I think congratulations are in order for Mikkel Juhl, a.k.a. DaneBlogger, for taking action – and appearing live on Ustream on the subject of “branding”. If you missed the show, you can watch it right here:
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It’s a good question: “Why do people doubt your motives?” Why would we humans be so skeptic when we see a good offer? We seem to think there must be something wrong with the price when it’s low. Why is that?
Have we become so accustomed to scamsters that we don’t dare believe in the best intentions from others? Have we blinded ourselves from the better motives that DO still motivate others?
The answer is yes to most of the above questions! The very question of why people doubt your motives hinges upon the fact that there ARE many out there who seek to profit from anything. If they earn 200$ from one source, the would never dare set down their prices to help others come forward because they think of PERSONAL GAIN before COMMON GAIN.
When I set up the new theme, decreased Adsense to ONE ad, yet advertise four brand-new ad opportunities for only 89$/month – see the left hand side top for information about the offer – I got a mail from a guy who doubted my motives only hours after it was set up… Why is that?
Some people will go to surprising lengths to “unravel” their form of evil in an attempt to play some form of good-cop-bad-cop instead of just focusing on IMPLEMENTING the tips I bring to you free of charge.
Why do I blog? Because I think it’s fun to share things with people all around the world. Could I have higher prices? Yes, I could. But I choose to let newbies get a chance instead of only playing with the big boys of the industry. I want the industry to change, but I also want to be a part of the change for the better, and it sometimes require we look aside from personal gain POTENTIAL and look at bringing others a chance to JOIN our team efforts in building good income online.
It ain’t a cut-one-anothers’-throat type of game, but much rather a chance to HELP one another. There’s room for everyone. Feel free to comment. What are your thoughts on other people’s skepticism? Don’t be shy… 
You may be wondering about the title, but the fact is that success and online traffic doesn’t depend upon either Joint Ventures or Conferences. Conferences may help bring about mutually beneficial joint ventures, but none of these would bring about success of and by themselves. You can conference with people who pad themselves on the back, but in the end they’re in it for the money. You can joint venture with people who won’t bring in much more than if you had taken the same number of beginners and just gotten backlinks from their blogs.
The thing that DEFINES what brings about success is ENTHUSIASM, THE BEST PRODUCT and STICK-TO-IT-IVENESS.
Whether you call “stick-to-it-iveness” persistence, stubbornness or whichever other word signifies sticking with your product, the fact remains that if you lose enthusiasm you won’t bring it about in the way your potential customers read your sales letters. You can’t bring about a craving to buy if people don’t see both the quality of the product, your motivation and the fact that you are in the business of online marketing for “the long run”…
So many people have been well-known, and only a few months afterwards they have moved into the darkness of the unknown. I got in touch with one such guy and he completely lost all his motivation after one of his projects failed. He had become accustomed to high earnings, and when it failed it shocked him. He bailed out.
You don’t have to spend hundreds or even thousands of dollars to conference all over the world. Being creative, you can get in touch with people and thereby earn seed money that allows you to only spend money you earned besides your normal day job. Don’t take money with you to work. Your family deserves your full attention and betting on potential successes with conference fees in the three-four thousand dollar range is only making one person richer — the one who hosts the conference.
It may work. I won’t deny it. But personally I won’t participate in such expensive projects. I prefer earning a decent income in the right way maintaining the right type of moral standards. Betting is not my line of business.
So, remember the three ingredients, and begin building your online success. It may take one step at a time, but you get a solid foundation which will give you numerous recurring money income funnels. Carpe diem.
Hi Fellow Readers
The time has come to do something truly fun, for free…
Joel Comm, the big Adsense-guru you have all heard about, needs to go beyond 3,000 followers on Twitter, and since I am a thankful person who always looks for a chance to do something nice for others, I thought: “Why not help ‘da man?”
Who can withstand these begging eyes….? Just kidding.
He needs about 50 people so I wondered whether I could help Joel achieve this in record time. Show him that we Danes can do anything when equipped with Apple Macs…
The clock is ticking because he needs 54 people as I started the project. No script. No signs. Just a sheet of paper, a few pens, an internal camera, lights in the living room, dog that needs walking before wife goes to bed so there’s some peace and quiet to do this. She, by the way, thinks this is an excellent idea as she knows I (her crazy husband) likes to do crazy stuff like this to have real fun. Online marketing MUST be fun. Never expecting anything – thus getting more surprised at excellent results. Just having great fun, releasing something as crazy as an unsolicited video trying to grab the attention of this guy’s Tweets on Twitter…..
I’m usually not even involved in video production but do article writing and translations. I’m totally inexperienced, usual videos on YouTube getting a total of only 614 channel views since joining on August 15th 2006….
He still needs 54 new followers. Dog needs walking. Excercise. BRB [BRB = Be Right Back ]
OK, back again. Checking. He needs the same number of people. OK, recording. Quiet please….
[BTW, talk of stagefright. Knowing my cute face may appear on hundreds of screens around the planet when Joel decides to say thank-you announcing the video...... Wow. Blood pumping. This is live... ]
Now uploading to YouTube…. Will it work? It takes forever to be processed at YouTube… It even had to be repeated to succeed.
Embedding, publication and Twitter information released so everybody gets an announcement.
It’s the big and “final countdown”. Can Joel Comm reach his dream of crossing the 3,000 barrier? Check out yourself by visiting his Twitter profile page at: http://twitter.com/joelcomm. He’s at 2,957 followers now that I repeated the upload procedure today… Still 43 to go.
This is major super-sensational and good news.
The one super-guru on internet marketing when it comes to Google Adsense IS, as I have said on numerous occasions, Joel Comm. He appears to know everything there is to know about advertising content in exactly the right way, and often shares that information with his regular readers. So this super sensational piece of news shared from YouTube is a thumbs up to Joel because we Mac-users must stick together in a Windozed it-environment…
Have fun.
Everyone should carefully consider pros and cons before pressing the “Send” button. However, these last few weeks there has also been a tendency to send people a second mail.
Especially a mail with only one extra link and then a repetition of most of the first e-mail…. Is it any wonder people are unsubscribing from such a list? I know I do, and I don’t believe I am the only one to be truly enervated by the carelessness involved just because it’s virtually free to post to an entire list.
Dear marketers out there, stay alert. Keep a professional attitude towards things. Begin working with your lists with the respect it deserves. THAT will be the day when you begin earning money from your list instead of destroying it.