LAST UPDATE: Monday, 14-Mar-2005 4:49 PM

Another week starts... Here are my objectives.

DAY 33 UPDATE: Monday, 07-Mar-2005 10:30 AM

This week I am going to focus on the following:

Search Engine Optimization of the 31-STEP Financial Plan site. I'll go over the P31 pages and study and make a plan for key words, new pages, new articles, etc. to optimize the site.

Once this step is done, I have done the research to register the sites with key search engines and to do so several times a year thru an online service.

Lastly, this supercedes the sending of PRESS RELEASES that I have wanted to do for many months.

So, the steps that I'll take in this process are:

• Finish reading and studying current search engine optimization articles. (I'll also post the best articles here)
• Then optimize the pages with a list of key words that I got from a google tool.
• With that in mind, all "meta tags" and page text have to be matched with my key word list.
• Lastly, update the pages with the new and revised text.
• By the time I get all this done, I will need a budget of about $100 to do the next step: Register with several places that will send my details to the top search engines. I have done this manually, but found it rather time consuming. On top of that some took moths to spider the site. For example, the Google "bot" took over 4 months to visit.

The project has proceeded far enough now for me to make it known that the site is out there. Had I done this 'right off the bat' people would have found the site a bit boring. You may now as well!

That's OK. Do bookmark it anyway!

However, I think at this point the project is going well enough that I need to expend the reach and take more steps to build the traffic.

Then I can re-focus on building the steps and the content of the site.

Let me glance at last week and see what I had in mind...

On the first of March I had planned on finishing the Maxsimo.com new marketing plan and I am now 95% done with it. I will be making the finishing touches to it between now and wednesday and it will go off to programming.

Well, that's about it for today. Things are just getting started for this very busy week. I think I am getting better at updating this site, so I hope to speak to you throughout the week. Hope it's a good one... Sam.

Oops... almost didn't mention another item that I looked into this weekend. That idea was rekindled by reading the below article in the Investors Business Daily --my daily newspaper that read.

Publication: IBD; Date:2005 Mar 07; Section:Managing For Success; Page Number: A4
REAL SOLUTIONS

Want More Wealth? It’s All Good

“ Titanic” broke box-office records in the late 1990s. But Lisa Jimenez thinks the movie sends the wrong message.

“It shows rich people as evil and poor people as spiritual,” said Jimenez, a business coach in Coral Springs, Fla. “Moviegoers come away on a subconscious level with a fear of getting rich.”
For Jimenez, author of “Conquer Fear,” the biggest obstacle to success for most people is self-sabotage.

As much as they want wealth, they may believe it’s wrong for them to have it. Years ago, Jimenez set a goal to become a millionaire.

She struggled at first.
One day, she wrote “Millionaire” atop a sheet of paper and then jotted every related word that popped into her mind.

Her list included words such as “greedy,” “selfish” and “bad parent.”
“ I looked at my list and I realized why I was sabotaging myself,” she said. “I thought, ‘No wonder I’m not on the road to riches. Who wants that?’ ”

By shifting her mind-set to embrace the idea of generating wealth, Jimenez drove herself to produce better results.
She replaced negative views of money with empowering attributes such as “freedom” and “flexibility.”

One of the most stubborn beliefs she needed to change was that wealthy people were overworked and stressed.

So she wrote “It’s easy to make money” on index cards and posted them in visible places — from her car to her bathroom mirror.

Finally, she began to believe it. When she sent a short e-mail pitching her book to people who visited her Web site — and sold $40,000 worth of books within 48 hours — she knew that making money need not prove exhausting.

“Our beliefs are our reality, and I had to believe it before the results came,” she said. “If you believe that you must sell your soul to be successful, that’s how you’ll act.”
Jimenez coaches people to overcome their fear of success by changing their beliefs.
One of her clients, a 50-year-old former corporate executive, reluctantly set up her own training business.
“When she came to me, she kept saying, ‘It’s easier to work for a big company than have a business with my name on it,’ ” said Jimenez. “We replaced that with ‘It’s easier to have my own business,’ and now she’s starting to get results.”

To reinforce empowering beliefs, write them down so you see them throughout your day.
Also, create pictures that convey your beliefs.
If you want to build a business, superimpose your photo on the cover of a magazine with headlines proclaiming your success.

By IBD Journalist: Morey Stettner

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Sometime, I cannot say it any better. Then I'll just cut and paste as I have done above and give credit where credit is due.

I believe the above problem exists with most people who are trying to succeed anywhere. Certainly, it applies to me. Even now I have some books that address the topic and I read these books on planes, at airports, on vacation, etc. at least once a year.

Do they help? You bet. America is the largest market in the world for such books. Once again, I admire people who strive to better them selves and the 'lot around them' bit by bit and these types of books will give idea after idea.

After reading the IBD article here is what I did:

Now they are posted on the wall next to my PC and I'll update them with what I am doing to achieve each step.

That's what is great about the Internet --what ever your problem, what ever your desire, you'll find a place that has solutions. Just find them and go for it!