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I just read an e-book about 30 minutes ago that completely changed the way I look at making money online and marketing. The book is called Newbies Nightmare, by Alex Jeffreys. (Click that link to go to the author’s blog).
This book literally blew my mind. The thing that is so amazing is that he is giving the book away for free. In fact, that’s the whole point of the book. Give things away for free and people will trust you and want to buy from you. You’ve got to stop seeing yourself as trying to sell a product, but instead, offer information freely, build trust among your readers and they will beg to buy whatever it is you are promoting.
The whole concept is just amazing to me. Especially in the internet marketing world where everyone is so competitive with each other. No one wants to give up their hot tip or their secret to success. Heck, if they did, people would just steal it and they would lose their competitive edge. This book is all about changing that mindset. If you can offer up information freely, share your ideas and your secrets, people will trust you, they will understand what you are about, and they will want what you have to offer in the future. It makes so much sense.
I’m even guilty on this blog of not divulging all of the details of what I’m working on because I don’t want people to steal my ideas. This blog gets 15 viewers a day at the time of writing this! Why the hell should I be worried about people stealing my ideas? If I give the ideas freely, I’d probably have a hell of a lot more than 15 people a day reading this! And a few them would probably want what I have to sell in the future. Imagine that! If I am giving away so much stuff for free, the stuff you actually have to pay for must be REALLY good!
From this point on. I am vowing that I am going to share what I’m working on. If I come up with an idea and I start testing it out, I’m going to share the journey with everyone else. It’s up to you guys if you want to try to copy me. Hell, as I’m experimenting, I don’t know any better than you do what’s going to work or not.
That’s my rant for the night. I am just on a high right now from reading that. My mind is blown and I am just on a whole new level of how I see things in the internet marketing world.
Sidenote: My one exception to sharing everything I’m trying would be if I purchase a new e-book and test the method. It wouldn’t really be fair to the writer if I freely gave the info out. I will do my best to give honest reviews, as opposed to trying to sell you on the product, as well as give you as much insight as I feel is fair on what the strategy entails.
