Is a Thief Inside Your Head Stealing Your Money?

I have another niche market I participate in and hope to sell products in. This niche market involves a sizable learning curve. I see people come and go in it all the time.

And from my own experiences and those I observe, there is ONE THING that keeps people from making progress. And that thing is self doubt.

1. You may doubt you have the ability to succeed in this business

You know, we all have self doubts. In learning the new skills I’m tell you about, I know I personally have had self doubt.“Is this something I can do? Is this a skill I can master? Am I TOO OLD?”

Yet,the conclusion I come back to over and over is that success in ANY endeavor is the result of behaviors. Change the behaviors and get the result.

Wherever you are, I’ve been there. I know what it is to doubt yourself or your ability. To not be sure if you have what it takes. To try and have your successes far outweighed by things that didn’t work.

It’s easy to get discouraged. To stop. To quit. To think thatthis is the end of the road for you. In this new arena and skill set area I’m working in, I’ve experienced all those feelings and emotions and more.

2. You may doubt your progress

It’s so easy to look at a few successes against more failures and think,“I’m not making progress.” I think this is the hardest thing. You have to tie a knot on your mental rope and hang on. Because the truth is, things almost always don’t work before they DO work.

You have to really tune up your focus on any successes you DO have. And notice the small successes. So maybe you don’t have a ton of sales yet. But you DO have people subscribing. Or you DO have some sales coming in regularly. Or you DO have your blog up and you ARE getting visitors now from Google.

You have to exaggerate mentally the successes you DO have because those are what show you that you ARE making progress and ARE on the right track.

3. Others will rain on your parade

So you finally get to the point where things ARE starting to work. All of a sudden in a forum or someplace, someone RAINS on your parade.They criticize your model, your idea or your efforts.

Maybe they tell you you are pipe dreaming. Or chasing rainbows. And you let it get to you mentally, spiritually or psychically.

I don’t know why this happens. Some people just aren’t very tuned in. You have to believe in yourself and what you’re doing more than anyone else. I don’t know why it’s that way. But it is.

4. You may have a set back

Man, this one is a challenge. You’re going along. You’re making progress. You’ve got some traffic. You’re getting subscribers. Sales are coming in.

Then you have a set back. Something happens in your life, your family, or some area that holds you back or slows you down.

For me last year it was a quadruple hernia. Not exactly what I had in mind for my year. But you move forward. That’s all you can do.

5. You may think or feel that finally you’ve reached a point where “it isn’t working.”

Anytime you’re acquiring a complex set of skills, that can happen. It’s a signal to do some things different. To up your Game. To tweak what you’re doing and how.

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Dr. Scott Lewis is a comedy-hypnotist performing at the Riviera Hotel every Monday night in Las Vegas. He called me one day wanting a truly hypnotic ad to run in the local newspapers to pull in college students to his show. I asked him to tell me what he already had in mind for the ad. Here’s what he told me:

“I’m thinking of using the headline ‘Come do outrageous things at the Riviera next Monday night’.”

What do you think? Me, I didn’t think it was a very hypnotic headline.

For one thing, it’s not engaging. It just sits there. It’s slightly active, in the sense that it says “come do outrageous things,” but that’s not enough to truly mesmerize busy readers of newspapers. Not today. And not college students.

For another, his headline would eliminate all the shy people from going to the show. They might be afraid they would get hypnotized and look stupid in front of their friends. After all, far more people want to be spectators than performers. Scott would miss his target audience.

I advised Scott to try the following headline instead:

“What outrageous things will you see your friends and others do next Monday night at the Riviera?”

Now we have something truly hypnotic.

First, the question involves the mind. It forces you to begin thinking of WHAT you will see next Monday. And it begins the process of having you IMAGINE outrageous things.

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How To Create An Autopilot Internet Marketing System No Matter What You Sell, Who You Sell To or Why You Think Your Business, Product Or Service is Different — And How To Get Up And Running In 30 Days

I’m going to talk about two controversial, highly loaded words…

1. Autopilot

2. Internet lifestyle

Is it possible to go from 0 to $7500 in 30 days? Is the Internet lifestyle dead, a myth or alive and well? Do only a select few make it in Internet marketing? Is the only thing that sells on the Internet ebooks about Internet marketing? Does autopilot really exist or is it a bunch of b.s.?

My friend Lee McIntyre is quite an inspiring person. He went from 0 to $7500 in his Internet marketing business in 30 days — starting as a school teacher. How?

Here’s his basic system:

1. He created an info product
2. He sold it on ebay
3. He got other people to sell it and paid a commission

Now, I went from $3,500 a month to $30,000+ a month when I implemented step #3. Back when I got started, I was doing OK at $3,500 a month, selling my info on copywriting and creating info products. But things kicked into a whole new level when I put step #3 into force. Matter of fact, I think I knocked out that $7500 on day 4 or 5. THAT is the power of step #3.

If you were to take everyone in the WORLD who surfs the Internet with an English browser, you’d find that 1 out of 102 have been to one of my web sites, as measured by 24 cookies. That fact is fully documented at 1in102.com and in the product there.

Now, is the Internet lifestyle a myth as some say? Do you need a big office and tons of employees? My answer is NO. And I can prove it. I did it 7+ years with a few virtual employees in Canada I’d never met and still to this day, don’t know what most of them looked like.

So anyone who tells you it can’t be done without an Office is feeding you a misrepresentation of the truth.

Another big myth is that the ONLY things that sell online are how to market online. Yeah right.

Last year as I recall total ecommerce on the Net exceeded $6.2 billion dollars, and that was the U.S. alone.

That fact is fully documented at: http://www.freeonlinemarketingebook.com

I have a video in there that walks you through the gov’t site and all the statistics. I also give you a number of web sites you can go to and see the enormous variety of things being sold.

Here’s another big myth: You have to be selling in a niche outside of Internet marketing to have the right to sell something about Internet marketing.

That’s dumb.

The Internet marketing audience IS a niche.

And it’s probably the most competitive of all. If you can sell in it, I doubt there’s a niche you can’t sell in.Personally, I’d say people who haven’t sold offline like I have don’t have the right to teach selling online. It’s probably not the truth, but it’d be a good sales angle! All of that stuff is positioning to try to eliminate the competition. None of it is the truth.

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INFOPRODUCT TRUTH #1 – What chef would ever randomly mix ingredients together hoping they will create a tasty and healthy meal? Or what builder would randomly assemble materials on the off chance an attractive and safe dwelling would be built?

In every pursuit of life a set of instructions is needed in order to be successful. A chef begins with a recipe, a builder with a blueprint, a surgeon with a procedure, an athlete with a practice. In each case, there are steps to take – precise steps to take – in order to achieve the desired result.

If you are to become a successful information marketer, you must have a set of instructions to follow. Instructions that were carefully drafted and perfected by someone who has achieved the desired result you strive to likewise achieve.

-Jimmy D. Brown, Author Small Reports Fortune http://www.SmallReportsFortune.com/index2.html

There has been a LOT of interest in my breakthrough course, Small Reports Fortune. We have *literally* sold hundreds of copies. Sales continue to come in around the clock.

And so have a couple of common questions

** How much time will I need to invest each day?**

** What exactly will I be doing each day?**

What I’d like to do is answer both of these questions by
providing you with a quick “overview” checklist below of the 7-day checklist that my clients use in creating their own small reports.

I’ve organized this checklist so users of my Small Reports Fortune system can …

(A) Work about 2-4 hours each day, depending upon the individual.  (B) Start from scratch and actually make sales in only 7 days.

So, let’s take a quick look at the daily activities in the Small Reports Fortune Checklist…

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Do you want to know the secret to selling things successfully online? It’s finding the RIGHT WORDS for the job. Most visitors take 8 seconds or less to decide whether to stick around or move on to the next site. Just 8 seconds — that’s all the time you have to convince them YOUR site is where they want to be. It doesn’t matter how well designed your site is…… How high your search engine ranking is…… Or how amazing your product is.

If you don’t GRAB your visitors’ attention right away, they’re going to leave and probably never return.

Of all the words on your site, the most important are the ones in your HEADLINE.

Your headline is the first thing your visitors see. It needs to capture their attention — spark their curiosity– and compel them to read further. And it has to do it fast.

To guarantee YOUR headlines jump off the page and pull potential buyers deeper into your site, always follow IMC’s Top 3 “Unbreakable” Headline Rules:

Rule #1: RELATE A PROBLEM

Most visitors, when they come to your site, are looking for information — probably in relation to a problem they want to solve.

Maybe they’re curious about local flight schools in their area. Maybe they’re searching for molded chrome fenders to put on a 1953 Chevy Bel-Air. Or maybe they’re trying to figure out how to “unshrink” wool clothes that accidentally ended up in the dryer.

Whatever their problem is, relate to it. Show them YOU know what it’s all about. Demonstrate a clear and genuine understanding of their wants and needs — and they’ll be far more willing to buy from you.

Rule #2: PRESENT A SOLUTION

You’ve described a problem. Now you’ve got to solve it — in a way that creates a powerful image in the mind of your visitors.

Tell your visitors they’re about to discover how to get the most qualified flight instructors at the lowest price in town. Describe how their new chrome fenders will help them outshine the competition at the next state-wide car show. Promise them their wife or girlfriend will NEVER know her favorite sweater once shrank small enough to fit a chihuahua.

Get them to envision the end result — and you’re more than halfway to making the sale.

(NOTE: “How to…” and “Discover…” headlines are good at getting people to imagine the end result.)

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