Bevan Bird, Inspirational Connector

"Is this too sexy?" ~ Kim Kardashian via http://bit.ly/sIFojJ

Near the end of 2009, I began sharing my dad’s stories online, beginning with the collection called The Road South. I put them on Scribd, a social document sharing and reading site. After a little practice, by tweeting about the stories, playing on curiosity and using hashtags liberally, I was able to get 1,000 clicks for free in one day. A while later, I removed the stories from Scribd (don’t ask me why), and I’ve only just recently put them back up (and more are coming). This means the links (and shortened bit.ly links) to those old Scribd documents are broken links. But I wanted to reuse the old tweets, perhaps with some edits. And with the help of the tool Timely.is (which schedules tweets when they’ll get the most visibility or engagement), it’ll be a cinch to get 1,000s of clicks (and reads and listens) to my dad’s stories once again.

I must clarify: there were many tweets per story. These coincided with the many reasons to read a particular story, or the many subjects of curiosity which would attract people’s attention and make them want to read, or the many funny or provocative things that were written or said by characters.

[I'll draw a parallel here... Each service or product you sell should have many tweets prepared for it. There should be tweets for all the benefits, perhaps for all the features, and surely for the points of curiosity as well. When these tweets are tweeted (and they may be repeated) they will work both together and on their own to get clicks to your website, specifically to the individual product page. Some people will see several of your tweets about a thing and then click a link, while others may click the first time they see a tweet about it. It's more common, though, that they would act after some repetition.]

To make it quick and easy to replace the old links in the old tweets with new links, I wrote a little Perl program and I want to share it with you so you can save time too. Continue reading →

Traffic Generation Comes Easy

Hey Connectors!

Today I’ve got something very special for you. I spent the last two weeks writing a super sexy web traffic report about BodyRock.Tv, it’s full of sexy ads, and I explain about how to get far more traffic by leveraging the sex appeal you already have. (You’ll see a close up of the lovely lady at the left on page 106.)

BodyRock.Tv is the free fitness blog for high intensity home workouts and a healthy lifestyle. It’s run by Zuzana and Freddy Light, a super fit husband and wife team. The workouts are short and intense. Zuzana says they get your metabolism up so you’ll be burning more calories throughout the day. She doesn’t like to spend hours working out every day, and I’m sure you’re like her in that you’ve got far more fun things to do than workout all day.

Zuzana was recently featured in Shape Magazine’s The 10 Best Workout Videos on Youtube. Their blog has a Google page rank of 6, and is within the top 10,000 websites in the world, according to Alexa. They’ve got over 400,000 Youtube subscribers and they’ll very soon have more than 200,000 Facebook fans. One of Zuzana’s videos has been viewed more than 17,000,000 times in the last year! Today, Zuzana got 3,410 clicks to the new Google+ page in three hours with a Facebook update (over 4,162 now, after 5 hours), you’ll see how she did it on page 50. This past June, I saw the following happen twice: Zuzana shared a link to a blog post on Facebook and got more than 3,000 clicks, measured with bit.ly – see pages 43 and 48 to see how she did it. I’ll even tell you what she can do to increase her traffic on page 58.

Have you read the book Scientific Advertising? If not, you really should! Jump to page 71 and I’ll give you the gist of it.

Want to know which adult oriented live video chat community is the top website of its kind? Flip to page 59. There, I’ll also tell you what the top 100 websites on the Internet do.

I’ll also show you an invite-only ad network you should check out if you’ve got sexy ads, on page 117.

Over 100 sexy photos await your perusal, including 46 of the sexiest, most creative print advertisements ever. You’ll love the Russian girls with their tech toys.

Enjoy!

Bevan

P.S. Give it a minute to load – it’s a huge file full of photos!

Sex Appeal Loves Traffic

A Natural Paradise

About a year ago, shortly after learning about the law of attraction (I’d always known it existed, just not that it had a name), experiencing its power for myself and writing my own inspiring true life story (which is no longer true for me since my perspective changed), I began compiling a book of impressive and inspiring true stories of how people have intentionally used the law of attraction and manifested a miracle in their own life. My vision is for this work to be a concentrated vortex of inspired thought, action, and manifestation, which will inspire and empower readers around the world to more confidently manifest their desires.

Check out the stories here and please let me know what you think in a comment below.

Do you use the law of attraction intentionally? It’s the most powerful universal law. It applies whether you believe in it or not. It is this: Like attracts like. Thoughts are just as real as “reality” and they precede its physical manifestation. The universe delivers more by essence than by form. What you focus upon expands. You attract that which you represent vibrationally… and with that knowledge, you focus on things that are going right for you, you feel joy and gratitude, you follow your highest excitement, you love what is: the moment, the now, and you imagine how it would feel if you had already achieved your dreams, thereby rapidly drawing them into your physical reality.

If you have an impressive story of your own, please consider sharing it. For “Nothing in the Six Directions enriches our Life as does sharing, and nothing speeds healing and advancement like generous and joyous sharing. It opens hearts. Divine Beauty then comes forth where all seemed to have been drab.” (Hanspeter Höpperger)

How to contribute a true story from your own life: (1) Pick a time when you manifested something by using the law of attraction intentionally… it may have seemed miraculous or at least really cool, or possibly spooky at the time. (2) Describe what you did beforehand and your experience of the actual manifestation. (3) E-mail me. Tell me the most amazing story you can come up with. Make me say “Wow!” and you are in! And if you know someone who might like to share, please pass this on to them. I Thank You.

Recently someone asked me, on Twitter, what this was all about and I told her:
“Basically, if you want something and it happens and it’s really cool, you can be a contributing author!”

A Billion Blessings of Love, Light, Peace, and Joy to you!

Bevan

P.S. Here are some great quotes you might like…

The miracle is this – the more we share, the more we have. ~ Leonard Nimoy

That is happiness – to be dissolved into something complete and great. ~ Willa Cather

The greatest revolution in our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. ~ William James

Properly exploited, one good idea that occurs to you while walking on the beach is worth more than ten lifetimes of hard work. ~ Gary Halbert

Give me a long enough lever and a place to stand and I will move the earth. ~ Archimedes

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you. ~ Paramahansa Yogananda

There is no beginning. There is no end. There is only the infinite passion of life. ~ Federico Fellini

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. ~ Swami Sivananda

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people. ~ Confucius

Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. ~ Christian D. Larson

Everything will line up perfectly when knowing and living the truth becomes more important than looking good. ~ Alan Cohen

It is your state of being that attracts unto you. ~ Abraham-Hicks

You are a living magnet. What you attract into your life is in harmony with your dominant thoughts. ~ Brian Tracy

I’ll see it when I believe it. ~ Wayne Dyer

All you have to do is know where you’re going. The answers will come to you of your own accord. ~ Earl Nightingale

True Engagement Gets Traffic

Alexa, Where’s the Traffic

Our Evolution. LOL!

I don’t agree with the image, by the way. I’ve been reading Erich von Däniken’s Gods from Outer Space, which says that unknown intelligences from beyond the stars came to earth in the past at various times and modified us genetically, which explains our very rapid mental development.

So anyway… Here’s my message for today…

Success Tips For The Modern Age by Bevan Bird

And while I was recording that, something really funny happened…

Boiled Sandwich by Bevan Bird

Have a wonderful day!

Bevan

You ARE the Lion. You ARE the Sun.

Your value is much greater than you’ve ever imagined!

My message today is about your self-worth and I’m sharing an exercise to determine your unique value set. You’re going to love it!

Self Worth – You Are Worth Far More Than You Think! by Bevan Bird

You Are Worthy Of Greatness (Download it to listen. Right click and Save As…)

Here are some great quotations that relate to what I’m talking about today…

It’s always worthwhile to make others aware of their worth. ~ Malcolm Forbes

Our value as people is rooted in our rarity not on our learned ability to copy other people. ~ Jesse D Jones

What counts is that one perceives excellence and dares to give it expression, which sounds little but is in fact a great deal. ~ Goethe

You get more joy giving joy to others – put a good deal of thought into the happiness you can give. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

If you have integrity, loyalty and honesty, you are an incredibly wealthy and a rare diamond in a land of stones. ~ Ariaa Jaeger

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. ~ Swami Sivananda

Authentic connections make us feel calm, centered, energized and happy. They never leave us feeling insecure, frustrated, or questioning, because such genuine connections begin with the clarity that comes from knowing ourselves. ~ Mary Dunlop

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people. ~ Confucius

Make everyone whose life you touch feel worthy. Give everyone a sense of their own worthiness as a person, a sense of the true wonder of who they are. Give this gift and you will heal the world. ~ Neale Donald Walsch

And… If you decided to do the unique value exercise, click here! <- “leave a comment if you’re a leader!”

Until next time, stay Awesome!

Much love,

Bevan

A Beautiful Waterfall

These are my Favourite 9 Inspiring Quotes Today… Enjoy!

We live at the edge of the Miraculous. ~ Henry Miller

Everything you can imagine is real. ~ Pablo Picasso

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it! ~ Goethe

All glory comes from daring to begin. ~ Eugene F. Ware

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. ~ Ferdinand Foch

Angels fly because they take themselves lightly. ~ G. K. Chesterton

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. ~ Jean Houston

Art is when you hear a knocking from your soul – and you answer. ~ Star Richés

I have enjoyed life a lot more by saying yes than by saying no. ~ Richard Branson

These quotes come from “Inspire Your World! – Unleash These Incredibly Powerful Freeing Quotes Now!” an e-book available for free at TheBestSocialMediaCourse.com

Download your copy today and share the love!

Dick Bird Kayaking at Agua Azul

Hey my friends, how’s it going? I’m enjoying Fall on the bank of the Similkameen and building my online empire, one affiliate at a time. I hope you’re doing well too!

On Sunday, I recorded a conversation I had with my dad, Dick Bird. It was his 77^th birthday. I want to introduce him to you and allow him to share some of his stories with you. He tells us about how he started his farm.

Be warned, this material contains some explicit language (he drops the f-bomb a couple of times) and is rated R.

I Introduce Author Dick Bird (Right click and Save As… if you want to download and listen later or on the go!)

On Monday, I asked him to tell us one of his favourite stories, and that story was Mad Cow, from his Concrete Dreams collection. It’s a (dream) experience my dad had with an escaped potential mad cow in Twickenham. This is also rated R for sexual content. It’s pretty funny.

Dick Bird Tells Us Mad Cow (modified) (Right click and Save As… if you want to download and listen later or on the go!)

Read the full story of Mad Cow here on Scribd.

We recorded other stories recently and will be uploading them soon.

Have an awesome week!

Bevan Bird

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So… Do you want more reach? Do you want to become famous? Do you want to get independent of advertisers? Do you want to become wittier and have more interesting things to say at parties? Do you want to represent your business online? Are you planning to launch a social application? Do you want better results from your social media activities? Do you want more people to read your blog or visit your store?

Don’t just tell me you want to save time, have more fun and grow your business all-in-one! I need to see some creativity on your part. Make it personal and compelling. Bring a tear to my eye and I’ll throw in a free half hour strategy session by Skype, as a bonus.

(If you want to know more about the course and the free gifts available, read my last post which includes an introduction.)

Whatever it is, tell me in a blog post, and I’LL GIFT YOU A COPY OF MY COURSE which normally sells for $47. Sound good?

I know you’re thinking, “What’s the catch?”

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