How To Video - Merge Word Documents With Excel CSV Files

Trouble Merging Your Word Documents With Excel CSV Files?
Tired Of Handwriting Your Post Cards?
Want To Improve Your Post Card Marketing System?

Well I encourage you to watch this how-to video about
merging a Word Document with an Excel (csv) file.

http://postcards.networkingleader.com

This method is intended to improve the process of those who
are using post cards to market their business. It is intended
for those who want to split test to see if the number of responses
will get better. There is no one right way of marketing your
business using post cards nor may be a substitute of how you
conduct your post card marketing.

I don't know if this will work for you they way it does for me or
for others.

However, it might improve your business process if it a great
fit in your system.

Therefore, I would at least watch the 11-minute video and decide
if this fits well in your business or the way you perform your tasks.

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Are You Posting On Craigslist Regularly?

As you all know, I post a lot of ads on Craigslist for my business and needed to use several email addresses and Craigslist accounts to make sure that those ads will stick. However the bad part is creating email addresses with gmail or yahoo and Craigslist accounts take time. Well with this program called Auto Account Creator, you can create gmail or yahoo and its corresponding Craigslist accounts in a snap. Due to the timing requirements required by Craigslist to make sure that they think I'm not using any automated software, I give it about 8-10 minutes to create the accounts.

However, before you consider purchasing this program, you should already know how to do the following manually:

• Create a Gmail account manually and make sure it's forwarded to the email address of your choosing.
• Create a Craigslist account and tie that Gmail email address to your account by verifying that you created that account.

Otherwise, you're not going to have any appreciation on how to harness the power of the Auto Account Creator.

Watch a video below on how you can witness the power of this program:



Now you see how easy that thing works. However, make sure you have the following already in place or you won't be able to get it running:

• Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or better Installed
• Microsoft Dot.NET Framework Version 3.5 - the Auto Account Creator program relies on the guts of the dot.NET framework version 3.5 to work, so you need to have this installed or some features won't run.
  
• Internet Explorer 7 - For some reason, the Auto Account Creator (AAC) program won't run on IE6. You will wind up with the "Action Canceled" message when you run the AAC program once you click on the "Create Accounts" button. When I upgraded to IE7, it finally worked after going through the hoops.
  

One other thing though. Be sure to limit the creation of your Gmail/Craigslist accounts to 5 at a time for each IP Address because Craigslist checks for a pattern, like the 1st 3 characters of your gmail accounts or the last 3 or 4 characters or your gmail accounts. If it matches the filters, posting on Craigslist using those accounts will be blocked and your ads won't stick.

Now that I mentioned this term called IP Address, what you need to know is that this is an address assigned by your internet service provider that may be configured automatically by your firewall/router device. This address is logged by Craigslist whenever you visit their site. However, Craigslist lets you post up to a certain amount per 48 hours, like up to 4 per email per IP Address. If you can change the IP Address assigned to your router, you would be able to post an additional 4 ads on Craigslist. However, the changing of the IP Address can only work if you have the following:

• Dial-Up - A little slow, but every time you disconnect and reconnect, you get a new IP Address assigned to you.
• DSL - Faster than dial-up, uses the same phone line as your land line, but you may have to manually switch the power of your DSL device, the sure thing to disconnect from the Internet, wait 10 seconds, then turn the power back on. It works the same way as dial-up in terms of disconnecting and reconnecting. You get a new IP address assigned to your computer.
• Sprint 595U Data Card - I just recently subscribed to this service. Got the datacard for free, plug it in my usb port, install the software on my laptop that comes with it, and I can disconnect and resconnect any time and would get a new IP Address assigned to my computer when I do that. In addition, I can bring my laptop anywhere I want to be. The software works for both the mac os x and the pc.

The use of a permanent connection will not work out because you'll be limited to that same IP address. That doesn't mean you should give up that permanent connection. You can subscribe for an IP Proxy service, but that's gonna be a little bit expensive with minimum monthly starting at $140 for 30 IP addresses. However, with this system, you can really flex your muscles by being able to create at least 100 GMail/Craigslist accounts at one time. If you sign up for 62 IP addresses, then double that power, but you better be a serious Craigslist marketer if you're going to get this.

Now that you read about the ability to automate the task of creating Gmail/Craigslist accounts. On my next blog post, I'll discuss how to automate the posting of your ads on Craigslist using the Easy Ad Poster and IP Green.

Till next time...

If you want to learn more about posting your ads on Craigslist, I recommend you go to Craigslist Masters (not affiliated with Craigslist). Click here if you're one of the frustrated Craigslist posters and want to learn the secrets of dealing with this beast.

My First Take On Magnetic Sponsoring

If Magnetic Sponsoring hasn't worked out well for you, I'm really sorry to hear that. I'm not going to say it's a good or bad product nor defend it either way, but it's still not perfect.

I read the book from cover to cover and have referred back to it when needed without taking any bias on whether or not Mike Dillard has a personal agenda. Would you have ever known what business McDonald's is really in if you haven't bought and read the book? Or what do they promote when you go to Las Vegas.

Magnetic Sponsoring alone is not about getting you to generate business leads for free. It allows you to provide a cover for your purchase leads in the event they say no to your primary business. After all, you buy leads, don't you? Let me ask you this. What happens when you pay $2.00 for a lead and they say no to your business and they don't want to have anything to do with you? What if the lead that you purchased turns out that they want to help people lose weight instead of saving money on dental? There goes your two bucks and there goes your potential friend. Do you believe you'll ever recover that money? Chances are slim and if I'm gonna do a business like that, I'd rather pay my $6 (3 leads) and get me a lengua (tongue) burritto.

Magnetic Sponsoring is not about getting yourself free leads. It's about making a friend, building trust with that friend, and making a potential good quality cold lead into a warm lead that puts their trust in you. It's about providing you with the mindset on how you should you attract potential candidates for your primary business (doesn't matter what business it is).

Now let's see how this thing really works. How about you, what are you really in the business of doing? Are you really selling dental plans when we're all doing front-line recruiting? So what are we really in the business of doing? Look at McDonald's - why are they so successful when in the first place, I can make my own Big Mac and probably do a better job (i also have the ingredients to the secret sauce) such as making it charbroiled instead of fried.

Do you think McDonald's will last long if they decided to be in the hamburger business? How about us lasting longer if we're really into the business of selling dental plans.

You can't expect perfection in anything. That goes for a system that McDonald's, us, and Mike Dillard uses.

Whether I made money on it or not is another matter, but if you ask me how much I made using Magnetic Sponsoring, what I'll tell you would make you kill me (instead of me killing you), so I won't.

Let's just say that I got at least more than twice my money back and have bought a newer edition of it to keep me up-to-date. I may sound like a more-on for doing that, but when I've gotten more than my return-on-investment for purchasing it, I can't say that I got scammed by Mike Dillard if I've used some of that money to buy me a PlayStation 3 and supply me with next month's purchase of leads (yeah, I still buy leads) while my business building continues.

Don't underestimate what Magnetic Sponsoring can do for you. However, it's not going to do the business building for you.

Adios...till next time folks...

How To Market Your Business Effectively Using Post Cards

Are you using the post card method to market your business?

Are you having trouble getting a higher response rate?

Would you like to be able to have a higher closing ratio?

Well you may have to write up a message that will attract them to you.

In my last company, I've used post cards to market my company's products or use it for recruiting those who want to do a home-based business marketing the same products I'm doing.

You will have so much room to put your message in your post card. However, there's one more thing that may attract a higher response rate. You must make sure that the message in the post card follows the format in this order, known as the AIDA format:

A = Attention
I = Interest
D = Desire
A = Action

The message used to get people to respond to her message is:

I want to speak to you about a full-time/part-time income opportunity with my company. Please go to my website or call 805-754-2736 and request an interview.

Where is the attention? Well the message has to be handwritten. Having the message handwritten in its entirety has two advantages. It gets the attention of the reader and it also tells the reader that this message was personally written for that person receiving it. It also gets the person interested in replying to the post card message because of the advantages of having it handwritten.

Putting pictures there also adds a few thousand words as we all know that a picture can speak a thousands of them.

The full-time/part-time income opportunity is the desire part. After all, people could use some extra money if this business is for them. People either respond to either pleasure or pain, but although most respond to pleasure, people will always look for opportunities in getting extra money.

The action part of the messages takes the reader to either go to the website and request an interview or call the number that's on the post card.

Not everyone will respond to the message of the post card, but those that are handwritten or have any pictures in it would get a higher response rate.

One of the home-based business owners in my last company has been able to earn that first pin-level using the post card method exclusively.

If there's one thing that this person does, it's consistency. However, she's got a system going for her and it's worked well.

When one of the recipients of her post card fills out a form in her capture page, she gets an email about it and gives the prospect up to 48 hours before she calls them.

Of those she calls and unable to reach or not ready, she activates an autoresponder system where those people would get an email from her.

The ones she was able to reach, she makes sure the prospects look over the information before she speaks to them. If they haven't, she reschedules an appointment.

Trial and error has made her system work well for her.

However, one thing you must absolutely do. Make sure that the message looks like it's handwritten. You get a better response rate when you hand write those postcards.

Till next time...

Mac OS X on a Dell Inspiron 1100

This was originally written by me on January 2007 and the source is

http://lesid.blogs.friendster.com/my_blog/2006/12/mac_os_x_on_a_d.html

Has anyone every tried to run a Mac OS X on a regular PC like a Dell Inspiron 1100 laptop?

Just to make a long story short, I got this thing working. A Mac OS X (the Tiger version 10.4.5) on a Dell Inspiron 1100 notebook. All the drivers worked out for me, the video, sound, monitor resolution at 1024x768 (the best an Inspiron 1100 can do).

However, you need to get the usb 2.0 wireless adapter and the only one I got to work is the AeroLite 802.11g USB 2.0 adapter. It's both PC and Mac OS X compatible and you can get it from Fry's Electronics for $59.99. But I found something much better for the wireless support and it works on all Windows XP, Vista, Ubuntu 6.x, and the Mac OS X (Tiger). It's the Netgear 511GT and it's the PCMCIA version. For whatever reason, it's recognized as an Airport Card (that's what's used and supported by Apple for wireless).
It's been more than a year now and this thing is still running on the laptop. It stills shuts down in a snap unlike its Ubuntu Linux and Windows counterparts.

I just got hook with this thing last year and I'm still hooked with it. Soon I'll be buying either a Mac Mini (the $799 version) or a Powerbook, but will make sure I can get the new operating system on it. Will I do away with Ubuntu? Probably NOT. However, I can do a lot with the Dell-Mac OS if I want to. I got MS Office 2004 working on this machine, but can't play the EA's Madden 200x nor NHL 200x. I'm still stuck with that on the PC.

However, because these new Macs run on Intel Core 2 Due processors, the same processors that power up those PCs that you use, you should be able to run Windows XP or even Windows Vista, but why would you do that if you're running the more-stable Mac OS X? That's because you may still have some applications that are dependent on Windows.

For those of you Internet Explorer die hards that need it, your best bet is to download Codeweavers Crossover Office (http://www.codeweavers.com) and the version as of this writing for the Mac is equivalent to the Linux version 5.0.3, but there is a beta version already out, so you can try it out and also install Internet Explorer 6.0.
Or you can use it on your new Mac running the Windows Operating System. I personally prefer to use Firefox because of the use of Tabs.

Now going back to my Mac-In-Dell, let me say this...the interface is just as identical to the Mac OS X itself. It's pretty nice. What sucks is that you need to learn that the Ctrl key is equivalent to the MS Windows key in the new PC keyboard. For example, Ctrl+X will cut the highlighted text in Windows, but in the Mac, you use the Window+X to do the same job.

The drawback is applications that are compiled in the PowerPC-based Macs like Office 2004 will run reeeeaaallll slow. It really crawls. I recommend you run an office suite that is MacIntel (Macs with Intel processors) specific.

However, it's been fun playing with it. I had to go back to the Windows XP operating system because some applications I needed to gas up my business can only run on Windows and it's reliable enough for me.

Well that's all I have to say.

Are You Getting A Disk Boot Failure On Windows XP?

Are you getting something like this message when you boot up your computer in Windows XP:

"DISK BOOT FAILURE" or a similar message and ask you to put a bootable disk.

Aside from doing home business, one of the things I excel is in the field of computers. My college education is based on the use of computers in business, but we'll be discussing the hardware side. Provided that you have the right equipment to resolve this type of problem, you should be able to resolve an issue like the "Disk Boot Failure".

Well three times on three separate occassions, I was getting this message on one of my Windows XP machines.

I fiddled around with it a few times but to no luck.

Then what I did was put in the Windows XP CD with SP2 on the CD-ROM drive and boot it up and used the Recovery Console.

In the recovery console, I performed the following tasks:

• Make sure that I boot up to C:\WINDOWS and entered the Administrator account password.
• Assuming that my CD-ROM drive is D:, I did the following commands and I'm on the root directory of my C drive, e.g. "C:\", I performed the following commands
  
• copy d:\i386\ntdetect.com (then hit enter)
  
• copy d:\i386\ntldr (then hit enter)
• attrib +R+S+H ntdetect.com (then hit enter)
  
• attrib +R+S+H ntldr (then hit enter)
  
• exit (then hit enter)
• Once you hit "exit", your computer should reboot and you'll see the Windows XP Logo as you boot up your computer.

Disclaimer: The above are my suggestions. I don't know how will it work for you, but it worked for me. It may or may not work out for you. You should always have a backup image of your system if you ever have to fall back.

Take Good Care In Choosing The Right Person When Recruiting

I want to tell you about my dealings with this person named Ms. Q.

Ms. Q. has several kids and is also giving a good effort in this business and that's a more challenging task. However, if you become friends and wish to keep in contact with her, limit it to no more than email and give her 48-72 hours to reply. Or if it's something that anyone in your team can use, and it's not personal, then put it in the team bulletin board.

After my short dealings with her, I found out the hard way that I'm glad we're going separate ways. The lessons I learned are when I prospect to someone like her, I'll remember to let them know that I'm looking for someone who is serious and will do the business no matter what it takes.

If they feel that they're getting intruded in their personal lives, or they feel that they won't be able to put in the 10-15 hours that it takes to do the business, I suggest you immediately disqualify them and say No first. There's little reason for you to be dealing with a prospect who's not serious about the business.

Make sure that when you successfully signed up people who have a genuine interest in a home-based business and who will do this business no matter what it takes, be sure to invest in them. It is in both your best interests and those of the people in your team to help them in their business, teach them to recruit like aces, and become leaders.

Otherwise, you're going to have some conflict with them and you're going to wind up having to replace that person.

So if you're not sure about that person, don't bring them to the business. As Dani Johnson said, you're going to drag them wherever you go if you bring in an unsure person.

When you hit that recruiting trail, deal with prospects with a positive life force. If they're too abrasive, or they yell at you and say "What is this about (with an unpleasant tone)?" then just get out of the conversation. You don't need people like that in your team. What you want are people who are willing to make your investment in them worth it. That is, you willing to help them and them willing to do their part, no matter what it takes for them to get to their next goal.

Well I've said enough.

Using EZines To Get Your Site Plenty Of Traffic And Possibly Leads

Although I'm not that great of a writer, one thing I'm aware of is making sure that when I write something, it will keep the reader interested, it transitions smoothly from one topic to the next, and there will be value for the reader to read it.

How about this new deal called Ezines. I first heard about Ezines last year, but for whatever reason, it was just another article that's on the web. So you're probably going to wonder, why would you write one up? Who cares about this thing?

I'm sure you've heard about networking with your peers. Remember when you're in high school or college, you network with other people by joining clubs, social gatherings, or even by being in the classroom. You connect with these people because you and that network of people have something in common.

However, your association with them may not last because you all be moving on with other things. When I was working on my bachelors and my two masters, I built a pretty good network of people who share the same ideas as I do. When I left school, most of them have moved on or some who I met have different interests.

I believe it's not a bad idea to keep networking with others with similar interests. That's when I got the idea of ezines from several networkers. Although I may not get traffic from the general public about my interests (why should I?). I just want to get traffic from a certain audience. You know, someone who wears a pair of size 11 wide Crocs, my favorite pairs of sandals (i'm already on my 2nd black pair--in fact, my daughter katherine is on her 2nd pink pair or Crocs).

If you're willing to write and advertise your skillset out there on the Internet, ezines may be your ticket. Ezine websites are indexed by search engines and depending on what keyword you optimize it for, someone may just find you.

For the last two years, I've been involved in designing websites, but for one main reason...to drive traffic to it. However, promoting it will take much work and in time, traffic will grow. With the e-dental-plus.com website, which I own, it wasn't even ranked in alexa last year, but now it somewhere around 2.8 million. My goal for the end of the year is to get it down below 2 million, but there's a lot of work cut out for me. Perhaps, I would need to start writing ezines about the dental programs that I offer at e-dental-plus.com.

Before go off a tangent, I want to get back to the deal with ezines. Make sure you have something to write about and when you write it up, follow the AIDA format. That means...

A - Attention - Depending on what they read on the headline will determine if the article will be read.

I - Interest - be sure to address what's in it for them. If you don't address this, they'll just click the "back" button on their browser.

D - Desire - put the features on the topics that your article offers. Highlight 4-7 important bullets in this area.

A - Action - Make sure there's a link that allows them to take action, such as your product website or the website you want them to go to to fill out some form or whatever.

Well if you keep your ezine in this format, you may have little trouble addressing what you want to convey to your readers.

So for those of you businesspeople wanting to promote their product, their service, what they do well in, find other people who share the same views as you through a website, don't take ezines lightly. Although there are other options to increase traffic to your website, ezines are one of the ways you can get more visitors to your website. However, the way you write your content will have an impact on whether your visitors come back.

If you want to successfully generate traffic to your website, implement ezines. Don't forget to make that effort in being a good writer. It carries a lot of weight with your readers.

Sidney

P.S. Here are my recommended resources if you want to drive traffic to your website and you're on a limited budget. The subject of ezines is also discussed in these resources.

Magnetic Sponsoring - by Mike Dillard - learn how to use the skills that made Mike a millionaire
Building On A Budget - by Mike Dillard - learn how you can advertise your business on a limited budget. Ezines and press releases are also mentioned in this course.
Attraction Marketing Formula - by Ferny Ceballos - Learn the secrets of Google AdWords, capture pages, ezines, press releases, craigslist, ebay advertising, and more. Learn it in detail.

Building On A Budget - Another Mike Dillard Classic Must Grab - Free-Press-Release.com

Press Release - Building On A Budget - Another Mike Dillard Classic Must Grab

" Mike Dillard, Author of Magnetic Sponsoring, expert internet marketer and copywriter, teaches five best ways that generate free good quality leads for your business on a budget. "

by Sidney Juachon

Source: http://www.free-press-release.com/news/200803/1204938671.html

Just started out their own business? Next step is to find a way to make that business be known on the internet.

Thanks to Mike Dillard and company, Building On A Budget is conceived. This book is intended to help someone starting out their business while being on a very limited monetary budget (not to exceed $500 a month).

However, other resources like time, will, determination, and the energy to do the work must be available.

Those who belong in this category will learn how to generate free traffic to their website and thus get free leads through the following topics by the time they completed this book:

How to turn your traffic into live exclusive leads...even on a budget.

Craigslist - Very popular online classifieds site gets 6 billion visits a month and your ad gets visited.

Videos and You Tube - Your videos on YouTube, the 2nd most visited website in the world (behind Yahoo.com) will get your business a lot of exposure.

Press Releases and Ezines - popular media where your business can get real strong exposure. Get a few more articles and you may be dubbed by many as an expert.

Blogs - Why setting one up can get you web traffic leading to qualified prospects within 24 to 72 hours.

Funded Proposals - Why let your leads go down the drain when a prospect may say no to your business. Instead help them make sure that when they start their own home-based business, they either get Building On A Budget or Magnetic Sponsoring before they decide on an opportunity. At least they didn't have to hear you say "I told you so!" and instead they say "I read it so!".

I just read through this whole book and it's well written with simple to follow instructions. Although I already know how some of the topics in this book are processed, I learned some new ways on how to drive more traffic to my websites.

For those of you who needs a way to build your business on a limited budget, this is the book you want to get and I encourage you to get it.


For more information about Building On A Budget, you can go to http://myaplan.buildingonabudget.com and see the details of this Mike Dillard classic.

You cannot afford not to have this book. Highly recommended.

Recruiting Through Craigslist

If you're recruiting people to join your downline on craigslist, don't be surprised if your ad doesn't show up. if it did, don't be surprised if it got flagged and deleted. That's because the jobs section is meant for those who are seeking to work for someone else, like a 9-6 job where they commute 2 hours every day back and forth, back and forth, and you know how that goes.

My suggestion is set up an account with craigslist, using an gmail account. However, make sure you have one account per day, so for example if you're going to post on Monday, you set up an account for Monday, like and userid with a Monday on it. Using that account, post your ads on the small biz section. optimize it for a keyword, like "work at home mom" or something like that. Put it in a city like Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, or New York City, where the ads expire in seven days. Withing 24-48 hours, Google reindexes its search ending and gives time sensitive ads, like craigslist ads a higher ranking. When that ad expires, log back to the account, repost it and the ad will continue to show.

As long as you're consistent, you'll never know what will turn up.

I won't guarantee conversions to signups right away, but if someone Googles "work at home mom", your ad may come up.

Continue your recruiting on the jobs section and the IP address of your computer may be logged and banned by Craigslist.

Sidney