I’ve had a few people on my team ask me how to setup their sidebars on their blog. So instead of just walking them through it over the phone, I thought I’d make a video with all the instructions AND all the source code and graphics you’ll need. Keep in mind there are a lot more training videos in my Sweet Leads Training .

Plus I found a really cool piece of software that allows you to make simple submit buttons for your forms.

Anyways…here’s the video..the source code and other bits are below. If you have any questions…feel free to post them in the comments below and I’ll do my best to answer all of them.

I made this video really quickly and off the cuff so please excuse the lack of focus in some spots

Here’s the codes:

Subscribe / Offer code. The highlighted section is where you insert your own from from your autoresponder.

<style type=”text/css”>
<!–
.style1 {
font-family: Tahoma, “Arial Black”;
color: #af0100;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 16px;
}
.style2 {
color: #333333;
font-size: 16px;
font-family: Tahoma, “Arial Black”;
}
–>
</style>
<div align=”center”>
<p>
Eventually You May Run Out Of Warm Leads. Download “Sweet Leads” Training Course To Learn How To Jumpstart Your Online Presence And Start Generating Leads Today<br>
<span>Yours Free. A $247 Value<br>
</span></p>

<form method=’POST’ action=’http://www.networkmarketingsweetie.com/cgi-bin/arp3/arp3-formcapture.pl’>
<table width=”100%” border=”0″ cellspacing=”0″ cellpadding=”2″>
<tr>
<td width=”40%” scope=”col”>
<div align=”right”><font color=”#999999″ size=”2″ face=”Tahoma”><strong>Your Name:</strong> </font></div>                        </td>
<th width=”60%” scope=”col”>
<div align=”left”>
<input type=’text’ name=’first_name’ size=’20′>
</div>                        </th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<div align=”right”><font color=”#999999″ size=”2″ face=”Tahoma”><strong>Your Email:</strong> </font></div>                        </td>
<td><input type=’text’ name=’email’ size=’20′></td>
</tr>
</table>    <input type=’hidden’ name=’subscription_type’ value=’E'> <br><input name=”submit” type=”image” id=”submit” src=”http://www.networkmarketingsweetie.com/optinforms/images/red/redfooterwidget.png“>
<input type=’hidden’ name=’tracking_tag’ value=’sweetleadsoptinpop’>
<input type=’hidden’ name=’id’ value=’1′>
<input type=’hidden’ name=’extra_ar’ value=”>
<input type=’hidden’ name=’first_name_man’ value=’1′>         
</form>
</div>

Social Media Buttons Code (I’ve highlighted the areas you’ll want to change.)

Yellow highlighted areas are where you put the links to your social media pages.

Blue highlighted areas are where you put the links to the images that you get from your media library after you upload the images you want to use.

In my particular instance the BetterNetworker.com image comes directly from the Better Networker server. They provide the link for that.

<table width=”250″ border=”0″ align=”center” >
<tr>
<td><a href=”http://www.facebook.com/pages/Network-Marketing-Sweetie/288330314748“><img src=”http://www.networkmarketingsweetie.com/images/socialmedia/facebook-64×64.png” alt=”Be my fan on Facebook”></a></td>
<td><div align=”right”><a href=”http://www.twitter.com/tracyselena“><img src=”http://www.networkmarketingsweetie.com/images/socialmedia/twitter-64×64.png” alt=”Follow me on Twitter”></a></div></td>
<td><div align=”left”><a href=”http://www.youtube.com/thenetworkingsweetie“><img src=”http://www.networkmarketingsweetie.com/images/socialmedia/youtube-64×64.png” alt=”Watch my videos on YouTube” ></a></div></td>
<td><a href=”http://networkmarketingsweetie.com/feed“><img src=”http://www.networkmarketingsweetie.com/images/socialmedia/rss-64×64.png” alt=”Keep in in the loop with RSS”></a></td>
</tr>
</table>
<center><a href=”http://www.betternetworker.com/user/26102?code=2d75d68c25e72ef4f1e8b6895930e64a” target=”_blank”><img src=”http://static.betternetworker.com/seal.php?uid=26102&img_id=2“></a>
</center>

Here’s the code for the affiliate links/buttons. Please note highlighted areas as well.

<center>
<a href=”https://katiefreiling.infusionsoft.com/go/TUT/tracysel” target=_blank><img src=”http://theunifiedtribe.com/aff/banners/katie-4.gif” border=0></a><br>
<a href=”http://tracyselena.getwwn.com” target=”_blank”><img src=”http://www.mymagneticoffice.com/assets/images/banners/wwn/125×125.jpg” width=”125″ height=”125″ border=”0″ /></a>&nbsp;<a href=”http://tracyselena.trafficformula2.com” target=”_blank”><img src=”http://wpc.096D.edgecastcdn.net/00096D/images/mlmtf2/125x125_mlmtf2.jpg” width=”125″ height=”125″ border=”0″ /></a>
<a href=”http://tracyselena.blackbeltrecruiting.com” target=”_blank”><img src=”http://www.mymagneticoffice.com/assets/images/banners/bbr/125×125.gif” alt=”" width=”125″  border=”0″ /></a>&nbsp;<a href=”http://tracyselena.magneticsponsoringonline.com” target=”_blank”><img src=”http://www.mymagneticoffice.com/assets/images/banners/ms/125×125.gif” width=”125″ height=”125″ border=”0″ /></a>
</center>

Here is a download for all my social media icons. There are a lot of them…so pick ones that are a nice size for your theme and go with that. DOWNLOAD LINK HERE.

And to create a cool button for your autoresponder you can use this software…it’s free, but only available for PC: CLICK HERE FOR FREE BUTTON CREATION SOFTWARE

Oh and one last thing..once you make your button for your autoresponder like mine here:

(No this is not an active link)

Just use your Media section of your back office to upload it…grab/copy the url for it and replace it in the code above where I have mine highlighted in pink.

I hope that helps a lot of you “newbies” get a better start…Again, ask any questions below..

You may have heard of article marketing but not quite sure what it is or how it can help your online marketing initiatives. In this article I attempt to explain what it is, how it can help your get more traffic AND how you can use some cool tools to exponentially increase your traffic using article marketing.

As many of you know I love internet marketing. I’ve been doing it for years after I attended one of Paul Tobeys three day internet marketing training seminars. It completely changed the way I thought about doing anything online.

Really there are three components to building any sort of business online.

1) Traffic

2) Conversions

3) Relationships

And these three things will lead to sales…which is really the goal of any business. So this article today I’m going to talk about the “traffic” part of this threesome.

There are many ways to get traffic.

The old adage of “Build it and they will come” just doesn’t work online. If Google doesn’t know and LOVE your website, then your traffic will be minimal.

One thing I teach people is that when doing any form of online marketing, you always have two audiences that you have to pay attention to.

1. the human reader
2. the Google reader.

In my opinion the human reader should always be your priority, but do not ignore what Google needs to read your page and rank it high. It is possible to give both these entities exactly what they need. Sometimes it just takes some creativity.

One of the oldest and most effective ways to get lots of highly targeted traffic to your website is to write articles. Writing articles establishes you as a leader in your industry. This is a perfect magnet for the “human reader”.

Writing articles and publishing them on numerous external (not your site) sites, establishes you (or your site) as an authority site with the “Google” reader. This is not a human by the way…it’s a program that scans millions (if not trillions) of web pages weekly.

When this “Google” reader finds links that are pointing back to a page on your site, Google give your site a point (not literally, cause no one really know how or what Google does), but when describing this to someone in person, I lick my index finger and pretend I’m adding a point to a score board. So …a point…or improved ranking.

The more of these “points” you get, the better you are ranked...and so next time someone goes to Google and searches for something you’re telling Google you know about, Google will look at all the sites it has indexed about that subject and will return the results that it feels are the most relevant.

So how does article marketing fit into this?

Well….when you write an article, you should first post it on your site. Wait a few days until Google has indexed it. To test this, go to Google and type in the exact url of your article.

For example if your article was here: http://www.mysite.com/myarticle.htm then type that into the Google search bar and see if Google returns your page in it’s results. If it does, you’re article has been indexed.

Once it’s indexed with Google, now is the time to start blasting (yes blasting, not just tinkering) it out into cyberspace. Putting it out on one or two sites won’t do that much for you.

When you submit your article to other sites you are allowed a bio section at the end of your article. This is probably the second most important part of your article. I say second because the first part is the article itself. If no one is reading it because it’s not interesting, then you’ve already “lost them at hello”.

If you think you can’t write or not sure what to write, check out my article here entitled “How To Write A Great Article in 30 Minutes Even If You Failed English”.

In the bio section, you can have 2-3 links which are directed back at your website or a particular page of your website.

Here’s a tip for you: In your bio, don’t talk about you.

This is one of the BIGGEST MISTAKES most people make when doing article marketing. And one I’ve made many times myself. Use this space to tell the reader…”What’s next for them…” Where can they find more information like this. Where get they get advanced information like this…etc. You can talk about you a bit, but I would keep the focus on them.

So you’re actually getting traffic from the human visitor (as they find your articles) and from Google, because Google will see those links (in the bio) back to your site and all those link backs help to build your site as an authority. The more you have of these the better!

You can put your article up on a site like ezinearticles.com or goarticles.com, but what I would recommend is using a tool like Traffic Geyser or Post Article Robot to literally blast the article out to hundreds of sites. These tools do this with a few clicks of your mouse. They do cost money, but in my opinion, if you want loads of traffic, they are worth every cent.

A free option can be found here http://spin2submit.co.za/. I’ve never used it so I can’t say much about it…but if you’re on a budget, it might be a good solution for you.

What other solutions do you know of…?

How has article marketing created a traffic jam at your website?

When I first started writing for the web, I was so terrified.

I was a horrible writer when I was in high school…barely passing my English classes.

One of my mentors told me I could write a great article in 30 minutes…ya right!. But when I tried it for the first time I wrote almost 1,100 words in 25 minutes..I was shocked.

And it wasn’t that bad actually…

So here’s what he taught me…

First…say what the article is about.

Second…tell them who it’s for.

Third…give them the benefit. Why they should read it. What it will do for them. Etc.

Then for the body of the article, give them the best THREE (3) pieces of value you’ve got. And include personal experiences.

In conclusion, summarize the entire article and and the very end pique their curiosity with something else.

For example:

“That explains the top three ways to get targeted traffic to your website. For 7 more ways, please visit ….”

And I just learned this the other day: Your bio shouldn’t be about you…it should be about “What’s next”…for your potential reader….this encourages them to continue on and click your link.

So here’s where the timing comes into play:

Set your timer for 25 minutes, don’t look at your screen, just type what comes to mind. After 25 minutes, spend 5 minutes reviewing, do a spell check and a very quick check for grammar.

Writing for the web doesn’t have to be perfect, but it does have to be valuable.

A few other tips he taught me were:

• Always write about what you know and what works.

• Post it on your site first, wait till it’s cached with Google, then post it on article directories.

• Clear your mind of any negative thoughts like “I can’t write”, instead say aloud to yourself “I am in the process of becoming a great writer.”

• Focus on three things you can explain in great detail.

• Write as if you are speaking to someone you know who would be interested in the information.

• Use conversational English.

• As you write do not edit your thoughts…let go of the need to be perfect….LET YOUR FINGERS FLY!

• Use common phrases and colloquialisms (had to look this one up) or slang.

• Always write with a purpose (to make money)…so include some CTA (call to action) or link that you can profit from.

• Once you’ve written an article, turn it into a video and blast it out on the net with a tool like Traffic Geyser.

And so I leave you with this:

“Don’t measure your success based on where you want to get, instead measure based on where you’ve come from.”

So what are you waiting for…get writing…but FIRST: Comment On This Blog Post and tell me your article writing tips. What gets you in the mood? How do you find ideas? How have you progressed from when you first started? What challenges are you still facing?

I see people making videos in the car all the time…so I thought I’d give it a try.

Immediate tips from the very first second…watch till the end

Why You Shouldn’t Make Videos In The Car

Tell me your “video in the car” making tips…

So this lesson comes from Brian Klemmer who I just discovered a few weeks ago …bought all his books and have been devouring them ever since.

So the question for today’s lesson is…

Are you carrots, eggs or coffee?

Brian explains it like this…

When you put carrots in hot water, the water changes the carrots.

When you put an egg in hot water, the water changes the egg.

But…

When you put coffee in water, THE WATER CHANGES.

And that how leaders are too… When leaders are in a situation, they change it. They don’t allow themselves to be changed by it.

This reminds me of my favorite quote from Ghandi “Be the change you want to see in the world.“

In the process of absorbing all kinds of network marketing training, I have heard over and over again, the speed of the leader is the speed of the pack. This is so prevalent in our businesses.

If you notice the people who are consistent and have a sense of urgency about their business are the ones who actually get to the level of success they desire and deserve.

If you’re team is going too slow for you…maybe that’s because you’re going too slow as well. They are following your lead.

Do any of you experience that? If so…tell me about it below.

I know I do…so lately I’ve been going “faster”…so that I can be the coffee it the water and change my environment and my team.