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Monday, March 21, 2005

Internet Millionaire Mindset: Is Your Brain Sabotaging Your Marketing Success?

By Rick Miller

Have you ever wondered why some Internet marketers seem to have success with every single project? Do they have some magical power that you don't?

Would you like to quickly get that power?

In a recent interview for the List Crusade program, T. Harv Eker revealed what he called the Millionaire Mindset-which gives extremely successful Internet marketers and offline
entrepreneurs what seems to be an "unfair advantage."

(Note: To access T. Harv Eker's complete audio interview for free, see end of article)

Harv is the author of the best-selling book, SpeedWealth, as well as several highly-acclaimed courses such as The Millionaire Mind Intensive, Life Directions, Wizard Training and Train the Trainer. He is also the producer and trainer of the world-famous Enlightened Warrior Training.

He went from zero to millionaire in only 2-1/2 years using the Speed Wealth principles he teaches. He shows you how to instantly rid yourself of limiting beliefs that have stopped you from accumulating wealth in the past.

According to Harv, your subconscious mind may actually be holding you back from the success you want in Internet marketing and in life.

The subsconscious is much more powerful than your conscious mind.

It's like an ice berg, most it is beneath the surface, and that's usually what sinks ships.

Ideas and misconceptions you formed as a child can affect your life right now. If you believe that money is evil or that money is hard to get, then your success will be limited. Even though you go through the motions with your web page, email marketing and other marketing tasks, you'll always fall short on something that is critical to your success.

You mind will automatically stop you just like a thermostat turns off the heat at a certain point.

Harv revealed 4 easy actions you can do today to change your money thermostat and gain a millionaire mindset right now.

1) Stop blaming. You must take absolute responsibility for every result in your life. If you didn't cause it that means it's out of your hands. If you did cause it then you can change it and get a different result. What an empowering concept …

2) Stop complaining. When you complain you are focusing on the problem. The Universal Law of Attraction states that what you focus on expands. So if you focus on what you don't want, what do you think you'll get?

3) Use the power of intention. Take your current goal and double, triple it, or even quadruple it. For example if you want to make an extra $2000 a month from your website, raise your goal to $8000. According to Harv, the Universe usually gives you only what you ask of it. You'll probably find that the higher goal will spark your enthusiasm and energy and make it much easier to accomplish.

4) Bless that which you want. If you see someone with a fancy car, say "Good for him!" Don't use your key to scratch it as you walk by like a lot of jealous low brow people may do. If someone you know gets a promotion, congratulate him. This secret alone will cause money and wealth to start flowing to you effortlessly.

The more you practice these Millionaire Mindset secrets, you'll discover that you too will experience dramatic success and your income from Internet marketing will skyrocket.

About the Author:
Rick Miller is a Certified Master of Web Copywriting and co-founder of List Crusade. For free access to T. Harv Eker's entire interview, along with 51 other audio lessons from top Internet Marketing and Self Help Gurus--go to: http://www.ListCrusade.com/rickm.html

Tuesday, February 08, 2005

The Niche Marketing Movement

By Bobby Walker

If you are a marketing veteran or just beginning, you have seen the words "Niche Marketing" mentioned a time or two. Internet Marketers are diverting their attention from trying to sell their products to each other and start selling products to people who really want to buy them. Because of "market saturation" and "script immunity" it is becoming very difficult to sell your product or get your message across to other internet marketers. How many times have you looked at your email and just started deleting messages based on what the headlines read?

What about all the sales scripts that you read every day while you are yawning? Sure, every once in a while you find something that will peak your interest, but 9 times out of 10 you are clicking to another site. Internet Marketers don't want to buy your products, they just want to sell their own!

Why is that? People who are promoting their products always think that their products are the best, so they pay no attention when something really great passes their way. And what makes it snowball is the fact that almost everyone has the same mindset!

Try this tomorrow, stop and examine at least 25 opportunities and products that people are selling, it may be something you really need for your business. As internet marketers, we have become immune to what we see on a daily basis, thus decreasing the effects of our business advertising.

The one really great thing that has come out of this, is now we have the very best long form sales letter anywhere! If we are still selling our products to other internet marketers who have seen everything, imagine what you could do with that same sales letter when you put it in front of a gardener, hiker, mountain biker, or anyone who has never seen that type of advertising?

You are bound to make money as long as you have done your homework to make sure that you have a viable market. Does your market have between 30,000 and 100,000 searches every month? Does your market have their own magazine publication? Are they passionate about what they are doing?

Let me ask you a question? What would happen if you put yourself in front of a moving train and stayed on the tracks? That's right, you would get run over. Now, what would happen if you put yourself in front of thousands of customers wanting software to write a children's book and you had the software? That's right, you will get run over.......with sales!!

Why are you putting forth all the effort to market your products to other internet marketers? Think about how many sales you could make if you made the same effort marketing your new product to turkey farmers? These are obviously just examples, I'm just trying to make my point.

There is still a ton of money to be made on the internet, and it can be done much more effectively in markets other than our own. Am I saying there is no money to be made marketing to other marketers? No, there absolutely is, but you can't grab the first product you see, spend money doing promotion, and expect to have 30 email payment confirmations in your inbox tomorrow morning!

Your product must be centered around the industries needs, not what you think will sell.

That is working your business backwards. Would you buy basketballs and try to sell them to football teams? No, because that would be stupid! So don't buy the resell rights to an ebook on how to make a gazillion dollars on the internet and expect to make millions, unless you are Corey Rudl.

I can give you a great example of a product that every business needs. How many of you have tried to use Google Adwords? It can be very frustrating your first time using it. It actually takes a lot of trial and error, and a lot of money to experiment with. It is also one of the cheapest and most effective forms of advertising if you know how to do it.

That's why I starting selling a course on how to beat the Google Adwords system. It's not really a product that I wanted to sell, until I started my own Google campaign, and saw what a pain in the butt it was! But I did some research on advertising, and found that this course is a very viable market to promote. In my opinion, it is a superior product compared to others.

So, to sum everything up, do your research, pick your product according to the market, put yourself in front of your customer, make your niche in the marketplace, and make money with the products you promote.

I'm sure it won't take long for the "Niche Marketing" craze to start making waves, just make sure you have a surfboard when it does!

About the Author:
Bobby Walker is an internet marketer from Dallas, Texas.
Beat the Google Adwords System!
http://www.googlesystem.official.ws