Internet marketing and other thoughts from the mind of Chris Lockwood

As the year comes to an end, I have an important question for you.

Did you achieve your business goals in 2009?

If not, what are you doing about it? As the old saying goes, if you keep doing what you’ve always done, you’ll keep getting what you’ve always gotten.

Here’s the real secret that separates the super-successful from the rest of the crowd: taking action.

But not just any action- it needs to be action directed toward a goal. Random web surfing and forum posting doesn’t count.

Here are 3 critical action steps you can take:

1. Hang out with like-minded, positive, successful people.

2. Learn from those who have already been there.

3. Get some specialized help.

You can do step 1 in a number of ways: join a mastermind group or attend a local business networking event, for starters. Of course if you don’t already know the right people, it’s tough to get in a good group. You can look to local business groups for events, but you may find that they’re geared toward brick and mortar businesses.

Let me suggest a way to accomplish 1 and 2 (and perhaps even 3) at once: go to a good Internet marketing conference. By good, I mean one where people are actually teaching things.

Attending live events is the most common action step for success I know of. You meet others who are doing what you want to do. It’s a great way to start relationships that will pay off in the future.

Luckily there’s an event like this coming up in January in Orlando. If you’re serious, you should be there.

One reason I’m sending this now is that the ticket price is going up in a few days, if there are even any tickets left.

I’ll let you read the details and see who is going to be there by going here: Super Stars conference

The learning starts as soon as you sign up, because all the instructors have recently recorded preview interviews about what they’ll be teaching, and you can listen to them now.

As for step 3, first you need to figure out what it is you want to do, then find the people that can help you.

If you’re interested in creating a successful membership site, I can help you with that. I’m starting a coaching program focused on it, and the training starts in a few weeks, not long after the conference.

You can read more about it here- and note that the price goes up January 1:

This post is getting long, so I’ll wrap up. Go sign up for the conference and/or the coaching program while the rates are at their lowest, and get ready for a prosperous 2010.

I hope you decide to come to Orlando- if so, let me know, and I’ll see you there.

Take a good look at the gold ticket for the conference- I think you’ll be blown away by the extras you get. Use this code when you check out 100discount to knock 100 bucks off.

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I’ve just put the finishing touches on my latest product.

It’s a CD-ROM called How to Create a Membership Site from Scratch.

It covers all the nuts and bolts of setting up a real membership site- not the planning and marketing and so on, but the step-by-step process of setting up the software and adding the content.

I start with just having a hosting account and a domain name, and walk you through everything else up to hooking up the site to a payment system.

If you’re a tech wizard, this one is not for you.

But if the tech stuff confuses you or holds you back, you are exactly who this is intended for.

It’s 88 minutes of screen capture video and will play on most any computer, Windows or Mac. (If you can watch a video on a site like YouTube, you’re all set.)

You can read more about it here

So how can you get it free?

I’m teaching at an event in Orlando in January. It’s put on by Mark Hendricks, and some of the other teachers include
people like Terry Dean, Willie Crawford, Elsom Eldridge, Cindi Dawson, Ross Goldberg, Doug Champigny, and several others.

One of my duties as a teacher is to tell people about the event, since these things work so much better when there is a room full of people to teach.

==> If you come to this event and order through my link below, I’ll give you my new product free:
http://internetsuperstarsconference.com/amember/go.php?r=15&i=l0

But that’s not all! Here’s a code that will knock 100 bucks off the already-low admission: 100discount

I realize you’re probably in the middle of holiday stuff right now, but before you know it, the holidays will be over and it will be 2010.

Yes, 2010!

What are you doing right now to grow your business (or get one going)? I can’t think of anything better than going to a live event, especially a teaching-oriented one like this, where you get actual hands-on workshops, not lectures, and where most or all of the teachers will be there the entire weekend, not just stopping by for an hour or 2 to sell something.

Mark has been busy the past few weeks interviewing all of us, and you’ll find the recordings available in the members area after you sign up. (In fact, you can get access to them even if you decide not to come to the event. In that case, you can order my new CD from the first link above.)

So there you have it: a dozen or so hours of interviews with experts, my new product free, and 100 bucks off the already-low conference ticket. I don’t know how it could be any better.

After you sign up, just forward me your receipt plus a shipping address so I can get your CD out to you. I’m doing this manually, so bear with me, but as soon as I get confirmation that you signed up through my link, I’ll get it in the mail.

Need I remind you how nice it can be in Orlando in January? It’s not unusual for it to be in the 80s, it rarely rains, and it’s almost always sunny. Some people bring the family and let them play tourist while they attend the event.

Take a look at the Gold Ticket option. Almost everyone who has signed up has gone for it, since for just a little more, you get a nice package of products from all of us, including one of mine that sells every day for $97.

(Yes, I do get compensated if you order through that link. Duh!)

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