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Alex Jeffreys – the “Newbies Nightmare” – Internet Marketing Coaching

Gary — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 06:47:50 +0000

Hi,

I’ve just finished reading Alex Jeffreys latest e-book called “Newbies Nightmare – the Advanced Strategies They DON’T Want You to Know!” It’s a short e-book of some 45 pages with a fair few pictures. I managed to read it all in about 15-20 minutes. [You can see a pic of the cover of Newbies Nightmare in the lower LHS column of this page - just scroll down to view.]

Written in an easy-to-read style, the Newbies Nightmare explains why 99% of people trying to make money online FAIL! I gotta admit… the stuff that Alex wrote about hit home with me too.

I signed on for Alex’s first coaching course and many of the pages on this blog are dedicated to what was taught.

If you are considering finding a MENTOR on the Internet to help you with your marketing and selling then I can personally recommend Alex Jeffreys to you. He over-delivered on his first course and I know ABSOLUTELY that with Garry Parkes now taking on the role of Operations Manager that Alex’s new course will be EVEN BETTER!

As I said, troll through this blog and see for yourself the type of information that Alex teaches and the sorts of things that you will learn.

If you want to read the Newbies Nightmare then you can get it by clicking here —> NEWBIES NIGHTMARE

PS:1 I have personally met Alex Jeffreys and Garry Parkes and many other Alex Jeffreys students at the Internet Marketing seminars in Las Vegas in May/June 2009. You can read about all the fun we had in the previous post on this blog. Just scroll down.

PS:2 Having studied lots of information on Internet Marketing (just look at the size of this massive blog!) there are TWO basic themes that keep being said by all the BIG money-makers on-line – FREE tip coming…

… here it is…

1 – Get a MENTOR
2 – Build a list

You can begin to achieve part 1 of that right here, right now. Just download the Newbies’ Nightmare to see what you are facing if you are trying to go it alone. Then read what Alex Jeffreys can do for you. It’s 100% free so you’d be crazy not to. (Remember, you can post any question below and with my experience I will try to answer it. But hurry. This EXCLUSIVE ALEX JEFFREYS MENTORING COURSE will open and close VERY quickly! Last time it was OVER-SUBSCRIBED the people who were late were simply left out. Numbers are restricted.)

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Alex Jeffreys Internet Marketing Coaching Module #7

Gary — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 06:37:17 +0000

Alex Jeffreys concluded his coaching programme today for the initial intake of some 500 students. How many are left still standing is unknown. Some never started, some fell by the wayside, some found it “too tough” and some just decided that Alex Jeffreys wasn’t the mentor or coach for them. I can’t say I feel particularly sorry for those who didn’t emerge into the sunshine from this Alex Jeffreys course. They made their decision – for whatever reason. They certainly had the same opportunity as those who finished did.

I guess it is like a University course, in some respects… some finish, some don’t. In life some people win while others lose. Anyway, I don’t want to focus on any of that too much longer. You can go to my thread on winners and losers if you are interested enough in the REASONS for this.

Some students were unable to make this last webinar for work reasons or family committments, so this summary is for them – and for any lurkers who come here wanting to avail themselves of free information.

OK. Get a cup of tea or that poison that some of you drink called coffee and settle in coz the Gazz-Man is gonna end this Alex Jeffrey’s coaching course with a BIG banging post. I haven’t done that for a while and now seems like an appropriate time. I might slap some people around a bit too coz I’m a bit frustrated with the attitude of some. So, click away now if you are a precious flower who only blooms at midnight when there is nobody around to see you.

Here we go…

Alex Jeffreys was asked before the session started (by Theresa Mayhew, I think) of what the MOST important thing was that HE had learned. Alex said, “The most important thing I have learned is to take action and step out of my comfort zone.” Then he also went on to say how he has also learned to sleep less. That was amusing. I think we have all had lessons in this. I know that there have been some days where I have had as little as 2 and 3 hours sleep just trying to get everything done as quickly as possible, and I work fast anyway. The massive size and complexity of this blog is proof of that.

Just on that point – realise this… you are gonna be dead for a bloody long time. Get all your “lost” sleep caught up with then. Seriously, only really lazy people with little ambition waste time getting too much sleep. It’s OVER-rated folks! Try doing with an hour less. It’s p155 easy when you try.

Most people seem to prefer my summaries in point form so here is a synopsis of the key points, in chronological order of presentation:

~ a significant part of on-line marketing consists of off-line planning with a pen and paper

Sorry, but I simply cannot resist myself here! If you have NOT got a copy of my ACTION Planner yet then – yep, I’m gonna say this – you are a DILL – it’s FREE, it works, I use the methods myself, so do ALL those people who wrote short testimonials down the LHS margin of this blog. Am I bullsh*tt*ng you? NO! Are they? NO! So, if you don’t have it then you are at a disadvantage. I PURPOSE wrote that sucker for THIS COURSE. But is has such wide-spread application both online and offline.

Sure, I could sell the damn thing but it is here FREE! What are you worried about? That I might trap your email addy and try to FLOG you something down the track? Duh! Do what some other geniuses have done – download the bloody thing then unsubscribe immediately! It will be your loss anyway coz I have so much good stuff coming up soon. [Hmm, Stephen Bray... maybe, as you mentioned over at your blog, I AM getting like Gary Halbert! RIP]

My micro rant now being over we can go back to the Alex Jeffreys component of all this:

~ an IDIOT with a plan will beat a genius without a plan (GS Gee, that levels the playing field, huh?)

~ the recipe is only as good as the chef

~ get your message out to as many people as possible in the marketplace

Short digression: Alex Jeffreys then presented a 12 month summary from December 2006 to December 2007 in a month by month breakdown of his activity. This was ineteresting. Briefly, he involved himself in…

~ writing e-books

~ looking for JV partners

~ attending Mike Filsaime’s 7 Figure Code workshop

~ restructuring his online business

~ outsourcing

~ coaching calls with mentors

~ attending an event put on by Rich Scheffren

~ attending the “World Internet Summit”

~ attending the “Internet Bootcamp”

~ attending the “Focus for the Future” seminar

~ launching his own products

~ further planning fro 2008 (GS: Oh LOOK! There’s that word again – PLANNING!)

Alex readily admitted that he wasn’t getting the results from all the effort he was putting in as this was a “LEARNING” stage. Now… I have mentioned this on several blogs where I have stated something along the lines of:

DON’T confuse the LEARNING stage with the EARNING stage

Unfortunately, so many have. I had a HUGE RANT (not unusual for me) on this over at Dean Holland’s blog just recently. Dean, maybe you’d like to link to that page and tell everybody the number of that post. Seriously, some people want to be Usain Bolt before they are even out of daipers. Then they throw a wobbly when they aren’t making $20,000+ a month like Alex is. It takes TIME. Think of the J curve in finance. You, me, we are at the bottom of that J curve.

Back to the Alex Jeffreys material:

~ when your “system” is in place the money earned will go on “auto-pilot”

~ revise Module 1 – forward to basics (revise the fundamentals)

~ it takes a LOT of failing to become a success

The following point is so pertinent that I am giving it special status. Alex Jeffreys said there are two groups of students:

1 – the ones who WORK their businesses
2 – the ones who expect OTHERS to do it for them

My question to YOU. Be honest! Which group do you KNOW you are in. You WILL know!

Moving right along with more notes…

~ build your list (GS: a COMMON theme)

~ observe the 80/20 rule

~ blogging is a MUST in Web 2.0

~ your blog creates value and endorses and positions you

~ learn how to generate traffic

~ in one single week in November 2008 Alex Jeffreys had 51,035 visits

Three critical elements for you to learn how to do:

1 – Position yourself in the market
2 -create your OWN product
3 – Build a list with that product

It’s NOW time to regroup and re-plan:

~ look at the business you have now built

~ where can you better your business?

~ write down all the weak areas

~ write down all the bad parts

~ work out leverage points

~ work out where you need to FOCUS and attend to that first

~ create a plan out of this and start building right here, right NOW!

Alex Jeffreys then went on to say that, “Internet building, with all its different pieces is like a mad circus.” People get so distracted. HELL! I get distracted!

He then gave two really wonderful examples of comments made at the blogs of Gordan and Joe. Gordan gave an analogy of “children learning how to swim” and Joe spoke of everybody’s different “bag of tricks.”

Gordan and Joe – I am not sure who you are but I would really love a copy and paste of those comments at this blog, if you don’t mind. If anyone knows who they are please contact them and ask them to come to the Gazz-Man’s TEMPLE of learning for newbies and nail those comments to a notice board here for all the monks to read!

More salient points from Alex…

~ we are now at the part where YOUR success will be determined

~ You have learned the techniques, you have created your site, now it is time to maintain and caress it. This is YOUR make or break moment!

~ This is not the end but the very start.

OK. Time for me to digress… again… (I know, I know) This is SO important I am gonna tell you something personal that I don’t normally like to bung on about too much, especially on my blog. But I’m gonna do it today coz this is MAKE or BREAK for everybody on the course. You can certainly skim read this next bit or just pass over it if you want.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Most of you are now aware that I have a black belt in karate. (It was an impossibility to keep shielding it anyway coz of those blasted aggregator sites that people have. So I came out and said it in point 5 of my “25 things about Gary” challenge that has been doing the rounds).

Please TRY to stick with me here coz I think it is very relevant…

When I attained that level I thought I was the “duck’s nuts.” Seriously. But I was wrong. It took me five years of beating myself to a pulp and being beaten to a pulp to get it. But what that really signified was one thing and one thing only – that I was teachable. Oh maybe it also proved that I could stick with something. But it showed that I could do the “basics” and pass a test on them. That is all.

Now, after almost 40 years of HARD and continuous training (incurring many injuries, some of them serious) I can see that so clearly now. I am on a much higher rung of the ladder now. A single black belt to me is such a rank beginner. They know so little. I don’t even like teaching at that level much. But it is a start. A foot on the rung of the ladder. That is where most of us are now in Internet Marketing, some are a little higher and some are a little lower.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

[I hope you can appreciate how difficult that last part was for me to write. But for those who can relate to what I said, that was for YOU. If you didn't relate to it then just move on. I'm not gonna make a big deal of it.]

So here are your choices…

[a] Are you gonna drop off the ladder and quit or “retire?”
or
[b] are you gonna hang where you are?
or
[c] are you gonna start climbing your way to the top?

I could probably go on and on with more of what Alex Jeffreys shared in his final webinar module but I think you get the idea.

So, what is the Big Darn Online Secret? Alex Jeffreys didn’t really say, did he? Is there a secret? Heh! You think there is? If you want to keep searching for it then good luck. You see, IMO, there are NO secrets on the Internet. Information moves at the speed of the fibre-optic cables which is, effectively, light speed. And if there ever is a secret then it doesn’t last too long.

The only secret is the one that you hold in your brain. What are you gonna do with the knowledge you now have?

These were the main points of the one hour and fifteen minute concluding Module in the Alex Jeffreys Internet Marketing Coaching Course. As usual, I hope this smorGAZZboard of information helps those who were unable to attend.

PS: Congratulations and thankyou Alex Jeffreys on a job well done often under very trying circumstances. I am sure that the vast majority of the 500 learned many worthwhile things. I know I have. Bring on Las Vegas!

“Bright light city gonna set my soul
Gonna set my soul on fire
Got a whole lot of money that’s ready to burn,
So get those stakes up higher
There’s a thousand pretty women waitin’ out there
And they’re all livin’ devil may care
And I’m just the devil with love to spare
Viva Las Vegas, viva Las Vegas”

[lyrics by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman]

NB: I haven’t had time to correct any spelling or grammatical errors in this post properly yet. I’ll do that after I get back from the gym this evening. I just wanted to get this summary up FAST!

Alex Jeffreys Interviews Andrew Fox – Internet Marketing

Gary — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 05:29:52 +0000

Today Alex Jeffreys interviewed Andrew Fox in the (bonus) Webinar conducted for students of the Alex Jeffreys Internet Marketing Coaching programme.

In the two hour interview I managed to take approximately seven pages of notes. Here is a series of points covered in that interview:

~ List building is a simple process

~ Build a list by joining give-aways

~ Use scalability as the size of the list grows

~ The money is IN the list but you need to know how to “monetize” it

~ Build your list by giving away FREE resources

~ “Crunch the numbers” – WHO is opening your email marketing series?

~ “Train” your list by becoming the “authority” in your niche

~ Pick products that relate to your list

~ Create a “buzz” around your blog

~ Think about creating a pdf newsletter

~ Give people a “bonus” incentive

~ Don’t try to sell ham sandwiches to vegetarians

~ Recommend to your list, don’t push

~ Train your list to know WHO and WHAT you are recommending

~ Analyse emails from other marketers to see what works and what doesn’t

~ Deliver value

~ Don’t supply poor quality, out-dated, junk (CRAP) bonuses – it will detract from your offer

~ Tell stories to “prepare” people to buy from you

~ Have a “plan” to help people buy a good product

~ Use videos sparingly so they do not become too “routine”

~ Use short, sharp, snappy subject lines in emails

~ Compare your emails for the best “open” rates

~ Everything changes, so stay in touch with new trends

~ Be friendly but firm in emailing lists

~ Make it easy for people to promote your products

~ Pay 60% to 70% commissions to entice affiliates

~ Create a product and get others to promote it for you

~ Create a short report as a free list builder

~ Twitter can be used for relationship building

~ When people buy from you they can feel like they owe you a favour if you deliver lots of value

These were the main points of the two hour interview. I hope this smorGAZZboard helps those who were unable to attend.

Internet Marketing – the Gazz-Man and His Accomplice Will Now Reveal the Identity of “Q” – the Creative Coding and Designing Genius Behind this Blog.

Gary — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:51:53 +0000

Hello everyone,

Well the time has finally arrived…

… I want you to meet the creative genius behind the Gazz-Man’s most amazing blog. You are about to meet “Q.” But first, why did I name this person Q? (There is ALWAYS a “but first,” isn’t there?)…

If you have been watching over the last week or so and reading my blog then maybe you know that I chose Q because, indeed, Q is the code name of James Bond’s technical boffin in the movie series. I thought that was pretty cool. However, Q also stands for question. So, in the way that I think, having two alternate meanings was rather delightful. You will notice that quite often I operate on several levels at once rather than just the obvious.

All along my aim was to take the focus off the person’s identity and put the focus squarely onto the WORK that was being done. This was deliberate on my part. You see, this would allow you to see the incredible transformation that has literally taken place right before your very eyes at this blog…

Yes, the changes have been rapid, extensive, very visual and well, in a word… STUNNING. But that is my friend Q. Everything that Q does is the same. Q also stands for QUALITY. And if you are clever enough to get Q to work with YOU (shades of Alex Jeffreys there!), then you will experience exactly the same thing. It is quite an experience to know that you have such a reliable EXPERT in your corner with you.

Already there have been several “EXPRESSIONS of INTEREST” that have been made by some people (saw yours too Ed on the old thread – hmm, a little rhyme – and it will be registered) and identified in the blog as such. Q has been monitoring these. But it is still not too late to hire the creative genius of my friend.

I want to tell you that design work of this quality is VERY rare. In fact, you just WON’T get it anywhere else. Why? Because NOBODY in this caper (coding and designing) has the brilliant mind of this person. The cost elsewhere can run up to around $2,000 with all the technical gagetry that I now have on board here. I am not paying anywhere near that figure. Further, I have negotiated a FANTASTIC rate with Q for members of the F500 if you want some of this wonderful work done yourself.

No. Just to set minds at ease, I am NOT receiving a cut, commission or anything else for doing this. That is NOT how the Gazz-Man operates. The Gazz-Man would not do that without telling you up-front coz that is the sort of person I am. Unlike some people who have NO HONOUR and will do anything for even small amounts of money I would NEVER do such a thing. My self respect s too good for that and I indeed have a conscience, unlike some.

To that end, many of the members of the F500 know that I have already given of myself – freely, willingly and without riders, favours or expectation of ANY BS “I owe-you-one” type conditions. Nobody owes me anything for anything that I have done to help them here. It has been my gift and gifts do not come with conditions attached – at least NOT from me they don’t.

So, here is the deal (take it or leave it)…

… as soon as the comments here reach the magic number of 100 (as in 100/100) which is how I rate my friend’s work then – and only then – you will meet Q!

Now, I will not be counting any comments deliberately designed to bump the comment count up. If I detect that (and I can assure you – the Gazz-Man, like his friend Q – has powers of perception) then I will discount that comment.

So, what can you comment about? Well, what do you like about this blog? The design, the feel, the name, its transformation, the colours? Or, maybe you would like to comment on the other side of what makes this blog work – ie what I write about, my style of doing things blah… blah… You see, I am very proud to say it is now the total package. This has very much been the result of a symbiotic relationship (JV) of two minds coming together to create something that NEITHER mind by itself could achieve. If you go back to one of the early comments I made about draft horses (LOL!) a couple of threads back then that is what I was strongly hinting at there (I’ll get it and drop it in the comments area below a bit later).

So, you can comment on pretty much anything. It’s up to you.

Over to you.

Do you want to meet Q?
Well that will be up to U!
(I love doing sh*t like that… LOL!)

PS: If you think my occasional swearing – masked as it is – or my references to, er, “other matters” from time to time is a bit over the top then here is your opportunity to rap me over the knuckles. Whether I take any notice of you, of course, is entirely another matter. LOL!

PS2: You may also register an “EXPRESSION of INTEREST” in this thread if you wish. (That is all you have to do – just say “EXPRESSION of INTEREST.” As before it is only an expression. You will not be held accountable if you change your mind after talking to Q. But please, Q is avery dear friend of mine and has been for many years. I would really appreciate that you do not mess around with Q’s time as it is most valuable. As good a friend as the Gazz-Man can be he can also be rather capable in an adversarial manner. And he is very loyal and protective of his friends (and Q is a very dear friend)… if you get my drift. The BEST bit about all that is that YOU get to choose! Good-Gary or Bad-Gary. I know both of these guys really well (DUH!) and I can tell you who I would MUCH rather deal with – LOL!

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Internet Marketing – 20 BIG Differences Between Winners and Losers

Gary — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 07:02:22 +0000

Alex Jeffreys (apprentice GOO-ROO, not GNU Mr Garry Parkes) is off on a well-earned vacation in sunny Florida, USA while the rest of us are here still hard at it building our blogs and loading them with content anxiously awaiting his return. Well, some of us are.

You see, I have noticed something, something rather normal actually. While the cat’s away most of the mice … do bugger all. I see it in business all the time. When the boss or supervisor vacates the premises, most of the staff slacken off. Well, let me tell you something here. This is YOUR business. YOU are the boss.

I have been my own boss now for almost 20 years and I know that the face you see in the mirror every morning can be the hardest boss of all time (very rare – as in workaholics – eg the person typing all this up for you) or the easiest boss of all time (yeah, I think I’ll go and have a surf, play golf, hang out at the club, blah, blah, blah…)

Well, if you build your business to the level that Alex Jeffreys has, or Rich Scheffren has or Newt Skobernacker has or Mike Filsaime has or Michael Cheney has then yeah, maybe it will run largely on auto-pilot without a lot of your presence. But in the early days YOU should be hussling.

So, I have compiled a little check-list for you to look over. This is just to let you think about how you might like to go about things and what is gonna separate the winners from the losers. Sorry to use that term folks but there are always gonna be winners and, unfortunately, losers in every endeavour in life.

I think there is a lot of learning to be had here in this 20 point check list that I have constructed for you. So here is my 20 point list that discerns the difference between winners and losers. You can learn very quickly here why winners win and losers lose just by checking this list…

Winners have dogged determination. Losers lack the ability to see any project through to a satisfactory conclusion.
Winners never give up, give in or surrender. Losers quit the moment things get the slightest bit difficult.
Winners make exceptional use of available time. Losers waste time engaging in useless activities.
Winners plan and map their route to success. Losers consider plans belong to builders and maps belong in glove-boxes.
Winners take responsibility for all outcomes. Losers shun responsibility and prefer to place blame on others.
Winners commence a task at the earliest opportunity. Losers procrastinate, delay and run out of time.
Winners learn from their own mistakes and the experience of others. Losers make the same mistakes over and over again.
Winners are committed to projects. Losers display whimsical interest.
Winners make things happen. Losers watch things happen.
Winners are pro-active. Losers are re-active.
Winners have vision and imagination. Losers are backward looking and lack initiative.
Winners encourage and inspire others. Losers criticize and ridicule others.
Winners are methodical and organized. Losers are haphazard and slipshod.
Winners seek information and embrace new knowledge. Losers ignore better methods, concepts and ideas.
Winners ask: “How can I do that?” Losers state: “How do you expect me to do that?”
Winners invest in income producing assets. Losers waste money on depreciating consumer goods.
Winners develop 5, 10, 20, 30 years of experience. Losers repeat one year of experience 5, 10, 20, 30 times.
Winners continually push existing limits and boundaries. Losers feel comfortable operating below their self-imposed ceilings.
Winners take calculated risks. Losers take hazardous gambles.
Winners are inspired to do more to be more. Losers conspire to do less and not be noticed.

Now, if you want you can print the Gazz-Man’s check-list, take a pen and give yourself a tick or a cross against each of the 20 points above. There is only ONE requirement – be honest. That is another characteristic of winners – they are honest with themselves.

I welcome any discussion on any of the twenty points listed above. But, can we just stick to one or two coz if you address EVERY point or even every second point this is gonna get horrendously large and messy very quickly. In fact, it may be wise just to pick ONE point and give it a darn good hammering!

Maybe, without naming names, you might work with someone who displays a characteristic listed above. Wanna get it off your chest?

Or, maybe you would like to discuss some of the principles that Alex Jeffreys has been teaching in his Internet Marketing course.

You can even RANT if you want. Come on. Who wants to have a red hot crack? I won’t censor anything so long as it doesn’t hurt an individual.

Internet Marketing – F500 Statistical Breakdown – the Road Ahead

Gary — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 01:23:24 +0000

Hello again. Today I have some very interesting statistics for you to look at.

I have analysed the 116 people on my blogeroo (blogroll – but I compare it to a kangaroo coz I use it to hop around from blog to blog, hence blogeroo) and the relative activity that I see from those people as I visit all the blogs. You see, I am one of those people who actually READ the blog owner’s entry and then I skim read what others are doing and the comments they are making. Hence, unlike so many others, I can tailor my comment to what the actual blog owner wants to talk about and GIVE value. So I have a VERY good idea of who is who and the personal traits of most of the bloggers.

I know who blathers in with a COMPLETELY off-topic blast of steam. I know who stays on topic. I know who the GIVERS are and I know who the TAKERS are. But, above all, I know who is active and who is not.

Like I said, at the moment of writing this post, I currently have 116 people on my blogeroo. So, based on my observations on all the posts that I visit, I have categorised those people. Here are the results:

VERY ACTIVE – 19 people representing 16%
ACTIVE – 18 people representing 16%
OCCASIONALLY ACTIVE – 36 people representing 32%
COMPLETELY INACTIVE – 41 people representing 35%
WERE VERY ACTIVE BUT GONE STONE COLD – 2 people representing 1%

Now, what is this telling us?

Broadly, one third are either very active or active, one third are occasionally active and one third (actually a bit more) are either completely inactive or dead as a doornail with the project.

How AMAZING is this?

Have you ever heard the following saying? “Some people make things happen, some people watch things happen and some people ask ‘what happened?’”

Most large groups of people can be divided into thirds, very much like that saying above. But it has always been my contention that every third can also be divided into sub-sets of thirds too.

I don’t want to get too over-analytical here but what is this sample analysis telling us?

OK. First a small rider – I haven’t visited EVERY blog – well, some you simply cannot because they either don’t exist, or if they do, they are just a name with a standard wordpress welcome text sitting in them.

Next, I know that certain groups have formed and some people may be more active in one group than in others. But, like I said, I have visited a LOT of blogs and I see names (and “I see DEAD people” too. A small joke, folks, no nastiness intended).

So, extrapolating my findings here across the entire F500 (Fortunate 500) what does this tell us, statistically?

VERY ACTIVE – 80 people (16% of 500)
ACTIVE – 80 people (16% of 500)
OCCASIONALLY ACTIVE – 160 people (32% of 500)
COMPLETELY INACTIVE – 175 people (35% of 500)
WERE VERY ACTIVE BUT GONE STONE COLD – 5 people (1% of 500)

Well, those are the statistical figures. But I can tell you all categorically that there are only 37 people either very active or active. So, out of deference to the above statistics, let’s say that the top two categories (ie VERY ACTIVE or ACTIVE), which is some 160 people, is the sum total of people who are doing anything at all, what happened to the other 340 people? And if only 40 or so are really doing anything then why should I want to retain any more than those 40 on my blogeroo? Why would anybody? Dead wood is dead wood.

Do you agree or disagree with my observations and/or methodology?

Also, one more consideration for you to ponder…

Now that the latest “BIG THING” has hit the web – Web Prosperity – with all its massive promises of great wealth for very little activity, I expect that even some of the active and very active members of this Alex Jeffreys Internet Marketing and Mentoring program will have their attention side-tracked and their efforts split, diverted and diluted. I would expect that almost every occasional and completely inactive member of the F500 will race across there like maniacs to get that push-button cure that they so DESPERATELY crave and seek. Massive wealth for zippo! Yippee! “At last I’ve found it. My holy grail!” (And if anyone quotes that out of context… watch out! Bad-Gazza isn’t bad for no reason.)

Me? Yeah. I’ll observe this “latest opportunity.” I may even join on the off-chance that it might be different to all the other MLM’s that I have been in that have ALL crashed and burned leaving a trail of destruction and ruined lives in their wakes.

But just remember this – BIG WARNING TO FOLLOW HERE – the push button, matrix, “we do EVERYTHING for you and will make you fabulously RICH” scheme is OWNED by somebody else. With a flick of a switch they can DUMP you like yesterday’s dinner in your gullet (sorry for the analogy, but they can). In YOUR business YOU own it. YOU do. YOU.

Come on, bash me up. Tell me I am wrong with all this. Convince me that I am reading this all incorrectly. You can sway me if you have a convincing argument. I can usually be talked around if somebody has a more compelling or accurate appraisal than my own of any given situation.

I welcome your thoughts on all of this. Over to you …

Gary Simpson

Internet Marketing – Are You Like One of My Palm Trees?

Gary — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 00:59:09 +0000

Well, the Gazz-Man is at it yet again. He gets out of bed and walks into a room that he calls the “Parlour” – a room designed for thinking, a room of peace and tranquilty, a room overlooking his tropical garden paradise, a room where he reads and thinks. So he walks outside to greet the day and do a few exercises and then it hits him…

… the PALM TREES! Look at them.

The Gazz-Man's Tropical Paradise

Now, it may not be quite so obvious in the photo (taken this morning at approx 7.00am for this very thought that I wanna share with you) but…

… all the palm trees are of different size. Why? They were all planted together. They were all the SAME size when they were planted. They have all been lovingly nourished and watered (the Gazz-Man LOVES his extensive collection of palms and ferns and cycads). They have all been treated EXACTLY THE SAME. And yet some are taller and thicker and far stronger than others. Some even look pretty puny and weak by comparison.

This has had the Gazz-Man stumped many times just thinking about why this is so. Many a time I have looked up from Hill, Frankl, Proctor, Maltz, Helmstetter – a Phantom or Commando comic or two, even a rudie magazine – and just pondered why this is so. And this morning was no exception. But this morning the Gazz-Man’s brain made a connection…

So, here is what I think… some palms just have greater internal strength. Some just have a NEED to grow bigger and stronger.

Now, you probably know where this is heading, don’t you? I mean, the title really gives it away, doesn’t it?

Why are some students of the F500 flourishing and why are some languishing? They have all had the same exposure to information. Why?… “why, why, why, Delilah?” (I have actually worked with the singer of this song but that can be a story for another day).

Right now, I wanna know if you are gonna be one of those big strong palms or will you settle for being a puny little one. Or maybe you are gonna be like the Gazz-Man’s rare casualties – ie the palms that just say to themselves [shades of the Shadster here - some of you know what I mean ], “This is all too hard. I’m checkin’ OUT!” Dead palm. Victim. Casualty. Cut the bloody thing up. Get the dead trunk outa here! I don’t want it stinkin’ up my vista with its dead leaves and stuff falling everywhere. OUT!

Will you still be part of the F316 or the F201 or the F177 or the F87 or whatever the “F” becomes when the fall-out happens and so many people decide it is all too hard and it just isn’t worth it? And they go back to looking for the “push-button cure” to give them… dare I mention it again? … the orgasm they want from doing NOTHING! (In my youth I actually used to know a few… well, um, I’ll leave that thought right there – LOL!)

Are you gonna be an EXCUSIOLOGIST? (See my MOTIVATIONAL MOMENT in the Profit Pulling Project newsletter #2). You betta get that newsletter and read EVERY word of what I say coz I don’t want YOU to be a victim here. Make sure you check Garry Parkes‘ blog often over the next few days coz he is almost ready to publish it.

Ponder these thoughts while you decide which palm you want to be like. I might just take a swim now. That pool and the 100F temperature that is forecast for today is just too alluring. Bye for now…

Gary SIMPSON

PS: I did say in my “explanation” at the end of my “A New Year Begins” thread that I was gonna ramp things up. In fact, I have just been on the F500 private members’ site run by the very talented Mr Thomas Northrup and I have left a very strong comment there. The first response to that came just minutes later from Alan, who said, inter-alia, “You’re a straight talking guy, well done!” Yep.

So, if you wanna hear mamby-pamby, politically correct, bullsh*t designed to feed FALSE egos with garbage information then PLEASE – DON’T come here because you will be offended by me. Like I said, this is a NEW YEAR – more than a month has elapsed since this started – the HONEYMOON is over. This is my opening salvo for 2009. Have I upset you? I ain’t apologising. Toughen up princess. Have a spoonful of cement in that coffee.