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noreply@blogger.com (Jeff Baas) — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:11:00 +0000

Do You Believe You Can Succeed?
What a silly question! Of course you do! Or do you?

Do you keep trying one thing after another only to fall short and try something new? It could be that, deep down, you simply don't believe that YOU can succeed.

Many of us don't want to admit it, but we doubt that we have what it takes to succeed. So we look for something that will succeed for us.

We grow up believing that those who succeed are somehow less flawed than we are and that the only way we can succeed is to try as many things as we possibly can in the hopes that we will simply luck into success.

But we all have a lot more going for us than we think we do.

I knew a man once who was a masterful woodworker. Year after year, he brought home tons of blue ribbons from the county fair and even the state fair. I was always astounded by the quality of his work. It was simply flawless.

Yet if you praised him for a project he did, he would always express disappointment. Having worked on each piece intimately, he was aware of every thing that hadn't gone absolutely perfectly. He knew every measurement that had been 1/32 of an inch off and every joint that hadn't joined perfectly.

No one else could see any flaws, even when he pointed them out, because they were so minor. But he was painfully aware of each one and was disappointed with himself for them.

We tend to be the same way with ourselves. We see flaws that no one else sees and we downgrade ourselves. But if we just move forward and do our best, eventually the end results will make those flaws unnoticeable.

That's why it's important to keep moving forward on the path we determine toward our goals. We get a lot farther when keep moving and learn along the way than when we discard our efforts and start over again at the first trouble we encounter.
Jeff

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noreply@blogger.com (Jeff Baas) — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:53:00 +0000

The Simplicity of Success
I just read a forum post the other day from a woman who had faced financial disaster, but worked her way to solvency in five weeks. The route she took was simple, compared to the convoluted paths we sometimes try to navigate to success.

Here's what she did:

Found a niche
Built a free WordPress blog
Created a Squidoo page and pointed it to my blog
Wrote about the subject and created about 10 posts, adding more throughout the process
Wrote her first eBook and priced it very low
Contacted 10 other site owners in the same niche and got two of them to link to her site
Wrote another low-cost eBook
Kept adding more and more content
Communicated immediately with readers who emailed or commented on her content

Within in a few weeks, she was on page 1 of Google. She eventually had to change plans a little because WordPress didn't work well for selling her ebooks.

But she stayed focused and from the time the sales started coming in, she had made more than $12,000. And she did all this with minimal investment, because she had no money to spend.

Her secret was not that she lucked into a magic formula for success. Her secret was that she identified a problem that people wanted solved, provided solutions for it, and let nothing get in the way of her moving forward toward her goal.

Her secret was something thousands of others have done. Her secret was something hundreds of thousands of others have dabbled at, but got distracted from and never achieved her success.

Her secret was to set a simple path for herself and then keep following it, without fail, until she arrived at it.

Do you have a simple path planned? And, if so, are you following it relentlessly?
Jeff

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noreply@blogger.com (Jeff Baas) — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:52:00 +0000

Tearing Down Walls
I struggle with being too inclined to isolate. Yet when I look at the successes in my life, I always find that that success wouldn't have happened without the involvement of someone else.

Someone either gave me a break, or gave me an idea that led to something I wouldn't have thought of otherwise, or contributed something to what I did that I never would have succeeded without.

Conversely, so many times when I have given of myself without any expectation of return, I have been rewarded in ways I never expected.

It's far too easy for us to build walls. Building walls, however, only cuts us off from the freedom that interdependence brings.
Jeff

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noreply@blogger.com (Jeff Baas) — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:20:00 +0000

The Worst Thing to Do in Tough Economic Times
Is it even necessary to preface this with a reference to the difficulties many people are having economically? Pretty obvious, huh?

That brings up, though, the way of reacting to it that only makes things worse. The common reaction when things get tough is to pull back out of fear.

I believe, though, that the more fearful you get, the more you pull inside yourself. The more you pull inside yourself, the smaller your world is. The smaller your world is, the fewer opportunities are available for you to better your situation.

Conversely, the more you open up to the world around you, the bigger your world becomes and the more opportunities you can see.

Resist the temptation to hunker down and just try to ride any difficulties out. Keep moving forward. It's the best way to make a change.
Jeff

noreply@blogger.com (Jeff Baas) — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:58:00 +0000

How Internet Marketing Guru Charles Dickens Can Help You Turn Your "Hard Times" into "Great Expectations"
Yeah, that Charles Dickens. The "Christmas Carol" Charles Dickens. The "Oliver Twist" and "Hard Times" and "Great Expectations" Charles Dickens.

"Ummm... Jeff, you DO realize, don't you, that Charles Dickens died centuries before the Internet even existed? How could he have been an Internet marketing guru?"

Yeah, I know that Dickens never even heard the word Internet. So why do I call him an Internet marketing guru with tips for tough economic times today?

The way he wrote makes a great model for profiting online in difficult economic situations.

Dickens never wrote his novels the way we think of novels today. He wrote them in installments and sold them in installments. Each month he would come out with 32 new pages that picked up where the last installment left off. He also included 16 pages of advertisements in each installment -- but I'll get into that later.

Common working people couldn't afford a guinea for a hard-bound book. (We'll say for the sake of comparing to modern US money that a guinea is equivalent to $60.) But they generally could scrape together a shilling (which would be less than $3 modern US money) for that month's installment.

So, rather than Dickens' novels circulating only among the well-off, they sold like crazy to all income levels. Once someone started the book, they were certainly going to want to continue through all 20 installments.

So Dickens made the same amount per person that he would have if he had packaged it as a complete novel, sold it to many times as many people as would have been able to afford it otherwise, AND profited from selling 320 pages of advertising along the way.

Oh, and if someone with plenty of money and a desire to display Dickens novels in the elegant leather bindings they would have come in at the $60 price, they had the option of sending all 20 installments they had bought back to the publisher. The publisher would pull out just the novel pages from the installments and bind them in an elegant leather binding suitable to impress the living daylights out of anyone who browsed through the owners' library -- at an addition cost, of course.

Clearly, Dickens made lots more money marketing his novels this way than if he had marketed them the traditional manner. But how does this qualify as INTERNET marketing genius?

You can use the same model on the Internet today. Let's say you have a product you can segment into pieces. Let's say it's an info-product or some sort of collection of items that naturally go together.

Instead of going for a one-time, high-ticket transaction for your offer, break it up into individual components. Instead of asking for a one-time price of a couple hundred dollars, charge ten or twenty dollars a month to keep it affordable.

Make sure that each "installment" of your product builds upon the last, so that they'll want to keep going. And as you build your relationship with them over the distribution period of the product, you can advertise, just as Dickens did. You can upsell other, related products, preview other products you're creating, or just throw in unannounced bonuses to build their loyalty.

You can even do like Dickens did with the book-binding offer. When your customers get to the end of the distribution period, you can offer to put the whole series together in an easy-to-use package (complete with some attractive bonuses beyond what they got in the series) for a modest additional cost.

You can also put special emphasis on the next series you plan to offer. By this time, you should have built tremendous credibility with those customers due to the quality they've received over the months. If you offer them something else they need at a monthly price comparable to what they're already used to paying you, it should be a no-brainer for them to sign up for yet another series -- just like they did with Dickens' next novel.

And the beauty of all this in our present Internet age is that you can set something like this up to run automatically with autoresponders or a fulfillment house. Create the content and then set up an autoresponder series to deliver it. Set up the collection of physical products and then turn them over to the fulfillment house.

Then each person who signs up gets their monthly installment delivered to them on a regular basis without you having to send it out manually. People can start at different times and you don't have to worry about when to send what to who; it's all automated for you.

No, Charles Dickens never heard of the Internet. But I think he would have liked it. He actively used staples of today's Internet marketing industry like continuity sales and upsells in a tradition-bound business of 19th century publishing.

Actually, it would be interesting to see how Dickens would function in the 21st-century Internet world. Chances are he'd be adding some pretty interesting wrinkles to marketing today.
Jeff

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noreply@blogger.com (Jeff Baas) — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 15:06:00 +0000

One Stop Web Support Newsletter #76 Posted
The latest issue of my newsletter is now posted. You can see it here:
http://www.onestopwebsupport.com/newsletters/nl-2008-10-05.htm

The main article is:
Driving Visitors to Your Site With Articles -- Part III -- How to write a visitor-attracting article

This week's Q & A is:
Why am I not getting any traffic despite first-page rankings?

If you haven't signed up for my newsletter, you can do so at www.OneStopWebSupport.com/newsletter-signup.htm. And I'll make it worth your while if you do. I'll give you $250 worth of free gifts for signing up!
Jeff

noreply@blogger.com (Jeff Baas) — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 15:59:00 +0000

One Stop Web Support Newsletter #76 Coming
The latest issue of my newsletter will arrive Sunday morning.

The main article is:
Driving Visitors to Your Site With Articles -- Part III -- How to Write Visitor-Attracting Articles

This week's Q & A is:
Why am I not getting any traffic despite first-page rankings?

If you haven't signed up for my newsletter, you can do so at www.OneStopWebSupport.com/newsletter-signup.htm. And I'll make it worth your while if you do. I'll give you $250 worth of free gifts for signing up!
Jeff

noreply@blogger.com (Jeff Baas) — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:46:00 +0000

Hot Offers for October 3, 2008

The two-for-one sale on keyword research tool NicheBOT has expired, but some other special offers are still hanging in there.

You might want to pay special attention to the free video on how to spot trends that can help you make more holiday sales, if you business traditionally does well at Christmas. Christmas is less than three months away and a lot of holiday shoppers are already starting to think about their Christmas purchases. It you aren't already geared up for Christmas, you'd better get going on it, pronto!

Here they are:

Click the links above to find out more information on these offers on my Hot Offers page.

Or click below to go straight to the offers:

I hope this helps!
Jeff

noreply@blogger.com (Jeff Baas) — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:56:00 +0000

Thursday Inspiration—Taking Steps
Here's a favorite quote from David Brink:

"A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others throw at him."

How are you responding to the bricks that come your way?
Jeff

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noreply@blogger.com (Jeff Baas) — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:23:00 +0000

Ranking in the Top Ten by Deconstructing the Top Ten
I just came across a devastatingly effective way to position an article in the top ten rankings. It uses a tool that I have, KRA Pro, to analyze the words in the top ten sites in Google for the keyword you want to rank for.

You pick out the words that commonly appear on those pages and knit an original article together from them. KRA Pro simplifies the process, but you probably could do it manually as well.

The reason this works is because Google uses what's called Latent Symantic Indexing (LSI). LSI is a process that identifies key words that usually accompany specific keywords on pages that have proven to be extremely relevant for those keywords.

By pulling out some of the most commonly used words on top ten pages, you're creating an article with those same supporting words to create a highly relevant article.

Want to see this process for yourself? Go to the regular KRA page and click on the link (in the upper right hand corner) for KRA Pro. The video is on that page.

Enjoy!
Jeff

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noreply@blogger.com (Jeff Baas) — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:10:00 +0000

Serendipity - and the Problem of Pushy Customers
My wife and I watched a favorite romantic comedy of ours last night, "Serendipity." The movie is about a man and a woman who meet, find themselves very much mutually attracted, but go their own ways because each is involved in another relationship at the moment.

Before parting, though, they each provide a random way by which the other could conceivably find the them again, just to test whether they are "fated" to be together.

Seven years later, both of them are within a week of marrying someone else. As they approach their weddings, though, each thinks back to that brief, magical encounter from years before. Both become obsessed with finding the other for the purpose of putting their long-held dream of this perfect encounter to rest before they commit the rest of their lives to their current fiances.

In the course of their search, the frantic man meets a store clerk whose hilarious eccentricities both confound the man, and delight those watching the movie. Among the clerk's eccentricities is an obsession with making sure that customers don't encroach on his personal fiefdom behind the counter.

And as I laughed at his antics as he protected his personal territory, it occurred to me how much the Internet has changed the dynamics between business and customer.

In the past, businesses had the luxury of a self-protective cocoon where they controlled everything in their customer interaction. The customer entered the store where the business controlled what he or she was allowed to see and know of the product. The store could enforce its personal territory.

The Internet, however, makes it increasingly possible for customers successfully to poke their noses behind the counter. Negative customer opinions from halfway around the world now are accessible right from our phones as we walk through the store.

Increasingly, people rely not on what the salesperson says about the product as the final word on it, but seek the opinions of the network of friends they have developed over the Web.

Companies can't get away as much with covering isolated problems in the assurance that those problems would stay localized and buried. Companies find that burying problems as a solution needs to be replaced with openly facing customer problems with complete transparency and eagerness to make things right.

It's a good step toward the true service mindset that is necessary for business. The Internet ensures that we will be judged not on how well we can hide our errors, but on how well we can correct them.
Jeff

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noreply@blogger.com (Jeff Baas) — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:47:00 +0000

One Stop Web Support Newsletter #75 Posted
The latest issue of my newsletter is now posted. You can see it here:
http://www.onestopwebsupport.com/newsletters/nl-2008-09-28.htm

The main article is:
Driving Visitors to Your Site With Articles -- Part II -- Getting ideas of what to write

This week's Q & A is:
Where do I find products that fit my business idea?

If you haven't signed up for my newsletter, you can do so at www.OneStopWebSupport.com/newsletter-signup.htm. And I'll make it worth your while if you do. I'll give you $250 worth of free gifts for signing up!
Jeff

noreply@blogger.com (Jeff Baas) — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:44:00 +0000

One Stop Web Support Newsletter #75 Coming
The latest issue of my newsletter will arrive Sunday morning.

The main article is:
Driving Visitors to Your Site With Articles -- Part II -- Getting ideas of what to write

This week's Q & A is:
Where do I find products that fit my business idea?

If you haven't signed up for my newsletter, you can do so at www.OneStopWebSupport.com/newsletter-signup.htm. And I'll make it worth your while if you do. I'll give you $250 worth of free gifts for signing up!
Jeff

noreply@blogger.com (Jeff Baas) — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:31:00 +0000

Hot Offers for September 26, 2008

The case study I found last week about a 15-year-old girls who is making $900 a month, working 5-8 hours a month is still available.

The case study lays out the exact strategies and tools she used. What makes it a hot deal, though, is that it invites you to use those same strategies and tools for a month for less than $5 and see if you can beat her.

I've also added three more offers this week. They include a free series of videos that offer tips for reselling wholesale products, a free video on how to spot trends that can make your holiday sales more profitable, and a limited-time discount on NicheBOT keyword research tool.

Here they are:

Click the links above to find out more information on these offers on my Hot Offers page.

Or click below to go straight to the offers:

I hope this helps!
Jeff

noreply@blogger.com (Jeff Baas) — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:40:00 +0000

Thursday Inspiration—Taking Steps
Here's a favorite quote from Mildred McAfee:

"If you have great ambition, take as big a step as possible in the direction of fulfilling it, but if the step is only a tiny one, don't worry if it is the largest one now possible."

What steps are you taking in your business and in your life?
Jeff

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noreply@blogger.com (Jeff Baas) — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:50:00 +0000

Is This Why You Suck at So Many Things?
Hey, don't take the title personally. I could have just as easily focused that title on me as the one who sucks. But then you wouldn't have been as likely to read it, would you?

You're not going to take the time to read someone else whining about how they suck at things. But when I turn it around and throw it in your face, it triggers the insecurity that each one of us has.

All of us feel deeply aware of our own shortcomings. A title like the one above plays into it. It suggests there might be a reason for those shortcomings, a reason that -- once you know it -- you can easily correct and effectively "de-suck" yourself once and for all.

What it comes down to
What it comes down to is this: you... and I... and just about everybody else on the planet... suck at a lot of things because we don't try to master them.

"What do you mean?" you might say. "Do you have any idea how many hours I pour into building my business?" or whatever it is that you beat yourself up about not doing well enough.

Yeah, but are you really trying to MASTER it?

I came across a great quote from Dr. K. Anders Erickson, a psychology professor at Florida State University:
"For the superior performer the goal isn't just repeating the same thing again and again but achieving higher levels of control over every aspect of their performance. That's why they don't find practice boring. Each practice session they are working on doing something better than they did the last time."
Why we get in a rut
We may work at things repeatedly. Often, though, we're satisfied to keep doing them exactly the same way. And that makes all the difference between sucking at something and mastering it.

Even if you've progressed to the point where you OK results at what you do, if you put your brain on autopilot to do it the old familiar way, you're not going to get any better at it, will you.

You get better at something -- you master it -- by consciously trying to find a way to do it a little better each time. That applies even if the amounts in which you improve come only in small increments.

As a matter of fact, most progress comes in small increments. And that's what turns us off about trying to master what we're doing.

Why we let our improvements discourage us
If we knew we would experience a big jump for every small effort we took toward mastering something, we'd delight to make those efforts. More often, though, it works the other way around.

We step outside our comfort zone of the "way that feels familiar" and we see only a small return of improvement. Or else we fail to see the improvement entirely because our expectations were unrealistic.

So we content ourselves with sticking to the old, familiar ways of doing what we do and we never stretch ourselves to accumulate all those small gains we could get by simply striving to master it over time.

The antidote
The antidote for this suckiness? Rather than settling for the way you've always done something you would love to master, promise yourself to try to find one, small thing you can do to improve your results each time you do it.

Pat yourself on the back each time one of your experiments succeeds at making a small improvement. Assess and learn from each experiment that doesn't bring about an improved result.

Over time, you'll find yourself progressively mastering whatever it is that you're trying to master. And you won't suck at it anymore.
Jeff

noreply@blogger.com (Jeff Baas) — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 12:33:00 +0000

One Stop Web Support Newsletter #74 Posted
The latest issue of my newsletter is now posted. You can see it here:
http://www.onestopwebsupport.com/newsletters/nl-2008-09-21.htm

The main article is:
Driving Visitors to Your Site With Articles -- Part I -- What article marketing can do for you

This week's Q & A is:
How do I use my knowledge and skills to build a profitable business?

If you haven't signed up for my newsletter, you can do so at www.OneStopWebSupport.com/newsletter-signup.htm. And I'll make it worth your while if you do. I'll give you $250 worth of free gifts for signing up!
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noreply@blogger.com (Jeff Baas) — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 15:31:00 +0000

One Stop Web Support Newsletter #74 Coming
The latest issue of my newsletter will arrive Sunday morning.

The main article is:
Driving Visitors to Your Site With Articles -- Part I -- What article marketing can do for you

This week's Q & A is:
How do I use my knowledge and skills to build a profitable business?

If you haven't signed up for my newsletter, you can do so at www.OneStopWebSupport.com/newsletter-signup.htm. And I'll make it worth your while if you do. I'll give you $250 worth of free gifts for signing up!
Jeff

noreply@blogger.com (Jeff Baas) — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:40:00 +0000

Hot Offers for September 19, 2008

I found a new case study on a 15-year-old girls who is making $900 a month, working 5-8 hours a month.

The case study lays out the exact strategies and tools she used. What makes it a hot deal, though, is that it invites you to use those same strategies and tools for a month for less than $5 and see if you can beat her.

The other two offers this week are free offers for selling your services online or for making money with blogs.

Here are three current ones I recommend:

Click the links above to find out more information on these offers on my Hot Offers page.

Or click below to go straight to the offers:

I hope this helps!
Jeff

noreply@blogger.com (Jeff Baas) — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:28:00 +0000

Thursday Inspiration—What You Accept from Life
Here's a favorite quote from Somerset Maugham:

"It is a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it."

What are you currently willing to accept from yourself and from life?
Jeff

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noreply@blogger.com (Jeff Baas) — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 02:38:00 +0000

A Broken Bridge, My Close Call, and Your Business
A little over a year ago, shortly after 6 PM on August 1, 2007, I was on Interstate-35W in Minneapolis, my car climbing the backside of the Mississippi River bluff that led to the I-35W bridge over the Mississippi.

Suddenly, traffic ahead of me stopped. A dust cloud rose from the river side of the bluff.

Traffic stood motionless for several minutes. Finally, a man appeared over the top of the bluff.

A stunning realization
"Turn around!" he yelled. "Go back! The bridge is gone!"

That was the first I knew of the tragic I-35W bridge collapse. Thirteen people who were a half-mile ahead of me died in that collapse. Dozens more were injured. I consider myself lucky that I chose to grab a quick hamburger at a fast-food drive-thru on my way to that bridge, or I might have been among them.

After a couple months of cleanup, the rebuilding of that bridge began. Work progressed round the clock seven days a week to get that critical stretch of the Interstate system rebuilt as quickly as possible.

A bridge rebuilt
Thursday morning, September 18, 2008, at 5 AM, the bridge officially reopens -- three months ahead of schedule. I thought about getting up to be among the first cars across, but I've already had my sense of closure about my close call.

The first time I cross it, though, I'm sure it will be with a prayer of gratitude.

As much as the bridge reopening touches me personally, though, I can't help but share with you some business thoughts that watching the bridge being rebuilt brings to mind.

Yep, even in an event with deep personal meaning for me, I can't help but find some business lesson in it.

The kid in the movie "The Sixth Sense" saw dead people everywhere he went. I see business lessons.

How marketing is like bridge construction
Watching the bridge being rebuilt was instructive. For months upon months, nothing seemed to happen. Hordes of workers scurried everywhere, but no progress was evident.

Then, suddenly, it happened. It seemed like one day the two support columns rose out of the river like a plant growing in time-lapse photography. Boom! They were there.

Then each day the bridge grew out of them, their spans reaching toward each other with speed totally unexpected after the long months of no visible progress.

The months of effort spent laying foundations and making preparations seemed like nothing was happening. But once everything was in place, it was amazing how quickly progress flew.

It's much the same way with marketing. As much as people may hype up the "magic button" marketing solutions they try to sell, marketing is more like building that bridge than like pushing a magic button.

With any worthwhile marketing strategy I know, you see little to no results when you first start it. But once you get some momentum going with it, watch out! The speed at which results can grow can astonish you.

Be ready to put a lot of effort into your business with limited results at first. Build solid foundations. Work toward future growth instead of just quick fixes.

Foundations take time. Especially if you're building something you want to last.

Jeff

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noreply@blogger.com (Jeff Baas) — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:35:00 +0000

A Broken Wrist, a Bunch of Kettles, and a Marketing Lesson
I'm doing double duty right now. My wife is recovering from a broken wrist, so I'm serving as an extra hand for her.

One of the things I'm doing more of lately is cooking.

Now, I don't consider myself a dunce in the kitchen. I did all my own cooking before we were married and did pretty well for myself. I even take pride in the fact that on the rare occasions when I cooked a meal for our family, some of my old recipes found a place among our kids' favorite meals.

I've cooked very little over the years, though, because my wife loves to do the vast majority of the cooking and -- admittedly -- her skills far outshine mine. She is a genius in the kitchen. I'm just pretty good.

Well, with her limited to cooking with one hand, I've filled the breach. It's been a learning experience that goes beyond just cooking. I've even gotten a few good reminders from it about Internet marketing, too.

Usually, when I've filled in on a random meal, I've gone out and gotten the ingredients I was used to cooking with. What with me cooking on a regular basis, I've gone with the ingredients our kitchen is set up with -- in other words, I've gone with her ingredients.

As a result, I've thrown my usual requirement out the window that she stay out of the kitchen while I cook. She's a genius in the kitchen, but she's also very precise in her way of doing things.

In the past, I've asked her to leave the kitchen to me in order to avoid the following types of, ahem, discussions:

(Jeff grabs cover for the kettle)

Joanne: (grabs an absolutely identical cover) No, here. Use this one. I always use this cover with that kettle.

Jeff: What's the difference? They both look the same.

Joanne: This cover goes with this kettle. Your cover goes with the other one.

Jeff: How can you even tell the difference?

Joanne: This is the right one to use.

After about four corrections of what cover to use, what knife to use, and what part of the cheese grater to grate the cheese with, I've usually reminded her that I was cooking to give her a break from the kitchen and encouraged her to go off and relax while I fixed MY recipe the way I always had fixed it in the past.

Or at least I tried to word it in that kind of gentle manner.

But with me cooking her recipes, I've let her teach me her way of doing everything.

I've experienced a certain amount of discomfort with learning a whole new set of cooking practices. But it keeps her feeling involved in the kitchen, which is a good thing for her morale right now.

And it has reminded me of an important truth about marketing.

You don't always have the luxury of doing everything exactly the way you've always done it. Just as I have had to learn new techniques to satisfy Joanne's precise way of doing things, I find lots of times in business where I have to try something totally different in order to get the results I need.

The discomfort that comes from learning something new is not a bad thing to be avoided.

It's called growth.

And when you do it, you become better able to tackle new challenges and achieve new heights.

I'll come out of this regular cooking duty under her guidance as a better cook with a broader range of experience. And when I tackle a new and unfamiliar challenge in marketing, I come out stronger and more seasoned.

You just have to be willing to try something new.
Jeff

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noreply@blogger.com (Jeff Baas) — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 14:36:00 +0000

One Stop Web Support Newsletter #73 Posted
The latest issue of my newsletter is now posted. You can see it here:
http://www.onestopwebsupport.com/newsletters/nl-2008-09-14.htm

The main article is:
The Reality of Starting a Business Online—expect to grow

This week's Q & A is:
What's the best thing for me to sell?

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noreply@blogger.com (Jeff Baas) — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 14:34:00 +0000

One Stop Web Support Newsletter #73 Coming
The latest issue of my newsletter will arrive Sunday morning.

The main article is:
The Reality of Starting a Business Online—expect to grow

This week's Q & A is:
What's the best thing for me to sell?

If you haven't signed up for my newsletter, you can do so at www.OneStopWebSupport.com/newsletter-signup.htm. And I'll make it worth your while if you do. I'll give you $250 worth of free gifts for signing up!
Jeff

noreply@blogger.com (Jeff Baas) — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:14:00 +0000

Hot Offers for September 12, 2008
This week, I need to apologize to you. I missed a pretty significant offer last week.

Fortunately, though, this Labor Day discount has been extended into more of September. So, if you're interested in selling physical products, this is one to check out quickly.

The other two offers this week are free offers for making money with blogs and for building a successful affiliate business.

Here are three current ones I recommend:

Click the links above to find out more information on these offers on my Hot Offers page.

Or click below to go straight to the offers:

I hope this helps!
Jeff