Why Wonder Woman Matters

Since her debut in All Star Comics #8 released in 1941, Wonder Woman has become the most famous and recognizable female superhero in the world. This feminist icon is a warrior princess and a United Nations Ambassador. She displays extreme intellect and compassion. Princess Diana of Themyscira has also become a part of pop culture. She has been featured on countless merchandise, toys, comics, animated movies and television shows. For some reason (and Im still scratching my head on this one), it took DC Comics 75 years to bring her to the big screen. Wonder Woman starring Gal Gadot is currently filming and slated for a 2017 release. We will get our first look at Gal as Diana in Batman VS Superman: Dawn of Justice, March 25, 2016.







Wonder Woman has had a huge impact on men, women and children for 75 years. But why? What is it about her that we connect to? Why do we love her so much? This article of the Confessions of a Cosplay Girl Blog explores those questions and answers. Before I get to my thoughts and personal experiences, I want to share the thoughts of a fellow Wonder Woman fan. Cosplayer Candy Keane is also the owner of the Three Muses Clothing Boutique in Jacksonville, FL.


"I want to share My first memory of dressing up like Wonder Woman was around 4 years old, in my Underoos. Even then I dressed up my outfit with a lasso and paper tiara and cuffs. That could possibly count as my first “homemade” cosplay. The Wonder Woman TV show was my introduction to strong super hero women and I’m thankful for that role model. My love of Wonder Woman has stayed with me through the years and grown to include all of WW’s various incarnations, but my true love of all things wonder will always start and end with Lynda Carter."   ~Candy Keane (Visit her Official Facebook Page)

I want to say my first exposure to Wonder Woman was the Lynda Carter series but as of late, I find my memory to be a bit jumbled. Im not quite sure if it was the Wonder Woman live action series or the cartoon show Superfriends. In any case, I always found the character to be fascinating. She was beautiful, independent and strong. She was graceful  yet a fierce warrior. She was the most brave and powerful woman I had ever seen. She could hold her own, defend herself and fight along the side of heroes such as Superman. And she had black hair like me! LOL When I was a child I had a collection of Wonder Woman items such as action figures and pajamas. She was important to me because she was teaching me that a girl could be strong and change the world. Women were just as capable as men  and can make a difference.  Wonder Woman didnt just do good in costume. Diana Prince had a job, supported herself and took time out to help others.

Ive been a Wonder Woman fan literally my whole life. Whats great is that both of my parents and my youngest niece are fans too. Its awesome that we can share our love for the Amazon Princess. Witnessing Wonder Woman evolve over the years in media and pop culture has been amazing. I look forward to what the future brings.

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No Online Success Just More Failures by Marc Charles

3:22 PM

Greetings:

Ive enclosed a thread I found on Warrior Forum the other day.

There are very few sites that compare to Warrior Forum when it comes to Internet Marketing and web based businesses.

If you follow sites that are better -- in terms of traffic, participation, and a great blend of newbies and seasoned professionals.......please send them my way.

Marc Charles

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Member Posted:

Its been thousands of dollars Ive burned through for
the past 8 years and havent made a profit. I spend countless money
promoting this or that and get no returns at all. I truly feel helpless now.
I create a squeeze page I buy domain names, I do everything the gurus tell me...
Yet I dont make a single profit.

This month alone I spent $800 on advertising and havent made
a single profit... I buy traffic from Facebook or another "top teir" traffic source
only to be left on the short end of the stick... again.

There has to be something Im doing wrong, after 8 years and not turning a single profit
there has to be something Im doing wrong or am I just having bad luck in life ?

Over the 8 years in IM I probably spent close to $4000 in buying training courses,
ebooks and the next best thing, also jumping into MLM but, failed at everyone. It annoys
me because everyone else on the internet makes it seem so real and easy. Please I seek help, Im 24 years old and running out of options.

AzoogleAds = $950.00 (They shutdown due to crazy voodoo)
CJ = $300 8 Years Later
Various Affiliate Sites = $200 8 Years Later
Clickbank = $0.00 8 Years Later

Thanks,
samthewildone

Responses:

Ya, something is wrong if you havent done well in 8 years.

But, there are so many reasons, your not being very specific. You buy traffic and send it to a squeeze page. What is the conversion on the squeeze page? Do you have a sales funnel in place? How well is that converting?

How big is your list(s)? how often do you mail them? What do you mail them? What is your open rate? What is your CTR?

It can all be tracked and should be tracked, then you can pin point what is not working.

Could be so many thing. You gotta give more info. 

#2

I would recommend that you get yourself a mentor.

I have been struggling for a few years myself without making any money, but after I got myself a mentor I started seeing money coming in.

That is what I would recommend you to do.

#3 (my favorite response)

top Spending Money.

Listen, I began in the business 20 years ago. This was a time when no one really had a clue. You had no moneymaking guides. Blogs didnt exist. And if someone had suggested paying for private access to a forum, people would have pointed and giggled.

Investment is a key ingredient to a successful business. BUT . . . you need to know how to invest first. No offense, but you dont. Stop spending until you do.

Now, instead of writing the typical 20,000 word dissertation you often see in this vicinity, a wordy novel with literally zero worth, Im going to give you some pointed advice. It wont be perfect because I dont know you well enough, and it wont be all you need, because I dont have the time.

1. In case I havent made myself clear already: Stop spending money.
2. Learn how to setup a squeeze page and a sales funnel.
3. Learn how to send FREE TRAFFIC from Youtube, FB, G+, and Twitter.
4. Grow your list.

If you dont already have hosting and something like aWeber, and I really hope you do after blowing 8K, you can get them cheap. It costs nothing, if done correctly, getting traffic on those social networks.

You take my advice and in 3 to 6 months, youll have a real business. Carry on doing what youre doing and youll just be another guy who blew a ton of cash and failed.

This is your wake-up call, buddy. Time to make some money.

GRM

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Should I go to med school

A young man writes

I am thinking about pursuing medicine as a career. However, it is not something that I am entirely sure of because of the changing healthcare landscape.

Suppose I enter medical school at age 26. Four years later I have my MD. Five or six years later I will be done with a surgery residency and two years after that with my fellowship. I will 37-38 years of age with kids, a wife, and most likely a home. My kids will be around 9-11 years of age. In addition, I will be near $250K in debt from medical school because of interest accumulated throughout my residency and fellowship. This is of course not including retirement, car, house, investment, and kids’ college savings.

My friends tell me not to think about it, but if I don’t, I can end up in a position that I don’t want to be in. Even if I pay off my debt at age 50, I still have all those other things to address. And even if I do, when will I enjoy my money? What is perhaps most important though, is the time component. I am essentially giving up my entire life to a profession that will not allow me to transfer laterally to other professions if I choose to. I can be pursuing my other interests in the time that I would be becoming a surgeon such as business or engineering.

Lastly, I grew up in poverty and have no financial assets. It will take me years to accumulate wealth. And once I do (at around age 60), that wealth will be passed down to my children.

Did I miss something? What are your thoughts? 

While rereading and editing your email, I realized you did miss something. Whats missing is enthusiasm for becoming a doctor. You listed several reasons not to go to med school, but nothing about why you want to do it. If you don’t truly love the idea, you will be very unhappy.

I think you need to reassess your future.

For those who want more information, I have written a couple of posts about questions related to this one [links here and here.] The comments on the more recent post are worth reading..

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How to Make Actual Money in the Pet Market by Marc Charles

I received this question from an entrepreneur last week.

Question: Id like to find a way to make money in the pet supplies market. Im watching other people do it, and I think I can do it much better. Please send me your thoughts on this market.
L.R. Atlanta GA


Hi L.R.:

Thanks for the question and post.

I like the pet supplies market......a lot.

Ive also helped a lot of businesses and entrepreneurs in this market too.

Funny thing though........

One of the most sucessful entrepreneurs in this market started out with one of the most pathetic websites Ive ever seen!

So....dont base everything on a "fancy" website.


Look......in my opinion were in a Depression....we passed the so-called "recession" several months ago.

But the pet supplies market online is still going strong. People will always take care of their animals and pets.

This goes for pet sitting, pet walking and pet spas (Im not kidding!).

Heres part of an article I wrote for Early to Rise on the topic:

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Dear Entrepreneur:

People are crazy about their pets. I see it in our house every day. We spent more money this year on special pet food, toys, and treats than we spent going to the movies ... but I didnt realize this was a $34 billion market!

There are several ways to profit in this market. One of the best is by selling pet supplies, toys, and/or specialty foods directly to consumers.

Youll make even more money by targeting pet lovers who regularly shell out big bucks for these items without hesitation.

In todays issue, Ill focus on three opportunities that will enable you to take advantage of this incredible "pet lovers market."

Heres a short list of products and services that are hot sellers (online and off):

* Pet Pages (pet websites and hosting)

* Toys (Forget about squeaking bones, PetCo.com has more than 10,000 different toys to choose from.)

* Pet Insurance (Im not kidding. Premiums start at $1 a day.)

* Pet Yellow Pages

* Pet Adoption Services

* Pet E-mail Newsletters

* Pet Charities

* Pet Grams (sent via e-mail)

* Pet Gift Cards (huge!)

* Pet Shows (Everybody knows how big dog and cat shows are - but horse and bird shows are even bigger.)

* Pet Vitamins and Supplements

* Organic Pet Food (Our cat wont touch it - but its a hot rising trend.)

If you want to launch a business and profit from this market in the offline world (via direct mail), here are 3 simple steps to take:

1. Obtain a mailing list of recent repeat buyers who have purchased pet supplies via direct mail that are in the price range of the products you want to sell.

2. Obtain the names of a pet food manufacturer and/or supplier who is willing to process your customers orders and drop-ship them for you. Here are two such companies: CarefreeVet and Great Eastern Pet Supply.

3. Obtain preprinted catalogs that you can send to qualified prospects. Most pet supply wholesalers, drop-shippers, and affiliates make these available for you to use.

If you dont want to handle telephone orders yourself, you can retain a call center to do it for you. Youll find dozens of call centers that specialize in this type of thing at DMNews.com, or you can do a quick search on Google.

If you prefer to market pet products and services online, Ive got great news. It has never been easier to sell these things on the Internet. Neeps.com, for example, is a specialty pet products retailer that has been very successful in "niche retail." They are ranked among InternetRetailing.coms Top 500.

The primary mechanism for selling pet products and services online is to attract or drive qualified traffic to your website.

You dont have a website? No problem! There are hundreds of companies online that offer instant e-commerce sites or storefronts.

Whats more, sites like eBay, Yahoo! Marketplace, and Amazon.com Marketplace can deliver mind-boggling targeted traffic to your site. Or you can just post an instant mini-store on these traffic monsters.

Pet supplies affiliate programs are another great option.

Affiliate programs offer one of the fastest and easiest ways to profit from the pet products bonanza.

With an affiliate program, all you do is post a unique URL link in search engine keyword advertisements, on targeted high-traffic websites, or in targeted e-mail newsletters. When someone clicks on that link, theyre brought to a pet supplies website. If that person makes a purchase on the website, you receive a commission.

The Petco.com affiliate program pays an 8% commission on sales up to $3,000 per month, and a 14% commission on sales over $15,000 per month.

PetsMart.com pays 15% on monthly sales over $16,000.

The beauty of an affiliate program with strong companies like Petco and PetsMart is they usually stick by their commission structure. (Unlike many small-time operators that revise the commission structure once you start selling like crazy.)

Whats more, companies like Petco carry name brands and offer thousands of products.

Be sure to check out affiliate management companies like Commission Junction and Linkshare too. These guys make it super-easy for entrepreneurs like you and me to make money. Think of them as one-click affiliate superstores.

Two other concepts in the pet market that I like are pet insurance and pet pages (websites for pets).

PetCarePals.com offers pet insurance for $1 a month. You could either start your own company or joint venture with PetCarePals.com as an affiliate. If you choose to go the joint-venture route, your job would be to drive traffic and qualified prospects to their website via your unique pet insurance URL.

And heres the deal with pet websites ...

You could offer your customers dozens of website templates. You can design these pet pages yourself, obtain copyright-free templates on the Web, or hire a freelance designer to do them for you.

You could give the templates away to pet lovers but charge a small annual hosting fee. Or you could give the hosting away and charge for the templates. Its up to you.

If you give the hosting away, reserve the right to post advertising on the pet websites to get extra income.

And thats just for starters ...

Take a look at MyPetPages.com. They offer free pet websites and memorial pages to an active community of like-minded pet lovers. Plus, they make money on advertising by selling pet products as affiliates and with other value-added services.

As you can see, the profit opportunities in the pet lovers market are enormous - online and offline - and nearly endless.

***Fast-Start Tip***

Determine which niche of the pet market you want to sell into.

If you want to sell pet food, products, insurance, and/or toys online, youll need to build a simple (e-commerce friendly) website. Use successful websites as a guide.

If youre not making or developing your own products, youll need to locate a manufacturer or supplier that will process and drop-ship the orders for you. A quick search on Google will provide hundreds of pet supply drop-shippers.

Your marketing efforts will be concentrated on attracting and driving qualified prospects to your site. And there are many ways to do this. You can advertise your products in pet-related e-mail newsletters and on high-traffic pet-related websites. You can also purchase keywords and phrases in the top search engines (like Google, Yahoo!, Lycos, MSN, AOL, and LookSmart).

Hot Tip: Prepaid keyword advertising is becoming even more popular than pay-per-click (PPC). PPC can be very expensive - especially when youre testing dozens or hundreds of keywords. Prepaid keyword ads enable you to determine the cost of your ads upfront. Two leaders in the prepaid keyword advertising area are ExactSeek and ISEDN.org.

Another option is to become an affiliate with a company like Petco.com. Petco.com offers thousands of brands, a streamlined affiliate program, brand recognition, and a good reputation with customers and affiliates.

If you prefer an offline direct-marketing approach, youll need to get your hands on mailing lists of recent repeat pet-product buyers, a manufacturer or supplier to process your orders and drop-ship your products, and a full-color catalog that you can mail to prospects.

As I said, most pet supply wholesalers, drop-shippers, and affiliates make preprinted catalogs available for you to use. Just make sure the order form in the catalog includes a key code so you are credited for all sales.

You could also partner with veterinarians and provide them with pet products on a wholesale level. You can purchase thousands of top-quality pet products from China for pennies on the dollar.

Check out my Importing Fortunes 2015 while youre at it. This is the best program of its kind on the market - bar none!

If you live near a top pet supplies direct marketer, consider going to work for them on a temporary basis. If youre lucky, that will put you in a position to receive a million-dollar hands-on education. There may also be an opportunity for you to start or develop a new channel for the company, whereby you would receive a percentage of the profits if its successful.

There you have it!

Now you have everything you need to know in order to profit from the $34 billion+ Pet Lovers Market!

Additional Resources:

Responsive mailing lists

Pet Products Affiliate Programs

Doctors Smith and Foster

1800 PetMeds.com

PupLife

Petco.com

Linkshare

DirectPetSuperstore

PetSmart

Pet Supply and Food Manufacturers (that offer drop-shipping)

Worldwide Brands

PurfectPaw

Exotic Nutrition

Purina Mills

RetailPets.com

Asian Products.com

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