The Best Secret Of "The Secret"
The Secret "success is in your list" is preached all around the
globe on the Internet. I will not argue that to be successful
online you must have a list that you can contact at will. It is
almost a certainty! I feel it is only half of the secret though.
I feel there is a more powerful secret that is not being
mentioned by those that have succeeded online. Names you all
recognize after just a few months of research for an online
opportunity to build an income. These people did not just
stumble upon their success overnight did they? Well, maybe a few
of them did or that is what they want you to believe anyway. I
know for me it has been an "on again off again" adventure.
How about you? You have a web site and you are collecting your
visitors name and email addresses right? If so, how long did it
take you before you figured out how to get traffic to your site?
How much longer after that did you figure out how to get the
visitor to leave their name and email address?
When did you figure out that if you did a joint venture with
another online marketer that you could build your list quicker
and with a more responsive list member? How did you learn about
the effectiveness of joint ventures? How long did it take to
make your first joint venture?
How many dollars did you invest to learn this or that so that
you could easily become successful overnight just by following
the guidelines expressed in the product? Did you become
successful overnight? Within six months? A year? Still trying?
Another secret that some are preaching is that in order to
succeed you must first "take action" on what you have learned.
They will go on to say that less than 5% of the readers of their
e-book or participants in their program will ever succeed only
because they do not take the action on what they have been
presented.
Taking action often requires knowledge of an ability you do not
presently have. How many times have you tried to install a
script on your web server only to have it not work? How long has
it taken to figure out how to make the auto responder provided
by your hosting service to work?
How long has it taken you to get the Pay Pal button to work the
way you have been told to? To take a payment for your product
and then provided that product in a secure manner? Preventing
the customer from discovering where your product is located on
your server and stealing it from you?
Are you aware of the one most important thing you must do to
ensure a bit of security on your web sites host server? How long
did it take you to learn? Just in case you are not aware of it
yet, YOU MUST include an index.htm or index.html file in ALL
DIRECTORIES on your web server! Otherwise a visitor who stumbles
across one of those directories, has full access to your hosting
account and can find all your files and download them.
Everything becomes available to them.
In the second paragraph above, I mentioned names. The names of
people you will most certainly come across many times while
surfing the Internet. Why do you think these people are
mentioned so frequently? Why do you find their web sites and
products discussed so many times? It is because they have
achieved success! They are known to produce an income for their
affiliates. These individuals have respect of, and for other
successful online marketers. These individuals are leaders in
what they do.
There is one very common thing that all these successful people
have in their organizations and at their web sites. Can you tell
me what it is?
Before I tell you, let me say that in the past year I have spent
very few dollars on products from these successful "gurus". More
surprising is that I now own resale rights to a lot of those
products. Do you know my secret yet?
The best secret of "The Secret"
To be successful "it's whose list you belong to"!
Why buy the product until you know more about the individual
presenting the product to you for purchase? Sign up for their
newsletter and determine for yourself if they know what they are
talking about or just providing what someone else knows about.
Those people acknowledged all around the Internet as being an
expert all have a newsletter you can sign up for. They all offer
a free package you can receive just by providing your name and
email address at their web site. Many will provide their
products after a few months to those on their mailing lists as a
thank you for staying with them for a period of time. I have
been on some list my entire five years and those loyalty gifts
can be quite valuable. AND what better way how to learn to be
successful than from those that are.
That's my secret. Now you know mine, what is yours? I would like
to know. A person can never have enough information. It is what
you do with the information that is important.