Want to Succeed Online?

Today, I'm going to write directly to anyone who is interested in starting your own online business...and one of the biggest reasons why people don't succeed.  That's right...this one is about why you might fail!

One of the first things that you must do when you start marketing online is to learn!  You have to learn how to build a website, learn which products to promote...heck, you might even have to learn what online business really is!  So, if you're like most people, you start visiting forums, buying ebooks and courses, and software, and plugins, and more.  You try one, and when it doesn't work, you try another and then another and then another... And, then six months or a year later, you wonder why you aren't making money online!

And that's just it.  You aren't making money online because you aren't working on your business!  You're buying course after course, or visiting forum after forum, or worse...and you are wasting your time.  That's right, you are wasting your time.

Let me give you an example from my own business:  This year, Google has updated their algorithm several times.  And, that update has really lit up the forums with threads about the updates, products designed to help you beat the updates, and more.  So, what did I do?  You guessed it...in trying to figure out the updates to the algorithms, I spent TOO MUCH TIME and TOO MUCH MONEY in the forums and on products to help me change the way I was building my business so that I could "stay on top of" Google's updates. 

Well, guess what happened...my sites got hit, and I spent the entire year changing my personal business plan in the hopes of regaining what the updates took away.  And, where am I now?  Exactly where I started. The changes I made either had no effect or they were wiped away by subsequent updates...and it's cost me one year of potential growth.  All because I spent too much time and money in the forums listening to other people's ideas about why sites lost ground and what products they had created or recommended to correct the problems created by the updates. 

So, about a month ago, I took a long hard look at what I was doing...and I stopped buying ebooks, and software, and plugins, and such.  I stopped reading the forums.  Stopped listening to the "experts" and everyone else.  And I went back to building my business my way.  That's right.  MY BUSINESS.  MY WAY.  That's something you need to read again and again.  Because that's the important point.  It's your business.  Yes, learn what you need to in the forums, from ebooks, software, whatever.  But then just QUIT listening to others and start doing.  Take action.  Don't analyze.  Don't second guess.  JUST DO IT.

That's the biggest thing I have learned, and it is the best advice I can give you.  Stay away from the forums.  Stay away from the miracle softwares and plugins.  And, simply, just do the work.