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As a New Internet Marketer – Do You Think Focus, Is Just Hocus Pocus?
Apr 10th
By Keith Everett
Catchy title Oui! but what the heck does it mean?
It simply means that when I started in Internet Marketing, my view of the Internet Marketing playground was a lot different than it is today… 1 year on.
I guess back then I was easily seduced by “shiny” things. I had no point of reference as to what was real.. what was a genuine reliable source of information or what was, well to put it politely. CRAP!. This article – I hope, will help you see how the “crowd” is trampling itself to DEATH!
Statistically, 97% of people entering this Online ARENA, are thrown to the lions within a few short months and go back to their former life, bruised, battered and cynical as HELL, believing the Internet Marketing “thing” was NOT for them…
SO.. if I gave you a choice. Jump into the 3% field of Diamonds OR Go down the 97% Black hole… which would you choose? A Simple choice, isn’t it?
Yet,strangely enough. A large percentage of the 97% ALREADY know what they are doing WRONG, yet they still continue to do it. In the vain hope that “If you throw enough darts at a dartboard… you MUST surely hit the bullseye eventually” – RIGHT?… Wrong! – You might NEVER hit the Bullseye..
Doing MORE, doesn’t always mean you are making progress, it simply means you are making a “noise”. Movement is one thing, TRACTION is another, these things are so often confused, especially by new people coming into the online industry.
If you follow the herd and just do what everyone else does – The HERD, don’t always WIN.. the herd are just the herd, and that’s what they DO…FOLLOW!
They go around being the SAME as the next person, the teacher says! X + Y = Z. You do X + Y as instructed, you get to Z but you are still part of the HERD!
You see, when I started out. I had lots of experts telling me what to do. I joined this membership site, that membership site. I was spending more per week on membership sites and products than I had been making per week in my previous job… I even convinced myself that “Oh well, in business – you will have expenses. And indeed you do. However, I was my own worst enemy, because instead of developing myself as an expert in the Internet Marketing arena. I was in fact becoming part of the crowd. And the crowd “hiss and boo” and make lots of noise. But very little MONEY!
So, over to YOU!. check out who the successful people Online really are, and what they do. They SELL products.. yes they now give a TON of stuff away for FREE.. It’s the way forward for us all, but at the end of the day, they either sell a service, or a product. Some do both!
YOU are just part of that process… Marketers tend to sell to Marketers, new or otherwise. However, Social Media is developing at such breakneck speed, opening up more and more opportunities to market your services and products to the OFFLINE world..
These are very EXCITING times, it is very competitive out there. Even more so now, we need to be DIFFERENT. We need to develop brand “YOU”.
More emphasis should be placed on how to be an individual, not a NUMBER in a BIG crowd. This is something not talked about very much, as being a NUMBER means you are easier to market to.
Why do I think 97% FAIL in this game.. ?!? “People adopt a “Business Opportunity” mentality, meaning that they are looking to replace hard work with “shiny objects” and they FAIL to IMPACT people to buy from them in any great quantity due to “following the crowd”
My formula for SUCCESS……. Knowledge + Implementation (Action) + Eye Catching Brand (you) = Success…
I hope you have found this useful, please leave me a comment.
I’ve decided to do some 121 coaching on an hourly basis through Skype soon, if anyone is interested, let me know. My rates are very reasonable, I will help you to stay on track and focus on the core issues.
keith@askthetipster.com
All the best
Keith
How Getting Started Is The Key To Your New Life – Not Being Great
Mar 28th
By Keith Everett
Here is my take on why some people perhaps don’t get the recognition they deserve and why other people with over inflated EGO’s and their head stuck up in peculiar places seem to shine & dominate..
In short, it’s been a whole six days since I had personally written anything for Keith’s Money Making Tips, and I felt it was time to air my views upon my long suffering readers. yet again!. LOL!..
Here are some observations, I have noted about Successful & Unsuccessful people:
1) Successful people are not necessarily the best at what they do, they just have an uncanny “knack” of convincing people they are.
2) Unsuccessful people may be the best at what they do, but have an uncanny “knack” of being poor at marketing their talent – so no one ever gets to see how great they could have been.
3) Successful people tend to be “driven”. They focus on the “end” result and are not swayed by the temptation to take too many different paths.
4) Unsuccessful people tend to be “all at sea” a lot of the time, they lack focus – and although they could be just as successful as anyone else, they refuse to change their mindset and blame “other things” or other “people” for their problems. Even if the problems are of their own making in the first place.
5) Successful people always tend to look at “positive” angles, even when their own life is currently not looking so great.
6) Unsuccessful people tend to focus on negative things, even when things are looking up for them – they seem hell bent on self sabotage, and attract more negativity into their lives by focusing on problems, instead of the solutions. They tend to “hang” with other like minded “merchants of doom”
7) Successful people realise it’s a marathon, not a sprint and building success takes time
8) Unsuccessful people tend to buy into the “Business Opportunity Syndrome” and are looking for instant gratification as found in the infamous “business in a box” type strategies and instant wealth CLAPTRAP.
9) Successful businesses have solid legs, they are sustainable, plan for future growth and are built with the end in mind
10) Unsuccessful businesses refuse to embrace new change, new technology and once the business has been “thrown up”, it is left to it’s own devices, with the owner or owners spending as much of the profits (if any) as possible.
In short, you don’t have to be the BEST to be GREAT, what you need to do in my opinion is to be EVERYWHERE!. If no one knows about you, they won’t know what you do, they can’t get to like you, if they can’t get to like you – they won’t trust you or buy from you.
Getting started seems to be the No1 stepping stone online. A lot of people people wait until they make the perfect video, the perfect eBook, the perfect website and the perfect sales page.. In essence, most of the products out there are far from perfect, but they sell.
Do you know why?
Because someone, somewhere got off their A** and made it happen.. and didn’t wait to be GREAT!
Oh Well, that’s my RANT! for the day.. ;-)
Keith
P.S If you have any comments, I would love to hear from you
3 Simple Steps to Find The Best Way to Make Money Online
Feb 18th
3 Simple Steps to Find The Best Way to Make Money Online
By Keith Everett
Making money on the Internet is not as complicated as people would have you think. You see, if you make it complicated, you can sell people as many so called WONDER cures as you want and many will buy.
But one of the real problems of the whole “Internet Marketing Thing” is people tend to over complicate things instead of taking time out to wonder, or if even to ask themselves… is there a simple solution to making money on the Internet
Now, I’m not saying it’s EASY.. Easy and Simple, are not the same..
As with anything worthwhile, making money online takes effort. Consistent effort backed up with a plan, not a weak PRAYER… Here is my simple 3 step formula for making money online, take this advice or leave it.
I have spent many months over-complicating things, thinking that “If you want to make money, you must do as much STUFF as humanely possible. In fact, I’ve spent hours and hours just doing STUFF… some days, I’ve done so much STUFF… I’ve felt like my eyes could BLEED watching this computer screen..
Doing lots of STUFF, does not make you great at making money – it just makes you good, at looking like you are doing something..
So what is this MAGIC, secret formula.. well, it’s not magic and it’s cetainly not a secret, just common sense really.
1) Find a market full of people who have problems that they need to fix… do your research online to find if this same group, also spend money trying to fix the problem they have.
2) Find out exactly what they WANT… not need. People tend to spend like mad on things they WANT, much more than on things they NEED.
3) Sell it to them… that’s right – sell them what they want…
The more URGENT the problem, the better and the more they think about their problem during the day – the better..
Example:
A) An itchy ASS… not very URGENT… annoying yes, URGENT – NO!
B) PILES… Very painful, pretty urgent
A) Back Strain.. mild discomfort – not urgent
B) Back PAIN… very urgent, will be thinking about this ALL day..
A) A Tiff with a Girlfriend/Boyfriend – not urgent
B) Heartbreak & Heartache… very URGENT… a solution is Urgently needed
I think you get my drift. There are a million and one problems out there each and everyday. People are looking for answers to pressing, painful problems, i’m not talking about problems the doctor can solve, I’m talking about problems – you can solve..
So, there you have it: Find a hungry market, feed it what it WANTS… keep doing this and you may just have solved one of your own problems.. it won’t be EASY, nothing worthwhile really ever is.
Keith
I hope you have enjoyed this tip, if you have, pass it on. Why not leave a comment here ?
Keith
P.S The Best Way To Make Money Online?
How To Make Money Doing Jack All – A Lazy Guide For Work Shy Internet Marketers
Feb 4th
How to Make Money Doing Jack All – A Lazy Guide For Work Shy Internet Marketers
By Keith (work my butt off every day till midnight) Everett
How do you create instant wealth? It’s quite simple really.. go back to SLEEP…
LOL.. it’s true, the only place instant wealth really exists, is in your DREAMS…, yes… it’s TRUE OK… let’s look at some other FUN scenarios
Famous ways to get filthy RICH quickly:
1) You could remortgage your house, take the money, fly to Vegas and put it ALL on RED (or Black)… Not recommended
2) You could back all the winners at today’s race meeting in an accumulator…. Not likely
3) You could WIN the lottery…… Again, not likely – the UK lottery currently has odds of 14,000,000/1 to win the major prize.
4) You could be a GRIFTER and con people… glamorised by UK TV shows like “Hustle” – Great if you like prison food and big hairy MEN..
5) Steal it…. see number 4
Or….
You could just keep on buying lots of JUNK products promising the earth and hopefully one of these will be the MAGIC BULLET, right?…. WRONG.
Bullets are DANGEROUS and so are some of these over HYPED Instant wealth programs..
I have decided to write this short blog post because, I am a constant LURKER in the forums. I lurk in the forums to find out STUFF, for my two blogs, I look for REAL people who need REAL solutions. Now, in my travels around the forums, you see many posts from people who ask questions like:
How can I make money in the next two days, I have $50 and need a car. That’s it… no description of what THEY can do, it is now up to the respondents to ask the questions…
“What can you do?” “What do you know?”…..Blah Blah..
Some of these people have been posting the same questions for months and by now are quite well known, they just ask questions but NEVER act on the advice, they are hoping someone, somewhere has the answer to THEIR problem…
There are more and more threads starting in the forums by people who want some kind of “INSTANT FIX”… for doing NO work
I’m as sympathetic as the next person, and we all get a little STUCK sometimes, I will help any genuine person – but a lot (not all) of these people are UNWILLING to help themselves, or anyone else come to think of it, they just want ANSWERS…
I don’t know about you, but in THIS life… you give NOTHING, you tend to get NOTHING.. maybe a few handouts but nothing significent…
Now, I personally don’t know of a single business ONLINE where you can get INSTANT money, do you? OK, it might be your first day starting your blog, you have all your content set up and traffic is coming in and BOOM! you MAKE a SALE… sure, that could happen..
But, starting NOW.. how many people can make money online Today, Tomorrow… for virtually NO effort, NO money.. not many I bet..
YET, the Instant Riches brigade is GROWING….
It seems endemic in our society today that ways MUST be found to become Famous or Wealthy (or both) instantly, without any Work or effort… TV shows like Big Brother show people becoming Instant Celebrities for doing absolutely NOTHING…
Creating wealth is a SKILL that is learned by the TEACHABLE, I don’t believe for one minute it can be found in a Clickbank INSTANT Purchase… perhaps the many CLICK, CLICK, BOOM Instant wealth programs being touted around the Internet are partly to blame. This is not new – back in the 70′s & 80′s it was the Direct Mail miracle wonder products aimed at the WORK challenged, that were doing the rounds..and making their writers RICH. not the buyers
Sure, there are many GOOD products out there on the Internet, but they require WORK… There are also MANY, Many ethical Internet marketers who DO really care about helping people to make money.. but if you want INSTANT CASH…
1) Flog some crap on eBay or..
2) WORK…
I really think SUCCESS begins with the questions we ASK.. not to other people, but to ourselves..
Have a great day
Keith
P.S I would love to hear your comments on making money without doing JACK All !
How A SICK Internet Marketer Finally Broke Out Of Hospital
Dec 5th
Internet Marketing can really make you SICK… You don’t believe me?
People are literally going INSANE…
Check out the many piles of files on your desk top – the many unread eBooks, the half finished projects and all that other CRAP! that lingers on your computer, gathering DUST…
OH Boy, that felt GOOD.. Now, I’ve got that off my chest… What am I actually talking about here?
I’m talking about INTERNET MARKETERS Disease… “A Thousand Ways To Appear as If… but Never Really Getting Started” – If the Internet were a Hostpital, the CYBER wards would be chocked FULL of people who:
1) Collect TOO much Information and do NOTHING with it
2) NEVER finish ANY project first without starting a NEW one – Spending hours of Unproductive time FLITTING from one project to another
3) Listen to EVERYONE & everything but never focus on ANYONE or any one thing…
4) Do not have any sort of plan.
Need I go on ?
In fact, this was ME…. just a few short months ago… I was SICK, a SICK man with no real PLAN… just a whole bunch of marketing CRAP on my desktop and a thousand emails from every Internet Marketer on the PLANET…
I needed to FOCUS, and Focus FAST… it was either Sickness and a SLOW painful Internet Marketing DEATH or give myself a KICK up the ASS (this can be hard to do BALANCED on one leg, but none the less – INVIGORATING – lol )…. I needed answers, I needed RESULTS and I needed them Quick…
It was MAKE or BREAK time ….
Can you relate to this?, how many things have you STARTED in your life and simply gave up, you got tired of trying and it became too hard, you simply shifted focus on to something else – but had you continued – you would have become an absolute EXPERT by now, and your life could have been changed for the BETTER… with me, this would be several, perhaps as many as a Dozen different things….
I, WE – You, ME – simply gave up!…. now look at us – being DRIVEN to distraction by Internet Marketing Disease…
OK, now here come the POSITIVE bits.
Internet Marketing is not the COMPLICATED puzzle, some Marketers would have you believe. It helps SOME Internet Marketers to make you believe Internet Marketing is complicated, as THEY can then SELL you their products to help you to UNRAVEL this imaginary puzzle. I’m saying SOME Marketers here, as this is perhaps a small minority – as MOST marketers NOW, tend to offer GENUINE products to help and assist you in your Internet Marketing journey..
Complicated it certainly isn’t. Here are the Basics.
1) You write content
2) You put it in a Website, Blog, Squidoo Lens, Video or Article etc., etc
3) You Monetize it
4) You drive traffic to it.
5) You build a list to retain as many of these prospects & customers as possible, so you can market to them in the future.
Now, information on how to do all of the above is available out there freely on the Internet. This is why this business is such a BRILLIANT business to be in, you can actually get started literally for FREE… sure you need to buy a domain name, hosting and an autoresponder. But compared with the costs of starting other businesses, the outlay is virtually PEANUTS..
Now here is a quick story about ME, then I’ll get back to YOU – OK?
My first 5 months in Intenet Marketing amounted to NOTHING… or so I thought. You see in monetary terms, it did amount to ZERO… I worked 5 months, approx 50 hours a week for a big FAT ZERO… but at the end of Month 5, I made a sale on Clickbank…
Now, OK, it was only a few dollars – but it was worth SO much more than dollars, as it brought home to me that this business ACTUALLY WORKS! YES, it DOES…Yaaaaay!
So had my efforts in the previous 5 Months been WASTED… No – because I now had the grounding, I now had SOME Knowledge to MOVE it forward.
I had been creating the MOMENTUM I needed to make my first sale over those previous 5 Months. This led to not only my FIRST Sale, but also to the many more that followed..
My point is this – just suppose, I had GIVEN UP in Month 4. And just stopped…. like MANY people do? I would have just ADDED something else to the list of things I started but NEVER finished… I wouldn’t have made my first sale, I wouldn’t have made any more sales. The Internet Sickness would have taken hold and I would now be a VICTIM of “IF ONLY”…..
And this is why, YOU Must NEVER GIVE UP… You give up – YOU LOSE…. You carry on, you WILL find a way to make it pay – and you will WIN…
YES, it’s hard… IT SUCKS… but so does continually Kicking yourself up the ASS……
My plan for you.
1) Unclutter your Desktop – Unclutter your LIFE… Get rid of anything likely to cause Internet Sickness.
2) Focus on ONE thing at a time, don’t spread yourself too THIN! – pace yourself, it’s better to learn slowly than not at all.
3) Realise, it is a SIMPLE business, – Content – Get It out There – Monetize It, – Drive Traffic To It, – Build A List – Market to The List… It’s NOT Rocket Science..
4) Just DO IT… Do It till it works…
There is plenty out there for EVERYONE… Yes, some people are RUNNING away with it… but they had many days & months when “NOTHING WORKED”..
It won’t run out – there is PLENTY for everyone, there are MILLIONS of customers out there for US…and THOUSANDS of NEW ones coming on to the Internet EVERY Day… The GURU’s don’t have it all between them… they only have a teeny, tiny FRACTION….
The possibilities are ENDLESS…
Now is YOUR Time….
You’re A Long Time Dead…
Keith
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