This group is for business owners, entrepreneurs and professionals who want to drive more traffic, generate more leads and maximize profits by using internet marketing strategies to include but not limited to lead capture/sales pages, list building, auto responders, Yelp, Pinterest, LinkedIn, YouTube, Facebook, Blogging, Google Places, review sites, video marketing, keyword research and more.

Online marketing is important because…

• Your business needs to be found on online.
• People are already looking for you, the questions is can they find you.
• People are using their computers, ipads, and mobile device to find just about anything.
• If they can’t find you are losing business and money.
• You can either fight and resist technology or embrace it as the future of doing business.

Most business owners know something about online marketing. Although knowing something and executing a strategic game plan are two very different things.

Instead of one more week flying by and saying to yourself… someday I will get around to it… I just don’t get this internet marketing stuff… I just want to pay someone else to do all this for me.

Your online marketing mastermind group is your solution to getting all the support you need to get real results online.

Okay maybe you are not a complete novice about online marketing and you have set up your own WordPress blog, posted some articles, maybe you have even shot a couple YouTube videos. The problem is no one is reading your articles and no one is watching your videos, and no body is liking you comments on Facebook. Sound like a waste of time right. Well, it is kinda.

But what if you were part of and online marketing mastermind group who was committed to your online success by leaving comments on all of your online content.

You may have heard the google saying that “content is king on the web”. Well that is changing and where we are headed is “engagement will be king”. So what in the world does that mean, well it means that content will start taking a back seat to popularity. Popularity simply means that you have several people who you are engaged in some form of dialogue with you or vise versa.

How cool would it be to be surrounded by a group of peers who could help you achieve your business goals. Wouldn’t be nice to share resources, get honest feedback and be held accountable to the execution of your online marketing game plan.

Okay, I know this may seem both exciting and overwhelming but rest assured we will approach this internet marketing monster together and succeed.

If you have ever spent even a dime on internet marking or training then we want to hear from you. We want to know what you have learned, what works and what doesn’t work.

So here is what I propose. On Friday’s 3 times per month we will meet from 9:00 am until 11:30. We will focus on one aspect of online marketing. There will be both individual assignments and group assignments. This will be a working mastermind group where you will be responsible for investing your time and energy into your own personal project as well as committing to the success of each other.

If you are interested in attending one of our local online marketing mastermind meetings please call (760) 930-9604.

To Your Online Success,

Greg Clowminzer, Business and Life Coach

PS So, what do you think? Please feel free to leave your comments below.

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One of the best ways to get free traffic to your website is through the use of Google Places. Make sure you take the time to set it up and claim this simple and powerful way for your customers to find you.

Google Places is here to help you reach customers in your nearby market, it is necessary that your company can easily be identified in natural search results. Also, know as organic search results. Organic equals free traffic.

One of the easiest ways to get free traffic is by establishing your Google Places webpage. Since Google just recently launched lots brand-new changes to its search results, the map listings are currently combined with the organic search results, with lots of places pages ranking near the top of Google’s search results. Plus, in addition to offering you an improvement in your organic web traffic, establishing your Google Place page assists you making certain your business info shows up so that consumers seeking your services and products can find you. Get started today and obtain your Google Places page. Get it set up and optimized, here.

Remember it’s free traffic to your website.
Warm Regards,

Greg Clowminzer, Business and Life Coach

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by Tami Magaro

Q. What are the top things entrepreneurs generally struggle with?

Close to 90% of entrepreneurs I talk to self-diagnose themselves as having Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). They struggle to stay focused, keep clear priorities and follow through. It’s one of the biggest struggles. Entrepreneurs have one great idea after another. They are very creative and resourceful. Unfortunately, without focus these ideas are just a lot of great ideas never manifested. Removing distraction is very important. Entrepreneurs learn through talking so it’s important to provide a really safe place for them to articulate and verbalize their ideas so they can learn to synthesize.

Q. Do you use social media to market yourself?

Social media is relatively new. I’ve been using social media more in the last 6 months and will continue to make it apart of my marketing strategy. I started with YouTube a few years ago. The first videos were created to explain my work in meditation retreats; to explain what the retreats were and the benefit someone might get from participating. I share coaching information and more recently, share tricks and tactics on social media e.g. Google ranking. I love creating ‘how to’ videos. I find them to be really valuable. I have a Fan page on Facebook. I’m on LinkedIn and Twitter. I have a fairly large following. What is interesting about Twitter once you’ve amassed a large following, what I would call ‘social influence’ you can bring more attention to your efforts e.g. video, blogs and guide people to what I’m up to. I converted my website onto WordPress which I highly recommend. It provides real value as I’m able to track it.

Q. What are daily/weekly exercises for entrepreneurs?

I ask all my clients to complete a ‘coaching call prep form’ before we speak each week. The prep form is a list, reporting on what you’ve accomplished since we last spoke. So there’s a record of what is actually getting done. I also ask what they intended to do but didn’t get done. There’s built in accountability. What are the challenges and problems they are currently facing? What opportunities are currently showing? We generally tease out an assignment based on our conversation. A really great weekly exercise for entrepreneurs is just planning their week in advance. Asking yourself, what are three to five things I want to get accomplished next week that would really forward my business?

Q. What type of workshops do you provide?

I offer a monthly ‘communicating and relating’ dyad workshop. It’s a practice where people are taught how to fully self-reflect, go within and share whatever comes up. So for example, if you and I were sitting down across from one another, I might ask you a question to build a relationship between us. I might say, “Tell me something you’d like to tell me.” You may think, what do I want to tell Greg? Maybe you want to share how much you really appreciate this interview today. I say, “Thank you.” Then, you give me the same question back. I might share with you that I’m noticing I’m getting an appetite and am thinking about what I want to have for lunch today. As simple as it sounds, there is something that happens over this self-reflection and self-disclosure, people actually improve their ability to communicate and relate to one another. People learn to self-reflect and communicate what arises. It’s a really powerful practice. People fall in love with themselves, because they have a deeper understanding of who they are and who other people are. The world becomes a better place. I offer an intense three-day version of this workshop twice a year. This is a residential retreat. It’s a formal setting like a Zen retreat. We get up early and practice dyad communication practice over and over and over again throughout the three days. We practice walking and sitting meditation and…good food! It’s like learning yoga or martial arts, every time you practice you self-correct and improve your technique. It’s a simple technique that gets refined over time with practice. I teach people how to refine the practice. It’s a life changing process.

Greg Clowminzer is both a successful entrepreneur and life coach. He is a passionate truth-seeker, known as the “Zen Coach” he brings self-realization and spiritual teaching to a successful business and life coaching practice. An avid writer, you can find online coaching tips published on “Daily Wisdom.” To subscribe to Daily Wisdom, send a blank email to: DailyWisdom-on@letters.webvalence.com.

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The key to success in business is the ability to stay focused, make great decisions, and take appropriate action while fostering creativity.

Meditation devotees include junk-bond-king-turned-philanthropist Mike Milken; Bill George, the former Medtronic (Charts, Fortune 500) CEO; ad industry mogul Renetta McCann; and NBA coach Phil Jackson. Silicon Valley is full of meditators, such as Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce.com (Charts), and Larry Brilliant, head of Google’s philanthropic efforts.

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I was alerted that a past client of mine was talking about their experience of something we talked about years ago. What I had shared with him was about establishing boundaries and fully communicating what is arising for you in your relation to others. Along with a series of steps to help with the practice of communicating what IS and IS not OK in to say or do in your personal space.

Here is the article Google Alerted me to:

Do You Know How to Keep Your Anger From
Being Destructive in These Four Easy Steps?

By James Oates

This is a short article, with the intention of sharing some information that was taught to me a number of years ago by one of my early mentors, Greg Clowminzer.  When I was younger, by a decade or two, my anger was a fairly constant companion, primarily because I would let the anger bottle-up inside until something would happen that would cause the bottle to pop.  I did not know how to communicate my displeasure with someone else’s behavior in a compassionate and supportive manner.  I was taught this simple process, which will teach others what your boundaries are.  This process also presumes that you want to maintain the relationship with the person that you are speaking with.  If they do some something that will not allow you to maintain the relationship, then this process is moot.

As I share these steps, it is important to keep in mind, that these steps are not taken in anger.  You may be experiencing some anger in the moment, and, it is important to take a breath, and communicate openly and without destructive energy.  So, let’s get started…

Step 1 – “I would like to inform you that what you just said (or did) caused me to feel angry.”  Sometimes our relationships do not even know that what they just said or did angered you.  Be compassionate and let them know by informing them of it.  Many times they will let you know that they were not aware that their behavior had that impact on you.  Just let them know.

Step 2 – If this person whom you have previously informed about your boundary in step 1, says or does the same thing again, after you have informed them, there is no need to erupt upon them, simply say this…”Do you recall when I informed you that what you were saying (or did) caused me to feel anger?  Well, you just did it again.  Now I am going to specifically request that you not say (or do) that again when you and I are together.”  Now you have informed them in step 1 and requested that they stop in step 2, so you have raised the level of boundary slightly.

Step 3 – If they do the behavior again, you raise the level of boundary a bit more by saying, “Do you recall that I have informed you that when you say (or do) what you just said (or did), that it causes me to feel anger?  Do you also recall that I requested that you not do that behavior when we are together?  Well, now, since you are continuing to violate that boundary, I am demanding of you, that if you wish to maintain our relationship, you never say (or do) that behavior again in my presence.  If you continue to violate that boundary, I will take action regarding our relationship.”

Step 4 – If they continue to violate this boundary, after you have informed them about it, requested that they stop, demanded that they stop, and then let them know that if they continue to violate it, you will take action regarding your relationship, then you have a choice to make regarding whether you want to maintain this relationship or not.

So, there you have it.  This is a simple process to help educate your relationships regarding your boundaries, and, you will ultimately create relationships that respect you and your boundaries.  The first time that you use this process with your relationships, you may feel a bit uncomfortable with it.  It is a skill set like any other, so with a bit of practice, it will pay dividends.

James Oates III is a former Captain in the United States Marine Corps, an entrepreneur, a Harley rider, and investor, who has a passion for helping people get out of debt. Learn more about James at http://www.FinanciaLiberty.com and http://www.JamesOatesIII.com Save Time; Save Money!

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