14 Books That Changed Me For Good In 2009

Today is Jan 1, 2010 and a Happy New Year to you.

I woke up early for a reason and i,e to make a gratitude post on my blog.

While many bloggers and marketers have timed their gratitude posts to coincides with the year end, I decided to start the new year with mine.

Let me confess, It took a while for me to write this short post. This post is about a set of 14 power books that changed my life in 2009. These books are not new, some of them were published during my grandfathers time( early 1900’s).

Year 2009 was all about perspective for me these books helped me change my perspective about life and business in a big good way. Such was the impact that the later part of 2009 I witnessed tremendous success in my business, friends, relationships and most importantly family.

Here they are..

I had many of the above books with me for years and I do plan to read them again and again for many years.

Now go and buy these books, some are out of print and are hard to find but that should not be an excuse . Your kids, grand kids and even your great grand kids will thank you for many many years.

Before you go.. Did you read a book that helped you big time in 2009 or is there is a book that you would like to recommend, please mention it here.

I promise to buy and read it.

Make Friends to Make Sales- Social Interaction as a Business Tool

One of the hottest trends in marketing is social media as a marketing tool. Many businessmen of years past might be turning in their graves at the thought of mixing business with pleasure, but today it??™s the norm, and what you need to truly succeed in business.

People have changed, and how they get the things that they need is completely different than it used to be. The fast-talking, well-dressed salesman of the past are out, and the social butterflies are in season.

If your business is going to be successful, you need to make sure that you take the time to use the tools that you need to get it there. Today??™s tools are of the social nature. If you can make friends, build relationships, and get people to trust and respect you, success is yours.

With so many different tools, from blogs to social networking sites and more, you can guarantee that there is plenty out there for you to choose from when it comes to marketing your business.

As long as you can find the tools that work for you, you??™re going to be successful no matter what you do with them :)-

Just do what I say, don’t do what I do i,e not actively participate on Facebook & Twitter as often as I want to. Set up an account on Facebook, MySpace, or other sites that will allow you to connect with people in your target market.

You can use status updates and sites like Twitter to let people know about specials, updates to your business, and even personal updates about your role as a business owner. The options are nearly limitless. And I haven??™t even gotten to blogs yet.

Blogs are an invaluable tool for any business, you can turn yourself into an authority in any subject practically overnight, and still do it in an informal way so that people feel like they can really connect with you.

Remember People buy people, point blank. Convince them to buy into you, they will buy into your business. There are so many different ways to socialize with your target audience and get them involved in your business, but the ultimate key is to be passionate.

If you are passionate about what you do, others will be persuaded automatically.

Make every opportunity count, and become the social salesperson that you were born to be. Remember if you can make friends, you can make sales, and that??™s all there is to social networking and using social media in your internet marketing and beyond.

Page 1 On Google for Information marketing

I’m excited today for two reasons..

#1. I finally took some time out from my busy schedule and make a blog post on this blog after nearly six weeks of silence.

#2. My blog is ranking in page #1 of google for the term “Info Marketing” with over 222 Million competing pages.

Just recorded a video to demonstrate this

If you carefully study this blog, you will see its not that well optimized. My other blogs have taken away a lot of my time and hence I have not focused much of my time here. The only inference I can make from this is.. if you tell Google that you are about information marketing you better have content in your blog relevant to information marketing. You cannot mention “Information Marketing” in the title tag and stuff your posts with a completely unrelated keyword called “Animal surgery”. It will not fly.

Also density and seasoning of content matters. I’m reasonably sure that I can walk away from this blog for three months and come back again to see it rank high for keyword like “information marketing” and any other extension to it such as “Information marketing Library” or “Information marketing Course”

That’s my hunch.

As you see the term “information marketing” is not a buyer keyword as such, there are not that may paid ads either, but the competition is extremely high.

For Information marketing, I’m still ranking in page 2, at 11th position, I’m close to getting into page one. There is a reason why I have mentioned “information marketing” so many times in this post, even the post slug is “Information marketing” and so is the category. Lets see if this post will push me into page 1 for the term “information marketing”

In the meantime while that happens, I’m enjoying all the joint venture requests I’m getting from other information marketing gurus!

Keeping my fingers crossed :)-