes.  Now divide that by 60 (mins in an hour)... ok so you know that..
 Well that comes out to 8.8 hours.  The supper is at seven but I had to
have the roast at the rink at six with the gravy.  I live about 5 miles from
town so I wanted the roast ready to come out of the oven by five so I
would have time to make the gravy and get in town by six.

  I decided to start at nine this morning because I wanted to brown it
first to have nice flavoured gravy.  Then I put the lid on it and turned
the oven to 325*F (about 150*C), and  went about my day.  Around 11:00 -
11:30am I received a phone call saying the supper was cancelled!  You see
we are having one doozy of a blizzard  right at the moment.  It started
about an hour after I put the roast in the oven.  Now I knew the
weathermen were forecasting a blizzard but this is a big province and it
could have very well missed us. But of course it didn't, I had a roast in
the oven.... Anyway I was told to keep cooking it and they would sell it
in sandwiches at a hockey game.

  So, why I was unhappy with the cookbook was the fact that it only took
five hours to cook the roast.  I would say they were way off on their
estimation!  I was the only one who had started my roast.  The others had
cooked big roasts before, so they knew how long it would take.  You live
and learn, do your own estimations!??    

  Here is my advertising pitch now;  If you sign up to Prairiemade.com
I'll send you some slices of roast beef through the mail.
Ok, sending slices of roast beef through the mail won't work too well.
How about this;  signing up with Prairiemade.com will give you the
opportunity to make enough money to buy your own roast beef.  We
are like the concept;  don't give someone fish, teach them to fish. 
Moneylegs, the parent company, has been developing online leaders
since 1999.

Words of wisdom from an Old Farmer: {not me :o) } Every path has a few
puddles.

  Oh, by the way, we do get to have some of that roast for supper.
It would be cruel and unusual punishment to makes us smell that roast and
not get a taste of it!  There may be puddles but some are small enough
to step over!  So the rink and my husband and I all win.

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