8. You’re afraid. You may not know it, but you are afraid of failing. You are afraid of what others might think of you or that your family may laugh at you. You’re afraid to put yourself out there to try new things. I was afraid of writing for Ezinearticles for the longest time because of the manual review process, I didn’t want to be rejected because my writing wasn’t good enough. Once someone told me to just do it and held me accountable, I did it and realized that I had nothing to be afraid of. I now have about 85 articles at Ezine. I should have more, but I haven’t made the time to write more yet.

7. You’re desperate. When you need money now, nothing will work fast enough. Many times it takes years for a mega blog to become successful and even many of my lenses didn’t start earning me any money until they were at least 3 months old. Once you get the idea out of your head that you are going to be earning $2000 a day tomorrow, you will learn to become more patient and just keep building your empire.

6. You’re looking for a magic pill. Your desperation could lead you to jumping from blog to blog and buying ebook upon ebook leading to an extremely high credit card bill. Sit down and focus on one or two things to start. Learn everything you can about it and then keep at it. Once you’ve mastered what you’re working on, you should have enough money to expand your knowledge and earn even more money.

5. You’re not investing in your business. On the other hand, you have to run your business like it is one and sometimes you’ll find you need to spend some money. Things that come to mind which almost everyone should have would be hosting and an email list. Hosting to get you started shouldn’t cost a lot. If you are using WordPress, I recommend Page.ly, you do not need to worry about setup or maintenance on your WordPress sites. It will cost you a little more, but it’s well worth it. If you are looking for a low cost way to bust into email marketing, I recommend Mailchimp. You can get started for free and by the time you have to start paying for it,  you should be making enough to pay for it.

4. You’re over thinking things. This kind of goes along with being desperate, but when you start to over think what you are doing you will start to doubt what you are doing. Be confident and understand that you are going to learn from your mistakes. Once you get past this, you should start to see some rewards.

3. You check your emails constantly. Email is a time sink that doesn’t produce any money. Set aside time to check your email and keep it to 15 minutes or the end of your day once you are done with anything. This will keep you from feeling like you are being productive without getting anything done.

2. You’ve cut yourself off from the world. Everybody needs a break, which is why employers will often force you to take a vacation. When you are working online for yourself it’s easy to forget this. Time spent with your family or doing the things you enjoy will keep you refreshed and ready to tackle the world when you get back to your computer. You will also be surprised at how many niche ideas you can come up with when you are out and about being a real person.

1. You’ve set goals, but haven’t changed your habits. This is possibly your biggest problem. We all want to make $1000′s a month, but how are you going to get there. Think about your goals, then think about what method you are going to use to get there and then think of 2 or 3 habits that you need to change in order to start moving towards that goal. For example, this year I’ve set a goal to be making $500 per month by June. The first habit I’ll be changing is publishing one thing every day. It doesn’t matter if that thing published is a blog post, Squidoo lens, Hub, or article, I just need to do something. It takes at least 20 days to build a habit, so once I feel that this is ingrained in me, I will move on to the next habit. If I feel I’ve changed all of those habits, then I need to write down 2 or 3 more that I need to change.

One last note about changing habits, stick to only one habit at a time and don’t piggyback. What I mean is, if you’re goal is to publish one thing a day and you happen to do 7 on the first day, don’t stop for the week. This doesn’t help you change the way your mind thinks at all. If you happen to publish 7 things on day one, then you still need to publish one thing on day two and so forth. If you do everything the first day and don’t keep up with changing your habit, then by the time you get to day one of next week you will become frozen because your mind is now thinking you have to publish 7 things again.

I hope reading this post has helped you identify some things that you can do to help you along in your online business. Keep in mind that changing one thing can really make a difference, this has been one of the toughest lessons I’ve had to learn.

Do you feel that any of the things in this list are holding you back? What is it and what are you going to do to change it.

Until later,

Originally posted 2011-01-25 08:24:03. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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1. You own 50 domains that you have purchased on a whim. Only 6 of them are being used for anything.

2.  Your hard drive is littered with software that you just had to have because someone told you that it was needed.

3. You have 10 charges from “CLKBANK” on your credit card every month from all of the new latest and greatest making money online programs from the month.

4. Google sends you a thank you card every month for spending so much money with them.

5. You have 10 article drafts started, but you just can’t figure out how to finish them.

6. You have 10 Squidoo lenses in Work In Process because they were great ideas at the time, but you haven’t finished them. I am so guilty of this.

7. You’ve signed up for so many social bookmarking sites, you can’t remember the passwords.

If this sounds like you, decide what you are really going to focus on and just do it.

Once again, please have a safe 4th of July. While you’re spending time with friends and family, think like a marketer and you will more than likely have a great idea for the next niche you’d like to work on.

Originally posted 2009-07-03 18:21:41. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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The other night I found myself having an occurance of IMADD when I found myself researching a PPC technique that I had learned about on Wealthy Affiliate. When I really started working at WA I had decided that I cannot afford PPC at this point in time so I was going to work on some article and bum marketing to get some cash flow going. This weekend I found myself in a little dip because some of the Squidoo lenses that I had built were not indexed yet and I found myself looking for a way to make money faster. I spent a lot of valuable time that I could have used writing articles or building lenses and in the end I only landed up with two small PPC campaigns out of 5 hours of time.

I’m still a little slow at article writing, but I could have written at least 3 original articles during this period of time and had a good start on a new lens expanding on my current series. At the end of the day when I was wondering where my time went I realized that I had suffered from another bout of IMADD and vowed that I would be getting back on track this week.

The only real cure for IMADD is success, but realizing the symptoms when they start will save you a lot of money in the long run. I was lucky this time because the report I was reading was already part of my Wealthy Affiliate membership fee so I didn’t spend anything extra learning about this particular PPC method.

My next post will be a list of all of the symptoms that pop up when I see internet marketing ADD start, but I’d like to hear about your struggles and successes with overcoming IMADD.

Originally posted 2009-06-24 06:46:04. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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One blog that particularly comes to mind is Vic’s internet marketing blog at Blogger Unleashed. Vic would post almost everyday with a great tip about how to make money online and truly cared that people make it. One day Vic didn’t post and someone got pissed about it. Come on people, he was giving you his secrets for free and you were getting pissed about him not posting. This truly hurt him which is why he took his teachings to a private forum at The Affiliate Academy. Unfortunately, I had to move on from his private forum, but I really did learn a lot from him and I really do appreciate it. The story I just told is just the tip of the iceberg, the whole situation really stressed Vic out and eventually made him very sick.

If you can’t tell by now what I’m getting at then I’ll just spell it out for you. The main reason that a lot of the good info about how to make money online is charged for is the people giving out the information are not appreciated when they give out their secrets for free. The other main reason is to weed out the people that are just looking for a free ride or think that they are can just put a website up and bing they are rich. If you are willing to pay $29 for an ebook or $39 per month for a membership site, then you must be somewhat serious about starting an online business.

It saddens me to say that charging for information does not weed out all of those that are looking for a free ride to working at home; these are the people that will shell out their money and two days after finishing the book or reading through a membership forum they are yelling scam because they don’t have $5,000 in their bank account yet. If you are one of these people that thinks this way, please just keep working your 9-5 job everyday and don’t even try to get your online business started.

While it is true that a lot of the information about how to make money online is available on blogs and websites for free, it will take you a lot of time to gather all of this information together and then make any sense of it to put it to good use. So if you truly believe that a membership or ebook will help you, then by all means spend the money on it, but I beg you to put the information to good use to make sure you are not throwing your money out the window.

This is just a little rant that I’ve been meaning to write about for a really long time now.

Originally posted 2009-09-20 18:42:49. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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As you know, I have been selling on eBay since 2004. Over the years they have made many changes forcing sellers to change their business model, websites, listing template, about me pages, and many other things. Every time a change was announced I went to the Powersellers forum to see if I could find information to lead me in the right direction. All I ever found in that forum was a bunch of people complaining about the change and how it was going to kill their business. Reading information like this is like a cancer for someone just starting out online and even for someone with a lot of experience. Many times reading all of these negative posts would make me anxious and I wouldn’t do anything but the bare minimum to run my business for days or even weeks. I’m sure you can imagine how this affected me.

Even if you don’t sell physical products, you can experience this anxiety. Recently, there was the recent Squidoo announcement and now this week there was an announcement at EPN. If you use direct eBay RSS feeds on your lenses linking directly to eBay, you will no longer be able to use this method of monetization on your lenses. This is a huge blow for me because the lenses where I link directly to eBay have been my main source of affiliate income recently.

As far as I can tell, you will still be able to use the eBay module on Squidoo to link to eBay because EPN has considered them a social networking model and not a revenue sharing module. You will still lose about half of your earnings because you will have to share them with Squidoo, but it’s better than losing a whole revenue source.

I am currently working on another option for those looking to build their own site, but still have eBay RSS feeds available on their Squidoo lenses. It will take a little front end setup, but you will be on your way to building your own website where you will own your own content.  I will be posting more on this method later this week once I am sure any bugs are worked out.

Meanwhile, I’d like to advise you not to freak out and keep working on your campaigns or making changes to keep you in compliance with all of the changes we’ve had to keep up with on Squidoo and other sites recently. Stay away from forum posts where there is a lot of negative energy because you will catch this bad energy. If you feel yourself getting anxious, just go do something else for the time being to get your mind off of things then come back to the computer once your mind has cleared.

I’d like to wish all of you a successful week.

Originally posted 2009-07-19 11:59:40. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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