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1. People want freedom.
2. Be careful about offering services.
3. 2008 is all about Web 2.0 and social media.
4. There’s no such thing as passive income.
5. Your mindset is crucial. Eliminate dreamstealers.

What is Web 2.0?

• A design and usability standard.
• Brighter colors.
• Light backgrounds.
• Pictures.
• Simplicity and elegance.
• Ray Edwards endorsement: Useit.com by Jacob Neilson, “the guru in the world of web usability.”
• Interactivity and conversationalism.
  • I bought conversationalism.net. Want to help me build it?
• Conversation around my blog.
• Social bookmarks. You’ll develop affinity for certain people and sites.

What’s going to be big in 2008?

• Personal broadcasting.
  • Ray is a fan of Art Bell and Larry King, but “the golden age of radio is long, long, long in our past.”
  • Replaced by podcasting and videocasting online.
  • Get started today because it’s going to be huge.
  • By creating a podcast, you can have your own radio station.
  • Ray Edwards endorsement: Podcast Secrets Revealed by Jeff Mills, PodcastSecrets.com.
• Baby boomers seeking second incomes. They want freedom. How do you help them get freedom?
• The 4-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferris
• Continuity income.
  • Subscription income on a monthly basis. Continuitize your income in 2008.
  • Ray is moving everything toward a continuity model.
  • Instead of big $1500 products, continuity.

The Revelation of FLF

SM + K + T + P * C = FL
Starting Market + Knowledge + Traffic + Products * Copywriting = Freedom Lifestyle.

Ray Edwards: Declare Your Freedom In 2008

Answer: Put internal links in your content.

Too few sites do this nowadays, preferring to blend AdSense ads into their site’s content. This may be good for revenue, but it’s not good for long-term site growth. If you want a visitor to remember your site and come back, they’ve got to see more than one page. And the way to do this is with internal links.

Many people link to other websites inside their posts. This is easy to do. Whatever pages you’re referring to, you can put a link to. That’s an easy way to give your visitors value-added information, while potentially raising your reputation too. Google and other search engines like when you’re part of good link neighborhoods. Obviously, you want to refrain from linking to a spam site. But if it’s a site you found useful or interesting, a link to it could very well do you good, both with Google and your actual human visitors.

Links in your content will give your visitors other ways to explore your site. Let me know you around TrackForward a bit. If you’re a new visitor, welcome! If you’re a returning visitor, I’m glad to have you again, and I hope you enjoy your stay.

One of my favorite sections of TrackForward is the Videos category. Take a look if you’re interested in videos, as these are my personal picks that I found both intriguing and helpful.

I can also highly recommend the Next Internet Millionaire category, where I’ve touched briefly on how that show has changed my perspective on business. I was able to meet Jason Stanley Marshall, a friendly guy with a heart for God. He has an interest in Internet Marketing, and was one of the finalists on Joel Comm’s Internet reality show. I wish him only the best, and I’m keeping in touch with everything he does. Come to think of it, I haven’t heard from him lately. Maybe I should check in. I’m sure he’s just as busy as I am, if not more so. It seems there’s just never enough time in the day.

I’m currently looking at how to make blogs more user-friendly. Blogs today are not very sticky. There are a few techniques I have seen which can make blogs more personal and sticky. Most of these are difficult to implement. But a simple way is to have a newsletter and send personalized newsletters to your readers. This can be very time-consuming, but it’s well worth the effort. You can build a relationship with your readers this way.

I’ll finish with a link to the inspiration for this post, which was called Don’t Rely on Sidebars and Headers to Guide Your Visitors. A closely related thought, but certainly not quite the same.

Track Forward is a new website dedicated to putting you on the track forward in life. Life is complicated and has many things to keep track of, but this website will help to simplify those things. I will be keeping track of the advice and education that gets me through each day, so that this information can be compiled down into a short and concise blog that will hopefully help you in your journeys.

Every post on Track Forward will have an educational theme. For example, how do you keep track of your online logins?

I’m working on a new service that will keep these usernames and passwords for you, so you don’t have to remember them. It will also allow you to see every site you’re signed up at, from a single location. And you can easily bring your same info to other websites.

If you’ve heard of OpenID, it’s kind of a more practical version of it that actually works with any website on the web.

Here’s another example. My sister has been asking me each day for help with her Algebra 1 math homework. These are things I learned long ago, but it’s all new to her. Yesterday, she asked about simplifying an expression with a -1 exponent. I wish I had a graphics tablet right now, so I could show this to you. But simple tips and advice about life and schooling, stuff that will really matter to you, is my goal for this blog.

Interested in my personal blog?

Maybe you’re into technology: see my tech blog.

Or how about my mom’s real estate blog?

Thanks for visiting Track Forward, and I hope to see you again soon.

Elliot
Entrepreneur

P.S. Contact me if you think you’d like to write for Track Forward.