Archive for October, 2007

Blog As If You Are Talking To Your Friends

October 18th, 2007

The number of blogs are increasing drastically over the net. There are basically millions of blogs out there, so why should readers choose your blog to read and not others? Well, one of the reason is content of course. If you provide information which people are looking for, then you can capture some readers. But you should know this, there are a lot of blogs out there which also sharing the very same kind of information, so how can you make readers come to your blog instead of others? For example, there are a lot of blogs out there which have the same topic as The Millionaire Secrets. So how can you make your blog special and stand out in front of others?

Here is one thing that you can do to capture your readers. It is very simple, just like the title, you blog as if you are talking to your friends. Which means that you write your posts in a less formal manner, you write it in such a case that just like you are talking to your friends in a coffee house. Of course, this does not mean that you can use all the foul words. You still need to respect your readers. When you respect your readers, they will respect you back. All you need to do is to write in a friendly manner. Use simple words instead of internet jargons which are confusing.

The more friendly your blog is, your readers can approach you more easily. If you have a friendly blog, your community will be able to grow bigger, because readers are more willing to drop comments. You can even include some jokes in your posts if you feel that you can joke ‘successfully’. So now you know how you can capture more readers right, it is a very simple guide. In fact I’m also still learning how to blog more friendly. Sometimes, I will feel kind of afraid to post about my personal matters, because I guess there is no people will be feel interested about my personal matters. But this is not always true. If you have an interesting experience, readers may feel interesting towards it as well. Especially if you are successful in certain field, readers wanted to know how you achieve it and learn from you.

So it is all depends on you now. My advice is, be more friendly in your blog, write as if you are talking to your friends. As for personal matters, you can post them if you want to, but not always. To Your Success.

More Blogging Tips? Read: The Ultimate Blogging Tips and How Much Can You Make From Your Blog?

Your Someday One Day Will Never Comes

October 17th, 2007

Hi, welcome back to The Millionaire Secrets. Have you ever heard people saying, ‘Someday, my dreams will come true’, or something like ‘I’m going to buy a BMW 5 Series one day’? I’m sure you have, and I believe that you can hear people saying this very often. Here is what I’m going to tell you if you said so towards your goal, “sorry dude, your someday or one day will never come”.

Yeah, your someday will never come. If you wanted to achieve something, have a deadline for it. Because if you said that you are going to achieve it someday, you will never know when your someday is going to be. Your someday can be 2 days after, 2 weeks perhaps? Or maybe 2 months? It can be 2 years too. So you see, when you are talking about someday or one day, you will never know when it is going to happen.

Anyway, since you are going to set a goal, why not set up a goal with a deadline? By doing so, you will some how feel pressurize when the deadline is near, and most probably you will put more effort in achieving it. Therefore, having a goal with deadline is going to help you in achieving it. Don’t be afraid of setting goals with deadline, if you believe in yourself, then you can definitely achieve it (Of course, I don’t mean those crazy goals like ‘I’m going to become the President of US in 1 week).

In fact, every goals that you set must have a deadline, without a deadline, that is not a goal. You must be specific in achieving success, the more specific you are, the more easier your goals will come true. So next time if you heard that some one said he is going to be a Millionaire someday, then you can tell him, ‘hey dude, so sorry, that your someday will never come’. Remember, only losers use someday and one day in setting their goals. So stop being a loser. To Your Success.

More related post? Read: You Can Success In The Easier Way and Stop Giving Excuses!

How Do You Define “Success”?

October 16th, 2007

Yes, just like the title, how do you define “success”? For you, what success means? I heard a lot of people saying they are pursuing success in their life, but do you really understand what they want to achieve? Success this word is too broad, you need to narrow it down when saying you want to achieve success. What is it that you really want to achieve when you say that you want to success in your life?

For me, success can be distributed into 5 groups. They are:

  1. Financial
  2. Jobs or career
  3. Sports and recreational
  4. Health
  5. Friends and family, or simply relationship

So you see, when you said that you want to achieve success, it can be a lot of things that you wanted to achieve. Maybe what you want is a healthy lifestyle, or maybe it can be success in your career. Therefore you must know what kind of success that you are really looking for. Please note that the word success used in The Millionaire Secrets refer to financial success, most of the time.

Well, you can also define success as success in each and every groups that I mentioned above. Is this possible? Yes, indeed. You can be successful financially, you have a solid work position in your company, having sports, live a healthy lifestyle and you manage your relationship well. And I called this ultimate success.

Defining success is as important as having a specific goal. For example, when you say that you want to make more money, do you know how much are you going to make? You will not know because you did not specify how much that you are going to earn. Another example is this, is $1000 a lot for you? Maybe. But for some people $1000 is nothing, it is only a small amount. So you see now, you must be able to define and be specific on what you want.

To Choose Between Money, Or Happiness?

October 15th, 2007

Hi, welcome back to The Millionaire Secrets. Its been quite a few days after The Millionaire Secrets had moved to this new domain. I still have quite a lot of posts need to edit because of broken links. What a headache. Well, let us talk about the topic for today.

Have you ever heard of people saying that money isn’t everything? Or money can’t buy everything? I’m sure you have, because people who said so don’t really understand how the world of money is working. Sometimes I heard my friend said that money cannot buy everything, there is no use if you have the money, but don’t have the happiness. Well, if you think so as well, then you are wrong! Why? Because this is not a matter of money, it is all depends on how you manage your life. You can have no money, but live happily. You can also choose to have a lot of money, but still live happily.

Frankly, if you don’t have money, I don’t think that you will be happy as well. Some people is poor, and they don’t really live in happiness. Some people is rich, and yet they o still manage to live a happy life. It is all depends on you, it is not the money anymore. The choice is with you. I do admit that sometimes money will bring a lot of stress to our life, but this is the rule of the game. If you want more money, then you will have to pay for it. However, you will need to pay your effort wisely.

Why did I said so? Simply because you can choose to make a lot of money without any stress or frustration. For example, Adam Khoo, a self-made Millionaire at the age of 26, from Singapore, is a very successful young entrepreneur. He can manage between his social life, family, and wealth so well. He has the wealth and happiness altogether. This is because he knows how to manage his life. If he can do this, guess what, so can you. There is no such thing as having lots of money will carried away your happiness. You can have both, if you wanted to.

Maybe in some cases there is a time where money and happiness will crash and can’t be together, however, I still believe that with wise decision, all of this can be solve. Bear in mind that there is a solution for every problem that arises. If there is a problem which don’t have any solution, then that is not a problem. Simply because there must be at least one solution for every problem. Just like every question will has at least an answer, if there is no answer for the question, then it is not a question.

The Ultimate Blogging Tips (Part 9)

October 14th, 2007

Here are the continues of The Ultimate Blogging Tips. Read on…

41. Monetize Your Blog With Concept of MSI
I believe that I’ve told you about the concept of MSI for some time now. If you still don’t know what MSI is, then read this, Multiple Streams of Income. Make sure that you’ve really gone through that post of mine and understand what MSI concept is all about. Well, for maximizing your income from your blog, you MUST implement the idea of MSI of creating income flows in your blog. You cannot only depends on one stream of income flow if you want to make more money. I’ve seen some blogs using only Adsense to make money out from their blog. Ok, Adsense is considered as the most basic and easy income for all bloggers, but if you’re only using Adsense, do you think that you can make tons of money? Maybe yes, but you will need to have a lot of traffic and your CTR must be high. And if for some reason your blog get banned by Google, then you’re totally out of the game. So you must use the concept of MSI and implement more money making programs in your blog.

42. Grammar And Spell Checks
Ok, here is what you can do if your English is poor like me. You can copy and paste your articles or post in MS Words and check for spelling and grammar errors. Although there are still some other errors that MS Words can’t fully track it for you. But it will be a nice tool for you to use if you don’t have confident with your English. I personally prefer Firefox than Internet Explorer, because Firefox has got the spelling check on every words you type in it. And Firefox runs faster plus the ‘Find’ tool works cool for me. You can also try it out. I’m not promoting Firefox here, I’m just telling you its features to help you with your blogging.

43. Use Description In Links
I believe that you will have links in your blog. So how do you link all the links to your destination target. Here is the tips, always use descriptive text. Just like if I want to link to my post Adsense Tips, I will type out the words Adsense Tips instead of just saying, click ‘Here‘. Well, I do have some of the links with meaningless description, but from now on, I will link with description. This is because if the hyperlink description is meaningless, it is hard for the search engine spider to crawl through and it will be difficult to know what type of websites that you are linking to. You may want to prevent this, because if you are linking to your own sites, then this tips will help you on SEO a little. So always link with descriptive words.

44. Repost Your Old Articles
This is what you can do after you’ve blogging for some time, and have quite a number of posts. When you have nothing to post about, or when you feel that your old posts are very interesting, you can always repost them. Sometimes that your old post is very interesting, but it was buried and nobody notices it. Therefore you can repost your old posts whenever you feel necessary. However, you must make sure they are all up to date. You can also edit the content of your old post before republish it. This will be better because the content will be up to date.

45. Always Learn From Other Bloggers
I found that this is quite an important things to do when you free. You can always learn from other bloggers out there. There are a lot of professional bloggers who make a living from their blogs. You can then learn from them. Because they’ve success in this industry, you can follow their steps as well. Of course I’m not asking you to copy exactly what they did, but I’m asking you to learn from them. Learn from their strategies, their methods and of course, their failures. If you want to success, you will have to learn it, there is no other way.

If you miss some of the The Ultimate Blogging Tips, you can read them here:
The Ultimate Blogging Tips – Part 1
The Ultimate Blogging Tips – Part 2
The Ultimate Blogging Tips – Part 3
The Ultimate Blogging Tips – Part 4
The Ultimate Blogging Tips – Part 5
The Ultimate Blogging Tips – Part 6
The Ultimate Blogging Tips – Part 7
The Ultimate Blogging Tips – Part 8
The Ultimate Blogging Tips – Part 9 (You’re reading it)

Do You Feel Excited By Doing This?

October 13th, 2007

In our lives, we will face a lot of ups and downs. Many things that we’ve done will either made us feel excited and feeling like want to do it again and again, it made us feel so right, so delighted. However, there is also something that in our lives that we did, will make us feel upset, frustrated, and we don’t want to do it again.

So what I’m going to tell you is that, if you’re reading this post, and feeling excited and wanted to read more, then this is the right feeling! You must feel happy and excited when you do something towards your goals. This is the kind of feeling that you require, it will help you a lot in pursuing your goals. Just imagine that if you’re doing something which makes you feel irritated, do you think that you can success with this kind of feeling? Absolutely not!

When you are happy, all the things that come to you will be no problem at all. All the posts that you wrote will be very interesting, when readers read them, they will feel it too. What if you are writing a post and you yourself is feel boring about it, you feel sleepy when you type it. Do you think that your readers will feel excited when reading it? No! They will feel exactly the same as you felt when you are writing that post.

Therefore you must write something that you yourself are feeling excited about. The post you write about is going to make you feel interesting and wanted to write more, the post will then becomes a quality post. It is the same as when you are communicating with people. Body language and emotion takes up 70% of the effectiveness of that communication. It is not your words that matters, but your emotion, the feel on how you bring out your words. Here, you cannot show by body language, however, you can show readers by your enthusiasm.

So try to write every single post with positive feeling. If you cannot excite yourself, then I don’t think you can make others feel exciting. To Your Success.

The Millionaire Secrets Has Got A New Home!

October 12th, 2007

Hi, all my precious readers and visitors who are new here. Please give me some time to update this new blog. Since I’m just moving from Blogger to WordPress, there are still many things that I’m not clear how to do it. All the links are broken. Sorry for all the inconveniences.

For those who have links to my Blogger blog, www.themillionairesecrets.blogspot.com, please change the url to this brand new home, www.themillionairesecrets.net. Thanks a lot. Looks like I’m going to spend up lots of time learning WordPress. What a great time to learn.

Again, sorry for all the conveniences. I will update and edit The Millionaire Secrets as soon as possible. To Your Success.

Why You Need A Constantly Updated Blog

October 11th, 2007

I’ll assume that you have a website, or maybe a blog, in order for you to make more money online. Here, did you know that why exactly you need a constantly updated site? If you want to answer this question, then you will have to ask yourself. Why are you surfing the net and what do you expected from a website?

Of course, most of us surf the net for the information that we wanted. And if we found out a great site that is full of content which we are looking for, chances are, we will come back for more. For example, if you are surfing for how to lose weight, and you’ve come across a great site which offer lots of information about losing weight. Most probably you will remember that site, and you will come back for more information next time. And then if the second time you went to the site, and you found that the site is not updated, all the information remains the same, you will leave.

That is the reason why you need to have a constantly updated site. You want your readers and visitors to come back for more. The more they come, the more money you are going to make. Besides that, with a constantly updated blog, it is much easier for search engine crawler to crawl through. Search engine likes site that are updated often.

Having a constantly updated blog is important, just like reading a newspaper. If you’re not updating your blog, then it will be just like a newspaper which is showing the same news again and again, readers will leave since there is nothing more for them. Therefore, now you know why you should constantly update your blog. Well, the frequency of updating it will be depends on you. But my advice is, you must have a schedule for it. The frequency of publishing each new posts must be constant.

Don’t post many articles in the same day, then leave blank for few weeks. You must develop a constant posting frequency. You can choose to publish new posts everyday, depends on whether you have the time to do it or not. If you feel that you don’t have much time to post everyday, then try to go for 5 posts a week. This is just an example to help you understand about posting frequency, you can post as many articles as you like.

More related posts? Read How To Increase Your Blog’s Readership and Write A Readable Article. To Your Success.

The Ultimate Success Formula

October 11th, 2007

BELIEFS
The most important system of the Ultimate Success Formula is the belief values. We need to believe that we can achieve anything we want in our live in order to set our mind into a clear state where we can overcome any obstacles that stand in our way. Have you ever asked yourself why is that some people can achieve such a great, outstanding and extra ordinary results? There’s only one thing in common for those who had succeed, that is they believe that they can do it.

For example, if you believe that you can be a Millionaire who earns over 1,000,000 anually, and if you hold this belief long enough, it will come true. Does this means that we can achieve all the results that we envisioned? Not all the time, but having a belief of possibility will allow us to produce results far beyond than what we would have done if we had no belief to begin with.

Did the Wright Brothers, inventors of the aeroplane, have more aerodynamic and engineering expertise than all the engineers and inventors of their time? No, they were simple bicycle repairmen. At the same time, your beliefs will drive the actions you take, and how much your personal potential you will tap. When you believe that something is possible, you will go all out to make it happen. you will take massive actions and have the commitment to keep doing whatever it takes to achieve it. As a result, you will tap a lot of your personal potential.

The other thing is that, when you believe something is possible, the process of making it a reality will be far more easy. You will feel that it takes you less energy and time to make something you believe happens in reality. And remember, if you wish to be a Millionaire, start by believing that you can be a Millionaire first.

Luke Skywalker : ‘I don’t believe it!’
Master Yoda : ‘That is why you fail!’
(from Star Wars : The Empire Strikes Back)

GOALS
Then follow by the goals that you set must be very specific. Have you ever ask someone what they want in their lives? I can bet you will get the answers such as, ‘i’m not sure’, ‘i want to have more money’, ‘i want to be more happy’, ‘i want a better job’. So you can see, all their goals are not specific enough, no wonder they can’t create outstanding results! Only if you have a specific goal, then your mind can concentrate on your goal, only then you will target your energy and effort to where set.

Try and ask children or kids about what they want to be in the future, and you will get a set of totally different answers from adults. You will get answers like, ‘i want to be a doctor’, ‘i want to be a hero and save the world’, ‘i want to be a policemen’. No matter what their answers are, they have a very clear and obvious goal. When growing up, we’ve been affected by all the negative effects that influent our lives, and therefore we start to be afraid to set specific goals.

Unless if you have a specific goal, you cannot create an effective strategy to get you there. You must know this, the strategy of maing $100,000 is totally different from the strategy of making $1,000,000. The moment you clarify your goal in your mind, you will start to have focus in your life. Like a magnifying glass put under the sun, the sunlight will focus to a point until all the energy has been gathered, it can burn a paper. The most successful people, show time and again that their outstanding results are rarely outcomes of chance. Success will not come by chance, if you don’t have a plan in live, then you will fall into somebody else’s plan.

STRATEGY
Again, the more specific your goals are, the easier you can generate your strategy toward your goals. You can have all the energy and drive, but without an appropriate strategy, you will waste all your energy and effort.

For example, imagine you open a vegetable stall that earn you $5,000 a month in profit, and you decide to set goal and strategy to increase the profit to $10,000, would this be possible? Maybe, you can increase your working hours, work harder, create loyalty program, raise prices. What if you want to make a profit of $500,000 from your vegetable business? Would it be possible now? Most people will think that it is impossible, but let me tell you this, you can make this happen! With a completely different strategies, you can do this. So, you can greatly expand your market, just like write a dynamic business plan, raise capital through investment, invest in R&D, create a superior brand of vegetable (such as certified organic vegetables), and widen your vegetable types, support reliable new suppliers, build franchise system and then license thousand of business owners to sell your vegetable. Would it now you can make $500,000 from your vegetable business a month? Of course you can. With flexibility in our strategy, we can achieve just about anything we want in our lives.

ACTION
The next step is taking consistent action from the strategy that we crafted. This will move us, from step by step, towards our goals. Many people in this world has got great dreams and goals, the only thing they lack is the drive to take massive actions. You can set specific goals, you may have great business idea, but if you fail to take consistent action, you will not get what you want. Most people will take action initially, but stop once they experience frustration, anxiety and failure. The interesting here is that how long can you stand to take consistent action.

After taking massive action, there are only 2 outcomes, that is either you success to achieve your goal, or you fail to get what you want. If you success to achieve your goals, the next thing to do is maybe you can set new and higher goals for yourself, and start planning the strategy again. It moves in a circle. What if you fail to achieve your goals? Take your failure as feedback, keep in mind of your feedback, change your strategy and take action again.

It is said that Thomas Edison took almost 10,000 attemps before inventing the light bulb. When he was ask how he invented it, he said that he first had to find 9,999 strategies of how to invent the fail light bulb. He then uses these failure as feedback to change his strategy and not to repeat what he was done, until he success to invent the light bulb.

So, this is the Ultimate Success Formula all about. It is a very easy system to follow, to create outstanding results in your lives.

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Action Creates Result

October 9th, 2007

You can read a lot of self-improvement books, you can attend to many success seminars, you can listen to wealth talks and finish all the wealth creation books. But if you don’t take the necessary action, you will not get to where you wanted the most. Just like if you want to earn money online, if you’re not taking any actions, do you think that money will fall from the sky? Impossible.

Once you didn’t take actions, you will start to procrastinate. In the end you will only end up with nothing, none of your goals will come true, your goals will remain goals. You must know this, action creates results, this is a fact that you can’t change. You must always take actions towards your goals. No matter how much action you take, you must take at least the minimal. Of course the more action you take the faster you will reach your goals.

Taking action is just like saving your money. You must save your money constantly, even if it is a little. But over a long time, you will end up with lots of money. Time can change everything, time is also a factor that can change your life. By taking a little actions from day to day, you will eventually reaching your goals slowly. Of course if you can take massive actions, then it will be the best. Why? Because by taking a little action only, you will need a very long time for your goals to come true, you may end up giving up since you’re not seeing any results.

That is why you must heat up your hot button, keep your momentum going, always. Before this, I’ve wrote a post about why action is so crucial if you want to achieve success. You can read it, Action Is What You Need. To Your Success.