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This is a guest post by Alan James Start Business Mentor
who is featuring Charlie Page ‘Directory Of Ezines’

Today Is Your Day!

February 6th, 2010
by Admin

This post is by Charlie Page, 10 successful years
online, and the owner of the ‘Directory Of Ezines’

should be in your early days when your own list is still small.

Why?

Because advertising in ezines allows you to ‘borrow’
the larger, and more established lists of others,

and put your promotion in front of their receptive eyes, at often very
reasonable rates.

In doing so you can explode your business much quicker than the many
free but very time consuming

methods most new starters online are using.

Your list may only have a few hundred readers in the early
days, where as through the Directory of Ezines

you can quickly find good ezines with thousands of readers.

You do have to exercise some caution in deciding which ezine
to use, as a few unscrupulous owners inflate

their subscriber numbers, or have poorly maintained the list and it’s
became unresponsive over time.

Then you have the problem of where do you find the good ones?,
comparing costs with others, finding the size

listing all their details – ie, name, web address, readership numbers,
readership types (home business, MLM,

real estate, whatever), frequency of posting and what day(s), format
(text or html, special offers for DOE members, cost of insertion etc.

I’ve been a member for four years now and highly
recommend it as a way of saving time, saving  money by enabling
better business decisions, and in allowing you to get the best
‘bang for your buck’

A final hint: As with any new advertising source when you use
it for the first time, the same applies with ezines, always test a small
trail purchase for yourself by using your ad tracker within the
12SecondCommute tools suite so that you can see in your individual
situation, with your ad writing skills, and your product, program or
service

etc how well it does.

On to Charlies post………..

TODAY IS YOUR DAY!

By Charlie Page Every day I hear from
people who are struggling to make money online. They bought the
programs and listened to the advice but are still coming up short.

These are good people, real people, who have been beaten down
by the hyped-up websites that promise them near-instant riches if
they will only “join now”.

They are discouraged and are left to wonder if all online marketers
simply lie to make money and don’t care at all about their customers.
You might know someone who feels this way, or might feel this way
yourself.

If so, this message is for you.

I’m here to tell you that you can succeed online no matter
what your current circumstances say to you or how badly others
have treated you!

How can I say that when so many people are working hard and
still not making any money online? When so many are being ripped
off and now have nothing to work with and little hope of making it?

Because I see it happening every day.

I see people who think they are too old, too broke, too sick
or too tired and beat up to begin the transformation
from hype to hope.

I see them move from being confused and afraid they will “miss
it” to making real progress – not a one time fluke but progress they
can repeat over and over again.

They learn. They work. They overcome. And you can overcome too!

Let me share with you what I believe.

I believe there has never been a greater opportunity to make
money online than exists today.

I should know; I’ve been making a full time living working online for
over 10 years.

In that time I have seen many scams come and go. Seen more
“business opportunities” than I can count go through their mega-launches,
destined (or so the sales letters said) to be the next big thing. Seen countless
people lose money to these lies.

But I’ve seen miracles too, and I want to share with you what
those turnaround stories (including my own turnaround story)
have taught me.

But first let me share with you why I know you can succeed
online.

Here are only a few of the reasons I believe that NOW can be
your best time ever.

* More people are online than ever before, which means a
bigger market for you.

* And there are more products you can promote – truly good and
proven products – than ever before as well.

* There are more ways to promote than ever before. And not all of them
cost an arm and a leg.

* Today anyone can have a website almost instantly by using a blog.
When I started out it was HTML in NotePad. Not a pretty thing.

* There is more good coaching and mentoring now than ever before.

These are just a few of the many reasons I believe you can
succeed online. But let me share my #1 reason with you.

You can succeed online because humans were created to be overcomers!

I fully believe that NOW is your time. That THIS is
your year to shine!

Is it hard to work online? Sure, it takes work and learning
new skills, some time and a little money.

But that will not stop you!

Are there thieves online? You bet! Too many websites promise
the moon only to deliver disappointment and heartache.
Far too many take your money and never even answer your
email or provide any real help or support.

But we won’t let that stop us!

I want you to join me today in setting a new course.

Today is the day we forgive.

Today is the day we forget the wrongs of the past and write a
new story.

Today is the day we make a list of what is right with us and
capitalize on our strengths and not our weaknesses.

Today is YOUR day!

I know that it can be hard to hold your head up high and
declare today as your day of victory.

I know the challenges you face because I have been there too.

I have walked in your shoes and am here to tell you that there
is victory for those who never surrender!

You might be tempted to think you are too old or too sick or
too broke or too tired to succeed online.

I thought those things too.

I was so sick there were entire days I could not get out of
bed. But I kept trying.

I was so broke that people from my church brought presents to
my house so my kids could have Christmas.

I was so discouraged that I honestly felt it was over for me –
that I had my chance and it didn’t work out.

I remember one night literally saying to myself “at least you
had it good for a while” and thinking it was time to accept the
“reality” of forever being broke and sick and depressed.

MY FRIEND – THAT WAS A LIE! I kept on fighting and today I am
free from debt, free from sickness and we are doing very well indeed.

I won’t give specifics or show you my Clickbank screenshot
like the hype boys do but let’s just say that we
are not living in a rent house anymore.

Based on my own experience, and based on literally thousands
of members I have counseled I want to tell you five truths
that you might not feel are true right now.

YOU ARE NOT TOO OLD

I want you to meet Claudette. At 83 she truly is a shining
swan of a person. Whenever I speak with her

I am lifted by her love of life and her undeniable spirit. Sure,
working online is a challenge for someone of her age but you
can bet your last nickel that fact won’t defeat her!

Claudette is a realist. She knows that she will never master
the computer the way a 23 year old would so she does what
she can. Instead of trying to build a website from scratch and
learning HTML she focuses on blogs, knowing that if you can
type you can have a blog. And she can type
after all! So she does what she can.

How about Ivan? Ivan is another octogenarian. Ivan was 85 last
time we spoke and going as strong as ever.

You see, Ivan works in the health and wellness field and is a living
testimonial for his anti-aging products.

What do Ivan and Claudette tell me?

You are not too old to succeed online!

YOU ARE NOT TOO SICK

How I wish you could meet Mindy. She has cancer and so is
focusing on marketing passive income products so that her
family has something to count on when she is gone.

Incredible.

In my own life there were times when a good day meant I could
work 2 hours before basically collapsing and needing to sleep 20
hours. Was it hard? You bet. But I worked those 2 hours and
never gave up. It was that burning desire, and God’s blessing,
that took me from being a member of the Directory of Ezines
to owning the company less than 18 months later.

Believe me, you are not too sick to succeed online. Do what
you can when you can and rest when you must.

YOU ARE NOT TOO BROKE

When I bought my DOE membership it was hard to come up with
the fee. To say it was a sacrifice would be grossly understating
the truth. My wonderful wife thought I had lost my mind.
How was this membership going to help us?

I had so few resources that all I could afford was article
marketing since there was no fee to send articles to ezines.

And send them I did.

On days I was well enough to work I would write articles. And
write articles. And write articles. Then I would send them,
hoping and praying they would be read.

They were read and soon readers became visitors and visitors
became customers.

It was hard but it worked.

Little did I know that less than 18 months later my wife and I
would buy the company, enabling the founder to retire and
achieve her dream.

Today there is social media (oh how I wish I had Twitter and
Facebook in 1999!) and even more no-cost ways to promote.

Believe me when I tell you – you are not too broke to succeed
online.

YOU ARE NOT TOO TIRED

I know you are tired. Tired of the lies. Tired of the hype.
Tired of trying things that don’t work. But you are not too tired!

For you the time may have come to stop working so hard on
things that don’t work and focus on things that are proven to work.

I get tired too. Not everything I try works the first time
either. But when results do come they build me up –
giving me the strength and encouragement to keep going.

If you are tired today take time to rest. Pushing on and
spending countless hours at your keyboard
(especially if they are late night hours) will not be productive.

When you are rested and ready make a list of the top five
things you want to accomplish today and start on item #1,
not stopping or even thinking of anything else until it is finished.

Let focus and passions become your allies and you will banish
tiredness from your vocabulary.

Rest when you must and work with passion and focus.

YOUR CHANCE HAS NOT PASSED YOU BY

I know this much to be true – the opportunity online is just
starting. You have not missed it. And you have not
missed the “good days” either when things were “easy”.

You have not missed it.

Things were never easier than now. There have never been more
tools at your disposal than now. There has never been a bigger
market than now.

You have not missed it.

As the song says, “these are the good old days” whether we
want them to be or not. Today is the day we will look back
on and reminisce. The only real question now is whether we will
remember today fondly or feel that we wasted yet another
opportunity.

Here is my viewpoint on where you stand right now.

* You are not finished yet.

* You have a great story to write.

* You have a great future to build.

Never surrender your dream. Never let go of your goal.

Never quit.

Winston Churchill had it right when he said that his people
should “never surrender”. I love his quote about surrender
and his equally famous quote “the nose of the bulldog has been slanted
backwards so it can breathe without letting go”.

Be that bulldog. Breathe and have your life but never ever let
go. Never surrender.

Let me leave you with these words by Henry David Thoreau.

“I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the
direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined,

he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. “

Success is not made up of the grand gesture – the bold move or
big product launch or the perfect ad that hits the target.

Those things are fun when they happen but they are not the stuff of
life or the building blocks of success.

Success is made up of doing the little things every
day. Success comes from doing what you can today, knowing
that doors will open as you need them.

Success comes from being willing to learn what you need to
learn and being willing to do what you need to do.

Success comes from following a proven path, knowing in your
heart that if good things can happen for the Charlie Page’s
of the world there is no reason they can not or will not happen for you
too.

Go out today – right now – and move confidently in the
direction of your dream. Then get up tomorrow and do it again.

Soon you will find that you are succeeding on YOUR terms.

And that is a beautiful thing indeed!

Posted by Charlie
on Wednesday, January 13, 2010 at 5:43 pm

I fully concur with Charlies post! You CAN do it. If
you are willing to do the small things consistently, and

persist – until it is done!.

The freedom and success I’ve achieved has not been through
some innate abilities (some of you know my story, poorly
educated, low self esteem etc), or through luck. It was through taking
action (the small steps), failing, trying again, finding a mentor,
committing and persisting over time.

As Winston Churchill said, in my favourite quote, ” Never Give
up! “

Use this link to check out Charlies very valuable service.

Comments by Doug Green
Team-Green.net – I don’t know if this qualifies as a three
way link  or Viral, I DO know that it is a post from two people
I admire.  The Motivation lesson learned is Focus – Pick out a
Successful Mentor/Business Owner

then ” Be Like Mike” – Do what they do.

My lesson learned  as a Baby Boomer  is Start the Family
Tradition Now – Be a Hero to your Kids again – Start that College
Fund for your Grand Kids – Just Start Now!