Podcast: Sandy Forster – From Broke To Attracting Wildly Wealthy Success
September 10, 2009 by Tyrone
In this interview I spoke to Sandy Forster from Wildly Wealthy. Sandy is an absolutely amazing woman and when I say amazing, she definitely has an inspiring story to share, which is what she talks about in the interview.
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Sandy Forster: From Broke To Attracting Wildly Wealthy Success
Sandy has experienced both the highs and lows of life, going from being flat broke supported by the government on a $15,000 benefit, all the way to being extremely successful creating the life that most people dream of. It was only after ten years and a divorce when this happened to Sandy. She found herself with $100,000 in debt and had two small children to support. Then when she increased her income to over $150,000 she thought her money worries were over, but a lack of money management skills and the right mindset meant that she once again lost everything. This led Sandy on a tireless search to understand money, prosperity and abundance, and how to make it flow, grow and multiply.
Sandy is the co-owner of Wildly Wealthy Women where they teach women on how to attract wealth through the power of the subconscious mind. From there, she created Wildly Wealthy, which currently has tens of thousands of people from over 88 countries learning her success strategies through live teleconferences, workshops and seminars.
Not only does she run a successful Internet business, she is also an international best selling author with a book called How to Be Wildly Wealthy Fast. Additionally, she has contributed to four other books, shared the stage with leaders in personal development such as Mark Victor Hansen (ChickenSoup for the Soul), and also has been featured in a number of Dr Wayne Dyer’s books, audio programs and appeared on national television.
In the interview and you will learn:
- How to change your mindset that will attract money in your life
- What are Sandy’s daily habits that keeps her creating more success in her life
- How to break and eliminate poverty consciousness
- Why you need to live your dreams today and not let external influences hold you back
- How to create the prosperity and abundance mindset
Podcast: Michael Dunlop – Retire At 21 Blogger
July 10, 2009 by Tyrone
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Michael Dunlop – Retire At 21 And Living A Life!
Today’s interview is with Michael Dunlop who is a very successful young entrepreneur, an inspirational blogger and business owner. At the age of 20 his achieved quite a lot where he owns 9 websites that all generate a substantial amount of income every month. He lives a life that most people don’t get to experience until they retire, where he can travel around the world and socialise with top Internet Marketers.
His famous for his blog Retire At 21 which showcases other young entrepreneur’s success stories. This was the reason why I wanted to interview Michael and find out what got him started and what is his secret to success. He mentions to me that his also dyslexic and dropped out of high school before he was 18. It is an inspiration to see that Michael takes action on what he says which has attributed to his success.
Spreading The Word: Turbocharge Your Traffic
March 19, 2009 by Tyrone
For many people who are just starting out or have been running an Internet business for some time, driving traffic to their website is a key factor in marketing products and services. The more traffic gained, the more expose to your products and services. Furthermore, traffic isn’t the end result, it’s converting this traffic into sales. I will talk about how to convert this traffic into sales tomorrow, but for now I’ll show you some great ways to turbocharge your traffic using the latest technologies: (by the way, these are not in any order and try the ones that would fit your Internet business model)
Twitter
Twitter, a highly talked about social networking tool has done wonders for many Internet marketers and you either use it or turn a blind eye to it. I started using it only a couple of weeks ago and it’s helped increase my traffic by up to 500% in a few days, follow me at Twitter to see. It is easy to join and sends out a short 140 character message to all your followers letting them quickly see what you are currently doing. It works well if you approach this strategically by attracting people to follow you from your target market. If you have a blog, then tweet your posts automatically using a Wordpress plugin called Bird Feeder. It works wonders and Twitter is also a great way to monitor what people are saying about your products and services.
Linkedin
To join Linkedin, simply create a profile and you will be promoted a professional online network. Linkedin mainly targets business people allowing them to stay in touch with industry professionals. It’s great for people changing jobs and looking for business opportunities. Furthermore make sure you promote your website if your an Internet business. Many people look for products and services via Linkedin as well, and usually refer others to your website if it’s not relevant to them.
Wordpress Blog
If you’re reading this post, you may not know but you are actually reading it from a Wordpress Blog. This is an excellent way to promote your ideas and get your messages out on the Internet. Also search engines love blogs because they provide new content on a regular basis and that’s what people want, new fresh ideas to read about. It helps drive organic traffic to your website and builds your ranking on search engines.
Digital Press Releases
Have you ever wondered how people get their stories in newspapers, radio and other media channels? Lots of journalists nowadays look at digital press releases listed on sites such as PRWeb, Pressbox or PRLog to write their articles. Create a news story for your Internet business and submit it to generate free publicity and traffic to your website.
Web 2.0 Social Sharing
Have you noticed after reading an article there are icons and a button that say “Share This“? It’s commonly used in blogs and if a reader likes your article then they click on it and it will automatically distribute it via many of the Web 2.0 social networks. So why not add a simple social “Share This” tool to your website? If you want to also learn how to make money from Web 2.0, read my free report: “Make Money From The New Web 2.0“.
Social Networking Presence
Leverage social networks such as Facebook and Myspace by creating a fan page for people to see. Promote yourself and Internet business by developing a personality and brand which people will associate you to. So whenever they visit your fan page then your website they will see a consistent branding across the board and will rave on about you to friends and family.
Create A Mash Up
Feature news and videos from your industry by streaming free content onto your website. Yahoo Pipes allows you to pull in RSS feeds for news and YouTube helps you create and feature videos on your website. It helps drive more traffic from different sources in your market and increase your presence on search engines.
Crowdstorming
By asking your clients what they want you get free ideas on what products or services to create for them. You can leverage their needs and turn them into articles which you can post onto your blog. If there are enough people who demand for these needs, then you have yourself a product and more business will come along your way by simply asking a question.
Continue reading Converting Traffic Into Sales Part 1: Generating Leads.
Tyrone Shum
Turbocharging Traffic
Focus Brings Long Term Results
Over the past 2 years of venturing out and running my own business and not working full-time in a job I have tried numerous business opportunities. I have tried businesses in providing student accommodation, share trading and options, renting and selling paddles to dragon boat clubs and selling toilet odour eliminator products online. This was opportunistic thinking and diminished my efforts as I got started by adding more work rather than focusing on one business. It was all very tempting to try and run them at the same time to see which one would take off. Unfortunately there was no focus and when times got tough I jumped across to work on the business that interested me more.
Opportunistic Thinking Is Bad
If you are like me and see that everything is possible and always keeping an open mind about business ideas, then you will find it irresistible to try new ideas. Trust me I’ve learnt the hard way. So how have I changed this? I’m a huge fan of Yaro Starak’s blog – entrepreneurs-journey.com and one day he wrote a post about his coach Rich Schefren who was launching a new coaching program. As usual most internet marketers have a system to launch their new products and give away a lot of free quality information that can be applied straight away. They do this so they can build rapport with you and show that their information is useful before they start their sales pitch on you. As I knew the information was free and they just wanted my email address, I downloaded Rich’s eBook, the “Internet Manifesto“. If you haven’t read it, I would recommend you get a copy of it immediately.
The Change in Mindset
After reading the “Internet Manifesto”, I had a profound moment that I would change the way I operate my business. My mindset went from “thinking opportunistic” to “thinking strategically” meaning if I wanted to build a long term business I would have to set up the right systems and hire staff to leverage my time. I realised that I couldn’t do everything myself. Rich’s famous flowchart accurately shows how most Solo Enterpreneurs run their Internet Businesseses today. (I’m one of them and have taken action to outsource a lot of my work since then)
Since then I have taken action to sell my businesses that are not part of my goals and made a mental decision to not start new business opportunities.
Focus Is Key
Since I was compelled to find out more, I downloaded the rest of Rich’s series of books which are listed below:
- Internet Manifesto
- The Missing Chapter
- The Final Chapter
- Attention Age Doctrine Part 2
- Maven Matrix Manifesto
- The Entrepreneurial Emergency
Through this series I learned that I needed to focus on one task at a time, not five at a time (today’s generation calls it multi-tasking). Making that shift helped me improve time efficiency and also get tasks completed that generated more money. Additionally, you need to use your strengths to focus on a task and learn to outsource the rest that you are not good at. This is the key to long-term success in any business.
Tyrone Shum
Focus Strategist
Mindset Of An Entrepreneur
January 15, 2009 by Tyrone
I remember in 2001 when I first read a book about entrepreneurship, it changed my mindset and became the turning point in my life. Once I started to embrace new ideas and have an open mind to business opportunities, I started attracting more of it. It was a phenomenal change for me and I started to notice the different mindsets of people around me.
What Is The mindset Of An Entrepreneur?
An Entrepreneur sees the world differently and applies different principles to the environment they are in. They are a great strategist and a master at leveraging their skills and time to grow their business through people, money and technology. There are two different approaches that I see, the employee mindset and the business owner mindset.
Employee Mindset
Previously when I was working in a real estate agency as an employee my day was set and I had to be at work between the hours of 8am to 5pm. I was given work to complete by my boss and told when to have lunch. Basically I was told what to do during my time at work and getting paid for it. Unfortunately a majority of the population has been trained this way and it stems from the days of schooling. We were taught and given homework at school, which meant if we didn’t complete it we would get some sort of punishment or if we did complete it, we would get graded with a number. This way we were trained to complete a task because we were told to, not because we thought how will this benefit others or make a difference to the world and my life? The employee mindset is what I call “lazy” thinking because we are spoon fed what to do and how to do it. We get paid for just getting up and going to work.
Business Owner Mindset
As a business owner I take complete ownership of what I do everyday within my business. It doesn’t necessarily mean that I do everything in the business. What it means is that as a business owner I see the world’s opportunities differently.
An Employee Mindset Vs. A Business Owner Mindset
An employee’s mentality is to follow commands.
