I just received this email from one of my newsletter followers, Jason King. I thought many people would enjoy reading what Jason had to say about his growing IM business.

Hi Steve,

Just a quick reply to say thanks for the emails you send to your list members, me being one of them.

As you said in this email, time is limited so I have a lot of emails from other IM ‘gurus’ stacked up ready to read someday, which’ll end up being never.

I do however, find yours genuinely useful and inspiring, as you tend to understand better than most how frustrating internet marketing can be in the early days. I also love and agree with the Relentless, Focused Action thing, I even wrote a blog post on it once 🙂

I found this email about the law of attraction particularly useful as it’s highly relevant to me at the moment.

Last night, rather than fret about what’s not working and why, I decided to take the opposite approach.

I wrote down all the things in internet marketing in the last year which I’d done well at and had good results.

They included the following:

o Lots of free traffic I’d achieved to particular sites or pages with highly ranked keywords
o Some very good conversion rates for mailing list squeeze pages
o A Twitter strategy which is working well for me
o The time I made my first profitable AdWords campaign, which took years to master
o An iPhone web app I made which earned good money with little effort

Making this list of things I actually got right really made me feel a lot more positive. There were various reasons why I couldn’t build on some of these successes, Apple no longer accept web apps, AdWords rules became far too strict, etc.

However, I can repeat all of these successes and I’m currently analysing them to work out how I can link them into one idea or system. For example, I never linked the high traffic pages to my high
converting squeeze page, so I didn’t capitalise on either. That’s one of the first things I’ll be doing right away.

Anyway, I’ve never been a big fan of the ‘thinking positive’ thing, I prefer something more tangible like taking action and creating things. But, there does seem to be something in it as I found last night when I stopped dwelling on failures and made a list of my successes.

Thanks again for the emails… remember, for every positive email like this you receive there’s hundreds of people who are equally thankful, even if they don’t tell you directly.

Best regards,
Jason King