Monthly ArchiveJune 2006



Success and Motivation 30 Jun 2006 06:09 am

10 Success Factors Of Wealthy Infoproduct Marketer

Why not you? Why can’t you be the next Million dollar information product marketing guru in your field?

What is it that sets us aside from a wildly successful, wealthy and highly respected information product marketing professional - or any high achieving entrepreneur for that matter?

You can’t tell me this question hasn’t crossed your mind a few hundred times in the last several months?

Some people never seek out the answer to such an important question.

Others think they know the answers, but continue to struggle stubborn, unwilling to admit they need help.

Still others underestimate the importance and number of factors that must be taken into account in achieving massive results within their infoproduct businesses.

10 INFOPRODUCT MARKETING SUCCESS FACTORS

While its essential that you be aware of all 10 factors and that you make progress in all 10 areas, any improvement can result in vast improvement in your results. Rather than being overwhelmed by this extensive list of factors, focus instead on making small improvements in each area as the roadmap to building your own information product marketing empire.

SUCCESS FACTOR 1: Set a target that is on the upside of realistic. Ok, so you’ve heard this one before, but it bears repeating. Setting targets including lifestyle, health, income, time off, material purchases are all important. While these must be achievable, they must also stretch the limits of what you may judge as achievable today. You need to be aggressive. Do not stop at setting targets however - a target without the other success factors will do absolutely NOTHING toward improving your current situation.

SUCCESS FACTOR 2: Know Your Big WHY! Once you have decided on your targets, ask yourself why you have set each target. Its a good idea to write down each of your targets and beside each one write 1-3 reasons that really hit you emotionally as to why you want to achieve those goals. You will need to draw on these higher purposes many times as you build your business - eventually it will become automatically engrained and you won’t have to think about them. In the beginning though, you need to really dig deep to find the big WHY and refer back often.

SUCCESS FACTOR 3: Fearless Against Failure. Even though I practice this principle regularly, I still am amazed at how fearlessly information product publishing top guns are at trying new things, changing their direction, renewing their business, testing their actions. The real secret is to fail often and fail big, from each failure comes an insider’s understanding that eclipses what anyone else in the market knows. By failing bigger and more often than the rest of your market, you will gain a huge advantage over your competition who will not be able to keep up with you.

SUCCESS FACTOR 4: Think For Yourself. If you look to the top 2% of successes within any business, they get there by leading, not by following. Be creative, do not only rely on other people’s information to build your business. Standing out from the crowd, being a leader means by definition that nobody else has done what you aspire to - so why look to someone else for all the answers? Mentors are good - they help steer you in the right direction and help fill in the blanks, but you must think beyond current methods and knowledge to create your own path

SUCCESS FACTOR 5: Be Committed. You may want to see short-term results, but for highly successful entrepreneurs, they like to see constant growth in momentum and growth. This requires skills such as focus, ways of dealing with stress and boredom, flexibility to change direction when the market does and seeing yourself as a longer term builder of value rather than someone who enters a market to take advantage.

SUCCESS FACTOR 6: Be Action Oriented - Not A Perpetual Planner. This one factor alone separates high achievers from low achievers. Low achievers spend 90% of their time dreaming and less than 10% of their time acting. They continue to wish and dream, their definition of success is to be able to set targets, plans and goals. High achievers spend 10% of their time planning and 90% of their time acting. They get their satisfaction from seeing results and understand that plans need to be changed based on feedback from actions.

SUCCESS FACTOR 7: Have a Wealth Mentality NOT Desperation Mentality. Your market has a way of spotting desperate entrepreneurs who make decisions based on short-term goals, and that impacts trust leading to poor results. Alternatively, if you truly feel blessed, know that success will come to you in time, make decisions based on the premise that giving will ultimately result in more wealth for you - you will attract positive results.

SUCCESS FACTOR 8: Know Your Strengths - And Weaknesses. When I first started out, my strength was in understanding the psyche of a market such that I could easily find product and service opportunities - but packaging information and presenting it to my market was something beyond my skills at that time. So, that’s where I got better - I focused on learning, sought out a mentor, followed the leaders that were experts at marketing online and learned how to combine what I quickly learned with my expertise to earn a fortune. If you know where you are strongest, and focus on filling in the gaps of where you are less strong, you will achieve success much faster.

SUCCESS FACTOR 9: Live outside their comfort zone. Great things happen when you extend yourself beyond your comfort zone. If you fear public speaking, then at some point that will impact your business and you’ll need to learn how to overcome that fear. If you fear writing, then you’ll need to look for alternatives because writing is an essential skill for your business. Be conscious of what built-in factors block you from achieving greatness. Learn to recognize your own reactions to fear, allowing you to know when it gets in the way and how to control it allowing you to break through to the other side.

SUCCESS FACTOR 10: Stay healthy. Health is both physical and mental. Growing any business venture is an endurance test, are you ready both mentally and physically for the journey? If you have bad habits now, when you find yourself inside the tornado of a successful, thriving, growing and changing business - can you handle it? If not, get rid of those habits now - it will pay off dramatically in the future.

I bet you hadn’t thought there were so many success factors underlying high achieving information product entrepreneurs had you?

Remember, its not about mastering each of these factors, but rather its knowing they are all important as you build your information product marketing business. Each day, pay attention to the factors, make small, gradual improvements in each area and you will see the rewards.

After all, there are reasons why you see 2% of any business rise to the top, achieving the ultimate rewards. Now you have the 10 factors that you can control on your way to the top.

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Ads Writing 29 Jun 2006 06:01 am

Top 7 - Straight Steps To Hypnotic Headlines!

Featured Article By Oluwafisayo Akinlolu

Claude Hopkins made clear the importance of headlines when he wrote: “The salesman is there to demand attention. He cannot well be ignored. The advertisement can be ignored. But the salesman wastes much of his time on prospects whom he never can hope to interest… The advertisement is read only by interested people who, by their own volition, study what we have to say. The purpose of the headline is to pick out people you can interest.”

Did that catch your attention? It sure caught mine because it is the simple - plain truth! If you are wondering how to get it done, here’s how to become hypnotic with your headlines.

=> Identify The Ideal Prospect

The very first thing is to wake up the wizard in you. Yes, you can do it. Try to visualise what your ideal prospect would like to hear.

A simple step is to objectively put yourself in their shoes. Another good way to do it, is to visit forums, peculiar to what you have in mind and see headlines that people use to describe what you have in mind.

Since they used it - they’ve just told you how to catch their attention - simple!

=> Promise One Big, Resounding Benefit

Follow up immediately on step 1 by turning your findings into one BIG, strong hooking, totally irresistible headline that promises a “fire cracker” benefit that just can’t be ignored.

=> Create Interest With Your Headline

This one is just a twist - that can be worked into your headline to produce a “stand-still” effect. For instance, you can generate interest by using a statement of fact guaranteed to appeal to basic human emotions and which the subconscious mind can easily react to.

=> Use Mini-Headline Clips To Nudge Forward

Follow up your headline closely with a knock-out “Mini-Clip” headline that nudges forward into the rest of your story.

It is done all the time and it works.

The function is simple. As soon as your BIG headline catches them, don’t let them re-gain their senses. “Finger” the brain some more with another dangerous hooking sentence - a “Mini Headline” that drags them on.

=> Use The News Style

Did you see the paper today? What about yesterday? If you did not buy - which I am almost certain you did, you looked!

Why? The headline! Go out right now and start buying them. Learn the secret of the “News Style Headlines’” and start using them pronto!

=> Be Daring!

That is just the word. Know what you have to offer and be daring in making noise about it. That’s the secret.

Make declarations which you are sure you can BACK-UP in a daring way.

=> Throw In A Big “YOU”

Never make it about “I” instead throw all your weight into making it about “YOU”. The reader should instantly see something in it for HIM.

If he doesn’t, he’ll look the other way without a back-ward glance.

7 simple and quick steps that work like a charm and they produce only one result. They create hypnotic effects.

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Email Marketing 28 Jun 2006 06:50 am

E-mail marketing.. Not Spamming

Featured Article By Alexa Nickels

Even some of the most crafty marketers you know the ones just about everyone hates the spammer, will admit Spam is almost dead. It has been greatly taken over by the use of e-mail marketing. It is said that Spam is on the decline, contrary to popular belief. The rate that it is falling is approximately 13% per year. Why? Because the marketer now sees that e-mail is the marketing choice for the pros. By the year 2010 they say that Spam will in fact be a thing of the past. It is also interesting to note that the market spending in this fashion will grow from $885 million, to $1.1 billion dollars in as little time as well.

It is said that the bulk of the e-mailing for businesses in the year 2010 will be of the transactional, acquisitioned, and retention methods. With the remainder of e-mail leveling out between customers gain and personal e-mails heading up the rest. It is clear to see why the Spam is diminishing at such a rapid rate; the e-mail filtering is getting stronger almost monthly. The amount of Spam that the everyday normal user will see Spam cut in half from 2005 to 2010. This will set the pace for the e-mail marketing to take over. With new technology in place, it is easy for someone to recognize the difference between Spam and an actual e-mail from a company that is doing a follow up for business purposes.

It is clear by consumer reports that individuals will stay clear from e-mail servers that do not offer top of the line Spam filters. This is not to say that there are not still a plethora of servers available to the open market. The reason for the big concern right now is the cost of incorrectly blocked e-mails. This rate is at approximately $107 million dollars right now; it is expected to fall to approximately $88 million by 2010. In turn this will make for a much easier time to reach out to the consumer, by way of e-mail marketing once the Spam is truly eradicated. It is the idea that there will be a very organized arena for e-mail marketing that has business owners in hoots and hollers. They truly know the potential for this wonderful and inexpensive medium.

The improvement of the practices in list management will be stronger, and the ISP will have a stranglehold on the Spam. With all this technology, and the will to make the marketplace a safer business realm, it is clear that e-mail marketing can easily be allowed into the fold as one of the most productive marketing and business tools for the future. For now we still have to deal with all this junk called Spam.

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