Here’s How It All Started – Part 1 of Inceptions Deceptions

Oh wow, it's Saturday morning!

Where have the past 6 weeks gone?

Oh, wait a sec – I forgot!  I've been keeping mighty quiet about what I've been doing these past 6-odd weeks…so methinks it's time for me to make you smile and tell you the whole fantastically out of this world story.

Ready?  Alrighty then, let me take you back, back, back to when the dinosaurs roamed the land and wheels were square and I awakened with the following startling realization.

It's time to kick fate into the right direction.

Sure, I had been doing okay online money-wise and keeping my family stocked up with coffee, soup, apples and cookies, but really……2011 is fast approaching! 

And quite frankly, the majority of my time I much prefer spending on my family as opposed to 'building my business' online.

So, I had make a decision EITHER to:

• Work smarter
  

or

• Sit very quietly until the insane urge went away and keep doing business as usual.
  

While I will admit, the second option was 'mighty temping indeed, I made this commitment to meself:

"Self – I'm going to reinvent you, self!"

But SAYING you're going to do this….and actually freakin' DOING this….

Ah!

That's the big huge flapping earlobes in the wind! (said a famous cartoon elephant as he took off in his maiden flight…)

So I decided to get myself up to speed and research, research, research RESEARCH quickly indeed.

And where did I go first?

Well, first of all, I asked meself the following question:

• "Self, where's the coffee?"

No no, I really asked:

• "Self, you've been making money online now since 1997 – what's the biggest truth you've discovered?"
  

Well now, FINALLY!  I ASKED MYSELF A QUESTION I COULD ANSWER IMMEDIATELY!

The answer, of course, is to make others successful…ideally WHILE you're making yourself successful.

And what's the best way to do that?

Well, I wrote tons about that over at

Why You Might Be A Desperately POOR Slob (and how to start fixing that TODAY)

The main point is, you make others successful by pointing them in the direction of the tools they need and showing them how to use them.

Ideally they buy them from you, but even if not – they can then become your affiliate and sell them to THEIR list as well.

See?

When your customers see that your ideas work, they naturally tell THEIR friends about your insights.  And when you start freely sharing your tips and ideas online and become an acknowledged expert, you build even more and more credibility.

But then a clarion call of angst and panic started crashing upon my eardrums!

Oh yes, it really did.  Because I realized that going from thinking about the above…to implementing the above….would take weeks and weeks of effort more intense than running the New York Marathon in high heels and lacy lingerie.

But that wasn't the stickler for me (after all, I hack in lacy lingerie)!

I was still missing something important.  Something critical.  Something that required me investigating Thesaurus.com and coming up with another word that meant the same thing!  Something (hang on while I open another browser) momentously urgent and provocatively pivotal to success!

In other words, I was missing how to send my affiliates their commissions IMMEDIATELY upon a sale.

After all, think about it.  Given a chance to get your commissions every two weeks, or get them just as soon as the money cooled from flying down the wireless connections to Paypal accounts…what would YOU choose?

Exactly.

So I returned back to 2009….when I had invested in Rapid Action Profits.  It's a nifty script that lets you send your affiliates their commissions the instant the customer's payment clears.  Back then, I was involved in other thingees…so I never really did master how to get it up and working.

But now that I had a mission….it was time to get it up, time to get it effective, time to get all the backend stuff singing like a chorus of heavenly canaries who were trained by the Opera House of Paris!

And during the past 6 weeks, I went from

21 Steps To Putting Your Business Online

to

21 Steps To Putting Your Business Online..in LESS than 24 Hours!

Notice any difference, eh?  🙂

But that's still getting ahead of myself.  Because getting anything up and ready, I had to tackle the following soul-searing issue.  It's a secret, actually…well, NO.  It's not a secret anymore, because I fixed myself! 

But back then, I (I hope you're sitting down for this)

HATED WRITING COPY.

Omigosh, "hate" was too delicate a word.  Quickly opening up Thesaurus.com, I realized that I possessed an:

"Excruciating aversion to the utterly fiendish inhumane agonies that satanic, maleficent and misopolemical (it's war I tell you!) copywriting inflicted upon the very fabric of my most humble being!"

Really. 

In other words, I would prefer executing a radical infected toenail transplant without Anesthesia than…to writing copy.

'course, such an attitude really is death to a marketer like me! 

So I had to fix meself bigtime.  And I did!

But how?  

Great question!  Stay tuned for Part II of Inceptions Deceptions for the next exciting chapter – you'll find it most insightful indeed!

Enjoy,

Barbara Ling