One Thing At A Time Or Is Variety The Spice of IMing?

Hey Ascor,

Personally I would recommend choosing one method and working on that until you are making a consistent income before you create another income stream. It's very easy in this game, particularly from reading these forums, to get distracted and try a new method, the problem here is that you will just bounce from method to method seeing very little success and becoming frustrated and jaded.

Article marketing is a good place to start, it's where I started and still use it to this day, once you have a system down it's very easy to scale it up massively and automate it.

Good luck.

I also wanted to ask a similar question. Mine is like this:
Is it better to promote one site till you become successful before adding a second one
or is it better to promote more than one site at the same time.

Hi,
I'm new in this Forum but have done my share of IM.
I guess the answer to you question depends on the kind of person you are and the kind of products you want to promote. Dedicating to only one method will turn you in to a professional in that area and will help you build your reputation.
Trying to use too many methods can cause you to jump from method to method without succeeding in any of them.
On the other hand, choosing only one will mean narrowing your range of potential clients.

From your question it sounds like you are the kind of person that needs variety so I would go with two big projects, so that you don't get board but also don't get too distracted.

Hope I helped,

Jessie

I recommend to concentrate only on one thing almost exclusively, however in this case I don't recommend you to write 6 hours a day! I recommend you to leverage your articles by turning them into videos, then into slideshows, podcasts and so on. You can download free report which is in my sig where I shared strategies which I use to get more than 10x visitors from my articles.

I also hihgly recommend you to create a squeeze page to collect opt ins and build a list.

If you want to build a list fast, read this advice carefully:
Find several experts in your niche, interview them, then create a sales page, sell that interview for 10-30 dollars, find other people who already have a list and offer them to give your interview product for free to their subscribers (you can also make pdf and video from interview). A lot of people will accept this offer and by this way you will build your list really fast.

Of course you can write articles, it is a great way to start, however, I believe that you will achieve much more better results if you will implement that method.

I suggest you to listen to this free audio if you want to build a list.

Matt Poc

I think 1 thing at a time, hit as hard as possible will yield better results. Don't go the other raod, I've been there and FOCUS is the key.

I now focus on 2-3 projects only

That focusing on 1 project at a time is good for robots, but that is not me at all. Plus sometimes you are waiting for outsourcers etc. so you can't really move on.

Keep it simple, focus... but spice it up and keep yourself busy working towards your goals.

Hope that helps,

Yeah, you will get varying advice here, but I just CANNOT focus on one thing and that has mostly been to my detriment. However, when you are just starting out you can dive into a project that actually has no potential (just through poor/non-existent research, for example), pour your heart and soul into it for 6 months, and see nothing at the end. So I nowadays definitely like to work on several streams and then go with the ones that show potential. But you still have to do that in a very planned way, like 3 hours - main project, 1.5 hours for one side-project, 1.5 for the other etc. else you just jump around and end up doing nothing. You definitely DON'T want to keep trying new shiny ideas, no matter how tempting, unless they complement what you are already doing.

In my experience, it's WAY better to focus on one project until it's released. From that point on, it's a matter of monitoring, split-testing, tweaking and polishing it out, but that's an ongoing process over the weeks or months while you're developing your next project.

I highly suggest you to focus on realizing a project that you can do without getting bored even if revenue is low at start. Once you start generating revenue, you have resources to invest in other projects and automate most of the process. I strongly feel that jumping from one method to another is just going to make the things worse over time. So start by focusing on the first project and all the luck for what follows thereafter.
Hope it helped.

For me, it's easier to focus on one project and get that up and running first. It's easy to get distracted when you get stuck on something, say you'll get back to it and then never do. At least that's what I've done in the past. Narrowing my focus has worked better for me to drive projects to completion.

As you become more seasoned in the IM game you can then vary your approach to whatever works best for you. Hope this helps!