3 Inner Secrets of Internet Success - Part 2
| This is a great article by my friend, mentor and internet marketing powerhouse Yanik Silver. I am going to serparate it out into 3 posts. Enjoy.Here’s part 2…
========== Three Inner Secrets of Internet Success By Yanik Silver www.SurefireMarketing.com * Secret #2: Do one proactive thing a day * You don’t need to do 100 things a day. Just get that one proactive thing a day. So each little brick builds a big wall for you. Trust me it’s easy to be overwhelmed with hundreds of tasks. You’re like, “Oh, we need to do e-zine ads and free-for-alls and pay-per-click search engines, and I need to do all this other stuff.” Ahhhhhhhhhhh! But just relax and do one task a day. Your action will create more and more and more action for you. You simply need to make a commitment to do one proactive thing a day no matter what. Even if you’re dead tired and worked a 14-hour day - come home and mail one letter or send out one joint venture proposal. I’m telling you - just these little tiny proactive things will have an immense impact. Most everyone has heard of the ‘80/20 rule’ or the Pareto Principle. It says that 20% of your actions produce 80% of your results, and the other way around. 80% of your work only creates 20% of your results. So go back and look where your successes came from, and I know that they’re from a tiny little group of actions. So if you just get that one proactive thing a day (from the 20% group) that is going to propel you further, that’s going to bring you to where you want to be. Make it a point to focus on those “20% activities”. In Stephen Covey’s famous work “7 Habits of Highly Effective People” he calls these activities “important but not urgent”. One of my Apprentices, Peter Woodhead, from the UK is a perfect example of simply doing one proactive thing a day. A lot of Apprentices bolted out of the gate during our one year program but Peter was an Internet newbie and he also had a full time job so he was a bit slower getting started. However, he took my advice and simply managed to do one proactive thing every single day. No matter how big or how small. It could be writing one autoresponder message or it might have been writing 50 headlines. No matter the day - Peter was moving ahead. And not surprisingly his project was completed before many of the other Apprentices were finished. ========= Yanik Silver is recognized as the leading expert on creating automatic, moneymaking websites…and he still doesn’t know how to put up a website. He is the author, co-author or creator of several best-selling online marketing books and tools, including his newest resource for online copywriting - www.UltimateCopywritingWorkshop.com Learn from Stephen Covey Yourself:
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