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Build Traffic to Your Blog or Website and Earn Adsense Revenue Too

One of my favorite bookmarking sites is She Told Me. I've had success when I've posted links to my Squidoo Lenses or my Blogs on She Told Me. The site shares adsense revenue with users and you can earn by referring people to the site too.

So, here's an example of a banner ad you can get to place on your blog or website. It includes you referral code. If you want to drive more traffic to your work or you want to create links to your blog, She Told Me will help with that too.

I encourage you to check it out. You'll certainly find friends and readers for your work there too. She Told Me has a good reputation among Squidoo Lens Masters as a good marketing tool. If you use keywords effectively and good copywriting technique, you'll be pleased with the results.

As always, I encourage you to look me up when your there. I'd be pleased if you did.

* If you click on the banner and sign up at She Told Me so you can bookmark your site there, I'll earn just about enough to buy a cup of coffee as a reward for sending you there (smile).

Who Is Albert Bandura?

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Social Psychologist Albert Bandura explains the way people learn from their peers and leaders. The principles from his Social Learning Theory are often discussed as "role modeling." Unfortunately, many of the valuable concepts he defines are left out of the discussion. Web-designers, entrepreneurs, and online businesses can apply these principles by thinking about their social networks as peer environments. They may even draw on analogies derived from family and classroom environments.

How Does Behavior Modification Work?

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Social media users and shoppers are influenced by behavior modification principles in the same ways that dogs and other animals are trained. It is possible to shape user behaviors toward a desired behavior. When web designers and marketers use principles from learning psychology, they are able to influence online consumer behavior in ways productive for both the consumer and the business.

Self-Esteem: What It Is and How You Can Get Some

People make choices. They have a sense of self or some idea of who they are. The attitude people have about themselves influences the choices they make. We talk about that attitude almost without conscious understanding. But that sense of self motivates our choices. Here's a concept that helps us understand the relationship between self and choice. Self-Esteem is a product of that relationship.

Self-Esteem: You hear the word and people talk like they know what it means. You might even be one of them.

But what is it? Self-Esteem:

1. Something we say people need
2. Something we say people have or
3. Something we say people don't have enough of...and
4. Something we say makes a difference

So, what exactly is it and how do you get it?

Self-esteem is not the same thing as self-centered. In fact, self-centered behavior is a signal that a person is in need of self-esteem.

Here's a link to Self-Esteem: What It Is and How You Can Get Some, a Squidoo Lens I wrote about the concept. There you'll find a description of self-esteem, how it originates, and how you can benefit from understanding self-esteem.

Self-Efficacy

Stages of Behavior Change

1. Precontemplation--the period when people are not anticipating making the specified change.
2. Contemplation--the period when people are intending to change sometimes during the next few months.
3. Preparation--the period when people are intending to take action to initiate the change in the near future.
4. Action--the period when people have made specific (overt) modifications in their behavior within the last few months.
5. Maintenance--the period when people are working to prevent relapse to prior habits or behavior patterns (usually a time period from a few months to five years in length).
6. Termination--the period when people have zero temptation and 100% self-efficacy for preventing returning to the behavior(s) that existed prior to the Action stage.

What is Social Learning?

1. Observing others perform the task.
2. Imitating the way others complete the task.
3. Mentally rehearsing the task.

The Motivated Blogger: Describing What Makes People Tick

Five reasons why it's good to understand learning and motivation.

1. You'll know how your loved ones make they're decisions.
2. You'll know what to expect next.
3. You'll be more effective as a member of a team.
4. You'll be able to set goals and attain them.
5. You'll be able to lead.

Future posts will describe learning theory, motivation, life-span development, perception, cognition, intelligence and tips about how to use that information.