You may be aware that there is a very big and very well orchestrated launch going on, that will be extremely successful for those guys at StomperNet. I must say, they have produced some really cool stuff and awesome videos.

Anyway, that is not the point…here is what amazed me.

The fact is that I read that last time StomperNet did a launch (about a year ago), over 80% of the people who spent $800 per month (!@%**) for the StomperNet training, NEVER EVEN PUT UP A WEBSITE.

Think about that for a moment………………….

If you are one of these, them hear me out.

Look, I am a fine one to talk, see my post Internet Marketing Experiences II. I spent almost £5000 (yes pounds) on a one day training seminar a year ago!

Despite what I said then, best intentions & all that - what did I do with it….nada, absolutely nothing!

OK, so it set me off on a whole new course of discovery, but this is crazy.

I consider myself to be someone who gets on and does things. Alright, I have periods of procrastination or inaction but if I am prepared to spend this sort of money, I need to get something back in return. I want to see a pretty decent sized return on my investment.

So, atlast I have decided to take action and will actually be demonstrating through this website how I get on and what I create. (You should sign up for my step by step action plan and reports - see sign up box on the main page). This means you can actually see what I have gone through, how I am creating my business and the lessons I learn.

You will not have to pay for lots of high price courses….leave that to me….but you will get all the benefit and will see first hand how it is done. By someone who is going through exactly the same as you are currently. It can’t be much more real than that.

Right, that is my deal to you

But what about YOU. I bet you are in a similar situation and have spent hard earned money on courses, seminars or other material. Hell, you may even have bought or downloaded the same material TWICE, because you had forgotten.

Are you one of those 80%

If so, WHAT IS HOLDING YOU BACK?

You signed up to learn about internet marketing to make money, yes??, so why aren’t you?

Simply, what I want to know is what is holding you back - what is stopping YOU from taking the first step?

By helping me - by answering that question - I can help you.

Tell me what is preventing you from taking action, by posting a comment. I am convinced that I can show you how I have overcome a number of my hurdles to get this going and in turn help you. In fact, I will try and simplify the whole process further for you just because of what I have learnt.

I am doing what you want to be doing.

Look, the areas I can particularly help with are where it is a question of information overload, confusion, too much technical know how, fear etc.

On the other hand, if you have simply decided not to take action, because it is not for you. I may think you are completely crazy but probably can’t help. Or am I wrong….so why are you reading this blog?

I am absolutely convinced that there is an awesome opportunity, like no other I have ever seen, to make serious money on the internet. I plan on demonstrating this.

I don’t say this lightly, I take this as a serious business opportunity and I WILL MAKE IT HAPPEN.

What I would like to know, is what is holding YOU back. Tell me. I am also sure there is stuff I can do or provide that will help you.

I was in that 80%, now I am not.

Take action, post a comment now.

I very much look forward to it. (Don’t worry about what other people might think. Take the first step yourself)

To your success,

Ron

This is not a good way to share information and get more and more subscribers to your blog. Nor for getting better search engine rankings or visits from the ’spiders’

So first lesson, don’t do this! I will talk more about blogs; as I see them as an absolutely essential tool. To the extent that they could get rid of your need for a physical website. The flexibility with blogs these days is great.

To get really great information, including a lot of tools and resources around Blogging (email No.7), I highly recommend you subscribe to my regular Email & Reports service. This puts everything in a more logical, topic by topic order.

Hey…that’s the sort of stuff I have been busy with and putting the Opt-In form on this blog. So please, make me happy and show me that it works!. I am sure I can make it better but I think this is a reasonable start.

They make setting these things up sound so easy, but I found I had to fiddle around and try out different autoresponders, try different opt-in forms & then work out how to place it where I wanted it. I think it should probably be in the top right but I think it works OK where it is?

Ahh now….autoresponders…something I believe to be the absolute cornerstone of your business (covered off in email No.6 in the regular updates), an essential ‘must have’.

You see what I am doing here. I want you to subscribe, which I’m sure you will anyway, because you will get very high value content and I can then start to have a regular conversation with you. We can then get to know each other better.

All I ask is you read the information and start to take action.

There is no absolutely painless way to get going, so a little effort is required but there are certainly ways that will make your life a lot easier - as I am finding - you have some choices.

An analogy….think of this

For those of you who are familiar with it, it is a bit like learning to drive a car or ride a motorcycle. At first it seems so daunting. You are trying to think about so many different steps and actions you have to take just to get going. Then you have to remember all the different things to do & in what order, just to stay in control. As well as concentrating on the road, watching other cars, pedestrians, cyclists, traffic lights etc. You get my drift.

At first it all seems quite overwhelming but like learning to drive or ride a motorcycle, there is a number of steps you need to follow (sequence/process) that are important to get right at first. Once you are comfortable with these and they start to become natural, then you can go on to focus on other things.

I think internet marketing is a bit like that, except you are being constantly bombarded with more & more information daily, with the “absolutely you must have” emails.

Start to think about what you want to achieve, go subscribe to my regular emails. I promise you, you will find them extremely helpful.

Tomorrow, and YES IT WILL BE, I am going to go back to pick up on something mentioned in one of my first posts, ‘Why Internet Marketing’ and have a look at some of my early experiences from when I got started just over a year ago. [That was deciding to get to know more about Internet Marketing, not about taking action.]

To Your Success,

Ron

In my blog of 30th April I said I was going to share something I did that forced me to TAKE ACTION and get my internet marketing career kickstarted.

I apologise, as I haven’t shared this with you yet but will do in the next few days. It is up and running but have just attended a webinar that will allow me to make additional changes & add more content/value.

Also, have some very good stuff in store for you. These are things I have found to be of huge value and I believe will really make a difference…..

So check back very shortly.

To our success,

Ron

The problem with the internet is it makes so much information readily available and accessible. This is as true, if not more so, in the information marketing space.

As a thought provoking read, I would highly recommend the reports produced by Rich Schefren. Rich puts together very high quality documents that make you think. Particularly, ‘Internet Business Manifesto’, ‘The Attention Age Doctrine’ and  ‘The Maven Matrix Manifesto’

This is not something you need to act on right away but should certainly be aware of and if you have specific skills that can turn you in to a market maven, then something I would highly recommend. Again, this is something I might be able to demonstrate first hand at a later stage. So keep watching these posts….

To The Here And Now

Cutting through all the clutter is important.

No doubt, like everyone else, I have found it difficult to zero in on what is most relevant to get me up and running and succeeding now.

Or is this just an excuse for inaction?

For instance, there have been a lot of very successful and high profile product launches recently. Mostly by highly successful internet marketing guys, such as the guys at StomperNet, Frank Kern, Jeff Walker, Rich Schefren, Shawn Casey & Tellman Knudson to name a few. Problem is, that most of this is not relevant to what you and I are trying to achieve in the very early days.

With out bringing the wrath of these guys upon me as a complete inexperienced newbie, that is not to say it is irrelevant but much of this just adds to our information overload at this stage and ability to take action NOW and get going. The point is, we need to get started with a gameplan that is flexible enough to evolve rapidly and as we start making MONEY. After all, that is why we are doing this….not to become masters of the universe in one fell swoop.

As an aside, these guys have all demonstrated enormous success, so certainly watch what they are doing but there is a time & place. You will see certain traits repeated and utilised by all of them, so that is a great pointer as to what works. A great saying by Armand Morin, is that “success leaves traces”. We will talk more about Armand Morin in another post. I deliberately didn’t mention his recent launch and of course Big Seminar.

What do I need to know and understand NOW is the key question?

From what I have personally gone through, the single most imporatnt thing is TO DO SOMETHING, because by actually doing, you start to focus and understand. I am going to help by offering something that will let you get started almost straight away, as it has for me. It is very high value, straightforward, inexpensive and will let you start learning and getting first hand experience.

Question is, what are you looking to achieve?

• Is internet marketing important for the future of your offline business?
• Are you looking to earn a secondary income to support you through these difficult times?
• Do you want to build a serious internet business that becomes your primary focus?

In my case, I want to turn my existing business in to a highly automated , web centric business and more importantly, I want to build a serious internet business that is highly successful but requires few people to operate and manage. I think that last point is the ultimate about a well run internet business.

In subsequent posts I am going to talk about key aspects/steps that I believe you need to get right immediately to set yourself up & get started. Also included, will be tools and resources I have found essential or atleast, helpful.

I will intersperse this with ongoing real life examples and information as I move forward.

I plan on posting something later that you should really take a look at to get you started or move you ahead from where you are now.

As ever,

To our shared success,

Ron

You may well ask…why internet marketing and what does it mean to me?

I am sure there are tons of other people out there asking about the importance of internet marketing and how it can enrich their lives.

If like me you have spent a lot of time researching internet marketing, attending seminars and workshops and signing up for lots of stuff, as well as all the good quality downloads….then you too are probably asking about how to put it all to work.

This blog is designed for people like you and for us all to share some experiences and knowledge. I will be laying it all out as I actually put it in to practice.

Here’s my story, or atleast a short version for now…..

I am completely new to internet marketing, a newbie, which sounds crazy given that I have been running businesses for quite a few years. I thought I was quite smart….how wrong could I be!

It only really dawned on me just a little over a year ago that I was marketing my business and software applications really ineffectively. Yes I had a website, yes I sent out the occasional email and made tons of telephone calls.

But I had fallen in to the age old trap and was working hard but not smart. That didn’t feel great, given that I had invested a tidy amount of money and slogged my guts out. I had nothing to really show for it.

As I started looking around, reality dawned that I had been missing a huge trick, yet using new technologies very effectively in other areas. But the most important area, in generating revenue, had been totally missed.

I had spent money on my websites, which delivered no benefits or revenue. Our time was taken up running around from meeting to meeting and usually getting favourable comments but no MONEY.

I started looking at what I should be doing…it just hit me like a sledgehammer!

It was so obvious, that I decided I needed to take action. That was just over a year ago!

Where I have got to?

Well probably like so many people I started running around madly trying to gather the information to understand internet marketing better, put all the pieces together and start learning.

Actually, I didn’t even do that….I signed up for a pretty expensive workshop with Andrew Reynolds and Tim Lowe to learn what I needed to know. (More about some of my experiences in another Post)

The plan they layed out for me and other attendees was pretty clear and I got a lovely box full of wonderful DVDs. Hey, there was some great material here & I got all excited.

Again, I fell in to the trap of wanting to know more and cluttering my brain up with more and more information but not doing what I should really have been doing….TAKING ACTION.

Hell, everyone says take action, so it can’t be that difficult CAN IT!!

Probably 80-90% of people never TAKE ACTION, or find a reason to delay.

Well, here’s the good news. Having learnt a lot along the way, cluttered and decluttered my brain. Found some extremely good material that can really help, learnt a whole load of new skills….I am going to cut through the confusion and morass of information and put it all to work.

I am going to share my lessons as we go and I am going to expose exactly what I am doing (and hopefully why) as I do it.

Why would I want to do that?

Because I think sharing this sort of information is extremely helpful to others and will not only benefit me, by getting me to follow through but hopefully encourage others to take the leap and actually DO IT!

Get all the misinformtion and confusion out of your head, focus & get on with it.

There will be three key areas for me:

1. Making a living through internet marketing, so I can enjoy a more stress free lifestyle
2. Using internet marketing more effectively in my businesses so I can drive traffic to my websites & get people knocking on my door & generate substantial revenue
3. The business I am most excited about, teaching people to become highly effective traders, so they can leave their day jobs and make an extremely good living - this is something I DO KNOW ABOUT!

On the last point, I have been putting this together for quite a few months and have assembled a fantastic team to make this happen…more later.

I am very excited by the future but like everyone, need to put this to work - talk is cheap and I have done enough of it (& spent plenty of money).

Stay with me as I share lots of information and with you and first hand tips, experiences etc.

Also, please join in the conversation as I would really like to know what other positive minded souls are up to.

Lots of content on the way.

And yes…internet marketing is extremely important to you. In fact, it is getting more & more important for so many reasons. The opportunity is enormous, grasping it is the problem.

To your success

Ron

PS. In the next blog, I will talk about the step I have taken to FORCE MYSELF TO TAKE ACTION. The “I can and will do attitude”

PPS Leave a comment with your first name & email address. Once I have figured it out properly I will add a subsciption box to my blog. I didn’t say I was a techie, so a bit beyond me!

PPS If you do that for me, I will make sure I send you more free stuff that I think can really make a difference, reports etc. But only those that deliver real value!! - I promise

To the future,

Ron

PS This is all about taking action, so learn with me and see internet marketing put in to practice