You Are Fired…

Over the last month or so I’ve done next to nothing to grow my business.

If I was an employee in this business then the words of Lord Sugar would be ringing in my ears and I would be sitting in the black cab thinking about my actions.

I’ve been doing things away from the computer, and when I have been online it’s to do client work for the sales I’ve made through fiverr, and my first foray into the world of offline marketing. Speaking of which thesis will be landing here very shortly :-)

What have I been doing?

  • Summer arrived in the UK, so I’ve been fixing the patio I ripped up in March
  • I’ve been busy in my lab, keeping my main source of income is kind of more important than my blog
  • Family birthdays and friends visiting at weekends

What have I not been doing

  • Promoting my safelist product to new safelist members
  • Creating the listbuilding WSO that I’ve been wanting to write since the start of the year
  • Sticking to my one post a week from the 52 Headline Hacks
  • Upgrading this site to thesis
  • Writing guest blog posts and taking action on the products I’ve bought

So the point of this post is to share my personal thoughts on why I’m spinning my wheels at the moment. If I listened to myself and took action on my ideas then good things would happen.

Take a moment to think about what you would do if you were the boss of your company, how would you rate your performance?

What Difference Can A Headline Graphic Make?

Does This
Headline
 Stand Out And Get More Attention?

First of all I must apologize I’ve been rather busy with family birthday parties, fixing my patio, doing jobs for clients on fiverr, adding a new graphic to my sidebar, and lastly I’ve actually been working hard at my dayjob mixing up potions in my lab.

The whole purpose of this post today is just to show you that I’ve finally got round to installing the new headline plugin that I told you about earlier this week. I hope you agree that it does help to draw you into the blog post.

Oh, and if half a dozen of you buy this plug-in though my affiliate link I will be able to invest in Thesis through Sergio’s link and turn this whole blog into something a lot more pleasing on the eyes.

Create Great Looking Headlines And Help Me Buy Thesis

Now although this is a wordpress plugin I’ve been able to export one of the warning boxes and use it on a splash page I’ve created to promote AdKreator for part of something I’m testing out.

Is this a good spash page? link opens in new window

So basically I’ve nothing left to say, apart from looking forward to reading your comments on the new graphics.

Andrew

Can We Really Trust Internet Marketers?

So this week’s blog post should have been a list of Killer Resources, but that will have to wait until next week as I’m not organised enough to have planned ahead.

Today’s post is back to a threat headline.

Why Can’t We Trust Internet Marketers

Almost everyone you speak to online can tell you about a product or service they bought that was over priced and under delivered. Perhaps even worse is the fact that many of these people fall foul of the same tactics more than once before finding out that they have been diddled.

The worst thing is that these scumbags actually go out and target people they know are new to the world of Internet Marketing.

What Are The Warning Signs?

Here’s how to tell if someone is trying to abuse your trust.

  • Even when you have your credit card in hand all excited you don’t actually know what you’re buying
  • When you do buy a product you’re immediately told that you need to buy extra things to make it work better and give you that instant return on investment faster and easier.
  • Every email you get from them is trying to sell you something
  • You ask support a question and get no answer
  • The product is all filler and no actual information. Telling you to promote the product you just bought to make money is not actually a product.
  • Google is full of fake reviews and testimonials that have been bough from fiverr

How Can We Find The Good Internet Marketers?

It will take time, but eventually you will do some research and find a product or site such as the warrior forum where someone will take you under their wing and teach you how to create a BS radar and keep you on the straight and narrow.

Even better is when someone takes the time to write blog posts that educate you and teach you how to do things that will result in real sustainable online business.

Hint: By telling you the things above it means that I can no longer send you a copy and paste email to something involving russian programmers and a pintest loophole that will make you a gazillion dollars by the weekend.

Learn From The People Who Actually Have Done It

If someone is selling a blogging product but doesn’t use wordpress themselves then what makes them qualified as a teacher? Like I said in the previous post you need to learn from proven experts.

It’s also worth finding half a dozen or so people you connect with, make friends, and learn together.

Go out and find facebook groups or forums that have the same passion as you, and just have fun learning.

Suddenly the learning means that you’re now able to create content and start your own blog. Then you’re ready to start monetizing the content. If you don’t have real content then you are “faking it” and are no better than the scumbags who are selling hopes and dreams.

 

Who Do You Learn From?

Link to Glen’s Course – http://andrewstark.com/Glen-Hopkins-Coaching

Video Summary

In my work as a scientist I have been trained to seek out the experts in the field and read their research. When it comes to marketing we’re too quick to learn from a charleton with no valid qualifications.

As you will see Glen is a published author and has testimonials from people who I would consider to marketers with at least PhD qualifications. So if I was thinking about investing in a coaching programme then I would seriously consider buying this and learning proven sound marketing methods that worked last year, work today, and will work next year.

Sure the technology to deliver the profits will change, but the actual marketing funnel and selling process won’t.

Hope you learn a ton of cool stuff from Glen, and more importantly take action on what you learn.

Andrew

Link to Glen’s Course – http://andrewstark.com/Glen-Hopkins-Coaching

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