No Wonder it's so Hard to Make Money Online!
by Frank Sousa
Published on this site: October 20th, 2005 - See
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At a recent Internet Conference that my sons and I were teaching,
I was reminded about one of the most serious problems that
we all face in Internet Marketing, and that is information
overload
What do I mean? Let's look at a typical day in the life of
an Internet Marketer.
9am... you sit down to your computer, with the intent of
writing a new website, because you just Know that this will
be the most profitable project you ever built. But before
you get into that, you'd better check your emails
You go through about fifty junk letters.... but look! Here's
a message from some well known Internet Marketing Guru. I
know he makes Gobs of money on the Internet every day, and
he can teach me the Secrets of marketing on the Internet....
and my gosh he's only going to charge me $49 for the privilege
of knowing that secret. I can't pass that up, so I better
order it right now. After all the price is going up tomorrow
you know!
So I order that ebook, and start to read it, but then the
phone rings. It is just a telephone solicitor, but after I
get her off the call, I sit down to my computer again. Let's
see, what was I going to do? Umm.... not sure but I need to
run a virus scan to make sure my computer is clean... and
while it's doing that I'm going to get another cup of coffee.
10am... ok no viruses on my computer. That's great to know...
now I can sit down and get started on that website right....
but I better check my emails first....
Oh look... here's a system that Mr. X used to rake in $40,000
last night while he was sleeping. Boy wouldn't I like to have
that... let's go to his website..
Hmm.... seems like it's another program that says write an
ebook on Internet Marketing and sell it to people who would
like to learn about Internet Marketing..... no.. I don't want
to do that.
Back to work... But you know I Did see something Frank said
once about using public domain reports. I wonder if I could
use that. So off I go to see if I can find that report. ok,
now I have that, and I think I'll pass for now.
11am... I better get back to work here. Oops, here comes
another e-mail. What? This one says the system I'm trying
to use to build my business is dead, and now I need to buy
their software or I'll go broke on the net?
Ok, I can't live without that software, I better get it right
now.
12pm.... Lunch time, I'll get back to that website after
lunch
Sound familiar? Unfortunately it's all too familiar for All
of us. There are so many different ways to generate income,
traffic or whatever we want to do on the Internet, that we're
constantly bombarded by offers.
Many of them are good, and many of them could make money
for you IF you sat down and really applied worked on that
program and only that program for a few months. But the problem
is that we get sidetracked so easily. Most of us never really
take the time to focus on the one project that we need to
get working Before we start on the next
It takes a real discipline sometimes to say no to these tempting
offers.... and yes... some of them come from me too. Here's
five simple steps to help you fix this problem with overload........
- Set aside certain periods of the day that you check your
emails and only check your emails at those times.
- Sit down and decide once and for all that you're going
to build a solid website, ebook, program, or whatever it
is that you want to do. You're not going to deviate from
that plan until you've accomplished that goal. Along the
way you might be presented with some software or peripheral
program that would work well with what you're trying to
accomplish.
If that's the case then great... get it and integrate it
into your online model, but if it doesn't mesh with your
present project, then either don't buy it at all, or if
you must, then put it into a separate folder on your computer
called "Future Projects" and don't mess with it
until you're on track with your present one
- Make a to do list. This letter is an example. It was
the number one item on my to do list for today, I wanted
to contact you and write about this while it was still fresh
in my mind
- Find out what time of the day is the most productive
for you and set that time aside for your most important
tasks. Mine is usually 10pm to midnight
I realize that many readers must juggle their web site efforts
with a full time job... but the real key is consistency.
Set aside some regular time each week to work on your online
presence
- Resolve here and now that there are many ways that you
would be able to make money on the Internet, but you can
only do one at a time... so you're going to work at one
until you've either made a success of it or it truly has
proven not to be what you'd hoped for. If it's the latter,
try to find out why. Was it a problem in promotion? Was
it the layout, the text, the headline?
You don't want to repeat the same mistakes again
My sons and I make money in many different ways on the net,
but everything we do that is successful for us always boils
down to his simple formula.
I could ramble on for a long time about this, but I think
you get the idea. This entire article can be summed up in
to one word
............ FOCUS
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