My friend Alice Seba has posted the search phrases for her site a few times and those posts always give me a good laugh.

I was just looking through my search stats and found some pretty interesting ones I thought I would share. There are some non family friendly ones so I won’t share those! *blush*

Here we go:

i believe in luck not hardwork - nope not me… I don’t believe in either!

is someone stalking me online - I don’t know, I hope not

A few days ago I was reading Dan Kennedy’s newsletter and he mentioned that ugly and clumsy websites almost always outperform sleek and pretty ones (he’s tested this many times).

This would explain why people like Matt Furey, who sells millions of dollars of products online, have such so-so sites. In fact, Matt’s just had his site revaamped — it was actually uglier before.

And take a look at Dan’s own website, it’s certainly not flashy or sleek. Dan and Matt can easily afford to pay something to build them any kind of website they want… yet they deliberately keep their sites shall we say “home-made.” You get a sense that there’s a real person behind the site rather than some cold and perfect entity.

I know there are people out there that most certainly do.

They feel that somehow they don’t deserve money or that money is “evil” in some way. Maybe they haven’t come to grips with accepting that they can make money and enjoy the freedom it provides them.

I certainly know where these thoughts stem from. I grew up very poor and usually in these circumstances you turn out to think in either one of two ways…

One, you go over the top and dig yourself into debt by spending, spending spending (my sister is a good example of this unfortunately)…

No I haven’t gone and gotten remarried and changed my name
but I did get the cutest email the other day. It went like this…

Hi, Mila my name is also Mila and I am nine years old and I think your website is realy cool!!
keep writing Love from Mila.

This email was from 9 year old Mila Lang and her dad Steven Lang (who sent it to me).

The Lang’s have a family site over at: http://www.tvstar.co.za/ (Look at the Mila and Zoe link on the left)… And in true entrepreneurial fashion Mila Lang is also starting her own blog over at: http://www.milalang.blogspot.com/

“I’m not good at that”

“I couldn’t possibly charge that much for my services”

“Who am I to do something like that”

“Why is everyone else succeeding and I’m not”

STOP! If you’re having these thoughts, look in the mirror and wake up. You are sabotaging yourself and your business…

Stop wishing, hoping, wanting and start doing. Start by changing your thoughts and giving yourself a break. If your mind is in the right place and your actions are sincere, I guarantee you success will follow.

Here’s a quick audio to give you a boost and get you started:

As you probably already know Harlan Kilstein is an awesome copywriter and just so happens to be my mentor… I’ve learned so much from him in just a few short months and I look forward to growing and learning even more in the future.

Now this Saturday Harlan is hitting the big Five-O and has a special free gift for you….

A no strings attached, free teleseminar on making money as a copywriter.

Harlan’s already said that nothing, zero, zilch will be pitched or sold on the call… just amazing information I guarantee you won’t want to miss. I pay a lot of money every month to coach and train with Harlan so consider this call very valuable.

Lynette Chandler of TechBasedMarketing.com asked me this question a few days ago:

How do you suggest to create a good experience online since most of it is hands off? I’ve always tried my best to make things straight forward and simple… what else? Would love to pick your brains on this

I’ve been in the service industry a long time and have strong thoughts on how to deal with customers.

If you’re selling products and don’t have direct one to one dealings with the customer there are a few fundamental things you should be doing….