Sean Rasmussen

One of the advantages that grow from collapse is possibility and potential. If we look at all the times throughout history where one ‘great’ has fallen, something else has arisen to take its place. That means that every down turn creates some opportunity for someone else. You just need to decide which side of the coin you will be on.

Bigger And Better

With the changed conditions ushered in by the world economic collapse during the time of the Great Depression came also the need for newer and better ways of marketing personal services. Hill found it hard to figure why someone had not previously discovered this stupendous need, in view of the fact that more money changes hands in return for personal services than for any other purpose.

Opportunities Of Today And Yesterday

Again, we find a parallel in this to today’s marketplace. The technology era has changed everything we used to know about job-searching, applying for work, and self-promotion. The internet has given employers and contractors access to such a huge pool of available and qualified workers, that simply submitting a resume is an overwhelming and daunting task. What’s more, the ability to work from remote locations via the internet and other technologies has vastly increased the available work force for any given job where telecommuting is a possibility; employer’s options are no longer limited to the best of the crop that are available locally. Here again, it is necessary for job-seekers to get creative in marketing themselves if they hope to stand out in the very crowded marketplace.

Perhaps this is the very idea in which some reader will find the nucleus of the wealth they desire! Ideas with much less merit have been the seedlings from which great fortunes have grown. Woolworth’s Five and Ten Cent Store idea, for example, had far less merit, but it piled up a fortune for its creator.

A Simple Seed

All it takes to succeed is one simple start, one simple seed. Anyone can have a thought and cultivate that seed if they have the mindset and desire and dedication to do so. This is what Napoleon Hill has tried to illustrate all along—that anyone can have what it takes to live well and prosper, and that includes you!

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
SeanRasmussen.com © 2004 - 2009

So who is most to credit for Halpin’s success? Is it Andrews or Halpin himself?

The Credit Goes To….

It is difficult to say whether Mr. Andrews or Mr. Halpin is more deserving of tribute, for the reason that both showed evidence of having an abundance of that very rare quality known as imagination. Mr. Andrews deserves credit for seeing, in young Halpin, a “go-getter” of the highest order. Halpin deserves credit for refusing to compromise with life by accepting and keeping a job he didn’t want. That is one of the major points Hill is trying to emphasize throughout this entire philosophy—that we rise to high positions or remain at the bottom because of conditions we can control if we want to control them.

What Habit Will Get You

Hill is also trying to emphasize another point; namely, that both success and failure are largely the results of habit! Without a doubt Dan Halpin’s close association with the greatest football coach America ever knew planted in his mind the same brand of desire to excel which made the Notre Dame football team world famous. Truly, there is something to the idea that hero-worship is helpful, provided one worships a winner. According to Halpin, Rockne was one of the world’s greatest leaders of men in all history.

Hill believed that business associations are vital factors, both in failure and in success, so intently that he intervened when his son Blair was negotiating with Dan Halpin for a position in his company. Mr. Halpin offered him a beginning salary of about one half what he could have gotten from a rival company. Nevertheless, Hill pressured his son to accept the position with Halpin, because he believed that close association with someone who refuses to compromise with circumstances they do not like is an asset that can never be measured in terms of money.

The Company You Keep

And so we are back to this point as well—that your success or failure is also a reflection of the company that you keep. Those who you choose to admire and emulate and associate with on a regular basis certainly will impact your outcome, so best to choose carefully and wisely! Have your heroes and mentors, but make sure they are worthy of you!

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
SeanRasmussen.com © 2004 - 2009

I have finally got my Internet Marketing Forum on the road! Although only in BETA for one more month, I have opened it up for 200 members to help me test it out and give it a good road test. At this very moment of writing this, there are 162 active members in the forum already learning great strategies from myself and my team of internet marketing moderators.

Considering I have kept it very low key, it has got its fair share of attention. The official launch will be early August 2009. Both the new book: Year Of The Affiliate 2.0 & The YOTA Internet Marketing Forum.

Why The YOTA Forum?

I love the concept of a forum. Although web 2.0 has moved on with bigger and better things, I believe that a good old fashioned private members Internet Marketing Forum still provides the best personal touch for someone who is learning about making money online. Whether you are a total beginner or an intermediate learner, the forum provides a workable format that is easy for everyone to navigate and learn from.

By the way: YOTA = Year Of The Affiliate. I made my start online with affiliate marketing and sold millions of dollars of product online. I have now decided to share that knowledge and a forum is the best way I can do that.

Year Of The Affiliate 2.0

In the next few weeks, the ‘Leaked version’ of Year Of The Affiliate 2.0 will arrive on the scene. I will make the first 130 pages of my 260+ page book available Totally For Free. The new book will have step by step tutorials on video available in my private members Internet Marketing Forum.

Stay tuned to find out how to get your own free copy of my book: Year Of The Affiliate 2.0: The Leaked Version

The current version of “Year Of The Affiliate” was released in 2008 and was, although never officially launched, surprisingly popular. I originally wrote it to help a handful of people on my database to understand Internet Marketing and share in methods I used to make over $7M of product sales online. One reader wrote back to me within a week telling me how he made US$127 in his first 24 hours of reading the book. Within 3-4 months, he had casually made several thousand dollars without much effort at all. It made me realise that the books content was far better than I gave myself credit for.

YOTA Internet Marketing Forum

So, I have put the forum to the big road test to settle it in with new systems, video tutorials etc. I have preliminarily opened up the YOTA Internet Marketing Forum for 200 members to help me road test it and in a few days 162 people have joined already. I expect to close the intake at the end of the weekend or early next week.

So What Are We Teaching In The YOTA Forum?

Well, for starters, it’s not only me in there. I have 12 super keen moderators who attend the forum for 12 - 16 hours a day. They literally “pounce” on you when you ask a question. Yes, that is their avatars in the Forum Picture above. I call them my little Zodiacs. You’ll understand why when you meet them.

Back to the forum. This has been one of my frustrations with internet marketing forums in the past. You ask a question and you wait, then wait, and wait some more, just to find out that it might not get answered correctly - or at all! Of course there are good ones out there but I decided to put together a proper forum that has everything in it that I ever expected from an internet marketing forum.

What I Expect From An Internet Marketing Forum

Here is what I want in an Internet Marketing Forum. Nothing more, nothing less (I’ll stick to the main points):

1. Super Fast Response. I want answers today, within the hour. Not tomorrow! We provide that in our forum with 12 - 16 hours a day coverage.
2. Video Tutorials. I want Step by Step Video Tutorials that show me exactly how to do the strategies so I can implement them straight away. I want daily video tutorials Monday - Friday, every week. AND I want hundreds of video’s to watch on every possible topic conceivable.
3. Comprehensive Coverage. I want enough information to be able to make money online. That is something that was seriously lacking in internet marketing forums that I have visited in the past. I want to be able to get information to give an offline business much more exposure online. I want to be able to build an online business from scratch… and much more.
4. Current Strategies That Work. I want the current strategies - not the outdated stuff that only the dinosaurs use - outdated last year, and the year before. I want the new stuff and I want it now!

We already have most of the above points checked in the forum and are fine tuning others during the BETA stage. My video library will grow by hundreds of video’s every year and there is a new current tutorial uploaded every weekday. More and more internet marketing topics will be added to the forum as we go along and it is happening fast.

I Need 38 More Members Before The Intake Closes

The YOTA Internet Marketing Forum needs 38 more members to reach 200. The forum will launch in August at AUD$99/month and the book alone will sell for AUD$147. However this is what I’m doing for the first 200 (38 spots left):

• $79 AUD/month membership locked in for as long as you stay a member, regardless of what the price goes up to later. Saving of at least $20/month.
• The current version of Year Of The Affiliate. Download it now. Value $97
• The ‘Leaked Version‘ of the new YOTA 2.0 book before anyone else gets it.
• The new version: Year Of The Affiliate 2.0 one week before its release in August. Value: $147
• Pounce on support by me and my 12 internet marketing moderators.
• Step by Step Video Tutorials. New and current video’s every day, Monday - Friday.
• 100% Money Back Guarantee for your first 30 days. Keep all your bonuses anyway. We issue you the money back in your account instantly upon request. No questions asked.
• No Commitment. Cancel your subscribtion any time you like.
• Extra Attention. During the first month we will be all over you like a rash. We are building the forum, building content and developing systems. If you want support, you got it!

Real Results And Real Delivery

Those of you that know me well, know that I’m of high ethics and integrity. The YOTA Internet Marketing Forum is my pride and joy and I am putting everything into it. Put aside cheap sales tricks and false promises. I do NOT belong to that ilk of marketing humanity. I loathe it, disrespect it, and it is not my game. This one is the real thing and I know my regular friends and supporters will back me up on that 100%.

I welcome your comment below this article.

Go here to check out the signup page for The YOTA Forum last 38 spots.

I hope to see you there.

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
Aussie Internet Marketer © 2004 - 2009

Hill took pains to exemplify success from all levels of beginning. The story of Dan Halpin is just one such example.

Dan Halpin’s Story

Dan Halpin’s story, provided by the author, is an excellent example of what it means to rise out of the low-man position.

During his college days, Dan was manager of the famous 1930 National Championship Notre Dame football team, when it was under the direction of the late Knute Rockne.

Perhaps he was inspired by the great football coach to aim high, and not mistake temporary defeat for failure, just as Andrew Carnegie, the great industrial leader, inspired his young business lieutenants to set high goals for themselves. At any rate, young Halpin finished college at a most inopportune time, when the depression had made jobs scarce, so, after a fling at investment banking and motion pictures, he took the first opening with a potential future he could find—selling electrical hearing aids on a commission basis. Anyone could start in that kind of job, and Halpin knew it, but it was enough to open the door of opportunity to him.

Curing Dissatisfaction

For almost two years, he continued in a job he didn’t like, and he would never have risen above that job if he had not done something about his dissatisfaction. He aimed, first, at the job of Assistant Sales Manager of his company, and got the job. That one step upward placed him high enough above the crowd to enable him to see still greater opportunity; also, it placed him where opportunity could see him.

Halpin built himself such a good record selling hearing aids, that A. M. Andrews, Chairman of the Board of the Dictograph Products Company, a competitor of the company Halpin worked for, wanted to know about that man Dan Halpin who was taking big sales away from the long established Dictograph Company. He sent for Halpin. When the interview was over, Halpin was the new Sales Manager in charge of the Acousticon Division. Then, to test young Halpin’s metal, Mr. Andrews went away to Florida for three months, leaving him to sink or swim in his new job. He did not sink! Knute Rockne’s spirit of “All the world loves a winner,” and has no time for a loser inspired him to put so much into his job that he was later elected Vice-President of the company, and General Manager of the Acousticon and Silent Radio Division, a job which most men would be proud to earn through ten years of loyal effort. Halpin did it in just over six months.

In The Sites Of Success

And so we hear it once again—if you continue to take the same actions, you get the same results. You also get lost in the field of others who are doing the same. If you want opportunity to be able to find you, you need to do something different and be in its line of site. Take action today to set yourself out above the crowd!

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
SeanRasmussen.com © 2004 - 2009

Why bother with effort? That was the question we were left with at the end of the last post in Mindset Mastery 118. If you recall this was the story of the woman who had prepared a complete biographical portfolio for her son to help him land a job after college—a task that seems like overkill.

Why Go To Extra Lengths?

The answer is this—”Doing something well is never trouble! The plan prepared by this woman to benefit her son helped him get the job he was applying for, at the first interview, at the salary he named.”

Moreover—and this is important, too—the position did not require the young man to start at the bottom. He began as a junior executive, at an executive’s salary.

Do you still ask “Why go to all this trouble?”

Planning In Presentation

Well, for one thing, the planned presentation of this young man’s application for a position took off at least ten years of time he would otherwise have spent just to get to where he began if he had “started at the bottom and worked his way up.”

This idea of starting at the bottom and working your way up may appear to be sound, but the major objection to it is this–too many of those who begin at the bottom never manage to lift their heads high enough to be seen by opportunity, so they remain at the bottom. You should also know that the outlook from the bottom is not so very bright or encouraging. It has a tendency to kill ambition. It’s called “getting into a rut,” which means that we accept our fate because we form the habit of daily routine, a habit that finally becomes so strong we stop trying to throw it off. And that is another reason why it pays to start one or two steps above the bottom. By doing so a person forms the habit of looking around, of observing how others get ahead, of seeing opportunity, and of embracing it without hesitation.

Pave Your Own Way

This lesson is so applicable to so many aspects of life; it even applies to wealth creation. Why start at the bottom rung and fight to find your way to wealth—and more likely to get discouraged and never achieve personal prosperity? With all the excellent wealth creation resources, books, seminars, courses, blogs, websites, social media and more that is out there, why go the route of the unproven struggle, why not pave your way with the success of others who have gone before you? By doing just that you can cut at least ten years off your learning curve, too.

Sean Rasmussen
Success Communicator
SeanRasmussen.com © 2004 - 2009