What Really Drive Sales?
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People don’t buy products, they buy states- Anthony RobbinsOpinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, not the intellect-Herbert Spencer
A person’s mind or state is a very important thing during sales. ( This applies both in online marketing and offline marketing) It’s also very very important to know your market or clients state of mind. When you are able to determine this almost correctly, you can generate almost a huge sales volume without any more hard work.
Let me show you a simple and noticeable example:
In these years, shoes are a fashion and most people either buy Nike, Adidas, Puma and DC. But why though you might ask? Why do people have to buy these branded and expensive shoes? Couldn’t they just buy some shoes got off the flea market for quarter the price of a branded Nike Air Force?
The main reason to purchase these branded exercise shoes is generally first felt when an individual watches the television in his couch and feeling bad about himself being a couch potato. Then, he sees Kaka( Brazil football player) being the World Football Player Of The Year and wearing a Nike football boots. The passive message sent immediately subconsciously to the individual is just easy as “Wear Nike and you can Just Do It!”
THE OUTCOME BASED THINKING!
This is called the process of Outcome Based Thinking and most world-class athletes use this process to achieve top performance in their competition. The best hoops shooter visualize a three point throw before just throwing outside the line and and the hitters in baseball see the bat hitting the ball for a base hit before going up to bat.
So similarly, the world’s greatest businessman and leaders uses outcome based thinking to close the deal before the even talk with the prospect. Edwin C. Barnes visualize working with Thomas Edison not working for Thomas Edison a thousand times and guess what, that came true!
So by implementing the OBT method, you can boost up your sales by 50% effortlessly. What you just need to do is let your market see what’s the outcome of them using your services and products and poof! Your sales rises magically!
My New Name Cards
A few weeks ago, I was reading about a post on LiewCF.com about Liew’s name card that he got from OoPrint. I was reading that when suddenly an idea pop up on my mind, my father always bring me out to his seminars and meetings so I often met up with either business mans, sales mans, marketers and more. Due to this reason, I was thinking giving out my own business card or name card would let me connect and network with peoples. This is the reason for being on the internet, we should be interacting or it will be called the intranet-without any people interacting and working on our own.
I then went to ooprint, copied some of their designs as I won’t be using their services because I’m not from US. I designed and stick my logo in with PSD and showed my friends first, they all said it looks nice and I was quite satisfied with myself too! 
I went surveying in the local name card printing shop and I found one which managed to print it in 24 hours for only $6.50 for 100 copies. Cheap right? That’s Malaysia!
By the way, here’s my namecard!
What I Learned About Online Marketing From Chancellor Palpatine
I am a die hard fan of Star Wars movie and the cartoon series so I always felt that they inspire me especially the Jedis like Qui-Gon Jinn and Master Yoda. But, this post I will be talking what I learned about IM from Chancellor Palpatine, the Chancellor of Galactic Republic and Emperor of Galactic Empire.
Palpatine, also known as Darth Sidious, was the last Chancellor of the Galactic Republic and the first Emperor of the Galactic Empire. Chancellor Palpatine was able to build up his Empire by setting up a complex and fascinating plan, which took years and involved starting the Clone Wars, the wars between the Republic and Separatists. Palpatine himself was involved in both the Galactic Republic and, secretly, the Confederacy of Independent Systems, as Lord Sidious which allowed him to prolong the conflict in order to gain more executive powers from the Senate.
#1 Thing That Chancellor Palpatine Taught Me-Give Solutions To People!
Darth Sidious was hoping to turn Anakin Skywalker to the Dark Side and as his apprentice. He was able to turn him into Darth Vader because he promised to solve Anakin’s problem which was preventing Padme Amidala from dying and thus Darth Sidious promised to do so! So how do we apply it in our online marketing? Provide people solutions! If people are having a fever, they don’t still go to work and pretend that nothing has happened, they normally see a doctor. If you’re buying McD, you are not interested in Ronald Mcdonalds are you? You are just interested in food as you’re hungry!
As a conclusion, provide people with solutions and you will get plenty of clients!
#1 Thing That Chancellor Palpatine Taught Me-Take Advantages Of People Weaknesses!
Anakin Skywalker was the hope of Darth Sidious and the method he used to turn him into Lord Vader was to used and attacking his weakness point. Anakin was well known for his emotion as he always can’t control his emotion properly and he often release his anger through and during lightsaber duelling with his enemies. Besides that, he can’t control his love feeling when he married Padme Amidala secretly. Jedi are not supposed to have relationship and release any anger.
How you can apply this in the current era of globalization?
You can always apply it based on the current market problems. For example, the H1N1 flu is quite viral and what you can do is to sell masks. I have seen guys who sell masks to US, Japan and Hong Kong citizens and they’re now profiting like mad!
Revamp Of Internet Marketeen 2.0
What’s Up With Our New Theme?
Welcome to the new Internet Marketeen! I hope you like our new look. The new theme is actually Carl Ocab’s Ultimate Blogging Theme but I hired a great guy called Steven from Digital Point to recode it and have a magazine type front page. Steven was someone I enquired about theme coding and he charged me quite a reasonable price considering the though job he did over almost a week. Kudos Steven! I told him to do up a rough draft on his test blog and if I like it, I will just let him continue with it. As what you would have know from reading this post, I liked his revamp of my old and sucking theme.
The new revamped theme has been tested on the latest version of FireFox and Safari but it’s not compatible with Opera and IE in this moment of writing. If you’re using browsers like IE or Opera, it will look darn jumbled up. Changes to the blog include a magazine style front page, featured video, a newsletter of mine plus video bonuses which is in process of setting up, new logo and brand name and some other new stuff which you’ll definitely notice later.
Things Are Not Finished Yet Steven!
I’ve tested the theme extensively on the test server to make sure everything worked. However, there is always the possibility of something that will get pass me and Steven. Please check out the my new theme and tell me what you think about it. If you get any loopholes, please let me know as well.
I want to thank Steven for his work on this new theme. I don’t think Steven will charge anyone that high on his excellent graphic design so give him a poke on his messenger and he will definitely do a great job for you if you name my name!
Determining A Blog's Success
If you are using a blog to make money online, or if you are really hoping to make some money online with your blog, then money is obviously your standard to determine how well you are doing towards your target. But what if money is not your target of having a blog-how can you really determine how success your blog is?
Every problogger or IMers has their own standard of measuring a blog’s success. For some of them, it may be traffic, but others will aim for more subscribers, and there are also bloggers who prioritize comments.
Below are some the standard of measuring a blog’s success that most bloggers to evaluate how their blogs are going on.
Traffic
This is one of the most common ways bloggers seem to evaluate a blog are different measures of traffic.Different bloggers seems to have their own thinkings for different aspects of traffic.
Unique Visitors
The main uses of unique visitors is to count the number of people who visit your blog. The main problem of determining this accurately is because you can’t really know who is visiting unless they log in into their account.
Page Views
Page views are the total number of pages read in a web browser.Each post might receive different number of page views and by comparison, you will be able to work out which post is much more popular and giving you a wider exposure of what article your reader like the most.
Subscribers
Bloggers mostly love to compare their feed subscriber rate but why are them so popular?
Counting a blog’s subscribers gives you a good indication of how popular it is in reality because they are the people who wants to catch up with what you post.Subscribers are mainly split into RSS and Email(Opt-In) subscribers.
RSS Subscribers
RSS Subscribers are the people who use feed readers to read your posts. They normally uses a feed reader to pull down updates from your blog and they never really visit your blog to save time.
The most popular tool to use for feed at the moment is FeedBurner, and this is the tool that most probloggers use to compare subscribers rate with each other.
Email Subscribers
In addition to RSS reader, many bloggers like to publish their latest posts through email.There are services that allows you to take your RSS and deliver email updates once there are updates.
An advantage of an email mailing list is when a visitors subscribes to your mailing list, you get his email and this is also a much more accurate way to indicate your number of subscribers.
Comments
You can count how many comments each post receives after removing junk and spam.If each of your comments receive 10-20 comments, it is quite good and you can try to improve it by encouraging more comments.
Many blogger judge quality as equally as quantity because it takes nothing to publish a bullshit and promotion comment in the comments area but someone who posts about a idea generating or suggestion comment can be more satisfying.
Comments Please. 
Image Credits to :CarlOcab.com
Determining A Blog’s Success
If you are using a blog to make money online, or if you are really hoping to make some money online with your blog, then money is obviously your standard to determine how well you are doing towards your target. But what if money is not your target of having a blog-how can you really determine how success your blog is?
Every problogger or IMers has their own standard of measuring a blog’s success. For some of them, it may be traffic, but others will aim for more subscribers, and there are also bloggers who prioritize comments.
Below are some the standard of measuring a blog’s success that most bloggers to evaluate how their blogs are going on.
Traffic
This is one of the most common ways bloggers seem to evaluate a blog are different measures of traffic.Different bloggers seems to have their own thinkings for different aspects of traffic.
Unique Visitors
The main uses of unique visitors is to count the number of people who visit your blog. The main problem of determining this accurately is because you can’t really know who is visiting unless they log in into their account.
Page Views
Page views are the total number of pages read in a web browser.Each post might receive different number of page views and by comparison, you will be able to work out which post is much more popular and giving you a wider exposure of what article your reader like the most.
Subscribers
Bloggers mostly love to compare their feed subscriber rate but why are them so popular?
Counting a blog’s subscribers gives you a good indication of how popular it is in reality because they are the people who wants to catch up with what you post.Subscribers are mainly split into RSS and Email(Opt-In) subscribers.
RSS Subscribers
RSS Subscribers are the people who use feed readers to read your posts. They normally uses a feed reader to pull down updates from your blog and they never really visit your blog to save time.
The most popular tool to use for feed at the moment is FeedBurner, and this is the tool that most probloggers use to compare subscribers rate with each other.
Email Subscribers
In addition to RSS reader, many bloggers like to publish their latest posts through email.There are services that allows you to take your RSS and deliver email updates once there are updates.
An advantage of an email mailing list is when a visitors subscribes to your mailing list, you get his email and this is also a much more accurate way to indicate your number of subscribers.
Comments
You can count how many comments each post receives after removing junk and spam.If each of your comments receive 10-20 comments, it is quite good and you can try to improve it by encouraging more comments.
Many blogger judge quality as equally as quantity because it takes nothing to publish a bullshit and promotion comment in the comments area but someone who posts about a idea generating or suggestion comment can be more satisfying.
Comments Please.
Image Credits to :CarlOcab.com