From the monthly archives:

April 2009

Copycat’ing Success!!!

by nigelyip on April 29, 2009

Allo, Allo!!!

Lol, How is everyone today, if you haven’t guessed it yet, yes I have been watching Allo, Allo! The long-running British sitcom broadcast on BBC1 from 1982 to 1992 comprising eighty-five episodes with Rene Artois in it – lol!!! For some, who have also watched “Secret Army”, they will say Allo! Allo! looks like a parody of “Secret Army”, which brings me on to “Copycat’ing Success”.

You see, like many successful TV shows, films etc…. you always get a spin off, about a year later i.e. think Matrix and all the other films that subsequently came afterwards with the bullet time effects.

Most successful internet businesses are based upon a already proven successful model. But however have you ever noticed that Most marketers DON’T make their money by following the exact methods they sell to you. They always do something “EXTRA” that gives them that “EXTRA” advantage, and that is why you end up buying more of their products and other guru’s products that they promote to you.

This by mean is excellent, because the Guru has just made more money from you and everyone else, and in return you increase your knowledge another step up the stairs of Internet Guru Stardom and your business makes more money.

However, have you ever really stepped back and start studying the guru himself rather than the methods he sells?

Introducing “CopyCatting Riches”

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Automation and Systems – It’s good to have a separate blog!!!

by nigelyip on April 21, 2009

Hey my dear friends

Today, it’s going to be short post and that is, it’s great to have a separate business blog as it makes much more sense. Why? Well you see, those who have visited NG2MS will noticed that it’s based upon 2 niches, those being making money online with eBay and help with making money online with membership sites.

The advantages of having a separate blog is that it mean that I can discuss anything I like or feel appropriate on this blog whilst the other one has been fully automated and running pretty much on autopilot.

Autopilot??? Yes that’s right, NG2MS is now pretty much automated being that I have written all the blog posts for it and automated it to schedule put up posts and there are affiliate products which I hope people will click, look and hopefully buy and the only thing I have left to do is promote it, get more traffic to it and not just any traffic but “pre-conditioned” traffic to it and let it take it from there.

Autopilot or Automation – which ever one you may wish to prefer to call it, it seriously a great way to help alleviate time and reduce stress. It also mean that I can be sitting out in my friends garden whilst having a BBQ with him, discussing everything about the world, how he would put things right, and literally have a great laugh playing PC games or pool at the local “Riley’s” without having to worry about timing myself to get on a pc and put a blog post up.

Imagine, if you automated parts of your business, or other business. For example, my eBay business is pretty much on autopilot too – I simply put a few products up, sit back and just wait for people to come and buy it, when they do, at the end of each night, I just spend a hour or two, packing and dispatching the products.

Also again with my offline Home Biz Opps business, I have 3 products and each one I have developed an autopilot system for them which involves me spending no more than 2 minutes per order.

By implementing automation for my blog, it means that I can afford time to run my other businesses, and because I have implemented systems which help to semi-automate these other business, it means that I can also work less, have more fun and literally more free time to do the things I want or investigate and implementing new IM products and courses.

Now, I just need make more money, employ a VA and then I’m sorted. Have you implemented automation or a system yet? I love to hear what works for you and how you reduce hours on your business

All the best
Nigel

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Why do we hate mistakes!!!

by nigelyip on April 7, 2009

Hello my dear reader,

Today I like to discuss something that I know many would rather not discuss and that is mistakes.  As we all know that, when we make a mistake, mess up something bad style, we tend to feel… rather embarrassed, some of us even angry, or frustrated that we made a  wrong turn, a bad choice, a mis-calculation, which either made us look like a fool and will cost us both time and/or money?

Well, to be honest, I was in a similar situation not long ago, and reflecting back, it wasn’t that bad after all. The reason being that yes, you can learn from other’s mistakes, however to truly understand and learn from a mistake, as well as trying to not committing it again, we must actually have to experience it ourselves first hand.

So therefore, for those of us who have yet to reach the next step towards the red carpet of Internet Marketing Stardom Success,  just keep trying,  just keep making mistakes, and as like the Danish physicist and Nobel Prize Winner Neils Bohr famously said:

” An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.”

Therefore, everyone will become an expert of some sort, some day, we just need to commit and learn from all of the mistakes we will make. The only difference is how fast will be commit, learn and adapt from them? Will it be 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, a year? Or even a Year and a Half, like Alex, Maria and all the other internet marketing gurus and experts who are on the step above us?

So why do we hate mistakes? Well we don’t, it’s just that when we were little, as kids, our parents would tell us off and we would feel embarrassed in front of all of the other kids who were looking and giggling at us, and thus a possibility why we may have been temporarily mentally program and scarred to hate making mistakes.

But in fact, what we didn’t or may not have learnt or understand was that: when we were a little kid, our parents were simply offering us advice and helping us avoid committing the same act/mistakes again. The only thing they forgot to do was: teaching us how to learn and embrace mistakes, and how to to pick ourselves back up from it, but then again, it’s something I guess we have to learn as we mature and get older.

My question for all is: see if you can’t make a mistake today?
Nigel

I know I’ve already made one and that is I put this first over picking up my brother from college and now I’m 10 mins late!!! Ooops!!!

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