The Five Deadly Mistakes of Internet Marketers

Five deadly mistakes to not make in Internet Marketing

Originally written in December 28, 2008 and Revised February 27, 2011, Revised again on 26 of June 2014

Here's my update of June 26 of 2014:

Boy, it's been a while since I visited my own blog! 3 years? Wow! I'm still making a little bit of money with Adsense on this blog. I'm not sure what ad was clicked to generate the revenue.

A lot has changed since I wrote this post (I'll leave the original below untouched).  Well, I now create and manage websites. The object, of course, is to be able to make money online. And I've been making a pretty good living at it. If I had to emphasize anything about what I've been doing is that: in order to make money online, you have to be willing to invest some money, learn what the hell you're doing and work hard.

The old adage still applies: "knowledge is power". But knowledge alone will not make you money. You must more than wish to make money. You have to learn how to do it and take ACTION (work for it).

So what I have I've been doing exactly?  I learned so HTML,  put Paypal on some of my sites and use Adwords to promote. All of these activities require learning how to do them, practice and then doing them. 

Check out some of my sites: bettershutters.com,  bettershutters.net and my new website that I'm working on: goodfoodandfitness.com. Plus I've written many, many posts on making money on a blog I continuously post on: howtogetinspired.com. 

If you want to know how I've done this and are a regular visitor comment and I'll drop you a line.

Here's the original Five Deadly Mistakes:

This is a long post and you will need some time to read "The Five Deadly Mistakes of Internet marketers".  make yourself comfortable and enjoy! You will get a lot out of it.  I wrote it so that I could save you tons of grief and disappointment as a beginning Internet Marketer.


I decided to leave this post as the main page of this blog.  That is why you will see the date above into the future. As far as I know, that is the only way that Blogger lets you do it.  Posts are archived in order of most recently posted hierarchy.  The latest will show up first. 

I originally wrote this back in April of 2008 I believe. Close to three years later I can tell you that I have learned what makes money and what doesn't.  More importantly, I have discovered the hard way that there is no easy method of making money on line. 

There are as many legitimate methods to doing this as there are successful businesses out there.  The bad news is that in order to find a legitimate method, your research can take quite a long time.  Many eventually give up and become valets or waiters rather than give Internet Marketing any more thought.  There are way too many false lures out there, way too many "experts" that hire firms or smart writers and take your money and run!

I'll add some more to this revision.  There have been many changes in the Internet Marketing field such as who's come and gone; what worked then doesn't work now; what Google's been up to, etc.

For now (you'll still get a lot out of what follows), here's the original post:

The Five Deadly Mistakes of Internet marketers

This blog is dedicated to all Internet Marketers (I.M's) who have been frustrated and are looking for a better way to make money online.

I'll first explore what maybe killing you as a wannabe marketer. I promise I won't be cruel.

Then I'll get into I'm sure will work for you. I assure you I know what I'm talking about. This is a brand new blog and yet I've received hundreds of hits without doing any advertising.




After having quite a bit of fun in the Internet and almost going broke in the process learning all manner of new methods, tricks, come-ons, etc. I’ve been able to isolate: How not to make money in the Internet!

At first sight this statement may not shock you or give you a desire to read on. I know: my natural instinct is to get interested in: How to make money in the Internet. After all who cares about what doesn’t work? "I want to know what works!". I will show you what works. But you need to first break of the habit of clicking on every ad that promised to make you rich, but doesn't deliver.

My mission is to help you in recognizing all of the misinformation out there that, in the end, leaves you broke and hopeless. There is no need for that. Such can easily be avoided. Read on and I'm sure some fireworks will go off in your head.

Please bookmark this page. You may get lost in hyper-space with what you're about to read and not remember how you landed here.

Definition of insanity (By Mr. Brainiac Einstein): "Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results"(actually I think that is is more like "stubbornness": a lesser form of insanity).You need to first break away from what is NOT working so that you can concentrate on what works. It’s that simple.

I finally realized..
I had to do something different...

I promise you that as you read on I will reveal to you How to make money in the Internet, but you must bear with me reading these few words, as they’re designed to save you tons of grief, aggravation and going broke. After all, I don't want you broke and desperate. I want you as my precious client who I can continue to help along as you begin to get results.

Before you’re even done reading all of this, you may just realize how to do it. If so, I definitely want you on my team—move to the head of the class! Either way you should read on.

I’m pretty sure I can only help you, if only in releasing some pent up frustrations you might have built up and best of all: get refreshed! It's time to have a new outlook, without you won't get far.

Here's an example of a very crappy, time consuming, worthless method that you may have heard of. It's called The Spider Web Marketing System. I tried it, pumped over $3,000 dollars into it, worked it like mad and got no results. Right, So much for a "free system". Check it out if you wish at your own risk: I repeat: This is a very crappy system. You will learn some stuff "for free", but it's still crappy:


The Spider Web Marketing system




Here's an interesting article I read regarding a super crappy website that lures "innocent prospectors" into believing that they can do rebates from home.

"I've tried that"

Here's a review of Rachael Ryan (or a spin off) with her "Stay at home system". I personally checked out Rachael Ryan. I wasn't impressed. The following link might have changed.
 
The Work At Home Authority

The author leads you to believe that all you have to do is buy her system and you will be automatically connected to tons of companies that pay you to process rebates. Supposedly you get paid up to $15 per rebate you process. This sounds lovely and very enticing. So I clicked on it and had this nagging thought: "If it's that simple, how come the author doesn't hire grandma and her kids do this all day long for a buck per rebate and keep $14?".

In actual fact, after you pay $97 for this, you then realize that you won't make money processing rebates. You have to now promote the system to make your $97 back! Come on. How far from the truth can you get?


There's actually a site out there called: "The Site Review Authority" that recommends it. It does well for the author, as it comes up under a lot of keywords and search terms on Pay Per Click. It's been on the internet for over a year now, as far as I know. So they must be making money to keep paying Google for Adwords.


This is one that I haven't truly checked out. It shows some promise for those who don't have a fat wallet:Two minute Profits. I'm not recommending it, just pointing it out.

O.K., fair enough, but have you noticed that what grabs your attention is not necessarily best for you? How many car commercials have you seen with the pretty girl (which has nothing to do with the car), get your attention and make you want the new car? Even though you know better and your old Buick is running fine and paid for? Did the car above grab your attention?. Here it is again:


I'm sorry. I really love this car!

Or, for girls: How many times have you seen the Jenny Craig commercials, felt guilty about being over-weight, if you are, and buy into the system, even though you knew there was nothing wrong with your weight loss system, except for will power and some more discipline? Here's a pretty girl- attention getter:



So the first thing that won’t let you make money is:

1. Dispersal: That means going off in too many directions at once, killing your focus and efficiency. Look it up if you wish for a more Collegiate definition, but that is basically what it is. So what makes you dispersed? Well, all of these beautiful websites, landing pages, capture pages, etc. that clamor for your attention, capture you and make it irresistible for you to buy and finally you give in and “BUY”. They very ingeniously use "buttons", or better yet "marketing buttons".

These are very stimulus-response. Before you even know what happened, you've just reacted to the stimulus you were exposed to and responded. Did you feel a little dispersed by clicking the links I gave you above? You have to understand that every one, without exception, in this business of Internet marketing is out to make a buck, and he who clamors the most gets the most attention. Attention= Money. Lots of attention= Lots of money.

Did you ever hear the expression: "The squeaky wheel gets the grease?"That doesn’t mean that they are necessarily unethical, but they NEED to make a buck, and they will go to almost any length to make that happen.

Therefore: the pretty girl, the slim girl, the flashing pages, the pop ups, etc. Almost all Internet Marketers realize this, and in their desperate bids to get attention create horribly dispersing pages with all kinds of links, pop ups, banner ads, widgets, etc. I guess they feel that if they don’t get you in one way, they’ll get you another. But there's a downside.
These sites are called “Flea market sites” by many experts. And this is horrible Man! When I’ve been unfortunate enough to land on these sites, I’ve felt completely giddy (my head spinning) and confused-- like my power was sapped-- then when I’m ready to click out, this stupid chat box pops up and won’t leave me alone (a hover ad) until I’ve realized all I have to do is press the “X” to leave.

Lots of people finally give in and buy more junk, only to realize they just gave somebody a license to be your firing squad with an endless assault of up sales. Man...that's insane!

Then there’s:
2. Misplaced trust: Let’s say you’ve recycled through a soup of websites as above and been lured to BUY in compulsion, frustration or whatever, the realization comes that “the money is on the other side of the fence”= Not in your pocket, theirs.

So even if you don’t know whether the course will work or not, you know that you have to make it work. After all you paid for it, even though you can get a refund, but you’ve already put time and money into this and genuinely desire to make it work.

Now, that’s not so terrible. Many of us have done that and been there. Who knows, this thing might just work, just like the testimonials say. But wouldn’t it be terrible to find out many months later, that the company or person you were dealing with and willing to coach you gave up himself? Or that the company is now out of business and all you managed to get out of it was information overload with nothing to show for it?

That leads right into our next one:

3. Too long a runway (taking too long): When someone didn’t really read the fine print that reads “results not typical”, he deluded himself into believing that all those beautiful success stories:
“I made $500 my first 24 hours!” or: “I only spent $19 and made $700!” and many more like it. Yes it is possible to do this. But you need to use your judgment and fine tune it like a radar.

The truth is this: if we could all make $700 in 24 hours, don’t you think we all would be doing it? People, including myself, tend to take the path of least resistance. Why would I, or anyone else for that matter, want to work 8 hours a day for peanuts? So we delude ourselves and persist on a course that we know deep down inside will frustrate us why? TRUST: a fine quality that bonds us, but it is too easily exploited and betrayed.

Too long a runway is taking too long BEFORE we see any viable results. It's an airplane running out of runway and yet the pilot refuses to take off. Result: PLOW! right into the rice field, at least.


The keyword here is “viable”. Sure the course or system will work for some. That is why we persist. But it’s not working for us. So there comes a crossroads in our quest: “will it get worse if we keep at it or do I persist just a little longer?” We're not quitters, you know.

Toni Robbins, the motivational speaker, once gave a great analogy: "what good is having all of this energy not properly channeled, like a fly trying to get out through a closed window?. He'll never get out and finally get frustrated and die." I don't like man being compared to a fly, but I couldn't think of another analogy to give you.

To add insult to injury, you get a further dose of “dispersal” above”. Just when you “thought it was safe to go back in the water”, here comes another auto-responder urging you to buy more stuff from the same guy or company!

You say: “But wait! I haven’t made a dime yet! You realize that there is now crossroads (a point of decision) staring you in the face and you say: “Oh no. Not another wasted attempt. Not another wasted year!” But the crossroads is still there. You must now decide: “Do I keep going, or do I stop doing this?” “Do I quit?”


You know. Most Internet Marketers quit. I did. But came back armed with new true knowledge of what to do. Actually the attrition rate is about 97%, per what I read on the guru sites. Yes. I keep myself well informed and resist buying into the latest craze.

So finally we get to:

4. Going broke with no results: The bright hopes of this Internet Marketer wannabe have now dimmed. He really wants to make this work. But man! His legs just don’t respond as well in the morning. He doesn’t really look forward to answering e-mails. His Google Adwords campaigns stopped running. No more money for ad placement, etc. His bills pile up.

He sees his caller I.D. and knows it’s a creditor. “Why answer? He knows the bill collector won’t let up and he doesn’t have the money”. He “knows” he isn’t making it. So why bother? “Maybe if I try another method and then another and then another, things will work out”, he says.

5. Desperation: In sheer panic he gropes for the “only thing” that “just might work”. Then something else and then something else. None work! This finishes him and he quits. He becomes another statistic added on to the 97% of “failures” out there. He is forced to go out and get a JOB! This is the last thing he wanted! Now he has to go back to the daily grind, with less time, no money and lots of bills!

Alright, as I said earlier, this blog is dedicated to all internet marketers out there who have had little or no results. My hat's off to them. I feel for them. I've been there.

Some of the copy writing that I'm doing here probably violates every principle in the book. I'm concentrating on the negative part of this business in too much detail. But I said: "what the hell. Perhaps many will benefit from reading this, experience relief, avoid getting scammed again and start making money for real. That is the positive side of it and that's why I'm doing it.

Another positive to this is the incredible magnitude and resilience of the human spirit. Whoever said "Man is the only 'animal' that will trip twice over the same stone", was short sighted. There is some slight truth to that. But such "maxim" should have gone as follows: "Man is the only species who can trip over the same stone twice, and three times and a hundred, but finally he figures out how to get it out of the way, and paves a road to success". Besides, man is not an "animal". True he has an animal body. But there's a lot more to him than just his body. He is a sentient being being full of abilities and unlimited capabilities.

Just because you may be feeling down toady or for a while, is no reason to agree that it will be so all the time. Look at this as a temporary set-back or test to your abilities. Such tests usually result in opened never before seen opportunities. Do you know how many times Thomas Edison had to re-develop the light bulb over and over and almost went broke until he hit pay dirt! you may not be a Thomas Edison but you'll be surprised: your capabilities are a lot greater than anyone ever led you to believe.

“AHA! Here it comes. I bet he’s going to pitch his method now, the one that got him out of the rut. He just got done dragging me through the mud.” you might be saying: “Alright. How much?”

Wait! We’re not there yet.First I want to know. And I want to know honestly. Have you at least experienced some relief? If you read this far, I’m sure you may have at least similar experiences. Yes? Well good. Thank you for your honesty.

Two things should have happened at this point:

1. You have felt some relief and have figured out what works and....

2. You have felt some relief, figured out what works, but want to learn more. If you’re amongst 1 and 2 above, I have a wonderful surprise for you my friend! You CAN make money online! But you don’t need a long and grueling course on how to do it that will take you a year or so plus $10,000 to implement.
Here's a simple solution: Avoid doing all of the things above. Just, I REPEAT, don’t do them! They're a sure path to suicide!

Remember:

I finally realized..
I had to do something different...


“O.K. That’s great”, you say, “But what the hell do I do that will work?” The answer is:

Copy Success:

Why re-invent the wheel when you don't have to. There are some very successful internet marketers out there that you may have never heard of before. Searching for these seemed to be an endless job. The internet is endless, for all intent and purposes. It was an intimidating and, at times, frustrating task. I invested thousands of hours and dollars looking for reputable companies and well meaning Joes, so that you don't have to. I must admit, there were very few out there.

But the good news is they are out there.

Copy the successful internet marketer. Why waste your time buying failed and unsuccessful methods that don't make money and worse of all: make you waste your precious time? What you need is a successful or successful systems, not more hype.

There IS a simple formula connected with making money online and I will give it to you for free:

1. Create lead generation
2. Create personal branding (Create a successful personal identity)
3. Earn money immediately upfront, whether the client buys from you or not.

This last one has to do with something called "the reverse funnel system". You can look it up at Jonathanbudd.com. He's young, enthusiastic and has an incredible positive energy that will just brighten up your day. Many people are now following his system.

Successful systems= multiple sources of income. I have chosen only these systems mainly because they have:

1. Lead generation
2. Personal branding
3. Earn money immediately upfront, whether the client buys from you or not.



I guarantee you will be a pro in a very short time. You will avoid the five deadly mistakes. I will ask you to, once again, extend me your trust. I know you have been let down too many times before. But nothing happens without ACTION and such you must take.




There you have it have it my friends. I sincerely hope that this blog has been helpful and that I can be your friend for life.

You can write to me at: thefighter@bellsouth.net
                  No SPAM please!
Yes, I've branded myself as "The Fighter"

I like networking with other Internet Marketers.

I open my e mails everyday and answer almost immediately. Any comment is welcome.

To your success,

Carlos Manrique

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Update January 19, 2009

Hello my friends and subscribers,

I have been doing a bit of writing and creating or improving other blogs. My quest has been to provide unique quality content that will add value to the reader in order to generate traffic and make a good living online.

I can't honestly say that I'm there yet (the making a good living at it part), but I have been getting a lot of free traffic by being industrious at finding and using various traffic building generating tools. that's why I suggest you follow this blog so that you can track my no B.S. progress annd more importantly, so that I can share these tools with you.

One tool that is getting me results is the Feedjit Map, which you can download for free. I'm not exactly sure how it works, but suffice it to say that it generates traffic. I suggest you add it to your blog. It works.

I'm learning how to use another tool called "viral marketing", which is quite interesting. I won't give you a link yet, as I need to learn it myself well and apply it and see results before I share it.
From my understanding, Viral Marketing has to do with getting your users to spread your message and building traffic to your sites by their efforts, not yours. It's pretty neat and has nothing to do with computer viruses. so don't worry.

In keeping with the theme of this blog, I stumbled on a website that describes some mistakes made by Internet Marketers, which I agree with and thought you should be aware of them.

"Some of the mistakes people make when marketing online are as follows:

• They try to advertise and offer the same products to the same people that everyone else is marketing to. What separates you from the rest?
• They buy an e mail list to market to. The problem is that the people on that list didn’t subscribe to your blog or website and don’t know you from Adam. That’s kind of like spam isn’t it? You should build your list from your own sign up forms on your blog or website.
• Some people try to make mega-bucks quickly and aren’t as careful as they should be with how they market or what they sell.
• Trying to do everything yourself is a big mistake. No one person has all the skills necessary to build a website, write a sales letter, develop promotional material, develop products, etc. Don’t be afraid to joint venture with others to move you along faster."

I hope this was helpful,

Carlos

Search Engine Optimization tips

I'll assume that you are not a total beginner reading this post. It's short and sweet and gives you great easy to do pointers on SEO (Search Engine Optimization). 

I've been on the internet for the past 3 years writing my heart out and researching as I go,  the  subject of Search Engine Optimization.  But the more I researched and read on, the more I realized that a lot of the information out there is not fresh and is false. As a matter of fact I got quite confused and this is why:

Some veterans, even though they mean well, will give you pointers that got them a Page One Ranking that they got many years ago and struggle to keep at the top.  Notice I said "struggle". One such marketer is Griz.  He's pretty good. I don't know how much money he makes, but he's an authority on the Make Money Online niche. His number one rankings or even Page One rankings keep falling.  Maybe Google has started to penalize all the Make Money Online sites.  Most of them are crap anyway.

Google keeps is algorithms very secret.  Fair enough.   If we all knew exactly what to do to optimize our sites, then the playing field would be very level, as SEO would not be a fine skill to master.  So Google is right in keeping them secret.  But not all of them are secret.  Actually most of them are not.  Google will go to great lengths to show you how to optimize your sites.  It's that 10% or so of its algorithms that still mystify even the experts that keeps the guessing game interesting and the diligent rewarded.

OK, enough background info.  Here are my pointers:

1. Make your domain name as similar as possible to your site title. If you sell cookies, make your site "thebestcoookiesonline.com".

2. Have more than 3 pages besides your home page and keep them all related.   I.e.:  "Cookies Homepage";  "All about Chocolate chip cookies"; "My grandma's Oatmeal cookies", etc.  Get the picture?

3.  Make every post, article or picture related to your site.  Don't show a pictures of a cute baby, unless it's related.  Baby eating cookie is OK.

4.  Tag and title your pictures.  Bots can't read pictures. They read text.

5.   Make your content unique with about 7% keyword density max.  Make sure your keywords are related to your topic and site.  Don't copy and paste.  If you have to, keep it down to a minimum, like a quote or so and in the middle of your article.  Google now has a free tool that checks your "keyword density".  If you use it as a browser, others might do this too, just highlight a term in an article you run across with your mouse. Right click it and pick "show keyword density".

If your main keyword is "Make money Online", just do the above and check it.  If you're over 7%, cut back.  The robot may "sand bag" your site (make it disappear from any possible ranking).  Too heavy a keyword density can be considered "Robot crawler spamming". Just be careful with this one.

6.   Get lots of back links to your site.  Go to Article base, Zimbio, Ehow.com and many like sites.  These are article submission sites.  There are a few downsides to this.  Google seems to disdain them now,  it may not give your article a back link. But it's worth a try.  The other: you have to subscribe. Just come up with an e mail address that you give only for this purpose.  Don't give out your personal e mail address. You may get spam.  Back links should come from related sites.  The higher these sites rank, the better.  Getting a back link from a two-bit No Rank site may actually hurt your rankings.

Make sure that the back links are in the form of anchored text.  Instead of back linking:  "http://www.thebestcookiesonline/granmascookies.html", cloak the address by just linking: "My grandma's cookies".  Look up "anchored text" in Google if need be to find out more about this. It's a very important point and perhaps the most vital in getting good Page Ranking.

7.   Add videos.  Google loves videos.  Make them unique and related.

8.   Keep your site fresh with new content, especially if you have a blog.   Static sites should also be refreshed at least once a month.

9.   Keep your site clean looking and free of clutter.  Don't add tons of gadgets, affiliate links, pictures or nonsense.

10.   If you add Adsense to your site. NEVER click on these ads.  Google will ban you.  Add Adsense only after your page views pass a hundred per day.  Otherwise it's not worth doing.

Oh, and you may ask: "why optimize my sites?"  Well, unless you're rich and want to get traffic to your site, this is what you do.  Google rewards the diligent.  Those who put up sloppy useless sites don't get traffic unless they pay to get it such as Adwords or paid banners and "misdirectors" on other sites.  That costs money.  Why pay out the wazoo when you don't have to.

The object of Search Engine Optimization is getting tons and tons of free traffic.  Why pay for it when you don't have to?

But paid traffic is often needed.  Depending on the site budgets vary.  One of my sites: Hurricane shutters pays Google over $200 a month.  That's not too bad considering that I get about 25,000 free hits per month by having the site optimized.  The paid advertising is needed because even though this site ranks number 1, first page for many keywords, there are others where I have to pay to get traffic.

Consider paid traffic as a temporary measure.  You can always pause, start or delete your ads or campaigns.  Paying to get traffic allows you to see what keywords are working.  Why go to all the trouble of optimizing your site and pages with the incorrect keywords?  Paying initially can save you lots of work.  Time is money in this business.

Apply this motto to Search Engine Optimization: "Once you know what is working for you, put all of your effort into this and you'll multiply your returns exponentially".   When something doesn't work, and you've given it enough time,  just drop it like a hot potato.

Here's a great article on Search Engine Optimation not written by me: A1 Optimization 

Alright, I hope I covered enough ground here to keep you busy and better yet optimizing your site or sites so that you don't have to spend years doing Search Engine Optimization.  Depending on your site, you can do this in as little as a couple of days per site.

To your success,

Carlos

Winning Ads

Winning Ads are ads that attract attention. An "ad" by definition means "Advertising". It is a short form of it. We are used to saying "ad", because it's shorter.

I call it "Winning Ads" because they win for me and they win for the reader. I get revenue from Adsense and other affiliate programs, which is fair and you win by getting content that you can use as either an internet marketer or writer. Further an ad that doesn't grab the attention of the reader in one or two seconds is a bad ad.

In this fast paced world of ours where we get our food through the drive-through, our dinners from the micro-wave and our news from our favorite 11 O'clock news or whatever, we usually only get one shot at our reader to pay attention.

A good ad is short and to the point. It doesn't have a long message or confusing logos or text. Below I'll give you examples of what I mean. Why? so that you don't make mistakes in writing your ads as an internet marketer:

                                                         The Coke Nemesis Pepsi



Here's an old McDonald's ad:

Oh yes. the "old pretty girl in lingerie" ad:

The above were or are successful winning ads. How do I know? I searched Google and key worded "Successful ad images" and this is what I came up with. They're all short and sweet. Pardon the pun.

But how does this relate to your ads? When you write, you should write likewise, short and to the point. Don't use confusing or Doctor-like language. Who cares? You are writing for your audience. The average internet surfer has little time. He won't look at the online dictionary for definitions ( I might be one of the few who does it). You only have seconds. That is why I write, as much as possible, in short concise paragraphs. They are much easier on the reader.

Your ads: If you're not a graphic designer, copy and paste your graphics (make sure you don't violate copyrights) and keep them related to your text. Put a short caption underneath that communicates your product. If you want to add Adsense to your blog, place such under your posts, not on the right as they could be distracting. Some gurus might disagree with me.  Sometimes Adsense  works best on the top left of your blog, that is if you use the Blogger template "Minima left"  I personally like the "Sample blog"  template and put Adsense at the bottom.  You cab configure this by going to your "Edit template" tab and clicking and dragging page elements. If you are a Power Point pro, import your own template.

On your paragraphs use something called "anchors". This is simply "anchoring" or fixing the attention of your reader like this:

How would you like to win a million dollars?  No...I don't know how you'll win a million dollars, but made you look, right? That's called anchoring. But you don't have to pull a dirty trick like I did here to get your reader to look. I just couldn't think of anything else. Wherever you want your reader to be "anchored" to, use bold letters at the beginning of your paragraph---occasionally elsewhere, but don't over do it.

The above formula and layouts should make for a good looking blog with Winning ads: ads that win for you and your reader.

I hope this has been helpful.






Carlos

How to Make Money Online for Beginners: Presenting: Talent

   I must confess I had a bit of writer's block and couldn't think of much to say on the subject of Internet marketing mistakes or Making money online.  So I just posted the link above and below on the two subjects. Why? I was embarrassed and didn't want you to leave empty handed if you came back to my page for some more reading. I had nothing.

   The link and post below is not by me. It was written by "Griz", one of my favorite internet marketers. I've learned a lot from him for free. Go ahead, click on the link below. You don't have to pull your wallet out like most sites.  There will be no annoying hover ads or pop ups. Just some good ol' readin'. Grab a cup of coffee. Get comfortable and enjoy.

   Why the waterfall? I don't know, it's just "subliminal" so that you can relax before you learn new and innovative ways of making money online.

Carlos

How to Make Money Online for Beginners: Presenting: Talent

Three Steps to Financial Freedom

Hello my friends and welcome again!

For those of you who are returning to The Five Deadly Mistakes of Internet Marketers, I wanted to bring you some great new tools that I've researched over the past month and have found to be highly workable. This update is especially geared for those Internet Marketers who are fed up with spending tons of money on "systems" without getting any results and getting auto responded to death to buy more crap.

All of these tools I'm giving away here. That's right FREE. You don't have to buy anything.
What's the catch? You will have to put up with some pop ups as you go through the process, especially with the first one. But all you do is skip a few offers and you're all set. For FREE.

Another reason I'm doing this is the following: "The fewer the resources, the greater the genius you must have." LRH said. I've read many of his books.
We're now under a recession. But this doesn't mean you won't make money. Last week I had a great week! About $7,800. All applying these steps.

Let's face it, auto-responders cost money, web hosting, domain names, your internet connection. Yes I took in $7,800, but if I can get stuff for free and maximize my profits without jeopardizing the flow of money, I'll do it!

As you may well remember there is a formula you need to follow in order to establish financial freedom. To some "financial freedom" may be: "I have enough to get by... and that's enough!", or "I'll have enough money to last for a year.", etc., etc.

I define "financial freedom" as follows: "To never have to worry about money again to survive well, because one has the wherewithal". How do you get this wherewithal? By following a formula and doggedly applying it.

Remember we talked about "copying success"? Well, when something IS successful, THAT is your formula to follow.

I'm sorry. There are no gimmicks, no fads, no "new trend", no "new system' to follow. This formula has worked in Babylonia, ancient Greece and as sure as I am that the sun will rise on the East tomorrow, so shall this formula work today and tomorrow for you.

The formula is made up of only three simple steps. Yes, there are other "sub actions" within the three steps, but there are only three steps to financial freedom. It's like having your own perpetual cash printing machine, although it's all legal.

I'll go over the steps again, but this time I'll give you the exact proper links without sending you all over the internet so that you have, RIGHT NOW, the proper tools with which to apply them.

Let's break them down:

1. Create lead generation:

You don't have the money to invest in an auto-responder? Don't worry. this auto-responder won't drive you crazy with annoying pop ups. Some will show up, but they are minimal. just skip the offers and go on to set it up.
This is how it works: You will begin to get tons of e mails from other members. If you mind this like I do, don't give out your primary address. Use Gmail or any other free service if you don't want your personal e mail box filled quickly.

You'll get tons of offers and ideas on how to create your lists. Most of the e mails, if not all, are from marketers just like yourself, who are trying to make a buck on line. In this blog I have cautioned against "dispersal", one of the five deadly mistakes. So don't go "click crazy". Use your judgment and weed out the crap.

Some of these e mails are from successful marketers---very few. As you go to their sites or get redirected though affiliate links, if you like something they have to say, post a comment and leave your e mail address or URL.

Now you have a potential of successful marketers coming to your site and even linking to you if they like what you have. Translation: more leads.



Get your own affiliate banner from the site and copy and paste on your site. As readers go there by clicking the banner, you'll pick up their e mail address and will go into your auto responder.
Read their tutorials and practice, practice and practice until you know what you're doing and begin your opt in campaigns.


2. Create personal branding (Create a successful personal identity):

If you have already succeeded with anything online and have a following, you may want to skip this step. Just make sure you don't skip step 1. You'll need your auto-responder to massively send out your offer/s and generate thousands of leads.
If you are looking for more products to promote, or even if you've never promoted anything and want to know what products are hot, and are selling, go here:

Click 2 Sell is pretty new and competing with Clickbank. These two sites are free to promote affiliate products. You will get paid. I've already tested them and gotten paid.
If you have any issues with them, click their "customer support" button and you will hear from them in less than 24 hours! If you have any questions, they will answer them quickly. They are fairly new and want your business and help you to succeed.

Let's say you know exactly what you want to promote, are very impatient, like most of us, and just want to get going. I suggest the following:

Farm out web design, keyword analysis, search engine optimization, Page ranking and all that to a pro. Nowadays you can get all that done for under $500. this used to cost around $3,000. But now it seems that everywhere you look as you drive, you see the signs "websites for under $299".
Obviously, if you know somebody that you can trust, then just do that.

But YOU give HIM the content. Remember. You are unique in that is only one YOU and YOU know better about your business than anybody. Your techie is there for technical support only.

Alright, let's say that you don't have the money to hire a webmaster, open an account with blogger.com. It's free and fairly easy. Write content as you wish, following my tips. add Adsense and your affiliate links as well as a FeedJit map, as you see in this blog.

You can later submit your blog to various search engines for free. You get a confirmation e mail and you're on your way. Here's the link:




After you get some confidence, you'll later want to at least get your blog or blogs in Word Press format and get a domain name. Then you repeat the process all over again.

Yes. It is hard work no matter which way you look at it. I haven't covered everything by far in these three points, but these are the basics. I will be updating this blog and giving you links to Word Press, Cheap domain names and hosting.

For now, you should be well on your way.


3. Earn money immediately upfront, whether the client buys from you or not:

This requires a bit more know how, and it can be done cleverly without being a cheat or misdirecting the reader.

There are various methods that are tricky and downright disgusting such as hover ads (Yeah, those annoying pop ups that follow you around the page). The idea is that click out and get re directed! and on and on and on, until you finally fall for it. Some of these sites use Trojans, Adware, Spyware, "free" Banner Ads, etc. This last one is designed to re-direct your lead to somebody else's site and your lead is gone!. I'm not totally sure how that works, mainly because I've had no interest to find out.

The way you earn money up front is by selling a product-- especially one that they feel they must have in order to get what they want. Again, go to:

and get lots of ideas on how to do this.

Here, you'll use some of these pitch pages that you can just copy and paste with the author's permission and either copy and paste on your site or blog with your own affiliate link, or copy and paste in your auto responder as material to interest your reader.

One word of caution: Stay focused. If you are selling Adwords advice or promotional advice, stay on that subject. If you are selling anti-virus software and related items, stay on that. Don't confuse your list with "mixed messages".

Make money on your readers whether they buy from you or not:

Here's the not so cool way to do it:

If you don't intend to do internet marketing very long, say a few months "make a killing and cash out", make "copy cat sites". these sites are very crappy but can be very lucrative for the "I don't give a crap operator". You basically copy and paste good content and put up hundreds if not thousands of websites, capture pages leading to them and other crap on the internet. Interestingly enough there are many programs that will do just this and mostly proprietary. The big boys won't tell you, but they do just that. They then load their sites with Adsense.

Visitors when they land on these crappy sites go "What the...?" and proceed to click out of there through Adsense. They click on something else with the hopes of finding what they are looking for elsewhere. when they land in that "elsewhere", maybe they buy what they are looking for. the crappy site just made money for impressions and a referral. I don't recommend this as it's unethical, no matter how it's justified. But a lot of the big boys do it. Sucks, doesn't it?

Here's the downside: You won't last long. Google is very smart actually. the algorithms it uses were and keep getting created by very bright people. this is how they give sites merit or not. when the bot crawls those sites, they get "sand- boxed" (thrown at the very bottom of the heap). They may initially get "good" ranking. The programs may fool the bots, but only so long. After a short while, Google decides that they are no longer worth seeing and get so far down in the rankings that they might as well be dead sites. Who knows how many sites are there. I suspect billions!

I also wonder how many have copied my content and tried to pass of as their own? You know what? That's not so bad. many times you wind up with a back link to your site and they help you rank better! talk about poetic justice.

This is what I suggest (so that you can live with yourself):

Give them lots of reading material and useful information throughout your page. remember to keep it related. Show a video here and there to back up your points. They may abandon your site, but they've landed on a page that you're affiliated with, such as a Click 2 Sell partner publisher, or one whose product you promote.

You can also give them freebies, such as I'm doing here. Make sure you put in your affiliate links on your banners and links, or you won't be credited for any of your efforts.

A good one is to give away free e books that are not junk, but valuable. I learned quite a bit about Internet Marketing through these books. I will be bringing you books that you can give away as your own. Nice huh?

To your success,

Carlos, The fighter. Write to me: thefighter@bellsouth.net

P.S. I work hard to bring you freebies. Leave me a comment to let me know how I'm doing so that I can improve this blog.


Update March 17, 2010

I've been pretty busy and haven't been able to post much or update. On Inspiration for your day I've been inspired to post quite a bit. I've realized that money, although very nice to have, is not what truly inspires me. I love helping others and hopefully this blog I wrote on inspiration can help you in many ways. So if you're looking for a quick buck that I can teach you to make, "I ain't it".  I stay pretty busy by providing good old fashioned service and products. Sorry. I'm not a capitalist and I'm actually lousy at investments. I pay Google too much in my opinion for Adwords. I buy high and sell low and I'm not very good at watching trends or bird dogging stocks.

But even without tons of money to flaunt I've been able to find my special kind of freedom, thanks to Google Blogger by self expression. L Ron Hubbard, an American philosopher stated: "A being is as alive as he's able to communicate." I therefore, by corollary, feel as alive as I communicate.

To you feeling alive,

Carlos

Is Global Domains International worth doing?

Is Global Domains International worth doing?  Very simply: NO

If you have already read this page just scroll down to my update below
If not, please read on. 

I know that you're eager to get started in your new endeavor as an internet marketer. Perhaps you've been told that "it's easy", that you can do it from your home computer by simply following the latest internet system craze that claims you can make thousands a week.After spending your hard earned money on countless courses and doing what these guys said you should do, you found yourself-- months later-- broke and disillusioned, promising that you'll never fall for another internet scheme again.

But here you are again reading this text and wondering if it's possible to make money online..

Let me tell you that it is possible. Actually you can make lots of money at internet marketing, but not for the reasons you may imagine. Especially if you are a newbie.Just think about it: How can anyone in this business make money if the only way to do it seems to be by selling your information products to everybody else, and everybody else doing the same thing? There just isn't enough market out there for this to be possible. Also this wrongheaded approach leads quickly to saturation and operating off of the wrong premise.

People may be gullible, but not as much as you may think. They eventually realize that there is just too much hype in a market that is over-rated. If they followed you once, they will quickly disappear.To make money online as an internet marketer you must know a few basics. Skipping these basics by listening to the hype is pure folly and a sure way to giving up fast.

You may have a burning question: "Have I (the writer of this page) made any money on line?"The answer is "yes". At first I spent a lot of money learning the ropes and almost gave up. I was going broke doing what everybody else was telling me to do: "Advertise! Advertise!Advertise!" or "Pass off the same crap to somebody else. Who cares if they made money with it or not...after all..I just put this nice little disclaimer on it!"

This kind of "mindset" made me sick. I realized these guys (or girls) were in it just for the money. Most of them don't give you added value. Yes. You do need to spend some money to learn how to do it. But you don't need to spend thousands either. Some free honest advice can often times be more beneficial than any expensive "system" that will just break your heart eventually.

The key to this business is learning what to do and then do it over and over honestly until you can do it proficiently, honestly and profitably. I don't think that you can get there overnight. But it doesn't take a long time either.

How much have I made?: about $200,000 in a year and a half. But not from Global Domains. I'm not even  in the " leader boards". But neither is Kimball Roundy (that's right, the dude from The Spider Web System). I made most of my money by advertising online such as Google, yahoo and others and ranking high for my main business which is hurricane shutters. The rest of the income has come from Adsense and some affiliate marketing. The latter is still in its infancy, but growing.I already have a following for my internet writings. Some of them are in Word Press format, E zines, and others in blogger.com.

I'm not rich yet, but will get there. Maybe being rich is not even my goal. It's nice but not my goal. You see. I don't like telling lies and fill you with hype. Such would eventually catch up to me. My main interest in life is not making money. It's writing. I love doing it. It fills me with purpose. The money inevitably arrives. But it doesn't if I don't add value or write something of value or deliver something of value.

Global Domains International has very little or no value. It's a lazy pyramid scheme that sucks in the innocent or gullible, charges their credit card until you actually take the time to call and cut them off.  You can build your own little website, which allows you to express yourself and sell stuff. It's a crappy site builder, don't even try to practice with it.. But GDI ( Global Domains international) is basically a rip off as most MLM sites are. I had a promising down line. Most fell off because they just like I, didn't know what the hell we were doing! It's that simple. I'm down to one. this is pathetic. Why? I'm pretty sure that I did what I had to do. And I'm fairly capable. But the system really sucks. That is the long and short of it. I had a bunch of banner ads on my sites and blogs and just deleted them. I just don't want to promote a loser proposition.


I started out very enthusiastically and full of promise. Right after I joined, I tried to get help. So I called my up line. He didn't have a clue as to what to do. His up line, in turn was worse. The good thing about this whole thing is that we became friends. He's actually come a long way, but I don't think he's actually making any money to speak of with it. I wrote an article for him called "The blind leading the blind". It's a review of Kimball Roundy, a charlatan, who completely fell of the Leader-boards of Global Domains International. He's now partnered with Mike Filsame, some supposed internet guru and trying to pass off some snake oil.


I stopped paying the web hosting fee every month, which was an annoying 10 bucks. Why did I wait so long?...you may ask. Well,  $300  or so later, I still gave them some credit, after all I didn't really given it all I've got. But after i decided to push it and PUSH I did and got no results,  I decided that enough was enough. I let my capture page just sit there without me nurturing it. Good bye  Global Domains International.. 

If you still want to get in after my thrashing, here's a few things you need to know:



FTP= File Transfer Protocol.  This is how you transfer information from your computer to your web host by using a special software.  By accident--- I was doing something else on one of my sites-- I asked the tech adviser at Superpages,com and he told me to use Filezilla (you can look it up if you wish on Google). Later I uploaded Kompozer, a free web site builder. I merged both applications and viola! I was able to get web hosting (with GDI) for $10, a free website builder that is quite decent and FTP software that is free and actually works!


Make the time to fool around with GDI....and hopefully get results.

I posted this so that I can spare you all that grief and aggravation that comes with too high or too low expectations.

To your success,

Carlos, The fighter

Update March 15, 2010 

I regret to inform you that I just canceled my account for Global Domains International. After dumping $1,500 into this loser proposition I decided enough is enough. All of my down line was not making money and simply quit. My up line just didn't work out either. This effectively dis associates me from me from WS Sites, Global Domains International. It just too much work for too little or no return!
Disregard my update for February 10, 2010.


Thank you,


Carlos

Update February 10, 2010 

Thank you for coming back to this posting. As I promised I have a free tool for you to promote Global Domains International. I feel kind of guilty that it's so simple to set up and will actually get you traffic to your capture pages for free.


Click on the link I'm giving and you will be re-directed to the site. 
Let me know in the comments how it it's working for you.

Go ahead, what do you have to lose?

It's called Link2you.

What's Selling Online And What's Not

As you may know, I'm constantly looking for ways to keep my readers updated. Now more than ever people all over the world are looking for ways to survive the global crisis. many are getting very inventive and doing things that we wouldn't have thought of doing during better times.

So habits have changed. For sellers and buyers. Many companies who at one time would laugh you out the door for your "ridiculous offer", have since reconsidered and actually make you ridiculous offers. Sometimes seeming "too good to be true". This is great for the consumer, but not so good for the seller. Such is now faced with very inventive ways to attract buyers and sell to them at a profit, even if much less than before. This usually translates to "more volume, more hours and stay afloat bottom line" Some companies like Mac Donald's, Walmart and other giants are actually doing better than ever. But this is the very narrow exception to the rule.

Let's face it, businesses overall are strapped for cash. Once the big banks got their bail out money, they thumbed their nose at their public, who was eager to get a share of the pie. It didn't happen. If you think banks were conservative then, they are now "Ultra-conservative". And that is an understatement.

So sellers and buyers share a similar plight: hard credit or none at all and very little cash at hand. Therefore it's good to know, if you're a seller of goods or services, what's selling online.

Here's a great article that I'll quote in it's entirety by an E bay pro. It opened my eyes some more as to what's really going on. I'm not an affiliate of his. I just wanted to share this with you:

“What's Selling on eBay Now - Top Products During a Recession

As the recession deepens there is a seismic shift happening on eBay. The eBay platform has been dominated by large sellers of popular consumer products for the past few years. But today the large sellers are struggling as consumers lower their spending and expectations.
The new stars on eBay are the small sellers offering unique niche products, bargain products and most of all -used products. I don't want to sound like I am celebrating the misfortune of others -I wish we weren't in a recession and that people were not losing their jobs. But, when the economy goes into recession buying habits change --and the opportunities for sellers change with them.
People are now looking to save money. And they aren't turning their nose up at used products. I have spoken to several sellers of baby clothing and used adult clothing over the past couple of weeks and all of them report strong sales.
Some areas that are strong include the Do It Yourself (DIY) market and auto parts and accessories. In a recession people are keeping their cars and houses longer and doing improvements and their own maintenance instead of buying new, or paying someone to do it for them. For example, one of the hot product areas now are tools -both new and used. Auto parts and items related to car maintenance are also doing very well.
Babies & Pets: No matter how bad the recession gets people still spend money on their children and their pets.  The more luxury items drop off but the basics usually remain strong.
Crafts, games and items related to cooking are also hot areas. As people stay home more they look for things to do at home. Eating in is the new eating out so kitchen ware and gadgets are doing well. Sellers of art and craft supplies report firm sales as do those who sell games and other at-home entertainment supplies. Coupons are another hot seller as people look to save money.”

Skip McGrath The eBay Seller's News

Brought to you by Carlos

What's selling online

Hello my friends and welcome to my blog.

A lot of us who started a few years back trying to make money online were deluded into thinking that this meant: Buy into a money making system, apply the information in it, invest some money and work the system like a dog until you made some money.

Guess what? A few years later and I still haven't found any legitimate system to make money online, much less get rich quick. Such only exists for the deluded or the gullible and I must confess, I've been gullible.

The top sellers are books--not e books--but books, then you have DVD's and then games. "Information" as many gurus would lead you to believe who are eager to get their $47 for "their course" are being misleading and generalize. What sells the most is very well covered in this article, which you can access for free called
"The best selling products online"
An actual soft or hard cover book by a real author is very much in demand, but guru crap is not. That's why they resort to a bombardment of emails through auto responders, banner ads, hover ads, pretty girls, you name it. If the material they put out was worth anything, they wouldn't need all that flashy crap. You'd probably come to them, eager and ready to pay for it.

I hope the above linked page gives you an idea on your niche markets and better yet: Stay away from all self proclaimed gurus. They and their top 3 guys are the only ones who make any real money. Everybody else is a "worker bee" who brings in the honey, but don't get to eat it.

You guessed it. No matter how the thing is disguised, it still smells like pyramid, M.L.M or such.

Do you really want to make money online? I suggest you pay your dues:

1.Be prepared to work hard and do so.

2. Find a communication line. Post a blog, an article, comment, get feedback, whatever. Don't suppose that your idea is what people want. The idea may be great in your mind, but have no eager buyers.

3. Make yourself known.

4. Find out what is needed and wanted through surveys, comments or cold calls.

5. Produce what is desired, needed or wanted.

This is actually borrowed from L Ron Hubbard's "Non-existence" formula and you can find out more by following this link: Dianetics

To your success:

Carlos

Information overload cautions

It's an interesting but disturbing fact. You search the internet for information and you get bombarded with completely unrelated information. To help you in keeping this confusion down, I've arranged this blog so it's more user friendly. You'll find an archive and labels that you can look for, click and find the information you are looking for quickly and without the need to get lost in cyberspace.

You can find lots of useful information in this blog  such as "Make Money Blogging", "Make money with Adsense", "How  to make money money online", "Myths about making money online", "Mistakes that you can make as an Internet Marketer", and many others.

Scroll down through this page and click on the blog archive or blog labels to find what you're looking for.

I strive to improve this blog. Any kind comments are welcome.

Enjoy!

The Fighter

For newbies only

I've been pretty busy with my booming aluminum business.
As you may already know, and as I've said, writing is my passion and my side business.
In my continued endeavor to bring you relevant and free information that you can do right now without spending a dime, I researched this link.
If you are a newbie, it teaches you how to get started in internet marketing.
It is called:

"How to get started in Internet Marketing"

Here's an excerpt on this guys article:

"Choose your domain name
Design and Create a Website
Content for Websites
Select an ISP"

Yet another website that I found answered a nagging question for me: "Is there anything out there that will teach a newbie how to be an internet marketer very, very simply?" After all, how many times have you wanted to learn only to be so overwhelmed and confused with the information overload: "Search engine Optimization",  "Keywords", URL's (a website address), etc, etc? On top of that every "guru" out there wants your e mail address and then bombard you with stuff that more than likely won't work, after you've paid for it.

It's safe. I call it "The worlds Easiest Internet marketing E Book"

Go ahead, don't be afraid. Chris Farrel, a newbie himself wrote it. He wasn't making any money online in 2008. But this year his income is exploding. He's very easy to listen to with his British accent. I've learned quite a bit and so far I haven't coughed up any money. Isn't that great?

This sounds very simple and it is.

I hope you find it useful.

Check out my other labels or blogs for related information you maybe looking for.

The fighter

Contact me

Does money truly make the world go round?

I had an inspiration today and wanted to share my thoughts with you regarding this subject: "Does money truly make the world go 'round"?

Many will say it does. after all, we've been using the money system ever since the Phoenicians, perhaps long before that. We can't seem to get a loaf of bread without it at the local supermarket, much less pay the rent or mortgage.

Those with money seem to enjoy the rewards associated with work to the fullest. Those fortunate enough to have inherited it or gotten break may say that money, in effect, is "what makes the world go 'round". Anyone who has struggled long and hard to get it, invest it wisely and amassed great wealth may also hold this view.

But, think about it: "Does money really make the world go 'round?".
If it does, why is the idle (unproductive) rich so miserable? Why do the rich and famous seem to struggle with constant addictions--"luxuries" the pauper cannot afford-- legal issues and depression? If money truly makes the world go 'round', shouldn't these evils merely go away by paying the right clinic, the right attorney or shrink?

Yes, money does help a lot. Our modern world's economy is based on it. It's what made most barter systems impractical, cancers more tolerable and modern day comforts more attainable. It's what most people desperately need and few of us seem to have. "If I could just have a few more thousands dollars...boy...would I be really happy!", is what most of us in financial need or desperation seem to wish.

Money is a very needed commodity. It has made life as we know it possible. But money is not what makes the world go 'round. It's trust. Think about it. We find ourselves in a recession. There is actually lots of money out there to go around. But it doesn't go around: No! not really. only drips and drabs it seem, just enough to "get by". Why?: lack of trust, lack of confidence.

The banks don't seem to want to lend you money, even if you have excellent credit. The "big three" auto makers, can't even "give" their cars away, despite all the incentives and are filing for bankruptcy.

So if there's all this money "out there to go around", why doesn't it go around? It's lack of trust.

You see, trust is the steam behind money. It's the "catalyst". A great American philosopher called L. Ron Hubbard said: "Money is an idea backed by confidence". This idea became a note with a symbolism attached to it. Money symbolizes wealth, a legal note which is exchangeable for goods and services, a unit of exchange. Such is practical and is a commodity. it can be traded, sold, borrowed, used for payment, etc.

But without trust behind it, it loses all of this significance or symbolism. It is merely a nice looking peace of paper, that without any value can be used for wall papering. witness what happened to Italy and Germany after World War 2. Nobody wanted franks or lires. It was absolutely worthless. One wheelbarrow's contents of this stuff couldn't even buy a loaf of bread!

What happened really. These 2 governments were desperate to buy goods and services as their own were non existent. This was a great war of attrition for these 2 countries as well as Japan. When you really think about it, we beat them economically more so than with weapons. After that the whole world learned a big lesson: "He who has the most finances wins the war".

Do you know why The Soviet Union was dissolved? It wasn't just Reagan shouting: Mr. Gorbachev please bring down that wall!" The Star Wars arms race made them go bankrupt! They simply wised up and said: "Go ahead U.S. you keep on making them weapons. we'll just use our money to survive!" Hard to believe but true.

The world no longer trusted the frank or the lire. Good old american dollars reigned back then and during Star Wars. The Russian rubel wasn't trusted by Soviet allies. They would rather trade with the U.S. Dollars were trusted. American allies and even Soviet supporters welcomed the "almighty dollar". Just as the German and the Italian trading partners were afraid that these countries would just keep on printing more bills as the answer to their economic woes,
so were they afraid of the Soviets pulling the same stunt. They had actually started to inflate their currency by printing. the rest of the world said: "No more rubels!"

The almighty dollar is accepted because it is trusted. it is actually the prefered method of payment internationally despite claims that the Euro is. Don't believe it? Have you heard of the expression "When the U.S. sneezes, the rest of the world catches a cold"? Well, what happened to the rest of the world when Bush announced that were were actually in a recession? Catastrophe in all the world markets. That's what happened!

The dollar, for the first time in a long time was on shaky grounds. Speculators and profiteers now
went through all kinds of motions to discredit the faith on the dollar and make a buck with euros. Then make a buch again when the dollar stabilized.

I took a good hard look at this pattern of money, not just in recent times, but throughout our history, and it holds true: trust is the foundation of the value of money. Trust is what sells a product: the buyer trusts that he will get at least his money's worth and the seller trusts that the checkj is good or that the bills are not counterfit. Trust, trust, trust.

And, that is all that money is. It's a man made invention---convenient as it is-- but still man-made, and the push behind it is trust (confidence). That is what stalls money. It's there, but it isn't "encouraged" by trust. There is not enough confidence out there in present time to make it go around enough for all our sakes.

So what do you do? Create confidence! Do whatever ligitimately possible to get your buyer trust you:

Are you selling an old re-hashed sytem sold by all the gurus out there that just doesn't work despite all the hype? Well, develop something that actually works, if your affiliate products don't deliver, or research, research and research until you know for sure people will get results! Remember, it's a give and take when it comes to trust (buyer and seller).

Am I just talking hype?

Google "roll up shutters Miami". Go ahead, just copy and paste it. I won't give you the link as it's not proof enough. You'll find " Exacta Tech Inc." as your first organic search. I'm not paying a dime and was able to rank it as number one!

Go ahead: google "aluminum roofs Miami" in google or yahoo, I'll be in the top.

How did I do it you ask? How did I build enough trust to go from a few measly hundred bucks a week to thousands a week in sales in a rotten economy?

Bookmark this post or subscribe to it and I tune in next week. I will tell you how!

I hope this was helpful. let me know.

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What's stopping you

I just got this e mail today from Jonathan Bud, a true Internet marketer.
Although it's hardhitting and stings, I wanted to share it with you.
Maybe it'll rouse you into ACTION. It had that effect on me:

"Hey Carlos,

Today I'm going to be sharing
something with you that is very
powerful when it comes to
overcoming BLOCKAGES that stop
us from creating success.

You see, I have been fortunate
enough at this point to witness
THOUSANDS of people in this
industry, and how they go about
building their businesses, and
living their lives.

And what I've come to realize
in about 95% of the cases...is
that the SOLE REASON more people
aren't 'Creating' the reality
they truly want for themselves...

Is because they are all Blocked
up inside and feel like something
is preventing them from taking
the ACTION they know they need
to take.

Or... when they LEARN what their
next real steps are to move
forward in their business... they
don't do them.

It's a truly strange phenomenon.

On one hand... people seem to
want freedom so badly.

On the other... they don't take
the correct action steps you need
to take everyday to get it.

In any case... I am not here to
ponder why that is.

I am here to DESTROY IT.

I am here to serve as a guide for
you to confront anything in your
life that is presently STOPPING
you from creating what it is you
want... So you can move forward
with a Speed and Vengeance.

AND BAR NONE...

This is how you overcome obstacles
that are facing you in your life.

You simply JUST STOP believing the
bull crap excuses you tell yourself
for why you CAN'T do something.

That Is It.

That is the FUNDAMENTAL thing you
have to do, and it will make the
biggest difference in your life.

Let me give you an example...

If you're on my list then you know
I've made millions of dollars in
this industry because of 'Marketing'
skills, and my ability to generate
an ENORMOUS amount of leads daily
from the Internet.

You should also know... that I didn't
just "sit around" and wait for those
leads to come to me... I went out and
GOT THEM.

So if you know that you need to be
doing marketing, whether its putting
up your first PPC ads, making your
first YouTube videos, Creating your
twitter profile, or whatever it might
be...

WHAT THE HECK IS STOPPING YOU FROM
DOING IT?

The only thing in the world that is...

Is the BULL CRAP excuses you tell
yourself for why you can't do it, or
why it won't work for you.

When in reality... you don't have
ANYTHING to back that up, and simply
lack the experience to know one way
or another.

The ONLY way you get experience, which
is knowledge, is to DO THINGS.

You must TAKE ACTION.

You must experience LIFE.

You must experience the CHALLENGE of
learning something new or foreign.

There is no Other Way around it. It's
that darn simple...

And most often, the movement of ACTION
is enough to propel someone down an
entirely different course of direction
in their life.

It's as if the simple fact you are
MOVING, and DOING, is enough to get
a ball rolling that builds up its own
force and can't be stopped.

Yet...

The vast majority remain in 'Paralysis'.

They remain locked up inside their own
heads, muttering mental excuses all day
long, or indulging in 'Insecure' thoughts
that simply prevent them from DOING what
needs to be done.

Well, you have a choice today.

The very fact you are reading these words
right now, and AWARENESS is being brought
to this very subject, gives you a choice.

You have the choice to JUST STOP.

You can stop believing the BS you tell
yourself that keeps you from doing what
you NEED to do.

And you can open up a new web browser,
create your PPC account, Create your
twitter profile, buy the damn course you
need to learn how to do it, and then
get off your butt and MAKE IT HAPPEN.

You have that choice.

Your other choice is...

You continue to pudder around being
overwhelmed by information yet getting
no where, you continue to let the days
go by as your frustration and tension
mount over your lack of results, and
you can continue to beat yourself up
silently because YOU aren't living up
to your own expectations of what you
thought you could do.

Blunt?

You bet.

Is it what many need to hear?

You bet.

And I'm not a teacher or mentor that
is here to sugar coat things.

I am a teacher and mentor that is hear
to SHAKE people out of their own excuses,
and slam them into the SEAT of their own
power.

Because the truth of the matter is...

The very FACT that you are a human being,
means that you have a MAJESTIC power at
your fingertips.

The human being, and all of life, is so
mysterious... so vast... so powerful...

That it simply boggles the mind when
we even come close to grasping it.

You are MORE CAPABLE of creating anything
you want in life then you might ever have
even imagined...

Yet I SEE IT.

I see it clear as day. And I'm here to
remind you of your ESSENTIAL power.

I'm here to remind you that you are a
VASTLY creative being... who is truly
capable of amazing feats.

So stop acting like you're not.

Stop being stuck in indifference, laziness,
and states of inaction.

JUST STOP.

And instead... let your ACTIVE intelligence,
and the INFORMATION you find on how to
really create success, be your guide to the
correct action steps you need to take to
get there.

You don't have to re invent the wheel my
friend. The path to wild success has already
been laid out by many people.

You just need to walk it.

If you need help, visit this link now and
You'll have MORE then enough information,
knowledge, and wisdom to guide you wherever
you want to be...

But most importantly... quit selling yourself
short. You're a magical being, capable of
amazing things.

ACT like it...

We'll speak again soon.

Yours In Success,
Jonathan Budd

P.S. It honestly is amazing, but if you
just get yourself into the routine of
tacking ACTION, no matter what that action
really is... I can guarantee a momentum will
build that can CARRY you to where you want
to be.

And like I said, if you need help knowing
exactly which way to travel down, visit
this site now..."

I'll be giving you the link to Jonatahn Bud in a few days. In the meantime, chew on the above and come back to this blog.

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To your success:

Carlos, The fighter