- Decide on your goal, your time line and your time commitment
- Decide how you will get there – Affiliate, eBay, Adsense, info product, ecommerce etc
- Make a written plan that you feel you can follow – block out time on your calendar that you will be working on your new venture.
- Get off every e-mail list. If you must, keep one or two that are pertinent to your interests.
- Stop all of your paid monthly programs – But I’ll miss out on all of the new PLR content – hmm what about the 1,000 articles already on your harddrive?
- Learn one of the programs you already have on your harddrive. Most of the systems work at least a little bit. Besides you will learn more by completing a system that fails than you will reading and not implementing the best system out there.
- Finish something. Get your website or blog up, get your product done etc… Choose a path and stick to it.
- Stop wasting time reading forums and / or blogs unless you have a plan or reason to be posting.
- Check your email rarely. No more than once every couple of hours.
- Buy my course – Just kidding 🙂
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- Buy all of the new tools and programs. The ones with a monthly subscription option are the best.
- Join every Giveaway event and download everything you can.
- Download every free report that you can find.
- Get on everybody’s list — Because can’t get too many e-mails telling you to buy Product Launch Formula or Mass Control.
- Read every email that comes in – as soon as it comes in. You might miss some new trend if you don’t.
- Read and comment on forums – especially posts complaining, complaining about gurus really helps you grow your business.
- Bonus points if you subscribe to each post you make so you can respond if someone disagrees with you.
- Join Facebook and MySpace and every other Social Site on the web to make friends and find more people who will complain about how bad their business is going.
- Attend every teleseminar and watch every video.
- Make sure that your website is “Perfect” before you launch – you cannot spend too much time getting it right
- Spend your time writing top ten lists when you should be producing products
Tomorrow I will post the Top Ten Ways to be Successful Online.