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Most people think that a recession is the worst time to start a business. But if there’s one quality a business owner needs, it’s to always question conventional thinking. How could a recession be the best time to dominate your market and steal it away from the major players? Could a Recession be the best time to start a business?

It absolutely is! Last year I was able to double my business and dominate my market. In a market that had nothing to do with Internet Marketing.

Why is a recession the best time to start and grow your business? Here are three reasons:

1. Recessions Clean Out and Remove Bad and Lazy Businesses

It’s sad to say but most people are lazy. They want to do the least amount of work possible. Those businesses will hurt significantly during or simply won’t survive the recession. So unscrupulous and underhanded marketing will stop working. When money is tight, people start to be smarter with their money. That’s a good thing. It gives good businesses like yours a stronger foot in the market.

2. Recessions Give Those Willing to do More a Huge Advantage.

In a recession, the gap between you and your competition, is now smaller. Many of them, instead of reevaluating their business, simply blame their woes on the economy and throw their hands up thinking there’s nothing they can do. There’s a good chance they won’t wise up and do what needs to be done to improve their business. Just having a big list no longer means what it did in the previous financial boom. In a Recession, it’s more important than ever, that you give more and develop a greater relationship with your prospects and customers. And if you do, and your competition doesn’t, you’ll be able to grow your business and surpass them. So now’s your chance!

3. Recessions Force You To Do More And Be Better.

And finally, a recession will force you to find the most effective and best tools and education to help you grow your business. Sure a lot of marketers grew their business in a financial boom, but is their business model strong enough to face a financial down-turn? If you build your business in a recession, you’ll understand what it takes to survive any shift in the market. It forces you to have a better business and be a better marketer.

Can You Start/Grow A Business In a Recession?
A Recession is the perfect time to start and grow your business. In fact, I can’t think of a better time to do it. It’s certainly been a time of growth for my business.

To Your Success!

Matthew Glanfield

P.S. How about you? Has the recession helped or hurt your business? Feel free to scroll down and share your comments below.

I get quite a few emails from people asking me for free resources for affiliate marketers.

Well, I recently came across a great free resource to help you get started and understanding what affiliate marketing is and how it works. It’s called Affilorama. It has tons of free tutorials and videos that can help you understand the basics and tactics needed to be a successful affiliate marketer.

You’ll learn tons of stuff from the lessons, be able to talk with other affiliate marketers, and find out what they’re doing and not doing to be successful affiliate marketer.

You should definitely check it out and sign up! I don’t know of any other free resource out there that shares this much!

Click Here and sign up now!

They do have a premium account, but even if you don’t sign up for premium, the amount of free information they provide is impressive and should definitely help you if you’re still struggling to get your affiliate marketing business off the ground.

You can’t make money online if you don’t have traffic. In fact, you can’t make money anywhere without traffic.

Today I want to talk to you about a great free resource to help explode your Online Traffic and Marketing. It’s called TubeMogul and if you use it, it will help you start driving major traffic to your website. What does TubeMogul do? It allows you to upload your videos once and have TubeMogul send them out to a ton of different Video and other Web 2.0 sites. And Google loves Web 2.0 sites and ranks them high and fast. You can often capture multiple pages on the front page of google for your keywords in a relatively small amount of time. Your videos can start appearing at the top of Google within hours for major keywords. And it’s FREE!

This is not just a time saver, but it helps you get something done that probably wouldn’t get done otherwise. It’s just too much work to upload all of your videos to all of those websites manually. It also does analytics for the videos you upload through TubeMogul. They have paid memberships but also A Free Membership so you can get started at Zero Cost!

Now you may have already heard of a similar service called Traffic Geyser. Traffic Geyser does everything TubeMogul does and more. It will send more videos to more sites, do more analytics, helps you create videos without a camera, and just more of everything.

So which one is better? Well, TubeMogul is a little like ‘Traffic Geyser light’. Doesn’t do quite as much and only lets you send out 100 videos a month before you have to upgrade and become a paying subscriber. Which is fine if you are just starting out and your budget is tight. It will definitely suffice for those new to Video Marketing. However, TubeMogul’s paid subscriptions cost way more than Traffic Geyser. So if you’re willing to pay a little more for awesome analytics, more traffic, ease of use, and more videos on more sites, Traffic Geyser is a way better value than going with TubeMogul.

So here’s my verdict:

If your budgets hovers somewhere around $0, a free TubeMogul account is a great place to start driving massive traffic using video and Web 2.0.

If you know that you’re going to make money if you can just get your offer in front of people, I recommend going with the one most real marketers use, Traffic Geyser.

But either way you cut it, you need traffic and these are two of the greatest Web 2.0 Video Tools out there for Marketers.

Whichever you choose, just go and do it and help make 2010 Your Year!

Matthew Glanfield

We’re at the beginning of a new year and I think 2010 is YOUR year! The year you grow your successful business. The year you make the income you’ve been working hard for. The year you stop spinning your wheels and grow a solid business.

But in order to make that happen, I need you to stop what you’re doing and pause with me for a minute. I’m going to explain two things that could possibly effect everything you do and transform every aspect of your life: your health, your relations, your quality of life, and of course, your business. I’ve broken them down into two easy steps.

There are two factors you need to know to make this YOUR year. The first is the “Vision Factor” and the other is the “Now Factor”.

Step 1:
What is the Vision Factor?

The Vision Factor is simply knowing exactly what you want. What is your Vision of 2010? Do you know what your goals are for this year? The greater detail you understand your goals, the more likely you are to achieve them. It’s not magic or hocus pocus. It’s simply easier to grasp something if you know what you’re reaching for.

If you don’t already have Clear and Well defined goals for 2010, make them now. What exactly do you want to see happen in 2010? Make a list. You’ve probably heard this a million times (and there’s a reason for that, it’s necessary) but make sure you write down and define, in great detail, your goals for the year. It’s worth the time and effort because you aren’t going anywhere without a vision. Without vision you’ll end up spinning your wheels, working inefficiently all day and getting nothing done.

After you’ve worked out the details, write down your goals in a clear sentence or two and post it on the wall right in front of you so you can’t miss it. Go ahead and do it now then come back for step two.

Step 2:
Did you do it? If you did you’re off to a great start for the next step. If not, you’re not ready for the next step. Stop reading and do it now.

Ok, now that you’ve completed step one, I can talk to you about the Now Factor. What is the Now Factor?

This is the most important lesson I have for you today so feel free to reread this section a few times. This is your power tool to get everything you want in 2010. The Now Factor is a focused effort to start living and working in the Now. Now is all you really have. The past is over. The future hasn’t come. Your power is Right Now.

The key to the Now Factor is to make your “Now”, the Best and most Efficient “Now” you possibly can. You may not like where you are. You may want a new job or new vocation or a new business of your own. But to achieve that, you need to make the most out of exactly where you are now. It doesn’t matter whether you like where you are or not. Do every task the best you possible can right Now and exactly where you are. The faster you learn to make the most of every moment, the sooner you’ll reach your goals. Having Highly Efficient Nows are a powerful and fast way to get out of bad situations and achieve your vision. Once you learn how to apply the Now Factor, I’m confident that you’ll reach your goals and grow a successful business in 2010.

In a moment I’ll let you to go back to doing what you were doing. When you do, I want you to start paying attention to the moment. Ask yourself, “How can I make this moment more efficient?”

If you start making every Now the best and most efficient it can be and have a clear vision of your goals, I’m sure that by the end of the year, you’ll find that you’ve accomplished more and had far greater success in 2010. Otherwise, this year will end up being just another year of working hard and accomplishing little.

Thanks for you time. You can go back to work now. Let’s have an amazing 2010 together.

To your success!

Matthew Glanfield