How To Break Into The In­ner Cir­cle Of Highly Suc­cess­ful In­ter­net Marketers?

Prob­a­bly 95% of all in­ter­net busi­nesses are ‘1 man shows’, but very few peo­ple re­al­ize that a one-per­­son in­ter­net busi­ness on its own is­n’t go­ing to make  you a  fortune.

To achieve the num­ber of sub­scribers and cus­tomers that will fi­nance your free­dom, you need to build a net­work of peers and you need to get the help of peo­ple who al­ready are on higher lev­els of success.

Now, ob­vi­ously every mar­keter would like to get the sup­port of the big guys - but how do you pull it off?

Af­ter all, a highly suc­cess­ful on­line en­tre­pre­neur will rarely have the time to pay at­ten­tion to any in­di­vid­ual on his list of hun­dreds of thou­sands of subscribers.

The good news is: you have to work on it a bit, but it is­n’t re­ally hard to make con­tact to the su­per suc­cess­ful peo­ple in your industry. 

As with all laws of suc­cess, the un­der­ly­ing prin­ci­ple is pretty sim­ple and easy to understand:

===> You need to build a re­la­tion­ship, a friend­ship at best.

This ar­ti­cle shares a range of ac­­tion-tips you can im­ple­ment to­day to get no­ticed by the top guys.

Who should you tar­get for networking?

1. Tar­get mar­keters you like.

Chose those that are suc­cess­ful and a match to you in re­gards of how they con­duct their busi­ness. If you tar­get some­one who uses ques­tion­able strate­gies just be­cause he’s suc­cess­ful, you will not be happy with the ‘friend­ship’ in the long run. And, fol­low­ing that gu­ru’s ad­vice, you’re very likely to steer your busi­ness in the wrong direction.

2. Tar­get mar­keters whose busi­ness model is close to what you want to do.

That’s pretty self-ex­­plana­­tory, is­n’t it? If you want to make money in the  ‘make money on­line’ niche, you’re not re­ally go­ing to need good re­la­tions to the top dogs in the porn industry.

3. Tar­get mar­keters on dif­fer­ent scales of success.

You may not get the fastest re­sults only tar­get­ing those on the top of the food chain. Start build­ing re­la­tion­ships on many lev­els at the same time.

4. Join small scale com­mu­ni­ties and tar­get the OWNER.

It’s eas­ier to get no­ticed in a small community.

Here are 3 ex­am­ples from the in­ter­net mar­ket­ing niche:

Who’s at­ten­tion is eas­ier to get?

Allen Says’s, who has a six fig­ure mem­ber base?

Or Wilie Craw­ford’s, and John Delav­er­a’s, who have smaller, in­ti­mate communities?

Are all of them su­per suc­cess­ful entrepreneurs?

You bet!

Check them out and par­tic­i­pate in their communities:

How To Build The Relationship?

1. Seven ways to put your­self on the gu­ru’s radar.

Your first goal is to get no­ticed. Your name needs to show up where these peo­ple are nat­u­rally look­ing for new, valu­able contacts.

(1) Be­come a subscriber.
(2) Be­come a customer.
(3) Be­come a guest at his Blog.
(4) Be­come a fo­rum member.
(5) Be­come a par­tic­i­pant at seminars.
(6) Be­come a mem­ber of mas­ter­mind groups.
(7) Be­come a pay­ing mentoree.

2. Be ac­tive, con­tribute to the mar­keters efforts.

Every­one who helps him to make his own projects more suc­cess­ful will get his attention.

(a)Send tes­ti­mo­ni­als.

If the mar­keter has forms for sub­mis­sion of tes­ti­mo­ni­als this is only the sec­ond best choice be­cause they may be man­aged by as­sis­tants. Try to find a way to get your tes­ti­mo­nial di­rectly to the right per­son, email preferably.

(b)Post use­ful Blog comments.

If a mar­keter has his own Blog he’s usu­ally happy about every­one post­ing mean­ing­ful com­ments. In many cases the mar­keter will pub­licly an­swer your com­ment on the Blog to get the dis­cus­sion going.

© Par­tic­i­pate in fo­rum discussions.

Typ­i­cal fo­rum problems:
- Too lit­tle ac­tiv­ity from members.
- Not enough ‘ac­tive’ moderators.
Any fo­rum owner ap­pre­ci­ates peo­ple who help to keep mo­men­tum in the fo­rum. An­swer to a lot of posts and start your own threads. A fo­rum might be the place where you get the first ‘per­sonal, 1:1 con­tact’ to the owner through PMs.

3. Be proac­tive and of­fer help

(a) Be alert if any help is needed. The mar­keter might ask for help in a spe­cific area through the fo­rum, through Blog posts or through emails that go to his list.
(b) Of­fer to mod­er­ate in the forum.
© Try to find as­pects in his busi­ness where you can of­fer help ac­tively. Of­fer what you’re good at.

How To Be Wor­thy Of Get­ting Pro­fes­sional Feedback?

Re­mem­ber that any suc­cess­ful en­tre­pre­neur has a lot of things to take care of, be re­spect­ful of their time.

1. Be a doer, clearly act on the feedback.

Noth­ing puts suc­cess­ful en­tre­pre­neurs more off than a new­bie who de­mands lots of help, lots of time, and lots of at­ten­tion with­out ever putting any­thing to use. Un­for­tu­nately these pas­sive, time steal­ers are the ma­jor­ity of peo­ple en­ter­ing the in­ter­net mar­ket­ing industry.

Be dif­fer­ent. You’ll quickly earn the re­spect of any pro­fes­sional if you walk your talk.

2. Don’t ask ques­tions that you can eas­ily re­search yourself.

It’s true that there are no dumb ques­tions. It’s also true that there are be­gin­ner’s ques­tions you can eas­ily fig­ure out your­self with­out stress­ing other peo­ple’s time.

Act on that list and you’ll find your­self in the in­ner cir­cle of suc­cess­ful mar­keters within a few weeks.

So what’s next?

Be a doer.

Start par­tic­i­pat­ing right now … post your com­ments, ques­tions and ideas below.