Your ‘Plan of Action’

[CliveAnderson]

Do YOU Have A Plan Of Action?

Many people come online with all good intentions of starting their own income generation business. Most base that business on joining someone else’s program or affiliate website.

Next comes the learning about that program and how the income side of it all works.

The short and tall of it is this:

ANY Income program that you join or become an active member of, be it Affiliate or otherwise requires two key ingredients in order to start making money from it.

(Number 1) It must be heavily promoted using a multitude of available systems.
Research and testing is usually the key here.

(Number 2) Design a ‘Plan of Action’ and stick to it like glue.
In other words what has to physically be done each and every day.
You can also incorporate projections and outcomes into The Plan.

There are obviously many other factors to take on board on the journey, as well as a few obstacles that will have to be overcome before any level of success can be achieved but the two main Critical ingredients are those listed above.

“People Don’t Plan To Fail, They Simply Fail To Plan”. And in doing so stand more chance of winning on the lottery or inheriting a fortune from a loved one than they do of actually becoming a success by working online.

What is your interpretation of all this? Am I right or wrong or totally mad for even mentioning it?

Have Your Say

Kind Regards

Clive Anderson

Do You Have A Plan?

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Working On Mine Now
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Not Sure How To Go About It
Other (Please State)
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[Jim Hutchinson]

Good points Clive. We can teach people to make a plan of action, but at the same time, we also have to teach them the one thing I see happening all over that is causing people to not reach their goals: FOCUS

Without focus, plans are meaningless. There are so many opportunities online and offline, that many people, especially those who are new to marketing, get confused and sidetracked.

What I see happening is a process flow something like this:
* Plan your product
* Research your market
* Build or make your product
* Start marketing your product
* Sales not happening fast enough, so must supplement with multiple products from others through affiliate marketing because they all look so tempting with the claims of large incomes.
* Lose focus on your primary product due to dilution with so many others. Give up and go back to (or continue) working for someone else.

An alternative is to focus on font-end product and supplement with the use of back-end offers for increased income. Those back-end offers can be affiliate products, not for use on the front-end.

Bottom line as instructors, we must teach to PLAN and FOCUS on that plan.

Comments?

Jim Hutchinson

[CliveAnderson]

No your absolutely right Jim,

Focus is indeed the key, but as with my initial viewpoint stated, further from that we most certainly as you agree need a plan.

I think as teachers it is critical to initialise a level of individual standing. One of the most difficult things I've come across online when deliberating and assisting others is knowing their level of (A) Computer Knowledge, (B) Their Internet Knowledge as well as Terminology and (C) Having an accurate gauging system in place to be in a position not to confuse or misguide people by offering them help, advise or information that they find exciting and find it beneficial to what it is or may be that they are trying to achieve at that time. (Be it right or wrong it is just the way my own mind works)

So getting back on topic, while I agree that focus is indeed fundamental to any eventual online success over a duration, installing focus into people may be more of a psychological process.

Almost as similar as exploring someone's commitment.

Where-as planning is a little more tangible in my book and brings into it's realm both focus and commitment.

I guess what I am saying here is that I honestly don't believe there is any "Black and White" facts but only "Grey" areas when it comes to working online as each of us is an individual and therefore we simply cannot see everything the same as each other, otherwise there would only be one online opportunity and we would all be in it and promoting by the same means.

I diverse again I know, but maybe not too far from the point in hand.

There is a lot more to it, I know that much...

Comments!

Kind Regards

Clive Anderson

[Griff Grumbein]

Great stuff, guys!

Maybe some of the wallflowers will chime in with their tips & experiences, too! What do you say folks? Remember, there are no bad experiences, just lessons learned to apply to the forward path.

I may be new and slow on the pick-up of IM, but I "ain't skeered", to share what I know has and hasn't worked, or submit my questions to those who have gone before me.

Thanks for more of the meat & potatoes I come here for, and for satiating some more of my appetite, and for kickin' some more life into this board!

[CliveAnderson]

[Griff Grumbein]

[Sunoshow]

[Griff Grumbein]

Hey Bill,

You have at least two distinct advantages: recognizing that it is easy to be overwhelmed and distracted by all the methods and products out there. You have also recognized that you need to learn the basics first.

Staying focused takes personal discipline. It's fine to take some time to look at all the neat stuff that's out there, but you still have to take those small steps first so that once you get your balance, you can run with it. Here's something for you - no charge - *virtual slap*. (Just set it aside for now in case you need it later. )

p.s. You've just relinquished your wall-flower status! Congratulations, and keep it up!

[Sunoshow]

Ahhhh!...

I needed that.

DARN! I can't be a wall-flower no more?

[CliveAnderson]

Hi Bill,

You see that’s the thing really, it is so easy for people to become overwhelmed online and get distracted away all the time from their initial objectives that it can in some cases lead to total disharmony and loss of sight for achieving any level of achievement or success.

That is why it is so important to reiterate all the time not just our reason for being here but also the eventual outcome that we aim to achieve and which vehicle we intend to use to attain it.

It is good that you take time along the way to learn about the trade you have embarked upon, but also never losing sight of our goals and desires by continually working towards them whilst learning.

Time is one of the biggest commodities found online and unless we are managing it correctly we stand to lose ourselves altogether.

It doesn’t hurt to have a daily schedule at hand, even if it rolls into a seven day one with a plan of action for each day.

Affirmations around us can certainly be beneficial so we don’t lose sight.

As for not knowing what to learn, if you think of the main factors in what actually creates success by working on the Internet, I would say you wouldn’t go far wrong by choosing Rosalinds “Affiliate Business Blueprint” and “The Super Affiliate Handbook”. Then it’s just a question of mastering and working all the best ways to promote and market these programs.

Now that in itself may sound like a fairly simple formula, but to some they really wouldn’t have a clue where or how to even get started. After all I trust we all know how and have the facilities at hand that enable us to send hundreds of targeted visitors to a website every day?

If not then not only do you have a great couple of targets, but now a direction of what we need to learn and focus our attention on.

It is all very well to want to learn about HTML and other similarities but with all this available ready made wealth already around us in the form of “Affiliate” programs/ventures and systems we would make better out of our time by learning how to best promote rather than how to create.

Plus with all these outstanding WYSIWYG HTML Editors available in this day and age learning HTML is fast becoming a thing of the past. When I first started in computing it was done in DOS, but you don’t even hear of it these days, but it is still working most of the systems on your computer!

Objective, that’s what it is all about these days, getting your feet wet is the best way to learn. Learn to master free marketing systems and which work and which don’t, that way failings cost nothing but a bit of time.

I hope I haven’t painted too bad a picture here as I seem to have gone off on a tangent, but all in the name of assistance. I would rather be honest with someone than give them a load of old gobble-de-gook.

Would be good to continue this further if anyone was interested.

Your comments?

Kind Regards

Clive Anderson

[Griff Grumbein]

Another good post, Clive, and absolutely true!

Having a schedule to follow, and specific goals along the way definitely helps to stay focused.

Time is another issue that many people don't properly acknowledge in their businesses. There is none to waste, and from a business standpoint, it should be assigned a monetary value. One should assign an hourly dollar value to it so one can see where the money goes in the process of business building. How much time is spent on research, site development, product development, etc. This way you can figure out if it's cheaper in the long run to outsource some of the work. Learning how to properly manage one's time is of the utmost importance for success in business and just plain life in general! This includes allowing (NOT necessarily scheduling) time for leisure activity. As close as one gets into their work, it still helps to step away from it too!

I also agree that you "don't need a degree" in HTML, PHP, etc. as there are many easy to use programs out there. That said though, I personally think that more than a surface knowledge of how it all works is to my benefit and allows me to tweak stuff when and where I want.

[ponty017]

THANKS clive, i have little plan action ,thanks once agen for your useful sagetion.i agree all of gaied


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