THE Internet Marketing Seminar Schedule

Please tune in to my radio show on Tuesday, March 30th,
8-9pm EDT.  My guests and I will be sharing some insider
tips about WordPress Blogs that are guaranteed to make
your life easier.

You can tune in right over the internet at:
http://BlogTalkRadio.com/WillieCrawford

WordPress has evolved into the most popular blogging platform
in the world.

Many hosting accounts now even come with it pre-installed.

There are thousands of programmers and developers creating
plug-ins that add to WordPress’ functionality, allowing you
to do some truly amazing things with a site built around
this powerful but simple content management system.

The problem is that most of us don’t know which plug-ins
we should be using on our sites.  We don’t know which ones
work properly, we don’t know which ones introduce security
issues, and we simply don’t have the time or know-how to
research all of the plug-ins.

I’ll be joined on this show by Alex Sysoef  of
http://www.expertwordpress.com/specialoffer/ and we’ll be
discussing how to choose the best plug-ins for your site, and
perhaps some that you should avoid.

We’ll be discussing optimizing your WordPress blog so that
it ranks VERY high in the search engines… and just how to
get the most out of your WordPress blogs.

One of the PROBLEMS with using WordPress and popular plug-ins
is that everyone knows the default settings. Most people
install their blogs, and never change those defaults.

So, people wanting to hack into your site or server, have an
easy attack vector.

Alex and I will share with you how to easily change those
defaults to something nearly impossible to guess, and also
how to install your blogs in mere minutes with all of the
ideal plug-ins also installed and activate.

Let us make you a WordPress power-users like we are while
sharing with you how to do things the fast and easy way.

Tune in at http://BlogTalkRadio.com/WillieCrawford/

Read this editorial that I posted to my blog recently:

Another Facet Of Me - Why I’m A Travel Agent

Many of my online followers, clients, contemporaries
and customers don’t know that I’m also a travel agent.

I first become interested in being a travel agent when
I heard a speaker in the recordings from a seminar in
the late 80’s say that he was a travel agent.  What he
actually said on stage was that he paid about 1/3 of
the rate that most of the people in the room probably
paid to stay in the SAME hotel, in the SAME quality of
room.

That speaker went on to explain that he got those rates
as a “professional courtesy” just because he told the
reservationist that he was a travel agent and asked for
a discount.

Incidentally, I bought the recordings of that seminar
on Ebay around 2003, and I discovered that the speaking
industry worked the same then as it does now and they
sold a lot of the same types of products. The only
difference is that now more of it is internet oriented.
VERY little has changed over the years in the info
marketing industry.

I went ahead and became a travel agent, and remainded
one for several reasons.   I also enrolled my wife as
a travel agent.

Here’s why I’m a travel agent.

1) Convenience For My Customers

I run several sites that talk about conferences,
tournaments, travel,etc.  On those sites I convenient
provide a link to my travel booking site. My customers
can tap into the same airline booking engine used by
the major travel sites, and my rates are often the
same.

My customers can tap into the hotel.com network, where
they get guaranteed lowest rates, and I earn a commission.

My customers can also tap into a variety of products
and services, even shop online at Walmart, florist, for
clothes or concert tickets, and I earn a commission.

I make it VERY convenient for visitors to many of my
sites to shop, and to get some incredible prices.

2) Lucrative Commissions

Each time a customer clicks on a link and makes a
purchase, I earn a commission. It doesn’t matter whether
it’s to rent a car, reserve a t-time on a golf course,
or send a client some fresh lobster, I earn a commission
from these sales and they add up.

3) Big Discounts On My Personal Trips
These us to be called “Fam Trips” short for Familiarization
Trips.  Now they are called something else but it’s the
same things.

Cruise lines, major resorts, ancient castles, tourism
industies in certain countries want professionals in the
travel industry to actually visit their facilities, and
then go back and write up reviews,and recommend them to
their customers. So, they make huge discounts, often far
more than 50% off, available to travel professionals.

When you think about it, it doesn’t really cost a
cruise line anything extra to offer those 20 unfilled cabins
to a major travel company at a huge discount.  It doesn’t
cost anything extra for a major tourist attraction to
offer unused beachside cabanas to travel agents.  So they
do.

I actually plan on doing a LOT more leisure travel in the
future, and you can bet that I’ll partly decided where to
go and when based upon special made available through the
company that I’m with

Anyway…

If you’d like to know more about the business side of what
I do as a travel agent. Watch the short videos here:
==>> http://www.ytb.com/williecrawford

If you need to book a flight, a cruise, a rental car, hotel
reservations, or just to shop for unusual gifts, visit here:

==>>  http://www.ytbtravel.com/williecrawford

Be sure to bookmark that last url and visit often.  When
you need a last minute graduation or anniversary gift, this
is where you should start your shopping.  when you want to
send a Christmas gift to one of your best customers, or
to you top affiliates, this is the place to start

If you are STUCK looking for something to market online,
travel is growing faster than anything I can think of.
All of those babyboomers are traveling more, and so are
their kids, many of whom are also reaching retirement age!

==>>>  http://www.ytb.com/williecrawford
is where you can learn how to profit from being a travel
agent.

If you didn’t previously know that I was a travel agent,
the reason is that I don’t have to work very hard at it.
I have some VERY loyal customers who book all of their
travel-related needs through me,and I get checks every
month

Willie

One of the reasons that I can afford to travel to so many
seminars, and event to some fairly exotic locations is
because much of it is tax deductible.

You see, I’ve been a “card carrying” travel agent for the
last 5 years or so.

I have a travel website here:
http://www.ytbtravel.com/williecrawford
where you can use the search engine to find some of the
best fares available. You can also join my mailing list to
be notified of special discount offers.

As a travel agent, I can also do what are referred to in
the industry as “fam trips.” These are trips designed
to familiarize me with a given travel facility so that I
can honestly make an informed recommendation to my
clients.

As long as I properly document my trip, and what I did,
travel to exotic islands, castles, cruises… you name it
can be tax deductible.

You can find out more about the business of being a
“Referring Travel Agent” at:
http://www.ytb.com/williecrawford

I learned about the travel business long ago while
listening to a cassette table by Wade Cook. He was
speaking at a seminar, and he jokingly pointed out to
the other seminars speakers that he paid a mere
fraction of what they did, since he got a different
rate (as a professional courtesy).

Now you know

If you are planning a trip any time soon, book your
reservations here:
http://www.ytbtravel.com/williecrawford

In case you’re wondering how hard I work at being a
travel agent, I write about places that I plan on traveling
or have traveled, and include links to my travel site.

I also have sites on topics such as seminars and
conference in various niches. I describe/list events,
and then include a link to book your travel… so I don’t
have to work at it very hard

Willie