What is the ONE thing you think is stopping/slowing your IM success?

Not being consistent with their IM business.

Most people will do a little bit here and a little bit there, but not take action day in and day out.

Also not having a list of task to complete when they sit down at the computer. They'll get on the computer, start checking emails, then facebook, and bounce all around and before they know they just spent 2 hours on the computer and didn't do anything that is productive in their IM business.

So have a plan of action, and do it every day.

What's generic about laziness, procrastination or mindset?

These would be 3 major causes of business failure.

So correct me if i'm wrong...

you're proposing is that most people should focus on one task, and retweak it again and again, instead of discarding it as something that doesn't work?

I agree with the distractions part. I'm rather guilty of it a little myself, despite my Internet Marketing addiction. Haha

N.G.O.A Syndrome.

Which is NOT GETTING OFF ASS Syndrome.

We all suffer from it at one point or the other. But there really is no doctor for it.

Me.

I know what to do. I know how to do it. And the only reason I haven't done it is because I've chosen not to.

It's the same answer for most of the rest of you, too, if you're honest about it.

In IM , I think I think is two things

1. Information Overload : So many people are sending a thousand different directions every day , it leaves you confused and stops you from doing anything . Of course if you do nothing but absorb information and visit links sent to you by email, you end up not making any money

It is wise to focus on the 3 activities that matter

1. Creating Product
2. List building /Relationship Building
3. Getting Affiliates


2) Fear : Most people think that is procastination , or laziness that stops people from taking action . That is not so . The reason why people avoid the work is that they expect it to be horrible

When somebody suggests something new to do , they automatically assume that is going to be hard and avoid it even though they are aware it going to lead them to where they want

Just not comfortable with trying something and just don't want to have any regrets so you say to yourself "It is going to hard ", "I can't do it "

and when you think like this , your brain shuts down and doesn't engage as much to when you you say to your self , "I can do this " even without ever doing before . When you allow this positive mind frame , you allow your mind to co-operate and you feel better all through the process

I am basically seeing two things:

1. Starting that you've done everything well, i.e. website, seo, design, content, et al. You need to drive traffic > targeted and constant - articles, forums, blogs, backlinks (moderately)

2. Most IMers bypass the powerful force of ingenuity. They get so entangled in the bigger aspects of IM that they overlook the small (niches, micro-niches & now Fiverr) Fiverr is a marketing force unparalleled if you know how to use it!

Basically, they're stuck in between! IMers either don't work enough at getting traffic consistently to their websites or they overlook the hidden (small) opportunities that can be utilized to make IM efforts greatly successful!

I think my health slows me down because I want to do so much but I can't.

Not trusting others to do things for you. I had a technical how-to tutorial websites and I couldnt trust anyone to create videos for me, so was difficult to expand it beyond my own capacity...anyway I sold that business ;-)

"What is the ONE thing you think is stopping/slowing your IM success?" Well for an IM newbie who only made exactly one affiliate sale, the obvious answer would be lack of traffic, but lack of sharpness with keyword research and simply a lack of actual material (articles, banners, video's) to play around with make the learning curve steep and the slaes-process slow. I thought today that it would be great to have password access to the dashboard of a highly succesful wordpress website of someone else, to really form a mastermind with the site while absorbing the "behind the scenes" of an Imarketer in the know. At least this is really how I really learned to improve my homestudio music, so it should work for IM as well, I hope, said the focussed newb

Ummm....Capital?

uncertainty. i really don't want to throw a lot of time/money at something which i'm unsure will work. i've had some success with affiliate marketing but i really need to push the boat right out, and i know that uncertainty is stopping me...

maybe i'll overcome it one day!

just reading and not taking action

Not doing ****.

inconsistancy is a big one... dancing from project to project all 80% or less done then saying none of this will ever work.....

This question has many anwsers which will vary because everyone has different situations. For example if one is young and living with parents they have all the time in the world to do IM. If you have commitments, family, rent, ect than you may only work part time which slows you down from growing your business.

Things that slow one down with internet marketing.
1. not enough capital.
2. The knowledge they learned does not work for them so they have to try something different.
3. spending too much time with something that wont be successful or spending too little time and not giving your tactic enough time to see results.
4. bouncing around with different ways of making money.
5. Giving up and then coming back to the business.
6. not knowing what works and what doesn't
7. not realizing seo takes patience, knowledge, and to never give up.

I really wish that I could name just one block but they keep coming around in cycle - procrastination, being indecisive, self doubting, no money, people interrupting, lack of focus and not wanting to fully immerse myself again. All excuses - yep indeed, I blame no-one but myself.

It's annoying as I am a hard working and creative person who is brilliant at solving other people's problems (I know doesn't sound like self-doubt - right) but when it comes to working on things for myself that's when the blocks appear.

The last few days I have been working hard and trying to overcome these obstacles as a lot of them are deep rooted in my mind so once I can win that battle I think I'm good to go. It's slowly happening - the main thing though is throughout all these I'm still remaining positive

not taking action, wasting time and procrastinating, not having a fixed schedule

I'll try to just name one thing that used to stop me in the past.

Shortcuts.

I was constantly looking for a shortcut that could instantly make me money. But now I realize there's really no such thing as a shortcut to riches. I believe newbies waste a lot of time looking for that right shortcut. If they could only realize that there are none and start working on developing the right business they would taste success much earlier that they usually do.

On the other hand, by always looking for new things I learned a lot. And now I feel pretty comfortable with my IM knowledge.

Distraction. Not just the lure of facebook, twitter, youtube and other time-wating pursuits but also distraction from the next big shiny object that seems to get released every single day in IM that promises much...but almost always ends up as just another program or course that you start and never finish, due to the next shiny object that comes along...

I think the biggest mistake most people (including myself) make is simply not taking action.

Massive action = massive results.

you learn from your results and rinse and repeat until you get to where you want to be.

Definitely procrastination/not taking action.

I find myself constantly second guessing myself, and then when I eventually get over it and actually do what I originally intended, it works beautifully and I think to myself "why didn't I do this a week ago?"

If I could just stop doing that over and over, I'd be set!

Lately, there hasn't been much stopping me from seeing success online. I've been lucky enough to see some quick returns on my efforts, so it has been easy to keep going. Tonight though, Yankees/Red Sox on ESPN is stopping me from doing what I should be doing. LET'S GO RED SOX

Pain & Pain

i would have to say the recession.

people can't buy products if they are broke.. simple as that

Too many bright shiny objects!

Procrastination..

Cheers,

~Gary

What is the ONE thing you think is stopping/slowing your IM success?

My Mother In Law

My laziness

Expecting an instant success. If we can find the success in first attempt, how beautiful our lives are?

Family committments is a big thing for me. I am already working full time which keeps me out the house 10 hours a day. By the time I have done the shopping, cooking, cleaning, been to the gym and given my son and partner some time, it's time for sleep. I get up at 5am and try to get some hours in before I have to leave for work again.

If I can continue building my income then I'll be able to give up work and do this full time, and the pressure will ease. But I don't have enough of a buffer yet to be able to do that.

Fear

Sometimes, the thing that will propel our income forward is the very thing we are afraid to do.

And that is precisely where I am right now.

The lack of focus.

I started in this IM business with the very objective of trying to earn some money. I was motivated with my goal that I really want to learn and earn my own money through the IM world. But there are really instances that my attention, supposedly for studying what and how to do in the affiliate marketing, back linking, how to drive traffics and others are often diverted or disrupted. The focus that I prepared myself sometimes goes out of the tune and my mind would be wandering into different niches, activities and the fear of what would I do next in order to avoid failure.
But I soon realized, distractions are normal, one just has to pay attention to what we do.

A big thing i find that stops many newbies in IM is all the junk and myths floating around holding them back or pointing them in the wrong direction.

Also, lack of knowledge in research of keywords and their competition before they get started.

Those are the top 2 things i find that prevents many people from making money. Obviously most people are willing to try really hard to make money but all the false information and garbage out there jeopardizes most people from actually becoming successful online.

Everyone here on the forum has the power to change their current situation with IM and like cdark said some of us know what to do and still do nothing because we choose not to. It would be safe to safe to say that your choosing to fail in your I'm business. All of us can relate to the fact that's its lack of action and for some cash is running funny, That's why they joined the forum in the first place. Everyone has suffered from this at one point. To answer the question for me its distractions like Fb, and youtube lol. There is so much on the net right now. I just wiped my hard drive clean of all IM books that have nothing to do with my business to keep me from Information overload.

My biggest problem is that I don't actually want to do it. I want to create good content and IM is a necessary evil in order to get visitors. Unfortunately, the hard part is getting enough visitors to a new site so that you can get back to focusing on content.

Prettymuch as covered above... procrastination.

Its the biggest stumbling block for any new IM'er. Its especially difficult to juggle a full time day job, family and then the IM.

The one thing I personally believe which held me back over the years was my lack of focus. But now I'm over that and I'm doing fine.

I think not knowing enough about a niche to be able to view the ad copy as a potential customer would

My biggest problem is that there is only one of me. I am working about 12 hours a day it seems (laid off and no real job) but it always seems like there is more to be done