Your Face, Your Voice And Your Online Success?

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Have you ever heard your own voice on a recording and thought: “I don’t sound like that, do I?”  When you ask your friends, they say: “Yep, that’s exactly how you sound”.  Even freakier is if you’ve ever seen yourself in a photograph and thought something wasn’t quite right, thinking: “That’s not how I look, is it?”  Once again your friends say, yep that’s you.

Here’s what’s actually happening.  You don’t hear your own voice as it sounds to others.  You hear it vibrating of the bones in your head and within the spaces of your sinuses and other cavities.  You don’t know how your own voice really sounds until you hear a recording.  You don’t see yourself as others see you.  Everyday, you look in the mirror you see a reverse image of yourself.

Now, because our faces are almost symmetrical, you don’t look that much different but you do look slightly different.  That’s why you get that slight uneasy feeling when you see yourself in photos.  You don’t know what you really look like until you see yourself in a photograph or a video.  It’s weird, right?

So, what does this have to do with your online success?  Well, I’m always amazed at how many people have strong opinions about starting their own business or making money online but have never even tried it.  If you don’t even know what your own face looks like until you’ve seen it from the proper perspective, how can you know what it’s like to run an online business before you’ve seen it from the proper perspective?  You can’t and it’s ridiculous but these know-it-alls deter so many would-be success stories with their backward thinking.

Don’t base your life choices on the advice of someone who has never left the comfortable, cosy, mediocre perspective of their boring life.  Get the real perspective.  Take a risk and try it.  You’ll never know until you do.

Here’s the best place to start.

The Danger Of Waiting Until You’re Ready

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There’s a saying from Hugh Laurie: “It’s a terrible thing in life to wait until you’re ready.  I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything.  There’s only now.  And you may as well do it now.”

If you have kids, you’ll get this.  If you don’t have kids, just wait until you do.  You’ll get it then.  Have you ever heard a young couple say: “We’re not quite ready for kids now.”  If you have kids, every time you hear a young couple say that: you probably giggle a little.  You probably nod your head and try not to break out laughing.

It’s because every parent knows that you are never ready for kids.  There’s no such thing as being ready.  Until you have kids, you have no idea what it’s like to have them.  It’s one of those things that you learn as you do.  It’s one of those things that you can’t fully prepare for.

The same is true of most important things in life including marriage and starting your own business.  You’ll never be ready as Hugh Laurie said: “There is no such thing as ready.”  The only way you can know if you’re ready for kids is to ask yourself: “Am I ready to love something more than I love myself?”  If you can truthfully answer yes to that question, then you’re about as ready as you’re ever going to be.

When it comes to starting your own business, if you can truthfully answer “yes”, to this question: “Do I want something more from my life than the usual 9 to 5, cubicle bound, work for 40 years and get a gold watch existence?”  If you truly do want more and if that desire burns in your belly, then you’re as ready as you’ll ever be.

Click Funnels is the easiest, simplest, least expensive, most proven, lowest-risk method to finally stop saying: “I’ll wait until I’m ready” and get started.

It’s a terrible thing to wait until you’re ready.

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The Ad Master Who Can’t Be Fooled

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In my earlier blog post, I told you about: The “Bible” of modern advertising, Claude Hopkin’s 1923 classic, Scientific Advertising which is perhaps the greatest 100 pages of marketing wisdom ever written.  Every serious student of direct marketing has read this little book at least 3 times.  Some even read it every year.

One of the “gospel truths” Uncle Claude teaches in this amazing book is the value of testing advertisements in direct mail.  It’s because back in Claude’s day, direct mail was the ultimate task master for a marketer.  It could not be fooled.  If you knew two offers and tracked the results, you knew for sure which was better.

Hopkins gives the example of a firm selling a $5 item.  One of their ad writers created an ad where the responses cost the company 85 cents.  In other words, for every sales letter they mailed, they earned $4.15.  Another writer in the firm submitted an ad which he thought would perform better.  The responses to that ad cost $14.20.  In other words, they paid $19.20 to the one order for $5.  What would happen if they hadn’t tested and tracked the second ad?  What if they just mailed it out again and again?  They’d be bankrupt.

So, what does this have to do with your online business?  Well, in an age where:

  • Every ad
  • Every subject line
  • Every email
  • Every sales letter
  • Every click
  • Every purchase

Can be tracked hundreds of different ways online, some marketers still don’t test and track as Uncle Claude recommended.  This is why they go bankrupt.  Even worse is that they’re trying and failing at things that other marketers have already figured out through their own testing.

Russel Brunson has paid out over $50,000,000 in commissions through Click Funnels.  You don’t pay out that much money without testing and tracking until you know exactly what works.  Click Funnels is a system which is proven through hundreds of thousands of tests to pay out $1000s of commissions.

The “Bible” of modern advertising

What Einstein Taught Me About Success?

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Did you know that Albert Einstein who basically figured out how the universe worked tried to take up Golf but gave it up because it was too complicated for him?  You might think this is a joke.  It’s not.  I’m serious here.

The story is that later in his life a colleague convinced Albert to give Golf a try.  On his first golf lesson the instructor gave him tip after tip as Albert was practising golf.  Topping off one, completely missing the next and then slicing the one after that.  His instructor, Gigi Carnivale kept hurling tips Einstein’s way: “Keep your head down, keep your back straight, bend your knees” and so on.  However, Einstein couldn’t make solid contact.  Then the scientist had more than he could take and picked up several balls and flung them at his instructor.  His instructor swatted at the balls, ducking and dodging to avoid being pummelled.

Carnivale asks: “What did you do that for?”

“Young man” Einstein began sternly, “when I throw you one ball, you catch it.  However, when I throw you four balls, you catch nothing.  So when you teach, make only one point at a time.”

Do you feel like Einstein?  If you’ve tried to achieve financial freedom by starting your own online business, you may have felt just as bewildered as Einstein by all the advice being tossed around and by all the skills you need in order to succeed including:
  • SEO
  • PPC
  • Landing Pages
  • Copywriting
  • Email Marketing
  • Ecommerce

On and on it goes.  The good news is that Russel Brunson believes in Einstein’s theory of simplicity.  “Any intelligent fool can make things more complex.”  It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to go the other direction.

“If you cant explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”

Russel had made it his mission to make an running an online business much simpler for the average person and not more complex.

Click Funnels is hands down the most step-by-step simple way to achieve success.

Notice, I never said it would be easy.  If you’re looking for an easy way, nobody’s going to be able to help you.  You’re dreaming.  You must have drive and ambition.  You don’t have to make it complex and confusing.  Russel and the team are proving that every day.

I think Einstein would approve of this system.

Three Simple Steps To Wealth

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To be successful, a business must accomplish three things:

  1. Get customers to show up
  2. Sell products or services to those customers
  3. Make enough money on step #2 to afford to more of step #1

It really is that simple.  Online marketing genius, Perry Marshall calls these steps Traffic, Conversion and Economics.

  • Traffic – Obviously if you can’t get your products or services in front of people who want to buy, you’ll never get off the ground.  You must have a steady stream of qualified prospects.
  • Conversion – Obviously, you must have an offer, a “proposition”, that’s attractive enough to get those customers to pull out their credit card and buy.
  • Economics – Obviously, the price of your product must be high enough to generate enough profit to spend on generating more traffic.

The wheel keeps spinning around.  Click Funnels has conversion and economics covered for you.  Firstly, Click Funnels has a proven system for converting your traffic into sales.  All you need to do is deliver the traffic and Click Funnels closes the sales.  You don’t need to do any selling or any converting yourself.  This aspect is all done for you.

Secondly, Economics – Click Funnel’s products are high-ticket.  I’m talking about thousands of dollars.  I’m not talking about $49 e-books here.  I’m not talking about low-priced items that you have to sell thousands of just to break even.  Now, just one sale is enough to provide you with commissions of thousands of dollars.  That’s plenty of profit to pump back into driving more traffic.

Worried that you won’t be able to generate enough traffic?  Click Funnels can help with that too.  Their One Funnel Away challenge is a treasure trove of proven traffic secrets used by Click Funnel’s top producers.

Click Funnels has all the bases covered.  Traffic, Conversion and Economics.

Find out more here.