This is freakin hilarious…. gotta love a monkey doing human things, like driving a Segway Transport and narrowly missing trees, big rocks and boulders.

I think he did better than most people would for a first time up on the Segway… what do you think?

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Enjoy the videos incase you did not stay up late enough…
 

Sarah Palin SNL sketch with Alec Baldwin, Lorne Michaels, Weekend Update!

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Ok, fun story.

I was in San Francisco speaking at Alejandro Reyes’s Illuminate Conference and all the sudden some friends from Edison High School, back in Huntington Beach, California from 1986-1989 found me. They even posted some ridiculous pictures of me when I was 18 years old, scary! 

Those were the years I was a conflicted Punk Rocker, Surfer, Christian Youth Group Goodie Two Shoes, and Marching Band Geek.

Yea, I told you I was conflicted… I did not know much about who I was back then, but I tried to fit in with a lot of different groups and “cliques” as they were called back then and it kept me pretty busy and it was all really fun.

So 20 years later… all my old band friends, many of which I have not seen personally in 20 years, but heard from with random emails once every 3 years, all the sudden popped up and it was a great homecoming “virtually”.

The “Add me to your friend list” has been on rapid fire all week!

As a matter of fact a lot of the “Bandos” did a get together this last weekend in Huntington Beach cause all the sudden, they were feeling the love.

But here is why I am telling you all this.

I reconnected with many really cool people who seemed, even though it’s 20 years later, exactly the same, and in some ways, radically different. So as we talked on each other’s “Walls” on facebook, it was like writing to each other in our old High School Yearbook.

Band was a good time for me during High School.

We went to a lot of places in Band… all the football games, (home and away games), Away Basketball Games, Marched at Field Show competitions and every Christmas we did the Christmas Disneyland parade and then there was always one big trip every other year.

We got to go to Expo 86 in Vancouver, BC and then in 88 we got to go to Florida and Disneyworld parks.

Adventures on the bus, getting to destinations were half the fun and just goofing off and hanging out in our “space” on the high school campus with friends was precious. Man, come to think about it, High School was one big clique. Everyone hung out with their “group”.

There were the Cheerleaders, the Nerds, the Jocks, the Surfers, Punk Rockers, preppies, marching bandos and lots of racial groups like Vietnamese kids plus those that did not fit into any group too.

We all tried to make it a melting pot, but overall, I think societies have still formed out cliques and social groups to keep people connected and there is nothing wrong with that, as long as they are never exclusive.

So, why am I telling you this again?

Cause, friends matter. And I can get too focused on MARKETING and SELLING and LIST BUILDING and completely forget about FRIENDSHIP BUILDING. You need REAL friends.

It can be 1 week, 1 year or 20 years ago that you connected with people but connecting with them again online is fun, and rekindles lots of great memories (as well as some scary ones too).

How are you doing in the “Social Equity” Space?

Social Equity is the place you arrive at ONLINE where your twitter accts are tweeting, your linkedin accts are linkin and your Facebook friend requests are poppin, and you are making real friend to friend connections.

You can CONNECT on a deeper level with real humans, instead of interacting with “technology” all the time and “artificial worlds” that the internet provides for us. You need real people in your life who care about you!

And don’t blow it by turning in your new social equity status into a “Hey look at me, I got a great biz opp you need to join since you are poor and don’t have any money!”

That’s sure to put you on the outs with your old or new buddies. There is a proper way to introduce business and I’ll have more to say about that below.

Just hook up… join in, share photos, write on walls, send fun applications that are nothing but pointless and do nothing but steal people’s time. (you need to have fun every once in a while for the purpose of just having fun!)

Speaking of fun… in case you wanna see some old skool pix from me in High School, looking all 80’s and stuff, totally surf punked out… then dare I say… click on my profile link!

Jeff Mills Facebook Profile (add me as a friend)

If you are not too familiar with how Facebook works or what it is, check these stats out….

Statistics General Growth * More than 110 million active users * Facebook is the 15th most-trafficked website in the world (Compete - October 19, 2008) * Facebook is the most-trafficked social media site in the world (comScore)

User Demographics * Over 55,000 regional, work-related, collegiate, and high school networks * More than half of Facebook users are outside of college * The fastest growing demographic is those 25 years old and older * Maintain 85 percent market share of 4-year U.S. universities

Applications * No. 1 photo sharing application on the Web (comScore) * More than 30 million photos uploaded daily * More than 6 million active user groups on the site

International Growth * Their Translation Application is first step for them in helping users all over the world connect and share information with those that matter the most to them – wherever they live and in whatever language they choose * In a little over five months, they have released the site in more than 20 languages, including Spanish, French, German, Russian and Korean. Their goal is to offer Facebook in as many languages as possible, as quickly as possible.

Platform * More than 400,000 developers and entrepreneurs * Over 24,000 applications have been built on Facebook Platform * 140 new applications added per day * More than 95% of Facebook members have used at least one application built on Facebook Platform

About Facebook Founded in February 2004, Facebook is a social utility that helps people communicate more efficiently with their friends, family and coworkers. The company develops technologies that facilitate the sharing of information through the social graph, the digital mapping of people’s real-world social connections. Anyone can sign up for Facebook and interact with the people they know in a trusted environment.

Product Facebook’s simplified navigation gives users easy access to core site functions and applications. Profile, Friends, Networks and Inbox – pages core to the user experience on Facebook – have a prominent place at the top of the user’s profile page. Facebook applications – Photos, Notes, Groups, Events and Posted items – are displayed on the left side bar, along with any third-party applications a user has added to their account.

Technology Facebook is the second most-trafficked PHP site in the world, and one of the largest MySQL installations anywhere, running thousands of databases. Facebook has built a lightweight but powerful multi-language RPC framework that allows the company to seamlessly and easily tie together subsystems written in any language, running on any platform. The company is the largest user in the world of memcached, an open-source caching system, and has created a custom-built search engine serving millions of queries a day, completely distributed and entirely in-memory, with real-time updates.

Platform Facebook Platform is a development platform that enables companies and engineers to deeply integrate with the Facebook website and gain access to millions of users through the social graph. Facebook is a part of millions of people’s lives all around the world providing unparalleled distribution potential for applications and the opportunity to build a business that is highly relevant to people’s lives.

Privacy Facebook has led the industry in giving people tools to control the information they share and with whom they choose to share it. User privacy has always been a top priority for the company, which has worked with such organizations as the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and WiredSafety. Facebook is TrustE certified. Users also have the ability to share and restrict information based on specific friends or friend lists.

Funding Round one: $500,000 from Peter Thiel, Summer 2004; Round two: $12.7 million from Accel Partners, April 2005; Round three: $27.5 million from Greylock Partners leading the round, Meritech Capital Partners participating, and Accel Partners and Peter Thiel increasing their investment in the company.

Board Members: Mark Zuckerberg, Jim Breyer, Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen; Observer: David Sze; Observer: Paul Madera

Employees 600+

Users 110 million active (users who have returned to the site in the last 30 days)

Offices Palo Alto, Calif. (headquarters); New York; London

Now that you have a “techincal” background to facebook, there is still alot more to talk about.

Since I am a marketer, there is a lot of real world marketing applications that one can use from facebook that can help you sell products and services, rather than just being a playing field for old high school band mates to hang out.

I don’t want to spoil the heart of this article by just trying to turn the cool thing happening in my facebook profile right now by saying “market the hell outa facebook, here’s how” cause that would not see right.

But I will say this, I do have a very simple and very good introduction to Facebook report that you can download right now which will take one deeper down the rabbit hole showing people more details about proper facebook useages for marketing and keeping things social.

I know many people who have built huge responsive lists and made 6 figures just using facebook to make connections and “generate leads”.

If you are not sure how that works, then this might be an excellent starting point for people.

I am actually discounting this product quite a lot for you so you can get it, and make it a no brainer for anyone to afford, normally, this 89 page report goes for $47, but I am going let you take home a copy for only $4.70!

      

If you order right now, I’ll also sweeten the pot too.. How about getting these 3 products for free?

• Private Label Rights Tips worth $97
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Download Facebook For Cash now, and learn how to expand your social equity and rekindle some of those crazy days of your youth when you were a mixed up high school or college socialite like I was and let the good times and memories flood over you. It’s theraputic and good for your soul.

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Strategic Web 2.0 Internet Marketing Systems With Blogs

Blogs began their life on the World Wide Web as web logs that people created, to record and share their views and practically anything they felt like. It started off more as a diary-like concept online. As many kinds of individuals as there are, so are there varieties of blogs.

Today, realizing their potential as extremely effective marketing tools, blogs are being used to make announcements and product launches and to keep in touch with customers. To keep up with the pace, we also have blog submission software to quickly reach all those prospective customers out there!

Blogs are a great way to establish oneself as an expert in one niche. In fact, much of the research that happens online is from blogs, and for this reason, Internet marketers need to be prominently visible - both on their own blogs as well as by collaborating with others. This is made possible through the web 2.0 software to provide the platform for a variety of blog-related activities.

Another very easy way to use blogs is for publicity. Just target some of the most powerful and high-ranking bloggers, and you will be surprised at the kind of publicity you get, compared to what you could expect from the conventional media.

What sets blogs apart is the fact that they focus on a niche. Even more exciting is the fact that blogs are almost constantly updated so now you know why search engines are partial to blogs! This has led to the development of a number of effective Internet marketing software that ease the process of reaching these niche blogs, along with submission software.

Well-designed blogs are invariably ranked high by the search engines, which is why no Internet marketer can afford to ignore blogs when they are strategizing on their online marketing efforts. In their portfolio of Internet marketing software, the web 2.0 software is a must-have.

The effectiveness of blogs lies in their collaboration and linking with other blogs. So let us say A has great things to say about a product; if he is influential, his opinion would be good enough for other bloggers and they would, in turn, link to his blog. As a viral marketing tool, blogs are very effective since they have a reach that is far and wide.

People can also create community and dialogue within blogs by posting comments about what the blog entrys say. Some comments even will get backlinks to your website, but many also turn this “no follow” feature off so it has no benefit for “link juice”.

Blogs can be used to establish oneself as a brand in the Internet marketing world, in relationship building, building credibility, and sharing useful information and for generating traffic.

As for Web 2.0 system and tools, Blogs are definitely one of the top tools to use. But people still chat in chatrooms and still post in forums which are very web 2.0 friendly as they create community as well and have been around ever since my commodore 64 with my 900 baud modem, calling into BBS’s which were just Chatroom and Forums to begin with.

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Top Business Opportunities for Stay at Home Moms
Research Your Direct Sales Opportunities Before Making Your Choice

As a lucrative home business, direct sales scores very highly. Because of the low initial investment and relatively low risk in starting a direct sales business, many stay at home moms opt for it. But how do you find the right direct sales opportunities? Here are some pointers to help you zero in on the one that suits you best:

You want to be passionate about the products before you decide to promote them. So either try the product yourself or ask for the product catalog and samples, so that you are totally convinced that you can offer them to your customers enthusiastically.

The direct sales company must be in the line of business you really enjoy. If cooking is your passion, then go in for direct sales products that are in a related area.

If you enjoy interior design, then choose products that relate to it. When you become associated with a business that excites you, this genuineness comes through when you promote it. It doesn’t seem like selling at all. Rather, it becomes an enjoyable activity.

How much do you need to invest at the beginning? You want to find out about start up costs, cost of a starter kit if any and also how much money you’ll need to spend to maintain the business in terms of operating and advertising costs.

You must find out if there is a minimum sales volume that you must achieve each month, and if there is, decide whether you can handle it by putting in the necessary time and effort.

What kind of income can you expect? Different direct sales businesses have different income plans in terms of commissions. Some will also pay you for recruiting others. You will also need to know how frequently the company makes payments.

Does the company offer you adequate support through a network? You will need to find out the kind of response time you can expect when you need assistance.

Most direct sales companies offer promotional material to help you in sales.

You want to know what kind of competition exists for the products you choose so that you know whether the demand is high and also whether too many companies offer the same product.

Find out whether the company you plan to associate with offers a website for online marketing.

You will probably think of some more questions as you find out which direct sales opportunities are right for you. It is important to be happy about your choice, as it is this enthusiasm that will help you enjoy what you do.

Stay at home moms are flocking to the direct selling industry. Over 80% of salespeople are women. It’s simple and easy to put in a few hours of work in per day, to make a couple hundred dollars a day.

The Top Business Opportunities for Stay at Home Moms are in the direct sales industry.

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How To Find and Sell The Top ClickBank Products: Free Video

Finding the top ClickBank products is essential to make your affiliate marketing plan a success. A number of people have complained about losing out on ClickBank and not making any money from it. The reason for this is simple- they haven’t been promoting the best-selling ClickBank products. If you don’t have a hold in the best ClickBank niches, there’s absolutely no way you’ll earn any profits.

You can easily find the top ClickBank products on ClickBank itself- just go to a category you like and select a product. You’ll notice that each selection has a set of figures with it- the one called ‘gravity’ relates to the popularity of the product. The best-selling ClickBank products usually have a high gravity reading. But that doesn’t always mean they are the best products to promote.

Top ClickBank products with good potential should have a gravity rating between 10 and 60. Naturally, many people think that the higher the popularity rating, the better the product. After all, that means a lot of people want to buy it, right? This may be true but consider this simple scenario. If you run the only candy store in the street, you’ll probably make good money. If you run a candy store in a mall filled with candy stores, your business scenario changes considerably.

Remember that the best ClickBank niches aren’t necessarily the most popular ones. This is due to something known as market saturation- if a market already has a number of affiliates in it, then it will be that much harder for you to make a sale. Top ClickBank products in areas like business and health are pretty difficult to crack. Instead of focussing on winning business strategies, you’ll be spending your time trying to stay afloat in a crowded swimming pool.

The secret to snagging the top ClickBank products is to find something, which has a demand that exceeds the supply. You can do this with a bit of keyword and key phrase research on the search engines. The best-selling Clickbank products are also those whose market hasn’t become saturated yet- this means there is ample room for you to start a marketing campaign that will bring in the traffic. These are usually markets, which rank near the top, but a number of affiliate marketers don’t see them because they are too busy looking at the number one products.

The best ClickBank niches are not the ones at the very top- they are the ones that are near the top. You’ll find that these actually hold the top ClickBank products and will bring in most profits.

For your FREE $67 training course, just click on the link below.

How To Find and Sell The Top ClickBank Products

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Meet me in San Francisco, October 10-12?

My good friend of mine and like-minded fellow Christian Marketer, Alejandro Reyes, (Successfool.com) has put together a killer line up of excellent speakers who will be speaking at the FIRST EVER Christian Internet Marketing Conference.

Here is the line up of who is speaking, and if you want to see the topics in detail, then go to:
>> Illuminate 2008 …and you can get the full details.

Speaking this year will be:

Joel Comm, Jermaine Griggs, Gary Zelesky, (me) Jeff Mills, Paul Counts, Dr. Mike Woo Ming, Ruddy Ortiz, Wade Tonkin, Jason Stanley Marshall, Monikah Ogando, Eric Farewell, Stephen Beck.

With this type of line up, one is sure to get a great cross mix of marketing strategies and tools for growing their marketing efforts while learning how to build a profitable purpose-driven business.

Attendees will learn about SEO, Outsourcing, Product Launches, Financial Strategies, Traffic Strategies, Affiliate marketing, How to Discover their Passion, Advanced Personalization Strategies & much much more.

Whether you’re a novice or a pro, promoting a network marketing company or your own products or service…the Illuminate Conference promises a 100% satisfaction guaranteed policy where, if after 3 days you don’t feel like you got any value, then you can ask for 100% of your money back!

For a limited time only, Alejandro has reduced the ticket price to $197 as he doesn’t want their to be ANY excuse for anyone not to be at this event to take their life and business to the next level.

I highly recommend you attend Alejandro’s Illuminate Conference and get new skills, solutions and systems to help you take your business to the next level.

Go here to get their complete story, go here: Illuminate 2008

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One of my friends showed me this video and I had to laugh. It’s funny, short and packs a powerful message at the expense of Bruno and Pablo.

If you struggle to make money or you work too hard and you still don’t see results, watch this short video.

Want to learn how I use a pipeline to get endless leads daily and have those leads buy from me weekly on HIGH TICKET items, paying me $1000’s?

I’ll show you many ways to make over $1000 per sale, and you don’t have to work very hard. But, yea… you still gotta work alittle and the payouts and product value are huge!

See this website: Home Business Travel

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Here is an awesome video from Gary Vaynerchuk on Branding, Passion, People and Legacy.. and some Fbombs to boot (don’t play this with little ears in the room). Yea, spend 15 mins watching the whole thing. Just listen and ask yourself…. “What do I do with this?”

Also, interesting point… Gary said, everything we do now is being documented online, video, pictures, websites, social communications, and tweets… the world can see it all. In the “Old Days” if you wanted to know about your parents, grandparents, how did you do it? You looked at pictures and listened to their story. But that was all you had… pictures and stories, and a little bit of super 8 video (watching super 8 backward was cool, especially skiing movies where we purposely wiped out in a plume of snow and to see us magically reverse to upright… that made the milk come out my nose!).

But right now, everything we do online is documented and watched. Are you doing it for the money or are you doing it for the passion?

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I just watched this exciting 20 minute video that I had to share with everyone. Check this out! Click on the graphic image below. The blog on the back end is on fire and people are seemingly foaming at the mouth to get their hands on this system!

Have you seen all the buzz and craziness in the IM forums about this Adwords Code thing?

This video by Michael Jones is causing an amazing amount of controversy

(Click the link below if you haven’t seen it yet)

>> The Adwords Code by Michael Jones <<

It seems that a lot of people are so stuck in their old ways that they don’t want to  admit things are hanging.

It’s not about having bunches of keywords anymore and longtail this and longtail that.

If you’re still operating like that, your business is going under - whether you believe it  or not - and Michael’s going to show you why.

Marketing has changed. Check out the proof below:

>> The Adwords Code by Michael Jones <<

If you’re happy using 4 or 5 year old techniques to make your bread and butter with, carry on. But if you value your future and want to move forward with a business that’s more profitable than ever, watching this video is the first piece of the puzzle…

>> The Adwords Code by Michael Jones <<

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