No Wonder It's So Hard To Make Money Online!

by Frank Sousa

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 SECRET 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........ 
 
1. Set aside certain periods of the day that you check your
emails and ONLY check your emails at those times. 
 
2. 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 
 
3. 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 
 
4. 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 
 
5. 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
this 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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websites, generating more revenue, and converting lookers into
buyers. Frank Sousa is an author, teacher, & developer of the
secretspidergenerator. http://www.secretspidergenerator.com

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