Goals Plus Focus Equals Greater Success!

The trouble with there being SO MUCH advice out there is that the important messages become watered down. It’s almost impossible to implement every idea and absorb every lesson to apply. That doesn’t mean they aren’t powerful and work.. they just aren’t applied.

But once in a while that special individual shows us that the things we teach as Business or PPC Coaches, when applied, are powerful indeed. I’m going to highlight such a person here. His name’s Steve Kibble (in our forum his username is StevieJK if you want to look him up after you join..).

One of the things we encourage in our PPC and Affiliate Marketing Membership is for individuals to share their success stories. We also encourage each individual to set goals.

This is Steve’s signature:

He just reached the second goal there this last month.

Exciting stuff! We have many other members that use their signatures like this as well and tally their accomplishments as they come. Steve’s just getting started, but many others have reached much larger goals over the last few years.

I chose to highlight Steve because this is a fresh success; so it means more ‘today’. Plus, overall, he’s doing everything right. It isn’t about luck in his case. It’s about the energy he brings to the table and absolute commitment to his goals.

So here’s the thing.. Steve’s reaching these goals not because of the method. Everyone that joins my membership gets the same material. The question is why do some fail and why do some excel? Part of it is their commitment to their goals and.. FOCUS.

Doesn’t matter what method of building a business you are pursuing online. If you don’t have a total commitment to that method or strategy and if you aren’t focusing long term on it, you stand a better chance of not making it work for you.

These two things – Goals and Focus – have gotten more success for more people than any other. And they are inseparable. You can’t have goals without focus; and you can’t focus without goals.

I have no doubt Steve will continue.. this is just the tip of the iceburg of what he’s been doing. He’s been posting all his experiences and progress (good and bad) in our private forum. It’s great to watch and I know it will inspire and motivate many of his fellow Blasters – current and future.

Putting your goals out there in front of the community helps in another way as well.. as the community can help motivate you and when you put yourself out there like that, you are less likely to quit.

After posting some screenshots of his affiliate network commissions, he said..

It kinda feels really cool to know that all of this stuff really works, and what is achievable by just focusing on what works and sticking with it and not getting distracted by other methods.

Goals and Focus…. WILL Lead to Greater Success FOR YOU! Do you have both?

-Matt Levenhagen

Blast Guide 6.2 Has Been Released!
(Now 201 Pages!)

Hello Fellow Blaster (or soon to be Blaster ! I hope all is well with you!

Once or twice a year I update the Blast Guide… the main reason I decided to do it this month was because of the new Blast Membership area I opened up (I moved to a new CMS platform and everything has a fresh layout and design). I reference the Blast Membership for additional content and training a lot now in the guide and the links changed.

But… as many of you know that have been Blasters for a long time, usually when I do something like this it tends to turn into something bigger than I intend. The reason is because I’m always training, helping and implementing the Blast Method.

In between updates I come up with new ways to express things and teach things. I’ll read through the guide and make adjustments, add content and even subtract content that isn’t relevant any more.

Also tools change or are added.

This time around I expanded the Landing Page material more. Not just in the guide, but on the Landing Page Network Strategy page members get access to. I now have included more information about some of the advanced solutions you see being used by Blasters to build fast and powerful landing pages in the members area that the guide links to!

Besides several different scripts and solutions members are using, I also launched Affiliate Dynamo this last year and it now is referenced for additional training (Blast Members get bonus access to this membership).

I’ve added quite a few more references to pages in the membership in the guide.

I’ve added some more text boxes to express additional ideas that may not fit neatly into the content itself.

You’ll find a few more graphics to express different things.

There’s a new chapter. One of the topics I actually split off into it’s own chapter to help the flow and layout of the guide.

I’ve expanded on the “Campaign Expansion” section (what we do after we find a converting campaign) and have included some new ideas as to how to manage and expand your winners. There is a new way I’ve come up with that talks about Proven and Unproven winners and how far I go with each.

I’ve incorporated a new tool into some of the steps for those of you that own it. It’s a tool we use now to launch our Blasts faster and allows us to get even more organized!

And I’ve just simply reworked and re-expressed a lot of the content to help you understand what I’m talking about better and to condense some of it.

So what was meant to be a minor update, was a bit broader than that.. which is a good thing!

So if you are a member or past customer, you should have the update already. If you didn’t, contact me. Or if you want to plug into a proven Affiliate Marketing System to find profitable niches, please join us here: Campaign Blasts Membership

Thanks and Good Luck with Your Endeavors!

-Matt Levenhagen

Affiliate Marketing: Be the Expert

Do you want to virtually guarantee your success in this business? Then work really hard at being an Expert in your niche.

If you have found a good market niche, you are driving Adwords traffic and making a few bucks… one of your next steps especially if you want to expand into this niche is to develop a plan to become the expert.

Now I know there are many, many niches that you’ll think I could never be the expert in this niche. From my perspective I believe that you don’t have a choice. If you want to be SUPER successful in any business, you MUST become the expert.

This doesn’t mean that you have to go back to school, read every book on the subject, and spend years becoming an expert.

This is mostly perception. People must at least perceive that you know what you’re talking about and that you are somebody they can trust. You have to establish that the minute they hit your landing page!

There’s a lot of people that I see struggle because they never get out of the newbie mindset and they are timid. They never start acting the part. You must act the part! Be the expert.

Deliver your content like you are an expert.

Answer questions like you are the expert. Don’t ever be wishy-washy. Be confident. Even if you’re wrong… Be confident with your landing page reviews. Be confident in your follow up e-mail systems. Be confident in the reports you write. Be confident with every article you write on the topic.

From day one!! Most things on the net do not go away… you don’t want to have someone find something 2 years from now that reflects poorly on you.

Overtime you can learn. Remember it doesn’t matter what profession, business or expert you’re talking to, the chances are they don’t know everything. Even in this niche that I’m in here — Adwords — I see perceived experts in my own field here provide advice that is inaccurate or doesn’t make sense in every market or situation.

I see people getting advice that contradicts the Blast Method. Why? Because the advice comes from a source that is providing it out of context. The source may never have Blasted.

Experts are still perceived as an expert even though they are dishing out some nonsense advice; not everyone agrees with them, but they are still seen as an expert.

You still buy their stuff. You may make buying decisions based on their recommendations.

Even though not everything they say is right (and no one can possibility know everything) they are still perceived as an expert and you follow them.

Part of that is reputation.. but reputation is built on a person’s perceived Expert-ness.

No one knows everything… but to do really, really well in this business you must be perceived as an expert or you’ll never make the conversions or money that you deserve.

– Matt Levenhagen