Every internet marekting program out there, Mass Control, 7-Figure Secrets, Butterfly Marketing, The Video Boss, etc. ad infinitum presupposes you bring certain things to the table.

Like, how to run a business. How to manage your time. Maybe it is copywriting. Maybe it is how to get things done.

Very often, it is things like how to communicate effectively with customers. Self-confidence. Emotional balance. There are a million things that the gurus, even if they wanted, can’t all list as requirements for succeeding with their programs. Just listing these requirements would decrease their sales tremendously.

Why do some people (the minority) succeed, while others fail?

It is because they just happened to have all the initial ingredients for succeeding with this particular system. People who succeed with Mass Control are similar to Frank Kern. People who succeed with Butterfly Marketing are similar to Mike Filsame. People who succeed with the No B.S. System are like Dan Kennedy. So, who are you like? What do you bring to the table?

What are your assets? If you would like to have a conversation to discover those for you, I offer a coaching system to crystalize that in just a few telephone or skype conversations. I have extensive training in several forms of analysis that are customized to help me see exactly what your strengths and weaknesses are and to communicate them to you effectively.

Contact me if you would be interested in this.

However, as a member who has seen many people struggle with Stompernet, I know there is a right way and a wrong way to get results from using Stompernet.

If people are interested, I will write about exactly how to use Stompernet to build your business.

So, let me know.

If you don’t know the meanings of the words,  you can’t understand or communicate about internet marketing. So, here is a great glossary for internet marketing:

Internet marketing glossary

Stuff that isn’t there can be found at:

www.termtool.com –> Sign in as User: marketing / Password: marketing

Let me know if there are any other terms you don’t understand.

He said, “I just assume everyone is trying to cheat me. I don’t trust anyone without proof that it will be right.”

Well, my friend: welcome to life!

We never really know which choice will be the jackpot and which will mean certain death. But we can gauge relative risk/reward of various actions. And, without risks, not many rewards, unfortunately. Many success stories start with, “So, I put the marketing seminar on my credit card, though I was almost bankrupt because I had to find what worked . . .”

Listen: you will make x number of mistakes before success. There is no way around it. So, make them quickly. Then you will be successful faster! If you avoid risk/mistakes/failures, you avoid growth, development, and progress.

Dale Carnegie says it this way: consider the worst thing that can possibly happen. Can you live with that? Good. Then do it.

After his presentation at the System Intensive, he said, “I have a little list of 110 marketing tips that I have got together. If you would like me to send it to you, send me an e-mail at drayton@draytonbird.com and I will send them to you.”

Not “opt-in to my autoresponder sequence at http://www.draytonbird/long-complex-url.html”. Like “get your computer together with my computer and maybe they will do something.

No. Send me, a person, Drayton Bird an e-mail asking to get on my list. And I will put you on it.

People don’t want to talk to computers.  They use them because they have to. They want to contact people. Make sure, for god’s sake, that you are talking to people in your marketing and invite them to connect to you. Not to get into your marketing funnel.

Use you telephone number. Put up your e-mail. Whatever you have to do to be a real person. People like real people. And they will like you for being one.

BTW–Take a look at the title of his homepage. It says, “Drayton Bird Ass.” and I’m not at all sure that wasn’t intended by him.

Anyway, he pulls a bunch of people to the stage and they talk about their success in making from $25K up to a million or so by using Mass Control and something stuck out at me.

Every one of these people were calm, cool, composed, and collected while speaking with the audience. They were all great, entertaining presenters. They were confident in their communication. In other words:

They were all talented and able communicators!

What should that tell us?

• Can you get your ideas clearly and succinctly to an audience?
• Are you comfortable speaking in front of an audience?
• Do people like communicating with you?
• Have you practiced these skills?

Communicating congruently, convincingly, and powerfully is immeasurably helpful in becoming a succesfull internet marketer, or just about anything else.

Don’t start getting into internet marketing if:

1. You are lazy.
2. You can’t hold down a steady job.
3. You have not learned any trade or profession to a degree that allows you to maintain yourself.

Internet marketing (ok, maybe there are exceptions) is really for people who have been out there, with their own businesses already, gotten kicked around a bit. Ideally, you should understand all the basic “business stuff” before you get into it. Maybe in 1998, anybody could do it. My feeling is now is that it is getting more and more complex and you are going to have a few failures before you have breakthroughs, regardless of you experience level.

You should be able to survive those failures (like losing a couple thousand bucks, for instance) without going bankrupt or wondering where your next meal will come from.

If you are just getting into it, don’t quit your job. Do it on the side until it is big enough to replace your business income.  It’s not a “get rich quick” program, and it is not the easy magical silver bullet to happiness, success, and wealth.

Dan Kennedy says “There’s riches in niches”. And that is probably true. But the more I hear from people who are making “real money (sorry Greg, I can’t find you on the net?!?9″ on the ‘net, the more they seem to say that the “competitive markets” (weight loss, financial services, etc) are the places to go–after all, there is a ton of money to be had there, right?

If I took one thing from The System Intensive 2009, it was to not be afraid of entering competitive markets.

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Google made it difficult to do that by charging people who did that so much money it wasn’t viable anymore.

But you can still do it with Yahoo. Frank Kern has a nice video about this history and his newest “discovery” to get around it.

You can see it here: A Brief History of Affiliate Marketing and Frank’s Newest Discovery.

If you have any questions about this, please post them here.

Because we don’t believe in ourselves.

If we know there is a lot of money to be made in X and we know about X, why the heck wouldn’t you go into x?? (After considering costs of entering the market, getting leads, etc.)

Because we don’t think we are very good. We don’t think we can cut it in a competitive market. So we don’t enter it.

When you listen to Ken McCarthy, Frank Kern, Dan Kennedy, and the rest of the “greats”, they always say, “What do you need if you want to open a hotdog stand?” Hungry people.

Or, what is the most important thing you require to go fishing? Fish.

Of course. This means that you don’t sell a product to left-handed Albanian basket weavers unless you can prove beforehand that they are a market you can service for a decent profit.

So, first find the market. Then, the product(s) for that market.

And believe in yourself, dammit.