Have you just ventured into the arena of online
business?
If you have then you need to read this, so pull up
a chair for five minutes
and let me let you in on a little secret of what NOT to do for the
first year
of your online career.
How do I know what NOT to do? Well because I did
it of course.
In my first year of Internet marketing from the
very first moment I joined
All Advantage affiliate program (Remember that one) I became very
interested in
what the online home business market offered and from the moment I
received my
first check from Clickbank.com I was well and truly hooked.
So what did I do folks? Did I concentrate all my
efforts in my main business
and start earning a fortune and am now a millionaire and successful
internet
marketer?
I think not!!
What I did do was I went out and joined every
affiliate program that
happened to make it's way into my mailbox and proceeded to try and
market
everyone of them. My thinking was that the more programs I joined then
naturally the more money I would earn. Well for someone like myself on
a
shoestring budget this just wasn't the case. In fact it was exactly the
opposite, I fumbled around for a year earning the odd dollar here and
there and
expending a lot of energy flogging more than a few dead horses.
The point I am trying to make here is this. If you
are new online, or maybe
even a seasoned veteran, don't fall into the same trap that I did. The
most
important lesson I learnt during that year of madness was that if you
are going
to be successful in online business, offline business or life for that
matter,
you must FOCUS FOCUS FOCUS.
Find yourself an established affiliate program
with a good compensation
structure and point all your energies in that direction. Learn about
your
chosen companies' products and become passionate about them, they will
be a lot
easier to sell that way and people will recognise your commitment to
your
business and want to join you.
Fragmenting your efforts all over the place is
definitely a road to nowhere
and causes more people than we can imagine to give up than probably any
other
factor in the marketing business.
Don't fall for the illusion of flea market
marketing. Remember, you can
achieve great things when you concentrate your mind in ONE direction,
not
fifty.
Mal Keenan is an established internet marketer of
five years and owner of
countless domains/websites including his very first http://www.freeadvertz.com
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Mal Keenan
