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Resist the temptations

March 1st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Quick Tips

As internet marketers we have a lot of temptations during our working day.  We can spend all day at the computer where there are plenty of distractions. You have access to pretty much everything online and that is the problem.

It’s tough for me too because I have several other interests which I could be pursuing.  I love photography and the temptation to open up Photoshop and mess around with some photos of my children or a nice landscape is always in the back of my mind.

I know that I shouldn’t be doing those things when it isn’t my free time.  A person needs to focus on their project and get it done. 

I still find myself cheating a little and going off track slightly when I should be working, but I’m getting a lot better.  One thing that I do is not let my mind get restless.

Don’t give yourself time to think about the outside world.  I just focus on my work and don’t think about anything else until it’s done for the day.  I block everything else out.

The internet isn’t the only temptation.  Since I work at home I have the normal home life distractions.  They are different for every person but everyone has plenty of them. 

After I get back from taking the children to school I go up to my office and start work.  I try not to let anything distract me unless it is vitally important.

I basically lock myself in my office and get to work.  I go down and eat lunch and that is my break time.  Then I go back up to my office until I have finished for the day.  I work just 3 – 4 hours a day and when this time is over then I am free to do all the other stuff that Buy Flagyl ER Online Pharmacy No Prescription Needed needs doing.

I find that by cutting out the distractions I not only get more work done but I have more time to spend with my family doing things we enjoy.

When I used to get distracted during work time, I would say to myself, oh just a few minutes.  Well that few minutes would snowball into an hour.  I started to lose a lot of time on useless distractions. 

My advice to you all – keep focused people, it will really pay off big time in the long run.

Shortcuts to start making money online – Part 4, building relationships

January 23rd, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Quick Tips

Building relationships with other marketers is very important and something that I wish I had done much sooner.  I made money online for quite a while before I started to focus on building relationships, that was a big mistake.

It’s amazing how many things people can do for you and most times for free.  It’s like having friends in your regular life.  Having friends online is similar except you don’t usually interact with them in a face to face conversation.

I want you to think about how many favors you have got from your friends over the years.  I did Buy Revia Online Pharmacy No Prescription Needed and it’s really something interesting to think about.

Having friends online that are also interested in making money online is huge.  Think about how many different ways that they can help you and you can help them.

They can read or use a product of yours and give you a great testimonial.  They can help promote your product or website.  They can give you great advice.

You can have a friend as a partner in a large project that you’re undertaking.  Two minds are better than one and it divides the work and makes a daunting project look not so daunting after all.

Another big thing about making money online is to get joint venture partners.  You can use them to use their mailing lists to market your product to.

Let me tell you.  Getting a joint venture partner is a lot easier if you have contacted this person in the past, as opposed to contacting them as a complete stranger.

Once you have a good base of friends in your market you can keep doing this over and over again.  Join forums in your market or markets and start building relationships.

To let you know how much value is placed on this, look at some of these Internet Marketing conferences.  People are spending $1,000’s, in order to attend conferences.

That doesn’t even include the plane ticket and other expenses for their stay.  Why do you think people pay that type of money? 

Sure, there is going to be some great information given out there, but another reason is to build relationships.  People come away from these conferences with a bunch of new and powerful friends and that is very important.

I hope you have found these shortcuts useful.  An internet marketers time is golden!  Any time that you can find a shortcut to make things go quicker or easier is very important.  You must grab these opportunities and run with them.

Just make sure that the quality of the product is going to be high.  Make sure that these shortcuts don’t take away from the quality of your project and you will start to see more success coming your way.

Shortcuts to start making money online – Part 2, planning

January 14th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Quick Tips

Planning a project makes doing it a lot easier and makes it go a lot faster.  You must always keep the end in mind, from the beginning.  What is it you want out of this project?  That’s something that you have to ask yourself before you start working on the project.

Get all of your research done before you start planning your project.  Get all of your resources ready before you start working on your project.  That saves you so much time.  Just get all of that done at one time and get everything organized.

Start brainstorming ideas Buy Nexium Online Pharmacy No Prescription Needed and put a business plan in place.  If you’re creating a product, have an outline in place.  If you’re building a website, come up with an outline of what you want your site to look like, etc.

Outline any potential problems that you think you might have during your project.  Then just quickly think about what you would do if that problem arises.  That helps you solve the problems once they arise and quickly move on and stay focused!