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I got an email a few days ago about one of my products…

The email asked me “what the average person makes with this product?”

I was afraid to respond, but felt I should share this with everyone!

Why?

Because the ‘average’ person makes NOTHING

The truth is the average person (in the U.S.) also only makes about $30,000 a year – at a job they hate

Why?

Because they don’t try or are afraid to ‘better themselves’ you know to invest in yourself and your future

Why?

Because it requires extra work, extra effort & it requires you to do things you are afraid to do

You’re reading this today because you are NOT average

You’re putting in the extra effort to build a better future for yourself…

How good your future is depends on how hard you work in the present (today) and how much you actually believe in yourself, step outside your comfort zone and actually do what the ‘average’ person would not do

Internet marketers are not ‘average’ and the good ones are not even close to average…

Even the FTC wants to know the average results… guess what? The average results are no results!

A lot of people don’t even download the product they purchase… some even have the nerve to ask for a refund 10 minutes after they bought it, with some lame excuse why they want a refund – I’ve had it happen to me

Even a smaller percentage actually take action on any part of the product

Why?

Because it takes above average actions… a little bit more effort, a little bit of stepping outside your comfort zone ‘into the unknown’

I know of one particular marketer that starts going through a product and immediately takes action as soon as he find something that he wants to try… before going into the rest of the product

Guess What?

He’s way above average… and he’s now making over $40,000 a month after less than 2 years of experience online(marketing)

Does that sound like something you would want to do?

Then there should be no more I’ll do it later… I’m guilt too, but at least I’m making an effort to take avoid putting things off, I’m making an effort to step outside my comfort zone… I’m creating videos and I’m not a good speaker, I sound like I’m reading when I’m not, the lighting is off…

but guess what? Who cares as long as you do it – it will pay off!

Do me a favor and stop being ‘average’ it will kill your hopes and dreams

Please comment below telling me why you are not average and how you have already or plan to be better than average with your online business

What do you think? Please comment below to tell me.

I see a common problem online… people spend too much time on the ‘details’ but don’t spend enough time thinking about what they should really be asking themselves

In the video I tell you some of those questions you should be able to answer and if you have a good answer for each one everything should be a lot easier for you (be sure to take notes) – enjoy!

Any ideas?

Hey, have you ever considered the sheer power curiosity holds? Earlier today I was asking a friend of mine (one of my mailing list subscribers) how he initially found his way onto my mail list?

Here’s a quick story of the conversation we had, “I found my way onto your mailing list about a week ago. It was through an article you wrote. The title of the article was unique asking me a question about traffic generation that I never considered, I was so ‘curious’ to know the answer behind this question, I actually read your whole article, I didn’t skim it…”

I asked him why he clicked on the link in the article this was his reply “I wasn’t satisfied with the answer in the article, I needed a more complete answer so logically I looked to your link for more information to satisfy my need to learn this traffic generation method”

As you can see curiosity motivates people to take action. People have a natural desire to satisfy curiosity. Why do you think questions are used the most in sales letters? Curiosity!

If you can persuade people to follow along the desired path with curiosity you have a powerful motivational tool. A great question can skyrocket click thru rates.

I recently learned that asking a question that is not as simple as yes or no is more interesting to people. It makes sense if someone can give an answer t o your question they will be less likely to pursue finding the answer.

Curiosity can be used in many ways, in headlines (a must), in the actual content body and even in the footer. Articles work great for this if you can keep the curiosity of your readers up you will have amazing click through rates.

I’ve even used this in sending emails, twitter, web 2.0 submissions and it works great. Do you want to know more? See, I told you always consider the power of curiosity.

P.S. Curiosity gives you more traffic and more money; you should embrace it and use it to your full advantage.

Participate in the conversation by leaving your comment below.

To become more productive in your business, you must first take note of how you are currently spending the majority of your time.

What matters is how productive you are. It doesn’t matter how much time you spend working on your business, if you’re not doing the things that really matter, you’re just wasting your time.

You can spend hours of time visiting various sites, spying on your competitors, reading different articles or blog posts, and researching the forums to see what people have to say about specific topics related to your market, but this type of activity, in and of itself, isn’t productive.

It doesn’t matter where you spend the majority of time, write down every little thing you do with your time. Include the amount of time spent on those activities, so you can begin the process of cutting unnecessary activities from your life.

Do you get caught in the “OCD Loop?”

The OCD Loop involves a phenomenon among many Internet marketers where they exhibit a form of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) in the way that they are obsessive about following a specific sequence of actions repeatedly throughout the day, in many cases.

What a lot of marketers will do before they take action on anything truly productive for their businesses is to start off by checking their email, where they take the time to read various emails, reply to emails, and even decide to write new emails because of something that reminded them to do so in another email.

Then, once they finish checking their email, maybe they decide to jump over to check out Google Analytics or another web stats program to see what type of traffic their sites have received, or maybe they login to their shopping cart to check out the details of any orders that may have been placed.

Once they’ve reviewed their latest conversion rates, opt-in percentages, and so on, they may surf over to their favorite discussion forums or blogs that they read on a regular basis to do some research on their target market, or even to other sites like CNN or ESPN to check out the latest news or sports scores.

Then, the amazing thing that happens after they’ve checked out all of the sites that they are accustomed to visiting, is they decide to check out their email, again, to see if they’ve received anything new that might interest them.

When they’re finally done checking their email a second time and visiting all of the sites they found promoted within those emails, they jump back over to their stats program, again, to see how things are going with their websites.

If you’re really honest with yourself, you need to ask yourself how often you actually allow yourself to fall into this OCD Loop, and fail to stay focused on doing the things that bring money into your business.

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Any ideas?

To become more productive in your business, you must first take note of how you are currently spending the majority of your time. What matters is how productive you are. It doesn’t matter how much time you spend working on your business, if you’re not doing the things that really matter, you’re just wasting your time. You can spend hours of time visiting various sites, spying on your competitors, reading different articles or blog posts, and researching the forums to see what people have to state about specific topics related to your market, but this type of activity, in and of itself, isn’t productive.

It doesn’t matter where you spend the majority of time, write down every tiny thing you do with your time. Include the amount of time spent on those activities, so you can begin the process of cutting unnecessary activities from your life.rnrnDo you get caught in the “OCD Loop?” The OCD Loop involves a phenomenon among many World wide web marketers where they exhibit a form of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) in the way that they are obsessive about following a specific sequence of actions repeatedly throughout the day, in many cases.

What a lot of marketers will do before they take action on anything truly productive for their businesses is to begin off by checking their email, where they take the time to read various emails, reply to emails, and even decide to write new emails because of something that reminded them to do so in another email. Then, once they finish checking their email, maybe they decide to jump over to check out Google Analytics or another web stats program to see what type of traffic their sites have received, or maybe they login to their shopping cart to check out the details of any orders that might have been placed.

Once they’ve reviewed their latest conversion rates, opt-in percentages, and so on, they may surf over to their favorite discussion forums or blogs that they read on a regular basis to do some research on their target market, or even to other sites like CNN or ESPN to check out the latest news or sports scores. Then, the astonishing thing that happens after they’ve checked out all of the sites that they are accustomed to visiting, is they decide to check out their email, again, to see if they’ve received anything new that might interest them. When they’re finally done checking their email a second time and visiting all of the sites they found promoted within those emails, they jump back over to their stats program, again, to see how things are going with their websites.

If you’re really honest with yourself, you need to ask yourself how often you actually allow yourself to fall into this OCD Loop, and fail to stay focused on doing the things that bring money into your business.Discover how to grow a business, Making Money On the web Blogging with Johncow.com. Check out his latest article on understanding how to select Ideal Keywords

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