One of the most important decisions you will make early in your internet marketing career is to whom you will listen. Advice is screaming at you from every conceivable source. Most of them sound great. The new drum beat is “down with the guru”. Guru has become a dirty word. It cracks me up how many times I see this in advertisements that say “buy me and I will make you rich”. I have been dabbling in IM for years and as such have followed a lot of advisors. I have seen them come and go. But some have stuck around offering good solid advise for years. Others may be newer to the process but they walk the walk and have the experience you want.
One such advisor is Jim Cockrum. I remember when his only claim to fame was a tiny ebook about selling on eBay. Well that tiny ebook has gotten a lot bigger and is still a number one seller online. It and Jim are the real deal. Jim does not deal in fluff or hype. And neither do his friends. Jim has created a membership site stocked chock full of his friends who are experts in all sorts of areas of internet marketing. When I got serious about taking my IM efforts to the next level, I joined Jim’s site. It is here that I have found wonderful mentors AND new friends.
There are members at all levels of business development. Some are brandy dandy new. Some have been around since the computer was conceived. But they are all there sharing and advising and pulling for each other. And did I mention the freebies? DO NOT buy another internet marketing book or program until after you join this site. The freebies alone will keep you reading for months if you want. And I am not talking about free stuff that is thinly disguised hype to get you to buy the $97 program.
No there are actual best selling ebooks free for the downloading on Jim’s site. Including Jim’s best seller, The Silent Sales Machine… it’s not just about eBay any more. We are not talking big bucks here. There is a price plan to fit most budgets.
So if you are new to internet marketing, or ready to take your biz to the next level, I highly recommend you click My Silent Team and check it out for yourself.
October 5th, 2008 | Posted in All Posts | 1 Comment
Information overload. That is the latest catch phrase in Internet Marketing. I fully expect at least 50 new ebooks and 150 free 7-day courses on the subject to be available yesterday. And I will likely read most of them. Thanks to an oddly overdeveloped sense of sales resistance, I won’t likely buy any but I am lucky that way. I feel badly for all the people who want to escape the rat race and plunk down their hard earned money with no action plan.
Sure there is a lot of junk information out there but there is a lot of good stuff too. Recently I decided I wanted to escape the labyrinth and I started looking around for ideas. This is not the first time I have entertained this dream. And all I can say is thank goodness for free email because I get possibly every self help email ever published.
But one stood out for me and I kept coming back to it. So I took the plunge and joined the site. I got tons of good ideas and I will be reviewing the site with a link in the days to come. It was there that I joined a coaching program, also which I will write more of with a link soon.
Because of this coaching program, in a couple weeks time, I have a website and a blog. I have done things I never dreamed imagineable. Years back when I first got online, you needed to write computer code to do most everything. Today it is all plug and play. But I still need help. And so do most people.
So what does this have to do with the two Lees? Well there is the one Lee who follows the coaching program she joined and completes her lessons and feels a wonderful sense of accomplishment with each task ticked off. And then there is the other Lee who wants to be a 6 figure internet marketer tomorrow. Six figure Lee wastes dutiful Lee’s time. She reads emails about the next best thing instead of downloading her next lesson.
Today I googled the word “focus”. Egads! Is there any word anymore that doesn’t bring up hundreds of thousands of hits or a spot in Wikipedia? It’s no wonder we are plagued with information overload. I think this may have something to do with our culture of multitasking. Multitasking was the buzz in the 80’s and it really has never left despite proof to the contrary that you cannot necessarily accomplish more by doing more.
So the best definition I could come up with on focus is to concentrate on one thing and ignore all other distractions. It is not easy. We have our culture and our lifestyles working against us. But if you have a dream, any dream, the most likely way to achieve it is to focus. If you bought the book (ebook, course, video) read it. Follow it. Give it a go. Even if the book isn’t great it will likely move you from nowhere to somewhere. And somewhere is a whole lot better than nowhere.
Thanks for stopping by… catch you soon.
Lee
September 19th, 2008 | Posted in All Posts | No Comments
