“…there’s something a little wrong with some of the wanna be entrepreneurs landing on my doorstep this month. More wrong than just believing the lie that a million can be made overnight. More wrong than thinking a $5 ebook written 5 years ago is going to teach the strategy that is required to make a business flourish today…full text – Laura Childs

I wondered if it wasn’t too tough to read for some people, too discouraging for newbies, or too judgemental…but then I clicked over to a favorite trainer’s site a few days later…

Perry Marshall Attacks Stupidity and Suggest Ways to Protect Yourself

“You know what’s wrong with the Internet? Smart people and stupid people get equal airtime. And since stupid people tend to shout longer and louder than people who have acquired wisdom and judgment, ignorance generally prevails…”

and this:

“The point is, stupidity is cheap and plentiful. With stupidity, your options appear to be endlessly open. Enticing possibilities, immediate, apparent, as though you could just…”

Perry has some great points in his article on becoming wise, learning discernment in the modern (online) world, and the difference between a fool’s thinking and a wise man’s accomplishments…(enough food for thought there to make me consider getting out of the publicity path). I advise anyone who stops here to take 3-5 and read his article and digest his suggestions. You’ll want to look for the hidden lessons, the points behind the prose (click here to open Perry’s rants and answers in a new window)

“Okay,” said I, “I’m not so lonely ranting about authenticity, and unqualified marketing trainers teaching, and dream-chasers not thinking clearly about who they’re following and what they’re perpetuating…”

And Then Came Marlon’s “Wise Up!”

As you might know it was Marlon Sanders who first introduced me into this business back in 1995 (ish). Marlon paid me to run his pay per click campaigns and to make small text and graphic changes to his web pages. I was too stupid to stick around and learn all I could from this marketing genius back then, but I hang on most of his words today – and it’s all served me incredibly well.

I owe a large part of my work-at-home, vacation-when-you-want, lifestyle today to Marlon’s teachings.

Marlon told me I could re-publish the content here for you (since he doesn’t have an online version to link to) and I think he’ll be shocked that I actually did it, since it’s not an easy read. UPDATE – September 5/07: Marlon has entered the blogging world! Marlon’s Marketing Minute.

If you’re looking for some happy thoughts or dreams of millions overnight, Marlon’s latest rant is NOT for you. This is a tough love, wake up call.

I thought of editing, but decided if you don’t know Marlon, reading this from the start is an education into itself. Marlon is Texan so read it in a drawl…

How to Get the Traffic You Need to Make Your ‘Money Machine’ Hum and Purr or What I Learned about Affiliate Programs by Drinking Coffee in a New Shop and How it Can Help YOU Get More People to Your WebSite

‘Bout two miles away from me is the new place in town. You walk in the doors and there are plenty of nice, cushiony chairs to sit down in as well as a table for larger groups. The earth tones help you relax and settle down to enjoy your coffee.

And then….then there is the ‘humming machine’ over on the left side. It’s the largest coffee roasting machine I’ve ever seen. Not that I’ve seen many. But it has this gigantic cylinder with big ol’ hoses runnin’ from it up through the ceiling.

And it has some knobs on the front and a crank you use to make it hum.

A middle-aged man goes over to it and pours coffee beans in and cranks it up. As you sit drinking your cappuccino, there’s a hum as the machine does its magic.

I don’t know what magic there is in the beans it spits out after its done with ‘em. But they sure do brew up a tasty cup o’ joe.

As I sit drinking my cappuccino and reading a book (marketing, of course), I notice the dull hum in the background. Yet, reliably, predictably, the machine spits out perfectly roasted coffee beans.

Such is your web site.

It is your money machine that spits out orders. And done right, it makes a beautiful hum as it works on your behalf.

For that machine to grind out roasted beans, you have to input raw beans….the raw materials. The same goes for your web site. You need traffic. That is your raw material.

This summer, the number of new, highly touted Internet marketing products is going to match last summer’s. It’ll be somewhere between a fireworks show and a freak show. He who has the most dazzling fireworks show and best illustrated affiliate action with the largest prizes wins.

Last summer it was the BMW car for the first place winner. This year, maybe it’ll be the Lambo. So if you want to crank up your affiliate program, there’s no doubt that a good offer and sizzling prizes works.

But how much do these offers have to do with you?

So you buy the program. You learn the deep, dark secrets. Then what?

Where does that leave YOU? You’ve got $1,000 to $5,000 less in your bank. That’s for certain. But are you any better off?

I’m an advocate of education. I DO believe buying programs that FIT your model. I do NOT believe in buying things just because a lot of people sell them “so they must be good.”

If you don’t already know this, the BIG SECRET behind massive launches with many affiliates simultaneously promoting is NOT the quality or usefulness of the product to ANYONE. It boils down to how much preparation went into it (sometimes months of work). And how big the affiliate prizes are. (Like I said:) Last year, the big prize was a BMW car.

So far this year, it’s a Rolex. But I think a Lambo car may be in the mix. You know, the next gigantic launch has to have affiliate prizes that trump the prior one.

None of this is BAD or wrong. I happen to like the people involved in these launches. The problem comes when people buy something based on the social proof of everyone and their dog promoting it EVEN IF it has nothing to do with your model for making money.

I don’t care if a chorus of 100,000 angels sing in unison (motivated by the desire to win crazy prizes) that you should buy an info product. That does NOT in one iota make it more VALID or useful to you.

It’s all about the model. What’s the model? Is it relevant to you?

The prizes are good. I have no problem with them. It’s a great deal for affiliates. But YOU need to be an educated consumer. Because I’m telling you right now. Between now and the end of September, it’s going to get crazy with launches.

OK. So I’m assuming you’ve bought some “secrets.” Maybe a lot of “secrets.” Where do you go NEXT?

If you take away all the smoke and mirrors (which is what I help people do), in spite of all the hype, there are only a FEW ways you make money in this market:

1. Products: Most people sell info products. You have ebooks, CD’s and courses, coaching, teleseminars, membership sites and so forth.
2. Traffic: You get that from organic seo, pay per click, and associate programs. You can also buy banners. Most viral marketing that works is a derivation of an affiliate or associate program.
3. Sales conversion: You have webinars, teleseminars and sales letters. A lot of people have gone to verbal selling because they suck at writing sales letters.

Products + Traffic + Sales Conversion = Cash

Here are my NINE LAWS of Internet marketing:

Law one: At the end of the day, you still have to IMPLEMENT. You have to do.
Law two: Learning secrets is more fun and sexy than doing.
Law three: The money is in the doing.
Law four: Doing is frustrating because you will always run into snags and things that don’t work as simple or easy as you wish they would.
Law five: The people who win DO. They implement. The people who don’t DO, don’t make money.
Law six: You can get so stuck in “learning secrets” that you never do.
Law seven: If it’s dirt simple with no brain required, if all you do is push a button and money comes in — then all the opportunity has already been sucked out. You will NOT make money long term because there IS no barrier to entry and everyone will jump on board.
Law eight: When everyone jumps on board, the opportunity is often gone. Blue Ocean book was right.
Law nine: Problems are good. They provide barriers to entry for competitors. It’s the most basic law of supply and demand.

I believe in buying secrets. I believe in specialized knowledge and know how. I also believe the most important part of the whole equation is what you DO.

What you DO is as important as what you KNOW.

Doing requires confronting what is NOT comfortable to you. Watching DVD’s and going to seminars is comfortable. DOING is not.

Why? It’s a learning curve. Things don’t work. Things aren’t as simple as you wish. That’s part of life.

But if you really wanna make it happen, you gotta focus on DOING.

And the main reason I bring up this uncomfortable and unpopular truth is because I want you to succeed.

My products for the most part are NOT about secrets. They’re about DOING. Yeah, that isn’t as sexy and interesting and fun.

But do you wanna be entertained? Or do you wanna make money?

Honestly.

If you wanna be entertained by the biggest fireworks show and dazzling simultaneous blitzkriegs of promotions by affiliates, then have a good time.

Enjoy the show.

Personally, for entertainment I recommend movies, comedy shows and magic shows. But it’s whatever floats your boat.

If you wanna make money, then buy your know-how carefully and focus on DOING. You don’t HAVE unless you DO.

If you’re STUCK and just can’t get it going, I recommend: Anthony Robbins 30-day personal power program.

You gotta confront ACTION. You gotta do things you are NOT comfortable with. You gotta pick up the phone and call people or do interviews. You gotta write things like sales letters that are new learning curves.

And yes, you can outsource some or all of the above – IF you have the money to do it. And confront SPENDING the money to hire people to do things. And confront the idea you probably will end up spending money on some things that are junk or done wrong.

QUESTIONS:

The basic questions are “Who are you selling to?”, “What you selling them?”, and “How are you finding them?”

But I’ll spell them out:

1. Do you have your target market or target audience yet? That for a lot of people is the point at which they stop or get stuck. All things being equal, you’re best off selling something you can at least get passionate about. If I wasn’t doing the Internet marketing thing, I’d be doing info products on magic or chess or public speaking. Or perhaps something about coffee.
2. Have you done your 12 product survey? Gimme My Money Now has my system for this.
3. Do you have your sales letter written? My best tool for this is Push Button Sales Letters, but you get best results if you combine it with basic know how about Sales Copy
4. Do you have your affiliate program? Even if you use organic seo and/or pay-per-click, it ONLY makes sense to drop your customers into an affiliate program and get them promoting for you. That’s what my Affiliate Dashboard will help you DO. Affiliate Dashboard – there aren’t a lot of SEXY secrets in it. It’s a DOINGness product to help make it faster, simpler, easier and cheaper to set up your affiliate program.
5. Design Dashboard – Helps you design your site or at least tweak what a designer does for you. Helps you save a lot on autoresponders, hosting and pictures. A to Z. My most thorough Dashboard to date. It’s another DOING product. And yeah, it isn’t perfect or flawless or all EASY. I’ve tried to make it that way.

But if you can’t CONFRONT something that isn’t perfectly easy…honestly, keep your day job.

You can either confront action. Confront doing. Confront problems that have to be solved. Confront things that aren’t perfect.

Or you can’t.

If it was all a piece of cake, we would all be rich now, wouldn’t we?

In the past, I talked about the seduction of “easy” methods. If you look back at the things I talked about, you’ll see most of the money you spent buying them was totally wasted.

Yet, it was an unpopular truth when I told you the truth. I actually got some of the most vicious emails when I wrote those things. Because a LOT of players had vested interest in teaching those methods we ALL knew wouldn’t work a year or two down the road.

But darnit, they sure were SEXY and easy to sell.

The people who sold those programs made millions in some cases.

So how did those methods work out for you?

They didn’t, did they?

I’ve been preaching and teaching about the songs of the sirens for HOW long now?

OK. So a nice gentleman writes me that he avoided the songs of the sirens, created a product and it didn’t make money.

And he blamed me more or less. That’s part of marketing. NOT all products work. I don’t care WHO you are. You pick yourself up. Do a new survey. And move on. You look at what the market IS buying.

Are you gonna DO?

Are you gonna CONFRONT?

Are you gonna have a clear model and stick to it? Or get sidetracked every week but a blitzkrieg of fireworks, flash and dash?

Do a million angels on a pinhead singing praises for a model that doesn’t fit what your doing or won’t work a year from now make it any more valid for YOU?

Engage your brain.

Best wishes,

Marlon Sanders

Well that’s all from me today! Not much really from me, other than sharing two great trainers and top online marketer’s latest tough love, get busy, posts!

We’ll chat again soon,

Laura Childs

p.s. Remember, business takes work and time and authenticity!

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And today an internet marketing friend shared with me his free report titled: “The Death of Internet Marketing”

I will admit, give the sheer genius of the marketer (Mike Filsaime), I was pretty sure I’d be in for a fear-based, pitch-fest by reading it. “Oh no! My online business will die if I don’t know/buy/practice this!”

It turns out that wasn’t the case.

This free and meaty (59 pages of similar content I received from part of Mark Joyner’s eXtreme home study course) really helped clarify the future of online business in my mind.

This really could be the death of the way netpreneurs currently do business online!

The good news is, the report also shows you what you need to know now to succeed in and prepare for the future.

Times are changing (I’ve been rambling about this for quite some time now) and it would be a shame for any serious netpreneur to miss this report. Mike states on the site he’s only making it available for free for the next few weeks.

Please take a break with whatever is keeping you busy at the moment, get your free training, and clearly see what steps to take next in your business.

Consider your future, go here now…

Laura

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Michael is probably one of the coolest heads in the business. He translates complicated procedures into non-geek English, he tests every strategy he teaches, and he fully investigates every product he endorses or recommends.

This is high praise in the internet marketing and website promotion industry.

Now I don’t know Michael personally but I’ve been a subscriber of his off and on since 1998. His emails are one of a handful that I religiously grab a cup of coffee for and read from start to finish.

All tolled he’s held me captive for many hours over the last 8 years.

You get to know a person.

But I NEVER expected to read the words that flew from his fingertips on a blog comment surrounded by some of the hottest and most respected internet marketing and/or blogging personalities today!

Michael Campbell said: “Click Off!”

I feel like a kid who just heard her first swear word.

Michael Fortin, Ken McCarthy, Andy Wibbels, Denis de Bernardy, Teli Adlam, Gary Huynh, and of course, the host of the party, Andy Beard were all there – they ‘heard’ it too. (There are others I didn’t recognize immediately and there will likely be more before you get over there to see what all the fuss is about.) This will only interest you if you’re a WordPress blogger or if you enjoy seeing where the ‘celebrities’ were hanging out today.

And no, Michael didn’t start the fight… Trademark Troubles?

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The email was a notification about Michael Rasmussen’s free videos on how to manage a list of subscribers and write emails that are opened, read and acted upon.

Thousands followed the link and grabbed the free videos, many (after seeing the quality of the content) decided they needed to learn more from Michael) and upgraded to own the full set. However it was not necessary to upgrade to gain some valuable information au gratis.

Here’s part of the email I sent out:

It is in the top three questions I get every week about working from home…

“How do I write to and manage a list of subscribers for profits?”

Well Michael Rasmussen (who recently brought in over $30,000 from a single email promotion), has created a series of videos that he’s allowing me to pass onto you for free. (plus you’ll get a handy little redirect script, also free).

Grab them here.

Email marketing secrets about:

* the subject line
* the call to action
* the body copy
* the P.S.
* plus, my personal favorite, common mistakes new email marketers make!

Go check it out now in case he changes his mind and starts charging for these or before too many people find out and crash their servers…

Now let me tell you about the two people who wrote back…

One subscriber wrote back and said, “I’m just starting my business so I didn’t sign up. I can’t spend money on everything that comes along. Please tell me if I really need this…”

First of all, the time that it took to write that email to me could have been invested in signing up for free and watching those videos – moving forward in your business instead of wondering and treading water. Secondly, I don’t send my subscribers anything that I don’t use, haven’t seen or reveiwed, or believe in myself…

It’s okay, I know we’re all skeptical and worried about handing over our email address for free products and not wanting to be subjected to enticing offers and upsells. Let’s use our heads here. Get yourself a free email account and use that address to subscribe for the free offers. Or, once subscribed, if you feel like a number that is just being pitched to, unsubscribe from any follow-up emails once you’ve received your free offer.

“Personally I spend an hour of every day reading other marketer’s emails. Why? To stay on top of the new product offerings but also to analyze and learn from the wide variety of email copywriting that sells. I don’t envision that time as being pitched to, I see it as an educational experience.”

Now before I run off on a tangent, let me tell you about the second subscriber who wrote back to me…

“Laura, I’m unsubscribing from all marketing related email lists. Everything is written to sell me, nothing is purely to help. I’ve ordered some of the products and I’m always left knowing I have only been given the tip of the iceberg, that there is something more I need to succeed online…”

I promise to share my response to this gentleman another day in a comment to this post, but in the meantime I’m wondering what action you would have taken had you received an email like this from your subscriber…

Would you:

• Just let them go because obviously they aren’t a good match for you and your business?
• Realize that they are one of those people who spend hundreds or thousands on products and never put them to use (and therefore are a lost cause anyway)?
• Think that here’s a guy that once spent money on marketing projects and probably would spend money again IF you could find the product that met his desires, or shared the secret he thinks we’re all holding back from him?
• Analyze that if one person wrote an email like this it’s quite likely that another 99 had similar thoughts – and take action to create a product that will suit their needs?
• Or _____________?

You don’t have to answer me here, you don’t even have to email me your answer, but I do suggest that you think about what your reaction to an email like this would be.

Why?

Your reaction holds the keys to your future online business success. Let me say that again: “Your reaction holds the key to your future online business success,” because the internet, and the surfers of it, and your subscribers are changing. As they change, the way you market to, interact and react to your customers and readers will change – if you want to survive.

How do I know this?

Next month I celebrate 9 years of working online from home. No boss, no paycheck. Just me and the world wide web.

• Nine years ago I was fortunate enough to work with the longest running internet marketing expert Marlon Sanders for about 4 months – but I wasn’t smart enough to ‘get’ what he was trying to show me.
• Two years ago I was fortunate enough to co-author two books and launch 3 websites with marketing legend Dr. Joe Vitale. I was nearly smart enough then to glean many of the secrets he shared with me.

But this is the first year that I’ve matured enough to stand back and look at where we’ve been, how we’ve changed, and where we’re heading. I’ll disclose my insights, my projections and predictions in following posts.

In a few days I’ll disclose my action or reaction to my gentleman subscriber who has bought hundreds of dollars of marketing products and thinks that marketing authors aren’t disclosing all, that “there’s something more I need to succeed online.”

In the meantime, I’d love to hear from you.

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The launch set records. His payment processor Clickbank, nearly choked. Over $300,000 in sales in just 24 hours.

If you’re on a few internet marketing guru’s mailing lists you likely saw a variety of offers and specials for this. Many top name marketers added on those “order from my link” bonuses to sweeten the deal and make the sale. (None of which I found sweeter than saving 70% and ordering through my own link.)

As I read my copy of the manuscript I tried to keep a new-comer’s perspective. “What would this knowledge mean to me if I was just starting out with an online business?” and “Does this apply to every type of online business?”

The report and my thoughts around it, kept me up all night. Reading and brainstorming…and thinking of a variety of business markets and strategies.

But there was one recurring theme to my thoughts in those late night hours – “Where did Mike Filsaime learn all these marketing strategies that made his online business such a monstrous success?”

The answer was staring me right in the face…

From page 6 of 124 of the manuscript, “I just want to say thanks to two people…”

The first is to Mike’s father.

Then the second acknowledgement: “I also want to thank Mark Joyner. It’s his footsteps and concepts I learned from. I did not invent many of the things I will discuss. Many of them I learned from Mark.” — Mike Filsaime, Butterfly Marketing Manuscript

Actually, Mark is mentioned over 20 times in those 124 pages, so my question is…

“Why am I learning this from Mike? Especially when Mike is only teaching a few of the ways…?”

Now I don’t mean to take away any of Mike Filsaime’s glory. He’s a brilliant marketer, and a great teacher in his own right.

But the strategies don’t suit all markets, business mandates, or personal styles.

That’s when I whipped out my Joyner DVDs and found the answers.

* Answers that I could apply to more than just one website.

* Answers that taught me more about the variety of markets I’m involved in…

And now, Mark’s finally releasing these to the world, available now.

You can find out more, see 10 videos on the page, and also discover how – if these techniques don’t work for you – you can make $10,000 just for your time trying!

I fully expect to see you on the site.

Honestly and truly,
To your business success,

Laura Childs

p.s. Let me know if you decide to heed Mark Joyner’s advice through the videos. If you’re game, you and I could work on a site together or I could help you one-on-one with the site you choose to apply these strategies to. As always feel free to contact me by leaving a comment below.

Don’t wait, go now to: http://www.smartzville.com/markjoyner.htm

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“Three Rules of Work:
Out of clutter find simplicity;
From discord find harmony;
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
- Albert Einstein

In the free audio I mentioned in my last post, Mark Joyner is cited as asking rooms of seminar attendees three questions.

1. First he asks everyone at the room to stand if they’ve heard of the book Think and Grow Rich. Everyone stands.
2. Then he asks if they think the book could help attain their desires (I’m paraphrasing here). Everyone remains standing.
3. Mark then asks the room if they can “…remember and recite the daily recital that Hill was empathetic about, that everyone must repeat every day, without fail, to achieve success…”, if they can’t, they should sit down.

This is all recalled from memory by Matt Gill in the audio, but I’ve heard that Mark has done this at more than one seminar…

Now I posed this challenge to over 4,500 people by email. Keep in mind that those 4,500 are all success minded, entrepreneurs or budding entrepreneurs, and I’ll hazard a safe guess and say that likely 4,000 of them have read Think and Grow Rich at some point in their lives.

The contest ran for 48 hours and the prize was for 2 free books or a $25 amazon gift certificate. Perhaps the prize wasn’t enough to yank my dear readers out of their shells and drop me a note.

More likely though, is that even though we believe in the teachings of Think and Grow Rich, we just never got around to doing the one thing Napolean Hill asks us to do everyday. One thing that will move us to success faster and more sure-footedly than any other tactic, technique or strategy.

First I’m going to talk about the vast number of answers, that to me appeared wrong, because I found no reference for daily recitation of it in my version…

I did however found reference online to this recitation, but I’m unconvinced of the validity of this being Hill’s idea, or the webmasters.

My concern began with the reference on the same page – that Mark Joyner’s Irresistible Idea is a modern ‘Think and Grow Rich’. While Joyner’s book is about business marketing and branding, Hill’s book is about personal mastery. I just don’t see the connection. It was on that site where I read that we should read, memorize and recite Hill’s Self Confidence Formula daily.

Here is the Self Confidence Formula. I honestly don’t believe that this is what Mark was asking his attendees to recite outloud…

Napolean Hill’s Self Confidence Formula from Think and Grow Rich

First. I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my Definite Purpose in life, therefore, I DEMAND of myself persistent, continuous action toward its attainment, and I here and now promise to render such action.

Second. I realize the dominating thoughts of my mind will eventually reproduce themselves in outward, physical action, and gradually transform themselves into physical reality, therefore, I will concentrate my thoughts for thirty minutes daily, upon the task of thinking of the person I intend to become, thereby creating in my mind a clear mental picture of that person.

Third. I know through the principle of auto-suggestion, any desire that I persistently hold in my mind will eventually seek expression through some practical means of attaining the object back of it, therefore, I will devote ten minutes daily to demanding of myself the development of SELF CONFIDENCE.

Fourth. I have clearly written down a description of my DEFINITE CHIEF AIM in life, and I will never stop trying, until I shall have developed sufficient self-confidence for its attainment.

Fifth. I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice, therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.  I will succeed by attracting to myself the forces I wish to use, and the cooperation of other people. I will induce others to serve me, because of my willingness to serve others. I will eliminate hatred, envy, jealousy, selfishness, and cynicism, by developing love for all humanity, because I know that a negative attitude toward others can never bring me success. I will cause others to believe in me, because I will believe in them and in myself.

I will sign my name to this formula, commit it to memory (truly?) , and repeat it aloud once a day, with full FAITH that it will gradually influence my THOUGHTS and ACTIONS so that I will become a self-reliant, and successful person.

EGADS! Who has time for that?

Now for the answer I was looking for…

If Mark’s room of people had remained standing and spouting out the success recital Hill had asked his students to memorize the room would have been both noisy and chaotic.

Why? Because the answer is as individual as you are!

It’s never enough to just read a book. Or watch a training video. Or memorize a verse. Or listen to an audio – and think you will be transformed, or rich, or successful. Those final products are a direct result of performing the work, expending the effort, and believing. No. Believing enough to follow through.

One of my readers, Lynn from ScreenSaverQuotes.com, got it right. She didn’t share her personal statement, but was right on the money when she said this:

“…it seems that it’s our own personal statements of purpose or desire that we create for ourselves that we’re supposed to be reciting every day (with feeling) – twice every day to be exact. It should be a statement of whatever we desire to…”

Granted this recital is about 7 sentences long – a chunk to memorize – but it works time and time again.

Lynn also said:

“…I do have a statement…I’ve used this method several times for various things over the past few years and it does really work. The tricky part is truly believing that it will work…It’s not easy but it is worth it – it feels really great when it works!”

Is It Time to Revisit Think and Grow Rich?

If you want to reference this entire stream on your own, you’ll find Hill’s exercise in the chapter titled Auto-Suggestion.

I’d type it out for you here but it does little good to you unless you actually do the work, to create the statement, and move towards it.

This book is now in public domain and there are a variety of reprints, rewrites and workbooks created for it, so I can’t tell you specifically where you’ll find the reference in your copy. You can also google “free pdf Think and Grow Rich” and download a copy of the entire book it from a number of websites.

That about wraps this segment up. I’ve got a few more contest ideas in mind for the future so stay tuned.

If you want to see more of Mark Joyner in action, you can now grab a free video of his latest talk at Mark Joyner – while you’re there sign up for the audio download and that way you’ll be informed of all future free videos, business makeover dvd contests, and content.

You’ll see a comment there from me, talking about the true brilliance of Mark as mentor, the gist of which is that Mark has a way of teaching concepts and strategies that is easily assimilated in our brains. This allows us to come up with our own business solutions while empowering each one of us who listens.

Listen carefully. Do the work. Enjoy the rewards.

Yours in business success!

Laura Childs

p.s. I must give honorable mention to one other reader Hannes. Hannes knew what both Joyner and Hill were asking for, but hadn’t done the work. Hannes said: “Are you talking about the statement that you have to read out loud twice a day about how much money you want to make, when you’re going to get it and how you’re going to get it?”

It really is as simple as that – 10 minutes to write your statement, 3 minutes a day to recite it until it becomes a part of you.

p.p.s: I can’t help to add here, that if you haven’t seen Lynn’s site or tried her screensavers you should click over there now. These are adware free and gorgeous. Plus they are loaded with motivational sayings that keep you on track! The next time your office phone rings let your screensavers run and instead of being distracted by the call you’ll be energized and refreshed! motivational screen savers.

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I just sent this note out to my list, but I’m also well aware that there are countless hundreds who read this site and don’t receive email updates from me…

Tomorrow sometime I’ll be posting the results and the answer to the recent amazon gift certificate contest I held that is referenced below.

I’m writing to let you know that my $25 amazon gift certificate contest is closed, but that I’ve been one-upped by my mentor Mark Joyner and THAT opportunity is still wide open for you.

Whether you’re building an online business or you’re just thinking about doing so, the knowledge you will gain from Mark Joyner’s teaching will take you further, faster and make you more successful than learning from any other mentor’s teachings I’ve studied. (I’ve studied Joe Vitale for copywriting, Marlon Sanders for direct response – neither of these should go without mention – and many others.)

If you’re not sure what Mark brings to the table in his training, you can watch a free video of one of his recent consultations here:

http://www.smartzville.com/markjoyner.htm

AND, if you leave a comment on the site you will be entered to win one of three of his latest business consultation courses.

It takes just a minute, but winning could literally transform your life!

Truly,

Laura Childs

p.s. Don’t wait! Go now! This course (which I’ve now 1/2 reviewed) is fantastic! All the better if you can get it for free!
Mark Joyner’s Business Success Course Contest

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If you snagged your own copy from your local Chapters, read and applied the knowledge, your business has likely taken a few leaps and bounds since then.

“This takes us right back to the core principles of growing your business. Learn from those in the know, apply what you have learned, and pay attention to your results…”

Wondering why I’m telling you all this again?

Well Mark – lovingly named the Godfather of Internet Marketing – most recently spent an entire day sharing his more advanced techniques with the Nitro Marketing team. They, in turn, have turned THAT knowledge into a series of videos, audios and ebooks to help you in your business.

I personally have spent this last week reviewing these materials and am only 1/2 through. Let me assure you that the ideas, information and processes are top notch – much of it proprietary, but all of it wildly inspiring.

To start the launch, and introduce some of the core principles shared, the Nitro team has released a free audio featuring Dr. Joe Vitale.

You can nip over and grab it here, but first I want to share a few thoughts with you about that hour long audio…

Get the Audio, Answer the Question, Win Free Books!

First off, I don’t think you need to listen to the entire hour – you’re already past that in your business.

But there are a few highlights that I think you will truly enjoy (outlined below) as well as your chance to win two of my favorite business and personal success books courtesy of yours truly, and shipped from amazon…

Download the audio, and listen to…

• Minutes 2:30-4:00 Be one of the first 3 people that can answer the question that has sat down the house, time and time again, and I’ll personally order and send you a copy of The Irresistible Offer PLUS Think and Grow Rich direct from amazon (US and CANADA only). If you already own these books, I’ll send you a $25 gift certificate for amazon.com.
• Minutes 22:00-23:00 Matt (of Nitro), spilling the beans on the simple three step formula that is the very heart of all successful online businesses.
• Minutes 38:00-40:00 Joe Vitale – being ruthless in your thinking.

Get the Audio, Answer the Question, Win Free Books!

Type your answer into a comment below or email me at idea @ smartzville.com. Be one of the first three and I’ll personally contact you for shipping and/or information to send you an amazon gift certificate.

Yours in marketing,

Laura Childs

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You can read the reviews on amazon about Mark’s teachings and his books, by clicking on the book cover below:

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How do you suppose the established ‘gurus’ become so, well, ‘established’?

If you didn’t already know this, I’ve worked both with Marlon Sanders and Joe Vitale in the past. These ‘masters’ are now two of the biggest names in online marketing and sales.

“When I worked with Marlon I was too stupid (yes, I’ll admit it) to realize the golden knowledge he shared with me (1998). Looking back I realize that I owe this man dearly…”

Marlon and Joe, as I’ve learned from watching, listening to, and working with, made it online because they had a “system” in place. That system performs all the menial tasks and makes the process of running an online business nearly automatic. All they add is their marketing genius – without fiddling around with the time-consuming, integration of a variety of tools, software and scripts.

In truth, I’ve got 4 services and as many scripts to manage to market my sites, products and sales. Miss one step and I’ve missed the maximum I could have earned…

To show you how “I do what I do”, would be a lot of work for me. David Vallieres attempted it with his “Marketing Reality Show” but gave up after two or three sessions…

Enter a new marketing and sales system, at an incredible price (right now it’s $97) that not only teaches you the system many of the gurus use, but gives you the tool that manages it all for you. One tool manages it all. AND, it grows with you – unlimited products, unlimited follow up emails, a bunch of different payment processors, plus a pile of third party, one-click integration (for those who already have somewhat of a email marketing system in place already).

I’ve been looking for something like this for you for a long time.

You don’t need to be a guru, a geek or anything else other than a motivated money-earner and learner. You need to want this for yourself – a system to integrate all the marketing puzzle pieces in one easy to manage tool with the knowledge that makes it all work for you (which is why you get an ebook and the software).

Who Isn’t This For?

This isn’t for the Joe Vitale’s and the Marlon Sanders’ of the world. This is for beginner to intermediate marketers. And, by being used, will take your business up a notch.

Your sales and marketing will become automated with just a few clicks – and if you have more than one business, more than one product, or more than one website, all the better! Use this one backend tool for everything, so you can focus on what’s really important.

I’m not going to keep rambling about all the features and processes of this marketing system because I want you to go read the sales letter on the site. Why? I feel it’s the new era of online marketing. A soft sell approach, completely free of hype. When your product is this good, you don’t need hype to sell it.

go now: Automated Marketing System

Yours in success,

Laura Childs

p.s. As per the standard in online business, great new products like this are launched at an intro price and increase in price as word gets out about the value. This product is no exception – it has been fully tested and the price is going up. This isn’t a marketing ploy – the low launch price is a way for the developers to grow affiliates and testimonials at launch. The soon to come higher price will be how the developers make back the money they spent on programming this Automated Marketing System. If you’re serious about putting your marketing and sales on automation and building your business using just one tool (instead of the hodge podge that we’ve all been using to date) get this now and put it to work today.

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Mark this day as the moment in history when Laura was officially let down by one of her favorite gurus. It’s not his fault, he’s just doing his job after all…

Regular readers will wonder if Joe Vitale let me down. Be still, it wasn’t Joe. Joe remains a gentleman always who gives good value for the product offering and isn’t out to rob people of their hard earned money…

Old-timers online with sharper minds would have seen this coming.

One marketer, who I secretly adored and followed for many years, has been whipping his list into a frenzy this past month over an upcoming, closed door, secret-session (at over $8k per pop) had me looking at every piece of jewelry I own, every unnecessary vehicle parked in the driveway, (dare I say it even my horses!), wondering how I could come up with that ‘extra’ this month to afford the training…

That is, until I watched the ‘amazing’ video…

The video was actually released a few months ago but I still had the rose colored glasses on so I didn’t notice the discrepancies. This time I watched carefully as this ‘new-to-the-internet, just-learned-this-secret-trick, made-$6k-my-first-month, long lost cousin’ revealed his payment screenshots.

They were impressive.

$89 sales by the handful in just a few weeks of learning this new technique.

Imagine what a half-experienced marketer could rake in…

But when your eyes aren’t so glossed over by all those extra $x,000 in sales, and you start to look closely, you notice a number of “RFND” by the handfuls in the screenshots as well. It all goes so fast that I couldn’t count them, but at a quick glance it sure looks like at least 1/3 of those sales were refunded!

I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to sell my horse to learn to run a business where 20-30% of my customers are dissatisfied…

And there’s no mistaking that this ‘guru’ (with his list of thousands) knows precisely what a RFND is in a clickbank screenshot and couldn’t possibly have missed it in the video.

Do the gurus think we’re all a bunch of slathering morons?

Does one of my favorite mentors of all time live by the addage that it’s okay if a ‘fool and his money are soon parted’ – as long as it’s his pocket the money comes to when it leaves the fool?

“It’s not often you’ll see me go ‘off’ like this. It’s true I need a vacation and tomorrow we leave for Florida.”

I’m just so let down right now that I can think of nothing other than to remind my readers to be extra careful whom they follow and where they spend their hard earned money.

By no means am I saying that my advice and recommendations are sound either…

Usually they are. More often than not I’ve fully investigated and reviewed an item before I promote it. When I haven’t tested fully I am careful to disclose that information. And, if the product is ‘sketchy’ but has seen good results, I’ll tell you that too. (Hey, sometimes I get caught up in the hype just like you.)

One last note to you before I head off to the sunny south with family and these extra kids…

While I’ve been assessing my own desire to follow success I’ve had a few other realizations…

Most of the ‘famous’ search engine experts are no longer in the business of driving traffic, getting higher ranks, or lauching new and successful websites. Sure, that’s what they teach, but that’s not what they work at. They’re working at self-promotion, marketing, capitalizing on the success of last year’s hard work. And that’s what they’re passing on to us. Techniques that worked last year.

So how do you find someone you can trust?

Someone to go to for advice? Someone to believe in this business?

You go to the trenches.

Find someone who is consisitently working at traffic and optimization and not at self-promotion and marketing.

Someone who is launching new sites and testing on a consistent and continual basis.

Why? Because in the search engine game what worked last year to put a site to the top isn’t going to work as well this year.

If someone’s asking for your money, ask for current results. Look at all the angles (site registration date, unique visitors – not just hits, conversions, etc.) Get down to the meat of it – the hard facts.

Remember this isn’t just about your money, it’s also about your time spent employing year-old techniques.

I’ll point these people out from time to time, and I welcome your referrals.

Let’s start getting real here.

More collaboration, more truth, less robbery.

I’ve been saying this from the start and somehow we all get sidetracked from time to time: “We’re here to help each other.”

You know, I spend at least an hour per day in email answering people’s questions about marketing and promotion. From now on, I’m going to start posting the best of them here so that all of us can grow with each other. I assure you that confidentiality will be upheld.

Finally I want to introduce you to Matt Cutts. (see Matt Cutts)

Never heard of him? Of course you haven’t because he’s not working to take your money and promise you the world. He’s working at explaining SEO (as it relates to Google). Oddly enough, even though his name isn’t touted in the highest circles, he enjoys a page rank of 7 on his home page and gets an average 70 comments per blog post.

There’s too much content for the average website owner so don’t get distracted by the depth and size of the site. Use the search button to find answers to your google questions…but most importantly spend some time reading about BigDaddy.

BigDaddy – It’s the upcoming face of the new Google.

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Excited, for both of us…

First off, I’m excited for you, because what you’re about to find is some really cool gifts and bonuses just for reading one of the hottest new hard cover books to be released in 50 years or more…

I’m paraphrasing Joe Vitale there and although I haven’t read nearly as many marketing books as Joe, I have read Mark Joyner’s newest book and I agree that it brings light to many marketing processes that I hadn’t thought of yet.

If you remember, I told you about The Irresistible Offer a few weeks back. You can read that post here if you want to.

But something bigger is on the line now…

And you’re going to love it!

Mark, Joe and a massive list of other marketing experts feel so strongly about The Irresistible Offer that we’ve all pitched in a pile of bonus products to ensure that you get this new hard cover.

It’s currently selling on amazon for less than $15.

When you purchase it, (and no, you don’t have to buy it from my link) head right over to Mark’s newest site where you’ll find over $15,000 worth of audio, video, software and ebooks as a special bonus. No extra payments required.

Topics include personal success, online business tools, information products on podcasting, copywriting, blogging, sales – there’s just too much to try to tell you about here…

• One product I know you’ll love is Dave Lahkani’s Podcasting tutorials (he sells them for $997 on his site!).
• Another you’ll love is Stephen Pierce’s Wealth program.
• And another I hope you’ll like is my own offering “What’s My eBook Idea Worth?”. Now you see why I’m so excited for me, as well as being excited for you. It feels great to be partnered with Mark and these other marketers on such a project.

But let’s not move too far away from the content in Mark’s book. It is a resource that you’ll keep on hand for years to come. Likely lend it, or buy it for, your friends and children when they want to understand how to make their own businesses better…I learned ‘heaps’ from reading it and I’m now on my third round.

I strongly suggest you head over to see what’s on offer:

The Mother of All Bribes

You won’t be disappointed!

To Your Online Success!

Laura Childs
www.smartzville.com

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In case you are living under a rock other than one of website promotion, Mark seems to be back in the spot light again and he’s going gang busters!

First, he quietly launched his new forum just for those sitting on a waiting list wondering when Mark would re-join the marketing community online.

Then out came a few quiet teleseminars on creating money from thin air with a new release of his Confidential Intelligence Internet Manual 2 (fantastic by the way).

Then, his hard cover book was released – The Irresistible Offer (see it below). I own it and the only reason I haven’t digested it in one sitting is because I’m pacing myself and savoring each chapter. If you think you know everything about marketing and advertising, I guarantee you a few intellectual surprises.

Finally as if that wasn’t enough – I’m starting to feel I live with Mark he’s in my ‘space’ so much these days – he’s joined forces with the Nitro boys once more to bring you a free 1+ hour training on Viral Traffic.

Viral Traffic – new buzzword – I’m sure you can figure out what it’s all about, but does Mark share anything ‘new’ in the training? Yes, there’s a few pleasant surprises in the audio as well. Certainly more than you’d get from spending $100 on the Rich Jerk rehash…

Mark answers questions such as:

“How did Mark Joyner create both the 36th and the 198th most popular sites on the Internet in just 3 months…generating over one million downloads?”

“What behind the scenes traffic generating, profit-pulling secrets did he use to create the top 2 online viral marketing systems?”

“How did Mark build another viral marketing system that generates more visitors than ICQ, AOL Instant Messenger and even Harry Potter?”

Get the free viral visitor training here.

Check it out, won’t cost you a cent…

Laura

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* Mark has been hailed as the Godfather of Internet Marketing running businesses online as long as Marlon Sanders…but we lost him a few years back as he slipped into quiet, comfortable seclusion – so if you’re new to the website promotion scene you may not have heard of him.

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I think it shows the brilliance of the man and the way he truly helps people on his list.

Sometimes we all need a little push, a little reminder – Marlon excels on getting his proteges moving.

Many, many years ago I sent Marlon an email…it would have been 1999 or so. He not only counselled me but he gave me work which pulled me out of a very stressful financial situation.

I believe he did everything he could at that time to get me moving. I just wasn’t ready – I ‘wanted’ but I wasn’t learning. The pieces of the puzzle just didn’t fit together for me. I was still in ‘employee’ mode. Looking back and spending a lot of one-on-one time with my own list now I realize that this is a block for many.

How to inspire the drive to entrepreneurship?

I’ve still not got it down. My technique in counselling others is to answer all their questions, share my own stories and successes and try to explain how much better life is when you control your own destiny.

But the main pages of Smartzville’s site do try to instill a desire for learning (from the best, at the lowest prices) which I think is a necessity for success.

I have one final comment to make about Marlon…

Marlon Sanders is a full-spectrum marketer. He inspires and leads all levels of marketers, teaching them all aspects of marketing and moves them to new heights of success. If you come across one of his campaigns or offers click on it, even just to read the testimonials and glimpse his brilliant copwriting…

In the meantime, here’s the quote and comment from Marlon’s MILCERS article. Think on it. I know I will be!

Alvin Coffler said “The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”

What you knew last year or last month may not be reality today because one thing that is constant in today’s world is change. That means a person has to put a priority on learning. It can’t be something you want to do and get around to. It can’t be something that’s nice to do but isn’t necessary or essential. It can’t be something you wish you had time for. Because it is an element, if not the key element, that causes businesses in today’s world to survive.

Source: Marlon Sanders – Finding Independence Through Income Streams

Talk to you soon!

Laura Childs

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My Marketing Mentor, Craig Perrine of List Profit Secrets says my new niche marketing website is for the birds!

Actually it isn’t as bad as it seems.

Craig’s post was a play on words.

My newest niche site is actually about attracting wild birds…

You see I’d asked Craig to investigate and comment on:

• my web copy,
• my ability to build a target market mailing list,
• and whether my sales letter will sell my latest niche ebook.

Craig’s a master at all three – that’s why he’s the List Profit Secrets Guru to know…

In less than 14 minutes in video format he offered some very valuable tips which he’s happy to share with all marketing students.

Go ahead, check it out for yourself (there are other website reviews to watch as well) and don’t be afraid to tell me that, yes, my new site really is for the birds!

Laura

p.s. I’m sure you’ll see why Craig Perrine is one of my online mentors after spending a few minutes at his blog. Enjoy!

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Why? Because I’ve always recognized the value of a good mentor in any aspect of your life.

I know that mentoring programs are becoming a dime-a-dozen these days.

Seems like everyone with any experience in anything is running a mentorship program.

And to be honest I would have loved to have taken Joe Vitale’s mentoring program but I didn’t want to feel that I owed anybody anything – even if it was my personal success! (Besides I know if I’m really stumped in some aspect of Internet Marketing I can email Joe for some sound and thorough advice.)

So let’s talk about Dave and why I signed up…

First of all I ran across Dave Lakhani on the internet via Craig Perrine of List Profit Secrets fame. Craig is one of my mentors too – although he doesn’t know it. I read everything he writes from top to bottom, sometimes twice over.

Dave has an interesting past. If I’m not mistaken and haven’t got my marketers mixed up, Dave was once held at gunpoint and talked his way out of the situation! Pretty persuasive man. With that level of command and insight into human nature do you think he could make a sale? Run a take-no-prisioners business? Teach me a thing or two about marketing – both online and off?

I sure do!

And I just so happened to be on his mailing list when he announced the mentorship program, going at a rate I’d be a fool to pass up!

You see I realized long ago that a $20 book could change my life. A $200 marketing product could make me thousands in return. And a monthly mentor fee can teach me a few things that I’ll be able to apply today and use in any business endeavour I embark on.

Enough of the blabbering. If you’ve got a few hours a week and have someone you admire, trust and respect, sign up for a mentorship program right away. The few pennies a day could make you as successful, if not more successful than your mentor in time!

Dave’s got one seat left to fill. After that, he’s taking down the page. So if you scoot over there now and sign up – you’ll laugh at the price – you’ll be learning alongside me. Yell a hello every now and then will you?

http://www.boldapproach.com/mentor

See you there!

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