Goal Setting for 2013
One of the big things that marks out the differences between the winners and the losers in both the online and the offline world is how they go about goal setting and particularly now how they go about Goal Setting for 2013 the next few days will be vital but so will the mindset
Ideals are great but are they worth a hill of beans if they are not followed through on,what then are the differences between one person who generates a good level of income and another person who whilst well intentioned never gets beyond the planning stage of Goal Setting for 2013
Both are after all setting out what they would like to do but of course the execution,the delivery are considerable different and yet both are going through the process of Goal Setting for 2013 so how can it be that one remains true to their plan and the other gets into a continual drift?
Winners Goal Setting for 2013
So lets look a little deeper at a Winners Goal Setting for 2013 what is he or she doing that translates into action and income that another well intentioned person just can’t seem to replicate? Lets start with complete focus and not letting distractions get in the way of finishing projects
Temptation looms for all of us but for Winners Goal Setting for 2013 means finishing one project and seeing it through to action before the get side tracked into any other project,it means not trying to do everything ourselves when it slows us down
A Winners Goal Setting for 2013 means accepting when you’ve got it wrong, accepting it and getting out and starting the next project,sometimes with the best will in the world things don’t work,winners accept and know that and move on quickly
Winners network,learn from and reverse engineer the best ideas and put their spin on it, so make sure that this is part of your Winners Goal Setting for 2013 don’t even try in reinvent the wheel and always get help,remember there is a small army of people out there waiting to help you if you’ll only let them
Losers Goal Setting for 2013
So what is the major difference between Losers Goal Setting for 2013 and that of the winners? They both set out with the same dreams so how come one achieves big things and the other achieves very little,sadly it starts by asking questions on deadlines sadly they seldom exist for the person who is not succeeding
Another major issue in a Losers Goal Setting for 2013 is chasing the next big thing,the shiny object,people the promise of instant riches is garbage pure and simple,the winner found out long ago that is saps your energy and money chasing them but sadly the loser keeps buying into the latest snake oil salesman
Sadly the next area of Losers Goal Setting for 2013 is really well intentioned and it’s the fear of failing,they want everything to be perfect,just a bit more polishing,just another rewrite,maybe I need to go to a couple more seminars on the subject,somehow it just never gets done
Perhaps the saddest trait of all in the Losers Goal Setting for 2013 is constantly blaming others for their failings show me a person who has never made a mistake and I’ll show you somebody who has never done anything,everybody falls on their face from time to time
So if you’re having major issues finishing projects,getting things done then model yourself on people who have achieved major success,keep laser focused,become a Winner Goal Setting in 2013
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Essential Online Business Foundations
I wanted to look at the mindset of the average person starting an online business because even people who have run a physical business seem to approach their online business with a kind of detatchment that would spell disaster if they followed that route in their offline business,so lets look at the essential online business foundations
People who are highly intelligent have somehow allowed themselves to be brainwashed into thinking that there is a route to overnight riches online when in reality if you add no real value your potential customers are not going to come back and lets face why would they
There is no culture of following through,lets imagine you want to learn to ride a horse but you never actually go to a stable,you never actually ride a horse or learn how to look after it,you take no riding lessons and never intended to make the time anyway you would know deep down that this was a complete non starter
Time to get serious about your Essential online business Foundations
So it’s time to get serious about your online business because if we just take the mindset before we even buy a product that if I don’t see instant success I can always just get a refund then we are approaching things with a failure mindset
No we must of course buy the sort of products that offer us a high degree of mentoring not the kind of product that offers overnight riches because put simply that isn’t going to happen and until you get out of that mindset and get started on your medium term planning
So the next time you watch a video of a girl in her early twenties in a skirt that resembles a belt with a top that’s two sizes to small and revealing far to much cleavage,wise up because the guy who has actually made the product just wants your money before he rides off into the sunset laughing at you
Time to get yourself a mentor to build your Essential Online Business Foundations
Getting yourself out of the instant riches mindset is essential if you want to be successful,set yourself a three to six month window,treat this exactly as you would an offline business,offer real value to your clients and dare I suggest it’s time to get yourself a mentor if you are really serious about this
But if it’s time to get yourself a mentor who can you trust? Obviously we have to start with somebody who has been responsible for creating more online success stories than most as well as being hugely successful in his own right How would I know? He Was My Mentor
Who you choose is of course your personal choice but whoever you decide is right for you google them first,see what the market thinks but don’t forget This Guy Delivers when it’s time to get a mentor make sure you get a good one
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What Lessons Can We Learn From Our Mastermind Group?
Over the weekend I traveled into London to meet up with other members of our Mastermind Group, I always enjoy the opportunity to share ideas,to gain the advantage of the view of many heads rather than one and of course it was an opportunity to catch up with friends,a real win-win basically
Too often I believe we plough our own furrow but as Michael Gerber taught us, often the problem with the boss is that the boss doesn’t have one, sometimes it is really important to have an external view to hold you to account and to my mind that is exactly what a Mastermind Group does
Now let’s be honest here, a Mastermind Group that just praises what you are doing serves no real purpose,no the true power of a Mastermind Group is to support, develop and critically challenge you and to a large extent that is exactly what I encountered on Saturday
Why should being challenged prove important? I think simply that we must remember that we write for and sell products to our audience,therefore our sole purpose is to meet and exceed their expectations, if we ever start just to flatter our own egos then our Mastermind Group will act as a strong brake on that
Gaining Maximum Advantage From Our Mastermind Group
In order to gain maximum advantage from our Mastermind Group we must think both in terms of what we want and also in terms of what we are going to invest in the group in return, all take and no give will never work in this kind of situation,in order to get what you want you must in turn be willing to help others achieve what they want
Now granted when you first start out you are not in a position to offer much but you are in a position to offer your views, a second pair of eyes and an alternative voice of what somebody else is doing,making your Mastermind Group work is not just about teaching,often it is about helping people simply to get started
And here in lies perhaps the biggest reason for failure in online businesses and that is a sheer sense of overwhelm, instead of breaking tasks down people just see too much in front of them and no way of getting to the other side,every journey of a 1000 miles must start with a first step and your Mastermind Group is that important first step
As your own skill levels rise you must of course hold out your hand and help people up, you now know which resources work and which don’t,you broadly know where to source products and services and vitally you have gone through and solved your own key frustrations,by sharing this knowledge and developing other members of your Mastermind Group you begin to complete the process
The Best Resources For Developing Your Mastermind Group
The origins of today’s Mastermind Group go back to the meeting between Andrew Carnegie and the man who we probably now regard as the father of the process Napoleon Hill, personally I think Hill will get the credit but Carnegie really created the principal, for more details read my post from Feb 21
A lack of knowledge is a key reason for joining a
Michael Gerber famously said the problem with the boss is the Boss Doesn’t Have One your Mastermind Group will hold you to account, Michael Gerber’s E Myth Enterprise will also hold you to account and critically explain the key failing that holds back most entrepreneurs and how to make sure you don’t fall into this trap
So it’s time to hand things over to you for your thoughts,are you a member of a Mastermind Group, do you find the support invaluable or do you resent it,speaking personally here I really value my Mastermind Group
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So Online Marketing Is Just The Power Of Deception Right?
As I finished looking over the latest product to come my way from Clickbank I got to wondering is online Marketing really just about the Power Of Deception, the formula is depressing, they all cost $37 Dollars, they all promise instant riches and almost without exception they suck
So what’s going on here,the story is always the same,financial ruin, secret hack,magic solution and cold hard cash pouring into your bank account overnight, not a great surprise given one guy writes most of these sales letters, if the Power Of Deception sounds familiar there is a good reason behind it
There is of course a good reason behind this, the triggers work on the most basic of human emotions, greed and the desire to do little or no work, sound familiar, we all know we should know better but we still read the sales letter and get sucked into it,the Power Of Deception in action
The latest ploy is to damn the scammers, those dreadful people who are out to trick you out of your money, but what’s that you say skippy aren’t these the same people promoting every single one of these products, using the same templates, the same it doesn’t use list, just how do people fall for the Power Of Deception
What Can We Learn From The Power Of Deception
So what can we learn from the Power Of Deception,should we look on in admiration or should we express disgust at what is happening? certainly the power of using emotial triggers is a well known and much used both on and offline,you can use any amount of logic that you like but emotion is stronger every time
A slight of hand is used in many fields and we can see that the model who advertises your favorite shampoo maybe cute but the advertising authorities have made them qualify their statements in 71% of 154 people agree with this,clearly the Power Of Deception is not one the ASA here are open to
People of course need to be realistic, anything that promises huge income for no work is clearly a lie, pure and simple and we buy products that promise this at our peril, we can in the use our own common sense not to be taken in by the Power Of Deception
Marketers will keep using whatever triggers make people take action and until the FTC has a quiet word in Clickbanks ear and rounds up the scammers they will keep up their gold rush antics and newbies will continue to chase shiny objects, the Power Of Deception will continue in both covert and overt ways
Resources To Avoid The Power Of Deception
So how do you resist temptation? with one click this and push button that being thrown at you a number of times a week,I e mailed one marketer earlier in the week who was promoting a scam but so far he hasn’t responded, it’s a shame because previously I had respected him, such is the Power Of Deception
Who should you really listen to,who really has your best interests at heart,who really knows where the Internet marketing world is going Rich Schefren continues to make more millionaires than any other,his free report the Internet Business Manifesto is better than most paid products, no Power Of Deception here
Another man who offers real solutions Is This Man a well known mentor, hugely successful in his own right, he’s offering the opportunity to watch the video from his Las Vegas Seminar for the price of lunch,certainly no Power Of Deception in sight here
So what are your thoughts on this? do you feel that everything is fair in love and war or should Internet marketing clean up it’s act,is it preying on the unaware or are we really our own best enemies on this,one thing is for sure, you’ve not seen the end of the Power Of Deception
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Is Outsourcing For Profit A Myth Or A Reality/
Today I wanted to ask the question is Outsourcing For Profit just another theory another one of those $37 Dollar ideas that we get bombarded with everyday or is it a real actionable concept that you can put into action today and start to see a real difference in a matter of hours later
Now before you say it I know what you’re thinking here,push button outsourcing Outsourcing For Profit this really is another scam like the ones I get all the time, spend $37 Dollars, 1 click and cold hard cash flooding into my bank account, add in a few photo shopped clickbank account screen shots and your good to go
Well no I’m not going to insult your intelligence by making any such wild claims,they at best waste your time and at worst prey on desperate people who really need a result quickly, it’s cynical and it needs to be stopped, no I am going to explain how Outsourcing For Profit can save you a ton of time and put you in profit fast
So no there is not a one click solution but there is a one click plus instructions solution,yes you will need to do some work that dirty four letter word and yes you will need to manage the people and no I’m not going to include screen shots of sports cars, boats and mansions,what I am going to tell you is that Outsourcing For Profit works
So How Can Outsourcing For Profit Work For Me?
It’s an important question, how can Outsourcing For Profit work for you? In my experience it works in two key areas, it takes away the sense of overwhelm that most people experience when trying to grow an online business and critically it frees up your time for the things that actually make you money
Let’s deal with overwhelm first,most people have a number of unfinished projects on the go,by planning and prioritizing these in terms of which of these can be making a return 1st then 2nd and going forward Outsourcing For Profit can generate a very real return very quickly,so the first step is planning and your action plan
Step two in Outsourcing For Profit is placing your projects, if you are new to this you will probably want to take a menu type approach, actually see what it is going to cost you and how long it is likely to take in advance,always look for the reviews on the site for this seller to see what others have to say about their work
Logically from this step three in Outsourcing For Profit is managing your projects,set out in your order will be your timescale and your expectations,timescale’s will regularly slip so if it says 24 hours allow 48-72 hours in advance,if however your expectations in terms of quality are not met you must always call the outsource worker on it
Resources To Ensure Outsourcing For Profit Works Every Time
So lets look at resources to ensure that Outsourcing For Profit works every time, to manage more projects you need to think differently, this guys Time Management System is first class, if you really want to get more done in the same time then you must get This System
In terms of where do you go to find the resources for Outsourcing For Profit I have created a free 20 minute PDF & Audio MP3 that you can download,it’s packed with Resources & Ideasand it walks and talks you through the key steps and shows you the best sites to visit to get your projects completed
Lastly I wanted you to take a look over a previous post I did on Micro Outsourcing these low cost sites represent amazing value for money with tasks or gigs as they get referred to from as little as $3-$4 Dollars,these Micro Outsourcing sites represent a great low cost way of getting anything you can imagine done quickly
So as always at this point I wanted to hand things over to you to see what your experiences have been,have you been able to generate more profit and time doing this? One thing is for certain in my opinion and that is you must be Outsourcing For Profit
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Is Outsourcing About Building Partners Or Making Problems
A lot has been written and said about Outsourcing recently and done well it is undoubtedly a great time saver, but what happens when Outsourcing goes wrong, when you are let down or they just do a plain bad job for you what happens then?
Let me start this by saying that I am in principal a big fan of Outsourcing but I have also personally seen both sides of the picture on this one, when it goes well its a great pleasure but when it goes badly it greatly adds to your project time and can throw out a lot of other things in the process
Communication is king when it comes to Outsourcing so taking time to brief your Outsourcer at the start will save a lot of time later on, its tempting to just dash out a couple of brief lines in the expectation that they will understand what you want but in this lies a lot of frustration
The way you approach Outsourcing will also make a huge difference to the results that you get out, the fact that the people doing the work are often not being paid a lot of money does not in any way mean that they are of low value, if you look on them in that way you will get results to match
How To Make Outsourcing A Long Term Success
Building Partnerships really is the key to long term Outsourcing success, to make things work really well you need to think win-win,your Outsourcer needs to be busy, either with your work or possibly with a portfolio of work from your mastermind group of supportive people
As your business grows so you can take on Outsourcing partners full time, at this point it would make sense to let your key Outsourcer bring in some satellite people to do supporting tasks, they will doubtless be more connected than you are at this level and will prove a major time saver as you grow
So at this point it may be better to view them as Out Tasking partners rather than Outsourcers any more, your quality thresh hold is vital and is not something that you can afford to compromise on, letting standards slip is the beginning of a slippery slope downwards
Listen to your mastermind group and your friends in the industry when it comes to potential Outsourcing partners, one of your biggest frustrations is going to be starting from scratch every time, if you can find Outsourcing partners with a proven track record then your job is much easier from the outset
Resources for Find Your Outsourcing Partners
So what are your best resources when it comes to finding Outsourcing partners, well for starters I have my Outsourcing Made Easy MP3 & PDF guide, it’s free to you and covers mindset, key sources to find Outsourcers and critically it also covers building those Key Relationships with Outsourcing partners
Of course just Outsourcing without improving your own capacity to deal with the extra workload is just storing up trouble, this
Time Management Resource will ensure you really get the most out of your time and critically both out of yourself and your Outsourcer
I have done a couple of previous posts on Outsourcing resources on Dec 3 and on Feb7, they cover some of the most useful sites both for one off and also for ongoing partnership building and I would recommend that you take a few minutes to go through them and note down the sites and to look at the supporting information on how to select the best people
So as always at this point I hand it over to you, what have your experiences been like, have you taken a partnership approach or have you hired exclusively, which ever way how have you got on with Outsourcing
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Is One Click Software Myth Or Reality
One Click Software Huh!Your in box has been full of it and some of the sales letters, you know the blind ones have certainly been full of it, I detect a tipping point coming, an industry about to put it’s house in order and run the scammers out of town and that has to be a good thing
We’ve all had that sinking feeling, the promise of One Click Software riches, you were going to be way ahead of the curve but what’s this? Sadly you’re right it’s not new at all and so often not only does it not do what it says on the tin very often it’s going to get you into a lot of problems
And it gets worse when the guy selling it is somebody you have previously respected comes along with tales of sea planes, bikini babes,private islands, One Click Software naturally with a new proprietory software that puts cold hard cash into your account with a never before seen or heard of system, erm actually we know about twitter and reviews hmm!
So against this background do we just give up on the idea of One Click Software? Not a bit of it you see as I said at the start there are a lot of good guys and girls and then there are 50 to 100 scammers selling this newbie trap garbage and I get the feeling the good guys have had enough and girls of course
Does One Click Software Have A Future?
So against this background does One Click Software have a future? Certainly looking at what I’ve seen popping up in ever great quantities I would say yes, Videos and Sales letters explaining what the software does, no smoke and mirrors, some truth at last, people asking you to leave if you want riches for no work
Now you might say that the people who have been making the magic button One Click Software were only making products to satisfy the greed in all of us but that’s to go down a very slippery slope, a lot of hopes get dashed chasing shiny objects, at best you get distracted at worst it’s money people can ill afford chasing dreams
But a real fight back has started and as we know from the movies good always triumphs over evil, just as it will in the One Click Software case, you see we all need time saving devices, just not shiny ones that give us false hope
When done well One Click Software saves a lot of time, auto blog creation, social media submissions,getting your new sites listed in Google in very quick time, the list just goes on and I suspect it’s going to come to the fore in a good way in the coming weeks as the good guys reclaim Online Marketing
What One Click Software Should You Be Looking At?
One Click Software must do a few things and clearly number one is save you time by automating the process for you so what works and what tells you what it really does, well my first recommendation is Newbie Friendly this guys idea of heaven is the surf and walking his dog on the beach,get closer to yours with His System no blind sales pages here he actually explains exactly what he offers and critically the industry leading backup that goes with it
My next one is a guy who has produced some great stuff, his training is again industry leading, his new video attacks One Click Software when used to sell junk but he offers an automated system that builds little Money Machines so fast you would not believe it, watch the video as he actually shows you how to build each business in around a minute live including actual live results
Lastly but by no means least is a back linking service, fed up with all those comments but equally unhappy with all that auto spam that turns up on your blog? Let This Team take care of it for you with this One Click Software solution and make sure to sign up for their list they offer some great free stuff as well
So maybe we have reached that critical point where the good guys take over again and Internet Marketing becomes trusted once more, let me know your experiences both good and bad, how have you got on with One Click Software
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