If you NOT blogging, I guarantee your gunna look back and regret it !! **Here's why**
** This post is long but I am about to pour everything out and you are going to want to know this **
Right first off as you may of read in other posts of mine I am having what I class as high success with my blog ( As its the first time I have made money online ) ... So yes I am going to be biased in favour of blogging.
Now there is VERY good reason for this as I expect most of you will already know as most of you will no doubt have more experience than me. However I also suspect a lot of you are not yet at this stage so I want to help you now so you dont live to regret it over the next few years.
So you know I am not just talking B.S .. you should know I have been having high quality coaching with Alex Jeffreys and have received training not long ago for a couple of hours from the video marketing queen - Maria Andros. Both of these make a lot of money and what they have taught me is just GOLD !
So.. You must be blogging !! Heres why ....
( Remember many of you know this but many dont )
The internet has changed .. FACT
The internet is still changing .. FACT
No longer can you just approach anyone online and try to sell them something.. An example I was given to show this point is imagine you are at a party, everything is going great and everyone is having a laugh and talking amongst themselves in groups.
All of a sudden someone burst into the party all excited shouting " Guys, guys.. I just found this amazing money making system online.. You MUST buy it "
The reaction would be poor right ??!!
Of course it would, no-one wants to be sold to like that
So what do you NEED to do in order to be selling to people online and essentially making money ??
You MUST..MUST ..MUST build a relationship with people !!
You must get people to actually be finding you by positioning yourself correctly and providing value. This in time will build a trust with people, when the trust comes then people begin to listen. When people begin to listen they begin to follow, and when they follow what you do in turn they follow what you advise !
Do you see where this is heading and the power of this NEW internet approach ??
So how do you build this sort of relationship online with people you have never met ....
You got it .... a BLOG !!! !!! ! !!!
If I have learnt anything in the last 3 months it is that you MUST have a blog and brand yourself with it.
Ok, I know when I started my blog I thought I had nothing to blog about and you may be the same but get this... When you start to build a blog, you have something to blog about right ?! You can blog about how you built a blog.. Simple !! But SO effective, dont hold yourself back by thinking you cant do it .. YOU CAN !!
Let me give an example ...
My first ever blog post I said like.. Hey this is me - Dean Holland, Im broke and in a lot of debt ( Which is still true ) but guess what.. Im gunna turn it all around and I am going to make money online and eventually quit my job to do it full time !!
[ In fact I have so much passion I will acheive this THIS year ]
Go and see if you like, thats exactly how I started my blog ! All I did was tell the world what situation I was in and where I wanted to be, go see how people responded to that ...
So then what did I do ??
I told people and continue to do it, how I am building my online business ! Again simple, in effect I am keeping an online diary, so now if people want to they can follow what I do and copy !!
Does that sound hard ??
Well I tell you its not, but what it does take is TIME and COMMITMENT !!
So do you think the people coming to my blog understand me and listen to me ? Yes they began to !!
Why ??
Because I am open and honest, people respect that and that is the type of thing people will follow !
Get this, what do you think happened when I told people on my blog that Alex Jeffreys was opening a coaching program and it was him that had helped me ?? Yes I made sales !! In fact I made a profit of over $1700 from that 1 post !
Thats the power of the blog and the power of using a blog to build a relationship.
So then what do you do ?? You build a list from your blog !! Now do you see what you have.. You got a list of people that TRUST you !!
And that is **priceless**
So there you have it warriors, now maybe this post wont get the appreciation for the value that I believe it holds but I sure hope that those that do read it take some action on it ....
The key is to help others.. Never forget that
Best of luck warriors !!!!!
Dean
--->I can also write other fiction (horror, romance, mystery, etc). Just ask me, I don't bite. :)
"It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled. -- Mark Twain
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