Steve Nash
“I learn something new every week – do you?”
Well that”s how I started my first Success Tips article in
2003, after my very first successful year online (2002
as a full-time affiliate marketer.
Whilst 2003 has been a challenging year to some (including
me there are still several ways of “doing things right”,
that can improve your chances of success this year.
So, what follows are essential tips to meet new and existing
challenges that face all online businesses in 2004, based on
my experiences in 2003.
And as I said in the first article, it is still very easy to
“get it wrong”. There are so many new opportunities to
explore, confusingly so, and it is *still* very easy to
suffer from “paralysis from analysis”.
These situations can hinder your success, for sure, unless
corrected.
Well, the following tips CAN HELP. They can help you focus,
help you save time, help you “do the right things”; they
can help you succeed, as they continue to help me succeed
online.
So let”s begin with an obvious tip, shall we.
==> PLAN
Plan what work you”re going to do, and stick to the plan.
A plan could consist of a set of daily activities – reply
to your emails, visit a forum or two, create more content
for your site – or it could consist of a set of activities
you want to complete in a given month.
Whatever your approach, make sure you plan it first.
==> TRY NOT TO RELY ON ONE INCOME SOURCE
Try not to rely on one source of income, or one website, or
one marketing strategy (only using Google AdWords for
example).
I have been relying on getting free traffic from Google for
far too long. And now, due to recent changes in the way
Google works, this strategy is failing.
Do you rely too much on Google, or a particular marketing
strategy?
And what would happen if this strategy suddenly stopped
working?
Make sure you try and have alternative strategies in place.
==> COMMIT TO LEARNING
Commit to continuing to learn on a regular basis. You can
do this via an online forum, via a free ebook or website, or
you can buy a suitable Internet marketing product/service
from a company/person you trust and respect.
Don”t trust anyone, yet? Well take a look at some of
the Internet Marketers that I trust, and free ezines I
regularly read
– http://www.anyonecansellonline.com/learn-more.shtml
Or, take a peak at these learning resources:
– http://www.sitepoint.com (Build. Promote. Profit.)
– http://www.willmaster.com (Perl/CGI know-how.)
– http://www.talkbiz.com (Inspiring. Advice.)
==> ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING
Your attitude is everything. There are plenty of ways to
succeed online, as you may well know; ultimately, however,
what you do is not important, but HOW you do it is. I”m
talking about your attitude. A positive attitude, combined
with persistence, and a willingness to keep on learning,
WILL seriously improve your chances of success.
Here are a few pointers, to turn around your attitude
(should it be necessary):
* “Whether you think you can or can”t, you”re right!”
A quote from Henry Ford (apparently)
* “Opportunities exist and will always exist. The
question is whether you are able to see them and
accept their challenge in time, before they fade
away.”
(Boris Vene and Nikola Grubisa in Born to Win ebook)
* “Stop wasting time on things you”re not passionate
about.”
Phil Wiley from http://www.ozemedia.com
* “Successful people KNOW the best way to ensure
*their* success is by helping other people become
successful… You earn money *only* through
satisfying the needs and wants of *others*”
(Boris Vene and Nikola Grubisa in Born to Win ebook)
Note: this is the strategy I”m now taking; e.g.
http://www.best-digital-cameras.co.uk/buying-guide
* “The only real mistake is the one from which we learn
nothing.”
John Wesley Powell
Et cetera.
Get your attitude right, simple as that.
==> CONTINUE DOING THINGS RIGHT
These tips below are some that featured in the 2003 version
of this article. Basically, if you get things right once
then make sure you keep on doing them right.
Build-Tip: Get right to the point with your website
Promote-Tip: Stop relying on free traffic from Google;
investigate buying traffic via pay per
click search engines, or generating traffic
via articles (like this!)
Profit-Tip: Spend time on activities that make you money.
If you don”t know what activities these are,
then find out!
The following articles can help with the above tips:
– http://www.anyonecansellonline.com/3tips.shtml
– http://www.howipromotemywebsite.com/write-articles.html
– http://www.howipromotemywebsite.com/pay-per-click
And the original success-tips article can be found here
– http://www.anyonecansellonline.com/success-tips.shtml
==> BACKUP YOUR WORK
Backup work on a regular basis. When I reviewed my
collection of “what I learnt” tips recently, some of the
tips had been “corrupted” (deleted because I had had a
problem with my computer”s hard disk at one point last year.
And I hadn”t backed my files up properly.
So this tip applies to everyone, including me.
Backup your work!
Don”t just nod your head in agreement – do it!
—
I”m going to end my Success Tips 2004 article with this
incredibly simple formula for success, taken from Robert
G Allen”s inspiring book called Multiple Streams of
Internet Income.
It”s simple, but very, very powerful:
“Find the right audience.
Ask people what they want.
Give it to them!”
Yes, it”s deceptively simple, I”ll admit. But all the tools
and skills you need are available to use and to learn from
right now, for such a plan to be implemented.
Such is Internet Marketing. 🙂
Keep learning, keep using the right tools, and keep
persevering, and you will succeed online.
A profitable 2004 to you.
