When I first began exploring internet marketing, I didn’t have a clue where to begin. I knew nothing about 
marketplaces, email marketing, EPC, calls to action, autoresponders… or who were the top movers and shakers. When I found products or courses about internet marketing on the web which interested me, I would request additional information, not realizing that my name and email address were being captured for future marketing and promotional efforts. Invitations to webinars flooded my inbox. I started to attend those online webinars that I found intriguing.
After watching the webinars, I would decide to purchase those products that excited me. The act of buying those products placed me at a new level on the internet marketers’ radar screens. Even more emails from the internet marketers were reaching me with promotions about new products or upsells on the products I had purchased.
“This was the worst day in my life but, in hindsight, it actually was the best thing that ever happened to me.”
Over the next few months, certain individuals’ names began to surface repeatedly and I began to gravitate towards those who were becoming familiar. As I read their blogs or attended their events, not only did I learn more about the internet marketing field but I also began to recognize the wheat from the chaff – those internet marketers who were heads above the vast majority. I attended webinars presented by John Thornhill, the Rhodes Brothers, Matt Bacak, Anthony McCarthy, Caleb O’Dowd, Justin Michie, Igor Kheifets, Jeff Smith, Steve Rosenbaum, Shawn Casey, and Brian Koz, to name just a few.
As I learned about their backgrounds and their businesses, I discovered a set of common characteristics that I could use in advance to identify other internet marketers who were also at the top of their game. These key characteristics became a blueprint for quickly finding internet marketers who could help jump start my business and, in essence, become my mentors.
As a beginner to internet marketing, I found that by applying these keys features, I could shorten my initial learning curve by quickly locating the top internet marketers to learn from and follow, select those whom I felt comfortable with and could relate to, learn from them by purchasing their courses and products, associated and engage with through email and their social media sites, and jump start my own business.
What Are The Eleven Key Characteristics?
Almost every internet marketer I have associated with has the following key common characteristics:
- They initially struggled before they found success. In many cases, they failed miserably in their initial attempts but learned valuable lessons, which expanded their skillset and knowledge.
- They were not overnight successes but built their internet marketing businesses over time and for the long-term.
- They were not interested in marketing and selling get rich quick schemes but in long term products and services that were sustainable and, where possible, could be adapted over time.
- They suffered a traumatic event that forced them to take a good hard look at their lives, reevaluate where they were in life and where they wanted to be, and start a new career that could potentially help them realize their goals. These events included: walking into the office one day and immediately being fired without any forewarning due to a sudden company downsizing; drowning in
college debt beyond what was manageable and desperately needing to get out from under it in order to cover his growing family’s needs; losing everything that had been built over many years due to a sharp economic downturn while still needing to provide for his family of seven; dropping out of school at an early age and then working hard on a factory line for years but having nothing to show for it except mounting debt and a bleak future; growing up poor in a family that did not value education but using a strong drive and motivation to do whatever was required to create a financially stable life and leaving his old life behind. Many of them would make a similar comment that this was the worst [day, time, situation] in my life but looking back, it was the best thing that ever happened to me. - They did not come from a computer or technical background but rather brought a wide range of other skills and experiences to their new ventures.
- They each developed an internet marketing business that was based upon identifying a unique need in the marketplace that was either not being served properly or at all.
- They learned to overcome their personal weaknesses and fears that might have prevented them from succeeding.
- They did not focus on their own needs or goals but instead focused on helping their clients and customers by offering beneficial products and services .
- They may have worked as affiliates selling other vendors products but each recognized that the way to develop long term wealth was by creating their own products that could be sold through both their own affiliates as well as themselves.
- They are always creating ways to support and work with one another for the benefit of both.
- They create products that enable beginning internet marketers to duplicate their successful systems.
If you are new to internet marketing or if you have been in the market but have not found the success you have been searching for, I strongly recommend that you take a look at John Thornhill’s course. I am thrilled to be learning from John with this program and it has opened my eyes.
This may be the beginning of your new internet marketing career or perhaps the relaunch of it. Either way, I wish you all the best in developing your business and pursuing your dreams.
With warm regards,
Jay
P.S. By the way, John has taught thousands of internet marketers how to succeed in internet marketing. His course can literally change your life.
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