Hey Everyone,

Sorry for the delay with posting here. We’ve been working on a bunch of projects. I’m going to start posting much more, now that our project is complete.

As you already probably know, I won the internet marketer of the year award. Since then I haven’t really given a response to the IM public (other then at Russell’s seminar)

Instead of making this all about me, I wanted to give you guys some content at the same time and share an article I wrote for our magazine “Rapid Business Growth”.

So here it is:

WHAT IT TAKES TO GET TO THE TOP

By Nick Marks

“Being presented with the Internet marketer of the year award has truly been an honor. We’ve worked very hard/smart to get to the top and to see that the marketing community has acknowledged that, means a lot to us. You must be wondering, what does it take to become the “Internet Marketer Of the Year”? That’s what we’re going to be going over is this article. Although I have limited space here to teach “what it takes” I’ll do my best to explain the main fundamentals.

Before we get into detail, let me first tell you. I started out with nothing. I built this marketing business from the ground up. I didn’t get any helping hand to get into this market. With that said, understand that you can do it too. You don’t need to have a large amount of money to invest nor do you even need to know much about the market you’re trying to get into (when getting started). What you need is:

1. Vision:

You need to know exactly what you want and you must have a vision of that. If you don’t have a vision of where you want to go, how will you know when you get there? You won’t! And the bad part about that is, if you don’t know when you’ve reached your goal of being at the top, you may end up realigning your business without knowing it.

So, first things first, get a vision of where you want to go with your business, specifically.

2. Determination:

Determination is probably one of the most important aspects of success in general. If you never give up, you will succeed. When aiming for the top, failure is not an option. Doing whatever it takes, is the attitude you need for success.

Your only concern is “when” your level of success will come, not “if” Meaning you know for a fact that your success is coming, you have “timed” goals in place and you’re going to do whatever it takes to reach those goals.

3. One Step Ahead Marketing Plan:

When aiming for the top, you need to be one step ahead of everyone else with your marketing plan. You need to live and breath marketing. It doesn’t matter what niche you’re in.

Even if you own a retail store, marketing is key. You need to use every marketing strategy that’s working (example: Google adwords, Article marketing, ebay marketing and so on) and even continue to test new marketing strategies continuously. You must develop your own unique marketing strategies as you build your business. How do you do that? It’s easy. When you continue to study marketing, you will start develop your own marketing ideas to test. So the key is, to read everything you can on marketing!

4. Identify Your Top Competitors:

If you want to get to the top, you need to know who you’re trying to be better then. So identify your top competitors in your market and align yourself with them as much as possible. How do you do that? Go to seminars, become their affiliate, email them, buy their products.

5. Buy Your Top Competitors Products:

Stay up to date with your top competitors sales process. Buy their products and see what happens after. Keep a log of what they do after you buy. Do you get a letter in the mail? If so, when did it come? How many day’s later? Did you get a phone call from them? What was it about? Most likely they wanted to sell you some sort of back-end product. What were the price points? These are all important things to know when trying to get to the top.

Because if they’re your main competitors, they must be doing something right. More then likely, they’re doing a lot of things right! All it takes to find out most of your competitors marketing secrets, is to simply buy their products!

In closing, I just want you to know that it’s possible for you to get to the top. (If you haven’t already) All it really takes is mastering the fundamentals. After that, success comes easy.”

What do YOU think is one of the most important aspects of getting to the top?

Please post your comments!

-Nick Marks