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Why You Should Use More Than 1 Autoresponder Service
Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
Today I’d like to share with you a painful business experience I recently went through and hopefully you won’t commit the same mistake I did. By sharing this experience with you, it is also my hope to give you some autoresponder tips.
Avoid Information Overload - Here’s How
Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
Everyone wants to avoid information overload. But how do you do that?
Everyone also knows that working on your business tasks is important. Of course it is!
Even if you say you only work 4 hours per week, you still have to get things done in these 4 hours.
Like I’ve mentioned before in this post, the good thing about working only 4 hours per week is that your mind forces you to focus ONLY on those things or tasks that are of the utmost importance to you. You’ve heard the saying that “not all traffic is created equal”.
Not All Tasks Are Created Equal (more…)
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Keeping A Positive Attitude
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
Keeping a positive attitude - When you fall, do you have the strength to get back up?
I LOVE that question!
Today’s post is meant to give you inspiration and motivation in your life. If you’re currently experiencing the lows in your life, you want to read this!
Most people complain how unlucky they are or how unfavorable their situations are. Whether it’s about their life in general or about work or just about anything else, this is how most people feel about themselves and life in general.
Blame, Excuse, Justification
They blame it on other people when they fail or don’t achieve success. They find excuses to justify their failure. How often have you heard things like:
“If only I was born into a rich family. My life wouldn’t be this miserable!”
“It’s all the government’s fault for not doing enough to ensure that the unemployment rate is as low as possible!”
“If only I was born handsome or pretty…”
And so on and so on… You get my point.
Instead of reflecting what went wrong and what didn’t work out (that lead to their failure), these people spent time whining and complaining. They could have instead made good use of their time identifying and analyzing what went wrong so that they don’t repeat the same mistakes in the future.
Instead of keeping a positive attitude and learning from their mistakes to become better, they fill their hearts and minds with anger and hatred, as if the whole world owes them something.
Take a look at this popular quote by Randy Pausch:
The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out; the brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. The brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!
And also this one by Randy too:
Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.
The next time you try something and you fail (temporarily), remember these 2 quotes for they will strengthen you and make you want to get back up to try again and again and again.
Instead of cursing (that you fail) and complaining about it, accept the fact that your failure is experienced gained. Your failure leads you to learn or discover something that you had not known before.
Negative Energy
When you complain and whine to other people, you produce and spread negative energy to those around you. Take a look at the following scenario:
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Alex, John, and Peter are on their way home from the office and they meet at the train.
Alex: Hey how’s it going guys?
John: (giving a grumpy look…) Very BAD! Today’s a really terrible day for me!
Alex: (thinking to himself - a terrible day again? It seems that every time I meet this guy he always have a terrible day). What happened?
John: GOD is so unfair to me. I have to work long hours in the office and the pay is nowhere near what I’ve contributed to the company. The economy is so hard these days. The bills are increasing but I don’t get a raise. I hate my boss!
Alex: Yeah I’m no better off myself. I’m working from 9 to 5 every day in the office and I’m struggling to make ends meet too. Life just sucks! If only I was born into a rich family, all my troubles would disappear.
Peter: Yup that is so true! Life is just hard man. It’s getting more and more difficult to achieve the company sales target. And if I don’t reach that target, my job is in jeopardy. Life is hard and I sure envy those lucky rich b**tards!
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I’m pretty sure you’d agree conversations like this are taking place EVERYWHERE. If a person starts the conversation with a negative attitude, he WILL pass that negative attitude to those around him. RARELY do you hear Peter saying things like:
Peter: No I don’t think so. Life has been very good to me. Although I haven’t reached my sales target for this month yet, I’m going to work even harder to make sure I close more sales. You guys need to stop blaming other people and other factors that are outside of your control, and instead be responsible for your own actions. Find solutions instead of looking for excuses all the time.
The reverse is equally true - if you start off a conversion by keeping a positive attitude, the conversation is likely to continue and end up in a positive tone.
Next time you start off a conversation, be sure to start if off with a positive note. Think ABUNDANCE instead of scarcity.
If You Think Life Has It Hard On You, Watch The Video Below And THINK AGAIN!
Nick Vujicic is a LIVING INSPIRATION to mankind. He is HAPPY and content with his life even though he does not have any limbs. He feels BLESSED.
Are you happy and content with your life? Do you feel blessed? Are you keeping a positive attitude?
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How To Be A LIKEABLE Person
Thursday, March 11th, 2010
In the last post, I mentioned that you should become a likeable person so that your audience like, know, and trust you - and the end result is that they’d want to buy from you. In this post I want to share 5 ways on how to be a likeable person. (more…)
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Internet Business School Tip: BORING Is Better!
Friday, February 26th, 2010
A lot of beginner and intermediate marketers make the HUGE mistake of trying to create NEW business ideas or concepts to work from because they think that by creating NEW things, they will attain ADDITIONAL revenue. It’s like “multiple streams of income”, so they say.
(my Internet business school tip though, as you’ll see below, is the TOTAL OPPOSITE…)
For instance, it’s very common to see people (more…)
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How To Motivate Others (And Yourself)
Monday, January 25th, 2010
There are 2 primary ways on how to motivate others, namely via pain and reward.
Pain means if you do NOT get the job done, or if you do NOT achieve the target, you’re going to get punished.
Reward means if you get the job done, or if you achieve the target, then you’re going to be rewarded with some kind of prize.
Which do you think is a more powerful force in motivating people to get the job done (or in other words get them to achieve their targets)?
The answer is PAIN, although there are some people who are going to be more motivated at the thought of receiving some kind of reward. Most people, however, FEAR pain more than they like receiving reward.
Let’s talk about reward
In general, humans can be divided into 3 categories:
1. People who MAKE things happen
2. People who WATCH things happen
3. People who SAY “what happened?”
Imagine you’re the sales manager for a large corporation. Sales have been slow for the last few months, and you want to motivate your sales team so that they can sell more products.
You say to them:
“Okay guys, sales have been slumping for the past few months and management is very unhappy about it. We need to drastically increase our performance by closing more sales and to do that they have come up with a very attractive compensation package.
If you can make 30 sales a month (that’s just 1 sale/day), then the company is going to give you an ADDITIONAL commission of $20/sale - that’s EXTRA money on top of what you’re currently already getting for each sale.”
For the first category (people who MAKE things happen)
They are optimistic and INTITIALLY they’re going to be excited about this extra commission and will probably go all out to make sure that they get the biggest commission possible.
I say initially because most of the time people can’t endure temporary setbacks and they expect to see instant results.
Even for this first category of people, who are deemed as possessing the best attitude compared to the other 2 categories of people, their perseverance and will is NOT strong enough and they’ll typically give up before achieving any results.
Only a very small minority of people can handle failures and setbacks well, and these are the people who will eventually achieve success.
For the second category of people (people who WATCH things happen)
They are FAR LESS optimistic as the first category. They are a LITTLE bit excited about the possibility of earning extra commissions, but not as excited as the first category of people.
They’re afraid that if they try to go all out they will fail, and/or they’re afraid that the company will not keep up its promise of giving extra commissions. They do NOT want to be the first one to go all out.
They must see and witness OTHER PEOPLE going all out, succeed, and receive the extra commissions first before they want to go all out themselves.
Their thinking is along the lines of:
“Rather than wasting my time on something that may not be achievable, let’s just wait if other people can achieve it. Even if they can achieve it, the company may not keep its promise by honoring the extra commissions. If someone can actually do it and get paid the extra money, then I’ll go all out. But until then, let’s just wait and see.”
For the third category of people (people who SAY “what happened”)
These people are oblivious to what’s happening around them. They don’t pay attention to what’s going on and they don’t really care.
Only when GOOD things start to happen to their co-workers (getting the extra commissions in this case) do they start to ask “what happened”?
Let’s talk about PAIN
Earlier I said that pain is a greater motivator than reward when you want to ask somebody to do something that he doesn’t want to do.
In the extra commission’s example, reward (the extra commissions) was used to motivate employees to work harder to increase sales.
If, instead of using a reward, you use PAIN to motivate them by saying:
“Okay guys, sales have been slumping for the past few months and management is very unhappy about it. We need to drastically increase our performance by closing more sales and to do that they have come up with a punishment system.
If you can’t make 30 sales a month (that’s just 1 sale/day), then the company has no choice but to fire you immediately.”
Now, how do you think your sales team will react?
Yup, they’re going to be both angry and scared at the same time. Angry with the company for setting such strict measures. Scared because they’re afraid that if they can’t achieve 30 sales/month, they’re going to lose their jobs.
(…this means no income - who is going to feed the family? Who is going to support them?)
In this case, all three categories of people - those who MAKE things happen, those who SEE things happen, and those who SAY “what happened” are going to be WORKING THEIR a** off! This I can guarantee!
BUT…
A better and greater motivator would be to use PAIN and REWARD together, like this:
“Okay guys, sales have been slumping for the past few months and management is very unhappy about it. We need to drastically increase our performance by closing more sales and to do that they have come up with a punishment system.
If you can make 30 sales a month (that’s just 1 sale/day), then the company is going to give you an ADDITIONAL commission of $20/sale - that’s EXTRA money on top of what you’re currently already getting for each sale.
However, if you can’t make 30 sales a month, then the company has no choice but to fire you immediately.”
Used together, PAIN and REWARD becomes a LETHAL combination to “force” someone to do something that he or she doesn’t like.
How can you use this in your internet business?
Set a pain and reward system in your Internet business. If you succeed in achieving your goal, give yourself a reward. If not, use SEVERE pain to punish yourself SEVERELY.
Example:
BOLDY tell your close friends and family members (especially those who have been ridiculing you that you should stop dreaming of making money online) that you’re going to achieve X amount of income from your Internet business.
If you succeed, of course you’ll be happy with all the extra income you’ve gotten - this is the REWARD.
If you fail, then you’ll be very embarrassed (especially with those who have been ridiculing you all this time) - this is the PAIN.
This is exactly how to motivate others and yourself.
What do you think? Have you ever used PAIN and REWARD to motivate yourself both in business or in life? Let me know in a comment below…
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Internet Marketing Product - Do You Really Need It?
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
We Internet marketers buy a lot of products to help us in our business. I’m talking about information products and software.
Let’s say I’m a beginner who wants to learn about building a profitable Internet business. I will go out there and buy an internet marketing product that teaches me how to do what I want to learn - and that is to build an online business.
(Sure I can get free information about building an Internet business by searching on Google, but this will take me A LOT more time and effort as I need to weed through the good and accurate information from the bad ones…)
If I want to do a monotonous task over and over again, I’ll buy software that will help me do this.
So buying information products and/or software that will help us in our business is definitely a good investment.
The point of this article is not to argue about this.
The point is to remind you that before you buy any products, make sure you take the following factors into consideration first:
1. Do You CURRENTLY Need It?
There is no point in buying a product that you CURRENTLY do not have a need for. You might say that you’re going to buy now because of the special one-time-offer discount or early bird discount, but trust me, you’re going to forget that you’ve actually bought the product when the time comes to actually use it.
I’ve been a victim to this a lot in the past and still fall victim up to this date (although the frequency is a lot less now).
Suppose you’re a beginner Internet marketer trying to learn what domain and hosting is, and how to use an FTP program to transfer files from and to your server. It’s useless to buy an information product that teaches you how to JV (joint venture) with other established marketers because these marketers are NOT going to JV with you.
FACE IT. It’s a FACT!
Come on, put yourself in these established marketers’ shoes. If you’re a respected marketer and a newbie comes along and proposes that you promote his new, unproven product, would you do it?
The answer is of course: NO!
Therefore, a beginner should NOT buy the product that teaches how to JV with other marketers because he does not need it NOW. It’s going to be useless for him NOW.
If, however, I’m an established marketer CURRENTLY looking for ways to extend my network and get as many JV partners as I can, then yes I CURRENTLY do need this product and could possibly buy it if other criteria explained below are met.
Always assess your current situation to determine whether you need the product now or not. If you don’t need the product NOW, then do NOT buy it now. Buy it later when you need it later.
2. Are You Buying Based On Your Emotions?
The answer to this is of course “YES”!
As bad as you don’t want to admit it, YOU buy based on your emotions. Me too. So is everyone else.
Remember that sales letters (especially sales letters for information products and Internet business related software) typically contain A LOT of HYPE.
This hype is designed to send your emotions through the roof so that you’ll be “hypnotized” to buy the product in question.
The point here is NOT to ask you to COMPLETELY avoid using your emotions when buying products, since it’s almost impossible to do that (because of the fact that we are humans).
The point is to LESSEN your emotions when you are making a buying decision. Realize and understand that the sales letter for the product you’re eager in buying most likely contains A LOT of HYPE and therefore you should control your excitement.
Face the fact that 99.99% of the time, the product is NOT going to be as good and amazing as the sales letter makes it out to be.
When you can tone down your emotions, your buying judgment becomes a lot better.
3. Who Created The Product?
This is also an important factor to consider.
Do a Google search on the product creator’s name in quotes. For example, if the product creator is Welly Mulia, you go to Google and type in “Welly Mulia” (in quotes).
If no results show up, then DO NOT buy the product because the product creator has no previous track record and do not have a reputation yet. It would be a lot better to buy from someone who has a proven track record, or at the very least has an online presence of some kind.
If Google results show up when you run his name, check out the websites that show up.
Does he have a blog? If yes, spend some time browsing his blog and find out if he really is the real deal. Check out the quality of the blog posts. Observe the comments on his blog posts. See the Alexa rank for the blog to get a general idea of how much traffic the blog is getting.
What are other websites saying about him? Use common sense and your own discretion to judge whether he really is the real deal or just another scammer.
The more results Google return the better, as this will allow you more references to do your research.
If your research indicates that he is an honest product creator who knows what he’s talking about, then his product is probably worth buying.
(…but do NOT buy the product just because he’s an honest product creator; remember to also use the other 2 criteria explained above when making buying decisions)
The Takeaway:
The next time you want to buy an information product or software, make sure that you go over the 3 criteria above first.
If the product passes ALL 3 criteria, then you may go ahead and buy the product in question.
Remember, the internet marketing product must pass ALL 3 criteria; if it fails to pass even one of them, then you should NOT buy it.
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Reciprocity Marketing – How To Use Reciprocity In Your Business
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
In this post, we’re going to take a look at how to use reciprocity marketing in our business.
But before that, let’s take a look at what the word “reciprocity” means.
Reciprocity, taken from Wikipedia, means:
“The norm of reciprocity is the social expectation that people will respond to each other in kind-returning benefits for benefits…”
In simple English terms, it means that we, as human beings, have a tendency to respond to other people the same way how they treat us.
If Bob is kind and nice to you, you feel the need to be kind and nice to him. Barring some exceptional rare cases, it’s just human nature to react that way.
I say barring some exceptional cases because there are a few rare people out there who do not appreciate the kindness other people are showing them, and instead of returning the kindness back, they simply do nothing, or worse, they return back with ill intentions.
However, today’s post is about the former - which is to return one’s kindness back.
Let me give you an example of reciprocity in action in our everyday lives
Let’s say your birthday is around the corner, and today you accidentally meet your long-lost friend, John, whom you’ve never met in 10 years.
John still remembers your birthday, and on your birthday he gives you a birthday present.
What do you do?
If you’re like me or most people, you’ll most likely feel happy and have a sense of guilt at the same time. Happy because your friend still remembers your birthday even though you guys never met for 10 years. A sense of guilt because John has just given you a birthday present and you feel the need to reciprocate - you want to give John a present back to express your gratitude.
Reciprocity In Business
In our business, if we use the power of reciprocity correctly, we can attract more customers and hence make more sales as a result. The way to do this is to give away for FREE cool and high quality content that other people would normally charge.
Who do you give away to?
Your subscribers, prospects, customers, and blog readers.
Give away unconditionally and expect NOTHING in return. Even though deep down inside you’re expecting them to reciprocate by buying your products in the future, now is NOT the time to think about: “What can I get from these people? Will they buy my products?”
Trust me, just give away UNCONDITIONALLY and the rest will take care of itself and everything will come NATURALLY.
During the initial stages when you’re giving away cool, high quality content all the time, you’ll most likely not see any results. Your efforts will SEEMINGLY go to waste. But I promise you, your efforts will not go down the drain.
(…even if it were to go down the drain, you can still repurpose the content in other ways so your precious time and effort in creating that content will not be wasted)
Give it time and be patient
All your efforts will pay off in the future when you start to gain momentum. It’s just like a snowball going down the mountain - initially the snowball is small and moves at a moderate speed. As the snowball falls down the mountain slope, it picks up more snow and therefore falls faster. In the end, what started out as a small snowball turns into a GIANT snowball.
Your marketing efforts are the same. You need to give it time to pick up momentum. NEVER EVER expect instant results!
As a sidenote, the power of reciprocity can also be used “wrongly”. An example in the Internet marketing or Internet business world is where the marketing gurus scratch one another’s back by cross-promoting one another’s products.
I’ve talked about this before, which is called “Crazy Guru Promo Emails“.
Basically Guru A promote Guru B’s new product that has just launched on a massive scale; and the next time Guru A has a new product that is going to be released, Guru B will return the favor by promoting it.
Please note I’m not against promoting products. What I have a problem is these gurus promote products without even reviewing the product being promoted first - they just do it for one reason, and that is so that their next product can be promoted by the guru whose product they’re currently promoting.
So what’s the takeaway for today’s article?
Answer: Use reciprocity marketing in your business and give away for FREE high quality content that your competitors would normally charge. This will make your subscribers, prospects, customers, and blog readers feel indebted to you, which will in turn make it easier for you to ask something back from them in the future in the form of asking them to buy your products.
Let me know your thoughts and comments below…
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10 Steps To REPLACE YOUR JOB On The Internet
Wednesday, December 30th, 2009In my last post, I explained what Internet continuity programs are and why they’re so profitable.
In this post, I’m going to show you how to build a successful continuity program - or to be more specific, How To Build A CONSISTENT Online Business FAST Using Continuity Programs so that you can REPLACE YOUR JOB!
Step 1 - Overcome Information Overload And Focus On ONE Thing Only
With all the information out there about making money online, I’m 100% sure that you’re suffering from information overload. The first step you need to do is to overcome this illness.
Stop chasing one business opportunity after another. Stop looking for the “next big thing” because there is no “next big thing”. There is only hype attached to the “next big thing”.
Focus your mind and attention on only ONE thing - and that is to build a CONSISTENT Online Business FAST so that you can REPLACE YOUR JOB. Ignore the rest that have nothing to do with this.
Please pay special attention to the word “CONSISTENT” - you want your income to be consistent month in and month out. So what if you can generate $1000 today but fail to make any money tomorrow and the day later.
What you want is CONSISTENT income every month so that you can have a REAL business and peace of mind.
Step 2 - Learn Direct Response Marketing Skills
When soldiers go to war and fight for their country, they equip themselves with weapons and shields. You need to do the same by equipping yourself with Direct Response Marketing skills.
Why?
You are a small entrepreneur with limited budget to spend on your online business, thus you need to make the best use of your money.
You can’t afford to spend (and WASTE) BIG money like all the Fortune 500 companies. Every dollar counts, which is why you MUST learn direct response marketing skills so that you spend your money wisely on things that do WORK!
Step 3 - Learn Technical Skills
A lot of the “make money online” sites and gurus say BOLDLY that you don’t need to have ANY technical skills at all to be able to succeed in your online business.
(worse, they claim that you only need to click a few buttons on your mouse and you’ll make thousands instantly…)
I COMPLETELY DISAGREE!
Don’t cringe first at the thought of learning technical skills…
What I’m saying is that you MUST, at the very least, learn basic technical skills such as:
- how to connect your domain and hosting together so that when people type www.yourdomain.com, they are actually directed to your website
- how to create a BASIC html static web page
- how to set up a WordPress blog from scratch
No, you don’t have to learn programming. You can outsource the programming stuff to professional programmers who know what they’re doing and who can do the job A LOT BETTER and MUCH FASTER than you.
Why don’t you also outsource the three skills I mentioned above as well?
Because if you outsource even the most basic skills such as these three skills, then you’d have to wait for your technical guy to fix it for you if you need to make even the smallest change to your web page. This will take up a lot of time with the back and forth communication. Another reason is of course to cut down your expenses.
Step 4 - Create Your High Quality Freebie
Make sure that you actually create a HIGH QUALITY freebie that you give away to your website visitors in exchange for their email addresses. Don’t simply put together some low quality PLR stuff and use it as your freebie.
This will hurt your image and brand, and once it’s tarnished, it’s VERY DIFFICULT to regain and make people trust you again.
Before you create your freebie, think of it as a paid product that you’re going to sell. This way, your mind will focus on delivering high quality content since it (your mind) thinks that it’s going to be a paid product.
Step 5 - Set Up Your Squeeze Page To Capture Leads
Now that you have your freebie ready, the next step is to set up a squeeze page to capture the names and email addresses of those people who requested your freebie.
The basic HTML skills that you’ve learned earlier (in step 3) will help a lot in creating and setting up a simple squeeze page.
Of course, you should have some nice and professional (but not too fancy) design to your squeeze page and freebie, and you can do that by outsourcing this to graphic designers. This will increase your squeeze page conversion rate.
Step 6 - Create Your Continuity Program
This is the MEAT of what your customers are paying you money for. They pay you money to access your VALUABLE content to solve their problems.
The content of your continuity program, of course, have to be GOOD (as should your FREE content).
When people give their names and email addresses to get your freebie, they should be IMMEDIATELY presented with your continuity program offer.
Why immediately?
Because as mentioned in my previous post, people’s interests change VERY QUICKLY all the time. If you don’t ask for the sale immediately, then they might no longer be interested in your topic a few days later.
And one more tip: you do NOT have to create ALL the content beforehand before you actually roll out your continuity program. In fact, you only need to have the first lesson created and you’re good to go.
Step 7 - Package Your Continuity Program To Make It SELL
With tight competition in almost every market, simply presenting your “naked” continuity program for sale is not going to be good enough.
You need to MASSIVELY PACKAGE your continuity program so that it becomes irresistible and really ENTICING. Package it in such a way so that if people do not take up your continuity offer, they’ll really miss out on a lot of good, cool stuff.
You want to make your prospects think like this in their minds:
Join your continuity program = I can solve my problems
Don’t join your continuity program = My problems remain unsolved and I’ll continute to feel excruciating PAIN
Step 8 - Generate Visitors To Your Squeeze Page
I’m sure you’ve heard and seen this a thousand times before, but without visitors to your website, then everything is useless.
You can have the best continuity program in the world, but if nobody knows the existence of your program, then not a single soul is going to join your program.
This means zero sales and zero profits.
Once you have your freebie, your irresistible continuity program that is MASSIVELY PACKAGED, then you can start driving traffic to your squeeze page.
A small percentage of that traffic will be your customers, and most will just be freebie seekers who won’t join your continuity program. This is perfectly fine, because in EVERY MARKET that you operate and sell information products in, there are only a small percentage of buyers compared to freebie seekers.
Step 9 - Build DEEP Relationships With Your Leads/Subscribers
After visitors opt-in to get your freebie, they are presented with your continuity program offer. Let’s say that the conversion rate for your continuity program is 2%. This means that for every 100 people who see your offer, only 2 join your program and the remaining 98 did not join.
So what happens to these 98 people?
Simply leave them alone?
NO WAY!
What you should do is to build deep, trusting, and beneficial relationships with them via email marketing. Remember that they’ve already given you their email addresses!
Give them cool and valuable content that will help them solve their problems, and give them on a CONSISTENT basis.
Frequency is key here.
The Internet is full of scams and is filled with tons of dishonest people. You want them to receive REPETITIVE exposure from you that will result in a POSITIVE perception of you being a nice, trustworthy person whom they regard as their trusted advisor.
Step 10 - Use KILLER Email Marketing Tactics To SELL Your Continuity Program
In Step 9, you build deep relationships with your subscribers by giving them valuable free content that they can use. In Step 10, you SELL your offer.
Simply giving away free content all the time won’t make you money. SELLING your continuity program will!
Therefore, even though you often give your subscribers free content, be sure to sell to them also. Otherwise ALL your efforts will be gone to waste.
The way to do this is to have a mixture of free content and sales pitch emails. For example, you can use the following tactic:
Email 1: Free content
Email 2: Sales pitch
Email 3: Free content
Email 4: Sales pitch
Etc.
Where Do You Go From Here?
So there you have it, the 10 ESSENTIAL steps to building successful Internet continuity programs. If you do them correctly, you’re bound to REPLACE YOUR JOB on the Internet!
If you REALLY want to learn IN MORE DETAIL where I expand the concepts and show and teach you STEP-BY-STEP How To REPLACE YOUR JOB On The Internet Using A Continuity Program, then my GOLD Coaching is for you.
For a limited period of time, you can test drive my GOLD Coaching for only $1. So be sure to get in while the offer is still available.
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Get Out Of Comfort Zone – I have. What About You?
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
Sometimes Most of the time, in business (and in life), to be able to make a breakthrough, you almost always need to get out of comfort zone (YES your own comfort zone) and do things that you’re really not comfortable with.
What do I mean by that?
Well, that just means doing things that you know ARE GOING to move you forward, even though doing them makes you uneasy and uncomfortable, so much so that you feel like giving up before you even try.
Everybody is guilty of this.
You and I are. So do your best friends, your friends, your colleagues. Everyone. PERIOD.
Let me illustrate a real life example.
Back in September, I FINALLY recorded a training video on how to do FAST backlink analysis using free tools. I was VERY nervous when I recorded that training video because of my CRAZY Asian accent. I was afraid that my audience (the majority of them being Americans by the way) wouldn’t have a clue what I was saying in the video.
Turns out I was DEAD wrong!
I received a number of comments on my blog and support desk THANKING me for the video and that it provided valuable and awesome training.
I was thrilled!
Who would have thought that an Indonesian guy with this crazy Asian accent would be thanked for making a training video? You know what was going through my mind BEFORE I made that video?
Yep, I was trying to convince myself:
“Nahhh I can’t do it. My audience won’t even know what the heck I’m talking about. I have this Asian accent, so it’s impossible!”
But I went ahead and made that video ANYWAY and REGARDLESS of what was going to happen. And I was in for a surprise because my audience actually liked it…
…And boy was I thankful and glad that I made it! If I hadn’t made it, I wouldn’t be making more training videos now (more on this in a moment…)
The point I’m trying to get across to you is:
Doing things that you know will move you forward, even though you’re NOT comfortable with doing it, will pave a way that will lead you closer towards SUCCESS.
You will be a step closer to your goal.
This is true. Try it before you whine and make any negative judgments.
If I hadn’t made that video, I will always be wondering (for the rest of my life most likely) if I really could share my knowledge and expertise through videos.
And the answer to that will most likely be “NO, I can’t possibly do video training because of my Asian accent bla bla bla”.
And this WILL hunt me for the rest of my life. I know it will…
Here’s what I’ve learned by getting out of my comfort zone:
1. Your original fear BEFORE you step out of your comfort zone is very insignificant. Most of the time, you’re A LOT better than what you think of yourself, so give yourself more credit!
2. Doing that uncomfortable thing that you really don’t like for the FIRST time is the hardest. Once you’ve done that for first time, doing it for the second and consecutive times become much easier and more natural.
3. You’ll be REALLY glad that you’ve stepped out of your comfort zone because by doing so, you’ll inevitably move forward in whatever you’re trying to achieve. Why? Because you’ve just learned how to overcome your fears by doing things that you really are not comfortable with.
When similar circumstances occur in the future that require you to step out of your comfort zone, you’ll be ready.
Because of that training video I made in September, I’m using my courage I attained by the thankful and grateful comments about that video to make more additional training videos.
(…just a little side note, I’m currently in the process of creating a coaching program where I show and teach people how to build a real, profitable Internet business from scratch; more information on this coaching program to follow, so stay tuned okay?)
Almost all of my interactions with YOU so far (with the exception of that first training video I made in September) have always been in the form of text. I want to connect more with my audience, my prospects, and my customers on a DEEPER level.
And that means YOU!
So you can expect more video interaction from me in the future (and please forgive my CRAZY Asian accent and FOCUS instead on the VALUE I’m delivering on these videos alright?)
Anyway, that’s all for me now.
What are your thoughts on stepping out of YOUR own comfort zone? Have you stepped out of your comfort zone or are you simply just one of those persons who PROCRASTINATES all the time by LYING to yourself “Yeah I’m gonna do that SOON… but not now since I’m so busy with bla bla bla…”
Come on PROCRASTINATORS; defend yourself by proving me wrong. Leave your public statement below that you’re going to get out of your comfort zone TODAY!
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