Okay, so in the previous post, “The Secret Society of Traffic Conversion“, I covered fundamental #1 to making friends with the internet marketing giants and getting them on your side.

Now let’s move on to the next four fundamentals you should adhere to in order to make the best of your marketing seminars.

Lesson #2: Establish yourself as someone of expertise by asking interesting and insightful questions (i.e. don’t be stupid).

Ask intelligent questions or even making helpful (note the operative word being “helpful”) suggestions and not being afraid to be in the spotlight. This is one of the best ways for you to set yourself apart from others in the audience and make people think “oohhh, that person has something of value and I should find out what it is” and want to come talk to you.

In a sense think about others who are less knowledgeable than you are in that particular area – by asking an intelligent question not only are you demonstrating an understanding of the topic but you are also doing them a favor by asking the question they were too afraid to ask themselves.

Lesson #3: Gurus are nice (for the most part) and are more than happy to help you if they deem you are worthy and are genuine.

Let me explain.

At the seminar, I did the unthinkable and the unreasonable. Not only did I initiate contact with the gurus and probed for more details, I also created the possibility of getting them to come online and do interviews with us!

While many of us think that gurus are the “untouchables” and that they couldn’t care less about who’s in the audience since they already make $x bazillions dollars – I‘ve found this to be absolutely false. What you have to realize is that each of these gurus are just like you and me. They all had to start SOMEWHERE.

And odds are, where they started isn’t very far off from where you are at now.

And more importantly, odds are that someone in their lives gave them a helping hand to get them where they are now.

As long as you are authentic and sincere (and friendly), they’d more than happy to chat with you and address your questions and provide advice (within reason of course). This leads to #4…

Lesson #4: Offer something of value to the gurus – how can you help THEM??

You can imagine how some people would take advantage of #3 and just hassle the heck out of the gurus for “favors”. What these newbies are forgetting is one of the cardinal rules of marketing/business/life. The “What’s In It For Me” (W.I.I.F.M.) principle.

Those folks who are pestering the heck out of gurus, chomping at the bits, are basically trying to get something for nothing. Never mind that these gurus just gave their best X minutes on a stage presenting the very knowledge being sought after. Never mind that these noobs didn’t even bother doing some research beforehand (not to mention that they didn’t even bother purchasing the guru’s product)…

You see, we all should learn to stop feeling so entitled. Don’t think “oh, the guru’s already making millions of dollars, he/she SHOULD help me now…”

Balooney. The gurus don’t owe you jack.

Want to know how to get their attention? Offer something of value to them. Ask them how you can help THEM for a change. Give them access to your list for example; promote them on your humble site/list; anything… SOMETHING. At the very least acknowledge that it is only out of their kindness that they are helping you.

Take Fernando and myself for example. It is only through adding value back to Mike Dillard and Tim Erway and doing our best to offer whatever help we can did they take note of us. It was only after we studied their system religiously and sucked in all their teachings did we start separating ourselves from the crowd.

So ask yourself this when you are speaking to gurus – what are YOU doing for THEM?

Lesson #5: Take pictures with the gurus and send it to them so they’ll remember you.

Okay… this is almost cheating but it works. Like they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. Be bold and be different… ask a guru for a picture after chatting with them for a bit. Tell them you’ll send them the picture when you get home and do it! After all, who doesn’t like seeing a picture of themselves in their inbox?

Not only will they get a lovely picture of their own face in their inbox, they’ll also get a picture of you and this will help them remember you… This makes it easier getting in touch with them for any other endeavors (see #3 and #4).

Lastly, let your list know! “Hey, look at me! I was at *blankity blank* and met *blankity blank*.” This shows you are active in the field and are constantly learning new things from other gurus.

One last note… do give the guru credit by letting people know who he/she is and linking to his/her site.

And there you have it folks. Next time you get a chance to go to a top caliber seminar… DO IT! You never know what sort of information, ideas, and contacts you can get out of it (odds are, you’ll get TONS)!

Special thanks go out again to Brock and Buck – thanks for creating such an awesome environment and inviting me to the event.

Last week, I had the opportunity to attend a 3-day traffic generation hosted by Brock Felt and Buck Rizvi in Orlando, Florida dubbed “The Secret Society of Traffic Conversion”.

Man, what a trip!

Brock Felt and Yours Truly at “The Secret Society of Traffic Conversion”

There was a ton of good marketing information and strategies. Even though I already knew much of the information presented, from years of study, implementation, and instruction for our customers, I still had a mind blowing time.

There are always golden nuggets of information around every corner, no matter how much you know.

My philosophy is this, as long as you can walk away with at least ONE solid idea, strategy, know-how, piece of information, etc. it was worth it. In my case, I came away from the seminar loaded with tons of ideas so it was definitely worth it. (Attraction Marketing Formula is about to get a major revamp, be on the lookout )

The standout speakers at the convention were hands-down Carlos and Lupe Garcia. The information they presented was astounding. If you don’t know who Carlos and Lupe are, they went from high school dropouts to making millions of dollars online while driving literally 5.8 BILLION visitors to their site over the span of a few months…

Yes, that wasn’t a typo, that was a ‘B’ you saw before ‘illion’.

Another speaker I was very excited to learn from was Michael Cage – the “King of Teleseminar”. He presented some powerful information and tactics using teleseminars to create interest in and generate revenue for your business.

His presentation was so compelling, I even shelled out $2K for one of his programs and I can’t wait to dig into it.

Don’t worry, for those of you who are customers of the Attraction Marketing Formula, I’ll be breaking down some of the strategies I learned in our exclusive “customers only” bonus tele-clinics and webinars. Heck, Michael and several other gurus were even kind enough to make themselves available for exclusive interviews, which we’ll happily invite our customers to listen in!

There was a loot of other speakers as well, which I gathered a ton of lessons and information from.

Our hosts, Brock and Buck gave each speaker ample time to speak, (3-4 hours), so the speakers really tore it up!

The thing that really stuck out for me at this event was the atmosphere. Brock and Buck made sure that while the event was loaded with top-notch presenters, it was also a very friendly environment where it was easy to network with others. I got to rub shoulders and chit-chat with top marketing gurus and other marketers in the crowd and ask lots of questions.

Buck Rizvi and Yours Truly at The Secret Society of Traffic Conversion

While I learned some of those “golden nuggets” of marketing information, the true piece of information I want to share with really has nothing to do with those marketing tips. It has to do with how you network and create powerful alliances and contacts. I came up with 5 tips to help you. Let me share with you the first one:

Lesson #1: You can create powerful contacts.

You are in a place where you are surrounded by dozens if not hundreds or thousands of other marketers. You are also in the presence of a handful or dozens of marketing gurus who found a way to get them to where you’d like to be… You are surrounded by potential leads, prospects, customers, JV partners, affiliates, and like-minded individuals.

What do you do? Do you a) hide in your seat and hope nobody sees you or b) do you bust out your people and marketing skills and create some contacts?

I opted for option b and so should you.

A lot of these seminars are setup such that you get several mini-breaks and a few long breaks. These provide excellent chances for you to mingle with others in the audience. You should adopt an “abundance” mindset and see each of them not as competitors but as potential partners.

Go talk to others. Find out what they are doing. Find out how you can help them and how they, in return, may be able to help you. Leverage the quality of people that seminars attract. You’d be surprised by how many contacts you can create this way and how fruitful this can be for you and your business.

So next time you plan on going to a seminar be sure to first hone your people skills and be positive and energetic. People will be attracted to you like no others.

And it helps when you apply principle #2 which I will share with you next time. So stay tuned until next time when I share with you 4 more powerful networking tips!

To Affinity and Beyond,

Raymond Fong

The Easy Way to Do SEO & Why No One Is Talking About It

“One time while my wife was a resident we attended some work shindig for her…
one of her asshole staff doctors asked me what I did. I said that I made websites.
He kind of snickered and said ohh can you make any money at that?
I said, “well while sleeping tonight I will probably make more then you will
working all week”
- Jeremy Shoemaker

Boy, Raymond is going to be pissed when he finds out I’m showing you guys this, but I can’t help it. When I got something juicy, I just have to share it.

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But before I do, if you are new to this whole internet marketing thing and especially if you are running a home based business, bookmark this site and grab your copy of Magnetic Sponsoring. This will give you the necessary education to get you up to speed. This is the best resource on starting your home business internet marketing ever created.

When you come back to this page, all this will make much more sense! Ok, on with it…
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Some of you have been asking about how to rank high on Google and get FREE traffic through Search Engines. Well, up until recently I would have given you a long complicated answer about a strategy which would include:

• Asking other sites for back-links
• Researching your competition to find their link partners
• Keyword research to make sure you are optimizing for the right keywords…

And other details, which would probably cause your eyes to glaze over and give you the urge to scream and jump out of your window….

Well, please don’t do anything rash, because I got something for you so sweet and simple, my dog ‘Jarocho’ would pee all over it to claim it as his own. Here’s how to dominate your market on the search engines:

Watch Video Here!

Stay tuned because I’ll be giving you guys a lot more secrets like these.

But if you are eager to jump ahead of your competition and dominate Google among other market places, grab your copy of the most comprehensive internet marketing course ever created, Attraction Marketing Formula! Don’t let the internet trends pass you by…

If you get yours today, I’ve got a very special surprise for the next 5 customers. I won’t tell you what it is, but I guarantee you’ll be leaping for joy and thanking your ‘deity of choice’ that you purchased today!

To YOUR Success,

Add to Onlywire

Shotgun Answers to Your Burning Questions

“You Miss 100% of the Shots You Don’t Take.”
- Wayne Gretzky

Today, I wanted to publish a few of the burning questions and answers AMF subscribers have been bombarding us with! So I’m just going to get right into it cause I know many of you have these same questions:

“How Do I Get Thousands of People to My Website and Buy?” - Rene

Hi Rene,

In regards to your question.  This is really a two part question:

1) How to get thousands of people to my site?

Answer:
There are many different ways, like AdWords, SEO, YouTube Marketing, Article Marketing, Ezine Marketing, Online Classifieds, Banner Ad Traffic, etc.

The AMF Bootcamp and AMF Newsletters covers a few of these, and the Attraction Marketing Formula™ covers all of them.

A good starting point would be with Google AdWords. You can learn how for free at SeduceAdwords.com

2) How do I get people to buy once they arrive at my site?

Getting them to buy depends on how targeted your traffic is and whether or not you have a relationship with them.

For example, let’s say I have people on my email list for Health and Wellness.  If I have a new supplement for sale, which I think could help them, then I simply send an email to that list and I can expect a nice chunk of those people to buy.   And they buy because I’ve established myself as a reliable source to receive advice from.

But if it’s traffic, directly from the internet somewhere, then you’ll have a much lower buy rate because they don’t know anything about you or your product.  ( i.e. no trust)

And depending on where that traffic is coming from, your buy rate will vary even more.

You’ll want to both have traffic coming from relevant sources and build a relationship with the subscribers from that traffic source. This will sky rocket your buy rate.

The Attraction Marketing Formula™ & Bootcamp will show you how you can go about building a relationship passively with people using email marketing and other online tools.  It will also show you how to start generating TARGETED traffic to your website, so that only people interested in what you’ve got will arrive.

“How to find a Legitimate Business Opportunity?” - Marlon

Hi Marlon,

The short answer is that there exist an abundance of legitimate opportunities online and offline to make money and/or build a business.  You just have to figure out what type of opportunity you want and what your long term goals are.

The first thing you have to distinguish with opportunities is whether it’s a “money making opportunity” or a “business opportunity”.

Money making might show you a few tricks or ways for you to make some easy cash, but it’s not sustainable.

A business opportunity is intended to create a large ongoing income, but may not give you the immediate satisfaction of a money making opportunity.

I would recommend getting involved with something that incorporates both the money making and the business aspects of generating income. For example, if you join an MLM, make sure that the team you are working with has a marketing system in place which allows you to make some upfront cash with a product which is relatively easy to retail.

This will keep you afloat until you can grow an organization and the passive leveraged income kicks in.

The next thing you should be looking at is the team and system you would be joining with.  A company or affiliate program is just a part of your business, not your whole business.  They may have great products and the robust distribution system to dropship product to your customers, but if you don’t have the marketing system in place to acquire those customers or new distributors, then the quality of your company is a moot point.

I hope this helps.  The 10-Day Bootcamp you signed up for will give you a good idea as to what type of marketing system you would want to have in place for ANY business opportunity.

“Is  a ’self funded’ proposal for real?  My son is in engineering program for Aerospace/Mechanical - tough program!” -Dave

HI Dave,

Yes, it is a tough program.  I studied Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, but I had plenty of friends who went through their “Unified” program, which was pretty brutal.  One of my good friends had to take a leave from school after his first year to recover.  Wish your son the best of luck for me!

And to answer your question, yes a self-funded proposal is real.  There’s no magic to it.  As you go through the newsletters, you’ll learn how I’ve implemented it in my business. 

But essentially it uses a low cost retail product as a way to recoup your marketing costs, so that you can continue marketing even if no one joins your business or buys your primary product or services.

This concept has been employed by many businesses, but it’s rarely done in the manner we teach. I go into extreme detail as to how to implement it for your business in the Attraction Marketing Formula™ course. There are other courses out there, which will teach you this but not at the bargain we are offering it at.

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Ok, guys. That’s three. Whew! Time for a cold one.

More coming soon! Send in those questions using the “Ask Us” box below or email us at fernando@attractionmarketingformula.net

And if you provide me your website URL, I’ll even place a link to your site next to your question to get you some traffic from my newsletters subscribers as a thank you for your contribution to this community!

Until next time!

To YOUR Success,

Back in June, Mike Dillard held a closed door private seminar for just 20 people at his home in Austin, TX.

During this 3 day seminar, Mike revealed absolutely everything he knows about internet marketing and creating a replicated MLM marketing system, which can work for any MLM leader or company.

At that seminar were MLM company owners and leaders such as Jay Kubassek, Brady Paulson, and Justin Christianson.

Unfortunately, I was not able to attend that seminar because it was the weekend of my birthday and family came first that weekend.

Fast forward 4 months and now Mike Dillard has launched his Magnetic Sponsoring Online Community and will soon be launching the NEW Magnetic Sponsoring 3.0 affiliate system, which will be personalized for the affiliate.

Shortly after his launch, Mike announced that he was accepting applications to get advanced copies of the recordings of MLM System Formula and he would only pick 15 people.

I have the privilege to announce that my application was accepted and I will be receiving advanced copies of these recordings.

I look forward to sharing insights and teachings from this knowledge to ALL Attraction Marketing Formula subscribers. To get on my list and benefit from this teaching, register for your FREE Attraction Marketing Bootcamp Newsletter.

My Marketing Story

I started looking at Mike’s work back on June of 2006. I stumbled upon his newsletter and purchased his life transforming Magnetic Sponsoring book.

Shortly there after I purchased MLM Traffic Formula, which opened my eyes to a whole new world of prospecting, marketing and wealth creation.

We’ve since applied the teachings of MLM Traffic Formula and dozens of other courses, seminars and our own creativity to create the Attraction Marketing Formula. This system is designed to serve all business opportunity seekers and business professionals. It has been tested in the Martial Arts Industry in partnership with the West Coast Hwa Rang Do Headquarters and the World Hwa Rang Do Association.

The success with Hwa Rang Do essentially proved that these marketings strategies were not just for MLM — they worked for all businesses, regardless of product or service.

My partner Raymond and I are now private marketing instructors for Hwa Rang Do Blacksashes, whom are owners of their respective Hwa Rang Do branches across the country and the globe.

However, our roots have always been with the network marketing industry, so we’ve come back with avengence! But we aren’t limiting ourselves to network marketing. Anyone wishing to apply online direct response marketing principles to their existing small or home based business is encouraged to register.

What You Will Learn

Thus far, the Attraction Marketing Formula instructs in over 10 Traffic Methods, including AdWords, SEO, eBay, Craiglist, Ezines, Articles, Blogs, Press Releases, Video, Viral Marketing & Direct Mail. We also instruct in copywriting for capture pages, sales pages and email newsletters.

The course officially launched on Nov. 1st 2007 to a private list owned by the author and is now open to the public.

If you’d like to be an affiliate, please contact fceballos@sollabec.com.

Accepted affiliates will be awarded front-end commissions as well as ALL back-end commissions for their leads, so it’s a very lucrative opportunity for the right affiliate with residual income potential.

To Our Collective Success,

Ferny Ceballos

My business partner just spoke with one of his affiliates and we know what’s going on. (Note: This is NOT a positive review.)

Kimball launched this system last Thursday and it’s almost identical to Mike Dillard’s Magnetic Sponsoring System, except with really bad copy writing.

When you become an affiliate, you are not learning to use adwords, you are participating in a co-op where Kimball takes your money and invest a portion of it
on AdWords.

Unfortunately, what this has resulted in, is Kimball spamming Google AdWords for the same keywords on behalf of everyone.

If you search for “Daegan Smith” or other MLM gurus, you’ll notice his ads are all over the place. He’s basically shoved all other advertisers off the front page.

He gets around Google’s system by using different domain extensions (i.e. com, org, us, info, name, etc.)

So the affiliates are not managing the Adwords, Kimball is. The only job of the affiliate is to call prospects.

But the real winner in the system is Kimball, since he gets to use other people’s money to promote his affiliate system, which he’s the guru of.

Daegan Smith has a system which is personalized for the affiliate, which is much better. And Mike Dillard is in the process of upgrading his system to be personalized for the affiliate.

Ultimately, its’ in the best interest of any MLM’er online to create their own system.

Kimball’s system is crap and I would expect that he’ll get shut off by Google for spamming Adwords. He’s offering no real value to the market place.

If you are a newbie, I would recommend starting with either Daegan or Mike’s system, then move on to creating your own marketing. I’m affiliates for both Daegan and Mike and they are first rate human beings and marketers.

Mike’s Magnetic Sponsoring Course is a lifesaver of a course for struggling MLM’ers. Daegan Smith’s system offers the most value, because of the training he offers and personalized lead capture system.

Kimball’s system seems to have been built by the same company or people that built Mike Dillard’s or Daegan Smith’s. In all honesty, I’m disappointed because I know the buy who created those systems and he’s a great guy. Not sure why he would want to associate himself with PFB.

I hope this has helped clear things up for you guys wondering who Kimball Roundy is or what the Prosperity Freedom Builder site is. You’ll see his ads for another few days until Google catches on.

To Your Success,

Ferny

The Low-Tech, Low-Cost Internet Start-Up

How To Setup a Website & Start Capturing Leads and Customers Even If You Are a Complete Computer Dunce

Question from an AMF Subscriber:
“Do you have to be internet savvy to put this system into use
and to develop a web site to capture leads?”
-Pat

This is a common, yet very daunting challenge many beginning internet marketers have. Thank you, Pat for reminding me to address this.

I’m no stranger to the fear technology strikes in the people.

Back in 1998 when I was headed to Boston to begin my education in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, I had no idea what I was getting myself into. I had never owned a computer in my life and very rarely used one.

My experience with computers prior to that was playing the Oregon Trail video game in elementary school and using my sister’s Brother™ word-processor to type up my reports.

I felt like I was the only person at MIT who never owned a computer, nor knew how to use one. And I was going to enter the most challenging Computer Science curriculum in the world?!?! What the *flip* was I thinking?!?!

How’d you like to pay $36,000 per year to get slaughtered?!?

Computer Programming on Crack!

During my second semester I took 6.001 - Introduction to Computation Structures (Programming On Crack!) and I was lost. My roommate Eric had been working with computers and electronics his whole life, so I naturally clinged to his leg and begged him to help me survive my freshman year.

I bought him beer, food and promised to keep my mariachi music off when he was in the room, if he would only help me.

For the next 6 weeks, I had no idea what I was doing — I was completely lost. Eric basically held my hand for those first few weeks and essentially narrated my programming assignments to me. (He told me what to type and I typed it.)

Facing My Technical Fears

Then one day and decided to confront the computer myself and take my training wheels (my friend) off. I pushed the ON button on Eric’s computer, (I didn’t own one). Logged onto the school network. Downloaded my assignment and read the instructions.

Whew! I was drained. Just that, was enough to rattle my nerves. But I stuck to my guns and started typing. About 30 minutes into my assignment I heard a “click” go off in my head…
…And Miracles Began to Happen !

Eric walked into the room with me typing away at the computer and writing code and he said, “Hey! You’re doing your homework!” I replied with a big grin on my face, “Yes, I am. Need any help with the assignment?”

I played catch up for the rest of the semester (I was 6 weeks behind) and I managed to scrape by with a C minus in the class. But it was the hardest earned C minus of my life! This experience taught me a lot about overcoming your fears, especially when it comes to technology.

I’ve had a lot of people whine about their belief that they weren’t born to work with computers. (As if anyone was.) Excuse after excuse after excuse. But what they are really saying is that “I’m afraid of failing, if I try. I’m afraid of not getting it.“

Fear is the most paralyzing thing on this planet and it’s not even real!!!

The truth is that web technology, especially the type you need to start your marketing campaigns, is very simple. You just can’t fear it!

Learning marketing concepts is much more challenging than creating an HTML webpage. And marketing isn’t that hard either!

A couple of years ago, my girlfriend who majored in Religious Studies in college learned how to create HTML pages when she was asked to write newsletters at her job. I bought her a Beginners HTML guide and she did the rest on her own. The hardest part was having to convince herself that she is capable of doing it.

The Internet Marketer’s Dirty Little Secret

Ok, so now that I’ve pushed you to the edge of the technology cliff and forced you to confront your “techie” issues — I have a secret to let you in on…

Ready?

The most successful millionaire internet marketers in the world don’t know jack about making websites or creating software! That’s right! You don’t need to know anything about programming, or making websites to be an internet marketer. In fact, in many ways it’s an advantage.

Being a technical dunce forces you to become the architect and manager of your marketing system and not get caught up in time consuming tasks associated with the grunt work of making websites. Everyone should learn to delegate technical jobs to other capable people on your team.

You can even hire your kids or someone else’s kids to learn and do these things for you. Today’s kids are very sharp and very savvy with the internet. Paying them $8 per hour to setup your internet marketing empire is a no brainer!

So here is a basic roadmap for getting started with little to no web experience:

1. Go to your local library or bookstore and find a beginners guide on HTML. Learn how to create an HTML site and have at least one other person you know (kids, high school kids, or friend) learn along side with you.
2. Buy a copy of Microsoft Front Page (or other WYSIWYG editor) and use that to start creating websites. Use your HTML skills for the fine tuning, not the creation of the full web pages. Front Page allows you to create a webpage as if you were creating a MS Word Document.
3. Get your copy of the Attraction Marketing Formula™ to learn how the architecture of your marketing system is going to work and learn everything you will need to know to make it work.
4. Identify your front-end product (affiliate or your own), back-end services (your business), get an autoresponder and create the 3 or 4 webpages you’ll need to create for your Attraction Marketing system.
5. Keep your main role as your manager and architect, and divide up other tasks. If you are still having trouble with the technical side, make sure your partner can create websites or go to Elance.com or RentaCoder.com and hire someone to create your website. Create the web pages and link them appropriately to each other.
6. Buy a domain at GoDaddy.com and their Web Hosting Services for a couple bucks per month to host your website.
7. Get a PayPal account to process your sales.
8. Turn on the Traffic - You’ll learn how to turn on 10 different sources of internet traffic (both free and paid) in the Attraction Marketing Formula course.
9. Continue learning…

Your system should have the following architecture or something similar. Notice there are only 3 important pages as part of your marketing.

Well, that’s about it. Remember to learn the art of delegating and try not to do everything yourself. You can find links to all the tools you’ll need at:

Tools of Attraction Marketing - http://tools.sollabec.com

When deciding on what to hire out, start with the tasks which require the least expertise like:

• Answering the phones and customer service
• Webpage creation
• Posting Online Classifieds
• Light bookkeeping & tracking expenses and revenue
• Posting Articles in Online Directories
• MySpace Marketing

You should then think about hiring out for other tasks as you start generating some revenue. You’ll want to eventually hire someone to do things like:

• Search Engine Optimization
• Copywriting
• Create a Forum for your Website
• Script and Software Development for Special Functions You May Want
• Accounting

Other things you can do, no matter your technical abilities are:

• Blogging - Great Free Traffic Generator
• Writing Articles to Post Online
• Writing Ads to Post Online
• Google™ AdWords Marketing

That’s it! I hope this helped clear up a few things.

It seems like a lot, but your best bet is to grab a copy of the Attraction Marketing Formula™ and use that as your “bible” to guide you through this process. It will be the best investment you will ever make.

“Whether you think you can or your can’t, you’re probably right.”
– Henry Ford

Helping You Google™ New Customers,