This is an important message IF you aim to use the Internet to make regular, growing income.
Read it carefully.
Then read it again.
The seeds of your successful future online are RIGHT HERE! There's an old saying, "It's always darkest before the dawn.
" No where is this more true than in the turbulent world economy.
As I write (03/13/09) things are dismal worldwide; negative records in every category (housing sales, unemployment, consumer confidence, etc.
) are a matter of daily reckoning.
This constant drumbeat of awful tidings has unleashed the usually comedic figure of Chicken Little, you know the beast who upsets the neighborhood by repeating over and over again "The sky is falling.
" This pesky varmint and his hysterical message have unnerved a lot of people who ought to know better.
King Chicken rules the land! But, friends, mark my words: the next great economic boom is always on the way.
The question before the house is NOT whether it will happen...
the question is whether YOU will be ready to take advantage of it.
1) Every recession ends.
This one is no exception.
You don't need some Ivy-educated economist to know that every recession ends.
Right now the followers of Chicken Little are acting like we're mired in permanent recession/ depression; that the good old days are gone forever.
The truth is, while economists differ on just when this recession will end (3 months from now? 6 months from now?) they ALL agree that it will end.
Thus, whatever ending date you choose to believe in (I say Summer of 2009), you need to prepare yourself and your interests for the impending boom...
not for unending recession.
2) You Have A Limited Window Of Opportunity.
Use It.
Followers of Chicken Little are using his anxious warnings to justify overeating and more television watching.
After all, since the world is ending anyway what harm could there be in eating more cake and never having to exercise again! Smarter people realize that they now have a window of opportunity which will not come again until the next severe recession.
Consider this: the entire inventory of the world and ALL its assets are for sale at often severely depreciated rates.
WHATEVER you're going to need to build your business in the months and years ago is now available at often historically attractive rates...
and if you still don't like the numbers you see: negotiate even better ones with folks who need the cash (like I've been doing).
3) Money Is Cheap.
Get What You Need.
Right this minute, the cost of money -- real, spendable cash -- is at historically record lows.
Smart people (including me) are using this opportunity to acquire assets with great appreciation potential with dirt-cheap loan money from banks eager to lend.
If you need equipment...
if you need home improvements...
if you need a new vehicle, etc.
, then NOW, when money is cheap, cheap, cheap, is the time to lock in the savings and whistle all the way to the bank.
Personally, the very first thing I did when the stock market started its major nose drive in the fall of 2008 was borrow large sums at the cheapest interest rate ever.
I turned these sums into assets all-but-certain (life holds no absolute guarantees) to appreciate when stock market and economy rebound, as both will do.
Cheap money, I tell you, is something everybody but Chicken Little can go wild about.
Chicken, by contrast, would stay immobilized by indecision.
4) Diversify Your Website As co-proprietor of one of the most popular websites on earth, I sit in an excellent position to see how folks worldwide are using (or more usually misusing) the web to profit.
It is NOT a pretty picture.
People without offline retail experience are the worst offenders.
They seem not to realize that a website is real estate which needs constant improvement and development.
Instead, they get a website; put one or two things on it, then sit back and wait for the money to roll in.
Of course it doesn't...
and when that happens the hapless website owner immediately cites the comforting mantra of Swami Chicken Little: "the sky is falling...
there is NO way for you to profit online.
You was had.
" For such sentiments, there are garbage dumps.
Instead of blaming your misfortune on the times, The Man, or the phases of the moon, ask yourself if you did (and are doing) the things you must do to profit online: * when you own a domain you own real estate.
Just what are you doing to develop it? * owing net real estate (domain) means engaging in a constant search for new products to add to your website.
EVERY day is an opportunity to grow your site and develop your property.
Just what are you doing EVERY DAY to do so? * When was the last time you either took a nonproductive product off your website or repositioned it in a more prominent location? The correct answer should be: today! * When was the last time, you added a spectacular offer to your website and either wrote or had a whiz-bang copywriter write sizzling, motivating copy? Not doing this, huh? Making and constantly trying out new offers is precisely what successful online marketers do.
* When was the last time you grew your list/s? Successful online marketers are list growth fanatics.
They study how lists are grown...
then do what's necessary for constant list growth.
Do you? * When was the last time you emailed a special offer to your list/s, an offer so good it would force people to sit up, take notice, and BUY (even when they had no intention of doing so and "no money")? That day must be today! 5) Stop Thinking Small Without exception in my experience, the people failing online ALL think small.
Successful online marketers understand that while they may have to start small, their goal is to THINK big and do what's necessary to achieve what they want: BIG PROFITS.
The Internet is ideally situated for big-time thinkers and doers.
It gives you a universal platform and ridiculously inexpensive ways to develop the business and reap constantly growing rewards.
When you start thinking like an online marketer, a cosmic retailer you cannot but be thrilled by this situation, as I (for one) continue to be over 15 years after I started profiting online! The Internet produces enhanced returns because the cost of doing business online is minimal compared to offline operations.
However, what good are these rosy business benefits if you are not taking advantage of them? Last Words Right now we are closer to the end of this recession than when I started this report.
The question is: are you any closer to benefiting from this unique moment of soon-to-be-gone opportunity? Two years from now, a year from now who would you rather be: the person who sized up this moment with no-nonsense realism and did what was necessary to build your assets and online empire...
or the person who did nothing, achieved nothing, grew nothing.
As the song goes, "Which side are you on, boys, which side are you on?" It'll be obvious soon enough.