I sat watching a documentary on U.S. Navy SEAL Team Training
on the local exercise channel.  It showed young men,  mostly
in their early 20's, enduring grueling ocean swims in 
near-freezing water.  It showed these same young men forced to 
swim underwater (holding their breaths) until a major percentage 
of them passed out and had to be rescued by their instructors.
It showed weeks of grueling training in which ordinary men are
transformed into incredible machines with wills of steel and
unshakable discipline.

Sitting... transfixed, and marveling at what these young men
were able to accomplish, I saw the one missing element that
most online business people are missing. I saw an ingredient
that if more of them harnessed it, they would be able to
accomplish things "in their world" as magnificent.  That one
secret ingredient is teamwork.  It was the group cohesiveness,
and the fact that they were all working for a common purpose 
that allowed the SEAL Team trainees to accomplish what they 
would not normally be able to do.

Enter the realm of the online entrepreneur.  He sits at his 
computer, researching, writing and testing ads, tweaking his 
webpages in an effort to achieve greater search engine ranking, 
and doing a dozen other chores.  Many of these online 
entrepreneurs do this all alone.  They attempt the monumental... 
to build a six or even seven figure income while operating in a 
vacuum.

Step back and observe the Internet marketer earning several
hundred thousand to several million dollars per year. He
doesn't operate in a vacuum. I know!  I lived among and 
studied these people, and in the process became one of them.


Let me emphasize what you may not be noticing on a conscious level:

- Successful Internet marketers all have mentors. Actually many 
  of them mentor each other. They don't fear sharing things 
  they've learned through trial and error with those who will 
  share back with them.   They all "cooperate and graduate."  
  They don't have the "scarcity mentality."  They know that 
  through cooperation the pie actually gets bigger so they 
  each get a bigger piece.

- Successful Internet marketers often have coaches, or
  managers.  They do this for the same reason that successful
  athletes, politicians and celebrities all have coaches or 
  managers. They know that others can often step back and 
  observe what's happening in their lives more objectively, 
  and then make sure that they're only doing things that will 
  move them towards an identified goal.  These coaches will 
  push them and challenge them to do more than they would 
  probably do on their own.

- Successful Internet marketers have formal and informal 
  brainstorming or masterminding networks.  Napoleon Hill, in 
  "Think And Grow Rich," pointed out that this was a common 
  trait among the millionaires that he studied too.  Put 
  several people together who have a common interest or goal 
  and it's a natural breeding ground for breakthrough ideas.  
  The masterminding can be long distance, via conference calls, 
  but it's usually more productive when it's at an in-person 
  gathering. These gathering can be as infrequent as twice a 
  year, but they have proven very powerful!


When you think about why the above factors of extraordinary
accomplishment are so powerful, it seems to boil down to one 
word. That word is... accountability.  When you've made a 
commitment to a group to work towards a common goal, that's much 
more effective than if you just made that commitment to yourself.
There's the incredible social pressure of not letting the group 
down. There's knowing that the success... or failure... of 
someone else hinges upon your actions.    That's an amazing 
force that you can tap into today which will allow you to do 
things that you had previously not even imagined possible.

Now that you know the secret, if you're serious about building 
an incredible online business you only need to harness it.  A 
good place to find people who are ideal for teaming up with is 
at seminars and conferences. That's why I attend so many.  On 
breaks, at lunch, and after hours, I bounce ideas off of those 
with perhaps differing points of view, but with similar objectives.

While seminars and conferences offer lots of useful information 
and provide a motivational lift in-and-of themselves, my 
observation has been that the real "money" is made after-hours.  
That's where small groups of friends, who only became associates 
through these events, sit around and put together deals and flow 
out large projects.  They do it around the pool or huddled in an 
individual's room.  They don't just brainstorm, they make 
long-term business commitments. These are commitments that 
muster in them the same type of effort that I witnessed in the 
Navy SEAL trainees swimming in the freezing ocean water.

I encourage you to stop procrastinating and act upon this 
obvious but too-seldom acted upon gem today.  If you need 
help locating events where you can look for ideal partners, 
visit my resource website:
http://InternetMarketingSeminarSchedule.com   
It lists a variety of events, and might even offer some very 
convenient to where you live.  Break out of your shell of 
mediocrity and do it today!

As an aside, the next event that I'll  personally  be at is 
Michael Penland's Internet Marketing and Joint Venture Super 
Conference, in Orlando, Florida, December 3rd - 5th.  There 
will be a lot of people there looking for  proactive potential 
business partners. That's the whole purpose of the conference. 
You can register for it today through a special link I've  
arranged for my clients and friends at: 
http://www.instantcashmarketing.com/WillieCrawfordSpecial.html 

Willie Crawford is a corporate president, published author, 
seminar speaker and host, tele-seminar speaker and host, retired 
military officer, karate black belt, network marketing trainer, 
and lifetime student of marketing.  He shows people how to 
actually generate substantial income on-line using very simple 
systems.  An example of such a system that you can use is at:  
http://ProfitMagician.com