I got this today from Clayton Makepeace, a phenomenally successful entrepreneur, and it was too wonderful not to share. After attending a concert by Beatle Paul McCartney, he mused on Paul’s success. Apparently Paul was told as a child he didn’t have enough talent to become a choirboy! Now the Guinness Book Of World Records lists him as the most successful musician and composer in popular music history. So much for letting someone else say who we are and what we can do!
An excerpt of Clayton Makepeace’s thoughts on Paul McCartney’s philosophies of success -
So, if we asked him for his thoughts on success, I can guess at some of what he might say:
1. Be a fan first: If there’s something you love and that you want to learn to do, immerse yourself in the work of those who are already doing it best.
2. Never be ashamed to have heroes. Learn all you can from them … allow their work to influence yours and to spark new ideas for you. And always bring something new to the table – your take on a role model’s successful technique.
3. But be careful: Emulation without inspiration just makes you a second-rate cover band. Get the balance right and you’ll earn a reputation for being an innovator – a creative genius.
4. Have a vision for your life and be determined to make it happen.
5. Work, work, work: For their first few years building a following and even after they conquered America, being a Beatle was brutal, back-breaking work. By some accounts, they got only five or six days off a year for nearly seven years. So you have to ask yourself; if talents of this magnitude had to work that hard to get what they wanted from life, what excuse do any of us have to do less?
Here is the 3rd in my Overview of Automatic Article Submitter series. I hope you are getting a good flavor of how this powerful piece of software can explode your article marketing strategy! It is 7 minutes long because it must cover enough concepts to be of any true use to those looking into learning this software.
True article marketing is a complex but powerful strategy worth learning for the long haul development of your online business. A quality article you publish now will be available years down the road. I hope to ease that journey for you should you choose it, by sharing the benefit of the blessing I received from extensive one-on-one training with Milan Kosanovik, AAS’s creator and developer. Soon I will be posting full tutorials.
If you are beginning the strategy of article marketing, then you will want to read this article to get a clear answer to the question, “What are backlinks?” You may already have heard the term, and know that they are somehow valuable.
What exactly are backlinks? They will appear as differently colored clickable links in documents you publish on the internet, for your readers to click to take them to a page on your website. In this article you will learn where to put them, how to put them there, and why they help you.
Where you put these links is at the end of the articles you submit to online article directories. Using mass submission for your articles accomplishes backlinking fast. Most directories accept 2 active hyperlinks in a closing signature, which is posted separately at the conclusion of your article, in what is called a signature box. At the bottom of the box where you paste your article into the article directory, there will be a blank for you to paste your signature. When your article is published, the links in your signature are published too and become backlinks to your site.
How you put these backlinks into your article is a simple process of writing a well constructed call-to-action of 2 links in two sentences. Use your article keywords in these links. Here is a common and proven successful format. The first link is an “anchor text” link – a 2 to 3 word phrase using the main keywords from your article, say on how to housebreak your puppy, and it links to another related article on your site. The second link is the actual link to your website. Your signature could look something like this.
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