Are You Ready For the Detective?
You can see the Power of an Idea by the response that it gets when you share that idea with the Internet. For those of you who have read my latest email, you already know that the video I posted on YouTube has been watched 173,998 times.
22,830 people have downloaded the Special Report, “Google Cash Strikes Back”, and Saturday, GCDetective.com had an Alexa Score of 486! This has all happened in the course of 7 days.
What we are seeing here is something more than a successful marketing campaign. We are seeing a paradigm shift. People are waking up. People are now deciding to take control of their lives. People are freeing themselves from the way it’s always been.
What’s stopping you?
Maybe I can help you with that question. We’ve all been told that we need to get a job and work for a living - work hard now and then, if you’re lucky when you’re 60 or 65, you can live. This is a belief so deeply engrained in modern culture that most of us take it for granted.
Guess what. That might have made sense 25 years ago, but today it’s completely misguided. The time to live is now, not later. Turning a dream lifestyle into your lifestyle only requires that you wake up, open your eyes, and stop believing what everyone else is saying.
Today, right now, this instant, THIS IS YOUR WAKEUP CALL!
You too can live your dream lifestyle, now!
I am going to outline 5 steps to free yourself from what most people accept as the only way to live. You will notice that none of these steps are difficult, and 3 of the steps are only mental exercises. I hope that you can follow along and that you are compelled to share these ideas with others.
Before I outline the five steps, I have one general piece of advice. Turn Off Your Television.
I haven’t had a television in over ten years. They are the biggest waist of time, and they are used to propagate negativity. Subjecting yourself to the barrage of negativity really impacts your lifestyle.
Television is the show case for the lowest form of our culture. I don’t want to belabor this point, but if you want to live differently, more freely, more independently, then cut the cable. Walk away, never to return.
Ok, so what is the first step to freeing yourself and living a lifestyle about which others can only dream? It turns out to be pretty obvious, but you won’t hear about it on the television. Sorry, last time to mention that lifestyle destroying device.
Step #1: Figure out what you really want to do with your life. What is your dream lifestyle? I shared my dream lifestyle with you. What’s yours?
If you had no constraints what would you do?
Oh, by the way, having a family is not a constraint. I take my family with me on all of our adventures.
Get a pad of paper and start brainstorming. Start thinking on paper! If you had 100 million dollars in the bank, what would you do with your time? What would you actually be doing?
Don’t figure out what you want to have. Having things just to have things is not important. Make a list of what you want to do, and from there, only acquire things that help you do what you want to do.
Really give this some thought, and think about your passions. What are you living for?
I get so many emails from people telling me that they want to quit their job or that they don’t like their position in life. Feeling uncomfortable is like the alarm going off, but you still have to wake up. You must want more than to simply quit your current job.
You have to have a vision, a passion. You can’t say I hate my job, so I’ll set up an online business instead. You have to have a reason to propel yourself from the mediocrity of the masses. Your passions are the reasons. Your vision is the catalyst. Everything else will fall into place. You have to wake up!
So the first step is to become clear in your own mind on what you want to do in your life. Don’t take this step lightly because it is the foundation upon which everything else is built.
Step #2 is to look at the list of what you want to do and figure out how much money you will need to do those things. That’s your Strategic Objective. For me, I figured I needed $10,000 a month of profits to support my dream lifestyle.
Shift your thinking from some huge lump sum that you need to acquire, and focus on what it would take monthly to enable you to live the lifestyle you want. Go through your list and make sure your monthly sum is enough to pay for what you want to do. Then, make sure that you still have something left over to save and invest.
We are living in a new world! You can make lots of money while you do the things you love!
Step #3 is to identify your limiting beliefs and to get rid of them. Specifically, you need to identify limiting beliefs concerning work and money.
Limiting beliefs limit your ability to accomplish things. They are very powerful. In fact, limiting beliefs are the biggest hurdle for someone new to the Internet to over come. Once you’ve made your first thousand dollars, you won’t have to worry about most of them anymore.
Just in case you haven’t heard of limiting beliefs, let me give you a few examples.
We’ve been raised to believe that work is hard and that hard work is good. We’ve been raised to believe that one day you need to grow up. You need to get a “respectable” job and work at least 5 days per week from 9 to 5 until your 65.
Ironically, jobs that are the most “respectable” often require more time than that, often 6 days per week. We’ve also been raised to believe that people who don’t work are lazy. Let this mental exercise take you back to your earliest ideas of work. Where and from whom did you learn the meaning of “work”?
Make a list of all of your beliefs concerning work.
Next, we have limiting beliefs about money. Some examples are that it is noble to be poor or that rich people are jerks, or if you are rich it is at someone else’s expense.
Think about all of the little sayings about money: “Money doesn’t grow on trees,” “We’re not the Rockefellers.” I bet you can think of several more.
Make a list of all of your beliefs concerning money.
Ultimately, your ability to leave the pack comes down to beliefs. The only thing preventing you from living your dream lifestyle is believing that you can do it. You are not you parents or your neighbors. You are not like the guy on TV.
You are the sum of all of your beliefs.
Get your limiting beliefs out in the open. Get them down on paper. You will immediately see them creeping up on you throughout your day as you deal with work and money. Noticing beliefs that limit your potential is the first step to getting rid of them.
When you notice a limiting belief, simply restate it in the positive, and it will no longer limit you. For example, “I can live any lifestyle I want to.” “Opportunities are all around me.” “Money comes easy to me.” “I can live my dreams today.”
Step #4 is to start building your Automated Online Business. You start by working on the business yourself, and little by little, you systemize the work and outsource it to a specialist. From there, you work on your business and not in it.
Have you read “The 4-Hour Work Week” by Timothy Ferriss?
Stop for a second, and ask yourself how that title makes you feel. If you are noticing a limiting belief, simply restate it in a positive and productive way.
Anyway, if you haven’t read “The 4-Hour Work Week,” run down to Barnes and Nobles or order it on Amazon right way. It’s a must read.
It’s crazy, it’s as if he wrote my book. For the last 4 years, I’ve been living what he writes about – working very little but earning a lot of money, living my dream lifestyle of travel and adventure. In his book, he talks about finding your “Muse,” your income stream that is dependable, scalable, replicable, and can be put on Autopilot.
An Automated Online Business is the Ultimate Muse. Since you are reading this blog, you are already closer than most to finding one.
So here it comes, the last step. Remember, all the technical know how and tools won’t help you unless you have worked out the first four steps in your mind.
Thanks to the Google Cash Detective, finding a Profitable Automated Online Business that fits your personality and interests is easy. You can find examples to educate you on what is current, what markets are teeming with business, and what techniques are working. From there, you add your personal touch and improve upon them.
So here’s what you do now.
Step #5 is to research niches to monitor with the Detective. You might want to go to Yahoo or eBay, and look at all of the different categories. Make a big list of niches. Brainstorm niches that interest you.
For each niche, develop a list of the top trafficked keywords. Your list can be small. It only needs to be the keywords that get a lot of traffic.
If you already have a favorite keyword research tool like Keyword Elite or Keywords Analyzer, then use that to create your short list of high traffic keywords. Otherwise the free Yahoo Search keyword suggestion tool is just fine and can be found at:
http://www.chrispicks.com/recommends/overturekwtool
So for each niche you might have around 50 keywords. Just make a list of the keywords that get the most traffic. You can do the “long-tail” keyword research later. This is the first step.
During the first week of June, when you get your copy of the Google Cash Detective, you are going to copy and paste all of your keywords into the Detective. You will create categories in the Detective for each one of your niches. You’ll enter your keywords into the categories and leave the Detective to monitor them.
Then after some time has passed, like a couple of weeks, you’ll analyze your data.
The Google Cash Detective will show you for each of your keywords, which Adwords Ads have been displayed constantly day in and day out, and which Ads came out for a couple of days and then dropped out.
The Google Cash Detective identifies both profitable direct to merchant affiliate link campaigns and profitable Adwords campaigns in general.
So you have two options. You can go around picking up the low hanging fruit, the direct to merchant affiliate links or you can also look at the profitable Adwords campaigns that don’t use affiliate links. Studying what kind of online business is behind the profitable Adwords Campaigns is a crash course in what is working on the Internet today.
You want to look for automated online businesses. You can then reverse engineer these “Spaceships” and see if you can figure out a way to improve on their offer and most importantly on the customer experience. If you think you can improve it, create a similar spaceship, all the time keeping in mind the customer experience.
Let’s say that you want to start by picking up all of the low hanging fruit - the profitable direct to merchant affiliate link campaigns that the Google Cash Detective has identified.
You could just copy those campaigns and replace their affiliate link with your affiliate link. That works, but it won’t be long until someone else comes along and finds your affiliate link and does the same to you.
So here’s a better way of doing it.
You find these profitable direct to merchant affiliate link campaigns in Adwords with the Google Cash Detective, and you improve the campaigns slightly and launch your campaigns in Microsoft adCenter.
Microsoft adCenter is growing quickly, and many believe it will soon overshadow Google. Right now, Microsoft adCenter looks like Google did in 2003. With the Google Cash Detective, you will find many profitable campaigns on Google Adwords that are not running on Microsoft adCenter.
That tip right there is worth thousands of dollars a month in profits to you.
Let me repeat that, because it is so simple, but so effective. Use the Google Cash Detective to find profitable direct to merchant affiliate link campaigns in Google and then replicate them on Microsoft adCenter. You can also put them on Yahoo Search.
Oh and when you do this, don’t just throw up another direct affiliate link, redirect your link first. In the future, everyone is going to be looking for affiliate links, so you need to hide them. It’s super easy to do. There are numerous free tools to do it. You can Google “Link Redirecting” or something related, and you will figure it out.
The tool I use to redirect my links is Mike Filsaime’s Power Link Generator. As you might imagine it has many more useful features than just redirecting links.
http://www.chrispicks.com/recommends/plg
My blog post has gotten a little long, so I’m going to stop there for now.
Thanks for all of your comments, questions and feedback. I’ll keep trying to address your questions in my next blog post. Also I’m preparing another video that shows how to find profitable direct to merchant affiliate link campaigns and how to find profitable automated online businesses. I will post that video in the next few days.
As always, I really appreciate your feedback, so please leave me your comments.
Talk soon,
Chris
