Focus for Online Success

John Thornhill Offers Some Sound Advice…

I read an excellent post from John Thornhill last week called Is This Why You’re Failing Online

There’s some cracking tips in the post to help people actually “take action” and get things done..

but the reason I’m mentioning it is because he quotes a classic “plea for help” email he received from one of his subscribers, and whilst his reply to the subscriber and the reply he got back is sadly typical, it’s one of the lines in the original email that caught my attention..

“I’ve tried everything and I’m at a loss”.

I’ve also tried everything and I can say from my own experience that it’s not the right way of doing things if you want to be successful and build a profitable business online.

The more things you try, the less you actually get finished.

My business is far healthier since I decided to concentrate on just one or two areas of internet marketing, specifically writing information products of my own and building email/subscribers lists, although I admit I do still sometimes get sidetracked myself.

Now it doesn’t necessarily have to be these two things that you focus on, it can be anything, providing it works, but the really important bit is to focus on one thing long enough to make it work..

Once you have a process that works, you can take steps to automate it or outsource it, which then frees up your time to concentrate on something else.

We all get bombarded by so many new emails every day for the latest, greatest new ebook, course, service, tool or super widget, that it becomes easier to jump on this “perfect” new solution to all our problems, rather than actually use the last one we paid for to make it work and pay for itself.

I recommend taking the time to have a read of John’s excellent blog post, but even more importantly, I recommend you take the time to sit down and work out what the one (or perhaps two) thing(s) that you can concrete on and complete in the next few days is that will make the biggest difference to your online business, and by that I mean what is going to bring in some/more money for you.

Once you’ve worked out what it is, write down the steps you need to take to fully complete it, close the door, switch off your email and get on with it.

Don’t let anything else distract you until you’ve either got it completed, or at least completed the first steps you listed, then take a break and come back to it again once you’re fresh.

DO NOT buy anything new or start anything new until it’s done.

I know it can be difficult to do this, I still struggle with it myself and often have too many part finished “projects” on the go at the same time, but the more you practice this, the easier it becomes, and the bigger difference you will see to the money in your bank account at the end of each month..

oh, and please let me know how it goes!

other similar blog posts:

http://www.ethicalinternetmarketer.com/internet-marketing/10-reasons-why-people-are-failing-online/trackback/
http://www.netmarketingtoolbox.com/2007/10/17/looking-for-reasons-to-fail/trackback/
http://www.typepad.com/t/trackback/145459/18198292