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I sat watching a documentary
on U.S. Navy SEAL Team Training on the local exercise
channel. It showed young men, mostly in their early 20's,
enduring grueling ocean swims in near-freezing water. It
showed these same young men forced to swim underwater
(holding their breaths) until a major percentage of them
passed out and had to be rescued by their instructors. It
showed weeks of grueling training in which ordinary men
are transformed into incredible machines with wills of
steel and unshakable discipline.
Sitting... transfixed, and
marveling at what these young men were able to accomplish,
I saw the one missing element that most online business
people are missing. I saw an ingredient that if more of
them harnessed it, they would be able to accomplish things
"in their world" as magnificent. That one secret
ingredient is teamwork. It was the group cohesiveness, and
the fact that they were all working for a common purpose
that allowed the SEAL Team trainees to accomplish what
they would not normally be able to do.
Enter the realm of the
online entrepreneur. He sits at his computer, researching,
writing and testing ads, tweaking his webpages in an
effort to achieve greater search engine ranking, and doing
a dozen other chores. Many of these online entrepreneurs
do this all alone. They attempt the monumental... to build
a six or even seven figure income while operating in a
vacuum.
Step back and observe the
Internet marketer earning several hundred thousand to
several million dollars per year. He doesn't operate in a
vacuum. I know! I lived among and studied these people,
and in the process became one of them.
Let
me emphasize what you may not be noticing on a conscious
level:
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Successful
Internet marketers all have mentors. Actually many of
them mentor each other. They don't fear sharing things
they've learned through trial and error with those who
will share back with them. They all "cooperate
and graduate." They don't have the "scarcity
mentality." They know that through cooperation
the pie actually gets bigger so they each get a bigger
piece.
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Successful
Internet marketers often have coaches, or managers.
They do this for the same reason that successful
athletes, politicians and celebrities all have coaches
or managers. They know that others can often step back
and observe what's happening in their lives more
objectively, and then make sure that they're only
doing things that will move them towards an identified
goal. These coaches will push them and challenge them
to do more than they would probably do on their own.
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Successful
Internet marketers have formal and informal
brainstorming or masterminding networks. Napoleon
Hill, in "Think And Grow Rich," pointed out
that this was a common trait among the millionaires
that he studied too. Put several people together who
have a common interest or goal and it's a natural
breeding ground for breakthrough ideas. The
masterminding can be long distance, via conference
calls, but it's usually more productive when it's at
an in-person gathering. These gathering can be as
infrequent as twice a year, but they have proven very
powerful!
When
you think about why the above factors of extraordinary
accomplishment are so powerful, it seems to boil down to
one word. That word is... accountability. When you've made
a commitment to a group to work towards a common goal,
that's much more effective than if you just made that
commitment to yourself. There's the incredible social
pressure of not letting the group down. There's knowing
that the success... or failure... of someone else hinges
upon your actions. That's an amazing force that you can
tap into today which will allow you to do things that you
had previously not even imagined possible.
Now that you know the
secret, if you're serious about building an incredible
online business you only need to harness it. A good place
to find people who are ideal for teaming up with is at
seminars and conferences. That's why I attend so many. On
breaks, at lunch, and after hours, I bounce ideas off of
those with perhaps differing points of view, but with
similar objectives.
While seminars and
conferences offer lots of useful information and provide a
motivational lift in-and-of themselves, my observation has
been that the real "money" is made after-hours.
That's where small groups of friends, who only became
associates through these events, sit around and put
together deals and flow out large projects. They do it
around the pool or huddled in an individual's room. They
don't just brainstorm, they make long-term business
commitments. These are commitments that muster in them the
same type of effort that I witnessed in the Navy SEAL
trainees swimming in the freezing ocean water.
I encourage you to stop
procrastinating and act upon this obvious but too-seldom
acted upon gem today. If you need help locating events
where you can look for ideal partners, visit my resource
website:
http://InternetMarketingSeminarSchedule.com
It lists a variety of events, and might even offer some
very convenient to where you live. Break out of your shell
of mediocrity and do it today!
As an aside, the next event
that I'll personally be at is Michael Penland's Internet
Marketing and Joint Venture Super Conference, in Orlando,
Florida, December 3rd - 5th. There will be a lot of people
there looking for proactive potential business partners.
That's the whole purpose of the conference. You can
register for it today through a special link I've arranged
for my clients and friends at:
http://www.instantcashmarketing.com/WillieCrawfordSpecial.html
Copyright 2004 Willie
Crawford
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About
The Author
Willie
Crawford is a corporate president,
published author, seminar speaker and
host, tele-seminar speaker and host,
retired military officer, karate black
belt, network marketing trainer, and
lifetime student of marketing. He shows
people how to actually generate
substantial income on-line using very
simple systems. An example of such a
system that you can use is at: http://ProfitMagician.com. |
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