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Success can only be achieved by developing your business step-by-step on a consistent and persistent daily basis.
"The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well,"
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
A solid base for success is perseverance. It separates the winners from the losers. Those who persevere understand that luck is something only failures believe in.
If you have not achieved any success with your Internet business yet, don't give up and be discouraged...it's often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.
To develop good profitable habits, we suggest you follow a simple weekly pattern of actions that will enable you to constantly improve your Internet marketing skills.
This will depend on how much time you have to do your Internet business - 30 minutes to an hour per day that will steadily enable you to build a successful Internet business.
Of course, you will want to adjust the schedule to your preferences (when you like to the things) or adapt the plan for your marketing preferences (what you like to do).
For instance, you might not like to spend too much time on traffic exchanges and prefer contributing more to forums instead.
That's okay. So, you do traffic exchanges together with classified ads...and devote an extra day to forums. The important thing point is to have a weekly plan of habits that YOU can commit to and then stick with them until you achieve your goals.
Remember, interruptions and unexpected events are sure to demolish your plans. Don't be discouraged and give up.
The key to success is, in the words of management consultant Peter Drucker, to schedule time "in large chunks."
Allocate blocks of time to the one or two really important things you must get done during the day or night, and leave plenty of unscheduled time for phone calls, visitors, family members, emergencies, etc.
Note:
The activities listed here is based on the 30-Day BreakAway training course where FREE marketing methods are used. Other PAID marketing methods or activities are not included in this weekly plan. You can adapt this weekly plan when you start to use other marketing methods for your business.
Here's an example of a weekly schedule:
Day 1 - Post more classified ads.
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Day 2 - View ads at traffic exchanges.
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Day 3 - Contribute to forums.
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Day 4 - Add new posts to your blogs.
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Day 5 - Write and submit articles.
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Day 6 - Update lens at Squidoo.
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Day 7 - Take the day off. Dream and review your goals, relax and enjoy yourself.
Daily activity: Read your e-mails, send out E-cards and browse around in the SFI affiliate Center. Don't forget your off-line methods, you can do them at any time when the opportunity arises.
Do this and you'll be doing what people who fail never do.
You'll be doing what takes to succeed and win.
Develop your profitable habits beginning today.
How To Write A Business Plan For The
Home-based e-Entrepreneur
Writing a business plan for home-based
e-entrepreneur is easy and you can do the job within 10 minutes. If
you are an e-entrepreneur, all you need is to learn how to write a
business plan that is simple and practical. Just visualize why you
get involved with your Internet business, define what your dreams
are, set realistic goals, plan your business activities, and then
work your business plan.
The Internet is a source of profits for
all e-entrepreneurs. And as an e-entrepreneur, the main purpose of
your business plan is to guide your Internet business activities and
to keep them focused so that you can grow your Internet business
substantially to achieve your dreams and goals of making money
on-line.
Here are five simple steps on how you
write a business plan for your home-based Internet business.
Firstly, you develop a vision of your
Internet business and write your vision statement. Ask yourself why
do you want to be an e-entrepreneur. If you are into affiliate
marketing, what is your main reason that you join an affiliate
program? What you value most of your Internet business? Do you have
a strong desire to be your own boss? Why do you want to be your own
boss? Why do you want to run your own home-based business? What do
you want to do with the remainder of your life? These are some of
the crucial questions you must answer as you write down your vision
statement in your Internet business plan.
Secondly, you define what your dreams
are and write them down. Of course, you want to have lots of time
and money to do what you want. To make your dreams work, you must
write a clear, concise statement in your Internet business plan on
why do you need more time and money. You must be specific in your
dreams. What kind of a car you want to drive – what model, cost,
color, etc.? What home do you desire - by the beach, on top of a
hill, etc? What debts you like to pay off – credit cards debts,
housing loans, car loans, etc? As an e-entrepreneur, visualize as
clearly as you can the kind of Internet lifestyles you want to enjoy
if you have all the time and money to do what you want..
Thirdly, you set your goals that you
want to reach in a specific time – short-term, medium term and
long-term. You use your goals to fulfill your dreams. Remember, what
you write for your Internet business plan is a personal matter. No
one can write your dreams or goals for you. It is up to you to
decide which level of success you want to take your Internet
business. Whatever level that you have set for yourself, you have to
work it. Nobody is going to do the work for you. You need to set
your goals for the next three months, six months, twelve months, two
years and five years. Make sure to write down your goals that are
realistic, achievable, and quantifiable.
"The reason most people never
reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously
consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you
where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who
will be sharing the adventure with them." - Denis Watley
Fourthly, you create your action plan
around the goals you have set for yourself as a e-entrepreneur. A
good, solid action plan includes your daily, weekly, monthly, and
yearly activities. Your action plan for your Internet business will
probably include how you are going to use your marketing aids,
marketing methods, and your budget to promote your products or
services. Don't forget to allot time to continuously educate
yourself in your chosen Internet business. A successful
e-entrepreneur must keep abreast with current trends happening in
the Internet. This will give you the extra leverage against other
e-entrepreneurs in your market.
Once you have listed down all your
Internet business activities, you must assign your time to do them.
Time management for the e-entrepreneur is very important when you
write your Internet business plan. One of the most practical ways of
managing time is to schedule blocks of time for every activity that
you must complete each day for your Internet business. You must stay
focused on your business activities. You must not be distracted by
other activities that do not contribute profitably to your goal of
making money on-line.
Finally, you must take action according
to the business plan that you have just created. You must carry out
what you have written in your Internet business plan. You must be
committed, consistent and persistent. Also, you need to have lots of
patience. You build your Internet business step-by-step. As an
e-entrepreneur, you must believe in yourself and that you can do
something to change your present situation using the Internet as a
source of profits. By taking positive actions, you will develop
profitable habits that can make your dreams come true. All the hard
work that you put into developing your vision, dreams, goals and
action plan will be wasted if you do not take actions. If you do
nothing, nothing will happened.
Your business plan is the compass that
points you the way to Internet success. And success is just the
progressive realization of your dreams because of the actions you
take to achieve your goals. Your opportunity for success as an
e-entrepreneur is absolutely possible if you carry out this simple
and practical business plan that you have just created for your
home-based Internet business.
Remember, a business plan will change
over time as your situation and focus change. It is dynamic and has
to be reviewed and tweaked regularly to meet new goals you have set
according to your current situation. As an e-entrepreneur, you must
also constantly fine-tune your business plan to reflect the needs of
an ever-changing Internet environment.
To help you get started on how to write
your Internet business plan, you can download this printable form HERE.
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Write out your
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