What To Expect When Seeking Success

What should you be aware of when you look for God’s blessings in your life? Often, when a Christian tries to go into business for himself, he hits wall after wall. When a Christian gets interested in affiliate marketing, he can expect difficulties. There are many factors in play and I want to make you aware of several things that you can expect.

One of the obstacles that needs to be overcome is the fear to begin. All of the statistics say that 97% of people who get into affiliate marketing or any Internet business will fail. Unfortunately, this is true. The biggest reason is the fact that most Internet Companies do not train their affiliate in effective marketing strategies. Most of these companies, even the legitimate ones simply do not offer the proper training. Some simply put old rehashed techniques that do not work. We discuss more of this at a later time.

I want to offer you some biblical advice. I want to reference the New Testament Book of Acts (The Acts of the Apostles.) In chapter 16 you will see the story of Paul and Silas as they try travel through Phillipi. There was a young girl, possessed by the spirit of divination, following them and proclaiming them to be representatives of the God Most High. They were on their way to a place of Worship and praise (the synagogue.) You see, the devil will meet you on your way to God’s worship and praise. He will intercept you on your way to your blessings and do everything he can to distract you and interrupt you.

He will use everything he can to discourage you from reaching your destination (your success.) Do exactly what Paul did! Speak to that evil that is trying to discourage you. The devil will use family,
friends, your finances or any ‘familiar’ thing that he can to keep you from pressing on. He will try to discourage you or to divert you on your path to God, your ultimate success. Speak to the evil, not to the person delivering the message. Press on. Make your mind up that, by the grace of God, you will succeed. Just don’t give up. Learn everything you can and press on!
We have discussed blogging but I want to bring forward another aspect of blogging that is often overlooked. Some do not feel that they can blog. Yes you can! While you are thinking about creating a blog, there is another aspect of blogging that can help to bring your name up many times. Comments. Almost every blog invites readers to leave comments.

Find three or four blogs in your niche market and add relevant comments to these blog posts. You can search Google or other search engines for blog directories to fi d ‘popular’ blogs. Pick a few and regularly leave comments. You can search Tecnorati

One of the most effective and long term marketing techniques is ‘article writing.’ There are scores of databases on the Internet which are there as repositories for articles that people write. The one thing that I see about articles (I read dozens of them every day) is that the give a glimpse of who the author is.

I am convinced that those ‘experts’ and ‘gurus’ on the Internet have established themselves as ‘experts’ and ‘gurus’ by the amount and the quality of information that they offer. Those who garner the greatest success are those who are constantly ‘giving’ information, useful information, to their readers.

One principle of marketing that many fail to realize is the ‘trust’ principle. It does not matter how many wonderful products that one chooses to offer, success is a matter of trust. When you see successful products on the Internet, you see that there are hundreds or even thousands who are trying to flog the same product. The biggest problem, that problem that blocks success for so many, is the inane and useless marketing tactics that are pushed off onto the unsuspecting affiliates. You see the same ad copy and emails from those who are trying to advertise the same products that thousands of others are pushing.

I have found that those who are successful are those who have built a list of followers who ‘trust’ their opinion. They built their list of followers by many hours of writing articles and offering ‘expert’ advice. This takes time but, if you have the desire to have a successful Internet business, you need to start building a firm foundation now. One of the surest ways is to write as many ‘good’ information packed articles, and get them distributed, as you can.