Marketing 101

  The Hare, The Tortoise, and The Eagle If you’re destined to become road kill on the financial highway, you probably fall into one of two categories. Take a look at the menu down at this Financial Road Kill Cafe and you’ll see that it’s filled with tortoises and hares. Hares get run over because they are always in too much of a hurry to build financial success. They buy into get-rich-quick schemes. They don’t want the hassle of working to be successful. They want big success, and they want it now. They buy lottery tickets, play slot machines, and bet on horses. Even though they’ve lost a small fortune over the years, they are convinced their big hit is just around the corner. After all, they reason, they have a friend named Joe who has an uncle whose son-in-law lives in another state and he once won a million dollars in the lottery. It is so easy to get seduced by the siren song of instant riches. We confess to feeling a little giddy when we see that the Powerball Lottery prize ha...

  Signs That You Are Not Made For Internet Business… For those of us in the crawl phase, it’s important to note that, just like anything in life, online business has its own guiding principles. Those who succeed in a big way online follow these principles. The opposite is also true for those who fail. As Russell Brunson and other internet business experts would readily advise, do what works. Don’t try to reinvent the wheel. Here are seven signs that tell you that you’re not ready for online business success. Not in any particular order, they include: 1. You’re not curious, indeed more often than not, you’re skeptical that people like you are building successful online businesses and making money. 2. You’re not paranoid, indeed you believe online business is a passing fad and will soon go away. Andy Grove, Intel’s co-founder, once said, “Only the Paranoid Survive”. The internet is not likely to go away soon. 3. You believe Social Media is a distraction; if you use Social Media at al...

  The Biggest Secret In Business So, what is the secret to how to be successful? The secret is to provide tremendous VALUE in exchange for money to anyone you want to do business with. If you do this then there’s literally NO LIMIT on the success that you can achieve. It does not matter who you are, where you are from, what you know, or what you do not know. If you can provide value to somebody else that makes a BIG difference in their life, they will be more than willing to get their credit card or checkbook out and buy from you. Let me break this down further and show you exactly how to be successful in business… First, get a piece of paper and write down exactly what your money-making goals are and write down exactly how much you want to earn. Have you written down exactly how much you want to earn? It doesn’t matter what figure you have written down. What you have to understand is that money is simply a medium for value exchange. If you focus your efforts on delivering val...

  What’s Needed To Be Successful In Business Starting a business and making it work is the primary purpose of having a business, to begin with. If your goal for starting a business was to fail, why start one at all? When you start and run a business, you have only one option and that is to succeed. The only problem is that there are several barriers in front of you that could hinder your ability to become successful. The biggest reason people don’t succeed in business is that they don’t have an entrepreneurial mindset. Instead, they think like employees. They have been employees for so long that they still think like employees. In order to run a successful business, you must think like an employer, or better think like an entrepreneur. This way you are focusing on the right ideas and ways of running the business from the right perspective. The first thing you must do is change your mindset. When difficulties arise in business, and they will arise, you must think about how you ...

Affiliate Marketing — 6 Simple Steps To Get Started Looking to make an income online? Got a computer/laptop and an Internet connection? Then Affiliate Marketing could be the simplest and quickest path to fulfilling your dream. Here, you’ll discover the 6 simple steps that will take you from complete beginner to Affiliate Marketer in as little as 48 hours. WHAT IS AFFILIATE MARKETING? Affiliate marketing is a performance-based marketing system where a product vendor pays an “affiliate” a commission when someone buys their product. That “someone” has been referred to the vendor by the “affiliate.” And it all happens online: You have a web presence, usually, a website, that you attract like-minded visitors to, where you “warm them up” to the idea that the product you’re promoting (as an affiliate) is the perfect answer to their pressing problem or need. That “product” could be physical (books, CDs, DVDs, clothing, jewelry, natural medicines, etc.) or digital (e-books, e-reports, soft...

  Can You Start An Online Business Without Any Money Over the years, many individuals have asked, if it’s possible to create an online business with no money. The answer is yes, but it will require much more work. This article, will provide the strategies that are needed to start an online business with no money. First, let's take a look at this type of business model. We need to eliminate those elements present in typical internet businesses — autoresponders, ad-free hosting, and a domain name. Since these elements cannot be part of this business model as they required a bit of money, the best approach would be to find affiliate products to sell from places such as ClickBank, Warrior Plus, and JV Zoo. So, my recommendation is to set up an account with platform such as ClickBank, find one product of which you possess the knowledge, and make sure that it’s converting well. Use ClickBank’s tool to create your affiliate link. Once you have your affiliate link, plan your promotion...