So you want to be successful in life? Is that what you want? Then you better stop failing and become aware of these 10 ways to fail in life.

You see, I’ve been asked many times how to achieve success and weird enough, it seems like nobody takes the advice seriously. Then I realized one thing – most people are ALREADY failing before they even got started!

The article I wrote below is slightly controversy compare to the normal goodie-type personal development advice because this is the TRUTH. If I want to keep everyone happy and write about the colorful rainbow, birds chirping, flowers blooming, etc., then I should just open up a nursery home and take care of children. I want to tell you the truth straight to your face because I’ve been there and heard the garbage lies thrown everywhere.

Avoid these and you’ll automatically be on the right track (provided you want to be successful):

1. Mixing With Losers
It’s a guaranteed way to fail in life with this. Whatever you like to do, losers will just tell you it won’t work and after some time, you will also become a loser. High five, welcome to the losers’ club. Something about losers you should know: they like to “recruit” new people and are very comfortable in their shoes. They don’t welcome changes. So when you see someone with any of these two characteristics, you know what you should do.

2. Don’t Know What You Want
The most common goal I hear all of the time is, “I want to be rich”. I mean it’s fine with that generic goal but the problem is, how rich do you want to be? Or how rich is rich? Put it this way – the methods used to make a million and $3,000 are different. No wonder some people couldn’t experience breakthroughs in life because they are playing small for big goals. If you want to make a million, you better put in that level of commitment, bucko.

3. You Want Everything
It’s nice to have a lot of things but if you go chasing everything, you get nothing. Let me tell you why – you only have 24 hours a day and you’ve got to focus on your priorities. I know, I know, you can hire others and so on but the fact is, you’ve got to want “something” first to lead to another “something”, then to everything. Make sense?

4. Watching the “Secrets” Way Too Much
I’m not here to criticize Law Of Attractions (LOA) and don’t want to receive hate emails. As a matter of fact, I do believe in it and have friends who appeared in the Secrets. But it’s a surefire way to fail if you keep on watching the “Secrets” and doing attraction work by sitting down on your floor manifesting 3 hours a day. In my point of view, scientifically, the Law of Attraction runs on the concept of believing. When you believe your goal is achievable, you will take action to achieve it. If you don’t understand this basic element and think LOA is some sort of miracle remedy, oh boy, you’re in for a big surprise of failure.

5. You Don’t Truly Know Why You Want Success
Wanting everything is bad enough – but it gets worse if you don’t even know the reason why you’re trying to achieve your goal. What’s the deal? Without a solid reason, a compelling reason, where are you going to find the motivation and encouragement for you to overcome obstacles? You think it’s going to be fun ride to success? Then you haven’t been traveling – it’s a rocky road, my friend. Most people fail to achieve their goals because they never complete the journey – they give up halfway (or at the beginning) because they cannot see the worth of accomplishments.

6. You Don’t Remember Your Roots
“…if you go chasing everything, you get nothing.”The thing I get most irritated about is people who achieved success and never felt gratitude towards those who helped them. Is it very hard to say, “Thank you”? The law of reciprocity is simple – you return favors to those who helped you in the past. And maybe, they’ll help you again in the future. Remember this: it takes more than just you to achieve success. Don’t be a jerk.

7. You Think You’re Smart
The day you stop learning is the day you stop improving yourself. If you don’t want to fail in life, make sure you stop acting as though you already know everything. The fact is, all successful people are people who continuously learn to be even more successful. They don’t stop. Let me put it in this perspective: you don’t know what you don’t know, you know?

8. You Listen To The Wrong People
I watched this funny movie called, “He Is Just Not That Into You” and it reaffirmed what I’m about to tell you. At the beginning of the movie, it shows a clip of a boy pushing a girl in the playground because he somehow doesn’t like her. He thinks she smells like dog poo. She cried and asked her mum why did the boy do that to her. And her mum replied, “It’s because boys do that to girls when they like you.” Do yourself a favor, don’t get wrong advice. It’ll stick in your brain and lead you to make stupid interpretations in life.

9. You Think Short Term
You’ll often hear this happening in many “successful” people’s stories: they make a lot of money to lose it all. This is probably because they became too comfortable and the other thing is, once you achieve success, you should ride on the wave when the momentum is there. When you think short term, you’re only going after the instant pleasure. You must learn to delay gratification to enjoy today’s labor.

10. You’re Blinded With What Is Important In Life
I believe there are only two things that are important in your life – control of time and experiencing happiness. Money, love, big cars, diamonds, etc., are the things that contribute to these two benchmarks of success. For instance, if you have money, you don’t need to work so you can have more time to do the things you like. It’s not the money that you’re trying to get, but what the money CAN DO FOR YOU. I know this topic is bigger than one sentence explanation, but I guess you get the point. You’re a smart fella.

So now you know the 10 ways to fail in life. Question is, are you doing any of these? I’ll be BS’ng you if I said I don’t. I’m human dude, flesh and blood – I do mistakes too.

But I was fortunate to experience my fair share of success today because I learn powerful lessons from other successful people…

It’s okay to fail and you should fail as many times as you can. That is how you learn but more importantly, you should never give up – each time you get dirt kicked in your face, wash your face and ‘fight’ back. Don’t go crying like a sissy because Mum’s not going to come cleaning your face.

Are you ready? Go get your goals.

About the Author
Patric Chan, founder of SuccessTrace.com, is a world-class speaker on success in 11 countries. He lives on a small island in Malaysia, has never been to a University, started from zero money, and now lives his dream teaching people the secrets of success. You can discover the success secrets of the past, present, and future from Patric here.

You see, I’m a strong believer that it’s ALWAYS important to build an internet business that can generate income– not just about making money online.

And as a matter of fact, I get annoyed when anyone asks me a question like…

“Can you teach me how to make money online in a week?”

In my mindset, its ‘hard’ to make money online for a newbie and it’ll take at least 6 weeks to get on the right track. I even think that it’s already ‘wrong’ in the first place to have that kind of silly hope.

**BUT**… I realized how I’m shutting myself and my client’s possibilities because I’m being a Smart Alec. I’m being ignorant. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with wanting to make money online without spending the time to learn and putting effort, AND wanting to see income in your Paypal within a couple of days.

It is possible and I can prove it to you. No list, no product, no JVs, no nothing.

The only concern is this– you just got to know how to differentiate a real business and the process of making money online.

An internet business is a platform to make money online. But making money online does not mean you have an internet business.

When you want to make money on the internet, there are two ways to go about it.

The first one is to build a real internet business as mentioned earlier. In this method, normally, you’ll select the niche market based on your current expertise, what you like or if it’s your hobby. The strategy for this is to dominate the sub-niche of the pursued niche market and grow it ‘deep’.

Or build an internet business based on your million-dollar idea like the next facebook.com or something.

The other one is to break the ‘rule’ of building a real business by setting up as many ‘income generators’ as you can on the internet. For instance, putting up ads to promote affiliate programs. As you can see, this is really quick because it doesn’t require any product creation or even a website.

The game for this is simple too– the more you can put up on the internet, the higher the chance of success and the richer you’ll be. The internet marketing game is very simple to play- the more ‘presence’ you can have on the internet, the more money you’ll start to see.

The good thing about this method compared to the first one is you have minimal risk and you’ll start seeing income as you go along.

BUT THERE’S A PROBLEM– you desperately need speed. If you don’t use software or hire people to do the mechanical work for you, you just can’t put up enough ‘income generators’ on the internet. My point is, forget about this option if you’re going to do manually – it’s just too much work.

But the ultimate business strategy is to combine both options.

Here’s how it works – send traffic to the affiliate program by using Google Adwords and see how many clicks you can get. In some profitable niches, you can get thousands of clicks at dirt cheap.

If this is happening, then you should start diverting these visitors to your own landing page (instead of sending the traffic directly to the affiliate program) and get them to subscribe into your list. Bam. Now you get to promote the same affiliate program to your list as many times as you want and keep on promoting other products for maximum profit.

If you’re getting good commission for a particular affiliate program and you kind of like that niche market, you can consider creating your own product to sell then.

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These are the four factors you’ll need to consider knowing:

1.  Who will be your potential customers?  For example, if you are setting up a website that discusses alternative medicine, you can bet your target audience is not going to be video gamers! They must share the same interest or affinity towards your niche.

2.  What is the best way to know your market’s behavior and preference? The easiest way is to conduct survey on your website (provided you already have ongoing visitors).  Make your list a part of the process, and have them tell you what they really want and need.

If you can can’t do that, then spend a little bit time at the forums that are related to your market and learn what people are looking for, or what do they need to know.  This is one of the best resources available to the savvy marketer, and should be taken full advantage of.

3. Choose the proper target market.  In the preceding example, we used the analogy of video gamers and alternative medicine.  If you are promoting a high ticket product, it makes little sense to market to people who are not willing or able to pay for your product.  Do they have access to your services?  Is enough information available to them to make the right decision and reach for their wallets?  Is the niche you are planning on promoting saturated and have heavy competition?  Just who is the competition?

4.  Chose the proper customer profile.  This goes a long way in guiding your sales efforts, and also helps you to know whom you are promoting to.  Learn the language of the niche – each niche has its own specific language and slang that is used in talking about it.  You need to sound believable and show credibility.  Nothing will drive your potential customers away quicker than the fact you don’t speak their language.

Although this simple guide does not go into enough detail to run a proper market analysis, it gives you a good overview of what to look for, and the type of information to gather, whether through a custom built survey, or through hiring a market consultant to run the demographics for you.  Either way, knowing your market is half the battle, and does not leave you wondering what your market really needs.
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Let me give you an example – build a website which is targeted to the local people of a city. Let’s say the city is Camden, it is in the state of New Jersey in United States.

The purpose of the site isn’t to attract people to the area or to inform people about any of the features that the city has to offer. Instead, it is use for communicating within the local community where the people of Camden can become regular users of the website. This way, they find information about local events and read reviews about the restaurants in the city and to keep visiting the website on a regular basis.

If the people keep visiting, you sell advertising space to local businesses and traders. This along with Google Adsense should generate a half decent income. So with the people of Camden coming back time and time again, you will be in a good position to put premiums on advertising space.

The local site can be directory as well.

A web directory in its simplest form can be thought of as a human indexed search engine. Humans can visit a directory website and make resource suggestions through an online form. A human editor will review the suggestion and add it to the directory provided it meets the submission guidelines for the directory.

A general web directory will have its resources sorted into a large number of categories covering a wide range of topics but instead of doing that, you create a local niche web directories tend to focus on one subject with resources sorted into a smaller number of highly related categories. 

The major purpose of a web directory is to provide directory users with a categorized list of high quality listing on all kinds of details in Camden.

Search engine’s also tend to serve up category pages from trusted web directories near the top of their search results so having your website listed in as many high quality web directories as you can should be part of any website marketing plan, especially when your website is new.

Another idea is having a ‘wiki website’.

Wikis are community-edited informational sites, and they’re showing up all over the place. The first was Wikipedia, recently known for an act of vandalism that made up one person’s background. This incident was heavily covered in the media, and may have coloured the opinions of many people.

Wikis are proving themselves to be both valuable and accurate. They are also a great place to go for directory-style and in-text links to sites to deepen your information. Pretty soon, a wiki is going to be a natural place to go to search for information on just about anything.

With wiki website, you can even have the people in Camden to add content for you.

With local website, you can even catch the media’s attention to give you free traffic – you don’t even need to make any promotion online.

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Having your own website is a viable business venture that can provide you with a reasonable income. The amount depends on how much willing you are to work on your online business venture, the more you learn about internet online business trade secrets and the proper internet marketing strategies used, the higher your potential profits would be.

There are lots of fierce competition in the ebusiness that’s why you need to learn how to rise above the rivalry. One of the best marketing strategies is to have an online business to serve the local market and letting your visitors know the benefits they would be getting if they deal with your products or services. 

Just don’t slack off, making money online doesn’t happen overnight, and it also won’t be effortless. Do not believe the hype about making money online without any real work to do, this is just a scam or a rip-off.

You can earn a steady income from the Internet running an online business, as long as you’re willing and able to put the time, effort, and money that is required.

One of the biggest time consumption task to start on the right track to internet business success is to find what will work or what won’t and what opportunity may be real — the fact that many people start an online business and continue with their present occupation it can lead to some very long hours.

Starting an online business you will find that it will constantly change. What you are doing well today may not work for you the next day. You have to constantly study and learn. This is another time consuming and sometimes frustrating process. Finding the right people to attract is a never ending process.

Starting an online business may not be as easy as some want to portray it as but it is not impossible – once achieve, it gives the regular person a chance to be a business owner with a minimum of start up costs. These costs are normally just a couple hundred dollars.

It offers you more flexibility, since you do work at your computer you can pick the times you work. This could eventually lead to more free time since you may be able to automate a lot of your tasks.

Starting an online business can be profitable. Some turn profit within a few months while it may take others longer as they experiment and test to find out exactly what will work for them and provide the income that they are interested in making. All this from the comfort of your home, it is easy to see why many have started an online business as a source of income.

The best is to make money online with something that interests you.

Let’s say that you like to go bowling. Here is a way to start making money around that hobby…

Do a Google search and type in the words “bowling affiliate program” without the quotation marks. As I do that over 700,000 results are brought up. Notice the words affiliates somewhere in the title, description, or url of the websites. All you have to do to get started is go to each one of these and join for free.

Then set up a ‘bowling website’ where people can share their experience with bowling on it.

You can now promote “bowling affiliate program” on your website to make money online without even having your own product!

This is an example to broaden up your mindset. As you can see, there are a lot of opportunities on the internet for you to make money – all you need to do is to get started.

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Do you have to work twice as hard as you did earlier?
Not really because marketing online is very different than
those in the real world where you can implement new tactics
easily on the internet.

To start making money online on autopilot, the first step
is to think a bit more creatively about your current webpages.
Look at your website, and analyze the pages. Then identify
the one page where you could add an “up-sell”.

What to up-sell and how to up-sell is the key.

Up-selling is not a difficult art to master provided you
know what to up-sell and how to up-sell. More often than
not, marketers mix up a lot of ideas and make an absolute
hash of up-selling. In fact, in some cases, people drop
their ideas of buying a product when they are given a
product that doesn’t correlate to the main product.

Once you understand what you need to up-sell, you should
find out how best you can up-sell your product.

Here are some cost-saving techniques to help you increase
your online revenue on the Internet:

i. You can now add an up-sell on your newsletter subscription
page. All you got to do is ask the visitors to sign up for
let’s say a free trial offer just before they click on the
Register for the paid product.

ii. You may have a sales page directly selling a particular
product. Just add another product before the visitor can
click on the Buy button for the paid product. You may text
the up-selling product as a discounted bonus!

iii. You could also up-sell your product in the shopping cart.
This is what you should do – Before the visitors confirm their
order, ask them to include the up-selling product in the cart.
This could be a good conversion mechanism because you don’t
really ask the customers to go through a series of steps to
click and buy on your up-selling product.

Mind you – Any effort you take to increase your online revenue
on autopilot has to be done with equal amount of diligence.
The task here is on a different wavelength. You intend to make
money without you having to actually work for it. If you have
been a believer in earning money by working hard, this concept
would come as a big change for you.

Importantly, there is no niche on the Internet, which does not
have scope for you to earn money on autopilot. All it needs is
a bit of thought, and you would be able to crack some ideas on
your own. Watch out for one thing though – At the start, as it
happens in most cases, the revenue inflow wouldn’t be as huge
as you would have forecasted.

Take things slowly, and if you are able to add even one zero
to your earning on a monthly basis, you would have made a
good start to earn money on autopilot.
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After all, up-selling is a technique employed by leading
e-commerce sites to boost their sales and though you may
be some light years away from them, this could be used by
you effectively too. And though this is a technique,
there is not a lot different from up-selling and selling
by themselves!

There are many ways you could up-sell a product, but before
we get into knowing the easiest method, know that an up-sell
is a product you wish to sell immediately after he has bought
the first one. Needless to say, the second product or the
product to be up-sold has to be related to the first product
bought by the customer.

To the point – The easiest method to up-sell is to work on
the ‘checkout’ page!

What you can do with the Checkout Page?

I’m not asking you to redesign the entire webpage. Follow
this process to uncover the easiest method to up-sell.

First, identify your webpage which you want to include the
upsell. It could be your product page, salesletter page,
your newsletter subscription page, your thank you page and
so on.

Then just add an option for them to include MORE products
before they ‘checkout’.

So if it’s a newsletter subscription page, ask them if they
want to include a free trial offer to your other paid product
before they click “Register” on your newsletter page.

If your page is a salesletter webpage, give them an option
to include another of your product before they click the
“Order Now” button.

Here’s another example – if your webpage is a shopping cart,
you can always ‘upsell’ your prospects for them to add more
quantity of the product that they’re buying.

The list goes on.

Here are some things you would like to watch out for while
up-selling:

- The product you up-sell needs to be somewhat related to
the product the customer bought. The closer the correlation,
the better it is for you because you’ll get more sales.

- Write your up-selling ad as carefully and diligently as you
would have designed your sales ad. Just the fact that the
customer bought one product from you doesn’t mean he is sure
to buy another!

- Up-sell but don’t push – Pushing is bad for any form of
selling and the same applies in up-selling too. Inform the
customer about your product and leave the choice to him.
Also, bear in mind that you’re adding more value to your
customer by offering greater solutions to them in your upsell
products.

The method to up-sell your product is not as tough as you
would have thought it to be. Basically, if you’re not
integrating any upsell in your sales funnel, you’re literally
losing money.

It’ll cost you more time, effort and money to acquire a new
customer compare to selling to an existing customer who already
trust you and like your product.

Although the technicalities surrounding the deal make it a
slightly tough nut to crack, but I can tell you that it’s
worth your time to explore this powerful marketing strategy.

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