I've always had a knack for asking smart people how to do things that I don't know how to do and getting good responses.  I think that all began about 30 years ago driving a taxi cab when I learned if you ask people will often tell you things for free they would charge a lot of money for professionally.

So it was a few moths ago when I wrote a letter to one of the top internet marketers in the world named Mark Joyner.  I had just hired an employee in the Philippines and was trying to figure out the way to avoid the hype and seriously get involved in internet marketing without getting involved in the pitfalls of the MLM scams and the things that cause 98% of the people who try to make money on the internet fail.  I figured the worst thing that would happen is I would not get a response back to my letter.

Well, I did get a response back to my letter.  I was totally overwhelmed by the response I got back to my letter.  I was invited to join a select group of internet marketers meeting in Las Vegas, NV to talk about Internet Marketing for 2010.

"Are you kidding me?"

I booked my flight and began counting the days.  I left Dallas Thursday and arrived.  I would meet people who would call out their names which I would recognize like John Delavera from Greece and I would basically respond with "Hi, I'm nobody. I'm from Texas" which would often get a laugh. I discovered John Delavera was a lawyer who became an internet marketer because it was more lucrative than law.

Other notable personalities I met whose names I recognized included Jeremy Gislason, EA Marcos, Morgan Westerman, Warren Whitlock, Lee Collins, Simon Leung, Mike Wesely and Donna Walsh.  I felt like some of that knowledge had  to rub off.

The one thing I also discovered was that of all the people at that conference not a one was involved in a vitamin program or a MLM program and they all considered MLM programs as something other than internet marketing.  By definition internet marketing was the process of system development, implementation, testing, improvement and retesting to automatically do proven things over and over again to provide people with products they want or need.  The products that sell best tend to be the ones that relieve pain and the business models are based on scientific and quantifiable data.  Constant and never ending improvement is always being looked for in both the products and the sales processes.

To me that sounded pretty intelligent.

Yesterday Joyner had spoken about interactive marketing and how his goal was to top 1 billion in sales this year and be the first internet marketer to reach that goal.  Then he closed with this amazing video from a 1999 movie starring Al Pachino. 

It happened in Vegas on Saturday, February, 27, 2010 . . . but it can't stay in Vegas. I have to share it.  (by the way Al Pachino uses some pretty rough language in this video)  Imagine arguably the most successful internet marketer in the world revealing to his peers in a touching video the key to his success. It was a very emotional moment.

This nobody felt like somebody . . . somebody who had asked someone for some advice and realized they revealed to me the secret.  This was a man who is 41 years old and will soon have sold over a billion dollars in products over the internet and attributes his success to inches. He was a special operative in the US Army and has the discipline I believe to accomplish anything he puts his mind to.  Oddly enough his latest product is a mindset product called "Invincible".

I hope you find as much wisdom in this video as I did. Perhaps I went to Vegas looking for a magic formula. Perhaps I found one.  I found it truly amazing.