Archive for April, 2008

The #4 Ingredient For Success

April 16th, 2008

Welcome back. So now you have gone through all the 3 ingredients for success. The first ingredient is the belief system which you must have. After you have the belief system, you need to have a clear and specific goal. Next, the 3rd ingredient is the strategy you need to achieve your goal. And now, once you have all of those ingredients, what you need to do next? Take action, a lot of action.

Everything you plan out and the strategy you craft out will be a waste if you did not actually take any actions to make them come true. This is where most people fail, they lack of action. The one who takes the most actions will be the one that creates the more results. Remember this, no matter what kind of result you are getting, there are only two results.

Action Cycle

The first outcome you get after taking massive actions is this, what we called success. This is what everyone wanted. After taking the necessary steps, we will achieve what we want. However, this is not always the case. It may be different from what you are planning.

Don’t Be Crazy

The second type of outcome is this, failure. For me, it is not failure, it is feedback. Everyone fails before, in fact, successful people fail even more. But, don’t take failure as failure, instead, treat it as feedback. It is the feedback after you plan your strategy and you take action. You get feedback because the strategy you are using is not good enough. So if you ever get any feedback, it is time to change your strategy and go for it again.

For some people, they just don’t understand how things work. Once they get the feedback, they thought that it is because they did not take enough actions. So what they do next is that they keep on doing the same thing over and over again. However, did they get the result they want? No, why? Simply because they are doing the same thing, they use the same strategy. And if you keep on doing the same thing, will you expect different results?

That is impossible, you do the same thing again, you will get back the same result, feedback. That is why once you get feedback, you have to change your strategy and try again. Don’t keep on doing the same thing, doing the same thing will not bring you any changes. Einstein define crazy as doing the same thing and wish for different results. So don’t be crazy if you want to achieve great success in your life.

It Is Action That Brings You Massive Success

I hope that you are clear with this one thing, it is action that is responsible for your success. Nothing can beat action. If you ask me what is the only key that will bring you to success, I will say it is this, action. You can have all the belief system you want, you can have the greatest goal, however, if you do not take any action, it is impossible you will achieve your goal. Action is all you need.

Belief and goal are the vehicle to reach your destination, and action will be the fuel to power up that powerful vehicle. So start taking action from now on. Once you craft out how your life is going to be, the only thing left to do is this, take massive action. Do not procrastinate and do not give up. Keep it going and you will see that you are moving toward your goal nearer and nearer everyday.

Read: The #1 Ingredient For Success, The #2 Ingredient For Success and The #3 Ingredient For Success.

The #3 Ingredient For Success

April 15th, 2008

Finally, we have reached the number three ingredient for success. You can always refer to the first ingredient for success here, and the number two here. Go through them if you haven’t read them yet, this will make you clear of what is happening. To be successful, we have to follow a certain path, and that path is what we called The Ultimate Success Formula.

By just applying this formula into your life, you can achieve anything you want. Wealth, health, anything. This formula works, and that is why so many people are using this formula, Adam Khoo is one of my favorite ‘success’ guru and he is the living proof. He used this formula, and he achieved amazing results in life. He is one of the youngest self-made millionaires in Singapore, he made his first million at the age of 26. If he can do this, so can both you and I.

So what is the #3 ingredient for success? Do you still remember the first and the second ingredient? The first ingredient is that you must believe in your dreams, that your dreams will come true. The second ingredient is goal setting. You need to set a goal which has these 3 criteria, specific, achievable and with a deadline. Now, let us continue into the third ingredient for success. The third ingredient is, the strategy.

The Strategy That You Need To Achieve Your Goals

Once your belief system is right, and after you have set your clear goal, it is now time to plan out the strategy that you need to achieve that goal of yours. Many people did not actually plan out their life, and that is why they fail. I don’t want you to be the same with them, I want you to be different. Simply because you spend your precious time reading this post in my blog right now. And I feel that I have the responsibility to bring you the best.

Success Strategy

After you have set a clear goal, I believe that your mind will automatically generate a strategy on how you can achieve it. If you ask someone what are their dreams and goals, and if they say they want to be rich, ask them how they are going to achieve it, 9 out of 10 will tell you that they are not sure. They don’t even know how to make themselves rich, and they come up with all sorts of excuses like they don’t have the time, they don’t have the money to start making more money. All of these are lousy excuses and I hope that you don’t use these excuses.

How Do You Find The Strategies?

Here’s the thing, whatever you want to achieve in life, there are people out there who have already achieved what you want. And you will find all successful people have one thing in common. They don’t reinvent the wheel. They learn from the best and they learn from this concept called modeling. They say,who is the best in what I want to be good in, and they model that strategy.

This is how you can find your strategies. Model the best in your industry. If you are into golfing, then learn from Tiger Woods, model every of his patterns and his moves, breathes just like him, be like him, and you will find yourself be as good as him. The same goes for real-estate, who is your number one real-estate gurus? Is it Donald Trump? Or is it Robert Allen? Do the same thing, apply the same concept, model the one which you think are the best in your niche and you will achieve the same results just like they do.

Remember, don’t reinvent the wheel. Those successful people already crafted out the success blueprint for you, all you need to do is just follow their footsteps. This is the real way to achieve great success. If you do so, you are going to cut short the learning curve and you can achieve the things you want in your life in the shortest time possible. This is because you are not going to go through all the unnecessary paths and you can avoid of the pitfalls in your way to success.

Remember, you have to design your own journey to success. Nobody can do this for you, this is your own life and it is your own future. You have to craft a road map on how to achieve your goals, and the best strategy to be used, is to model those who are already achieved massive success in your industry. Read this post, and you will see how powerful designing your own destiny can be, The Power of Designing Your Destiny.

Read: The #1 Ingredient For Success, The #2 Ingredient For Success and The #4 Ingredient For Success.

The #2 Ingredient For Success

April 14th, 2008

This will be the number two ingredient for success. I believe that many people is doing it. It is setting a clear, specific and achievable goal. You must set a goal for yourself, what you want to achieve in 3 months and so on. Without a clear goal, you are not going to reach your destination, why? Simply because you don’t even know where you want to head to.

Goal Setting

I know that I have written quite a number of posts regarding setting clear and specific goals. However, setting goals is the thing that you need to do after you believe in yourself. You can always read The #1 Ingredient For Success if you miss it. The number one ingredient is about building your belief systems, and the number two ingredient for success will be setting a clear goal. Ask yourself now, frankly, did you have a goal? Do you know what you want to achieve in the following 3 months? Do you know what you want to achieve in the next 3 years? Or maybe even 5 years from now?

The Criteria Your Goal Must Have

I know, setting a goal is easy, all you need to do is take out a pen and write it down. Is it really that easy? Not really, it is more than that. Always remember, you goal must have these 3 criteria:

1. Clear and Specific
Yes, your goal must be clear and specific. Without a clear goal, you are not going to achieve it. Let me tell you this, a lot of people, they want to make money, that’s all they know, they want to make money. When you ask them how much money they want to make, they will tell you as much as they can. Now, this is not a clear goal. A clear goal must be very, very specific. It is the same like buying a new car. If you want to buy a BMW, then what model is it going to be? What color did you want? You have to ask all sorts of questions that will make your goal specific.

2. A Goal with Deadline
Your goal must have a deadline. How long do you need to achieve your goal? You have to make it clear that every goal you set must have a deadline, a goal without a deadline is not a goal! Always remember this. Deadline can helps to prevent you from procrastination and it is going to create the sense of fear of not achieving it. Here is a post which tells you how important a deadline can be, read it and I believe that it will be a great help, Your Someday One Day Will Never Comes.

3. It Must Be Achievable
What I mean is this, whenever you set your goals, they must be achievable, don’t set some goals which is not achievable like I’m going to earn a lot of money in 3 years. This is not a goal, it is not achievable. For example, an achievable goal is like “I’m going to promote ABC affiliate products and earn $1,000 in one month”. Now, this goal is achievable. If you say that your goal is to make money, you will never achieve it, because you don’t even know how you are going to achieve it. This is why most people can’t achieve their goals, they don’t have a clear plan and their goals are not achievable.

I believe that now you are clear about the importance of setting goals and how to set your goals. Below is how Steven Spielberg follow his goals and take massive actions and moving towards success.

At the age of 12, Steven Spielberg knew that what he wanted to do was to tell stories to the world by making movies. It was this specific goal that directed him to spend his time making home videos at the age of 12 and exposing himself to movie sets at universal studios at the age of 18. It was these years of focused effort that allowed him to build the level of experience and skill he needed to make some of the best movies around.

Even Honda knows how important goals and dreams can be. That is why you can see that Honda is using this phrase as their marketing quote, “The Power of Dreams”. I have also written up a post about how dreams can be. Read it here, The Power of Dreams.

Read: The #1 Ingredient For Success, The #3 Ingredient For Success and The #4 Ingredient For Success.

The #1 Ingredient For Success

April 13th, 2008

Everyone is pursuing for success. Both you and I have the same goal, that is we want to achieve great success, right? Or else you won’t be reading this right now. The only reason you are reading this right now means that you are interested to know what is the number one ingredient for success. So, what is the number one ingredient for success? I believe that you already know what it is. Is it our mindset? Is it our thinking? Yes, it has to do with our mindset and our thinking.

Believe In Yourself

If you read this post of mine, The Ultimate Success Formula, you will know which is the number one ingredient for success. Did you believe that there is certain formula which every successful people like Donald Trump, Warren Buffet, Ewen Chia etc have? For me, yes, there is certain set of formula which you can follow if you want to create amazing results just like them. And it is called The Ultimate Success Formula.

So what is the number one ingredient for success? It is this, your belief systems.

What you believe is going to be real and what you believe is going to come true. Just like the Law of Attraction, you will attract what you think. If you want to be a millionaire, then must start to imagine how much money you have and how are you going to use them. The same concept applies here. 50 years ago, nobody knows that we can use a device called ‘hand phone’ or ‘mobile phone’ to communicate with each other even though we are far away. 50 years back, a hand phone is a myth! You must start to believe that it is possible first, then only it will come true.

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

You must remember this, what you believe is only true to you. Your belief is never real, it is real only to you. Just like Henry Ford, he believes that it is possible to invent a vehicle called car. At that time, nobody actually believes Henry Ford, everyone laughs at him, saying he was crazy. However, what you can see now is the results of his believe. He became the number one car manufacturer, this is the powerful of our belief systems. So can you see what you can achieve now? Everything is possible as long as you have a strong believe.

Breaking The Beliefs of The World

Whenever I talk about belief system, I will think of this person called Roger Bannister. If you are a loyal reader of my blog, you will already know who he is. He is the one who broke the beliefs of the world. He breaks the myth and tells everyone that it is possible. And right after he did it, many other people achieve the same result. You can read this post here, Breaking The Beliefs of The World.

Another real-life story is this, this incident happens to an insurance boss, Morris Goodman. The full story is just like below:

In 1981, insurance boss, Morris Goodman, was a victim of a plane crash which he was piloting. His injuries were so severe, so extreme, so much so that his neck was broken in two places, his diaphragm was crushed and his nerves were damaged very badly. His wife was told by the doctor that he would be paralyzed from the neck down for life. She was also told that he was not able to breathe on his own without the use of a respirator.

However, Morris Goodman believed so much in the belief that whatever he set his mind to, he could achieve. Within a period of six months, he walked out of the hospital without any medical aid, without any mechanical aid. His doctors were shocked, and Morris Goodman was later named ‘the miracle man’.

Can you see it now? Our belief system is something amazing, you can create everything you want, you can achieve anything you want, you can have everything you wish for if you use it wisely. In fact, I have posted quite a lot of articles regarding belief system, here is another interesting post you can read, Your Beliefs Determine Your Success.

I hope that you can see it by now. If you want to be successful, you will first have to believe in it. Actually, it is a MUST. You must believe that it is possible for you! If you want to be an internet millionaire today, and earn big money online, you must first believe that it is possible for you. The next thing you should do is to imagine about it. Imagine how you are going to carry out all your online business, how the money flows into your bank account, then what are you going to do with all the money? Are you going to buy your dream car or dream house?

This is how it works. So, first step, believe in it. This is the number one ingredient for success. Without it, you can never achieve anything. Everything happens twice, once in your mind, and once in reality.

Read: The #2 Ingredient For Success, The #3 Ingredient For Succes and The #4 Ingredient For Success.

Always Be Grateful For Everything

April 10th, 2008

This is the most powerful emotional state of mind that people can have, that is be grateful. Always be grateful for the love you receive from your family, your friends, your colleagues. Thank them in some way. Treat them a meal, buy them a gift, just give them a word of greeting, or just give them a prayer in your heart. Be grateful to yourself, to your body. Say thanks to your feet for supporting you for such a long time, say thanks to your eyes for letting you see the beauty of this world, say thanks to your ears for giving you the beautiful sounds of the universe. Say thank you to every part of your body.

Be Grateful

If you do this, you will feel gratitude all the time, you will feel a source of energy flowing through your body. You will feel energize and motivated. If you are reading this article right now, you are probably reading it with a computer. This means that you are in the category of 70% rich man in the world. If you were born with great physical outfit, then you should be grateful for your body. When you are down and sad, just think of other people who are even more worse than you. Some people always said that they don’t have a car, and only if they have a car, they can travel anywhere to run their business and they can succeed. Is this true? No! Not at all. Some people don’t even have a motorcycle, but still they succeed because they have the burning desire.

Whenever you are down, think about what you have around you. Did you know that you are actually a very rich man if compare to people 100 years ago? Did you know that with all the information you receive from the internet in just one day, is much more than the entire life of a person 100 years ago? Don’t complain that you have living a lousy life, don’t complain that if you are not having a car or a job. Just be grateful of everything you have. Once you always be thankful to what you have, you will feel that energy start flowing into your body. You will feel energize and you will be motivated. You want to do more and you will provide more, give more. In the end, you will receive what you want the most.

Read this post here to discover how Nick was born without arms and legs. But still, Nick manage to overcome every obstacles that come into his way, and now he is a very successful man.

In fact, if you were born with everything, you will lose the hunger for success. If you were born in a billionaire family, most likely you will lose the hunger to create more wealth. This is because you already have everything you wanted, and this makes you lost the hunger for success. That is why most of the self-made Millionaires start from zero, just like you and me, we are future millionaires. Grab more interesting articles from The Millionaire Secrets.

How Failure Can Make You A Billionaire

April 8th, 2008

I don’t know whether you notice this, many successful people out there face a lot of setbacks before they actually achieve the amazing success they deserve. If you study the life stories of well-known people like, Sylvester Stallone, Richard Branson and Donald Trump, their tremendous success came only after the result of huge setbacks. Does this mean that you will have to go through failure first before you can achieve the success you wanted?

Well, everyone has their own thinking and mindset, for me, yes. You will need to fail first before you can achieve any amazing results. Did you think that Thomas Edison successfully invented the light bulb in just one try? He failed more than 10,000 times! What about everyone’s favorite, Robert Kiyosaki? Yes, he failed too before he finally achieves the financial level that he wanted. What does this mean? I guess, it means that life is throwing us failures, just to try out how committed we are toward the things that we want. So if you past this test of life, you will be rewards with what you want.

The Story of How Failure Transform Donald Trump Into Billionaire

In the early 1980s, American property tycoon, Donald Trump was riding high after a series of savvy property deals that allowed him to own a lot of the most sought after property in New York. He was personally worth almost a billion dollars at that time. It was also during this high time in his life that he wrote a book, ‘The Art of The Deal’. But the late 80s saw a worldwide recession that caused property prices to plunge and tumble. Within weeks, his best friends and he lost their entire fortune. From a billion dollars, he found himself approximately 750 million dollars in debt.

Donald Trump

Many of his business partners suffered the same fate and took their own lives. It was at the lowest point of his life that his wife, Ivana Trump, instead of rallying behind her husband, filed for divorce and forced him to pay her off. But Trump decided to respond in a way that continued to empower him. He was going to turn things around no matter what. Within a year of shrewd business maneuvering, he turned things around and made around 3 billion dollars.

So you can see now, how failure can bring you to your goals. Here is a question that you should ask yourself before you keep on. “Do you think that Donald Trump can achieve the same results if he did not go through that disastrous experience?” Frankly, I don’t think so. A lot of things are going to change if he did not go through all those failures. This means that it is the failure that brings Donald Trump to success!

You Always Have A Choice

This is what, many people will give up and never ever attempt anything again whenever they face setbacks just a Barracuda. Only a small percentage of people who use the failures, challenges and setbacks as their stepping stone to achieve their goals. These people are those who are committed, they will do whatever it takes to be successful and they won’t give up even when they face the most unwanted situation in their life. This is the thing that you should learn today. Learn how to make use of failures, setbacks and challenges as lessons, and move on to the next level.

How we want to interpret these failures and setbacks is simply a matter of choice on our part. We always have a choice. You can choose to change your strategy and continue to strive for success or you can choose to give up and never to touch about it anymore. It is all in your hands. So make the right choice. There are always going to be times in our lives when life puts us to the ultimate test. If you can cope with it, then you will be rewarded with amazing fruits.

If you want motivation tips, read this, The 6 Motivation Tips That Never Fail.

What Blogging Platform You Use?

April 7th, 2008

There are basically 3 famous blogging platform, they are Blogger.com, WordPress, and TypePad. All three of them are popular and many bloggers use them. For you, which one did you use? Sometimes, there are bloggers who ask which platform should they use. The answer will be depends on reasons they blog. If you are blogging about your private life, how much you love your girlfriend, what you hate to do, etc, then having a free blogging platform like Blogger.com will be fine.

Blogging Platform

However, if your purpose here is to earn money online and you are serious in your blogging business. Then you should definitely go for WordPress. It is free to download, just download it and upload it into your server. Here is a real case from I took from Yaro Starak, one of my favorite bloggers. You should always check out his blog, there are a lot of useful content which can help you build your blog. Below is from Yaro:

I’ll tell you a story about Steve. Steve is a niche blogger. He set up lots of little blogs on all kinds of topics (niches) aiming to make a few dollars from each blog by placing Google AdSense advertisements on them. Google pays you when someone clicks on the ads.

After a few months he did really well and built up his income. None of his blogs had a lot of traffic, but they got enough from search engines that each blog earned between $1 and $10 per day. In total he earned over $2000 per month from his blogs – not a bad effort. One day he turned on his computer and all his blogs had gone. Disappeared. Vanished without a trace…

What happened you ask?

He was using one Blogger.com account to manage his blogs and Blogger.com determined that what he was doing was violating their terms of service. They thought all his blogs were what are called “splogs” – SPAM blogs. Splogs are blogs set up to get traffic to other sites. They are usually automatically generated and the owners have no intention of producing a useful website – they just want to get traffic. Essentially they are the SPAM of the blogging world.

Steve contacted the support staff at Blogger.com to explain that his sites were not SPAM sites but it was difficult to convince them and he never got his blogs reactivated. Overnight he lost his regular $2000 per month income in one hit. If Steve had hosted his blogs on WordPress on his own servers with his own domains this simply would not have happened.

I believe that you can see it clearly now which blogging platform should you choose. Well, like I said, if your purpose is just to blog to occupy your free time, it will be fine. However, if you want to earn money online using your blog, then you have to be professional and own your blog. Not having your own blog (domain and hosting) is just like not having full control of your blogging business. Well, having your own domain and hosting for your blog may be costly in the beginning, but they are well worth it.

I hope that you understand how important it is now to choose the right blogging platform. Once you know your purpose of blogging, it is time to take action, a lot of it. Blogging is an ongoing process, you cannot create a profitable blog which makes you $10,000 in just one day, that will be impossible. If you are building a profitable blog today, then treat your blog like an online real-estate. Your blog’s value will appreciate the longer it stays on course.

Since your blog’s value is going to increase over time, why don’t you start now and be serious with it? I’m sure you can achieve the results you want with your blog if you are committed to it. It is just a matter sooner or later for you to achieve your dreams. Of course, the sooner the better. So start building your blog today and you can enjoy the results faster.

If You Want to Earn, Learn to Serve

April 6th, 2008

This is what I have learned from my past experience. If you want to earn money, then you will have to learn to serve. In fact, if you want to make money, you have to serve people. Take blogging as example, why did you publish all valuable posts? What are the reasons? The reason will be to serve your blog’s readers. It is the same in business, if you have a list of subscribers, you have to serve them too.

Serve Your Readers
This is what, in your blog, you should always think from the perspective of your readers. Put yourself in the shoe of your visitors. This is what I notice, many people did not actually read their own blog! Can imagine how crazy this is? If you want to understand more about your readers, you want to know what they are looking for, you have to read their mind. Don’t act like you know everything about your readers, you will not know what every of your readers want.

Learn to Serve

Take this blog, The Millionaire Secrets for example, some of my readers come to my blog because they are looking for blogging tips, while some others are looking for ways to earn money online, and don’t forget those who come for motivation and success tips as well. So you see, you have to put yourself in the shoe of your readers, figure out what they want only then you can provide what they want. Therefore, learn to serve your readers first if you want to build a successful blog. Always write good content and have a nice design of your blog. Again, this is for your readers as well. They come to your blog for information, so post quality content for them. They will read your blog post, so design your blog in such a way that it is easy to read. I believe you got what I mean now right? Great.

Serve Your Prospects and Customers
The same thing goes for your prospects and your customers. If you have a list (it is a MUST HAVE if you want to build serious, big and long-term profits online), you will have to serve your subscribers, because they are your prospects and might be your long-term customers. Have you came across some promoters who know how to promote his or her products very effectively? I believe that you went to shopping center before and you have met someone likes this. There are only two factors that determine whether a product sells. One is the product itself, it can be a hot product which everyone knows about and it can sell automatically. Another reason is this, it depends on how people promote it. That is why you have to learn to promote, to serve your subscribers well.

Here is what you need to do before you serve your people. You have to know what they want. For example in blogs, you can run a simple poll which collects the information from your readers and visitors, just like what I do. Once you know what people want, then you can serve them better. This is common sense right? Right! Think about it, will you approach a stranger and sell him an ice-cream? If he is in the mood of purchasing, maybe he will buy. Or you can do it the other way round, approach the stranger, ask him what flavor of ice-cream he wants to eat, then buy that ice-cream and sell him. Which one is more effective?

I believe you know the answer. This is how it works. It is the same no matter in blogging or any online businesses. You have to first find out what your prospects want, then serve them. This is who people make money from their business, by serving, not selling. Think carefully, it has the similar idea as creating value.

Your Fuel to Success, Commitment

April 5th, 2008

I know you have heard this over and over again. However, I would like to stress it one more time here. Without commitment, there is nothing you can achieve. I don’t think that your goals and your dreams will come true if you don’t have the commitment. This is especially for those who are looking for ways to earn money online or wanted to achieve financial freedom in their life.

If you study the success stories of famous people like Donald Trump, Adam Khoo, and for the internet world, like Ewen Chia, they all are very committed in everything they do. Take Ewen Chia for example, he is my favorite affiliate guru. He is known as the world’s number one super affiliate. Do yo think he achieves all these amazing results just because he is lucky or more hardworking than others? It is the commitment level between him and other people that differentiates all the amazing results. Here is the real success story of Ewen.

Ewen Chia started his internet venture in 1997. For full 5 years, he learned on his own on how to make a fortune by starting an internet business. He would work on it from 11pm to 3am (after tucking his children and wife into bed), while still holding a full time job. His health and marriage life was strained to the max but he decided that he will not take failure as an option.

Ewen Chia

After 5 years, he made a breakthrough from his research and hard work when he managed to piece together things that work from those that won’t. Because he had suffered for 5 years, he now wants to help people succeed online fast by avoiding all the mistakes he made and saving all the years he wasted.

This is what I mean by commitment. Just think about it, take your blog as example. If you have decided to come up with a post today, but suddenly something happen and you are not able to write a post. Once you are free, it is already 2am in the morning, what will you do then? Will you still be sitting in front of your computer and write a post for your readers? Or you will just go to bed? This is just an example, so just put aside the healthy issue. What I want to show you here is just the commitment level. If you want to be successful in whatever you do, you must be committed in it. It is Action that Produces Results.

Success Does Not Come Automatically
Indeed, success does not come automatically, and I don’t think that money will fall from the sky. For many people, they thought that all the successful people who are wealthy is because that they are just lucky, they hit the market at the right time and when the economy is blooming. Bear in mind, if you don’t have the commitment, even if you are lucky, even if you hit your market at the time when economy is blooming, do you really think that your business will stay long enough? I don’t think that your business can survive for the long-term if you don’t have the foundation.

I hope that you can see the big picture now. It is actions and commitment that will bring you unlimited wealth, not skills and knowledge. Skills and knowledge are just potential power, without the fuel to drive that power, you are not going to reach anywhere. Put it this way, if skills and knowledge are the vehicle which you need to bring you to your destination, then commitment and actions will be the fuel to drive that powerful vehicle. Always stay motivated by reading The Millionaire Secrets, you can find interesting articles like The Billion-dollar Motivation Secret.

My Blogging Principles

April 4th, 2008

Today, I’m going to share something very important, it is my blogging principle. These principles may be simple for you, but they are what I followed every single day. These principles are what I will do just to improve this blog, The Millionaire Secrets. I don’t know whether if these principles are going to help you in your blogging journey, but what I can tell you here is that these principles truly help me a lot.

Blogging Principles

In fact, I don’t follow these principles before, it is until recently that I decide to write them down, and follow them everyday. What I can see in my blog after implementing all these principles is that the traffic to my blog becomes much more constant. The next thing I noticed is this, the number of subscribers for my blog posts increased after I apply all these principles. So, did you feel excited and wanted to know what are these principles? They are:

1. Stick to my posting schedule, which will be one post everyday

If you are a subscriber of my blog, you will notice that I will publish one post each and everyday. I told myself that I must be committed in blogging. That is why I came up with this principle, to post at least one post everyday no matter how busy I am. I want to develop a good relationship with my readers, I want my blog to be updated everyday, I want my blog’s content remain fresh everyday, I want something new coming up from my blog everyday. That is the reason that keeps me going on. If you notice, you will find that I’m doing this since from a long time ago.

2. Prepare at least 2 extra ‘ready-to-publish’ posts

Yes, I will always write more for my blog. I have at least 2 posts which are ready to post anytime. Why you ask? The answer is simple, it is for emergency use. I believe that no matter how ‘predictable’ your blogging plan is, you will somehow come across with something that is out of your control. And if that happens, you are not able to post in your blog. For example, maybe you have to run some errand outstation, which causes you unable to get online and manage your blog. This is where the Post Timestamp option comes in. Since you already have at least 2 ‘ready-to-publish’ posts in your blog, you can publish them using the timestamp option anytime you want. This will help you stay in your blogging schedule, be committed to it.

3. Insert at least 1 link back to older post

I did not follow this principle last time. You know, I’m such a lazy person, and I find that inserting links to older posts is a very mundane task, and I did not actually do it. However, I will start doing this from now on. You will see that each of my posts start from the last few days contain at least 1 link back to my older post. I believe that you know why it is important to link back to our older post right? If you don’t, just read this, Use Deep Linking In Your Blog For Better SEO.

4. Bold any keywords in post for the ease of readers

Last time, I use bold keywords only for keyword optimization purposes only. Which means that I bold those keywords which I am targeted in my niche market. However, it will be different from now on. I will bold or highlight any keywords which I think are important for my readers. I will bold them to attract my readers, not search engine spiders anymore. For me, this is also an important blogging tips, as it is going to help me attract my reader’s attention and it allows my readers to read my posts much more easily.

5. Visit and comment for those who leave comments

Again, you should know what is comment marketing and how it can helps to boost your blog’s traffic. Comment marketing is consider as old school but it is still working great. It is said that 70% of bloggers are going to visit your blog if you visit their blog and leave some useful comments in their blog. Many successful bloggers out there start building their traffic, visibility and credibility of their blog using comment marketing. They leave comments on other people’s blog everyday. It may seem like a boring task, but it is going to bring you a lot of amazing results if you keep on doing it without giving up. This is also one way where you can build relationship with other bloggers from your same niche. Maybe you will find any great partners this way, who knows.

6. Not the last, always be committed to blogging

This is definitely not the last principles. I believe that my list of principles will keep on going as long as I’m always ready to learn and wanted to improve my blog. Of all the principles which I have covered so far, this is the most crucial principle which you must follow. Without commitment, you are not going to build a great blog. It is through commitment, that leads you to take massive actions. If you are very tired and it is 3am in the morning now, but you have not yet write a post for the day, what will you do? Sleep and do it the next day? Or get motivated and write it before you go to bed? You know your level of commitment.

Want to read more about how commitment is going to affect your life? Read this post of mine, What Does Success Really Means to You. The more committed you are into blogging, the faster you can achieve the results you want with your blog.

These are the principles that I have for now. Like I said above, my blogging principles will increase over time. As long as I’m still managing this blog, I will strive for the very best for my readers. What I’m busy with right now is my FREE 2-week e-course which teaches people how to earn money online. I’m going to launch it within these few days. Just stay tune for it.