Survey Results … What You Care About in 2008

Hey Folks,

This week I surveyed the members of The Impact Factor with a simple two question survey.

I’m firming up my next home study course, coaching program and events and I need to make sure that I give you EXACTLY what you want.

I asked people to be very specific and let me know what kind of information you would like me to GIVE you as I launch The Impact Factor book, home-study courses, coaching and events and I also wanted to know what you think MY greatest strengths are.

Rich Schefren says that we often do not know what other people REALLY think are our strengths and he says to ask, so I did.

Thanks so much for your help!

I thought that you might be interested in the results because these results are relevant not just to me individually, but also to everyone who wants to make an impact.

By asking people to share their own dreams, you discover not only what information, products and services that people are looking for, but also the LANGUAGE that they are using to look for that information. That information is valuable. Of course, you can use that information to increase your search engine results or your advertising conversions, but you may also want to consider the language that you are using as you write your content and your sales copy.

If you haven’t given your input yet, be sure to click on the link above and take the survey. Here is what people are asking for so far …

My readers want information about:

• Getting Started
• Getting Traffic
• List Building
• Website Design
• Getting Known
• Copywriting
• Finding Hot Niches
• Product Development
• Affiliate Programs
• Conversion
• Membership Sites
• How To Build a Business
• Blogging
• Linking Strategies
• Continuity Income
• Systems
• Motivation
• Team Building
• Product Launches
• Security
• Legal Pitfalls
• Customer Service
• Web 2.0
• Websites Design
• Squeeze Pages
• E-mail Services
• AdWords & AdSense.
• Adobe Photoshop, NVU, Dreamweaver etc…
• Getting Focused

They want personalized help in the form of:

• Affordable individual coaching
• Access to more hot, potential customers
• Joint venture prospects
• Help Completing Projects
• Interactive Training

They want products in the form of:

• Home Study Courses
• Interactive Training
• Videos
• E-books

Finally, you may be interested in the types of thing that people are seeing as my greatest strengths. Of course, this information helps me to see myself as other people see me and helps me to focus on what other people see as my strengths, but it’s also a great way to get people to tell you what things are important to them.

You see, when people talk about my greatest strengths, they are also telling me what THEY think is important in other people. If it wasn’t important to THEM they wouldn’t be mentioning it.

Here are a few of the things that were mentioned:

• A nice smile
• Asking Questions and Listening!
• Character and honesty.
• Charm
• Communication
• Communication ability
• Compassion
• Compassionate
• Consistency
• Content
• Credibility
• Dedication
• Down to earth
• Extensive history and background on the net and your systems.
• Friendship
• Getting people together for any thing
• Great Mentor and teacher
• Group leader
• He truly enjoys helping people reach their financial and other goals in life.
• His heart and ability to connect people
• His personality
• His quiet and confident humility
• “His understanding of what works and what doesn’t work.
• Putting on and selling seminars.
• Your genuine interest in helping other people achieve their goals.
• Communication skills
• Motivator
• Inspiration
• Team leader
• Bringing out the best in us
• Really wants to help people succeed
• You seem to be very down-to-earth and a real legitimate guy.
• his winning smile
• Trusted GURU.
• Great ideas
• Providing quality high level information
• Personable
• Giving souls on the planet
• Giving
• Teaching
• Connecting
• Able to speak in laymans terms
• His willingness to go the extra mile
• He cares about other people
• Reputation
• Kens greatest strength is that he knows what he is doing.
• Structured and most likely an ace with computers
• Willing to explain what he has.
• He reminds me of my father where he let nothing stand in his way to success.
• His compassion and desire to help others discover their pathway to success
• Honesty and passion to help people become the best they can be.
• Inspire and motivate people to become the person they want to be and believe dreams do come true.
• User friendly
• Persistent
• extremely modest and self effacing.
• Charming
• Flattering about others
• Incredibly handsome.
• Perseverance
• Precious Information
• Your people skills, and your ability to help others.
• Writing and persistence!
• Delegation and team building
• I believe Ken has the patience of Job
• Great courage
• He never gives up on trying what he know best
• Heartiness in communications
• Helping others
• PERSISTENCE!!!!!
• The Ken McArthur’s greatest strength is network.
• Friendly
• His Honesty and his sharpness
• Easy to understand and to the point.
• persuasiveness
• honesty, integrity and you seem like a nice bloke
• You are persistent without being pushy and I like that.
• The way you carry yourself generally earning the high degree of respect and from your diverse knowlege sustaining a marked degree of credibility with stability.
• A certain kindness and respect for others are your endearing qualities.
• Among other things, what stands out is the ability to encourage and lift up spirits.
• Early alerts about jv opportunities
• His greatest strength is to advertise the latest products, services online to the world so that everyone can benefit from it.
• A degree of common sense — a not so abundant commodity as one would think, and, persistence ….
• Putting people together
• His Internet Marketing ideas are standing by to share his most cherished techniques and secrets
• Being able to deliver according to schedule
• I could tell you were telling the truth
• How he shares his knowledge
• Knowledge of gaining much traffic.
• Very personable, you are quite genuine
• Persistence
• Persistence, honesty and following up.
• Your helpfulness to newbies.
• Sterling Valentine says he is the best!
• advice!
• focus.Getting everyone’s acts together.
• Experience
• Organization, leadership, personality
• Willingness to help others.
• Positive Thinking
• your greatest strength is ability to making people happy with your giving special things to us…
• UNITY IS THE GREATEST STRENGTH OF MR.KEN
• Your consistent advertising on different web sites and your variety of promotional opportunities are your strengths.
• Honest
• Informal, friendly, giving approach and a face that matches it.
• Integrity
• Knowledge
• Likable
• Longevity
• Makes me feel important to him.
• Motivation
• Nice voice and video presence
• Outreach to involve others
• Practical information
• Shows respect and loyalty to others
• Solid foundation of support network, dependable communications (truthful & consistent)
• Straightforward
• Telling it like it is!!!
• THE IMPACT FACTOR BOOK
• Trust
• Trustworthy
• Warm,Intellect
• Warmth and caring
• Willingness and determination to succeed
• You don’t pretend to care. You really do.
• You’re the real deal.
• You’ve keep in touch for years.

You can see a few patterns in those responses can’t you?

While I don’t live up to all of the wonderful things that YOU have told me are my greatest strengths, I can certainly TRY to cultivate as many of the above traits as possible in my actions during 2008. After all that’s what’s important to YOU this year.

I’d like to encourage you to ask YOUR audience what’s important to them in 2008. You may be surprised at what you hear.

All the best,

Kenneth A. McArthur
jvAlertLive.com
InfoProductBlueprint.com
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P.S. Consider coming to jvAlert Live in Orlando, February 8th, 9th and 10. There’s an Early-Bird Special going on right now that ENDS on January 8th and I definitely DON’T want money to be the reason that you aren’t there. I sincerely believe that this event changes lives and I want to make it possible for you to attend. If I can help you get there, please let me know.

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