I learned something about myself today.

I don't like competition, but I respond positively to it. I think I have single handedly ruined my success by avoiding competition or by going into areas where there is very little. That does not bring out my best.

I found this out on the basketball court. It is difficult to marshall physical resources to do something as simple as walk on the treadmill; but when challenged on the BB court, I gave a little more effort than...

I woke up today to the most awesome post from John Rhodes. At first, when I read, I was thinking..man, is there another Charles Harper? In any case. Here are today's action steps:

1) Finish Ghostwriting Page/Site and start promoting on WF, Twitter and "the" secret niche.

2) Revamp My Affiliate Marketing Plan and put some more details in; consider actions steps starting Thursday.

3) Publish at least 4 to 8 articles on ezinearticles? In absence...

Christie Love mentions that it is a good idea to get some coaching in order to accomplish the plan. I am not sure I have time for another coach right now (Jeff Walker, Luke Sample and Jeremy Kelsall....and sort of Steve Wagenheim are directly or indiectly coaching me right now in IM.

Her point was well taken, so I picked up:

"Cracking the Millionaire Code" by Mark Victor Hansen.

I do not read those kind of books normally, but what I am asking...

Last night was a very good night as friends, mentors and associates posted their thoughts to my plan. As of right now, I have decided to be fairly transparent in terms of tracking my progress. Now while I will be tracking some vital stats, they will tell the whole story about niches. I should have been more clear about the fact that what I posted as an example was not going to be the niche set I count on in my plan. I am thankful though, to all who posted. I will track from now on:
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Building Business is to some degree fomulaic and numerical. There are always things that a person can do to grow sales and profit. For instance:

1.) More Website Visitors/Traffic
2.) Better Website Conversion Copy
3.) Better Call To Action on Web Pages and In E-Mail
4.) Better Telephone Scripting and Conversaton

If we learn to apply these factors, we can get much better at converting more sales. We can pay someone to help us, or we can learn how...