Laziness is the number one reason self-employed people fail at their businesses, besides digesting the news, I'm observing the layout, placement of ads, navigation, I work thru the night, someone standing over my shoulder saying, "Now whats this? and nobody wants that! That's the thing for me.
But afterwards, when it's working smoothly, you can find yourself wasting time and doing a lot of unimportant things, You'll find if you have strict deadlines, and many clients wanting deliverables from you - the last thing you're thinking of is what's on the news sites, the time would be much better managed by setting aside 30 minutes early in the morning as your still waking up, going once through your usual stuff (news, banking, exchange rates, whaterver) and then leaving it at that until the next day, I cleaned up my desks and apartment, Now everything is neat and in folders, We've all been there worked in a mess.What new "bright and shiny object" have you bought in the past weeks or month is It the latest greatest system, method or secret that is mass promoted by everybody and their dog.? in the old days you had about two of these come along per year in today's world you have a new one once a month if not weekly. First let me say I'm a big advocate of learning ... and some of these systems or courses may be just the thing you need ... how are you going to make money? Are you going to sell info products?
Ask yourself if the new "bright and shiny object" is a logical addition to your game plan. the mistake I see a lot of people make is NOT focusing, not if you're just getting started and are working part time.
Here's what I mean: The number of people promoting a product has everything to do with the skill of the promoter in getting others to promote ... but But that has nothing to do with the value of the product. They'll buy something just because everyone else is buying it, the best thing to do is to evaluate it in terms of your own game plan.
How are you going to get people to your web site? Your basic choices are an affiliate program, pay-per-click advertising, Butterfly-type viral marketing sites, organic seo, video marketing or article marketing though Video marketing is a relative newcomer to the field ... or click my favorite linking and backs page (-;
You start with solid fundamentals I think you need to pick ONE of those above to start with and get really good at it also keep in mind that Google keeps changing the rules, you can build up a little mini empire only to have Google dissolve it overnight.
How are you going to capture names and email addresses?
What will your follow-up email marketing strategy be? At minimum, I feel you need to send out a valuable email, video or blog post once a week, there again will you sell your own products in those follow up emails or will you sell affiliate products?
But the ezines were filled with crap content, plr, articles by other people and so forth, the quality just wasn't there in today's world you need quality content all you gotta know is a little bit more than the people on your list. You have to be one step ahead.
There's a lot of free and cheap training online on how to do eBay, It's a good place to get your feet wet and acquire basic computer skills.
