How big is Australia?

Really big.

May 31

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Many times visitors to Australia have planned their trip without understanding how big the country is.

For those in the USA, Australia is the same size as the USA, with the population of New York City, most of whom live on the east coast.

The rest is pretty empty.

One cattle station is bigger than Texas and has a population of 6.

For those in Europe, Australia is approximately twice the size of all of Europe, excluding Russia.

The state I live in, South Australia, is five times bigger than the U.K., three times bigger than Germany, and not quite twice the size of France.

Our population is 1.77 million, mostly living in Adelaide, the capital city.

While we would love for you to visit, please take care with your travel arrangements.

Give yourself time to enjoy the experience.

Regards,
Brent.

P.S. It seems that some of you have had a problem with the link I gave you to the free short video training.

The issue seems to be fixed now, so I’ll give you the link again, and if you have a problem, please let me know.

https://llclick.com/60-seconds/em.

May 30, 2022May 30, 2022

The difference between those who create and those who don’t.

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The difference between those who create and those who don’t.

Not waiting until they ‘feel like it’.

Brent Milne

May 30

I have always been fascinated by the biographies of famous people.

There are some common traits that they share.

Persistence is high on the list, as is consistency.

You know that persistence is the art of not giving up.

Consistency is the art of turning up every day and taking action.

There is always an element of luck, it’s not always present, but it does show up as being in the right place at the right time.

Some of that can be attributed to consistency.

Always be doing something.

There is one other that comes along after the first two.

The creativity.

The sometimes genius idea that appears in their work.

Not all creative people like everything they produce, but they love it when the muse strikes and genius happens.

But, if you wait, it never happens.⁣⁣

If you work, it sometimes happens.

And it will happen more often the more that you work. ⁣⁣

Imagine a simple six-sided die as you’ve rolled in a million games.

What will make you roll a six faster: planning how to throw a six or just starting to roll it again and again? ⁣⁣

Are you waiting for a good idea?⁣

Why wait?

Regards,
Brent.

P.S. Your job as an Internet Marketer is to make sales.

That’s the only way you know you’ve done a good job.

But we often focus on the sales to the detriment of every other part of the job.

The steps are simple.

Set up an offer.
Collect email addresses.
Email regularly.
Generate traffic.
Tweak the offer funnel for better conversions.

That’s it.

When we focus on the outcome, we miss the activity that drives it.

You and I need to remain focused on the generation of traffic.

Without that, you cannot tweak the funnel because you have no activity in it.

You’ll have no one to email because your list will be empty.

And guess what? You’ll have no income.

Get this, follow the steps daily, and you will have traffic, subscribers and income. https://llclick.com/60-seconds/em.

May 29, 2022May 30, 2022

Is it 1, 2, 3, GO or 3, 2, 1, GO?

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Is it 1, 2, 3, GO or 3, 2, 1, GO?

On your marks, Get set, Go.

Brent Milne

May 29

When I’m riding on my favourite track, there are hills.

Not as big as some in other countries or even other parts of Australia, but big enough for me.

In my attempts to improve my average speed over the course, I often stand up when climbing the hills.

This is a challenge when I’m already tired from the last 30km.

So, I count to switch from sitting to standing.

If I count up, I find it harder to get going because I can keep counting without the impetus to stand.

So I count down because when I get to 1, there is nowhere else to go, and I stand.

Sometimes I find that there are similar problems with getting started or continuing to work on a project.

It’s definitely easier to recheck the emails or do a little scoping on Facebook.

Even drop into YouTube and watch some ‘training’ videos in a niche I don’t work in, soccer videos, bike racing videos, or anything that I can waste some time with and pretend I’m researching.

That’s when I start to count.

Not the videos I’m going to watch but the time when I turn everything off and get back to work.

3, 2, 1, write that email.

Complete that sales page.

Start that video.

You get the picture.

What do you do to get started?

Regards,
Brent.

P.S. There are times when you know you have to get something done and published, but you have only a small window to work with.

That’s when creating short videos can work for you.

They only take around 20 minutes from start to uploaded as long as you have the written content done.

You can have the written content done in a 20-minute window if the idea is already saved.

You can have content queued up and ready for use by working in short bursts.

All it takes is a little pre-planning and 3, 2, 1, go.

See how easy it is to create short videos with this free training.

https://llclick.com/60-seconds/em.

May 27, 2022May 27, 2022

Do shortcuts always work?

No.

Brent Milne

May 27

I read a Stephen King short story in his Skeleton Crew collection.

It was titled “Mrs Todd’s Shortcut”.

Without giving too much away, it’s the story of a woman who was always looking for a shortcut from her main residence to her holiday home.

The story is fascinating, as most of Mr King’s stories are because I know people who are similar in their behaviour.

None of the ones I know has the same end result Mrs Todd had.

…

Do you know what the best selling products are online or offline?

You’re so smart.

Yep, they are shortcuts.

People will always buy tools, products or methods that help them do things faster or more easily.

That’s why most homes have a toaster, washing machine, tumble dryer, dishwasher, microwave oven, refrigerator, etc.

It’s why most people have a means of transport.

It could be an animal or mechanical.

Some people will spend longer trying to find a shortcut than it would take them to do the job.

If you want to create a product that will sell, you need to create one around a shortcut to help your customers.

Regards,
Brent.

P.S. The biggest issue most online marketers have is getting traffic to their offers.

At least that’s what all the surveys tell you.

Any shortcut to getting more targeted traffic has to be a no-brainer to purchase.

Except this one has no cost, which must put it under the category of “get out of my way and let me have it now.”

OK, here you go. https://llclick.com/60-seconds/em.

May 26, 2022May 26, 2022

I cancelled a subscription today, reluctantly.

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I cancelled a subscription today, reluctantly.

It will free up some cash though.

Brent Milne

May 26

Regularly, I review my subscriptions to various tools and platforms.

Those subscriptions, even the small ones, need to be providing value to me, or they are too expensive.

A $5 per month subscription doesn’t seem like it should be a big issue, but if I’m not using it or it’s not providing any value, I should cancel it to subscribe to something that provides value.

The one I cancelled today wasn’t a $5 subscription.

It was an $815 per year subscription for a tool I don’t use much.

I think I can live without it as my requirements have changed.

The problem with this tool is that the company has been gradually moving functions out of the main program and charging extra to get them back.

I think this is dirty pool, and I refuse to support them further.

Pushing your prices up doesn’t improve your cash flow unless your product is unique and has no competitors.

Even the smarter politicians know that increasing taxes reduces their income.

The stupid ones keep pushing up taxes and adding new ones.

The really smart ones reduce the tax burden and their economies boom.

Like to share some thoughts on that?

Reply to this email and let me know.

Regards,
Brent.

P.S. You have been looking at the Short Video production tool and wondering if it was worth the tiny investment.

Today, I’m giving you a look at a way of doing the same thing, not on the same scale, but creating and using Short Videos for traffic.

This way, you can get a feel for the methods and discover if you can generate some traffic.

Have a look at this free training https://llclick.com/60-seconds/em.

Make up your mind to make this work.

It does, and it will if you do.

May 25, 2022May 25, 2022

Fail your way to success.

Anyone can fail, that’s easy.

Brent Milne

May 25

Although relevant and valid, I’m not talking about the learning from failure process.

No, I’m referring to the simple fact that you only have to succeed 51% of the time to be considered successful.

Only you know about the other 49%, so they don’t count.

There is a slight caveat in this, though.

Doing something ten times does not mean you’ll succeed five times.

You do need to attempt whatever it is at least 100 times for the percentages to work for you.

For example, if you want to have a successful blog, you’ll need to write 100 posts before assessing how it’s going.

You’ll also need to promote those posts where your target market hangs out so they can find them.

Same if you want to do video marketing.

Make and post 100 videos.

Writing books for Kindle, write 100 books.

More often than not, when you commit to this type of activity, you’ll notice the results much sooner than your 100th whatever.

But when you commit to doing something 100 times and put in the persistence and consistency, it’ll get easier, and the results will come faster.

The rock facing the ocean doesn’t wear down because water is harder than rock.

It wears down because the waves are consistent.

Success always goes to the most persistent.

Regards,
Brent.

P.S. There is nothing wrong with using tools to help automate the process of content production.

You still have to use the tools consistently to benefit from their help.

Leveraging the big platforms’ competitiveness can be a big boon to you as they’ll help push you along.

eBay is attempting to pinch a big slice of Amazon, so they help their listers with promotional traffic.

YouTube is attempting to take a big slice of TikToks business by pushing video shorts and promoting them for the creators.

Amazon is attempting to grab a bigger slice of the book market by pushing its Vella platform, which is not available outside the USA at the moment.

Facebook is pushing into the video market by promoting any video content posted.

The best one to get into is the battle between YouTube and TikTok by creating a short video for YouTube and posting them on TikTok, Facebook and Instagram.

Create once, post four times.

Do you think you could make a buck from traffic from four high-traffic sites?

Discover how easy it is to create these short videos.

https://go.wm-tips.com/trafficplan.

May 24, 2022May 24, 2022

When roles reverse it’s the natural course.

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When roles reverse it’s the natural course.

It’s not always easy though.

Brent Milne

May 24

Look around you.

You’ll see children with their parents.

You’ll see older children breaking out on their own.

You’ll see older people being cared for by their children.

Each stage is a change in role.

From parents caring for you, caring for yourself, caring for your parents.

Today I visited my 93-year-old mother in the memory unit of the nursing home.

That’s always tough because she is beginning to lose the memory of her children.

She no longer remembers her grandchildren.

She struggles to remember her husband, who passed away 12 years ago.

Her world is shrinking to what happened 1 minute ago with little else other than confusion.

I visit twice a week, and it gets harder and harder each time.

Tonight our youngest daughter helped me with a Javascript problem that I’ve been wrestling with for days.

When she was going through University, I would often help her with her coding issues.

Now the role has reversed.

I don’t have a problem with that, as she codes every day, and I don’t.

She still comes to me for advice and to talk through issues which is great, but at some point, she’ll come to talk through issues with me that are my issues, not hers.

This is the natural course of the evolving lives we lead.

Regards,
Brent.

P.S. Yes, you are right.

I did send out yesterday’s email late.

All my fault.

I had it written except for the P.S. when I got called away and didn’t get back to it until morning.

Because of that, there was a significant drop off of opens which means that many of you lovely people didn’t get to see the excellent offer.

You’re getting some excellent training on how to leverage Google’s ravenous hunger for short videos.

Google wants to dominate TikTok, and they see that short videos are the way to go.

This tool and training allow you to create short videos at scale, which Google will promote on your behalf.

Get it here https://go.wm-tips.com/trafficplan.

May 24, 2022May 24, 2022

This may shock you, everybody is different…

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This may shock you, everybody is different…

Some are more different than others.

Brent Milne

May 24

Are you not shocked by that statement?

I know that intellectually we all understand that everybody is different, but do we know that internally?

I’m not convinced that we do.

Working in the polling station was an eye-opener.

Several people looked, on the surface, to fit in the general classification of normal.

But, when it came to writing some numbers in boxes on a piece of paper, they came into their own.

Some of them only showed up after voting had closed and we were sorting the votes.

What they wrote or didn’t write on those pieces of paper picked them out as different.

For others, it was apparent while they were there that they were different.

One person didn’t understand that they only had to write up to 12 numbers in any order on their voting slips.

Another, brought in by their spouse, was so clearly suffering from advanced dementia that they shouldn’t have been voting at all.

And they didn’t.

Their spouse got to vote twice.

In this polling station, we had just over 1,000 people attend.

There were only 121 informal votes meaning that around 90% of the attendees apparently did make an effort to understand what they were voting for, but I’m not convinced that was the case.

Overall, it was an orderly and calm display of democracy in action with no attempt by anyone to disrupt the process.

Of course, it’s not a true democracy because we, the voters, don’t get to choose the candidates.

We only get to choose between the candidates on offer.

That’s no different to any other democracy and is the best we can hope for in any country.

Australia doesn’t use machines to accept or tally the votes, that is all done by the voter writing on a piece of paper and the polling station staff manually sorting and counting them at the end of the day.

Party scrutineers monitor and witness the ballot boxes being sealed before voting starts, and the boxes are unsealed in the presence of the scrutineers at the end of the day.

There is complete confidence that there has been no tampering with the votes.

So that’s how we vote in Australia.

This time we got a change of Government which will be interesting to see how that pans out over the next three years.

I’m still building my online business because I don’t have any confidence that our economy, like the global economy, will have a nice easy time.

Regards,
Brent.

P.S. With every election, the candidates and their parties spend massive sums across multiple platforms to get the result they want, to be elected.

Only one will get that result, and it doesn’t always go to those who spend the most.

It does, however, often go to those who get the most eyeballs on their promotions.

Marketers know that, on average, it takes at least seven views of your offer before a sale or conversion happens.

That’s why so many launch offers try to have a no-brainer, super value deal for those who take action immediately.

They are leveraging the FOMO principle.

This offer isn’t on launch.

It’s still a no-brainer product that does what it says on the tin.

If you want to get Google to help you get people on your offers, then this is one way to do it quickly.

https://go.wm-tips.com/trafficplan.

You could use these methods for a profitable Fiverr gig, and then you won’t need to have a Google account or any product to sell.

May 22, 2022May 22, 2022

Achievement is not a lineal progression.

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Achievement is not a lineal progression.

There will be detours.

Brent Milne

May 22

It pretty much doesn’t matter what you read or watch concerning goal-setting and goal-reaching, it all seems to suggest that all you do is set the goal, take the steps and boom, there you are.

Unfortunately, that’s exactly why so many people give up on their goals and dreams for a better life.

Reaching your goals is not a linear process.

There will be obstacles along the way that may mean you need to make changes to what you’re doing or how you’re doing it.

Some of those obstacles can appear to be insurmountable.

They’re not, but they can seem that way.

Sometimes you need to reach out for help or guidance.

Sometimes you need to grow as a person or learn new skills.

Sometimes, what holds you back is the force that helps you grow stronger.

As you move forward and your goals get closer, sometimes you decide that you don’t want that one after all and change your focus.

None of these things are wrong.

None of them should prevent you living the life you choose.

Regards,
Brent.

P.S. The free traffic tool I mentioned in the last email is selling fast on Warrior Plus.

That means the developers are likely to switch to a subscription model sooner than expected.

I don’t have insider information on this, but it would make sense to take advantage of the buzz and the affiliates promoting it to shore up their revenue model.

It’s still on launch pricing at the moment, as far as I can tell.

https://go.wm-tips.com/rt-free.

May 20, 2022May 20, 2022

You probably have already seen this.

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You probably have already seen this.

Or you soon will.

Brent Milne

May 20

There’s a new kid in town.

The Holy Grail of Internet Marketing – Free traffic.

Now I can’t vouch for this as working as I only bought it today and haven’t completed setting up the first page yet.

Not only that, but the creators say it takes 72 hours before the first visitors arrive as a trickle, but the volume gradually increases.

That means that I cannot say if the promise is true or whether the visitors convert to customers or not, but I trust the two people who created this product, and I know they have been testing it for a few months before releasing it.

The reports I have seen are positive, so I didn’t hesitate to grab it.

It’s on launch pricing.

One upsell could be used with the product but isn’t required.

A third upsell gives access to the creators but is also not required to make good use of the free traffic app.

This is not targeted traffic to the first page they land on, but you place your ads on that page and direct them to where you want.

https://go.wm-tips.com/rt-free.

Regards,
Brent.