A Marketing Mystery Solved! (By My Weetabix...)

It's 9.00pm here in the UK. I've just gotten in from a cracking session at the gym, so I'm tired as hell. I just grabbed a bowl of my favourite Chocolate Weetabix, whacked on my MacBook, set some music playing and shoved my feet on the desk. Classy.

Anyhooo - as I began munching away on this yummy delight (which, apparently, has half of the sugar of the average chocolate cereal!), I took a quick flick through my e-mails, to discover that I had made $185 in the two hours that I spent at the gym.

Yup, there was I, running, sweating, panting, lifting and (occasionally) almost dying... whilst my PayPal account was flooding with payments from customers around the globe. Wahoo. This internet marketing thing ROCKS!

In fact - I'll go to sleep in a few hours time, and wake up tomorrow morning to discover yet MORE cash has come pouring in. I probably couldn't stop it... even if I wanted to. Which, by the way, I don't.

Now, depending on your current income and internet-marketing-status, you might consider that a great achievement, or just pocket change. Either way, you've got to admit that it's pretty incredible that someone can be out and about, enjoying their life (or slogging it away at the G.Y.M.) whilst their bank balance takes care of itself.

In fact, there have been many days when I've done just a little work, and then gone shopping for the day, before returning home to find as much as $5,000 has added itself to my PayPal, ClickBank or other affiliate accounts. It's CRAZY.

Just the other day I went to grab a McDonalds (rendering much of my good gym work useless!) and my iPhone bleeped. I checked it, and found that I had made $8.75. Again, that might seem like nothing, but it was super-cool when I realised that I had just paid for my McDonalds... whilst eating it!

But here's the thing. I'm *NOTHING* special. It's true, I'm a VERY ordinary guy (except for my hair, obviously). All I've done is to stumble across a proven, working formula for making money online. That's it. It revolves around my blog (which you're reading right now!), my e-mail list (which you should definitely join!) and a few simple products. Perhaps you've bought some of them from me in the past.

That's pretty much it. That is the entire business platform that I use to run a six figure business on the internet, and pushing to make it seven figures over the next 12 months.

So, by now, you're probably DESPERATE to know what I did to make this $185 today. Or HOW I made $5k in a single day. Or even how I made $8.75 while eating at McDonalds.

But, I'm not going to tell you. Not here, anyway.

"You big meany!"

Okay - I realize that it sounds a little mean. I don't intend it to. In fact, I always try and help people out as best as I possibly can. So, let me explain why I'm not going to share this with you. Step into my office... erm, sort of.

Reason #1: It's not really that important HOW I made the money. There are THOUSANDS of ways to make money online. Just think... blogging, affiliate marketing, e-mail marketing, creating your own products, coaching other people, niche marketing, CPA marketing etc. The truth is, you KNOW many of those things already.

If there are any of those that you don't know, then simply educate yourself with great quality training products. In actual fact, it would be really difficult for me to explain EXACTLY how I make my money online in a simple blog post, because it takes me 24 weeks to teach it in my coaching program! There is an entire online business system, blueprint and infrastructure to build.

I'll give you a clue though, it involves building a big and responsive e-mail list, creating a relationship with that list, and then e-mail marketing to them well. Promoting products etc.

That's about as much as you need to know on that side of things, anything else would just distract you and send you looking for the next big 'shiny thing'.

Reason #2: There is a deeper, more important lesson to learn from this whimsical tale. I hate to get all deepy, gushy and theoretical on ya now but this is REALLY important. In fact, it's probably the most important thing you'll learn today. So, put down your Chocolate Weetabix (oh wait, that's me), and pay close attention to what I'm about to share with you. It's simple, but mind-blowing.

(Wow, that's an impressive build-up. I guess it had better be good, ey?!)

Here goes...

I want to teach you the NUMBER 1 thing that *YOU* can do (today) to start making money online... FAST. And ANYONE can do this. Right away.

It is...

TAKE ACTION.

That's right. Taking MASSIVE and CONSISTENT action is the MAJOR factor in the success of the biggest Gurus on the planet. It sounds obvious, but if you don't DO anything, then you'll NEVER make any money online. In fact, you'll never be successful in ANY area of life.

Let me put it this way...

- If I didn't set up my blog, you wouldn't be reading this post now and thinking "Damn, this guy knows his shizzle!"
- If I didn't post this blog post, you wouldn't be reading this now and thinking "Damn, this guy kno"... Oh, I just said that.
- If I didn't make any of my products, then I wouldn't be able to sell them to folks and make money.
- If I didn't educate myself in internet marketing strategies and (more importantly) implement them, then I'd still be broke.
- If I didn't send an e-mail to my list this morning promoting a product, then I wouldn't have made $185... (Damn, I just told you how I made that cash! ;-p)

I could go on, and on. But hopefully you see my point.

IF YOU DON'T TAKE ACTION, THEN YOU'LL NEVER MAKE ANY MONEY!!!

Actually - "Not taking action" is probably the BIGGEST thing holding most people back from making money online, and it often leads to information overload. Now sure, educating yourself on internet marketing strategies is super important, and that involves buying courses. I've got nothing against spending money on information. Hell, it's the only way you can learn. But you need to spend it in the right places, and not go crazy buying every 'shiny thing' that gets offered to you.

You could buy every single training course under the sun, but if you don't actually implement any of the stuff you learn then guess what? Exactly... you'll NEVER be successful.

I've met SO many people who spend THOUSANDS and THOUSANDS of dollars on information products, and done literally NOTHING with any of them. They look at them once or twice, then put them back on the 'shelf' and look for the next one. The one that looks easier, or quicker. But that never comes. Ever.

Maybe you're one of those people? I was, once. If you are, then my advice to you is simple.

START. TAKING. ACTION. DAMMIT.

It's a daunting prospect, I know. You're probably scared of messing up, or things going wrong. But don't worry. Whatever you do, and however much time you waste 'preparing', it probably won't be perfect the first time around. Be ready to make mistakes... but make sure that you learn from them, and fix it next time. This way you'll be failing forward and improving as you go.

It's a powerful thing to realize that you don't have to get something right, you just have to get something going. You can perfect it as you go. (That's an intentional misquote from the genius brain of Mike Litman, by the way. I didn't create it).

Wow, this has been a much longer blog post than I intended, but I really hope that you found it useful, inspiring and motivational. Remember, there are more ways of making money online than there are years in our lives to learn them, but if you just pick a few, simple and proven tactics, and just take action, then you hold the key to mega success on the internet.

I only make money because I take massive and consistent action. If you do it too, then there is no reason why YOU can't be just as successful (or more successful) than lil' old me.

Let me remind you... If I didn't take action by sending an e-mail to my list this morning, then I wouldn't have made that $185. If I hadn't started building a big and responsive list two years ago, then I wouldn't have had a list to regularly e-mail market to. Makes sense, right?

IF. It's a simple word, but it makes all the difference. IF you take massive and consistent action, then you WILL see results. If you don't, then you won't.

Oh - and if you've enjoyed this post, don't forget to leave me a nice juicy comment below. If you haven't enjoyed this post, then leave me a nice juicy comment anyway. I'll try and reply to you all!

Phew... all of that from a bowl of Chocolate Weetabix.

Talk to you soon,
Marc

P.S. If you want to know what product I promoted to make $185 dollars today, it was this one here. It's only $5, and it's amazing. I paid $997 for it a year ago, but right now you can grab it now for five bucks. Just to be totally transparent, if you buy this then I *WILL* receive a commission. Disclaimer, disclaimer, yada yada.

P.P.S. I really need to get an affiliate link for Weetabix.

P.P.P.S. All together now... what do you have to do as soon as you leave this blog? Yes, that's right! TAKE ACTION... or be doomed to failure.