- What kind of lawn care services do you need?
- How much is your budget to keep your lawn healthy?
- How many times your lawn should be mowed per week?
- What other services would you like to have for your lawn?
Anthony Stott
Tuesday, 17 July 2012
Brisbane Lawn Mowing Services: Choosing a Company
Wednesday, 11 July 2012
Getting the Best Brisbane Mowing Services - Things to Consider in
Brisbane Mowing - Getting the Best Services
Modern living can demand so much of your time, and mowing grasses to keep your lawn in good condition may not be the most excellent use of your precious time. Maintaining a lawn and garden is hard work. Save time for yourself by locating a Brisbane mowing services provider and let its professional lawn mowers or gardeners do all the work for you.
It would be smarter to have your lawn maintained by professionals. Not only you can save time and energy mowing your lawn but you can also be sure that proper lawn mowing procedures are performed. Perhaps, you are aware that in order to properly maintain your lawn all through the year, you can take much time, effort and tools. Because of this, many people are using a lawn care company.
Many people are enlisting the services of a lawn care company for simple weekly tasks like mowing, edging, watering, aerating, fertilizing and many more. Currently, there is intense competition in this industry and it can be quite a challenge to pick the right mowing services provider. So, before you choose a Brisbane mowing services provider, it is advisable to consider some things to get the best service.
Billing Options
Many mowing services in Brisbane offer two billing options: a “per visit” fee or flat fee for the whole season. One downside of the “per visit” charge or paying per hour is that you may find your turf being mowed frequently. The more times your yard needs to be mowed, the more it can cost you. Opting for a fixed rate for the entire season means that once you paid the provider, you do not have to spend more even if your lawn has to be mowed two or more times a week. Due to this possible conflict, see to it that any contract you have to sign will enable you to take over your turf without having to pay any penalty.
License and Certifications
You can have peace of mind that proper mowing will be done on your lawn if the job will be performed by well trained professionals. Go for a lawn care or mowing services provider that has liability insurance and a license or certification to perform mowing services.
Optional Services
While all lawns seem to be the same in nature, each type can have different needs especially when it comes to proper care and maintenance. Ask your prospective mowing services provider about optional services. Aside from the cost, you have to determine what other services you should avail to keep your lawn healthy.
If possible, do not just sign any agreement or contract without reading it carefully. Make sure to know the terms and conditions of a Brisbane mowing services provider before you take a go for its services. See to it that your chosen company has already served a number of satisfied clients. This could help you have peace of mind or feel at ease that the mowing task would really be performed professionally.
Sunday, 15 January 2012
Software for a Home Based MLM Business
There are four main pieces of software that I use for my home based MLM business. Three of them are based around SEO and Internet marketing practices.
Google Keyword Tool (https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal)
I use GKT to help find ideas for markets that I want to target. It is a free for anyone to use. You type in a word or phrase and Google will spit out suggestions based on what you input. What I generally do is to brainstorm as many keywords to do with the topic and then input this into GKT (you can input multiple keywords). If you have a Google account use it to sign into adwords because google will give you more suggestions. Go onto similar websites to yours (or your competitions websites) and have a look at their keywords using the website tab. Here are a few steps to get as many keywords as possible:
- Download all they keywords and put them into a spreadsheet, take the top 50 and input into GKT, rinse and repeat
- Go through the keywords and delete any duplicate and irrelevant.
When I was researching the market I wanted to target, I ended up with a list of 5000 keywords to start my research with. This is an awesome free tool.
Market Samurai
Now that you have you list of keywords for your target market you can use the mother of keyword/competition software. Market samurai will sift through and gather huge amounts of data to help you find the keywords that have the right amount of traffic and the right amount of competition for you to dominate. I am not going to go into how to use the software in this article as the guys at MS have training videos on their website that will show you everything. Some of the other features are: seeing how strong the competition is, finding content, publishing content and finding authority back links
Ping Kaching (http://bit.ly/rBDOZF)
This piece if software will save you hours! Ping Kaching is a link building software. From this nifty piece of software you can : -bookmark your content to dozens of social bookmarking websites -submit your websites to all of the search engines +-130! -submit your website to dozens of directories -pinging - status updates All at the click of a button
Camtasia (http://www.techsmith.com/index.html)
I spent far too much time and got way too frustrated finding and using free video/ screen capture software in the name of saving $297 I eventually relented and bought camtasia. It is by far the best software I have used for screen captures and for recording from your webcam. So if you are planning to include video in your marketing strategy then this is the only software you will need. It has an easy to use dashboard and also allows you to edit you videos. A great feature is being able to strip out the audio, this is perfect for content re purposing.
Become the hunted instead of the hunter. Actually get paid to prospect. Free Video Series!
Software for a Home Based MLM Business
There are four main pieces of software that I use for my home based MLM business. Three of them are based around SEO and Internet marketing practices.
Google Keyword Tool (https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal)
I use GKT to help find ideas for markets that I want to target. It is a free for anyone to use. You type in a word or phrase and Google will spit out suggestions based on what you input. What I generally do is to brainstorm as many keywords to do with the topic and then input this into GKT (you can input multiple keywords). If you have a Google account use it to sign into adwords because google will give you more suggestions. Go onto similar websites to yours (or your competitions websites) and have a look at their keywords using the website tab. Here are a few steps to get as many keywords as possible:
- Download all they keywords and put them into a spreadsheet, take the top 50 and input into GKT, rinse and repeat
- Go through the keywords and delete any duplicate and irrelevant.
When I was researching the market I wanted to target, I ended up with a list of 5000 keywords to start my research with. This is an awesome free tool.
Market Samurai
Now that you have you list of keywords for your target market you can use the mother of keyword/competition software. Market samurai will sift through and gather huge amounts of data to help you find the keywords that have the right amount of traffic and the right amount of competition for you to dominate. I am not going to go into how to use the software in this article as the guys at MS have training videos on their website that will show you everything. Some of the other features are: seeing how strong the competition is, finding content, publishing content and finding authority back links
Ping Kaching (http://bit.ly/rBDOZF)
This piece if software will save you hours! Ping Kaching is a link building software. From this nifty piece of software you can : -bookmark your content to dozens of social bookmarking websites -submit your websites to all of the search engines +-130! -submit your website to dozens of directories -pinging - status updates All at the click of a button
Camtasia (http://www.techsmith.com/index.html)
I spent far too much time and got way too frustrated finding and using free video/ screen capture software in the name of saving $297 I eventually relented and bought camtasia. It is by far the best software I have used for screen captures and for recording from your webcam. So if you are planning to include video in your marketing strategy then this is the only software you will need. It has an easy to use dashboard and also allows you to edit you videos. A great feature is being able to strip out the audio, this is perfect for content re purposing.
Become the hunted instead of the hunter. Actually get paid to prospect. Free Video Series!
Saturday, 14 January 2012
How to Avoid Getting Eaten!
Your competitors will eat you alive if you do not have a strong internet marketing strategy for your home based MLM business. But before you can develop a strategy you need to know who your competitors are. So how do you do this when there are so many people in the MLM industry? Well, it's really quite simple. So here is a step-by-step lesson on finding out who is who in your market: Wait! Before I give you the steps you need to have a few questions in mind when looking at your competitors:
- Who is ranking tops in the results?
- What are they selling?
- Who is advertising?
- Who is putting out content and what are they putting out?
Okay, so here are the steps.
- Go to Google and type in your product or service eg: Super Dooper Vitamin Drink or Super Dooper MLM Course (not real products) or your keywords (for those of you who have done proper market research).
- In the results you will get all the top search results, click on the first ten and see what they are about. Make a note of names, products etc
- At the top of the Google website on the left you will have options like images, videos, news, blogs, forums etc
- Click through all of these tabs and do the same as in step 2
- Go to Facebook and search there, again do the same as in step 2
- Go to Youtube and search there, again do the same as in step 2
- Go to (your preferred social networking site) and search there, again do the same as in step 2
- Go to Google Alerts and type in your product or service or keywords. You can have them emailed to you or sent to your Google reader account.
- Google reader is where your alerts as well as your RSS feeds are delivered to.
Become the hunted instead of the hunter. Actually get paid to prospect. Free Video Series!
Thursday, 22 December 2011
How Frustration led Me to Magnetic Sponsoring
After joining my third mlm company I still found myself getting nowhere. In each company I had spent hundreds of dollars on CDs, flyers and other marketing materials and was led to believe that the way to build my MLM business was to distribute these to anyone and everyone. I had made a list of 100 people I know and contacted them with no success.
I was very frustrated with the mlm companies and the leaders who were pushing these methods. I was tired of these very inefficient ways of trying to sign up prospects and customers. I wanted a new way an easier way of making a success out of my mlm business. The old ways didn't suit my style.
It was all this frustration and disillusion that led me to Magnetic Sponsoring
I had fallen for the hype on all three occasions, each time thinking a better product would be the key to my success. Boy, was I wrong. It was at this point that sat down and had a good long think about this whole MLM business. The major thing that I could see that wasn't going well for me was the marketing. I had been to an internet marketing course and had been blown away by the power and the leverage of the Internet. So when I found magnetic sponsoring I knew that I had hit the jackpot. Here is a company that was founded by a top earner in MLM and his training uses internet marketing fundamentals to build an MLM business...Perfect!
To learn how to attract endless new prospects and distributers go to AnthonyStott.com
Tuesday, 20 December 2011
Keep your eyes on the prize
Motivation in a Home Based MLM Business
For me the motivation to put in the hard work and endure the steep learning curve without getting to disheartened comes from keeping my eyes on the prize. I have a very clear picture of what I want my life to look like. This is not a fixed end goal, as my expectations and dreams change over time. It is more a constant striving to be more, have more, do more.
I have 5 main passions in life
My family
Travelling
Surfing
Making furniture
My business
The goal of the business is to fund the other passions as well as become better at what I do and to achieve more within the business.
There is no real end goals for these passions as they things that bring me joy, happiness and contentment. I am not looking to becoming the best surfer in the world or turn professional, but I am always working on being a fitter and stronger surfer and improving the moves I can do.
The prize for me is more a lifestyle.
I am constantly thinking and daydreaming about my passions, they are always on my mind. Whenever I am at my desk putting in the hard work into my MLM business, I am also thinking about the goals and dreams. That's what keeps me motivated.
Some tips for you to keep motivated in your Home Based MLM Business:
- Decide what it is you are working towards
- Define weekly, monthly and annual goals
- Build a picture in your mind of the lifestyle you want to achieve and live
- Daydream about your lifestyle all day long
To learn how to attract endless new prospects and distributers go to AnthonyStott.com