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No Wonder It's So Hard To Make Money Online!

At a recent Internet Conference that my sons and I were

teaching, I was reminded about one of the most serious problems

that we all face in Internet Marketing, and that is information

overload

What do I mean? Let's look at a typical day in the life of an

Internet Marketer.

9am... you sit down to your computer, with the intent of writing

a new website, because you just KNOW that this will be the most

profitable project you ever built. But before you get into that,

you'd better check your emails

You go through about fifty junk letters.... but look! Here's a

message from some well known Internet Marketing Guru. I know he

makes GOBS of money on the Internet every day, and he can teach

me the SECRET of marketing on the Internet.... and my gosh he's

only going to charge me $49 for the privilege of knowing that

secret. I can't pass that up, so I better order it right now.

After all the price is going up tomorrow you know!

So I order that ebook, and start to read it, but then the phone

rings. It is just a telephone solicitor, but after I get her off

the call, I sit down to my computer again. Let's see, what was I

going to do? Umm.... not sure but I need to run a virus scan to

make sure my computer is clean... and while it's doing that I'm

going to get another cup of coffee.

10am... OK no viruses on my computer. That's great to know...

now I can sit down and get started on that website right.... but

I better check my emails first....

Oh look... here's a system that Mr. X used to rake in $40,000

last night while he was sleeping. Boy wouldn't I like to have

that... let's go to his website..

Hmm.... seems like it's another program that says write an ebook

on Internet Marketing and sell it to people who would like to

learn about Internet Marketing..... no.. I don't want to do

that.

Back to work... But you know I DID see something Frank said once

about using public domain reports. I wonder if I could use that.

So off I go to see if I can find that report. OK, now I have

that, and I think I'll pass for now.

11am... I better get back to work here. Oops, here comes another

e-mail. What? This one says the system I'm trying to use to

build my business is dead, and now I need to buy their software

or I'll go broke on the net?

OK, I can't live without that software, I better get it right

now.

12pm.... Lunch time, I'll get back to that website after lunch

Sound familiar? Unfortunately it's all too familiar for ALL of

us. There are so many different ways to generate income, traffic

or whatever we want to do on the Internet, that we're constantly

bombarded by offers.

Many of them are good, and many of them could make money for you

IF you sat down and really applied worked on THAT program and

ONLY that program for a few months. But the problem is that we

get sidetracked so easily. Most of us never really take the time

to focus on the ONE project that we need to get working BEFORE

we start on the next

It takes a real discipline sometimes to say no to these tempting

offers.... and yes... some of them come from me too. Here's five

simple steps to help you FIX this problem with overload........

1. Set aside certain periods of the day that you check your

emails and ONLY check your emails at those times.

2. Sit down and decide once and for all that you're going to

build a SOLID website, ebook, program, or whatever it is that

you want to do. You're not going to deviate from that plan until

you've accomplished that goal. Along the way you MIGHT be

presented with some software or peripheral program that would

work well with what you're trying to accomplish.

If that's the case then GREAT... get it and integrate it into

your online model, but if it doesn't mesh with your PRESENT

project, then either don't buy it at all, or if you MUST, then

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put it into a separate folder on your computer called "Future

Projects" and don't mess with it until you're on track with your

present one

3. Make a to do list. This letter is an example. It was the

number one item on my to do list for today, I wanted to contact

you and write about this while it was still fresh in my mind

4. Find out what time of the day is the most productive for you

and set that time aside for your most important tasks. Mine is

usually 10pm to midnight

I realize that many readers must juggle their web site efforts

with a full time job... but the real key is consistency. Set

aside SOME regular time each week to work on your online

presence

5. Resolve here and now that there are many ways that you would

be able to make money on the Internet, but you can only do ONE

AT A TIME... so you're going to work at ONE until you've either

made a success of it or it truly has proven not to be what you'd

hoped for. If it's the latter, try to find out why. Was it a

problem in promotion? Was it the layout, the text, the headline?

You don't want to repeat the same mistakes again

My sons and I make money in many different ways on the net, but

everything we do that is successful for us always boils down to

this simple formula.

I could ramble on for a long time about this, but I think you

get the idea. This entire article can be summed up in to one

word

............ FOCUS

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Frank Sousa is an author, teacher, & developer of the

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