Check out these genuine comments you sent….

The question I asked was:

What are the main challenges you face building your online business? Eg: Product creation, list building.

You said….

‘Staying focused…’

‘Confidence good solid training list building someone to trust’

‘FOCUS is the main one, I have many projects that are giving me some scarce results’

‘Have trouble focusing on one thing. Tend to over complicate things’

‘Mostly lack of focus and continuity. I have started things, don´t see results and stop’

‘Confidence and Focus’

‘NO focus at all..’

‘Motivation to work through when things get difficult and monotonous, rather than jumping onto another new project’

‘Find it hard to concentrate, maybe a good kick up the arse might help!”

(Love the last comment – sounds like me!)

They’re all from the survey I asked you to fill in (thanks) some weeks back

They’re obviously all anonymous so I don’t know who said what, BUT aren’t they interesting?

Obviously there were a lot of people who said they struggled with the technical side of IM too – things like creating a website, installing a blog, setting up a followup message in Aweber, making a squeeze page etc

But I was pretty stunned to see what a high percentage had problems remaining focused on their online businesses.

When I’m working with my one on one clients I regularly get someone saying ‘Ok Tony THIS is the point where I would have abandonded the project to buy the next latest shiny product!’

It’s usually when things start getting a bit challenging or they come across something they’ve never done before.

I keep them on track and invariably we see the project through to the other side.

But if they’d stopped when the going got tough, those mental and financial rewards, not to mention the ongoing security of an internet business would have vanished.

Look every time you spend a day or a week or longer working on something then just abandon it to go buy the next big launchey thingy, you’re throwing away WEEKS of your life.

I can’t believe the number of people who say to me

‘I started a passive income / niche / blog / whatever site but it only brought in $20 a month so I moved on to something else’

What??!!

Give it to me then you silly git!

When a fire’s burning – a tiny little fire – it’s simple for any eeeejit to come alng and put more wood on to make it bigger right?

The hard part is spending an hour sweating, hunched over a piece of wood, rubbing sticks together to create it in the first place.

I still maintain that making your first $100 online is MUCH harder than increasing it to $10,000.

It’s the basic conception – the creation – that hurts like trapping your private parts in a zipper.

Which is why most people abandon it.

Going back to our $20 a month site.

I said ‘Give it to me’  because I know that if something works, no matter how small the scale, I can increase it.

I just stick at stuff until it works.

I don’t knacker myself out every day spending 10 hours trying to move projects forward like some marketers.

That’s REALLY stupid, and the best way to lose interest. If Angelina Jolie cleaned my house naked every day I’d probably get used to it in, say a decade or two.

You can overkill things y’know.

You need motivation.

Once way of doing this is to get an accountability partner. Now being English and northern I get a bit nervous around stuff like this. I still think therapy is eight pints of beer and a fight for the last taxi at the end of the night.

But I work with several business partners and accountability works.

It’s very basic but deadly effective and goes something like this:

Me: I’ll write up that copy and get it over to you for noon tomorrow at the latest.

Them: (the next day) Did you write the copy for me Tone?

Me: Errr I didn’t actually. I seemed to have a lot to do and it got pushed to one side.

Them: Well get it done now you useless tit because you’re holding the whole project up. How anyone can run a business on those lines I’ll never know.

So duly embarassed I drop everything and write the copy like I was supposed to.

And of course if THEY then don’t come up with something in the near future I can yell at them back.

Eventually we both do things on time because we don’t want to look silly.

If you can get yourself an accountability partner I’d do so because it works.

Likewise if you can make your first project a partnership then I’d highly recommend it. You can support each other, motivate each other and threaten each other if someone isn’t pulling their weight.

And it seems like this is a bigger issue in IM than I thought for newcomers, even based on the small survey I did.

So what can we do about it?

Well I dunno really.

If you’d like a dedicated thread on my blog where you can make yourself publicly accountable to other readers (and me), would that float your boat?

It’s just an idea but if you’re into it, leave your comments below and I’ll set it up.

You (and me) can post on it saying stuff like ‘by next Monday I’ll have finished my sales page and I’ll post the URL here for feedback / critiques.

It’s just a thought anyhow. If feel like you’d benefit from some Hippy Marketing Tribe support then post your comments below and we’ll see what happens.

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I think we’re in for a rollercoaster ride this year.

It looks like the USA and it’s mates (including the UK) are going to invade or attack Iran in some way. There are a couple of aircraft carriers and a shedload of warships down there at present.

They’re not there to get a tan.

So no matter how optimistic you are, fairy dust isn’t going to keep the price of oil down.

On top of that the Euro is fast turning into toilet paper, the British government are taking benefits away from the weakest members of society and the American government seems determined to pass laws that will allow them to lock up ANY citizen that bugs them without a trial.

Top it off with ACTA – the  internet ‘anti-piracy’ legislation that appears to me to be a back door for a bloody big ‘OFF’ switch for the entire internet. That’s raising it’s ugly head again.

And it’s just gone February.

So as we wave farewell to various basic human freedoms, freedom of speech and the last vestiges of hope that us in the west will EVER allow other nations to just do their own thing, let’s look at why it’s VITAL that you get your internet business up and running this year.

1. Because the world is going mad, and you can either put on your tin foil hat, rush out to buy the latest widescreen TV and join them

2. Or you can take a step back and think…’Shit, my time to becoming financially self-sufficient is fast disappearing down the plug hole of destiny’

Whew! Quick splash of the face with cold water and my rant is over.

From the day you’re born your whole life is about CONTROL.

When you’re a kid (and if you’re lucky) this usually comes in the form of loving parents / guardians.

Teachers take over this role when you hit school age and while they see conformity as the biggest virtue a young human can aquire (‘Oh she’s always punctual, polite and well dressed’) rather than a questioning, active mind (why IS there no mention of the British concentration camps in the Boer war in my history book Miss?’), on the whole, school is about care as well as control.

Then comes your job (we’ll miss out marriage in case my wife reads this)

I’ve talked about this before. It’s wrong to have to ask permission or lie to go to see your son’s first school football game, or your daughter’s Nativity play.

It’s definitely wrong to have to ask permisison to take a piss because someone will have to replace you on the production line (been there)

And it’s DEFINITELY wrong that someone else decides how much you’re worth and how much they’re going to pay you each month.

I’m NOT a leftie liberal who thinks that being an employer is evil. I’m an employer.

I just think that there are different kinds of people in the world.

AND THE FACT THAT YOU’RE TRYING TO IMPROVE YOUR SITUATION THROUGH INTERNET MARKETING PUTS YOU FIRMLY IN THE ‘SPECIAL PERSON’ CATEGORY.

Not because of the internet marketing thing, but because you’re aware that there’s room for improvement in your life and you are willing to take the responsibility for making that change.

It;’s cool.

You should pat yourself on the back.

And more importantly it’s about doing what very few people ever do in their lives.

Taking control BACK from the people who have it, and putting it firmly back in your own hands.

Acually, being your own person is pretty easy to do, in theory anyway.

All you need to do is become debt free and work for yourself.

I’m not saying it’s easy, but I AM saying that if you know what needs
to be done – having a target – then it becomes SOMEWHAT easier than
wandering round not knowing how to take back your freedom.

Work for yourself.
Become Debt free.

That way, few people have control over you, your family or your life.

Think about your current situation.

If you’re in a job, your entire leisure time is controlled by your boss.

Don’t think so?

Try taking next week off and spending it learning to paint.

Tell your boss that no you’re NOT taking some of your holiday days, and you’re not sick, you just won’t be in next week, and perhaps the week after that because you’ve just bought some acrylics, got a nice big canvas and the light in your kitchen is just PERFECT for painting.

Likewise try telling your mortgage lender that you’ll be taking a year off from paying them because you thought it’d be fun to spend the money on a small boat. Nothing too fancy but you won’t be paying them anything more for 12 months, at which time you’ll pick up repayments again.

You have to work because of your debts or outgoings.

If you didn’t have debts you could work part-time. Maybe a couple of days a week.

Control.

Just because 99% of the population are in the same situation doesn’t mean it’s right – it’s just means it’s the norm.

BIG difference.

It’s quite uncomfortable to hear this sort of thing right?

I agree.

Wanna know WHY it makes you uncomfortable?

Because you’re one of the tiny minority in society who actively wants to improve their situation, and WORSE – you KNOW it’s possible.

Sometimes you wish you’d never heard of this internet marketing lark right?

Because then you’d have the blissful ignorance of most people who simply aren’t aware of the HUGE potential for the internet holds for making you FREE.

You know.

You can’t close Pandora’s box once you’ve opened it, so you might as well get on with the business of creating a freedom-producing income for yourself online.

Even if you go back to your life before you saw the potential of internet marketing you’ll always wander back, checking the Warrior Forum for posts, or subscribing to a new list ‘just to see…’

So why not just resolve to get on with the job of earning that extra money that can free you up forever?

Forget everything that’s gone before – the frustration, the failures, the information overload and the fear of making mistakes.

And start again, from new, right now.

An internet marketing virgin.

You can’t unlearn everything you already know, but you CAN ignore what you don’t need.

One simple system.

Focus on one thing until it’s done.

If you’ve been trying to get your online business going for more than a year and it’s just not happening, it’s time to DUMP what you’ve been doing, because it ain’t working.

Go back to basics. Go back to fundementals. Get away from your computer and sit quietly with a notepad and pen. Switch off distractions. Take control. Take control.

Comments welcome as usual 🙂

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