Internet Marketers – Make Them Do This!
November 3rd, 2009 | 
Author: So I’m sitting in the dentist’s office this morning (Scarlett had a chipped tooth) and I’m flipping through the Reader’s Digest and a tiny little quote stands out. You know how I am about picking up sayings and quotes and applying them to my own life and this time was no different. It said:
“Don’t show off. Impress.”
Now think about that for a moment.
How many times do you see show off Internet marketers? The screen shots of mansions with a happy, smiley perfect Brady bunch family standing on the lawn. The ClickBank earnings paycheck video where they’re just now opening it right n front of you.
There are tons of show offs in this business.
But how many of those marketers – even top dogs – actually impress you?
I’m willing to bet you have a (very) short list of marketers who have knocked your socks off.
Now if you’re on the selling side, take that quote and apply it to your own business endeavors. If you’re a buyer, well – make them impress you in order to get your loyalty as a customer. Don’t allow them to act as if you’re the lucky one to get their knowledge – turn the tables and make them lucky to have you as a customer.
Tiff 
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YOU – Tiffany – are one of the few Marketers I watch constantly. Class and content all the way, I even gave you your own box in my email program.
I know I can always depend on you for useful information without the hype.
Thanks,
Steve.
Hi Tiff,
You are one of the best marketers that I have seen in this IM crazy world. As a Newbie marketer, it’s really hard to know who to trust. You are one of the few that I trust. I’ve purchased many of your products and each one has helped me in my internet marketing journey. There are so many scams out there (believe me I’ve bought in to quite a few, boo, hoo), but you my dear are the real thing and I look forward to all the new content you put out there for us newbies to learn and move forward!!!
Thanks for all of your content and encouragement!!
Kitt
Aww thanks Kitt! I appreciate that you took time to tell me that
I saw one marketer who gave her address. Not sure why she included that, but there you go. I had some time so I used Google maps and then “street view” to see what her house looked like. (I was thinking it might be one of those mansions)
The house was rather dumpy.
Hey Greg!
You can’t go by that
If you Google mapped me – I include my address openly – you wouldn’t see a mansion. You’d see a house built in 1970. Why do I live here? Because it’s where I was born. It’s where all 3 of my kids were born (by born I mean brought home from the hospital). This home holds all of my memories of my childhood, of my children’s childhood, my marriage, etc. It’s very sentimental to me. It’s a dead end street and the old oak tree still sits in the middle of the road where I used to take a lunchpail and eat with a stray dog I nicknamed Blue (she had 1 blue eye).
I’d rather spend my money I earn on private school education for my kids, on family vacations, on perks inside the house – computers, TVs, cell phones – on family days out, etc. Could I move into a mansion-esque home and have way more debt and far less spending money? Yep. I choose not to – but then most people aren’t sentimental about their homes like I am. My dad knew I was, so when my mom divorced him in the 1970s, he (a traveling salesman who didn’t need a home), held onto the house because he KNEW it meant the world to me. And it does
I like that quote. This year I had a major cull and took myself off nearly every marketer’s mailing list, stayed with Tiff and one other. I subscribed to learn how other’s run a mailing list and all I learned was how not to do it. I decided that I would ssend my list at least once a month something of real value, something that would allow them to grow their business.
One thing I learned was that most Internet marketers send out soemthing of value for their opt in gift and then conveniently forget to give them anything of value again.
True Catherine. I try to do that wit frequent mini lessons or something as opposed to a monthly freebie course or something. But I like doing it this way. I can’t stand emails from gurus where EVERY SINGLE ONE sells me something. Can’t they ever contact me just to teach me something?
Wow, Tiffany, that is really cool. I’ll bet that house holds more personal value than ten mansions. Great comment.
You’re right there Philip. The thing is, even if you see a mansion and a Lamborghini – it doesn’t mean they have that much wealth. I know people living in those circumstances and they’re always teetering on the edge of losing it all – stressed beyond belief, worried about foreclosures or downsizing, and continually applying for more credit cards to be able to live the lifestyle everyone expects of them. One day their house of cards will come crumbling and I never want to be there.
We even considered knocking the house down and rebuilding right in this spot once but I couldn’t do it – I’m a real dork but whenever I see my 3 kids running down the hall on Christmas morning, hair all messy, eyes half closed – I remember and can see myself doing the same – same hall, same spot for the tree. It’s wonderful
I wouldn’t change it for the world.
Great post Tiffany. Impress is far better than showing off. I for one am turned off by the mansions and the like, there is so much more that extra wealth can do.
Applause Applause you seem to have a grip on the more…
Hi there,
Love you Tiff!
Regards
Giselle
Hi there!
Great advice as always!
Keep well…
Regards
Giselle
Absolutely. I’m farkin’ sick of being sold to, and have been for a while. In fact, here’s my take on the whole matter: If You Want Me on Your Email Mailing List
For me, they have to be a lot more like Tiffany Dow and a VERY few select others I’ve encountered, which is to say provide a little actual content between pitches. Tiffany, you’re right up there in my book (“I want to be Tiffany Dow when I grow up runs through my mind at least a couple of times a week.) But from some of them, all you get is pitches. I say: If all you want is my money, we’re through, you’re done. Period.
Now, Tif. Time to tell us what you’d do to get their attention and turn those tables. I unsubscribe — rarely is there an email address to let them know why. What else is possible?
If I see a guy in front of his mansion, sitting on his rare sports car, with a beatiful babe on his arm (a woman whom he just met a few moments before the photo shoot) , that is an immediate delete. I was blessed to have been born and brought up in East Texas. Folks, we know BS when I see it. When God made me, he gave me some traits that make me very hard to impress. Sometimes, I just cannot understand why so many people buy in to their BS.
But that is just me.
Bob
Hey Bob! Where in E TX? My best friend was raised in Hughes Springs.
Tiffany,
Henderson, in Rusk County near Tyler and Longview. It is so nice an area that God is rumored to have a summer home there.
It was great growing up there, extended family and all, too bad those times are gone forever. But I was lucky to have lived them.
one of the things that helped me break my “shiny thing” addiction… was talking to a friend about one of those, and his comment was, “if he’s a millionaire, why is he trying so hard for YOUR money?”
hmmmm… hadn’t thought of it like that
Tiffany,
Glad I am on your list. You have the ability to hit the nail on the head. There are no end of internet gurus who seem to try to market by showing off. If they did not regularly send me affiliate links to weak or totally ineffective products they would impress me a whole lot more.
Hi Tiff,
I’m amazed at your confession in connection with your house.:)
I wish you that your house be the island of peace, health, prosperity, and love, always.
Because you deserve that.:)
Cheers,
Sandor
I have worked in a few houses in my time. But the ones that stand out are the ones with family love and tradition in there. well said Tiffany.
Good Morning Tiffany! I wish there was a like button for some of the comments people have left here! I’ve pretty much lost trust in most marketers, have unsubscribed and un-friended most on facebook. So many are nothing but fake, that I’ve learned. I get approached almost daily and I ignore them for the most part, but Tiffany..YOU are the one that I just had to email to learn more-because you’re real and honest, thank you!!