Archive for October, 2008

What Is Holding Your Online Business back?

What is stopping you achieve the lifestyle and income you deserve from your Internet business?

Is it that you have yet to get a web site set up, or maybe you don’t have an auto responder account, maybe you don’t yet have a squeeze page capturing leads.

After taking some time to analyse my business I have come to realize that the two factors holding me back are:

1. I am a busy fool.

2. I think I cannot write.

I spend far to much time just browsing the Internet and checking email, fooling myself into thinking that I am getting work done.

How much money does being a busy fool actually bring you…

Yep, you’ve got it, nothing.

I plan to set aside certain ‘time chunks’ for certain tasks.  My most productive task coming in the first ‘time chunk’ of each day.  Email will get checked last!

I can write, I just need to start believing in myself a bit more.  If there is a writing task that I need to complete and can’t do it myself then I will look at outsourcing the task to someone that can do it and deliver it to me in a timely manner.

What is holding your Internet business and dream lifestyle back?

Please post your comments below.

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The U-Turn In My Business

After reading The Guru’s Dream for the third time today I want to share with you the most important lessons I have learned and the action I am going to take to turn my business around.

1. To help others succeed

I’m going to be posting to my blog a lot more often.  On the way will be video tutorials and free reports to help you start building your own online business.  If there is anything you particularly want covered then please leave your comment in the comments section below.

2. To plan my business

I am going to spend the next 2 days focusing on nothing but my yearly business plan, I am going to break this yearly plan down into four ninety day outlines, split the first ninety day outline down in to 3 one monthly plans, split these down into weekly plans and finally my weekly plans into daily tasks and targets.

Preparation + Opportunity = Success

I suggest you take some time to spend on your business plan, work out what lifestyle and dreams you really want to achieve.

3. Not to believe the hype

The magic button does not exist.  There is so much hype in the Internet Marketing niche, highlighted by Alex Jeffrey’s The Guru’s Dream, so I am now going to forget the hype, listen to only a few key gurus including Rich Schefren, Mark Joyner, Mike Filsaime, Michael Cheney and of course Alex Jeffreys.

4. To fail forward fast

There is always going to be times when things don’t work out according to plan but I am not going to fail by not taking action.  If I don’t quite succeed the first time then I will learn by my mistakes, share them with you here, dust myself off and implement another method to achieve my goal.

Until next time…

A Slap Across The Face From Alex Jeffreys

Shit, that hurt…

…and all I want to do is thank him for it.

Funny that, but it really was the wake up call I needed and you can read all about your wake up call in The Guru’s Dream.  Alex Jeffreys may even smack you around the head a bit!

I read The Guru’s Dream this morning, took a bit of a break, re-read it at lunch time whilst making pages and pages of notes and after finishing this blog post I am going to go back and read it again.


I thought about deleting all of my previous blog entries and starting afresh but then had a better idea, I will leave those posts up to show everyone how not to blog and to remind myself that from this day forward things are going to change.

I have some killer ideas for future blog posts so check back here often.

Thank you Alex!

Now it’s time to take action, hit that publish button and get this oil rig back out in the north sea catching some fish.

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