Internet marketing networking can give a boost to your results and improve your bottom line in addition to other benefits.

Before I elaborate further on the 5 reasons why you should meet other internet marketers or IM people live, I want to share with you what I have found out recently about Google and how it can’t serve any relevant results on some subjects.

If you want to learn about how to network with other internet marketers or anything about it whatsoever and enter, for example, internet marketing networking or networking with internet marketers or network with internet marketers in the search box using Google, the Google robot will serve up unrelated results.

It will display things related to MLM which now uses a better sounding name of Network Marketing. The closest result it serves is Internet Network Marketing which is about MLM (network marketing) done through the internet. Nothing even remotely close to what you want to find.

I hope that Google will come up with a way to distinguish Internet Marketing Networking from the newer name for MLM which is Network Marketing. It shouldn’t be so hard for Google to fix the problem.

Now let’s get back to the main subject of this post.

5 Reasons to Network With Internet Marketers Face To Face

1) You’ll Be Inspired

You’ll be inspired by new ideas and success stories that aren’t shared online.

2) You’ll Build Better Relationships

You’ll build better rapport and relationships with other successful internet marketers by rubbing shoulders with them.

Sharing a drink, coffee or tea with a person builds much stronger bond than just communicating with them through email, phone or skype.

Email and skype work well enough after you have met the person and you both know each other that way.

I speak from experience. After meeting John Chow and Lee McIntyre I’ve been enjoying a much closer friendship and direct access to them that would have been impossible previously.

Watch the video below to see John Chow at his latest visit to Pho Dot Com in Vancouver.

3) You’ll Be Able To Share Resources

You will be able to share tips and resources as well as discuss solutions to problems that are never publicly discussed online.

4) You’ll Get Away From Computer

This one is kind of obvious but a very important point for your health and well-being.

You’ll get away from your computer, which is kind of hard for any motivated internet marketer. Stretching your body for long enough and having fun with other marketers will do you a world of good.

5) You’ll Meet Future JV Partners

You’ll meet people that can very well become your future joint venture partners. I don’t know about anybody who is serious about collaborating with other people whom they’ve never met in person.

It just doesn’t happen.

What to do next?

If you can think of other reasons why do internet marketing networking,  in other words why network with other internet marketers by meeting them in person, please make as detailed comment about it as you can.

The best comment will be rewarded by my visit to the best comment author’s blog and my placing a very relevant and comprehensive 2 comments there. The deadline for this rewarding competition is December 20, 2010.

Update December 26, 2010: The best comment was given By Barry Wells. He has won the competition. There were other very good comments and deciding which one to choose was not easy. Barry will get 2 comments from me as promised. I didn’t mention a link but I gladly link to Barry’s blog as well.

Keep on commenting because you will be rewarded quite abundantly even without winning the competition as I already mentioned below when I wrote this post.

Any commenter here is getting a comment luv and keyword luv links anyway as long as the comment is approved, which happens with all good comments.

If you can’t think of more reasons for live internet marketing networking, comment on the ones I’ve listed.

Tweet and bookmark this post in order to give a chance to others to read it as well.

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Would you like to get more comments and build email list? If you even hesitated in answering this question then I guess you are a complete newcomer to the internet marketing and blogging world.

But for the majority of people reading this, you have been wanting to get more comments and build your email list for as long as you’ve been a blogger and internet marketer trying to make money online.

I won’t link to any of my previous posts now but I invite you to get my free list building ebook. You can find the category with links to my posts on email list building in the sidebar to the right.

Recently a nifty tool has made it’s appearance which may revolutionize the way commenting is done and viewed. It will at least encourage it while helping you to build your email list.

What Is the Highlighter for WordPress?

This handy internet marketing and blogging tool is actually a WordPress plugin.

The best part about it is that it’s absolutely free, gratis, costing absolutely nada.

So relax completely. This is one tool that you can get and try without having to  worry about the cost.

I may not be the first person writing about it but I have tried it out when commenting on some of the relatively few blogs that have installed it (about 1500 downloads) so far.

I have also installed it on this blog. To make sure it’s still here look at the left top edge of this page You should see as tag with “Highlighter” written on it.

If you are on the home page it won’t show. You must be viewing a single blog post in order to see it.

This is very important because after I installed it I couldn’t see it. So do click on the headline of any post if you are on the home page that shows more than one post and you’ll see the tag.

It’s still a “Beta version” and some minor bugs are being worked out. The tool is called after what is also does – it highlights – the Highlighter for WordPress.

If you highlight a portion of the text in this post, you can then comment on it right away.

You can also point to an already highlighted portion of the text like this one (again, make sure you have clicked on the headline of this post first in case you are on the home page) and read the comments of previous visitors and respond to their comment or just add your own.

Using this tool on this blog or any blog that has it installed is the best way to see how it works and to determine if you’d like to try it on your own blog.

It’s very important to know that you can highlight only a limited portion of text.

It makes sense because otherwise the whole page would be soon highlighted and yellow.

So what is the limit of the length of text you can highlight?

You can only highlight about 100 letters and spaces or about one and a half lines of text.

This fact is not mentioned anywhere as far as I know but this is what my readers and I have discovered.

I must admit that I was a bit skeptical when I first found out about the release of the Highlighter for Word Press.

Advantages and Possible Drawbacks of Highlighter Plugin

One of the concerns I had was the disadvantage that most plugins bring which is slowing down of the blog and increasing the time it loads.

I have found in comments on for example John Chow’s blog that those who installed the plugin, including John Chow himself, have not experienced any such problem.

I have been visiting John’s blog for a while now and while it does take a long time to load on occasion, it had been doing that way before he installed the Highlighter.

One of the commenters pointed out that this plugin loads after everything else on the blog has loaded and thus it has no bearing on the loading of the blog pages whatsoever.

The second concern I had was that the blog visitors would be distracted by the highlighted text after a lot of people would comment using the highlighting.

For the most part this is addressed by their ability to turn the highlighting off and reading the posts undisturbed by it if they so wish.

To turn off the highlighted text areas anyone can just click on the tab to the left upper edge of the page and check the box inside of the form that appears.

The third concern I had was about how the email list was being built with this plugin.

I always want to be sure that I only use double opt in when growing my email list.

This concern is also addressed. I have gone through the opt in process and it indeed is a double opt in. People have to confirm their subscription.

And if they don’t want to subscribe in the first place they can certainly choose that option too.

So everything is aboveboard and I think that after trying the Highlighter you’ll be pleased with it.

But the only way to make sure is for you is to give it a try

You can download the Highlighter plugin for WordPress anytime by clicking on the link and watch a video about it on that page too. It’s free and I won’t get paid any commission.

Since it’s still in the Beta version stages it’s possible that some problems will need to be ironed out.

I know of some that have already been solved and there is one thing that I hope will be changed. The “like” button covers the gravatar of the commenters.

This was not the case with the earlier versions and I know that the “like” button seems to have changed locations twice already.

There’s one more thing that I hope will be changed too but it’s a minor flaw that doesn’t affect functionality, so I won’t mention it now.

I hope that this was a helpful information for you. This is not a lip service post that you can find anywhere. Besides John Chow I have not actually seen a blog that posted about this topic that has the plugin installed and working and where you can test it by using it.

As of now John Chow seems to have an older (days old) version installed.

What to do now?

Comment in the comment forms below about what you think about the post, about the plug in and if you are going to install it on your blog.

Tweet and bookmark the post to share it with others.

And if you haven’t tried using the Highlighter on my blog yet to comment do that as well.

Update: 01 December 2010, I just realized that there is a contest going on connected with the Highlighter. The rules of the contest are HERE. You can win an iPad.

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Authored by Vance Sova

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These 4 internet marketing peak performance tips aren’t found in any internet marketing course. I’ve gleaned them from a discussion panel 6 of the League of Extraordinary Minds.

Read the most important points from almost 2 hour long discussion of experts that may never get together again and learn how to perform at your very best all the time.

The League of Extraordinary Minds has lasted for 9 sessions and then ceased to exist. You can read about that and what was in the last session in my post which Google values highly: League of Extraordinary Minds Panel 9.

The collection of experts and the two moderators, Rich Schefren and Jay Abraham were discussing peak performance for people in any business, not just internet marketing. Please keep that in mind. I have made my notes and write this post from the angle and perspective of internet marketers because I’m learning to be one and so are most of my readers.

But all the people involved in the discussion do have a website or a blog or contribute to one and all of them recognize the importance of internet marketing and of having a presence online.

Before we start, let me point out that I made more than 20 pages of notes from the event and that what is below is the best of what was said as I see it.

What everybody in any business but especially in online business is asking is this:

How Can I Get Maximum Results From Minimum Efforts?

And the sub question which the panel 6 revolved around was this:

How To Operate At Peak Performance To Get The Best Results In Everything You Do

As you may expect there was more than one answer to this question. A lot of introductory and exploratory discussion went on and different opinions and philosophies were expressed.

Here is what I found the most valuable out of the 2 hour (minus 10 minutes) marathon:

Rich Schefren – How can entrepreneurs make peak performance a permanent part of who they are and not just another passing fad?

Dan Millman - What I’d like to share is perhaps the biggest challenge and maybe the biggest secret in the world. What is the biggest challenge? It’s turning what we know into what we actually do. The key to turning what we know into what we actually do is to start small.

Simple is powerful because we’re more likely to do it. It’s what we maintain day to day that’s going to make a difference, those little habits.

Tom McCarthy - I think in the beginning it has to become a ritual. When we require a new thought to perform at a higher level or a new emotion that we’re not comfortable at having or whatever, in the beginning it’s always going to feel awkward. It’s always going to feel like oh, that is just not me.

You need to ritualize it. You need to make a commitment to do it on a consistent basis.

They say the first 22 times you do it, it’s going to feel really strange. Your brain is going to be firing at a higher level, so it’s going to feel weird. After about 50 times you start to become more comfortable but it starts with a ritual.

So the first thing is you need a ritual. Ideally something in the morning and something as you’re going to bed. That’s a minimum.

Number two is building in some down time. Peak performance is not something you’re doing every minute of the day 100% of the time.

The human mind and body is not meant to do that. You need some down time too, otherwise it’s going to be something you can’t maintain and you’ll burn out.

Kathy Kolbe – The answer is so simple. You have to be yourself. You have to be authentic. You have to be free to be who you are. You don’t just go in and do that tomorrow or next week until you’ve cut the next deal. You do it every day the rest of your life.

If you continue to be who you are and you don’t compromise that and you fight for the freedom to be who you are you will always be at peak performance – always.

Josh Waitzkin – I’d recommend becoming allergic to being untrue to yourself. To be constantly asking yourself if you’re being organic, consistent, if you are acting in harmony with what your intuition is telling you.

I think that if we get into the habit of taking on our weaknesses, of building our strengths, it’s very important to take on our weaknesses through the prism of our strengths. That’s a really important idea.

People can take these types of ideas too far. They can just address their weaknesses and they get fixated on them and then can spend their whole life focused on their weaknesses.

It’s very important to spend your life focused on the style in which you naturally learn things best and you can build your game around that.

That really relates to being at peace with who you are – embracing who you are.

That’s the end of the panel 6 session coverage.

What do you think about the above peak performance tips? Can you apply any of them or all of them in your Internet marketing endeavors?

There is a bit of contradiction among what the 4 panelists had to say. Have you noticed that? I think that there is a very fine line between being ourselves and seeking improvement. The two don’t need to necessarily oppose each other.

Leave your comment, express yourself and tweet an bookmark the post to invite others to the discussion.

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