I came across this a couple of years ago, but most recently saw it posted on the Warrior forum. It’s a funny story, but does contain a valuable lesson…

Eddie wanted desperately to have sex with this really cute, really hot girl in his office…

But she was dating someone else.

One day Eddie got so frustrated that he went to her and said, ‘I’ll give you $100 if you let me have sex with you…

The girl looked at him, and then said, ‘NO!’

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It’s that time of year again. Not the time to make New Years resolutions, but a time to sit back and take a look at your business.

Where are you now… and where do you want to be? What do you want to achieve in the next year? What are your goals for 2009?

Write them down somewhere specific where you’ll see them everyday. I know it might sound silly, but it works because it gets you thinking about how you’re going to achieve them and what it’s going to take to make it work.

Besides, goal setting is something that’s used by top performers all over the place. Top athletes create them. Million dollar CEO’s create them. And soccer moms create them too because they work and help to get more done and ultimately make you more successful.

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The Basics Of Website Flipping For Profit

Savvy business people used to make a fortune buying and selling stocks, then buying and selling real estate (flipping). Now website flipping of virtual real estate is quickly becoming one of the new things that will make many smart people very wealthy. Here’s an overview of website flipping and you can become a flipper.

The concept is pretty simple: Website flipping involves creating websites that make money with then selling them for a large profit (6-12 months worth of income). Websites of all kinds and in all niches can be flipped, the results of course vary from site to site and will also depend on the uniqueness of the site and if there’s any custom programming, graphics or other things.

As in all types of flipping the main idea is to get in, improve it, and get out as quickly as possible.

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I haven’t been posting to this blog nearly as much as I would have liked to, so I’ve decided to make more of an effort to post and give you some really good stuff for free, starting with this post.

(Now would also be a good time to sign up for the RSS feed)

Anyways, I recently ran a promo where I gave my Traffic Tips Report for free as a list building promotion.

It’s been over for a couple of weeks, but I’ve still been getting a lot of questions about it. So I’ve decided to write this post, not only to show you how it went, but to show you how you or anyone else could run a similar promo with similar success.

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If your website or blog isn’t getting as much traffic as you’d like and sales are suffering, you’re gonna love this – I’ve got a real treat for you:

I just took my Traffic Tips Report from www.TrafficTipsReport.com and put it up for free at: www.LemonadeHere.com

If you have a website, blog, Squidoo lens, Hub page or ever plan on putting one up, make sure you grab a copy before I pull it off the market at the end of the month.

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This is something that’s seemingly simple, but extremely powerful. Luckily it’s something I learned, and a mindset which I developed, before I started up my first offline business years ago, or I wouldn’t be where I am today.

Here’s the gist of it: Work on your business, not in it. That’s it.

Here’s an example:

Let’s say that you’re a painter by profession. If you’re working in your business, that means you’re going out everyday and painting whatever it is that you paint and when you return home, you’re working on things like book keeping and equipment cleaning That hardly leaves any time for marketing, hiring, firing, training and in general, getting more business to earn more profits.

But, if you’re a painter and working on your business, that means that you’re taking some of the time you could spend painting, to work on drumming up new business or increasing the profit margin from the business you’re already receiving, thereby, increasing your overall profits.

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About a year and a half ago I contacted a decently successful internet marketer with a proposal for a new product I was launching. I don’t want to give away the niche, so we’ll call it _______.

Their answer was, “What the hell is _______? I’ve never heard of it! I replied, surely you’ve heard of _______? It’s been out for months and is a wildly successful technique used by many marketers.

In a sentence, their answer was that they don’t pay attention new fads or trends and stick to the tried and true online marketing techniques.

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One thing I’ve always found helpful is when other internet marketers or online business people share some of the links and resources to websites, service providers, software and information that they use on a regular basis.

The following is a partial list of some of the websites, services and more which I use or visit on a regular basis. I have hundreds of sites bookmarked and will sort through them and update this list on a semi-regular basis, so bookmark this page and check back often.

I hope you find it helpful

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Thanks to everyone who left a comment on my last post The Money’s In The List as well as everyone who has left a comment on any one of the other posts.

As promised, I’ll be sending a signed copy of my book, Street Smart Internet Marketing, to a randomly chosen winner.

I’ve used Random.org to randomly pick a winner… And the winner is…

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If you’ve been involved in internet marketing even a little, I’m sure you’ve heard that saying before.

But is the money really in the list? Everyone’s going to have their own opinions on opt-in email lists, but check this out:

An average internet marketer with an averagely responsive list should be able to earn somewhere around $1 per opt-in subscriber

People like John Reese, Mike Filsaime, Russell Brunson, Armand Morin, Derek Gehl and anyone else pulling in multiples of 7 figures a year online owe a big portion of it to an email list.

It might not always be their own email list that’s earning them money, but you can be sure that a good (meaning high) percentage of their income arrives from sales to their list or another’s.

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