Willie Crawford Teaches REAL Internet Marketing  

I was just sent this article that was written by my friend, 
Douglas Goodey,  an 80-years-old who went from $4.5 million
in debt to worth over $20 million, and think that it's well
worth reading... and taking notes.


Here it is:




In this email, I want to share with you
5 big mistakes that stop success.

Mistake No.1:
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Trying to do everything yourself.

We as human beings are limited by a number
of things.

Two Hands, One Brain and 24 hours in a day
are just some of them.

Learn to leverage the brainpower, manpower,
and time of others, and you will find that
you can get more done and achieved in your
lifetime than you ever imagined.


http://The20MillionDollarMan.com



Mistake No 2:
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Procrastination (putting things off).

In life I met many people that didn't
want to do certain tasks till the next
day, or the next week, which if only
they had done... would have resulted
in far more business for them.

Instead, they wanted to concentrate on
going for a drink with their friends
or watching their favorite soap on the
TV.

There's nothing wrong with that, except,
quite often the things they left undone,
needed their urgent attention.

They were things that could have helped
them be more prepared at the meeting
they had scheduled, or it could even
have been some action that might have
stopped debt collectors calling at
their door to take away their furniture
if only they'd acted sooner.

These are harsh realities of life and
things that have a way of making sure
that life remains a struggle, if you put
things off.

Don't. Do what you need to get done, whether
it applies to your business or your personal
life, in the priority and timing it deserves.

This single action will put you way ahead
of the crowd.


http://The20MillionDollarMan.com



Mistake No 3
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Looking For An Easy Fix/Route.

We as people are becoming lazier. We want
an easy fix for everything in this age of
instant everything.

And if we can find an easy fix or route to something
then that is fine.

However when it comes to success, there is NO easy
fix, no matter what people tell you.

There is no easy way to become a millionaire.

It takes work, it takes effort and it takes
patience.

However most people are convinced that there is
some magic formula that will take them there overnight.

There isn't.

On the internet there are people trying to sell
you easy fixes to riches.

There aren't any.

What there ARE are proven strategies and principles of
success that anyone who knows them can apply and can
ENSURE their way to the top.

These proven principles have worked for anyone who
has put them into practice in the past (including me)
and turned them into multi-millionaires, they are
working for those who are currently putting them
into practice, and they will work for anyone who
puts them into practice in the future.

After all which would YOU pick? Easy fixes or proven
strategies?

Now you might say "proven strategies", but their is
usually some work or effort involved with them.

That's why DESPITE KNOWING that proven strategies are
what people need, the very same people will pay for and
go after trying to find easy fixes again and again
without paying to learn what are proven strategies.

Proven strategies come at the cost of experience.

They come at the cost of other people's work, so people
won't offer them to you readily.

Easy fixes on the other hand you will find in abundance,
because there is no experience behind many of them.

There is only a quick buck to be made by the person
peddling the easy fix.

Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not talking about an
easy fix in terms of software or a solution to a
particular problem.

Those are great.

I'm talking about people looking for and people
selling an easy fix to success.

Don't look for people selling easy fixes. Find people
offering you proven strategies that are time-tested and
that have taken years of trial and error to get right.

Strategies that work for me, and will work for you
when you apply them.


http://The20MillionDollarMan.com



Mistake No 4:
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Having No Strategy.

What is your strategy in life? Do you have
one?

If you have an online business what is
your strategy for your online business? Do you
have one?

Think about this? Why do banks ask people to
complete business plans with everything
meticulously detailed?

From the marketing plan, through to the
budgeting, through to the cashflow and profit
and loss forecasts?

Just to make life more difficult?

No, because they know that with a strategy
or plan in place there is far more chance
of achieving your objectives.

Most people particularly people looking to
create an online income have no strategy
whatsoever.

They go day to day, looking for the next best thing
to promise them instant online success, or the next
hot thing to come out to try and promote.

There is of course nothing wrong with wanting to
promote the next hot thing that comes out, but is
that part of your strategy?

And what else does your strategy for online
success include?

Do you have a branding strategy in place?

How you are going to brand yourself or your product?

Do you have a traffic strategy in place? How
you are going to get and keep a constant flow of
traffic coming to your website?

Do you have a budget in place so that you are
not living month to month, but are able to plan
ahead to meet the costs of your business?

Do you have a vision of where you want to take
your business in 12 months, and can you see the
clear route of how you are going to get there?

That's why I say proven strategies that are
time-tested is what you should be seeking in
everything you do instead of easy fixes as
outlined in mistake no 3.

Any task, or venture you undertake, if you
want to complete it successfully, take however
long it takes, a day, a week or even a month to put
all the strategies in place and to define them as
meticulously as you can, so that you have
a better chance of achieving that success.

http://The20MillionDollarMan.com



Mistake No 5:
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Thinking You Know It All.

No one has exclusivity on knowledge. Pride is
and has always been man's biggest downfall.

Nations have overtaken prouder nations in history,
where one nation thought they had everything and
didn't need to learn anything new from anyone else.

Realise that you don't know certain things.

Then learn them from those that do.

If you are not good with talking with people
in a social gathering, and you want to be... find
out the strategies of how to develop that skill from
someone who is proficient at it.

If you want to learn to drive... you'd go to a driving
instructor right?

And you pay happily for those driving lessons.

Why then when it comes to learning strategies that will
transform our lives are we so against investing in our
most valuable asset? Ourselves?

Simply, because quite often, we think we know it all.

Successful people recognise the importance of learning
from others.

Professional singers hire and pay professional singing
coaches.

Why? They're already stars and can sing right?

Professional football clubs hire and pay coaches to train
the players.

Why? The players already know the game so why do they need
a coach?

Gymnasts, tennis players, people in business and
multi-millionaires all GET it! They know that despite how
much they know, someone who can always teach them or help
them to know things they don't know or help them to improve
and successfully implement the things they DO know.

World Champion boxers... have trainers don't they?

Why? They're already knocking the lights out of people
in the ring, what can old frail men teach them about
fighting?

They KNOW that no matter what they do know there is always
room for learning strategies or implementing strategies or
even perfecting strategies that they can learn from
somoene else.

That's what makes winners. They aren't afraid of investing
in the proven strategies of others to improve their own.

So there is a key difference in attitude and thinking
between the successful and the none successful.

One value proven strategies, even when they are at the top
of their game and pay those with experience to learn them.

And those that remain mediocre think... "Yeah? What can
he teach me?".

Article By Douglas Goodey - The 20 Million Dollar Man
http://The20MillionDollarMan.com
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I actually own a set of MP3's that Douglas recorded that I've
now listened to three times.

One of my mentors taught me that when I got new audio lessons,
that I really wanted to learn, I should listen to it completely
through, several times in rapid succession.   That will burn
a new set of neuron connection in your brain, and that knowledge
will become YOURS.

So, that's what I've done with the wisdom that Douglas shares.
Actually, it took me a few minutes to get use to his heavy
British accent, and then it actually felt like he was sitting
across the table from me. 

Douglas' incredible knowledge is rapidly becoming my own. You
should check it out too:  http://The20MillionDollarMan.com

Willie