I am asked regularly how I am able to do so well with my Internet business when my list is just over three thousand names. That is tiny compared to what most marketers are working with. I was able to reach a 6 figure income before I had even a thousand names on my list. I believe my secret is that I truly connect with the people who have come to me to learn how to build an online business.

I answer their emails, provide regular teleseminars where I answer all questions, and create courses and products that help them to succeed. Just like when I was a classroom teacher, I take the responsibility for making sure each student has the tools they need to achieve their goals.

What is your experience with teachers and mentors online? Do people answer your emails and provide you with what you need to learn? Comment here and I will respond.

Continuing your education after you begin achieving some success online is crucial to your growth process. The Internet changes very quickly, and you simply must stay abreast of the changes in order to serve your prospects and clients. I enjoy the learning process, so I find this part of my work to be joyous.

Choose one or two people online to connect with, and then learn as much as you can from them. Make sure they understand what you are trying to achieve, and can give you the support and training you need in order to build your business and take it to the next level. The person who has been there for me since 2008 is Armand Morin, and I am thankful that I have the benefit of his ongoing training and wisdom.

Think of yourself as a lifelong learner, and you will reap the rewards in more way than you can imagine. People do business with those they know and trust, but those who are knowledgeable have an even greater advantage in the marketplace.

You may be wondering why it is so important to make money from your list from the very beginning. There are several answers to this, but the most important is that you must get into the habit of marketing to the people on your list from the very beginning, instead of waiting until some point in the future. If you have heard that you must have ten thousand people on your list before you can make any real money online, or some other specific number, this is just not true. The first time anyone said that to me, I was surprised and told him that it was a good thing I had never received that memo, because I had been making money from the time I had less than one hundred people on my list.

Getting into the habit of marketing every day, whether it is by sending an email to your list, writing and submitting an article to an article directory, holding a live teleseminar, or any of a hundred other worthwhile activities, will make a huge difference in how successful you will be in your Internet business. Making some money from your small list is excellent practice for when you will make lots of money from your big list in the future.

Building your marketing skills will enhance everything you

You can increase the effectiveness of your marketing by cross promoting with partners in niches that are complimentary to yours. Allow me to explain exactly what  mean by this. You are looking for people who have something to offer that would be a good compliment to what you offer your prospects and clients. I think of this as the ‘would you like fries with that?’ example. In order for this to work well, look for people who are open to promoting you to their list, understand how online marketing works, and are open to teleseminar interviews, social media marketing, and other Internet marketing styles.

Your products and courses do not stand alone. There are other products and courses that would come before or after yours. Even if you are offering introductory courses and products on your niche topic, there are other courses and products that your prospects would find beneficial.

Think of everything that is offered online as falling somewhere along a space-time continuum. People who are learning are always at some point on that line, so it makes sense that they will seek more information to help them to keep moving forward. Take a look at where your information falls on this line, and then look for others who provide information that would come both before and after what you are providing. This will also give you a good idea of what other types of products you may want to

Are you trying to be perfect in your interactions with your list? No one is perfect, and letting your prospects know this can be an important part of building your relationship with them over time. Show that you are vulnerable, and people will be more likely to relate to you. This must be done in the right way, so that you make the connection with your prospects you are hoping for. Otherwise, you risk creating a misunderstanding that may hurt your business in the long run.

Start out by showing your expertise in your niche. Deliver your information to your prospects by email, blog post, and teleseminar in order to give them multiple ways to consume the knowledge and become comfortable with you. You may also want to create videos with either your voice or your face. All of this helps them to get to know you as well as possible without meeting you in person.

When the opportunity presents itself, let them see that you are not perfect. This can happen in a variety of ways, such as when you are discussing something you are not an expert in. This happened for me when I

What kind of relationship are you building with the people on your list? Do they feel comfortable with you, and trust you enough to ask you anything, knowing you will give them an honest answer every time? Creating this type of know, like, and trust factor does not come easily, but it can be accomplished if you spend some time with getting to know your prospects. I believe it has worked for me because of my email messages, my teleseminars, and my follow up techniques.

My emails almost always include a little something personal about me. I share what it was like to get started online in 2005, when I did not have a clue about starting an Internet business. I relate my current business to what it was like to be a classroom teacher and also work in real estate at the same time.

I have shared my successes, like winning twenty-five thousand dollars in Armand Morin’s contest at the Big Seminar in November of 2009, along with my mistakes, like the time I kept pressing send and accidentally sent out hundreds of messages to my list. By showing my vulnerability as a human being, my list has been

You can create raving fans very easily on the Internet. Responding to your prospects’ emails is one way of doing this, and you will be connecting with them on a deeper level. We can probably all remember when we were brand now to online marketing and needed help with some of the smallest things. I know that it would have been extremely valuable to me to have someone I could have asked a question and received a reply. Instead, days went by before I could move on. Be the person the people on your list can write to with their questions and you will build a list of loyal and raving fans in a very short period of time.

You need to establish this as part of your business model from the very beginning, because we are not expecting anyone to be open to receiving emails from us. By telling your list to hit the reply button and tell you what’s on their mind, you are opening yourself up to taking your relationship to a whole new level. Imagine your list feeling like you are the one to ask before they make a purchase or other major decision for their business.

I believe this can also be enhanced through teleseminars. I still offer a free call each month for people to

One of the smartest things you can ever do when marketing your business online is to ask the people who are already on your list what they want from you. This is the way to connect with them and to find out how you can best serve them with your knowledge and expertise of your niche topic.

Hold a teleseminar and invite them to ask you anything. I have done this regularly since 2007 with great success. Once I know what my list wants from me, I prepare a course to teach them.

My most recent course teaches how to market for small businesses. My people told me they wanted to be able to make money by blogging and marketing for businesses in their city. I have been doing this since 2006, so I created a course so they could do it as well.

A special welcome to everyone currently attending Alex Mandossian’s Teleseminar Secret’s course. I was a student in Teleseminar Secrets for the first time two years ago, and this is how I originally connected with him. This training changed my online business and marketing knowledge forever, so you are definitely in the right place at the right time. I have gone on to become an affiliate for Alex, and now a partner, just as he teaches in his trainings.

Alex challenged me to double my list back on October 15, 2008. It was during my ‘limo consult’ with him, where we discussed how I could take my business to the next level. When I told Alex that I had 652 people on my list, he insisted that I take action to increase that number dramatically. We agreed that I would work on growing my list to at least one thousand names by the end of October, and to double my list, taking it past 1,300 names, as quickly after that as possible. I had my work cut out for me.

The first thing I did was to send an email to my list, asking them to refer anyone they knew who would benefit from what I teach online. Over the next few days many more people joined my list. I was amazed at how easy it was to reach out to my current subscribers and ask for their help. I learned a huge lesson from this; people really do want to help us to achieve our goals – you just need to ask them.

The second action I took was to create an event over at Facebook. At the time I had about 4,000 friends there, so now I was ready to invite them to a teleseminar training. I chose the topic of affiliate marketing because it is an area I have expereince with and that is of great interest to people building an internet business. I required them to join my list before they would receive the details of the teleseminar training. Many of my Facebook friends opted in to my list in order to be a part of that call.

The third action I implemented was to visit two forums that I had been a part of during the previous few months. Forums, both free and paid, are an excellent way to connect with people who share similar interests with you. They can work like an informal mastermind, allowing you to bounce ideas off of one another. When I told the people in these forums about my challenge with Alex, they were happy to be a part of what I was doing. Within 24 hours they began to tell others about me and what I was doing in my online business. More and more people found me and joined my list.

Within ten days of when I began this challenge my list had