Wasted 4 months: How do you warriors focus on a task and your goals?

11 years ago

This is really hard to do and I see time and time again internet marketers struggle to stay focused.

Find one business model that you believe in and do research to make sure you really want to do this.

Make sure that once you find that business you focus on converting your traffic by running a/b tests because focusing on traffic doesn't always equal more income. You want to make sure your audience is engaged and part of your website so you need to focus on analytics and what is working and testing different ways to improve your business.

Your going to find that most products that you buy online are only giving you information that you could obtain for free and they are not the push button solution they claim to be. Making money online takes hard work and tracking, changing, and converting. Over all you need to be creative and let your audience dictate to a certain extent where your business goes by tracking conversions and surveying people as to why they didn't opt in or check out.

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Marketing Fool

11 years ago

The best thing to do is jump in and start something. Stop overthinking things and just dive in...keep working on it till it's done.

I would guess 95% of people never get off their rear end and actually START...they just read and browse and tinker and flop from one thing to another for years. The only way to stop doing that is to STOP DOING THAT.

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Dan Best 11 years ago

This is common syndrome when you first get into the idea of an online business. Beware of the hype as well.

This is what you do:

1) Decide on your niche. It must be something you love, otherwise you won't put in the work.

2) Just start doing it. Learn as you go along. You will make mistakes, but those are the best learning experiences.

3) Within the next 4 months you will get so much done.
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stoltingmediagroup

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Peter Thomas

Hello Warriors, I was new to internet marketing. Now, I got caught into the shiny object syndrome. I didn't go and buy a single product, but kept on jumping from one business model to another and kept reading and reading and did not do anything productive. I am confused and overwhelmed. Please advise some suggestions and tips. Thanks, Peter. P.S Also, I wasted 4 months reading and reading and now not confident of my original or any niche at all.

1. I've highlighted all the things above in red that you should immediately stop doing.
( You already recognize your own issues, which is half the battle.)

2. Follow the instructions above and below my post from fellow warriors.

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Raydal

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Peter Thomas

Hello Warriors,

I was new to internet marketing. Now, I got caught into the shiny object syndrome. I didn't go and buy a single product, but kept on jumping from one business model to another and kept reading and reading and did not do anything productive.

I am confused and overwhelmed.

Please advise some suggestions and tips.

Thanks,
Peter.

P.S Also, I wasted 4 months reading and reading and now not confident of my original or any niche at all.

Nothing to feel bad about. This is quite normal whenever you are new
to any area. Just think about the time you "wasted" in school learning
things that you never used again. But at least gave you an opportunity
to choose the path you wanted to take. When was the last time you
had to factorize an quadratic equation?

Every new Internet Marketer goes through the trial and error process
before they settle on what really works for them. I'm afraid there
is no magical short cut to this.

-Ray Edwards

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vojohn33

11 years ago

are you sure you wasted the 4 months? alot of people mistaken slow learning for failure and think its a waste. take what you learned from the reading and start to slowly take action. when i first started i jumped to the thing that guartanteed money in the shortest amount of time and i made nothing as well. its never too late to start and focus on one single thing.
keep your head up choose one thing and be PERSISTENT. show up and do what you need to do, when you need to do it, and you WILL SUCCEED.

good luck

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Justin Beatty

11 years ago

Reading can help you generate some new ideas, certainly...but the best learning comes from putting money/time in the game. I've learned a lot more from testing $100 worth of targeted paid traffic than I have from $100 worth of eBooks.
What helps me is having an accountability partner or at least writing down the tasks you want to accomplish.
Pick a direction and run with it! Make your first few $s and keep on running!

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Peter Thomas 11 years ago

Many thanks to everyone who responded.

The stress of full time job. some tragedies at home also added, may be, those are the excuses I am giving. Thanks for reading and listening.

I also feel bad that I asked so many questions in the last 4 months and you warriors took time out of your busy schedules and replied with sincerity to help a newbie and I feel I failed you guys too.

I never did this when I started my career as an employee. I was definitely more focused, achieved success and continue to do well at work.

I learnt that owning your own business is a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT BALL GAME.

I think that is the biggest lesson I learnt from the past 4 months since I joined Warrior forum.

In fact, I have written articles taking the advise of warriors (in early April of this year, I asked how to start a blog and I listed my interests) in some of the niches.

Since my first language is not English, the main problem I am facing is FEAR to publish my contents.

I have been writing since my teenage years in my notebook almost every day. But, no one except me reads that (may be close family members).

I worry and fear that people may not like writing or there may be grammatical mistakes, etc.,

Do you think I should go ahead and publish my articles using at least first the WP platform wordpress.com?

Secondly, should I start building a list via wordpress.com?

Thank you again for reading and helping me to get up, dust off and start again.

-Peter.
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- Peter Thomas 11 years ago
  
  Continuing on from my previous post, I started writing my recipes and took photos and assembled at least 18 of them. Then, I read RECIPES niche is saturated and tough to make money. When you search "recipes" in google, nothing comes up on the right (Advertisements).
  
  So, I gave up RECIPES niche.
  
  I started to write on vegan, gluten free life styles but again RECIPES came within those, so gave up publishing (not writing).
  
  Then I started to write my story (kind of memoir) as a non-fiction book to publish and then FEAR overpowered me and said that writing sucks. So, I did not publish it.
  
  Thanks to my knowledge of meditation, yoga, and responsible healthy eating and exercise, I am still able to manage myself.
  
  Thanks for reading. Sorry to pour out my emotions.
  
  -Peter.
  
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JonP

11 years ago

I suggest publishing your articles. Don't give a second thought to what someone else thinks, it really doesn't matter in the long run. I've lived in the fear of what others think for a great portion of my life so I can definitely understand how you feel. Once I overcame that fear, though, I've been able to do things that I've wanted to do for a long time but wouldn't in the past because of fear. Just start pushing the limits of your comfort zone and don't worry about what others think, you'll be much happier in the long run.

As far as how to overcome the shiny object syndrome, well I've been there myself and I'll agree that it sucks. One of the benefits that I found, though, is that I was able to see a bunch of the different business models that are out there and settle on one that I enjoy and put my time and effort into pursuing that. Once I determined a course of action to take I resolved to ignore the latest programs that will give me success next week and just focus on working the system until I've found success.

Hope this helps!

Jon.

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fasteasysuccess 11 years ago

Hey Peter-
Threw this in the success forum and it may help you and also replied with a couple tips that may be just what you need. Enjoy...

http://www.warriorforum.com/mind-war...ductivity.html
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Miguelito203

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Peter Thomas

Hello Warriors,

I was new to internet marketing. Now, I got caught into the shiny object syndrome. I didn't go and buy a single product, but kept on jumping from one business model to another and kept reading and reading and did not do anything productive.

I am confused and overwhelmed.

Please advise some suggestions and tips.

Thanks,
Peter.

P.S Also, I wasted 4 months reading and reading and now not confident of my original or any niche at all.

You're a newbie, so I wouldn't consider it a waste as long as you learned something. You just need to pick a business model based on what you like to do and your goals. For example, I'm lazy and not good with deadlines, so being a ghostwriter or another kind of service provider is out for me. I prefer things that have a residual aspect to them.

When it comes to finding a niche, it's best to start out with a niche you already know about (will make it easier to connect with your audience) and one you like (will make it easier to come up with content). There's a good chance you're already part of a profitable niche and don't know it.

I started out with a niche that I happened to major in while in college. After that, I had to try out several niches before I found stuff that I liked. Once I did that, coming up with content was a lot easier because I liked the products and wanted to share them with people. It also motivates me to want to do well for the product creators as well.

Good luck,
Joey

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fcf360

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Peter Thomas

Hello Warriors,

I was new to internet marketing. Now, I got caught into the shiny object syndrome. I didn't go and buy a single product, but kept on jumping from one business model to another and kept reading and reading and did not do anything productive.

I am confused and overwhelmed.

Please advise some suggestions and tips.

Thanks,
Peter.

P.S Also, I wasted 4 months reading and reading and now not confident of my original or any niche at all.

This is called educating yourself and that is very important to actually know what you are doing. There is no miracles. Making money in IM is a long, painful road that takes so time. So, keep on fighting on...

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tritrain

11 years ago

I tend to have the same problem. My hands want to be in too many pots.

I've found that making daily todo lists and scheduling ones-self works well. Give yourself daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly goals. Create an overall plan, sort of like a business plan, and stick to it. If you read about some other "opportunity" or "offer" don't let yourself lose focus on the tasks at hand.

Now, I just need to follow my own advice...

P.S. Everyone needs to spend a certain amount of time in the beginning just to learn the basics. Spending 4 months learning isn't all that long. Find a good mentor.

P.P.S If affiliate marketing is your interest, check out http://www.azonfasttrack.com/
Chris's tutorials are spot on. And he's from England!

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djneill

11 years ago

Shiny ball syndrome and information overload are a killer mentally and financially. You need to pick what you want to do and stick with it but pick something that is proven to work. I know some big marketers and some amazing designers that got their start making e-covers on fiverr.

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commerce cat

11 years ago

There's a book called 12 week year. Read it, follow it.

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VinnieS 11 years ago

I had a similar experience awhile back, would probably suggest like what djneill said to find a simple method that works.

The 4 months are probably not considered wasteful since you did put in the effort to write content, thats a good start. Going with the niche you are in are interested certainly helps a lot and breaking tasks down.

Probably make a list of those tasks and since you do have a full time job, you could just finish 1 task a day - I do pat myself on the back even with just 1 simple task completed. That's another small step towards a bigger goal.

Hope it helps.
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- Peter Thomas 11 years ago
  
  Thank you everyone for responding. I have noted your suggestions, but have more questions. I will ask in separate threads.
  
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