Has it ever happened to you that while discussing your job with friends or family people don’t have any idea about what you do.

Or your classmate who you haven’t seen for ages, talks about career and suddenly asks: “And you?” – “I’m an Internet marketer” (here you feel a surge of pride), – “Sorry, what?” Not “Wow!”, not even “Really?! Tell me more about it!”, just this humiliating “What?”.

I know the reason why they do so. You may be surprised, but many people are still ignorant of the Internet, let alone SEM, PPC and other 3-letter online businesses. To believe them, Internet marketers are those who

• sell e-books (btw, what does “e-book” mean?);
• flood your inbox with spammy messages, like “Order 9 $1 bottles for $10 and get one more absolutely FOR FREE”;
• just scam;
• waste time in front the computer screen, looking through multiple stupid pages (this refers to all the three).

The thing is that people who don’t use the web treat it like something unreal: you can’t try on sneakers from a virtual shop or hear the ring of coins sent to your online account.

And unreal allegedly stands for unreliable. Have you experienced such an attitude?

All in all, how to convince your relatives/friends that you are neither a spammer nor scammer, but a serious businessman?

Don’t try to explain the inexplicable. Don’t show them your website(-s) and stats reports. Don’t answer their naive questions.

Just invite them some day to voyage in the yacht (not that I have one) you bought from your online revenue – and they’ll believe, I bet!

I’d love to know if you’ve ever been in this situation or simply tell me your thoughts about this, even if you’re a part-time Internet marketer…

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By looking at this comic, would you say you have anything in common? (excuse the male character if you’re a female )

How productive are you? How many hours of actual “productive” work do you get done each day?

I’m normally on the computer from 11am till 3am. That’s 16 hours. The amount of “productive” work I get done is about 7-8 hours.

When I say “productive”, I mean actual work that’s contributing to the growth of your business.

I’d love to hear how productive you are - whether you work part-time or full-time on your business.

Share your thoughts with us, here…

– Aurelius Tjin

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This cartoon was intentionally made to look “silly” (just for the humour), but that’s not the point

Moral of the mockery - Average guy watches “The Secret”, makes a “wish” or command to the universe, someone knocks on his door and his wish comes true (a red Ferrari parked outside).

Now, I’m in no way affiliated with “The Secret”, but if you’re ever interested in self-improvement then The Secret is something for you. You can get the digital ebook version from ebooks.com. The DVD is available from most DVD shops.

In essence, the core subject talks about “The Law of Attraction”.

This is similar to Napoleon Hill’s quote, from his book Think and Grow Rich, “Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve”.

This subject is not intended to be biased or politically correct. I know that some of you may or may not believe it, thus the reason for this blog post.

Feel free to comment or post your feedbacks…

To your unstoppable success,
Aurelius Tjin

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It seems as though getting the attention of people online is extremely difficult…

Internet marketers, for example, will do extremely crazy things just so people, like you, will buy from them. For instance, when there’s a “big product launch” happening, hundreds of Joint-venture partners and affiliates join in to make as much commissions and try to get to the top of the “JV Top 10″ or Top 20, just so they can win a cash prize or a toy (at the very least).

I’ve seen some really crazy bonuses and bribes in the past - from ATV’s (All Terrain Vehicles), to a package full of hundreds of resell rights products.

I won’t deny it, I do crazy things just so you can buy from me too. What I don’t do is pile on irrelevant and unnecessary junk, just so I can make a sale.

Unfortunately, this is the world we live in now. My main niche is in the “Internet marketing” niche, and it’s super-competitive.

You’re seeing it a lot nowadays:

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Does this look like you? Yes! It’s a real addiction…

It’s a serious problem but we all need to learn how to laugh at ourselves from time to time…

5 Signs That Reveal You’re An Emailaholic

1. You check your email every 10-15 minutes for new orders, new offers, emails from customers, joint ventures, (viagra?) and the list goes on…

2. Your mum, spouse or whoever, calls you out for dinner but you tell her “5 more minutes honey”, so you can reply to an email. 5 minutes ends up being 30 minutes.

3. You’re in the middle of creating or editing your website and you repeatedly point to your email program and “refresh” your inbox.

4. You have separate folders for different types of emails.

5. You make sure that your email program runs on startup i.e. - you set Outlook to run automatically when you log on.

I have a relationship with my inbox and it makes me feel weird!

I’m guilty of checking my inbox every 15 minutes. The first thing most people would do is go to the loo. The first thing I do is check my email to see how many more sales I’ve received!

Don’t make Alex (the cartoon) and me feel weird and alone

Can you add more “Signs” to the list I’ve already made? This will be interesting to see.

I’d love to hear from you!

Click here to add your comment or click on the “Comments” link above…

- Aurelius Tjin
The guilty Emailaholic

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