Archive for May, 2008
There must be something missing!
To make the profits Internet marketers speak about is not impossible. The reason some people succeed in any Online Business, is because they do what the system requires to grow that Business.
Now that sounds pretty straight forward. That is exactly where the problem lies. Its so straight forward that many people don’t think its possible and end up not doing what is required and therefore fail at making profits.
If it’s so straight forward, then why are so many people not making the profits they want to?
We have all eaten a MacDonald’s burger at one time or another. It makes no difference where in the country or the world you have a Big Mac, it will always be the same. That is because its made in exactly the same way all the time everywhere. If its made differently, it will not be the same and the ultimate goal at making a Big Mac will not be reached. The same applies to your Online Business. There are steps that need to be followed and some applied daily to get the results that we aim for.
If we however, follow the steps to make a Big Mac and make some steps different than indicated, we will end up with something better or worse, depending how the particular steps were changed.
The same with your Online Business. Some steps can be done differently and the result will be beneficial or not, but steps can never be skipped.
Imagine skipping the step where you prepare the beef patty for your Big Mac for example? The result will be nothing close to what you wanted to achieve and therefore your profits won’t come.
That is what most internet marketers do without realizing and end up messing up the “Burger” and inevitably make little or no profit.
So if all we need to do is follow the steps that are needed to succeed online, why is it not working? That is because we are given all the steps we need through the ebooks we download, membership sites we register to, videos we view online and audio files we listen to, and most of the time, doing what we have just learned does not seem to work or make sense, because we have missed the steps that lead to the use of the process we are learning or using right now.
Its not because what we have just learned is not effective or the membership site that we have just joined a waste of time. Its because we are not following the steps needed to make it successful.
Another problem that plagues most internet marketers is procrastination. Most of the time, we know what needs to be done, we know what to do next, but we are either not willing to do it right now or are too scared to try it just in case it does not work.
“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” - Benjamin Franklin
If you are not happy with the results you are getting, you need to change what you are doing or you will go insane
. On my next posts, I will share with you the steps that are vital for the growth of your Online Business and help you find what what is missing.
Joao Maia
To Succeed We Must Always Be Learning
No commentsOnline Profits? Where Are Mine?
When I started off online, I spent most of my time, looking for the easiest way to make money . I would sign up to all systems that launched hoping this one would be the solution to what I was looking for.
The truth, it probably was, but I was lacking something. Something that so many Internet Marketers are lacking… “Vision”.
Every successful Internet Marketer builds his business around the “Vision” of it’s Success. If your goal is to build a profitable online business, then you have a “Vision”, but is your “Vision” shaping the success of your Online business?
That only happens when anything that we decide to build, receives the dedication, comitement and work that it requires to be a success.
By joining a variety of online opportunities, we are going against that “Vision”. Now I’m not saying that you should not join any Membership Site, Affiliate Program, Joint Venture, etc. In fact you must. What you should do, is join only those that you commit to putting in the effort and work that it requires to make it profitable for you. That will be shaping your Online Business around the “Vision” of its Success.
We see people promoting profitable systems online daily. We receive their e-mails, we read their articles and blogs and part take in Forums with them. And we always end up asking ourselves the same question…
What am I doing wrong? Because I’m not getting the results the Sales Page spoke about!
The only thing that you could be doing wrong is, not putting in what the system needs, to get out what the system offers.
There are a myriad of profitable online systems that if used correctly, will give you exactly what they promise, and even more. Its true, because there are thousands of online entrepreneurs profiting from them.
Are you getting out of the online business you promote, the profits spoken of in it’s Sales Page?
If you are, then you will understand my following posts.
But if you are not, my upcoming posts will be very helpful…
Joao Maia
To Succeed We Must Always Be Learning
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