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Internet Marketing: I’m So Excited!!

It is amazing that Internet Marketing has the ability for you to earn decent money. Thirty years ago I can recall the dawn of the personal computer. There were dreams that were written about that went into detail on how music would largely be done on computers. A lot of it is done that way nowadays, but there is something about the ability to actually play an instrument. There was talk about telecommuting to work and never having to leave your home (that is closer to a reality for many people than was ever envisioned). But to actually make money on your own as an Internet Marketer was unthought of in those days, but now it is a booming industry in which you just need a computer and some guidance.

Is it easy? No. Despite what the pitchmen and pitch women will tell you, it will not happen overnight: there is some work involved in it. Unlike what they would have you believe, you don’t just turn on your computer and the money starts flowing to your bank account.

If only it were that easy.

Just as a star athlete doesn’t get to their highest level of excellence without hard work at the gym, you will never succeed without your own hard work. How much? Ask yourself some questions: How much money do you want to make? What is the time-frame for earning this money? How much time are you willing to devote to this endeavor? Are you going to spend any money in the process? How much? Are you willing to do research to find out the information that you need to succeed? Are you going to have anybody mentor you? Is any of this written down?

Of course, this just scratches the surface of the soul-searching that is required to have Internet Marketing success. I honestly believe that if you have the desire and willingness to work, you will be successful beyond your current dreams. Success begets success.

Have a GREAT day!

Just as a star athlete doesn’t get to their finest without working out at the gym, you will never succeed unless you put in some time and effort. How much? you may ask. It depends. How successful do you want your Internet business to be? What are your goals? Who is yo

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Internet Marketing – What Drives You To Succeed?

Sometimes it is not enough to want to succeed in Internet Marketing. Many people just purchase a website and stick a product on that website and are disappointed when their PayPal account isn’t overflowing with cash. That fits the definition of a pipe dream. Just wishing for success takes more than a wish. There are people that dream of winning a million dollars in the Lottery, but never even bother to go to the store and purchase a ticket.

Write it down.

There is something compelling about writing your goals for Internet Marketing. What do you want to accomplish? How much money do you want to make? There is a difference between saying more money and saying $100,000. If you have twenty dollars in your pocket and somebody gives you a quarter, guess what? You have more money.  Goals need to be measurable. You will know when you have $100,000. It can be measured.

Goals need to be short-term, intermediate, and long-term. What do you want to accomplish in the next two month? The next year? Ten years from now? Once you know where you want to go, develop a plan to get there and break it up into steps that you can attain in measurable increments.

Review the goals often. The problem with New Year’s resolutions is that people will write a lofty goal and, once January 1 has passed, it is put away until the next year. When you look at your goals every day, you reaffirm in your mind that which you want to accomplish. Set aside some time every day to review and even revise your goals.

Have a GREAT day!

Tags: goals, internet marketing, web traffic

How Can You Have A Positive Mental Attitude On A Monday?

THAT is an excellent question! It is a question that you probably ask every Monday. In the traditional work week, one would work eight hours each day Monday through Friday. Of course, time now are not what we would call traditional. There are so many variations of the forty-hour week now: Some people work four 10 hour shifts with three days off, some people work 3 twelve hour days with four days off, some work a blend of that with 3 ten hour days, 1 six hour day, and a short 4 hour day. Whatever your work week is and whenever it begins, the first day of that work week is usually the toughest to keep a positive mental attitude on.

It is a challenge.

But, it is one that can be met and easily surpassed if you have the habit of a positive mental attitude. It was mentioned a few posts ago that you can choose to look on the bright side of life if you please. I am not advocating a PollyAnna-type of approach to where everything is bright and shiny and happy, because it is not. Train yourself to find the good things that are happening instead of focusing on the bad things. Your mind is a wonderful tool that has the ability to draw you toward that which you think about. If you have a sniffle and you focus on how poor your are going to feel, you will start to feel worse. If, on the other hand, you focus on how good the other parts of you feels, your sniffle will diminish in importance.

It works this way with Internet Marketing as well. If you focus on how little money you have and how little money your website is generating, despite how well-planned and well-designed it may be, you will continue to get little trickles of traffic to your website and pennies in your pocket.

Focus on how well you are doing! See what changes make more traffic come your way! Be flexible enough to make and accept changes as they assist you in your goal to become financially independent (or you may have a smaller goal of making an extra $100 a month, but you don’t have to limit yourself to just that).

What you think about, you bring about. For example, I have been thinking about writing an ebook on how to eliminate credit card debt fot the last few months, and because that was a dominating thought in my head, it finally came into being (you can get your own copy here). It works the same way with any goal you may have, it all begins with a positive mental attitude.

Have a GREAT day!

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Internet Marketing Success - What is YOUR Goal?

Goals are one of the things that a lot of people have a lot of problem with. Having clear, written goals, it a key to success, not just in Internet Marketing, but in any aspect of your life that you would like. What are goals, you may ask? Napoleon Hill, author of Think and Grow Rich said that a “goal is a dream with a deadline” There is a difference between dreaming about something and having a goal. To me, a dream has implications of fuzziness and a feeling.

Let me explain:

Let us say that you have an idea for a book that you have spent a lot of though on. When you dream about it, it is just wishful dream-filled thinking. You picture in your mind sitting down at the keyboard of your computer and typing away. You picture having people around the world link up through their computers to download your book and the smiles on their faces when the download is successful. Is there any action involved in this? Is there any definite time-lines that you have and are meeting along the way? NO!! It is only a dream.

When you make your dream a goal, a mental transformation is made in which you now have a deadline or timeframe in which to get there. You write down your goal and break it up into easy-to-take steps. You spend one hour each day dedicated to reaching this goal. Your first goal is to have ten chapters for your book. You spend isolated, dedicated time each day to get that outline done. Then you have a goal of having three or four points covered in each chapter. An hour (at least) each day is spent on this. Your book slowly takes shape.

Which one gets you closer, a dream or a goal. The goal, of course. Such it is with life.

Stop dreaming and devote the time to convert your dreams into goals. You can do it!

(by the way, I just finished an ebook about credit card debt elimination called  Never Surrender!!)

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Internet Marketing - You Have to be Flexible

An story keeps running through my head as I think about what was posted yesterday about the need to be flexible. There is a lot more to say than the few words that were typed out yesterday. The story goes about the great mighty oak tree that had lived for over 100 years. Strong and proud, it had weathered some years of drought, some years of excessive rain, even a small wildfire. One day a strand of prairie grass was near the oak tree and the oak tree was in his usual bragging mood admiring his reflection in a small nearby pond. “I am mighty and powerful and you, little sprout, will never be as grand as I am.”  Suddenly, the skies darkened and the winds began to blow. The might oak stood his ground and almost laughed at the growing wind. “I am mighty and powerful, this wind is nothing to me”, he boasted. The storm worsened and it grew dark. The next morning the mighty oak had been toppled because as the wind gained strength the tree had not had any flexibility and the wind finally won. The strand of prairie grass, however, was still standing as it was before. The winds at time had the grass laying flat against the ground, but because of its flexibility, it was able to survive.

You have to be flexible to survive in Internet Marketing also. Don’t be so rigid that you will not be able to see what works and what doesn’t and change accordingly. Have a plan, of course, but also be willing to change your plans as necessary. Don’t believe because what has always worked wil work for you in the future because, if there is any one constant in the world, it is change. Things will change. Be flexible to adapt to the changes so that you can be more successful.

Have a GREAT day!

Tags: change, flexibility, goals, internet marketing, success

Internet Marketing - You Have to be Able To Be Flexible

When your quest of becoming a successful Internet Marketer is set, you have a single-mindedness of purpose (as discussed yesterday) and your a determined to make a go of it. In your mind you envision the success that you will have, the things that you will do, and the path that you will take to get there. That’s GREAT!! But…what if something happens that is not in line with your goal? Do you give up? Do you quit? Do you drown your sorrows in drink and never recover?

NO!!!

You become flexible. If you were planning to drive from your home to a city 30 miles away, would you turn around, go home, park your car, and give up because there was a red light at the first traffic signal that you came upon? I doubt that (or you would never have left your home). You simply adjust a bit and continue on your journey, being flexible and able to adapt to the changes that may occur along the way.

Such it is with Internet Marketing. There are millions of ideas and plans out there to help you succeed. Not all of them will work for you. Some plans call for you to produce your own e-books for success. You may not have the desire to spend the energy required to write a book. You move to something else. You find a plan that calls for you to outsource work and make money as a contractor. Maybe that isn’t your cup of tea, so to speak.  The thing is, there is some way, some method, some program out there in which you believe with every fiber of your being that you will be successful at doing and, in the process, make some decent money at.

But you have to be flexible to try the things that don’t work until you find the things that do!

Have a GREAT day!

Tags: flexibility, goals, internet marketing, making money on the internet

Internet Marketing: You Can’t Charge for Everything

One of the biggest mistakes that early Internet Marketers encounter is when they attempt to charge for everything. With so much free information out there, until you have established your credentials as an expert, there isn’t too much money to be made out there if all you have is a website that is just asking people to buy, buy, buy. This is the information age, and people are looking for information. Be a source of information that people know that they can come to and find what they are looking for. I am not suggesting that you give away everything that you know nor am I advocating selling everything. Give them a taste of what you know. Give them free information that they can use. On down the road, you might put together an ebook that they will want to purchase.  The exact mix for you is something that you will have to work out for yourself.

Sometimes people read the online emails that they get telling you that you can earn $100,000 a month using Internet Marketing. Can you? Of course you can. But there is a learning curve that has to be encountered that will help you to get to  whatever your goals are for making money on the Internet. Don’t get your hopes all tied up in dreams of making vast fortunes without realizing that it will take hours upon hours of hard, dedicated work. Even the most successful Internet Marketers had to start somewhere. Just be sure to keep you dreams more on the realistic side.

There is nothing wrong about having big dreams, in fact, when you have a big dream, you are programming yourself for success. All too often, people don’t get their $1,000 a day in the first seven days and hang it up, often on the cusp of entering into a zone of success.

More later, stay tuned! Have a GREAT day!

Tags: goals, internet marketing, money

PMA: Fill A Need

You want to have more traffic to your website. You know that having more traffic, when directed wisely, can lead you to having more success as an Internet marketer. But you ask yourself: “How do I do this? How can I get people to come to my web site and what can I do to translate this into more dollars in my pocket?” We have been exploring some of the ways to generate traffic to your web site and the role that having a positive mental attitude can assist you in having a greater degree of success in your online endeavors. The answers are out there, the challenge is that those gems of knowledge are sometimes hidden deep within writings of those who are already enjoying a great deal of success. In a nutshell, if you find a need and supply the solution to fulfilling that need (whether it is through the creation of your own product or being an affilliate for a product) will transition a web “browser” into a buyer. The person on the other end will be happy and loyal that you have provided this service to them and you will be rewarded as well.  Let me state that again:

Find a need out there that others desire to have fulfilled, offer a solution, and you will be rewarded.

It isn’t the easiest thing in the world. You have to research (and you thought that once you were done with school you didn’t have to do any thinking again - WRONG!), you have to put time and effort into your endeavor (if you put nothing into your effort to drive Internet traffic, you get exactly that: NOTHING!), look at what others are doing successfully and use those same techniques yourself.

You CAN be successful, but you have to take ACTION to be successful.

Have a GREAT day!

Tags: internet marketing, making money on the internet, success, target audience, wealth

The Key To Success In Making Money On The Internet: Belief

Somebody told me that it should be listed as a secret ingredient to success, but it doesn’t need to be a secret anylonger. It is true what is said when it is said “whether you believe you can, or you believe you can’t, you are right.” This is especially true with making money on the Internet. There is an unlimited supply of money out there waiting to align itself with you, but you have to believe.

There is strenth in the power of belief. First you have to transition from “like” to “belief”. What is that? Simple. Look at the difference in intensity of these two statements: “I would like to make a million dollars on the Internet” and “I believe I will make a million dollars on the Internet.” The first statement has a light, almost airy feeling about it. There is no conviction. If ou say that to somebody else they will just smile and dismiss you and not think that you are well on your way to have a million dollars in your banking account.

The second statement, however, carries a certain amount of conviction with it. There is a definite-ness to that. People will be more apt to take you seriously if you utter that statement. Subconsciously, you start to attact things that will draw you closer to that goal and make it more of a reality.

This is not just about making money on the Internet, but it can have applications to any area of your life. Stay tuned for further details as there is so much to say and so little space in which to say it!

Have a GREAT day!

Tags: finincial independence, goals, internet marketing, making money on the internet, money, positive mental attitude

PMA (Positive Mental Attitude) and YOU

When it comes to getting your website to a profitable point, there are going to be some low points. You may put in an hour here and an hour there and wonder why people aren’t flocking to your site to hand over their money in droves. After all, you have a fantastic site, it is well thought out, and you just knewthat the minute you opened up your site that there would be people dying to know. You start to second guess yourself, your enthusiam wanes for the website to make you some money. After two weeks, you haven’t made your first million on the Internet, much less your first $1.00.

DON”T GIVE UP!

If you keep doing the same thing over and over, you had better not be expecting different results (I can just hear Dr. Phil’s voice saying just that). There has to be some change that happens. Step back and see what is working for other people. Visit lots of other sites and see what is working for them: Is is flash animation? Is it the layout of their offerings? Are you using a font that you think is cool, but not everybody else is able to view?

Make a list of what you are doing and whether that particular action is leading to more traffic and more dollars in your pocket. Try different things in small amounts. Try to incorporate some of the winning tactics on your website and see if that makes a different.

You have to be patient. After all, the best things didn’t happen overnight. There was probably a lot of trial and error that was put ito completion: You should be no different!

Keep working and know that you do have the ability to Succeed!

Tags: internet marketing, making money on the internet, positive mental attitude, web traffic