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How to finally succeed in making money online |
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Written by Tony Hetherington
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Wednesday, 16 July 2008 21:11 |
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The only way to get success in the online world is to create a plan or blueprint or have one given to you. Then have the commitment, drive and ambition to take the necessary action to follow it through. It doesn't matter if you're selling your own ebooks, widgets or work as an affiliate for someone else you have to follow a route map to success and follow it through to the end.
by TonyHetherington
The only way to get success in the online world is to create a plan or blueprint or have one given to you. Then have the commitment, drive and ambition to take the necessary action to follow it through. It doesn't matter if you're selling your own ebooks, widgets or work as an affiliate for someone else you have to follow a route map to success and follow it through to the end.
We all know what can happen if we don't make a plan, we dither, delay and fail. As the mantra goes - people don't plan to fail, they fail to plan" - and yet we seem to be destined to fail and give up, time after time. So what goes wrong?
It's so hard to keep focussed - You take a decision and decide on a new plan to profit with every good intention to see this one through. Then you hear the message that "you have mail" and the latest guru offer has arrived and you simply must buy it or lose out on a fortune! The old plan is now forgotten and all the work you've done on it wasted as you download new pdfs and watch more videos that lead you to a new path. You stay on this new path until the next offer arrives. It's time to make a change and focus on your future rather then filling the coffers of the next guru.
We train without learning - Many gurus offer online training and seminars that create an instant buzz and the feeling that you too can acheive such results but since the training is focussed on them and their acheivements and not on you and your plans they fade very quickly.
It's too easy to quit - When the going gets tough the tough give up according to those trying to make a living online. I think it's a psychological problem that we don't actually beleive that online success is possible and therefore take the slightest failure such as the lack of traffic after a single article as proof of this negative thought. If we were given not only a blueprint but also step-by-step instructions backed up by support that we could beleive in then our chances of success would be greatly improved.
We don't invest the necessary time and effort - In one word that means that we don't take action! Action is what will drive us forward, step by step to success. Even if you feel frustrated or feel like you're losing ground you must power through and keep taking action or you are bound to fail again.
It really isn't our fault because everything you've been told about affiliate marketing is wrong! We need to stop being lead around like sheep and start taking action and responsibility.
The route to succes is actually surprisingly simple.
1. Choose a product to promote - I'm going to recommend one but feel free to choose something else.
2. Read it through twice. The second time take notes of what steps you need to take and what else you need.
3. Create a detailed task list. Break the plan down further into a task list with everything that you need to do.
4. Start from the top of your task list and begin. Cross them off as they are completed and add any news ones that you come across. Don't worry if the task list gets any bigger - as that annoying fish said in Finding Nemo -Just keep going!
5. Whenever you have some free time do a task.
6. Keep on going until the list is complete.
7. Make sure you celebrate those landmarks such as the first sign up to an autoresponder and that first sale.
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