Mar 14, 2008

Stay Focused on Your Business


Do Your Best to Avoid Distractions

There is so much to learn about Internet marketing, that it can be quite difficult to stay focused. First you will need to find a niche for your business, and then you will have to research your market and you may want to consider a product to sell or affiliate marketing.

Then you will need to learn how to build a website, learn HTML and search engine optimization. Do some research to find the best web hosts, where to register your domain, business email addresses, auto responders and on and on.

And then just when you think that you have a plan of action along comes yet another invaluable tool or resource. So you read another 180 pages of information and watch 15 more hours of video.

Phew! You take a deep breathe and redo your action plan. You switch on your computer so that you can check your emails. Wow, 75 emails, each discussing the latest and greatest marketing technology.

"How to spy on your competition," "buy the latest private label rights," "listen to the latest teleconference with two self proclaimed gurus" where they are offering to sell you a "how to" e-book which is probably just more rehashed information of what you already learned only a few months ago.

In order to achieve success you will need to stay focused on your business and do your best to avoid distractions at all possible cost. The biggest major distraction is your email inbox. The best thing you can do in this case is to limit the amount of emails you read each day.

Only subscribe to those that provide valuable information such as SiteSell’s ezine, and do not try to sell you something in every email.

Once you have done that you can stay focused on your business and what you really enjoy. Take it one step at a time. First focus on getting set up and then you can expand on building your business with quality content.

Do not totally disregard what is going on in the Internet marketing but do your best to limit some of the unnecessary distractions.

Stay focused on your business and concentrate on achieving your goals and earning some money. Join a mentoring program if you need help in staying focused but do yourself a favor and stop jumping from one thing to another. Be single minded and maintain focus. Once you have your business running on autopilot, you can then look for ways to make improvements.



Do you want to start a business but are not sure where or how to get started? Listen to what Jon Forsyth has to say about SBI, he puts everything into perspective in this short video.



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