If there is no secret then how did you do it?

A very very very good point there......I could not agree more......

THAT... is VERY well said!

"Internet Marketing" is just your use of a set of tools to help you accomplish your business objectives.

If you don't have actual BUSINESS OBJECTIVES, you don't need to be thinking about "Internet Marketing" in any way, shape, or form.

I used to think there were no "secrets" but that depends on what you mean by "secrets". Every single membership, forum, especially this one, has secrets, people have them, companies have them, we all keep secrets and sometimes we share them, but never publicly.

People need people to succeed. 97% are not making any money online and nobody knows why. Everybody knows what, some know how but nobody knows why.

Knowing how means you'll always have a job. Knowing why makes you the owner. People are hired to do jobs because the owner can't do it all plus run the company too.

People greatly misuse the word secret.

There are no secrets. There are just things unknown to you.

When you first got into high school and had to take algebra, you didn't
know anything about it. You didn't know how to do it. But it wasn't a secret.
Algebra is out there for anybody to learn who wants to learn it. After you
learned it, you knew it and could do it.

It's the same thing with Internet marketing. There are no secrets. Every
marketing tactic in the world is out there, at least as we know them now.

Will something new be created?

Maybe. Who knows? And if it is, it will be known someday as well.

Does that mean that it will be divulged freely?

Maybe, maybe not. Depends. Not all of your education in school was free,
especially if you went to a college. You had to pay to get that knowledge.

But it's out there if you want it.

Now, having said all that, because there is so much involved in Internet
marketing and so many variables, just knowing each thing isn't enough.
You also need to know how to combine things such as squeeze page
copy and followup autoresponder letters in order to get the max out of
your promotions.

This becomes more like chemistry than anything else. Sure, you have all
these elements that you can combine but you need to know just how to
combine them.

H + O2 = H2O but you have to do this in a certain way. It doesn't just
happen.

So it is the human element that screws up the process.

This is why I can say, do article marketing to make money, and give you
a complete outline on how to do it, and you can still screw it up.

Why?

1. You don't know how to write to begin with.
2. You can't construct a resource box worth its salt
3. You can't do keyword research.
4. You can't pick a profitable niche.
5. You can't do a decent review of a product.
6. You can't create a decent looking landing page.
7. You can't write autoresponder followups that convert.

And I can go on and on. And mind you, all the above given, provided that
you were taught how to do each thing.

Guess what?

Just because you were taught doesn't mean you learned.

I hated wood shop. I was taught specifically step by step how to make a
foot stool. But I couldn't do it. I didn't have the ability to learn it and
apply what I learned.

I could give you my book on copywriting, which clearly outlines, step by
step, how to construct a sales letter...with all the headline tricks and
everything else involved.

And you can still F it up.

Why?

Because you simply don't have the ability to write.

You may be able to copy or mimic some of the things you are taught for
the specific niche examples in the book, but when you have to apply
the principles to a brand new niche, you can't do it.

Why?

You didn't learn...not really. More specifically, you didn't understand.

This is why, in spite of all the knowledge in the world that some people
have, they still fail.

They don't really get it.

As to how I did it.

I guess I just kept plugging along until I got it. I bought some books, read,
learned, applied, had some success, built on it, and kept going.

It's no big secret. You either have the ability to absorb and apply what
the material you have teaches you or you don't.

This is why I put getting a one on one teacher who has proven success
over buying a book, because you don't know if that book is worth jack
or not.

And, even if it IS worth something, you don't know how complete it is and
if you will need additional materials to make something work.

That's the biggest problem with learning this business from scratch. You
don't know what you don't know, and therefore, you don't know what
you need to know.

It becomes one long treadmill until you either:

1. Luck out on getting just the right training materials.
2. Get somebody willing to give you all the pieces you need.

And when I say all the pieces, I don't mean every little last one to all of
Internet marketing. I'm talking about JUST the pieces you need to put
something together that will ultimately generate some profit.

Does that mean it will generate the optimum profit?

Probably not. Even I'm not at that stage yet because I refuse to leverage
the hell out of my business and outsource the crap out of everything so
that I have 10 gazillion people working for me and all I do is sit back,
supervise and watch the money come in. I like being hands on and don't
like having to depend on others. So that limits my income.

It is what it is.

So you will never get the whole puzzle solved until you've actually
reached the point where you are running a business that literally runs
itself and is making you a fortune.

But you can get enough of an education, provided you have the capacity
to learn, to put you into profit.

How much will depend on your business model.

If you can do all that then you are driven to succeed and you don't care how long it takes to finally turn a profit. People with drive do that all the time but most people don't have that kind of drive. How many people will end up with a business that "literally" runs itself and makes a fortune? Your chances of winning the lottery are better than succeeding on that level by yourself. That's why 97% fail. They set themselves up for failure and don't even know it.

Invest in human capital and leverage the most valuable resource you already have: people helping people reach common goals. Working together works because you have experts doing jobs they love and collectively your end result can't help but grow exponentially. That doesn't happen without people because it's not humanly possible.

Everyone is good at something but NOBODY is good at everything unless you're too young to know that yet. Know-it-alls will never have it all but they don't believe that so they keep trying "scam" after "scam" blaming everyone else. Nobody else can put a Stop Payment on your Reality Check. And nobody else can remove it either.

Wealthy people tell you what their secret is all the time. Nobody believes it. Helping people is their passion because they know without help nobody succeeds. Wealthy people start movements to help the masses while greedy rich people do the exact opposite.

Rich people won't help you do anything but keep spinning your wheels. They're experts at helping you, help them stay in control. The rich and powerful are greedy and want total control extending all the way up to the men behind the iron curtain. They tell the working class only what they're supposed to know by controlling the media. How much media coverage did this secret video about Bush get?

Muntavo Lewis, 17207 Woodingham, Detroit, MI 48221, USA is a good example of how the wealthy help the working class get ahead. Even with his wealth and all his other resources, it's no easy task. Google his name and see what you find and then register your profile here Leah Dubyk (thriftgirl62) - Human Capital if you're interested in joining a group or starting your own. Most people are too scared to take a chance on what they believe. What will people think? OMG!! My mother always told me what other people think is none of my business and it's not polite to be nosy. I bet your mother is just as smart as mine. Ask her and see!

QUESTION: Would Steps 2-6 have worked with any success if you didn't lay a strong foundation with Sitesell first? How did you know all that when you started, especially staying away from the guru-hype?

Most people do not have the self-discipline to keep working without being sidetracked. SITESELL is awesome if you can stay "in the box" and that's why it's not easy making money online - at first.

I want to call that "The PERFECT Plan" because when you add the massive forum of people helping each other, it just might be.