The
REAL Secret to Building A High-Profit Internet Business
By
Jimmy D. Brown
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My
wife laughs every time she sees me doing it.
At
least once or twice every week, I'll be at my desk (or at
the dining room table) with my Franklin Covey planner open
and a stack of laminated checklists in hand.
"What
are you doing, honey?" she calls, already knowing the
answer.
"I'm
planning," I reply with a smile.
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She
laughs and I get back to work.
She
laughs because she swears I spend half of my time "planning".
But, if you ask me how I'm able to get as much work done as I do
in only 3 hours a day, I'll point to a black Franklin Covey planner
with about a dozen laminated checklists inside.
Building
an Internet business is easy. Seriously. I'm not saying that it's
not complicated, because it is. I'm just saying that it's easy to
accomplish if you just have a system in place.
There's
very little in this world that can't be accomplished with the right
set of action steps in front of you.
Today,
I'm going to give you such a system for building your Internet business.
There are only 4 steps...
1.
Decide What You Want To Do. Do you want to run an eBay(R) business?
Be an affiliate marketer? Buy and sell reprint rights? Get involved
in niche marketing? While all of those things will likely find their
way into your plan in time, you gotta begin with one thing at a
time.
My
recommendation: Choose a "broad" topic you are interested
in and begin building a list of folks interested in that topic.
2.
Determine A Weekly Action Plan. After you decide what you want
to do, it's time to determine how to get it done. What I do is this:
I create a weekly set of action steps. That is, I have a set of
things I do on Monday, on Tuesday and so forth. Decide how many
hours (as little as ONE) you want to work each day and schedule
yourself a reasonable amount of things to get done in that time
frame. Repeat this process week after week.
My
recommendation: Begin writing ezine articles to promote your list
... and affiliate programs. It's the easiest way to get free traffic
and build your list at the same time.
3.
Devote Yourself To Staying On Schedule. The important
thing here is to stick to it. The easiest way that I know of to
make certain you develop discipline in your schedule is to NOT set
unrealistic expectations. Give yourself ample time to do each day's
action step - don't over schedule. Look for progress along the way
to celebrate. Reward yourself when you've reached a milestone. And,
remember, you're GROWING a business. Just like physical growth,
it takes time ... it WILL happen if you remain committed.
My
recommendation: Weave in simple activities related to the following
categories - List building (ezine articles), product creation (conduct
interviews or hire ghostwriters), site development (making your
site convert more visitors into buyers and education (continuing
to learn new ways to grow your business)
4.
Develop Additional Shortcuts. As you get better and better at
working with your lists, creating products and tweaking your site,
you'll want to continue to improve your business with new ideas,
strategies, tools and resources. The key is simple: never stop learning!
Visit
forums. Read articles. Download reports. Identify sites and resources
that CONTRIBUTE to your success in educating you. You want faster
results, bigger increases, automated processes and other ways to
get more accomplished and more profit, with less work involved.
Everything
depends on you developing a plan and sticking to it.
And
that is the REAL secret to building a high-profit Internet business!
About
the author: Jimmy D. Brown is the
owner of the "List And Traffic" membership site, teaching
thousands of internet business owners specific things they can do
every week to multiply profits. For video training, weekly updated
content and printable checklist "systems" for growing
your business, drop by www.infoYOGIS.com
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