Ever caught yourself feeling like mouse in a cage, running, and running, working like crazy and yet no major results to show for?

There might be a reason for it.

Believe it or not, the success and results have little to do with how hard you work and how focused you are on working hard. But they have a lot to do with what you think about them.

How you feel and how you think about your results brings about your results in a form that matches your thoughts and feelings about it.

But having the particular feeling or thought about something on a regular basis is lot easier said then done.

I don’t know about you guys, but for me sticking to something for over a period of time is not always the easiest task, but at my best times when I am able to have the discipline to stick to my 90 day challenge it always brings about great things.

There are 3 things I find imperative to my success of realizing specific goals for my business.

Clean up

I can’t quite relax nor focus on my work if my house and my work area are not clean. So prior to major projects I do a big cleaning. That way it only takes a minute or two to get it all in order every morning for next week or so.

Exercise

I’m not an expert in this area but I do know that when your work out you release “the good stuff” in your body and it pumps you up, it clears your brain, it gives you “I can do it” feeling and it really starts up some creative juices flowing around. I feel on top of the world after I exercise even for just 20-30 minutes.

Visualize

There are several ways to help you visualize your goals. You can meditate; you can spend time with your vision board; or you can write them down. If you feel like you might need some help with it, I strongly suggest Bob’s ideas here….

These three things together I combine and apply on a regular basis every day. Put all together it takes me about an hour do them all, and I do them every morning.

I call it my “Hour of Power”.

Any time I employed this recipe, I got exactly what was in my goals. Go ahead, try it and you’ll see for yourself.

P.S. Don’t forget to have fun doing it.

What helps you the most make your goals a reality?

If you’ve decided to include eNewsletter in your marketing efforts, here are

3 Things Your eNewsletter Campaign Must Have

1) Target Content

The newsletter must offer content that is of interest to that group of readers. People are being bombarded with hundreds of emails today with content to be read. How is your content standing out? The content has to be good enough to keep readers wanting to open your emails. Ultimately it is about creating useful content that solves problems and meets needs for people.

2) Delivery

I use Aweber to deliver my emails. However you can use pretty much any email newsletter service for the process I outline below as long as it allows you to set up an auto-responder or sequence of emails. Aweber has many really cool features including variety of newsletter templates you can choose from.

3) Easy and convenient unsubscribe feature

You can’t force anybody to read your newsletter. If they are not your real prospect, let them leave as soon as possible, so you can’t concentrate and work on those who are. It won’t do you any good to have a list of 5000 people when 4500 don’t ever read your stuff or has no relationship with you.

Don’t feel bad about people unsubscribing, but do use those statistics to help you tweak your newsletter and make appropriate adjustments.

Look for the patterns instead and try to figure out where you have a weak link.

Leaked excerpt on importance of eNewsletter from my  Social Media Marketing Manifesto self-study course:

Underestimated Power Of Newsletter

Now this is where the power of it all hits in a synergistic way.

Your interaction with people in social media properties gets you the followers – people who are willing to pay attention to you.

The content you share through videos, articles, blogging, and such helps you establish yourself as an expert and a leader – this is where they get some serious interest in you and what you have to share.

But it’s not until they have actually expressed permission for you to send them your content, interact with them, and offer them tools and resources you might find would help them in search of a perfect home, that you will get to see your profits soar.

Permission is not a right, it’s an earned privilege, and so many people who are trying to market online falsely confuse the two.

A newsletter or a subscription to your content gives you a playing field where you and your systematic approach actually convert those prospects into happy and profitable customers.

This is where you can build upon the interest you have created in your earlier interaction with your prospects; and start converting it into a long-term interest.

You can do this through offering more valuable content, offering tools and resources that are in your affiliate library, and of course, the products you’ve created yourself.

This is what builds your greatest asset in your business: the relationship with your list….

To learn more about how to apply Social Media to YOUR business, go here to  Social Media Marketing Manifesto

Wow, I’m excited to announce that Aleksandra’s Blog is now being featured on Alltop – one of the most popular news aggregates on the internet.

It seems that our readers are not the only ones who appreciate and respect our hard work.

We’ve been working hard to bring you cutting edge strategies for online marketing that actually work for you. As a result, Aleksandra’s Blog has attracted a loyal following of readers, and is now being included in the news stream shared with the world on even much larger scale as well.

We thank all of you especially our loyal readers who keep coming back, reading and contributing.

It’s been a great fun and great pleasure sharing my knowledge and interacting with all of the readers, and we’re looking forward to only even bigger and brighter future.

THANK YOU ALL!

Make sure you also check out Alltops’ own story – too cool!

To YOUR ultimate success,

Aleksandra

P.S. Could use some feedback: What topics would you like to see Aleksandra’s Blog featured on Alltop? Please comment below.

Learning in today’s digital world is fun.

With webinars, teleseminars, podcasts, ustream shows, videos…you name it – we have it all.

But no matter how far we have gotten with technology, good ole’ black on white books you can find on the shelf at the local bookstore are still well worth one’s time.

This year I have ditched the cable and all those millions of channels and I spent my free time going back to the basics…sitting in a comfy couch, or a cozy chair, or even out on the patio and by the pool, and letting myself being taken to many other dimension by some brilliant writers and their books.

I decided to make a list of those I truly believe, that no matter what business you’re in, these are a must read.

Do you have any books you’d like to add to this list? Please share below…

There has been a lot of buzz lately about First Time Home Buyer Tax Credit Extension. This extension is lot more than just extension. It actually brings some new points as well that make is more attainable to a larger group of audience.

Here are Top 3 Things You MUST Know About First Time Home Buyer Tax Credit Extension.

What do you think about the new extension? I’d love to hear your feedback…

I’ve gotten tremendous amounts of feedback from people in real estate who are interested in generating leads online with Social Media.

While I was not able to respond to every single feedback personally, I did go through each of them and took notes on the general recurring theme in terms of what’s troubling most real estate sales professionals trying to generate leads online.

I’ve broken it down into a few main challenges and have some answers for you which I will share November 5^th, 2009 – Thursday at 8:30 PM CST during a LIVE webinar.

So if you are serious about generating leads online (for free…) and are sick and tired of floundering around wasting precious marketing dollars, join us then by first registering here:

>>Aleksandra Walters presents:

How to Use Social Media To Make Money in Your Real Estate Business

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This 1 hour webinar with Social Media Vixen herself Aleksandra Walters (that would be ME!!!) is going to be invaluable!

Gaining insight into how the most successful internet marketers are building their online empires and how you can do that too in your real estate business yourself is going to be worth its weight in gold.

Through personal mentoring and working closely with the biggest names in the industry, I’ve been picking their brains for the last 11 months and now I’m going to share with you EXACTLY how we are able to generate targeted leads consistently and effortlessly.

Do NOT miss this training if YOU want to be a leader and a trend-setter in your industry; and in fact, if can’t see your name hardly anywhere on Google pages, you can’t afford to miss this!

Webinar is FREE, but the seating is limited. Please RSVP today:

See you there!

To YOUR ultimate success,
Aleksandra