Bring on September 19 – International Talk Like a Pirate Day! In honour of Johnny Depp, ITLAP Day, and the frivolities that go along with it, let’s talk about why you should forgo traditional entrepreneurial role models for the mighty pirate!

The English word pirate is derived ultimately from the Greek word peira meaning “attempt, experience”, or more implicitly “to find luck on the sea”. Let’s see how much we can improve your entrepreneurial experience and find you some luck in the sea of business opportunities!

1. Get a parrot on your shoulder

The parrot on your shoulder can represent two things:

i) Your conscience. Every entrepreneur has moments in time where the easier option does not always represent the right option. Remember the parrot on your shoulder is there to guide you.

ii) Your mentor. The voice of guidance from someone who’s been there and done it. Get the right parrot (or mentor) and you’ll skyrocket to greater heights.

2. The eye patch - An entrepreneur needs to have selective vision. They need to be able to block out distractions and zone in on opportunities. Develop your own figurative eye patch by honing in on what you want to focus on – and making the rest walk the plank.

3. The funky pirate wear and the eye liner – An entrepreneur stands out from the crowd. Whether it’s John McGrath, Sydney real estate agent extraordinaire pioneering the no tie business look or Sergey Brin, google co-founder, wearing jeans and a t-shirt while giving a keynote to 10,000 people, entrepreneurs don’t feel the need to conform to outdated business standards. Most wildly successful entrepreneurs are there because they don’t conform in their businesses. They’re edgy and they try new things in their businesses, which quite often spills over into their outerwear and can make them easy to identify.

4. Any weather Any time – A pirate’s ship and crew carry them through the roughest storms making them mobile, flexible and able to deal with a multitude of circumstances – just like the ultimate entrepreneur.

5. Live and die by the team - No pirate ever managed to crew an entire ship on their own and no successful entrepreneur ever got there without their own crew of motivated, engaged, talented individuals. In the boardroom as on the ocean – the undeserving leader will face a mutiny.

6. The bicorne hat – The entrepreneur needs to be a master of wearing many hats – even if they look as ridiculous as the Napoleon-esque bicorne hat! As an entrepreneur you’ll need to be motivator, innovator, initial implementer and so much more.

By Kirsty Dunphey

Reproduced with permission from the Kirsty Dunphey blog and weekly newsletter: www.kirstydunphey.com/

The Best Executive Book Summary service is the one you use. Surely, I’m going to tell you about the best ones out there and which one leads the pack, but if you still don’t use it. . .

Putting Book Summary into Google, the first one that pops up is Soundview Executive Book Summaries. This site has a pretty deep pool of resources, all of which you must pay for. They have membership services, summaries by category, a Summary Store and audio library. Basically, they’re the Amazon of Book Summary sites – but when you get into the meat of it – their summaries are quite long and dramatic. Their summary of John Maxwell’s 360 Degree Leader is 8 pages of text – but no analysis. They do advertise 20 minutes of reading, but it seems more than 20 to me. Plus, summary without analysis seems like half of what you need.

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If you’re an internet marketer, then you know that there’s plenty of opportunity to make loads of cash online – and there are a lot of tools that want to help you do just that.

The trouble is that some of the tools do not get you the results you need. Oh, they promise that all  you’ll ever need is a great idea, a killer product, and a colorful website, and profits will just fall into your lap.

That is a lie…but here is the truth: it takes work and it takes you standing out from the crowd within  your niche. Lucky for you, internet marketer Cyndi Parker is here to help.

Parker’s new software, Easy Push Button Traffic is the ultimate submission software that lets you submit videos, articles, press releases and podcasts all within one simple location!

With just a few clicks of some buttons you can now get listed in the top search engines for your  keywords within hours. This will help you to generate some cash while you are busy building your business and your lists.

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According to this article in USA today, YouTube has 5.5 billion streams and 58.1% of the online video market:  http://tinyurl.com/WhyYouTubeMatters

That means that if you use video in your marketing, you definitely want your videos on YouTube. Having your videos on YouTube, when properly submitted, often gets you top positions for your keywords.

Like many marketers, I submit to a variety of video  sharing sites. Yet, just as with search engines, only a handful get the vast majority of traffic.

As an Internet marketer, we’ve been conditioned to focus on quantity. That is, submitting to as many sites as  practical. However, that may not be the best approach.

Flashing back a few years, there were many search engine submission services that offered to submit your url to  over 1000 of the top search engines. The reality was that there were fewer than 10 search engines that mattered, and submitting to many of the other low quality places could actually HURT your ranking in Google (or the top  search engines at the time).

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Copyright 2009 by Willie Crawford

It’s no secret that the right videos, submitted to the right places, can generate millions of views.

It’s no secret that the search engines love video and are  constantly crawling video sharing sites. You can often get  a top 10 ranking for a keyword, using video, in under an  hour.

Let’s look at some of the keys to getting some of that great traffic using videos.

One of the first things that you’ll notice is that in a lot of niches, tons of people are discovering video.  That means that you need to create and submit more videos, and you need to submit them to more places. If you don’t used an automated submission service, that can be very tedious, and tie up your computer for hours on end.

As you prepare to create your videos, you need to begin by asking what is it that you want to accomplish. More specifically, what do you want your viewers to do after they finish watching a given video?

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Yahoo search engine marketing is offering what they call the BIG BANG offer to those who have never used Yahoo search marketing advertising before. This is a great opportunity to help recession proof your business and try out their offer which comes set up by Yahoo certified local specialists.

The recession search engine stimulus package includes no charge for a period of three months or to a maximum value of $150, whichever event occurs first. Your Yahoo! Search marketing campaign is set up and optimized by a certified Yahoo local specialist, all the SEO and hard work of setting up a campaign is done for you.

Targeted traffic audience reach and potential customers are not only from Yahoo!7 but also from NineMSN, giving you the leverage of two of the largest search engines.

Have you used and tried any search engine marketing before?

What were your results of any other search engine marketing campaigns before?

Please share any results and your future results if you try Yahoo search engine marketing we are very grateful of any feedback from results.

By Brian and Jennifer Baulch

When we say Traffic Strategy Juggler we mean do you rush around trying every traffic strategy which comes on the market from the latest PPC and Adsense ideas to SEO and joint venture suggestions?

In simple terms do you juggle your Traffic Strategies just like a juggler might juggle with china plates or rubber balls? Never juggling anything for very long and forever moving from one Traffic Strategy to the next Traffic Strategy?

You are not alone, internet marketers are forever dreaming up fanciful Traffic Strategies and selling them on their hype filled sales pages, so it’s difficult not to get lost in the false promises and so called guarantees of instant, free and easy traffic!

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