Waiting for this powerful social network to learn your preferences is all well and good – but there are definitely ways you can trim the fat from your Stumble results, leaving only those valuable golden nuggets (and I’m not talking about the McDonald’s variety, here!)

Here are my 3 best tips for getting better StumbleUpon search results:

1. Pay attention and subscribe to Superstumblers. These are people whose content is even more ideal for your needs than your own. Remember that when you subscribe to them and befriend them, their favorites are added to yours in StumbleUpon’s algorithms.  Search their content, if your own is proving too slow.

And if you’re subscribed, you can receive updates whenever they have something to share.  (It can be rather like going through your ultimate coach’s personal library and files, with permission!)

2. Don’t stumble by topic or category, if you’re really serious about finding specific information.  Search by long-tailed keyphrase instead. You can do this by clicking through your “All” button until you locate the “Search” channel.  Click on “Search” and enter your long tail.  You’ll find the results well worth it!

3. Don’t forget to visit your favorite power stumblers’ profiles. Subscribe to them (the green “Subscribe” button in the top right-hand corner. Check “accept shares to my toolbar” to be party to their new discoveries.  Review their entries (not every one, but your genuine, absolute favorites) – it’s well worth it, when they (hopefully) review one of yours in reciprocal gratitude. And because you’re both like-minded.

These three tips may not seem like the be-all and end-all of power searching, but put them into practice and I guarantee you’ll see a significant positive impact in your StumbleUpon search results – and who knows? Perhaps in your own traffic and fan base, too!

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But branding isn’t going to happen unless you have a clear target. Decide who you want to be known as on StumbleUpon, and what for. And thoroughly research your potential audience.

The real trick, however, is not to spread yourself too thin. It’s better to be known for one thing you do really well than for your average performance in several areas.

12 Tips for Tailoring Your Branding to StumbleUpon

Once you’ve got who and what you are on StumbleUpon firmly fixed, it’s time to implement your StumbleUpon branding strategy. Make sure…

- Your profile reflects your brand

- You stumble each entry on your blog (but not all at once!)

- You stand out from the crowd: Speak with your own unique “voice”

- Be friends with fellow Stumblers. Review their pages and sites – but keep it honest and real. (Never do this just to “collect” friends!)

- Visit and stumble only quality sites. Don’t mix business with personal, if the personal doesn’t enhance the business

- Read reviews to see what people are really thinking and feeling about a site or issue

- Stumble your “competitors” favorites to find out what gaps they’ve left you

- Factor backlink creation into your branding strategy

- Guest post on your Stumble buddies’ blogs.

- Stumble your Stumble friends’ posts

- Be consistent in your Stumble life

- Stumble your guest posts!

Once you’ve decided on a course of action for your StumbleUpon branding strategy, do your best to stick to it. After all, consistency is the most important key to branding. (Think how disoriented you’d feel if Coca-Cola suddenly started producing bright green cans with a rocket ship as their mascot, instead of a polar bear!)

Don’t forget to tie your Facebook and Twitter strategy in with StumbleUpon too… And if you’re a LinkedIn user, make sure your profile and information on that site reflects the image you’re portraying in your other social sites.

Remember that in branding yourself, the most important thing is to create and nurture your own strong, separate – and consistent – identity. So ask yourself, what do you want to be known for?

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Ronnie Nijmeh of PLR.me has just released the Abundance Stimulus Pack, a set of 5 ready-to-sell self-help PLR products with the complete package of “cut and paste” marketing materials. These are perfect for anyone looking for life coaching PLR and personal development PLR. Check it out here: Abundance Stimulus Pack.

Ronnie’s only selling 250 copies of the pack and based on the buzz around the ‘net, it’s really going to sell out quick. So if you’re interested, I suggest you grab yours now.

PLR.me is not like other PLR content out there. It’s got the best quality I’ve ever seen in PLR and typically comes at a premium price. And now you can get FIVE top quality PLR products for less than 30 bucks each. (Plus, the topics are always in high demand.)

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Because my friend Ronnie Nijmeh has been working his tail off for you all summer long. Guilt-free. With his help, your coaching business can hit the ground running this fall. You see, Ronnie’s releasing his Abundance Stimulus Pack tomorrow, which includes 5 ready-to-sell products that you can use to accelerate your business this fall.

You don’t have to play catch up and create products from scratch. You don’t have to feel guilty about enjoying your summer and taking time to rejuvenate your soul. But you’ll want to take advantage of the Abundance Stimulus Pack if you want to get ahead and build strong momentum into the fall.

The Abundance Stimulus Pack contains ready-to-sell products in the hottest niches around: self-help and the recession. Your prospects and clients are CRAVING this info and it’s up to you to give it to them.

If you’re serious about kick starting your coaching business this September, then get signed up to the early bird list here: Early Bird Abundance.

You’ll get in before everyone else, and you’ll guarantee your spot!

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Well, now he’s created a video version of the report! You can watch it here: 101 Ways to Use PLR – The Video. The video’s great if you’re a visual learner, and you’ll also be able to grab the original PDF version of the report as well (you’ll have to opt-in, but it’s free).

And don’t forget, on September 15th, Ronnie’s releasing a done-for-you private label rights content pack called the Abundance Stimulus Pack. You’ll get 5 ready-to-sell products with everything you need: eBooks, worksheets, checklists, audio books, sales letters, ‘cut and paste’ email auto-responders, graphics and even custom WordPress sites, ready-to-upload. On the video page, you can sign-up for his early bird list to secure your spot for this extremely limited PLR pack.

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The calls are only available to members of PLR.me, but I was able to get a free MP3 recording from one of his past teleseminars called PLR Profits. You can access the MP3 right here.

Ronnie covered some great tips on the call that will really explode your coaching business. He talked about:

• What PLR is and why you need it
• How to use private label content for traffic generation, loyalty building, and product creation
• Creative approaches to use and profit from PLR

Again, you can download the recording here.

Also, this coming Tuesday, September 15th, Ronnie’s releasing a must-have PLR pack called the Abundance Stimulus Pack. It’s five complete, ready-to-sell products. I’ll tell you more about this later. But right now, you can sign up for an Early Bird notification at the bottom of the PLR Profits MP3 page. You’ll want to enter your name and email so you’ll beat the rush.

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But before I get into that, let me just remind you that you don’t have to write these ebooks yourself. Here are a few providers I highly recommend, because I’ve purchased from everyone of them:

• Mom PLR eBooks – “Done-for-you” complete packages for the Mommy market. Use coupon code “ebookboost” and get your first month membership for only $5.

• Special Report Club -”Done-for-you” complete packages for the Internet business market. Read my review.

• Nicheology – Two “Products in the Rough” each month that target the current hottest niche markets on the Internet. Read my review.

• Easy PLR – Ebooks in the Internet marketing niche.

• PLR.me – Self-help and personal development PLR. Read my review.

1. Blog Comments – Use content from the ebook to post meaningful and valuable comments in blog posts related to your niche.

2. Guest Posts – Write a blog post about each topic in the ebook’s table of contents and use as guest posts in related blogs.

3. Surveys – Use the ebook as the basis of an online survey, to help you learn more about your market such as what type of information they want.

4. FAQ Page – Create a FAQ page or special report with links to your site and/or affiliate links. Then make it go viral.

5. Motivational Posters – Distill the key points of an ebook into a poster – to give away or sell.

6. Landing Pages & 404 Pages – Use information in the ebook to create high-quality landing pages for your Pay Per Click campaigns or to put your Error Pages to work for you.

7. Comics - Based on the ebook contents, develop a set of comics you can give away to build your list.

8. Pre-loaded USBs and MP3s - Pre-load a USB flash drive with several related ebooks and sell at a premium. You can also record the ebook as an audio file and pre-load a MP3 player to sell along with the transcript of the ebook.

9. Coaching Tool – Offer the ebook as an add-on to your coaching program.

10. Webinars – Organize a webinar around the ebook. Record the webinar, have it transcribed, and you’ve got a brand-new product to either sell or give away.

Whew! With our previous blog post, that’s a total of 36 ways you can use ebooks to build your business. If I’ve missed any, please feel free to let me know by posting a comment below.

There’s so much you can do with content, but it takes time, effort and money to create it. When you have access to high-quality PLR content for a specific market, then you’ll have plenty of time and energy to get maximum profits from the content.

I have given you so many ideas for building your biz with ebooks – which one will you do first?

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And “done-for-you” private label rights (PLR) packages like Special Report Club and Mom PLR eBooks make publishing and marketing them easier than ever, so it’s no wonder, many Internet marketers are making fortunes from selling ebooks.

But did you know that an ebook can boost your business in so many ways, other than by selling it as is?

As a matter of fact, here are 26 ways one ebook can boost your business:

1. Blog Posts – Break up the ebook into blog posts or articles for your site. Publishing fresh content frequently is a good way to build up traffic.

2. Answer Questions – Use content from the ebook to respond to questions in Yahoo! Answers and discussion forums in your market. Don’t forget to add a link to your site.

3. Training Tools – If you already have an info product on the market, turn an ebook about internet marketing into a training tool for your affiliates. Good affiliates are essential to your business.

4. Lenses and Hubs and Knols – Pull out content from the ebook to create a Squidoo lens, Hub Page or Google Knol. These Web 2.0 platforms are excellent sources of back links to your site.

5. Articles – Rewrite parts of the ebook into unique articles and submit to Ezine Articles, Lady Pens, Associated Content, Go Articles, and other article directories for more quality back links for your money pages.

6. Ecourse – Break up the ebook into an ecourse. You can either sell or give away the ecourse. You can see an example of this one right here on this site. I giveaway an ecourse to all of my subscribers (see optin in the upper right corner).

7. Newsletter – Take parts of the ebook and use them in your email newsletter or ezine.

8. Giveaways – Give away the ebook to build up a mailing list (I do this on  my coaching site). Readers will gladly give their email addresses for an ebook that addresses their problems.

9. Bonuses – Offer the ebook as a bonus for a paid product. This increases the value of your product.

10. Gifts – Give the ebook away as a gift to your most loyal customers. They’ll love you for it and will be happy to buy from you again.

11. Offline Promotion – Take the most actionable parts of the ebook and create a printed promotional postcard, flyer or newsletter.

12. Niche it Up – Rewrite the ebook for a related, but more specific niche, to create a new stream of income from another market.

13. Print Book – Print the book through Lulu or Lightning Source and be where few Internet marketers are.

14. Self-Study Course – Expand the ebook into a self-study course, by creating mindmaps, cheatsheets and step-by-step guides.

15. Teleseminar – Break up the ebook into an audio or teleseminar series, which you either sell or give away.

16. Podcast – Transform each chapter of the ebook into a podcast via iTunes. Podcasts increase your authority, drive traffic to your site, and warm up listeners to your offer.

17. Video – Use the ebook to create a slideshow or screen capture video. Use the video to market your product or service on video sharing sites like YouTube.

18. Audio Product – Read the ebook to create an audio product. Sell it as a digital product, or a preloaded mp3 player. You’ll stand out from your competition.

19. Translate It – Translate the ebook into another language, and sell it in other countries.

20. Interview Platform – When preparing for a media interview, get content from the ebook to build your key messages.

21. Special Report – Distill the ebook into a special report to either sell or give away.

22. Tweets – Get the best nuggets of content from the ebook and turn them into Twitter tweets. Add a link to your site or squeeze page.

23. Press Release – Use the ebook as reference material when writing a press release.

24. White Paper – Transform the ebook into a white paper, which explains your product or service to your target market.

25. Home Study Package- Bundle the ebook with other ebooks about related topics, to create a comprehensive home study course.

26. Coaching Course – Break the ebook content down into group coaching sessions you give through teleconference, teleseminar or webinar format. Charge for the group coaching, or give free access to build your list.

If you don’t want to write your own ebook or hire a ghostwriter to do it for you, then using PLR content is your answer. PLR is the most affordable and fastest way to get an ebook and other content for your biz. Here are a few providers I highly recommend, because I’ve purchased from everyone of them:

• Mom PLR eBooks – “Done-for-you” complete packages for the Mommy market. Use coupon code “ebookboost” and get your first month membership for only $5.

• Special Report Club -”Done-for-you” complete packages for the Internet business market. Read my review.

• Nicheology – Two “Products in the Rough” each month that target the current hottest niche markets on the Internet. Read my review.

• Easy PLR – Ebooks in the Internet marketing niche.

• PLR.me – Self-help and personal development PLR. Read my review.

As you can see, an ebook can boost your business in so many ways. If you’ve only been using an ebook as an ebook, you’re missing out!

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If you’ve been considering a membership to Special Report Club, now is the time to join, because this pricing is only good for today!

I wrote a review of the membership last week, and explained just what you get for $27 $11.97 per month. You’ll get a “business in a box” so you can start a business or release a new product almost overnight:

- A 30-page report on an IM topic

- A 10-page “giveaway” report

- A prewritten and designed sales letter

- A prewritten and designed squeeze page

- 5 prewritten follow-up emails

- A ready-to-use solo email

- 1 ecover for the 30-page report

- 1 ecover for the 10-page freebie report

- PSD versions of the ecovers

- 5 blog posts

- 5 articles

- A list of related affiliate programs

But if you signed up last week after reading the review, don’t worry, because you can still get the special pricing too! Simply log in to your account, and enter coupon code 874A7 during checkout  to get the discounted price.

I hope you join me as a member of Special Report Club! See you in the Club!

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So if your coaching clients happen to be seeking green and eco-friendly information, you should definitely grab this completely free, no-strings-attached 5-pack of PLR (private label rights) articles.

You can edit the content, brand it, and add promotions for your services. It’s completely up to you. It’s ready-made content, saving you plenty of time and money.

There’s also no pesky opt-in required before you get the content.

Grab your green content here!

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