One of the greatest internet marketers still aroung today
is Marlon Sanders… a true pioneer.

His story is inspiring and similar to the path that many
internet marketers had to travel… including yours truly.

The following is a special article from his Marlon’s Marketing Minute
ezine (reprinted with permission)…

If you’re struggling to make ends meet, or you’re new to
the game of Internet marketing, or things are going good
but you want them to go better, then my story might be of
value to you.

In fact, I’m almost sure it will.

Things are good now. My affiliate list has 30,000 folks on it.
But when I started it had none.

I’ve spoken all over the world in Kaui, Gold Coast Australia 
Wembely arena in London where rock stars perform, 
Bermuda, and all over the U.S. from Seattle, San Francisco, 
San Diego, LA, to Houston, Dallas, St. Louis, Chicago, 
Nashville, Philadelphia, Miami, New York, Boston, Raleigh,
and other cities.

I’ve been selling $20,000, $30,000, $40,000 and $50,000 a
month for longer than I can remember, which would 1998 –
and before.

Unlike Johnny-Come-Lately’s, my formula has stood the test
of time.

But when I first started, my hands shook so much, I could
barely put the transparencies on the projector I used at
the time.

Fact is, I remember when I first read that ad in a
magazine. It was about some dude in Ohio who had a method
of escaping the rat race by assembling “systems.” So I
sent in my dough and waited.

That ugly blue book turned me onto a whole new world
called “direct response marketing.” And what the
old-timers called “mail order.”

I started buying everything I could afford. I just had to
know more about this thing where you’d sell products for a
living instead of selling your own time. That sounded like
a good thing to me.

I bought all kinds of junk. And I do mean junk. Some of it
was really useless. But I knew I was digging through the
coal to find the diamonds. And if you don’t go through the
coal, you never find the diamonds.

Schemes, plans, ideas, systems, reports, books. I had ‘em
all. One thing I learned from all that was the difference
between a good information product and a bad one.

I didn’t tell anyone what I was doing. But I kept doing it
and being persistent. I didn’t quit like a lot of people
do because I had this desire and visions.

You didn’t have the Internet when I first started learning
to do this stuff. The game was you’d run these little ads
in ad sheets or magazines offering a report. People would
write in and then you’d send them your sales letter.

Nowadays, you can do that in 30 minutes using Google
Adwords. Back then, I’d run my little ad and wait 2 or 3
months for it to come out. I’d spend all the change I had
trying to print up and mail stuff.

A few orders would come back but never enough to even pay
for the printing! The learning curve back then creeped
along like a turtle. Nowadays, you can learn what I did in
years of effort in 6 months if you make the decision to do
it.

I chased a lot of dead ends and had a lot of things that
didn’t work out. If you’ve ever ran ads or tried “methods”
or “formulas” that didn’t work for you, then maybe you can
related to the disappointment and frustration I felt.

The only difference between me and those who never got
anywhere is I didn’t give up. I just KNEW I could do it.

Those times tested my patience. And pocketbook. I remember
when I worked as a freelance writer in the daytime and did
telemarketing, timeshare sales and other stuff at night
trying to make ends meet while I learned the business.

Back then, you didn’t have all the great information
products to cut your learning curve like you have today.
You know, I had maybe 4 or 5 good books to learn from.
That was about it.

So it was all trial-and-error learning. And I think going
through all that pain is what motivated me later on to
lend a helping hand to others who felt some of the same
things I did.

My Buick car had engine problems. I’d look back behind as
I drove to see if smoke came out the tailpipe or not. I
never knew for sure.

Not until one day somehow I got a date with a model. A
real one. How, I don’t know because I was really tall and
thinner than an ironing board. I had to put skis on so I
didn’t get washed down the shower drain.

Anyway, we went to this nice place where they had valet
parking. When I got out the valet guys were literally
laughing at the smoke bellowing out my tail pipe.

But then….

The rider’s side door opened. And this 6 foot tall model
with beautiful hair got out. They didn’t laugh anymore.

I doubt I tipped valet because I couldn’t afford to spit
in those days. I remember making $7,500 one year and
eating minute thirty second microwave corn dogs and living
off the $1.97 burger, fries, coke drive through on
Greenville Avenue in Dallas, Texas.

Later, I’d make $7500 in a day — and more. But not back
then…

It wasn’t all bad. I had a female friend named Kelli. We’d
swing by late night at the Taco Cabana and get nachos.
That was all either of us could afford.

Out of desperation, I took this job working deep nights.
I’d go to work at 11 p.m. and get off at 7:30 in the
morning. I did that for 3 years. I think I lost half my
hair then due to the stress of the job.

I got really sick at that job and developed asthma. I paid
a price to get where I am today….

I made enough money I could fork over $5,000 for advanced
marketing training.

And when I mixed that in with all the other stuff I’d been
reading, studying and learning about — a BREAKTHROUGH
happened.

I call it stumbling across “The Amazing Formula That Sells
Products Like Crazy.”

Something just clicked in my head. I can’t explain it. All
of a sudden I got it. That was after YEARS of NOT getting
it. YEARS of running ads that didn’t work or mucking
around with things.

I mean, I once put 30,000 miles on my car in 6 months
trying to sell insurance and only sold 1 homeowners policy
on a wood frame house my company didn’t want to insure.

So if you’re not great at sales or something, I
understand. Boy, do I understand.

What I found at, though, is that if you keep at it, sooner
or later something clicks. Or it did for me.

I started getting paid to write letters for clients. I
won’t go through the whole story here. But things started
turning around. At first, slowly….

Then….like a GUSHER.

When you “get it” and success happens, it can happen
really, really quickly. Success is when preparedness meets
opportunity.

Like one time I took a vacation to Hong Kong and Thailand,
came home and I had a $5,000 consulting check waiting for
me. And I hadn’t even asked for it. The guy just sent it.

I got paid $7500 to $10,000+ to write sales letters for
clients.

I got invited to teach my sales formula at seminars.

When success happens, it happens quickly. If you’ve done
all your groundwork and preparation. But a lot of people
get impatient. They want it all today without paying the
price of preparation and learning the basics.

I understand that.

The good news is can happen 10X or 20X faster today than
it happened for me.

I felt like an evangelist on the mission. I’d been at the
bottom of the barrel and below in marketing. And I knew
what it was like to be there. And what it was like to be
at the top.

I had a MISSION to teach people the secrets that work. The
things that REALLY make the difference. And to cut through
the noise, eliminate 50% to 80% of the learning curve –
and get people on the path to success as quickly as
possible.

I boiled the sales process online down into a 12-step
formula. I taught it at over 120 seminars where people
paid $3,000 to be there. Later, my “Push Button Letters”
software codified that formula into a fill-in-the-blanks”
process.

All of that culminated when I penned my smash hit “The
Amazing Formula That Sells Products Like Crazy.”

It has hundreds of testimonials from around the world. I
followed it up with the action plan to implement it called
“Gimme My Money Now.”

And then there’s a whole string of step-by-step
Dashboards, which is what inspired my title as the King of
Step-By-Step Online Marketing training.

But I’m going to confess something here.

I’d bank a lot more dough if I wanted to work crazy hours,
weeks or months like some other famous Internet marketers
do.

My goal always was lifestyle. I’d rather live a
comfortable life on a 1 hour workday than be live ultra high on
the hog on a 12-hour workday.

I don’t drive the fanciest car, live in the biggest home,
or sport the most exotic watch. But I could if I wanted.

Then again, my workday consists of hanging out at
Starbucks, mucking around a little on my laptop and
calling it good.

I don’t speak at as many seminars as I used to. After
you’ve done 120 around the world, it isn’t exactly new.
And the seminar Game has evolved into how much of your
products you can sell in your 90-minute speech. It’s
really just not my cup of tea.

Some of my customers have asked how come I don’t do the
massive product launches like some do. As though doing
that somehow makes you more credible.

The answer is you have to work longer, harder and more
intensely than I care to in order to pull off one of those
launches. It’s not my thing. Maybe I’ll do it someday. But
I doubt it. My thing is now and always has been creating
consistent, steady systems that underwrite my lifestyle,
my dreams and my future for myself and those I care about.

So this is my story.

If you’d enjoy making your living on your laptop at
Starbucks or wherever it is you like to go, and you
realize that the work is upfront learning things but once
you “get it” you have the greatest lifestyle in the world,
then I recommend this business.

Truth be told, 80% or 90% of the people who buy products
in this industry probably don’t make that much.

Why? Most try a thing or two, it doesn’t pan out and they
go onto other things.

Nothing wrong with that. I’m here and I exist for those
who are truth seekers. Those like me who won’t take no for
an answer. Those who realize you gotta dig through coal to
find the diamonds.

My mission is to help the 10 percenters who really have
the desire to get behind the curtains and see how the
magic really happens.

My mission is to share the true gospel of Internet
marketing without the hype or fluff.

My mission is to help the guy or gal who has some of the
same pain that I felt and help them get beyond that to a
new world of understanding and a new lifestyle.

I’m NOT here for the guy or gal who wants to buy one or
two products and all of a sudden be hauling down 6
figures.

That isn’t reality. And it isn’t how the game is played.

I’m here to help the person who understands this is a
business. And all business involves risk of gain or loss.
You may or may not make it.

There are no guarantees in business or life.

I can’t guarantee you’ll wake up in the morning.

But I can guarantee to share the secrets that led me to go
from a beaten up, broken down smoke bomb car and a diet of
minute thirty second corn dogs to a wonderful lifestyle,
world travel and a business I can run on my laptop in 30
minutes or an hour a day at Starbucks (most days).

———————————————————–
Marlon Sanders is the author of “The Amazing Formula That
Sells Products Like Crazy and the…
KING of Step-By-Step Internet Marketing.”
———————————————————–

Check out all of his products here:

http://getyourprofits.com/z/1229/CD19967

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They still call it a ticker tape parade even though they no longer
use ticker tape but the parade down the Canyon of Heroes for the
World Champion New York Yankees was knee deep in confetti.

Over One Million cheering, screaming fans came to salute NY Yankees.
New York throws some of the greatest parades anywhere in the world.

Being a native New Yorker myself I admit my bias, but it’s hard to dispute
the fact that over a million stark raving Yankees fans starting lining up as
early as 5 o’clock in the morning in the cold, to get a glimpse of their heroes.

Just to put it in perspective, 1 million+ fans is more than the entire population
of Washington DC with a couple hundred thousand extra thrown in for good
measure. And this is on a Friday morning (which is workday and school day).

The 12 block long Canyon of Heroes which runs from the downtown NYC Wall St
area along Broadway to City Hall was packed like sardines with adoring fans.

The chants and cheers of the crowd was deafening as the New York Yankee
heroes paraded by on Yankee Floats. Hideki Matsui, the MVP was in the lead float.

Some fans came from as far away as Japan just to see “Godzilla” up close.
The Yankee players were spread out on separate floats and the crown went crazy
every time one of the Yankee players came by.

The Yankee players would graciously step off the floats and thank and acknowledge the
fans by shaking hands and signing autographs. New York has some of the greatest fans
in the world who always fill up the new swanky Yankee stadium in good times and bad.

A-Rod looking cool and confident and sporting a fedora hat and dark shades looked
more like a rock star than a baseball player and was greeted by the crowd as such.
It reminded me of Beatle-mania.

And when the crowd favorite, Captain Derek Jeter rolled by, the fans went even crazier.
Some women were waving signs that said… Derek Jeter - Marry Me!

There was so much confetti floating in the air it looked like a snow storm blizzard.
Standing next to Derek Jeter was Jay-Z (who along with Alicia Keys wrote the fantastic
Championship song for the Yankees). Derek’s mom and dad were also on the float
taking in the wonderment of it all.

NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly was there along with Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
The NYPD kept the crown under control yet was flexible enough to allow people
to get up close and personal to the players. It all went off without any incidents.

Everyone came to see the champs for the same experience. To have fun, and…
To honor the World Champion - NY Yankees!

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The New York Yankees beat the defending Philadelphia Phillies 7-3.
The win is their 27th World Series title.

It’s the first time since New York was attacked on 9/11 they’ve been champions.
And it is fitting they won the World Series Chanpionship in their new ballpark.

Hideki Matsui was the man of the hour with a 2 run home run, a 2 run single,
and a 2 run double for a total of 6 RBI’s out of the scored 7 Yankee Runs.

And he doesn’t even speak English (at least not on camera).

It just goes to show you that anyone with the drive and determination can
“make it” because the USA is the land of opportunity.

Interestingly enough, most of the Yankee players were recruited from college.
It seems if you want to make it in professional sports, you need to make a
name for youself while playing college sports, otherwise the recruiters
will never find you.

But with the US economy in turmoil, college is becoming less affordable
for many families. In addition to the affordability problem to get into and
remain in University comes one of the unexpected and most difficult challenges…

PAYING YOUR STUDENT LOAN’S BACK!

Amanda, a communications major who graduated from a major University this year,
was fortunate enough to land a decent entry level job at the Rachael Raye show.
However, after she pays her rent, electricity, cable, phone, etc etc  bills,
the $600 per month for student loans she has to pay back is unaffordable.

What should she do?
The answer may surprise you.

If anyone has read the book “The Secret” or seen the movie or watched Oprah
when she was talking “The Secret” or has the DVD, then you know that the
secret to getting whatever you want in life is to “focus on what you want.”

Huh?

You see, you have to stay focused on exactly what you want.
So the first thing that needs to be done is to…

Figure out EXACTLY what you want.

Most people Never do this and it is the secret to success.
Consequently and unconsciously, people focus on what they don’t want.

For example, when I asked Amanda what she wanted, she said…
she wanted the bill collectors to stop calling and harassing her.

That’s not really what she wants.

She is focusing on what she doesn’t want. She DOESN’T want the bill collectors
to call her. So by not focusing on what she wants, she’s automatically focusing
on what she doesn’t want and manifest MORE of that into her life.
Hence, more bill collector calls.

I’ll get deeper into the law of attraction at another time.
But for now here is some practical advice…

Paying off college loans can seem like a next to impossible task.
Each year, more people graduate with increasing levels of debt.
This is largely due to the fact that college is expensive.

It doesn’t matter if you’ve graduated from a state school, private college,
or community college. Most people have some level of debt associated
with getting a degree. Now the trick is how you’re going to pay for it.

Depending on the type of loan you have, repayment options are many.
Some people are so overwhelmed by the total amount of the debt,
that they rarely see the various types of repayment options that are available.

A good suggestion is to stay focused on the monthly payment versus the total sum
of what you owe. This should make the idea of repayment more manageable.

If you are a recent grad and you’re wondering exactly how you are going to pay off
your loans, don’t despair. There are a variety of methods you can use.

One of the most popular and effective is student loan consolidation.
Using student loan consolidation, you group your loans into a single loan
which often reduces your monthly payment amount.

Keep checking back at this site for updates. For a ton of information
about scholarships, grants, FASFA, college and paying student loans:

College Scholarships, Grants, FASFA, Paying Student Loans

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Millions of seniors graduating from high school
will start turning their attention over the next few weeks
to paying for college.

Scholarships and grants (which don’t have to be paid back)
are the best options. But not everyone has the academic record
to win scholarships and merit aid.

About two-thirds of four-year college students who graduate
are typically about $20,000 in debt - and the numbers are rising.

Many are confused by the programs and options for borrowing.

Look over to the right hand side on this page where it says “Archives”.
Check out some of the past post. They are a treasure trove of
information about loans, scholarships, grants, work-study programs
even savings and earnings.

Many parents and students get stuck with more debt than they should.
An investigation by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo
has exposed some questionable financial arrangements…
(he calls them “kickbacks”) involving lending companies and universities.

The whole situation has called into question whether the advice
many students get is really unbiased.

As I have noted in the past couple previous posts,
the education cost for my daughter will be over $200,000 by the time 
she gets her Masters Degree from St Johns University.

And now she’s taking about getting her Doctorate!… Ouch!

Just Remember This: The more you get in scholarships and grants…
the less you have to pay back. I have found an excellent tool
for helping you to win scholarships.

It’s called the Unfair Advantage Scholarship Superpack.
It gives you an inside look at what it takes to win scholarships.
It will give you an advantage over everyone who doesn’t read it!

http://ScholarshipMoneyInformation.com

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