Jul 10
28
Exercise
Lately I have been exercising almost every day. I used to just do a few push ups here and there but since moving my office to Jon’s I have been able to use his weight bench. It is rather nice to take a break after a few hours on the computer to go out and release all my energy. Then when I come back to work I feel like I get more done. It may just be me, but if it works, hey… what the heck!
I’m pretty sure exercising motivates me as well, I can get all my frustrations out and kinda clear my head. It evens gives me time to plan my next attack. I don’t feel so lazy either, all I do is sit in a comfortable chair all day in a perfectly cooled office so I feel like a couch potato. I’m not fat by no means but I think everyone should be involved in some sort of activity (maybe then our country can slide down the obese capital of the world ladder). Oh and A.D.D… I have A.D.D. pretty bad so sometimes its hard for me to just sit there for hours on end I get this feeling like I need to shake out all the heeby jebby’s.. haha.
So make like Nike, & JUST DO IT!!! something, anything!
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Jul 10
26
My Job Rocks!
How goes it!?
So reflecting back on the last year of work makes me really happy go lucky. I am proud of the progress that I have made and overall I must say MY JOB ROCKS!!
Don’t believe me… check out this pick.
Now its not my office or desk up there but, please if you will, tell me another job that you can have a set up like that!! Haha most of you cant but I’m sure there are other great jobs out there.
Like being a Blue Angle pilot for instance. The reason I say that is because this past weekend they came to my hometown and put on one hell of an air show. Not to mention that I wanted to be a pilot when I was a younger me. They are absolutely crazy though! If you haven’t seen them in action please go to YouTube and watch a video or two.. I’m sure you will agree. They pull off some of the most outrageous formations, and the way they use angles and crowd position to their advantage just tops it off.
But back to my job and how awesome it is… I love being able to wake up in the morning and decide my schedule. If I don’t want to work I don’t! Now its not really that easy because every time I make an unwise decision like that, I make up for it believe me. But still, its just nice to have that power. At the same time it also taught me a lot about being a leader and making wise decisions that wont hurt me in the future. Ha I have made my fair share of stupid decisions at first that put me into a deep hole. If I could give any advice… don’t do it!! Its not worth it my friend.
Goalz O Mine
1) Higher conversion rate on leewaimedia.com
2) Master the craigslist post ( haha idk if thats possible but what the heck)
3) Start a mailing list
4) Network Network Network!
Jul 10
21
Spamming is old news, give it up!
So lately I have been getting into social networking, as I’m sure you know. I’m pretty sick of seeing all these spam posts and tweets. As a matter of fact I don’t even go to twitter anymore because there is way to much spam going on. You cant even carry on a decent conversation with someone without felling like a customer at Wal-mart. So my advice is, to find a new way to make a connection with your target market. Enjoy!
I have been talking to a few people that are pretty serious about video marketing. Word on the street is that it actually converts well. So I figured I would give it a try. This is basically an intro. into my blog and what it is about. You will have a front seat ride with me through my online business journey, and everything I encounter from day to day. I hope you enjoy 
Jul 10
18
What I’m Doing
So I have now decided to start a “what im doing” blog post. I will be posting under this title pretty consistently, it will basically cover what I have been up to for the past while. I like to keep others up to date on my struggles or just my day to day activities.
Lately I have been working away (as usual). I took a little time of the web work though, to risk my life three stories up in the air on a ladder to wash windows for my step dads company. The things I will do for money…..wow! But thats is now over with and I can continue my journey online.
1) The first thing I have been focusing on lately is upping the conversion ratio on LeeWai media. You see I have been tracking the site with analytics and I am proud to say, it gets a consistent number of hits per day. So what seems to be the problem you ask? Well the problem happens to be that no one is actually buying once they get to my site.I put a lot of time into the first design, but I will admit I was pretty worried about how I wanted it to look. That my friends is completely wrong. I have came to the conclusion that it simply doesn’t matter what you (or I in my case) think, because you are not going to be buying from yourself ever. So now I am in the process of making the site convert better. I don’t really care how it looks, but I have been doing my research and have came up with a pretty good blueprint that I am sure will work better (or at least thats my hopes). I also need to continue marketing the site so I will be the first link in Google when someone searches my term. It has been said that around sixty percent of traffic stops at the first site or link in a search engine, I don’t know if thats completely true but it definitely seems plausible.
2) The second objective I have been working on is starting on my entrepreneurial side. I have been researching niches that have little competition in Google, but at the same time have a nice traffic flow and a good profit margin. It is very difficult to find a good niche but it can be done if executed correctly. I also found a great tool that allows me to test out these niches almost free of charge (sorry trade secret). Once they have been live long enough and I have done a sufficient amount of marketing I will pick my best candidate according to my analytics. I know that more than half of these niches will fail miserably but thats all part of the job, haha.
3) The last thing I have been working towards is marketing or networking myself. I have to get my name out there, because its WHO you know, not WHAT you know, at least thats what I’m told. My buddy Jon has gotten me into going to an internet marketing meet-up that takes place in Rexberg Idaho every Tuesday at 11:00 a.m. I have actually started blogging about what goes on, please check it out and if you would like to join please contact me and I will let you know all the details. Anyways, I have been obtaining as many Twitter and Facebook friends as I can possibly get my hands on. One of my business partners actually has my account hooked up to some program that gets you tons of twitter followers so I don’t really have to do much work, its great! I have also learned a few tricks about how to work your way into great business relationships with important people you meet on these social networking sites. Spamming is not the way to go, rather than that try presenting yourself as an individual that is wiling to help or assist in some way. That makes creating a tight nit relationship easier on you. Then you simply imply your business slowly and try to push your services or products. Take that info. and run with it (if you want)!!
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Jul 10
13
July 13 Marketing Meet-up
Today the concept of the Idaho Internet Marketing Meet-up was “Just Do IT!” A great topic of discussion, especially because I have kinda been wondering just how to dip my toes into the waters of experimenting, and it was more or less motivational so it was a nice little boost. As an entrepreneur my sole duty is to come up with new lucrative business ideas. That has got to be, by far, the best part about my job & yet a part that I am not all to familiar with as of yet.
The example that was used was venturing into penny stocks. Now as the instructor suggested, it is probably not a wise idea to pursue this niche for various reasons. One of the biggest being that they are absolutely hit and miss. You can be a “BIG STAR” one minute and in the slums naked the next.
We were shown various websites that carry a ton of pre-designed templates that were targeted for affiliates. The advice was to go this route because its quick and easy. The next step (following researching a good niche of coarse) is to start an add campaign. When it comes to affiliates, AdSense if a great way to go because it is instant and you will quickly know if your niche is cut out or not. If you are not quite into affiliates (like me 
then I would suggest SEO as your marketing strategy, especially for eCommerce. If you choose less competitive niches in your research process, then it is cheap to rank with SEO. Plus people trust the “natural” links more than the “sponsored” links anyways. If yu set yourself a financial goal of maybe $50 to $100 to spend on marketing, then you wont break the bank when you fail. Notice I said WHEN not IF because it is bound to happen eventually and theres really no way around it, so don’t get discouraged.
There are a lot of tools out there that will assist us in starting these experimental sites that you may not know about, I know I found multiple sites/tools today at the meet-up. The conclusion I came to this week is, All it takes is a little determination and a lot of JUST DO IT!
When you post on craigslist you need to keep a check and balance between attractive nice looking ads and ads which have high survival probability. Highly HTML decorated nice looking ads may catch more visitors but may reduce the probability of going live, at the same time.
Following are some tips for writing a good ad for posting on craigslist.org:
- Avoid HTML unless you are posting under the services section. Plain text ads increase the possibility of going live.
- Avoid hyperlink to an website. Put the domain name as text without www. or put it into an image.
From: Blogcatalog.com
Lately I have been trying to create a few different styles of ads, to post on craigslist. I am rather new when it comes to consistent posting, so I wanted to figure out just how to go about it correctly. So… When I found this post I had to share it because it taught me some things that i didn’t know, and it corrected a few things that I though exactly opposite about. I am going to put these tips and techniques to work for me now, and see just how well they convert. Lets hope for the best!
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Jul 10
11
Iphone iOS 4 update
Recently Apple introduced the new iOS 4 update. I updated my Iphone 3g anxiously awaiting to see what it had in store for me. I have a few friends with the 3gs and they showed me what the update did for them.
Come to find out, the update is not the same for the 3g and the 3gs… go figure. The new update included multi-tasking, a wallpaper image beneath the apps you have, a new design for the bottom static apps, and it allows you to put apps into folders for better organization. Only two of those advancements were meant for the 3g though, the folders and the new design for the static apps. Lame!! I got my hopes up for nothing really. I will admit however, that the folders are a great idea and I have already put them to good use.
I still don’t understand why they would do that to us, I mean I spent money just like the next guy, maybe not as much… but still. I guess that goes to show you the amazing wonders of capitalism. I’m sure I will be able to have these features sometime in the near future, but for now I will just have to wait. THANKS APPLE
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Jul 10
5
Social Media day
I have been meaning to get to this post before now but… you know how that goes. So I attended the Mashable Social Media day conference that was hosted in Rexburg Idaho, on the BYU Idaho Campus. I will have to say that I learned some interesting facts and tips that I had absolutely no idea about. Of coarse I have herd of Twitter and Facebook just like the rest of you, the thing I didn’t know was how to really make them work for me. I learned that both sites are considered a push/pull content site. Meaning that the content that is listed is either pushing something, such as a product, or for someone to find something ,such as a product.
I also learned that most people use these tools incorrect as I did. The best way to get feedback and results is to interact with others in an unprofessional manner at first. The reasoning behind this is to establish some sort of personal relationship. Once you work on the personal relationship you can then start to push a product or service. The wrong way to do it is as most people do. Pushing their stuff way to hard and in your face. If you pay attention you will see what I mean. Plenty of people post adds such as this “Many people search for that once in a life time opportunity, this is it, don’t miss out: http://bit.ly/5yluCl” now to some this may be appealing but studies show that most people need more then that. The best way to get lots of followers and dedicated consumers is to help out, answer questions and give tips and pointers. You should be sending more reply s than anything else. Once you become noticed as a helpful benefit then you will be taken more seriously and you will have a bigger impact once it comes time to market your business.
Thats all I have for now, until next time try some of those things and see how they work for you.
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Jun 10
1
Memorial Day
This weekend was Memorial weekend, as I’m sure most of you knew.
Being Memorial weekend and all kinda got me thinking. Now I’m not really all that into war, fighting or death at all. I will admit however, that when I was in middle school I had dreams of becoming a Navy pilot and going to military school & the hole nine yards. But my views on life have changed since then, now I see life as the greatest gift, & I don’t believe it should be stripped from someone due to another’s problems. Plus there are a million other ways to solve a dispute without reverting to violence.
This doesn’t mean that I don’t appreciate the veterans and current soldiers at war though. I value them very highly and respect every decision my country has ever made in the past. After all that is why we are where we are today, because of bravery and self sacrifice. I have family members that have served in the past and are ever so proud of the fact.
I watched a special on TV last night called “band of brothers”. It was a very deep show that got inside of me and made me… well….. sad. War is one of those things that isn’t quite understood unless you perceive it first hand. This movie did an excellent job of first hand perception, which is the reason I responded to it the way I did. It brought out that little patriot inside me, which pushed me to write this article and give a GIGANTICALLY HUGE THANKS to anyone that has had even the slightest bit to do with the war movement and the success of the Untied States of America.
You will be in our harts for eternity!!
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