You are looking at success stories, how people have turned their lives around, gone from rags to riches, etc.

But this can actually be holding you back from success.

A really good success story is actually DE-motivating to people.

Because the gap between where you are and the “success” is too big.  The person went too far, too fast… and you don’t really believe that is even possible.

Now I’m not saying you shouldn’t dream big, you should absolutely have goals that are as big, or bigger, than you can even imagine.

But everytime you look up to some “leader” or someone who has gone before it will actually make you feel that there is a huge difference between you and them, you will start to look at the differences between you and them, you will think they have hidden advantages (they are a people person, they already had some kind of list or asset, they can do jedi-mind-tricks to get people to hand them money).

Really the difference between those who are struggling and those who are having massive success is usually a lot of hours of work put in over an extended amount of time.

But people tend to leave that out of their “story” because they know that even if the outcome is huge amounts of money and never having to work again, most people don’t want to hear that they will have to put in hard work.

Most people would rather spend 40+ hours a week doing a job they despise for the next 30 years…. than spend an extra few hours on a business that they will have to work hard on.

It sounds pathetic, but the difference is between the devil you know, and that unknown possibility that you could potentially put in work and still fail… most people pick the devil they know.

Ok, offtrack a bit here.

The point is, if you LOOK UP to leaders you get a big crink in your neck…

You will always feel DOWN, you will always feel unskilled, unable, and you wont be able to have the belief in yourself neccessary to GET THE WORK DONE.

I get up and work on my business everyday because I believe in myself, and I have had enough success to know that success begets success.  That the further you go the easier it becomes.

BUT, it wasn’t always like that.

I used to have “those days”. 

Days where I would get up, look in the mirror and think “who am I kidding???” I would tell myself that I would NEVER be successful, that all those successful people out there were part of some secret club and I was clearly too crap to get in.

I know, it’s lame… but it happens to the best of us.

In fact, I used to suffer from this so badly that I did work that was only HALF ASSED.

Seriously, if you look back at when I started this blog two years ago I would post every week or two (maybe).  Sometimes I would go an entire month with nothing and no work because I lost belief that what I was doing was getting me ANYWHERE.

At the time I was following an awesome leader who had blogged his way to earning $30-$60k per month, every month.  I was in his mastermind group and everyone in the group was doing the same strategy.

We would share tips, we would give each other ideas, etc.

But I made a fatal mistake.

I looked down on the other people in the group as I KNEW they weren’t having any more success at the whole blogging and network marketing thing than I was.

They were the suckers who were blindly doing this every day thinking they would be earning loads in no time.

I was smarter than that, I knew I wasn’t going to be successful so I didn’t work as hard as those Lame-os.

Where are those Lame-os now?

Make sh*t-tons of money! Like ridiculous amounts.

I see their names all over the place and how much money they are earning and I can’t help but think back to when we were all struggling together and they were blindly working every day and I was too cool for that.

The great thing was, I paid attention and I was willing to admit my mistake.

I had to play a bit of catch-up, but from seeing the story happen, from feeling part of the journey….. I finally got it.

I’d watched those people go from nobodies to people that could make money without lifting their fingers!

Their story could have been mine…but instead I waited to see if it would work.

Now I have belief on my side from seeing it happen for my teammates, and belief has allowed me to put in the work to make my business a success.

And now I’m adding new team members and getting income emails all the time.  Now the work is paying off and the belief has become stronger as I am my OWN success story.

Stop looking up and seperating yourself from success.  Instead look at the people who are on the path you want to be on…. lock arms with them and MOVE!  You can’t fail!

This can be your story… you just need to find a group of people who is moving forward and already achieving success! (Learn more about our team now!)

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You can feel perfectly fine and happy in yourself and then log onto Facebook or bump into people at the mall and realize that other people are busy doing stuff without you.

Man that really sucks.

Your heart feels heavy, you get the sad feeling in the pit of your stomache.

What’s wrong with you?  Why can’t you be “part of the group”?

This can hit really hard when you decide to start your own business online.

There are your old friends, going to work, complaining about their bosses, and generally bonding over the fact that life sucks…but at least we’re all in it together.

And there is this new set of people you can see ahead of you.  The mythical successful internet marketer, who won’t give you the time of day (because everyone is asking for the time of day) and seems to only be willing to talk to the other successful people.  It seems like they are all in this club together, keeping the real secrets of success to themselves and laughing at the little people who want to make it online, but never do.

So you try to follow the steps they give you….

But you feel crummy.

You feel like you will NEVER make it, and you feel left out.

You are left out by the normies who bond over their shared job misery and seem to resent that you are trying to do something different, and you feel left out by the successes who don’t differentiate you from the hundreds of other people desperately trying to get their attention.

The result, you feel pretty lonely.

I remember that feeling.  It used to hit me like a ton of bricks.  I’d open my computer and check my email inbox, only to have about twenty marketing messages, and maybe one message from someone I actually knew.

I would go onto Facebook and see other internet marketers desperately trying to sell me their stuff.

I would go to my company page.  No orders, sigh.

And somehow I would have to pick myself up and KEEP going!

I would feel ostracized by my old world, and not fully accepted into my new world.

But I realized that as long as I was focused on this feeling I couldn’t possibly be successful.  My loneliness and self doubt would come out in my work.

I had to find a way to not feel lonely, and to do that I would have to make sure I wasn’t pretending to fall into either group to try to feel more at home.

I would have to be willing to be HONEST about where I was and what I was doing to move forward.

I couldn’t indulge in complaining just for the sake of feeling like more a part of the normal world, and I couldn’t engage in pretending to be one of the big boys because they would just see right through it anyway.

Instead I could be open and honest about where I was and be happy with it.  I could share my journey with other people on the same path and support them in their journey.

And coming from this perspective, I began to meet people who were interesting, open, and dedicated.  People who knew that it wasn’t all roses, that it did take work, and that wanted to see me succeed just as I wanted to see them succeed.

Here’s a few simple ways to make your path a little less lonely:

-Find a Facebook Group

Take some time to find a facebook group that isn’t just covered in links!!  You don’t want to get distracted by people trying to sell you stuff or get you as traffic to their site.  You want to find one with people who are discussing different ideas, or even commisserating on their struggles.  Sharing their goals and their progress toward their goals.

I recently started one for Mompreneurs, as only other Moms understand the unique difficulties you face when trying to launch a business while raising a family! (You can find it here).

-Get on Twitter

Twitter is a great place to have conversations.  It can be a little bit overly “linky” so find people who use it to have conversations.  These people are great as it is that little bit more anonymous.  Also as you make friends on Twitter you will find that the people there really like to share each other’s stuff and give genuine support.

Here’s an article I did that will help you learn how to use Twitter and get followers by making true connections.

-Be Open

I’ve seen it happen over and over again.  Tell people WHAT you plan to do before you do it and they will support you.  People love to see the journey from “one of us” to somewhere bigger and better!  They like to be a part of it.

Here’s one of my favorite author’s blogs.  What is amazing about her is that she told her whole story on a blog AS IT HAPPENED. She talked about her letters to agents, her first book getting picked up, her sudden inspiration for her next book, the WHOLE story.  And do know what, when she got published she had a swarm of followers dying to pick up her book to support her!

Another one is Kyle MacDonald of One Red Paperclip (I wrote a post about the awesomeness of this guy here).  He traded up from a paperclip to a house.  How?  Because he told everyone that’s what he was doing before he did it!  So the people who “got it” helped him, they did their best to come up with great trades, they helped him make the story public… and they were all supporting him in his quest.

- Get to know ME

Blatant self promotion coming up!  I’m on a quest to get to a $30k a month average marketing online.  But my smaller goal at the moment is to hit my first $10k in one month.

When I hit that I’m going to move my family to California so we can escape the endless rain of Ireland   Sorry Ireland, love ya, but I need some SUN!

At the moment I’m well on my way.  Both me and the mister stay at home with our two kids (and I run out to the library to do my work so I wont have to listen to baby madness).  But we want to do more than just live a normal jobless life.

I have an awesome team of people I work with.  I help them get going online and get on their way to their own first 10k month.  My ultimate dream would be one of them hitting that goal before me… that would totally ROCK!

Being in a TEAM is way better than going it alone. Here’s an introduction to my team.  Or you can just join us! It’s only $25 to be part of an awesome team of Rebels.

Whatever you do, don’t let yourself feel lonely.  You don’t have to be alone.

Find other people who are uplifting, supportive, and want you to succeed! 

You can do it, I believe in you

P.S. Don't be afraid to Be a Rebel!

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Nobody really gives a cr*p about you.

Seriously, all those leads and list members signed up to learn more because of curiosity.  But what happens once you satisfy that curiosity?

The lead or list member no longer has any reason to be interested in you.

They either unsubscribe, ignore you, or find you a bit of a nuisance as you try to get them to pay attention to you and to magically want to join your business.

Don’t get me wrong, the reason a lot of people use curiosity is because it can work.  If someone has never seen a business like yours before and it is presented to them in the perfect way for them to “get it”, they just might join.

Two flaws with this are:

1. Getting their attention in the first place

2. Curiousity will only last so long

Most people won’t seriously look at your presentation, they wont put away their phone or close facebook, they only want the “gist”.

And once your company or presentation becomes well known they simply want to know the name of what you’re doing and then no matter how it is presented to them they think they already know everything about it.

That’s why instead of simple Curiosity I use a concept called Reciprocity in my business.

Reciprocity is defined as: responding to a positive action with another positive action, rewarding kind actions.

Basically, it’s people show interest in people who show interest in THEM.

They want to return favours, if you ask them questions they ask you questions, if you look at their website they look at yours.

4 Ways to Use Reciprocity in Your Business

1. Making Friends on Facebook

I never just fling random friend requests out on Facebook.  I grow my network slowly but steadily by finding people who actually have similar interests or something in common with me.

Then I shoot them a message letting them know why I’m asking for the connection (i.e. looking to connect with other online marketers to support each other).

I ask them questions, like “what’s your business”, or “do you have a website I could check out”.

Never send anyone your website without them asking first, but you’ll find that due to reciprocity most will actually ask to see yours if you ask to see their website first.

Connect by responding to their posts, liking their pictures, etc.  They will be encouraged to do the same on yours! And Voila…. suddenly you have made true connections.

2. Getting An Actual Following on Twitter

Twitter is a slightly different animal. Stop focusing on followers, and start focusing on a following!

You want to get people to look forward to your tweets, to click on your links.

Again, with reciprocity consider doing what you want them to do.

Respond to their tweets, retweet and favorite their tweets.  Then when they see your name pop up they will already have a positive feeling towards you and be urged to do the same for you.

3. Promoting Your Business

This one is difficult for some.  But you need to understand that the internet is a very big place and there is room for ALL of us to make tons of money. 

When you come from this perspective, it is incredibly easy to promote other people’s businesses or interests.

It can be as simple as a Facebook comment on their blog post, or recommending that your friends check out their fan page and like it (be sure to tag them into the post so they know who is sending traffic their way).

TRUST ME, your friends will appreciate that you are suggesting things that you aren’t financially tied to which will help build their trust in you, and your contacts will be incredibly flattered and happy that you are helping to promote them!

This builds a bond faster than anything!

4. Driving People to Your Website

Instead of simply having links to your own site up all the time, promote other sites too!

If one of your contacts wrote a great blog post, tweet it to your following.  If they have a cool website that sells their crafts, suggest it to your friends.

Visit their website and leave comments.  Make sure you discuss the content so that it is clear you actually read the content.

The most important part of Reciprocity: This is not a tool to manipulate people …. it is a way of being.

People will see right through someone who isn’t genuine.  So show a genuine interest, get to know people.  I guarantee you will have much more fun in your business, it will feel more rewarding, and you will be making true connections with others.

Curiosity will still come as a byproduct, but people will already be predisposed to like you, to respect you, and to actually pay attention to your presentation!

(Seriously…don’t abuse this….be genuine!)

Why not start out by sending me a friend request on Facebook (don’t forget to send me a message or I might not give a hoot about you!)

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Surely you’re not the ONE person in the world who LIKES people constantly marketing at you, trying to get you to buy their thing…and then ignoring you the second you do, right?

Guess what… the golden rule still applies online!

You know “do unto others…”

Just because you can’t see someone’s face doesn’t mean you should start screwing people over, or treating people badly.  I HATE when I see marketers treating people badly and thinking it’s ok because they are doing it to LOTS of people and therefore by theory of numbers it doesn’t matter what the individual thinks.

Sorry…but I have to call BS.

Would you walk up to someone in the street and say to them whatever it is you’re saying online, No? Then don’t say it!

Ok…getting a bit ranty, but the fact is I DO hate marketing, and so do you, and so does that other guy, and so does the next girl, and everyone reading this post PROBABLY hates marketing.

So how can I call myself a marketer if I hate marketing and believe in the golden rule?

I use anti-marketing marketing….or marketing that passes the “I hate marketing” test.

Basically…. I produce something real.

What do I produce?

Information, fun, entertainment, new ways to look at something, a break from your day… whatever you want to call it, I put stuff on a blog that might actually be of interest to my readers.

That doesn’t mean I write every word on my blogs (I do on this one), often I call attention to interesting news or stuff my reader actually wants to read.

Do I send out emails that are nothing but a pitch?

Nope, don’t do that either.

Because screw the law of numbers… I believe in the law of treating others well.

My little litmus test is, would I like my blog?

Would I come back to read more of my blog?

Would I open my emails, and appreciate what’s there?

Yeah, I would.

That doesn’t mean that everyone is going to love me, or love what I do.  Because everyone is different and if you try to please EVERYONE with your blog…this will be your post:

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Yep…nothing.

So, I double check that I don’t stray too far down the promotional path (oh, I do promote stuff that I use and let people know what I have done to be so successful… but I don’t blast them with a daily pitch).  I double check that I am PROUD of every post before I hit publish (you’ll know by this deep sense of well being in your guy)…. and I have followers that will tell me if I stray.

Instead of blindly following others I litmus test everything….and THEN split test.  So first I make sure I don’t feel shitty about what I’m doing, and then I test to see what people like best in what I do.

It means I can never become an evil money grabbing spammy marketer!  (if you think I am one, there’s a little unsubscribe button at the bottom of every email I send that you are welcome to press at any time.)

Whew, ok and every now and again I go off on a rant where I type at some ridiculous words per minute because inspiration and passion is flowing out my finger tips!! (like now!)

I MEANT to make this blog about why blogging is awesome…. but strayed a bit.

Anyway, blogging is the best path to Non-marketing marketing.

It allows people to get to know you, see the real person behind what you promote, and decide for themselves if they want to follow your advice.

You can learn more about my team of Rebel bloggers…. making the internet MORE REAL one post at a time, by checking our team video out here.

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Sometimes I just want to shake people and say “Just Do It!” It’s not that hard and takes minimal effort.

The big problem is that most people can’t sacrifice today (a little bit of time and effort) if they aren’t 100% sure they are working towards a definite outcome tomorrow.

Look at it this way, you probably set your alarm every Sunday night and drag yourself to work Monday morning all because someone signed a little piece of paper saying they would give you a check at the end of the month.

Getting out of bed and going to work sucks, but most people do it because they know the outcome.

The one thing that EVERY single rags to riches tale online has in common is consistency.

There are hundreds of ways to make money, and hundreds of ways to drive traffic… but each time a new person is successful everyone wants to know their way, and their secret.

Frankly, it doesn’t really matter!  Their secret is they picked something and stuck to it.

Because this (obviously) irks me so much… here is a little video I recorded that illustrates the outcome of consistency overtime (using math and everything!

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For you lazies who hate video online (sorry to say I’m one of them!) … here’s the honest truth.

This is what happens when you work in fits and starts (kinda like a hare).

This is what happens when you work consistently (kinda like the old tortoise):

Everytime you STOP you have to start from scratch again.  Everytime you decide to take a break for a month, Google decides your website has gone cold and your social media contacts decide they can’t trust you to stick around or that you don’t take your business seriously.

When you’re a hare you start from nothing every couple of months.

When you’re a tortoise you build on what you have already done.  You might not see much in the way of results for the first couple of months, but something is growing under the surface.  You are establishing a history with Google.  You are building trust with your social contacts.  People are seeing that you are real, that you are genuine, and that you are not going anywhere.

Stability is rare online.

Be the person who can be trusted to still be marketing, to still be blogging, and to still be delivering the same message six months from now…and you will be followed!

I know it sucks, I know some days you simply want to throw in the towel (on those days use the fingerless ninja blogging technique!), but I promise that the only thing that will get you your dreams is consistency.

My team has a core 3 steps that we do daily.  We leverage our knowledge and our tools to ensure that a small amount of work goes a long way, but we ALL know that being consistent is more important than any other thing!

Decide what you can do daily, commit to doing it every single day no matter what!  And you will reach your dreams!

Learn more about my team and our simple daily action steps!

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You find out in work that half your department is being laid off.

Effective Immediately.

You have two kids at home and your wife is due soon with your third child.

You’ve worked incredibly hard to get a good six figure job, and now in a matter of seconds someone can suddenly take that all away from you.

This is the exact situation my friend and fellow EN team member Lawrence Tam found himself in just last week….

And the dreaded moment happened.

He was told that his name was on the list of those that were being laid off.

But Lawrence (being a bit of a bad ass) didn’t bat an eye.

Instead, he simply told his wife the news and sat back smiling.

You see… while everyone else was busy getting panic stricken about whether or not their jobs were safe, Lawrence was methodically building an online business part-time.

At this point he is earning 5 times what he earned in engineering (we’re talking over six figures in the last four months alone).

So instead of being faced with the horror of a lay-off just two months before his third child is due, he and his wife are overjoyed that he will now be full-time at home with his family, and he got to leave his job with a redundancy package as he was laid off!

Not bad for a bit of part time work!

These kinds of stories are coming out of the team NONSTOP!

Here’s a screenshot from another fellow teammate Bryan’s Facebook Timeline yesterday:

And my very favorite stories are the ones coming from total newbies…

People who could barely afford the $25 to get started!

And, while I’m telling happy stories… here’s a screenshot from my own email:

So what does every one of us have in common (besides being part of a great opportunity)?

We all were willing to follow a few simple steps daily.  Some of us part time, some of us full time. Some of us brand new to internet marketing, some of us old hats.  The secret was nothing more than a good opportunity… and putting in some genuine work!

I always pride myself on not being about “Hype” and I’m not going to tell you to just blindly join us because we’re having success.

But I am going to tell you to think hard about where you are and where you want to go.

I am going to tell you that I’ve never seen anything like the training and real help offered by our company and within my team.

And I am going to tell you to learn more about what we are doing to achieve the most NEWBY success stories I have ever seen in my four years online!

Decide if you’re ready to achieve real results, decide if you’re ready to be part of a bullsh*t free team, and decide to take action towards your own success.

Learn more about the Rebel Marketer’s Team here.

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I decided that I was a pretty smart person and should be using my skills to earn myself money.… not someone else money.

So I quit my job and moved in with my mom for a summer with the plan to launch my internet business, make something of myself, and live my dreams.

What happened?

Well, like many other people who decide to make a change….

I made a decision, and then I got stuck.

If you’re stuck then you are most likely in one of the following situations…. and don’t worry, I’ve been in them both.  Here’s a few tips to help you get unstuck, get moving, and get where you want to be!

1. You Don’t Know What To Do

This was my initial stumbling block.

I joined a network marketing company and quit my job with some money saved up and the intention of making the company so successful that I would never have to work again.

Funny enough, four months later…. I was back in a job.

Because I didn’t know WHAT to do!

I spent those four months pretty much trying to solve this problem.  Now this was back in 2008 when there was not as much free training, sharing info, and general help online as is available today.  So all I had to go on was what my mentor told me.  And unfortunately, they never really said anything SPECIFIC.

I would here phrases like “take massive action” and “just make a decision to be successful”…. and I’d think “Yeah, I’d LOVE to be taking action… but doing WHAT????”

It was so frustrating to never be told exactly what to do, just these vague ideas like use Google advertising without any help on how that actually worked.

I still now sometimes think back regretfully on all the wasted time wondering what to do to get leads for my business.  But I’m still glad it happened because it showed me a few things.

It showed me what it felt like to be trying to achieve success and have mentors who weren’t specific and who seemed afraid to tell me what they were actually doing (I guess they didn’t want competition, LOL).

It showed me how disempowering it is to have someone tell you they are going to help you make money only to give you vague answers and let you struggle alone.

And most importantly, it showed me that failure isn’t all that scary.

I gave up a nice rental home, a job, and a life in Ireland to try something.  When it didn’t work out guess what I did.  Moved back to Ireland, got the exact same job, and a lovely rental home.  Basically, I lost nothing but time (ok… and a bit of money on credit card debt), and I gained a LOAD of important lessons.

I knew that I would never again join a business based on excitement alone, that I would need to find a way to stop relying on mentors, and take things into my own hands to learn how to market myself.  I knew I would never be stuck again.

2. You Know What To Do, But Don’t Do It!

When after several months of working and pretty much giving up on my dreams to work from home I came across a young guy that was not only doing well himself, but actually TRAINING people on real things and specific strategies to get leads for a home business I was intrigued.

I knew that my problem before had been WHAT to do… here was the answer.

So I dove back in, but this time with a hardened attitude.

I no longer trusted what people told me, I was wary.

I had the attitude that I would wait until I saw something work BEFORE I put my heart into my business.

But guess what happens when your heart isn’t in your business, or you don’t really believe in success.

Nothing.

This time I knew WHAT to do… but I didn’t do it.

I suppose I was trying to protect myself because I had been so terribly disappointed at my initial failure that I was afraid to let myself believe.

But without belief, without a KNOWING that you will be successful if you simply do the work…. the work doesn’t happen.

Oh I would do bits here and there, and then blame others and my circumstances when nothing happened.

I don’t even consider this time in my business as failing, I see it as the time when I just stopped.  I didn’t open my heart to even the possibility of success so I never really started.

Getting Unstuck

I want you to stop and think about an elephant with a rider on its back.

The elephant is a powerful force that can move shockingly big loads, but doesn’t know which direction to go to achieve what it wants to achieve.

The rider is intelligent and knows the path to get to where it wants to go… but without the elephant it can’t move much.

The elephant needs the rider to tell it where to go, and the rider needs the power of the elephant to actually get there.

Without the elephant the rider will never be able to move loads down the right path.

Without the rider the elephant goes charging in the complete wrong direction and never ends up where it wants to be.

No I probably don’t need to tell you that this is a metaphor for your mind.

The elephant is your emotional (unconscious) side, and the rider your logical (conscious) side.

The rider needs to know where to go, what to tell the elephant to do.

The elephant needs to WANT to go there.  If it doesn’t want to move in the same direction as the rider you will simply go in circles.

You get unstuck by making sure the rider has a clear roadmap to follow, that it knows what to do. And by making sure the elephant WANTS to go there so it wont make you veer offcourse.

Both need to know where “there” is.  There has to be a destination.

How I Unstick My Team

1. I make a clear team goal (engages the elephant, gives the rider a destination)

Our current team goal is for ten people to hit a 10k month in June.  It’s a specific number with a specific end date.

The team can think about this number and imagine what life would look like ifyou made 10k a month.  They think about how they could stay home with the kids,what vacation they would book, what they would buy their spouse.

It makes them emotionally engaged enough to make better decisions.  When they are faced with the decision of watching tv or working, they choose work because they KNOW that, that 10k is worth more than any tv show.

2. I make a clear path

In my team tools section I have six daily steps for my team members to complete, so when they sit down with whatever time they are able to carve out for their business they don’t waste a second.  They know what to do, they know how to do it, and they don’t waste time on silly activities.

3. I build their belief (engage the elephant)

Everyone uses different evidence to help them believe something, but constant stories can help them change beliefs.  It took me a long time to engage my elephant because I had a couple failures under my belt, and I carried a crappy belief that I was always going to fail.  Now that I see myself as successful I have become successful.

The good thing for the team is that the company we work with actually gives us real data.  They could explain statistics and show exactly what the people who make 10k a month are doing.  How much they are selling, etc.

Armed with this knowledge we could also look at the people who have achieved this and realize that they aren’t specifal… they are just doing the work.

If you feel stuck. Pick a destination, create a road map, and gather evidence that YOU CAN DO IT!

Get support of a team working together towards a common goal, learn more about what our team does here.

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Ok…don’t know if they don’t have fingers….but these ninja bloggers don’t need ‘em because they don’t type a word!

Most people today talk about how hard it is to get a job, how they can’t afford stuff because of the “recession”, blah, blah, blah…

But while they have been so focused on how awful everything has become and how the world is doomed, etc…. secret ninja bloggers have been making bucket loads of cash online… with less effort than you might expect!

With a Blog You Can:

-Promote a Network Marketing company and grow a massive downline

-Sell other people’s products and make up to 100% commissions

-Create a reliable online income working from home for a few hours a day!

Why aren’t more people blogging?

Ok… honestly, if you hear that you have to blog to make money what’s your immediate reaction?

Your gut clenches, you break out in a cold sweat, you think “I may as well give up now and try to magically become happy in my job even though I’ve been miserable for years”.

Sigh.

Yeah, I know… I’ve heard it all.  You’re not very interesting. You don’t know much about anything. No one wants to hear what you have to say. In fact, you can’t even TYPE.

Some people get stuck there because they imagine bloggers are these amazing people who can type over 100 words per minute, never run out of interesting things to say, and were born with some kind of special knowledge that the rest of us don’t have access to.

Wrong.

I know bloggers who use “two finger” typing, bloggers who started out homeless, bloggers who are BLIND, and blogger who never type a word.

That’s right… there are secret ninja bloggers, who don’t even write anything and still have great blogs!

WHAT!?!

How is that possible…?

Secrets of the Ninja Bloggers

1. Content is Everywhere

I only recently came across this secret strategy and was BLOWN AWAY!  I knew you could obviously quote other people’s blogs, or news articles, etc as long as you gave credit where credit is due.

But ninja bloggers have taken this to a whole new level, to get VIRAL content without typing a word!

You simply find some kind of interesting and news worthy article.  And then you copy and paste that article into your blog.

The most important part of this strategy is that you need to have an active link directly to the page the article came from (otherwise this is plagarism which is not only illegal…. it’s just plain wrong!)  Remember you must give credit where credit is due.

BUT, the original author of the article benefits in the search engines from links to their content, and you benefit from a good article with a good title that you can then share on social networks.

If you pick articles that peaked your curiousity you can get a lot of views, a lot of leads, and a lot of people sharing your content.

Boom, viral content, no effort.

I do try to add a question at the end so people comment and interact with my post.  Here’s an example of an interesting article I posted about the Youtube Partner Program.  That took me all of 5 minutes to create!

2. Content is Cheap

You can buy content! It’s really easy. If you have even a tiny budget you can still maximize it for lots of content.

Say you don’t want to do ANYTHING but you want completely unique content.  You can hire someone off of Fivrr.com or Elance.com to write for you.

It might take a couple goes to find someone you like, but once you do you can contract them to write ALL your content.

Elance is a bit more expensive and often better, but if you find a good writer on Fivrr keep them!

That option might be out of your budget… but you can still buy articles cheap.

For example, you could try a service like ThriftyArticles.  This is 15 bucks a month and has over a thousand new articles every month that you can either copy and paste, or make original using their stupid simple inbuilt article rewriter.

You basically rewrite the same article in different wording sentence by sentence.  Takes about ten minutes, but you don’t even have to think about ideas.

3. Content is a Group Effort

My favourite source of content is myself, LOL.

No, but seriously I’m one of the lucky ones who likes to write…. but, I share the goods.  I truly believe in the power of teams helping one another and sharing the different skills of the team members.

In my blogging team I provide blog posts for my team to use so they don’t have to write on their own until they want to.

Look, the internet can be a scary place.

Sometimes the idea of even just putting yourself out there is enough to make you want to crawl under the covers and hide your head so the boogeyman won’t get you!

It really doesn’t have to feel like that.

You don’t have to go it alone!

Just stop making things hard on yourself, read my book at the right of this page (The Rebel Marketer’s Manual), and just sign up to my team or ANY team where setting up your blog is done with the push of one button and the leader offers you “done for you” blogs.

You owe it to yourself to become a secret ninja blogger with a fantastic money making blog… even if you can’t type more than your own name!

P.S. Don't be afraid to Be a Rebel!

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I’m going to strip myself bare in this article (methaphorically, lol!)

You’ll get a real inside understanding of why I’ve made the choices I have made in my business, why I consider myself a true “Rebel” and what it has both COST and given to my business.

Most people want to do something they can be proud of.

Most people want to make an impact on other people.  And lots of people want to be staggeringly, disgustingly rich.

I’m no different.

I began my pursuit of internet marketing when a lovely middle-aged lady stood up at a conference I was at and introduced herself as someone who marketing a “law of attraction” based product.

For several years I had already been completely taken by the law of attraction, and well, I was still fairly young and relatively innocent in my view of the world.

I’m still young, but my beliefs and values have deepened and grown.  I’ve moved on from just simple personal development to real growth.

But at the time, I was excited at the idea of marketing something I had an interest in and well….

I wanted to be FILTHY rich.

I had dreams of white sand beaches, private jets, multiple homes, etc.

Am I there yet, No.  Is that still my goal??  Eventually.

But over the years I discovered that the mindless pursuit of wealth was not only a bit stupid, it was unpalatable, and DIDN’T work. 

You see, deep down I’m a good and caring person, and I could never profit when I felt it was at the expense of others.

I couldn’t sell the incredibly expensive products I was marketing because the people I was marketing them to couldn’t afford them.

I would get new leads into my business and would actually get a sick feeling in my stomache because I didn’t believe that them joining me in business was actually going to help them in their lives.

They were more likely to fail at the business as I had seen others (and myself) do and end up in heaps of debt.

It turned out that I couldn’t actually market that business and feel good about myself.  And if what you’re doing doesn’t fit your view of yourself and your values, you will NEVER be successful.

After quitting that business what about 20 grand of debt, I simply  couldn’t face the thought of ever working for myself again.  I figured I would just be doomed to have a job I hated and somehow work my way up a company I didn’t even like.

I became listless, aimless, and a bit depressed.

But I felt good about myself.  I felt good about my morals.  I knew I had made the right choice.

I thought I would NEVER again go into internet marketing.

But then that feeling came back.  The feeling that I was unhappy in my life and doing nothing about it.  The feeling that I had given up on life and was just letting it take me.

I happened to watch a training video on internet marketing out of curiousity, and I found something that lit a small fire of hope inside my chest.

There was at least one person that was teaching real, genuine, and applicable advice right out on the table!!  The trainer wasn’t simply telling me to get my mindset right and the rest would follow.  He was SHOWING me what he did to make a fortune online, and even allowing me to see a demonstration of how he used a few tools to catapult him to success in online marketing.

I was blown away.

It would turn out later that this simple training video would become a real landmark and change the face of internet marketing, that the trainer’s life would be changed as a result, and that it would open my heart and mind to looking again at following my dreams.

Since then I have taken this trainer as my mentor, but it wasn’t an overnight decision.

I’d been stamped on by marketers, squashed down, bled dry, and told that it was my own fault for not having the right mindset.

Excuse me in advance, by I have to call it what it is: Bullsh*t!

Frankly, most marketers totally disgust me!

The thought that anyone could be happy on white sandy beaches, privates jets, etc. knowing that they’ve put other people into crippling debt to get there…

It’s shocking.

Some marketer’s still teach people How to manipulate, how to get people to spend money over and over again and never question why nothing they are buying works.

I could go and on about how much the internet marketing world can be a disgusting place, but frankly…. if you read my blog you already feel the same.

You’re equally sick of being lied to and manipulated.

You may even be ready to give up on your dream because you can no longer tell who is telling the truth and who is lying.

I’m sorry if you’ve reached this point.

It’s a hard place to be when you begin to feel it would be better to just stick to the working world and stop trying to make changes.

I sincerely hope that you stick it out, because you have never been so close to a breakthrough as you are right at this very moment.

You may find that you too are a Rebel, and that you want to market in a way you actually feel good about!

What is a Rebel Marketer?

A Rebel Marketer is someone who uses honesty and integrity in marketing.

It is someone who refuses to manipulate others emotions and earn money by holding other people back.

Ordinary marketers are spin doctors, manipulators, and sharks.

Here’s a simple truth about Rebel Marketing:

You will not make every sale.

It will be hard to resist the temptation to throw in the manipulative pitchy “sales copy”.

Some people will not buy from you because you didn’t press the right emotional buttons.

BUT

The people who DO follow you, will follow you forever.

The people who DO follow you, will be likely to achieve success faster.

The people who DO follow you, will have made decisions fully understanding what they need to do to succeed, which means they will be willing to work and wont blame you for the stumbling blocks they come across when the realize that success takes ACTUAL WORK!

The people who DO follow you, will help to spread truth and Rebel Marketing even further.

YOU will have a direct affect on the world, and help to change internet marketing from the sad state of affairs it has come to, to something beautiful, helpful, and lifting up the world!

I’m not 100% there yet.  It’s certainly true I could have made much more money if I had been manipulative and willing to crush others on my path to success.  Even my mentor occassionally uses the term “hypnotic selling”, which I don’t use in my marketing.

But I have been able to follow the path that is in my heart and I am well on my way to the dream. I am happier than I have ever been, not just because I’m finally making money online…. but because I am on the way to every dream I ever had in a way that I can believe in.

I’m marketing products that I KNOW are helping ordinary people achieve their dreams, every single day, and it’s there in real hard proof, not just marketing hype!

I’m fulfilled knowing that I am following what I believe to be RIGHT in my heart and soul.

I’m meeting incredible, inspiring, and exciting people along the way, and TOGETHER we are on the way to changing the face of internet marketing forever.

Join us, and let the revolution truly begin!!

P.S. Don't be afraid to Be a Rebel!

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Answer: 70% !! Have Faith, Work Hard, It'll Happen!!!

Business owners in the “real world” don’t start a business without doing their market research.

You wouldn’t buy a franchise, or open a store front without first doing a business plan, doing your market research, creating a SWOT analysis, understanding the costs, creating a five year plan, knowing exactly when the business will be in profit, etc.

So why the heck do people start online businesses on a whim?

Why do people just dump their hard earned money into a business based on one sales video, or the fact that they think the Guru marketing the business seems cool, etc.

Because most people don’t actually expect online  businesses to do much of anything.  They treat it as a hobby, as something that might, with a bit of luck, get them something someday.

They limit their investment so that it doesn’t feel risky (thus dropping their chances of success down to basically nil as their business is underfunded.)

They limit their time spent on it because they don’t want it to interfere with their “real life”, and they want to have wasted too much time on something that is probably going to fail.

They typically quit after about 30 days if they haven’t started to make money.

Is it just me, or is that completely CRAZY?

Could you imagine someone starting a brick and mortar business and expecting it to be in profit in 30 days?

That’s nuts.

There’s so many advantages to a home business, the entry costs are achievable, you don’t have to find a premises, you probably don’t need to go into debt to get it started, and the risk is minimal.

But if you start with the expectation of “dipping your toe in the water” you should know that it’s not going to work out for you.

To have a successful home business you need:

1. To fund it (figure out in advance what it will take to be successful, and plan to cut that money out from other areas of your budget).

2. To work it (plan on investing at least an hour or two a day…. if you want to be making big money fast you’ll need to spend more time)

The great thing about online businesses is that they work on momentum.  Why can you sing the jingle to multiple ads on tv? How come you know the slogan of many popular brands? Because advertisers know that buyers make decisions based on exposure.  The more times a day they show their ad, the more they expose you, the more likely that you will think of THEIR product when you need an insurer, or cereal, or whatever.

Online marketing works much the same.  When someone sees your name and your picture everywhere, when they see that you are active and serious they are many more times likely to think of you when they decide to buy, and to trust what you have to say!  This comes from time investment.

The result is the more time you put in the more exponential your success can be.

3. To Treat it Like a Business

Give it time, and don’t quit.  You will need to find a way to become consistent in your work (to help with the momentum) and actually work the business as though this will be your only source of income.

Expect to spend at least 3 months getting your business really off the ground.  If you aren’t willing to spend 3 months to change the rest of your life then I’d like you to go to the top of this screen and click that red close button…. because I can’t help you.

Treating this like a business means taking it seriously from the start.  Create an “Evidence Report” for your prospective business before you join to understand if it’s actually a good opportunity or just hype.  Here’s an example Evidence Report I did for the business I decided to join.  You can borrow the format for your own Evidence Reports.

Stay strong, stay focused, and never give up the drive to change your life and follow your dreams.  If you take the time to treat this like a business from the start, to look at EVIDENCE not hype you are far more likely to take a logical, methodical and consistent approach to your business.  If you make decisions based only on emotion, you aren’t likely to ever treat the business seriously.

Go find out what it means to join a serious business and understand EXACTLY what you will need to do to succeed by checking out my example Evidence Report here.

P.S. Don't be afraid to Be a Rebel!

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