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I love flowers.. most any kind of flower.

I love wildflowers…

I love formal gardens…

I love giving flowers and I love receiving flowers.

Now don’t get me wrong.. I definitely DON’T like to grow flowers, take care of flowers, water flowers, weed flowers or cultivate them in any way. Any of those things are usually associated with being outside in the heat of summer.

I do NOT like to be hot.. I do NOT like to sweat..
I much prefer spending time with my central A/C then on any outside activity in the summer.

But I do love flowers, and it’s for people like me that God created gardeners or in my case, husbands.

My husband takes care of the flowers in the yard and even brings me flowers from the florist and I enjoy them all very much :)

Now why should you care if I like flowers or not.. Well, it probably doesn’t make any difference at all except that it sets up a story I want to tell you.

A story of My Secret Grandma Garden.

Three years ago I got the idea to knock a hole in my bedroom wall and add a door that would lead out to
a small enclosed private deck, play area and flower
garden.

Being that it was summer, and my plan definitely involved physical activity, I told my husband all about my plan.

Now my husband hears about a LOT of plans from me.. and he always listens.. agrees.. usually but not always also thinks it’s a good idea and then he does nothing.

I’m not saying anything bad about him at all.. don’t think that..
You see my husband knows something about me after living with me for 35 years.. He knows I change my mind and that once I think about something for awhile, that once great idea gets revised or abandoned completely.

So he wisely listens.. thinks about the ways things could be done and then he waits.

BUT this time he loved my idea instantly.. knew I had a winner, as did I, and we proceeded immediately :)

And it turned out even better then I had hoped.. A nice deck big enough for 2 comfortable chairs.. a small grassy play area with sandbox for my granddaughter and a nice sized flower bed. Perfect.

Kira and I love to have tea parties on the deck in the spring and summer and at night it’s a great place to cool off and unwind before bed.

I have to say it’s one of my best ideas to date :)

I knew I wanted flowers in the flower bed that would come back year after year.. old favorites mostly. One day a catalog came in the mail from a bulb company and then I knew for sure that I wanted to plant bulbs.

Crocus bulbs, tulip bulbs, iris bulbs, lily bulbs.. they were all beautiful and I chose some of each that would ensure a colorful garden from early spring through fall and sent off my order.

The company ships orders approximately the time they are to be planted for whatever area they are going to.. my box came in October. So one overcast chilly day in October my husband and I went out to plant bulbs.

( notice it was no longer summer and was in fact quite chilly which I love, so I decided to help with the planting)

David had previously tilled up the garden area, prepared it for planting and made sure that the conditions were optimal for planting.. so we planted little crocus in the front.. medium lillies in the middle.. and taller iris in the back.

We followed the rules.. planted.. watered.. covered and protected them for the winter all in the properly prepared soil…

And then I waited..

I am not a good waiter.. I prefer instant gratification any day of the week. But I knew that everything was as it should be and that given the proper amount of time I would have flowers.

How did I know that? Well my grandmother had a garden and it never failed to bloom every spring.. I have friends that have gardens that never fail to bloom every spring plus it’s been a proven fact for millions of years that planted properly in the fall bulbs will produce flowers in the spring.

So I waited..

I’ve grown annuals before as well that once you plant the seed and water it you will see it begin to grow in just a few days.. Depending on how well it’s taken care of, it will grow into a magnificent plant filled with beautiful blooms that will continue to produce until the first hard freeze.. then sadly it’s gone.. never to return again.

What if I had thought that my bulbs grew in the same way? What if hadn’t known any better and figured if I planted something in October by golly I should have flowers by November?

November would have come and I’d have been so upset at that bulb company selling me their junk that didn’t even appear to make an attempt at growing, let alone bloom.

Perhaps I would have gone out with my shovel, dug them all up and planted new bulbs from a different company.. One that I was sure would give me flowers.

Come December I’d be repeating the whole process and we all know that I’d NEVER have my garden of beautiful flowers.

Thankfully I did none of that, because I knew the facts, I’d seen the facts work for other people and I believed they’d work for me.

Fall turned to winter and soon spring was just around the corner. One chilly but sunny morning I stepped out onto my deck and right there in my garden bed, peeking out from the snow, was a yellow crocus! Not just one either… several crocuses had bloomed ‘overnight’ despite the chill and the snow on the ground.

Needless to say I was very excited and couldn’t wait to show Kira our flowers!

Over the course of the next few weeks, many plants began to grow.. some bloomed, some wouldn’t bloom till later in the summer, but they grew and made a beautiful showing in my Secret Grandma Garden.

When fall came I was sad to see the last of the flowers but I knew that they had been cared for properly not only last winter but all summer long and that with a little winter preparation now they would be back next spring.

I’m sure by now many of you have caught on as to where I’m taking you with this story..

My Internet business.. . Any successful Internet business is like the flower bed in my Secret Grandma Garden. If your Internet business isn’t producing what you had envisioned, perhaps it’s because you’re not “planting the right kind of garden”.

In a successful Internet business you make the proper preparations.. you implement the correct strategies.. you work the right system and then…

you wait.

And given a certain amount of time your efforts will pay off.

How can I be sure? Because I have friends that have followed those principles and succeeded, I have met others through reading about their business journey that have followed these principles and succeeded and I have now proven through my own efforts that these principles work.

These principles aren’t new.. they have been proven over and over again throughout the generations and therefore you can believe in them as well.. you can KNOW that they will work, just as I knew I would have flowers in the spring.

Success in business and wealth does not come quickly.. you can not expect quick results but so many of us do. When we don’t get the results we want when we want them, we get out our shovels and get rid of all the work we’ve done to that point and start over with the latest and greatest ‘guaranteed’ producer.

And when again we don’t see results as quickly as we’d like, and we won’t, we dig it all up again with the hopes that the newest opportunity will make our dreams come true.

Business success and wealth do not come quickly. Period. And if anyone tells you differently then I’d be very suspicious of what they’re selling.. cuz they are definitely trying to sell you something.

Riches can come quickly say if you win the lottery or Great Uncle Harry dies and leaves you his fortune, but wealth and business success take work, patience and time.

You must find a proven plan, commit yourself to working that plan and then be patient and wait for your reward.

Now.. I’ve saved the best part of my story till the end!

Remember how beautiful my flower bed was last summer? And when it began to get cold we properly tended to the withered plants and prepared the bed for winter..

This spring on a chilly yet sunny morning I stepped out onto my deck and right there in my flower bed peeking out from the snow was a yellow crocus.
And not just one crocus.. and not several crocuses but MANY crocuses.

And over the next few weeks my flower bed was filled completely with tulip and iris and lily plants.. way more then what were there last year!

In fact I had to take some of the plants from my flower bed this year and replant them in another place in the yard.

You see what happened… right?

My original plan when executed correctly, maintained properly and given time not only grew but multiplied! And once multiplication sets in, well there’s no stopping it! Within a year or two I’ll be giving flowers away just to keep them from overtaking my yard!

I know how it feels to want success and to want it NOW and I know there are hundreds of people out there that will tell you that it is possible and that you can have it all…. if you just take advantage of their opportunity.

I also know that the only things that work are the principles that have been proven over and over again.. You know that as well if you are really honest with yourself. You know there are no get rich quick schemes that work or we wouldn’t need a new one every day.

Please stop running after every opportunity that promises quick riches and begin on a journey to real wealth through a successful business..

It’s not hard .. it costs almost nothing and it’s proven to work.

The only opportunity that HitSafari promotes and stands behind is Traffic Exchange Profits. Are there other businesses that are not get rich quick schemes and that will teach you to build a long term business that will provide you with real wealth and not just fast $$?

Sure there are but this one provides everything you need and is put together in a well organized and easy to understand format. The written information available is some of the very best I’ve ever read concerning Internet Marketing PLUS it fits in with Traffic Exchanges like nothing else does.

Ok.. enough ‘selling’ :) Just taking a serious look at it yourself will ‘sell’ you. Remember.. quick blooms are beautiful and rewarding in a short term way but sustainable beauty and growth comes with proper planting, maintenance and the P word… patience.

You can check out TrafficExchangeProfits by clicking here
but when you join, please join through the HitSafari downline builder as this ensures that your HS sponsor or their upline will get credit.

Power Surf Central – Are You Getting Your Share of the Rewards?

So many of you have discovered Power Surf Central and the many rewards that you can earn by simply surfing. However, there are many of you that don’t participate on a regular basis and the only reason we can think of that you wouldn’t is that you haven’t heard of the many benefits that are waiting for you by simply doing what you do everyday already.. surfing.

So let’s answer a few question about Power Surf Central.

Plain and simple Power Surf Central was designed to reward our loyal surfers in as many ways as we could.

We reward members daily, weekly and monthly with bonuses of credits… banner impressions.. text link impressions. We also, ocassionally, throw in some cash IN ADDITION to all the other bonuses. These bonuses are huge on a daily and weekly basis and GIGANTIC on a monthly basis.. into the MILLIONS!

==> Ray.. Mr Stat Man, maybe you would please post in the comment section some actual stats of the rewards that PSC gives away.. please?

Ok.. let’s be honest.. while rewarding our loyal surfers was the NUMBER ONE reason for creating PSC, a close second was to draw attention to the three traffic exchanges involved in order to increase their activity which in turn brings in new members. We have no problem admitting that we want more members.. we want more PRO members.. we want more credits sailes.. for the three of us, Ray, Doug and myself, we make our livings and support ourselves with our traffic exchanges.

In order for any business to be successful the old adage still holds true.. the customer is always right! That’s YOU.. our members.. our customers if you will, and we are here to serve you and to make our service, which is your advertising, effective and worthwhile.

When we started Power Surf Central we made sure that a couple things would be mandatory.. First we would only offer quality, result getting traffic and second we would listen to the members feedback to make PSC as user friendly as possible.

We knew that offering the best in result driven traffic would prove to be the basis for long term service and rewards. When we started PSC of the 3 traffic exchanges involved one was a constant resident on the top traffic exchange lists such as Traffic Hoopla, the industry standard. Two of us were there many times.. and on some occasions all three were listed.

Point one accomplished.. offering quality, result getting traffic. What has happened since PSC was launched? Most weeks, if not all, all THREE exchanges are listed as top ranked and this last week all THREE were in the TOP10.

You see quality traffic attracts more quality traffic and it’s near impossible, when managed correctly, to stop that snowball effect. And what has this done for our members? In addition to the INSANE rewards you already accumulate we now are attracting hundreds more members every week because of our high visibility which in turn means more eyes on your websites which in turn mean more Power Surf Central members… which in turn increases the quality, result getting traffic, which in turn boosts our rankings as top traffic exchanges.. which in turn…………

Don’t you just LOVE vicious cycles!!

Our second requirement was to listen to the feedback from our members who after all ARE PowerSurfCentral. We discoverd through feedback and polls that most members did not like adding a guest exchange every week even though originally that was one of our main goals. But the members spoke and told us no.. that they didn’t like to be forced to join an exchange if they were not already a member or to have to surf them if they didn’t want to just to receive the promised credits through PSC. .

Will we never have guests exchanges again? No, there were actually some members that DID like it.. so when we do invite a guest exchange now it is for ONE DAY. By doing it this way those that choose to participate will benefit from the many extra rewards and prizes.. but if you choose not to participate your daily, weekly and monthly PSC stats will NOT be affected. It’s proven to be a win/win for everyone and very well received.

Members also did not like to have to surf all exchanges at the same time.. with PSC you don’t. As long as you surf each exchange the minimum sometime during the 24hour day, you will get credit.

Members like things simple.. don’t we all? While sometimes that is easier said then done, we strive to make things simple and are constantly working towards that end. We may have a ways to go and it’s always a challenge when introducing a new feature to do it in the simplest way.. But know this.. it is a top objective of ours and if you ever have any suggestions towards that end, don’t be afraid to let us know.

We are soon unveiling our newest feature.. nothing fancy, but something that members asked for. Something that will makes things easier for you.. No, I’m not going to tell you now! What fun would that be.. You’ll just have to wait for the announcement.

I’m not sure if you caught it or not :) … but here at Power Surf Central we value our members and what they have to offer. We WANT to know what you think… good OR bad.. but I know that sometimes takes a little encouragement. So, I’m looking for 25 unique comments to this post.. comments.. suggestions.. good or bad.. we want to know what you think.

If there are at least 25 responses we’re going to add $1.00 to the Power Surf Central bonuses for this weeks Thunder Sunday! Of course, that’s on top of the rewards and special bonuses already in place!

Where Are All MY Credits?

I get a lot of support tickets from members wondering where their credits have disappeared to. They have surfed for maybe an hour and only see a few credits in their Credit Total.

There is an easy explanation for this.

Most, if not all, Traffic Exchanges set a minimum percentage of your total credits that MUST be auto-assigned. This is done to ensure that there are credits assigned to sites at all times. Sites without credits don’t get rotated.. a Traffic Exchange without rotating sites doesn’t work so well :)

So in order to keep at least a minimum of sites in constant rotation, we set a minimum percentage of credits that need to be auto assigned.

As you earn credits while surfing, a certain amount of them go into your Credit Total and a certain amount are auto assigned to your approved sites. ( the amount is based on the percentage that the traffic exchange has pre-set and varies in exchanges and also in upgrade status. The amount can be seen on your Assign Credits page)

If the Traffic Exchange delivers traffic at a fairly brisk rate, your credits that are auto assigned are going to be used fairly quickly. It’s possible that they may be used as quickly as you earn them. If that is the case, it will appear that you haven’t earned any, or as many credits as you think you should have, for the amount of time you surfed.

Rest assured that you have.. they simply were used immediately to show your sites to other members that were surfing while you were.

** The more traffic an exchange delivers, the quicker your credits will be used and this applies to credits that are auto assigned as well.

Now.. while an exchange normally sets a percentage that MUST be auto assigned, it is rarely, if ever, 100%. So if you don’t want all your credits that you earn while surfing to be used, make sure that you do not have auto assign set to 100%. This percentage can be adjusted on your Assign Credits page. While many prefer to have their credits used immediately, there may be times that you want to stockpile a few for a special promotion.

One final note.. only credits that are earned while surfing are auto assigned. Credits purchased or won go into your Credit Total and must be assigned and it is important to make sure that they DO get assigned. Make it a habit whenever you log in to your account to check your credits and assign them if you have them.. sites in rotation are not only essential for the Traffic Exchange, it is essential for you as well.. when your sites aren’t in rotation… no one is seeing them!

Questions..? Comments..?

Lessons From a Swimmer

Michael Phelps is a name the majority of us are now familiar with, especially in the US but worldwide he is now known for his amazing performance at this Summer Olympics. It was very exciting watching him win each of his Gold medals and make Olympic history.

I did some reading on the life of Michael Phelps and discovered some facts about his swimming career that can be related to not only life but our Internet careers as well.

Michael’s parents recognized his talent and passion at a young age and brought him to a professional coach at the age of 11. His coach told him at age 12 that he had Olympic potential. He is still with that coach today. Despite setting numerous world records over the years, he qualified for only one event in the 2004 Summer Olympics and came in 5th.

Just these few facts can teach us so much.

When concentrating on making Internet Marketing your career you should have 2 qualifications. Talent and passion. Obviously we all have different and varied talents and there are just as many options available for a career in Internet marketing.. Identify your talents. If you don’t think you have any, ask a family member or a close friend.. sometimes they recognize things in you that you don’t see yourself.

Once you identify your talents, you’ll very likely realize that you knew  it all along.. What you think is just an activity that you like to do in your spare time is probably a way you’re expressing your talent.. your passion. You might like to scrapbook and while you might not think of that as a marketable talent it encompasses many talents.. creativity, organization, an eye for design etc.

Think about what you like to do and then think about what talents it takes to accomplish it.. you might be surprised at the list you come up with and what you truly are passionate about.

Now that we have discovered our talent and passion, we need a mentor. Someone to coach us in our career, someone we can look up to and trust and know that they have our best interest in mind.

Unfortunately  anyone can hang out a coach shingle in Internet Marketing and we all get emails from dozens of wannabees every day.. and it’s not always easy to find one that is right for you. But research and contact, doing your homework, will really pay off here. It may take some time, but in the long run it will save you much more.. remember, your mentor will be with you for a long time.

Your huge success, your long term goals, will not happen overnight. Michael Phelps coach saw Olympic potential in him at age 12 and he is now 23. That was 11 years of keeping his eye on the main prize.. the long term goal. Yes he had successes along the way, as we all will, but perseverance and focus brought him his ultimate success.

He also had failures, or what he perceived as failures, along the way.. but he didn’t quit or he didn’t fire his coach and start fresh with someone else.. he remained focused on his training and his goals.

Obviously these have just been a few, brief highlights of some important lessons learned from a swimmer… hopefully you can extract something that will start you thinking and help you along your Internet Marketing path.

Huh? 31.95% DON’T know what a “Squeeze Page” is?

Those familiar with me know that I ‘preach’ that splash and/or squeeze pages are the only effective way to advertise when you use traffic exchanges. I’ve even written articles and blog posts about it.

Actually it is a well known fact among TE owners that splash and squeeze pages are the way to go and so it follows that other marketers would know that as well.

Makes sense.. right?

My frind James Grandstaff did a little survey that has pretty much blown that idea out of the water.

It seems that when he surveyed 500 on his list who are interested in making money online, such as affiliate marketing, product creation, MLM, etc… that over 30% did not even know what a squeeze page was!

I was surprised to say the least.

Since I’ve written more then one article on using squeeze pages I am going to give you James’ reasons for using them.. straight from him.
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“A squeeze page which is also known as a “lead capture page” or “name squeeze page” is a simple web page with one purpose; to get your visitor to give you their name and email address so you can follow-up with them. That’s it.

One of the best ways to get someone to opt-in to your squeeze page is by offering something of high perceived value such as a mini ecourse or a highly targeted eBook.

For example, let’s say you are promoting a multi- level marketing business opportunity. The products are great and you are a raving fan.

Most people would just start promoting the website the company supplies. I say no. This is a perfect opportunity to implement the use of a squeeze page and offer something of value first.

That way, you collect the leads, you follow-up with an introduction of yourself and begin building a long lasting business relationship.

In sales, what we are really selling is “us” first, then the product.

You always want to provide value first. Once your prospects warm up to you, then it’s time to ask theright questions to determine if your product or business opportunity can help solve their needs.”

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If you weren’t familiar with squeeze pages before, I hope you now have a good overview of how they can benefit your advertising. Traffic Exchange advertising is very effective when done properly

James’ latest program does an outstanding job of explaining what squeeze pages are.. how to create one to be the most effective, how to use them and so much more. He’s outlined an entire system of getting quality traffic to any website.

It is a must have in my opinion if you are serious about driving good quality traffic to your website and especially if you are building a list.. you are building a list, right?

Check it out here.. You’ve nothing to lose by watching the videos.. they are very well done and
contain so much information…

and

…for a limited time James is offering a Risk Free $1 dollar trial to his program.. WOW!

Instant MLM Squeeze Pages

Take a look.. let me know what you think. I’m always interested in feedback and what you have on your minds. That’s the only way I know what you need or want! lol sounds like a marriage doesn’t it.. well any relationship needs give and take and I love taking my cues from you guys.