How to do affiliate marketing that pays you long-term,
life-time, residual income. How I’m doing it as a
very successful affiliate marketer who has been
making money from affiliate marketing since 1996.

I apologize for the breeze, but I like filming
outdoors.

Sign up for the program I recommend here:
http://TheRealSecrets.com/MySingleHighestRecommendation/

Willie

Terry Dean

That product was one that I helped my online accountability
partner to launch, several years ago

It caused me to go back and look over my own numbers, and
based upon what I discovered, this is the ONLY affiliate
program that I can say has paid me commissions, consistently
for 3-4 years now.

That’s significant!

David Perdew, who set it all up, often talks about “one
and done” product launches. Those are the types of launches
where you do one or two promotions for a product and then
it’s pulled off the market.

David Perdew

I don’t know about you, but I personally DISLIKE those
types of promotion for two reasons:

1) It means that as an affiliate marketers, even if I am
successful at selling my customers that products, I need
to look for something else to sell them a week later. The
big DISCONNECT there is that that means I can’t really
even give them time to benefit from what I just sold them
before I’m suggesting that they buy something else.

I honestly don’t think that’s fair to my subscribers who
would really benefit from that first product IF they would
just take the time to go through it and actually APPLY what
it teaches. I shouldn’t be distracting them from being able
to do that.

2) With many promotions that we do, our subscribers may
not even get around to reading an email, or being ready
to buy, until a week or more later. With the one-and-done
promotions, by the time they are ready to focus on the offer,
it’s too late.

So, we waste all that effort. Those are two reasons that
I’m focused on the product that Terry recommends. It’s
something that you can honestly promote today, and earn
commissions on a year or more later.

David actually “tags” your referrals in his database in a
way that you earn LIFETIME commissions… and you get credit
even if they delete their cookies because his affiliate
tracking system does not depend upon cookies.

The “creame de le cream” of David’s products is his
Niche Affiliate Marketing System Workshop, which is THE
very best internet marketing workshop that I have ever
personally attended.

In fact, I now teach at each of David’s workshops. NAMS
#8 is coming up in August, and unless I’m mistaken, I will
have only missed teaching at one out of the eight.

Take a minute now and check out what I’m convinced is the
very best, hands-on, internet marketing training out there.
There is a member-only affiliate program that is also, as
I just explained, in my opinion, the best affiliate program
out there.

Check it out here:
http://TheRealSecrets.com/MySingleHighestRecommendation/

Oh, here’s part of Terry’s email, that caused me to go back
and take a hard look at my numbers… edited slightly so that
we can track responses:

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Subject: affiliate payout $4.68 per unique click

I’m a numbers guy.

Either something works or it doesn’t based on the numbers.

Track everything.

Measurement eliminates argument.

Many affiliate programs will hype you up by claiming huge
payouts.

They’ll talk about the prizes you can earn in the new contest,
or they’ll have their affiliates compete with each other to be
the top of the scoreboard.

Nothing wrong with any of that.

But when it comes down to it, it’s about the numbers.

And it’s also about delivering value to the customers.

This morning I was running through some of my affiliate
accounts.

And I took notice of an affiliate program that I haven’t given
much attention to, but sends me money through Paypal every single
month.

I promoted them in September 2011, so less than a year ago.

And did some other minor mentions of them, but haven’t done
anything heavy.

What jumped out to me from the stats is they have paid me $4.68
per unique clickthrough so far.

And they’re not finished yet. Each month they send me money for
clicks I sent 8 months ago.

That $4.68 per unique click for me has been increasing each
month.

You can find out more about this affiliate program and register
for free here:
http://TheRealSecrets.com/MySingleHighestRecommendation/

It is a two tier program so you’re also paid off JV referrals.

What’s unique here is they pay:

- Commissions on their entire product funnel from $5 to $500

- Multiple free eCourse link bait for driving new members

- First click referral tagging – get paid forever off a referral
today (that’s what I like)

Basically you earn more money every time they send out an email
to those you’ve referred.

Awesome deal!

At least I think so. Seeing the numbers this morning means I
will be promoting for them more.

And I haven’t even mentioned the quality of the products yet.

The reason those commissions keep growing is because members
STICK with them.

They receive value.

And once they see the quality of what is offered, they buy more.

This program is run by David Perdew who runs the NAMS events
(Niche Affiliate Marketing System).

That’s where my initial promotion came from. I attended the
event as a speaker and was impressed with how it was a
step-by-step workshop to help people at any level…from beginner
to advanced.

In addition, they have a membership program with 17 ways to give
you better training, content, and tools for your online business
today.

Check it out:
http://TheRealSecrets.com/MySingleHighestRecommendation/

Make sure to use the coupon code MyNAMS80 to get the best price.

Your Marketing Coach,

Terry Dean
“The Internet Lifestyle Mentor”
Earn More. Work Less. Enjoy Life!

Note: Your results will vary of course, because it’s based on
how responsive your visitors are, the offers being made, and
buying interest.

P.S. If you’re in any type of internet business field, and
you’re not an affiliate with them, why in the world not?

http://TheRealSecrets.com/MySingleHighestRecommendation/

P.P.S. Look for the 8 Affiliate Myths that are killing your
commissions coming in the next email…

When I first started internet marketing, back in 1996,
I was taught to build a list, build relationships with
list members, and then sell them solutions to their
most-pressing problems.

That is an excellent business model if you actually
take the time to do that, and use the proper tools so
that the process doesn’t become overwhelming.

Most email marketers understand the process to be:

1) You set up an autoresponder.

2) You offer an ethical bribe (a gift) to get them to
join your opt-in list.

3) You give them the gift and then follow-up via
autoresponder with related information, tips, and
product offers.

4) You post your opt-in form and offer in as many places
as practical.

5) You sit back and collect your fortune, generating a
flood of revenue any time that you want it with the mere
push of a button (sending an email)!

MOST internet marketers discover that it’s not really
that simple, when they notice that no one is responding
to most of their emails. They’ve most-likely MISSED the
part about actually building relationships, and providing
genuine value to their readers.

Around 2002, when I attended my first internet marketing
seminar (one that I spoke at), I learned all about joint
ventures. I learned that if you work with, rather than
competing against, others in your industry, everyone
generally does better.

As I learned more and more about joint ventures, I
gradually developed into a joint venture expert, and then
eventually became a joint venture broker. As a JV broker,
I not only made a lot more sales by working with others in
my industry… I also got paid to orchestrate joint ventures
for others who hadn’t completely mastered the craft.

Today, a major portion of my income is from coordinating
joint ventures for my own projects/product launches, and
for those of my clients.

The email marketing and the joint venture brokering
became really, REALLY successful when I learned “the secret.”

That secret is, you actually need to focus on building fewer,
deeper, real relationships!

You are actually (usually) much better off with a list of 1000
subscribers who consistently look forward to, open, read, and
respond to your emails than you are with a list of 100,000 who
don’t.

As someone with numerous lists, in numerous niches, I have
learned this lesson via “the school of hard knocks.”

I’m not advocating that you stop growing your list. I AM
advocating that you actually get to know WHO your list
members are. Get to know what their biggest concerns are,
and what they really expect from the relationship with you
(as a subscriber).

The easiest way to do this is to set very specific expectations
when inviting them onto your list, so that you and your
subscribers understand the relationship right from the very
start.

Later on, if you find that your list has grown unfocused,
and unresponsive, you probably want to conduct a survey
to find out why. You can use many tools to do that survey,
and my preferred method is via an SMS text message
survey. The reason that I like that method is that it also lets
me build out my database more completely.

You see, when most of your subscribers joined your list, they
probably only gave you an email address, and a name. Many
of them probably even gave you a set of initials, a made up
name, or if the name field wasn’t required… no name at all.

When they first joined your list, they didn’t know or trust you.
Now that they do, you should ask for more data so that you
can better know WHO your customers are, and how you can
best serve them.

By getting them to complete the SMS text message survey
that I use, you now get them to give you their full name,
email address, niche or interests, phone number, or any
other data that you ask for.

You can build your survey any way that you want to, asking
any question that you want, using the tool that I use
called “Profile Builder.”

You can see the system that I use to survey my subscribers,
and actually take it for a test-drive if you simply send a text
message to: 850-396-0016 (that IS my actual number). Just
make the subject “Hi Willie.”

I use this very same system to identify and actually get to
know potential joint venture partners.

When you are planning a product launch, it’s very tempting
to want to recruit as many jv partners (affiliates) as possible.

That is often just a lot of wasted time and effort.

With joint venture partners or affiliates, the 80/20 rule
applies, just as it does with so many other things in life.
Only 20% of those who agree to become your joint venture
partners or affiliates are going to take action, and of those,
only 20% are going to produce significant results.

What I’ve discover, as someone who has professionally
brokered joint ventures for others since 2004, is that the
top 5% of your joint venture partners often produce
30 – 50% of your total results.

I’ve also discovered that that top 5% will often be people
that you actually KNOW. These will be people that you’ve
taken the time to learn what really makes them tick. You
know their hobbies/interests, favorite foods, favorite
places, what causes they are really passionate about, what
drives them to be in business in the first place!

I get to know people on this level by meeting them at live
seminars and conferences. There, I sit and talk to them
face-to-face, and I make sure that I get all of their
contact details.

After I get all of their contact details, I make sure that “I”
follow up to continue building the relationship. You see,
95% of people who attend live events, go home, toss the
business cards that they collected into the back of a desk
drawer, and go back to the life they had before the event.
They never follow-up or take any action to continue building
relationships with the nice people that they met and really
liked… and honestly intended to continue building a
relationship with.

I overcame that very natural tendency by automating parts of
building real relationships. You see, what I now do is ask
them to text me at my number 850-396-0016, and when they
do, they are asked to give me their name, interests/niche,
Skype ID, and any other information that I need to actually
follow-up with them and build real, deeper relationships.

I have different information that I request when they text
me using different “codewords.”

When they text me the requested data, it’s stored securely on
my server in a database where I religiously download the data
and add it to my appropriate relationship management system.

Often, I import the .csv file into my account at Send Out Cards,
another relationship building tool that I have been using since
2004. Send Out Cards allows me to send real, physical greeting
cards (and gifts) right over the internet. I use this system to
periodically reach out to contacts AND to make sure that I never
forget a birthday. The SOC system sends me a reminder of
birthdays, anniversaries, etc.

You can see the SOC system at http://TheCardThingy.com

On that site:

1) Click on the link labeled “Join Now”

2) Click on the link labeled “Preferred Customer”

3) Sign up for the $31 per month plan and that will
allow you to send up to 50 greeting cards per month.
Postage is extra… you pay the actual postage based
upon where you live and if you choose to send gifts with
a given card.

If you don’t feel that you will use that many cards, you
can sign up for the $10 per month plan, but if you’re
seriously building your business, you should be following
up like crazy, and will use the $31 worth of cards each month.
They also rollover, so there is no hurry to use them.

If you study the greatest salesman in the world (according
to the Guinness Book of World Records), Joe Girad, who sold
more cars than anyone in history, I’ve just shared his secret
with you. Joe sent his customers greeting cards on a regular
basis, showing them that he actually cared about them, and this
turned them into VERY loyal customers.

It’s really very simple, you build real relationships by showing
people that you actually want to get to know them, and that you
care about them.

They sense that you really do care, and they like you in return,
and when they need what you have to sell, it’s natural for
them to want to buy from a friend.

When you get ready to launch a product, it’s natural for them
to want to help out a real friend that they also assume would
do the same for them.

It’s simple isn’t it?

Using the system that I just showed you, it’s not only
INCREDIBLY effective, it’s also very inexpensive. The SMS
texting that I do costs me $1 per month for the dedicated phone
line, and 1 penny per message sent or received. The data sent
to me via the SMS text messages are actually stored on my site
via a WordPress plug-in that I use.

You can read all about that WordPress plug-in at:
http://BuildingFewerDeeperRealRelationships.com

Now you know the secrets of a 7-figure joint venture broker.
I actually care about people and take the time to build real
relationships with them, and to reach out to them from time to
time and SHOW that I care

==========
Willie Crawford has been teaching others to build successful
home-based businesses since 1996. For more tips on how he
builds and runs his seven-figure business, subscribe to his
free newsletter at: http://WillieCrawford.com/

After just a few years in internet marketing, I became
convinced that selling things that offered recurring
income was the way to go. You know, selling products that
you sell once, and then get paid over and over again, for a
LONG time.

Consequently, I became an affiliate for a web hosting company
named Virtualis, and poured a lot of energy into trying to
sell web hosting, where I actually hung out on a discussion
forum frequented by hundreds of other resellers who all
shared tips with each other. I learned a lot about internet
marketing from that experience, including the fact that
selling a commodity can be fairly challenging.

What I discovered was that if you are going to sell a
commodity, you have to differentiate the product by making
it partly about YOU. The customer buys the product, but they
often buy from the sales person more so than from the company.

I later started selling autoresponders, telecommunications
via an MLM, and a few other products, in the hope of building
that coveted residual income.

I was one of those “internet marketers” who was also a
network marketer. So, I sold a few magic juices, but
eventually stopped selling them because I didn’t really
believe in them, OR because I discovered the generic
versions available cheaper at the local Walmart.

I’m still in MLM incidentally. I’m a distributor for
Send Out Cards, a company that lets you send full-color,
real, personalized greeting cards right over the internet,
CHEAPER than you can send comparable, personalized cards
from the local Walmart. I’ve been with them since 2004, have
built a successful business with them, and will continue
being a distributor, for the foreseeable future.

At the 2010 Send Out Cards Annual Convention, I listen to
a few people discussing having their distributorships
listed as assets in their WILLS. That’s when it sank in that I
had actually built a real business, at SOC, that with minimal
effort, will continue to pay me a regular income for the
foreseeable future.

The other residual income that I have actually built is
from a few membership sites. Membership sites are where
you bring hundreds or even thousands of people together
with a common interest, and they pay a monthly fee for
being a member of the group.

As long as the fee is less than the value that the members
perceive, they will stay, and you will have a dependable
monthly income.

Even a membership site that has only 200 members paying
$20 per month, would be an income of $4000 per month, and
if you didn’t have to put in many hours or much effort
to maintain that site, you could have a nice little
cash cow.

If you had several of these smaller site (as I do) or
even one super-sized membership site, the monthly income
could be enough for you to literally RETIRE on.

The key there, is to not build a job for yourself. So you
need to create a site that’s interactive enough where the
members produce most of the content, grow the site, and
keep each other coming back. If you can manage that, then
you have created a real asset that you could easily sell
some day, or just hand over to a manager or administrator,
to run for you.

I’m aware of several membership sites now that the owners
rarely have to touch, but they chug along making the owners
six or seven figures per year. You have to admit, that’s
really, really nice

Aside from having the right niche (an idea that attracts
enough people willing to pay for group membership) you
also need a reliable platform.

I’ve built sites on four or five different platforms over
the years and ALL of them were headaches. The worse ones
were scripts that someone gave me for free, mainly because
when someone gives you a free script, there is no incentive
to keep updating it, or provide any type of customer
support. If you aren’t selling the script, how can you pay
a tech support team?

The second worse type of scripts were ones where the
developers sold them inexpensively, but weren’t committed
to continuous updates and support. So, they come out with a
new version every two to three years, but in the meantime,
people using the scripts either had to hire programmers to
patch holes that they discover, or they ran their membership
sites on platforms that they knew was VERY insecure.

As I approach my 53rd birthday, I’m proud to say that I’m
actually contemplating retiring from internet marketing…
and spending more time traveling leisurely.

No, I’m not thinking of no longer teaching others, but I
AM thinking of handing off the day-to-day operation of
most of my endeavors to virtual employees, project managers,
etc.

I only plan on doing the things that I enjoy, to include
dropping in on my membership sites regularly (because I
have a bond with the community members), spending a lot of
time doing family things, and working on things that I
feel make a real difference in the world.

I am now moving ALL of my membership sites to the best,
but fairly inexpensive, membership site platform that
I’ve tested in my 15+ years online. That platform is called
Rapid Residual Pro, and you can read about it at:
http://timic.org/RRP/

I’m building my retirement sites on this platform because
I’ve known the developer of the software for about 4 years,
and have watched Rapid Residual Pro for about two years as
the developer and a TEAM of dedicated programmers and
testers have worked on several versions.

I now consider it “the cats meow” and it meets all of my
needs to include allowing me to offer free memberships,
one-time payment options, and recurring payment
memberships. I can also use a variety of payment processors
including Paypal, AlertPay, Clickbank, etc.

What I LOVE about the payment options, by the way, is that
I can set a sales page up with links to SEVERAL of these
options, and when an affiliate sends a visitor to the
site from a specific processor, the visitor is not shown
the other options.

For example, the page COULD be coded for Paypal, AlertPay
and Clickbank, but if the affiliate uses a Paypal link, the
other buttons wouldn’t show on the page that his referrals
landed on. That’s critical to me because otherwise the
affiliate could lose commissions if he didn’t use the other
processors.

I’ll use this script to power numerous sites that aren’t
really considered “membership sites” but that need a
“sales page,” payment processor, and download page. I’ll
use it for pages set up just for free giveaways or list
building. The software is extremely flexible.

The software has a lot of other really nice capabilities!
You can read all about it at: http://timic.org/RRP/

I’ve also taken the liberty of posting one of the actual
customer video tutorials on YouTube (with the developers
permission), so that you can see how intuitive, easy-to-use,
and powerful this software really is. Check out:
http://youtu.be/fcSKd93mTh0

Another reason that I went with this platform is that the
software developer is a marketer, a copywriter, and someone
who has run numerous online and offline businesses. So, he
understands our needs, and he is also really dedicated to his
customers, as you can tell from watching the video that I
shared with you on YouTube.

Anyway, there you have part of my retirement plan. If you
aren’t building a business that you can sell, hand off to
an administrator/manager, or at least scale back on the hours
that you spend running that business, then you’re actually just
building a JOB for yourself.

Read back through this article and then think about joining
me as a “retired internet marketer.”

—————–

Willie Crawford is one of the world’s leading internet
marketing experts. For more tips from Willie’s 15+ years
of “in the trenches” internet marketing experience, signup
for his free newsletter at: http://WillieCrawford.com

20 days into the endeavor (partly in response to questions
and comments on the Warrior Forum), I shared Lesson 20 on
the forum itself.

I also gave affiliates, who are helping to spread the word
about the WSO, permission to share that sample lesson in
their marketing.

I chose this lesson BECAUSE it allows me to give you a
peek inside the training, without giving it all away.

At the same time, it does provide some valuable
insights that I hope you find useful.

To tune in to the entire course, you need to register
here: http://WillieCrawford.com/100kInJanuary2012/

Here is the actual text from Lesson #20:

Diary – $100k In January 2012 – January 22nd, 2012

Welcome to Day 20… the day that I arrived home and got to
play with my impatient new grandchild for the first time
(she was born six weeks early)

This issue is heavily-influenced by feedback that I’m
getting from you guys… especially your wanting to
see more RESULTS!

Up to this point, most of my efforts have been laying the
groundwork for those results… for reasons that I’ll explain
today!

On the airplane on the way home, I actually flowed
out 23 articles in notepad on my iPhone. My wife
would occasionally glance over at my phone, notice the
smile on my face, and ask what I was doing.

After being home for about two hours, and playing
with the baby most of that time, I felt the time
pressures, and started turning those notes into articles.

Here’s the first one that I published:

Begin Article:

Pretend Internet Marketing Experts, Dreamers, And Doers
Copyright 2012 by Willie Crawford

In internet marketing (the niche that I know best)
as well as many other online niches, it’s often
difficult to tell who the genuine experts are.

That’s important because it makes it difficult to know
who to take advice from.

The danger is that you will spend months, or even years,
following the advice of someone who either sells you
his theory, or who just makes up something that sounds
plausible, and doesn’t even care if it’s accurate… as
long as it sells.

Yes, there ARE people who will sell you anything and
don’t care if it works, but I very strongly believe
that they are a tiny minority.

There are also those who believe that you will not
buy their products unless they “fake it until you
make it.” Many of these people may actually have
really good intentions, but since they believe that
they have to pretend to be something that they are
not, they can be a real threat to your success.

The fake it till you make it types often blur the
lines as to what they are actually qualified to teach
you. Their perceived dilemma is that they feel that
they HAVE TO fake it.

Several years ago, in an interview, I asked my friend
and mentor, Rich Schefren, how one overcomes this.
Rich explained that it’s as simple as being your authentic
self. Identify what you ARE qualified to teach, identify
the audience that does want to learn that, and sell to
them.

Rich’s advice really boiled down to merely acknowledging
that your potential audience members are at all different
levels along the learning curve, and you just need to focus
on the ones who need the level of guidance that you are
genuinely qualified to deliver.

The next pretend expert that you need to be aware of
is “the dreamer” who understand on a certain level but
have never DONE anything and therefore isn’t 100%
certain that what they offer to teach you WORKS. They’ve
STUDIED a lot, but they haven’t physically verified
what they believe to be true.

These are you armchair quarterbacks, your armchair
copywriters, and your armchair marketing experts.

I honestly think that many of the armchair experts
are most dangerous to themselves. I’ve encountered
dozens of them over the years who had studied the same
materials that I had, and knew it well enough that they
frequently quoted the same people that I did… and
often even finished my sentences when I tried explaining
something to them.

I say that they were a danger to themselves, because
they never moved beyond the knowing stage into the
implementation stage, so they could never earn a living
even though they understood how! I honestly believe that
they were afraid to actually do something, or they were
dabbling in too many different things to take any one
thing through to completion.

Either way, these are the experts who, based upon being
old-timers who have put in the time learning, should be
very successful. Yet, they are STUCK at just knowing and
won’t acknowledge that they MUST move beyond that.

Then you have the newbie who listens, learns and applies.
Some of them move up the ladder very rapidly, and are at
the top of the “expert ladder” in 1/10th of the time that
others take, and they ARE genuine experts.

Two quick examples of these “doers” are Russell Brunson
and Ryan Deiss.

I remember when Russell was a college student, wrestling,
and then starting to raise a family. He was on the
Warrior Forum, aggressively learning, testing, and DOING.
Not that much later, I could see that Russell had hit
six-figures, and then seven-figures.

I first notice Ryan Deiss in December 2002, when he was
an attendee at the very first seminar that ever attended
(and spoke at). I don’t believe that he was even 20 years
old yet, and he sat there taking and organizing copious
notes. He asked deep, relevant questions.

Ryan has now probably surpassed most of my fellow
speakers who graced the stage during that era. Ryan now
has other very successful guru’s working for his
companies

I’m compelled to warn my readers to be aware of the pretend
experts and dreamers, but I’m equally as compelled to point
out what sets the doers apart!

The “snakes in the grass” will always exist, and part of the
reason that they will even thrive is because of customer
greed. Greed causes people to make very poor choices.

FEAR also causes people to make poor decisions, and I
believe that is what keeps more people who have the
knowledge from becoming doers!

To become one of the successful doers, you have to actually,
REALLY believe that it is possible. Then you have to
believe that it is possible for you.

For me personally, I grew to believe that it was possible,
after spending a lot of time hanging around with, and even
masterminding with, others who actually walked-the-walk.

I grew to believe that it was possible for me after
observing that many of the ULTRA successful people that I
hung around were really quite ordinary in most respects.
I would even dare say that some were of below average
intelligence… and I even know that they would say this
about themselves.

The differences are:

1) You have to give yourself permission to actually become
successful.

2) You need to work on your mindset, because “going big” is
largely mental. Once you have the correct mindset, then it
JUST HAPPENS.

I know this to be true because that has been my experience.
I grew up on government subsistence (welfare) surrounded by
poverty and no real mega-successful role models. I did have
several teachers who lovingly challenged and inspired me.

I had my big breakthrough after hanging around the ultra
successful, and being bathed in their mindset.

They also taught me that the rich and ultra-successful were
not necessarily “evil”

That “flow” started me and many of my friends along a path
that made success destined to happen. It also programmed us
to always be successful even if we occasionally suffer
setbacks… because we now understand the path and have that
essential mindset.

The final ingredient for me was being actually mentored by
an individual who showed me how I was really the ONLY
person who could hold me back, and then how to get out of my
way and allow unimagined success to flow into my life.

That mentor’s name is Brian Ridgway, and he branded his
mentoring Level 5 Mentoring. It’s so-named because it
shows you how most people operate at one of four lesser,
flawed paradigms, and how by simply examining our world,
you clearly see the mistakes that 99.9% of people are making
that severely limit what they allow themselves to accomplish.

Brian, very generously, offers a free webinar where he shifts
many people’s thinking right on the webinar. Yes, on a free
webinar, you learn how to get out of your own way, step up
your game and no longer need to be a pretend expert, or a
dreamer.

When you see how easy it is to actually become a doer by
merely getting out of your own way, and allowing it to
happen, you’ll smile from ear to ear. So, will those that look
to you for guidance.

You can tune into Brian’s free mentoring at:
http://timic.org/Why/

Another shift that Brian’s free mentoring causes in many
people is that it causes them to see how harmful the first
two pretend experts are to themselves. Those first two
personality types CONDEMN the individual to failure, the
third personality type makes success happen relatively
effortlessly.

Now that you know, what are you going to do about it?

——————————

Willie Crawford has been teaching others how to build thriving
online businesses for over 15 years. To watch over his shoulders
as he demonstrates how anyone can earn six-figures in a mere
30 days, visit: http://WillieCrawford.com/100kInJanuary2012/

=====================================================

End Article:

Notice that that article is fairly emotionally charged. It’s
very difficult for a person to read the article and not feel
motivated to take some action, even if it’s to fire off an
email to me telling me that they disagree.

I could sense shortly after publishing the article that it
did indeed “piss off” many readers. It had that effect
because it no longer allowed them to blame others for the
results that they’ve gotten in life thus far. Most of the
world tells you that it’s not your fault because they know
that’s what you want to hear. I was deliberately using a
little “tough love!”

People respond to this type of article, they comment on it,
and they share it with others, so this is the type of article
that I will be publishing a LOT of over the next 10 days or
so.

That article is engineered to generate an emotional
under-current that people HAVE to respond to!

I published that article to a tiny list of about 7000 general
internet marketers whom I also felt would “get” that “mindset”
is a major part of the game. It’s what allows you to actually
follow-through with doing the other things that you need to
do in order to have extra-ordinary success.

Developing that mindset and following through DOES often
mean doing things that you are slightly uncomfortable with.
I shared with you earlier that even I have to do that. I
also shared with you my zip lining experience, where I
actually FORCED myself to REPEATELY step off the edge of cliffs,
attached to tiny cables that I didn’t really have that
much faith in. My point was NOT that I was on an exotic
Caribbean cruise, but that I purposely FORCED myself to do
something that I didn’t really want to do, but knew that it
would force me to grow in the direction that I wanted to
move.

In case you missed it, the tactic that I used to keep me
from backing out was to publicly state on my Facebook profile
(and to my wife) that I was going to do something that I
feared. I turned them all into powerful accountability
partners… and it worked!

That article is designed to make people really examine their
online marketing (somewhat bridging the gap between internet
marketing and personal development).

I AM at a tremendous disadvantage in the Personal Development
Niche, and since I’m not known there, needed to create a logical
bridge that people might be willing to step across.

When I’m reading an article, the first question that I
personally ask myself is “What makes this person qualified
to write this article?” I want to know “What makes them an
expert!” If we fail to answer that question in our own
articles, we lose the reader and your article will be largely
a waste of time.

My over-arching goal is… hopefully to get lots of people
re-posting the article, and it’s primary purpose is of course
to get people to check out the Level 5 Mentoring program… where
I’ll earn a commission when people actually benefit from the
free webinar, and because they do benefit, they want the paid
product that goes deeper.

Since the article covers an emotionally charged topic, and I
used the title as my email subject line, I do expect a very
high number of readers.

I will also submit that article to EzineArticles.com and to
IdeaMarketers.com, and will also bookmark it using the tools
that I mentioned to you yesterday.

I’ll share it in the other places already mentioned.

I can see this ONE article generating thousands of visitors
WHEN it goes viral, or gets a lot of commentary from the
right people.

I would also like to explain at this point WHY I
chose personal development or self-help as a niche
to focus on.

First of all, I’m not known AT ALL in the personal
development niche, so I feel that this is a great
test of my methods. I AM starting at the SAME point
that a newbie would be starting at… one of getting
people who don’t know me as an expert in that space,
to listen to me.

Given that people buy from people that they know,
like and trust, that means that I have to figure
out how to get potential customers in that niche to
know, like, and trust me.

Anyone in this situation has two choices… you
can either develop the know-like-and-trust factor,
or you can borrow it.

I chose to do both!

First, I chose to develop it by pushing out a TON
of content that rapidly proves my actual expertise
in this area. Given that I am a newbie in the niche,
that proof has to show that I not only understand
the theory, but that I actually LIVE the principles.

PROVING that I understand and have actually harnessed
the principles is why my writing focuses so much on
my lifestyle. That proves that I live what I’m
teaching day-to-day and as a result, I gain the
benefit… implying if you copy my application of the
principles exactly, then you’ll get the same results.

My readers need to see that I get above-average results
from my applying certain principles. I need to
unequivocally PROVE that.

Given that most authors, in most niches online, generate
little more than a lot of theory, IF I show practical
examples of the application of what I cover, then I can
quickly go from an unknown in the niche to a
much-respected authority

That’s what you need to do too.

YOU, as a subscriber, even have to see my doing that or
you quickly tune out, and don’t stick around long enough
to see how massively effective what I’m doing really
can be.

The second way to get that know-like-and-trust factor,
is to borrow it. That’s where solo ads come in. In placing
solo ads, I’m approaching list owners who already have that
relationship with their list and asking them for a direct or
indirect endorsement.

I also shared with you in an earlier lesson that I’m
actually reaching out to a few friends and asking them
to share my content-rich Facebook posts and events with
their followers.

I’m merely sending them private messages, asking them to
please share a post or Event.

I’m only asking them to do that with content that I feel
that their “Friends” will enjoy or appreciate.

I submit that we ALL have a few close friends that we
can ask a favor of, but also admit that asking favors
of even close friends can feel uncomfortable.

If you want extra-ordinary results you DO have to force
yourself to do things that people willing to live with
ordinary results simply won’t do. I can do that because
I honesty feel that my content is changing lives.

So, I am borrowing credibility. You need to do the
same thing!

You do have friends. They ARE willing to give you a
break especially IF they expect you at some point in
the future to reciprocate.

How well is this working for me?

In the Self-Help Giveaway that I’m using as a case-study,
I’ve moved from not even being in the top 20 (based on
over-all referrals), to where I expect to be in the top 5
VERY soon, and then to fight my way into the top three,
where I WILL earn a free solo mailing in my new niche…
with the #1 position offering that solo mailing to 250,000.

You may feel that you DON’T need a “pep talk” but I hope
that you do see that it’s worth the monumental effort, and
that after you make that initial monumental effort, that
the rest can simply fall in place.

I entered a new niche, made a monumental effort doing
things that I feel slightly uncomfortable with, and after
30 days, I should actually have made over $100k, largely
from soft-selling a product in my new niche, and from
leveraging the credentials of others who are long
established in that space.

I am going up against GIANTS in that space, and because
I am willing to do more, I will prevail, but I will be
doing things that you CAN do too.

My focus the rest of the journey is on buying solo ads
(buying endorsements), but even there, I’m largely
spending money earned from other efforts that I shared
with you in previous lessons.

I have arranged 32 solo ads that will start running as
early as today. For each of those ads, I am using a
unique tracking url, so that I know where my results
came from, and I will share that with you (unless I
was specifically prohibited by the ad seller for some
strange reason).

In the last lesson, I showed you how to set-up for this
solo ad barrage with as little as $25… but that… starting
with that little meant that it would take a few days longer.

Now, thanks to your patience as I laid the framework,
you’ll get to watch it all unfold, and even be able to
use my EXACT solo ad sources if you choose to, and if you
act fast. Of course, over 1200 others will be reading
these same notes, so if you are not fast, you may be in
for a bit of a wait.

Moving forward, I’m going to make the lessons less
verbose, since hopefully by this time, you’ve gotten
the mindset part.

I will add that this IS all an inexact science. There is
a lot of testing and tracking involved, and even the top
marketing experts have to admit that the outcomes are not
always exact.

In fact, in a recent discussion, a friend shared with me
a conversation that he had with a guy who has often
billed himself as “the godfather of internet marketing.”
He shared that this guy taught him that email marketing
is hit and miss. It’s a matter of market-to-message-to-
medium match.

Even at “the very top” this guy sends out mailing some
days that produce a mere trickle of orders, and other
days he hits on just the right combination, and hundreds
of orders flood in.

He tries to be scientific about it but has discovered that
if he keeps making little tweaks, and keeps mailing, that
in the long run, he has a lot of home-runs but even more
singles

In that market-to-message match, I believe that the most
critical ingredient is the words that you use to connect
with your audience one-to-one, and that no one has an
advantage over you in that arena, because it’s an actual
bond/connection “felt” between two individuals.

Willie

RE: WSO of the Day for January 10, 2012

“Are you Kidding me… This is actually a gift for us all on the
forum.. Yes, easily worth thousands…”

NAME:
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thing. Willie is showing EVERYTHING, in near real-time, THIS
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This is an INCREDIBLE opportunity, and it probably won’t come
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Right now, this is 87% off, but TIME is ticking on this one…

Check it out…

SEE TODAY’S WSO HERE:
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Willie

It’s fairly common knowledge these days that your
personal income will tend to be the average income
of your five closest friends. That’s to an extent
because we tend to think and act like those that we
hang around.

Consequently, my closet friends as all “filthy rich!”

You see, I have no problem admitting that I desire
tremendous wealth, because my very wealthy friends
have taught me that that’s how you do tremendous good
in the world. They taught me that you go out and
earn wealth first, and then you dedicate a lot of
your time and wealth to things that you consider
worthy causes.

They taught me that good intentions don’t feed the
hungry, clean the environment, cure major diseases,
or fund any charitable causes. Developing and
using good business skills to generate tremendous
wealth that you can use to fund work in those areas
does!

They taught me that you don’t wait to start helping,
but that you can help a lot faster if you focus on
wealthy creation first!

Now that we have that out of the way, how do you
actually become filthy rich. I’ve already shared
one way… you associate with others who are already
doing extremely well, and you learn from them.

Before you make the excuse that there is NO WAY
that they will allow you into their inner circles, let
me point out that they let ME (a farm kid from North
Carolina who spent all of his youth on welfare, before
spending 20 years in the military) into their inner
circles.

They did it for one simple reason… I showed them
that I had something to offer them, AND I showed them
that I genuinely had their best interests at heart.

As a result, they grabbed me by the hand, taught me,
and made me “one of them!”

Now, I share many of the things that my wealth mentors
taught me in a free mini-course that anyone can
access at: http://timic.org/Rich/

What are some of the secrets though… secrets that are
really non-secrets?

1) The wealthy don’t work for their money, they make
their money work for them. They make investments in
things that average people ignore for some reason. So,
while most Americans get 1-2% returns on their savings,
my friends get 24% or more, and with NO RISK!

2) The wealthy don’t trade time for money, they create
assets that generate interest and residual income…
they create capital assets. Online marketers who
create products and set up membership sites, are sort
of headed in the right direction… but they usually
don’t fully “get it.”

3) The wealthy use other people’s time. Instead of
doing the work themselves, they hire others who can
often do the work better, for a fraction of what it
would cost them to do it.

Some online marketers outsource, which is headed in the
right direction, but they also need to learn to better
delegate. That also includes delegating the management
of the outsourced workers.

4) The wealthy use leverage offered through tools such
as software. An example is the piece of software that
I use to save me hundreds of hours while identifying
what keywords I should focus on…. and what niches
are profitable. That’s this piece of software:
http://WillieCrawford.com/SerpAlert/

5) The wealthy leverage other people’s assets. As a
JV broker, I and my clients focus less on list-building
than on locating and courting those who have already
built lists.

We focus on finding centers of influence who already
have the trust and attention of our ideal customers,
and we get them to recommend our quality services and
products to their audiences.

6) The wealthy actually make more by practicing
social entrepreneurialism. Properly embracing worthwhile
causes can actually provide millions of jobs, provide
lots of resources more cost-efficiently to consumers,
and actually serve the less-fortunate… actually putting
their needs and best-interests first.

That’s one of the seldom-recognized secrets of the “filthy
rich.” They actually approach business by looking for
major, real problems that they can solve. Many of them do
more “good” than many governments.

7) Those achieving lasting real wealth do it by delivering
tremendous value to others. They strive to improve the
lives of others. They don’t sell people garbage because
they GET the saying “when I harm you, I also harm me!

The wealthy value time ahead of practically any other
asset. It’s the one thing that we all have an equal amount
of, yet properly managed, some of us can get ten times
as much done in the same amount of time.

Since the wealthy better manage their time, they often
seem to have more of it for doing the things that they
really want to do.

That “thing” is very often spending more time with family
in friends. Contrary to a popular belief that I had before
making lots of wealthy friends, they usually have a LOT
of quality time with their kids. My friends simply make
it a priority!

YOU simply have to make being in charge of how your

time is spent a priority. If you don’t, then you’ll soon
notice others taking control of your time, and “spending
your life.”

Proper time management is actually one of those things
that, once mastered, offers the greatest leverage in
growing your wealth.

An example is that I often set aside time to actually
intensely focus on getting projects done. I set aside
time to mastermind, in a controlled environment, with
some very high-powered thinkers, and in a matter of
days we often get more DONE, and move more projects
forward, than the average person does in MONTHS.

I do 2-day mastermind meetings several times a year where
we all FOCUS on each others businesses, going as far as
giving others in the group permission to hold us
accountable, and we build massively successful businesses.

I could share more “secrets” with you, but if you just
embrace what I’ve already shared with you, you’ll be
ahead of 95% of the population.

If you want more, grab my free mini-course at:
http://timic.org/Rich/

Or, you can continue doing things as you are currently
doing them, and life will probably not force any changes
upon you

Namaste,
Willie

Let me share the actual email with you, then I’ll
share the lessons.

Subject: [photo inside] – Sometimes you’ve got to pick
yourself up and carry on.

Sometimes you’ve got to pick yourself up and carry on.
Orange you glad I sent this to you? …
(photo by Art Mejia)

Now the lessons:

1) I noticed the email first because the “From” field
contained a trusted friend’s name.

2) The “Subject” line promising a great photo nudged
me further to open it. Hint: A promise of new
photos of kids or pets works beautifully.

3) It made me smile, causing me to want to pass
it on.

You see, Mark is an expert marketer who totally
gets great copywriting, human psychology, and
building great relationships.

That also gave me a segue to share with you how I
expect to sell THOUSANDS of copies of my simple
soul food cookbook in the next 3 weeks, and how
you can do the same with a similarly appropriate
product.

In fact, I have absolutely no doubt that each of
the next three weeks will be six-figure weeks

I wrote my cookbook back in 2000, and it has
been a steady seller ever since. That proves that
you don’t need a breakthrough new product to do
well selling things online.

You DO need a product that lots of people want,
and you need a way to let them know about it, and
you need to be able to communicate with them
effectively.

I probably learned some of the things I understand
on each of those aspect directly from watching
Mark over the years.

At the same time, I do watch what is working best
in my marketing very closely, and I notice changes.

One of the things that has changed the most in
the past year is that far more people are now
accessing the web via mobile devices (iPhones,
iPads, Androids, tablets, etc) than are accessing
the internet via regular computers.

I’ve seen statistics telling me that five times
as many people access the internet via their
mobile devices as do with a computer.

Those same people do BUY right over their mobile
devices… a lot of them

That told me that my customers for my cookbook are
MOSTLY not on computers, and that if I don’t reach
out to them, then I’m PREVENTING 85% of my potential
sales.

Since I know that most of my competitors are facing
the same problem, it also showed me an EASY way to
gain a competitive advantage.

I simply had a mobile app developed that let people
access my website (and buy my products) right over
their mobile devices.

I had apps developed for the iPhone, iPad, Android,
and HTML5 compatible devices. That lets people on
practically ANY smart device access and interact
with my website without ever going online.

Now, millions of people can pull up my website while
in the kitchen and look up a recipe, or request one
from others who have my apps installed, or read
my latest blog posts, or watch a cooking video
posted on my YouTube channel, or visit Facebook,
Twitter, and numerous other places right from online.

This all sounds high tech, but it cost me less than
$500 to open the door to hundreds of millions of
potential users.

Another HUGE benefit of my apps is the ability to
send “push notifications.” I can, at any time, log
into a control panel, compose a short message, and
send it to EVERYONE who has my apps installed. In
seconds, MILLIONS of people could potentially be
getting a popup message on their phones (one that
almost 100% of people can’t resist responding to).

Naturally, I don’t want to abuse that functionality,
or people will just uninstall the app. However, it
does let me send appropriate, very effective
messages to my ideal customers at will.

Those messages get delivered, and then get read!

Anyway, you can watch a video that explains why and
how I generate traffic to my websites using apps,
and also get your own (for under $500) at:
http://TheAppSolutions.com

That ends the lesson for this morning, but I do want
to invite you to download, and share my apps.

You can download the iPhone and iPad versions at:
http://Chitterlings.com/iPhone/

You can download the Android version at:
http://Chitterlings.com/Android/

Please go ahead and download the app now, and start
using it, and I’d love your feedback. The only feedback
that I’ve gotten thus far is that they want me to post
more recipes within the recipes tab right on the app.

Many days, I share dozens of tried-and-true recipes on
the blog itself, which feeds right to the blog tab on
the app, updating in real-time, so you DO have access
to literally thousands of recipes with this simple
free app.

So go ahead and download it, and if you want to checkout
the cookbook that motivated me to create the app in
the first place, check out:
http://Chitterlings.com/cookbook.html

As you can see, running a successful online business
really is simple, and even fun.

Thanks for listening.

Willie

I show you ways that I currently generate
millions of unique visitors per month to
my own and clients’ websites.

I show you that when it comes to website
traffic generation, some people DO have a
shocking advantage. The rules simply aren’t
the same for all of us.

I’ll prove to you that it’s NOT a level playing
field!

Then I show you the single best way that I’m
advising all of my friends, students and
clients to generate highly targeted traffic.

In the video I show you how to build a
following of people who DON’T just ignore
your emails. Most email marketers get a
less than 5% open rate. I show you how to
get close to 100% opens from your raving
fans.

Watch the video now because I only plan on
leaving it up for another 24 hours. I want
you to know the real story, but I’m already
getting heat (from the powers that be) to take
that video down.

Please watch it now!

===>>> http://timic.org/UltraEffective/

You’ll see why you don’t need to struggle to
get traffic.

You’ll also see how to attract the traffic that
matters… those who are ready to subscribe to
your list, and who very often buy whatever you
recommend.

This is very powerful, and will let you end 2011
VERY profitably.

To your success,
Willie

Many of us rarely focus on one task long enough to take
it all the way to profitable completion. It really is
that simple!

Email, phone calls, television, and Facebook… all throw
so many distractions in our way that it’s a wonder we ever
get ANYTHING done.

New ideas and opportunities come at some of us so fast that
we are constantly changing direction in mid-stream…
meaning we never reach any destination.

It’s no different in the offline world incidentally, where
only a tiny fraction of any business owner’s days is spent
doing anything that actually grows the business… or adds
to the bottom line.

What’s the solution?

Let me share with you how I’m doing it, and why I can say
with complete confidence that I’m on my way to an 8-figure
year!

I personally often unplug the phone, close my office door,
and just focus on completing one project for an hour or two.
I don’t try to focus on one thing for more than an hour or
two at a time because after that productivity often drops off,
and I usually can get more done in an hour of intense focus
than I can in a day of constant distractions and interruptions!

So I often work in 1-hour increments, with short, scheduled
breaks in-between.

I also often grab my laptop and wireless card, and go work
on a fairly isolated beach or in some other place that is
relatively quiet but also inspiring. That is how I stimulate
my creativity, and kick up my energy level.

I work in environments that a conducive to getting things
DONE.

For example, next month, I’ll be on a 5-day cruise with my
mastermind group. We’ll go from Tampa, Florida to Cozumel,
Mexico and back. I’m on the cruise because I’ll be traveling
with a group of 99 other VERY serious entrepreneurs (mostly
multimillionaires, with probably a billionaire or two
sprinkled in there). We will spend 5-days getting to know
each other and sitting around at tables on the deck of the
ship (eye-to-eye) making joint venture deals.

I’ll come off that cruise with probably 2 dozen joint
ventures already in motion, and having pushed numerous
previously-stalled, pre-existing projects along massively.

The cruise IS me working in a very conducive environment,
where I will be able to get a LOT done. I dare say I’ll
get more done in that five days than the average person will
get done in a month in their “normal” working environment.

On top of that, since I will be working, the cruise will
be tax-deductible

I know… you read the above and you think, “Not everyone
can work from the deck of a luxurious cruise ship Willie!”

I would ask, “Why not?”

In fact, while my mastermind trip is for group members only,
I DO have permission to invite a few prospective members…
provided all of the cabins are not filled.

Simply hit reply, and ask me for details if you are
interested.

Another way that practically every business owner that I
know needs to focus is by asking themselves, “Where are
my buying customers really at, and how can I best reach
them?”

Since we are talking about focus and getting the highest
return-on-investment on your time and efforts, you really
need to identify the very best way to actually make more
sales.

Once you’ve identified that method, then you need to
FOCUS EXCLUSIVELY ON THAT for at least a short while.

There’s a video here that shows you exactly how I’m growing
my businesses the fastest, and will be doing so for a while:

==>> http://TheAppSolutions.com

This is how I’m actually getting through to my most-targeted,
highly-responsive customers. This is also how I’m growing
my database the fastest… with my ideal customers and clients.

Anyone who has been marketing online for more than a week
has probably heard that they should build a list and then
follow-up with them building a trusting relationship and
offering them products and services that they need.

I’ve been doing that for the past 15 years, and have actually
built a database of over 1.4 MILLION subscribers, scattered
across numerous niches.

We’ve also read somewhere that when you DO manage to build
that list, that it’s worth about $1 per subscriber per month.

First of all, I’m here to tell you that that is definitely
NOT the case for most of the niches that I’m in.

The problem is that my subscribers are on so many different
lists, and have so many different things vying for their
attention, that most NEVER see my emails. They are often
buried in their in-boxes, in a sea of other noise.

In comparing notes with many leading online marketers, I
can tell you that some of them are experiencing email OPEN
rates of less than 5%. Of that 5%, only a fraction click
through to check out their offers, and of course only a small
percentage of those will typically buy.

So, having a mailing list of 100,000 CAN translate to
getting fewer than 1000 clicks from many emails.

To me, that is a SERIOUS problem, and one that explains
why many internet marketers are on the verge of
bankruptcy.

Yes, I have figured out a way around that problem. That’s
what I show you in the video on the page at:

==>> http://TheAppSolutions.com

By the way, I apologize in advance that my video is NOT a
Hollywood production. I actually recorded that for a group
who is not impressed by too much flash and glitter. They are
too savvy for that… and also too busy.

They just want the facts so that they can make good
business decisions.

Plain and simple, your biggest challenge in making more sales
is one of capturing your ideal customers’ attention.

I do that masterfully, which is why I confidently stated that
I’m headed for an 8-figure year. It’s also why as I cruise
from Tampa to Cozumel next month… numerous
multimillionaires will stand up and invite me to sit down at
their table as I walk by.

They’ve heard that when it comes to getting more customers via
the internet, that I’m THE EXPERT! They mostly come from the
offline world (direct mail, infomercials, etc.). They value
expertise.

The truth be told, my expertise is nothing more than the sum
total of all that other online and offline marketers have
shared with me over the past 15 years. It’s not unique
knowledge, but I DO know how to distil it down, and how to
put it into action.

That know-how seems to be fairly rare, and is therefore
valued.

Anyway, check out this video: http://TheAppSolutions.com

There is a special offer in that video too. To take advantage
of the special, just click the Google Checkout button
beneath the video.

That special offer is going away in a couple days so go ahead
and check it out now.

After doing that, simply FOCUS!

Willie

Oh, why “60 days” in the subject line? If you actually buckle
down and focus for the next 60 days, you’ll get so much done
that I’ll give you permission to take the rest of the year
off if you want to.

You’ll be able to afford to because you’ll be actually getting
revenue generating projects completed!