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3 Free Resources To Skyrocket Your Profit

3 Free Resources To Skyrocket Your Profit
By Jimmy D. Brown

I read this by Jimmy D Brown and thought perhaps someone else might be interested.

Sound advice indeed ! I hope Jimmy doesn’t mind but this needs sharing.

“Dear iBusiness Owner,

Everywhere you turn you’ll find people offering some kind of magic potion for starting or growing an Internet business.

Fast results. Easy steps. Big money. These are the claims that are made over and over again. Yet the overwhelming majority of people who buy into these potions never see those claims realized.

There must be a reason for that.

What I want to share with you today isn’t a magic potion. It’s not even a lucky horse shoe or a four leaf clover. They are simple three resources that anyone can tap into to see a big spike in profit.

If you’re looking for a genie in a bottle, look elsewhere. If you’re looking for something real, this is for you…

1. MASTERY. The first “resource” that I highly recommend is the “mastery” of a singular method of generating profit. There is amazing productivity and progress when you strip away all of the distractions and focus on one thing that you can become very good at.

One of the problems that trips up most would-be iBusiness Owners is the attempt to do many different things. They dabble at affiliate marketing. Try a little eBay. Then they work with PLR. Or create their own ebooks. Or…

They spread themselves too thin. No one has the time to learn and implement all of of the different components of running an Internet business. In most cases nothing gets done.

I’m a big believer in becoming a “master” at something. Find ONE way to make money online – just ONE model – and become fluent in it. Don’t try this and that. Just try one thing and stick with it until you are world class at it. Resist the urge to chase after the next shiny thing that comes along.

You can add in other options LATER … after you have been successful in your initial, focused pursuit.

Example: If you choose to make money as an “affiliate marketer” then make that your primary pursuit until you have mastered it and are making a sustainable income from it. Then, once that has been established, start creating your own products. Or buy licensing to other people’s products. Or rewrite PLR materials.

 

The point is to become a master at something before attempting other things. This one shift in your thinking can be extremely impactful upon your business. Oftentimes it is the difference between success and failure.

2. MOMENTUM. Once you have decided a path to pursue, stick to it! I have used the illustration of pushing a car in the past. If a car is parked and you start pushing it, at first it doesn’t budge. Then it moves slightly. Then it ever-so-slowly begins to move. Then it moves a little faster. After a while you are pushing the car at a steady speed. If you quit anytime before it arrives at “steady speed” then things will come to a grinding halt.

The same can be said of your business. There are a lot of “starters” in business, but not a lot of “finishers”. Many people get started pushing but don’t see immediate results, so they stop. They look for another car and push it. Nothing happens, so they stop. They push another car. And they never get MOMENTUM.

 

Let me assure you of this one thing: if you quit too soon your business will come to a grinding halt. You must commit to continuing on until you have arrived at your successful destination.

The question is … how?

How does one keep pushing when results are not noticeable? How does one keep pushing when another shiny car is set beside them and it looks like it might be easier to push? How does one keep pushing when they aren’t getting results as quickly as they’d like?

Here’s the final resource you need…

3. MOTIVATION. A powerful mechanism for sticking to it is your motivation. Those who successfully lose weight usually do so because they are motivated. Those who stop drinking or smoking usually do so because they are motivated. Those who succeed in business usually do so because they are motivated.

When I say “motivated” I don’t mean that they possess some kind of super powers that mere mortals don’t have. Nothing like that. What they possess is simple: there’s something that drives them to stick with it. There’s something in their lives – or something they want in their lives – that is so strong that it compels them to never give up until they obtain it.

 

Maybe that’s a desire to be rid of the bondage of debt. It could be a desire to better provide for your family. Perhaps it’s a desire to travel, buy something, free up your time or send your kids to college. It could be anything. As long as it’s a powerful presence in your life.

Ask yourself why you really want to succeed. It might be to benefit others or it might be something completely about you. Whatever it is, let it fuel you to stick to it. Think about how great it will feel to be free of that debt, or what you’l be able to do with your extra time, or what the seats of that new car will smell like or your children getting that college education.

 

Conclusion

There are a lot of “magic potions” being sold. But there is no magic. Those that succeed in business don’t do so because they have the aid of a genie or elves or a rabbitt’s foot. They succeed because of mastery, momentum and motivation.

If you’ll choose a model for generating profit and stick to it because you are passionate about someone or something, sooner or later you’ll see your profit skyrocket.

God bless,

Jimmy D. Brown”

http://www.imstitute.com/

 

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A Good Rant – Just Do It!

This is a post made by Martin Avis of www.kickstartdaily.com which is one of the better, FREE honest newsletters out there .
This post makes a lot of sense to me to I thought I would put it up here

“There was a thread on the Warrior Forum recently where a guy was
selling his process for making money online. It cost $7. I was
amazed at the number of people who demanded proof before they
would consider ‘investing’ such a huge sum.

There were many nasty comments – coming pretty close to calling
the guy a fraud. Yet the people baying for blood hadn’t bought
his product. They didn’t know if be was a fraud or a saint, but
because he dared to offer them a money making strategy – and
wanted their money (a whole $7) in return – their daggers were in
his back. And his front.

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Last week I watched a video by successful internet marketer, Lee McIntyre.

For those that don’t know him he is someone who has come quickly from nowhere to great success in a very short time ($100,000+ per month).

Needless to say, when he speaks I listen.

The title of the video was “How To Make Your First $1000 Even if You Have No List or Products”.

What made this video interesting was that at first Lee gave the standard (good) advice, which is that if you want to build a sustainable business and make serious money you need to create and sell your own products.

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Old, But Still Good Advice

This is an article I saw today on Martin Avis’s  Kickstart Daily which I thought would be useful:

“Today’s Power Thought

Sometime around the year 1930 an up-and-coming management
consultant by the name of Ivy Lee approached Charles Schwab, the
head of American Bethlehem Steel.

To cut a long story short, Lee told Schwab that he could improve
the efficiency of the company by 50%.

Suspicious, Schwab asked what it would cost.

Lee said that he would give Schwab the secret and after putting
it in action among the company’s executives for one month, Schwab
could pay Lee whatever he thought it was worth.

It sounded like a good deal so Lee handed Schwab a small piece of
paper.

On it was written the following:

“Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow.
Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first
thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and
stay with it until completed. Then take item Number 2 the same
way. Then Number 3, and so on. Don’t worry if you don’t complete
everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the
most important projects before getting to the less important
ones.”

Schwab thought that the advice was simplistic, but a deal was a
deal. He circulated the note around the company.

Four weeks later, Ivy Lee received a check for $25,000 – over
$275,000 in today’s money.

If one of America’s toughest businessmen valued that ‘simplistic’
advice so highly, don’t you think it would be worth having a go
yourself?

This is part of the free twice-weekly Kickstart Today by Martin Avis – well recommended.
No, this is not an affiliate link just something to share  :)

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Module 1 – Forward To Basics

The first webinar to start off Alex Jeffrey’s Marketing With Alex 2.0 was  called “Forward To Basics”. Yes, forward not back to basics.

This was great stuff from Alex and he had our attention from start to finish – and the finish was after 4+ hours, not the advertised 2 hours!
Talk about over delivering.

The basics are the basics of business rather than the basics of internet marketing.
He emphasized that organization is the key to greater productivity and better results.
He also gave a lot of sound advice about how to go about this which included:

  • only check your emails twice a day (touched a nerve with a lot of us there!
  • stop surfing!
  • tidy your desk (I definitely need to do this)
  • “go to work” i.e. close the door to your “office” and remove all distractions
  • work to a schedule – for example in 1 hour sessions, then take a break- and so on.Use a timer for this.
  • only drink water.

This is sound advice but perhaps more importantly he stated that you need to “manage” your business from the start and have a structured business.

In order to do this we need to start the following and plan ahead:

  • create 3 plans – a business plan, an entrepreneur plan and a personal plan.
  • create a 1-year plan.
  • create a 90-day plan.
  • create a 4-week plan
  • create a 1-week plan
  • create a daily plan and plan tomorrow today.
  • also write a daily “did” sheet to see what you have done and keep you on track.
  • get focussed on one thing only not many things as the chance of success is better
  • take action

This is all good advice and I for one needed it as I am sure many other people do. So, a lot of time wasted before but now it is time to get organized.
I hope you find this advice useful as well.

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