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They Asked Me For The Secret

Recently, I’ve launched my www.livechallengesale.com for 72 hours in front of hundreds of live audience in a seminar room and made some decent income. (It’s over now.)

Many of the participants were amazed– not that I’ve made a lot of money but the fact that money can be created out of thin air from the internet.

So I get this question from many of them…

“What is your secret, Patric?”(You see that coming,didn’t you?)

Well, I should have said I have a secret so that I can feel absolutely intelligent.

But darn. I lead in the truth…

The only “secret” to successful Internet marketing is this-there are no secrets.

The very use of the term “secret” is a marketing tactic and I’m guilty of using it occasionally. Is it wrong doing so? Is marketing tactics something wrong? If your answer is no, then the answer is no. Marketing is not wrong.

The fact remains that internet marketing still involves work and lots of it. When I say that I know a lot of successful internet marketing gurus, I’m not to brag. But to lead-in to another truth– they work REALLY HARD. Some work like a dog. I think I work like a dog, sometimes. Of course in a positive way.

Boy, I know many would dislike me to tell out this truth. It just shattered the dreams of many people that internet business IS the path to financial freedom and stop working. On a separate point of view, that’s good because it’ll get rid of the tire kickers.

In fact, it has been my experience that internet marketing is not a quick and easy path to “easy money”. But if you’re planning to build a real business, I think it’s much easier doing it online than setting up a Kentucky Friend Chicken outlet and sell fried chickens. Besides, selling fried chicken is not going to create a lot of healthy people in your neighborhood. (smile)

Generating a sustainable income via internet marketing does not happen overnight. Success is fleeting, especially early on until you establish yourself in your niche market and slowly begin to dominate them.

Internet marketing takes much hard work, persistence, knowledge, creativity, and above all else, time. Internet marketing is not the quick and easy road to riches that some would have you believe.

Internet marketing also has a very high learning curve because you need to learn marketing, business and some little technical aspect. In a nutshell, it takes time to master.

I have been involved with Internet marketing for 4 years now and have experienced some major successes of my own. But even with that, I’m still learning every time.

Now, if you’re marketing in the internet marketing niche itself, expect to double your effort and time because you’ll be competing with Derek Gehl, Shawn Casey, Mike Filsaime, Patric Chan, Russell Brunson, Stephen Pierce, Ewen Chia, Yanik Silver, Andrew Fox, John Delavera, Joel Christopher, Jim Edwards, Armand Morin, Tellman Knudson, Harris Fellman, Keith Baxter, Mark Joyner, Gary Ambrose, Jimmy D.Brown, Jeff Walker, Jason Potash, Jo Han Mok, Alex Mandosian, Jeremy Gislason, John Reese, Jason James, Bryan Kumar, Allen Says, Dr.Mani, Dr.Mike Woo-Ming, Larry Dotson and gosh… who else did I miss? A lot. I can easily name an extra 100 names of marketers.

“Patric, you’re supposed to say how great internet marketing is.”

Yes it is. But if I don’t reveal what really happens behind the scene, I’m doing a disfavor to you and to the extend– creating false hope for good people like you and others.

So I have my reasons.

It’s simple. If what I’ve said did not scare or turn you off, then you’re going to be one of those success cases with internet marketing. Your name will be wildly known in your niche. You know what your obstacles are and you’ll be able to overcome them with a snap of your fingers.

Although it’s not easy, it’s worth doing it. Just imagine- the capability of executing “money on demand”. Now, that’s an inspiration that will take you far.

If I didn’t start 4 years ago, I don’t think I’m able to make money as easy as I want today. Yes, from a click of a button.

I don’t care if it’ll take years to achieve coz it’s WORTH IT. Every single sweat poured in it.

Creating wealth was never this easy in my life– especially for someone who doesn’t goes to a college or University and who does not write in fluent English.

“So you’re doing some self-help pep talk now eh, Patric?”

Whatever, man. My point is that I hope you get the value of what you read. If it motivates you, good. If not, it’s ok… you just wasted 10 minutes of reading my crap. Sorry about that.

Remember though, I have already said that there are no secrets unless the secret to internet marketing success is a mixture of hard work, dedication, perseverance, patience, creativity, time, knowledge, etc. Of course this isn’t a secret that would sell very well now is it?

Try going out to tell obesity people that they need to stop eating nonsense food and wake up 6.30 AM to exercise for an hour every day. I don’t think that kind of advice will definitely NOT sell.

No one wants to hear something like that for free, much less pay to hear something like that! But I guess if no ones want to be the bad guy, I’ll take that responsibility of revealing the truth. Am I the good guy now? Like I said, whatever man.

There’s no secret but there’s a surefire method to achieve success online. This method can help you to generate money on demand. And it is…

Having a mailing list.

Not just some stupid mailing list you can blast your promotion. You can get one in a phonebook directory.

I’m talking about a list of real people that reads your email and take action because they like and trust you.

I’ll probably guess what’s the next question…

“How do I build a mailing list, Patric?”

Simple. Instead of explaining to you in a full-blown course, here’s the straight answer–

Make sure all of your websites have an opt-in mechanism that the visitor can subscribe to your list. So if this answer applies to you, your main focus is to drive traffic to your site. That’s it.

I mean, c’mon. You can’t build a list if you don’t have traffic. There might be one or two other methods like co-registration list promotion, buying a list, etc but how many people have that kind of knowledge or expertise?

Ironically, the ‘secret’ is not about building a mailing list as well. I’m not trying to be philosophical and make you darn confused but to paint a bigger picture in your brain. It’s about knowing how to build a relationship and apply permission marketing to your list.

The simplest advice I can give to do this is this–

If your subscribers are your friends, what will you email to them periodically to make sure that they’ll gain value from you? Answer that correctly and you’ll have a good list. A money-making cashcow.

Success is there for the taking, if you make up your mind from the beginning to see where you can be. Despite the claims of “easy money” being made by thousands of Internet gurus the world over, you WILL have to work hard and persevere. You can’t do “nothing” and watch the cash roll into your PayPal account. It just doesn’t work that way, bucko.

But it sure works if you start planting your seed today. Yeah, right now.

You see, success doesn’t happen overnight but in increments. If you are serious about building a successful online business, no one can make it happen other than you yourself.

Are you ready? Yeah, sure, right. Don’t prove it to me– prove it to yourself.

Once you’re there, I hope to receive an email from you saying, “Patric, I took up your advice and I’m successful today.”

You “Chan” Do It!

-Patric Chan

P.s: You still want to be a “lazy” marketer and make money each month? Of course you can. But hey, don’t expect this to be your ‘real’ business. It will not be possible. If you can agree to that, I’ll recommend you to go to www.automateinternetmarketing.com/cc/lazy

Patric Chan

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