How a Marketing Dummy Overcame All Odds...
 

It's the last day of 2004 over here in Singapore. Are you ready for 2005?

Before we end 2004, here's a real life story I want to share. And it's about myself.

This is a story about someone who:

1. Had no idea what internet marketing is about
2. Had no idea what to sell
3. Had no friends or parnters
4. Had no list
5. can't or dont like copywriting
6. No marketing experience
7. and only enjoys playing computer games...

and yet overcame all odds, fears and doubts about himself to make a tiny weeny little bit of money on the net, being a total "marketing dummy".

I thought i'd share this story with you, hoping that if you're in a similar situation as myself, you might find courage and inspiration and go after your dreams.

WARNING: The story is Long and also LIFE CHANGING....Read at your own risk!

I started to learn about Internet Marketing only in August of this year. I bought a few products here and there but was still clueless nor any closer to actually making money online. In fact, I had no idea what I was doing.

I vividly remember the first product I bought, Google Cash. I was very excited and started reading it. And by the next day, I opened a Google account and started placing ads. I thought it was quite fun, watching the clicks coming in, not thinking that each click cost me money (ouch!)

I found the whole process of tweaking the keywords to be rather messy and cumbersome to my liking, so I stopped.

Later on, I bought other products here and there, on affiliate marketing but was still no where closer to learning or understanding how the whole internet thing worked.

I came across James Maduk's site, and it was here that i slowly began piecing the pieces together. I joined his membership site and watched his Whiteboard lessons which highly appealed to me as I'm a visual learner.

You can download a copy of his 52 Secrets here:
http://www.marketing-rampage-with-blogs-and-rss.com/52secretsforonlinesuccess.pdf

(Right click and download or copy and paste in address bar, it's quite a large file)

Well, it was slowly getting clearer but...i still had no idea what to sell or do!

I flew all the way to Los Angeles on a back breaking 20 hour flight to attend the Big Seminar in LA It was great meeting all these "net celebrities" like your Hollywood celebrities, but again as a newbie I only found myself more confused.

It was also at this time that I dicovered about "spiritual marketing", and the "Wealth Beyond Reason" program that Bob Doyle created.

Goto http://tinyurl.com/3ub32
(copy and paste in browser)

By reading the materials and practicing it, I slowly became more confident, and understood the concept of "abundance" in this world and that I needed to eliminate the "lack" or "scarcity"
mentality within me.

And today in Science,in the field of Quantum Physics, quantum physicists have proven that all matter are just "energy sparks"

I started meditating, listening to a specially created soundtrack which is specially created to put a person in a meditative state and visualizing what I want.

In November, I started creating my first product. I decided I will follow Jame's style of creating multimedia e-books, however, as I dont have my own server or Mimio whiteboard software, I decided I will just use Flash.

I didn't know if it was going to sell or not. I didn't do any keyword research on Overture or Word tracker. I just wanted to DO IT. And I worked until 4 am every day for the next 10 days.

I did my research and used my background in teaching to put together a course that will will really ensure Learning takes place, that the person can understand easily and accelerate his mastery of the subject.

I listed the product with Clickbank, but there was a problem. I didn't know how to market.

Using meditation and "spiritual marketing", amazing things began to happen. I received a mail from Mark Hendrick about some Christmas gifts. out of curiosity I went there, and indeed there was a lot of goodies.

And I noticed some gifts were not ready for days 10, 11 12. And so I emailed Mark, asking him if I can contribute my gifts. And he said yes!

And what did I Contribute? Well, my own video e-book, of course! As my book was on blogs and rss, I decided to separate the blog portion into Part 1, and I believe I gave lots of value inside.

In order to continue with their education in rss marketing, I offered a 50% discount off my normal retail price of $97, which I felt was a really good investment considering the amount of value
they are receiving. Besides, the price of $97 has been proven to work, as the first few sales were all done at that price.

Since then I have been receiving loads of subscribers every day.

I registered the domain name, and when it came to the sales letter, that was my greatest nightmare.

Oh my God! I have never written any sales letter in my whole life and i didnt know how, i didnt like copywriting in the first place.

Again, I meditated using the meditation sound track that came along, and slowly asked my Inner Being for an answer. My Inner Being guided me, to look at sample sales letter.

One day I just found a quiet spot in my house near the window, sat down, and started writing I just let the words just flow out from me, without any resistance.

I finished the sales letter within the same day. Later on I were to meet a friend Clifford Mee who has become one of my good and trusted online friends. He recorded a video to explain what I should do to make my letter better, and I followed all his advice.

This seems to work, because the conversion went up after that.

From this story, as you can see, even if you have no money, no list, no friends, no ideas, if there is something that your heart desire, you just need to ASK and ALLOW it to come into your life.

A lot of people get too HUNG UP on the "HOW". How can i do this? How can I do that?

Just LET GO, BELIEVE and the UNIVERSE will deliver it to you.

Opportunities will appear, Events will happen, People appear in your life, Ideas come from within you, the words, everything.

If you are open minded and would like to learn more about "abundance", how to allow, "spiritual marketing", I suggest you sign up for Boy Doyle's Wealth Beyond Reason program

Goto http://tinyurl.com/3ub32

PS: I would also like to know if you would like me to expand my story into an e-book, including more information and perhaps videos on how i created my product, how i market it, how i track it and so on. If yes, send me a mail brandon @ brandon-hong.com and put in subject "yes, write new book"

That's it. HAPPY NEW YEAR!

PPS: Tsunami Fund Relief stands at US$120. US$10 will be donated to the Singapore Red Cross from every order of my book.

Brandon
brandon @ brandon-hong.com
www.marketing-rampage-with-blogs-and-rss.com
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- posted by BrandonHong @ 7:58 PM