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Happy New Year 2008!

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Happy New Year 2008! It’s a brand new year, so are you ready for all the new challenges? Have you set your goals and plan on everything? Always ask yourself this, if you keep on doing what you are doing every day, will all your actions take you to a higher level of success? If not, then you will have to change your strategies. Before you set your new goals for this brand new year, ask yourself this, “What I’ve done for the year of 2007?”

You should recap what you’ve done in 2007, and always do review on what you’ve done. Let’s say if what you do in 2007 is not going to make you achieve your goals, then you will have to take it as feedback, and change your plan and strategy.

By the way, did you set goals and plan for this coming 2008? It is a MUST for you to do so! Without goals, you are just going to be a zombie, walking to nowhere and you don’t know what exactly that you want in your life. So set your goals, and plan for it! Well, you can find out more about goal-setting in my blog here, for example, The Power of Designing Your Destiny and Three Action Keys Toward Your Goals.

Now, I would like to wish you have a Happy New Year~!

Happy New Year

Posted by Shawn on December 31st, 2007

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Get Motivated Just Like Steve Jobs

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If you don’t recognize his name, he’s the CEO of Apple Computer and Pixar Animation Studios (creator of the first computer animated feature film, Toy Story). Well, Steve Jobs is a very successful man, no matter in business or in home.

Steve jobs

Steve Jobs is driven. He’s someone who can pick a goal and feel powerfully motivated to do whatever it takes to make it happen. Now, wouldn’t you like to be able to do that? I want to share it with you today so you can enjoy the same kind of success and happiness.

Here are some of the best quotes from Steve Jobs:

If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice.

And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.

Everything else is secondary.

You’re holding back, sticking to your comfort zone to avoid failure, embarrassment, and pain. But as Steve Jobs put it, these fears fall away when faced with the fact that one day you’ll run out of chances to go for it. And he’s right. You may be afraid of going all out, but if you really think about it, I believe you’re more afraid of never giving it a try at all. The only problem is that we don’t think about it that way. We like to fool ourselves into believing that we have forever and a day to do the things we want to do. In fact, we don’t.

So stop wasting your previous time and do what you should be doing right now. It is your responsibility to pursue for success. Grab more interesting articles from The Millionaire Secrets.

Posted by Shawn on December 30th, 2007

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The Main Ingredient For Success

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Today, if you are just like everyone else, you just procrastinate and not taking any actions toward your goals, you will get nothing. If you do nothing, you will get just one thing that is NOTHING! You should know this fact; action creates result, without action, it is impossible to have results.

Action Creates Result

I know that even if you take actions, you will not necessary success and achieve your goals. However, please make this clear; even if you fail after you’ve taken actions, it is a good thing. You can always change your course of strategies and plans during the moment you taking actions. This is exactly how people achieve success. People learn from their actions, and change their strategies, they do corrections and they keep moving on.

Many people tends to wait and stand still, they did not take any actions, and that is why they fail. Let me tell you this, if you want to make money online but you don’t know how, maybe you just know that a lot of people make money online using blogs. All you need to do is just blog, you will learn through the process. Just like this blog. At first, I’m just curious about how people make money using blogs. Then I come up with this blog, The Millionaire Secrets. Besides wanted to learn about making money using blogs, the other reason I created this blog is to keep myself motivated by constantly posting inspirational articles.

Three months passes and my blog start to grow. And it became today’s The Millionaire Secrets, exactly like what you can see here. This is not the big thing, the real big thing here is that I’ve learn a lot about internet marketing from my blog. This is what I never thought of the moment I created this blog. So you see, even if you don’t have a plan, it is fine, all you need to do is just take massive actions.

I just want to recap, it is action that creates result, without action, you can achieve nothing. Therefore, if you have your set your goals and know exactly what you want today, don’t procrastinate don’t give up, take massive actions. And I guarantee you will success in the end. See you at top.

Posted by Shawn on December 29th, 2007

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Intellectual Property Is Your Own Product

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When talking about ‘intellectual property’, many people get intimidated by it. Why is this so? This is because people have the wrong belief, they think that they aren’t intellectual enough to create something valuable that can be sold for money. In fact, everyone has got their own intellectual property. Not sure what intellectual property really means? Read this:

A product of the intellect that has commercial value, including copyrighted property such as literary or artistic works, and ideation property, such as patents, appellations of origin, business methods, and industrial processes.

Intellectual Property

Actually, any idea or knowledge that you have which can help to solve people’s problems will be your intellectual property. Just like what I said, everyone has got their own intellectual property, so you have your own as well! If you don’t have any intellectual property, it is impossible for you to create something of value.

Let me give you some examples here, if you are a lawyer, your intellectual property is your legal know-how that you have. If you are a photographer, your intellectual property will be your photography and the photos that you have. If you are a chef, your intellectual property will be your recipes of cooking. If you are a manager, your intellectual property will be your skill to manage workers.

So you see, everyone has got their own intellectual property, what is yours? So why is intellectual property so important to you? This is because your intellectual property can be your own product to sell! Just like if you are so eager to make more money online, but you don’t have any products to sell and you don’t know how. Here is where your intellectual property comes into play. You can sell your expertise over the net.

Such as if you are a teacher, then you can sell e-books that teach people how to excel in their studies. This is pretty much the same as if you are a chef, you can sell your recipes across the net! It is the same concept as selling information, just that the information that you sell is created by yourself.

Selling intellectual property is the best product that you can ever create! Because it is yours and nobody owns it, and all you need is just an idea and knowledge. Your life experiences can also be part of your intellectual property. This is how many internet marketing gurus make even more money. They sell their experiences over the net, by telling people how they become rich. So this is it, if they can do this, so can you! Don’t get the wrong meaning here, I’m not asking you to tell people how to make money online, what I’m telling you here is that, intellectual property is the best product that you can create. Therefore, you must make good use of it.

All you need is just an idea, and hard work. You can find more Millionaires today it is because we’re living in an information age. Where ideas are money. In fact, never before it is such easy to make more money. If you have a brilliant idea and knowledge, you can be a Millionaire in a very short time. Always think out of the box!

Posted by Shawn on December 28th, 2007

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Setting Your Goals and Plans For 2008!

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Hi, welcome back to The Millionaire Secrets. If you are new here, you can may want to subscribe to my daily blog post with your email or with RSS reader. By the way, don’t forget to grab The Millionaire Insider for FREE above. So it is going to be the end of year 2007, what have you achieved in 2007? Just take some time and refresh back what you’ve achieved, and did your goals come true? Did you hit your target?

2008

Now, it is going to be the end of 2007, and a brand new year is coming. What should you be doing? Of course, revise your plans and goals, set the new one, and take all the actions throughout the whole year. If you successfully achieved your goals in 2007, congratulations. However, if you failed to achieve what you want, don’t be disappointed, take it as a feedback, and it is time for you to change your plans, change your strategies. You can still set the same goals, like, maybe you want to make $100,000 in one year. And if you failed to achieve this in 2007, just change your strategies and plans in 2008. Because by doing the same thing all over again, you are going to get back what you’ve done. It is crazy if you think that by using the same strategies and plans are going to bring out different results. This is what Einstein define crazy as.

Setting your long term goals

This is what you’re going to do. For this coming new year, you should set your long term goals. The goals can be in 3 to 5 years period, and it will be your ultimate goal. For example, you can set this as, to make $1 million from the net in 5 years, until 2012. If you still don’t have this long term goal, think about it now! This is very important because it is going to determine how you should walk your life. This goal is going to create a direction for you to head in your life. If you don’t have this ultimate goal, then you will end up becoming other people’s plan, you plan to fail. Take your time, clear your mind, find out what you really want in your life.

Setting you short term goals

Now, after you’ve set your long term goals, you should set your short term goals. This goal should be achieved within 1 year or maybe even 6 months. Take back the example from above, if you want to make $1 million in 5 years, then you can set your short term goal as to make $100,000 in the year 2008. Your short term goal must be more specific, maybe you can set it as to make $5,000 from network marketing, and another $5,000 from affiliate programs. This is just an example, you must set your own. The more specific the better, and the easier you are going to achieve them.

Building up your plan

After setting both long and short term goals, the next process is to find out how you can achieve them. You should know this very clears. I believe that the moment you think about your goals, your mind will automatically comes out with ways how you can achieve them. If your goal is to make more money online, then most probably your mind will tell you that you can achieve this goal by involving yourself in affiliate marketing like Making You Richer or so. This will be depends on you your own.

Don’t forget to…

After setting all your goals and listing all your plans, what you should be doing is that, you should create momentum for your goals. You can read more about creating momentum, You Need Momentum After Setting Your Goals. Always write down your goals and plans, don’t keep them in your mind. If you keep them in your mind, they will remain in your mind as dreams. You need to write them down. The next thing to do is to always remind yourself about your goals and plans, don’t forget them. Then, all you need to do is ACTIONS! Take actions, don’t procrastinate. Goals without actions are not going to come true, action is the one thing that is going to determine your success!

Posted by Shawn on December 26th, 2007

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Your Goals Determine Your Strategies

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Have you ever think of that, a small fruit stall which sell fruits right beside the road can grow and expand its business until the owner makes $10,000 a year? Or maybe even $10 million a year? How can this be?! It is just a small fruit stall that sell fruits right beside the road, how is it possible for the owner to make such a huge flow of income every year?! Impossible? Nothing is impossible. Everything depends on your belief system. If you think that it is possible, then it is possible!

Strategy and Idea

The point here is that the goal you set is going to determine your strategies, and hence influencing your income. How is this going to happen? Let me give you an example. Well, let’s say that you are selling fruit right beside the road with a simple stall. So how can you grow and expand your business and make more money with it? What you are going to do is that you will need to set a higher goal, then change your strategies. Maybe you can work harder, keep on increase your sales. Maybe you can make $10k per year.

It considered as very high to make $10k a year mainly from your fruit stall. What if your goal is to make $100k each year from your fruit business? Is this possible? Of course it is. You will have to operate from a totally different mindset and work on a different strategies. Like, maybe you can be the fruit dealer and supply all your fruits to other fruit sellers, you then can set up factories which produce fruit related foods and make money from it.

What about making $1 million with your fruit business each year? It is possible! By licensing your fruit business, joint ventures and applying loyalty programs, your fruit business will grow and expand which makes you earn $1 million a year. What if you say that you want to make $30 million simply from your fruit business? Again, you should operate from totally a different set of mind and strategies. What you can do is that you can list your company and attract investors. This way, you can make $30 million a year.

So you see, the goal that you set is going to affect the strategies that you are going to apply. If you set lousy goals, you will come up with lousy strategies and end up with lousy results. The goals you set must be interesting enough. Such as, if you want to make more money online, do you think that making $10 a day is going to motivate and passionate you until you can jump out of your bed when you’re sleeping? No! However, if your goal is interesting enough, and this goal is going to make you earn $10k in just one day, do you think that it is going to motivate you? Of course it is!

No matter in what kind of businesses, it is the mindset, your goals and strategies that are affecting your income. You can see there are a lot of businesses out there, ranging from small to big ones. The big business is such a success simply because their strategies are different from the small business. Why? Because they are operating in a different frame of mind and they have different goals! This is what makes the difference.

Posted by Shawn on December 25th, 2007

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Merry Christmas to All~!

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Merry Christmas to all, from Shawn, The Millionaire Secrets.

Merry Christmas~!

Posted by Shawn on December 24th, 2007

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Don’t Reinvent The Wheel

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Here is what you can do if you want to achieve more wealth in your life. All you need to do is just ‘copy‘ the strategies that used by successful people, and apply them in your life. For example, if you want to make more money with your affiliate website, you want to have a higher conversion rate, what you can do is here is that you can simply ‘follow’ the strategies or process of a very successful affiliate websites.

Just remember one thing, you don’t need to reinvent the wheel. All you need is just follow, follow and follow. Of course, don’t follow those who failed to make any money from their affiliate websites. If you follow the failure, you will fail as well in the end.

Don't Reinvent The Wheel That Doesn't Work

What I mean by ‘copying’ here is not that I’m asking you to copy exactly the same as what other successful sites are doing. What I mean by ‘copying’ here is that, you should copy the ideas and strategies. Because those successful websites already known the way to riches, and you can follow their route. By doing this, you can the obstacles that faced by them in the past, you can success in a shorter time! Allow me to give you an example here. If you come to Malaysia, and you want to go to Kuala Lumpur, but since you’re a tourist, you don’t know how to get there. What you can do is then you can ask somebody else who had gone to Kuala Lumpur before. Why? Simply because they’ve went there before!

Simply because people have been there before, you ask for their experience and they can lead you there. Can you ask someone that never went there before? Of course you can, but then maybe you will end up going to the wrong place, because you’re asking someone who don’t even know how to get there themselves. ‘Copying’ sounds like unethical, so I prefer to use this word, replicate.

Replication needs technique. You cannot simply replicate other people’s strategies, you will fail. If you want to become a successful speaker who speaks in front of thousands of people without having your legs shivering, you can replicate successful speaker who achieved this results before. You can learn from them. You can buy their videos, their books, think and breath exactly the same like them the moment you give your speech to your audience.

This way, you can achieve exactly the same results just like those successful speakers. Don’t believe me? Just try to replicate someone whom you like the most, any internet gurus or any pros in your niche. Try this for a few months, and see what result you will be getting. To Your Success.

Posted by Shawn on December 23rd, 2007

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The Power of Designing Your Destiny

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One classic example is investor Warren Buffet. Does his ability to come about by chance? Absolutely not. From a very early age young Buffett was obsessed with making money and had a very clear dream of becoming the world’s greatest investor. Born during the depression when his father was close to bankruptcy, Warren learned about the value of money and the importance of being financially secure at an early age.

Even before his teens, Warren knew that he wanted to be rich. As early as elementary school and later on in high school, he would tell his classmates that he wanted to become a millionaire before the age of 35 (when he turned 35, his net worth exceeded $6 million). It was because of his goal that he constantly thought of ways to make money, while most other kids his age would be spending their parents’ money. He even memorized a book called ‘ A Thousand Ways to Make $1,000′. At the age of six, he started buying coke bottles at 25-cents per six-pack and selling them at 5-cents a bottle, giving him a 16% gross profit, as he would tell himself.

At the age of 13, he got a job delivering newspapers and through innovative marketing and distribution strategies, he served five hundred customers a day. At the age of 11, he took all his savings and started investing in the stock market. His first investment was three shares in a company called ‘City Service’. While most kids his age were reading comic books, Warren spent his time reading company annual reports. By the age of 14, he started a pinball business and was earning $175 a week, as much as the average 25-year old was earning in 1944. Would he have taken all those actions if he never set a goal to be rich in the first place? Of course not. It was clearly because of his focus of energy and actions that allowed him to become the best in what he does.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t know how to make money, all you need is just to plan and design your specific financial goals. Your mind will automatically come out with ways to make money after you set your financial goals. If you study the life stories of successful people, they all have a very specific goals, they know exactly what they want to achieve in their life. They dare to dream and then let their dreams guide their actions until they achieve success.

Know Your Direction

Tiger Woods never really set a goal to become a millionaire. However at the age of eight, he gave an interview on TV, after winning an amateur golf tournament. During that interview, he declared that his goal was to become the world’s number one golfer and that he would break all of Jack Nicklaus’ records. It was that obsession that got him to focus a hundred percent of his time, energy and thoughts into his game. Fourteen years later, Woods became the world’s number one at the age of 22. Again not by chance, but by design.

So you can see now, success doesn’t happen by chance, but by designing. If you fail to design your life, you fail to plan for your life, then you are planning to fail. Hence, don’t become a lost sheep and don’t know where to go. Start designing your route from today. It is going to be the end of year 2007, and the year 2008 is just around the corner. I hope that you already have a complete set of goals and plans for this new year. To Your Success.

Posted by Shawn on December 21st, 2007

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How Blogs Help You To Increase Your Online Income

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The numbers of blogs are increasing extremely ever since Google bought Blogger. Nowadays, many pupils are creating blogs to help them promote their business, no matter it is an online business, or an offline business. Even large companies are using blogs to reach out more visitors nowadays. So how exactly can blogs help you boost your online income? There are a few ways:

How Blogs Help To Increase Your Online Income

1. Reach a Wider Audience
This is what is happening in the internet world right now. Blogs can perform better than many other big and static websites if the blogs provide good quality content. You need to understand this, if you are selling your products over the internet, you can promote your products with a blog. This is because most of the visitors who come to your site is not necessary going to buy your products, visitors come to your site because they are looking for information that they need. And this is where blogs come into play. Because you can simply add up a new page to your blog anytime you want, it makes blog much more easy to update than a static website. These frequent updates also will help you to attract repeat traffic than a static website could.

2. Develop Relationship with Your Prospects
Another big benefits of blogs than static websites is that blogs allow visitors to leave their comments. And this is how you can build up your relation with your prospects. You know that a seller-customer relationship is very important if you want to make more money online. This is because with a better relationship with your visitors, you can build up your credibility and trustworthy. And if your relationship is good with your prospects, your conversion rate will be higher. The stronger your relation with your prospects and customers, the easier you can close a sale with them. You can even have more repeat sales if you manage this relationship properly. This is why people are building list to make more money online.

3. Blogs For Better SEO
You know that if you can place your site on top 10 in search engine like Yahoo and Google for certain keywords, then you can generate a lot of free traffic from it. And the best thing with blog is that search engines like blogs! This is because blogs are constantly updated and fill with fresh content, that is why search engine spider will crawl through blogs first. Always, it is easier said than done. However, with proper keywords, links and a constantly updated blog, you definitely can rank in top 10 in the search engine.

4. The Buying Feeling
The moment you talk about blog, people knows that it is personal, it is a much friendlier site. Blogs can give your business a more friendly approach, customers and prospects can read what you write in your personal way. People will feel they are more closer with you and they know you more if you use blog instead of static website. You can also use blogs to do your announcements and keep in touch with them with your latest business news.

These are the few ways how blogs can help you boost your online income. Before this, I’ve also written about Why Blogs Can Boost Your Online Business Income, it is an interesting post, you can read about it.

Posted by Shawn on December 19th, 2007

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