I am subscribed to many different newsletters online, some are online marketing newsletters and others are from the gambling scene. So far I’ve found that I have benefited most from 2 newsletters that I do not miss reading, I even check my spam folder occasionally to see if I had missed one of them.
Here is the publication from Yaro Starak a few days ago that I thought was really worth sharing with you.
The tittle is The Secret To Successful Blogging.
Hello Michelle,
I expect you already know about the very famous
movie, The Secret, and the underlying principle it
talks about - The Law of Attraction. If not, go
watch it now - http://www.thesecret.tv/
I’m a fan of The Secret. I’m not necessarily a
pro-active devotee, but over the course of my life
I have implemented law of attraction style
thinking without realizing it. To me this was
another case were someone came up with a fantastic
methodology - a label and system - to encompass
something I was already doing.
Of course we are all manifesting things in our
lives all the time, but there is a difference
between doing this actively vs passively, and The
Secret can help raise your awareness regarding how
you think about your life. It’s empowering to
know you are capable of controlling your outcomes,
to a certain degree.
What I like about the law of attraction is how it
can unify your thoughts with your actions. If you
truly believe that you can manipulate reality
through thought and subsequent action, then you
gain a sense of inevitability about everything you
strive for - it’s simply a matter of time.
Having faith that an outcome is possible given
enough consistent action towards a specific goal,
and actually believing that it will happen, means
that you become completely congruent - your
thoughts and your actions both drive you towards
your goals. This I believe is when the law of
attraction can truly manifest and it’s a powerful
thing when you experience what you are working
towards. It’s a self reinforcing pattern that if
you can sustain, can lead to achieving whatever
you want.
HOW DOES THIS APPLY TO BLOGGING?
A congruent thought process with action and
positive reinforcement from celebrating each
little step forward, are critical for successful
blogging.
As bloggers we all have similar goals and we can
break things down into very specific outcomes. We
may desire a certain amount of RSS readers, or
unique daily visitors, links from other sites,
opt-ins to our email newsletter, exposure on
popular sites, monthly income or any manner of
achievements.
As you study more about blogging you collect a
body of knowledge largely made up of tactics. Some
people teach strategies as well - this is
something I personally like to focus on - but
mostly you are taught techniques, tactics that
should get a certain result.
Techniques are great, they are the foundation of
every successful blog, but unfortunately most
people don’t follow through with enough of them
to realize a result. It’s great to know how to
get something, but if you don’t actually do
enough to earn the reward, then it’s pretty much
useless knowledge - it doesn’t move you closer to
your outcome.
This is why most people, despite reading so many
blogs about blogging and uncovering hundreds of
great techniques, never grow a popular blog. They
lack a strategy and the necessary mindset to carry
through the strategy.
The successful blogging puzzle looks like this -
1. Mindset
2. Vision
3. Strategy
4. Tactics
Your mindset sits at the top as the most crucial
element. You can establish a brilliant vision for
your blog, determine a strategy to realize it,
which contains various techniques, but without a
mindset in place, even the perfect strategy and
copious knowledge of tactics will help you, your
blog will go nowhere.
This is where the law of attraction can help. If
your mindset is lacking then you need to change
your thinking. One of the best ways to reconstruct
how you think is to establish a belief - even a
“faith” based approach - to how you go about
your life.
Faith is a powerful force and it doesn’t have to
apply to just religion. If you believe you will
succeed, if you see the result and can envision
yourself taking the steps day-by-day to get there,
then it’s only a matter manifesting the process
into reality.
If you believe the law of attraction works and you
apply it to how you think and consequently act,
then you will start making what is in your head
happen in the real world. That’s all there is to
it really.
You don’t have to call it the law of attraction
if you don’t want to. In “Think and Grow Rich”
a book by Napoleon Hill, the author reveals
countless stories of how people simply thought
about what they wanted, then ceaselessly worked
towards making their thoughts a reality. This book
was published long before The Secret came along or
anyone wrote about the law of attraction.
Whether you believe there is some mystical force
linking thought with reality doesn’t matter. What
is clear, is that the mind can be your greatest
roadblock or your strongest advantage.
As you no doubt realize, this principle goes way
beyond blogging, but since blogging is a big part
of my life and I expect it’s important to you
too, I tend to devote a lot of time to thinking
about my blog and my Internet business.
Without having a strong belief in my own abilities
and following some simple principles, I wouldn’t
be sitting here writing this on my laptop in the
middle of the day, earning six figures a year from
an Internet business based on blogging.
I hope you come to realize how important your mind
is to your success and take steps to bend your
thoughts towards positive outcomes.
Here’s to your blogging success.
Yaro Starak
Blog Mastermind
http://www.blogmastermind.com
What Yaro says in this email is so true to online profits because this is really what happened to me. Exactly one year ago I dreamt a dream that one day I would make a living online. Then I started to make it happen. We all know that a business cannot be built overnight and planning and strategizing is needed to make it happen. Just like your baby needs to crawl first before he/she can learn to walk, only to realise that the ultimate speed rush is to run.
Likewise, you first need to crawl online too. By crawling I mean you need to take action and make it happen. I started in Sept last year with only one website and my first month online I made a grand total of 7 bucks! I now have a total of more than 10 websites because I use subdomains to make me money as well. Although I cannot boast a 6 figure income, I make 4 figures which is more than enough for me. Many of you reading this will be very happy to make an extra $500 a month but you should stop dreaming now and make it happen.
You may think that Yaro was lucky or that I am lucky but you fail to realise that we decided what we wanted and sought it out. Go to Yaro’s website and subscribe to his newsletter, he will tell you that making money from blogging is not really so much about churning out post after post. It is about providing quality reads/posts and using a simple strategy that I use too.
The way to make money online I have found is quite simple. Give your audience what they are looking for (fullfil a need or desire) then you’ll need to collect their names (opt in to a newsletter). Once you have a list of even 100 people, you just try to keep them happy and continue to build it. Give them more quality information so that people will enjoy your newsletter and recommend you to their friends. Soon you will have 500 people on your list. Then occasionally you can recommend a product that you think will give them value, your subscribers will now trust you because you have been providing them with quality information. Be your subscribers friend and the money will follow.
Would you believe me if I told you that I can make money by just sending out one single email to a small group of people? A few days ago I sent out an email to 14 people, this resulted in affiliate commissions of $22.16. Tell me something, how often would you send out one single email to 14 people if each time you email them you’ll make $22?
I don’t mean to be a pain and keep talking about this TAKE ACTION thing, since most of you love to blog so much and write like 10 posts every month why don’t you blog about a subject that can make you money? If you enjoy digital scrapbooking, create a blog that details your digital scrapbooking techniques. Of course you won’t be collecting money up front for your free posts, but you can offer a newsletter that you will send out whenever you find new techniques or products. Once a month you can email your list to tell them about a useful scrapbooking tool that you came across and earn affiliate commissions from it. It is virtually a way to set up an online ATM, since you are doing all the work already why not make money from it.
Where ever you are at now, whether you are a beginner or you are an expert blogger you need to stop dreaming of the cheque coming to your mailbox and take action. Make it come to your mailbox. I received my first Clickbank pay cheque last month for a total of $237.57. I make money from many places online and it all adds up to my total monthly 4 figures.
As Nike says “JUST DO IT”