Are You A Winner? Find The Winner In You

Let's face it...The odds of you creating, developing and maintaining a viable business past the first three-year mark are not all that good. Much of the general consensus is that you'll fail. Recent statistics for business start-ups say you'll fail.

How is it that you can hope to succeed when all around you are failing?

There's a real secret to success that hinges on your remembrance of one simple thing, and then acting accordingly with the principle. What is the one simple thing you should remember? Pay close attention. Here it is:

The battle for your success is fought and won nowhere else but in your mind.

* Your success or failure is does not depend upon where you grew up (Just ask Jermaine Griggs).
* Your success or failure does not depend upon your credit rating or the balance of your bank account (Does anyone even remember that just a few years ago Donald Trump's business was in bankruptcy, he was on the verge of personal bankruptcy and at one time he had nearly $900 million in personal debt?).
* Your success or failure does not depend upon your level of formal education (Although I am a proponent of the value of a good education, I'll take a sharp mind, determination and perseverance over a good education every time).
* Your success or failure does not depend upon what your family, your friends, your peers or your co-workers feel are your chances.

Your success depends on what you have inside. Are you a winner?

Can you withstand failure? Because most winners fail. In fact, a great many winners fail over and over and over again. Are you able to be knocked down or knocked out in your attempts to succeed, but have enough courage and tenacity to get up time and time again, brush yourself off, figure out what went wrong, what you did wrong, and then start again?

Are you able to withstand humiliation? In the midst of failing, can you endure your closest family, friends or loved ones saying “I told you so”, “I knew you couldn't do it”, “I don't even know why you wasted your time/money/effort” when you know in your heart of hearts that you are capable and you can achieve the success you so desire?

Can you humble yourself? Can you face business partners, financial backers or investors when all your money has run out and you still haven't made a go of it, yet you have to ask them for more time, more resources, more money because you know it will work?

Can you cope with the loneliness and isolation that is often an inherent part of entrepreneurship, because no one else shares your vision or can see the future the way in which you see it?

Are you strong enough to break through or break free of limitations you put upon yourself or that others have placed on you? Are you capable of continuing on your chartered path when your boss or your husband or your wife says you don't have what it takes to succeed?

Are you able to lift yourself beyond your current circumstances?

Can you drive yourself forward, even when it means challenging and overcoming immense fear?

Can you train yourself to feel that you are consistently in a place of abundant supply rather than lack of resources?

Can you open yourself up to consider limitless potential and enormous possibilities in terms of what you are capable of?

Are you a winner? Not everyone is, you know. Winning is a hard, difficult business. If it was so easy, everybody would be winners. And we've already established at the beginning of this article that's not the case. People get tired, people get lazy, people change their minds about what they want and what they're willing to settle for.

Are you a winner? I don't know, but I believe you are. I believe that you have what it takes to succeed or you wouldn't be here. I believe that there is a reason and a time and a place for everything. I believe that's why you're reading these words right now.

Are you a winner? Only you can answer that question. Find the winner in you.

Conclusion Of Setting Up A Simple Home Page That Sells

Yesterday, we talked about setting up a simple website home page that sells. We left off outlining specific features that should be included on your home page. Let's continue.

In addition to featuring attention-grabbing graphics and including high-quality content, your home page should:

*Include a free offer of some type. People love freebies, especially if they are perceived to be of real value.

*Provide an opportunity for the visitor to subscribe to your site or newsletter list. It's even better if the opportunity includes some type of incentive such as a free offer.

*Provide directions (in the form of specific suggestions) as to where the visitor should go from there. When a visitor lands at your site, they want to be directed to where they should go for the information they need. They don't want to have to search for it. If they do, they'll most likely leave, quickly.

*Include an introduction to your main product or service offer.

For one-page websites, your home page should also include the following:

*A detailed overview of your product or service offer, highlighting its benefits (Note: There is a difference between product features and benefits. Remember to especially highlight the benefits. The potential customer wants to know "What's in it for me?" "How will this help me?").

*Include testimonials from people who have purchased or experienced your product or service.

*Include an iron-clad guarantee. The potential customer needs to know that if something goes wrong with their purchase, they have an absolutely reliable remedy.

*Include "the ask". Close the sale. If you don't ask for it, if you don't direct the visitor to make the purchase, you most definitely won't get the sale.

In addition to the above, your home page should also answer basic, relevant questions such as, why you are different from your competition (also known as your USP or Unique Selling Point), why your visitor should do business with you, and include other powerful selling points.

One caution: Keep slow loading content off of your home page to ensure that the page loads quickly. Slow loading pages are a death knell. Your visitors will not wait. If your page loads too slowly, they will simply skip your website and move on to the next.

Design your home page according to the tips we've discussed yesterday and today, and you will definitely attract relevant visitors, promote a better conversion rate and experience a successful website.

Setting Up A Simple Home Page That Sells

Setting up a home page is one of the most important tasks for a new Internet marketer, and it can also be one of the most daunting. The content and design of your home page is critically important to the success of your website in attracting visitors, and then converting those visitors into customers. Today, we're going to look at how to set up a home page that sells.

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So, you've decided to build a website. You've already registered your domain name and set up web hosting with a service provider. Now it's time to build your website's home page or landing page, and create a design and content that will be attractive to visitors.

Research shows that a website visitor decides to stay or to leave a website within the first thirty seconds of landing at the site. This is why your home page must be designed to grab the visitors' attention quickly, and keep it long enough for you to create sufficient interest for them to remain longer and explore the site.

Here's a quick tip: A visitor doesn't want to first read a long dissertation about your company and how you started out in business. They have landed there looking for information about an interest, problem or concern they have, and it's your job through your landing page to convince them that they will find the answers within your site. If you fail in this, they will leave the website and never return.

Your home page should:

* Feature interesting or attention-grabbing graphics. As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. Colorful, unique or unusual images combined with a pleasing layout and a design that is easy for the visitor to navigate, will make your page attractive for visitors.

* Contain valuable, high-quality content, that makes efficient and relevant use of your primary keywords, and includes an element of content that is fresh and updated continually or often.

Tomorrow, I'll conclude this discussion on setting up a simple home page that sells. In the meantime, check us out at http://www.getmywealthnnow.com/.

Internet Marketing Answers Live

Willie Crawford is hosting an Internet marketing call tomorrow (Saturday, October 27th) at 12:00 noon EST. It's an open discussion forum, and you are welcome to ask any Internet marketing question you may have.

If you are experiencing difficulty in a particular area of Internet marketing, this is a great opportunity to "pick the brain" of one of the true Internet marketing masters.

In order to get in on the call, you must register.

To register for the call (it's FREE), go to http://WillieCrawford.com/free-brainstorming-calls.html

By the way, if you are still searching for Internet marketing opportunities that are legitimate and really make money, visit "20 Ways To Make $100 Per Day Online".

Explaining Your Product or Service to Online Customers

Today's post is an excerpt form an article I wrote a while back. I hope you find it helpful.

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Let's ask this question. When you're surfing the 'net, how long do you want it to take at any particular website for you to figure out if the website has what you're searching for? Not long. When potential customers are surfing the Internet, you have a matter of seconds to get their attention and convince them that your website has something that's worth more than a cursory glance.

Some webmasters attempt to accomplish this objective by using a lot of "bells and whistles", flashy things or goodness forbid, sounds and music. Things like electronic greeting cards, screen-savers or free email services are just a few of the tools used to try and get potential customers to stay at a particular website for longer periods of time.

It's affectionately called making your website "sticky". And there's nothing inherently wrong with any of those methods, unless the purpose of your website is to sell vacuum widgets to your customers. If that's the case, your customer will be little interested in anything other than the smooth, efficient and economical operation of their vacuum equipment, and the products or services that will help them to accomplish that. But, back to our subject.

Your objective then, is to get your customer's attention and communicate to him simply and quickly what your product or service is and how its purchase will benefit him. This is best accomplished by utilizing the basic question model employed by journalists in developing a news story: Who, what, when, where, and why? For your purposes, you'll only need to answer three of these: Who, what, why?

"Who" explains who you are or who your company is. This gives you an opportunity to demonstrate either yours or your company's experience or expertise in the area of the customer's interest or concern. "What" explains your product or service, and provides you with an opportunity to highlight for the customer its features. "Why" explains the benefits of using your product or service, and also offers an opportunity for you to distinguish yourself and your product from the competition. By answering these three questions, you can completely but briefly give your customer enough information to determine whether or not they're interested in what you're offering.

Another thing that's important to remember when introducing your product or service, is to communicate with the customer as if you're sitting down and having a nice conversation. No one wants to feel as if they're reading a novel or trying to unravel Shakespeare.

In fact, it shouldn't feel to them as if they're reading at all. It should feel as if they're involved in conversation. Keep things simple, concise and uncomplicated. If you choose to use humor or wit, that's great because it can keep the interaction interesting and engaging for your customer. Just make sure that you have the talent to be humorous or witty. Otherwise, you may appear disingenuous and your customers may be turned off.

Toodles.

Internet Marketing Sales Page Example

Here's a really great example of a powerful sales page:

www.AtomicBlogging.com

It has many of the elements that create a dynamic marketing page including awesome grapics, compelling copy, a liberal sprinkling of testimonials, and a very generous bonus pack to bolster value.

Take a look, then take notes.

Are You Moving Forward?

Okay. I've been reading a lot of Steve Pavlina lately. If you don't know who Steve is, check him out here: http://www.stevepavlina.com.

The reason I've been reading Steve a lot lately is because I find that in my present life-stage, I am striving to do a better job at recognizing and making the connections between all of the goals/issues/circumstances that make up my life, and to better guide the outcomes of my actions to more closely match what I desire. And from what I hear from you and others with whom I come in contact, especially in terms of creating and developing entrepreneurial goals, life goals and financial goals, quite a few of you are going through much the same things.

I find myself striving to move forward, but much of that forward movement is into territory that is unfamiliar to me. I am totally involved within a development stage that requires changing, stretching, and growing through what are often uncomfortable and sometimes actually painful processes, to get to a place that I can't quite yet see, but I can envision. This "place" exists somewhere where the different facets of my life are more harmonious, make more sense in relation to one another, are more prosperous and will be much more authentic to the person I am.

What on earth, you're asking, did I just say and what could it possibly have to do with Internet marketing or wealth building? Well, for me, everything.

My journey to wealth is about much, much more than money. It has a great deal to do with freedom; freedom from a great many things that lack keeps you in bondage to, freedom to decide my own course without being enslaved to the source of a regular paycheck, freedom to fully concentrate on some very important work that I believe I'm destined to do. Everyone has their own reasons for wanting to achieve a certain level of freedom that financial independence brings.

But, back to Steve...

I encourage you to read an article he wrote a while back entitled "How To Get From a 7 To a 10". It really offers what I think is great insight into why it is that so many of us fail in our attempts to achieve the goals we have set for ourselves, and why it is important that we continue to push forward, even when pushing forward means we have to backtrack or that we have to leave what have become very comfortable places for us.

Being an entrepreneur, being a successful entrepreneur is not easy, at least it's never been for me. And I have failed many times in my attempts. But, I believe that "slow and steady wins the race". If you truly want to succeed in wealth building, you must refuse to be defeated. I continually strive to move forward, to push harder, to learn more, to move through, or under or over stumbling blocks that litter my path because I believe that what's further up the path is something that is far better and greater than I could ever imagine.

If you're just beginning to really reach for goals you have set for yourselves, if you're just beginning your business, if you've been in business for some time, but you're not happy with the results, or if you're content with where you are, but it's not exactly where you envisioned being, take some time to reassess your position and the path you've chosen. If things aren't quite right, it may be that the best thing for you to do is to back up, change course or start over completely. There's no law that says you can't do that. Beginning again may not be the most cheerful thought, but if it gets you to the place that you would be, isn't it worth it?

Don't forget to read Steve's article, "How To Get From a 7 To a 10".

Toodles.

Free PLR (Private Label Rights) Profits Teleseminar

Looking for ways to create and sell your own products?

On Monday, October 22, 2007 5:00PM EST, Diane Coriette (Women Internet Marketers) is hosting a teleseminar where Willie Crawford will teach how to make money with PLR products.

Willie is a master teacher on the subject, and will cover how to take PLR products for ebooks, articles, and software and make them into your own completely new and saleable products, including how to market them.

Be sure to check it out. You can register (FREE) at http://www.wimsite.com/wim/

Search Engine Optimization: Naming Your HTML Files

I told you earlier this week that I had attended a business conference where several of the sessions focused on web marketing. I learned a few new tidbits, and there's one I want to share with you today, because I know that in general, online entrepreneurs haven't picked up on this.

I'm not an SEO expert by any stretch of the imagination. Most of what I have learned about SEO (search engine optimization) in building several websites, I've had to learn the "hard knocks" way. That includes loosing a bunch of money to an SEO firm that didn't do anything for me except take my money. But that's another story.

The little tip I have for you today has to do with naming your website's html files (page files). We know (or we should know) that page titles, meta tags, descriptions and website page content should all contain keywords relevant to the page. However, I was not aware until recently that including keywords in naming your html files can also help with page rank in the search engine results. It just never occurred to me.

So, if you are building a website, updating or revising your website, consider naming your new html files using your keywords. For example, instead of your main page or landing page being named http://www.yourdomain.com/index.html or http://www.yourdomain.com/home, name the page http://www.yourdomain.com/southern_cooking_recipes.html or http://www.yourdomain.com/womens_health_answers.html.

Get the idea? Using this technique helps the search engines further determine what your webpage is about and assign relevancy to the keywords and information it contains, which can help in terms of how your webpage ranks in the search results.

Enough for today. A great source of free SEO information can be found at http://www.seobook.com.

Toodles.

Are You Doing All You Can To Ensure Your Success?

Well, are you?

Many of us, myself included, have at one time or another found or made excuses for our lack of achieving what we know we're capable of; our full potential.

No one else is responsible for us. Each of us is ultimately responsible for ensuring that we live into the dreams we envision. If we are to succeed, we must be willing to do the work, face the fears and get on with winning.

T.D. Jakes has a bestselling book out entitled "Reposition Yourself:Living Life Without Limits". It's about facing our own truths, and then repositioning ourselves to succeed.

If you don't like where you are, if you're not achieving the level of success that you want, then reposition yourself. Call up a new reality. Change it. Now today.

Traffic Is The Lifeblood Of Your Web Business

I've been thinking about traffic a great deal lately. So many Internet marketing businesses struggle and fail because their owners somehow think "If I build it (fill in your choice of website topic or product), they will come", as if customers will magically find a website just because it exists, make a stampede to it and sales will of course be the end result.

I attended a business seminar today, and one of the sessions dealt with web marketing issues. In the seminar, the presenter made the following observation: "If you have a website, but don't have a strategy to generate traffic, you might as well not have a website".

It's still amazing to me the number of entrepreneurs that will initiate a web-based business without the first clue as to how they are going to attract targeted traffic in a sufficient volume for the business to succeed. Are you that person? Do you have a strategic plan for generating targeted traffic to your website?

If you have a website that is not getting the level of traffic you desire, there is help available. One great source is Ross Goldberg's Traffic Manifesto. Here you can learn traffic generation techniques that work, and put your business on the path to success.

Remember, you can build the greatest website, with all the latest "high-tech" amenities, the best information, the best products, but if you have no traffic, you're dead in the water. Period.

Make Money Online Working From Home... Or A Shameless Plug

People are so miserable these days. There are numerous people interested in how to make money online working from home, and the number just seems to keep growing. How did we get to be so unhappy? I really wonder about that.

Is the problem that we've simply become too materialistic and can't pay for what we have or what we want? Do we have to have more, More, MORE until our current incomes can't possibly provide the supply we need to keep up?

Is it that for too many years we have mistakenly looked to our respective jobs to provide us with our identities, our sense of validation and recognition? Only to find out that no job really holds those life-affirming attributes or answers?

Have we for too many years failed to recognize and embrace our true interests, talents and abilities, opting instead to follow paths deemed more peer-worthy, family-sanctioned and socially acceptable?

Why is it that so many of us will pursue the dream to make money online, working from home, with such determination and fervor, sometimes being duped over and over again by unscrupulous scammers only to try yet another opportunity?

Could it simply be that we want our lives back? We want to be in control? We want to determine what time we devote to work out of each given day? We want to spend time with our children, enjoying life through their eyes, seeing their discoveries rather than relegating that to others, often even strangers?

Could it be the we want to decide that spending two or three days with family we haven't seen in a year or more is not enough time for us? Could it be that we want to decide what we wear each day or how we present ourselves to the world? Or that we want to spend a long afternoon simply enjoying an especially beautiful day rather than being closed up in someone's office, or cubical or warehouse?

Could it be that we want to be paid according to what we think we're worth, not by the judgment of someone who has never taken the time or shown interest enough to discover the range and wealth of our capabilities?

I think many people have a desire to get back to where we were at the turn of the last century in terms of working for ourselves and having the independence and freedom that brings. More of us want some semblance of family life back. More of us want the life we have to hold value and meaning for us. We want to work to live, not live to work. We want to make money online, working from home and learn to be happy again.

For more information about how to successfully make money online working from home, you're invited to visit GetMy WealthNow.com.

Have a good one.

Entrepreneurs, Party With Your Kids!

The Direct Selling Women’s Alliance has just announced the first celebration of "Party With Your Kids Week", October 20 -27, 2007.

The purpose of the celebration is to have parents involved in direct-selling home based businesses to be able to share and celebrate their alternative career style with their children.

During the week-long celebration, children will engage in activities designed to help them to learn more about their parents’ businesses, career choice, and the benefits of teamwork, and provides parents an opportunity to lay the foundation for future entrepreneurs through their children.

An interactive website with a free "family toolkit" has been created at www.PartyWithYourKids.blogspot.com, that includes information for both children and parents about topics including creating a family business from your home based business. In addition, the website features a special drawing contest and other activities for the week’s planned celebration.

Direct Selling Women’s Alliance is a member organization founded as a network and support group to assist in the success of independent direct sellers and work at home entrepreneurs.

If your home based business is involved in direct selling, this seems to be a wonderful opportunity to get the whole family involved.

Your Website Presence - Is Your Best Face On?

How many websites do you have. One, two, ten, more? Let me qualify the question. How many main websites do you have, not just quick and dirty minisites you've put up to make Adsense money or anything of that nature, but how many main websites do you have?

Okay, so my next question is this...When was the last time you took a good, hard look at your site and updated it? I'm not talking about adding an article or two, but when's the last time you looked at your site from the perspective of your visitors and potential customers?

If you haven't done so recently, you should. You may find that what you see isn't so pretty, or nearly as effective as it should be at guiding and selling your customer. Even if your website doesn't "sell a product", you're still selling, whether it's an idea, a social message, whatever.

Before I get off onto a tangent (which is SO easy for me), my point is (and yes, I do have one): things on the Internet change from moment to moment. Literally.

If you work on your website yourself and you're not paying someone to do it for you (and maybe especially if you're paying someone to do it), you need to review your website regularly and often. Step outside yourself as the marketer, owner, webmaster, whatever, and look at it with a fresh set of eyes.

If you're anything like me, you're constantly learning new things about online marketing, about SEO (search engine optimization), about products and techniques, about everything that pertains to your business. You keep up-to-date with trends. Does your website reflect that? I'll just be honest and tell you, mine doesn't, but it should. You're welcome to see for yourself. I'm not too proud.

www.GetMyWealthNow.com

Something to consider.

Make Money Online 20 Ways, $100 Per Day

I came, I saw, I read. All 247 pages! I bought "20 Ways To Make $100 Dollars Per Day Online" yesterday. If you do nothing else this week, if you REALLY want simple strategies to make money online, get it.

"20 Ways To Make $100 Dollars Per Day Online"

Interested In A Few Proven Strategies To Make Money Online?

Hello All. Today I had intended to feature a guest post from Willie Crawford. However, Willie's just a wee bit busy today.

In case you don't know Willie, he's one of the truly successful and insightful Internet marketers in the business today. A stand-up guy who's really about helping other people reach success through online marketing.

This morning he and a few close friends are launching what I'm certain is going to be a stellar product, "20 Ways To Make $100 Dollars Per Day Online". The product was developed in answer to a discussion in an Internet marketing forum about strategies to make money online, a very HOT topic.

If you're not real busy at around 9:00AM EST this morning, you may want to check out what all the fuss is about. You can do so here, "20 Ways To Make $100 Dollars Per Day Online. Toodles.

Are You Harnessing The Power Of Teleseminars?

If you’ve been involved with Internet marketing for any length of time, you’ve certainly heard about, and much more than likely been invited to participate in a teleseminar or two. If not, here’s the scoop.
 
Teleseminars are very much like seminars that you’re already familiar with. The only difference is that you are not required to leave the comfort of your own home or work space environment to attend.

Teleseminars are conference calls of a sort. Usually when you have been invited and register for a teleseminar, you are given registration information that includes a telephone number and code for logging into a call where tens or even hundreds of other people are listening in. Then the "host" or presenter takes over the call and gives a presentation on whatever is the intended seminar topic, which may be a business or training opportunity, introduction of a product or a new service.
 
Teleseminars are quickly becoming a method of choice for consultants and entrepreneurs to market their information online. Using the teleseminar tool, their messages can be easily distributed to a targeted audience located in any part of the country or the globe, for that matter. "Attendees" are potential consumers or business affiliates willing to pay to receive the teleseminar information.
 
Entrepreneurs have found teleseminars to be excellent marketing and recruiting platforms for their business efforts, and an excellent method of generating quite significant amounts of income.
 
Think you’re business is too small to hold a teleseminar, think again. Teleseminars are easily set up, not expensive and with little or no overhead, all associated costs can be covered from the revenue they generate.

This just might be the marketing tool you need to take your business to another, higher level. For more information about developing your own teleseminars, click here.

It’s certainly worth consideration. Toodles.

New Website To Promote Women Entrepreneurs

Women entreprenuers take note as the launch of a new site, VivaVisibility.com, was announced this week.

The website which is the brainchild of Nancy Marmolejo, founder and CEO of Comadre coaching, an awardwinning entrepreneur and business coach, was developed to help women entrepreneurs, speakers, business owners and authors increase their visibility as "in demand" experts. Since 1997, women-owned businesses have increased by more than 40%, nearly twice that of other business segments in the US (US Census Bureau).

In working with women through her practice, Marmolejo found that many women, though successful, lacked visibility as experts, something that is crutial in business development in getting to the next level. Through VivaVisibility.com/services.html, Marmolejo intends to help women to merge expertise and visibility to develop the highest credibility, bringing respect from the public as well as increased business.

Says Marmolejo, "The law of supply and demand shows that increased demand is what raises prices. With more people knowing about you, clients will be competing for your services. You can comfortably increase your fees, and create new income streams. As a highly visible expert, you can leverage your exposure and your know-how by putting it to work for you in new formats. From writing a book to hosting a week-long retreat, you can now 'bottle and sell' your expertise and open up a whole new world of possibilities!"

Such increased demand, respect and credibility is especially advantageous to women involved in Internet marketing and wealth building through online enterprises.

VivaVisibility is offering a FREE, downloadable 7-part audio course, "7 Quick and Simple Steps to Stand Out and Sizzle as a Sought After, Recognized Expert" to help women to begin the process of increasing their visibility for themselves and their business enterprises.

What In The World Is Hubspot? Do You Know?

Don't feel bad. Neither did I. Funny name.

Hubspot is an Internet marketing company that produces software enabling websites to capture leads and more effectively convert those leads into customers. Apparently they're pretty good at what they do. They've been featured in the Wall Street Journal, PC Magazine and some other "high powered" and quite credible media sources. Who knew?

Hubspot recently caused a stir when they used their FREE SEO tool, Website Grader, to grade the top 20 blogs from Technorati. What they found was somewhat surprising. It seems that a number of the top blogs were making some very basic SEO mistakes.

Over 100,000 websites have been submitted to Website Grader. The tool uses a set of criteria including traffic, search engine optimization, popularity, marketing and structure designed to provide webmasters and site owners with information to understand how their site compares with the competition. The tool is easy and quick (yes, I tried it out myself), but provides some very useful information of which the average website owner is probably unaware.

I recommend you try Website Grader for yourself. If nothing else, you'll find how well your website rates against your competition. And if it doesn't rate well, at least you'll have acquired some valuable information as to why and some clues about where to concentrate your focus to make website improvements. The results may ultimately improve your website's overall marketing and sales results.

Website Grader is found at http://www.websitegrader.com. Have fun!

For The Ladies...

For all of you lady bloggers out there, in case you haven't run across it yet, you might want to check out BlogHer.com.

I recently came across the site and it's a pretty cool place. I found several articles of interest including Women and Men: Thinking Differently About Money, The Thing About Debt, Ten Money Questions For Michelle Goodman, and The Big Green Purse: Looking For One Million Women To Have A Billion Dollar Impact On The Environment.

There is certainly MUCH more there to discover, and it appears to be a great place for women entrepreneurs (as well as the fellas) to commune, network and share ideas.

Have fun!

$300 To $30,000 In 13 Months

Today, we're fortunate to have a guest post from a young Internet marketer by the name of Jonathan Budd. I thought you might like it. The subject is self explanatory and hopefully will cause you to do a bit of introspection. It's a bit longer than our usual posts, but certainly worth the read. We invite you to visit Jonathan's website, TheWealthyInnerCircle.com. Enjoy.

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I came online August 2006 without a damn clue
what I was doing. All I knew was the internet
held answers I needed.

I was in a network marketing business and had
this crazy idea I could use the internet to
generate leads. That one idea is what led me
here...and god only knows what happened once
I got here.

I spent the first 2 months on the internet
literally clicking in traffic exchanges. And
honest to god...that was where I LEARNED
pretty much everything I needed to know
to set me on the path I'm on now.

I would literally just look at the squeeze pages,
and compare it to my own little piece of crap
xsite pro website. And say...huh...so that's whats
wrong.

I would get on all these big marketers email lists
and just try to gleam information everywhere I could

Every free call, every free training, every audio
or book bonus.

I had NO MONEY. I was literally on my last few thousand
bucks before I would be completely screwed, either on
the streets or desperate for work.

And eventually after 3 months I found my way to a forum.

It was CYN. Then I found my way over to warrior forum...
and little by little the knowledge started to accumulate.

After i started learning how to drive more traffic to my
lead capture pages, and I started generating more leads
and following up with them...I saw my network marketing
business start to grow.

I actually hit my first 3k month in january of this year. 2007.

And from that point on I realized I needed to completely
diversify my income. I created an information product,
launched a coaching program, started branding myself,
created smaller products, and started diversifying my marketing
everywhere I could.

I hit my first $13,500 month in April with the launch of
my course and coaching program. I was pretty stoked, but
it was really just beginning.

The real secret to why I was able to even get "there" was
because I ABSOLUTELY applied every single piece of knowledge
I learned on the internet.

EVERY SINGLE PIECE.

When I heard something on one of those free calls about
branding yourself, I went out and built a website about me.

When I heard something about myspace, I went out and built
a myspace profile and started marketing.

ANY THING I LEARNED I immediately started applying.

And in that process of applying myself, and learning and
developing all these new skills...I just kept getting
better and better.

And now I had many opening funnels. So my list started to
build quicker and quicker.

I pretty much focused on marketing my main products, services,
and adding autopilot volume to my network marketing companies.

And for the past 5 months I've been averaging around $10k a month...

Here's the moral of the story...when you REALLY REALLY
REALLY develop the skills of marketing, and of driving
traffic...those skills are INVALUABLE!

Because just over the past month I was able to plug those
skills into a new income stream and that income stream
literally became an overnight 6 figure income.

Combining that with everything else I've been building online
for the past 13 months...I just broke my first $30,000 month
after being on the internet for 13 months.

I can't even explain the awe I feel for whats possible here.

There truly is NO END to the possibilities. And this to me
isn't even very impressive. If this is all it takes to make
$30k a month, I can't imagine what could happen once you ACTUALLY
build a real company.

Once you actually use your REAL leadership and build a STRONG
group of talented people around you to execute on your visions
and projects.

Then you have total leverage.

And once you REALLY start building your value, show people you're
not playing around, thats when I'm sure the doors open
up to start major relationship building and Joint Venturing.

There's just no end to what you can create...and every single
piece of it STARTS with the fact that you BELIEVE you can create it.

If I had listened to everyone telling me I was crazy,
I need to get a job, and my friends would say things like,
"you're still doing that?"

Referring to my business...like my business was some "that"

And I hadn't believed in myself at all costs then there is no
way in hell I would have gotten past the first 5 months online
when I was barely making crap.

But because I believed in myself and KNEW I could create the
reality I wanted for myself...Solutions found me.

And when the knowledge found me...I applied it CONSTANTLY.

I never stopped for a minute growing, and getting better,
and the result of applying your entire mind, heart, and soul
to what you focus on is nothing less then ENDLESS POSSIBILITIES.

Trust me.

I'm going to go on to build a company that truly is going to be
massive in every sense of the word.

The way my mind thinks...I see 3-5 million a year as "ok"

I'm serious to. My vision is for $100 million dollar company before
I'm 40 years old. And there is not a cell in my body
that can't see that happening.

I know with every cell that I will create that if I apply myself,
and keep growing.

Hell, since i'm only 23 now...I got some time to work on it. :)

Hopefully you take from this post the fact that you are
INFINITELY powerful...and will never stop believing in yourself
for any reason what so ever.

All the best,
Jonathan Budd
http://www.TheWealthyInnerCircle.com

Steps To Successful Joint Ventures

In a post last week, we talked about the beauty of joint ventures (http://www.blog.getmywealthnow.com...html) in online marketing. Today, as promised, we're going to expand that discussion to an overview of the basic steps of setting up a successful joint venture.

The first step is finding a suitable partner. To my way of thinking, if I'm new or not yet established in my chosen market niche, I would prefer to partner with an established or at least, rapidly growing entity. It's hard to receive significant benefit from joint venturing if neither partner is yet established, because then there's little, if anyone, to market to. At least one of the potential partners of the joint venture, either you or the entity you're considering for partnership needs to have a responsive client base or have access to one.

So, where do you find potential partners? Everywhere. Here are three resources:

Your competitors. Check out your competitors' sites. See who they have relationships with, either through the links or products they're actively promoting on their website. The entities behind those links and products are potential joint venture partners.

Forums. If you're active in any forums dedicated to your niche (and of course, you should be), it's usually quite easy to see who the serious players are. Make note of those members who have products or services complementary to yours and approach them for a joint venture. Even if they are complete strangers, they're likely to be more receptive to your joint venture proposal simply because of the fact that you both are members of the same forum.

Search engines. The wells from which you can find nearly infinite partnership possibilities. Alexa.com is especially helpful in this endeavor, because of the fact that it includes a great foundation of information on any potential business partner sites. It even provides a listing of sites similar to the one you're searching, so it's even easier to find potential partners.

That's it for today. Later this week, we'll discuss making contact.