One Shockingly Bizarre Way Pity Can Make YOU A Brand New Dynamic Profitable Product

Ever feel like life round-kicked you in the teeth?

I have….constantly!  ‘Matter of fact, my talk at the Earn1KaDay Las Vegas bash focused solely on that phenomena – It’s truly fascinating how when life hands you lemons you can choose to turn on a dime and corner the market on Moose sleds!

Take yesterday, for example.

At 10pm on Thursday night, my ankle woke me up and gently whispered tales of the agonizing pain it’s going to put me thru after I boldly fuse it (ideally within 4 months).  And I’ll tell you – at that moment, I simply just wanted to give up on ….well, everything.

You know that feeling, right? 

*Anything* would be preferable than facing up to your situation – you start to view skydiving with a concrete block as THE new extreme sport, you look at watching grass grow on ice cubes as THE perfect way to contemplate the rest of your pitiful existence, and you yearn to lose your treasured underware AND luggage on your latest Quantas flight!

Yep.  Character-building to the extreme!

So what do you do?

Well, I woke up the next morning and said to meself:

• “Self, ‘aint nobody gonna care about your feelings or your situation enough to do anything. So suffer and CRY FOOL!  HAHAHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!”

Well okay, I didn’t say that.  Instead, I said:

• “Self – cry me a river.  Preferably one flush with coffee.  And when you’re done, *change things.*”

So I padded to my kitchen, took down my 10 gallon coffee hat and had the following chat in my private paid mastermind that I run.

[9/7/2012 7:21:22 AM] Barbara Ling: morning all
[9/7/2012 7:22:51 AM] Barbara Ling: I’m seriously am considering throwing together a $17 paypal button
[9/7/2012 7:22:57 AM] Barbara Ling: to get folks intoa new skype group for emai lmarketing
[9/7/2012 7:23:02 AM] Barbara Ling: premise being
[9/7/2012 7:23:05 AM] Barbara Ling: that when i finally DO launch
[9/7/2012 7:23:14 AM] Barbara Ling: price is $27/month and then goes up to $47 month

[9/7/2012 7:29:53 AM] Person 2: Barb remember what you always tell us
[9/7/2012 7:30:07 AM] Person 2: “Do” don’t think about it

[9/7/2012 7:30:07 AM] Barbara Ling: coffee?
[9/7/2012 7:30:14 AM] Barbara Ling: LOVE IT!
[9/7/2012 7:30:21 AM] Barbara Ling: i SO NEEDED to hear that!!!!!

And you know what happened?

As of today, I have 9 paying members in my brand new Skype eMail Marketing Mastermind group.

I’m raising the price today (there’s only 11 more spots!).  See it at

BarbLing’s eMail Marketing Mastermind Group

And the best part of this?

24 hours ago….the whole concept didn’t exist *at all*.

WOOT!

So let’s now apply this to the most important person reading it….YOU!

It’s human nature that when you want to feel sorry for yourself, you feel attacked by emotions more vicious than Anakin Skywalker deprived of his lava burn medication.

And that’s okay.  Those are starkly powerful emotions and they need to be honored.  Give yourself time to grieve about what’s happening in your life…..

And then *let it go*.  Because NOBODY ELSE GIVES ENOUGH OF A DAMN to make things different.

 

Seriously.  Only you have the power to change things for *you*!

And once you do…others will see you not as a victim, but as a survivor and master Jedi of this thing called life.

The next step is to channel that energy into something that will make you money.

Me, I’ve been working on a monthly email marketing membership anyways, so it was natural for me to go that route. I’m extremely gifted in it, and I *much* prefer Skype groups to FB groups for interactions!

But what about you?

Here are the three steps I used to fine-tune my new product:

1.)  Determine what you could talk about in your sleep.

What do you love teaching?  What skills are second nature to you?

2.)  Determine how you want to share that knowledge.

Skype group?  eBook?  Autoresponder series?

Facebook group?

If FB group, Dr. Ben Adkins’ OTO for Facebook Membership Revolution offers a way to integrate Paypal to Facebook group memberships….really nice!

Me, I don’t know *when* my ankle will collapse a second time, so a Skype room was the answer for me!

3.)  Make It So.

Throw together a page like

BarbLing’s eMail Marketing Mastermind Group

but here’s the kicker – notice how there’s no Paypal button on it?

• That’s because I want to pick and choose who is allowed to join.

Once I accept someone, I proactively send them to the page for payment that *has* the button!

Isn’t that blindingly simple?

I use an oldie-but-goodie WP Plugin to create that application – it’s free and found at Dagon Designs Form Mailer.

And the best part is, if I ever want to allow affiliates to promote it, I can simply create a JVZoo button, hide the product from the marketplace and proactively contact my trusted affiliates one by one.

SWEET!

Again remember:

24 hours ago…this whole concept did NOT exist.  And now I have paying members!

So.

Your takeaway?

When life throws you lemons….

Bronze ’em and turn ’em into your less-than-24 hour product that people will BUY.

All you need to do is give yourself permission….to try.

You might be shocked with how grand it goes.

Woot!

Grow strong