This is a summary of the first 3 parts of this series. It’s pretty much a discussion of how all the mentoring principles can really be applied by seeing them in action.

Click on DAY 4 to catch the wrap-up. You won’t want to miss it.

To learn more about the tribe I’m in, and how you might get involved, CONTACT ME anytime. I’d love to chat with you about it.

Meanwhile, I look forward to your comments below, and your Re-Tweets and Facebook shares.

A great place to prepare the pathway to your success is to write out a clear description of your:

(1) Vision or direction
(2) Goals for specific accomplishment that will result in fulfillment of the vision
(3) Game Plan for bringing that vision into reality
(4) Work Plan setting out the exact tasks that must be completed to make the game plan work.

To make it all happen in the shortest time and with the least struggle and expense, it’s best to engage a live mentor who will guide you, and keep you accountable for your progress.

Find out how my tribe mentors can help you make your dreams happen. Click on DAY 3 of their Tribe Mentoring Series.

If you’d like to know more about getting involved with me and my tribe mentors, don’t hesitate to CONTACT ME.

I’d love to hear what your vision is and how you’d like to make it happen! Comment below.

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One thing that separates the big-time internet marketers and bloggers from the wannabees is product creation. The really serious and enterprising bloggers are the ones that get down to the business of creating their very first product.

It could be an ebook, a DVD series, an interview or any number of things.

It could be an expensive product or simply an introductory freebie.

Whatever it is, it is NOT an end unto itself. It is just the beginning. It is the first rung, if you will, of the “Product Ascension Ladder“. If you want to learn how my tribe mentors have put together products in succession, one building on the other… if you want to learn in minute detail, step by step to the top… click here for Day 2 of their Tribe Mentoring Blogging Basics Series.

If you’d like to learn more about my tribe and my tribe mentors, and how you can join us in our online marketing success, be it for your own product, your own service, or to build your MLM downline the RIGHT way, then CONTACT ME right now!  I’m happy to bring you behind the scenes.

In the meanwhile, I always love hearing your comments, and always appreciate you sharing this post on your Facebook and Twitter.

PRODUCT CREATION is critical to your ability to be successful online. Yet, it tends to be an elusive skill for many marketers and bloggers.

My tribe mentors have developed a rock solid primer for those who want to know where to begin with their own Product Creation.

Click to see DAY 1 of their awesome Tribe Mentoring video series.

If you’d like to learn more about my Tribe, and find out how you can get involved, CONTACT ME.  I’d be happy to let you know what it’s all about!

I’d love to hear your comments about this post and the Day 1 video training.

Have you ever felt this way?

Have you ever been on track, working hard to develop a specific strategy when, WHAM… here comes a better one!  Gotta get to the free webinar, or sign up for the free ebook, or start doing some Google research on it.

Are all the newest ideas, techniques, info-webinars, systems and tools a whole lot of hype?  Are they just sizzle without any steak?

Sometimes they are.  Sometime they are not.

At one time, Facebook and Twitter were new “flashes in the pan.”  But they turned the Social Media world on its head.  But many other ideas never got any bounce at all, and nobody can even remember their names any longer.

Are You Missing Out On The Hottest Happening?

As an internet marketing entrepreneur, you must decide when to stop dead in your tracks to investigate a new method, tool or system… or when to put blinders on to EVERYTHING blasting off all around you, and just stick with the game plan that you’re carrying out.

I find that a big problem with my clients and fellow marketers is that they are all too eager to jump out of one ship, midstream, and leap onto another going in a different direction.  I think part of it is because the grass always seems greener on the other side, and also because things aren’t going as well as they hoped where they are.

Certainly another part of the ship-jumping problem, is that many entrepreneurs thought things would come easier, and instead of keeping their nose to the grindstone and pushing full steam ahead, it seems like it might be less work and more reward to leap for another ship.

Finally, another reason I see people jumping ship is pure and simple, good old fashioned procrastination.  Why isn’t their business going forward?
Why can’t they complete a campaign?  Because they MUST look into something better that just appeared.  That means more research, another webinar, 6 hours of video, read a new book… anything but getting down to the task of completing the task they started out on.

My Advice?

Know that being an internet marketer is a long-term business, not a get-rich quick scheme.  Don’t have unreasonable expectations of overnight success for very little work.  Don’t harbor expectations of grandeur that come without lots of sweat, hard work and temporary set-backs that teach us more than any book we’ll ever read.

Check out the latest and greatest internet marketing strategies, tools and systems… when you’ve completed the campaign or project you already began.

Could you miss out? Yes.  Will you?  Not likely.  If the latest hype has legs, it will be around for a long time.  If it doesn’t, you’ll miss out on a sinking ship.

In the meanwhile, the hottest internet marketing strategy today, as it was yesterday, is to stick to your plan, see it to fulfillment… then and only then, reassess and consider where to go next.  Chances are, the strategy you’re working on may not be the sexiest and trendiest thing on the internet, but I’ll bet it’s got a whole lot of success history behind it.

So, yes.  Check out the latest and greatest internet marketing strategies.  Just don’t jump ship so many times that you end up drowning.

I’d love to hear about the ship you’re traveling on right now.  Comments, re-tweets, Facebook and other social media shares are always appreciated!

It’s great to learn internet marketing strategies, and it’s wonderful to create a game plan for outscoring the competition.  But when it comes to actually scoring some runs, you have to get off first base and head for second.  That’s the time to test your faith.

How To Get To First Base

You can’t score unless you get to first base.  Swing the bat, get a walk, even bunt… but get to first base!   You’ll never get around the bases until you get out of the batter’s box and become a base runner.

This requires a definite skill set.  You must know how to get the bat on the ball, or at least, avoid the pitfall of swinging at bad pitches.  “A walk is as good as a hit!”.

Apply your marketing skills and get yourself on base.

How To Get To Second Base

Now that you’re on base, the fun begins.

You lead off first, always looking at the pitcher’s feet.  If his feet shift toward first, you’ve got to get back fast or you’re out.

You take one step… then another… carefully, cautiously, maybe even nervously.

The pitcher gazes in at the batter, then suddenly turns and throws the ball to first base.  What do you do now?  You think you could get safely back to first.

But your gut tells you to take off for second.  You know you’ll never score if you don’t advance along the base paths.  But when?  Now?  Is it really the right time?

A Matter Of Faith

You may get back to first base safely.  But that won’t get you to second.

Do you have faith that you’re marketing plan will get you to second?  Will you beat the throw to second?  Can you slide under the tag?  Are you finally willing to take that chance and put your faith in your ability to succeed?

If you get thrown out, you walk back to the dugout.  You hang your head.  You know things didn’t work out.  You failed!

But you also know that before long, you’ll be back in the batter’s box and swinging away again, seeking the next opportunity to circle the bases and score.

So why not now?

If it’s because you really don’t have faith in your marketing plan, maybe it’s time to create a new plan.

If it’s because you really don’t have faith in your self, then maybe it’s time to stop thinking about marketing at all, until you’ve you find your own internal center.

Whatever the case, this might be just the right time for you to stop for just a moment… just long enough to test your faith in your internet marketing strategies.  If you are convinced they are sound, why not take off for second base?  If you lack that faith, return to first, but just long enough to develop some strategies you do have faith in.

Do you have faith in your internet marketing strategies?  I’d love to hear your comments!  If you’d like to challenge your friends to test their faith in their internet marketing strategies, please retweet this post, and share it on your Facebook wall as well.

In a 1959 Twilight Zone episode called “One For The Angels”, Mr. Lewis J. Bookman, pitchman, makes a deal with Mr. Death.  He can stay alive just long enough to make his “pitch of a lifetime”.

Your online business, your ability to monetize your blog… will stay alive only as long as your pitch allows.  If you’re not delivering your own “pitch of a lifetime” on your blog, it could mean the death of your internet marketing goals.

Mr. Bookman’s Pitch

“Ladies and gentlemen, if you will feast your eyes on probably the most exciting invention since atomic energy, a simulated silk, so fabulously conceived as to mystify even the ancient Chinese silk manufacturers. An almost unbelievable attention to detail. Witness, if you will, a demonstration of tensile strength. Feel that, if you will sir. Unbelievable, isn’t it? As strong as steel, yet as fragile and delicate as Shantuang Silk. Picture if you will, three hundred years of backbreaking research and labor to develop this, the absolute ultimate in thread. And what would you expect to pay for this fabulous, I say fabulous, incredible amazing development of the tailor’s art? Would you pay thirty dollars a spool? Twenty five? Twenty? Ten? Well very well you might, sir, if you were trying to purchase this in stores. But this fantastic thread is not in stores. It is smuggled in by Oriental birds especially trained for ocean travel, each carrying a minute quantity in a small satchel underneath their ruby throats. It takes eight hundred thirty two crossings to supply enough thread to go around one spool. And tonight, at my special get-acquainted introductory mid July Hot Summer Sale, I offer you this fabulous thread, not at twenty dollars a spool, not at ten, not at five, but at the ridiculously low price of twenty five cents a spool!”

What’s Your Pitch?

Your Opt-in Offer is where you make your pitch.

This is your chance to let your readers know that you have some amazing, free, highly valuable information to share with them.  All they need to do is “opt in” – that is, type in their name and email address to get your offer.

Now, this offer is made with a few printed words and/or a short, one or two minute video.  That’s not a lot of words and time to make a pitch of a lifetime.

So don’t waste a single word.  Make every word drip of value and intrigue.

Make your offer unique.  Make it something people can’t find ANYWHERE except by opting in to your offer.

That doesn’t mean you need to have a unique product, but it must be so intricately woven into your personal brand that your readers won’t want to buy it from anyone but you.

A Pitch For The Angels

And, oh, by the way.  Mr. Bookman’s “pitch of a lifetime” was not any product or item he so eloquently hawked.  It was, in the end just this:

“An item never before offered in this or any other country. One guaranteed live human man servant.
Me! Lewis J. Bookman! The first model of its kind. He comes to you with an absolute guarantee all parts interchangeable, with a certificate of four years serviceability. He eats little, he sleeps little. He rests only occasionally, and there he is at your elbow, at your beck and call whenever needed.
I challenge any other store, wholesale house or industry to even come close to matching what I offer you here…”

And, of course, nobody can match this offer, because, there is only one brand of Lewis J. Bookman.

And, of course, there’s only one of you, too.  So go out and brand yourself and make your own pitch of a lifetime.

Mr. Bookman’s pitch was so effective that even Mr. Death was taken in, cheated though he was by what had actually served up as a “pitch for the angels”… a pitch so compelling that Mr. Death forgot to take the life of a little girl who lay dying, and so, had to settle for Mr. Bookman.

Now, go out and have some fun with your own pitch.  It’s time to get creative in capturing leads and prospects from your Opt-in offer.  Make your very own… your totally unique pitch of a lifetime and watch people scramble to get onto your list of adoring (or at least very curious) followers.

I’d love to hear how you designed your pitch, or what issues you might be facing trying to create or tweek one.

Everybody will accept success if GIVEN it. But very few will abandon their current lifestyle, philosophy and status quo comforts to CREATE success. Why?

First of all because if might wind up in failure. Did you ever notice that the very first reason people give for NOT EVEN TRYING to succeed is that it will, or might, or could end up in failure. You will never succeed if you are purely focused on failure. That’s because failure is fear-based, and success is wholly antithetical to fear.

The Second reason… excuse… is that “I can’t do it”. I don’t have the brains, the money, the training, the experience… Whatever it entails, “I can’t do it”. What this really means is that I DO NOT WANT to take the 110% effort required TO JUST DO IT. Success takes a plan, then the ACTION required on a CONSISTENT and DAILY basis to put that plan into motion.

The Third excuse is that “I looked into it and it won’t work”. In other words, I investigated what it will take to succeed and have decided that I DO NOT WANT to do it… because… because it’s not easy!

There’s really only one way to step beyond these excuses, leave your fears behind and live your life in true abundance, happiness and success.

I’ll share that secret here:

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1.  Intention.  Every day you need to TAKE TIME  to VISUALIZE your success in great detail and with clarity and fervor.

2. Action.  You need to establish a daily routine of putting into ACTION the success you are visualizing.  You action need not be extensive if your time is limited, but it is important to make it consistent and persistent.

3. Responsibility.  You need to take responsibility for your life.  Not just your life as you have it planned out, but especially your life as it happens.  All sort of things occur that would derail us from our goals.

But we always have the ability to respond to these occurrences in a manner that will bring us closer to attaining our goals instead of throwing up our hands in abandonment, which circumstances would seem to dictate.

Be grateful for all that comes your way.

Every thing is purposeful and helpful.  Even if you have setbacks in your relationships, health or business… these setbacks will teach us many things if we approach them with true and sincere gratitude. 

I’ve personally found that the deepest level of gratitude can only be understood in terms of faith.

So be in touch with your faith.  It’s not an aside in your life or in your business.  It resides squarely at the heart of the matter.

If you follow through with all these things, then you should be of good cheer!  Rejoice in your labor and know that your success has been attained… not by reaching a particular goal, but in living a life of sincere faith and resolute action to the best of your ability.  That, in and of itself, is your greatest success.

Once you have established this inner peace, you will release all tension.  While it’s great to be determined, do not confuse tension with resoluteness.  Tension is painful and destructive.  It will never lead to success.  Focus on your intention, and release all tension.

Your destiny far exceeds your personal efforts, and you need to harmonize with that higher path, and release the “stress” on your personal struggles.

These are just a few very basic Law Of Attraction principles that I try to weave into the fabric of my success journey.

How do you apply Law Of Attraction principles in your own life?

I’d love to hear how you respond when your life happens!

Maybe you’re just not seeing the forest from the trees.

You’re NOT alone.

There are many pioneers of this vast internet world who have messages to bring, services to offer, even products to sell that could truly have a major impact on our world.

The first problem they encounter, though, is “how can I get people to listen?”

Have you been screaming out your message but nobody hears?  Nobody comes by to read your blog posts, or view your videos?  Nobody leaves comments or joins in the conversation you try to bring to the table?  Do you struggle to find “friends” on Twitter and FaceBook?

What To Do When Nobody’s Hearing You

The answer to your dilemma lies in making your voice loud enough that it can’t be missed.

To do this, you need to find community… what we call a blogging alliance or, more commonly, a syndication “tribe”.  If, by the way, you’re not familiar with what “syndication” is all about, it’s simply a method for sharing content like blog posts with each other.  A very simple (but powerful) example is when I comment on your blog post, then you comment on mine in return.  That’s the sort of syndication that a blogging alliance or syndication tribe will do.

You may be a pioneer, but when faced with the rigors of the wilderness, you need to join a community of other pioneers who can help each other tough out the barren winter and protect themselves from bigger and stronger beasts of prey.

What To Do When Nobody’s Helping You

Who will stand watch while you sleep, or give warning when disaster lurks?   That is to say, what sort of automation tools are available to drive traffic to you?  What sort of technology can you use to amplify your voice, and to spread it across the world with just a few keystrokes?  And what are the pitfalls to be aware of?

Your tribe will help you with all of this.  They will bring you up to date to use the latest technology to put your efforts on cruise control, while steering you clear of the hazards that eat most internet pioneers alive before they even make a campfire.

Blogging alliances and syndication tribes are built on the foundation of tribal community goals and shared values.  They bring you the assistance and expertise of others who have tread this wilderness before you, and have clearly marked the trails that will most directly get you to your destination.

Your Syndication Tribe Is A Shining Light In The Darkness

Members of my tribe come from all walks of life.  From all ethnic and religious backgrounds, and even from different continents on the globe.  Yet, we all share a common experience.

We are all pioneers.  We have left the comfort of the big city… the BOSS with a paycheck, the apartment above the deli, and the token for the subway.

The very first thing we encounter is the VASTNESS of the WILDERNESS.

We feel small, overwhelmed and barely suited for the obstacles we face.  We question ourselves for leaving our comforts and familiar lifestyles behind us.  We wonder if we should have listened to our families and friends when they warned us that we’d never survive out here, all alone.

Tribes Can Turn Your Blog Into A Beehive of Buzz!

The second thing we encounter is the strength of community.

In order to survive the first brutal winter, we huddle together with our new tribe mates.  We establish a community where we give each other a voice to be heard.  We visit each other’s blogs, view each other’s videos and friend our tribe mates on FaceBook and Twitter.

This gives us “social credibility”.  The time will come when “strangers”… people not in our tribe… will notice all the activity on our blogs and in our social media streams.  They will want to know if we are credible.  They will look to see if we are getting comments and social activity.  And, of course, they will find it.  Lots of it!

Comfortable with the social credibility we’ve displayed, these new visitors will jump right in and join the conversation that we have begun.  Eventually, many of them will join our business opportunities, buy our products, read our e-books, sign up for our online workshops and so forth.  They will hear our message, join our vision and become the basis of our new business.

But not until they’ve seen the activity we generate through our tribe affiliations.

Be A Pioneer, Not A Hermit: Join A Blogging Alliance or Syndication Tribe Community

So, if you are a serious internet pioneer…  If you’ve left the big city comforts behind… and you’re out here trying to figure out how to survive your first winter, contact me.

There really is strength in numbers… and in community!

Let me introduce you to my blogging alliance… my tribal community.  I’ll give you a tour of our village, introduce you to some of my tribe mates and show you how to arm yourself, and get prepared for internet marketing survival.

Sound intriguing?  Let me know what you think of this information.  Jump into the conversation by leaving your comment below.  I’d love to hear from you.