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Yesterday's message was very short Sunil
because I value your time.
Today's message is VERY long Sunil
because I need you to understand that if this girl
can succeed ...
... so can you!
It will take you a few minutes to read, but, believe
me, by the time you get to the end, you will feel
it was time well spent.
I want to tell you about a young woman who has
overcome some extreme obstacles on her brief but
challenging journey to internet marketing success.
Her name is Ladan Lashkari, and when I say she's a
young woman, that's an understatement.
At just 20 years old, she has a youthful look that
defies the maturity she's developed in such a short
time.
I suppose in the online world, youthful success is
not entirely unusual (I met a couple of 21-year-old
internet millionaires last month), but this story
hasn't even begun yet.
The fact that she's a girl making money on the internet
becomes much more significant when you realize where
she comes from ...
... She lives in Iran.
When I came across that tidbit of information on one of
her sites I was like, "are you serious?"
Make no mistake! Like most people I'm ignorant in
many ways, but I have heard a few things about Iran
and its culture.
I know just barely enough to understand that the
chances of a girl becoming a successful internet
marketer in Iran is about the same as the Middleton
High School Girls Soccer Team winning the Superbowl!
... and yeah I know those are two different sports.
So I had to find out if it was true.
After several email exchanges, and some online
investigation on my part, it became apparent that
she is indeed the real deal.
As I've gotten to know her a little bit over the
past week, an incredible story has unraveled that
needs to be told.
Maybe you'll watch her life story in a movie some
day, or see her on the front cover of Time magazine!
Ladan was born and raised in Tehran, Iran, and lives
there to this day.
Tehran - There are political, economical, and religious
obstacles that make it difficult for ANYONE to be a
successful internet marketer in Iran, and in most cases
even more difficult for a woman to do so.
With respect for Ladan, I'm not going to get into the
details of the specific political and religious barriers
that many women face in Iran, but just be aware that this
story runs even deeper than I'm able to write about.
If internet marketing was a wrestling match, she's starting
the competition with one hand tied behind her back simply
because of the place she was born into the world.
Next obstacle: the language barrier.
Although you wouldn't know it from her articles and
sales letters, Ladan was not born into an English-speaking
family.
She started learning the language at eight years of age,
and devoured every English book she could get her hands on.
Even at such a young age, she began to realize that her
fluency in English would open up more doors of opportunity
throughout her life. Throughout her teen years, this fervor
grew as she tackled the language head-on.
A true entrepreneur, she decided that she wanted to become
independent and produce her own income.
When her family bought a computer, she quickly began
experimenting with ways she could turn it into an income
stream.
She tried all kinds of business; teaching Windows, graphic
designing with PhotoShop, website design, and even learned
C++ programming.
Even though she was able to make money through those avenues,
she knew that there was a bigger opportunity out there.
At sixteen years of age, she discovered the world of internet
marketing through the late Cory Rudl's website.
She bought and studied his internet marketing course, along
with other ebooks and resources.
She knew right away that THIS was the business she wanted
to be in.
Her friends and family tried to convince her that becoming
a successful internet marketer in Iran would be IMPOSSIBLE,
and that she shouldn't continue to waste her money.
If you've ever faced the negative energy of friends and
family, you'll understand that it's a powerful force that
can quench your enthusiasm and ultimately abort the launch
of a new business.
Fortunately, her father believed in her, and the resistance
of others made her more determined than ever to find success.
After about a year of learning and studying the business,
she launched her first website, and the rest, as they say,
is history.
But that history has not been without its fair share of
bumps and valleys.
Jumping into business forced her to take her English
proficiency to a new level.
For a long time it was difficult to read and comprehend
the many technically-oriented ebooks that she acquired.
And if reading comprehension was a challenge, writing
was an even bigger issue.
It would take her six hours to write and proofread
an article, but her determination paid off.
Today if you search for her name on a search engine,
you'll find a slew of her articles indexed all over
the internet.
And as if writing weren't enough, she wanted to write
her own sales copy.
Anyone who's ever successfully written a sales letter
will concur that being a good writer doesn't make
someone a good copywriter.
I'm amazed to say that Ladan is a good copywriter.
Being a copywriter myself, I wouldn't say that if it
weren't true.
She applied the same vigor to learning the craft, as
she applied to learning the language itself.
She studied articles and courses from the top copywriters,
and practiced until she had developed her own style.
While there is obviously some innate talent at work
here, I'd say that she is also a testament that
copywriting CAN be learned.
Starting her business was the beginning of a long
uphill battle.
Because of the US embargo on Iran, she faces obstacles
that most of us wouldn't imagine.
As I mentioned, her culture has already tied one hand
behind her back.
The language barrier effectively tied the other one.
And ... the following problems essentially tied her
feet! - a situation that would cripple most marketers
and paralyze them from moving forward in business.
Most people wouldn't jump into a new business with
their hands and feet tied. It's impossible, right?
Just don't use the word "impossible" around Ladan!
To start with, she couldn't get a credit card. That
makes it pretty tough to buy anything online, wouldn't
you say?
My business relies on my credit cards for many things.
Not a day goes by without several business-related
charges to my credit card.
As I think about it, many of the products and services
that I use come from sites that ONLY accept credit cards.
She can't open a PayPal account. Again, this limits
her ability to make online purchases.
It ALSO rules her out of participating in a large number
of affiliate programs that only pay commissions via PayPal.
Of course probably the biggest disadvantage of not having
a PayPal account is not being able to accept PayPal payments.
She estimates that this one issue is costing her many
thousands of dollars in lost sales.
She can't get a merchant account, so it becomes very
difficult to sell anything online.
She can't have a bank account in US dollars. So that rules
out another possibility of making or receiving payments.
To make matters worse, she can't have any bank account
that accepts wire transfers. This cripples her ability
to receive payments from affiliate programs to her bank
account, or from merchant services for her own products.
So even if she can find a way to sell a product online,
getting that money into her own hands is a huge obstacle.
She can't cash any USD checks. That rules out most of
the other affiliate programs.
She can't travel. It's almost impossible for her to get
a visa to travel outside of Iran. This means that she
has not been able to go abroad to attempt to open up
accounts, and she can not attend any internet marketing
seminars.
Those are just some of the barriers created by the embargo.
There are many more limitations imposed by the Iranian
government.
On top of these physical barriers, she also faces
another kind of discrimination that continues to
this day.
In a business built upon online image and perceived
trust, she has been severely disadvantaged by the way
much of the world views Iranians.
As she puts it, "the reactions are not very pleasant."
She thinks it's mainly due to the way the media has
portrayed Iran and Islam.
This has made it difficult to be open and build
relationships online, as she has found that even her
own subscribers, customers, and business associates
look at her differently when they discover she is
from Iran.
She says, "some people even act like I am a terrorist".
She has received "hate" emails through her websites
and also on forums.
"I know who I am and where I stand," says Ladan,
"but what the media shows the world and what my
country's government does has nothing to do with me.
So I just wish people in the west - especially the
United States - would understand this difference."
Let me ask you a few questions!
Do you have a credit card?
Do you have a PayPal account?
Can you open a US bank account?
Can you receive US checks?
Do you have the freedom to travel?
Could you go to an internet marketing seminar?
Maybe you didn't answer "Yes" to ALL of those
questions ...
... but for EACH question you answered "yes" to,
you are starting one step ahead of Ladan.
Let me ask you a couple more questions!
Are you fluent in English?
If you said "Yes", take two more steps ahead.
Do people view you as a terrorist?
No? Take three more steps ahead.
If this girl can do it, so can YOU.
It doesn't matter how old or young you are!
It doesn't matter where you live in the world!
It doesn't matter what other internal and external
factors are trying to hold you down!
You CAN succeed.
In spite of all her challenges, Ladan views
internet marketing as an easy opportunity to take
advantage of, and she encourages others to do as
she has done!
"I think there's nothing hard about it. It's the
perfect kind of business for people who want to
be independent and work for themselves in a
business that there's no limit to your success."
If you're just getting started, she has more advice,
"When you are just getting started, you should know
it might take some time to make the amount of money
you expect, and you should keep on and don't give up
- no matter how people around you try to disappoint you.
I think this is the most important and difficult part
- it's where most people give up."
In the three short years that she's been in business,
she's worked hard and implemented many strategies
that she's learned by studying other successful
marketers.
Out of everything she's tried, she deems list-building
as the most important component of her business,
"Nothing is more powerful than building a targeted
responsive list and building a relationship with that list."
While her income may not yet be on par with the
internet marketing superstars, she's earning a living
online that would impress even those of us living in
a more generous economy (she recently earned $6300 USD
in a month).
The thing that must be kept in mind is that she is making
more money than about 95% of the people in her country,
and bringing home more income than her countrymen who
have 30+ years of experience in their careers.
I'd love to see what she'd be capable of achieving outside
the restraints of her county, and so would she, which is
one reason she is considering a move to a locale more
conducive of her business-such as Canada or Australia.
She says the biggest key to success is ...
"Believing in yourself, and promising yourself that
you WILL reach your goals and won't let anything or
anyone stop you."
When I asked her what makes her different from those
who fail, she said that her success is derived from
her persistence in facing and overcoming challenges
and obstacles.
She points out one of her favorite quotes from Ross Perot,
"Most people give up just when they're about
to achieve success. They quit on the one yard
line. They give up at the last minute of the
game, one foot from a winning touchdown."
When she's not working on her business, she enjoys
reading self-improvement books (who would have
guessed?), dancing, watching movies, spending time
in nature, and going out with friends.
In other words, she's just a normal girl with
big plans and an indomitable positive attitude.
Today she has more than 20 websites, and she hopes
to expand her business by 400% while continuing to
help others find their own success.
As Ladan says,
"If a young girl who got started when she was only
16 years old, with no previous business experience,
with English being her second language, with less
than $30 to her name, in a country where you can't
have a credit card or PayPal account and is under
a strict embargo from United States, and so much
more limitations...
If such a girl can succeed, how is it possible that
YOU can't succeed - while you may not even have
one of these limitations?"
Ladan will never give up.
I hope you don't either.
Have a great day and I'll be in touch soon.
Your friend
ON SEARCHING GOOGLE I WAS AMAZED TO FIND THAT ITS A FACT.
AND FOUND MANY SEARCH RESULTS FOR. Ladan Lashkari,
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