Goals Of This Section

• To discuss the top reasons for success and failure, to try and identify any of these features in the way you work and to stamp them out before we get into the serious promotion of your product later in this area.
• To show you that no matter how good any previous guides sounded, if you followed them, and they didn’t work, they weren’t telling you the whole story.
• To demonstrate that you probably know more about online marketing than you think.
• To talk about the way we all spend our day and our routines as self employed, and how a simple problem with the transition from skivvy to complete control could be holding you back.
• To show you that there are always parts of online marketing that someone doesn’t enjoy, and to give you a heads up on the number one reason that this could be stopping you dead in your tracks.
• To discuss previous advice and guides that you may have read and what some marketers will tell you to get you to listen to them. If they’re telling you a particular phrase which has become all the rage lately, no matter how nice and kind they are to you, they can’t help you.
• To show you how to move on and how not moving on could leave you maintaining the same product for years to come with very little profit. In my experience a very common mistake, I also landed in this sticky trap.

Top 10 Reasons For Success

Greetings, welcome to the section where we’ll be looking at some of the reasons why some are successful and some are not. There are a lot of reasons why this may occur. I want to talk through with you some of the most common, and some of the problems I had to overcome myself on my way here and that many others that I’ve spoken to also had to overcome. Rather than being a totally negative report in which I tell you why you’re not being as successful as you’d like, let’s look at this in a different light. I’m going to show you as many reasons as I can think of why marketers are struggling so that you can actively spot and solve them immediately.

Many are struggling. It’s a fact. Through a plethora of situations through no fault of their own. After all, this isn’t something you can go to school or to college for and be taught. When we start out we’re all feeling our way in the dark, and mistakes will be made, this is a guarantee.

Whilst reading through I’d like you to really focus on what’s being said and be on the look out for examples that sound like you, or something you might do. It’s nothing to be embarrassed about, nothing to get aggravated or annoyed about, it’s solely something for you to think ‘wow, that sounds like me, I best quit that.’ That’s the exact effect we’re looking for here, nothing more.

So without further delay, lets start looking at some of the reasons some marketers are more successful than others and some of the solutions if you’re having a particular problem.

Are Your Listening To The Right People?

The first one I’d like to talk to you about is your choice of guide purchasing. Granted this doesn’t apply now because you’ve taken the plunge, but did you ever feel like someone wasn’t quite telling the whole story with previous guides you’ve purchased or even been given?

It’s all too easy to find information about online marketing, but whether that information is good, tried, tested and complete is another matter altogether. Often, when people start out, they tell me that they’ve been reading this free e-book they were given, and what I’m telling them contradicts what’s been written, or they read about something before but were never sure how to actually go about doing things. Generally, the more you spend the better quality you get.

It’s unfortunate that many marketers on the outside of reports such as these don’t understand that they’re not being told the whole story, or even being told incorrect information.

Don’t get me wrong I’m not knocking smaller products but understand if you want a guide that shows you all the tips and trade secrets it sure isn’t going to cost you $25. If you have any friends in the business, or anyone you know to be making this mistake, point it out to them. Unfortunately, trying to point someone to a high priced product is not always easy to do, because it just sounds like sales talk, but I digress, let’s move on.

I Bet You Know More Than You Think

Big reason number two, is you already knew how to do everything but didn’t get the work done for some reason. There are plenty of reasons for this, but let me say I experienced this one too, until one day I bought someone else’s product which kind of put me straight, and got me thinking. Hey this guy is big and makes a load of cash, but already knows everything he is teaching. This spurred me on quite nicely and turned out to be the boost I needed to get to this stage, selling multiple $1000+ products daily for several months of the year. It was a great motivator and sometimes that’s just what people need to spring into action again, not necessarily the knowledge itself. This is something I kept in mind with this report, and the reason we have the goal pages and summaries at the end of the written versions. I’d hope they did their job, made you feel as though you were progressing and learning new methods and techniques that would be useful to you. I’d suggest doing something similar with your products too.

Wasting Time Without Even Knowing It

Moving on, you know, it’s amazing how much time we waste doing nothing useful even when it seems we are. Someone pointed this out to me four or five years ago and said hey, I have something for you to test. Next time you’re doing a big job such as writing a report, or building a site, record how much work you do, how much you get done over how much time, then report back to me in the morning. I guarantee you I can triple the amount you got done without sacrificing quality the next day. Intrigued I did as she said. Came back the next day and she demonstrated to me how much time I was wasting doing irrelevant things. Either catching news reports on TV, going to grab some food, speak to some friends for a few minutes, flick through the tracks on my MP3 player between each song trying to find the good ones and so on.

Here’s another more recent example of this. I’ve been working on this report now and some software at the same time for many months. I just sat down for seven hours straight (something I can rarely do with the number of projects I’m working on currently) and wrote, and wrote, and came out with 60+ pages, which means if I’d really sat down and concentrated on the one project I’d have had 1200+ pages done in a mere 20 days. So here’s the thing. When you work try to either, keep a timetable, a set of goals, or at the very least a record of how much you’re achieving and cut out all distractions.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not calling you lazy. I know you want to move forward or else you wouldn’t be reading this right now. Take some time out to work on your business. Sit down, remove all distractions and just work, straight, for 12 hours. Taking a look around on my desk now I have my headphones on, with set play list going, I have my keyboard, a watch, and a glass of iced water. That’s it, nothing more. The best thing about this is there are no distractions, and I get work done. I’d suggest at the very least you might want to draw up a timetable for your work days, and set yourself goals to avoid this. It’s amazing how time flies and the work amount and quality is affected through distractions. Try it, you might just find the pace of things pick up.

Avoiding The Dirty Bits - Does This Sound Like You?

Next up comes ‘the avoid’ the dirty bits way of thinking. Have you ever been sitting there, maybe working away or reading your guides on how to achieve something, and said to yourself ‘Hmm you know, I don’t fancy doing that’, or ‘This is not what I envisioned doing when I started out in online marketing’? Well you wouldn’t be the only one and this could well be the missing piece of the puzzle for you. In general when you start to delve deep into this business it’s very different from what you see on the outside. Not only that but things can change.

Unfortunately we as online marketers have to take the good with the bad and carry on regardless. This sometimes results in coming up against something that will require you to overcome a barrier or pull of something new. Usually when I talk to people about their online marketing the number one thing that comes up here is joint ventures. Especially the first time around because you’re no longer dealing with masses of lists, but on a personal level and, it can indeed be a little hard to get going if you’ve never done it before. As I mentioned earlier they don’t teach you this stuff in college or universities.

So here’s the thing. You need to look at everything you’re doing relating to your business and ask yourself whether it’s helping or hindering you. When you find an answer, be it in this report, or elsewhere, if you don’t like the idea of having to do it yourself, either hire someone to do it if you can, or if not, it’s time to burn some bridges. Whatever you do don’t block it out and put it to the back of your mind figuring that that one small thing that you’ve left out won’t make that much difference. In my experience everything you do is chained to something else. Leaving one out can leave you with a huge gap in your online marketing.

Don’t Listen To The Big Guys… Are You Crazy?

Moving on to the next and probably the most worrying part of this report, and that’s that you may have found yourself a ‘don’t listen to the big guys’ person, or a report written by such a person. This confuses me to this day. The usual argument is they’re only in it for themselves, so don’t listen to them, listen to me instead because I’m a nice person. Now I don’t know how many people go for this to be honest but guru bashing as I like to call it seems to have become a popular business proposition for some people.

Don’t buy it. That’s like telling you not to listen to the people that are making the money, but to listen to the person that doesn’t listen to the people making the money. Strange. My retort to the guru bashing is, no, they’re not just in it for themselves. If I were to put this report out and leave in a shoddy condition, and make a few hundred sales just because I can write a sales letter, I’d love to see how many people come back and buy from me later or promote my products. No one would want to be associated with me, I wouldn’t get joint ventures, I wouldn’t sell any products and so on. Not only me, it’s kind of an unwritten rule out there.

You make it good, or you don’t make it at all.

Broken Vase Syndrome

Next, something that personally stopped me from moving on for a year or so. I had this old site going that was doing pretty well, considering I hadn’t learned much at that period. It wasn’t a small site by any means. I was forever updating, changing, prettying up, cleaning, tidying, maintaining and so on. Meanwhile, someone I’d met about the same time I started out in online marketing pulled three sites out of the bag. I was wondering how he did it. We knew each other anyway so he’d given me access to his sites and I was amazed. They weren’t lacking in content, they were good solid, full blown websites.

I remember talking to him one day and he said to me ‘Hey, you’ve been working on that site for a long time haven’t you, it must be pretty huge by now’. Yeah it was, I thought to myself at the time, but I totally missed the point. There comes a time after you release a product when you should have everything set up and running nicely so that you’re free to move on to a new product. Never constrain yourself to one and work on it constantly over huge periods of time. If you find yourself doing this you’re doing something wrong.

Understand that there’s nothing wrong with keeping up customer support for your products, but set it up, finish up and get promoting. Smooth everything over as quickly as possible and to the best of your abilities. This is especially true for info based products but even with software you need to automate and move on, not totally leaving it behind, but leaving it to run itself for the most part. Keep an open mind, work on new products and new projects, and don’t get stuck doing one thing for years whilst your competition has released ten products and is raking it in from them, whilst you’re still with your original site re-arranging its layout or scheme.

The moment I discovered this it kind of set me free, and here I am now working on a monstrous amount of projects with more contacts, a bigger list and more knowledge in my head than I ever imagined would fit. Unfortunately some of the people I knew back in those days weren’t all that lucky and, are still in pre-launch for a product they created four years ago, earning no more than they did in the first week or so. Each to their own. I highly suggest you keep an open mind though and know when it’s time to move on to bigger, better and newer things.

I’m Worried I Can’t/Won’t Succeed

Next up comes something that’s not unrelated to what we spoke about earlier, when looking at avoiding the dirty bits, and that’s worrying about not succeeding. Now you may not be the type of person to worry about what other people are thinking or how they’ll react to your products and the things you do, which is great, because you’ll burn bridges a lot faster than us out there that hate it when someone doesn’t like our work. This is why you’ll always get the best from anything I do personally, but for those of you who are reading and who get a little uptight when approaching something new this is for you.

The fact is, if you’re in online marketing or any business that I’ve encountered so far, you’ll need to burn bridges and try something new every now and again, and carry out tasks that you don’t feel comfortable with or are going to really despise doing. Let me tell you, as the kind of guy that likes to please everyone all the time, I understand that it’s not easy when you come up against things like this. I’ve been sworn at, shouted at, refused, denied, flat out told things I’ve done were crap, useless, don’t work and so on. I don’t doubt I’ll get the same again in the future from people who can’t be bothered to get out there and try these methods, and you know what? If you haven’t experienced all this already, let me tell you now that you will.

Way to make you feel better huh? Well now you know, and you’re prepared for it, you have to accept it and move on. You’ll need to find your own way of getting by and not being discouraged when something goes incredibly pear shaped. Whatever you do though, always push yourself to break new boundaries and, don’t let anything discourage you because what you don’t see when people tell you they make 20k a month is that they’re getting this too. Each and every one of them. Whether it’s from their list, the odd strange customer, or just someone having a bad day. You will encounter it, so prepare to get over it now and you’ll be fine. Those of you more laid back who don’t get dented by that stuff, great. Keep moving forward.

Knowledge Really Is Power

Next up, we have the all important knowledge. Knowledge is power, after all, and without it we’d all be doomed and useless at pretty much everything. Well you don’t have to worry about not having the knowledge anymore because everything is covered in this guide for this particular method, but I do want you to make sure you’re using it. The whole buying guide after guide, after guide is getting a little over the top for some people that I’ve spoken to in the past. Ten, twenty, thirty or more e-books read. They claim they’ve read everything but still haven’t reached their dream of making wads of cash every month.

Like we’ve already discussed this can be for many reasons. You can have all the knowledge in the world but it won’t do anything unless you take what you’ve learned and put it to good use. Don’t turn into one of those report hoppers, because it won’t get you very far, and in the end you’re going to end up frustrated, bored and broke.

The Freebie Magnet

Next we have the freebie magnet. Seeing as anyone reading this will have purchased it, I highly doubt this applies, but I want to be sure and catch anyone right here and weed these problems out before they start. This comes in many forms but I want to talk about this in general rather than anything specific as in the other sections. So free stuff. We all like something for nothing but there are those people out there who go over the top searching for free deals. Free hosting, free promotion, free web design, free sales copy writing and so on. It just doesn’t work. You will not get anything set up if you’re looking for everything that’s free. Granted, shop around for a good deal if you can, but when it comes to the fundamentals of your business, your scripts, your hosting especially, don’t go with the free option because quality will suffer, and your customers will be able to see that too, which is something we definitely want to avoid.

I highly doubt many of you are here buying such a product so I won’t dwell. I thought it best to cover it just in case and for future reference. So swiftly moving along and we hit a wall that is suffered by many marketers out there.

Never On Your Own

This brings me to my next point and that’s don’t try to do everything on your own. A big mistake many marketers make is that they decide that they want all the profits for themselves and try to do everything alone. This is all well and good if you want to be making a couple of thousand a month maybe but if you want to surpass that you need to expand a little. That’s not to say that you need to go around partnering on every single site that you create but it does mean that you need to think a little more about working in a team wherever possible.

Partnerships are one example and you’ll be splitting the profits 50/50. However lets say for example you both have the same amount of resources to get your promotion out through different contacts and each others lists, affiliates, Jv’s and customers, mix in a little bit of your expertise and you’ll end up making the same amount of cash anyway if things are dead even. What you will get though are double the visitors, double the people in your follow-up, and double your affiliates adding fifty percent to your total income from the product to start with. On top of that you’ll be pulling in double the resources to promote to in the future.

So you see it’s important to start working as a team. Don’t worry if you haven’t got anyone to work in a team with yet. After your first few products you’ll start to see some contacts land in your lap that you can join up with later. There is another example of this and that’s when people don’t want to grant affiliate commissions because they don’t want to be losing any cash. I can totally understand it if you have a huge amount of resources already, but when you don’t have that type of promotion power under your belt, affiliates are the way to go.

Affiliates, however, are here to stay, and they’ll be the difference between your 1k a month and your 20k a month and upwards. Remember, affiliates are making sales that it’s likely you wouldn’t have made anyway, so there’s nothing wrong with granting them more out of the profits than you’re earning per sale. If you have a problem doing this you’re going to struggle so, if this really isn’t something you want to do, take some time out and check how much you’d be earning if you gave 60% to say ten affiliates making a particular number of sales on your product on top of your personal sales. You should start to see how much more profitable this is than trying to go it alone, which is both time consuming and expensive, cutting into your profits big time unless you use these resources for the leverage you need to make your one person promotion team into a ten, a hundred or even thousand plus person promotion team. It’s at this stage this point really starts to become clear.

So there we have it. The top reasons that I believe get in the way of marketers goals and stop them from succeeding. Do you see any of these in yourself? If you do, remove them, or fix them. It doesn’t matter how you do it, just make sure you do, because they will hold you back and in all of the examples above will stop you from ever succeeding unless you can overcome them.

It’s a fact that we as online marketers as I’ve mentioned before have to be multi skilled. When you get into the scene it’s very, very rare and unlikely that you’ll have everything you need to succeed, and there will be many problems, walls and obstacles that you have to personally overcome before you can make a success of this. You see, us marketers are all a little box of versatility, (you included). This is the most powerful of any tool at our disposal and will make us all successes. Unfortunately as much good as it does for those of us who understand this, it’s detrimental to those who don’t, and they will go on buying and buying guide after guide, getting frustrated and failing until they either quit, or learn this.

Well, I hope you enjoyed this report. It is indeed the most negative of them all, and I prefer to concentrate on success rather than why people fail. Alas it had to be done and was too important to leave out and not tell you about. We’ll end here now, but before we do, I just want to make a note. If none of the above apply to you right now that’s great. Take the knowledge contained within this report, put it to good use, and I look forward to seeing many successful products come from you. Be careful though, just because you don’t have these problems right now, you may develop any of them later. Don’t forget what you’ve just been reading and you’ll do just fine.

Summary

• Greetings, welcome to the section where we’ll be discussing why some people are successful and why some aren’t, drawing from the primary factors that went into the failures and successes of all the people that I personally met on the way. That came and went, that failed and quit, that succeeded and quit their jobs and bought ridiculously large houses and expensive cars.
• There are many different reasons for success, and everyone is different, but what I’d like to concentrate on now are two simple questions that I ask almost everyone I meet when they reach the peak of their marketing, whether it be success or failure. Why do you think you didn’t make it? And of course, why do you think you made it? You’d be surprised at the results, I sure was. Let’s look at this information now.
• The first thing I’d like to talk about is your choice of guide purchases. This one doesn’t apply so much now seeing as you have this in your hands but it’s definitely something I’d like you to watch out for in the future.
• All too often when people are starting out they’ll tell me they’ve been reading this free e-book or they’ve visited this free site. They’ve pulled a load of info from it, and what I’m telling them to do, and what other marketers are telling them to do contradicts what they’ve been told by wherever they were previously. The general rule is the more you spend, the better you get.
• I’m not denying that small courses and cheap courses can be useful, and I’m not saying what I’m teaching you here is the be all and end all of information and the only way to be a success, but understand if you want a guide that really shows you solid marketing information, someone isn’t going to reveal all of their best tactics for free.
• So my advice to you would be to always look for premium products if you want the full story. I doubt anyone would even consider selling a guide costing more than five hundred dollars if it was all shoddy. It would be devastating to their business, and isn’t something buyers will forget in a hurry. Similarly, if you have any friends or make any contacts relying on small e-books for their marketing information, let them know that premium products are the way to go. Not necessarily this guide, I’m not trying to get you to go selling for me, but any well known marketer with a premium product is their best bet if they want to learn new things and serious techniques. Remember not to hard sell them just point them in the right direction in a friendly manner. It’s in your best interests if your marketing contacts and customers succeed.
• Moving on to the second thing that I have personally seen and even experienced myself, which came very close to adding me to the list of those who didn’t make it, and that’s that you already have all the information and know how, but don’t realize it, and therefore don’t feel comfortable putting it into action for one reason or another.
• My personal experience of this was a bit of a shock. I spent just over a grand buying a big marketers product that claimed to reveal all his secrets. On reading I found myself thinking, hey, this guy knows a lot, he makes a whole bundle of cash, but I already know literally everything that he’s telling me. I found myself adding more to his tips in my mind while reading through, kind of unconsciously saying ‘Hey, you missed a bit’.
• At this point I realized it was time to start moving forward and taking action. The initial learning period was over. Watch for this because you may find you know more than you think, and your success could well just be a matter of you taking the plunge and confidently putting all you’ve learned into action.
• In addition to this the progression from the worker to the boss isn’t the easiest thing to do by far, a common misunderstanding, and something else that got me for a period back in 2002. The way this one hit me was that a friend came to me and said ‘next time you’re working on your business, or doing a big job, record how much time you spend doing it and how much you get done, then report back to me, and he guaranteed I could triple this through a simple fifteen minutes of easy work. I did as she said, and when I returned she demonstrated how much time was being wasted, catching the news, flipping through songs to listen to while I’m working, grabbing food, speaking to some friends, making calls and so on.
• So here’s the thing. When you work try to either keep a timetable if that’s your thing, a set of goals for the day in list format, or at the very least keep a record of the amount of work you’re getting done and cut out the distractions totally. It sounds minor, I know, but try it and see how much more you get done when writing your reports. Being lazy doesn’t come into it. It’s all about that transgression to being in total control. Don’t let anyone ever tell you that its easy because it sure does take some getting used to.
• Taking a look around on my desk now, I have my headphones on with a set play list going, I have my keyboard, a watch and a glass of iced water. That’s it. It’s amazing how time flies and how work quality is affected by distractions. Remove them and prosper.
• Moving on from distractions the next thing I want to talk to you about is avoiding the dirty bits, a way of thinking that is in my experience affecting almost every marketer in their first six months of serious hard online marketing.
• Ever learned something new and thought to yourself, ah well I can skip this bit and do it later, or this isn’t really how I pictured this to be? It happens to everyone, and when you have a pre-determined picture of how something should be in your head, it’s hard to go about something that you don’t enjoy totally. It’s even easier to avoid things when you’re in total control as with your own business.
• For example, when I started out in online marketing I thought it’d be all about posting paid ads, creating products and getting paid. Of course it didn’t work out like that, and it turns out that pulling new Joint Ventures and making first contact with people isn’t my forte, whilst the creative side and product creation totally is. What would happen if JV’s were totally ignored, or I’d edited the techniques I’d learned in my mind down to only doing the things I enjoy the most? Well, personally I’d have been back selling other peoples stuff pretty quick.
• So the first thing I’d like you to do now is open your mind, and ask yourself, “is there anything that I’ve been avoiding doing because it doesn’t fit into my pre-conceptions of what running a business and online marketing is about?”.
• Dig deep and answer truthfully, because you may already have the key that you need to be a success. You just may not know it because it’s been placed at the back of your mind as something you don’t particularly want to do, or edited out of your personal knowledge base because it’s something you’re not prepared to do. If you find an answer to that question, bring it to the front of your mind, write it down if you have a journal, and remember it. In addition if you find something that you haven’t been doing or avoiding, either consciously or unconsciously, after finding the answer and writing it down, keep it in mind. Your situation will not change unless you change it.
• On a personal note to you, take it from me, even if there are aspects you don’t enjoy as much as others, if you face them head on and attack them full force you’ll find, as your business develops, your job gets easier and easier and it isn’t so painful to fix this anymore. My joint venture first contact for example is something I don’t enjoy, but it’s not necessary anymore, because people come to me. It had to be faced to get to this point though and I’d advise you to dig deep and do the same. It’s quite likely you’ll surprise yourself.
• Ok moving on again to something that I personally experienced and probably one of the biggest downfalls I’ve seen around me, in the past and no doubt in the future too, and that’s getting attached to a product.
• The best example I can think of is when I had this old site going. Not a small site by any means. Anyway, I was constantly updating, cleaning, tidying, maintaining and so on. Meanwhile someone that I’d met just a few months earlier had pulled three sites out the bag, and these were serious sites, packed full of content.
• He said to me one day ‘Hey, you’ve been working on that site a long time, it must be pretty huge by now’. It took me a while to realize why there were those of us that were moving forward and those of us not making a success of ourselves, and it was simple. Now there’s nothing wrong with keeping customer support going and updating a site every now and then, especially if it’s a membership site, but there are two important things to keep in mind. Firstly, don’t get carried away changing, prettifying, adding, and so on. Secondly, don’t try to be everything to everyone. If you already have happy customers, that’s great. Your product is good, it’s time to stop trying to fix it up and put that valuable time into creating multiple products and developing new ideas. It’s the only way to move forward and learn.
• The moment I discovered this it set me free. Here I am now working on a serious amount of reports, sites, scripts, with a bigger list, better resources, more knowledge and experience under my belt, more promotion power, more contacts and strangely, more free time. If you want these things too, remember, never stop developing and moving forward. Keeping customer service up is one thing, but constantly going back and altering your ideas isn’t the best way to do thing. Live and learn, and move on.
• Just to give you an idea of how powerful this alone is, here’s a real life example. When I started out I met two different people. One already had their own site and one joined as a member of that site and was yet to create their own products. The one with the site is today, six or seven years later, working on that same site, still has a full time job and even though the site is massive and packed full of everything you could think of in their field of expertise, hasn’t made much progress. The guy that joined this site as a member created sites, created content, products, learned, moved on, learned moved on, constantly pushed his boundaries. He told me yesterday that he has now quit his job and is earning on average $800 per day and moving towards doubling that within the year. This one aspect could be the difference between you failing, and your total success.
• Moving on to the next aspect of being worried you won’t succeed. Many people seem to develop this over time, and have already made their mind up whether they’re going to be a success or not.
• Now you may not be the type of person to worry about what other people are thinking or how they’ll react to your products and the things you do, which is great, because you’ll burn bridges a lot faster than us out there that hate it when someone doesn’t like our work. This is why you’ll always get the best from anything I do personally, but for those of you who are reading and get a little uptight when approaching something new this is for you.
• Let’s get this all out in the open right now shall we? If you continue down this road you will on occasion experience the following. You will be shouted at, you will experience things that make you feel uncomfortable (namely change) you will be sworn at, you will be abused, called a liar, a money grabber, you will be refused, you will be denied, put down, told your work is shoddy, bad or not up to standard, and that the brand new idea you had won’t ever work. No matter how good your work is this is inevitable whether it’s from those that don’t understand your work, a frustrated customer, someone who didn’t like receiving an ad from you or someone who had their friend subscribe them to your stuff. Whatever it is, whether it was your fault or not, it will happen.
• Let’s get something straight for one. You run your business the way you want to run it. It is your business, you’re doing the work, creating the products, buying the guides, reaping the rewards. Don’t ever, under any circumstances, let an abusive customer, negative friend, family member or frustrated customers that take their life out on you, either get you down or, put you off trying something new. Build new bridges, listen to people’s advice along the way, but be confident, be determined, and physically hack and slash your way to success if you have to. This isn’t desperation, this is sheer determination. Don’t ignore advice, but flatten any obstacles in your way, gain new ground all day every day, and you’ll find that it actually takes more effort for you not to make it than it does to make it.
• Finally, there’s one more thing I’d like to get out in the open about being a success. That’s doing everything on your own. Something that many marketers, that start their own business, like to do simply because it’s such a change from their jobs, and they don’t have anything else to worry about except customers. Either this or they think they’ll be losing out on the profits side of things if they bring anyone else in on a deal. Totally the opposite is true.
• That’s not to say that you need to go around partnering on every single site that you create, but it does mean that you need to think a little more about working in a team wherever possible.
• Partnerships are one example but you’ll be splitting the profits 50/50. Lets say for example you both have the same amount of resources to get your promotion out to through different contacts and each others lists, affiliates, JV’s and customers. Mix in a little bit of your expertise and you’ll end up making the same amount of cash anyway if things are dead even. What you will get though is double the visitors, double the people in your follow-up, and double your affiliates adding fifty percent to your total income from the product to start with, and on top of that you’ll be pulling in double the resources to promote to in the future.
• Don’t worry if you don’t have anyone on your contact list yet and you’re starting from the very beginning, once you’ve launched your first few products you will have. Make it your business to work as a team. Make each other successful through plugging the gaps in your knowledge and ability with someone else and let them do the same in return. You will be more successful than you thought was possible with the product you work on, and due to increased resources, future products also.
• That’s all for this section. Some of the smallest but yet the most important bits of information, all taken straight from real experiences we’ve had over here. Take the knowledge contained within this report, put it to good use, and I look forward to seeing many successful products come from you. Be careful though. Just because you don’t have these problems right now, you may develop any of them later. Don’t forget what you’ve just been reading and you’ll do just fine.

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