How to Leverage Your Efforts For Online Business Success

One of the big differences between people who succeed in business and those who don't lies in how they use leverage. From Donald Trump and other billionaires all the way down, learning how to effectively leverage your time and money is how you grow your business. Period.

In big business, companies use leverage by borrowing money from banks and investors to fund their expansion. They also leverage time by outsourcing operations externally that normally would have taken the efforts of their direct staff.

We, as online business owners and internet marketers, can use leverage to grow and expand our businesses as well. In this article, I want to show you a few ways to do this.

Suggestions

1. When you create content to submit online - think with the end in mind!! Make sure that what you want to say can be easily converted across the variety of Web 2.0 mediums out there. (For example: all content you produce should be submitted as a video, as an article, as a press release, as a blog post and as a podcast.) To make sure this is possible, it helps if you map out your content before you submit it anywhere. You should ask yourself, "Can I turn this piece of information into all of the above mediums in order to maximize my online presence?" If the answer is yes, then you are leveraging your time properly.

The content I'm producing here is a good example. Instead of just submitting this article to Ezine, I've submitted it to 20 other article sites, 10 video sites, 3 blog sites, 5 press release sites and 2 podcasts. Effectively, I'm creating 40 backlinks with just one piece of content, directly increasing the search engine ranking for my primary business opportunity website and generating lots of free leads and traffic in the process! If I were to submit four pieces of content, that would be a total of 160 backlinks!! This is powerful stuff! I'm absolutely certain that if you do this, you will see a big difference in your business.

2. Another great way to leverage is to outsource whenever it makes sense. I say "whenever it makes sense" because often certain tasks are best done by you. However, submitting your content to video, article, press release, podcast and blog sites admittedly takes a lot of time. Thus, I suggest outsourcing it if you can. There are plenty of companies that offer virtual assistants from around the globe whose services you can rent for a very reasonable hourly rate. It makes sense to outsource the job of submitting your content across the Web. This inevitably frees up more of your time to create valuable content for your prospects.

Obviously, if you're just starting out, you may not have the financial resources to outsource, but I think leveraging your valuable time by outsourcing is a great goal to strive for. I truly hope these suggestions help your bottom line in 2009.

Best,
Dan

Platinum One Destinations

Residual Income With Google AdSense

Residual income is something I've been thinking about a lot lately. As an entrepreneur and home-based business owner, I try to focus on ways to make my money and time work best work for me. Having spent several years in investment consulting prior to becoming an entrepreneur, I have a pretty good understanding of asset allocation and capital markets. But for a long time, I've neglected to discover other ways of earning residual income - and specifically, how to create residual income ONLINE! With that said, I do earn residual income through my company Platinum One Destinations, but nonetheless, I wanted to find another vehicle in addition.

So recently, I've concentrated my efforts into doing so. One of the ways I've encountered (and I am certainly not the first) is through the use of Google Adsense. For those of you not familiar with Google AdSense, basically what it is is a program that allows you to run Google advertisements on your website, in exchange for being paid for each visitor that clicks one of the ads. Simply stated, you earn money from relevant adds that Google places on your website. This is a great way to monetize whatever website you may have, such as your blog!

As stated on Wikipedia "AdSense has been particularly important for delivering advertising revenue to small sites that do not have the resources for developing advertising sales programs and salespeople." Many entrepreneurs are using Adsense as a way to make a passive income to supplement their business income.

I just wanted to pass this idea on to you, in hopes it can help you attain the passive income you've been looking for. For more insight, you can check out the main link here for Google AdSense.

As I've said in previous posts, I'm determined to help others create a lifestyle that will make them more free to enjoy the finer things in life like family, time freedom and the opportunity to travel and live anywhere in the world.

To Your Success,
Dan

Dan Snow
888-826-0705

http://www.p1dwealthsecrets.com/

The Four Hour Work Week

One of my favorite books from the past 12 months is definitely The Four Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss. As you can imagine from the name of the title, it became an instant hit with entrepreneurs around the world. In the book, Tim argues that we have amazing opportunity in this generation to live a mobile lifestyle, and to design diverse and exciting present and future realities for ourselves just by using the power of automation and the internet.

I was an entrepreneur and home business owner long before I read this book, but reading it made me re-realize how lucky we are that we do have such a dynamic opportunity to build wealth as entrepreneurs....FROM ANYWHERE WE WANT! Having freedom of mobility is the main reason I became an entrepreneur. I love being able to live where I want, move as often as I want, all while knowing I can run my Platinum One Destinations business and build wealth without sacrificing efficiency.

On the front cover of his book, Tim summarizes, "Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, And Join The New Rich" - an enticing offer indeed! Home business and online entrepreneurship is providing so many people with the chance to live where they want and create wealth in the process. It's definitely nowhere near being too late to jump aboard. In fact, the market for home based business is growing at tremendous speed.I encourage you to think about the possibilities...




Last year, I was living and working in Asia and had an amazing time. Above is a picture of me with some Japanese elementary school students in my town in Southern Japan.

To Your Success,
Dan

Dan Snow
888-826-0705

http://www.p1dwealthsecrets.com/

Platinum One Destinations

When I decided to become an entrepreneur, I knew that whatever I did HAD to combine the power of the internet and travel. Making this decision was the first step. Then, once I knew I wanted to pursue the home based travel business, I started to network with people who had already found success in the the industry. The first company I promoted was Coastal Vacations. Although it was a great opportunity, I found an even better fit with Platinum One Destinations , and eventually made the move over.

Now I help others succeed in this business. I teach my team members how to harness the power of the internet to market themselves and their business. I show them how to attract free leads and traffic by telling their own story (as opposed to leading with their business) using social networking websites like Youtube, Myspace and Facebook. This strategy allows them to reach TENS OF THOUSANDS of potential prospects with their message in a very short amount of time. I do this alon with teaching them how to automate as much of their business as they can.

With P1D, The commissions on each transaction are high, ranging from $750 - $7500 and the support and training provided by the Synergy Marketing Group, the sales and support arm of P1D is superior to all of the other companies I've studied in this industry.

I always love to connect with other entrepreneurs, or even people who are just curious about what it would be like to leave the deferred life plan behind and create their own lifestyle.I hope you are having a great month of July!

Take Care,
Dan

Dan Snow
DanSnow@GOP1D.com

http://dansnow.p1drevolution.com
http://dansnow.gop1d.com
http://www.youtube.com/user/D79SN

Become An Entrepreneur And Change Your Life

If you've been looking for a way to escape the 9-5 grind and work from home, then you are not alone. Hundreds of thousands of first time entrepreneurs are experiencing success today in home based business.

The internet and it's amazing array of social networking websites allows you to market your business to tens of thousands of people around the globe, which has made becoming an entrepreneur easier than it has ever been. That's not to say there isn't competition out there(and why wouldn't there be with the prize at stake!!), but rather that there has never been as much incredible opportunity to build wealth and personal freedom as there is today, here in the first decade of the 21st century.

There are many reasons to become an entrepreneur and we all know what they are. For me it was mostly about gaining time and freedom of mobility. Being able to travel and live abroad, while building financial freedom at the same time was and is my BIG DREAM. I'm here to say that it's definitely possible to design any lifestyle you want. All you need to do is determine the dream and then systematically put the pieces together. I quit my job, found an entrepreneurial opportunity with Platinum One Destinations and took back my life. Now I teach others how to do the same.

Take Care!
Dan

Dan Snow
407-507-4646

http://dansnow.p1drevolution.com/
http://dansnow.gop1d.com/
http://dreamwithp1d.com/

Coming Home

I can't tell you how much fun I've had living abroad and experiencing life in other countries. The worth of these experiences to me is almost indescribable. I started traveling heavily when I was in college, but that came to a screeching hault once I graduated. For several years, I was pretty much bound to the "two weak" vacation of the business world. Not having much vacation time didn't sit well with me, but I took it in stride as part of the game, and one of the sacrifices necessary for moving up the ladder.

After a few years of this type of sacrifice, it finally hit me that I just wasn't going to be satisfied waiting until retirement to have time freedom, mobility and financial independence. Thus, I made the decision to remove myself from the deferred life plan mentality (i.e, the one where we sacrifice our early adult lives and middle age for the hope of a nice retirement). I just figured that there HAD to be a way to save for retirement while having more freedom along the way. Admittedly, leaving the coporate path was a tough thing for me to consider, because so many of my peers were seemingly happy with this life. I started out after college working in investment consulting, which I enjoyed well enough at the time. I liked the group of associates that I was a part of and there was a good balance between work and play. I definitely had the opportunity to make some great friends and learn a lot about finance from professionals who had spent their careers in the industry.

As I approached the 3+ year mark as an associate, I knew I was soon to be faced with the choice of business school or finding a new job. Very few if any ever climbed the ranks from associate up to management without first heading back for the mandatory 2 year stint in business school, so it was a perfect time for me to make my exit.

That's when I decided I needed to become an entrepreneur to have the lifestyle I wanted. I started networking with other entrepreneurs and found an opportunity for myself in the home based travel industry with a company called Coastal Vacations. It was here that I started to learn how to successfully apply internet marketing and personal developent to the building of my business. I ended up moving from Coastal when an opportunity to join Platinum One Destinations came about, and subsequently, I've been there ever since.

For me there are many keys to success in network marketing and home business. But in my opinion, some of the most important are:

1) Spending as much time developing yourself as you do your business! I believe that you have to focus on your own personal development and continuing education. This in turn will translate into more business success.

2) Have a really, REALLY good WHY for what you are doing. Having big goals like places you want to travel to, fortunes you want to make, a future family you want to support, or benevolences you want to give, will power you through the difficult time when your energy is low and confidence is even lower.

3) Learn how to use leverage in your business development! I teach my team members how to use Web 2.0 the right way. There are many ways to use leverage, like harnessing the power of the internet and learning from the experiences of those who have gone before you. These are just a few points that I will definitely talk more about soon.

Have a great week!
-Dan

Dan Snow
407-507-4646
DanSnow@GOP1D.com

http://dansnow.p1drevolution.com/
http://dansnow.gop1d.com/
http://www.youtube.com/user/D79SN