Goals Of This Section

• To demonstrate that to move forward, if you haven’t been doing so recently, something needs to change.
• To show you that no matter how idealistic it sounds opportunity is everywhere.
• To display the need to understand such concepts if being a success at anything is something you want to be.
• To lay the groundwork and introduce the concept of business contacts for future reports.
• To show you that scientifically, the possibilities of achieving whatever you want is possible through business contacts and to demonstrate this process happening as we speak.
• To help explain exactly how you are in complete control of your situation, now and into the future.
• To display how your situation can change in an instant, and how you’re about to make that happen for yourself.
• To get you up off the chair and creating opportunity for yourself with the knowledge that it will move your forward towards your goals quickly and effectively.
• To overcome the fear of not being able to move forward, or being too far away from your goals, making the job to reach them look huge, when really, it’s nothing more than a few steps away.

Let me start off by saying that this is report is totally unplanned, it’s coming straight from inside my head, and for good reason. My aim here is to let you know a little bit about my personal thoughts relating to opportunity, how I know that this is fact, how it presents itself to you, how to spot it, and most importantly, how it relates to online marketing and you as a success. This is not a step-by-step how to, but it’s been as important as ever in getting me to where I am now, and it’s likely that it’ll do the same for you if you can keep an open mind.

Missed Chances - Sound Familiar?

I’ll be honest, I’m not really a big fan of the whole idea of positive thinking will get you where you want to be and that kind of stuff. My train of thought is more that ‘it’s not what you know, but who you know’. Delving into a little bit of reasoning before we get started, let me ask you a quick question. Have you ever woken up one day and realized that you totally missed a great opportunity the night before? Maybe it was a promotion, an opportunity to meet someone really interesting, or failed to take part in an activity that you wish you would have taken part in?

How about a more long-term view? Lets say you dwell on something that’s happened in the past that you wish you’d done differently, or someone you wish you’d met when you had the chance, or anything relating to missed opportunities.

I’m pretty sure we’ve all done that, myself included, but have you ever pondered where you might be if you’d just gone for it and taken up the offer, or gone ahead with your idea? This is something that I like to look out for in the online business world and turn it on its head, instead, looking at the present. All day, every day new opportunities present themselves, and I think it’s really important that an online marketer can understand when, where and how this happens, and how to take advantage of it, which we can’t do without first being able to spot the potential that arises from particular situations.

Now, I’m big on making contacts and creating mutual business partnerships with other marketers that benefit both parties. However, I rarely see anyone actually make this effort consistently and on a long term basis, which is a shame, because we’d all have exactly what we wanted already if we helped each other out a little more.

Let me explain. I read about a scientific study of sorts (that you may or may not be familiar with) that suggests every single person in the world, no matter where they are, what country they’re in or what language they speak, is connected and knows you through a chain of seven people. They took this random hermit type guy that lives a very solitary life in the mountains of a far off country, and picked out a person in the London area to test this.

Through research and a little bit of juggling here and there, they managed to get from this person in London, to the other person living in the mountains in a far off country with his animals in seven jumps, a friend of a friend of a friend and so on. My first point here is a very important one. Whether this theory is dead accurate or not, opportunities are indeed out there, and you should take a little bit of time out to see this, and you’ll immediately notice that they aren’t as far away as you might think, no matter how desperate the situation.

Lets imagine for a moment, you’re an online marketer with a modest business, earning a couple of thousand dollars a month. How long will it take you to hit the big time? Who knows, the big contacts and deals that could catapult you right up there through mutual agreement and benefit could be just one or two conversations away. Your new business partner could be waiting for you just around the corner and you could meet at any time.

If I Could Only Give You One Tip - It Would Be This

This is my first point to every single online marketer out there. If I had five minutes to talk to every single person with an online business, looking for advice, this is what I’d tell them. Opportunities exist, all kinds of opportunities, things that might not have even been thought about. They’re everywhere and if you want to be a great success, they need to be taken advantage of at every step.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying you’ll wake up tomorrow with an e-mail in your inbox that’ll answer all your problems, but seriously, solutions and new partnerships are out there ripe for the taking, which brings me on to the next point. If you don’t take them someone else will. Don’t wait for the them to come to you, get out there and dig them up.

This is how the big guys out there make things happen. They don’t do things alone, they make their contacts, and they assist each other, whether it be an intentional, or purely circumstantial meeting, a big group of people are making sure each other is successful. Lets take just ten marketers for example. Each one has ten times more promotion power, ten times the chance of meeting new contacts to increase their chances further, ten times the income, and so on. You have to be able to see the power of this.

Look at it this way. Imagine the room you’re sitting in is painted pure white from top to bottom, floors and all. Now take a thin nib pen, and draw a small black dot on your wall. This is you. Now take a red pen and place a small dot above yourself for each one of your friends, then a blue pen for each one of your friends, friends.

Imagine this process repeating itself again and again, until your wall is full. See all those dots? Each one is an opportunity, each one a different person from a different walk of life that you have a chance to meet, learn from and become mutual successes. Whether they just give you a new perspective on things, or whether they give you a small helpful tip, or become your long term business partner, whatever it is, it’s there, it’s closer than you think and it’s waiting for someone to pick up and take it to the next level, and at the same time become a success. If that’s not you, It’ll be someone else.

Yours For The Taking

To each one of these people you have something to offer, as they no doubt have something to offer to you. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not suggesting that you should go out and make friends with the whole of the worlds population, but I really want to make it clear how these opportunities are there, and they’re ready for you to take them in whatever form you wish.

This is the most important thing that I believe I can show you. If you see something you like, don’t sit back and say Ah that’s pretty cool, jump up and grab it with both hands. It’s yours to take right now. Don’t hesitate.

Proof This Works - One Of The Examples Out Of The Pile

One more small analogy and I’ll tell you a little story about how this very site came to be, and most likely many other sites and businesses before and after it. Imagine you’re walking down an isle in a crowded shopping mall. Who was that person you just brushed arms with? Was it the guy that’s going to tell his friends about your business and what you do, leading to five new customers? Is this the woman that’s going to give you a free beauty consultation in the future? Is it the guy that’s going to tell his friend about your business, and hook you up with a massive marketing campaign to their list?

Stop Doing It On Your Own For Immediate Results

The potential here is totally massive. Hold up though, there’s something very important that you should know about this connection making process, and that’s that it’s give and take. In a business sense, it’s likely you’ll be giving them something and they’ll be giving you something valuable in return.

This type of business has been around for so long now. All we’re looking at is trades that are mutually beneficial to each party. One thing I would like to say before we go any further here, is that I’m talking in a purely business sense. I don’t seriously look at everyone I meet as a new money making machine, and I don’t advise anyone do that either. All I’m suggesting here, with these rather black and white examples, is that the opportunity is out there if you’re willing to take it and the results can be huge.

We’ll be talking a little later about how to make contacts, and actual methods of doing so, simply because I believe that it’s the path to total success in whatever you’re trying to do. Even if it seems like you’re getting a pay cut of sorts in the short term. Stop trying to do things on your own, and you’ll see the results of a team effort, in long, medium and short term in terms of both profit and in terms of the advantages and new opportunity branches that you open up.

Ok, time for a real world example for you, and keep in mind this may well happen to you, whether it’s a similar situation or under totally different circumstances. How did this very product come to exist? It all started a while back in the year 2000 when I joined a membership website by two big name marketers. Nothing major really went on, at the time I was spending most of my business day just talking to new people and testing marketing strategies for my own membership site.

Anyway, through just attending some of their consultations and participating in their community, as well as meeting these two big marketers, and several others, I also found myself in contact with big list owners and article writers. Bear in mind I wasn’t actively seeking out any of this. Now at the time I didn’t really see these people as an opportunity. I was just going with the flow really, meeting, greeting and talking to people in the same field of business as myself.

Not only did I end up starting sites with two of these people, and almost starting one with another (we decided it wasn’t a viable idea in the end), but three years later, here’s me happily managing my e-zine and websites, along comes a call from one of them that introduces me to yet more contacts. “I got this guy here, you may have heard of him, but he wants to set up this cool sounding site, but I don’t have the time for it. Are you up for that?”

Sure I was, that sounds like a good new opportunity. Off I went, had a talk to with this new contact, who’d already been talking to the others I’d met through the same site. The result? This site, 500 sales within a few weeks, each paying us $500+ for our experience and to talk to our contacts first hand, and some real great new friends and business contacts to boot.

Don’t get me wrong, this is just an example. Forget how much is earned and through who and when, I’m not trying to boast here, but what I am doing is really hammering this home. If you take nothing away from this site other than this report, I’d be happy in knowing how many options you’ve opened up for yourself and will again in the future. As long as you’ve picked up this number one point that opportunities are out there. It’s a give and take process, and always mutually beneficial.

Ishould also point out at this point that what I just gave you was one example. One single example that bred 10+ new hard hitting contacts. This has happened non stop since initial contact with people in my field of expertise. Just by talking. Just by word of mouth and just by me not trying to do everything on my own. So let me ask you. Right now, are you working on your own? Are you open or closed to new contacts?

Next time something comes up that sounds good to you, don’t pass it by and wonder what would have happened if you said yes. Do it, take it up on the spot and see where it takes you. Next time something comes up that sounds good to you, remember this story, and your wall painted with different coloured dots. Think about where different situations could take you and your business, and most of all, in a business environment, never expect something for nothing.

Kind of a mutual unsung rule, you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours. Remember also not to view everyone you meet as an opportunity for making wads more cash. I’m not about to test this, but I highly doubt it would do wonders for anybodies social life.

Always On The Lookout - Try It For Yourself Tomorrow Morning & See What Happens…

So when you wake up tomorrow, and every day from now on, and a new situation presents itself, think to yourself: Where could this take me? What new situations will arise right away, in a year, or even ten years later? Kind of like viewing your whole life up to this point as one big long line, one thing led to another, to another, to another, to another and so on. One thing I do need you to understand though to complete this concept is that you are in control.

Just like you drew those dots connecting your friends, and their friends’ friends on the wall earlier. If you were to pick any one of them, do you think you could get yourself acquainted with just a few words through other friends? Too right you could, but it’s up to you to take those steps, to choose where your line goes next, and to select who you’re going to meet, and ultimately whether or not you’re working towards being a success.

You want it to happen, you go and do it. Like I demonstrated earlier, understanding you have so much control, everything is in your hands and it’s your choice is the first step to understanding how your going to move forward. This is totally relevant to your business, no matter how strange you may think this article is for an online marketing course. I need you to understand that you are in total control of what you’re doing and what you’re going to choose to do in the future.

Always create opportunities for yourself, leave your options open and you’ll never be left stuck in a rut, or left with an unsolvable problem. Remember, the above example is an extreme one. Your aim isn’t to use everyone you meet. Your aim is to do business as effectively as possible.

Don’t be afraid to get involved.

Start Tomorrow and you will see results.

Summary

• This section wasn’t at all planned. I wanted to give you the essence of what’s going on in my mind every day as I carry out my online marketing because, even though this is not a direct how to step by step guide, it’s imperative that you understand this before going further.
• Something that I want you to try and do is keep an open mind throughout the whole course. Be open to new ideas and the new information that’s coming your way. This is the only way that you’ll get the best out of it and create an abundance of awesome ideas for your business.
• Myself not being a fan of positive thinking, this section is not related to that, but rather based around the concept, that it’s not what you know, it’s who you know.
• Have you ever woken up one morning and regretted missing an opportunity, or wondered why you didn’t do something the previous night that you had the chance to do? How about in the longer term? Is there anything in the past that you wished you’d have done differently and that just maybe you might have been somewhere else doing something else because of that? If so, don’t worry. Everyone has these missed opportunities and this section is all about making sure that never happens again.
• All day, every day new opportunities present themselves to us, and many don’t even notice it happening. We need to wake you up and open your eyes to this happening around you right now, because ultimately it will lead to your success.
• The starting point is to understand that you shouldn’t do everything on your own. I have never met anyone successful in the online marketing world that does not or has not at one time or another used this tactic to his or her advantage. If you want to be a success, from this point onwards, I want you to use it too.
• Sometimes you may feel that your goals, hopes and dreams are too far away for your liking, and it’s frustrating because it’s going to take too long to reach them. If we assume that the first step to being a success is about making contacts, scientifically, everything you want and could ever want is never more than seven steps away from you.
• An experiment I discovered recently showed a hermit living in isolated mountains in a far off country, and the challenge was to find someone from London, England, who knew him using seven steps. A friend of a friend, of a friend, of a friend, and it was a success.
• Understand right now that opportunities are out there. You need to open your mind, take a step back and pay attention. If you can do this, you’ll start to see when and where opportunities are presenting themselves to you. All of which you want to be taking. The big business contact that could bring two or more of you mutual but massive success could be just a conversation away.
• I’m not saying you’re going to wake up tomorrow with an e-mail in your inbox solving all your problems, but the potential to solve them is there. Opportunities in all shapes and forms are ripe and ready for picking, and if you don’t do so, you’ll miss out and someone else will take your spot.
• The power of the opportunity and contact making is immense. Lets imagine you’re a budding new marketer who’s made ten contacts by just being able to see these new opportunities arrive and meeting new business people. Ten times the income for all of you, ten times the promotion power, ten times the success. Can you meet ten people in the rest of your lifetime? If you answered yes, you can be a success.
• See how success isn’t actually as far away as you may think. Imagine you’re in a white room. Place a small dot on a wall; this dot is you. Now place a green dot next to you for friends you have, and next a blue dot for every friend they have and so on. Before long your room will be totally covered. Looking at this room full of dots, you can see how easy it is to start at the bottom of the line, and using this small scientific technique explained above, you have more potential than you ever dreamed of.
• On that same note, let me ask you, if you wanted to, could you get an introduction to your friends friend that you’ve never met before? I bet you could with a few words. The same is true with marketing. Everyone that you want to contact in the future for a mutually successful business relationship is right there and is reachable through someone you know. See how your success is closer than it appears?
• On top of this, for even more re-enforcement of how you can put this effect to good use, is to control it. What did you do when you just asked your friend earlier for an introduction to another friend? You controlled who you were meeting. How are you going to be a success in online marketing? Through the same scientific process of controlling where you want to go instead of waiting for opportunity to come to you.
• Opportunity can come in all shapes, forms and sizes, it doesn’t have to be just meeting people. Use and apply this technique, take up everything you can as often as you can, and even though you can’t predict where it’s going to lead, at the end of it, you’ll always have more than you started out with. This opportunity spotting and taking is the key to your success, plain and simple. (We’ll also be talking more about this later, don’t worry about specifics for now, just understand the concept, take it in, and know it exists)
• When you wake up tomorrow and any situation presents itself, any situation at all, think, where could this take me if I say yes, where could it take me if I do this instead of watching TV, who could I meet if I go here instead of taking an extra lie in after a late night. Remember your friends dots that you drew on the wall?
• Where will this take you? Who knows, I don’t know, you don’t know, but one thing I can most definitely tell you without a doubt, is that it’s going to take your forwards, towards your goals. Remember, you have the control here, no one else. It’s in your hands and totally down to you. Always create options and opportunities for yourself in this way, and you’ll never be stuck in a rut, not to mention how you’ll immediately see your rapid forward movement in the direction that you want to be going in.
• Don’t be afraid of change or new things. I need your full attention, dedication, and an open mind, that’s all I ask of you. This alone will push you in the direction that you want to go in.

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