Success From Failure Is As Simple As Focus, Plan, Execute
by :
Timothy Spaulding
You excitedly signed up for that pre-made money generating website you saw in a popbehind window. You signed up for the affiliate IDs. You set up your autoresponder and signed up for several “traffic generators". You read the writings of all the internet gurus. Then you sat back and waited to pull in those MASSIVE PROFITS!Its now a year later and what do you have to show – 150 subscriptions to your ezine and a couple of downline affiliates. You are disgruntled, dejected and more broke than you were when you started this venture. You feel that it is time to give up.Don’t.A major breakthrough leading to increasing success in your home business may be just around the corner. Here are a few steps to take before throwing in the towel.Why did you start?When you first signed up there were circumstances in your life that led you to look for a home business opportunity. These may have been due to a job loss, desire for more time with your family or need to supplement retirement income. Whatever the reason, most likely they still exist. Write them down. Put it in big letters on a single page and post it where you will be likely to see it several times a day – on the bathroom mirror, on the refrigerator, on a kitchen cabinet, the bedroom door – somewhere that you will see it and remind yourself of the ultimate goal.FocusWhen you started you become excited about a product or service. But along the way you have been bombarded with the “next best thing". It’s easy to get started but then but when it comes down to DOING what you start, it gets hard and doesn't happen as fast as you would like it to.Jack Humphrey, in his article “Focus and Fear of Success - The Biggest Monkey on Your Back?" says “The problem lies with your focus and your fear of success. You must CHOOSE the opportunity you are passionate about, or create a product you stand behind and love, and then hunker down for the long-haul! Make yourself do everything you are taught to do to build your business and build it - all the way or not at all."Create/retool your marketing planYou may or may not have created a plan for marketing your opportunity. The two must haves to be successful are a large and growing opt in list and massive traffic to your website. In all those forums you probably learned several methods to boost your online presence, including:
You excitedly signed up for that pre-made money generating website you saw in a popbehind window. You signed up for the affiliate IDs. You set up your autoresponder and signed up for several “traffic generators". You read the writings of all the internet gurus. Then you sat back and waited to pull in those MASSIVE PROFITS!Its now a year later and what do you have to show – 150 subscriptions to your ezine and a couple of downline affiliates. You are disgruntled, dejected and more broke than you were when you started this venture. You feel that it is time to give up.Don’t.A major breakthrough leading to increasing success in your home business may be just around the corner. Here are a few steps to take before throwing in the towel.Why did you start?When you first signed up there were circumstances in your life that led you to look for a home business opportunity. These may have been due to a job loss, desire for more time with your family or need to supplement retirement income. Whatever the reason, most likely they still exist. Write them down. Put it in big letters on a single page and post it where you will be likely to see it several times a day – on the bathroom mirror, on the refrigerator, on a kitchen cabinet, the bedroom door – somewhere that you will see it and remind yourself of the ultimate goal.FocusWhen you started you become excited about a product or service. But along the way you have been bombarded with the “next best thing". It’s easy to get started but then but when it comes down to DOING what you start, it gets hard and doesn't happen as fast as you would like it to.Jack Humphrey, in his article “Focus and Fear of Success - The Biggest Monkey on Your Back?" says “The problem lies with your focus and your fear of success. You must CHOOSE the opportunity you are passionate about, or create a product you stand behind and love, and then hunker down for the long-haul! Make yourself do everything you are taught to do to build your business and build it - all the way or not at all."Create/retool your marketing planYou may or may not have created a plan for marketing your opportunity. The two must haves to be successful are a large and growing opt in list and massive traffic to your website. In all those forums you probably learned several methods to boost your online presence, including:
- Listing your ezine in ezine directories
- Signing up for pay-per-click advertising
- Exchanging links
- Buying leads from a lead generator
- Signing up with traffic generators, such as searchestate
- Buying ezine advertising