How do you become successful in IM?

I used to follow the trend of selling. I still do selling, but last few month I have decided to create my dot com business. Not selling ebook because I do not have any secrets to share! I have failed in offline business and IM is the road that I have decided to take. Still working it. Success may not be soon but seriously after failing for so many times, it got to be a time of success...I hope I'm right :X

Find a hungry niche . . . offer them good quality information and take care of them . . . and commit to excellence!

I only jump into huge ponds like internet marketing, health , home business,

I have found it much easier to take a piece of a very large market, of course you have to know how to build a list for each of those without ranking high on google, I do rank on google for some, but it is not necessary to my success

Just focus on building a community of people who know your name and recommend you

I am working on a new community now I havent even advertised or marketed anything yet and in 1 week I already have 5 members to this site,

when I do start to market I should get about 20 per week, its all about building a community built on solid relationships.

Gerald,

Here's your answer - it's the way I did it and it's the only way I train now. This is admittedly broad but you will see the power in it.

1) Choose an audience you want to serve

2) Verify it is a hungry audience who is actively buying

3) Figure out what they're already buying

4) Figure out who is already selling it to them

5) Study why the sites selling to them are successful

6) Duplicate those successful elements and product in your own way and within your own brand

7) Sell - the only way to get money from someone else's pocket into yours is to sell. It can be automated but it must happen.

8) Care enough about serving your customers that you won't let all the little roadblocks derail you

That is actually a complete blueprint. Most people dismiss it as too general because they don't understand its power. Big mistake.

Best regards,
Ken Preuss

1. Take 100% Responsibility for Your Life - In a society where people blame everything from their parents to the government for failure, those who don't buy into this mentality or succumb to the "victim" thinking succeed. To blame something or somebody outside yourself is saying they have control of your life and not you. Someone else's opinion of you doesn't have to become your reality.

2. Live Your Life On Purpose - What separates motivational thinkers from the unsuccessful is that they believe they're doing what they were put her to do. The difference between this and just living, is that the latter is just getting through the week with the least problems. But when you live your life on purpose, your main concern is doing the job right. For the entrepreneur this means finding a cause you believe in and building your business around it.

3. Be Willing to Pay the Price - Be willing to pay the price for your dreams. Wanting a big house, a luxury car, and a million dollars in the bank is all very nice, and everyone wants these things - but are you willing to pay the price to get them? This is one of the major differences between the successful and unsuccessful.

4. Stay Focused - Every day we're bombarded with hundreds of tasks, phone calls, messages, and everyone competing for our time. Focusing requires giving up something in the present because you are investing your time in something that will pay off big-time down the road. Jack Canfield and Mark Hanson were turned by 30 publishers when they submitted the first "Chicken Soup for the Soul" book. Instead of giving up, they stayed focused on their goal and did four or five interviews per day for radio, TV, and newspapers, for five days a week for a whole year. Eventually, a small publisher decided to take a chance, and of course now it's a best-seller that spawned an entire series that have sold more than 10 million copies.

5. Become An Expert in Your Field One striking factor all successful people have in common is how seriously they take their profession. They strive to be the best at what they do, and do almost anything to improve. If someone followed you around all day with a video camera at your business, would it be a tape you'd be proud of or embarrassed about? Make the decision today to work at being the best in your field. How? By finding out what the "best" in your field are doing, and do what they do.

6. Write Out a Plan for Achieving Your Goals - Write out an action plan/map for how you're going to achieve your goals. Trying to reach your goals without a plan is like trying to drive from Los Angeles to Chicago without a map. A goal that isn't written down is merely a wish or fantasy.

7. Never Give Up - Never, never, never give up. When you're fully committed to achieving your goal, giving up is not an option. You must be willing do whatever it takes to make it happen. The power of perseverance is an awesome force. As someone once said, "inch by inch it's a cinch". Think of the lowly inchworm - if it pondered the length of the trip from start to finish before it started, it probably would never move. To a worm's point-of-view, the garden path must look like a trip to Mars. Never give up! Keep on going like the Eveready battery bunny, and pretty soon you're there.

8. Don't Delay - Nobody knows how much time they have left to accomplish their dreams, and we must remember that we don't have forever. The clock is ticking, and sooner or later your number comes up and you're gone. Successful achievers know this too, but they don't view it as a "negative". Achievers use it to "spur them on". They go after what they want as energetically and as passionately as possible, for as long as they have.

It's easy. Find out what people in your market are looking for and give it to them.

1. Identify a hungry market of customers with a comon problem- people with money too! This you can do by browsing through forums of niches your interested in.
2. Set up a blog on the niche that the market is in.
3. Put an opt-in form on the blog to capture visitor email details.
4. Start a weekly newsletter with those visitor details.
5. Add high value content to your blog that people would pay for.
6. Sign up to other people's products [who are in your niche].
7. Promote the products to your newsletter.

There you go, your 7 steps to success

Well for me it's been about learning everything I can about IM and applying it outside the IM niche. I've been pretty successful with my Forex, Emini, Small Cap Stock, Hunting, Raw Foods and Scarp booking sites, but when I've tried to do IM stuff..notta, even though I like to think I do ok. I actually got into the stock market niche because I was doing a very good job trading stocks and managed to develop a following on the ragingbull back in the day. I had an epipheny that I could monitize that and went from there. After my success in that market other people came to me and wanted me to help them develop sites, so I'm still the expert on my stock market site, but I'm the publisher on the others. I like it. I'd like to think I could teach someone what I do too, it's not brain surgery, and It seems like the big name guru's make a ton of money on the product launches they do, but I guess I'm good, but not that good.

Wow! Guys, thank for the guidances! I have alot to learn! I goin to start writing my plan now

Most of the tips are really great! This is a great tips and I going to post them in my blog with your links!

I think its simple (to make this comment short and sweet), do what you love. I think 95% or more will tell you thats how they became successful and I'll attribute my success, that I've had so far in online marketing to doing what i love. Reading day and night, trying non-stop all tactics, etc.

This should motivate you: If You Don’t Like Online Marketing, QUIT! | PalatnikFactor.com

Some good points here - loads to go on for all of us !

I'm creating a new simple project and target to earn at least $100 in the lst week. Lets see how it goes...

Hi,


Print out my blog post here for starters, loads of targeted info to help there:

http://www.warriorforum.com/blogs/db...ng-status.html

Hi Gerald,

It can be a tough business no qustion and I did quit only to find months later that something I had done had triggered great automative profits.

If you watch the video of Paul Potts at my websire/signature on the sales page you may find it a little inspiring as it talks to people who are trying to surprise the crowd.

Kind Regards

Paul