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5 Steps To Become An Online Expert

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When people are looking for more information and are eager to buy a solution to their problems, who do you think they will buy from:

  1. Someone they have never heard of, don’t know or trust?
  2. Someone who looks like an online expert who can offer the solution they need?

You don’t need to be a genius to realize that 2. is the correct answer!

Yet it is constantly surprising that so many marketers go out there and push, push, push to get a sale, any sale, and are upset when they get nowhere.

Naturally, they blame the system, the training that they bought, the product they are trying to sell, anything but themselves.

If only they had taken a step back and looked at how they are seen by potential customers, they might have realized that people only buy from those that they know, like and trust.

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And the fastest way to become trustworthy is to show that you are an online expert by delivering the information that people want – painlessly, quickly and authoritatively.

What if you never had to chase people for sales because they were flocking to you?

If that seems like a dream scenario, it really isn’t. It IS a reality just as soon as you become the Online Expert that people trust.

All you have to do is be seen to be the ‘go-to guru’ for the solution that you’re marketing. Forget the product you are promoting. Instead, become a solution provider.

Anyone can go online and search for a product to buy. The problem for them is that there are so many choices. So they need guidance. And that’s where you come in.

Position yourself as an expert

To position yourself as an online expert you obviously need to know your subject. That isn’t hard to do. It just needs a little application.

Do you think that if you devoted a couple of hours a day for, say, a week, to learn about the product that you’re promoting and the solutions that it offered, that you would know more about it than 99% of the people that you meet?

Of course you would.

To become an expert you just need to know something, not everything, about what your prospects are looking for and how you can help them.

Become a student. Go through the training for the product you are promoting, understand how it benefits people, realize how you can actually help people by giving out snippets of information about how the product can help them, and you’ll quickly achieve ‘expert’ status.

Don’t imagine that people know more than you – most of them know a lot less. The more valuable information that you offer people, the more you will be viewed as an online expert.

What are experts known for?

Experts are best known for offering assistance to people who have a problem that they dearly want to solve. If you can offer that solution, people will seek you out and gladly pay you for it.

In the early stages, don’t try to do this all on your own. You’ll quickly become disillusioned and frustrated and lose heart and fail. Buddy up with someone who is steps ahead of you and let them show you what you should be doing and how to do it.

You can even ‘pass down’ the success of your mentor or coach so that, even while you are learning, you will still be viewed as the up and coming student of an acknowledged authority.

5 Steps to Build Authority

These are the basic steps you need to follow to quickly become an authority in your niche…

  1. Adopt the correct mindset: most of us have limiting beliefs (not good enough, not worthy). Start believing in yourself as you begin to achieve expert status.
  2. Understand your prospects: you will never know how to offer help and value to people if you don’t know what they are looking for.
  3. Find your tribe: you cannot appeal to everyone. You need to narrow down where your prospects hang out and how they will find you.
  4. Attract attention: you won’t get anywhere by hiding yourself away. You need to put yourself out there, whether it is through social media posts, blogging, videos, Tweets or Podcasts.
  5. Become a Leader: once you’ve achieved a following you’ll have the chance to lead them and let them spread the word.

Whether you’re in affiliate marketing or network marketing, these steps are exactly the same. Bring value to the people who need it, offer people the help they need, and you’ll quickly be seen as an authority in your niche.

Follow a proven process

Following the steps above is one thing, but it’s all too easy to get distracted and try this, that and the other in the vain hope that one of them will work.

This isn’t the way to become successful. In order to attain authority status quickly you must adopt a process that will get you there efficiently and with the least amount of work.

This process will involve:

  • Attracting prospects, fans and customers via social media
  • Branding yourself as the ‘go-to guru’ that people can trust
  • Creating relationships with your followers without feeling ‘salesy’
  • Build a tribe of followers and fans and turn them into Buyers
  • Closing sales using battle-tested scripts that convert
  • Avoid time wasters, and wasting time, by turning the conversation to business in the fastest time possible

Now that, initially, sounds like a tough list to follow, but I can assure you it’s not if you just knuckle down and go about it step-by-step. I know this because I followed this exact blueprint myself and I’ll be happy to guide you through it once you get started here:

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Set A Daily Routine For Success

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It is SO easy to appear to be busy all the time. And then you wonder why there’s not enough time to Get Things Done. Don’t panic – there is a way around this problem…

We like to think that we are busy, busy, busy as long as we are doing things which are work related. But are you actually getting things done? Here’s what a typical ‘busy working’ daily routine looks like…

You get home from the day job, have dinner and then open your laptop, or start up your PC, and your email Inbox automatically opens. You see a couple of emails that need answering and, after you’ve attended to those, there are a few more that you feel you ought to read.

One or two of them contain links to what looks like stuff you really ought to see, so you click through and spend some time watching a video or reading a sales letter for a product that you think might be of use.

But you’d better check out that product first, right? So you search for some reviews to see whether it’s any good and land on more videos or blog reviews.

You hear a ‘ping’ notification

Then you get a ‘ping’ – it’s a message on your phone that one of the people you follow has posted on Facebook. Well, you’d better check that out, hadn’t you? So you watch the video in that post and, oh yeah, there’s a few other things which have been happening on Facebook since you last checked in.

Finally, you glance at the time. OMG, you’ve already spent three hours on all this stuff and you haven’t even started what you meant to do. Never mind, you can get that done tomorrow. You tell yourself you’ve been busy, you’re worn out and it’s time for bed.

Except that, of course, when tomorrow comes the whole daily routine starts over again and you still don’t get that important task done.

Does that sound familiar?

Maybe this isn’t your daily routine, exactly, but you can see how easy it is to get distracted from the tasks you imagined you’d be doing when you first sat down at your computer.

Yet, because of the distractions, you got none of them done.

There are just not enough hours in the day

Most people spend all their time being busy, busy, busy and never even get started on the things that really matter.

They frequently complain that there are ‘not enough hours in the day‘ and wonder how successful people manage to do all the things that they do.

They probably think that these successful people are superhuman or have mastered the secret of multi-tasking.

Let me tell you – there IS NO SECRET! Multi-tasking DOES NOT WORK!

The real secret is to maintain FOCUS on what needs to be done to move you along the journey that is going to get you to your goal.

I’ve talked, in another post, about an App that you can use to set a daily routine that will ensure you Get Things Done (more about that later).

I’m about to show you the best way to FOCUS on those activities, using…

The Pomodoro Technique

In the late 1980s an Italian student named Francisco Cirillo was working on how to improve his focus during his study periods using a kitchen timer, one of those timers that is red and shaped like a tomato (pomodoro in Italian). His aim was to see how long he could maintain 100% focus without distraction.

He discovered that the optimum time to maintain 100% focus is 25 minutes.

After that he found out that a 3 to 5 minute break, before settling down to work for another 25 minutes, refreshed the brain so that you could, once again, achieve 100% focus.

It is fascinating to see how well this works if you will just try it for yourself.

  • Set a timer on your watch, phone or computer (there are several software apps available that offer a Pomodoro timer) for 25 minutes.
  • Put your phone into Airplane mode so you don’t get any notifications, then set to work and focus on doing ONLY the most important activity on your To-Do list.
  • As soon as your timer goes off, stop working immediately and take a 5 minute break. You can get yourself a drink of tea, coffee or water or, even better, take some exercise – walk around or do some press-ups or something similar.
  • Then start the timer again and focus for another 25 minutes.

Using a To-Do List or Success Wizard

Of course, this only works if your daily routine is to immediately start working on the most important activity on your To-Do List.

  • Make a list of what you know you need to focus on the night before. That will embed in your brain the urgency of having to get those activities done.
  • Then, when it is time to start work on those activities, DO NOT open your email Inbox and turn off all notifications from Facebook, Twitter and other social media apps.
  • Get started on your most important activity immediately you open your computer and focus for 25 minutes, as I’ve shown you.
  • Once you’ve spent 2 hours on your tasks, using the Pomodoro technique, take a longer break of 20 to 30 minutes.

Only when you’ve finished what you need to do can you open up your email Inbox or turn to social media. Regard this as a ‘reward’ for having Got Things Done!

Stop watching so much TV!

I’ve heard from people who tell me that they really don’t have time to work on their home business.

By the time they get back from work and have had something to eat and then some ‘me-time’ afterwards, they’re too tired to do anything else.

What is ‘me-time’? Ah, yes, it’s time to sit down and relax in front of the TV for a few hours.

So, they’re prepared to throw away their futures, give up on their goals, all for the sake of sitting, with their brains switched off, in the state of limbo that TV creates.

Yes, of course, it’s nice to switch your brain off and relax. But, please, do it as a reward when you Get Things Done!

If you prefer, use the old-fashioned way of keeping a notebook or journal of what needs doing and write yourself a To-Do List.

Or, for those like me, who prefer to use software to handle this task, with automatic reminders, use the Success Wizard App I show you how to use in this post:

How to Get Things Done with your own Success Wizard

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How to Get Things Done with your own Success Wizard

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One of the biggest problems marketers face in their daily lives is how to Get Things Done, often known as GTD. Seems like it’s too easy to be distracted and, before you know it, the day is nearly over and those important tasks remain unstarted.

Up until recently I was hoping my brain would sort this out all by itself. Big Mistake! No matter how high your commitment to Get Things Done, you can’t trust your brain to keep to what needs to be done as a matter of urgency.

On top of that, I’ve learned that we should be making new habits if we wish to achieve our goals in the shortest time possible. Staying focused on what you need to do each day to take the right steps along the path to reaching your goal is practically impossible if you just think or promise yourself that’s what you’re going to do.

Some people create To-Do Lists. Others make calendar entries. All well and good but the problem with these is that there is no one to nag you into doing them.

So, all too soon, you’ve logged on to your E-mail Inbox, or jumped into Facebook or YouTube and a couple of hours swing by without you muscling up to the Get Things Done list!

I’m going to solve that for you with an App I’ve been using (available for IOS or Android) that not only lets you set goals and the tasks you need to action each day to achieve them, but also nags at you to get them done.

The App is called Success Wizard and you can get it on the IOS App store as ‘Success Coach’

and on Google Apps as ‘Goal Setting Daily Planner’

Goal Setting Get Things Done

Here’s how it works…

First you set your Long Term Goal in the initial Wizard setup. This could be as simple as a financial goal, or income from your business, or replacing your salary and leaving your job. If a number of individual goals, for example Financial plus Health plus Relationships, combine to make your Long Term Goal a reality, set them up now.

Next you create Milestones which are Short Term Goals that you can focus on. I recommend that you set a yearly goal, a three month (90 Day) goal and a 30 Day goal.

Set Intermediate Goals - Milestones

The point of Milestones is to give you an initial target on which you MUST focus for the next 30 to 90 Days. When you achieve each Milestone you can pat yourself on the back, give yourself a reward, and bolster the belief that you WILL get things done. Milestones also allow you to chart your progress and make sure you stay on the right path to your goal.

Of course you won’t reach these Milestones unless you take action. So the next step is to create Activities. These can be something you need to do by a certain date or recurring Activities.

Recurring Activities can be Daily, Weekly, Monthly or Annually. Naturally, the Daily Activities are the ones to concentrate on as these are the key to Get Things Done. After setting these you can move on to the actions you need to take weekly or monthly.

Schedule your Activity

You can add an Activity by tapping the Activities icon in the bottom menu and then tapping the screen or clicking the + icon.

Give your activity a meaningful name like ‘Write Email’ or ‘Create FB Live’. Then you can choose whether this is a recurring activity or a one-off.

If you choose Recurring you can schedule Daily, Weekly or Monthly and the number of times your activity recurs.

Set the Duration

When you create an Activity, whether it is Daily, Weekly or Monthly, set the Duration to 25 minutes, even if you think it will take longer. Here’s why…

The natural time for 100% focus on any task is 25 minutes. After this, if you continue to work on your Activity, your productivity will fall and you’ll easily be distracted.

25 minutes

So set the duration to 25 minutes and, at the end of the time, stop working immediately, get up and go and do something completely different. Either get a drink of tea, coffee or water or take a short walk or do some press ups; anything which is not Work.

Do this not-work activity for 5 minutes and certainly no longer than 10 minutes and then return to your Activity for another 25 minutes or until you finish it if that’s within the next time slot.

If you want to know more about this I’ve summed up the research that led to this in my Daily Routine post. But, basically, that’s the technique as I’ve outlined it above.

Get Reminders

If you set your Activity to High Priority you’ll automatically get a reminder at the start of the day, as well as towards the end of the day if you haven’t completed it.

Alternatively, if you have set a specified Time for starting, you’ll get a Reminder to start at that time.

You can also add one-time Activities to your device’s Calendar or Google Calendar to remind you of your schedule for that date.

Either way, these are all excellent prompts to Get Things Done, which is what you’re really after.

Morning and Evening Routines

It is important to get into the habit of completing Activities at certain times each day, (I talk more about this in my Daily Routine post).

Success Wizard suggests that you commit yourself to entering your plan for the day under Morning Routine. I recommend that you jot down any New Ideas or To-Dos that have occurred to you when you wake up. Otherwise, you should follow the Activities that you’ve set in the Evening Routine.

It’s highly valuable to get into the habit of reviewing your day and setting out the Goals and Activities for the next day using the Evening Routine. This is best done before bedtime, when you can reflect on what you did and didn’t achieve that day and then make a promise to yourself that you will do better tomorrow.

Or pat yourself on the back if you made a massive leap forward that day and Journal it.

Success Wizard’s Evening Routine is expressly designed to help you learn from your mistakes, discover what easily distracts you and provides aids to help you figure out why you didn’t focus on your tasks.

Be ruthlessly honest with yourself.

Getting Things Done is not about being a slave to your Success Wizard task master! Rather it is about improving your focus by learning how to avoid distractions that are stopping you getting to where you want to be in life.

If you can be ruthlessly honest with yourself then Success Wizard will help you improve your life by refining your capability to focus on what needs doing to achieve your goals.

All you have to aim for is to get better and better by 1% each day. Now that’s not too much to ask is it?

Get Into A Daily Routine For Success

Social Media Marketing Checklist

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So you want to use social media to help market your business? Maybe you’ve already started but aren’t seeing the results you expected? Either way you need to go through this Social Media Marketing Checklist to make sure you are marketing on social media the right way.

You’ve already seen other marketers who are doing great using social media marketing. That’s not surprising, when you think about it, because social media IS where your best prospects are hanging out!

What you don’t see are the hundreds and thousands of marketers who are doing it all wrong. They’re shoving their opportunity or products down people’s throats, spamming groups with their links and making annoying comments on other people’s posts.

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This is not how to behave on social media. People don’t log on to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest to be sold – they want to be entertained.

Maybe you’ve tried some of these overt marketing tactics? No suprise, then, if they haven’t worked for you. But don’t despair, it’s not too late to change your ways for the better…

Here’s how to market on social media the right way

Once you go through this checklist you’ll take away all the worries you may have about marketing on social media the right way. Just tick off each question as you go and make sure you’re doing the right thing.

And be honest with yourself. If you follow this checklist faithfully you’ll be certain to pull in more leads and prospects in the next 90 days than you ever thought possible.

Sound good?

OK, let’s go…

Check #1 – What’s your target?

The first mistake that every new marketer on social media makes is not to have a clear idea of what they want to accomplish.

It’s no good just saying ‘I want more leads’ or ‘I want more sales’. As with every strategy you must have a clear vision of what you are trying to accomplish if you stand any hope of achieving it.

So get clear in your mind what your target is for your new social media marketing plan. Be very specific. Give a number for one or more of these goals that you feel you want to achieve in the next 30 days:

  • How many followers do you want?
  • How many Likes and Comments do you want to see for your Posts?
  • How many Views and Likes to your Page?
  • How many Leads do you want to generate?
  • How many Products do you want to sell?
  • How many new sign-ups to your email or Messenger list do you need to make?
  • How much do you want to earn from your strategy?

Your target should be big enough to make you uncomfortable but not so big that there is no way it is achievable.

For example a lot of people say they want to earn $10K a month without ever having earned a dime online before. While that is a good target to aim for once you’ve got something working, it is frankly unattainable in your very first 30 days.

Your target should be achievable so that you can give yourself a well-deserved pat on the back once you’ve made it. But, there again, don’t make it SO easy that you don’t bother to do much work to get to it.

Check #2: Who is your target audience?

Billions of people turn to social media every day. With the best will in the world, you can’t target all of them. In fact it is nonsense to try and even do so because it will just cost you too much time and money for negligible results.

It’s a BIG MISTAKE to try and target everybody!

target audience

Everybody is not your target audience. Only a small percentage of people who are likely to see your Post, Page, Video or Ad is going to be interested in what you have to offer. People don’t care about your product or service if they don’t know you, so stop trying to force it on them.

Far better to make sure that the people who ARE interested in what you can offer them can easily FIND YOU.

For example if you’re into Health & Fitness then who exactly do you want to talk to?

  • People who want to lose weight?
  • People who want to get fit?
  • People who want to build muscle?
  • People who want to combat their illness?
  • People who want to look younger?

You cannot serve all of these. Pick one and target that specific audience. The key to marketing to a target audience is to help them find YOU. Make it easy for them to seek you out, see you as an authority or expert who can help them get to where they want to be.

To define your target market, ask yourself these questions:

  • How old are they?
  • Are they married, with a family, or single?
  • Are they self-employed or working for someone else or a stay-at-home parent?
  • How much are they earning?
  • Where do they live – rented property, city apartment, own house?
  • What are their hopes and dreams?

Use this to build up an Avatar of the perfect prospect, someone who you would really like to help or work with.

Next you want to work out what is keeping them awake at night, worrying them, making them sweat and twist and turn until the early hours of the morning?

  • What is the biggest problem they are facing?
  • Why are they in this kind of trouble?
  • What are the underlying factors that have got them into this position?
  • Who are they struggling for – themselves or their family or both?
  • How can YOU help THEM?
  • What will happen after you help them solve their problem?
  • How will their life change?

The point of this exercise is to give you a vision of the ideal person that you can help so that you can focus on providing valuable content to your target audience that will attract them to you.

Check #3: Which Social Media Platform will YOU Master?

Most new marketers believe that they have to spread themselves thinly across a multitude of social media platforms to achieve success. They spend hours dabbling in Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter and YouTube to little effect.

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Do this and you’re aiming for failure. Spread yourself thin, like this, and you’ll quickly become discouraged by the minimal interest and interaction you achieve.

Instead, pick one Social Media strategy and focus all your energies on it until you master it. Only after you have achieved mastery (and can practically do it on autopilot) can you move on to another platform.

Here’s a guide to help you choose the ideal platform to master:

  • Which do you feel most capable of using?
  • Which is of most interest to you (do you use it already)?
  • Where is your audience most likely to hang out?
  • Which is the platform on which your audience is most likely to interact with you?
  • Based on your current lifestyle, which is likely to appear most attractive to your audience?

For example you may already have a lot of Instagram followers based on images you’ve been posting. It doesn’t take much of a twist to start to turn these followers into prospects, leads and customers.

Or you’ve been making funny or interesting videos on your YouTube channel and have built a series of subscribers.

If you’re just starting out, however, I recommend Facebook as a good place to begin focusing your strategy, simply because there are a number of great techniques you can use to attract people to you.

As I’ve said, the main thing is to pick just ONE platform and master it. Don’t agonise about your decision, just get started and worry about getting it right later.

Check #4: What IS your Social Media Strategy?

Up until now you’ve probably been taught or shown a zillion ways to try and trick the system. You may even have bought into software tools that purport to get you Likes or followers or views and subscribers without having to do much work.

How’s that worked out for you?

Frankly none of these reportedly labor-saving tricks and systems actually work. That’s because the companies that run social media platforms are already aware of them and have policies and algorithms that defeat all attempts at cheating or gaming the system.

So what should you be doing?

That’s simple. You should be concentrating on providing content that your target audience (remember them?) will find helps them, even if it’s only in a small way. It’s your content that is going to attract people to you.

Simply create content that shows that you empathise with their problem or predicament and show or hint at meaningful ways that can help them get themselves out of trouble. That will establish you, in their eyes, as an authority or expert that they will be delighted to follow.

What sort of content is suitable for your target audience?

That depends on the actual platform and is likely to be one of these:

  • Story Posts
  • Inspirational image quotes
  • Live videos
  • Success stories
  • Lifestyle images (before and after)
  • Funny, entertaining or viral memes or videos

Naturally, it is an ideal strategy to mix and match several of these and, whatever you choose, you need to inspire your audience to believe that they can achieve their goals, take the necessary steps to get closer to them and follow the simple steps that you show them to create small wins.

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As long as you keep posting valuable content, your followers will continue to grow and some will join you, follow your recommendations and buy from you. Bear in mind that a lot will also stay on the sidelines, watching you.

That’s OK because, as long as people are following you, your authority and personal magnetism continue to grow. You are simply and easily building a tribe of people who are willing and ready to take your advice.

Whether they buy now or later doesn’t matter and you don’t need to concern yourself about that. Because all you’re doing is attracting the people who are most likely to buy, whether it is today, tomorrow or years in the future.

Check #5: How are you tracking your results?

Here’s a big tip: Top Earners always track their results. This allows them to test and tweak their strategy to optimize the work they are doing and show them what is working and what isn’t.

Then what do they do? They discard the methods that don’t work and build their business on the systems and strategies that DO work.

Social Media platforms all provide some obvious methods of tracking your success, such as Likes, Followers/Subscribers, Comments and other methods of engagement.

In addition, you can use tracking links to measure the success that you are having in directing people to your own website(s), blog, squeeze/landing pages and, from there, to your offers, products or opportunities. My favorite tracking tool is ClickMagick as it is the most flexible and informative I’ve found so far.

Here’s a guide that you can use to decide how you can best track your results: Guide To Click Tracking

What’s next?

Everything that you’ve been following in this Social Media Checklist is part of the Attraction Marketing method of using your favorite social media platform to build a tribe of people in your target market who want you to help them and guide them to achieving their goals.

To find out more about how you can use Attraction Marketing as your social media strategy, I have a key training video that you can watch right now…

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The Right Recipe For Starting A Home Business

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Do you ever feel like you’ve been steered completely in the wrong direction by all the home business training you’ve received in the past? Like all those courses you’ve bought into, the software you’ve downloaded (and done nothing with), the get-rich-quick programs that turned out to be nothing of the sort?

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Me too. I felt this way for a long time and became totally frustrated at all the BS that is peddled on the so-called ‘internet marketing’ and network marketing scenes.

You know what I found out?

I found (after years of struggling to make things work and literally tens of thousands of dollars in debt through spending doing it) that all these make-oodles-of-dough programs are designed to keep you busy – and poor!

Yes, you heard that right. All the shiny objects, the home business programs, courses and software that you’ve looked at (and those you’ve invested in) are meant to keep you wasting your time, doing things that don’t matter and never making a cent in return.

Why? Is it because the ‘gurus’ don’t want you to succeed?

Not quite – but it’s something like that.

You see, the more you are kept ‘busy’, absorbing this training, trying out that software, persevering with trying to make this work and that work, and never seeing a dime for your effort, the more likely you are to keep BUYING.

Get it?

The more you consume, and the less you get as a reward for your hard work, the more likely you are to keep trying out the latest, and greatest (so-called) system.

I’m going to reveal to you, right now, the best system that you can use to start a home business today.

Ready?

It’s called ‘affiliate marketing’. Hah – too simple, right? You’ve heard it all before. I know. 

And I know what you’re thinking.

If it is THAT SIMPLE, why hasn’t it worked for me so far?

The honest truth is that I struggled for years trying to figure this stuff out. I committed myself to every system I bought into and, yes, had the occasional run of good luck. But, more often than not, everything I tried drew a blank.

And then I found out the reason why affiliate marketing and network marketing just doesn’t work for 97% of the people who try it.

It’s not a secret. But you WILL have trouble finding out why. Until you stop following the wrong recipe.

The home business recipe you’ve been told so far…

Here’s what I think you’ve been told to do up until now…

Affiliate marketing or Network marketing is easy. You don’t have to create a product, you don’t have to mess around designing a website, you don’t have to get into the tech of creating a sales funnel, deal with merchant accounts, handle customer problems or even write long sales letters. 

You know what? All of the above is true. It’s what makes affiliate or network marketing the number one way to start a home business.

But here’s what you’ve been told that’s wrong…

All you have to do is grab your affiliate link and post it in as many places as possible. Spread it around on Facebook, broadcast it on Twitter, add it to memes in Pinterest and Instagram, paste it in comments on forums and other people’s blog posts. And so on and so on.

You may even have tried making a YouTube video and added your link to the description.

Or you’ve been following the network marketing training your upline has given you…

Badger your family, friends and acquaintances with your opportunity every time you meet. Give your business card out to everybody and anybody. Run home meetings, get people on the phone, post your product images in Facebook groups, Pinterest and Instagram. Basically, if it has two legs and breathes, hit it with your opportunity!

Busy, busy, busy. Boy have you been busy.

And what have you got to show for all that effort?

Nothing, nada, niente (or very little anyway)

Like I said, I followed this crazy recipe for years. And got nowhere fast.

Why?

Because, quite frankly, this recipe is fundamentally flawed.

In fact it flouts ALL the rules of marketing. Every single one of them.

You see, the REAL SECRET is that everything that this recipe tells you to do does nothing to build a relationship with your prospects, nothing to engender trust, nothing that will help prospects to get to know, like and trust you.

And that, my friend, is the REAL SECRET to running a successful home business; getting people to know, like and trust you enough to follow your recommendation.

When people get to know you. When they start to resonate with you. When they begin to see that you’re not so different to them except that you’re the one who is following a recipe, a system, that really works. Then, and only then, will they trust you enough to click on your link and buy.

Get it?

I want to drum this important aspect of marketing into you because it really is the SECRET to successfully converting prospects into buyers that EVERY great marketer follows and uses to this day.

Think about it…

Who is the marketer that you most admire? Frank Kern? Brendon Burchard? Eric Worre? Tony Robbins? Dean Graziosi?

Whoever it is, note that they spend all their time promoting one thing, and one thing only. Themselves!

That’s right, they ONLY concentrate on branding themselves.

I’ll let that sink in.

Yes, I know that they are also promoting their own products. But even when they’re helping promote other people’s products (as Dean Graziosi did for Tony Robbins recently) the emphasis is still on primarily branding themselves.

See how it works?

So, my recommendation to you, right here, right now, is to STOP following a recipe that doesn’t work and that is so fundamentally flawed that it is designed to keep you busy, broke and frustrated and begin branding yourself. Starting right now.

Oh, so you don’t know how to do that?

No problem. I’ve got the answer for you.

It’s the same recipe that I am following and am still following. This is the first system that has actually worked for me, just like it has for ALL the top marketers you’ve heard of (and so many, many more that you haven’t heard of that are building 6 and 7 figure businesses today).

It’s called Attraction Marketing and you can get the recipe right here…

Click Here to download my Attraction Marketing Secrets guide book today

Click to download from here: http://clc.me/attractionmarketing

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Step-by-step plan to grow a home business

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When I first started looking for a step-by-step plan to grow a home business, I was sadly disappointed that there was no-one who was prepared to tell me ‘do this, do that, get rich’.

I couldn’t understand why not? After all there were plenty of people online who were running successful home businesses, or at least were telling me they were wealthy beyond dreams.

So why not show everybody how?

What I came to realize, after years of following this, that and the other training programs, is that most people who are claiming that they have the ‘secret’ to grow a home business online only give you part of the answer.

The reason why they do this is obvious, in retrospect. By giving you part of the method, these canny marketers can then follow up with more and more ‘partial’ trainings that, hopefully, build up the complete picture.

One big problem then occurs – we call it ‘information overload’.

You end up with a hard drive littered with ‘partial’ training programs, possibly from different people, and your brain goes all fuzzy when it tries to put them all together.

And the result? You end up doing nothing.

Information overload means that, no matter how much ‘training’ you receive, you are incapable of actually making any progress because it just all seems too complicated.

Which is why the only way forward is a step-by-step plan to grow a home business.

Step-by-step means exactly that. You take the first step then, once you’ve crossed the starting line, take the next step, always following a clear path to your goal.

Of course, you have to set your goal in the first place. And, no, it’s not just about ‘making money’. Your initial goal has to be something definable and that you can envisage achieving.

Without a clearly defined goal, you could spend a lifetime planning how to grow a home business, but never, actually, take the steps to get there.

It’s highly important that each section of your step-by-step plan to grow a home business is something you really believe is achievable. It’s no use dreaming of becoming a billionaire if you don’t know how to make your first million. Or, indeed your first 100 grand.

And few of us really believe, in our heart of hearts, that we can make a 100 grand that easily.

So set your initial sights lower. Plan to make $10,000 first of all. Or even set your target as low as $1000 if you’ve never made even a dollar online before.

Then, when you’ve achieved that first target, and proved to yourself (and your friends and relations) that your step-by-step plan to grow a home business really works, you can set the next higher target – scale the system up and follow the path to your dream income.

None of this is difficult, providing you start with a step-by-step plan and a defined and, more importantly, believable goal.

That goal, and that plan, will be different for everybody. Because we’re not all the same. Which is why the marketers peddling their ‘partial’ get-rich-quick schemes cannot possibly give you the solution all-in-one.

And that’s why, if you’ve already tried to earn money online, you’ve failed to make it.

Get yourself a tailored plan

So your step-by-step plan to grow a home business must be tailored to you. It must take into account your current abilities, your short-term (as well as long-term) goal and your mindset.

By ‘mindset’ I’m not talking mamby-pamby nonsense about Law of Attraction or anything like that (there is some validity to the Law of Attraction, but it’s not what you and nearly everybody else thinks it is).

It IS so important that your mind is in the right place, both at the beginning of your training as well as how you develop confidence throughout your training. Without confidence, you won’t feel like going forward and are more likely to give up too easily – which is almost certainly why you have failed before.

It doesn’t take much to instill confidence – just a helping hand. Which is where coaching comes in.

Now, I know you may well be thinking ‘but, Peter, I can’t afford coaching’. But what if I could show you how you can get one-on-one coaching PLUS the training you need for a few tens of dollars a month – would that interest you?

It should do. I’ve a few places opening up for this opportunity right now. So hop on a call with me (it’s free) and let’s discuss your current situation, where you want to be in a year’s time and formulate a step-by-step plan to get you there.

You can schedule a call with me by clicking here. And I look forward to talking with you.

Take Action Now, Don’t Put It Off Till Tomorrow

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Take action now, because you can’t take action yesterday!

What does that mean, really?

So many of us, and we’re only human with all the usual human frailties, promise to take action. And we always promise ourselves that we will do it tomorrow.

Because it is easier to put off to tomorrow what we should do right now.

It’s an easy excuse “I’ll do it tomorrow”. Yet how many times does tomorrow come and you haven’t done what you promised to do?

It’s not just you. Don’t beat yourself up about it. I am as guilty as everyone else of putting things off until tomorrow.

Over the years I’ve watched people who are action takers – people who get things done, successful people that everyone else admires.

I have noticed that these people have two attributes:

  1. They take action now

  2. They plan what they are going to do next

How different is that to the majority of the population who wander, aimlessly, from one thing to another, always putting off the disagreeable things (or what they imagine to be disagreeable) to tomorrow.

And isn’t it funny how anything that appears to be ‘work’ also seems to be something that you don’t want to do, right now? And that it always falls into the category – ‘I’ll do that tomorrow’.

Remember, ‘tomorrow never comes’

It’s always today. So, if you really want to do something, if you actually want to move closer to your personal goals, take action now.

You can’t take action yesterday, so take action NOW!

Become one of the action takers – become one of those people who get things done. It’s simple – all you have to do is take action NOW!

I’ve made it easy for you by showing you the steps to take here:

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How to reach for your dreams

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Today I want to show you how to reach for your dreams…

…and turn them into reality.

First, I have a couple of questions for you…

What are your goals in life? Have you ever thought about what it is that you want to achieve before you die?

Most probably you only thought about these things when you were young. You had plenty of dreams, then, about what you would do and how your life would turn out.

So, what happened? What has stopped you reaching for those dreams? Have your ideas changed or have you just settled for what you’ve got?

You see, part of becoming older is that we tend to accept what life has given us. And we don’t give a thought to what we dreamed about doing when we were young.

But what if you don’t like your life the way it is now? What if you are starting to think that your life should have turned out better than it has?

It’s time to turn to your dreams again. But, this time, make them more than just dreams – make them goals.

There’s a distinct difference between dreaming about what your life might be like and working towards a goal.

Dreams are but fantasies; as we get older we tend to consider our dream lifestyle as some sort of fantasy that can never be achieved.

You stop trying to reach for your dreams simply because you don’t believe you can reach that far

That’s simply because you haven’t made them real in your own mind. Everything remains a dream unless you make a move to turn it into reality.

So, today, I’m encouraging you to turn your dreams into goals. And the way to do this is to start thinking about what you really want out of life.

It’s too easy to say ‘I want to be rich’ or ‘I want to have an easier life’. Those dreams are too amorphous to ever become real.

Instead of saying ‘I want to be rich’ think about what riches would bring you.

What would you do if you were rich? Would you spend a lot of money on a house, or a car, or travel all the time? Or would invest it in giving your family and loved ones a better life with more opportunities?

Instead of saying ‘I want an easier life’, think about what that means.

Does it mean you want to give up your job and live the ‘laptop lifestyle’, running your online business from wherever you want to be? Or do you just want to retire early, confident in your online business bringing in the income you need to travel and visit friends and family?

It’s time to start putting these ideas down somewhere that you will see them every day. Create a vision board next to your computer or work desk so that it always acts as a reminder of the goals you are working towards. Or do what I do and put images and notes on your computer desktop so they are always in front of you.

The point of all this is to keep your goals constantly in your mind so that you actively work towards them. Dreams will stay dreams if you think that they will, somehow, magically come true.

Goals are real and can be reached as long as you take the steps to move towards them. In the next post I’ll show you how to start taking those steps.

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Hello there!

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I just wanted to kick of this blog by saying hello to you, my latest reader, because what I am focusing on, here, is success stories. And I think you can be part of that.

To an outsider my own life looks like a pretty good success story, at least from where I am right now. But what you don’t see is the background – the struggles that I’ve had to face to get there.

Frankly it is the same for everybody. Behind every success story lies a struggle. With most celebrities that struggle will be hidden, at least until they write their autobiography.

I’m sure you’ve had struggles of your own. Not everything has been plain sailing up to now. And, quite likely, you’re here because you want to find a path to success.

That’s where I can, almost certainly, help you. Because I’ve had my ups and downs, I know what it’s like to search for the one, true path – the road to success. 
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