I found this article by Yanik and found it very interesting. I thought you might enjoy it.
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Three Inner Secrets of Internet Success
By Yanik Silver
www.SurefireMarketing.com
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In only a few short months I've achieved the ultimate
Internet "fantasy" of making a lot of money from a simple
(almost primitive) web site that runs itself virtually on
complete autopilot. Starting from scratch I banked over
$51,351.94 my first 6 1/2 months online, just working part-
time out of the corner of my living room.
Now today at age 31, I've gone on to earn over 7-figures.
How did I go from a standing start to banking mega
profits?
To do that, what I think you really need are these inner
secrets to mega internet success. This has nothing to do
with search engines, pay-per-clicks. It doesn't have
anything to do with any of the tactical stuff. It's all a
lot of stuff that goes on in your head.
* Secret #1: Cheerful Expectancy *
One of my biggest mentors is Earl Nightingale. He passed
away several years ago but you need to get everything he
recorded at Nightingale.com. He has a program called "Lead
The Field" and "The Strangest Secret." Just listen to
that thing over and over again. He talks about cheerful
expectancy.
There's a big difference between having expectancy versus
hoping or wishing something is going to occur. When you
have that cheerful expectancy, you know it's going to
occur. And that doesn't just come from being
"Pollyannaish" or having rose-colored glasses.
It comes from having knowledge. And you get that
knowledge from studying in your field whatever it is. It
could be Internet marketing or it could be neurology. That
means reading, studying and buying everything and
absolutely immersing yourself in it.
I learned from Earl Nightingale that if you want to be an
expert, you spend an hour a day reading on whatever
subject that you're interested in, that you want to be an
expert on. So I said, "Well, what would happen if I read
for three hours a day?"
I just started learning as much as I possibly could, and
that knowledge gives you the confidence to know that you
have that positive expectancy. Your expectations determine
your results.
* Secret #2: Do one proactive thing a day *
You don't need to do 100 things a day. Just get that one
proactive thing a day. So each little brick builds a big
wall for you. Trust me it's easy to be overwhelmed with
hundreds of tasks. You're like, "Oh, we need to do e-zine
ads and free-for-alls and pay-per-click search engines,
and I need to do all this other stuff." Ahhhhhhhhhhh!
But just relax and do one task a day.
Your action will create more and more and more action for
you. You simply need to make a commitment to do one
proactive thing a day no matter what. Even if you're dead
tired and worked a 14-hour day - come home and mail one
letter or send out one joint venture proposal. I'm telling
you - just these little tiny proactive things will have an
immense impact.
Most everyone has heard of the '80/20 rule' or the Pareto
Principle. It says that 20% of your actions produce 80% of
your results, and the other way around. 80% of your work
only creates 20% of your results.
So go back and look where your successes came from, and I
know that they're from a tiny little group of actions. So
if you just get that one proactive thing a day (from the
20% group) that is going to propel you further, that's
going to bring you to where you want to be.
Make it a point to focus on those "20% activities". In
Stephen Covey's famous work "7 Habits of Highly Effective
People" he calls these activities "important but not
urgent".
One of my Apprentices, Peter Woodhead, from the UK is a
perfect example of simply doing one proactive thing a day.
A lot of Apprentices bolted out of the gate during our one
year program but Peter was an Internet newbie and he also
had a full time job so he was a bit slower getting
started. However, he took my advice and simply managed to
do one proactive thing every single day. No matter how big
or how small. It could be writing one autoresponder
message or it might have been writing 50 headlines. No
matter the day - Peter was moving ahead. And not
surprisingly his project was completed before many of the
other Apprentices were finished.
* Secret #3: Decision *
This is such a big point. A lot of people have so many
problems with decision. That's because they don't like it
because it cuts off other options. But frankly that's
exactly what you want. You want to cut off other options.
One of our top apprentices, Cindy Kappler, WebAdMagic.com,
had no other option but to succeed because she quit her
job. Now I'm not encouraging you to do that if you still
have a real job but it does prove if you cut off your
options, you're much more motivated. Successful people
make decisions quickly.
There's a magic of attraction when you make your decision.
However, when you're hemming and hawing, you don't
experience this magic. I don't want to get into too much
woo-woo or metaphysical or spiritual stuff.
But there's this magic of attraction. I can't even
explain it. When you set your mind up that you're going
to do this, all of a sudden, at the next dinner party
you're attending you meet somebody that can help you get
to where you want to go. Is that luck or is that
something else?
I don't think it's luck.
It's like once the decision is made your mind is tuned
into the solution and all kinds of 'freaky' coincidences
and occurrences happen.
And that brings me to another important point about
decisions - fail quickly. Don't be afraid of failure. A
lot of people are so afraid of screwing up, or making a
mistake that they are forever frozen. Who the hell cares?
Screw up quickly! I screw up all the time. And you want
to fail quickly.
That's the great part about the Internet. You want to go
out there and find out if your dumb idea is going to work
right away. You can do it in days instead of months.
Sometimes hours and if it doesn't work, you move on. You
say, "Next!"
Look, I know a lot of people who are working on their
products for the last two, three, four years. Get the
damned thing out! You just make it better as you go
along.
InstantSalesLetters.com, our first product was not where it
is now. We've added a ton of stuff to it and made it
better. But I just wanted to see if the thing was going
to sell.
It wasn't complete and utter rubbish, as my British
friends say, but it was enough that it made the point. It
found out if there was a marketplace for it. So find out.
Some people like to go around at dinner parties and so on
and say, "I'm writing a book. I've been writing a book
for five years. I'm an author."
Uh huh...
I can show you 6 different ways to have your book done in
days. It's a cop-out and complete B.S. Bottom line - make
the decision to get the product out there. See what
happens and fail quickly.
Now get out there and do it!
(c) Surefire Marketing, Inc.
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Yanik Silver is recognized as the leading expert on
creating automatic, moneymaking websites...and he still
doesn't know how to put up a website.
He is the author, co-author or creator of several best-
selling online marketing books and tools, including his
quickest and easiest way to create a product to sell -
http://www.publicdomainriches.com/go/usfhttp://www.instantsalesletters.com/go/usfThanks for reading and remember "It's never too late"
Nancy
nstet60@peoplepc.com
Hi everyone, I came across a letter by Mal Keenan talking about Success University, the new site which offers self-improvment courses as well as a program for obtaining income from referrals. It sums it up better than I could say. Here it is:
Two Important Steps to Network Marketing Success
How's your email inbox been lately? No doubt jammed packed
with the latest, greatest offer promising to make you $1000s
in a matter of days. Your only commitment comprises of
simply signing on the dotted web page.
Sounds to good to be true, right? Well, one way to make good
money online is by leveraging the efforts of others but one
must be careful before jumping in with both feet.
It is important when comtemplating joining a network
marketing program that two important things are in place.
Firstly, you MUST have a product that people will buy and
that you could use yourself. After all if YOU can find a use
for the product then chances are your prospects will be able
to do so too.
Too often I have joined network marketing companies and
found that the product was sub-standard or worse still, the
product came a far off second to the compensation plan,
setting the company up with the possibility of being labled
a "pyramid scheme".
Pyramid schemes focus on the exchange of money and
recruitment - Sure enough it is important to signup others
in order to grow out your team and increase your earnings
but the product should not be so dubious that the company
comes under the scrutiny of the law.
You can find out more about pyramid schemes at the site
below:
http://www.sec.gov/answers/pyramid.htm
One program, that I became involved with recently, attracted
me before I even knew I could make money from promoting it.
Success University offers Self Improvement courses, which is
a genre that I have always been interested in. So, making a
monthly payment to improve my knowledge and earning power
seemed a no brainer to me. The investment seemed small
compared to what I could gain, that's without taking into
consideration the money earned through promoting the product
to others.
The above formula is just one way to check out whether the
product is something that you can sell to others in good
conscience.
Secondly, if you want to make money from your network
marketing company with the least possible effort then you
must look out for a GREAT compensation plan.
This folks is a no brainer - I have been a member of one
particular network marketing program and in spite of the
presence of a great product AND personally recruiting
hundreds or thousands of members, the monthly payout was
comparatively very low. The compensation plan did not
significantly reward me for my efforts and subsequently I
have lost interest in continuing apace. I would much rather
expend the same amount of effort for greater gains.
When perusing the compensation plan ask yourself - Can I
start earning with the least amount of effort and more
importantly will my income grow exponentially through the
time and efforts of both myself and those on my team?
You may also want to find out how others are earning by
searching the online forums. People love to boast and if the
money is being earned then you'll hear about it.
Keep in mind the couple of points above when choosing a
company to put your weight behind and you won't go too far
wrong.
Mal Keenan is the publisher of Home Business Tips
Newsletter:
http://www.home-business-tips-newsletter.com/
For a company that offers a UNIQUE, HIGHLY Rewarding
compensation plan and Top Class product check out:
http://malkeenan.com/recommends/su.html
I also highly recommend Success University and urge you to go to my site at http://www.NStetson1.successuniversity.com/slim.aspx and look it over. They even have a $2 14 day trial which gives you the opportunity to explore the possibilities. If you have questions don't hesitate to contact me at nstet60@peoplepc.com.
Hi, here is my blog on internet for retirees as I am particularly interested as one myself.
Internet for Retirees
Retirement can be fun and scary all at the same time. It can also get, well, kind of boring. So what is the new retiree to do with all that newly founded free time? Before, retirees had to discover ways to keep busy from a limited number of options, but now, with the introduction of the internet the world is wide open.
From home based opportunities to internet games retirees can now find new opportunities on the internet. The more interesting of these options is the home based internet business and more and more seniors are getting involved.
Affiliate marketing and on line advertising are starting to gear more and more towards baby boomers and because of this it makes home based internet businesses a wonderful way to reach seniors and address their needs. Who better to do this then the seniors themselves?
Home based internet businesses are easy to set up if you have the right guidance. There are companies such as this one who cater in part to seniors. It is important when deciding to do an internet business of any kind to find people to guide you whom you can trust. This is doubly important when your business is to be home based because this tends to make it that much more personal.
Seniors today are stronger and more self-sufficient then they have ever been. They are living longer and retiring younger so there is a whole crowd out there with a lot of time on their hands and just as much ambition as always. It is this cross section of the population who are now getting into home based internet businesses. It is this cross section of the population who are now showing their younger counterparts that they can do anything that anyone else can do.
One of the newer services that has cropped up for seniors are search engines and websites geared towards them and their needs. In Australia there is Grey path, an internet portal just for seniors. These types of services are appearing everywhere and they make it easier for retirees to surf the web. So how can a retiree use these types of services to their benefit? How about using them to showcase your internet business?
Seniors know what seniors need. Retirees know what appeals to retirees. So why not discover your passion in a home based internet business and then use what you know about yourself to help fellow retirees? The internet is offering a chance for you to open your own door to the world and invite fellow retirees into your services. So what is stopping you?
Don moved to Canada when he retired. He wanted to move to the place he had spent his summers while he had worked. One of the things Don noticed however when he and his wife moved north was that there were very few websites that catered to the retiree who wanted to relocate to Canada. There were hundreds that catered to younger folks, businesses and even those who were unhappy with US politics but the number of sites for seniors or retirees were limited. Don and his wife decided that when they got settled they would fill that void. It was that simple for Don, the world needed a service and he could provide it right from his desk never leaving the room. After about a year Don began taking on advertisers, at the request of his wife who saw the potential, and now he makes money providing the very information he had needed only several years before. Don’s story is what it is all about, this retiree exodus to the internet. More and more retirees are seeing the benefits of not only using the internet but also helping their fellow retirees and making money to boot thus supplementing their retirement income.
One of the nicer things about creating a home based internet business is that husbands and wives can do it together. This is especially important to seniors and retirees who may be spending a lot time together for the first time in their lives. A home based internet business allows a couple to work together while still being able to enjoy their retirement home. Most folks don’t want to spend their retirement working but do want to keep busy so what a great compromise internet home based businesses are. Of course there is nothing to say that you could not make a tremendous amount of money with a home based internet service. There are many people who find that they are making many times more the money they were making with this type of setup and the opportunities are endless when it comes to the internet. All you need is the basic skills and of course the drive to succeed.
Best wishes, Nancy Stetson
nstet60@peoplepc.com
http://www.HomeBased-Opportunities.com
http://www.Succeedin30Days.com/vip/?code=873
http://www.NStetson1.SuccessUniversity.com
