In this category I will publish mails, articles or posts I received from or have read at 3rd parties and think they might be of value for my visitors too.

So I will start today with the excerpt of a marketing email from Ewen Chia. In his mail he wrote the following:

Tons of people have become successful, but some
have not. Why?

I keep emphasising this is a BUSINESS.

And you need the correct knowledge and basic skills to
run it successfully. It’s not an overnight ‘hobby’.

What kind of basic skills am I taking about?

Things like domain registration, hosting, autoresponder,
traffic generation and most of all - marketing.

None of these are ‘technical’ in nature.

These skills need to be learned, there’re no excuses
not to learn them and expect money to fall from the sky.

You can find information to learn these skills from the
internet, and I’ve provided a lot of free materials and
videos to help too.

I can only do so much - the rest is up to you.

Only when YOU take the responsibility for your own
success, then will it come.

The worst ’success killer’ word is  - try.

Whenever I hear someone says “I’ll try…”, I know they
are not committed and they don’t really want to succeed.

Question is: Do you want it bad enough?

If you do, don’t ever ‘try’ - JUST DO IT.

I took many years and endured a lot of pain, just like
many successful folks.

I didn’t ‘try’ to be successful - I went out there and
did it, grabbed it by the throat…without help.

And here’s one of the biggest reasons why most people
may never succeed online (and this is the cold hard truth):

They spent too much of their time looking for that
‘magic pill’…instead of on their business!

Look…there are NO “secrets”.

Real success and making real money comes from
4 main things you do:

 1. Having a proven system and mentor
 2. Having a proven product to sell
 3. Taking correct action
 4. Investing time, money and/or energy on your business

These are your so-called secrets and focusing on the
above makes you successful.

Instead of you having to go through the years of
experimenting, making mistakes and enduring pain…

There IS a better and smarter ’short-cut’ way.

And that is by focusing on the 4 points I mentioned above.

So far the words of Ewen Chia. I think it is important to over and over again ask yourself: Am I really focussed on my business and nothing else.

If you have not integrated those 4 points in your businessplan, then you should go and inform yourself very carefully where you can find especially the first 2 conditions which will fit into your businessplan. It is worth taking yourself enough time to carefully search, til you found the best for you. Mentor AND product must match your business goals.

I wish you all the best on your way to sucess.

Renate

Well, how do I best start to review?
What did I expect? - What did I get?

So let me start first of all with  my overall judgement:

It was once more a weekend I do not regret. It was once more a seminar where I learned a lot. And I’m once more thankful that I got the chance to participate one of Yorgo’s seminars for the low price of just $20 affordable to everybody.

Now to my personal thoughts:

What did I really expect, why was I sooo excited to attend THIS seminar?
Well, as you all can see and probably have read in my introduction here in the blog, my main subject at the moment is affiliate marketing and especially my Affiliate Marketing Center. So I was expecting to hear about affiliate programs which Yorgo might recommend due to his long time experience. And I was expecting to learn about how to market, respectively promote ONE or a FEW Affiliateprograms via different successful channels. How to do the advertising and how to promote via emailmarketing through lists and how to be able to build lists quickly and effectively.
(To get some answers to these subjects visit Dysak’s Affiliate Marketing Center by clicking the topic in the navigation bar).

To make it short, I was expecting to learn how to HUNT for customers and send them to my merchant thus earning from day to day more commissions.

My Gosh, how wrong I was.

Besides a few sentences I have not heard anything about the above mentioned.

Yorgo pointed out, what the advantages are starting with affiliate marketing as a newbie. He talked abot the 10 main reasons to participate in this kind of business when you are a newbie. The whole seminar was addressed to newbies, so at tjhat point I did not learn something new. If this was not already welknown to me, I would not have the Affiliate Marketing Center and would not write in my blog about it. As you know with this blog and DYSAK’s Center (www.dysak.com) I want to help Newbies get their feet on the ground and start earning money online.

So as I said the first part of the seminar was very wellknown to me but a great value for real beginners on online business.

So I was very eager about the seminar’s part II.

And now I thought I’m spending my time in the wrong movie.

The whole 2nd part was about BLOGGING!!!!

We already had a seminar and 3 weeks workshops about blogging in November last year.

Well not only had I forgotten quite a lot of keywordresearch, blogstructure and how to be loved by google and the search engines, I noticed very quick that the blogsubject suddenly got a total different meaning. I learned what the difference is between hunting customers and building authority and creating trustable webpresence. And that the first will result in single sales only when you do not have very large lists yet and the second is targeting on multiple incomestreams permanently enjoying our wallet.

I think the subject about keywordresearch and SEO optimization is one of the most difficult subjects in Internet Marketing, especially for me. Somehow I’m always on the warpath with it and I really hope, that this time I finally GOT IT.

We learned some more ways to create income through our blog and website beside the expected affiliate commissions. We learned how important the right domainname is, how imprtent it is to build your reputation. We learned about the importance of keywords for Google and SEO and the importance of the right tags for social bookmarking. We learned about the importance ot the right Blogstructure and the little tricks to be easily found by the spiders.

And above all we learned that the chances to build a permanent incomestream are close to zero if you do not succeed to reach and stay on the first two pages in Google within your keywords. And of course we learned how to reach this goal.

To simplify your keywordsearch please click HERE

Even a simple business like affiliate marketing will fail if you base it on hunting customers and not on being on the top front to be found by those who are searching for solutions for their problems and are willing to buy immediately.

I only can once again recommend Yorgo’s seminars to Newbies. They gain so much for such a small price. And I warmly recommends Yorgos’ new book which will be published the end of March and which was the basis for this seminar.

Since I only can judge for myself my final resumée is:

I was already on the right way, but learned a huge heap to improve it to reach my goal within shorter time.

So once again I can underline my own motto:

Develop Your Skills And Knowledge.

Thank you, Yorgo, Bianca and Zo.

Renate

PS: I would appreciate if my today’s seminar collegues and Yorgoo friends would review the seminar from their point of view by sending comments to this post.

PPS: To give you the chance to plan ahead and look for the upcoming April and May seminars here are the planned topics:
Create your own product on the basis of a real good PLR product (April)
Promote your product including your own affiliate program (May)

So come and check the Seminar-Topic in the navigation bar for exact dates.