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		<title>Alex Jeffreys Mentoring 2011 &#8211; How To Make Money Online</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 04:16:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ottman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey everyone. It&#8217;s been a while and I wanted to get this quick post out to let you know my mentor Alex Jeffreys is at it again and has written one heck of a new ebook just ready for you to devour. Unreported Marketing is a great read and will help you determine where you [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://marketingwithyou.infusionsoft.com/go/unreported/mottman" target="_blank"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-555" title="alex-jeffreys-unreported1" src="http://michaelottman.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/alex-jeffreys-unreported1.png" alt="" width="150" height="200" /></a>Hey everyone. It&#8217;s been a while and I wanted to get this quick post out to let you know my mentor <strong>Alex Jeffreys</strong> is at it again and has written one heck of a new ebook just ready for you to devour. <strong><a href="https://marketingwithyou.infusionsoft.com/go/unreported/mottman" target="_blank">Unreported Marketing</a></strong> is a great read and will help you determine where you are while you are learning online and should help you realize that Alex knows what he&#8217;s talking about.</p>
<p>Most people have that burning question of &#8220;<strong>How To Make Money Online</strong>&#8221; but never really think it&#8217;s possible. Alex has a great way of breaking everything down into bite sized chunks. &#8220;Sometimes large chunks&#8221; LOL <img src='http://michaelottman.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been personally mentored by Alex and even met him at a live event in Las Vegas in 2009. He&#8217;s very energetic and makes <strong>making money online</strong> fun to learn. He has the ability to fast track your success if you are ready for it but in the meantime, go and read <strong><a href="https://marketingwithyou.infusionsoft.com/go/unreported/mottman" target="_blank">Unreported Marketing by Alex Jeffreys</a></strong>.</p>
<p>Getting a mentor was the best thing I&#8217;ve ever done as Alex Jeffreys has helped me to make over $17,000 with my Simple Ecovers web business. He helped to propel me to the front and I&#8217;ve done a lot of work for his students in all three of his previous mentoring courses.</p>
<p>He always will overdeliver. Just Google his name and see for yourself. I purposely waited to write this review as I knew hundreds of people would be doing the same. Alex has a personal interest in &#8220;your&#8221; success as he has had in mine. He will stay on long after his training to answer any and all questions that you have.</p>
<p>Getting a mentor will fast track your online business and <strong>How To Make Money Online</strong> won&#8217;t be a question for much longer.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s to your success and until next time&#8230;</p>
<p>Michael Ottman<br />
PS. Go now and grab <strong><a href="https://marketingwithyou.infusionsoft.com/go/unreported/mottman" target="_blank">Unreported Marketing</a></strong> for free while it&#8217;s still available. If it&#8217;s one thing I know for sure, Alex keeps his stuff pretty limited and has a way to get people to take action. I guess that&#8217;s what mentors do. <img src='http://michaelottman.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>How To Make Money Online &amp; Internet Marketing&#8230; Let&#8217;s Get This Thing Straight</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 21:27:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ottman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A long time ago when I was searching online for ways to make money using the internet, I always seemed to come across all kinds of websites that focused on &#8220;make money online&#8221; on their sales page but then when I got inside and saw what it took to make the money, it always turned [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A long time ago when I was searching online for ways to make money using the internet, I always seemed to come across all kinds of websites that focused on &#8220;make money online&#8221; on their sales page but then when I got inside and saw what it took to make the money, it always turned out that I needed to learn how to do &#8220;internet marketing&#8221; in order to make the money online.</p>
<p>Now this is pretty confusing because so many information product owners flat out sell their marketing materials as &#8220;make money online&#8221; programs or systems.  No wonder millions of people get frustrated when trying to figure out the difference between the two.</p>
<p>Internet marketing is simply the process by which you present an offer to a potential buyer.  Internet marketing is also the advertising process and of course if it all works out correctly, in the end you make money online.</p>
<p>It stands to make sense that more people are looking for the term &#8220;Make Money Online&#8221; than people who are looking for the term &#8220;How To Market Online&#8221; or &#8220;How To Do Internet Marketing&#8221;  and if you&#8217;ve been online looking for ways to make money for a while like I have, you will finally come to realize that you need to educate yourself about &#8220;internet marketing&#8221; in order to &#8220;make money online&#8221;.</p>
<p>Now how do you make money online?  Well, you have to somehow place yourself between a product that someone wants and the person who wants it.  You can make money online by many different ways.</p>
<p>Here are several in no particular order.</p>
<ol>
<li>Sell a product that people want or need.  ( Physical product or digital download )</li>
<li>Sell a service that people want or need.  ( Programming, SEO, Graphic design, Consulting, etc )</li>
<li>Sell someone else&#8217;s product as an affiliate.  ( You get a commission or part of the sale )</li>
<li>Sell someone else&#8217;s service as an affiliate.  ( You get a commission or part of the sale )</li>
<li>Open a store on Ebay. ( Your own products or find a drop shipper )</li>
<li>Open an online store and find a drop shipper to fill your store with products to sell.</li>
<li>Anything else your mind can imagine.</li>
</ol>
<p>The great thing about making money online is that there are literally hundreds of ways to market to a potential customer and the more ways you learn about and implement, the more money and success you stand to achieve.  Here are some examples of marketing online.</p>
<p>This is definitely not a complete list&#8230;</p>
<ul>
<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Affiliate Marketing</span>&#8230;</li>
</ul>
<p>I mention this one first because you don&#8217;t need your own product or service to make money online.  You can make a commission or a portion of the sales by signing up as an affiliate to any product or service that you wish to promote.  There are literally billions of products and services that you can become an affiliate for and then promote them to get a piece of the profits.  You will get a special link that tracks the sales for you and lets the product owner know how much they owe you too.</p>
<ul>
<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Article Marketing</span>&#8230;</li>
</ul>
<p>You can write articles about your product or service and then have a link in the article that takes people to an order form to purchase or to another website to learn more.  You would submit these articles to article directories, blogs and other places so potential customers can find you.</p>
<ul>
<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Pay Per Click Marketing</span>&#8230;</li>
</ul>
<p>You can sign up to pay for ads at all the major search engines and try your hand at driving massive amounts of traffic to your website or offer.  Be careful though as it will cost you money for every visitor who clicks on your ads.  You must make sure you earn more from your traffic than it costs you to get them to your site.</p>
<ul>
<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Banner Ad Marketing</span>&#8230;</li>
</ul>
<p>You can have graphics made in the size of banner ads that you can pay to place on websites that are in the same niche or interest of your product or service.  People can click on the banner ad and be taken to your website.  These work well as I click on banners often.</p>
<ul>
<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Email Marketing</span>&#8230;</li>
</ul>
<p>You can use an autoresponder service such as Aweber or Get Response to capture the names and emails of potential customers.  Then you can email them over and over until they eventually purchase something or get off  your list.</p>
<ul>
<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Blog Marketing</span>&#8230;</li>
</ul>
<p>You can have your own blog website where you have content about your product or service.  You can offer great free content that makes people want to visit your blog and you can use the other marketing methods above to drive traffic to your products.</p>
<ul>
<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Video Marketing</span>&#8230;</li>
</ul>
<p>You can create videos about your topic of choice and upload it to places like YouTube and Viddler.  People who search online for topics can find your video and get great information.  You can leave a link in your video description leading back to your website or product offer.</p>
<ul>
<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Forum Marketing</span>&#8230;</li>
</ul>
<p>You can become a member of a forum related to your product or service and help answer questions and become an authority on certain topics.  You can place a link at the bottom of each forum post leading people to your  website<br />
or offer.</p>
<ul>
<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Tele Marketing</span>&#8230;</li>
</ul>
<p>You can call people and offer surveys or poll them about a particular topic and then make an offer for your product or service.</p>
<ul>
<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Social Media Marketing</span>&#8230;</li>
</ul>
<p>Many people and businesses use social media such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, YouTube and other social sites to build what&#8217;s called &#8220;social proof&#8221; around their products and services.  Potential customers are more likely to respond when they see &#8220;live&#8221; people making comments and talking about things in a non sales environment.</p>
<ul>
<li><span style="text-decoration: underline;">SEO Marketing</span>&#8230;</li>
</ul>
<p>This is Search Engine Optimization Marketing.  You spend quite a bit of time targeting certain keywords and phrases related to your product or service so that the major search engines will rank you high for those keywords and place your website at the top of their listings which will generate the most exposure for you all without having to spend money on advertising.</p>
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<p>So in reality, what do all of the internet marketing tactics above do?  They are all geared for one thing and one thing only.  Generating as much traffic to your website or offer as you can.</p>
<p>Now everything I mentioned above works very well with many different business models.  I see each and every day many people give up and fail at trying to achieve success by making money online.  Information overload is probably the leading cause of this simply because most people realize that there is a lot to learn and more importantly, a lot &#8220;to do&#8221; in order to get everything all set up and running.</p>
<p>By understanding the difference between &#8220;Making Money Online&#8221; and &#8220;Internet Marketing&#8221;, you can begin to properly educate yourself and start taking real simple steps instead of continuing to look for that magic money system that doesn&#8217;t take any effort.</p>
<p>If it existed then we all would be making the big bucks online right?</p>
<p>The truth is that there are more successful business models or systems than I can count.  And whether you have a great business or a crappy one, if you use any or all of the &#8220;Internet Marketing&#8221; strategies above, you will get traffic to your website period.</p>
<p>The problem I had was that I kept jumping from system to system, beginning new programs but never really completing any of them because I had found something new and something bigger that promised better results.</p>
<p>I kept looking for that &#8220;magic button&#8221; that is so desirable because I wanted it easy.  I wanted results now.</p>
<p>I want you to know that there are systems that &#8220;once set up&#8221; run on autopilot.  They look like magic buttons but in fact a lot of work went into setting them up first.</p>
<p>If you follow me I&#8217;m going to teach you how to set one up.  I&#8217;m going to share with you my journey through this process and invite you to watch what I do and then do what I do in order to take the &#8220;making money online&#8221; dream to a reality.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">I will show you the steps I take and give you the education you need along the way.  Then I will show you how to take that education and duplicate what I do.  Once you begin to grow your business and see results, then you will have the experience to run your own successful online business.</p>
<p>From my own experience I know what it&#8217;s like to get that information overload, where you feel like there is too much to learn and such a short amount of time to learn it.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Believe me when I tell you there are a lot of people in this industry that will try to sell you a bill of goods, only to leave you still scratching your head and wondering what to do next.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Feel free to ask any questions, feel free to leave your comments and tell me your own frustrations.  It&#8217;s taken me a long time to finally believe there are no push button solutions.  There are plenty of neat marketing tools that will help to save a lot of time but no one software, tool, or program will generate your income.  That has to come from you.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Over the next coming reports and posts, I will be literally sharing with you exactly how I set up my business and hopefully you join me for this great journey.  Remember that there are plenty more than just one business model to choose from but I will be implementing a very simple business system that you can go away and duplicate very easily since I&#8217;m willing to help you.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Since most people are visual learners, I took the opportunity to create two very simple business systems in the form of blueprints.  One is very basic and the other a little more advanced.  These business models helped me generate over $17,000 in extra income for me and my family.  You can print these business models at the end of this post.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Print them out and put them by your computer.  I will be sharing with you exactly how I set up this simple business model and I won&#8217;t leave anything out.  This is all free information that I&#8217;m not charging for.  At least for now.   And you can build upon this simple model making it even more effective and complex. But that&#8217;s for later training.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Once you see how I grow my business, only then can you begin to come up with your own ideas and strategies that you can take to build your very own simple business system.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">The keys to success with any business you choose is first &#8221;planning&#8221; and second &#8220;action&#8221;.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">As long as you are willing to keep taking action &#8220;and&#8221; move forward, success is right around the corner.  Don&#8217;t give up.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Talk soon and look out for the next training.  Remember, it&#8217;s free.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Michael Ottman</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">PS.  Don&#8217;t forget to print out your FREE blueprints now. And if this system seems too easy for you then stay tuned as we will take the simple business system and grow our business wider and deeper.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">PPS.  There is of course a lot more to this simple business system but I want you to grasp that if we take this on in small tasks, we will better be able to achieve success.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a href="http://michaelottman.com/wp-reports/How_To_Make_Money_Blueprints.pdf" target="_blank">Download Your Simple Business Systems Blueprints Now!  Print Pages 7 &amp; 8</a></span></h3>
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		<title>Real Internet Business CodeX Review And Bonus &#8220;Just Launched&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 13:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ottman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey it&#8217;s Michael here and I know you wouldn&#8217;t be reading this unless you were &#8220;seriously&#8221; finally to throw in the towel as to trying to figure out all of this &#8220;Internet marketing&#8221; and &#8220;make money online&#8221; stuff.  I know you are frustrated and tired of all the so called gurus and systems out there [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">Hey it&#8217;s Michael here and I know you wouldn&#8217;t be reading this unless you were &#8220;seriously&#8221; finally to throw in the towel as to trying to figure out all of this &#8220;Internet marketing&#8221; and &#8220;make money online&#8221; stuff.  I know you are frustrated and tired of all the so called gurus and systems out there promising the world.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Well I can safely say right here on my blog that there has been something in the works during the past year or so that is going to make you very happy.  Two of my good friends, Garry Parkes and Gary Simpson have been where you are and have succeeded in what you are trying to accomplish online.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Right now as I write this they have just launched their highly anticipated <a href="http://bit.ly/kcr7nl" target="_blank">Internet Business CodeX</a>  mentorship site.  I personally have met and spoken with both of these fine men and like you, they are sick of all the crappy info products and massive claims of quick riches that we all see online each and every day.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I first met these guys in early 2009 while we were at a seminar in Las Vegas.  I spent 3 days hanging out with them and others as we toured Sin City and networked with each other.  You can Google both of their names and will find nothing but positive reviews about these guys.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://bit.ly/kcr7nl" target="_blank">Internet Business CodeX</a>  is their baby which just launched today and I highly suggest you go check out their site.  Everything and I mean everything you ever wanted to know or need to know about making money online is covered in this mentorship program.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">One key component to this site is the interactive forum that is included for all of the students and will be crucial to the success of those who are serious about making money online.  Yours truly will be helping to mentor and moderate questions and comments as I have been asked to help with skills that I have.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Since I hold Gary Simpson and Garry Parkes in such high regard I accepted immediately.  If you know anything about marketing you will know that the link from this page is an affiliate link to their site.  If you feel after visiting Internet Business CodeX that it&#8217;s for you then I will be happy to help you personally with succeeding in any way I can.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">If you order through my link I will give you free graphics work to make your website unique and scream value.  I will help upload and connect all the dots by guiding you through the techy stuff.  &#8220;This seems to overwhelm most people&#8221;.  And I will get on the phone, skype, email, chat or whatever to share with you how I made over $17,000 by just one suggestion that Gary Simpson made to me in 2009.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://bit.ly/kcr7nl" target="_blank">The Internet Business CodeX</a> will give you two great mentors who know how to give you all the steps and help needed for you to finally succeed with your online business.  And if you still have no clue as to what niche or topic to go with then they will help you with that as well.  They in fact &#8220;will&#8221; respond to your questions and needs.  And don&#8217;t forget I will be there as well to help every step of the way.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">So go now and check out exactly what <a href="http://bit.ly/kcr7nl" target="_blank">Internet Business CodeX</a> is and what it can and will do for you and your life.  These are two of the most &#8220;stand up&#8221; guys in the IM community and I fully back everything they teach.  There&#8217;s nothing they teach that they don&#8217;t do themselves.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Please leave a comment or ask any questions.  I&#8217;m glad to help.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Talk soon.  Until next time&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://internetbusinesscodex.com/member/go.php?r=144"><br />
<img src="http://internetbusinesscodex.com/images/IBCX468x60.gif" border="0" alt="Internet Business CodeX" /><br />
</a></p>
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		<title>Simple Ecovers Affiliate Program Now Live!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 07:14:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ottman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For over a year, I&#8217;ve been running SimpleEcovers.com and have made it very successful.  I&#8217;m glad to announce that I have made my 3rd major change to the website and have now included a whole new look and feel along with an affiliate program too! The site originally had simple Paypal buttons and just a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">For over a year, I&#8217;ve been running <a href="http://simpleecovers.com/affiliates" target="_blank">SimpleEcovers.com </a>and have made it very successful.  I&#8217;m glad to announce that I have made my 3rd major change to the website and have now included a whole new look and feel along with an affiliate program too!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The site originally had simple Paypal buttons and just a few options to purchase graphics from me but now over a year later, I&#8217;m glad to see it grow to where I can finally add the affiliate program.  Now I&#8217;ve always hated websites that advertised right up front about affiliate programs because people would use my affiliate link to go to a site and then see that it offered an affiliate program.  Then my prospect simply signs up to be an affiliate themselves and then purchases the product with their own affiliate link</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I&#8217;m sure you all have had this happen to you in one way or another so I decided to announce my affiliate program on my blog here and also put the link to sign up as an affiliate in the footer of my site at Simple Ecovers.  That way the people you send me may not notice that I have an affiliate program unless they are really looking for it.  So if you would like to join my SimpleEcovers.com affiliate program, I would love to have you on board.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I decided to use Paydotcom as my affiliate program since they are easy to implement.  I have tested and tweaked everything to make sure that you will get paid from all that I sell on Simple Ecovers.  If you choose to promote the $37 ecover package and someone decides to go ahead and order my $147 guru minisite package, you will get credited with the sale. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Another new addition is my portfolio section and my tutorial section where I will be adding my designs for all to see along with showing you how I design and render images.  Many of you have asked how I do what I do and I want to show you.  I haven&#8217;t added any tutorials yet and my portfolio is very small as I have to add hundreds of images still to the plugin that I found.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">But in the meantime the site is live and functional plus the affiliate section is ready to go.  You can make anywhere from $10 to $27 per design that I do for clients if you send them to me via your affiliate link.  So go now and sign up as I&#8217;ve already made thousands from graphic design and I wish to give you all a piece of the pie.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"> ==&gt; <a href="http://simpleecovers.com/affiliates" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>Join Simple Ecovers Affiliate Program Now!</strong></span></a> &lt;==</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Until next time&#8230;</p>
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		<title>How Can I Help You Please?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 18:05:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ottman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past year or so I&#8217;ve been running my online business free from the boss that so many of you have in your daily lives.  I never thought that I knew enough about anything to create my own products and services but I proved myself wrong by creating and running a successful online graphics [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">Over the past year or so I&#8217;ve been running my online business free from the boss that so many of you have in your daily lives.  I never thought that I knew enough about anything to create my own products and services but I proved myself wrong by creating and running a successful online graphics business.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Simple Ecovers makes me a full time living online but it&#8217;s time to switch gears a little in my journey as it&#8217;s time to do more than just graphics for people on the internet.  I&#8217;ve learned so much about mindset, customer service, planning, list building, product creation and more.  Needless to say my upcoming success will be dependent upon the continuing service I&#8217;ve always provided.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Now I haven&#8217;t been perfect in all I&#8217;ve done online and I&#8217;ve dropped the ball in many areas as my focus can become sometimes distracted by life and everything else around me.  But who hasn&#8217;t?  I haven&#8217;t met one person online or in person who didn&#8217;t have struggles and who didn&#8217;t have the occasional failure.  It&#8217;s in the midst of failure that most successes come from and I&#8217;m going to be no different.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">As I&#8217;m building my list of subscribers I&#8217;m going to be trying a few different tactics in marketing that a lot of people don&#8217;t do.  Now I know this may go against the norm but I&#8217;m determined to be successful by helping as many people as I can.  As a matter of fact I actually sent an email to my entire list last week asking people to unsubscribe.  Crazy you may think but it came from really wanting people to be on my list for reasons other than to  just receive affiliate offers from me.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Now making money online by sending affiliate offers via email to a large list will make you cash but whose lives did you change in the process?  There really is no way to know since all you do is forward people to the next online fad just to make some quick cash.  I know I could do it as I have done it before but for some reason I don&#8217;t feel great about it.  I want to really give value to the people on my list but yet I have no products of my own to sell.  ( Not yet anyways. )</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Easy solution now that I think of it.  I&#8217;ve been online for several years and know how to do many things.  I have no doubt that people are looking for many of the same things that took me hours and weeks to learn.  I am going to begin making content on various things that I know will help my subscribers and for the first time will be placing that content for free on my blog here and then simply send my subscribers here to devour the content.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I will engage them with questions and offer surveys to find out what they want and need.  The more I engage my readers and give value, the money will come.  I don&#8217;t want some quick sale but I want a customer.  Even if I share a video on how blogging has helped me, I won&#8217;t feel bad recommending them to someone who knows more about blogging like Mathew Wolfe.  You see, recommending someone to make a quick sale might work but then your visitor will have no reason to come back to you.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I want people to always want to come back and see what I have to say so by giving value, I will be able to do that.  I can&#8217;t please everybody but I can feel good about the type of internet marketer  I want to be.  So I offer you this to ponder.  What do you want to learn online?  What is it that you think you need in order to progress forward?  I know a lot of the gurus will tell you to outsource the work but from experience, I&#8217;ve seen the majority of people online want to actually &#8220;learn&#8221; how to do things on their own.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Most people don&#8217;t have the extra money and the resources to continually outsource like the gurus tell you so I want to create free content that will help you to progress online.  Please, I ask again..  What do you need?  Think about it and let me know.  I await your comments as this is genuine from me to you.  You could either continue to open email after email from marketer after marketer or you can begin to settle down and learn something of value.  I offer this because I&#8217;ve been caught up for years in the same day after day routine of reading countless emails only to find myself with less money and lost time.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">So again, &#8220;What can I do for you&#8221;?  Can I help you get your first subscriber?  Can I help you get your first Ecover created?  Can I show you how to write an email campaign?  Can I help you come up with a product to sell online?  Can I help you create your first website?  Can I show you how to make graphics?  Can I get on a Skype call with you and answer your questions?  What can I do to help YOU?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This is no gimmick and this is no scam.  I am a real person with a vested interest in you and your progress.  So please leave your questions and comments below.  I will personally answer each and every one as this is my new strategy for online success and I wish to bring you along for the ride.  Any questions?  Until next time&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Giving Actual Service Is One Key To Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 06:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ottman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Strategies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hey everyone, it&#8217;s been a little while since I just sat down and wrote some hard core content.  No advertisements, no affiliate links.  Not even any recommendations, (at least not yet.)  As many of you know, I got my start online by giving away graphics in a forum of a mentoring course I took last [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://michaelottman.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/goldkey.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-415" title="goldkey" src="http://michaelottman.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/goldkey-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a>Hey everyone, it&#8217;s been a little while since I just sat down and wrote some hard core content.  No advertisements, no affiliate links.  Not even any recommendations, (at least not yet.)  As many of you know, I got my start online by giving away graphics in a forum of a mentoring course I took last March.  Since then I&#8217;ve grown my business by supplying other marketers with ecovers and website design.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"> For a little bit of background I was in a dead end job being a delivery driver for a top food service industry and was killing myself every day just to make ends meet.  I knew money could be made online and had spent years dabbling around trying this program and that program only to end up more in debt and more frustrated.  So in March of last year I paid 500 for a mentoring course from Alex Jeffreys.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">He gave great content and told it like it was.  He broke down how he built his six figure business and told us what we needed to do in order to do the same.  List Building was at the top of the &#8220;to do&#8221; assignments as it&#8217;s a huge key to success online.  As I messed around on my own home computer doing graphics, Alex asked the students to help one another in the areas where we had talents so I began giving away graphics and ecovers to students in our forum.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Word of mouth spread among the students and before long I began to get emails asking how much for a graphic or how much for a header graphic or ecover graphic.  So I threw up a quick website with some payment buttons and before I knew it, I had told my job where to go. LOL</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I quit in July of 2009 not because I was making a killing online but because I was bringing in a consistent amount of money by providing a service online that people needed.  I stopped thinking about how to make the millions I would like and focused on how to bring in the next 37 to 97 dollar payment.  That&#8217;s when things took off.  By offering graphics, I could make money and work when I wanted.  I simply traded my job for a lifestyle.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Now like I said, I don&#8217;t make a killing but I do make money.  And that in itself has beaten that 97 to 99 percent who don&#8217;t make a dime.  Now I&#8217;ve taken my business as far as I can by doing one to one work.  I can make a couple of thousand a month by doing graphics for customers but why stop there?  After all, I know some marketing and know that I can leverage my time and money.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">So during the last year I&#8217;ve been working one on one with customers doing their graphics and have lost my vision of the number one thing I should have been focused on which was building a list.  Now I&#8217;ve joined another coaching course gearing me toward building my list and once again, this course has a student forum.  Since I had made money from the last forum I was in, I knew what I had to do.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">So right off the bat I was asked to be a forum moderator which helped me to place myself in front of the students.  I not only moderate for the forum owners but I began to give service to the students for free.  Two things happen when I do this.  The first is the students see me as an authority in the topics I answer for and the second is since I give so much in the forum, many students will no doubt use me for my services in the future.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This is called forum marketing because I&#8217;m able to help others with their issues and at the same time be able to make money later on because I&#8217;ve already built a relationship of trust with them.  They also feel the need to reciprocate by doing something in return for the services which I give them for free in the forum.  There is a quote that says that if you help enough people get what they want then you will eventually get what you want.  I truly believe that since I&#8217;m seeing it yet again in another forum.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">So if I were to tell you one thing it would be this.  Stop trying to make a million dollars online and try to just make one.  Why?  Because when you know how to make one then you can duplicate it over and over again.  Think big but start small.  Don&#8217;t get it right, just get it going.  I could give you many great quotes but they will all mean nothing if you don&#8217;t take action.  For years I learned and learned and made nothing.  Now I act and money shows up in my Paypal account almost daily.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In the forum I&#8217;m in now I&#8217;m not even doing graphic work but instead have been uploading websites and configuring Aweber accounts.  I barely learned how to do this myself over a year ago and now have people begging me and offering me cash to do it for them.  For now I don&#8217;t take their money but later on after I create another website and set up payment buttons, the people will come.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Why?  Because I stepped in between students and their mentors.  I&#8217;ve listened to their questions and concerns and I know their wants and needs.  More importantly, I&#8217;ve been where they are and give them words of encouragement.  And in the end, they will gladly pay me to relieve them of the burdens they face.  It will be a win win for everyone involved.  I know you have marketing skills.  Whether it&#8217;s graphics, hosting, autoresponder, writing, or even socializing, you have a skill others don&#8217;t.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Give that talent away and people will come asking you &#8220;how much&#8221;  Think about it and give it a try.  I&#8217;m proof it works and I know you can do it to.  It&#8217;s already been two weeks in this forum I&#8217;m in about list building and already people are asking me &#8220;how much&#8221; and are begging me to take away the stress of the things I find simple.  Many people think I&#8217;m dumb for wasting so much time doing a lot of work for free and most of that comes from my family.  But they don&#8217;t know.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">They don&#8217;t know that by offering my services for free now will gain me huge returns in the future.  Forum marketing is not sneaky or wrong.  It&#8217;s a great way to offer your service and then patiently wait till people are banging down your virtual doors with their wallets open asking &#8220;How Much!&#8221;  People want to pay me money, they want to get personal mentoring from me, they want to know how I &#8220;know so much.&#8221; </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">It&#8217;s not what you know that makes you money, it&#8217;s how you use your knowledge to help others.  Once you get that, then money will start to flow.  I&#8217;m beginning to see that I can take my knowledge and show someone how to upload a website and how to configure their Aweber account.  What if I recorded what I did?  Would others pay to see the videos?  Would others pay to see how easy it is for me to do it?  Sure they would. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">What about all the praise and comments people make about me in the forums?  Those would make great testimonials to add to a website that would help boost my credibility and authority.  Add a few payment buttons and there you have it.  A money making website ready to go complete with a service to offer and praise from people you&#8217;ve helped.  So many people are looking for the quick buck without doing any work for it but I believe in hard work.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I believe in being honest to myself and to the people who I work for.  To me, I&#8217;m a different kind of marketer.  One that cares about the success of others regardless of how much they know.  I want to motivate and encourage.  And if they still don&#8217;t get what I&#8217;m teaching or saying, I don&#8217;t want their money.  I know I can&#8217;t be all things to all people so I must know my limits.  But I must also know my worth.  Words to ponder don&#8217;t you agree?</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">So now I give you some homework.  First make a list of your strengths online and of your weaknesses.  Then I want you to take some time to learn and build upon your weaknesses and get help and answers with them.  I also want you to be confident with your strengths and begin to help others who don&#8217;t have them.  Be their guru.  You don&#8217;t have to know everything online to command attention and be a help.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">After a while of helping, make notes of the comments people leave you and also make notes on the problems people face online.  Try to come up with solutions and you will have your next product.  Product creation is for another time and another post.  For now I just want you to see the potential you have to actually make money from first giving a service.  I&#8217;ve already told you I&#8217;ve sucked at building my list and have joined a course to learn more.  But in the process I became a mini guru to those students who have less knowledge than me about uploading sites and setting up autoresponders.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Who knows, you may see a product soon with my name on it that I can sell over and over again which will increase my already growing business.  Please let me know your thoughts and more importantly, &#8220;What can I help you with?&#8221;   Until next time&#8230;</p>
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		<title>FREE Viral List Building Website, The Viral Secret</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ottman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[List Building]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey everyone. I just wanted to give a quick post on a topic that seems to haunt almost everyone who tries it. It&#8217;s list building. I&#8217;ve been working online as a graphic designer for a while now and admit I haven&#8217;t done my due diligence in creating and maintaining a mailing list. Only recently have [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">Hey everyone. I just wanted to give a quick post on a topic that seems to haunt almost everyone who tries it. It&#8217;s list building. I&#8217;ve been working online as a graphic designer for a while now and admit I haven&#8217;t done my due diligence in creating and maintaining a mailing list. Only recently have I been <a href="http://simpleecovers.com/freegraphics/" target="_blank">giving away a graphics pack</a> to build my list.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I came across something that has given me 53 subscribers in just a few hours and by the time this post is up for 24 hours I will let you know even how much more it has grown.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">You need to check out <a href="http://michaelottman.com/recommends/viral" target="_blank">The Viral Secret</a>  to spend 10 measly minutes to set up your very own VIRAL list building website that Russel Brunson just launched.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I&#8217;m not joking around here. I&#8217;ve been tearing the remaining little hairs out of my head to get myself to build a list but it takes a while to motivate myself. If you use Aweber and already have a list name created, all you have to do is plug it in and your set.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The cool thing is that once you sign up and upload your list details, they give you a special link to promote a free list building site to others. Everyone who goes for the free site gets on your list and the whole thing goes 6 levels deep. So now that I signed up, I am on 6 marketers lists all by filling in one form.  After I got my affiliate link and placed it in my browser, I noticed my picture and email newsletter listed in the 6th position on my <a href="http://michaelottman.com/recommends/viral" target="_blank">Free Viral List Building Site</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Now I send visitors to my link and when they sign up, they are automatically on my list.  Of course they have to double opt in to be fully on there but at least they signed up.  Now if just 10 people do what I did and the same thing continues, by the time I reach the number 1 spot on other peoples list building site, I could potentially have thousands if not tens of thousands of email addresses.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">In just the time it took me to write this post my subscribers increased by another 6 subscribers.  This truly is going VIRAL.  The best part is that these people are on my list so every email sent is actually sent by me with my list name.  Unlike other list building sites like ListDotCom.com which shows ListDotCom as the sender of the email instead of your own list name.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Only time will tell whether this <a href="http://michaelottman.com/recommends/viral" target="_blank">Viral List Building</a> free site will amass me thousands but for spending only 10 minutes of your time and getting it all for FREE, this is truly a no brainer.  Never mind the $97 upsell as it only gains you extra exposure and doesn&#8217;t gain the affiliate any extra cash.  All cash goes straight to Russel Brunson but who cares as the purpose is to grow my list very very fast which it seems to be doing.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">As a matter of fact, the time it took you to even read this post is all it takes to set this up and begin building a very huge list in a very short amount of time.  My link has some pretty big names as the 6 marketers who you get to sign up under so be sure to sign up here in order to get some credibility with your <a href="http://michaelottman.com/recommends/viral" target="_blank">free list building site</a>.  I will keep you all posted so until next time&#8230;  <a href="http://michaelottman.com/recommends/viral" target="_blank">Check out The Viral Secret</a>!</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:27:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ottman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As many of you know, Alex Jeffreys was my mentor and helped me to be able to quit my day job to go full time online.  I have sat through two of his coaching courses and watched as he transformed hundreds of peoples lives for the better.  Alex is not only my mentor, he&#8217;s my [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">As many of you know, Alex Jeffreys was my mentor and helped me to be able to quit my day job to go full time online.  I have sat through two of his coaching courses and watched as he transformed hundreds of peoples lives for the better.  Alex is not only my mentor, he&#8217;s my friend.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">As this year winds down, Alex has decided to give what I consider the best freebie of the year and I&#8217;m not just talking about what Alex has given, I&#8217;m talking about the entire online marketing community as a whole.  Alex doesn&#8217;t just give you a bunch of rehashed marketing junk but what he&#8217;s giving away right now is actual coaching for free.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">You are going to see first hand how Alex had his first of many $10,000 days but he&#8217;s giving this away for a very limited time and yes, I do mean &#8220;limited&#8221; as you will be blown away how he did this.  I am currently working online full time and yes, it&#8217;s due to what Alex has taught me and continues to teach me today.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">You&#8217;d be crazy not to go and let Alex teach you for free what I paid several hundred for merely months ago.  Now if was able to quit my job, then there&#8217;s no reason why you can&#8217;t do the same.  Literally hundreds of people leave Alex great feedback on his blog each time he does something like this and today is no exception.  So click <a href="http://tinyurl.com/ybx5mps" target="_blank">here</a> to learn first hand how Alex had his first of many $10,000 days. </p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Alex is offering this for a very limited time and he actually means it.  The vast majority of marketers have no clue that what Alex is going to show you is even possible and once he does show you how he makes massive cash from his genious methods, you will be loving Alex all the way to the bank.  Until next time&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://tinyurl.com/ybx5mps" target="_blank"><img class="size-full wp-image-387 aligncenter" title="Alex Jeffreys Free Training" src="http://michaelottman.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Alex-Jeffreys-Free-Training.jpg" alt="Alex Jeffreys Free Training" width="500" height="200" /></a></p>
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		<title>How To Overcome Information Overload</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:31:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ottman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Throughout all my years on the internet, I have totally burned out so many times after trying to learn so many methods and so many products. I now chalk this up to information overload and have written a short report about getting back to basics and how to start treating this online thing like a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;"><img class="alignleft" title="Information Overload" src="http://michaelottman.com/graphics/InformationOverload.png" alt="" width="246" height="301" />Throughout all my years on the internet, I have totally burned out so many times after trying to learn so many methods and so many products.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I now chalk this up to information overload and have written a short report about getting back to basics and how to start treating this online thing like a business.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Go ahead and sign up below to get your copy so you can save yourself from information overload.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Update:   I also just wanted to let all of you know that today is a special day for me too.  Because I just did what most of you have been wanting to do for a long time now.  I just quit my job!</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Exciting and scary to say the least.  I finally decided that my success lies in the decision to be successful and I&#8217;m not just going to wait around and see if this stuff really works or not.  I know it does cause there&#8217;s a million people online doing this full time.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">So that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m going to do.  You all can use me as an example because you will see me fail or succeed right here on my blog live.  And now that I&#8217;ve gone full time with this, I can concentrate on doing graphics for my friends and pumping out free stuff to help you succeed online as well.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Sound like a plan?  Now remember that you need to get Information Overload and give me an honest review because I&#8217;m giving some great bonuses to those who leave the best comments.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">You gotta tell me what relieving you of Information Overload will do for you and why you deserve the bonuses that I&#8217;m giving away.  Here is just an example of one bonus that you will get.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><img class="alignright" title="Supercharged List Building" src="http://michaelottman.com/graphics/superchargedlistbuilding.png" alt="" width="246" height="301" />I&#8217;m going to show you how you can email to hungry paying customers in only 30 minutes from now.  I know you are all trying to build your lists but this will create instant cash if used correctly.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Now that I have the time to create and run my business, I will be able to work with you and for you to fast track your business like I am mine.  It&#8217;s a win win for all of us.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">So don&#8217;t forget to grab your copy of Information Overload above and get to really taking this online business stuff serious.  If your only dabbling in marketing online then you really need to decide if this is for you cause in my opinion most of those people are in that 99% who fail.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">So get to leaving those comments because I&#8217;m excited to share with you my bonus above when it&#8217;s ready.  Oh and by the way, you will be able to make money with it because it&#8217;s going to be rebrandable.  Until next time&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Omar Martin &amp; Internet Selling For Newbies</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:16:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ottman</dc:creator>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">People begging for money and trash in every corner.  I wondered how a city so beautiful can be this trashy at the same time.  It&#8217;s proof that whatever you want to find in any place on earth you can find if you just stop to look around and pay attention.  The same is true with people.  You can either think that the so called &#8220;Gurus&#8221; are non approachable or you can decide that you will make the effort to stop and take the time to see what is inside of these people.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">This brings me to Omar Martin.  I went out to Las Vegas to meet up with my mentor Alex Jeffreys and attend Mike Filsaimes Butterfly Marketing Workshop.  Alex gave us 25 to 30 students some great information and some great training.  He has kept giving as his mentoring program has been finished for awhile now.  I met up with him and some of the action takers he has produced (meaning us students.)</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Paula Brett, (hi sweetie) introduced me and some others to Omar Martin, one of Mike Filsaime&#8217;s business partners.  As a internet selling newbie myself, I felt like I was in the presence of royalty or something  much like when I saw Alex and Mike but it was a lot different because I decided to start talking with Omar Martin.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">The guy was personable and polite.  He was funny and outgoing.  I could see the passion in this guys eyes when he talked of his wife and their desire to have a baby, and of his story from nothing to something.  You see, all of this took place in the social scenes of Las Vegas.  We were not at a convention or seminar.  This all took place at the bar.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://internetsellingfornewbies.com/go/?download=351" target="_blank"><br />
<img src="http://internetsellingfornewbies.com/NewbiesGraphics/Omar_Extras/Banners/1.jpg" border="0" alt="Click here to get Internet Selling For Newbies" width="468" height="60" /></a></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Now Alex had taught us that business happens at the bar but I was not sure exactly what that meant until it actually happened.  Not only did I receive what I consider a piece of gold by Omar giving me an advanced copy of <a href="http://internetsellingfornewbies.com/go/?download=351" target="_blank">Internet Selling For Newbies</a> but he gave me a friend.  I spent the entire night with with this guy and several other of us students of Alex&#8217;s.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">I picked his brain every chance I could and in every instance he gave the most candid and honest answers I&#8217;ve ever heard from someone who has made it online.  Needless to say, by nights end ( or should I say morning ) I had received more information in a social night with Omar than I did with my own mentor  Alex Jeffreys and Mike Filsaime.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">In his generosity I found a copy of <a href="http://internetsellingfornewbies.com/go/?download=351" target="_blank">Internet Selling For Newbies</a> which he gave to a select few of us.  I wasn&#8217;t able to immediately go through the material until I came home.  After all, I was in Las Vegas.  I was impressed with the classroom style of teaching during the videos and the easy to follow assignments.  This indeed is a course that even most of us who have been online for a while now could use.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">I really wish I could have recorded the conversations about internet marketing that Omar had with us because after speaking with him, I had so many ideas and a clearer focus as to what I need to do to succeed online.  Some of you come to this blog as my peers to discuss business and to have fun with each other but for those of you who feel that you really are a newbie as I do should get a copy of Internet Selling For Newbies as soon as it&#8217;s available June 16th.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Omar is proof that you can go from nothing to something in only 18 months.  The number one thing I saw in him that distinguishes him from the others is that he is persistent and pushed forward even when he failed.  He did not blame anyone or anything for his failures but himself.  I think most of us quit at that place where the scale is just about to tip in our favor only to turn around because of frustration and fear.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">It would have been easy to be one of those people who say, &#8220;Yeah, you only succeeded because you work with Mike Filsaime.&#8221;  But the truth is that Omar succeeded because he never gave up and he went to those who knew more than he did to get the answers he needed.  He also took his adversity and make them strengths.  He is one guy I would love to emulate.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">Those of you who are willing to do something about your future will see the results without a doubt.  You must be willing to be sociable and step out of your comfort zones.  I did and it paid off big time.  Thanks Omar for the copy of <a href="http://internetsellingfornewbies.com/go/?download=351" target="_blank">Internet Selling For Newbies</a> and for the fun time we had in Las Vegas.  You truly are one to watch.  Until next time&#8230;</p>
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