“Google uses about 200 data points when sizing up your website. But one of them is whether you’re popular with the crowd. If reputable websites link to your content, the Google gods smile upon you!”

How to get linking? Follow this five step process:

1. Scour the Internet for blogs and websites that are complimentary to your product or service
2. Find the email of the decision maker (this is the tricky part!)
3. Craft an introductory letter describing your site and ask them to be listed on their site
4. Offer a reciprocal link, a promotion, a coupon or some type of incentive
5. For every 100 letters or emails you send, you can expect three to four links

Now I know this is a VERY LOW success ratio but linking is the most important aspect to improve your SEO and its that important.

Have fun linking!

Jean-Guy Francoeur

Author & Marketing Specialist

Oh boy… they say any publicity is good publicity, do you agree?

First, two knuckleheads working in a North Carolina store figured it would be just hilarious to post a video of themselves defiling sandwich ingredients. (Because, really, what’s funnier than a mozzarella curl in the nostril, or passing gas on a salami slice?) READ MORE…

Apple’s iPhone Marketing Plan

Most people love Apple and their products. Not all can afford them but most agree “When you go Mac, you never go back”. I stumbled across a post in Google that featured Apple’s market segment for its Apple iPhone and I thought this is great “inside” information… have a look.

I also caught this from their marketing plan which is interesting. They are very aware of their position which is important to make clear decisions going forward.

Brand name: Microsoft is known worldwide for its software products. Businesspeople are likely to order it on the strength of its name, whereas Apple does not make "business machines.”

Their marketing plan is riddled with the words “Microsoft” which is to be expected by the battling duo…

Since massage is known to reduce stress and enhance the state of relaxation, a very common misunderstanding is that this is all a massage therapist can do. In fact, massage is often used in health facilities such as rehabilitation clinics, and it is becoming more prevalent in treatment for numerous conditions, from carpal tunnel to sciatica.

Another common myth is that massage can spread cancer within a client’s body. Since massage helps increase circulation, and cancer cells move with this circulation, it is quite easy to see how this theory came about. However, exercising has the same effect, and cancer patients are encouraged to exercise. That said, the therapist should still take certain precautions, such as avoiding areas that have been treated with radiation and tumour sites. With a knowledgeable therapist, massage can be very beneficial to those living with cancer.

Some people think they should only visit a therapist if they feel that something is wrong, such as pain, stiffness or tension. In truth, massage is considered beneficial for everyone. It’s a preventative measure that can help maintain healthy joints and tissue, allowing for more flexibility and mobility.

One thing to know about massage therapy (a reason that some people tend to shy away from massage) is that it doesn’t always provide immediate relief. Some people seem to think a single treatment would be all they need to be “fixed” – and if they can’t be fixed after one visit, they can’t be fixed at all. But it takes time to correct years of pain, and sometimes multiple visits are required.

Pregnancy and massage are two terms that should go hand in hand. Yet there remains a preconceived notion that pregnant women cannot receive massage therapy. This is false. If anything, massage therapy helps pregnant women even more than it helps non-pregnant women. Massage can decrease stress and tension, induce relaxation, and enhance the client’s well being. If this is the case for the mother, imagine the benefits for the child. Introducing healthy touch at a significantly young age can have so many positive outcomes and improve neonatal health and development. Babies thrive on their mothers; if mommy is happy, baby is happy.

“Masseuse” is a term often confused with “massage therapist,” but there is a significant difference. “Masseuse” is an old term describing a body worker who does not have the same education or credentials as a massage therapist.

Everyone has 24 hours in a day. I don’t get more hours than you and you don’t get more than me… we all get the same 24 hours! When you come to the realization that this statement is VERY true, you automatically open yourself up to a new idea.

If the statement above is true then the notion of task management is false because you can’t manage time, we all get the same 24 hours! However, there is a new way… task management. See, the only thing you can manage is the way you spend your time. That’s what I call task management.

For example, is your time being spend doing “revenue generating” activities or just “whatever comes up”? Do you have a plan in the morning (NOT A TO DO LIST!)? A plan to be productive and revenue generating is NOT a to do list… be sure you know the difference.

I have developed a template to help with task management. I can confidently say this template helped me go from earning $30,000 a year to over $250,000 in a year. I thought you’d like a copy for FREE!

Enjoy,

Jean-Guy Francoeur, Author & Advanced Marketing Specialist

For example, note how I was “taken in,” when I failed to use all the senses which should have been used. Some time ago, I was nosing around in one of the antique shops I know. I ran across a massive silver tray. I know from past experience that all such antique silver trays are solid silver, for in the old days they made no plated ware; Common sense told me: “That silver tray is a genuine antique because the pattern is old, the form is old, the workmanship appears to be old, and it has the stamp of a time long passed.” The shopman turned the tray this way and that, so that I might see all these things for myself. After examining it carefully, I decided to buy it. I paid for it and had it sent home.

I was at home when it arrived. I opened the package myself, and lifted the tray out of its box. Then I lifted it again and carried it into the dining room. I was pleased at having discovered this old tray, but already some newly awakened image was beginning to puzzle my mind.

Some vague something said that another vague something was not just right! At first the idea was very vague. Then it became clearer. Finally I thought, “this tray doesn’t seem to be as heavy as a solid silver tray of its size should be.” I picked it up again; I tested it by my sense of weight. It was not as heavy as a silver tray of that size would have been.

In the shop I had not lifted it; I had allowed the shopman to do that. Hence, I had not used all of the senses I should have used in forming a vivid image of that tray. That I had been “taken in” was proved to me when I took it to a reliable silversmith who showed me that the tray, although a marvelous imitation, was after all made of light weight metal thickly plated with silver.

In the shop in which I purchased the tray, I had used sight in looking at it. I had used my senses of motion and direction in perceiving its form and size; I had used my sense of sound both in listening to what the shopkeeper said and in listening to the sound produced when the tray was tapped; but I had not used my sense of weight.

In purchasing that tray I was a failure.

I failed when examining it, because I did not make my image vivid and complete. In subsequent chapters you will discover the use of the special senses is the only certain means of success in buying and selling. This is important because the process of buying and selling is a part of every effort in attaining success.

The first step in the process of success is vivid imaging—with especial emphasis on the vividness of the images. This is very important because every idea or thought or judgment is based upon mental images. If the images of your thoughts are not vivid, make them so by adding more special sense qualities. In other words, train and develop your special senses.

It is important that you do so, for the success of every step of your thought and action depends upon vivid imaging. I am not basing this assertion upon a pet theory, but upon the phenomenal successes of those who have used vivid imaging, and the sad failures which have come to some of the biggest men in the world when they failed to think in vivid images .

Note this colossal failure made by scores of expert engineers.

For six years several great engineering experts were engaged in planning and constructing the dual subway system from the center of New York City to Queens. One of the lines runs under the East River at Forty-second Street. The other runs under the river at Sixtieth Street. The two join at the Bridge Plaza in Queens. The engineers of the two great companies worked together for several years so that the track extending from this junction out on Long Island might be used for cars of both companies.

Yet, all the engineering plans and careful inspection and checking up of blue prints, all the figuring of details by experts, and all the reviews of figures made so that the engineers might be certain that every factor was correct, did not prevent one of the most ridiculous and stupendous failures which has ever been made in engineering construction. Remember that this mistake was not made by amateurs. It was made by scores of engineering experts and by hundreds of assistants and mathematicians who had had years of engineering experience.

This is the stupid mistake which was made.

Concrete beds were laid for the rails; concrete stations were built; and, since the gauges of the cars of both companies—that is, the distance between the wheels—were exactly the same, every one of those experts thought that it would be possible to run the ears of both companies on the same tracks. They continued to think this for six years.

But, after all the concrete work of miles of subway had been finished, after the platforms had been laid, after one company had been using the lines for a year and the tunnel of the other company was nearly completed—then, and then only, it was discovered by someone, that, although the wheels of all cars were equidistant, the floors of the cars of the two companies were not the same in width.

If the station platforms had been made wide enough to permit the wide cars of one company to pull into the station; then when the narrower cars of the other company pulled in, there would have been an eight or ten inch space between the platform and the cars. This, with tens of thousands of people stepping on and off cars daily, would mean that the number of accidents would be greatly increased.

Hence, it became evident that it would be necessary either to lay two sets of rails, or tear down the concrete construction work of the platforms, making them wide enough to permit the wider cars to enter the stations, and adapting them to the narrower cars by adding sliding floor edges to each platform so that the edges could be slid out each time a train of narrower cars pulled in.

This gigantic failure, ridiculous if it were not so serious, was the result of well thought-out plans, carefully estimated, every detail of which had been figured out by some of the greatest civil engineers in the world and checked up by expert mathematicians.

Vivid imaging (look left, that’s vivid) would have prevented the mistake.

If only one man, of all the hundreds of engineers, employed during the six years, had vividly imaged nothing else but the two kinds of cars; if, instead of thinking about cars, he had vividly imaged them—imaging the front, or the back, ends of the two kinds of cars—he would have seen that the bodies of the cars of one company were a foot wider than the bodies of the cars of the other company, even though the wheels of each kind of car were the same distance apart.

And more, if he had vividly imaged these cars running along the tracks and pulling into the stations, he would have seen that two cars of different widths could not enter the same stations, with platforms a fixed distance from the rails.

The most expert thinking and planning, without definite vivid imaging, often leads to failure. Failure to image any one part— if it is only the end of a car, in the building of an entire subway system—may result in stupendous failure, and cost millions of dollars to remedy the defects.

I write almost nothing about reasoning and judging, and I omit these subjects purposely. If your imaging is vivid, you cannot make a mistake in reasoning or in judging. Yet, what thousands of failures have resulted from mistakes in selection—of plans, processes, propositions, and people— due to lack of vivid imaging. The saneness and safety of all thought processes depends on the completeness of the vivid images which form your thought. Vivid imaging is the thought process which always wins success.

Since vivid imaging builds new structure in the brain, extraordinary results are attained when one is trained, by vividly imaging the process of doing that which one wishes to learn to do.

For years I had trouble each time I engaged a new stenographer. If I hired one who had just finished a stenographic school course, I found that she had to learn “all over again,” although she had been given the best training stenographic schools give.

I studied the problem to discover the cause.

In stenographic schools, the first work done by the student when learning stenographic characters is done by means of the EYE. A book is used, and the student studies the characters, learning the form of each by seeing it. This embodies the form image of each stenographic line or symbol in the brain center of sight!

Next, the student learns to transcribe these characters by muscle movements of the hands and fingers.

But, each time the stenographer takes dictation from an employer, she is compelled to perceive that which he dictates by hearing it. She then perceives the sounds of the words dictated, by use of her ears— not her eyes. Thus, the impressions of the sounds of the words are registered in the brain center of HEARING—not in the brain center of sight. To secure efficiency, the brain center of hearing should be related to motor brain centers which move the muscles of the hands and fingers. Of course, in the schools dictation is given during training. But, the harm has already been done by teaching the sight form of the symbols first, instead of the sounds.

Now, when I need another stenographer, I pick out a young person who has ability to learn, but who has little or no knowledge of stenography.

I blindfold the person and teach him to learn the stenographic characters, first by movement of the hands and fingers—that is, by making the movements necessary to make the symbols. This is made possible by charts of raised symbols which are raised in the same way as are letters in books for the blind.

This first step in learning stenography embodies a vivid image of the form of each symbol in the brain center, which must be used when the stenographer begins to transcribe his dictation.

At the time I teach each movement, I repeat the sound of which the character is the symbol.

By this method, the brain center of hearing and the brain center of movement are at once related. As a result, stenography is learned in a few hours—an hour a day for a couple of weeks—instead of taking months to learn it. Moreover, the student is an efficient stenographer as soon as the characters are learned in this way.

And vivid imaging prevents mistakes in thinking.

You made a mistake in buying that suit last month, because you thought that the suit possessed certain qualities which it does not possess. You were a failure in making that purchase. You failed () because you thought that suit possessed qualities like the

qualities you wished it to possess, and () you thought it possessed those qualities because you failed to think in images vivid enough to note how it differed from what you wished to buy.

Men, who become great successes, make decisions because of differences, not because of likenesses. Do likewise, and be successful.

It is so easy to perceive likenesses. It is the lowest kind of mind action. It is not complete. It leads to mistakes. It leads to failure, because it is due to thinking in ideas instead of vivid images.

Qualities of likeness may attract you, but only vivid imaging of differences leads you to decide wisely and prevent mistakes, make the right decision.

Success is all about make the small decision and moving your feet. There are always these small serendipitous decisions and moments which you won’t remember but those decisions you made at that time is what made you successful.

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Your truly,

Jean-Guy Francoeur, Big Boom!

SOME principles are so simple that we often overlook their significance. For instance, success is lack of failure; each failure is due to some mistake; each mistake in action originates in some mistake in thinking. To change from failure to success, it is necessary to develop those processes of thought which prevent mistakes, and which lead to success.

There is a process of success. It is a dual process. The first step is vivid imaging in thinking. It is the subject of this chapter. The second step is idealized doing. It is the subject of the next chapter. This dual process—vivid imaging and idealized doing —guarantees success.

You have often been told that success comes to the man who “uses his brain”— that is, to the man who thinks. But mere thinking will not prevent him from making mistakes; neither will purposeful thinking, nor well thought out plans.

Thinking in vivid images is the only process which always prevents mistakes.

Even great experts make mistakes when they fail to think in vivid images.

The great Quebec bridge fell down in the process of construction. All the factors determining its construction had been given careful thought by great engineers. There had been months of exact figuring and calculation of stresses and strains. Certainly, the engineers and constructors did not intend it to collapse, delay their work, injure their reputation as bridge builders, and cause loss of life.

Yet, it did collapse, and hence someone— evidently many engineers — made some serious mistake in thinking, overlooking some important factor. Can such mistakes in examining a plan—no matter what it is —be prevented? Can they always be prevented ?

As you study the failure of the noted engineers who planned the Quebec bridge, and the colossal blunder of the great engineers who planned two of the subways of New York City, you will be convinced that the most expert and careful thinking about a plan, and the most exact examination of it, do not guarantee success nor prevent failure. You will also be convinced that nothing but vivid images can prevent such failures.

This study will not mean much to you unless you realize that an idea differs from a mental image, and unless you discriminate between the process of “thinking-in-ideas” and that of “thinking-in-vivid-images.”

Your mind is a living consciousness, but you often permit the greater part of its content to die. The content is usually a colony of corpses of images which were once alive. That is the difference between ideas and vivid images. Ideas are the dead corpses of images which were once living and vivid.

In his mind, the successful inventive genius forms vivid images of every part of the machine which he is constructing. Before it is made, he mentally sees each part separately, and all parts assembled and working together. After examining a new

machine he is able at any time to re-image a picture of the machine. He re-sees the image when the physical object is no longer present. That is thinking in vivid images.

You look at the same machine; but, after leaving it, you are able “only to think about it.” That is thinking in ideas.

Vividness is a quality of mind which makes geniuses, and it can be developed. When you read “the iron is hot,” you think of the idea of heat. When you accidentally put your finger tip on the red hot iron, your mind thinks in vivid images of special heat, because an image is the immediate result of sense impressions.

A vivid image is formed by sense impressions.

So, you can develop vividness in thinking by use of your special senses—by use of all of them.

There are more than five special senses. There are twelve. They are color, sound, smell, taste, balance, motion, direction, heat, cold, weight, tactility, and pressure. Images formed by using only a few senses may lead to mistakes. Vivid images formed by using all the senses are infallible.

Success begins by testing every factor of your plan by vivid sense images. That means testing what you plan to do by mental pictures formed by use of all of the senses. If you are testing a thing, use the special senses themselves. If you are testing plans or propositions, use the sense images.

But why do vivid images test with more certainty than do ideas’? Why is the test more certain than the most careful thinking of engineering experts?

Because thought—without vivid imaging —is never complete. If you merely think about a yard, a foot, or an inch, you do not image it exactly. Test yourself. Can you, without a measure, draw a line which is exactly a yard long? Can you do it every time you try to do it? If not, you do not image a yard. The image of a yard is more definite, more concrete, and more exact, than is the idea or thought about a yard. This explains the catastrophe of the Quebec bridge. The engineers were trained to think about yards and pounds, stresses and strains; but, they failed to image them.

The thought about a pound is no more like the image of a pound, than the three letters “c-a-t” are like your cat!

Next week… Success begins by preventing mistakes in thinking…

Thanks for reading,

Jean-Guy Francoeur

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Just think about it rationally for one minute. I cannot manage time, you cannot manage time, the Prime Minister, the President nor the Queen can manage time. The simple fact and truth of the matter is that time cannot be managed. We all have the same amount of it (24 hours a day).

What does make the difference is what we do with that time (i.e. Task Management). This is why some people earn millions and billions of dollars while others earn less than required to live. Have you ever asked yourself, “I wonder what Donald Trump does in his day?”

“Let me ask you a question… What do you do with your day?”

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First, let me make this as clear as possible… THIS IS NOT A TO DO LIST.

Second, as you list your Revenue Generating Activities and your Impact Activities, list them in order of importance. #1 is more important than #2 and so on so forth. Do not even consider #2 until #1 is complete. Once you move on to #2, forget #1 because its done!

Third, be sure to get very clear on your revenue generating activities and your impact activities. The template does include a definition for each.

Fourth, DO NOT skip the last part. You must rate your day. It’s one of the most important parts of the exercise because you will start to see trends and patterns in your behavior. Once you become consciously aware, you can replace those habits with better habits.

Success is about making a habit of the things you don’t like to do. We are creatures of habit but we can decide which habits to form therefore master our fate!

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Jean-Guy Francoeur
Author & Entrepreneur

Body language is something that we are not often aware of, but it sometimes can say more than our words ever could. That is why it is so important to pay attention to body language and always be aware of what it is saying to others.

“93% of communication is non-verbal”, Wikipedia

Body language is the movements of your body, the way you hold your body, and facial expressions, including eye movement. It often corresponds with our attitudes and sometimes contradicts what our words are saying.

When our body language and our words do not match, people are likely to believe the body language as it is often an unconscious thing that gives away the truth.

When you are trying to implement positive thinking in your life, you also have to implement positive body language. When you are truly committed to a positive way of thinking then your body language will follow. However, if you are not whole-heartedly into positive thinking your body language could give you away.

It is very important that when you want to put positive thinking to work in your life that you become aware of your body language. You may actual want to learn a little about body language so that you can recognize negative body language and not let it interfere with your positive thinking and attitude.

A great example of how body language can affect others and reflect your inner feelings is the smile. It is likely that you have smiled at a stranger before.

What happened? Probably what happened is that they smiled back. Do you know that smile probably prompted them to smile at someone else and so on with your smile becoming contagious?

Smiles have a way of effecting people. One smile you give a stranger could prove to be just the motivation someone needs to be cheerful that day instead of grumpy. You never know.

Besides being contagious, a smile tells others you are happy. It says you are having a good day and you want to share that with them. A smile is powerful body language.

It is also common when you approach a situation in a cheerful manner with positive body language that you end up having a positive experience. People are more likely to help you and to go out of their way to make sure you get what you need when you approach things in a positive manner.

You should definitely learn about body language and make sure you avoid negative body language. It will take some effort at first until you train your body not use negative body language.

Body language can be a dead give away that your true feelings are not positive. That is why part of positive thinking involves positive body language.

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For example, do you remember that time when you drove to work and when you arrived, you asked yourself “how did I get here” – that was your subconscious mind doing the work for you. Your subconscious mind drives 96 to 98 percent of your daily habits and behavior.

Your beliefs, attitudes and habits are exactly what has propelled you to read this blog and make a decision to build a phenomenal work environment that focuses on promoting growth and wellness. At this very moment, those beliefs, attitudes and habits, whether you realize it or not, is what everyone is looking for. You are in this leadership position and you are a natural leader looking for change. Your personal stamp is what this environment needs.

What do I mean by personal stamp? I mean, don’t try to do what those have done in the past. You need something different and a new kind of environment to accomplish new stunning results. Therefore, feel free and grant yourself permission to think differently and implement the ideas that come to mind as you develop your plan.