Saturday, June 02, 2007

How the Internet can make you rich

Technically, the Internet is a network of networks. It basically links millions of personal computers into a global web of communications.

However, the above definition is commercially useless.

Instead, it's much more profitable -- and instructional -- to think of the Internet as your DIRECT CONNECTION TO SOMEONE'S BRAIN.

That's right: whatever I'm currently typing on my keyboard will have a direct chemical impact on certain neural connections in your brain as you read these lines.

If that's not power, I don't know what is!

It's as if the Internet allowed you to whisper something into the ears of MILLIONS of people.

Of course, WHAT you whisper into their ears, and HOW you whisper it, will determine how rich the Internet will make you.

By the way, it's not about selling -- at least, not the traditional type of selling where a representative "pushes" a product or service and tries to "close" the sale through various psycholinguistic techniques.

Sure, there's a bit of selling and even a bit of seduction, but mostly, you will be successful if you teach people something valuable.

People value knowledge because there is so much junk information out there. The only constant in society is deception, so indeed, most of the information around us have a clear agenda and seeks to influence us or sell us something.

The Montreal Gazette, the daily newspaper in my city, for instance has an average of 98,000 words per issue. Yet, 99.999% of those words have absolutely no impact on my education or my bank account or my career.

People are getting smarter and smarter. They want REAL information that will enable them to lead better lives.

Steve Pavlina's website reportedly generates $40,000 per month, and I'm not surprised. People want information that will help their personal development.

So what can YOU do to get rich through the Internet?

Find a way to teach people something valuable. You can set up a blog with texts or audio posts (like www.successsecretsradio.blogspot.com).

You might say that you don't have much material to share with people. Well, it's never too late to start gathering useful knowledge!

As you focus on learning more and more about a particular field you're interested in, you will find that writing about it gets easier and easier. Soon, people will recognize that you are the expert in that field, and many job or business opportunities will suddenly open up to you.

You will feel more valuable, and this will definitely boost your self-confidence so that you feel you can do anything.

The following is really a powerful success secret: by seeking to share valuable knowledge with other people (through a blog, for instance), you WILL be driven to read more books and study them seriously, and THIS process in itself will allow you to tap into intellectual faculties that you never thought you had before.