Ineffective people live day after day with potential untapped.  They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives.

Yet creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost on a daily basis in people’s lives.  It requires self-confidence, trust in your own intuition, and a spirit of adventure.

These are the words of renowned coach, author and millionaire, Stephen Covey, and the message should be taken to heart:  “  Becoming the person you always secretly yearned to be will require some major paradigm shifts in your thinking and your actions.”

Just having the best website, the best materials and the best hope for the future will not assure you of success.  When we know all we can hopefully know without having achieved the level of success we desire, it is time to find yourself a mentor.  The lone wolf seldom reaches his or her stride without some counseling from those who have walked the path.

In truth, very very few people who have had continuing marketing success online haven’t received coaching – sometimes very costly coaching – from those in the know.  Many of the famous people who you should know and learn from are pricing their apprenticeship programs and private consultation fees way beyond the financial means of a newcomer (often called a newbie).  Maestros offer a cheaper alternative through ebooks, mini-courses through email, video How To’s, webinars, and audio programs.

In the last few years there have been great advances in such indirect learning and people who have struggled for years without making a penny have turned their fortunes around in weeks to months by following a precise blueprint to success.

But let me forewarn you that success is not for sale to the highest bidder.  I’ve said several times that success leaves a trail, yet it is up to each of us to ask questions and fill in the missing puzzle pieces.

Can you reach a high level of success?  I am absolutely certain of it…if you can humble yourself and admit  that you don’t have all the answers and that creating products or a lifestyle without a system or plan will doom you to failure.

You do not want to become a high-priced wage slave, grinding away 60 hours a week until you drop dead of a heart attack, do you?

From this point forward in this blog, I  will introduce or reintroduce to you to the minds and actions of some of the legends of Internet marketing and some of the Johnny-come-latelys who – against all odds – achieved mercuric success in short order.  They – the veterans and the mercurial risers – can assist you  in moving from a wage slave to an administrator of a cash machine, occasionally in a dramatic fashion.

Each of these mentors has had his or her failures and traumas before their great success.  What they did do – which is different from the majority of us – is to cut all the lifelines to retreat and determine clearly in their mind that success was not an option.

The Vikings, those ruthless warriors who roamed the seas some one thousand years ago, always traveled with all their family and belongings.   There was NO turning back, so the focus was always forward.  Their history is chiseled in our collective minds because of that fearsome spirit.

Let the guru catwalk commence…

Everyday each of us is bombarded with thousands of advertisements, commercials, slogans and innuendos.  Trying to weed through this great pile of psycho babble and find the life-affirming gems is a daunting task.

In these pages I hope that you have found thus far some useful information which can help you in developing and implementing a strong Internet strategy.

In my email box I receive close to 500 letters per day, and about 350 are blatant spam.  Everyone has the hottest deal and the once-in-a lifetime offer which you will regret not taking action on.  Everyone has a secret and a revelation which is supposed to make you instantly rich.

Most of the guru wannabes actually have nothing.  They are marketing for an associate they call “My Friend XXX” but whom they have never met nor even corresponded with.

They want to have verbal sex with you without even a hint of foreplay.  They throw themselves at you and you are reviled.  You change email accounts, but these uncouth bloodsuckers somehow find you again.  You stop opening your mail.  You become cynical and skeptical of the ulterior motives of everyone everywhere.

From the bottom of my heart, I hear you.  I promise to provide each person with a summary of what the crap and the gems hidden in the crap is about.  I’ll read through what you hate to and find the people, the systems and the software which you should know about if you want to earn money online or change your mindset for the better.

I hope that anyone who reads what I write will feel that I am doing my best to cut through the hype and provide caveats when I am not sure what to believe.

Everyone who has a web presence online wants to sell something.  Hopefully they provide offers to you which have been carefully screened as a target customer, but many marketers have absolutely no scruples -  profit, money, money, profit…the hell with you.

Rest assured I will never take that attitude towards you.  If you come to trust me, I will be true and frank with you.  I want you to be on my team for as long as I can switch on my computer and make a blog entry.

Work with me, and the only demons which could impede your online growth will be those not endorsed in my blog.

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Throwing good money after bad is common in business. Most people are either embarrassed or mortify to put a fair price on their product or service, thus accustom potential customers to freebie-ville. No money tree in that philosophy.

Money is either a power for good or for bad.  You are the determiner of which way it is used.

Money can buy freedom from wage slavery or cause you to chase it like a dog trying to catch its tail.  It can make you appear to be great, even though deep inside you may feel unhappy, insecure and empty.

It all starts by finding a market or creating one.  Then you must develop a campaign to let your target market know that you exist and can help them solve an urgent need or desire.  And then…bingo, the money starts to flow in torrents, right?  Nope!

The majority of Mom and Pop stores do not work very well offline or online.  Mom and Pop may have some regulars dropping by, but most of them only want to shoot the breeze rather than buy a product or service.  Mom and Pop stay open to accommodate their friends and fellow travelers, but they often just eek out a living.  Their store or site concept is DOA (Dead On Arrival) in the Internet Age.

The maestros can’t emphasize to us enough that we need to scientifically market, promote to a target market using the combined power of free and pay-per-click search engines, news releases, listings in search directories, development of friendly websites and through blogs and social networks.

If all these elements of marketing are orchestrated properly, the maestro – if he is worth his weight in gold – can help you to generate a strong and highly profitable business online which could generate hundreds’ of thousands a dollars a year or more.

This video revealing billionaire Bill Bartmann's Business "secret" blew me away. What do you think?

This guy went from bankrupt-to-billionaire and 25th wealthiest American.

Far too many people write misleading headlines when promoting?

They often start with “Is (name your MLM or product or service) a scam?  They try to act as if they are neutral reporters, but in a large majority of cases the message is a morph of the marketer’s canned email sequence.

As T. Harv Eker says: “The way you do anything is the way you do everything?”  Why should any of us trust a marketer or promoter who is dishonest with him/herself (and us) from the get-go?

For all but a privileged few, the age of male workers earning the bacon and wives staying in the home has all but come to an abrupt end.  Evidence of that change is stark.

Japan, once home to families with five or six children, are now dotted with double-income, no-children families out of economic necessity.  Children dig too deeply into the prosperity of modern-day couples and the birthrate has thus taken a precipitous drop, threatening the prosperity of Japan for the rest of the Twenty-First Century.  And Japan is not alone in this trend.

A sobering truth is that the cost of caring for the silver population in conjunction with the drastic drop in birthrate spells disaster for many countries unwilling or unable to embraced the paradigm shift to the Internet.  Statistics bear out that most of us will need to die before eighty or live in dire poverty.  If you struggle to live on two incomes during your working years, then living on half that gross salary after retirement will surely be a living hell.

The clarion call from the most sincere Internet maestros instills us with a new lease on life.  We suddenly feel like we have a legitimate chance to move from living on the edge to living in the big house on the hill.  We have delicious visions of traveling the world while earning phenomenal income which far surpasses any that could be accrued in the time-for-money linear income world.

I truly believe that with proper training and perspective, a rank amateur of ANY age or circumstance can find a road to success which was totally unavailable to the average bloke of the last century.

Here is the truth, believe it or not, about online success:

There are very successful, high-integrity people online who have built marketing empires from scratch with little to no investment capital to start.  Moreover, many of them have then gone on to teach others their proven, duplicative systems from which the founder earns additional residuals every time an affiliate/partner makes a sale.

Many novices – once taught a given success strategy or system – are able to surpass their mentors by once again developing an affiliate network based on their own unique product and training system.

The whip cream on this cake is that quite a number of the success stories were, at first, technically challenged.

The drawback is that less than one percent of the wannabes will ever finish the book or install the system they purchase from the maestro…and develop a very unhealthy skepticism of Internet Marketing and its future.