Are you the next American Idol… of internet marketing?  Are you even an internet marketing American Idol contestant?  You may, or may not be… at this point in time.  If you are, then congratulations, that’s awesome!  If not, then what are you doing to get there?

I am a Little League baseball coach, and when I look into the eyes of the young men that I coach I see potential.  I see a clean slate that can be filled with… filled with what?  You decide.  You can be the next American Idol of just about anything that you put your mind to.  For instance, if I wanted to be the next Little League coaching American Idol I know that I would have to eat, sleep and breath Little League baseball coaching.  It’s the same with anything else you do, you have to take action and have laser beam focus.

Being an internet marketing superstar, you may think, is too hard to do, but think about this for a second.  I tell the players on my team that they have it so easy compared to when I was a kid.  If I had to research something for school, I would have to ask my mom to take me to the library, go into the library and ask the librarian for help. We would then walk over to the files where the Dewey Decimal System was located, and he or she would provide me with a list of books and the location of those books within the library.  I would then have to find those 15 books and sift through them to find just the right information for my essay.

Uh… wow!  That’s a lot of work isn’t it.  Now what does a person do if they want to do research for something?  That’s right, the Google it.

Things have gotten a lot easier for students and for us.  “Us” being the masses of people that have a goal.  Whatever your goal is, all you have to do is Google it, and there’s a 99% chance that someone out there wrote about it, or even made a tutorial video about it. My goals is to be a successful Internet marketer.  Yours may be something else, and perhaps you stumbled upon this post completely by accident.  If this was the case I hope that I have inspired you to follow your dreams and strive for your goals.  It so much easier today, because of the internet, to be successful.  You can start as an American Idol contestant and strive to American Idol stardom, in whatever field you wish.

Like Nike says, “Just Do It”.  Action + focus = progress.

The nice thing about the internet is that instead of just being an American Idol, you will actually be a World Idol, if you really want to.  You can do it.

If you are new to internet marketing, then please visit this blog often.  I want to help you, and I’ll be giving you invaluable information to help you build an internet marketing business.  Together we can achieve!

Oh, one last thought. Most of the contestants on American Idol get better each week, when pre-American Idol, most never strived. Now; however, they see what they can become, and they are taking action and are also very focused. What changed? I believe that they have the vision of seeing themselves as the next American Idol. Get your vision first, then work backwards. You can do anything!

To your success,

Ed Rubi

Have you ever had one of those day?  You’re late to an appointment.  Your car runs out of gas.  You bounce a check.  You… “fill in the blank”.  I have.  That’s when I stop and think about all the things that I’m grateful for in my life, and stop thinking about the things that might going wrong, that will soon pass anyway.  That’s also when I intentionally stop and consciously create an, “attitude of gratitude”.

I coach little league baseball, and over the years I have noticed that kids and, many times, coaches act like it’s the end of the world when something doesn’t go their way during a game.  This is why, before we even have our first practice, I give the kids on my team a homework assignment.  I ask them to watch the video below, and answer some questions.  Once they have done their homework, I ask them to remember Nick when they think things are going bad for them during a game, but especially during the challenges in their day to day life.

I’ll stop at that.  The video speaks for itself.  Nick is inspirational, and if you are ever down in the dumps or you’re facing something you consider “difficult”, then I challenge you to think of Nick an create for yourselves an, “attitude of gratitude”.  Once you are grateful, then you can succeed.

At times we can look at a goal and say to ourselves, “that’s impossible”. It might seem insurmountable, and in our mind we think about all the reasons we can’t do it. I’m too short. I’m too fat. I don’t have the right education. I don’t have the money. I’m not smart enough.

When you think this way it’s known as a, “self fulfilling prophesy”. When you say, “I can’t”, your mind slams the door to any other possibility. It stops searching for ways to attain that goal, and basically gives up.

One of my favorite quotes is from Henry Ford and it says,

Dean Holland’s, Starting with Marketing Academy is awesome. Just to recap, we have been through two of Dean Holland’s modules; “The BBB Formula, and “Social Slaughter”.

“The BBB Formula” stands for the basic building blocks. After completing Dean Holland’s BBB Formula, I was able to create this blog that you see before you. That was only the first module.

The second module was called “Social Slaughter”. I actually started a new Twitter account specifically for my business. If you want to look me up you can find my Twitter page here. Because of what Dean Holland has taught us in his Starting with Marketing Academy I was able to go from zero followers on July 31st, to 1,009 followers as of today August 8th. Dean’s Starting With Marketing Academy rocks!

Internet marketing can be puzzling sometimes, but we are learning more and more each module. By the time I complete the Starting With Marketing Academy I expect to have the internet marketing puzzle solved, and I then I will teach you.

I made this short video just to introduce myself to you and talk about Dean, Starting With Marketing, and this confusing internet marketing puzzle. It’s my first video blog, so please be kind with your comments they will get better the more of them I do.

All the best,

Ed

They say that if you want to be successful you should surround yourself with successful people.  As I think about the students in our Starting With Marketing Academy I already feel that I have surrounded myself with successful people.  If we follow Dean’s lead by taking action we will all be successful online, but remember to never give up.

I am a little league baseball coach, and it’s one of my favorite things to do in the whole world.  When I look into the eyes of a new team every year I see potential for greatness in each and everyone; however,