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OFFER TO PROMOTE

Part One: What Does Your Traffic Want

a. what do they click on
b. what is their ultimate goal
c. what other things are they buying
d. what can we FLIP them into

Part Two: Select An Offer Based On Your Markets Needs

a. DIRECT HIT
b. pretty damn close
c. gonna take some work

Part Three: Look At The Offer Payout

a. what will you make per click
b. what has to happen for me to get paid
c. are there any (reversals, refunds, clawbacks)

Part Four: Offer Landing Page ***

a. will this convert
b. how many steps to get to the CPA
c. are there any distractions / phone number / links out / ads
d. does the page collect leads before i get paid
e. does the landing page fit something my market wants

Part Five: Direct Offers / Offer Networks / CPA Networks

a. going direct (hosting, kartra, clickfunnels, ect)
b. major affiliate networks (cj, clickbank, jvzoo, linkshare, rakuten)
c. CPA Networks (maxbounty, globalwide, aragon, peerflyect)

Part Six: Marcus’ Favorite Offers

a. browser extensions
b. as seen on tv
c. fiverr
d. loans / credit cards
e. software as a service
f. web hosting
g. financing and investing
h. free credit score
i. email / zip offers
j. diets
k. dating
l. high paying trials

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a. amazon
b. adsense
c. big stores

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Writing Ads

 

A lot of people write ads. You see a lot of ads out there, right?

 

People put ads out on the internet. They put ads on social media. They make fancy graphics and fancy ads.

 

But no one clicks. No one does anything.

 

A lot of people write ads, but a lot of them are junk ads.  And a lot of them don’t work.

 

The key to making a living online is understanding how to write an effective ad. Understanding what to say, and how to say it.

 

Are you ready to learn how to write ads that make lots of money? Well in this training, that’s exactly what I’m going to teach you. I’ll show you exactly how to profit with simple, tiny little advertisements.

 

The whole idea of your ads is to sell the click. We’re going to teach you how to get the click.

 

We’re going to discuss how writing ads work. We’re going to show you lots of helpful words that you can use in your ads. And we’re going to show you lots of examples. You’ll even see some templates that you can use to write ads.

 

These are things that I’ve over the last 20 years that have made me millions of dollars in a really, really simple way. So, we have to look at it and see exactly what’s going on.

 

 

My Magic Ad Story

 

Back in 1999, when I first started my business, I used to be a magician. I found out that being a magician was kind of tough. It was hard to get bookings. I was trying to get shows, I was trying to make more money, and I was trying to figure out how to get more people interested.

 

So, I came across an ad in a magic magazine.

 

(Yes, that’s right! We magicians have our own magazines. Crazy, right?)

 

I found this ad, and it said:

 

“Do you want to get more bookings to your magic shows?

Write me and I’ll send you some letters about how to do this.”

 

It was a full-page ad.

 

So, I called the guy on the phone, and I told him,

 

“Hey man, I want to get more magic show bookings. I want more people to join my magic shows. I want people to book m so I can make more money.”

 

And at the time, my advertisement said,

 

 

“Magic, balloons, comedy, and fun. Call Marcus.”

 

And then it had my phone number.

 

I ran that ad in a magazine. It cost me about $170 in the local parenting magazine. And off of that ad, I was able to make anywhere from $5 to $600 a month in bookings, which meant I put around $430 in my pocket at the end of the month.

 

Once I called that guy and asked him what to do, he said,

 

“Marcus what you need to do is you need to change your ads. So here’s what I’m going to do. I’m going to teach you how to write an ad. Okay? And I want you to write this ad.

 

And when you change your ad and you get a lot of bookings, then I want you to call me and I want you to get one of my courses.”

 

 

 

I said, “Fair enough, man. If this stuff works, then obviously, you got yourself a customer for life.”

 

And it did.

 

Then he went on to work for Dan Kennedy as his ad guy. (I learned a lot from Dan Kennedy, as well.)

 

He told me to change my ad from this:

 

“Magic, Balloons, Comedy, and Fun!”

 

To this:

 

“Make Your Child’s Party Unforgettable!”

 

So I changed the wording of my ad. The ad cost the same amount to run. It was in the same magazine at the same time.

 

 

 

And all of a sudden, the little ad that was getting me five to six shows a month now was getting me 20 to 30 shows a month.

 

It was the same ad! The only change was words on paper.

 

You might be asking yourself, “Words on paper can be the difference between a little money and a lot of money?” The answer is yes. Absolutely.

 

This is one of the skills that you need to learn if you want to be a marketer. If you want to learn how to make money with affiliate marketing, with internet marketing, with anything, the key is words on paper.

 

The words that we say make a difference.

The words that we say make an impact.

 

And you’ve probably heard the old saying that “it’s not what you say, it’s how you say it.”

 

Well, that might be true on a first date, face-to-face, but in the marketing world, that’s not true at all. It’s 100% what you say.

 

 

Commanding Attention

 

One of the things you can study is the news. Watch what they do. You’ll see that on most news stations, whatever news they’re talking about is breaking news.

 

It doesn’t matter what it is. It could be an old lady crossing the road. Everything’s breaking news.

 

They do that for a reason.

 

Why? They do that because they’re testing. They’re testing with millions and millions of people watching. They are testing and trying to find out what is getting your attention.

 

 

 

Now, think about TV in the old days. Think about when you had five different channels, and you had to walk up and turn the channels and move the antennas (bunny ears).

 

These channels would fight for your attention. They would say, “I want you to watch this. I want you to watch that.”

 

Why is this important?

 

Because the more attention you get, the more money you’re going to make, if you do it correctly. Some people out there go do stupid stunts and try to make money that way, and that’s all fine and good, but it doesn’t always work.

 

What we’re talking about is how to get attention with words on paper. How do you write an ad that’s going to command attention?

 

One time, I was in a movie theater.

 

 

I’m sitting there in my seat, and there’s a group of people in front of me, and there’s this person on their phone. And they’re scrolling through Instagram.

 

They’re scrolling through Instagram so fast, I don’t even know how their mind can compute what they’re seeing. I have no idea. It’s like, how do you even see that?

 

But that is your audience.

 

Your audience is scrolling the internet fast. They get bombarded by stuff every day. Their Facebook feeds are bombarded with ads, with information, with all this stuff every single day.

 

So what are you going to say to get someone to stop scrolling?  What are you going to do to get someone to stop searching?

 

What are you going to do to stand out?

 

This is important if you’re doing banner ads. This is important if you have your website and you already have traffic. This is important if you’re doing YouTube, because your thumbnails need to stand out.

 

You need to look at human nature.

You need to understand what people are interested in.

You need to understand what people are doing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Writing Your Own Ads

 

Here are some things you must do if you want to write an effective ad.

 

 

1. Learn Random Facts

 

The first, most important thing that you can do is learn random facts.

 

You might ask, “What does that have to do with ad writing? What does it have to do with anything?”

 

Learning random facts and knowledge is going to give you a leg up on the competition. It’s going to tell you something that your market doesn’t know.

 

Learning random facts and knowledge is very good. You want to learn statistics.

 

You want to learn different kinds of knowledge that people don’t know, and you want to learn things that people haven’t heard of. You want to learn numbers.

 

Begin to learn different things about your market. Dive into your market. Start to understand what your market’s about. Start to understand what your market’s into.

 

What keeps them up at night? Start to understand what kind of things they’re going to worry about.

 

You might need to learn information that you’re not really interested in, but the majority of people are. You might not pay attention to certain things, but most Americans do.

 

And we have to realize, if most Americans are paying attention to something, then there’s something we can learn here.

 

 

 

2. Appeal to Emotion

 

We need to start writing ads that make people feel.

 

We need to get people to feel an emotion.

We need to get people to think.

We need to get people to feel so that they take action.

 

Because something that’s true in life, and many of you can probably agree, is that a lot of people are stuck.

 

And they like to feel stuck. It’s harder to move to the next place in life than it is to be stuck.

 

And people like comfort. If you look at someone who’s comfortable, you might find that they’re kind of unhappy, but they’re comfortable.

 

They’re going to stay there. It’s hard to get them to move.

We need to get those people to feel something, too.

 

Here is another personal example.

 

Recently, I was dealing with arm pain and back pain. I asked myself, “What the heck is going on?”

 

So, I started searching the internet. And all of the sudden, a click bait ad came up. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, we can learn from click bait.

 

The ad had a picture, and it said, “Warning signs of lung cancer.”

 

A lot of you guys know that I smoke, so sometimes, that is a worry. And in the picture was a guy holding his arm. I didn’t know that was a symptom.

 

Think about the power of that ad to a guy like me.

 

Here I am, reading the internet passively, checking my stats.

 

 

All of a sudden, I see this ad, and my heart drops. And I go, “Oh shit.”

 

“Is this something that I have?”

 

Now, it turns out that in reality there are a bunch of other symptoms that you have to have as well. But I’m one of those hypochondriac guys who searches the internet endlessly to try and find out what’s going on with me.

 

That guy did a good job of an ad. Would you agree? That ad did a good job because it had a symptom that a lot of people could possibly have.

 

How many of you guys have gone through that? Where you think, “Wow, I’ve seen an ad that’s made me feel something.”

 

So many people are doing passive ads. They sell from their heels. They waffle it.

 

 

They just say, “Hey man, I got this really cool thing, and I’m going to sell some cryptocurrency, and yay.” And nothing happens.

 

And then you see some guy who’s just a total hack job, and he says something like, “Here’s a picture of my bitcoin account,” or something like that.

 

I don’t do bitcoin, but I know some of those kinds of ads will get responses.

 

Keep your eye out for those different kinds of ads. When people are on social media, watch what they say. Watch what gets the most comments.

 

Usually, it’s something that piques curiosity, or it’s something polarizing. Polarizing people isn’t a good thing to do. But polarizing facts? That can be a brilliant thing for marketing.

 

 

 

Can you go through and polarize an audience, in a good way, to get them to feel something? And then to take action?

 

Here’s another way to think about advertising and emotion.

 

It doesn’t matter who you are. It doesn’t matter how smart you think you are. It doesn’t matter how logical you think you are.

 

Every major buying decision you make is based on emotion.

 

People buy based on emotion, and then they back it up with logic. They say, “I bought this. Here’s why I bought it. Here’s why it’s a good investment.”

 

So, we have to appeal to emotions and appeal to curiosity. Curiosity is big. People are curious.

 

And here’s another thing:

 

 

People in America are bored out of their minds. They go to work and they’re bored. They come home and they’re bored.

For some people, the most exciting thing they’re doing today is reading your ads. That’s pretty sad, but it’s the truth.

 

And if you can provide them some kind of relief from their boredom, your ad is going to work.

 

 

3. Use Trigger Words

 

There are certain words that you use with your audience that are going to stick out in their mind. These are called trigger words.

 

Trigger words will get your audience to take action.

 

 

 

 

 

They make people stop and decide that they’re going to read what you have to say. They spark an emotion, and they get people to think. They make your ads stand out from the other ads.

 

Here are some examples of trigger words.

 

How to. This is a very good one. When you don’t know how to write an ad, or when all else fails, you can start with how to. Examples:

 

“How to write an ad that gives people desire.”

 

“How to write an ad that floods your bank account with money.”

 

“How to write an ad that will have people calling you day in and day out.”

 

 

 

“How to write an ad that’ll sell your car faster than anyone on the planet.”

 

See how we can use something like a “how to” ad to stop people dead in their tracks?

 

 

Truth. The truth about this. The truth about that. Examples:

 

“The truth about diets and weight loss.”

 

“The truth about arm pain.”

 

“The truth about making money online.”

 

“The truth about divorce.”

 

 

 

 

Hidden. Hidden is a good one, too. Examples:

 

“Hidden secrets of advertising executives.”

 

“Hidden secret a 30-year-old woman used to lose 90 pounds after having a baby.”

 

“The hidden secrets the mortgage companies don’t want you to find out.”

 

See how the last one is more emotionally charged than, “I’m going to save you $50 on your mortgage.”

 

 

Secrets. Examples:

 

“Secrets that the top lawyers don’t want you to know about.”

 

“Secrets of losing weight.”

 

“The secret of how to write an effective ad.”

 

 

New. New is a good one. It makes people think, “What am I missing?” Fear of missing out, they call it FOMO. Fear of missing out is huge. Example:

 

“New method makes $150 a day on autopilot and it only took 20 minutes to set up.”

 

If I said this to get you guys to come to a live training, you’d be like, “Woah, Marcus has something new? Crazy. Let’s check that out. Let’s see what’s going on.” You would respond to it. You wouldn’t want to miss out.

 

 

Experts. You see this in TV advertising all the time. Examples:

 

“Nine out of ten experts say that this works best. “

 

“All the experts are wrong.”

 

“What the experts are hiding from you about how to really lose weight.”

 

“The experts are deliberately keeping this from you, and it keeps you fat.”

 

 

Facts. Examples:

 

“Unknown facts that will help you do X.”

 

“The fact that stops you from losing weight.”

 

“The number one fact that keeps you from X.”

 

 

 

 

 

Breaking. Examples:

 

“Breaking! New method reveals how to make more in a shorter time.”

 

“Breaking new law teaches you…”

 

“Breaking new law saves seniors thousands on healthcare.”

 

 

Revealed. Examples:

 

“Revealed, the best way to lose weight.”

 

“Revealed, the best way to invest in your retirement.”

 

“Revealed, the top tricks the tax guys know to save you money.”

 

Hate. I don’t personally like this word, but it does stop people in their tracks. Examples:

 

“Rich people will hate this new law.”

 

“Poor people will hate what is happening here.”

 

“If you hate this, then you’ll like this.”

 

“Do you hate this?”

 

“Top things single parents hate.”

 

“Top things kids hate to eat.”

 

Consider an ad that says, “Top five things you can do to make a woman love you.”

 

Then, think about this.

 

 

“Does every woman hate you? … This is why.”

 

Nine times out of ten, people are going to click that over the other one.

 

 

Announcing. Announcing is a very good one as well. Examples:

 

“Announcing the newest way to make a living.”

 

“Get this, announcing a better way to retire.”

 

“Announcing the top 50 states you can retire in.”

 

 

Breakthrough. Examples:

 

“Breakthrough: new method that stops acne cold.”

 

 

“Breakthrough new method that will help you lose weight.”

 

“Breakthrough new method that’ll help you write better ads.”

 

“Breakthrough new method that’ll do this, this, and this.”

 

 

Amazing. This is a powerful word. Examples:

 

“Amazing new results for people who want to lose weight.”

 

“Amazing new results for people want to save money.”

 

“Amazing new results for people who want to pay their credit cards off.”

 

Life. Examples:

 

“This could change your life.”

 

“Do you need to change your life”

 

“How to stop hating your life.”

 

“How to start loving your life.”

 

 

Protect. Examples:

 

“Nothing is more important to a parent than protecting X.”

 

“You want to protect your investment.”

 

“You want to protect your kids.”

 

 

“You want to protect your livelihood.”

 

“How can you protect this?”

 

“How can you protect that?”

 

 

Yes. I use this as a headline starter a lot. Examples:

 

“Yes, you can learn to write ads and make a living online.”

 

“Yes, you can lose 30 pounds in two months.”

 

“Yes, you can fit into that bathing suit next month.”

 

Free. This one everyone knows about. It’s overused and abused, but it still works. And you want to charge it with a feeling. Examples:

 

 

“Free report reveals X.”

 

“Free report reveals how to make ads that will flood your bank account with money, get you more customers, and keep you rich for life.”

 

 

With these words, as we’ve said, you’re trying to think of how to stop people in their tracks. This is known as a pattern interrupt.

 

People are passively reading stuff on the internet. If someone’s passively reading stuff about a certain topic, how do you get them to stop? How do you interrupt their pattern? How do you interrupt their thinking?

 

You use these words to stop them and say, “Hey, you need to read this. If you don’t read this, see what’s going to happen. This little thing will change your life.”

 

 

And when we talk about these words, we have to tread a thin line between good ads and clickbait. A lot of people say that a good ad equals clickbait. No. A good ad is a good ad.

 

Clickbait is not a good ad. Clickbait is when you don’t deliver on a promise.

 

So if I have an ad that says, “Secrets to making $150 a day,” and I take people to a site that says, “Buy this thing,” that doesn’t really deliver on the ad. I need to tell people the secrets I was talking about.

 

Now, when I get into it, I do want to tell them the secrets in a way that gets them to buy what I want them to buy. But that’s not the same thing as clickbait.

 

These words have power. They have power because people make them have power.

 

 

 

A lot of these words have power because advertisers make them have power. That’s pretty crazy when you think about it. Advertisers literally hijack the brain and make people think differently.

 

 

4. Make Your Ads Truthful

 

Obviously, when you do advertising, you want to make your ads truthful. Always do truthful ads. Whenever you use numbers, use specific numbers and use true numbers.

 

Don’t go messing around and making stuff up. Be ethical and be true. Focus on what works and give people good stuff.

 

 

5. Make Your Ads Short

 

Make your ads short and to the point. Don’t be too long-winded.

 

6. Don’t Try to Sell in Your Ad

 

Don’t try to sell in your ad. Remember, the idea is to sell people on the click, not to get them to buy straight from the ads. What we’re talking about today is writing ads to bring people to our site, or writing ads to send people out.

 

When we do ads to bring people to our site, we want the ads to bring people to our site and let the site do the selling.

 

Because here’s the deal. You don’t want just everyone. You want the people that you want.

 

Advertising and writing ads is all about skimming a group of people that you want out of a big group of people. So if you have a big group of people, like the internet, you want to skim people off that you want.

 

Don’t try to sell in your ad—just let it sell itself. And let the people come that you really want.

 

7. Know Your Audience

 

The next most important thing is to know your audience. Know your audience. What do they think about? What do they feel? What do they desire? What do they want?

 

 

8. Have a Call to Action

 

What are you doing to get people to click? What are you doing to get them to take action?

 

A lot of people waffle it when it comes to this. Ask for what you want. Ask for the click. Get them to respond.

 

One of the things you can study is the news. Watch what they do. You’ll see that on most news stations, whatever news they’re talking about is breaking news.

 

 

 

It doesn’t matter what it is. It could be an old lady crossing the road. Everything’s breaking news, and they do that for a reason.

 

They do that because they test it. They test it with millions and millions of people watching. They are trying to find out what is getting your attention.

 

Think about TV in the old days, when you had five different channels, and you had to walk up and turn the channels and move the antennas (bunny ears). These channels would fight for your attention. They would say, “I want you to watch this. I want you to watch that.”

 

Why is this important?

 

Because the more attention you get, the more money you’re going to make if you do it correctly. Some people out there go do stupid stunts and try to make money that way, and that’s all fine and good, but it doesn’t always work.

 

What we’re talking about is how to get attention with words on paper. How do you write an ad that’s going to command attention?

 

How do you write an ad that’s going to get people to take action? How do you write an ad that’s going to get people to click, or buy, or fill out a form?

 

Tell people what you want them to do.

 

Here are some examples:

 

“You want to feel better about yourself? Click here.”

 

“You want to lose weight fast? Click here.”

 

“Do you want to buy this? Click here now to sign up.”

 

“Do you want to feel better about losing weight? Click here to sign up.”

 

 

9. Make Your Links Clickable

 

Here is another thing that’s very important. When you do your ads, and you have a clickable link, make sure it’s blue and make it underlined. Why? It’s what people are used to. They know that a blue underlined link is going to go somewhere.

 

 

10. Have a Reason Why

 

The big thing in marketing is a reason why. Reason why is the key to damn near anything. Give them a reason to click. Give them a reason to buy. Give them a reason to keep reading.

 

The key to good advertising is to be a straight shooter, be honest, be transparent, be upfront. Tell them what’s going on. Tell them what you’re thinking. They’ll listen.

 

 

 

Using Ads with Your Website

 

There are two sides of the coin here: part one is your ad, and part two is your website.

 

Your website is pretty much content with ads. Your content is supposed to get people into what you want them to buy.

 

But when it comes to your ads, you can actually use them to mine data about your audience.

 

Let’s use a weight loss ad as an example. You could have a website about weight loss, and an ad somewhere else that points to your website. The ad could go to a content page on your website that tells you about a secret for losing weight.

 

What if, instead of the ad talking about a secret, you had a banner ad that said, “Click the body you want,” with images of different body types on them?

 

 

You would get a lot more people to click, and you would learn more about your audience in the process.

 

If you run that ad and get a bunch of clicks, you could get a bunch of people to your site. Hopefully they end up buying stuff. But if not, you could still find out that 90 percent of the people on your website want to lose 90 pounds.

 

Then, once you know that, you could make an ad that says, “Here’s how to lose 90 pounds overnight, even if you eat chocolate cake every day.”

 

Do you think that ad’s going to work? Yes. Why is it going to work? Because your audience told you that’s what they want. Know your audience.

 

If you have a website and you’re getting decent traffic, I as a marketer could figure out what your audience wants in a matter of a few days.

 

 

And if I figure out what your audience wants, now I own the traffic. I could go in and buy as much traffic as I want.

 

Lots of people do banner advertising on what’s called a CPM basis. CPM means Cost Per Thousand Impressions. This means if I pay $1 CPM, I pay the same dollar if I get one click or if I get 100 clicks. If I get 100 clicks, then I’m paying one penny per click. If I get one click, that means I’m paying one dollar per click.

 

This is how I go and buy traffic for pennies. There is lots of traffic out there that’s very, very cheap.

 

And why is it so cheap? Because people don’t know how to advertise. They don’t know how to write good ads, and they don’t know how to get visitors from a different place to go where you want them to go.

 

If you don’t know these things, your ads aren’t going to work, and you’re going to lose money.

 

But knowing these things will revolutionize your ad writing in a way that sets you apart. And then you could go on any social medial platform, or anywhere else you want, write an ad, and get results.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ad Templates

 

Here are some templates based on the trigger words that we have.

 

How to _________ to get __________.

 

 

Hidden secrets the ______ don’t want you to know so that __________.

 

 

Do you hate _______? Here’s how to ________ without ________.

 

How to protect your ________ while also ______.

 

 

Breakthrough method to ________ while you _________.

 

 

Learn More About Ad Writing

 

If you want to learn more about ad writing, the best thing you can do is go to MarcusMentor.me and sign up for my mentor program. It costs around $2.30 a day.

 

Do you think my ad writing skills will help you make $2.30 a day? I certainly hope so.

 

You’re going to go over to MarcusMentor.me, you’re going to get signed up, and then we’re going to send you a link for a special training. It’s going to be around two or three hours long.

 

And we’ll talk to you all about ad writing.

 

I’m going to teach you as much as I can about ad writing, and we’re going to show you how to write these ads.

 

 

 

We’re going to show you

 

• how to command attention
• how to get people to respond
• how to get people to take action on your site

 

Here’s what you can expect from this program. This is from our commercial.

 

Are you struggling with information overload?

 

Do you need help making this affiliate

marketing thing work for you?

 

Want to find out how Marcus was able to start his first affiliate site with less than $100 in the bank, and was able to turn his business into multiple seven-figure

income streams?

 

 

 

You need a mentor that can help you personally start getting results with your affiliate marketing.

 

You’re tired of all the fluff and hype

that gets you nowhere.

 

Well, as I’m sure you figured out by now,

you are in the right place.

 

And if you like Marcus’s videos

and live training sessions,

you’re going to love

his brand new mentor program.

 

MarcusMentor.me is a must-have for anyone who wants to start getting results with affiliate marketing fast.

 

In Marcus’s mentor program, MarcusMentor.me,

Marcus and his team will not only give you:

 

 

• behind the scenes videos
• tutorials
• professional PDF notes on all of his trainings

 

But, you will also get access to:

 

• Marcus’s video vault selections each month
• Personal plugin suite valued at over $784

 

You will also get a free print copy

of his affiliate marketing for beginners’ book,

that will take you through

all the ins and outs of

how to start and run

your affiliate marketing business.

 

This takes out all the junk,

and gets you what really works.

 

 

 

Even if you’re an advanced affiliate marketer,

this will help you get to the next level.

And if you’re just starting out, this is a perfect way

to start getting results fast.

 

And, if that’s not enough, Marcus will also

give you access to his weekly, private,

members-only live trainings. This is so you can:

 

• Have a space to ask questions directly
• Get answers instantly
• Get personal site reviews

 

You can finally get the help you need

to make this business work for you.

 

If you sign up today, you will get all of this, plus:

 

• The printed book free
• A free Affiliate Marketing Dude T-shirt

 

That’s over $1,000 of value each and every month,

for less than the price of a cup of coffee a day.

 

And even though we know

you’ll want to stick around for a long time,

you can cancel any time you need to

by visiting PCMoneyMaking.com.

 

Super easy.

 

So join today at MarcusMentor.me,

and get all the tools you need to start making money online today with affiliate marketing. Go right now to MarcusMentor.me, use the form to sign up,

and we will see you on the inside.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Webinar Q&A

 

Do the downloads apply only to desktops, or can they apply to mobile?

 

They could apply to mobile as well. You can download a PDF report on a mobile device.

 

Is this program for Hight Ticket Niche customers also?

 

It depends on when you bought your High Ticket Niche. If your support has lapsed, then you will want to join at MarcusMentor.me.

 

Every one of my customers should have an active MarcusMentor.me account. If you don’t, you’re missing out on a lot of good stuff. Seriously, we’re talking $77 a month, which is nothing.

 

 

 

You get plugins, at least $1,000 worth of plugins. You get courses, you get a live call every Tuesday where we can review your stuff. If you show me an ad and it’s not working, I can tell you to change it to something else.

 

Think about that. The guy telling me to change my magic ad is why I got into marketing, and it made a world of difference to me. If that ad has made me millions of dollars, what will it be worth to you to have me look over your shoulder, look at your ads, and help you with this stuff?

 

Are these techniques evergreen?

 

Yes. They’ve been around since the dawn of time. This stuff is basic human nature. Humans don’t change much. Technology changes, but the other stuff doesn’t.

 

 

 

 

 

How quickly could I get results if I jump on it today?

 

Well, if you write an ad today, you could get a click today. And if you get a click today, you might be able to get a sale today. So, technically, it’s up to you. How fast do you want results? What you want to do with the results?

 

What is the High Ticket Niche program?

 

The High Ticket Niche program is a where we actually find your niches and everything. You can find that at highticketniches.com. If you want to learn all about my progructs, you can go to affiliatemarketingdude.com. Click the “products” tab, and you’ll see what products we have available.

 

I would like to request a training about how to actually post an ad on Google or Bing.

 

We actually have one, and it’s in the mentor area.

After spending close to 1.5 million dollars on paid advertising, there is several things that I learned that kept me from going completely bankrupt. I’m going to teach you those 10 things, and we’re starting right now.

Hey, guys. It’s Marcus here, aka the Affiliate Marketing Dude. And if you like learning this kind of stuff and want to learn more about how to make money with paid ads, affiliate marketing, and anything that has to do with making money online, make sure you subscribe and click that little bell notification icon so you get my new videos and you can join us every Wednesday here, live on the channel, ask your questions, and get the answers.

For now, let’s dive into what I learned spending a bunch of money on pay-per-click advertising.

The first major lesson I learned doing pay-per-click ads is that people want things fast. They want to be able to find what they need at a glance, very quickly. And while we’d like to think that people are reading every word of our website, this isn’t the truth. The truth is is people are skimming your website, looking for the information they want right now. They’re not consuming everything. That’s why we’ve got to make our sites in a way that people skimming, people reading, and people just checking it out for the very first time can get exactly what they want at a glance, without digging, very, very fast. Because let’s face it, if they can’t find what they want in three seconds or less, they’re out of there.

The second major lesson I learned is that you can quickly and easily typecast your audience.

What does this mean? Well, this means quite simply that you can go into a market, test some ads, figure out what people want, figure out what they click on, figure out what their pain points are, and typecast them very quickly so that you know what the market wants for future marketing. You may have seen on my channel where I’ve done this in the tattoo market, finding out exactly what tattoos people want, in the money making market, finding out exactly what people’s pain points are, and even in the addiction market, where I polled my audience for less than few thousand dollars, got 3000 responses, full page responses, of people telling me in detail what their number one struggles are. And now that I know that information, armed with that, I can make a fortune in any market.

Now, the third most important thing is to remember that pay-per-click marketing is controllable.

A lot of people freak out when it comes to pay-per-click marketing. But they don’t have to. You see, you set the prices, you set the amount, you set how much you want to spend. And when it’s done, you hit “pause”, and you never spend a dime more than that.

So, what I advise to do is test really, really small with maybe five, 10, 15, or 20 dollars, if you’re in a bigger, more expensive market. Figure out what your market wants, what they click on, what they desire, what they need, and then go from there. You can test very small. So, the idea of needing a bunch of money to start isn’t exactly true. And while you may have seen that I’ve spent close to 1.5 million dollars on one platform alone, that wasn’t all in one day. That’s right, I started very small with five dollars here, see if I could make 10. 10 here, see if could make 20. And on, and on, and on we go in a very simple way that I’m actually testing realtime to get real results fast. Sometimes I’d get these results in less than a day. And for less than 50 bucks, I can get a perfect snapshot of any market really fast.

That brings us to number four: when you’re first starting out with paid traffic, you’ve got to remember that direct solutions are the best. You want to go for things like “how to remove an item from a credit report”, “how to publish a book”, and maybe something like “hard drive not working”. These are very specific, which means you’ll get the exact click that you want. And remember, when doing paid traffic, all clicks are not created equal.

So, when doing your direct response type ads, you want to embed the links to your offers within the content that has the answers the users are looking for.

Now, number five is something very easy, but overlooked a lot. It’s amazing how many people I see, seasoned marketers, who don’t do this one.

Number five is ask for the click.

In your ads, you want to make sure that you ask for the click. Ask the visitor, “Go to my website.”, “Click here to download.”, “Download free report here.”, “Click here for X.”, “Click here for Y.” And on your websites, make sure you’re telling them to click on the offers. “Fill out the form.”, “Click this.”, “Download here.”, “Click here to see more X.” Very important that you do this because this is what people respond to.

A bonus tip: make sure that all the links on your site are blue and underlined, because that’s what people are used to clicking.

And number six: building your list.

That’s right. You can build a mailing list extremely fast with paid advertising. In one market, I built a list of 450,000 people in just a few short weeks while I was making money. And no matter what market you’re in, you can build a list extremely fast by offering something of value to your market: a free report, a free video, a free assessment, a free evaluation. Anything you can give them to get them on your mailing list. And the key is to put your best offer on your thank you page so you recoup all the money that you paid getting the visitors there in the first place. This is known as a self-liquidating offer. It’s something that’s going to pay you back for the money you spent to get your customers to your website. This is something that will pay you back for getting all those visitors to your website. So, you’re not really spending money building your list. You’re actually building your list for free while learning about your market.

Number seven: deep keyword research will make or break you.

This is important because so many people go out there and they try to think of the most logical keyword to use for their market. And the problem with logical keywords is they’re so logical that everyone uses them, which drives the competition up, which drives the amount you have to pay-per-click through the roof, which unfortunately means a lot of failure for a lot of marketers.

Instead, what you want to do is find keywords that get people at different places in the buying process. Perhaps instead of going for “Canon TWI”, or whatever that camera is called, you go for “TWI video sample”, or something like that. And instead of going for “credit repair”, go for things like “How to remove items from my credit report.” Instead of going for “rehab”, why don’t you go for something like “How do I stay sober for seven days?”, or something like that? Very, very specific, very tight-knit. This is will get your click costs very low, and your visitors are going to be more likely to buy because you’re providing them a direct solution based on what they’re searching for.

I go over this keyword tactic in many of the videos here on my channel, which again is why you want to subscribe, click the little bell, and watch my latest videos, and join us live so that you can learn all this stuff.

And now, number eight. Number eight is to have small targeted ad groups.

You want small targeted ad groups so that you can quantify your results based on each keyword set. You’re going to notice that, oftentimes, most of your money is going to come from a handful of keywords. While a lot of marketers out there just put a thousand different keywords in their ad group, they have no idea what’s selling. When I go in and I do this tight-knit, I’m spending less, I’m getting better data, and I’m making more money because I’m being more direct.

So, get rid of the words that are not converting, and focus on the ones that are. And you do this by having three to five different keywords in each ad group focused on your market. Now, this is really good because you can change your ad in each group, and find out what converts to the right people so that you can put more money in your pocket.

Number nine is a very simple one as well, and this is use your keywords in your ad.

A lot of people waffle this, but if I’m going for the keyword “remove items from credit”, I want the words “remove items from credit” in my ad. Sounds basic, I know. But a lot of people don’t do this. This is going to result in a much higher click-through rate, which is going to get you more visitors, which is going to get you more data, and in turn make you more money.

And lastly, number 10. Number 10 is pretty basic, but I want you to get a different domain name for each separate niche market.

Now, if you’re going for something like “credit repair”, you can have all your ads under one main credit repair domain name. But if you branch out into something like “check your credit”, you might want to get a different domain name for that. Same thing with tattoos. You might find out that, hey, butterfly tattoos are really raking it in. I’m going to want to get myself a butterfly tattoo domain name.

Also, when you’re doing these, you want to have them for testing. And you’ll notice that having a tight-knit close market domain name is actually going to make your click costs less because your quality score is going to be a lot better because everything’s focused around the keywords you want, which is kind of how we should do marketing anyway.

So, I hope you enjoyed these 10 tips on what I learned after spending 1.5 million dollars on paid advertising. It’s actually a lot more than that. That’s just one account. And I hope you use these so that you can get results.

Now, I would highly urge you to check out the next video that’s going to pop up. It’s all about paid ads, how to make them work, what I did, what sites I used, and more. Make sure you subscribe right now, and then check out that video.

Which Program Is Right For You?

High Ticket Niches ($997 One Time)

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My Most Successful Students Choose The High Ticket Niches.

Marcus Mentor Me ($77 Per Month Cancel Anytime)

Marcus mentor me is a place where you can get updated access to all his custom wordpress plugins ($700 value) notes from his videos, tools, videos, and training on how to get started with affiliate marketing.  every student of marcus’ who is serious about making this business work should be in the mentor class… its affordable and has the tools you need to make this work… this works great along side our other in depth training courses or even as a stand alone for those on a budget who want to get started fast.

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Part One: How To Be An Entrepreneur – Thinking Differently

How to Think Like an Entrepreneur
So You can See Outside the BS
And Use What Really Works

(Once you see this, you can’t unsee it.)

Sometimes it’s good to just get out of your comfort zone and do something.

I remember the first time I did a webinar. I had never done them before. I once did a tele-seminar. After that, one guy said to me, “Hey dude, just hop on this webinar.” I was all nervous and shaky (which is funny, because I was really just sitting in my office talking to the wall, and there just happened to be people that could see through the wall.)

And in the end, it really wasn’t that big a deal.

And I think that’s what we can learn here. You’re going to learn that being an entrepreneur is not that big a deal. What takes someone from $1,000 a year to $1 million per year, is not that big a deal.

I remember the first time I met a guy who was making a million dollars a year with web marketing. He said, “I’ll call you back later. My wide needs to go to Target.”

I was sitting there amazed. I thought, people making a million dollars a year still go to Target? That was so weird in my mind. I thought, how does that work? Do these people have a different life?

I think in society, we’re programmed to think that successful people have a different life. It’s something big, and different, and crazy, and weird. When in actuality, it’s really not.

There’s no difference between me and you. (Except that I’m probably about a foot shorter than everyone here. And I probably smoke too many pipes. That’s really it.)

You go to work eight hours a day, I go to work eight hours a day. The only difference is what we’re doing, and who we’re doing it for.

I’ll bet some of you guys work harder than me. Some of you guys work manual labor, some of you guys are drivers. And if you’ve ever seen me drive, you don’t want me to be a driver.

But there’s really no difference here. We’re going to go over that, and we’ll talk about what it really takes to be an entrepreneur. How to focus on it, and how to really get into the mindset.

And I’m going to tell you, it’s probably not what you think it’s going to be.

I have a different view on life, and on entrepreneurship, from a lot of my peers in the industry. And I think it comes from my years of experiences.

For one thing, I love to study people. I love to learn about what people do, what makes people tick, and I like to really learn about what it is that makes someone successful. What is it that makes someone sad? What is it that makes someone happy? And different things like that.

We’re going to talk about those things, too.

So, what does it really take to be an entrepreneur? Here are some tips that you must understand in order to master the entrepreneurial mindset.

Tip #1: Everything is made-up preprogramming.

No matter where you’re at, no matter what you’re doing. Even if you’re not in a cult, or you don’t follow mainstream media. You are a product of programming. You’re programmed by your upbringing, by your TV, by social interaction.

We all have the BS that has been programmed in our mind.
It says:

Be a worker.
Work for someone else.
Have the security.

That’s what life’s about. And we’re taught that from the time we’re a kid. We’re taught to really, really value the input of others. Really, really listen to what other people say.

If someone says something that hurts, you, you’re supposed to be hurt. If someone says something that praises you, you’re allowed to feel praised.

The funny thing is, you have those feelings inside you, right?

So, think about that. Ask yourself, “What is my current programming telling me? What is my current mindset telling me?”

Let’s look at this in terms of money. If you’re not getting the results you want, it might be as simple as going and following a few instructions. There may just be a lot more going on in your mind. Why is that?

I remember, I struggled for years. I used to always tell myself, “Why don’t I know what I should do? I know I could get to two, three million dollars a year. I know I could break this barrier. Why is it that I’m not doing what I know I need to do? It’s not like it’s that hard. It’s not like it’s strenuous. It’s not like I can’t afford it.”
In the end, it didn’t even take that much money. I started this business with a hundred dollars.

You might be asking yourself, “Why am I not doing that? Why am I not doing what I know I need to do?”

How many of you feel that way? You now you could go out there and do it, but for some reason, you just can’t get yourself to do it. You might not believe it’s actually going to work.

Or you might be afraid that it actually will work, and when you actually make money, you’ll lose the ability to have excuses.

I have students who watch thousands of hours of my webinars, and they still don’t take action. That’s fine. I mean, I’m glad they get value, or entertainment or whatever. But still, I have to ask, “Why are you not taking action? Why are you not doing something?”

Because you’ve been programmed not to do anything.
But the cool thing about a programmed mind is that it can always be unprogrammed.

You can always reverse what was done. You can always look through it. But the only way you’re going to look through it is by rising about it.

You might ask yourself, “How do I rise above this?
How do I look from the outside in?”

You have to realize that the confidence, or the belief in yourself, is not in the other people who say it to you. It’s in you because you believe it. You just choose to believe it from other people.

It’s the same kind of thing if someone puts you down, or says things won’t work, or says you’re not good enough, or smart enough, or whatever it may be. That’s in you. You have those feelings in you, you’re just choosing to say, “Yes, I agree with this person.”

So, realize that everything is made up from programming. You’re programmed to believe, and be, and think what you are right now.

I have this saying in my own life that has helped me immensely.

It goes, “If I were in your shoes, I’d be exactly where you are.”

If I had your upbringing, if I had the programming you had, if I had the parents you had, if I had the social area that you grew up in, if I had all those things, I would be exactly where you’re at right now.

That’s the way that it works. If you take someone and put them through circumstances, they’re going to be the product of those circumstances.

Now, you have a way to see out of it, but sometimes you need some help. That’s what this is about.

Now that you know that you’re a product of all of this…
Now that you know that society has put these things in your mind…
Now that you know that lots of people have paid a lot of money for you to have the mindset that you have…

What are you going to do about it? It’s time to understand it, and to change it.

Everything is made up of pre-programming. Your mind, what you think, is not as good as you think it is. Often, we respond to ideas before really trying them out. We make this preplanned idea of what is going to work, what isn’t going to work, and what one person will think, and what another person won’t think.

We’re always filtering. Now, filtering is good because it makes life faster. But it can also be bad, because it means you’re not really listening to something, right?

In the core of your mind, you’re never actually learning new things.
Your brain is looking to fit new information into old categories. That’s the way the mind works. It’s called categorical reference.

This can be a good thing, but it can also be bad, in that you can’t really learn new stuff unless you think outside the box.

Realize that you are in charge of the information you put in your brain. You’re in charge. Right now, you decide.

Tip #2: Money is not an emotional thing.

This is a big one. Money is not an emotional thing. Money doesn’t give a shit about you. It doesn’t care when you don’t have enough of it. It doesn’t think, it doesn’t feel. It’s just a unit of measurement.

A lot of times in life we’ve been programmed to think that money is this big thing.

Think about the United States and the national debt.
What would happen in the United States if the national debt was completely paid off? If the national debt was paid off, would we all have a bunch of money? Would the government give us a bunch of free stuff?

It’s not what you think—it’s actually worse than you think. It would probably be closer to economic collapse.

That’s because the nature of money is debt. That’s how it’s created.
The government puts a certain amount of money in circulation, and that’s a negative called the national debt. Contrary to what most people think, it’s not all owed to China and other countries. It’s pretty much owed to ourselves.

But TV and programming all say that the national debt is terrible. We’re pre-programmed to think that way. We think it’s terrible to have all this debt, but all the while, it’s actually kind of meaningless.

Now, does that mean we should go out of control and spend a lot? No, that causes inflation. We have to balance it, which is why you need regulations and things like that. Basically, money works a lot differently than we think it does.

A lot of people get emotional about money. They feel funny about it. They think, “oh man, I don’t have enough.”

How many of you right now are sad that you don’t have enough money? You feel bad for yourself?

A lot of people are sad, happy, or depressed about money. People say, “I wish I had more money.” Some people even hate money.

But money’s not really anything to hate. It’s just a number. It’s weird. In life we look at people who have a lot of money, and we think about them differently. We idolize celebrities.

But money itself is not an emotional thing. It doesn’t care.

Never did a dollar build anything.
Never did a dollar jump out of my wallet and say, I love you.
Never did a dollar jump out of my wallet and say, I want you to be happy.

Money is just a unit of measurement. It’s like a ruler. Money is a manmade invention. We believe that the money is going to run out. We think there’s not enough, that it’s a limited supply. But it’s not a limited supply. There’s plenty to go around.

You have to look at it and realize that money is not emotional, and therefore, you’re not going to be emotionally attached to money.

 

Entrepreneur PDF Classroom Notes

This is a special report taken from marcus’ entrepreneur webinars which you can get here.

this entrepreneurship pdf takes you thru the major mindset shift that needs to happen to start making things work in your favor.

in the first part we go over the top mindset shifts:

Here is the first part of the 90 page report… download the whole report above.

Part One: Thinking Differently

 

How to Think Like an Entrepreneur

So You can See Outside the BS

And Use What Really Works

 

(Once you see this, you can’t unsee it.)

 

Sometimes it’s good to just get out of your comfort zone and do something.

 

I remember the first time I did a webinar. I had never done them before. I once did a tele-seminar. After that, one guy said to me, “Hey dude, just hop on this webinar.” I was all nervous and shaky (which is funny, because I was really just sitting in my office talking to the wall, and there just happened to be people that could see through the wall.)

 

And in the end, it really wasn’t that big a deal.

 

And I think that’s what we can learn here. You’re going to learn that being an entrepreneur is not that big a deal. What takes someone from $1,000 a year to $1 million per year, is not that big a deal.

 

I remember the first time I met a guy who was making a million dollars a year with web marketing. He said, “I’ll call you back later. My wide needs to go to Target.”

 

I was sitting there amazed. I thought, people making a million dollars a year still go to Target? That was so weird in my mind. I thought, how does that work? Do these people have a different life?

 

I think in society, we’re programmed to think that successful people have a different life. It’s something big, and different, and crazy, and weird. When in actuality, it’s really not.

 

There’s no difference between me and you. (Except that I’m probably about a foot shorter than everyone here. And I probably smoke too many pipes. That’s really it.)

 

You go to work eight hours a day, I go to work eight hours a day. The only difference is what we’re doing, and who we’re doing it for.

 

I’ll bet some of you guys work harder than me. Some of you guys work manual labor, some of you guys are drivers. And if you’ve ever seen me drive, you don’t want me to be a driver.

 

But there’s really no difference here. We’re going to go over that, and we’ll talk about what it really takes to be an entrepreneur. How to focus on it, and how to really get into the mindset.

 

And I’m going to tell you, it’s probably not what you think it’s going to be.

 

I have a different view on life, and on entrepreneurship, from a lot of my peers in the industry. And I think it comes from my years of experiences.

 

For one thing, I love to study people. I love to learn about what people do, what makes people tick, and I like to really learn about what it is that makes someone successful. What is it that makes someone sad? What is it that makes someone happy? And different things like that.

 

We’re going to talk about those things, too.

 

So, what does it really take to be an entrepreneur? Here are some tips that you must understand in order to master the entrepreneurial mindset.

Tip #1: Everything is made-up preprogramming.

 

No matter where you’re at, no matter what you’re doing. Even if you’re not in a cult, or you don’t follow mainstream media. You are a product of programming. You’re programmed by your upbringing, by your TV, by social interaction.

 

We all have the BS that has been programmed in our mind.

It says:

 

Be a worker.

Work for someone else.

Have the security.

 

That’s what life’s about. And we’re taught that from the time we’re a kid. We’re taught to really, really value the input of others. Really, really listen to what other people say.

 

If someone says something that hurts, you, you’re supposed to be hurt. If someone says something that praises you, you’re allowed to feel praised.

 

The funny thing is, you have those feelings inside you, right?

 

So, think about that. Ask yourself, “What is my current programming telling me? What is my current mindset telling me?”

 

Let’s look at this in terms of money. If you’re not getting the results you want, it might be as simple as going and following a few instructions. There may just be a lot more going on in your mind. Why is that?

 

I remember, I struggled for years. I used to always tell myself, “Why don’t I know what I should do? I know I could get to two, three million dollars a year. I know I could break this barrier. Why is it that I’m not doing what I know I need to do? It’s not like it’s that hard. It’s not like it’s strenuous. It’s not like I can’t afford it.”

In the end, it didn’t even take that much money. I started this business with a hundred dollars.

 

You might be asking yourself, “Why am I not doing that? Why am I not doing what I know I need to do?”

 

How many of you feel that way? You now you could go out there and do it, but for some reason, you just can’t get yourself to do it. You might not believe it’s actually going to work.

 

Or you might be afraid that it actually will work, and when you actually make money, you’ll lose the ability to have excuses.

 

I have students who watch thousands of hours of my webinars, and they still don’t take action. That’s fine. I mean, I’m glad they get value, or entertainment or whatever. But still, I have to ask, “Why are you not taking action? Why are you not doing something?”

 

Because you’ve been programmed not to do anything.

But the cool thing about a programmed mind is that it can always be unprogrammed.

 

You can always reverse what was done. You can always look through it. But the only way you’re going to look through it is by rising about it.

 

You might ask yourself, “How do I rise above this?

How do I look from the outside in?”

 

You have to realize that the confidence, or the belief in yourself, is not in the other people who say it to you. It’s in you because you believe it. You just choose to believe it from other people.

 

It’s the same kind of thing if someone puts you down, or says things won’t work, or says you’re not good enough, or smart enough, or whatever it may be. That’s in you. You have those feelings in you, you’re just choosing to say, “Yes, I agree with this person.”

 

So, realize that everything is made up from programming. You’re programmed to believe, and be, and think what you are right now.

 

I have this saying in my own life that has helped me immensely.

 

It goes, “If I were in your shoes, I’d be exactly where you are.”

 

If I had your upbringing, if I had the programming you had, if I had the parents you had, if I had the social area that you grew up in, if I had all those things, I would be exactly where you’re at right now.

 

That’s the way that it works. If you take someone and put them through circumstances, they’re going to be the product of those circumstances.

 

Now, you have a way to see out of it, but sometimes you need some help. That’s what this is about.

 

Now that you know that you’re a product of all of this…

Now that you know that society has put these things in your mind…

Now that you know that lots of people have paid a lot of money for you to have the mindset that you have…

 

What are you going to do about it? It’s time to understand it, and to change it.

 

Everything is made up of pre-programming. Your mind, what you think, is not as good as you think it is. Often, we respond to ideas before really trying them out. We make this preplanned idea of what is going to work, what isn’t going to work, and what one person will think, and what another person won’t think.

 

We’re always filtering. Now, filtering is good because it makes life faster. But it can also be bad, because it means you’re not really listening to something, right?

 

In the core of your mind, you’re never actually learning new things.

Your brain is looking to fit new information into old categories. That’s the way the mind works. It’s called categorical reference.

 

This can be a good thing, but it can also be bad, in that you can’t really learn new stuff unless you think outside the box.

 

Realize that you are in charge of the information you put in your brain. You’re in charge. Right now, you decide.

 

Tip #2: Money is not an emotional thing.

 

This is a big one. Money is not an emotional thing. Money doesn’t give a shit about you. It doesn’t care when you don’t have enough of it. It doesn’t think, it doesn’t feel. It’s just a unit of measurement.

 

A lot of times in life we’ve been programmed to think that money is this big thing.

 

Think about the United States and the national debt.

What would happen in the United States if the national debt was completely paid off? If the national debt was paid off, would we all have a bunch of money? Would the government give us a bunch of free stuff?

 

It’s not what you think—it’s actually worse than you think. It would probably be closer to economic collapse.

 

That’s because the nature of money is debt. That’s how it’s created.

The government puts a certain amount of money in circulation, and that’s a negative called the national debt. Contrary to what most people think, it’s not all owed to China and other countries. It’s pretty much owed to ourselves.

 

But TV and programming all say that the national debt is terrible. We’re pre-programmed to think that way. We think it’s terrible to have all this debt, but all the while, it’s actually kind of meaningless.

 

Now, does that mean we should go out of control and spend a lot? No, that causes inflation. We have to balance it, which is why you need regulations and things like that. Basically, money works a lot differently than we think it does.

 

A lot of people get emotional about money. They feel funny about it. They think, “oh man, I don’t have enough.”

 

How many of you right now are sad that you don’t have enough money? You feel bad for yourself?

 

A lot of people are sad, happy, or depressed about money. People say, “I wish I had more money.” Some people even hate money.

 

But money’s not really anything to hate. It’s just a number. It’s weird. In life we look at people who have a lot of money, and we think about them differently. We idolize celebrities.

 

But money itself is not an emotional thing. It doesn’t care.

 

Never did a dollar build anything.

Never did a dollar jump out of my wallet and say, I love you.

Never did a dollar jump out of my wallet and say, I want you to be happy.

 

Money is just a unit of measurement. It’s like a ruler. Money is a manmade invention. We believe that the money is going to run out. We think there’s not enough, that it’s a limited supply. But it’s not a limited supply. There’s plenty to go around.

You have to look at it and realize that money is not emotional, and therefore, you’re not going to be emotionally attached to money.

 

Tip #3: It’s not your birthright to be rich.

 

People think that the universe owes you a living. It doesn’t. The world, the universe, your family, the government does not owe you a living. No one owes you shit.

 

That can be depressing, or it can be liberating. What do you choose? Do you want it to be depressing or liberating?

 

For me, it’s completely liberating. If no one owes me anything, I can just go get what I want. Isn’t that pretty cool?

 

And how can you get what you want? You can get it by learning skills. You can get it by making decisions. You can earn it by selling things. Money is literally everywhere, once you open your eyes to it.

 

But so many people can’t get more money, because they’re focused on the money they don’t have.

The hand you give through is the hand that you received through. And if your hand is clenched, you think, “I can’t invest in anything. I can’t do anything. I have to keep every little penny I have.” You’re never going to get anything new.

 

Understand that it’s not your birthright to be rich. Even billionaires and all those people who inherit money, it’s not their birthright. It just happened to be where they’re at.

I can’t think it’s my birthright to be rich when other people have nothing. That’s how I look at it. Whatever the least person on the earth has, that’s what I deserve. I didn’t choose to be born here in affluent America, in a pretty well-to-do family. I didn’t choose that.

 

Now, since I have more money, it’s my responsibility to try to make more and try to help them.

 

No one owes you anything. You have to learn to get what you want. Once you focus on this, then it becomes easy. You can do it.

 

If I want to make $5000 a month, I need to focus on making about $168 a day, somewhere around there. What am I going to do to get my $168 a day?

 

If there are 24 hours in a day, then I need to make around $5 or $6 an hour, or something like that. What am I going to do to make a website that makes $5 to $6 an hour? If I want to do that, then I could probably get a toolbar download in about ten visitors. So if I got 15 visitors, I could get two toolbar downloads, and that would leave me money to pay for traffic, and that could make me $5,000 a month.

 

The problem is that people’s egos get in the way, and they don’t want to start from square one. But sometimes you have to. You have to learn to get what you desire.

 

Tip #4: Desire is not a universal pull to get what you want.

 

The next tip is that desire is not a universal pull to get what you want. This is a big thing they talk about in The Secret, in the Law of Attraction, in Think and Grow Rich. They all have some good stuff, right? But you have to take things with a grain of salt.

 

Desire is nothing more than a sort of lust for things. That’s all it is. If you want something, you desire it.

 

And just because you desire it, doesn’t mean that it’s owed to you. It also doesn’t mean that you’re going to get it. You have to understand in your head that desire on its own is not enough.

 

There’s an important lesson here. What did the people who made The Secret and the Law of Attraction sell? If you desire something enough, you’ll get it. What’s the essence of marketing? Creating desire. Anyone see a parallel there?

 

Desire is an emotion. No one owes you a living.

 

That’s what this is about – promoting thinking freely, thinking differently. This is very important. Challenge what you believe. That’s how you grow, right?

 

Our culture has been trained not to listen to others’ opinions. You argue why you’re right. Thank about the message being sent to society. Don’t listen to the other opinions of other people. Don’t open your mind. Prove why you’re right.

 

And that, my friends, is what keeps you stuck. That is what keeps you from making money. That is what’s going to stop you from living a good, fulfilling life.

 

Also understand that there’s a difference between desire and attachment to desire. Desire is good, okay? For one thing, we all desire money. And money does good things, right? We could buy things, we could help people, we could do all kinds of stuff with money.

 

But when we’re attached to that desire, it’s a different story.

 

I used to be attached to the desire of money. Years ago, I would be sitting in my office, even on days I didn’t have to work. I made $5,000 a day automatically, but I still worked every day because I felt like I needed to work. If I made less money one day than I did the next, I’d freak out. I was completely attached to this idea.

 

Marketing, at its base course element, is producing desire. That’s what it is. Right now, you might desire money. You might desire different things. Marketing, at its essence, is about producing desire.  And if we can reverse engineer the way our desire works, then we can figure this out.

 

 

Tip #5: Get your ego out of the way.

 

Our culture is very ego-based. A lot of people don’t know as much as they think they do. Or, they think they know something, but they’re not doing anything with it.

 

I want you to start from a place of humility and realize that you don’t know everything.

 

Here’s the deal. In our culture, in our society, the critics are esteemed. People with opinions are esteemed. They’re on TV, they’re everywhere. Everyone’s got an opinion.

 

But the truth is that no one really cares about your opinion. In the grand scheme of things, no one really cares about what you think.

 

The minute I learned in my life that my opinion didn’t mean jack shit was the minute I got free. Then I was able to become a better marketer, and really live life where it doesn’t really matter.

I can share my opinions, and that’s cool, and if you don’t accept it, that’s cool, but I’m not attached to it.

 

This attachment to your own ideas is pre-programmed. Your opinion doesn’t really mean anything. Your critique doesn’t mean anything.

 

Once you realize that that your opinions don’t matter, it will free you, too.

 

If I want to make $5000 a month, I need to focus on making about $168 a day, somewhere around there. What am I going to do to get my $168 a day?

 

If there are 24 hours in a day, then I need to make around $5 or $6 an hour, or something like that. What am I going to do to make a website that makes $5 to $6 an hour?

 

If I want to do that, then I could probably get a toolbar download in about ten visitors. So if I got 15 visitors, I could get two toolbar downloads, and that would leave me money to pay for traffic, and that could make me $5,000 a month.

 

The problem is that people’s egos get in the way, and they don’t want to start from square one. But sometimes you have to. You have to learn to get what you desire.

 

You can change your life right now, right this second. But people will say, “Change takes time.” It doesn’t. Change starts now. It starts right now. It begins the second you say, “I’m going to do it. I’m going to sell this. I’m going to set this up.”

 

You just keep going through it and going through it and going through it and going through it, and you will get the results you want if you keep going through it.

 

Part One Review

 

Tip #1: Everything is made-up preprogramming.

 

Tip #2: Money is not an emotional thing.

 

Tip #3: It’s not your birthright to be rich.

 

Tip #4: Desire is not a universal pull to get what you want.

 

Tip #5: Get your ego out of the way.

 

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What it Really Takes to be an Entrepreneur

Marcus Campbell

Affiliate Marketing Dude

 

Contents

 

Part 1: Thinking Differently

 

Part 2: Entrepreneurship Skill Sets

 

 

Part One: Thinking Differently

 

How to Think Like an Entrepreneur

So You can See Outside the BS

And Use What Really Works

 

(Once you see this, you can’t unsee it.)

 

Sometimes it’s good to just get out of your comfort zone and do something.

 

I remember the first time I did a webinar. I had never done them before. I once did a tele-seminar. After that, one guy said to me, “Hey dude, just hop on this webinar.” I was all nervous and shaky (which is funny, because I was really just sitting in my office talking to the wall, and there just happened to be people that could see through the wall.)

 

And in the end, it really wasn’t that big a deal.

 

And I think that’s what we can learn here. You’re going to learn that being an entrepreneur is not that big a deal. What takes someone from $1,000 a year to $1 million per year, is not that big a deal.

 

I remember the first time I met a guy who was making a million dollars a year with web marketing. He said, “I’ll call you back later. My wide needs to go to Target.”

 

I was sitting there amazed. I thought, people making a million dollars a year still go to Target? That was so weird in my mind. I thought, how does that work? Do these people have a different life?

 

I think in society, we’re programmed to think that successful people have a different life. It’s something big, and different, and crazy, and weird. When in actuality, it’s really not.

 

There’s no difference between me and you. (Except that I’m probably about a foot shorter than everyone here. And I probably smoke too many pipes. That’s really it.)

 

You go to work eight hours a day, I go to work eight hours a day. The only difference is what we’re doing, and who we’re doing it for.

 

I’ll bet some of you guys work harder than me. Some of you guys work manual labor, some of you guys are drivers. And if you’ve ever seen me drive, you don’t want me to be a driver.

 

But there’s really no difference here. We’re going to go over that, and we’ll talk about what it really takes to be an entrepreneur. How to focus on it, and how to really get into the mindset.

 

And I’m going to tell you, it’s probably not what you think it’s going to be.

 

I have a different view on life, and on entrepreneurship, from a lot of my peers in the industry. And I think it comes from my years of experiences.

 

For one thing, I love to study people. I love to learn about what people do, what makes people tick, and I like to really learn about what it is that makes someone successful. What is it that makes someone sad? What is it that makes someone happy? And different things like that.

 

We’re going to talk about those things, too.

 

So, what does it really take to be an entrepreneur? Here are some tips that you must understand in order to master the entrepreneurial mindset.

 

 

 

 

Tip #1: Everything is made-up preprogramming.

 

No matter where you’re at, no matter what you’re doing. Even if you’re not in a cult, or you don’t follow mainstream media. You are a product of programming. You’re programmed by your upbringing, by your TV, by social interaction.

 

We all have the BS that has been programmed in our mind.

It says:

 

Be a worker.

Work for someone else.

Have the security.

 

That’s what life’s about. And we’re taught that from the time we’re a kid. We’re taught to really, really value the input of others. Really, really listen to what other people say.

 

If someone says something that hurts, you, you’re supposed to be hurt. If someone says something that praises you, you’re allowed to feel praised.

 

The funny thing is, you have those feelings inside you, right?

 

So, think about that. Ask yourself, “What is my current programming telling me? What is my current mindset telling me?”

 

Let’s look at this in terms of money. If you’re not getting the results you want, it might be as simple as going and following a few instructions. There may just be a lot more going on in your mind. Why is that?

 

I remember, I struggled for years. I used to always tell myself, “Why don’t I know what I should do? I know I could get to two, three million dollars a year. I know I could break this barrier. Why is it that I’m not doing what I know I need to do? It’s not like it’s that hard. It’s not like it’s strenuous. It’s not like I can’t afford it.”

In the end, it didn’t even take that much money. I started this business with a hundred dollars.

 

You might be asking yourself, “Why am I not doing that? Why am I not doing what I know I need to do?”

 

How many of you feel that way? You now you could go out there and do it, but for some reason, you just can’t get yourself to do it. You might not believe it’s actually going to work.

 

Or you might be afraid that it actually will work, and when you actually make money, you’ll lose the ability to have excuses.

 

I have students who watch thousands of hours of my webinars, and they still don’t take action. That’s fine. I mean, I’m glad they get value, or entertainment or whatever. But still, I have to ask, “Why are you not taking action? Why are you not doing something?”

 

Because you’ve been programmed not to do anything.

But the cool thing about a programmed mind is that it can always be unprogrammed.

 

You can always reverse what was done. You can always look through it. But the only way you’re going to look through it is by rising about it.

 

You might ask yourself, “How do I rise above this?

How do I look from the outside in?”

 

You have to realize that the confidence, or the belief in yourself, is not in the other people who say it to you. It’s in you because you believe it. You just choose to believe it from other people.

 

It’s the same kind of thing if someone puts you down, or says things won’t work, or says you’re not good enough, or smart enough, or whatever it may be. That’s in you. You have those feelings in you, you’re just choosing to say, “Yes, I agree with this person.”

 

So, realize that everything is made up from programming. You’re programmed to believe, and be, and think what you are right now.

 

I have this saying in my own life that has helped me immensely.

 

It goes, “If I were in your shoes, I’d be exactly where you are.”

 

If I had your upbringing, if I had the programming you had, if I had the parents you had, if I had the social area that you grew up in, if I had all those things, I would be exactly where you’re at right now.

 

That’s the way that it works. If you take someone and put them through circumstances, they’re going to be the product of those circumstances.

 

Now, you have a way to see out of it, but sometimes you need some help. That’s what this is about.

 

Now that you know that you’re a product of all of this…

Now that you know that society has put these things in your mind…

Now that you know that lots of people have paid a lot of money for you to have the mindset that you have…

 

What are you going to do about it? It’s time to understand it, and to change it.

 

Everything is made up of pre-programming. Your mind, what you think, is not as good as you think it is. Often, we respond to ideas before really trying them out. We make this preplanned idea of what is going to work, what isn’t going to work, and what one person will think, and what another person won’t think.

 

We’re always filtering. Now, filtering is good because it makes life faster. But it can also be bad, because it means you’re not really listening to something, right?

 

In the core of your mind, you’re never actually learning new things.

Your brain is looking to fit new information into old categories. That’s the way the mind works. It’s called categorical reference.

 

This can be a good thing, but it can also be bad, in that you can’t really learn new stuff unless you think outside the box.

 

Realize that you are in charge of the information you put in your brain. You’re in charge. Right now, you decide.

 

 

 

 

 

Tip #2: Money is not an emotional thing.

 

This is a big one. Money is not an emotional thing. Money doesn’t give a shit about you. It doesn’t care when you don’t have enough of it. It doesn’t think, it doesn’t feel. It’s just a unit of measurement.

 

A lot of times in life we’ve been programmed to think that money is this big thing.

 

Think about the United States and the national debt.

What would happen in the United States if the national debt was completely paid off? If the national debt was paid off, would we all have a bunch of money? Would the government give us a bunch of free stuff?

 

It’s not what you think—it’s actually worse than you think. It would probably be closer to economic collapse.

 

That’s because the nature of money is debt. That’s how it’s created.

The government puts a certain amount of money in circulation, and that’s a negative called the national debt. Contrary to what most people think, it’s not all owed to China and other countries. It’s pretty much owed to ourselves.

 

But TV and programming all say that the national debt is terrible. We’re pre-programmed to think that way. We think it’s terrible to have all this debt, but all the while, it’s actually kind of meaningless.

 

Now, does that mean we should go out of control and spend a lot? No, that causes inflation. We have to balance it, which is why you need regulations and things like that. Basically, money works a lot differently than we think it does.

 

A lot of people get emotional about money. They feel funny about it. They think, “oh man, I don’t have enough.”

 

How many of you right now are sad that you don’t have enough money? You feel bad for yourself?

 

A lot of people are sad, happy, or depressed about money. People say, “I wish I had more money.” Some people even hate money.

 

But money’s not really anything to hate. It’s just a number. It’s weird. In life we look at people who have a lot of money, and we think about them differently. We idolize celebrities.

 

But money itself is not an emotional thing. It doesn’t care.

 

Never did a dollar build anything.

Never did a dollar jump out of my wallet and say, I love you.

Never did a dollar jump out of my wallet and say, I want you to be happy.

 

Money is just a unit of measurement. It’s like a ruler. Money is a manmade invention. We believe that the money is going to run out. We think there’s not enough, that it’s a limited supply. But it’s not a limited supply. There’s plenty to go around.

 

You have to look at it and realize that money is not emotional, and therefore, you’re not going to be emotionally attached to money.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tip #3: It’s not your birthright to be rich.

 

People think that the universe owes you a living. It doesn’t. The world, the universe, your family, the government does not owe you a living. No one owes you shit.

 

That can be depressing, or it can be liberating. What do you choose? Do you want it to be depressing or liberating?

 

For me, it’s completely liberating. If no one owes me anything, I can just go get what I want. Isn’t that pretty cool?

 

And how can you get what you want? You can get it by learning skills. You can get it by making decisions. You can earn it by selling things. Money is literally everywhere, once you open your eyes to it.

 

But so many people can’t get more money, because they’re focused on the money they don’t have.

The hand you give through is the hand that you received through. And if your hand is clenched, you think, “I can’t invest in anything. I can’t do anything. I have to keep every little penny I have.” You’re never going to get anything new.

 

Understand that it’s not your birthright to be rich. Even billionaires and all those people who inherit money, it’s not their birthright. It just happened to be where they’re at.

I can’t think it’s my birthright to be rich when other people have nothing. That’s how I look at it. Whatever the least person on the earth has, that’s what I deserve. I didn’t choose to be born here in affluent America, in a pretty well-to-do family. I didn’t choose that.

 

Now, since I have more money, it’s my responsibility to try to make more and try to help them.

 

No one owes you anything. You have to learn to get what you want. Once you focus on this, then it becomes easy. You can do it.

 

If I want to make $5000 a month, I need to focus on making about $168 a day, somewhere around there. What am I going to do to get my $168 a day?

 

If there are 24 hours in a day, then I need to make around $5 or $6 an hour, or something like that. What am I going to do to make a website that makes $5 to $6 an hour? If I want to do that, then I could probably get a toolbar download in about ten visitors. So if I got 15 visitors, I could get two toolbar downloads, and that would leave me money to pay for traffic, and that could make me $5,000 a month.

 

The problem is that people’s egos get in the way, and they don’t want to start from square one. But sometimes you have to. You have to learn to get what you desire.

 

Tip #4: Desire is not a universal pull to get what you want.

 

The next tip is that desire is not a universal pull to get what you want. This is a big thing they talk about in The Secret, in the Law of Attraction, in Think and Grow Rich. They all have some good stuff, right? But you have to take things with a grain of salt.

 

Desire is nothing more than a sort of lust for things. That’s all it is. If you want something, you desire it.

 

And just because you desire it, doesn’t mean that it’s owed to you. It also doesn’t mean that you’re going to get it. You have to understand in your head that desire on its own is not enough.

 

There’s an important lesson here. What did the people who made The Secret and the Law of Attraction sell? If you desire something enough, you’ll get it. What’s the essence of marketing? Creating desire. Anyone see a parallel there?

 

Desire is an emotion. No one owes you a living.

 

That’s what this is about – promoting thinking freely, thinking differently. This is very important. Challenge what you believe. That’s how you grow, right?

 

Our culture has been trained not to listen to others’ opinions. You argue why you’re right. Thank about the message being sent to society. Don’t listen to the other opinions of other people. Don’t open your mind. Prove why you’re right.

 

And that, my friends, is what keeps you stuck. That is what keeps you from making money. That is what’s going to stop you from living a good, fulfilling life.

 

Also understand that there’s a difference between desire and attachment to desire. Desire is good, okay? For one thing, we all desire money. And money does good things, right? We could buy things, we could help people, we could do all kinds of stuff with money.

 

But when we’re attached to that desire, it’s a different story.

 

I used to be attached to the desire of money. Years ago, I would be sitting in my office, even on days I didn’t have to work. I made $5,000 a day automatically, but I still worked every day because I felt like I needed to work. If I made less money one day than I did the next, I’d freak out. I was completely attached to this idea.

 

Marketing, at its base course element, is producing desire. That’s what it is. Right now, you might desire money. You might desire different things. Marketing, at its essence, is about producing desire.  And if we can reverse engineer the way our desire works, then we can figure this out.

 

 

Tip #5: Get your ego out of the way.

 

Our culture is very ego-based. A lot of people don’t know as much as they think they do. Or, they think they know something, but they’re not doing anything with it.

 

I want you to start from a place of humility and realize that you don’t know everything.

 

Here’s the deal. In our culture, in our society, the critics are esteemed. People with opinions are esteemed. They’re on TV, they’re everywhere. Everyone’s got an opinion.

 

But the truth is that no one really cares about your opinion. In the grand scheme of things, no one really cares about what you think.

 

The minute I learned in my life that my opinion didn’t mean jack shit was the minute I got free. Then I was able to become a better marketer, and really live life where it doesn’t really matter.

I can share my opinions, and that’s cool, and if you don’t accept it, that’s cool, but I’m not attached to it.

 

This attachment to your own ideas is pre-programmed. Your opinion doesn’t really mean anything. Your critique doesn’t mean anything.

 

Once you realize that that your opinions don’t matter, it will free you, too.

 

If I want to make $5000 a month, I need to focus on making about $168 a day, somewhere around there. What am I going to do to get my $168 a day?

 

If there are 24 hours in a day, then I need to make around $5 or $6 an hour, or something like that. What am I going to do to make a website that makes $5 to $6 an hour?

 

If I want to do that, then I could probably get a toolbar download in about ten visitors. So if I got 15 visitors, I could get two toolbar downloads, and that would leave me money to pay for traffic, and that could make me $5,000 a month.

 

The problem is that people’s egos get in the way, and they don’t want to start from square one. But sometimes you have to. You have to learn to get what you desire.

 

You can change your life right now, right this second. But people will say, “Change takes time.” It doesn’t. Change starts now. It starts right now. It begins the second you say, “I’m going to do it. I’m going to sell this. I’m going to set this up.”

 

You just keep going through it and going through it and going through it and going through it, and you will get the results you want if you keep going through it.

 

Part One Review

 

Tip #1: Everything is made-up preprogramming.

 

Tip #2: Money is not an emotional thing.

 

Tip #3: It’s not your birthright to be rich.

 

Tip #4: Desire is not a universal pull to get what you want.

 

Tip #5: Get your ego out of the way.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Part Two: Entrepreneur Skill Sets

 

Learn the Seven Major Entrepreneur

Skill Sets That, When Applied,

You Can Always Find Work or Create

Your Own Business at the Drop of a Hat

 

 

Now, we’re going to talk about learning new skills.

 

Right now, you can choose to go learn a skill. You might say, “Marcus, I need to make $5,000 a month starting next month.” Everyone here can figure out a way to do it.

 

I have to be following the disclaimers of the government and say, “results not typical, implied, or guaranteed, and most people make nothing.” And it’s true, most people do make nothing, because most people don’t do anything.

 

However, there are lots of people making lots of money doing things. You can go out there, and you can learn a skill, and you can make $5,000 a month starting next month if you really wanted to.

 

You have to be a fast action-taker. Because sometimes on the internet, there is a sliver of time for an opportunity that you can get in, that you can capitalize on for years to come.

 

It might be a small thing, and then, boom. It can change the course of your career forever. You can tackle a fad, get on the bandwagon, build an audience, and before you know it, you can make money from it.

 

You could literally go do something today. You could put up a YouTube video today, and it will be out today. If it doesn’t get traffic, you learn to make it get traffic, or you buy an ad. You can put a post on Facebook today. You can get traffic today.

 

Within five minutes, you can be at the top of Google for any search term you want, if you’re willing to pay. The only reason you wouldn’t be willing to pay is you don’t know what you’re doing, which means you need to learn a skill.

 

It’s pretty basic stuff. You could think that you’re dumb, you don’t know how to do it. But you’re not dumb. I’m no smarter than you. I just went and learned different skills. It’s really just all about learning stuff that is in demand. That’s it.

 

Some of you are experts on raising kids. Some of you are experts on driving. There’s some of you that are experts on all kinds of things. And even if you’re not, you can learn to be.

 

I wasn’t born with this knowledge. I wasn’t born with a computer in my hand. (I actually struggled through computer class, because I wanted to do my own thing.)

But I wanted to use the computer to make money. I was curious, and thought, “How do I do it?”

 

And I went out there, and I failed sometimes. And sometimes I did really good, and sometimes I did just okay. But over time, in my business, I’ve made quite a bit of money, and I’ve done a lot of stuff.

 

How do we learn different skills that are going to work? I’m not talking about skills like web design or coding. I’m talking about the skill of being in charge of stuff.

 

What is the core of business? What is an entrepreneur paid for?

The number one thing I do that I’m paid for is making decisions. It’s what I do all day. I make a decision.

And that’s what you got to get in the habit of doing.

You might say, “Well, you know, I’m going to do this, I’m going to do that.” But the number one thing that hinders people is making a decision.

That’s it. Why am I paid good money for what I do? Because I make decisions.

You have the ability to make a decision. You can tackle a niche. If it fails, cool. Who gives a rip? No one cares. You might have a critic or two who says, “Well, I told you the internet thing doesn’t work.” But lots of people make money on the internet. You’ll find a different way.

When I started, I probably had 10 times as many people than you do telling me it wasn’t going to work. I still have people who tell me to get a real job.

Making decisions is the number one thing. My job is to make decisions, and your job is to make good decisions. Decisions to enter a market, decisions to make a website, decisions to send an email, decisions to do a webinar, decisions to do all these things. That’s what puts people ahead.

Look at people who are bosses and people who are under bosses. Why does the boss get paid a lot, and everyone else gets paid a little?

Because the boss makes decisions that put everything on the line. Not because he wears a fancy suit, or because he went to Harvard. He’s paid to make decisions.

This is the hardest thing for so many people, because no one is telling you what to do.

But you need to learn to make decisions, because that’s where the money is.

Once you understand this, you can understand the seven skills sets you need to become an entrepreneur and build the business you want.

Skill #1: Ambition

 

You’ve got to have the ambition. You’ve got to have the drive. You have to want it. You have to say, “This is what I want to do,” and you’ve got to be willing to go do it.

 

Desire is not enough. You’ve got to take action. If you don’t have the ambition, you’re not going to do anything.

 

You have to want it. You have to say that you want a different life.

 

I saw that I wanted a different life. I said, “I’m going to be home when my kids get home from school every day, and they’re going to say hi to me.” And that’s how it happens. That’s why I do it. Because they want to see me when they get home from school, and I get to be here. I don’t miss anything.

 

I said, “This is the life that I want,” and I went and made it. I said, “This is how I’m going to make it,” and I did it.

This is extremely important, because you get what you make. Your life right now is a product of what you made of it so far. You might’ve listened to a bunch of other people, but this is what you made.

 

I’m not a victim of circumstance. I’m not a victim of everything life puts on me. I’m just a person, and I make decisions, and I do what I want. But I have to have the ambition.

 

In life, everyone can do whatever the hell they want, if they’re willing to pay the consequences.

 

I could go and I can do bad things. I could go rob a bank and get rich, if I’m willing to go to prison. (I’m not, so I don’t do that.) I’m willing to do my business so that I can get my money. I’m willing to do the stuff I need to do, so that I can get to where I want. That’s the ambition I have.

 

Figure out what your ambition is—because it’s not money.

 

Nobody wants $2 million in the bank. They want security and feeling. Nobody wants to quit their job. They want to not have a job and be their own boss.

 

So, get to the deeper meaning. What do you want? Do you want to be home when your kids get home from school? Good. Make your life that way and start today.

 

Nothing is more motivating then someone who paid you to do something because it’s actually harder to not do that. I don’t know why, but it just works that way.

 

People will work way harder to save $10,000 from being taken from them than they will to earn $10,000.

Think about that for a minute.

 

The average person on the planet would do more to keep the money they have than to get more money.

 

I’m the opposite. When it comes to my business, I’m going to spend whatever I have to in order to make it happen. But I know it’s going to work. (Make sure it’s going to work. Don’t take silly stupid risks.)

 

In a way, investing doesn’t have to cost anything. People ask me all the time, “How much should I budget for paid traffic?” Nothing. Don’t budget anything for paid traffic. Because if it doesn’t make you money, you’re not going to buy it anymore.

 

I’m not going to sit there and $10,000, and then at the end see what happens. That’s silly. Spend $5, and if nothing happens at the end of $5, figure out why. On the other hand, if you made $10, then spend $20 tomorrow, and see if you can make $40.

 

That’s what I did with my site, one of my big famous sites with the cursors and the layouts. When we started out, I said, let’s spend $20. I made $50. So, I spent $50 the next day, and I made $100. Pretty soon, within weeks, I was spending $1,700 a day on ads, and I was making like $5,000 a day.

 

Now did I come out and say, I’m going to test $5,000 today and see what happens? No, I started with $20.

 

Start small, and ramp it up. Get it up there, make it work, test, be curious, be interested, be ambitious. Go after what you want.

 

 

 

 

Skill #2: Curiosity

 

Curiosity is the ability to say, “What will happen if…?”

 

That’s how I live my life. I’m curious as hell. I’m curious all day. I’m one of those people who love social experiments. I love trying new things. I love figuring out what people are going to do. The minute I lose my curiosity is the minute I’m not going to try things.

 

Are you curious about making money online, or do you just want money? A lot of you say that you just want money. Well, you have to be curious to be able to get it. You have to go out there and try something, and keep that curiosity along the way.

 

Don’t live in the fear of loss. The fear of loss kills creativity, and it kills curiosity.

 

Instead, think,

“What if people respond to that?

What if that actually works?

I wonder if people will opt in.

I wonder if people will click “download”.

I wonder if they’ll do this.

I wonder if they’ll do that.

 

Tell yourself that you’re no longer going to live your life by the fear of loss. Instead, you’re going to live by the hope of gain. You’re going to live by being curious, and saying, “What’s going to happen?”

 

Be curious and test things. Get people’s attention. Get their interest, get their desire, get them to take action. It’s pretty simple. Don’t overcomplicate it.

 

You could do this on Facebook. You could do this on Instagram. You could do this with videos. You could do this with a sheet of paper. What matters is learning how to communicate to an audience to get their attention, get them interested, get them desiring, and get them to take action.

 

 

 

Skill #3: Perseverance

 

This is a big one. You have to be able to persevere. You have to be able to stick with it.

 

Don’t have what I call marketing ADD, where your brain is going everywhere and you can’t focus on one thing.

 

Focus on one thing. Do the one thing good. Even if it’s not what I’m teaching. If you’re doing Shopify, then go all in on Shopify. You’ll eventually make money if you do it right (hopefully sooner rather than later). See it through and make it work.

 

And as you go along, if it’s not working the way you planned, keep at it. (Really, it probably won’t. Nothing really goes the way you ultimately plan it.) Sometimes it will be even better. I didn’t expect people to like the Affiliate Marketing Dude stuff as much as they do, but they do.

 

Some things will work great, and some won’t work as well. But you’ve got to be able to persevere. You’ve got to be able to do it, and go for what works, and you’ve got to keep at it.

 

Now, if you want some extra help, can you pay for a hack? Sure, you could pay for me to find your niche, get your site, and get everything set up so that you can see it. But am I going to just give you the thing? No, it’s not going to work that way. Life doesn’t work that way.

 

You could buy one of my courses. But a course is only as good as your ability to extract the info. I don’t teach anything – you learn. Learning is an active process.

 

Or maybe you need to go to a different person. Find someone you like. But no matter what, you’ve got to persevere.

 

 

 

Skill #4: Taking Responsibility

 

Take responsibility.

 

I am where I am because I decided to be where I’m at.

 

You might say to me, “Marcus, you don’t understand. We had a baby. I have to work two jobs to make ends meet.” And that’s fine. That’s the life you chose. If you had to, then good. You did what you had to do, and your family will eat, and that’s great.

 

But if you want something different, don’t say that you’re a product of where life put you. Say that you’re going to be a product where you’re going to put your life.

 

Now, sometimes there are things that happen that you can’t foresee. But I believe we can also find our way out of those. Sometimes people have hardships and people get depressed. But you have to look at it and ask yourself, “Can I still take responsibility?”

 

Even if you have depression. A lot of people struggle with that. I used to struggle with it until I learned depression was about getting out of your mindset.

 

Emotion is just energy and motion. They’re just things in your mind. Emotion is just a feeling, and people live their lives by emotions. They don’t do something if they don’t feel like it. Their egos get hurt. Their pride gets hurt. They get upset that people were mean. Stuff happens.

 

You want to change your emotions? Change your energy. Change what you do.

 

Next time you’re sad, go for a jog. I guarantee that most people with depression probably exercise. But there are marketers out there who say, “No, you need this. You’ve got to have this. If you don’t have this, you’re going to be sad.” There’s a pill for almost everything.

 

I’m not saying these are bad things, and you should obviously listen to your doctor and do what they say. But sometimes there’s stuff out there that just doesn’t make sense. Marketers will try to tell you that there’s something wrong with you. And people believe it all the time.

 

I thought for years that something was wrong with me. Now I’ve realized that there’s nothing wrong with me. I might be a little bit different, maybe a little bit out there. But I’m me and I’m okay. And if I’ve learned to live with it, there we go.

 

A lot of people want to blame others instead of taking responsibility. That’s like saying you can’t go to the gym because the weights are too heavy.

 

You’ve got to look at this and say, “I’m in charge.” This is my responsibility. My happiness is my responsibility. My putting food on the table for my kids is my responsibility. My making more money is my responsibility. My spending money stupidly is my responsibility.” You’ve got to be a responsibility taker.

 

 

 

 

Skill #5: Ability to Sell

 

Another skill you need is the ability to sell. You might not like sales. You might even hate sales. But you have to get over it and start liking sales.

 

You sell all the time.

 

(You sell me on the fact that you don’t like sales. Congratulations. But you didn’t make anything.)

 

I love sales because it’s just curiosity. People look at it as success or failure. I look at it as, what didn’t work that time that I could do different next time? What worked this time that didn’t work that other time?

 

When I do webinars, even to this day, sometimes I find that the sales aren’t good. I’ve learned that when I actually teach stuff, sales are low. When I tell stories, sales are through the roof. People don’t want to learn stuff. They want to be entertained.

 

You need the ability to sell. A lot of you guys can be good marketers, and you already are good marketers. You sell your ideas all the time. You sell them to yourself. You sell them to your spouse. You sell them to your friends, your parents. You sell them. You are selling your ideas.

 

You’re selling already, it’s just a matter of what you’re selling. The reason people don’t like sales is because they don’t believe in what they’re selling. You are not selling ideas that get you paid.

 

If you have something that’s going to help people and you don’t sell it, you’re actually doing the world a disservice. You might say, “I have this, and this will help people do this, but I don’t like sales.” In reality, that’s pretty selfish, and also not making you money (which is what selling is).

 

This is about selling your ideas, selling your point of view. That is the essence of marketing. You’re getting a response. This is direct response marketing.

 

 

Skill #6: Laser-Targeted Focus

 

You need laser-targeted focus. You’ve got to be able to target right on one thing.

 

Some people get focused on the rejection. I don’t think about rejects—I just look at the orders. On a really good webinar, I will get 40% of the people to buy. That means 60% rejected me. If there are 200 people on the webinar, then 140 people rejected me.

 

Now, think about that. Only 60 bought. But even if people didn’t buy, it’s still my gain. I still made money. Some people didn’t buy, but I still have people who did. I don’t waste time thinking about the people who didn’t.

 

And there are always people who will buy. There are always people who will benefit. You just have to get the right crowd, get the right offer, and say it enough times. That’s it.

 

You’ve got to laser target focus on what works. Get your market, figure out what works. Go with it. Keep at it. Do not give up. Focus, focus, focus.

 

Don’t get distracted. Do go messing around on Facebook. Don’t go doing the wrong thing. Do what you have to do to make what you want to make. You can do it starting right now.

 

 

 

 

Skill #7: Productivity

 

You have to have productivity. If you’re not productive, you’re not going to make any money. The best way to be productive is to set small, little attainable goals each day.

 

Maybe today you’re going to run an ad. Tomorrow you’re going to set up a new site. The next day you’re going to test some traffic.

 

On my website, we actually have a list of 15 productivity tips that you can do in 15 minutes a day to start getting results. There’s some really good stuff there.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Part Two Review

 

Skill #1: Ambition

 

Skill #2: Curiosity

 

Skill #3: Perseverance

 

Skill #4: Taking Responsibility

 

Skill #5: Ability to Sell

 

Skill #6: Laser-Targeted Focus

 

Skill #7: Productivity