Tosca Reno: From Overweight To Fitness Guru On <em>GMA Health</em> (VIDEO)

Here's a major issue that many "gurus don't mention. Body weight and fat distribution has a very definite genetic profile. If you are mesomorphic, your fat distribution will be different from someone who is endomorphic. Mesomorphs can burn fat and build muscle quickly. With proper diet and exercise, they can achieve the standard athletic build.

Endomorphs have much slower metabolism and their fat distribution gives them the round or pear shape. It is much harder to maintain the athletic look. This is why endomorphs blow up far more easily when they practice yo-yo dieting. The good news is that the endomorph body type can build muscle easily, so they can increase their metabolism but should not concern themselves with trying to look skinny. The point is to be healthy and fit.
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'Death Panels' Debate Returns To Congress: Congressman Building Support For Proposal

A profitable industry has grown up around fake outrage and righteous indignation. The opponents of our progressive system of government are simply cashing in on our misfortunes.

The problem with most sensible solutions to our health care system is that common sense plays right into the hands of those who can easily distort truth for a buck. It not that these entertainers care about promoting the general welfare as our Constitution phrased it, it's not even that they are against the common sense solutions; it's that these solutions make an easy target for their fake outrage. They are selling us down the river in order to make a living. This is why they can protest the very thing that they believe in or benefit from.
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Obama's $3.8 Trillion Budget Includes Record Deficit

I seem to remember ex Vice President Dick Cheney saying that Reagan proved that deficits don't matter. Where were all the news hounds and Teabaggers when Cheney was in power? Was no one watching when we dropped from a surplus to a deficit?
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Your Affiliate Commissions Can Experience Overnight Success.

If you are already an affiliate marketer, you have the ability to double, triple or even quadruple your income.

One of the easiest ways of starting an online business and earning more profits is the development of an affiliate business.

Here are some powerful ways to increase your affiliate program’s commissions and profits.

Get higher commissions from your merchants. If you are a successful marketer with a sizable list, you can approach your merchants and negotiate a percentage increase on the commissions. Of course, to make that happen, you must already be successful.

If you are working in a particular niche, you can bundle your affiliate products by offering a range of products in a free e-book about your niche. Create the e-book and include the links to your affiliate products in the book. This is now your viral product that everyone can have for free.

Once your business is growing and you have your list, offer a new product each month that takes care of the subscriber’s problems.

Be careful and deliberate in the selection of your selection of your affiliate programs. Create a return on investment spreadsheet on each program you accept in your portfolio. There are quite a few affiliate programs online so you can afford to be discerning in your choice. Select the best for your bottom line and your subscribers.

Pay close attention to your process. Tweak your system to make it more profitable. Set up a schedule to audit your system once a month. Remember that you’re running a legitimate business and for heaven sakes, keep accurate records.

Never under any circumstances send your prospects directly to your affiliate link. Always set up a squeeze page to get the names and email address of your prospects before sending them off to the affiliate link.

If you can, set up a sequence that offers a free book to bring the prospect, get their address and name. Use the auto-responder to communicate with the prospect and send them to a product page.


Give your email list a reason to stick around. Offer them a lot of free material to keep them engaged. Work hard to find out what they want and make sure that they get it. Stay up on the issues in your niche.

Publish an online newsletter or Ezine. It is always best to recommend a product to someone you know than to sell to a stranger. This is the purpose behind publishing your own newsletter. This also allows you to develop a relationship based on trust with your subscribers.

This strategy is a delicate balance between providing useful information with a sales pitch. If you continue to write informative editorials you will be able to build a sense of reciprocity in your readers that may lead them to support you by buying your products.


If you use Pay Per Click advertising, monitor the placement, the price and the search results regularly. PPC search engine is the most effective means of advertising online but it can get expensive. You can lose money while making money if you don’t watch your numbers carefully. Then you should try and monitor them to see which ads are more effective and which ones to get rid of. You can lose big if you have several niche markets running at the same time.

Give these tips a try and put them through their paces. You’ll be glad you did.

How To Work Your Magic In Forums

This might seem a bit trivial but I see this often since I use forums as part of my marketing mix. The question is how do you get people to pay attention to you once you get to the forum? There are six things that I would be concerned about when scoping out the forums. Here are the steps that I use to get traffic from forums.

1) Get your keywords formalized. It is important to have a collection of keywords that fit your niche. If you don’t use Pay Per Click advertising you still need to collect at least 50 quality keywords for your niche. The point of focusing on your keywords is to tie your website to the chosen keywords.

2) Your choice of responses must work to your advantage and to do that you must consciously optimize your responses and input to match your website keywords. If you sell soft sculpture toys, your niche keywords might be perhaps toys and perhaps teddy bears or other soft toys. Your input and responses should include some of your keywords in order to bolster your back links to your website.

3) If you create articles or have a blog of your own, you can reference them in your responses on the forums. Let’s say that you flagged a question on care and packaging or soft toys. You have a great answer to the post; so you compose an answer and reference your blog post from last year. You hyperlink the blog post line and ensure that you have a few keywords from your blog in the post. So you would write something like this: “I know how tough it is to store and ship soft toys I wrote a blog post on it at my blog – (blog name). This is solution to the problem is (fill in the blank).

4) There is a certain trick to using forums for marketing purposes. You should carefully craft your bio or your signature section to promote your squeeze page or blog. Once again you should make certain that your keywords are injected in your signature. If you are selling the soft toys at www.softhuggybears.com, you might have a signature that says “How to take good care of your soft huggy bears. Get my FREE report at www.softhuggybears.com.” make the case for your solution to their problem.

5) Keep the conversation on topic and move it along with your responses. Once you reply to the original post, send another post to add a twist to the conversation and perhaps pose a follow up question for the other members to respond to. That keeps the thread open and more people will read it. More people reading the thread means more people involved in the conversation and seeing your signature.

6) If the forum has an article section, contribute to that section as often as you can. Take a few of your blog posts and reconfigure them into articles. You’ll need to reach a lot of forums to make this pay off. Don’t stop at one or two forums and expect the get a flood of traffic. This is a business venture and must be treated as such.

This is a great way to get back links and build your reputation as well more traffic to your website. Be sure to get your facts straight when posting and stay honest. People will hold you accountable when you are solving their problems.

New blog for the folks who want to learn about traffic strategies..

There is a new blog created for Internet traffic strategies. Go to http://massivetraffic.didarticles.com. It's new and chronicles the traffic generating tactics of a new product roll out. Check it out and keep tabs on the progress.

It seems that getting traffic is the toughest part of this business. It doesn't matter how great our products are, without getting the needed traffic, we can't make any money. I'm always looking for more information on better ways to reach my target audiences. I'm sure you are too. Let me know if you come up with anything new and interesting.