Why are you doing this?

This may seem like a very stupid question on the surface, and you've also probably heard the whole concept before.

But, have you ever asked yourself, why?

I'm sure the majority of you got into internet marketing for the freedom, to escape the rat race, to make some decent money, or maybe you got laid off and this is your only option.

How many of you are actually realizing those dreams, though?

The real question to ask yourself is why did you get into the offline world? Is it because it's the fastest way to make money? It's generally easier to get results for local markets?

I'm asking this because, I used to ask myself this and never seemed to 'get it'.. because I always thought I knew the answer, 'to help local businesses'.. but, deep down, it wasn't the real answer, the real answer was to make money and become free.

But, when this is your motive, business owners smell it, and that's why a lot of us have problems selling. We go in thinking "they'll see right through me".

If you go in there, 110% dedicated to THEIR success, you could care less about the rejection, it is literally THEIR loss, you're just trying to help them.

I was talking to a sales rep for an ISP today, and he said he would go door-to-door and have the door slammed in his face all the time, and after a while he thought you know what "Screw you" I'm here to save YOU money.. I know my service is superior and that you'll like it, so you're going to hear me out. And he would knock on the door again until the guy would listen to his spiel.

But, for me, I never really changed my mind set until I finally got a client ranked and generating business through MY efforts, it just felt like such a good deed, here I am, some guy working out of his house and I just increased this business owners bottom line by 50% in 3 months.

That's when it all changed, that's when I stopped caring so much about the money and realized it would follow my passion.

I know this post is going to be obvious to a lot of you, and also SEEM obvious to a lot aswell, but, if you're still having problems about selling, trust me, you still haven't 'got it' yet.

A lot of people say not to do anything for free, but if you just can't get in the right mind set and you've still never provided results to a client, just go do it for free, find a really uncompetitive market, one you can rank for in a few weeks.. and ask a business owner if you can rank them for free, just for a testimonial.

Once you get them results, you'll see what I'm talking about, the money takes a back seat when you see you've helped somebody out like this.


Hope this helps one of you guys out.

Thanks,

James