Happy New year! So its 2009.
Today is the 5th day of the year and the Big Bang kicks off today …It promise to be Big. All I can say is “It’s time for a CHANGE. Yes, its time for RESULT.” Are you set for the journey ahead?
…As I Meditate.
It was as if I had a voice saying “the holidays are over.” “But what does that have to do with the New Year?” Another voice asked. A third voice then said. “It’s time to get back to work.”
Work! screamed the first two voices, and without wasting time, the third voice replied saying, “YES SERIOUS AND PRODUCTIVE WORK.”
“Where do I start?” Asked one of the first two voices. “After all I have been working all through the other years.”
The third voice finally asked the other two voices, the following questions before going silent.
First it said, “you’ve bought a lot of revenue-generating training material, attended seminars, read up every email you got from those on whose list you are, but how many of them have you actually followed to the very end?”
“Are you actually doing what is required of you?”
“You have some results to show for it but how explosive is the result compare to the information at your disposal?”
The best part of the questions that actually got the first two voices thinking, was the question;
“In this one year will you make it a priority to take the bull by the horns and build an explosive Internet business?”
Dear friend and reader, while the above illustration may sound like a story, where would you place yourself in that conversation? First, Second or the third voice?
If my guess is right, then you will want to take some time and actually ponder on the question, “In this one year will I make it a priority to take the bull by the horns and build an explosive Internet business?”
And if you are a working class, you can rephrase the question as “Is this the year that I will quit my JOB because I AM making more money online than my BOSS can ever pay me? - I purposely personalize those statement …just to enable it sink deep down your imagination.
As you think about the beginning of the New Year and all the things you want to achieve, below are a few lines to meditate on, it will surely give light to your internet marketing dreams even as the Big Bang kicks off today.
First I want you to know that 2008 is gone forever.
However, it was a remarkable year, one that left us with lots of memories. It left a significant footprint in the sands of history. 2008 will always be remembered by student of history …Americans …Kenyans …as well as Nigerians.
It was a year that put to office the 44th President of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama, the first African American to be elected President of the United States …All things are possible. That was the lesson.
One question you may ask yourself “Did he or his parent ever imagined he might run for president, talk less of winning?”
…Actually if they did, they may as well have called him BARRY instead of BARACK - Laughing.
Back here in Nigeria, it was a thing of joy as the Labour Party flag bearer Adams Oshiomole witnessed the election results upturned and himself declared winner of the gubernatorial position and eventually sworn in.
And for those of us at Internet Marketing Nigeria, it was a year of achievement and to our subscribes I know it was a turning point in the life of many especially for the lucky winner of our do it all for you web project -Jimmy Tonade.
Nevertheless, it was not all good, the whole world in general had it own fair share of the bad times that 2008 brought. Many were affected by the Global Crisis.
There were reports of earthquakes with China accounting for a substantial amount of casualties.
Whether you heard of it or not, there were incidents of suicide killings and bombings in Iraq and more recently Mumbai in India.
The Nigeria stock market crash was yet another blow that left many broke and confuse. I learnt that some people had to take their lives, maybe they had all their life savings in there.
Some stock brokers went into hiding, trying to save their heads after all the failed advice they had left their clients with.
You may never have to remember the Jos riots that led to the death of over two hundred people and an undisclosed number of National Youth Service Corps members but what of those that were directly affected.
…Not a pleasant experience.
Why am I bring this up at a time like this, when we are suppose to be celebrating life? And looking up to a promising year.
Dear friend, I don’t know for you but I know there are a lot of people who will get carried away by the success they already have and forget there is even more to achieve. Refuse to be one.
If for you, 2008 was nothing good to write about then I have to mention this. However bad it has been, dwelling in the past won’t get you anywhere.
Failures, challenges and mistakes are inevitable in life. You may be faced with some disturbing ones. However refuse the temptation of never wanting to venture out because of the fear of failure. For It is not how many times you fail that matters, what matters is your ability to get up, dust yourself and say to yourself “yet another trial”.
Do yourself a favor to forget the past …put the past where it belongs - behind you and move on with your life. This is your year! You can make it.
Finally, I want you to know that for the fact you are living and reading this, you should be thankful to God and that this is a confirmation that if you play your part, the year will be a great one for you.
Once again, on behave of IMN, Happy New year to every Nigerian and also to all our subscribes and readers in all the countries of the world.
Have a great year.
Francis Alaeto.
“What will be, will be….the future’s not our’s to see, ke, sa-rah, sa-rah.” - lyrics from a song.
As the curtain closes on 2008, you should be getting ready for 2009. In our own small way will have made it a priority to guide you into 2009 that why we have been providing you with vital information at no extra cost to you since the very first day of December.
And we are presently setting the stage to bring to you the 90days big bang training at almost zero cost. A program that is simple about one thing: results for your bank account.
Starting from the 5th day of January 2009, you will be getting a step by step action plan on best way to make money on the internet.
But this is for a seleted few …a group of lucky people. Go find out if you are among the lucky ones.
However, One thing remains very important if you are to achieve your internet marketing dreams in 2009. No matter the amount of information we make available to you. If you do not take the responsiblity of applying them, then you may as well forgo your dreams.
Each year, you are adviced to set goals, which you go ahead to set but at the end of the year, you end up achieving just a few and then you go ahead to set the same goals for the following year.
But, while doing this you can’t help not being troubled, sometimes you find yourself, questioning your abilities. You may be asking the following questions;
Why after so much effort, I only fail … and on trying again … I still fail again?
How do I achieve my goals this time around?
Ever pause to ponder on the above issues at all? If YES, then I must say you are not along.
However, if NO then you are either making some good progress with your set goals or you are just another fellow that is waiting to take whatever life brings.
Well, while you may want to agree with the statement “what will be, will be….the future’s not our’s to see, ke, sa-rah, sa-rah.” Just as a song writer put it. I want you to know that If you ever desire a better future then it will take you to make it happen.
Now, whether its Personal, Family or Business Goals, do you know the 3 most imortant reasons why you failed to achieve your set goals? …In just a moment, you will discovery these 3 simple but very imortant reasons why you failed to achieve your Internet marketing goals?
Setting goals is one thing while going for your goals is yet another and it is the latter that makes you.
While you are dreaming of starting and owning an internet business that will suddendly change your life, affect your bank account and make you a highly sort after consultant.
I want to show you a simple way to achieve such goals this time. And if only you will follow me on this, you will definately come to see a tremendous change in 2009.
What are the 3 most important reason why you failed to achieve your internet marketing goals?
1) Failure on your part to set achievable Goals.
That might sound simple …but many a times we seems to do the opposite. It is not enough to set goals. You must make sure you are setting achievable goals.
How do you set achievable goals?
Don’t just say I want to make $100,000 online by the end of 2009. Though that is very achievable, even if you are a complete newbie. You should rather be able to break it down to something very realistic.
When you set and write Goals, do you make it in such a way that it will guide you on what you will need to do daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly and Annually?
Below is the guideline I personal follow:
A year a dream
A month a change
A week a goal
A day a task.
With this in mind at the end of any year, all I have to do is start with the end in mind (for instance a dream of $100,000 by year end) then I try to figure out what change I must see by the end of each month to accomplish the dream (An extra 500 paying subscribers on my niche site or to create 2 or more profitable mini niche site monthly that brings in an extra $500 each monthly).
Bearing in mind that I want to see a change of an extra 500 paying subscribers monthly, I could as well set a weekly goal of contacting 2 or more JV partners, who I will be asking to add one of my ebooks as a bonus to their product as a value for their subscribes. All their subscribes will be doing to get the ebook will be to fill a short form (Opt in). He get value for his subscribes while I get paying subscribers.
And for the daily task, I start out with finding my much needed JV partners and for another day I just come up with a well written mail that I will be sending out to my likely to be JV partners.
…That just the simplest illustration of the guideline I and many successful online marketers follow. To have a well detailed guide, you may join our 90days big bang training.
2) Not writing them down.
At this point, don’t forget to Write out your Goals, don’t get tricked into commiting your Goals to memory …WRITE them down , stick them where you will see them often …feel free to carry them in your wallet.
3) Not focusing on them until you achieve them.
You have to stay focus. Focus …Focus …Focus. I think it was Robert kiyosaki who in one of his book gave the below acronyms for focus.
F - Follow
O - One
C - Course
U - Until
S - Successful
This is self explanatary.
In summary, what you will want to do is to first see the Very end from the beginning and that is what will have been helping you see …it all about the lifestyle, where you are the boss, determine your working hours. when?, where? and how? you want to work.
What you could do with $100,000 through out the year …maybe it a new car, a house or you might have been thinking of tieing the knot with that beautiful woman as my Chairman will always put it or do i say your African queen according to Tuface.
Once you can see a clear picture of the end, you will then want to have short term goals. These are simple and smaller steps you will have to achieve to get you to your bigger goals. The questions you might have to ask yourself here is, What are the little things that must be done or met in order for your to accomplished your bigger Goals?
Come to think of it, don’t you think is easier to achieve little things which will inturn bring you the satisfaction and motivation to forge ahead and go for your bigger Goal?
Now don’t just sit there reading this, bring out your pen or pencil, is time to put down your goals and if you have already done that you might want to make it more realistic.
And don’t forget, the 90days Big bang training, this is the “BOTTOM POT” of all the information will have been bringing to you since the very first day of this month. You will be getting tips and ideas that will help make 2009 better than past 10yrs of your life.
Compliment of the seasons.
Francis Alaeto
1. Not Carry Around A Notebook - Or something.
I can’t tell you how many times I came up with an idea while I was out taking a walk. If I had a notebook or something with me, I could have jotted it down instead of having to hope I remembered it when I got home. Many times, I did not. Today, I have my little pad and I take it everywhere. This little pad banked me over $1700 in 4 days and has been the reason for some of my successful projects.
2. No Building subscribers List -
No, it is not a cliche. I sometimes make $500 in a day just sending an email to my list. The key is not to bombard them with offers day after day. Give them quality content, treat them with respect and then when you DO have something to offer,they are more likely to be receptive to it. Having mastery of list building alone can make you 4 figures income every month effortlessly. If you don’t have a list, you are throwing money away. If you need help on this, you know how to contact me.
3. Not understanding psychology behind every purchase.
Why did people buy online? If you must make money in this field you must know how to sell. You must understand why people buy. Take as many courses as you can in this area. If you don’t understand why people buy things, you can’t sell to them. People do not buy things because they need them. They buy things because they think they will make their lives better. Then they justify the purchase by telling themselves they needed it. It’s more complex than this, obviously, but that’s the 2 cent tour. Study this. Your business will increase ten-fold because of it.
4. Not Testing and Tracking business activities.
Many internet marketers don’t know the number of people that visit their website, number of those that visit offer page, number of those that buy, how often they buy and many more. If you don’t Testing And Tracking you can GROW your business. It’s as simple as that.
You put 20 ads out on the Internet and make a few sales. Problem is, you have no idea which ad brought in the sale. So how do you know which ad to kill and which ad to keep running? You don’t. Testing and tracking, with so many variables to running a business, is so important that I can’t stress it enough. This applies to ads, sales pages, or anything where you are deciding between using X or Y. leave this out at your own risk.
5. Not outsourcing task
You can’t do everything in your business and still expect growth. No way. You have to outsource part of your business to others. Most especially part of your business that requires skills that you are not good at. Be very careful when you do this. Get everything in writing as far as what is to be done and when it’s expected to be completed by. Yes, things happen, but as a paying customer you have the right to expect your work to be done on time and with the
quality that you are paying for. Expect no less.
6. Giving away quality traffic for pennies
Don’t Give Away Your Traffic For Pennies - Adsense fans can bite me on this one.
Why give away your traffic for pennies, when instead you can replace those Adsense ads
with affiliate links and make some real money. Yes, if Adsense is the only way to
monetize your niche, sure. But if there are products you can sell, sell them. A good
review will sell more products than all your Adsense clicks combined. After using
Adsense myself for over 2 years and actually testing this out on one site, I can honestly
say my ebook sales out perform my Adsense earnings by a mile.
7. Waiting for time of desperation
Don’t Wait Until You’re Desperate - So many people come here and scream that they lost their job and need to make money FAST. It doesn’t work that way. Building a business online takes time and there is no quick fix. Don’t wait until you HAVE to make money to decide you want to do it. Go about starting a business in a systematic way and you’ll be much better off. It’s a lot harder to work under extreme pressure. Believe me, I know. I am speaking from experience. Don’t do what I did.
31 DAYS TO successful 2009 part articles
Day 1 - Million dollar Briefcase
Day 2 - Reason why I failed at first attempt
Day 3 - Basic tools for internet business
Day 4 - One thing you need to make money online
Day 5 - How to know what exactly people wants to buy
Day 6-8 Millionaire in training success
Day 9 - My internet business sequence
Day 10 - Free Website Traffic - 3 great techniques
Day 11 - 11 internet marketing tips to success unplugged
Day 12 - 7 more golden tips
Day 13 - Only absolute way left for little guy to get rich online
Day 14 - KEEP READING - ZERO TO HERO FREE EBOOK
Day 15 - How to create instant success on internet
Day 16 - Internet Business secrets 95% don’t know
Day 17 - I was once confused
Day 18 - This is better than MTN treasure hunt
Day 19 - Coca Cola Marketing
Day 20 - Article Marketing - 5 steps to 4figures income
Day 21 - FREE DAY
If it is to be, it’s up to me! -Anonymous
Hello and welcome to December, the very last month of this year 2008. I think and I know that this is a perfect time to start setting your goals for 2009 and that is if you have not started doing so already?
Did you set goals for 2008?
…Did you achieve your 2008 goals? If you did not what about consulting your compass, so you can start doing necessary corrections and adjustment where need be.
Do you feel helpless?
Are you tired of living paycheck to paycheck?
Are you not tired of reading about how some guys just like you are making a boat load of cash while you are yet to make a dime and yet you have bought into every formular and system, attended every seminars and read every single ebooks that came your way.
Can you relate to any of this?
Do you know that you can take charge of your future to a very large extend?
Dear friend, I want you to join me in doing this little exercise but before I share it with you, read this short but terrible story.
A friend of my recently told me about a friend of his who work in a job that makes him to get up as early as 4am, so he can quickly get ready for work, bit the traffic and get to work on time. The worse of it all is that he can’t leave the office until about 8pm, getting back to the road he is held back by traffic and at times he just finds it difficult to get bus on time. This makes him get back home around 10.30pm most night.
What a terrible experience? But the fact remains that many are still stuck in this kind of dead end jobs.
Now, Read through the next few paragraphs, after which I will like you to suspend reading any further and trying doing the exercise for the next 30minutes or more.
Are you ready? Let go.
Close your eyes, if you have to then try and picture what you want for yourself in the next six months to one year.
For those of you working in jobs, you don’t like and conditions you won’t even wish your enemies like the one above. How will you like to walk into the office of your boss by the end of next year and tell him, “Sir, I have decided to redirect my skills, knowledge and energy? I have choosen to follow my passion, you are thereby fired!”
What about starting or growing that dream business of yours?
Imagine going on vacation to the United State or any other country of your choice by the end of next year.
What about getting the branch Manager of your bank to come to know you in person just because of the change your account will experience? I mean you having a very healthy bank account.
Imagine buying or building a new house, in one of the choicest area around town and having your parents, brothers, sisters even your friends come over. Taking them around the house …showing them the new car you just bought and finally you walk them over to your computer …punch in the URL of your first website, as it loads you turn to them and say, “Here is one of my businesses. I was able to buy this house and my car from the proceeds of this website.”
Remember, there is no limit to what you can imagine. Only the one you choose to place on your imagination. So let your imagination run wide.
Wait a minute, you are not allowed to read beyond these lines, if you have not done the above exercise.
With the above questions and exercise you should be able and ready to take a deep look at how you have spent your time, money, resources this very pasting year and start preparing yourself for the coming year.
While many wait for the beginning of a new year before setting their goals, starting early will definitely allow you plenty of time to decide what you really want to achieve come 2009.
However, if you are quite familiar with how Goals are set and achieved, you know that you have to continue to consult your compass which might lead you to doing course corrections were necessary. This is one basic reason why you must start setting your goals now, if you haven’t?
And if you happen to be among those who just find it difficult to write down their goals but rather commit it to memory, I will advice you turn a new leave today and start writing down your goals, so you can always go back to it and checkout your progress as frequent as possible, thereby making necessary adjustment where need be.
You see, I don’t think I know of any successful person that has made it over the years that is not a goal getter who keep setting, adjustment and focusing on their set goals.
Finally, I want you to know that without goals, you are just like someone who set out on a journey without any specific destination in mind.
The value of setting goals and staying focus until you hit it can not be overemphasized …More than anything else you must have the strong desire to start now and if you are still reading this I think I can feel that strong desire in you. So, while not hurry to http://www.millionaireintraining.net and check if you still have a chance.
Make sure you reserve your seat today.
It is one event you must not miss this year, as it will surely be a guide for you as you set your online goals for 2009. You will be learning a lot of things that can make a lot of difference in what you do in 2009.
See you at the event.
Francis Alaeto
The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore. - Dale Carnegie
How times flies? It was just about this time last year that our own Rich Kid, Lateef Olajide was honoured as the young entrepreneur of the year 2007. An event that left those of us that were actually present inspired.
Behold! It’s 2008 and as it has been a practice for the award to be held towards the end of each year, that of this year was no exception as the award took place on Saturday the 8th of November.
A BRIEF LOOK AT THE EVENT
…Award! Award!! Award!!!
As this year’s award took place, all roads led to the Lagos Sheraton Hotel & Suites where the event was schedule to hold. Present at the event were readers of SuccessDigest Extra, members of SuccessDigest leaders club, members of Successful Entrepreneurs Network (SEN), members of the Board of the organization, friends and well wishers of the awardees and that of Complete Communications, publishers of SuccessDigest and Complete Sports.
Among the many personalities who graced the award ceremony were well known clerics like Bishop Moses, Bishop Geroge Amu and Pastor Ehimika Emmanuel.
At about 2.15, with many of the guest and participants seated, the anchor for the event finally took to the podium. He called for the opening prayers after which Dr. Sunny Obazu-Ojeagbase, the President/founder of Success Attitude Development Center, organizers of the award, gave his welcome address.
The time finally came for the award proper. One after the other the awardees were called upon to be honoured. Among the awardees were great entrepreneurs who have contributed immensely to the economic growth of our great country, Nigeria. They include Dipo Davies, Publisher/CEO, Castles Magazine, Mrs. Ibidun Ituah-Ighodalo, CEO, Elizabelt-R, Mrs Tara Fela-Durotoye, CEO, House of Tara, Mr. Sunny Elem, MD/CEO, Wealth Team Networks, Mrs. Betty Irabor, Editor-in-chief, Genevieve Magazine,
Also awarded were Mr. Oluwasanmi Akindipe MD/CEO, Set Consultant Service, Mr. Gbeminiyi Oluwabusola, MD, Techclick Limited,(link), Mr. Tajudeen Adepetu, MD/CEO, Consolidated Media Associates Limited, Paul Oluwabanjo, MD/CEO, Webpower Continental Services.
One of the highlights of the event, that might have probably brought many SENetworkers to the event was the Raffle draws in which Mr. Kenneth Omoregbe won the 1st prize of the (KIA PICANTO CAR) while Kalu Peace won the 2nd prize of ($500,000) worth of shares. The 3rd price was won by Abikoye Joseph, making him the proud owner of a brand new laptop.
Apart from the winners of the raffle draws, also rewarded were three Other SENetworkers who were said to have been able to register more people into the network.
In between the presentations of awards and rewards, was a short drama pieces, traditional dance, musical stage performance which was performed by the combined SuccessDigest Leaders’ Club (SDLC) and Aity Inyang Band. Pastor Ehimika Emmanuel also gave a brief motivational talk. All these made the event a very entertaining and memorable ceremony.
The award been the 12th of its kind finally came to an end after the vice president, Pastor (Mrs.) Esther Obazu-Ojeagbase gave the vote of thanks while Bishop Amu said the closing prayers. At this junction I must say that the event was more organized than the previous ones.
I therefore use this opportunity to say well done to the organization and to let them know that we are expecting more improvement come next year and to the recipients of this years award as well as to the winner of SENetwork rewards, I say a big Congratulation.
LESSONS FOR ALL
The award organized by the publishers of SuccessDigest Extra with the vision of discovering, encouraging and honouring exceptional entrepreneurs in Nigeria was yet another success and inspiration to many.
As an entrepreneur, business person, internet marketer, information marketer and/or success minded fellow, this I know for sure is a time of the year when most of us reflect on what we might have achieved and what we might have not.
Are you feeling tired?
Are you stuck in the middle?
Are you on the verge of giving up?
Are you considering quitting?
Dear friend, why it may not be surprising that many of us struggle very hard to achieve success. There are still quite a number of people who make it to the top and become very popular just like those who had just been honoured.
There is also these other group of people who seems to get tired along the line only to give up their precious dreams; they are always complaining about how hard it is to learn new things and how difficult it is to get along. They seem to have every reason why things don’t work.
Before you decide which group you belong to and which you might want to stitch to, let take a look at what the awardees had in common. During the award ceremony, while the awardees stood, waiting to be honoured, a short video clip of an interview that probably took place in their individual offices, about their journey to success was shown to the participants of the event. They were all inspiring.
What the awardees had in common.
1) They are Entrepreneur who saw and took hold of opportunity.
2) They had challenges/failures at some point in time.
3) They had setbacks which they actually took as stepping stones.
4) They all have a story to tell. This is what I call “the Story behind the Glory”.
5) They did not get their over night.
6) They refuse to accept defeat. One shocking example was what Mr. Sunny Elem, MD/CEO, Wealth Team Networks said during his interview. He said there was a time when he had to sleep in a bus. Who could ever think that such a superstar, once had to sleep in a bus, if he had not told the story himself?
I have only named a few of what they had in common, if you were at the event you might want to add your own observation.
Dear reader, I decided to share this with you today, to encourage and motivate you just as the event had motivated those of us who were present.
I believe that success in life and business is built over time and for those of us who are internet marketer, I want you to know that, it takes one skill at a time to get there.
When you start out, you likely start by learning how to pick a niche market that has buyers. You also get to learn how to do keyword research, how to go about blogging, writing and submission of articles, etc.
Like I wrote in one of my past articles tittled Internet Marketing: The learning curve. “As you advance, you might begin to see the need to learn HTML, graphic design, web design, copywriting…Remember it’s a continuous process so don’t be in a hurry to get it all at the start…”
Yes, you can’t dive at it all at once; rather you might choose to learn something like keyword research this week, next week or there about you decide to learn blogging and so on. One thing you will also want to consider is the amount of time you are willing to spend on a daily/weekly basis.
Why it’s no lies that some people succeed in whatever they do due to genius. I have come to discover that the best and surest way to be successful is by learning and doing what is to be done. Just make sure you draw a line between learning and doing. Don’t wait to learn everything before you set out.
…Keeping learning …keep doing. That is one of the secret of successful people.
Before I bring this article to an end, I want to bring this to your notice; one of the major causes of failure is impatient. You see, majority are guilty of impatient. I am likewise guilty of it. We all need to learn to be patient.
When it comes to money and success we want to see results right away but we can afford to go to school for so many years, most times starting from nursery school up to the university all for the sake of a degree.
Dear friend, the truth is unless you have so much money, influence to get you success or maybe you somehow get hold of a wonder working charm (that is if there is one) you will have to work out whatever is it you want to be successful at and it surely does take some time.
Finally, I want to say to you, Dare! Dare!! Dare!!! That’s life for you. If this ones could do it, you should carry their story every where you go, let it bring you the feeling that you can do it, especially when the storms come ragging.
Until, I come your way again, stay motivated and don’t forget keep learning and keep doing.
Francis Alaeto for IMN
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You are where you are because of who you do or not do yesterday. It has a lot to do with your habits. There is no doubt about the fact that you are passionate about making money online. You go on internet everyday to make that a reality. But what did you do when you go online?
Here is common scenario…
You go online (either with your own dial up internet access or internet cafe). You open www.yahoomail.com
(or gmail.com). You started reading through hundreds of email that are already waiting for you from ‘WOLRD gurus’ and ‘AMERICAN and BRITISH’ phishers.
You are first attracted to American or British phishers email because the subject of the mail is scintillating. It is about the ‘lottery’ you just won. You end up spending about 20 minutes clicking the button thinking about how to cash money you just won without playing the game.
Hey time is going!
You quickly open the mail from ‘world guru’ promising you $40,000 a week within next 14 days. It looks interesting because it is about latest internet application that vomits cash like mad. The email leads you to landing page website where you are first asked to fill short form to receive the secret report.
Immediately you submit the form you are automatically redirected to very lengthy sales page on the latest secrets. You either read the mail online or print it out.
Next you log on yahoo messenger to chat with your friend that just travel to Canada or old internet friend. The discussion takes another 30mins.
And it goes on and on like that.
This has become habit. It is a non productive habit.
A habit is what we do automatically. But it can be changed.
It’s been said that it only takes 21 days to instill a new habit - that’s all.
Just concentrate on doing something in a different manner for 21 days and it will become a habit. Or, concentrate on not doing something for 21 days and you’ll lose the habit.
If your online habit for some time has been ‘producing the result’ you desire it is time to change it.
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Make your first $10 or more in next 21 days and ‘win’ over $5,000 price.
How to get paid for making money for yourself and your family.
We are going to be giving away over $5, 000 worth of cash and other gift items to 5 people that can come up with most valuable before and after story. This could be a success story with details on how you made it work, an inspiration life story, or perhaps some detailed information about how you got over the hump from unsuccessful to successful. However, bellow is the list of 5 categories we will consider.
Best forum or blog site concept.
Forum or blog site with high numbers of quality contents
Forum or blog site to make first $10
Forum or blog site that get most traffic.
Forum or blog site or any Internet Marketing Business idea to generate first $500
RULES and GUIDELINES to follow.
If you don’t know what Twitter is and how to create it don’t worry. You will be thought. It is very easy.
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Francis, is one of our Freedom Agent team. He decided to get himself a new laptop because of his passion for building a successful internet business. Francis cherish his new laptop alot not knowing that their is a monster on it. See, his new laptop is on window vista. He find it difficult to run some applications. When he discover how serious it is, he decided to contact a pc engineer to downgrade it to Xp for him. It took him days and over N15,000 to fix it. You see, francis is not alone. Several other people with notebook (that comes with vista) are not that happy as well. Few months ago I was previlledge to listen to a top marketer complaining about the performance of his new laptop that has window vista. When another top marketer was asked to recommend pc specification for other marketers recently he advice that it’s better to go for pc/notebooks with window Xp. Now, if your pc is presently on window vista you may want to read this article I come across today on PC magazine. The writer gives step by step guide on downgrading window vista to Xp. Read full article here …. How to Downgrade from Vista to XP
I have been able to discover my hobby, so what is next?
If that is the question in your mind don’t worry I will share few tips with you here to fulfill promise I made in my first article on Turn your hobby to money on internet.
The best thing you can do if you are seriously passionate about something is to actively be part of those people in your area of interest. Arsenal football fan did not need special lecture to know that it is a must he watch every matches that affect his football club and listen to success and failure of other teams. They know the best place to meet to discuss.
For you to know what is hot in your ‘hobby market’ you have to be part of the group.
Actively participate in the discussion. It may cost you few bucks to do this offline, however, you can do it free on internet. All you have to look for is the forum that has to do with your hobby.
What is a forum?
Forum is a place where people of the same interest meet to share and discuss issues pertaining to their area of interest.
Online forums are also called discussion boards, discussion groups or online community.
If your hobby is in keeping dog you can check out ‘dog forum’ or dog discussion boards’ or ‘online dog community’.
You can get couple of forums in your hobby area by searching for it on google.com or yahoo.com however; today I will share with you a directory of online forums.
The directory is called - big boards - www.big-boards.com
On bigboards.com you will find list of forums on different topics. You will even be able to know how active this forum is because ‘big-boards’ provides data’s like number of members the forum has and number of post that has been made by other members of that forum. Those data’s will surely help you in making decision of best forum to visit.
Make list of forums in your hobby area, register with them and spend few hours a day for some days to know more on hot topics they are discussing.
Corey Rudl (RIP) shared his experience in one of his book on how he got a business idea that net him several hundred of thousands of dollars just by visiting internet forums on cars. At the end of the day he publish a book called ‘car secrets’.
You must have read about my dog ebook story as well.
I have been able to launch several successful products just from visiting forums and taking part in discussion on my area of interest ‘hobby’.
You can do the same thing. Start today.
You are free to ask your question on this topic here…..
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Few years ago I interviewed Jim F. Straw for one of my book. On Sunday (yesterday 9th of march) while at Sheraton hotel’s (lagos) lobby waiting for a US business partner (to be) I met the publisher of moneywise magazine Mr Ayo Arowolo.
After exchanging greetings with him I started thinking of how reading his column in financial standard (then) helped me. While still in this thinking mood I remembered my interview with Jim Straw as well. It was a very interesting experience.
I am very sure you will learn something from the interview article.
Enjoy yourself.
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Lateef: As a person on Internet, how did you get started?
Jim: I set up web site in September 1999, for (really) only one reason… More and more of my mail order customers where asking where they could find my product on Internet. I set up the site to give them a place to find ( and buy) the stuff they were already buying by mail.
Since I mail thousands upon thousands of mail order solicitations each month, I put my web site information on each order coupon, so people could come to my site to buy.
At the same time, I ran announcement in my paper & ink newsletter advising my reader that they could now find us on the Internet… I even ran ads in the wall street journal:” Business Investor’s Daily” Wall Reports” and other.
In January 2000, my website became profitable…. I continued my testing.. by June,2000,my website was responsible for 12% of my gross revenue.
From June,2000, through June 2001, my internet revenue grew steadily, jump… not even when I started out affiliate program in January,2001… Just as steady growth pattern.
I asked myself a question I had asked myself a thousand times in my mail-order business…. Where are my customers coming from? So… I went back to day one (September,1999) and looked at EVERY order we had ever received from my website. I looked at them all, one by one … It took days – but- when I had finished, I discovered the real success.
After going through all of the orders ever produces from my website one-by- one I discovered that. Eighty three percent (83%) of my site order had come from web site visitors originated by mail order marketing campaigns… Not from my Internet marketing efforts!
That’s right … all of my internet Marketing, advertising affiliated program and article writing produced a paltry 17% of my “buying customers. The other 83% come directly from my mail order marketing campaigns with email follow ups,of course.
Today, over 60% of my revenue comes from my email campaigns- but over 80% of my online orders still come from my direct mail customer.
Lateef: How long have you been in business online:
Jim: Since September,1999.
Lateef: What online business are you involved with?
Jim: Selling the same info-products I have sold by mail order.
Lateef: What have been your major challenges/obstacles so far and how did you get to learn what it takes to succeed?
Jim: After setting up my website, I said to myself, you now have website, which is supposed to revolutionize mail order marketing, so why not do some marketing to see if you can make some of those big bucks everybody is talking about.
To that end, I followed all the advice from each and every one of the internet gurus I could find:- Guess what? – the internet marketing b.s is even more pervasive that the mail order b.s – it didn’t take me long to figure out that most of those who were making a fortune on the internet were making their fortunes by selling information about “how to make money on the internet”
As in mailorder,all of the gurus were right but all of the gurus were wrong too. Each of them can teach you what they have done. In their specific field; with their specific products or service; to their specific customer list. But they cannot tell you what you need to do to sell your specific product or service: - you have to learn that for yourself.
Since I didn’t have a how to money on the internet product to sell, I began testing, testing testing and testing some more to find methods that would work for me.
Those things that didn’t work where discarded. The things that worked were enhanced and multiplied.
Just as I have always done in my mail order business, I slowly, but steadily, built a stable method/techniques and media that work for me and just did it over and over multiplying my profit. And even when I seemed to have a full stable, I continued my testing to continue adding methods, techniques and media that work for me.
Testing is what separates the winners from the wannabes in the mail order business and, now ,the internet marketing business.. but , you gotta do it.. You can’t just use your tracking methods once and forget it. You have to drop it with every method; techniques and medium you are … keep good record.. Watch every indicator leave nothing chance.
Lateef: What specific types of online marketing tools are you suing successfully and what have been your best result ( income) using tools online?
Jim: My most successful internet marketing tools is just as it is in mail order frequent emailing to my own in house email customer list.
Lateef: Did you believe in this 4 words as the basic online success formular:
SLAM
1.Simlicity
2.Leverage
3.Automation
4.Multiplication
And can you explain briefly on each in relation to online marketing?
Jim: No I do not. Marketing of any king is not simple – It is just as much as science. Ain’t anything simple about it and anyone who tells it is either a liar.
You can’t begin to leverage anything until you find at least one \( just one) method or application that really works for you,your product or service, and method by doing more and more of the same thing… to bigger and bigger audience.
Before you automate anything you have to be sure that what you are automating won’t take away from you the ability to stay on top of what is happening in you business. All too many people automate their business before they even have a business and because it is automated, they have no way of telling where they are making money and where they are loosing money.
Zero times Zero is still zero- if you don’t have a winner ,why would you want to multiply your dismal results?
When you have a proven success, then( and only then) can you multiply you efforts by employing dealers, distributors, or affiliates.
Lateef: have you always envisioned yourself doing what you are doing now and what did you want to be when you grew up?
Jim: when I was a kid.. growing on the farm… I wanted to find a way to make life for myself and other people. I fulfilled that desire by finding products and service I could sell to other people to make their lives easier or better – I made their lives easier and better and, by so doing made life easier and better too.
AS I have done things during my lifetime, I have kept notes of what I have done and how I have done it… What the thing that didn’t work .then about 30 years ago I found out that people would pay real money to learn what I had learned the hard way, so I began writing about my success and ,in some case my failures.
I set up a company to sell my writings and went ahead doing other business succeeding in some and filing in some… and writing about what I had done. My writing; since they were from “personal “experience. Not research, gave me a worldwide following of other business people who wanted to know how to do some of the things have done.
Today I mostly write about the things I have done – But I am always ready to take on the next real opportunity when it comes my way.
Hey … I ain’t growed up,yet …. I just got older.
Lateef: What is your least favorite part of running your own business and your favorite part?
Jim: My least favorite task is writing … I hate it. I would much rather be doing than writing about it – but- I have made it my objective to tell the truth about making money to those who are constantly bombarded by the b.s put out by people who have never done it. The truth may sometimes be bard to swallow but it is always the truth.
Of all the things I have done being able to answer business questions for those who are serious about really doing business is most enjoyable.
Lateef: What important advice or tips would you give to a new online business owner.
Jim: Quit looking for an easy way. – There ain’t one.