Donald Sander, Affiliate
2810 Concord Lane
Woodward, Oklahoma
73801-USA
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
How I Went From a Beaten Up, Broken Down, Smoke Bomb Car
and 1:30 Second Microwave Corn Dogs To World Travel & The
Internet Lifestyle
Subtitle: My Story
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Hello,
Marlon here.
This is a special article from my Marlon's Marketing Minute
ezine you'll get every Saturday....
If you're struggling to make ends meet, or you're new to
the game of Internet marketing, or things are going good
but you want them to go better, then my story might be of
value to you.
In fact, I'm almost sure it will.
Things are good now. My affiliate list has 30,000 folks on
it. But when I started it had none.
I've spoken all over the world in Kaui, Gold Coast
Australia, Wembely arena in London where rock stars
perform, Bermuda, and all over the U.S. from Seattle, San
Francisco, San Diego, LA, to Houston, Dallas, St. Louis,
Chicago, Nashville, Philadelphia, Miami, New York, Boston,
Raleigh, and other cities.
I've been selling $20,000, $30,000, $40,000 and $50,000 a
month for longer than I can remember, which would 1998 --
and before.
Unlike Johnny-Come-Lately's, my formula has stood the test
of time.
But when I first started, my hands shook so much, I could
barely put the transparencies on the projector I used at
the time.
Fact is, I remember when I first read that ad in a
magazine. It was about some dude in Ohio who had a method
of escaping the rat race by assembling "systems." So I
sent in my dough and waited.
That ugly blue book turned me onto a whole new world
called "direct response marketing." And what the
old-timers called "mail order."
I started buying everything I could afford. I just had to
know more about this thing where you'd sell products for a
living instead of selling your own time. That sounded like
a good thing to me.
I bought all kinds of junk. And I do mean junk. Some of it
was really useless. But I knew I was digging through the
coal to find the diamonds. And if you don't go through the
coal, you never find the diamonds.
Schemes, plans, ideas, systems, reports, books. I had 'em
all. One thing I learned from all that was the difference
between a good information product and a bad one.
I didn't tell anyone what I was doing. But I kept doing it
and being persistent. I didn't quit like a lot of people
do because I had this desire and visions.
You didn't have the Internet when I first started learning
to do this stuff. The game was you'd run these little ads
in ad sheets or magazines offering a report. People would
write in and then you'd send them your sales letter.
Nowadays, you can do that in 30 minutes using Google
Adwords. Back then, I'd run my little ad and wait 2 or 3
months for it to come out. I'd spend all the change I had
trying to print up and mail stuff.
A few orders would come back but never enough to even pay
for the printing! The learning curve back then creeped
along like a turtle. Nowadays, you can learn what I did in
years of effort in 6 months if you make the decision to do
it.
I chased a lot of dead ends and had a lot of things that
didn't work out. If you've ever ran ads or tried "methods"
or "formulas" that didn't work for you, then maybe you can
related to the disappointment and frustration I felt. The
only difference between me and those who never got
anywhere is I didn't give up.
I just KNEW I could do it.
Those times tested my patience. And pocketbook. I remember
when I worked as a freelance writer in the daytime and did
telemarketing, timeshare sales and other stuff at night
trying to make ends meet while I learned the business.
Back then, you didn't have all the great information
products to cut your learning curve like you have today.
You know, I had maybe 4 or 5 good books to learn from.
That was about it.
So it was all trial-and-error learning. And I think going
through all that pain is what motivated me later on to
lend a helping hand to others who felt some of the same
things I did.
My Buick car had engine problems. I'd look back behind as
I drove to see if smoke came out the tailpipe or not. I
never knew for sure.
Not until one day somehow I got a date with a model. A
real one. How, I don't know because I was really tall and
thinner than an ironing board. I had to put skis on so I
didn't get washed down the shower drain.
Anyway, we went to this nice place where they had valet
parking. When I got out the valet guys were literally
laughing at the smoke bellowing out my tail pipe.
But then....
The rider's side door opened. And this 6 foot tall model
with beautiful hair got out. They didn't laugh anymore.
I doubt I tipped valet because I couldn't afford to spit
in those days. I remember making $7,500 one year and
eating minute thirty second microwave corn dogs and living
off the $1.97 burger, fries, coke drive through on
Greenville Avenue in Dallas, Texas.
Later, I'd make $7500 in a day -- and more. But not back
then...
It wasn't all bad. I had a female friend named Kelli. We'd
swing by late night at the Taco Cabana and get nachos.
That was all either of us could afford.
Out of desperation, I took this job working deep nights.
I'd go to work at 11 p.m. and get off at 7:30 in the
morning. I did that for 3 years. I think I lost half my
hair then due to the stress of the job.
I got really sick at that job and developed asthma. I paid
a price to get where I am today....
I made enough money I could fork over $5,000 for advanced
marketing training.
And when I mixed that in with all the other stuff I'd been
reading, studying and learning about -- a BREAKTHROUGH
happened.
I call it stumbling across "The Amazing Formula That Sells
Products Like Crazy."
Something just clicked in my head. I can't explain it. All
of a sudden I got it. That was after YEARS of NOT getting
it. YEARS of running ads that didn't work or mucking
around with things.
I mean, I once put 30,000 miles on my car in 6 months
trying to sell insurance and only sold 1 homeowners policy
on a wood frame house my company didn't want to insure.
So if you're not great at sales or something, I
understand. Boy, do I understand.
What I found at, though, is that if you keep at it, sooner
or later something clicks. Or it did for me.
I started getting paid to write letters for clients. I
won't go through the whole story here. But things started
turning around. At first, slowly....
Then....like a GUSHER.
When you "get it" and success happens, it can happen
really, really quickly. Success is when preparedness meets
opportunity.
Like one time I took a vacation to Hong Kong and Thailand,
came home and I had a $5,000 consulting check waiting for
me. And I hadn't even asked for it. The guy just sent it.
I got paid $7500 to $10,000+ to write sales letters for
clients.
I got invited to teach my sales formula at seminars.
When success happens, it happens quickly. If you've done
all your groundwork and preparation. But a lot of people
get impatient. They want it all today without paying the
price of preparation and learning the basics.
I understand that.
The good news is can happen 10X or 20X faster today than
it happened for me.
I felt like an evangelist on the mission. I'd been at the
bottom of the barrel and below in marketing. And I knew
what it was like to be there. And what it was like to be
at the top.
I had a MISSION to teach people the secrets that work. The
things that REALLY make the difference. And to cut through
the noise, eliminate 50% to 80% of the learning curve --
and get people on the path to success as quickly as
possible.
I boiled the sales process online down into a 12-step
formula. I taught it at over 120 seminars where people
paid $3,000 to be there. Later, my "Push Button Letters"
software codified that formula into a fill-in-the-blanks"
process.
All of that culminated when I penned my smash hit "The
Amazing Formula That Sells Products Like Crazy."
It has hundreds of testimonials from around the world. I
followed it up with the action plan to implement it called
"Gimme My Money Now."
And then there's a whole string of step-by-step
Dashboards, which is what inspired my title as the King of
Step-By-Step Online Marketing training.
But I'm going to confess something here.
I'd bank a lot more dough if I wanted to work crazy hours,
weeks or months like some other famous Internet marketers
do.
My goal always was lifestyle. I'd rather live a
comfortable life on a 1 hour workday than be live ultra high on
the hog on a 12-hour workday.
I don't drive the fanciest car, live in the biggest home,
or sport the most exotic watch. But I could if I wanted.
Then again, my workday consists of hanging out at
Starbucks, mucking around a little on my laptop and
calling it good.
I don't speak at as many seminars as I used to. After
you've done 120 around the world, it isn't exactly new.
And the seminar Game has evolved into how much of your
products you can sell in your 90-minute speech. It's
really just not my cup of tea.
Some of my customers have asked how come I don't do the
massive product launches like some do. As though doing
that somehow makes you more credible.
The answer is you have to work longer, harder and more
intensely than I care to in order to pull off one of those
launches. It's not my thing. Maybe I'll do it someday. But
I doubt it. My thing is now and always has been creating
consistent, steady systems that underwrite my lifestyle,
my dreams and my future for myself and those I care about.
So this is my story.
If you'd enjoy making your living on your laptop at
Starbucks or wherever it is you like to go, and you
realize that the work is upfront learning things but once
you "get it" you have the greatest lifestyle in the world,
then I recommend this business.
Truth be told, 80% or 90% of the people who buy products
in this industry probably don't make that much.
Why? Most try a thing or two, it doesn't pan out and they
go onto other things.
Nothing wrong with that. I'm here and I exist for those
who are truth seekers. Those like me who won't take no for
an answer. Those who realize you gotta dig through coal to
find the diamonds.
My mission is to help the 10 percenters who really have
the desire to get behind the curtains and see how the
magic really happens.
My mission is to share the true gospel of Internet
marketing without the hype or fluff.
My mission is to help the guy or gal who has some of the
same pain that I felt and help them get beyond that to a
new world of understanding and a new lifestyle.
I'm NOT here for the guy or gal who wants to buy one or
two products and all of a sudden be hauling down 6
figures.
That isn't reality. And it isn't how the game is played.
I'm here to help the person who understands this is a
business. And all business involves risk of gain or loss.
You may or may not make it.
There are no guarantees in business or life.
I can't guarantee you'll wake up in the morning.
But I can guarantee to share the secrets that led me to go
from a beaten up, broken down smoke bomb car and a diet of
minute thirty second corn dogs to a wonderful lifestyle,
world travel and a business I can run on my laptop in 30
minutes or an hour a day at Starbucks (most days).
-----------------------------------------------------------
Marlon Sanders is the author of "The Amazing Formula That
Sells Products Like Crazy and the KING of Step-By-Step
Internet Marketing."
To get on his killer ezine list, to get cheat sheets and all kinds
of other goodies every Saturday and during the week, to get simple,
to-the-point Internet marketing know that works real world without
all the hype, go to: http://marlonsnews.com/?p=ms75486 and subscribe
Check out all my product here:
http://www.getyourprofits.com/?p=ms75486
(SIGN UP AS A RESELLER, put YOUR reseller URL and ID where
the above link is, post this on your web site and make some
dough for spreading a killer guide everyone will want to
read.)
//////////////////////
REPRINT RIGHTS: You have permission to use the above
article without omission and including the resource box.
You have the right to insert your reseller URL for any
products I mention
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Services You Can Use
(If you want to post this ENTIRE ezine, you can replace the
following links with your RESELLER links)
1. It's the only step-by-step, A to Z system not JUST for
creating info products .... but that shows you HOW to select
product ideas using my "flanking move" I've built my business
on, HOW to do 12-product surveys with an actual example, that
gives you a tested, proven email & source witha 30% success
rate in getting interviews with experts -- PLUS, templates
that would cost your more than the Dashboard to have custom
created! http://www.getyoursales.com?p=ms75486&w=create
2. The Marketing Dashboard: Amazing Formula and Gimme
boiled down to icons and step-by-step. Doesn't replace AF
and Gimme but useful. Basically, it spoon feeds all the
things in AF and Gimme. http://www.getyoursales.com?p=ms75486&w=marketingdash
3. The Marketing Diary: Me teaching Matt daily all the
details of the Amazing Formula and Gimme system. This
contains additional insights into The Amazing Formula and
Gimme that you won't find in those products. It's
literally what I taught to Matt in his first 90 days with
me. http://www.themarketingdiary.com/?p=ms75486
4. After 8 years, thousands of customer emails, thousands of
buyers in virtually every major city in the world (and
many you haven't heard of), 13 web site designs, 4 product
designs, after ebook and CD versions, after endorsements
from major marketers the world over, after hundreds of
marketers and products have come and gone, after attacks
by the world's most notorious criminals, after attempts to
put it under, there is ONE product that remains and stands
tall. There is one product that is stable.
http://www.getyourprofits.com?p=ms75486&w=af
5. Are You Paying Over $10.00 For Hosting? If you are,
you may be getting ripped off. Design Dashboard shows you
not only the basics of doing your own design but really
walks you step by step through setting up your hosting,
autoresponders and shopping cart.
http://www.getyoursales.com?p=ms75486&w=designdash
Higher Response Marketing, Inc., 11844 Bandera Rd #469, Helotes, TX 78023, USA
and 1:30 Second Microwave Corn Dogs To World Travel & The
Internet Lifestyle
Subtitle: My Story
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Hello,
Marlon here.
This is a special article from my Marlon's Marketing Minute
ezine you'll get every Saturday....
If you're struggling to make ends meet, or you're new to
the game of Internet marketing, or things are going good
but you want them to go better, then my story might be of
value to you.
In fact, I'm almost sure it will.
Things are good now. My affiliate list has 30,000 folks on
it. But when I started it had none.
I've spoken all over the world in Kaui, Gold Coast
Australia, Wembely arena in London where rock stars
perform, Bermuda, and all over the U.S. from Seattle, San
Francisco, San Diego, LA, to Houston, Dallas, St. Louis,
Chicago, Nashville, Philadelphia, Miami, New York, Boston,
Raleigh, and other cities.
I've been selling $20,000, $30,000, $40,000 and $50,000 a
month for longer than I can remember, which would 1998 --
and before.
Unlike Johnny-Come-Lately's, my formula has stood the test
of time.
But when I first started, my hands shook so much, I could
barely put the transparencies on the projector I used at
the time.
Fact is, I remember when I first read that ad in a
magazine. It was about some dude in Ohio who had a method
of escaping the rat race by assembling "systems." So I
sent in my dough and waited.
That ugly blue book turned me onto a whole new world
called "direct response marketing." And what the
old-timers called "mail order."
I started buying everything I could afford. I just had to
know more about this thing where you'd sell products for a
living instead of selling your own time. That sounded like
a good thing to me.
I bought all kinds of junk. And I do mean junk. Some of it
was really useless. But I knew I was digging through the
coal to find the diamonds. And if you don't go through the
coal, you never find the diamonds.
Schemes, plans, ideas, systems, reports, books. I had 'em
all. One thing I learned from all that was the difference
between a good information product and a bad one.
I didn't tell anyone what I was doing. But I kept doing it
and being persistent. I didn't quit like a lot of people
do because I had this desire and visions.
You didn't have the Internet when I first started learning
to do this stuff. The game was you'd run these little ads
in ad sheets or magazines offering a report. People would
write in and then you'd send them your sales letter.
Nowadays, you can do that in 30 minutes using Google
Adwords. Back then, I'd run my little ad and wait 2 or 3
months for it to come out. I'd spend all the change I had
trying to print up and mail stuff.
A few orders would come back but never enough to even pay
for the printing! The learning curve back then creeped
along like a turtle. Nowadays, you can learn what I did in
years of effort in 6 months if you make the decision to do
it.
I chased a lot of dead ends and had a lot of things that
didn't work out. If you've ever ran ads or tried "methods"
or "formulas" that didn't work for you, then maybe you can
related to the disappointment and frustration I felt. The
only difference between me and those who never got
anywhere is I didn't give up.
I just KNEW I could do it.
Those times tested my patience. And pocketbook. I remember
when I worked as a freelance writer in the daytime and did
telemarketing, timeshare sales and other stuff at night
trying to make ends meet while I learned the business.
Back then, you didn't have all the great information
products to cut your learning curve like you have today.
You know, I had maybe 4 or 5 good books to learn from.
That was about it.
So it was all trial-and-error learning. And I think going
through all that pain is what motivated me later on to
lend a helping hand to others who felt some of the same
things I did.
My Buick car had engine problems. I'd look back behind as
I drove to see if smoke came out the tailpipe or not. I
never knew for sure.
Not until one day somehow I got a date with a model. A
real one. How, I don't know because I was really tall and
thinner than an ironing board. I had to put skis on so I
didn't get washed down the shower drain.
Anyway, we went to this nice place where they had valet
parking. When I got out the valet guys were literally
laughing at the smoke bellowing out my tail pipe.
But then....
The rider's side door opened. And this 6 foot tall model
with beautiful hair got out. They didn't laugh anymore.
I doubt I tipped valet because I couldn't afford to spit
in those days. I remember making $7,500 one year and
eating minute thirty second microwave corn dogs and living
off the $1.97 burger, fries, coke drive through on
Greenville Avenue in Dallas, Texas.
Later, I'd make $7500 in a day -- and more. But not back
then...
It wasn't all bad. I had a female friend named Kelli. We'd
swing by late night at the Taco Cabana and get nachos.
That was all either of us could afford.
Out of desperation, I took this job working deep nights.
I'd go to work at 11 p.m. and get off at 7:30 in the
morning. I did that for 3 years. I think I lost half my
hair then due to the stress of the job.
I got really sick at that job and developed asthma. I paid
a price to get where I am today....
I made enough money I could fork over $5,000 for advanced
marketing training.
And when I mixed that in with all the other stuff I'd been
reading, studying and learning about -- a BREAKTHROUGH
happened.
I call it stumbling across "The Amazing Formula That Sells
Products Like Crazy."
Something just clicked in my head. I can't explain it. All
of a sudden I got it. That was after YEARS of NOT getting
it. YEARS of running ads that didn't work or mucking
around with things.
I mean, I once put 30,000 miles on my car in 6 months
trying to sell insurance and only sold 1 homeowners policy
on a wood frame house my company didn't want to insure.
So if you're not great at sales or something, I
understand. Boy, do I understand.
What I found at, though, is that if you keep at it, sooner
or later something clicks. Or it did for me.
I started getting paid to write letters for clients. I
won't go through the whole story here. But things started
turning around. At first, slowly....
Then....like a GUSHER.
When you "get it" and success happens, it can happen
really, really quickly. Success is when preparedness meets
opportunity.
Like one time I took a vacation to Hong Kong and Thailand,
came home and I had a $5,000 consulting check waiting for
me. And I hadn't even asked for it. The guy just sent it.
I got paid $7500 to $10,000+ to write sales letters for
clients.
I got invited to teach my sales formula at seminars.
When success happens, it happens quickly. If you've done
all your groundwork and preparation. But a lot of people
get impatient. They want it all today without paying the
price of preparation and learning the basics.
I understand that.
The good news is can happen 10X or 20X faster today than
it happened for me.
I felt like an evangelist on the mission. I'd been at the
bottom of the barrel and below in marketing. And I knew
what it was like to be there. And what it was like to be
at the top.
I had a MISSION to teach people the secrets that work. The
things that REALLY make the difference. And to cut through
the noise, eliminate 50% to 80% of the learning curve --
and get people on the path to success as quickly as
possible.
I boiled the sales process online down into a 12-step
formula. I taught it at over 120 seminars where people
paid $3,000 to be there. Later, my "Push Button Letters"
software codified that formula into a fill-in-the-blanks"
process.
All of that culminated when I penned my smash hit "The
Amazing Formula That Sells Products Like Crazy."
It has hundreds of testimonials from around the world. I
followed it up with the action plan to implement it called
"Gimme My Money Now."
And then there's a whole string of step-by-step
Dashboards, which is what inspired my title as the King of
Step-By-Step Online Marketing training.
But I'm going to confess something here.
I'd bank a lot more dough if I wanted to work crazy hours,
weeks or months like some other famous Internet marketers
do.
My goal always was lifestyle. I'd rather live a
comfortable life on a 1 hour workday than be live ultra high on
the hog on a 12-hour workday.
I don't drive the fanciest car, live in the biggest home,
or sport the most exotic watch. But I could if I wanted.
Then again, my workday consists of hanging out at
Starbucks, mucking around a little on my laptop and
calling it good.
I don't speak at as many seminars as I used to. After
you've done 120 around the world, it isn't exactly new.
And the seminar Game has evolved into how much of your
products you can sell in your 90-minute speech. It's
really just not my cup of tea.
Some of my customers have asked how come I don't do the
massive product launches like some do. As though doing
that somehow makes you more credible.
The answer is you have to work longer, harder and more
intensely than I care to in order to pull off one of those
launches. It's not my thing. Maybe I'll do it someday. But
I doubt it. My thing is now and always has been creating
consistent, steady systems that underwrite my lifestyle,
my dreams and my future for myself and those I care about.
So this is my story.
If you'd enjoy making your living on your laptop at
Starbucks or wherever it is you like to go, and you
realize that the work is upfront learning things but once
you "get it" you have the greatest lifestyle in the world,
then I recommend this business.
Truth be told, 80% or 90% of the people who buy products
in this industry probably don't make that much.
Why? Most try a thing or two, it doesn't pan out and they
go onto other things.
Nothing wrong with that. I'm here and I exist for those
who are truth seekers. Those like me who won't take no for
an answer. Those who realize you gotta dig through coal to
find the diamonds.
My mission is to help the 10 percenters who really have
the desire to get behind the curtains and see how the
magic really happens.
My mission is to share the true gospel of Internet
marketing without the hype or fluff.
My mission is to help the guy or gal who has some of the
same pain that I felt and help them get beyond that to a
new world of understanding and a new lifestyle.
I'm NOT here for the guy or gal who wants to buy one or
two products and all of a sudden be hauling down 6
figures.
That isn't reality. And it isn't how the game is played.
I'm here to help the person who understands this is a
business. And all business involves risk of gain or loss.
You may or may not make it.
There are no guarantees in business or life.
I can't guarantee you'll wake up in the morning.
But I can guarantee to share the secrets that led me to go
from a beaten up, broken down smoke bomb car and a diet of
minute thirty second corn dogs to a wonderful lifestyle,
world travel and a business I can run on my laptop in 30
minutes or an hour a day at Starbucks (most days).
-----------------------------------------------------------
Marlon Sanders is the author of "The Amazing Formula That
Sells Products Like Crazy and the KING of Step-By-Step
Internet Marketing."
To get on his killer ezine list, to get cheat sheets and all kinds
of other goodies every Saturday and during the week, to get simple,
to-the-point Internet marketing know that works real world without
all the hype, go to: http://marlonsnews.com/?p=ms75486 and subscribe
Check out all my product here:
http://www.getyourprofits.com/?p=ms75486
(SIGN UP AS A RESELLER, put YOUR reseller URL and ID where
the above link is, post this on your web site and make some
dough for spreading a killer guide everyone will want to
read.)
//////////////////////
REPRINT RIGHTS: You have permission to use the above
article without omission and including the resource box.
You have the right to insert your reseller URL for any
products I mention
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Services You Can Use
(If you want to post this ENTIRE ezine, you can replace the
following links with your RESELLER links)
1. It's the only step-by-step, A to Z system not JUST for
creating info products .... but that shows you HOW to select
product ideas using my "flanking move" I've built my business
on, HOW to do 12-product surveys with an actual example, that
gives you a tested, proven email & source witha 30% success
rate in getting interviews with experts -- PLUS, templates
that would cost your more than the Dashboard to have custom
created! http://www.getyoursales.com?p=ms75486&w=create
2. The Marketing Dashboard: Amazing Formula and Gimme
boiled down to icons and step-by-step. Doesn't replace AF
and Gimme but useful. Basically, it spoon feeds all the
things in AF and Gimme. http://www.getyoursales.com?p=ms75486&w=marketingdash
3. The Marketing Diary: Me teaching Matt daily all the
details of the Amazing Formula and Gimme system. This
contains additional insights into The Amazing Formula and
Gimme that you won't find in those products. It's
literally what I taught to Matt in his first 90 days with
me. http://www.themarketingdiary.com/?p=ms75486
4. After 8 years, thousands of customer emails, thousands of
buyers in virtually every major city in the world (and
many you haven't heard of), 13 web site designs, 4 product
designs, after ebook and CD versions, after endorsements
from major marketers the world over, after hundreds of
marketers and products have come and gone, after attacks
by the world's most notorious criminals, after attempts to
put it under, there is ONE product that remains and stands
tall. There is one product that is stable.
http://www.getyourprofits.com?p=ms75486&w=af
5. Are You Paying Over $10.00 For Hosting? If you are,
you may be getting ripped off. Design Dashboard shows you
not only the basics of doing your own design but really
walks you step by step through setting up your hosting,
autoresponders and shopping cart.
http://www.getyoursales.com?p=ms75486&w=designdash
Higher Response Marketing, Inc., 11844 Bandera Rd #469, Helotes, TX 78023, USA
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