Making money on line is easy for some people and difficult for others. There are a few key ingredients that separate the winners for the rest. 95% of new Internet Marketers give up and go back to the drudgery of working for someone else. Be in the top 5% and be proud of your success by following these 10 easy tips.
1) Work hard. There is no secret or magic button. Sure watch the secret and use the law of attraction because it is important to believe in yourself. Listen to the expert Rich Schefren and he will say “The Secret and hard work equals success”
2) Do not get distracted. Rich will tell you to turn off your phone and close email and social networks and set your kitchen timer for 50 minutes of undistracted work. Rich also will tell you it takes 2 hours to get in a groove in your work. This means that if you get distracted every 20 minutes you basically will not get any work done.
3) Take time to think. Many people go day to day without really spending time seriously thinking. One way to help is to change your environment, go to Starbucks or the park and spend a few hours thinking and writing down your ideas.
4) Keep a journal. Each day write in your journal what worked and how you can improve the results or process you worked on that day. Just about every top marketing guru keeps a journal like this.
5) Empty your brain of stuff you need to do to make room for new ideas. If you have a broken door knob to your office every time you see it it will use brain cells to remember to fix it. Take the time to fix all the little annoying things that you see every day or are on your mind. It really frees up brain cells to think about bigger and better things.
6) Create a plan and follow it through to monetization. So many self employed people have trouble to stay focused on one project at a time. Multitasking is bad. It should be called limited attention because when you allow your brain to think of more than one thing at a time, it is not working full strength for you on the one important thing that needs to get done. “Have a clear vision of what you are trying to create” quote from Cash in a Flash Book
7) Prioritize your activities. Always do the thing that will result in making money instead of checking email, sending a tweet or updating Facebook, try finishing that special report needed to acquire prospects. One good way to do this is to write down 3 things you will accomplish each morning. If you are not sure what project to do, assign probabilities and weights to the time and revenue and pick the one that best meets your needs of low time or high money. Read more about making a decision.
8) Be grateful. Each day write down 10 things you are grateful for because being grateful is very powerful to get your mind thinking the right way.
9) Take action and revise later. Perfection is not as important as timing. Get it done so it is acceptable and get it done sooner rather than later. Think 80% solution rather than perfection.
10) Create a sales funnel. Start with finding prospects, capturing email addresses, offering something of value like $50, and then offering ability to learn more with another product or up sell. People do not like to be sold to. People do like to buy things. Only talk benefits and not features and find the emotional need that can be filled with your product. Promise a big benefit or or delivery from pain or problems. Provide results in advance, give away your best stuff to help you prospects along the way to the solution. Then you can offer a product or solution to get the rest of the way to the destination.
PS) Mastermind with like minded individuals.
Going it alone is always more difficult than working as a team to bounce ideas around and get suggestions about your ideas and plans. You do not need to hire employees, yet it is important to associate with other successful people. One of the easiest ways to achieve this is to join a mastermind group or form one yourself. If you are wondering where you can find a mastermind group quickly and easily, read about Lynn Terry’s Elite mastermind groupon this blog post. When you sign up on my affiliate link, you will get a special report download link on using social media marketing to help you use the Internet to promote your business in an easy low cost way. You will also be a customer and helping someone else make it on line and that is something of great value.










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I am a hardworking one.If i want to know about web marketing or somthing else,i dont give up finding tips and taking courses and watching tutorials.Not esy to do,kinda boring but started love doing it.sitting in front of my laptop,pc but im having fun though.
.-= Jackie form self care´s last blog ..* The simple way to Improve Private Life =-.
Something I encourage all newbies to do is to make a list of things they want to achieve, lets say a financial goal. Then work backwards to break that list down in tasks which will get you to that goal. For example, if i want to earn $1000 from Halloween in 2010 then maybe I need to make 10 websites, for 10 websites I might need 20 articles…once youve got the list get to action!
.-= Halloween Super Affiliate´s last blog ..Brian G Johnson =-.
I think your #2 tip (don’t get distracted) is so important. As marketers we are probably on every one’s list and we constantly get bombarded with all the email promotions. There are at least a dozen product launches every week all promising to the next big thing. I realized early on if I want to have any degree of success, I have to focus on just one thing and follow it through. I think most people would jump from one system to another, never give anything sufficient time to make it work. Thanks for the tips.
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I started my blog for my consulting practise and then I started another site for affliate marketing to get into it for a second income source. I get easily distracted (#2) with what to do first for my blogs for example – start another blog, make a video for better ranking, get back links, write another posting, etc. This is a great posting to make a journal and make a lotments of time for each. Thank you.
I also have to agree with tip #2 because when working from home that is one of the biggest things for most people since your family is always there and they really don’t usually consider you “working” and will call you for every little thing. You just need to have a nice room to yourself free of distractions. Don’t forget to take breaks and move around.. I often find myself locked to the computer and before you know it the day is gone. It is not healthy so make sure to break up the day.
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Robert, I agree #2 is the most difficult for me. I usually do not get in 2 hours of focused work before I get distracted by the dogs barking or any number of things.
Eben Pagen suggests we take a 10 minute break every 50 minutes and work in the morning without reading email every few minutes. Eben suggests reading email later in the day after the most important tasks are completed for the day.
HUGE fan of #3, probably too much truth be told. But I think that your most valuable contribution is #9. I find that whenever I go through an assignment without perfecting it, the results are always better. Completion now, perfection later. These are great tips Clay, thanks.
I know this post is over a year old, but I wanted to add something.
Most people that try to make money online are typically lazy. Although there are self-motivated people out there, the majority of online marketers want to make money without really earning it.
I guess my best tip to readers would be to stop surfing the internet as much and actually get work done. Remember, hard work is painful to do, so if you feel this way most of the time, then you know you are getting things done.
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These are wonderful tips you have here. Many people who start working online usually give up so fast because they lack good advice like the one offered in this post. I am a strong believer in hard work and I believe it pays greatly. Hard work however is not enough as you have to combine it with other things like good meditation and clear thinking so as to achieve success.
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For me I think 1,6,9 are the most important thinks that a newbie should follow. Co’z most of the time. Newbie tend to consume much time reading many idea’s on how to start earning online. They forgot that they have to carefully plan, execute and monetize.
In times like this I always remember the saying that out of 1000 person’s wanting to earn online only a few are able to earn steadily.