Personal – Admitting my Addiction

Well, here goes. I hate to do this publicly but I feel I have to.
For the past month I’ve been battling my addiction of email. Gmail more specifically.

Don’t laugh.

It’s an addiction just like any other. I run to my computer several times a day to see the new mail that came in.
Even when I’m working online, I have gmail open and I installed one of their add-ons that lets you see how many new emails you have when you have it opened in tabs (because normally you can’t).

Just writing about the things I’ve done gives me shivers.

I’m not over my addiction and I don’t know if I’ll ever be because email will always be a part of working online. It’s the equivalent of giving a heroin addict just a little bit each day. How long will they last before succumbing to the addiction? How long will I last?

I don’t know. What I do now is that I’m at the first step which is realizing I have a problem.
I hated to admit it to myself but I now understand that I do have a problem. The next step was an even worse wake up call – I started a plan to drastically cut the number of emails I was getting.

I opted out of numerous lists I was on and for those that I really don’t want to leave, I had gmail automatically archive them for me so I don’t even know they came in. They’re there for me to find if I want to, but they don’t arrive in my inbox.

That was one hell of a wake up call. Turns out I was on more than a hundred lists! I used to get more than 50 emails a day and I have now cut that to a few. Less than 5 new email a day to be exact. Talk about email diet.

But the email diet has it’s side effect. Because now comes my detox stage. It’s nothing short of a physical sensation of discomfort. Especially the first few weeks.
I keep going back to my inbox. After the email diet it’s Now thankfully empty.
I know it’s empty but I still take a look.

I think it’s going to be a struggle to close my inbox but that’s where I’m headed. I have to.
I know what I need to do online. I don’t have to wait for assignments from the emails in my inbox.

I know all that but still I find myself staring at the blank inbox. I hope I overcome this.

Am I the only one with email addiction? Please comment. I’m looking for your thoughts, encouragement and advice on this

SEO series part 1 – How to do simple SEO to get ranked and ranked well

It seems everyone needs more traffic. I’ve been asked about this, as I’m sure anyone in internet marketing has at one time or another.

The thing is, I use the simplest techniques to get ranked.
Anyone can do it if they have the right information to act on. So with that in mind, I’m creating a 3 part series that’s all about using seo (search engine optimization) to your sites.

I specialise in using things that work, keeping it simple. And this is no exception. And today I’m going to be brief.

Not because I have nothing to say but rather, today the content I’m about to deliver to you is so good it speaks for itself…

…Today I’m sending you one of the best ebooks I’ve read (and used) in a long long time.
It’s called SSEO – simple seo and it will teach you how to get ranked, and ranked well, the easy way.

I know the author personally and although he doesn’t want to be a guru (he doesn’t really like the hype), he makes a very good living online by doing exactly what he shows you in his book.

There’s no need to opt-in or anything. I’ve put it on this blog so you can just download, read and (most important) implement.

It’s easy and it’ll make you an almost instant seo expert, getting you ranked and sending you traffic so you can make your living online as well.

As always, I’d like to hear what you say so don’t be shy and comment. Tell me if you liked it, tell me if it’s working for you, share how you’re using it…

Get your copy of SSEO here -> www.GilsCorner.com/best/SSEO.pdf

Enjoy!

I built myself an application that puts twitter 100% on autopilot, list building for 24/7. Do you want it for FREE?

I AM NOT JOKING.
Twitter. List building. Full automation. 100% autopilot (and it’s FREE if you’re reading my www.gilscorner.com blog).

Here’s the thing – I have built the impossible and I want to share it with you guys, my blog readers.
I also think there’s power in our little group so I want us all to help each other out. See, I built the impossible – I can now put twitter list building on full automation.
Full automation.
Not 99%.
100%.

I want to make sure we’re all using it to the maximum effect, making the most money out of our twitter following. But what’s the best way to do that? I don’t know the BEST way, but I think that we as a group can come up with that answer. And after we do, I’ll share the best strategies amongst ourselves and we can all kick-ass.

So what does this little gem of an app do? Long story short – a thousand new followers a week in my test run.
A week.
Consistently.

And it’s done the same for a couple of friends I had that tested the system for themselves. Non marketing niches have fewer followers a week, but it’s still in the hundreds.

Actually, here’s the email I got from dave. He set it up and forgot about it. I had to email to ask him how was everything going, only then did he check out his twitter account and this is the entire short reply I got from him:

Hey Gil, just checked it right now, WOW, 1,051 followers!! 185 tweets! This thing is working really smooth. Very, very nice! How much are you going to be selling this for? Great job on it, 1,000 followers a week is a freaking great way to build a list!

Dave

I’m a 70’s child and there was this one movie, “revenge of the nerds”. Now I’m not saying we’re nerds, but I am saying that we’re not at guru status yet. So let’s huddle up, make the most of my application and give the gurus a run for their money.

What do you have to do to get the application? Simple. Comment on this saying “YES Gil, I’m in“ or anything of that sort and I’ll send it to you. I think I’ll also start by sharing how I use it. But again, comment and I’ll send you the stuff ASAP.

Ok, let me give you a rundown of what’s underneath this system’s hood. Now imagine the perfect twitter list building system. Better yet, imagine what you need to do to build a list using twitter, while building your personal brand. Here are the steps, the process you need to go through:

1 – build a following. Usually done by following people within a given niche and waiting for them to follow you. This gives you a very targeted following
2 – tweet about relevant topics that your targeted following is interested in, so you give them value
3 – sneak in some of your own promo tweets to send traffic to your opt-in page. Usually sending traffic directly to an affiliate link just doesn’t work but sending traffic to opt-in does. It still needs to add value to your followers, but it works for opt-ins to your email list

So how does a fully automated system work? Well, it does all of the above for you. Yes, even finding relevant things to tweet about and actually tweeting.
A fully automated list building machine.

You want it? You got it

Now let’s give this app a spin, and test some things out. I’m convinced that as a group we’ll come up with killer strategies to drive our list building efforts through the roof.

I’ll see you at the top

-Gil

you asked for it – 25 things about me

Tag I’m it
That was basically what the comment on my blog said. Or in other words – put up 25 things about you, or else.

25 things?! How about 2 or maybe 5?
It’s quite a task thinking about 25 things to say about yourself.

But I did and I thought I’d do it on video so you’d enjoy it more plus I can add great music to the video so you’ll have a smile on your face when looking at this.
That makes it a lot better than just writing a list of 25 things as just another post.

So without further ado, here are 25 things about me:

I don’t want to use twitter
Let me tell you why

There I’ve said it. Unlike everything you hear nowadays from those in the know about social media
I do not want to use twitter.
At least not the way everyone else does.

I don’t think I’m much of a renegade by thinking differently about twitter, but I do believe that by doing so I’m using it for what it was intended for (which is
different than the way almost all marketers do).

See most marketers don’t use twitter. It uses them!

It uses up their time and it uses up their attention.
To top it all off, they don’t build real relationships with all of their followers even though twitter is known for building lists of followers at record speeds.
Sure list building on twitter is intense, but how good is your list? Do these people even know you? like you? trust you?

Recent surveys show 40% of all twitter activity is spam. Even if that’s a worse case scenario, you have to admit that there’s way too much information.
Way way too much

The word is out and I’m not the only some that senses this can’t go on for long. Some serious marketers and gurus have even said that they want to reduce their following to the bare minimum, so they can manage it all.

I’ve already talked about information overload being the #1 hurdle people face online (look back in the July archive to find that post or click here). Well,
twitter is information overload in the extreme.
It’s packed full of tweets, retweets, followers, direct messages. The most popular twitter application is tweetdeck, trying to make sense of it all.

Twitter IS the greatest branding and relationship building tool on the planet, but it’s not used that way. Instead,
you barely see what all of your followers are doing, you barely have time to read what the people you follow are doing, and there’s so much of it that it’s eating away at any time you have.

You have so many “friends” online, you really don’t know any of them. What sort of a relationship are you building with them anyway? That’s one of the major flaws in how almost all marketers treat social media today.

Listen, I’m all for finding a small group of like minded individuals you can really talk to, people you can help, people you can partner with…
BUT
how do you find them amongst the millions of others?

When you go to a really loud freakish hot party, out of a room crammed with people, how do you find those few that you can truly befriend and really talk to? Everyone’s drinking, dancing their tail off and you can barely see.
How do you find your friends?

Online, this party has Information overload. That’s an analogy of the problem with twitter right now.

I’m doing something different. Think about it for a second – what if your twitter experience looked like this scenario:

• You use automation to reach as many targeted people as you can
• Prescreen them by only answering dm’s (direct messages) that look as if someone actually wrote them for you and not some canned response
• This is you hyper responsive list of people that you can really build a lasting relationship with
• Keep talking to your real online group anyway you can – emails, phone, chat, skype…

If you do this you’ll be working with a lot less people. And your hyper responsive list will grow slooooooooowly.

Even so, by taking it slow you’ll be going a lot faster.

By picking out only those hyper responsive to you, you get a tighter list with a fraction of the people of your main following but, and this is bug but,
they all know you, like you and trust you.

As my mentor Alex Jeffreys likes to say – you’re better off with a small list of people that know you than with a huge list of people that don’t.

Of course you need an application to help you otherwise you’d be doing this all day long and let’s face it, you really signed up for this internet marketing thing to spend less time in front of a computer.

But let’s forget the application for now.

So how about you? Do you agree with me?
Tell me – Are you going to change the way you use twitter?