Quick Note: With numerous so-called internet “gurus” popping up online, offline, in the media (wherever) these days, claiming to teach you their “secrets” of making it big online, proudly flashing away their “big” checks to entice and reel you in to their “pitches”… BEWARE.

Allow me to share with you a little on the “going-ons” within the internet marketing world. Like everything else, it’s filled with lies, lies and more lies. Of course I’m not saying that everyone is bad, this “community” has it’s own fair share of “good guys” as well, but what I’m trying to say is for you to be able to differentiate the good from the bad.

Case in point… check out this video on how the so-called gurus fake their clickbank earnings:

It explains it all. Fake your clickbank earnings like the big internet earners do. Do what you will with it.

What I just gave you is an industry “secret”. You can spread the word, or you can use it to con other people. You decide.

I’ve said it time and again, be extremely careful whom you take advice from because there’s a lot of exaggerated information circulating about building online businesses here that are hugely misconstrued, inaccurate, so before you decide to follow in their footsteps, MAKE SURE they walk their talk, get them to show you actual PROOF that they have walked down the same path as well, that’s the best way to be sure they know what they’re talking about.

So the next question you might be asking is: “so how do I separate the good from the bad?”

Simple.

NETWORK around. Get your ass out there and actively make a genuine effort to make more friends, get to know more people within the industry and ask them, who are the real deals, who are the fake-ies.

They’ll gladly tell you in an instant

Later,

Jay…

Since I have a little “extra” time today, I’d like to write something that I’ve been meaning to write and pen down for a quite while now but never really got to it, so I might as well do it now…

You know this year has been a real “eye opener”, it’s not in us to say whether it’s been a good or a bad one, as every single day, every little “thing” we go through, serves as “lessons” for us to learn, it then becomes OUR responsibility to either suck them in or blindly throw them out…

Funny thing, as I was nicely chatting away with some friends over lunch today… it suddenly “hit” me… I have no idea where it came from but it REALLY did smack me upside the head… hard.

What we do today, determines where we’ll be tommorow.

I don’t know, maybe it’s just me, but it instantly gave me that realization of how GROSSLY important it is for us to be doing the RIGHT things today, as in RIGHT NOW and not just let time “slip” by our fingers just like that.

According to Master Shifu Oogway (from the ever loveable Kungfu Panda):

“Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. But today is a gift, and that is why it’s called… the present”

Yeah sure, we may have heard this saying one way or another before but what excited me most is this:

“A lot of things that will make sure we get what we want in life is counter-intuitive and NOT obvious at all!”

A simple example could be… It can be so easily tempting for us to spend all the money we’ve made from our business right now to feed our emotional “wants”. It’s COUNTER-INTUITIVE to re-invest it back for future profits/profits.

It’s so easy for us to say “Aaah, I’ll do it later, but “it” eventually never gets done”

It’s so easy to say “Aahh, everyone’s out drinking n partying right now, I’ll follow them also-lah…”

It’s so easy to say “why am I slogging like a cow whilst everyone is happily out having a good time… forget this shit-lah”

The key to getting what we want — is always… counter-intuitive.

Yeah, so I admit, Eben Pagan was the one who first preached about this in his excellent Altitude Program months ago, but it’s only now when I actually took the liberty to reminisce on what I did in the past 8 months have I realized how true it is.

There were a number of things I did that I REALLY did not feel like doing, but I (knew) deep down that it HAD to be done and I pushed myself to do it again and again.

I got out of my comfort zone. I didn’t like it one bit, but again, I just knew it had to be done. And yeap, “results” wasn’t instant either, it took TIME, but now I’m slowly starting to see it bear fruit

(From this I’ve learnt the true value of patience, staying calm in the most “challenging” times and to keep pushing and pushing with baby steps

(In business sense):

It’s easy to let any distractions, problems or “frictions” in our daily lives to bring us or our spirits down, but it’s counter-intuitive to see that those “problems” have ALWAYS *little* opportunities for our own biz.

Now, what’s amazing about this quote is, think about it:

“A lot of things that will make sure we get what we want in life is counter-intuitive and NOT obvious at all!”

It can literally be applied to ANY aspect of our lives (relationships, finance, business, etc)

Put in simpler terms, it’s in the counter-intuitive “stuff” that will help us get what want, whatever “results” we want in life.

It’s the stuff that makes us “uncomfortable”, the stuff that we’re “too lazy” or “couldn’t be bothered to do” that’s ultimately the KEY to helping us reach our goals… faster.

Man oh man, I don’t know whether I’m doing a good job explaining this but it’s really a MASSIVE ah-ha moment for me… this.

Seriously, take a moment to think about what I’ve just wrote…

Damn, talking about Kungfu Panda makes me wanna watch it again hehe, I mean, who can resist man!! (my favorite lines from the movie):

Mr. Ping: [after Po told him he had dream about noodle] This is a sign, Po!
Po: Uh, a sign of what?
Mr. Ping: You are almost ready to be entrusted with the secret ingredient of my secret ingredient soup. And then you will fulfill your destiny and take over the restaurant just as I took it over from my father who took it over from his father who won it from a friend in a game of mahjong.

  — — — — — — — — —
Mr. Ping: The secret ingredient is … nothing!
Po: Huh?
Mr. Ping: You heard me. Nothing! There is no secret ingredient.
Po: Wait, wait … it’s just plain old noodle soup? You don’t add some kind of special sauce or something?
Mr. Ping: Don’t have to. To make something special you just have to believe it’s special.
Po: There is no secret ingredient …

— — — — — — — — —
Viper: Are you ready?
Po: I was born ready…
[Viper attacks, Po is flung and lands on his head]
Viper: I’m sorry, Brother! I thought you said you were ready.
Po: That was awesome! Let’s go again!

— — — — — — — — —
Po: There is no charge for awesomeness… or attractiveness.

— — — — — — — — —
Oogway: One often meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it.

— — — — — — — — —
Oogway: There are no accidents.

Ok, ok… gota get back to work now… I’ll see you around…

CLASS IN SESSION:

A common question we normally get is “eh, so I just created a spanking new website, spent thousands to beautify my website, made it look cool/professional, etc, eerrrm.. now do what-leh? How to get traffic ar?”

Answer: Many, many ways. Traffic generation techniques are divided into basic, intermediate, advanced, super advanced and “only-nerd-can-understand” advanced.

Allow me to first share with you the basic, complete “anyone also can do” dummy method… article marketing.

There is no easier way to get improved search engine placement, more relevant one-way links and tons of qualified traffic to your site than by providing website owners with the content they need to attract more visitors.

The process is simple:

- You submit articles on your topic of choice, and categorize them among the hundreds of categories available.

- Your articles are distributed to thousands of editors and publishers who are hungry for good, solid content for their newsletters, content sites and e-zines.

- They eagerly scoop up and publish your articles. They also publish the links to your site.

- Having lots of links boosts your PageRank and your position in search results pages, paving the way for increased traffic.

It’s a beautiful thing, and it’s a really effective way to build your online exposure.

Article marketing is extremely effective because it’s highly targeted. Only relevant sites and newsletters will publish your articles so you’re sure to reach an interested audience. And our “Diamond Assurance™” review means that your articles will meet each publisher’s guidelines.

Reaching a targeted audience pre-sells your visitors. Pre-selling happens when potential customers warm up to you by reading your articles. By the time they click through to your site they feel like they already know you. They’ll start thinking of you as an expert in your field.

People like experts.

They trust experts.

Most important of all.. they buy from experts.

Plus, you’ll have links galore.

Having links popping up all over the Web is the stuff Internet marketers dream of. Top-ranking sites consistently use article marketing to put their links in front of the right people. How do we know this strategy works?

We use it ourselves

Search engine bigwigs - Google, Yahoo, etc, etc etc - they like lots of links on relevant sites. They eat ‘em up.

Effective article marketing utilizes Yahoogle-icious™ distribution practices. When you join Article Marketer, you gain ”tools” to help you send links around the Web and across the globe.

Google rubs its tummy and asks for more.

Did I also mention, your SERP position will rise, too.Type a search term into Google, hit “search” and what pops back is a SERP, or search engine results page.

Ideally, you want to be in one of the first 10 positions on the SERP. The site that’s listed at the top of that page is today’s marketing winner for that particular search term. Submit with Article Marketer and you could be that winner.

Reaching the top 10 on the SERP is the Internet equivalent of having your site up in lights.

No seriously, jokes aside, it really works. it’s one of the best way to get started… do check it out and subscribe for it, you won’t be dissapointed.

And yes, you can thank me later.

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All the best, now get your ass out there and make some nice $$ already!