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Mentors
& Gurus
Learning
The Ropes Without Hanging Yourself
- Q:
How Can You Avoid Painful Mistakes?
- A:
Compel Someone To Guide You
Where
Do You Start?
Let's
take a trip into the future. Suppose your passion and product idea is now
chosen...where do you go from here? Why, find a mentor of course...someone
who will help ensure you don't make costly mistakes and waste your valuable
time and money.
Who
Can Be Your Mentor?
Anyone
can be your mentor, of course...but you should certainly choose wisely.
Always have at your fingertips the WIIFM answer - what's in it for me to
mentor you? Remember, people always look out for number one...being able
to quickly articulate to potential mentors your benefits can reap incredible
rewards.
Consider
approaching people from your local business community, visible professionals
from targeted niche sites (could you imagine the benefits you'd derive
from having, say, Tiger Woods give his input on your golfing product?),
columinsts in your business, PR firms who handle your area of speciality
and the like. Any person who can introduce you to profitable inroads is
a candidate!
Win
Win Scenarios
What
can you offer your mentor? Know your value hands-down! For example, I've
provided my mentors with superb search engine visibility, always make sure
to include them in any relevant articles I write, and assisted them in
specific Internet marketing concepts they simply didn't know about. After
all, if you're on fire to make a success via Internet marketing, you probably
will know far more about the arts required than your potential mentor!
Be sure to take advantage of that. If you're looking for an Internet Marketing
Mentor, I highly recommend Tony
Blake, the person who guided me.
It's
not only Internet marketers that you can look to for mentoring, of course.
Find professional associations or organizations and approach the leaders
and visionaries with your ideas. Places to uncover associations include
Association
Central...and you can even check out your own
local Chamber of Commerce if you want to focus on regional niche visibility.
That's
what I did for just about every project I've tackled. When I wrote The
Internet Recruiting Edge, I was able to ask Bill Vick of Recruiters
Online for guidance (and eventually increased their web site visibility
over eight fold)...when I wrote The Real Estate Pro's Internet Edge, I
asked Jack Peckham of the Real
Estate Cyberspace Society for areas in which to concentrate.
You
will end up thanking yourself if you can uncover a person who will prevent
you from making costly mistakes, indeed.
Who
else can you visit online and learn? Sites include:
Affiliate Coach - Rosalind Gardner
Barbara Ling's Entrepreneurial Twist Ezine
Bob Silber Instant Net Business Start Up
Cory Rudl Internet Marketing Center
Dr
Ralph Wilson's Ebiz & Web Commerce Today
Danny
Sullivan's Search Engine Watch
Jim Straws Business Lyceum
Jim Wilson's Virtual Promote
Jon Mitzel Online Marketing Letter
Ken Evoy Site Sell Main Site
Ken Silver Ebook Profits
Leslie
Fountain's Friend In Business
Marlon
Sanders Big Course
Mike
VanNorden's Free Publicity
Marcia
Yudkin's Marketing Minute
Ron
Ruiz Business Fastlane
Tom
Hopkins How To Master The Art Of Selling
Wanda
Loska's How to Grow Your Business
Continue
to enjoy your visit!
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