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On this episode of Bob The Teacher TV, I answer questions from the mail bag.

Included in this episode:

Who has the best Hosting services for the best price. Do Host Services help
you build your site? If not, what do I all need to build a site and where do I
go to find it? What is the advantages and disadvantages of becoming an
affiliate? — Donna

Great videos! Bob I have so many ebooks and programs that I bought on my
computer. How do I know which ones have PLR rights and which ones don’t? Thank
You - Len

How many blogs does it take to start bringing in a realistic income using
affiliate marketing? - Annette Hallowell

Bob, I am a bright, well educated individual who works for a gentleman in the
internet marketing field. I want to start my own company, but I am bogged down
with the basics! Help! How do I build a website? Create lead gen pages? Build a
list? All those good things (oops that more than one) but you get the idea?
Ineed to start at the beginning. Many many thanks! - Jackie

What is an autoresponder? - JL

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Today on Bob The Teacher TV, I answer questions from the mailbag.

These questions involve online video, Twitter, warming up visitors before trying to sell them something, and duplicate content between blogs, Squidoo, etc.

Questions answered in this episode…

“How do I send a group of friends a new added video and message at the same time? Thank you!”- Michael Flume

“Bob, how can I get you to follow me on Twitter. I’m following you: http://twitter.com/terrywhalin I have written more than 60 books traditional publsihers.” - Terry Whalin

“How can I help people before I ask them to consider buying my offer?” - Susan Schaffer

“I run 4 different blogs and was wondering if I could simply use my blog posts as articles after I set up a squidoo lens? Or is going to be penalized as duplicate content. What I was planning on doing is taking all 4 blogs and creating a single lens to cover the 4 blogs and was also going to the same with a hubpage. Just wanted your thoughts on it. It would make it easy to for updating frequently.” - Scott Searles

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You have to build a list.

How many times have you heard that before? So I don’t need to convince you that having a list is essential to promoting a business online.

However, you may want to stop thinking of the importance of building a list for just a moment. When you think too much about building a list, you probably get wrapped up in the self-doubt that plagues so many people.

• “I’ll never be able to get more than 1000 subscribers!”
• “Why would anybody want to listen to what I have to say?”
• “I don’t have anything to give away to get somebody to subscribe to my list”
• “I don’t want people to think I’m spamming them.”
• “I don’t even have a website yet, so how can I build a list?”

If you have thought any of these before - trust me, you are not alone!

Stop letting these thoughts paralyze you. Instead I want you to think of building a traffic net.

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How do you know that your business is going in the right direction?

You have to keep score. And one of the best ways to do that is to use financial software.

If you are a spreadsheet fanatic like my bean-counting mom (she’s a CPA and bankruptcy analyst), you may like to just use Excel or Open Office. But they have severe limitations for out of the box usability for business finances.

Instead we both recommend you go with Intuit’s Quicken Home and Business Financial Software, or Quickbooks.

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Every productivity expert will give you their opinion about how to get more things done in the same amount of time.

They’ll show you how to make to do lists, categorize them with 1, 2, 3, or A, B, C and try to get you to eliminate tasks off your list.

These methods can be helpful for some, but if it’s not working for you take a look at mind maps.

Mind maps are simply visual representations of ideas. You’ve probably used them before to organize your thoughts on a business project, or back in school when you were thinking about writing a research paper.

There are plenty of mind mapping software programs out there, from free to expensive. All have their own merits, but my favorite one to use is Freemind.

This won the medal for me because it’s simple, uses a hierarchical structure, exports maps as images, PDFs, and text outlines.

Let me give you an example of my (pretty typical) to-do list from this weekend.

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This weekend I gave the attendees of the IM Success Workshop an inside look at how I’ve built up a following of almost 1000 people on Twitter.

More specifically, I got to show my parents how they could use it to promote their Ellicott City Maryland Bed & Breakfast for increased reservations of their awesome rooms as well as their new conference room that we used for the workshop.

In a matter of minutes, @WaysideInn was Twittering away and connecting with new people around the world.

Here’s what I taught them…

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We’re having a great time at the Wayside Inn Bed & Breakfast in Maryland, where we’re about to start Day Two of the IM Success Workshop.

Breakfast is almost ready, but before we enjoy some Grand Marnier French Toast and fruit, I thought you’d like to know how things are going.

The first day the lessons learned by each member of the workshop were…

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