How much time do I have to spend on my business for it to be successful?
Most of this money however has gone on mistakes. Instant win products that we’d like to believe work as well as they claim, but often don’t. Whether that comes in the form of dodgy guides or services like guaranteed hits and leads that boast huge numbers that make it look almost impossible to fail. As we’ve already learned though, quality over quantity. If you’re unsure about a service and want to test it, go for it, but don’t plug masses of cash into it until you’ve seen results. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
I’ll make you a deal right now. All those other guides out there that tell you to go out and buy particular products and services with your hard earned cash, whoever they’re written by, put them on hold just for a few months. Put them aside and try what I’m demonstrating to you throughout this guide first before you go all out spending all your cash on hits or leads or anything like that. You won’t be disappointed, and your pockets will be a lot deeper at the end of the day too, not just through your earnings, but by how much you’ve saved by doing things correctly.
How much time do I have to spend on my business for it to be successful? An understandable question, everyone has different time constraints and can’t sit at a computer all day every day due to kids, work, family engagements, and so on. I can tell you though, the time investment varies depending on what stage you’re at with your product creation and marketing. I’ll demonstrate what I mean for you now.
Here’s my average day. It’s a full time business for me, I don’t work anywhere else or do anything else work wise. A typical day to show you just how hard this question is to answer, and how you may need to prepare for long nights, but also a lot of free time. So here we go, I wake up, jump on the computer and spend twenty minutes checking mail, answering mail and making a few calls, talking to my contacts on my IM list about what’s been happening overnight. I’d then check my sales, check that everything is running smoothly and the numbers look normal for all running scripts, and then log off for the day and go mess about with friends and family.
Sounds great but there’s another side to this. Scenario number two. I wake up, jump on the computer and carry out the standard process as above, and then begin developing a product idea that I had recently, begin putting together some plans and moving ideas forwards to see what works and what doesn’t. From this point this product may take a few weeks to create, a few months, or even a year. You’ll likely, in most cases, find me at the computer for five to fifteen hours per day when developing products. This generally only happens for two or three months during the year. Still, not really a time constraint and you could take as little time or as long as you want at this stage, just the workload is a little bigger. Work anywhere else or do anything else work wise products and services with your hard earned cash
You see, sometimes there isn’t an option to be proactive instead of reactive, and on odd occasions it just calls for a crazy push, a ridiculous amount of determination and many, many hours spanning several days. Thankfully this is a rarity though.
Depending on the situation, you may find that you have to be more flexible than you’d like, or sometimes, than you can manage, but other times, you’ll be sitting around in the sun sipping martini with your friends for months at a time. Don’t worry if you’re thinking that you can’t be flexible because of your job, I’m not suggesting you quit it, just prepare to have to work crazy hours sometimes.
Ok back to your business now. Next time you’re working on your business, ask yourself, is what I’m doing a result of circumstance, or something that I decided to do off my own back because I want to make something out of the project? The key here is being pro-active instead of re-active. Re-activeness can’t be avoided at times, such as fixing bugs in a piece of software or fixing any problems that might occur, but a majority of your marketing should be pro-active. If you’re being pro-active you’re moving forward, if you’re being re-active you’re not. This is a great indicator of how you use your time, and if you can pull 90% of your time and make it pro-active, that’s some fast progress you’ll be making there.
This is my first time in online marketing, how do I know it’s not all a scam, and what’s with the general attitude of the outside world when I mention online marketing? Often you may find that people who have been scammed by some strange money making scheme will scoff at online marketing. They got scammed once or heard about someone getting scammed, or saw something on TV about it and instantly thought they knew all there was to know about these schemes,
automatically putting online marketing in the same basket because the emphasis is on making money, a very clich?d subject.
Remember, a referral program, doesn’t make a scam. With a document telling you how to make money online, even though that phrase is a major ‘yeah right’ clich? nowadays, the concept is still the same, the only difference between reality, and peoples perceptions through what they’ve heard via the media, their friends, and what they think they know makes it a scam in their mind. In reality, it’s as legitimate a business as any big name multinational you can think of that’s out there, just in a smaller package.
Work anywhere else or do anything else work wise products and services with your hard earned cash
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