Hi, today I wanted to help you succeed by exploring failure, your failure in fact.

Stay with me here and keep on reading because by understanding what causes failure, you can understand how to turn that around into success strategies.

You see we all have ‘strategies’ ways of thinking, acting and relating to the world..to ourselves, people and of course business so one of the keys to success is to understand why 95% fail online..I mean that is a HUGE failure rate right? It is probably even higher I would think but 95% is the accepted figure..

Why Are So many Failing Online and Who’s Fault Is It?

In my 14 years online experience and 25 years as a successful entrepreneur I have discovered one powerful and life changing philosophy that has ensured my success and created many challenges and it is this:

I take responsibility for EVERYTHING in my life…I mean everything. All the experience, the results that I get across the board I take responsibility for and of course that means in my business.

The result of that decision is to demand more of myself each day, to demand better results, to look for better solutions, to get better at everything I do.

The over-all result is that my lifestyle is getting better every day..including money, health, relationship, spiritual understandings.

So who is responsible for your failures? You are and however hard that feels to fully accept there is a real benefit to that acceptance.

Once you accept that, you then become successful for your success and that is when your life turns around and you become the person you want to be.

Once you stop blaming the past, the Gurus, your parents, the universe and once and for all accept the responsibility that it naturally yours…you power up your life and your business.

YUP: It’s Your Fault and That Can Hurt At First.

So where are you with that idea because as a business owner, the bottom line is that your success and failure is your responsibility and no-one elses:  that is the game you signed up for when you become an entrepreneur, in fact taking responsibility is part of the entrepreneurial ‘make -up’…is it part to yours?

Of course I am aware that 98% on internet marketing teachers are false gods and crooks.  That is true but one day, and it may as well be today, you have to take the internal leap into the light and take responsibility for your actions and in doing so you will lead yourself down a different and more fulfilling path.

It’s time to leave the Gurus behind and make your own way…

The Challenge Ahead.

Once you accept the responsibility you need to ask yourself 3 questions:

1. What are my goals?

2. What has stopped me achieving them until now?

3. What do I need to achieve those goals?

Once you have those down on paper take responsibility for what you do from then on.. this will give you a sense of empowerment and entitlement to success that you will have been missing until that point.

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to your success,

David

I made a short video about content creation based on another blog post,

How To Build an Internet Marketing System That ‘Prints’ Money

Hi, today I want to share the KEY to making money online that starts with a change in mindset about your business, what it is and your role online.

Most internet people come online wanting to express their ideas, make their fortune and sell their products, create the ideal lifestyle…

Well the key to doing all that is to make a small but seismic change in mindset about how all that can happen.

See The Internet Is A System

The key to massive success is in understanding that you are NOT an internet marketer, that is a useless and damaging title, on that has causes millions to fail online daily.

To be successful you must become a systems creator, one that understands how to leverage the power of the internet: you must become an internet systems creator!  (not very sexy I know but it is what it is!)

Let’s start with the internet.

What is the internet? a communication system made up of millions of other systems that fit together, forced to create a certain effect. The most powerful communication system ever, one that can be leveraged to create massive income and a wonderful lifestyle.

Your body is the same, a bunch of molecules, limbs, muscles etc all separate but functioning together, in harmony  (we hope)

Your business then, your internet business, is also part of system of the internet and a system in its own right and whether you know it or not, and your results are the results of that systems performance.

Its About Your System – Not You

Let’s be clear, I am not talking about YOUR performance but your system’s performance and that is where you need to make a change, to make a clear separation between yourself and your business.  I mean you are not the internet right?  So you are not your internet business then either..

Stay with me here…the key to success is to see your business as a system, one that produces certain results dependent on how efficient  it is…YOU are NOT your business, you are the creator of the system.

Let’s keep going…so now you are not an internet marketer, you are a system creator and the system is the one that does the work, not you.

You, the creator, manage the system and make sure it functions how you want it to..that it is able to create what you want…money.

With that mindset you can see your business for what it is and take the role that you must to create the lifestyle you want.  You set the lifestyle, then the goals, then the system to achieve those goals.  I hope that makes sense.

So what does that change in mindset achieve?

It achieves a number of things:

1. It separates you out from your business.  Your business becomes about the system and not you.  if the system is not functioning or producing the results you want, learn to see where the issue is and change that part of the system…

2. It puts you in the place you must be as an entrepreneur..outside of your business looking in: it forces you to work ON the business and not IN the business more.

3. It allows you to view your business in terms of how efficient the parts are..helping you to identify weaknesses in the system that are stopping it from achieving what you want it to achieve.

4. It allows you to create a system (business) that is ‘forced’ to create what you want.

5. You learn to create multiple systems at the same time, making you more money.

My Business System

My own system is broken down into 4 areas.  I call the system the ‘Quadrant System’ because it allows anyone to understand and create business faster and more easily.

The Quadrant System focuses on these areas:

1. Lead generation.

2. Conversion

3. Tracking

4. Personal Mastery.

Turning Traffic Into Profit

Each area is an essential part of the over-all system which is created to turn traffic into profit and is the basis of my success online.

Today, look at your own business as system…become a systems creator. Whether you like it or not, your results are the sum total of your business/system.

If you like what you are getting, your system is doing what you want (even though it could do better!), if not, you need to break it down and review the parts.

Of course, only those who are making it online know how to do this, in fact only a few really do understand the power of the system but today you can make a start.

I urge you to take time to start working in this way, even though I know only a handful will, I hope it is you..

to your success,

David

Hi,

here I would like to give you some ideas of how I created my own success online and the lessons I learnt along the way and biggest mistakes I made, hope fully you will learn from my mistakes.

The beginning of my career online began 14 years ago when I learnt how to marketing online for my personal development and health business and I did this very successfully.

So why did that work?

1. I mastered SEO and got my site found very easily..getting found is key to success.

2. I was passionate about my subject and this came through on the site and in the marketing that I created.

3. I targeted those who were interested what I was offering.

4. I became an expert in my field and was known for my work.

Now all of these positives created a very successful business but you have to realise that the internet was far less well known, the spam online was less, people were NOT so swamped with emails and the social media buzz as they are today…so the four points that created my massive success are even MORE important than ever in today’s market.

When I went online full time I sold my health business and went full into chasing the cash, followed the Gurus it was a different, painful and unhappy story..

1. Followed the cash, believing that I could make money in any market…wrong

2. I listened to the Guru’s and created sites in markets I did not care about.

3. I gave up my ‘expert’ status by going into new unknown markets.

4. I targeted those that I had no ‘rapport’ with and this came across in every part of my business.

So what happened when I went full time??? I BOMBED! big time.

It took a couple of years of frustration, hair pulling, money, time, lost confidence and ‘blood’ before I finally stopped and took a step back..it was then I realised that I had gone horribly wrong and I needed to get back to business basics…back the to strategies that had created the success in my past.

So Listen carefully:

The key learning from this post is this: I failed because I fell for the idea that making money was easy….and so everything I tried was incredibly hard: you may need to read that again.

Read it again: because I bought into the idea that this was going to be easy, I made poor decisions, went into markets I hated, focused on the money and not the value, failed to make any impact and ultimately became the failed opportunity seeker, just like the other 95% failing online.

Back to business basics:

I realised that when i created the successful business and ran a catering business with over 14 million turnover I KNEW it was going to be tough, and so I acted accordingly and created success…in my previous businesses I was a ‘strategic entrepreneur’ and succeeded.

Now I am back in the driving seat, making great money, still working but at my own pace, with the best lifestyle I have ever had..and that is because I WOKE UP to the reality of business and business online today.

It’s NOT Your Fault

I want you to do the same; WAKE UP and see why you are struggling, why you are frustrated and making no money, believe me, after 14 years online I KNOW why you are not making money.

So if you are failing, it has nothing to do with intelligence, effort, or experience. it has everything to with your approach to your business.

Like me and millions of others, the Guru’s and teachers online have told you a lie, betraying your trust and taking your money, time and energy.

The honest truth is this:

Making money online is hard work, particularly at the start, just like any business.

So that’s how I made money, by focusing on what I was good at, bringing amazing value, showing myself as the expert and offering great services and products.

The question is, how can you do the same?

YES of course you can..

Tomorrow I will show you my system, the system that I created to make money day in and day out, it is the best approach to the issue of making money online that I have found and you will love it..see you tomorrow.

See you on the next post,

to your success,

David

Make Your Marketing Pay By Testing (+ a joke)

I will explain the photo in a bit but first some common sense ideas that anyone online, in business or in marketing needs to hear.

If you are not testing, you are failing.

In my years in business, 20+ and my years online 14+ I still see the same issues come up time and again, a lack of CONVERSION from prospect to client.

It does not matter where I look, this is the BIGGEST issue that every business owner has, offline and online.  So why is this issue not going away?

Simple: because 95% of internet marketers have been convinced that traffic is their biggest issue by the so called ‘Gurus’ who are still drive the bus online.

So if you are reading this and not making the money you want, you have a CONVERSION issue not a traffic issue.  Getting traffic is easy..I can go onto Facebook and send thousands of people each day to my business….easy!   but converting them is the problem…

So for today forget about linking, tracking, rss feeds, social media and the rest of it and focus your attention on CONVERSION…and by that I mean market research and testing.

Now I do not have time get into too much detail but I urge you to take this week out…stop looking at emails…and answer these questions:

Who are my customers?

Where are my customers?

What are their most urgent needs?

What can I do to help them?

What is my irresistible offer that would make them MAD not to buy from me?

Once you have answered those questions (and of course there are lots more that would be helpful, but we will start there) look at your websites, emails and other offerings with the answers in mind and I GUARANTEE you will see a better return on your investment of time, money, energy and efforts.

Who Likes Tests?

Well, anyone who has made any money online or in the marketing business LOVES tests because it is THE only way to see if your ideas have worked or not.  You there is no blueprint to make money, every thing has to be tested.

of course you need the basics, market research, a great headline, conversion tactics, a great system the bottom line is this..EVERYONE TESTS and they keep the results of those tests well organised for 2 reasons..

1. If it does not work they don not want to repeat the same mistake.

2. if the test works well they want to know for future information.

So here is the the last question?  How well organised is your testing process?  because if it is not then you will NEVER grow your business.

The fist step is to keep a marketing diary and test everything you do..

We test everything we can, literally everything so that we get a better and better ‘picture’ of what works and what does not..

Next:

Stop chasing the traffic and answer the first set of questions.

get organised and start testing…one headline against the other, one video again the other etc  and you will start to see patterns in the numbers…and that is where it gets exciting because you start to see what will work and success becomes guaranteed!

OK back to the picture…it is about a joke I heard that I made me laugh so..

Here’s the joke:

The wife and I were sitting around the breakfast table one lazy Sunday morning.

I said to her, “If I were to die suddenly, I want you to immediately sell all my stuff.”

“Now why would you want me to do something like that?” she asked.

“I figure that you would eventually remarry and I don’t want some other idiot using my stuff.”

She looked at me and said: “What makes you think I’d marry another idiot?”

There you go..not too clever but gave me a chuckle..

Look out  for the next post coming soon and post and comment below…

to your success,

David

PS: YES I am testing how many of you click on the banner to see my latest online training!   It has great reviews so click through and sign up..