Notes follow, click the “More” below:

The Next Internet Millionaire.

There’s a virus spreading across the internet, especially hitting those who’ve just come onto the web.
I call it the “Spectator” mentality:

Symptoms include: listening to WebmasterRadio all day, but the irony is you might know everything, but never really DO anything about it.
Efforts might include setting up a 5-page website, or a blog somewhere or a squidoo lens.

Do you use the “hope and pray” model of traffic generation and monetization?

Set it up, let it sit, heck stats every few hours then wonder why there’re no sales?

Unfortunately neither Internet Marketing nor life is not a spectator sport,
Creating a website and letting it standing there in the middle of cyberspace is like erecting a billboard in the desert.

Is it any wonder that new marketers frequently come crying that Internet Marketing “doesn’t work”?

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There’s more to internet marketing than spending a couple of hours making a website and letting it sit there.

In the Japanese language, the word “problem” is also same word as “opportunity”.

A comedian once said:

Can you help me with my credit card opportunity?
“I am experiencing many cash opportunities! Would you like to help?”

Call me cynical, but i think help should be reserved for the helpless?

Want help? learn to help yourself.

“no money, but want to start in Internet Marketing?”

Reality check: what’s complaining about it going to do?
Precedent: of the gurus and successful affiliates I know, a number only had $20 in the bank starting out.

Solution: get a payday loan, cash advance, borrow from friends and family.
To make some quick cash: go to forum, check the services section: do directory submission, write an article, go to blogger, set up a content site.
[not encouraged for the long term, but you do what you need to to survive]

Look at your options, most important, take action!

Success factors:

• Attitude: do you see opportunity or problems?
• Action: willing to put in effort to get what you want? Or are you using the hope and pray method? not very effective.
• The X-Factor: you need to see it inside of yourself, you need to stop guru worshipping, stop out of the shadows.

I appreciate positive comments, but what would encourage me more is hearing about your success in applying some of what you read on this blog, another blog, or on a forum.

Wondering who the next internet millionaire is going to be?
Head to the bathroom, and look in the mirror.

Notes follow (click on “More”)

Marketing Wizard Yanik Silver, has started a new series on his Internet Lifestyle blog.
So I’d like to reflect on what the “Internet lifestyle” means to me.

In prison, biggest pain is being prevented from doing what you want.

Out here, you might be in a different type of prison, restrained by having to go to the office from 9 to 5, or restained by being unable to go on a vacation (except during down time, whenever that may be).

The Internet lifestyle gives:

Money Freedom

-freedom from bills, freedrom from worrying about inflation, freedom from having to think about paying the mortgage.
Which is one of the reasons why cash advance, mortgage refinance and credit cards are among the hottest CPA offers.

Compare Time freedom versus Money freedom.
Time freedom is an even bigger one.

Time freedom to me means being able to bring my daughter to playschool twice a week, going to the mall in the middle of the afternoon, or taking a 2 hour nap after lunch, watching movie in the afternoon.

The Freedom of time, Freedom of money.
That’s the Internet Lifestyle.