A New Years Teaching From My Spontaneous Trip to Europe…

So… if you’re wondering why I’ve been quiet the last few weeks.  Here’s the deal…

I decided to take a spontaneous last minute trip to Europe for New Years, & I had so much damn fun I pretty much fell off the earth.  Never the less… in true Jonathan Budd fashion I’m always thinking of YOU, my fellow community member, and I recorded a very special video for you to help your 2012 be the most EPIC year possible.

Seriously… it’s 2012.  This is an EPIC year.  Lets make sure we take full advantage of it, and we choose to live in the most fruitful, powerful, & ENJOYABLE manner we could possibly live in.  This video will help.

Here’s today’s adventure…

When you truly realize what you are COMMITTED to, and you bring your “unconscious commitments” to the light… it gives you a new found power to CHOOSE how your future will unfold.

You get to CHOOSE a probable outcome for your future… by being committed to the actions, thoughts, attitudes, & emotions that will create the future you want. It’s only when our commitments are unconscious, that we end up creating results that leave us wondering… “how the heck did I get here?”.

Today’s video will help make sure you start 2012 genuinely committed to what you truly want… & leave the baggage behind.  Put these teachings to real use.

Oh, and if you want to see a couple of the countries I visited on this trip… enjoy the pictures below.  :) It’s truly a beautiful thing when you can decide you want to go to Europe for new years… and a week later you are there. Here’s to freedom!

“Kicking It Off in Krakow, Poland!”

Exploring Imperial Vienna in Austria!

Night Time in Prague, Czech Republic!

Marveling at More Prague Beauty…

In London, England With Big Ben!

My first time Ice Skating!

Hiding Out at a Salvador Dali Exhibition, one of my Favorite Artists!

The Classic Polish Diet…

This Sums Up A Good Amount of European Culture!

Well, it’s time to get back to it my friends.  Plus, I think I have a few pounds to work off from this trip. Heh, but it was a life well lived!

Enjoy yourselves amigo’s… and I’m serious about making this the most epic year of our lives ever. Leave me your comment if you’re COMMITTED to making that happen. :)

Speak soon.

Your friend,
Jonathan Budd

P.S. If your friends or followers should hear this message for their New Year… please share it with them. :)



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The Skill That Makes All Other Skills Possible…

It’s been a while since I’ve shared a video with you… and there’s good reason. :) I’ve been “Saving Up” to make sure it’s a very powerful one.

Without further ado… please INGEST the skill that makes all other skills possible…

I’d love to hear your comments & thoughts below. :)

I promise, if you take on what I shared in today’s video… if you really TRY IT OUT… it will change every single component of your life.  Piece by piece… you will transform your relationship to everything.

Enjoy the results.  And we’ll speak soon.

All my best,
Jonathan Budd

P.S. please pass this along on facebook & twitter to the rest of our human family… who most certainly could use this “Skill” as well. :)

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Key Reflections On Building a $13 Million Dollar Brand in Less Than 5 Years…

You know, I often reflect.  I reflect on pretty much everything.

In fact, I think reflection is one the most valuable qualities you can have.  You might also call it observation, or introspection.  Whatever you want to call it… it’s damn important.

Reflection is the process by which you STUDY yourself.  You make sure you don’t miss any of the golden lessons life is teaching you day by day.  Sometimes we get so caught up, we forget to reflect on our life. This is a bad idea.

If we don’t reflect, our lessons get buried like our emails we just forget to respond to. And reflection is like going back and DIGGING those lessons up… so we LEARN.  So we EVOLVE.  So we don’t keep repeating the same darn mistakes over & over again…


And so recently I thought it would be valuable to reflect on what TRULY were the defining traits, defining moments, defining characteristic, defining skill sets… that led me from being stuck in my parent’s basement with no clue what I was going to do with my life…

… to earning over $13 million dollars in the last 5 years from scratch, and building one of the largest brands to ever exist in our industry.

I thought these reflections might be useful to you, so I decided to share.  Here they are…

Reflection #1: Success Is a Devious Trickster, Who Laughs At Your Pain, Could Care Less About Your Excuses, & Gives You Exactly What You Need Even When You Don’t See It.

The story of how I got started in this industry is CLASSIC.  One of the top Internet Marketers in the world, spending MONTHS on end clicking ads inside a cheesy traffic exchange called “Traffic Swarm”…

… So that he could earn credits to put his ad in front of other people who were clicking ads to earn credits too!  If it sounds kind of pathetic to sit in a dark basement for hours a day clicking ads… well, I guess you’ve never been a true network marketer before. :) We’re willing to do just about damn near anything.

I literally spent 3 months clicking ads in Traffic Swarm… before I even had a website to send any of that traffic to.

Since I was completely broke, I had someone build my website for free, in exchange for them to put their adsense code on it.  Well… that took 2 1/2 months.

The very first day I “launched” my free 2 1/2 month piece of artwork website inside traffic swarm… I used something like 1600 of my credits in 12 hours.  In other words… that was  weeks of my life’s work gone, and not one lead produced.

:(   Now it’s during moments like these that I think most people would be disheartened.  But here’s where my reflection comes in…

… I don’t even remember stopping to think about it for more than like 10 seconds.  I came to this conclusion my website did not work very quickly, and instead of feeling sorry for myself, draining all my energy by complaining, & wishing things weren’t the way they were…  I INSTANTLY moved on.

I thought to myself… “ok, well that didn’t work. I’ll try something else.”

And that was that.  I just moved on in pursuit of a better solution.  Pretty simple right?  Easier said then done.  And that’s where INSIGHT comes in very handy.  You see, here’s the Irony of success.

Many people would think something like “Traffic Swarm” is a complete waste of time. But you have to remember… there were barely any mentors back then.   Mike Dillard was just getting started.  No one had a CLUE what ppc marketing was.  I hadn’t ever heard of anyone talking about using the Internet.  I was on my own.

And lo & behold… during the 3 months I spent clicking those stupid ads inside traffic swarm, I started LEARNING Internet Marketing.

I started seeing other people’s capture pages, other people’s sales pages. I started getting on different marketers lists, and learning about email marketing, list building, traffic, and all these other things.

The time I spent inside Traffic Swarm is where I literally got started with my Internet Marketing career, without ever even knowing I was on a path to have an Internet Marketing career.

If I had never found that cheesy, crummy little site... and clicked ads for months on end to get almost nothing… I would not be where I am today. That is just fascinating to think about.

We have no idea why certain experiences come into our lives.  Yet there is a divine order behind it all.  Every experience has the ability to teach us something profound if we let it.  But you have to be committed to STICKING everything through long enough to see what your lessons actually are.

Like the great Steve Jobs said… “You can’t connect the dots going forward.  Only going backward.”

You’ve got to have faith.  You’ve got to have faith in yourself, faith in the universe, & faith that there is no such thing as going backward.  There is ONLY learning.  Only growing. Going backward is an illusion.  You only lose if you quit.  Trust in the divine plan that is YOUR LIFE, and that it’s unfolding exactly as it is suppose to.

Reflection #2: What’s Failure?

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This is probably the biggest insight into success, period.

Now, like everyone usually does, I “Failed” my butt off.  Yet I want to dive deeper into what that word means, and propose a few better beliefs for you to go home with today rather than the ones you might have.

I never “failed” at anything more in my life then when I started network marketing.  I didn’t know it was possible to fail so much at one thing.

Literally, every single thing I tried did not work.  There were tiny crumbs of a success here or there.  Like, I maybe signed up one customer here, one other person there… but I lost way more money than I made & worked so hard it was insane.

And while most people wouldn’t wish that on anyone… I wish it on EVERYONE.

That time period of my life taught me the greatest lessons about myself I’ve almost ever learned.  I learned what it means to be UNSTOPPABLE from that time period in my life.

I can clearly see now, the ONLY DAMN REASON I am still here writing this is because I didn’t stop.  I had every excuse in the book to stop back then… along with a completely smashed hope… and no real way I could see how I was going to turn it around.

Yet I didn’t stop.

I just kept attempting one solution after another, after another, after another.  Like a dog that just could not be beat down, I didn’t stop.  As far as I can tell… that is the secret to success.  That is the secret to becoming a true master.

True masters just do not ever stop.  For them, failure is a sign that they are MOVING FORWARD.  They’re figuring out what works and what does not work.

Eventually… I found “Traffic Swarm”, & the rest is history. (haha, yea right)

In our lives, every single one of us will ultimately reach that point where the universe dangles a big giant carrot in front of us, in the form of our dreams.

And then for most of us… we have to do unimaginable things for it.  We have to work harder than we even knew was possible. Get stretched in ways we didn’t even know our being could stretch.  Get challenged like we didn’t even know you could be challenged.

All of this is our TEST.  The “Test” comes to everyone of us… and we either pass or fail.

And guess what, the test was designed for everyone.  It was designed so no one could possibly have an excuse for why they didn’t pass.  Want to know why?

Because you fail if you quit.  You pass if you never stop.

It’s that simple.  Yet never stop doesn’t mean you sit around and read emails like this every once & a while.  You’ve got to stay COMMITTED, plugged into the game. You have to continuously put your energy into your dream… and always be taking action towards reaching it in some form.  That’s never stopping.

Looking back… I can see that I failed forward fast.  Because I tried so many things fast, and failed at all of them… I got to a better solution quicker.  I advise you to do the same thing.

Reflection #3: The Only Hope Of Success You Have Is Contained Within Your Vision.

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Well, why would you never stop?  When something hurts, is killing you, is harder than hell… why not just stop?

YOUR VISION my friend.  Your vision.  It’s the only damn thing you’ve got at that point.

If I didn’t have a vision within me… something worth fighting and DYING for… I would have stopped. Can you imagine how much of a shame that would have been?

And unfortunately I think this is most people’s problem.  They say they want to be successful, they say they want their own business… but at the end of the day there’s no substance to it.

It’s like they just say that because they “think it’s cool”.  Or they think it will make them happier some how.  And there’s no real vision for why they want it beyond just that they think they will be happier.

Well, I can promise you, you will not be happier.  In fact… without this vision, you don’t stand a damn chance. You will get eaten alive.

If you don’t have a vision worth any cost, trust me…you WILL be happier just doing something else.

The only thing that makes being an entrepreneur worthwhile is your VISION.  It’s the fact you see a possibility for your life that is so extraordinary, you’ve got to go for it no matter what it costs.

And you’re willing to do whatever it takes to reach it.  Whatever it takes.  Plain & simple.  It doesn’t matter… life without your vision is simply crap.

That’s the kind of vision I’m talking about.  If you don’t have it… you need to reflect.  You need to take a good honest look at your life, & ask yourself… “what is this really about for me?”  “What do I really want?”  “Why am I doing this?”.

Without a vision worth ANY cost you could ever pay… it’s likely you won’t reach knock it out of the park success.  The vision is the driver.

Thankfully, I had some early life experiences where I realized there was more to life than the path being suggested to me.  I knew I could create something beautiful with my life… and no other path seemed to make sense.  I wanted to give back to the world in a much bigger way than any college career paths were offering me.

MAJOR POINT: if you want to quit it’s because your vision is shit. No true entrepreneur in their right mind would ever give up on their vision.

Reflection #4: The Beauty Of Imperfection Is That You GET STARTED.

how to stop procrastinatingNow, this part many of you know VERY well.

I don’t have to tell you how often I hear from my students some rendition of “I can’t get started until I’m perfect” come out of their mouth.  The reason I don’t have to tell you about it… is because it’s likely THAT’S YOU.

So pay close attention to this reflection.  Because it’s one that truly sheds an incredible light on the ultra performers.

When I look back at the last 5 years… one thing becomes EXTREMELY evident to me.

HOW IMPERFECT I AM.

I have made so many mistakes, it’s not even funny.  I have created so many imperfect projects, I have lost count.

I remember when we first launched the 7-figure networker system 1ShoppingCart changed their platform the WEEK we launched it… and this giant function we needed to be able to integrate with properly was gone.

In my panic… I rushed to start building my own shopping cart for the system. I spent close to $40,000 and 4 months developing it…

… then one day found a service provider that could handle all our needs & scratched the entire project just to re invest a ton of it in them.  Yea… pure brilliance.

One time… I realized I had been advertising on PPC for almost 5 months, spent over $25,000 on marketing… only to discover that my “thank you pages” were busted the entire time!!  Not one person was even seeing my sales page.

I could not give you an answer for how it’s possible I spent $25,000 on a broken funnel and didn’t figure it out for months.  But trust me, ridiculously dumb stuff is always possible when you’re a human!

I have so many stories like this.

As you can see my RUSH to get things done has come at a high high cost at times…

… yet at the same time, it’s one of my greatest qualities. It’s one of the reasons I’ve grown so fast in such a short period of time.

As it turns out… YOU DON’T NEED TO BE PERFECT to make a lot of money. (or to do pretty much anything.)

What I’ve discovered is that this “thinking everything needs to be perfect before you start” concept, is really just a MASK for someone’s fear.

It’s really just a mask for their fear of failure, fear of inadequacy, fear of putting themselves out there, fear of what others will think of them.  FEAR.

So… in essence it’s complete B.S.  When you think like this, you don’t really care that it’s “perfect”, you’re just coming up with an excuse for why you don’t need to face your fear.

Think about that.  It’s life changing.

Because if you really want to move forward fast… you will go INTO your resistance.  If you find something challenges you… you go INTO it.  Not the opposite like most people, who run away.

If you’re afraid to get started because you feel “you don’t know enough yet”… that’s an EXACT sign you should go get started. It’s an exact sign you should go get started RIGHT NOW & just take some action.

I don’t care what it is… calling prospects, putting up ads, making videos, writing blog posts, 3-way calling…

… if you feel you aren’t “ready” to get started, that is the EXACT sign you need to get started right now.

This is single handedly the most differentiating characteristic of the most powerful & successful people I’ve ever met.

And when I reflect on my life, I discover that this thinking things had to be perfect before I could get started was not present.

I realize now… just how much of a gift that was.  I think it might have had to do with my vision.  My vision was just so important to me… I couldn’t even consider stopping moving forward on it.  No matter what, I was committed to DOING.  Not waiting.

Learn from that my friend.  You do not need to be perfect.  You are ready to get started right now.

Have the willingness to challenge yourself.  When you feel “resistance” to something… that’s a big sign you should GO INTO IT.

If you feel resistance to doing something… DO IT.  If you feel resistance to talking to someone… TALK TO THEM.

The willingness to enter into what you have resistance to… is a profound quality of successful & happy people.  If this willingness isn’t there… we forever live inside our comfort zones, never really stepping out.  Never really challenging ourselves.

Never really experiencing our true potential.

Don’t waste your life like that.  As you already know by reflecting on your current age & how fast it came… life is to damn short.

Final Reflections For Your Continued Growth…

Life is a journey my friend.  A journey.

I know sometimes it seems like there’s a “place to get to”.  I know sometimes it seems like we are actually heading somewhere.  But I assure you… we are not.

In the end… we all die. The only real “place” any of us is going is into death.  And even that… is likely just the beginning of another journey.

When I reflect back onto what’s given me a lot of power, power to just move forward even when it was really tough…

… it’s because there is a core thread of detachment present in my life.

A part of me is just not very attached to what happens.  I’ve realized that I am going to die far sooner than I think… and when I do, everything I think currently matters really won’t.

So why would I not just ENJOY this journey right now?  Why would I not enjoy every process of my life?  Why would I not take the failures, the challenges, the successes, the struggles, the joys…

… why would I not take it all as just part of the journey?  Why weight any of it better or worse than any other part?

It’s all just the experience of life. And last I knew… the point of life was to GROW.  It was to evolve.  It was to experience… and learn from every single thing we can.

So long as I am learning, growing, & evolving along my Journey… I know I’m exactly where I need to be.

I don’t need to reach some made up goal of how many #’s are on a screen inside my bank account to be happy.  That’s for amateurs.  That’s for the people who are still extremely immature in their understanding of life.

The mature understanding of life is far more wise than that… because the mature perspective knows that life is just a brief flame… that you’ve only got a hold of for so long & then it’s gone.

And to do anything other than appreciate each moment for EXACTLY what it is… is the folly of insane person.  Which we all frequently are.  :)

But hey, admitting it is the first step.  So I admit it.

Enjoy YOUR journey today my friends.  I hope you found some value in my reflections on what REALLY mattered over the last few years to create a fortune.

Go forth & apply these principles to your life & I promise you’ll see some huge results.  They work. :)

Your friend,
Jonathan Budd

P.S. please get the word out & share this post with your followers & friends.  There’s no reason we all have to repeat the same mistakes, lets learn from each other!

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Why Google+ Failed (miserably), How to Use Idiotic Facebook Addictions to Grow Your Business, & Did They Lie To You About Traffic!?

Ok my friends.  Time for some good ole heart to heart marketing insights. :) You know, the ones you can make a lot of moolah from.

So, after Google+ roared on the scene with the fastest 10,000,000 members in social networking history… it’s now about as much of a joke as MYSPACE.  (remember that?, ha)

Yes… it’s so sad, that even Google’s top executives, employee’s and TEAMS don’t even use it.  Check it out…

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But it’s not just that most of the people who run Google don’t even use their own products, there has been a MASSIVE decline in traffic to Google+ since it’s beta launch in June.

Some estimates show Traffic fell on Google+ over 60% since it’s recent highs, and some estimate even more.  All I know, is if I go on Google+ now, the people who use to be posting aren’t posting anymore, & everyone seems to be back on Facebook as if it never even happened. It’s a ghost town.

Sad for ole big G… but frankly, it’s their own Fault.

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And to make matters worse, one of their very own chief engineers just went on a rampage as to how “No One In Google Gets It”.  He posted his rant on his google+ blog, and it leaked out to the press before he could remove it.

If you want to read it, he pretty much ripped into the entire Google team for yet again another failure showing they don’t understand “Platforms”.  You can read his rant on CBS news here… Google Engineer Goes On Rampage.

Now, the Big Question is WHY?

Why did Google+ fail?

And truth be told… I think it’s blatantly obvious.  The world doesn’t need another Facebook. The world doesn’t need ANOTHER SOCIAL NETWORK LAYER on top of it.  We already have one.  The social framework has been laid ON TOP of our world.

And it’s Facebook.

Think about it… why would you want to go to the hassle of getting all your friends, all your contacts, all your fans, all your family, all your acquaintances onto ANOTHER social network?  Why would you want to do that?

When you can already connect with them, already share your pictures, your videos, your life, & a TON of other things on Facebook?

It makes no sense.  And that’s why I said from the start… Google+ will be a failure. The world doesn’t need another Facebook.

And frankly, it was just small minded arrogant thinking on Google’s end, to really even take this on.  They’re so damn afraid of facebook (which we’ll talk about why in a minute), that they didn’t even think rationally about how this is going to play out.

They weren’t thinking… “how do we truly add the next layer of value to the world”.  They were thinking… “How do we get Facebook’s Market Share?”.

I can guarantee it.  If they were truly wanting to deliver value, they wouldn’t have tried to give people something they already had.

And hopefully by now… if you’ve learned anything from me you know that one of those conversations is DOOMED to fail most of the time.  While the other one is truly the WINNING place to come from.  That’s part 1 of the failure.

Part 2 of Google+ Failure: The Metric More Important Than Traffic…

There was more to Google’s oversight than just the obvious.  This second one is subtle, but AMAZINGLY powerful and it’s also why I’m predicting Facebook will make you richer than google made a lot of marketers if you master it over the next 3 years. Much much Richer.

The metric MORE important than traffic is “Time On Site”.

This is the single biggest reason Google launched Google+.  Because they know this, and I’ll explain why.

You see, while Google still has higher unique visitor traffic volume monthly than facebook (for now)… there is another Metric they are getting CRUSHED ON.  One… that ultimately is going to make them a smaller, less powerful company.

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Here’s why this is such a big deal.

Have you observed your behavior lately?  Just start watching it…

How often do you go to Google to search things now a days?

How many times when you go to Google do you click on a Google ad?

Now…

How often are you on facebook now a days?

How much time do you spend on Facebook now a days?

While you’re on facebook, do you notice the seemingly new ads always popping up your way, & do you ever click on them?

How often do you click on them?

These Answers Are of PARAMOUNT Importance to Marketing…

You see, what does it matter if you have an extra 10 million visitors per month, if the 115 million visitors on the OTHER SITE are clicking the ads 5x more than yours?

When I started just observing what I was doing now a days, I realized I probably click 5-10x more facebook ads than google.

That is a HUGE HUGE metrics.  Not only does that mean Facebook is going to grow more powerful, faster, and have MORE of the market share…

… but it tells you WHERE THE HECK you want to focus your skill & expertise in marketing!  It tells you where the fish are, and what you should be investing a lot of your time & energy into to become a successful marketer!

This is significant.  Because these trends… are ONLY going to get bigger.

Which Leads Us to A Very Important Question…

Now, how in the world did Facebook manage to build a “Social Framework” on top of the entire world?  What was their secret sauce?  They’re currently approaching on 800,000,000 users.

What made that possible?  Well, there’s lots of things.  I’ll just point out a few simple ones, and a few not so simple ones.

#1. MySpace & Friendster SUCKED.

Frankly put… if they hadn’t been so incompetent and screwed those companies up… Facebook should never have gotten as far as they did. They just flat out took their eye off the ball, & stopped innovating.

They didn’t develop the platform at the speed facebook did, and they didn’t simplify.  Given their head start, if they hadn’t screwed it up they would be the social framework on top of the world.

#2. Facebook innovated how we connect with our friends, share photos, videos, & our lives, & did it completely intuitively.

They’re tagging system was simply friggin genius.  They changed how photos’ were shared on the web.  that ONE product line of Facebook’s, is personally my favorite.  It’s like… I don’t even need to take photo’s!!  Because I know I’ll be tagged in the good ones & get em anyway. Heh, lazy man’s reasoning.  But I’m truly terrible with pictures.

On top of that, how they interconnected everyone & everything was just simply genius.  They filled the NEED human beings have of being connected to one another, & they did it simply & intuitively.

Something the other sites did not do well enough.

#3. Facebook Figured Out How to Get You ADDICTED to them, no Matter WHAT your Fix.

This is the one most people don’t get.  Yet it’s another pillar of Facebook’s success.

THEIR API.

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API Stands for “Application Programming Interface.”

Now, why this is so significant is because ANYONE can build applications on top of Facebook.  You know those stupid farmville, cityville, & mafia wars things popping up on your page all the time?

Yea, well… 73 million people are playing Farmville.  More people than TWITTER!!

And hundreds of more millions are playing thousands of more games all on top of Facebook’s platform.

Not to mention… there’s a CRAZY amount of other applications, and things for people to do.  You see, Facebook was GENIUS.

They created the FIRST OPEN SOURCE social network.  They have grown so much because they let the USERS of the site determine how they were going to spend their time on that site…

… and they created the possibility for innovative developers, entrepreneurs, & gamers to come in and CREATE millions of different applications for people to use on top of their platform.

At the end of the day… this means there’s SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE.  If you’re on facebook, you can find just about damn near anything to keep you interested.

People use facebook now for so many different reasons it’s insane. It’s not just a social network.  Facebook created an open source social network… allowed innovation to spread from WITHIN it’s own community, controlled BY millions of other people… and they just created the platform for it all to happen on.

Facebook in effect created such a HUGE win for people… they now spend 3x more time on Facebook than any other site in the world. That’s the knock out punch.

Now we understand why hundreds of millions of people are hopelessly addicted to Facebook & next… you learn how to PROFIT FROM IT.

You see, there are several very key lessons to take from this.

#1 Lesson: TIME ON SITE is what I believe to be the most important Internet Metric in the world.

It’s the precursor to everything else.  It’s the pre cursor to you getting sales.  The precursor to you building a following. the precursor to people joining your business from your websites online.  For other websites like facebook & google, it’s the difference between BILLIONS of dollars.

But what does time on site really mean?

Well… think about it.  Time on site is a reflection of VALUE.  It’s a reflection of the value that user is getting from the time they spend ON your site.

If they’re getting value… they spend their time there! The higher your time on site metric is… it means the more VALUE people are getting from your site.

What more of a precious commodity exists for us then our time? That’s literally our LIFE.  If we choose to spend our time with someone, on something, etc… we are choosing to spend our LIFE on that very thing.

There’s no difference. And I don’t know about you… but what I spend my life on is pretty important to me.  I’m not going to spend my life on crap. No way.

So the time on site metric is literally your direct indicator of how VALUABLE your site is to your prospects.  Ummmm, are you getting this!?

Do you know how long people spend on your sites currently? How long on your squeeze pages, blogs, videos, websites, etc?

That is your MEASUREMENT of success pretty much summed up.  If that # is high… you are probably making a killing.

This puts ALL the onus back on how much value we’re truly delivering to our market place.  How valuable are our videos, our capture pages, our sales pages, our emails, our facebook tweets, our products, etc.

All the onus goes back into asking ourselves… “What did I WANT when I was searching for a business, a sponsor, information, etc?”  “What was truly valuable to me?”  “How can I build for people exactly what I want myself?”.

If you answer those questions in your marketing… you will be kicking ass.

#2 Lesson: Facebook is the KING.

I will keep saying this until you really get it.  Facebook is only getting bigger.  You have GOT to develop & build your facebook marketing skills.

Those little ads on the side of facebook are some of the most opportunistic chances you might ever get to build a business… and it’s only getting bigger.

If people are clicking facebook ads more than google’s… think about the implications.  Think about what that could mean for your business if you find a nice little niche market on facebook… and just DOMINATE with killer ads, killer fan page content, killer capture pages, etc.  You can CRUSH it right now.   There’s an insane amount of opportunity.

So… Some Final Thoughts.

Marketing is an art.  You’ve got to really LOVE marketing if you’re going to excel at it.  It’s like anything in life… you learn as you go.  You get better as you practice.  You’ve got to be PASSIONATE about what it is you do… or you’ll always do it halfheartedly.

To me, marketing is so important to ANY mission I have in life… because it’s literally HOW I communicate my message to an audience.

Marketing is Everything my friends.

Trying to get a girlfriend or boyfriend? Saying dumb stuff on a first date is bad marketing.

Want to get a raise at work? Know the right way to position your offer to your boss, or it won’t happen.  That’s marketing.

Want to get your 3 people to your company’s call tonight?  Well, whatever you say to get them there is MARKETING.

And most people’s marketing flat out sucks.

If you want to experience rapid success in life… then become PASSIONATE about marketing.  Fall in love with it.

Fall in love with it for the RIGHT reasons.  Fall in love with it because it’s literally the medium for you to REACH the planet with your message.  Marketing is the medium for you to reach YOUR audience with your core value.

If you believe in the products & services you are offering the world… then it’s your damn RESPONSIBILITY to become a good marketer. It’s your responsibility to get your message out to the world.

Translate the passion you have for your own success, your own products, your own dreams & goals… translate that passion into a DESIRE to learn & practice marketing.

Trust me… it will change the results you produce in life big time.

Final Actions…

#1: Start tracking & measuring the metric “Time On Site” for every single visitor you get to all your web properties. This is one of the BEST tracking tools you’ll ever find. Clicktale

#2: Look for what YOU WOULD WANT on a website like yours if you landed there… then BUILD IT. That will put you head & shoulders above your competition, and it will ensure your site is truly VALUABLE to your prospects.

#3: Always strive to be the very BEST PERSON in your niche you can, offering your prospects the most authenticity, real content, & incredible solutions you can.

#4: UPGRADE your facebook skills.

I’m going to be hosting a webinar next week that I’ll send you an invitation too about Facebook.  It’s KICK BUTT, and I’m excited to share some updated strategies we’ve been working on to really cash in.  Be on the look out for it.

Rock and roll my friends.  Hope you appreciated today’s lessons, & we’ll chat again soon!

Yours in Mastery,
Jonathan Budd

P.S. if you want to give VALUE to your followers right now, then like this & share it with them on facebook.  They’ll appreciate you for it! :)

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The 2000+ Year Ancient Secret to Experiencing Ultimate Success & Happiness… (now documented by science)

My friends, today’s video is truthfully one of the most important videos I’ve ever made.  It’s a subject so fundamental to the quality of our life… you simply MUST MUST MUST understand this.

And when you do, it will re orient your entire life.  When you REALLY understand it, not just ‘mentally’ but you’ve taken it on INSIDE of your life… your focus will change dramatically.

The natural side effect of this new focus, will be ULTIMATE happiness & success.  Here’s the video to learn more…

Let me know your thoughts & comments below. I love to hear from you.

I can’t wait to share more with you soon.

Yours in Success,
Jonathan Budd

P.S. Please share this with your friends & followers on facebook today.  Trust me… a lot more people in our world need to hear this

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