S’up Losers.

Today I stumbled across some blog entry called “How To Succeed Online” (original title, I know). It’s written by some guy named Doug Champigny - never heard of him, but whatever. Anyway, he actually had a cool bit of writing I wanted to share with ya. Here it is:

And that brings us to the third group, the rarest of the Internet marketing newbies. They’re easy to spot - they’re the ones who seem to come out of nowhere and suddenly land in the ’successful Internet Marketing circles’, not yet big dogs but easily observed to be heading there quickly. If you’ve been ‘playing’ at Internet marketing or making a half-hearted effort for some time now, you’ve probably wondered how they shoot by you so easily…

First, they’re smart - they pay attention to what their coach or mentor tells them, and to what they see of that expert’s current operation. They’re not really interested in how their coach GOT to that lofty position - they intend to skip all the trial & error, all the mistakes and mis-steps their mentor made - and just imitate what actually works!

Secondly, they’re inquisitive. They do their best to understand WHY Internet marketing tactics work, why certain strategies pay off big time while others flop. They watch what the big dogs are doing and, rather than following it blindly, ask their coach or mentor why this Internet marketing hotshot or that super-affiliate is doing what they are, and what they’re liable to achieve from it. Also, whether it’s something they should be incorporating in their own Internet marketing processes.

Thirdly, they’re innovative. They take that new-found knowledge and set up systems that will bring in the bucks, all the while looking for ways to improve the systems, to add in additional income streams and, eventually, to eclipse their coach or mentor. And any coach or mentor worth their salt LOVES that, and brags about that person incessantly…
Finally, and perhaps most importantly, they stay focussed and ACTIVE. Not content to just maintain the status quo, they’re constantly looking to improve their Internet marketing processes, acheive Super-Affiliate status and show up on the JV leaderboards, and are CONSTANTLY building their opt-in lists. You see them running giveaways, networking at the social sites and the live internet marketing events whenever they can, and creating products by interviewing those more successful than themselves, knowing it’s a very powerful way to learn from the best while making money at it!

This third group, albeit the smallest fraction of the online world, are still part of today’s newbies. But they are tomorrow’s Big Dogs - and the next day’s Internet marketing superstars, the marketing gurus who pull down millions a year from Internet marketing, affiliate marketing and niche marketing empires others envy so openly. These are tomorrow’s versions of the Stephen Pierces, the Marlon Sanders, the Ken MacArthurs, the Joel Comms, the Rich Schefrens, the Liz Tomeys and the Jimmy D Browns who rule the online world today.

I wanted to highlight this excerpt for a reason.

Most of you losers reading this aren’t like the newbie internet marketer he just described. Chances are, you’ll never be a Big Dog on the internet.

But you know what? Screw ‘em. You don’t have to be a big dog and get “well known.” You just have to MAKE MONEY.

Succeeding online isn’t about gaining recognition, or even building a huge business. It’s about meeting goals you set out for yourself. Screw being a guru. Trust me - you don’t want billions of retards emailing you every day begging for your help. You just want to make some cabbage, am I right???

So set out a goal - $500 a month, $5,000 a month - whatever.

Then, do what you gotta do to achieve that goal.

That’s how you measure success. By figuring out if you’re getting what you want. If you want to be a Big Dog, list that as one of your goals and “grow into” that role. But don’t start off trying to be like that. Just focus on making your first dollar in profit, then go ahead and try and make your goals come true.

That is how you REALLY succeed online.

Later losers,
-RJ

So a lot of you guys like to bitch-and-moan about how you never have any money to do stuff online.

Screw you. Seriously.

There is so much you can do to make money online that doesn’t cost you jack. But you’re too busy complaining to notice it.

For instance - getting traffic to your website. People think it cost you money. And you know what? FAST, INSTANT traffic does. But you can also get traffic for free. It just takes a bit longer.

Just check out this video by Aaron Wall over at SEOBook. Sure, he sounds like a complete pansy when he talks, but this guy knows his stuff.

His 10 minute video is all about using social media to get free search engine traffic. And as web 2.0 gets bigger and better, opportunities like this are RIPE for the picking.

The problem is that you just need to work your ASS off creating content for these sites. But if you work smart, this isn’t really an issue.

Here’s a good tip for ya…

Pick out a converting keyword you really want to rank for. Let’s say “Car Insurance” for example. You know - a keyword you can use to make some dough.

Write an article (or get one written) about car insurance.

Go to Squidoo.com and create a lens (web page) optimized for the keyword Car Insurance, and post your article on there, and link back to an affiliate program or something that has to do with Car Insurance.

Then, go bookmark the hell out of this site on places like Digg, Delicious, Furl, Reddit, etc. Ping the lens at Pingomatic.com to alert the search engines about it. Do what good ol’ Aaron does in his video. Get people to link to your lens using the keyword “car insurance.” Watch your stuff rank on the first page of Google and start making some money.

It takes work, but it’s worth the time investment. And it costs you NOTHING.

So if I hear any of you complain again, I’ll have to bitch-slap you.

Later losers,

-RJ

Hey Losers,

Check it - I’m on the bathroom right now.

Seriously. I am on my gold-plated toilet pinching out a loaf as I type this on my lap top.

You may be asking yourself… *grugh* … you may be asking yourself why I don’t just wait until I am done moving my bowels to write to you.

I am doing this to illustrate a *grunt* point.

You see, by sitting down and typing this post while I am soiling the porcelain throne, I am essentially prolonging both the time it takes for me to write to you, and drop a deuce.

To put it bluntly: By not focusing on one thing at a time, it is taking me (literally) longer to get shit done.

*ploop*

Ah, much better.

Anyway, back to my point…

One of the biggest challenges of running your own business is GETTING SHIT DONE. The longer it takes you to GSD, the less money you make. And part of not getting shit done is jumping from one opportunity to another as they present themselves.

You *grrragh* follow me here?

See, as the CEO and mastermind of a multi-million dollar empire, I get losers coming up to me constantly and wanting me to promote crap for them.

“RJ, I got a launch I want you to promote!”

“RJ, let’s do a JV!”

“RJ, I’ll give you my first born daughter if you help me make some money!”

Blah, blah, *grunt* blah.

I get bombarded with offers EVERY DAY to make more money. And you know what? I turn 99% of them down!

If I were to whore myself out to every lame-o that comes my way, I could probably be making lots more money. But here’s the catch - if I did that, it would take me SO MUCH LONGER to get anything done - which means that in the long run, I’d actually be making LESS money.

See - what most of you losers don’t understand is that you’re so desperate to make money, you will jump from opportunity to opportunity as soon as they present themselves hoping to make money. But you never FINISH ANYTHING.

And in my *uuugh* experience, the only way to make money is to FOLLOW THROUGH and GET SHIT DONE.

Get your ebook written.

Get your emails written.

Get your PPC accounts going.

Get your articles published.

Get your site in the search engines.

*ploop*

Ahhh.

Because of the nature of online business - new stuff is always going to be coming out to help make people money. Today it’s adsense. Tomorrow it’s CPA networks. The next day it’s media buying. And on, and on, and on.

You know what? Screw that noise, jack. Find ONE THING. Just ONE THING you want to do to make money. And stick with it. Ignore everything else and just do that one thing until you “get ‘er dun.”

I don’t care if that one thing is being a Rich Jerk Affiliate, or an adsense site builder, or a CPA traffic kingpin. Whatever it is, just make your business about one thing and one thing only.

And once you master that one thing and it’s going - ONLY THEN should you take on something else. And then you stick with that until you “get ‘er dun.”

Business can get overwhelming if you let it. But trying to do too many things at once is a big mistake, because it takes you longer to get ANYTHING done when you do that. If you need an email sequence, don’t do anything else until that email sequence is created. If you need a product, do nothing else until that product is created.

You know what I do? When I start a new project, I create a list of everything I need to make that project happen. For example:

1. Buy good domain name.
2. Create a product.
3. Design a website
4. Write sales copy
5. Design an email sequence.
6. Buy PPC Advertising
7. Recruit affiliates
8. Make own porno movie

Once I am done with that list, I only focus on one thing, and I don’t do anything else on that list until I can cross off what I’m working on.

This is how I GSD. By prioritizing what I need to do, doing one thing at a time, and ignoring everything else. If I tried to do everything at once, I’d never GSD.

Understand - new opportunities will always come your way. If you ignore them, you won’t lose much. But you can gain so much more by focusing on just ONE opportunity and getting really good at that, and making money that way, then moving on to something else.

And that *uhnnnnn* is how you become awesome like me.

*ploop*

Later losers,

-RJ

Hey Losers,

You know how I can always spot the losers from the winners? Its simple really - the losers always focus and obsess about the WRONG CRAP, and the winners are always focused on the RIGHT CRAP. So what separates the two is a bunch of crap!

Let me explain…

I get emails DAILY from people complaining about how they don’t have any money.

“Waaaa! I’m not rich! Waaaaaaa! I have no money! The economy is bad! Rich people are out to screw me! Evil Corporations should be taxed so they can pay my wellfare! Waaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!”

I fart in the general direction of people like these. Not because they are whiny little snots - no sir. 90% of the world’s population are whiny snots. But because these types of people just don’t GET IT. And they never will. So it’s really a waste of my valuable time to deal with them. (Seriously, I could be doing more important stuff like eating pop tarts or watching late-night Cinemax.)

What is it that these losers don’t get that rich people do? Well, to put it bluntly, it’s a mindset. Look at me for instance - I am filthy, stinking rich. Seriously. I can wipe my butt with $100 dollar bills and flush them down the toilet. That’s how much money I rake in. But for good ol’ RJ, it’s never BEEN about the money.

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