Sample Content Preview To determine whether a specific blog will count as a link back, you can download the free Firefox plugin at: https://www.quirk.biz/searchstatus / It's also important to use anchor text within your blog comments, especially if you want to rank for various keyword phrases. When it comes to generating back-links with blogs, you need to: 1) Find blogs that provide a ‘do follow’ (the only kind of blogs where a link back to your site will count as a “vote”.) 2) You explore and read the blog and then you make an insightful, useful or relevant comment to the post that is likely to be approved by the blog’s administrator. 3) Include your back-link with relevant anchor text on the blog. 4) Rinse & Repeat Feeder Site Traffic Feeder sites are remotely hosted websites, housed by third party service providers who offer a place for people to create webpages, develop blogs, and share their article content. Because these feeder sites are deemed to be authority sites by the search engines, you’ll benefit from the “authority connection” you’re given when you submit content that includes a link back to your site. There are literally hundreds of feeder sites online that you can use to siphon traffic from the search engines and from the popularity of the feeder communities themselves, but if you’re limited on time, you’ll want to focus on the highest authority sites – as they’ll provide you with the most traffic in the shortest amount of time. The “King of the Feeder Sites” is Hubpages. While there are other feeder sites equally as popular, from consistent testing, I have always found that pages featured on HubPages not only generates the most traffic to my site, but also the most revenue based on their revenue-sharing program. Visit: https://www.HubPages.com You see, there’s an added benefit to creating pages on feeder sites outside of the massive traffic you’ll receive. Many feeder sites will feature advertisements on the pages that you create (primarily Adsense), and as an active member of their community, you’ll receive a percentage of all earnings generated from people clicking on these ads! Not only is Hub Pages very easy to use, but once you’ve established an account with them, and have set up 6-8 hub pages, all of the links featured within your pages will count as valid backlinks. This means that you’ll be able to solidify prominent backlinks from an authority site, and boost up your search engine ranking at the same time! With Squidoo being an authority website with search engines like Google, each time you build a lens, you are able to rank for specific keywords used within your page's title and content itself. It's a very effective strategy for generating back links and generating traffic to your website. One of the best strategies for generating traffic from Squidoo is to: Choose a topic carefully. You want your Squidoo lenses to be focused around a specific topic, rather than spread out to cover multiple niches. Once you have traffic flowing into your Squidoo lenses, you can quickly expand your outreach by developing additional lenses on other topics. Create 10-20 articles on your chosen topic, being careful not to keyword stuff! You want you incorporate relevant keywords into your content but you want to be careful that your material is comprehensive and won’t be penalized in the search engines or deemed inappropriate by Squidoo. Create a Squidoo lens for each of your articles. Your articles should be between 500-800 words long. You can write one lengthy article per Squidoo lens and break it up into smaller segments, utilizing Squidoo’s option to incorporate content boxes within your lens. Include images whenever possible to represent and highlight the information. Use Squidoo’s tagging system to assign relevant keywords to each of your Squidoo lenses. You want to be careful not to include too many keywords however! Good rule of thumb is to keep your keyword tags below 10 per lens. Internally link each Squidoo lens to each other. This will help your content retain link juice and will funnel traffic from one lens to another. Include a direct link to your squeeze page or sales page from each lens, and enable modules within your lens, so that it’s more interactive, encouraging comments and feedback from visitors. Continue expanding your Squidoo network by developing new lenses every week. You want Google and other search engines to quickly index your Squidoo lens and based on Google’s changes involving how they update content within the Web Index, you can quickly publish your Squidoo lenses and have them appear within Google in a matter of a few short hours! Here’s how: Once you have developed a handful of quality lenses that contain 2-3 articles, various modules to promote interaction, and you’ve assigned tags and keywords to your lens, visit https://www.Mixx.com to bookmark each lens. Tip: Remember to use anchor text to link to your site. Anchor text is the text that is used to link to a site. For example: Your Anchor Text There are many other feeder sites that you should focus on as part of your traffic generation campaign, including: Blogger & Wordpress Blogger, found at https://www.Blogger.com is a great way to generate quick traffic from Google by creating high quality blog pages, complete with article content and direct links to your websites. Wordpress, found at https://www.Wordpress.com offers equal space, giving you the opportunity to build quality blog pages that attract organic traffic quickly. The idea is to spend time developing a quality blog. You want to include 3- 4 articles per blog, linking back to your squeeze or sales page, while utilizing optimization strategies to ensure your blog page is prominently featured in the major search engines (where you’ll receive the majority of your traffic initially). Building High Traffic Linkwheels Linkwheels consist of multiple “feeder sites”, which are websites and webpages hosted on remote servers. These websites are considered authority sites and by developing a website on these services you are able to pass on some valuable link juice to your main website. When developing your linkwheel, you are going to focus on a combination of free feeder sites, also known as “Web 2.0 properties”. First, let’s take a closer look at the actual anatomy of a linkwheel: Think of exactly how a wheel is structured. You’ve got the hub which, will be your money site (the one you want to ultimately direct people to) and then you’ve got spokes (these will be the links that point to your money site). On the outside of a wheel you’ve got the rim that holds it all together. These will be the sites on which you feature your backlinks. The first thing that you’re going to have to do is create your content for the pages. You’ll typically need each page to have 200 to 500 words of text that is keyword optimized so that it clearly targets specific keywords that you are hoping to rank for. Once you’ve got your content for you web 2.0 pages, you simply go through the process of setting up web pages at 6-8 feeder sites to develop the spokes for your linkwheel. Now here’s the important part. On this page that you’ve created, you’re going put two different links. You’re going to have one link that points back to your money site, and one link that points to another page in your linkwheel system.

Table of Contents Introduction 5 What AI Can Do for You 8 How to Incorporate AI into Your Business 14 How to Get Started Quickly 20 Taking Your Business to the Next Level with AI 24 3 Tips to Using AI Successfully 29 Final Words 34 Resources 36 Sample Content Preview The goal is to help improve and even automate the sales process. Platforms like Salesforce have begun using AI that helps small businesses analyze the data from those communication channels and then adjust lead generation activities and marketing based on that information. AI-infused CRMs can help you generate more leads for the same amount of marketing money. They also show how AI can be used to gather marketing- and sales-relevant insights to optimize nearly the entire customer acquisition process. Automating customer communication. Many small businesses have started using chatbots on their websites. Chatbots can initiate conversations and help answer customer questions. It’s like a 24/7 sales or customer service rep. You’ve probably already encountered a chatbot, even if you didn’t think of it as artificial intelligence. It’s that little pop-up chat box at the corner of a website that asks if you have any questions or problems. If you don’t have a dedicated customer service or sales team yet, a chatbot might be the way to go, taking some of the pressure off your shoulders and letting you put your focus on the things that are important. Streamlining human resources tasks—An unexpected area where AI has started appearing is in the field of human resources. AI tools are available to not only streamline the hiring and “onboarding” processes, but also gather information from new employees that helps HR improve those processes. And both of these can have a major impact on your bottom line. AI can automatically sort through that stack of applicants to find the people who most closely match the criteria you’re looking for. This can not only improve your odds on finding the perfect candidate, but also save you valuable time and resources. And once that candidate is brought onboard, the software can help educate employees with questions about company benefits or policies. This can reduce the time you spend on the hiring process and increase the number of high-quality candidates you see, since you just don’t have the time to wade through all those applications yourself. It then reduces the amount of time HR spends on answering questions from your new employees. Acquiring competitive intelligence—You’ve probably dreamed of being able to gather and analyze your competition easily—from written and video content to social media posts and marketing campaigns that help them better position their business. Well, the great news is that artificial intelligence can do that for you! There are several tools that let you keep tabs on your competitors and their activities, including collecting the information for you, and then convert it into easy-to-read reports. Crayon, for example, a competitor analysis tool, uses artificial intelligence to track competitors across a variety of digital channels such as their websites or social media posts. It then collects a variety of information for you, like slight adjustments in their marketing language or pricing changes. These types of AI tools allow you to gather more detailed information faster, which means you respond faster and more efficiently to industry changes that might affect your business!  How to Incorporate AI into Your Business There are many ways you can begin to implement AI into your business to maximize exposure and growth. Here are a few ideas: Become familiar with AI, and what it’s capable of. Luke Tang’s TechCode Accelerator can give you a wide variety of resources since it partners with organizations like Stanford University and with “corporations in the AI space.” Take advantage of the treasure trove of information out there, and familiarize yourself with the basic concepts of artificial intelligence. Tang himself recommends some of the workshops and online classes offered organizations like Udacity. They’re easy ways for you to get started with artificial intelligence and help improve your knowledge of things like machine learning and predictive analytics. Here are some resources you can use to get started (not all are free): Udacity’s “Intro to AI” course and their Artificial Intelligence Nanodegree Program. Stanford University’s online lectures: Artificial Intelligence, Principles & Techniques. Microsoft’s open-source “Cognitive Toolkit” (previously called CNTK) to help master deep-learning algorithms. Google’s open-source “TensorFlow” software library for machine intelligence. AI Resources, an open-source code directory from the AI Access Foundation. Start by identifying the problems you want artificial intelligence to solve for you. Once you’ve got the basics down, the next step is to start exploring and brainstorming ideas. Start thinking about how you can incorporate AI into your existing services and products. You probably already have specific cases in mind where artificial intelligence could solve some of your problems or provide demonstrable value. Maybe it’s streamlining the hiring process or helping your customers by answering questions. “When we’re working with a company,” Tang says, “we start with an overview of its key tech programs and problems. We want to be able to show it how natural language processing, image recognition, machine learning, etc. fit into those products, usually with a workshop of some sort with the management of the company. The specifics always vary by industry. For example, if the company does video surveillance, it can capture a lot of value by adding machine learning to that process.” Prioritize value.

Sample Content Preview Branding and Design You might at this point still be wondering precisely what I’m talking about. Don’t worry, hopefully this first example will elucidate you a little by looking at the huge difference that just investing more time into your branding can make – and by taking the time to learn how to handle design properly. So, an unfortunately huge proportion of internet marketers will set out with entirely the wrong objective. Specifically, they set out with the hopes of making money quickly online simply by promoting things that others have made. They see this as a ‘get rich quick’ solution and as a way that they can make money from home with no risk. And they don’t really care as to whether they are providing a good experience for the customer. Nor do they care about their brand’s quality for that reason – or about how they could ensure they were presenting themselves in the best way possible. Take the logo for example. Logo design and design in general are skills that countless businesses and individuals just have no interest in pursuing. And nor do they want to invest the money necessary to get a good logo. So, they end up a) creating a logo themselves using rudimentary tools (we’re talking MSPaint or Photoshop here, rather than the required Illustrator) or b) not having a log at all. They combine this with a website name that is nothing more than a keyword. We’ve all seen sites like ‘HowToGetAbs.com’ or ‘EasyWayToMakeMoney.com’. These are highly uninspired names and things that communicate to the visitor that you are interested in making a quick buck from them and nothing more. Not only does this mean that it’s highly unlikely that people will remember your brand and want to follow it. Not only does it mean that you’re unlikely to ever get any ‘true’ fans or loyal subscribers – but it can even hurt your Google ranking. Google has come right out and said that it prioritizes and promotes sites that have a strong brand rather than a keyword for their name. A logo should exist to adorn your site and make it look instantly more attractive and interesting. It should decorate your page so that the entire site looks more professional and thereby is able to inspire more trust and confidence. But more than that, it should also be used to communicate to your audience precisely what your site is all about and why they should consider subscribing. A great logo shows what your site is about, what your principles and values are and who you are aiming at. It doesn’t try to appeal to everyone but it makes a big impact on the right kind of visitor. Now, when someone visits your site, they right away think ‘wow, this looks like my kind of site!’ and hopefully as a result, they consider subscribing. And hopefully, they recognize your logo on all the digital products you sell and on all your social media and they see that as a stamp of quality and a mark of something they want to follow or look into. To do this, you need a great quality logo. And the only way to get that is to hire someone, or to have the skill to make it yourself. How to Make a Fantastic Logo Speaking of which then, here is your quick primer on how to craft a superb logo: Create a moodboard. A moodboard is effectively a collage that is made up of images, videos, words and anything else that you feel expresses what you want your site to express, or that you just like the looks of. Combine the elements of the moodboard in different ways to try out different ideas. Take a few you like and survey your audience to help choose the best one Create the best one using Illustrator Here is where the skill comes in. It is highly recommended that internet marketers take the time to learn illustrator, as it is one of the very best tools on the market for growing your brand and will give you fantastic abilities that you can also outsource to other brands and companies. If you can’t make the logo yourself, outsource it! There is no substitute for skill and know-how. Web Design With WordPress Here’s the good news: web design is actually something you can acquire or accomplish rather easily today and it shouldn’t take you long at all to learn the basics. That’s because web design today largely uses WordPress. WordPress is a tool that is referred to as a CMS or ‘Content Management System’. This means that it is a tool for adding, editing and removing content from your site. By ‘content’ here though, is also meant the design and look of your site. In other words, you can use WordPress to additionally edit such things as your background, the design and more. WordPress actually powers an incredible 25% of the web and is used in some of the biggest and most successful site designs around. These include the likes of BBC America, Forbes, Mashable, Wired… you name it! In other words then, this is a tool capable of making highly competent websites and is in no way a kind of ‘site builder’ just for amateurs. On top of this, WordPress also happens to be an incredible powerful tool in terms of what it allows. The great thing about WordPress is that it is a platform that can be upgraded with a single click whether that means installing a new tool or feature, or whether it means completely changing up the design in order to create something that looks entirely different by installing a ‘theme’. Because so many people use WordPress, there also happens to be a huge community surrounding it and a huge industry. Almost any site tool that you could want to use or any theme is going to be designed for WordPress. In short, WordPress offers all the tools you could likely need to create an amazing looking website and then some. You actually make life much harder for yourself by choosing to go any other route, as well as introducing new confounding variables that might interfere with your success. And as though that wasn’t enough, WordPress is also completely free to use and very easy to get to grips with. THIS is the skill you need to pursue in order to become great at web design then. With that under your belt, you’ll be able to create a beautiful site for your own brand and will be able to outsource yourself as a web developer. How to Get Started With WordPress Site Building Building a website starts with a domain name – choose a name that will suit your site, ideally your brand name Next you need to buy that domain and get hosting. Look for domain and hosting providers like BlueHost or Host Gator. Read what they do and then choose the basic account. Log into your cPanel and install WordPress with a single click! Or, download the files from WordPress.com and follow the instructions. Navigate your browser to www.websitename.com/wp-admin and use the details you used when you set it up. Change the name, the logo, the background image and the layout. Find a professional theme from a site like ThemeForest or hire someone to make you one.

Sample Content Preview Chapter 1: What it is Really Like to be an Internet Entrepreneur When you picture yourself as a digital marketer, you might imagine yourself wearing a sharp suit and standing atop a skyrise building. Well you can forget that image right away! After all, working online generally means working on your own. AKA, there is no reason to wear a smart suit! And most digital marketers aren’t rich – despite what the ads tell you. Very often, being a digital marketer means doing a lot of work pedaling things that you aren’t particularly passionate about or interested in. This can be fairly soul sapping work, as you spend hours writing content for blogs, or paying other people to write it for you. You then watch sales, scour for products and send angry emails when a service provider lets you down. If you’re earning money on the side by marketing other small fry companies on the web, then you probably get shouted at a lot by them too when you don’t get them to the top spot of Google. That’s right: internet marketing can be stressful and often this is all done while living out of a single room in a small flat. And because you never have to leave the house, you often end up not looking your best. You’re not quite earning what you thought you’d be earning because you don’t have the budget to invest big time into Google Ads. All the while, you’re promoting the ‘digital marketing lifestyle’ and persuading other people to buy your internet marketing ebook. You maybe even took a photo in front of your friend’s fancy car. And you kind of feel like a bit like a fraud. So, you keep pushing and keep working, meaning you end up working all hours, all without making much headway. And meaning that you don’t actually get to go out and enjoy the cash you have earned. And it’s not like you can grab drinks with your colleagues after work… Chapter 2: Switching Gears: Doing Something You Love There are plenty of posts around the net on how to make money online, but they never describe how it can go ‘wrong’ this way. So, every now and then, it's worth taking a look at yourself and asking whether you are really doing what you should be doing. Do you actually enjoy the work you do on a day-to-day basis? Do you find it rewarding? Or have you lost sight of that in favor of repetitive work that you can be sure will pay the rent? Are you dispassionately selling products that you don’t care about? Were you nodding along when I described the ‘digital marketing’ guru sitting in their front room with their hair a mess and their face wired? As with any type of work, it's worth taking the occasional step back to think about what you're doing, and to see if you couldn't be having more fun doing another kind of work. Let's take a look at how to do work on line that will prove to be truly rewarding and fun. Because like they say, if you love what you do, then you will never work a day in your life… Creativity One of the things that can make any type of work enjoyable is creativity. If you get to create something different, to think outside the box, and to 'put your stamp' on what you do, then you will find that it's more rewarding and better for your overall brain development too. Generally, we think of 'creative' work as being things that involve art or self-expression in some form. So, if you're a creative type, then you might well enjoy working as a web designer or as a writer. But what's also important to bear in mind is that you can make almost any type of work creative as long as you approach it with the right attitude and in the right way. Creative thinking can be applied to jobs that aren't typically creative, whether that means coming up with a unique way to market a website, or whether it means being creative in the way that you solve a programming problem you've been having. Even if your job is to check for typos, you may be able to get creative about the way you do that. So, if you are finding your work boring, then perhaps it just requires you to approach the task with a fresh perspective? Ownership Ever since becoming an entrepreneur, I have worked harder and longer hours than I ever did when I worked in an office. The reason for this was that I was now working for myself, and that the work I put in was solely my responsibility. This gives you much more of a sense of ownership of the work you do, which in turn makes you more invested in the quality. You are working towards something, and you will directly benefit from doing a good job. One way you can increase this feeling of ownership though is to create your own commercial product. That means running a blog or selling an app as opposed to providing a white label service to other clients. This way you get to have your name on the product, and you will get feedback from customers/visitors /fans who appreciate your work. At the same time this will also give you more creative freedom as you won't have to answer to anyone else. So, while selling an affiliate product or a PLR product might seem like the quicker and easier way to earn cash, the truth is that you might find yourself even happier if you built something of your own that you were truly proud of. What’s more, is that this would then come across in your marketing – you’d know the product inside out and your genuine enthusiasm would help it to sell! Bear in mind though, that when you create your own product this way, you will end up working a lot more and your income will be even less stable. This can be a stressful process and it might mean working for months on a single project only to see it flop. That's not so fun. This is why I always recommend taking a ‘fail fast’ approach to developing digital products. Don’t spend more than a few months on a single product without first ‘verifying’ that product. That means opening up a beta, selling a beta or otherwise just testing that there really is an audience for it before you waste years on something that won’t sell.

Table of Contents Introduction 5 Intro to YouTube Ads 7 Types of YouTube Ads 9 Setting Your Advertising Budget 16 How to Define Your Target Audience 19 Adjust Your Targeting 25 Launching your First Campaign 30 Resources 36 Sample Content Preview Types of YouTube Ads Before you begin advertising on the YouTube platform, it’s important that you understand the different options available. Currently, there are seven different types of YouTube ads: TrueView Instream Ads: These are the most common of all YouTube ads, the main advertising format. 8 out of 10 viewers prefer this sort of ad over the other types. This is mostly because this format gives you the most control over which advertisements they see. You may see this as a negative, as viewers can choose to skip your ads, but think of it this way: you’re paying only for those viewers who are interested in what you’re offering them. These ads can be as short as 12 seconds and as long as 6 minutes. A six-minute ad is a fairly long one, so you should probably aim for somewhere in the middle. There are two basic types of TrueView Ads: skippable and non-skippable. Let’s look at those in more detail. Non-skippable Instream Ads: These are a type of TrueView ad that do exactly what the title says. The viewer cannot skip over these ads, but must watch all the way through to get to the content they’re searching for. Non-skippable ads can play at the beginning or end of the chosen video, or can be placed somewhere in the middle. Ads that pop up in the middle of a video can be annoying, but you’re more likely to keep the viewer’s attention because they’re waiting for the rest of the chosen content to display. The important thing to remember is that the ad must be watched all the way through, which means you pay every time the ad plays. This would be a good choice for a business with a large marketing budget because you’re not going to be targeting your viewers quite as narrowly as you would with a skippable ad. With a non-skippable ad, you’ll pay every time it pops up. Note: YouTube recently announced that they had to be under 20 seconds long (rather than the 30 seconds they previously allowed). There’s also a special subset of Non-skippable Ad: the Bumper Ad. This is a Non-skippable ad that plays at the beginning of a video and must be under 6 seconds long. You are charged for these in the same way you are charged for other Non-skippable ads. Skippable Instream Ads: Again, this is just what it sounds like. After viewing five seconds of your TrueView ad, the user can opt to skip it and get straight back to their chosen content. You aren’t charged unless they watch at least 30 seconds of your ad (or if they take action such as clicking on a link in your ad). Skippable ads can be played at the beginning of a video, during the video, or afterwards. We recommend placing your ads at the beginning or middle of the video because it’s way too easy to just skip an ad at the end by clicking on the next video in the series. Sponsored Card Ads: These ads display content relevant to the YouTube video being watched, such as products used in the video itself. Viewers will see a teaser for the card for a few seconds, or they can click an icon at the top right corner of their screen to browse through the cards associated with their video. These ads are available on both desktop and mobile versions of YouTube. Sponsored cards are a very unobtrusive YouTube ad. Overlay Ads: These are available for desktop or laptop computers. An overlay ad is a transparent ad that appears in the lower 20% of the video. That’s 480 x 70 pixels and viewers can exit the ad at any time they wish. Overlay ads are not as popular because are prone to with false clicks, and because some viewers find them annoying. Display Ads: These appear to the right of the video just above the video suggestion list. They can be 300 x 250 or 300 x 60 pixels in size and can run across all areas of YouTube except for the homepage. If a viewer is interested in what you’re advertising and sees one of your display ads, you should get a click. Midroll Ads: These ads play full screen and appear in videos that are more than 15 minutes long. They play just like television commercials, interrupting the video periodically to show an advertisement. Viewers must watch the ad before the video continues playing so you’ll be paying whenever the ad runs and not when the viewer watches a certain amount of the ad. These ads can appear on desktop, laptop, and mobile devices. Advertisers can insert ad breaks at natural pauses in a longer video for a more streamlined viewing experience. Most people are used to seeing commercials when watching a video, so this type of ad isn’t as annoying as some of the other types. Since these are non-skippable, you are charged on a CPM basis – that’s Cost-Per-Mille, where “mille” stands for a thousand views.

Table of Contents Foreword Chapter 01 - What is Addiction? Chapter 02 - Recognizing the Addiction Chapter 03 - Finding Help and Support Chapter 04 – Understanding the Need for Therapy Chapter 05 - Check into Treatment Centers Chapter 06 – How is Gaming Addiction Dangerous? Chapter 07 - Be Careful Not to Get Hooked Chapter 08 - How to Know if You Can Handle it Yourself? Chapter 09 - Beating the Addiction Before it Starts Chapter 10 – Drawing a Line Closure Sample Content Preview Gaming addiction has two classifications but both classifications have similar effects to the behavior of a person. Some people call it computer addiction because it occurs in the presence of computers where several kinds of addictive video and online games are available. Some individuals call it internet addiction because most examples of games that are available in computers nowadays are connected or accessible on the internet. Every year, new versions of these addictive games are appearing in computers and internet to attract computer users. Actually, there’s nothing wrong in enjoying this kind of application in computers. However, too much exposure to such hobby is bad for the overall health of a person, most especially to the brain. Gaming addition can make a person irresponsible. Some individuals are already neglecting their responsibilities in life because of this type of addiction. Some students are no longer attending to their classes in schools and universities because of video and online games. Some workers are already losing their good performance and productivity at work because of this serious problem. Its worst effect to human beings is the fact that it can destroy the harmonious and strong relationship of a person to a family. Gaming addiction can change the overall personality and behavior of a person. Those individuals who are very kind and industrious will turn to lazy and violent individuals once exposed to several kinds of online and video games for several hours and days. It is really hard to control the negative effects of this problem to humans. But if people will already move to stop this kind of addiction now, there’s a possibility that one of these days, the regular players of online and video games in computers will already be able to control their extreme desire for to play such games. Chapter 02 - Recognizing the Addiction Synopsis Is it possible to recognize gaming addiction? The answer to this question is a big YES! There are so many ways to determine if a person is already a victim of this type of addiction. Through comprehensive observation and a set of detailed evaluations, a person will be able to determine if an individual is already a gaming addict. Having an ability to recognize this kind of addiction can also help a person avoid its possible causes as time goes by. All people in this world should try to discover the best ways on how to discover this kind of addiction to eliminate its negative effects to human beings faster and more effectively. As time goes by, the number of online game and video game users is multiplying fast. Millions of people in this world are already using the famous online games and video games on the internet and computers nowadays to satisfy their extreme desire to compete with other players in the different parts of the globe. Recognize the Addiction For some individuals, this situation looks normal. However, behind the enjoyable scenes of this situation, several individuals are already losing their real personality and harmonious relationship with their family members because of the bad and destructing effects of the video and online games to their minds and behavior. Some individuals are already willing to kill their own friends and family members just to enjoy these addictive games forever regardless of its possible effects to their daily living and future. As much as possible, this problem must be resolved with the help of a very excellent solution right now to save other individuals who are already at risk of its worst effects. Gaming addiction is not actually different from any type of substance addiction. It is an unusual behavior wherein a person exhibits extreme desire to play online and video games continuously without considering the importance of education and discipline in their lives. If substance addiction can make a person crazy, this type of addiction can also destroy the mental health of a person. If substances can totally destroy the overall health of a person, gaming addiction can also make the immune system and health of a person weaker. Some users of online games and video games nowadays have already forgotten to proper way of living in this world due to the things that are present in the scenes of the games that their eyes can see in the computers. Hopefully, this problem will no longer continue to grow and destroy the lives of other people. Chapter 03 - Finding Help and Support Synopsis Gaming addicts still deserve a second chance to live normally in this world. It is true that spending too much time to online and video games can make a person crazy in the end. The best solution to apply in order to stop the negative effects of this addiction to the human beings is not to blame the gaming addicts. The act of blaming the individuals who got addicted to online and video games is not the best solution to use in order to stop the effects of gaming addiction to human beings. A set of education and rehabilitation programs will be the best solution to the negative effects of gaming addiction to human beings. These programs will help the gaming addicts to change the path of their lives in a good way for their own welfare. The rehabilitation programs of gaming addicts should focus on the different ways on how to remove the extreme desire or interest of a person to video and online games. In this program, the negative effects of this type addiction must be explained to the patients to educate them more effectively and to motivate them to quit permanently in such type of addictive activity for the rest of their lives. Only a dedicated support group for gaming addiction can perform these kinds of programs for the gaming addicts. Find a Support Group Is it possible to change the paths of gaming addicts in a good way to provide them with a brighter future? Well of course it is possible. A support group for gaming addicts is already available in the different parts of the globe to help the family members of those individuals who got addicted to online games and video games in protecting the future of their loved ones against the negative effects of this type of addiction. When is the right time to ask for the assistance of a support group for gaming addiction? If one of your family members is already spending more than four hours to computer games, it’s a sign that something is wrong. Try to spend more attention on the behavior of that person but be careful in making your final judgments. It is because such action can make the problem worst when not properly executed. A support group for this type of an addiction is a team that aims to eliminate the negative effects of gaming addiction to human beings. A support group can help the family members of gaming addicts in the process of resolving the problems that were caused by this type of addiction to their relationship with their loved ones. This team provides several kinds of rehabilitation programs for gaming addicts. Their rehabilitation programs were designed to give the gaming addicts a second chance to live better in this world for the rest of their lives. The team can change their paths in life by helping them to motivate themselves to quit permanently from the use of online and video games.

Sample Content Preview Chapter 1: Why Not Just Give Up? Sometimes, it seems that the easiest path that we can take is to give up on our current accounts and move on to something new. Sometimes, yes, this can be more productive. However, if we are already feeling like we have hit rock bottom, giving up is the worst possible thing that you can do. Instead of telling yourself that there is no reason for you to keep trying, try and remember that there are many reasons for you to pick yourself up off the ground and move on toward your greater purpose. There are many reasons not to give up. There are so many opportunities waiting for us, if we are only open to the possibility of seeking them out. Nobody wants to find out that they have been sitting inside and sulking when if they had just stepped outside for a moment, they would’ve realized there was a great parade full of opportunities walking down their street. If you are willing to resign yourself to the possibility that your options are limitless, it is much more difficult to stay on the ground when you fall and find yourself struggling. Giving up is never truly an option. All of us are capable of so many great things. But what we have to do is learn how to believe in ourselves and give ourselves everything that we could ever possibly needto succeed emotionally and mentally before we will ever be able to go about it. There are times when it would be much wiser to try to find a different path. There are times when it is smart to evaluate your progress honestly and decide whether or not it is time to take a different route. You can always be flexible in the way you approach your goals, but if something isn’t working and it continues not to work, it is better not to dwell. That is the only time when it is acceptable to give up. But you are not giving up entirely. You are just giving up on a particular plan of action that was not helping you to achieve the things you needed to achieve. What is important most of all is to know that you matter and you are capable of doing great things, even if you encountered challenges and obstacles in the past. You have to fully believe in yourself. Never let yourself believe for one second that you aren’t capable of getting yourself up off the ground. Reading Rising from the Ashes will give you the tools and resources that you need so that you no longer fall back on the comfortable belief that you aren’t capable of doing anything right, and prepare you for a chance to create your own opportunities and pick yourself up from your bootstraps so that you can succeed. Chapter 2: Priming Yourself For Success Let’s face it. If you didn’t want to succeed, you wouldn’t be reading these books. However, you have to remind yourself that this is something that you want to do. You truly need to set aside the mental resources that you need before you will be able to embark upon your journey. If you have struggled in the past with success, that struggle will soon prove to be very valuable. Because, when you struggle, you are learning. A lot of success depends on your mentality. You have to make sure that you are prepared fully for the possibility of failure and primed for the likelihood of success. You cannot let yourself be convinced that you will never succeed. Instead, begin to focus on the future. See every way that you are making decisions in your life daily that will ultimately become collected into one intention. For example, if you are busying yourself every day with a stronger team, such as healthy eating and exercise, over time, you will gradually begin to lose weight and feel good about your body. However, if you are making decisions every day to eat fast food and sit around rather than exercise, then ultimately, you are creating a negative future for yourself and your body. It is very important to remember that the future is in your hands. Every choice that you make now in the present moment can affect you later on. You have to try your hardest to make good and conscientious choices that are going to help you to thrive in the future rather than come back to bite you. Everybody has a vice here or there, but if you are willing to look at yourself objectively and understand that you do not have to be a victim to your own vices and that you do have power and control over what happens to you and your destiny, it is that much easier to prime yourself for success. This may seem more difficult if you have faced failures in the past. You may feel like there is no point in trying anymore. However, that just proves that there is far more reason to try now than ever. You are on a downward spiral if you find yourself stuck in that way. The only way out of something so defeating is by taking your power back and believing that every choice you make is going to make a difference. Don’t fool yourself into believing that you are stuck. Instead, take your power back into your hands and move forward rather than backward. Reading Rising from the Ashes will provide you with many ways that you can begin to utilize these methods and take control of your future! Chapter 3: Picking Yourself Up From Your Bootstaps, Starting Now! It can be very discouraging to go through life with a specific hope for the future and one day realize that you have not been making the progress that you need to make in order to succeed. Sometimes, things happen along the way that drive us away from the path of success, and others, our clan simply wasn’t cut out for making our dreams a reality. Whatever may have been holding you back, that is in the past. It is an opportunity to learn from strategies that were not successful and regroup into an even more powerful force than before. When you know what doesn’t work, you have a greater understanding of what will work. We don’t learn by doing everything successfully the first time. We learn most when we are unable to make the easy and successfully the first time. With a greater understanding of your own potential and the value of the opportunities surrounding you, you will be able to truly begin to focus on your future in a way that is productive and meaningful rather than defeating and hopeless. All of us are capable of rising to her greater potential. As long as we have the tools and the mindset, we can become the people that we want to be the most. And that is exactly what Rising from the Ashes is going to do for you. This book is full of helpful advice and life strategies that can help you when you are at your lowest. All of us have a down time in our lives. We are never always on top. Up and downs are to be expected of any person at any time. However, when you do not have the tools and strategies that you need in order to deal with these setbacks and difficulties, that is when things become problematic. Fortunately, anybody can begin to utilize their full potential and overcome the obstacles that are standing in their way. All you have to do is believe that it is possible and pursue the knowledge that you need in order to get over your slump and turn your dreams into a reality!

Table of Contents Foreword Chapter 01: Why is Good Communication Important? Chapter 02: Understanding Yourself And Your Message Chapter 03: Learn To Use Terms That Invoke Emotions Chapter 04: Body Language Chapter 05: Learn To Use Terms That Spark Interest Chapter 06: The Benefits Of Presenting Your Message In 1 Minute Wrapping Up Sample Content Preview The Basics The following are some recommendations on how to ensure the information being communicated is done so in the shortest possible time frame, and yet fully understood by the receiving party: • Perhaps the most effective way of communicating information and having it understood is to ensure there is constant eye contact with the recipient, throughout the length of the communication session. This should also be done in a precise and quick time frame where the information is presented as concisely as possible. • Getting the recipient to summarize and repeat, what has been communicated is also another method of ensuring the information is both heard and understood. This is also another way to ensure the content of the information stays the same as it was presented and there are no additions or distortions to the content. • The language design and phrasing should also be in line with the recipient’s capability and understating levels. Talking to someone who is not savvy in the technical jargon used will not only be a waste of time and effort, but it would also seem pretentious to those around. This type of communication would not effective at all. Chapter 02 - Understanding Yourself And Your Message Synopsis Problems usually arise when information dispersed is not really understood by the individual doing the dispercement exercise. This has a lot of negative connotations to it as the said information content may not be dispersed as it was first designed to represent. Here in lies the problem of good communication that is faced by any level in society, which more often than not, results miscommunication or misinterpretation of the said information. Understanding There are three main components of communication, which affects the overall understanding of what is being communicated. These would include the verbal, nonverbal and paraverbal platforms used. The following are some tips on how to ensure the information is first thoroughly understood by the presenter before it is presented to others: • By understanding the content of the message intended to be shared with others the individual presenting the message will ideally utilize either all three of the communications components, or at the very least two components at any given time. This will allow the recipient of the message the opportunity to fully grasp, both the content and its impact meant to be made through the communication session. • When the content of the message is completely understood by the individual, he or she will be able to design or choose the suitable verbal, paraverbal or nonverbal messaging style that would effectively get the message across to the receiving party. Without this initial understanding factor, the individual would be hard pressed to make the presentation of the message impactful enough to get the desired results. • Another important effect that is desired from thoroughly understanding the message content before presenting it, is that the consistency in the message itself will be presented in a way that is less confusing and inconsistent according to the perception of the recipient. Chapter 03 - Learn To Use Terms That Invoke Emotions Synopsis For most, the effective impacts desired out of a communicating exercise, comes from the importance of being able to invoke some level of emotion both from the presenter and the listener. If the communication is well designed, with this important aspect dominantly featured, then the eventual results of the said communication exercise will bring forth the desired effects. Emotions Learning how to identify and include terms in the speech pattern and body language will be very useful when trying to focus in invoking some sort of emotion from all involved. Using appropriate trigger works and phrases is one way of achieving this emotional impact. “Painting” a picture with the choice of words used is the main idea behind the emotion invoking communication technique. This is very important for the presenter who is focused on making the desired impact on the listener in order to get the results intended.

Table of Contents Introduction..... 6 Chapter 1: Mindfulness 101........................10 Meaning of Mindfulness.........10 The Differences Between Mindfulness and Meditation...... 12 Types of Mindfulness Movement...................14 Factors That Enhances Mindfulness............. 16 5 Facts About Mindfulness.....18 Chapter 2: The Perks of Practicing Mindfulness...... 20 Stress Reduction......................20 Enhanced Performance.......... 21 Improved Insight.....................22 Enhanced Awareness..............23 Increased Empathy................. 24 Enhanced Interpersonal Relationships........24 Better Mental Health.............. 25 Chapter 3: Mindfulness Techniques......28 Basic Walking Mindfulness... 28 Leveraging Words and Phrases..................... 30 Sensory Walking Mindfulness........................ 31 Body Scan Walking................. 32 Gratitude Walking...................33 Observational Walking...........34 Chapter 4: How to sit for Mindfulness Practice.........37 Get a Seat......... 37 Focus on Your Legs.................38 Straighten Your Upper Body. 38 Position Your Upper Arms Parallel to Your Upper Body... 39 Drop Your Chin a Little..........40 Stand Still........ 40 Be Conscious of Your Breath. 41 Gently Return Your Attention When Wandering................ 42 Don’t Pause Impulsively........ 43 Gently Lift Your Gaze............. 44 Chapter 5: How to Bring Mindfulness to Your Exercise Routine .....46 Pause and be Mindful of Your Purpose........ 46 Disconnect from Digital Devices....................47 Focus on Your Body Sensation...................... 48 Leverage Your Breath as an Anchor..............49 Try Other Focal Points........... 50 Take Advantage of Open Awareness.............50 Strengthen Your Commitment....................... 51 Appreciate Your Efforts..........52 Chapter 6: How to be More Present in Various Settings................ 55 Lessons from Scandinavian Nations.............56 How to Incorporate Mindfulness into Various Aspects of Your Life.........59 Chapter 7: Mindful Movement Practice for Sleep Pattern Restoration..... 64 Cat/Cow........... 65 Deep Lunge..... 66 Seated Neck Stretch................ 67 Dynamic Bridge.......................68 Knee-to-Chest. 69 Chapter 8: Incorporating Mindfulness into Yoga.....72 Leveraging the Four Contact Points..............73 Finding Balance on all Fours.74 Cow Technique 75 Cat Pose............75 Rising up.......... 76 Shoulder Rotation....................77 Side Bends....... 78 Chair Posture.. 78 Leg Bends.........79 Stand Quietly...79 Conclusion......80 Sample Content Preview Chapter 1: Mindfulness 101 This journey will begin by exploring the rudiments of mindfulness. We’ll also discuss the differences between mindfulness and meditation, as well as the types of and factors that enhance mindfulness. Meaning of Mindfulness You need to understand what mindfulness is all about to be able to practice it effectively. Generally, mindfulness refers to being aware of your environment and the sensations demanding your attention. For example, when you are living in the moment, you’ll pay attention to the natural arrangement and color of the flowers as you walk through a garden. You’ll also notice the way cars are moving and stopping rather than just see them as objects flying past you while walking on a busy road. Your mind has a tendency to act like a monkey jumping from one branch of a tree to the other. The Buddha refers to this state of mind as “the monkey mind.” This restlessness is the reason many people find it difficult to stay in the moment. Their minds are full of thoughts about the future and how they can solve the next problem in such a way that they cannot enjoy the current moment. Such people are always distracted and find it difficult to concentrate on a task. Many people don’t realize the transient and short nature of life. You cannot afford to live a meaningless and colorless life due to your inability to see the beauty in the basic things of life. For some people, they will never realize the importance of those simple but foundational things in life until their health declines. Staying in the moment and making every moment count is supposed to be our default mode. However, it’s now a lost art that so many people are learning the hard way. The Differences Between Mindfulness and Meditation There’s no doubt that mindfulness and meditation share a number of similarities. Nonetheless, they aren’t the same. Mindfulness is broader and simpler than meditation. You cannot meditate everywhere you go, but mindfulness isn’t restricted to any particular location. Before you can meditate, you’ll need to be somewhere you’ll not be distracted. There are also some outfits you’ll need to get the best out of the practice. However, that’s not the case when it comes to mindfulness. Meditation promotes mindfulness, but you can stay in the moment without practicing meditation. For example, you can simply focus all your energy and attention on a conversation you have with your friend or a member of your family. At that moment, you can decide to switch off your phone or put it away so that you can have a full grasp of what the person is saying. You’re not meditating at that moment. Yet, you are practicing mindfulness because you are making the best of that conversation. So, every single time you choose to be fully engrossed with an activity you are involved in, you are practicing mindfulness. When you are living in the moment, you’ll enjoy and analyze a football game you are watching in detail. You will not be thinking about how you will perform at an interview at that moment. People that practice mindfulness allows future events to handle themselves. In other words, they don’t allow the pressure of an upcoming situation to cripple their enjoyment of the current moment. They put their best in whatever they have to handle right now without distractions. Types of Mindfulness Movement Remember that the central idea behind mindfulness is staying in the movement, regardless of what you’re doing. Yet, there are some activities that can make you practice mindfulness deliberately. Below are some of them: Breathing Exercises Breathing exercises involve deliberately elongating your breath and slowing it down while observing it. This routine enables you to refresh and improve your focus. Breathing exercises feature in seated meditation. However, it only serves as an anchor for the practice. In mindfulness, this exercise helps you to reconnect to your environment. Mindful Walking Taking a walk is recommended by physical experts as a beneficial exercise that offers multiple benefits. Still, you can combine mindfulness with it to get more out of the activity. For example, while walking past a garden, pay more attention to the breeze and the beauty of nature all around you. Routine Workout with Mindfulness You can synchronize your breath, tune in your body, and stay in the moment while nourishing your muscles and building strength. This approach is a fantastic way of enjoying the benefits of working out and mindfulness at the same time. It is a combination that you will find beneficial to both your body and mind. Mindful Stretching Stretching is an early-morning home routine for many people. It helps to reduce stiffness, release tension, and eliminate negative emotions. You can introduce mindfulness into the activity by observing every movement you make. Pay attention to your body and your breath. You are inadvertently building resilience, focus, and energy, which translate to a better living experience, especially while going through your daily activities. Factors That Enhances Mindfulness There’re some things you can do to make it more seamless to stay in the moment. Here are some of them. Digital Disconnection Digital devices have many advantages, including a faster accomplishment of certain tasks. Sadly, they have become the greatest source of distraction for many people. This excessive use has also affected the quality of sleep and interpersonal relationships of many individuals. If you want to make every moment count, you need to stay off your digital devices sometimes or totally for some days, if possible. If you cannot imagine staying one week off social media, you need to act fast. You can deliberately stay off for some days to be in charge again. Whatever makes you lose control over your life has put you at the backdoor. You need to wrest it back and be in charge as fast as possible. Work-Life Balance Many people find it challenging to leave their jobs in the office. They often bring uncompleted tasks home, thereby finding it difficult to have time for their loved ones. If you want to stay more in the moment, try to leave your job in your office. When you are at home, let your family have full access to you to create great memories together. It doesn’t matter if you’re working at home. You still have to ensure that you create an office space and time at home to avoid letting your job demands interfere with your family life. You’ll not be happy to discover that there are some other people that your kids prefer to you. Stay Closer to Nature Possessing and cultivating a garden, especially with your family, is one of the most fulfilling activities in the world. It creates a sense of togetherness as you try to achieve a goal as a family. However, if you don’t have one, you can still stay closer to nature by visiting one or going to places with beautiful sceneries. Walk through the location and appreciate the creativity in nature and the exciting colors of various plants and flowers. Have Hobbies Instead of wasting time on digital platforms, enjoying a hobby is a better activity. Find something you like to do that can take your mind away from your challenges and other negative emotions whenever you’re doing it. Hobbies also ensure that you’re doing something that improves your self-esteem. You will enjoy this benefit if you choose a hobby that you’re good at doing. 5 Facts About Mindfulness There are many intriguing facts about mindfulness that can inspire you to practice it more. Some of them are listed and explained below. - It’s not religious: Some people assume that they need to have a religious affiliation before they can practice meditation and mindfulness. However, this is far from the truth. You don’t need to be a Buddhist or Hindu to stay in the moment. - There are over 1300 mindful apps: You’ll not find it difficult to practice mindfulness because there are countless quality materials and apps that can help you to get the best out of the activity. - Mindfulness has an Eastern root: Mindfulness traveled from the East to the West. - Search for mindfulness has increased by 67% recently: In the last five years, online searches for mindfulness have increased by a staggering 67%. This shows that more people are beginning to understand the importance of this practice. - Some of the most mindful cities in the world are in Europe: Aarhus (Denmark), Lucerne (Switzerland), Reykjavik (Iceland), Bergen (Norway), and Turku (Finland) are some of the most mindful cities in the world.

Table of Contents 1. Introduction 01 2. Define your audience 02 3. Get more followers 05 4. Build an online store 08 5. Drive traffic to your site 11 6. Avoid common mistakes 14 Sample Content Preview Use high-res images and videos when sharing stories or advertising your brand. Include your business name and logo on all images. Upload inspirational quotes, DIYs, or cheat sheets for more likes and comments. Use meta keywords, meta descriptions, and hashtags for SEO and exposure. Post as frequently as you desire and know the best times to share posts. This ensures your followers engage with your content, ask questions, share their opinions, or leave a ‘Like.’ It also enables you to send timely responses, develop meaningful relations, and talk about your brand where applicable. Use Instagram stories. Countless people prefer videos so use Instagram stories to encourage users to stay on your page longer. They are a fun and interactive way to communicate with your audience. You can share image slides or record live videos. Instagram stories disappear after 24 hours. Meaning you can upload a new story each day and give your followers a great experience. Use Instagram highlights, share topics within your niche, use proper hashtags, participate in interesting conversations, and command attention. This can lead to more people visiting your profile, engaging with your content, and following you back. GET MORE FOLLOWERS The next step is to get more followers so you can drive traffic to your site, blog, or store. The best way to achieve that is by marketing your content. You want people to know that you exist, find you on search engines, understand your business, and prefer your product or service over your competitor’s. Market your content. Ensure more people interact with your content and take action by using the following tips: ● Complete your profile. Ensure you have a business account so you can meet your goals. If you don’t have one, go ahead and create it. You will gain access to countless features that will help you to grow and build your brand. So, ensure you either open a business account or convert your existing account to a business one. During the signup process, make sure you fill in all the details and pick the right username so you can appear and rank high on search engines. People will find you based on your username so choose one that best describes your business or offer. If your existing account is incomplete go ahead and edit it. Ensure all the information is there. For example, business name, description, location, and working hours. Keep your information up-to-date. ● Be consistent. Consistency helps you to grow your brand and ensure people easily identify your posts. So, give your brand a unique voice, stick to your primary colors, and avoid copying the competition. Learn from them but be as unique as you can be. ● Use proper hashtags. Hashtags help you to command attention and allow people to easily find your posts. Use industry-specific hashtags to attract the right people. For example, if your business’s primary aim is to offer sales and marketing services to clients, use relevant hashtags. For instance, #marketingservices, #sales, #increaserevenue, and so forth. People follow hashtags and including them on your posts ensures your content appears on search engines. Use AutoHash or Display Purpose to gain access to quality hashtags for your posts. You can also use trending hashtags, service hashtags, campaign hashtags, event hashtags, and so on. Use ones that are specific to your niche. Find out what the most popular ones are and use them on your posts. ● Follow people within your niche. Engage with existing communities and follow relevant accounts. This is the best way to market your content and reach your target audience because you can easily form relations with people who are already interested in what you are doing and offering. Like their posts and leave comments that are worth people’s attention. This can pique the account owner’s attention or anyone who reads your comment and encourage them to visit your profile. ● Connect with influencers. Search for influencers within your niche and connect with them. Engage with their content and develop a worthwhile relationship. Next, ask them to comment on your posts or mention you to their followers. People trust, favor, and easily follow content that’s promoted by a well-known or trusted influencer. So, take advantage of that. Make it your aim to create valuable and interesting content that’s worth endorsing, liking, sharing, and following. You can also share user -generated content, offer discounts, and use marketing tools such as Hootsuite or Tailwind. BUILD AN ONLINE STORE Reach more people and reduce marketing costs by building an online store. Advertise and sell your product via the newly created site. Drive traffic to your store by linking it to your Instagram account and signing up for Instagram shopping. Instagram shopping lets people shop directly from your images or videos. They don’t have to follow external links to make a purchase. This is a convenient way to do business and inspire fast buying decisions. 6 steps to build your store. 1. Pick your hosting company. Pick a domain name and hosting company. Make sure you stick to your business name when selecting a domain name to help potential customers easily find you. Choose the best hosting company that fits your budget and goals. Some of the best are; Bluehost, Site ground, and HostGator. Identify the top 3 hosting sites and run a comparison check. After picking one that you’re satisfied with, compare available hosting packages and go with the best one or one that caters to all your needs. Ensure your site has an SSL certificate for security reasons. Most providers include free SSL certificates. So, go with one that does or purchase it from companies like DigiCert or Cloudflare. 2. Find an eCommerce website builder. You can either hire a developer or designer to build your site or use a website builder. Site builders help minimize costs and are a convenient way to get online. However, mastering the features or understanding how everything works can take time. Nonetheless, if you pick the right builder, dedicate time and energy you can quickly set things up. WordPress is the best platform because it allows you to customize your site as you please. Give your store a professional look by choosing from countless free or premium themes and plugins. Easily backup and secure your site by simply installing the right plugin. You can also use Shopify or Squarespace to build your store. 3. Customize settings. After choosing your builder and the best eCommerce plugin, install and customize it. Add your business name, logo, location, contact details, and so on. WooCommerce is one of the best plugins with over 5 million installations. Plus, it is free. It has tons of features and gives you the flexibility you need to grow your store and add as many products as you like. So, I recommend it.