Confession Of An Internet Marketing Expert
Copyright 2004 By Willie Crawford

Like many of you, when I first came online I believed that it WAS
possible. Then, meeting with marginal success for a while... as I
marketed many different products, I began to doubt. It was during
this time that I watched many friends who've come online at the
same time that I did, simply give up and go back to their regular
jobs. I never seriously considered doing that despite my wife's
"suggestions."

Eventually, I was exposed to those actually doing what I dreamed
of doing. I met them at conference and workshops. I talked to
them on networking calls and teleseminars. Slowly, I began to
believe again. I saw people offering irrefutable proof that they
were really making the big bucks. Like many people, I reasoned
that if they could do it then so could I.

When I say big bucks, I mean over $200,000 a year. To someone
from my background that is a significant annual income. My annual
goals are now seven-figure, but I still keep grounded and
acknowledge that a six-figure income is above average. So it's
the six figure income that I sought the secret to earning.

Then, one day, I woke up and it was happening to me. At that
point, I asked myself, "How did it happen?" I actually sat in
bewilderment as I asked, What happened?" I needed that answer
because I wanted to show others.

Here was my biggest challenge! Every week I was approached by
people with very big dreams. They wanted to build a business on
the internet to supplement their incomes or maybe even completely
quit their day jobs. Long after I was able to leave my day job
and earn a full-time living on the internet, I really couldn't explain
to others WHY they couldn't do it too.

I knew what I was doing and what was working for me, but there
seemed to be a missing piece of the puzzle.

I needed that missing piece of the puzzle because by this time I
had become a trusted advisor and role model to many. I viewed
their trust in me as almost sacred and I desperately didn't want
to mislead them. What a tremendous burden!

I knew that the answer had to be in something that I had done. It
had to be in something that my role models and mentors had done.

As the pressures of desperately needing to make money just to
pay the bills lifted, this allow me to view things from a more
detached view. What I began to see and understand was
mind-boggling.

The first thing that became apparent was... what all of the
experts had been telling me was actually THE WAY. The problem
was that I couldn't hear what they were saying over all the noise in
my head... the noise born of desperation to find a way to earn a
living online... that struggle to succeed that so many do
experience.

When that noise quieted down, I could see that first of all there
are only a handful of "Internet marketing experts" making the big
bucks online in "Internet marketing." Many of these are actually
making most of their money in niche markets. Many of them are
also making much of their money in the offline world... often in
mail order.

This is what they were telling me from the very beginning though.
However, for some reason, I couldn't hear what they were saying.
I could not hear their message. It was like I was deeply
submerged under water and could barely see or hear them just
above the water's surface.

What were they yelling? "Find a niche and fill it!" Some even
taught, "Find a niche and totally dominate it, ethically
exploiting it in every way possible."

Recently, I found these teachings reinforced even more. One of my
friends shared a manuscript with me that told the stories of
people earning from $100,000 to $18 million per year... all
selling very niche products over the internet. One of these was
an affiliate marketer, but he was targeting very specific niches.

My friend had actually tracked down and interviewed over 60
people who were making the big bucks. He had asked each of them
over 75 probing questions to get at the very essence of what they
did and why it worked for them. As I read the answers to the
interviews he conducted, they firmly confirmed all that I'd
slowly learned over the past 7 years. They confirmed that all of
the things the experts had been teaching me were true.

Had I gone full circle? I now believed the possibilities were as
limitless as I perceived them to be when I first came online.
When I first came online I saw the possibilities of earning a
living on the Internet as totally limitless. I even named a site
and an ezine "Limitless." Now you know the rest of that story :-)

Internet Marketing (marketing products and services over the
Internet) is truly the greatest opportunity that most of us have
available to us. The barriers to entry into your own business are
so low. The only element really missing for many is the how-to.

My friend compiled his interviews into an ebook which he called
Success Alert - Conversation With Successful Internet
Entrepreneurs. This ebook is actually just 10 of the best
interviews that he conducted. That fills a 281 page ebook. I
encourage you to check out this ebook at:
http://Success-Alert.com

I've just shared with you a cycle that I think many internet
marketers go through as they gradually figure out the puzzle. The
baffling part is how difficult it can be to see what people are
telling you. We seek answers and are given them, yet we often
don't hear them.

Yours in service and gratitude.

Willie Crawford

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Willie Crawford is a corporate president, published author,
seminar speaker and host, tele-seminar speaker and host,
retired military officer, karate black belt, network marketing
trainer, and lifetime student of marketing. He shows people
how to actually generate substantial income on-line using
very simple systems. An example of such a system can
be studied and duplicated at: http://ProfitMagician.com

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