What is Affiliate Marketing? – Part 2
Last month in Part 1 we looked at how many of us have already acted as Affiliate Marketers although unknowingly and without being paid for it. We also looked at how Affiliate Marketing as a profession enables the affiliate to earn a commission for marketing another...
What is Affiliate Marketing? – Part 1
So imagine you're in town with a friend one lunch time and you notice a 'buy one get one free' offer at Zest Cafe. You take advantage of the offer then head home. Later that afternoon you're chatting with another friend who's looking for somewhere to dine and so you...
Secrets to Success
Success. What does that word mean to you, and has it's meaning ever changed for you? Today I'm joined by a special guest as we consider the secret to success in both our personal and business life:We believe success in any aspect of our lives is 10% what happens to us...
Recession vs Growth
As the UK officially enters recession today, other data sources reveal how COVID-19 has redefined global consumption patterns, patterns which are here to stay. People are living differently, buying differently and, in many ways, thinking differently. The habits formed...
Things Successful People Don’t Say…
Your thoughts lead to your feelings, your feelings become your actions and your actions become your results. In other words...our words become actions, which eventually become your destiny. It's interesting how successful people are intentional about the words they...
COVID-19 Accelerated E-Commerce Growth ‘4 To 6 Years’
COVID-19 has massively accelerated the growth of e-commerce, according to an Adobe Digital Economy Index (DEI) report released today. Adobe’s DEI is a global economic measure for the 21st century that morequickly, comprehensively, and internationally measures...
Health, Wealth & Prosperity
It's interesting to look at the root of where our words come from, it gives us an understanding of what was originally intended by the use of the word. Take the word 'Wealth' for example. Now, in 2020 most people associate wealth with bank balance. However, that's a...
The Most Potent Immune System Boost (For Free)
An immunological study by University of California (Walker, M. 2017) was performed on two groups of people. With the consent of the participants, the two groups were given a dose of rhinovirus (the common cold). 50% of those in Group A went on to develop the common...
Personal & Business Resilience in Times of Crisis
This week we focus on resilience-enhancing behaviours that support Personal & Business Resilience in Times of Crisis. We wanted to share these particularly in light of the pandemic Covid-19 Coronavirus. These are evidence-based activities that can benefit everyone...
Mountaineering Lessons from a Husband & Wife Team
This week we caught up with Phil & Pauline Sanderson who hold a number of world records in the Mountaineering world including: • The World's longest climb - The Dead Sea (lowest point) to Everest (highest point) • The 1st British married couple to summit Everest -...
Finishing your race
Where are you in your journey to online success? Are you stuck in a rut? Have you lost momentum? Do you need a helping hand to get you back on track? When Roger Bannister broke the world record for running a mile in under 4 minutes, he did not do so overnight....
What can you do? Do what you can.
What can you do? Do what you can. "If you can't fly, then run. If you can't run, then walk. If you can't walk, then crawl. But whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward."Dr Martin Luther King Jr Growing up, the words, but perhaps more importantly, the life of...
Put Some Serious F.U.N. Into Your Life
Are your dreams and goals becoming a reality, or do they just float around as wishful dreams and goals? If the latter is the case, it could be you need to put some serious F.U.N. into your life. What do I mean? We'll after Ruth & I caught up this weekend with...
How To Make 2020 Work For You
If you want 2020 to be a year which works for you, rather than you working for it, then now may be the time to set yourself some goals. Now is a good time for all of us to also reflect on the year which has just past, and ask yourself a few important questions, the...
What Is Your Business About?
I find so many in business are unsatisfied with simply selling 'stuff'. Sure, we need to sell 'stuff' to keep the bread on the table, but what if there was more to business, more to life, than just selling 'stuff'? What if our business, what if our life, was about...
Business Start-Up: A Relevant Historic Lesson From Industry
Coming to you today from The Digger's Inn, Francistown, Botswana, sharing an historic industrial lesson which has relevance to those wishing to start any new venture today.In the late 1800s Francistown developed as a gold mining town. It had a railway bringing vital...
Think Small To Succeed
You know, many people talk about 'thinking big' in business and in life to succeed, and I get that, but this week I want to encourage you to simply think small, in both your business and personal life. In the video below I share two examples of people who are making a...
Let Wisdom Be Your Guide
So, what does heading off into the Mountains and starting an Online Business have in Common? In this video I share how you need the wisdom of navigational skills to safely guide you from A to B in both a mountain and digital landscape. Click here or on the image below...
Gratitude is GOLD
Where your treasure is, your heart will be also. So where and what is your treasure? This video is about how an attitude of gratitude is a form of treasure, yes, gratitude really is GOLD. Studies show that greater health and happiness is measurable in those who...
How Do We Learn To Start Something New?
What has Horse Riding and words of Wisdom from Dr Martin Luther King have to do with learning to start something new? I share some fundamental principles from both in relation to starting an online business you're passionate about in this Sunday's thought for the...
To Grasp An Opportunity
This week I came across a book in our friend's lodge in Scotland where we've been staying; To Grasp An Opportunity. It's a true account of 5 teenage friends who left the area where the lodge is located from humble farming backgrounds, to become leaders in the...
Kindness
She was a 5 year old refugee in the Netherlands from Iraq, yet a simple act of kindness shown to her caused her to take action over 25 years later.In this VLOG, I wanted to share some thoughts on the power of kindness and the power of the internet with you, so I shot...
F.O.C.U.S.
In our email broadcast last week we shared with our subscribers the testimony of one of our students, Yavonne, who had developed a successful eCommerce business on Amazon around her passion for photography using our Imports Xperts Academy. What was interesting was...
Understanding The New World
Whether you're interested in learning the skills to start your own online business from scratch, or, learning the skills to complement your existing form of employment, one thing that will help you optimise both your learning and your business delivery, is how to...
Marketing Mastery
Marketing Mastery Ready to get more customers and sales for your business?Well you’re in the right place. Here's a fact for you:MOST businesses fail 60% + in the first five years91% by the years five to year nine97% won’t make it past ten years Though these...
How You Invest Your Time Determines Your Financial Future
How you invest your time determines how your financial future will unfold Many say they cannot invest because they have no money. The wise invest their time when they have no money. Unfortunately, many people have no time to invest. Why? All their time is spent in...
The Truth About Honesty
I was on a call this week with one of the other SFM members, Rob Sewell, who really shared from the heart about how learning to live a life of honesty has turned his personal and business life around. Please click here to hear more in a video I shot for you: ...
The Web…A Force For Good?
Global action is required to tackle the web's "downward plunge to a dysfunctional future", its creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee has told the BBC this week. He made the comments in an exclusive interview to mark 30 years since he submitted his proposal for the web. Clearly...
A Rest From Electronic Devices
Most people in developed countries admit to using a technological device during the hour before turning in, and children often use electronic media to help them relax at night. Now, if you're getting started in setting up an online business, or are already running...
Are You Being Productive?
None of us want to be guilty of being unproductive, whether that's in our work performance, sporting performance, financial performance, I mean, life's too short to waste it, so any reasonable person wants to use their time in a productive manner. In fact our western...
You Need The Right Online Presence
It's been another sad day for the High Street here in the UK with the High Street giant Mark's & Spencer (est. 1884) announcing it's intent to close 100 branches. Like House of Fraser (est. 1849) in June of 2018 who had to let 6,000 jobs go, a key factor is the...
Single Mum Quit Job To Battle Son’s Cancer
We're all on a journey, and it's good to inspire one another on that journey, because let's face it, we all get knocks and set backs. So as you consider your options around which path to take on your online business journey, we'd like to share another inspiring online...
Do You Want To Reach More People?
How to Reach More People You know, one of the questions we get asked so often is: "If I join SFM do I have to sell SFM products?" and the answer is "No." While the SFM products and services can be marketed by members who receive up to 40% commissions...
The Lakeland Festival of Light – Being A Light
The Lakeland Festival of Light events have been raising funds in our stunning Lakeland environment for various charities over the past few years including relief projects in Nepal since the earthquake there in 2015, and local Lakeland Mountain Rescue Teams. The...
The Courage of Launching Out
Can you remember the first time you flew? The feeling of excitement and anticipation of being in a completely new place? The feeling of leaving the security of the ground behind, the feeling of "Should I really be doing this?" Flying for the first time is a lot like...
Keep things so simple a 5 year old gets it!
On my journey to setting up an online business I came across Tim Low from Singapore. The thing that appealed to me about Tim was that replacing his six figure lawyers income through his online business didn't make him go out and buy the latest fast car, but rather,...
The Mind Body Connection
This week I wanted to share a thought with you about the Mind-Body Connection. Did you know it's only since the middle ages that the mind, body and spirit have been considered separate? Before that, we were considered whole integrated people. Writing as I am from the...
4 Steps Towards Resilience
One of my roles as a consultant over the years in what is now commonly called organisational resilience has been to come alongside Critical National Infrastructure businesses to identify threats/risks that an organisation may be vulnerable to, perform a gap analysis...
Inspiring REAL LIFE Stories
Last week we shared with you the inspiring online business start up story with you of Tony & Ness Hales from here in the UK. Despite their world falling apart after a work related injury for Tony, the sole family bread winner, the Hales stepped out of their...
The Power of Positive Thinking
Hi it's Ruth here! This week I wanted to share a thought with you about the impact of both negative and positive thinking on our physical well-being. Did you realise negative thoughts actually impact our physical health in a negative way, and positive thoughts impact...
Inspiring ImportXperts Success Story
We're all on a journey, and it's good to inspire one another on that journey, because let's face it, we all get knocks and set backs. So as you consider your options around which path to take on your online business journey, we'd like to share another inspiring online...
You Are One In A Million
Do you know you are one in a million? Last week we looked at why on a personal and business level it's important to not only map out and prioritise our values, but also to live them out. Because the danger is, if we don't check in with our values, and we just let the...
A Brand That’s Congruent With Your Values
Can I ask you a question? Firstly, What are your core values, and secondly, do you really live by them? OK, that's two questions, not one, and don't worry, you don't have to tell me the answer, but I just want to encourage you to think about your values. You see our...
You are never too old to learn
We used to dream big. We were going to climb the highest mountain, sail the deepest sea, whatever it was, we were going to make a real difference in this world despite the risks. Then we got older, and this world told us why we couldn’t have our dreams, they didn’t...
Staying Motivated
Staying Motivated for the long term, one step at a time You know, getting motivated is one thing, but staying motivated for the long term is another thing, but it can be done. It can be done because staying motivated is about taking one step at a time on a journey....
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