1) Building a list of subscribers, customers and affiliates. Without my lists, my business wouldn’t be a fraction of what it is today.
2) Blogging. If you’re selling anything online, you need a blog, not just for posting content, but to build relationships and your credibility
3) Being part of or starting a mastermind group. You can potentially save months, even years by leveraging on those who are stronger where you are weaker. That’s just one of the benefits.
4) Your own product. The benefits are amazing. You’ll gain instant credibility, instant expert status, instant profits, 100% profits, you can open affiliate programs and it’s all passive income for you
5) Outsourcing your business. Think of it as a return on investment. You pay someone for a single job and get more free time to do more important things in your business which will make you money. Don’t wait, outsource your writing, graphics, and repetitive tasks. That’s when you’ll start to have a real business.
6) Being CLEAR on what you want. Once you know what you want, you’ll filter out what you need and what you don’t need.
7) Focusing on ONE thing at a time. One system, one product, one project, just one thing at a time!
8 ) Enjoy time off. I once heard from Alex Mandossian “Taking a day off work for the month can give you twenty productive days.” Don’t even check your email or turn you computer for that matter. Do the things you enjoy, spend time with the family or whatever it is you enjoy.
9) Attend seminars and meetings. It’s your best bet to meeting like-minded people; people who have a genuine interest in what you’re doing. There’s a lot of potential. The best way to start is to search for local groups and meet ups at www.meetup.com. I found three groups of interest from that site alone, and I’m speaking/presenting in one of them.
10) Create a “Vision Board” to accelerate your success. You might think that it won’t have any affect, but you’ll be surprised at just what might happen. I have a video that teaches you how to create your very own vision board. Click here to watch it
11) Renew, unwind and relax your mind and body by exercising. It’s like the oil and lube job for your car. You don’t have to do it, but your car would definitely run better. Personally, I go four times a week, combining cardio and weight training. You don’t have to build huge muscles, you can simply do resistance training or yoga. The benefits of exercising kicks in immediately after your first workout. You’ll feel more energized, you’ll sleep easier, improves your mood, overall physical body and mental acuity.
12) Using video in your marketing. Whatever your niche is, videos easily and instantly gives your product a higher perceived value.
13) Disallowing any negativity. If you’re ever in this situation simply think of positive thoughts, it’ll change your state quickly and easily.
14) Gratitude. Every morning, throughout the day and before you sleep, think of what you’re grateful for at the present moment.
15) It’s a lot easier selling to customers than it is to sell to prospects. How do you doit? You can cross-promote, upsell or maybe offer a product you’re an affiliateof
16) Use RoboForm. I can’t tell you how much time this little tool has saved me. This nifty little tool remembers and fills in forms and passwords so you don’t have to! Get yours right now: www.DownloadRoboForm.com
17) Lose on the front-end but make money on the backend. “You can have this for free, no worries. would u like ___ for just 20 bucks?”
Feel free to submit your comments and tips so the rest of us can see…
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Hi Aurelius,
Great post, I think you’ve hit the button with these 17 points. I’m going to follow your lead to help build my business.
Cheers,
Barry
Great set of tips Aurelius.
I like the way you’ve mixed in straight business tips with Success Mindset advice.
Not sure about the last one tho’ – why not win on the front end and the back?
Alex
Really good tips Aurelius, I think too many of us lose sight of some of them.
My tip would be similar to your number 9. Get involved in social networking, online or offline/ It’s so crucial to connect with customers, affiliates, JV partners etc. and to build up those relationships.
Look forward to the next video!
Louise
Super tips Aurelius
I particularly agree with the ones about taking a break, enjoying your family, having the right mindset , and having a vision.
We online marketers work damn hard when we are at the beginning of our online journey. To work night and day without a focus is too much and will extinguish your fire very quickly.
Keep up the good work
May your wealth grow with you
Jonathan
Cheers Aurelius – great straight talking advice
so agree with exercising – past week been squatting @ business partner’s place as mine being renovated. no exercise + cabin fever = distracted irritated & unproductive
tweeted ur blog @JeanCrous
good luck
Thanks Barry.
Yes, you can still win on the frontend of course
In the end you’re building a customer list.
Thanks Louise.
Jonathan, yes…most of us work really hard to try out new and different systems. Taking a break keeps us sane
Jean – good on you with the squatting. I do my squates do. Thanks for the tweet.
Great information! Your very right about the exercising I go to the gym 3 times a week. It helps with the stress of online marketing!
I come home feeling like I’m ready to take on the world.
Thanks
Patricia
Good on you Patricia!
WOW! This is nice. One thing I lack is focus, I always diversify on everything. I just feel like letting one go means losing it… I just find it difficult to focus.
But now, I will surely focus.
Ahmad – Excellent! Glad to hear that!
what great tips…..and yes, a vision board is right up there with all of the other great tips, you can even take it one step further and so a vision map video, that is what i use and the
dgreat part of a video is that you can watch it on all of your electronic devices and they are for your eyes only, the important thing though is to do it, get visualizing, very important business tool….
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arlene
Great ideas, Darlene. Thank you.
Hi Aurelius,
You really brought in great points.
All this has to be part of the system you need to set up to grow your business.
All the tips are important, but I think the number 7 (Focusing on ONE thing at a time) is crucial. Most people can’t move forward due to the fact that they try to do many different things at the same time.
The easiest way to stay focused is writing down your goal, breaking it down into small goals, prioritizing them, creating a step-by-step action plan and working on the first one.
You only move on to the second one when you accomplished the first one.
There are too many distractions, if you check your email several times, if you spend a lot of time with social media sites and some other non-essential things then you can’t move forward.
You have to do the things that will help you move forward.
Thanks,
^PV Reymond
Aurelius thanks. How wonderful of you to thoughtfully present success ideas. Keeping focused on one thing is probably the hardest for me personally, so going to look at vision board NOW. Also, would like to add that, as in my case, if there are no meet-ups in your area, you can always be the pioneer
@ Reymond – You surely understand the concept of “chunking”, and making each goal small, achievable goals.
@ Margie – Yes, exactly. You can always start your own!
thanks great tips
Great tips indeed! Thanks for sharing the this list:)
Great post Aurelius!
I bet you saved a new marketer a stack of watsed time by showing them what is important!
Great stuff!
James
hey James! Thanks for stopping by
I like to think so!
Thanks.
Hi Aurelius,
I like that stuff you save a lot of people from tons stress…
Thanks
Hey Jonclaude! Thanks..glad you liked it.
Hi Aurelius,
Love the post. For sure those tips is gana save plenty of time for some of the new marketers out there.
Thanx
Hi Jimmy. Thanks, as usual.
Great tips Aurelius, however may I suggest one more.
In the words of Winston Churchill: Never, Never, Never Give Up.
Thanks for suggesting that Quote. Definitely…never give up. Persistent pays off!
Always good to see you , Aurelius!
Great tips! I am working on adding some stuff on my vision board…
As always, great info and tips!
Take care! (How is the baby?)
PS: a quote: “The Winner never quits; the quitter never wins.”
Good to see you again, Emrick.
Great, share your vision board with us.
I don’t have a baby
You must be mixing with someone else.
enjoying time off is the best advice for me
Best regards,
Jorge
Yes, I think that’s one of my top ones too
Great tips – enjoyed your advice, it gives me much to work on!
Great to know you’re taking action, Debra!
It sure would’ve been nice to see this list when I first started off. Better late than never though!
That’s right, Daniel
I really did wish someone had told me the 17 things and more when I started out.
Hey Aurelius,
Thanks for the great tips! I think the most important and hardest one to achieve is number 7, “focus on one thing at a time.” It’s especially difficult to maintain focus in the Internet marketing niche due to the fact that we’re always bombarded with the next big money-making product or strategy. We work on so many tasks and projects simultaneously that we end up suffering from what is commonly known as information overload.
So, how important is it to maintain focus? Mozart puts it best in this quote: “The shorter way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.”
Tom
Nice quote, Tom
Thanks for your comment.
Great tips Aurelius (as always)…
I haven’t visited the blog for a while and it was a welcome surprise to see the new *awesome* redesign. Top work!
Thanks for sharing,
Karl
Thanks for re-visiting, Karl!
Yes, I love this new theme.
That was one excellent video Aurelius.
Thanks for your tips.
Be encouraged in what you are doing.
I’m working on launch of exciting new product mainly for women.
Hitting some roadblocks.
Wondering if we might be able to discuss somethings soon.
You sure seem to know you way round out here.
Thanks.
Please let me know.
Thanks again for great clip and
follow on twitter.
God bless your work
Richard
shuffables.com
Glad you found it valuable, Richard.
You’re targeting the women and you’re a male?
That’s interesting. Would like to see what you have to offer.
Great posting! I believe #7 is 1st and foremost. When you focus and not try to take too much on at once – everything else follows suit.
Yes, distraction is one of the biggest factors that stop us from moving forward. We’ve just got to learn to avoid it and value our time.
AWESOME tips dude…
I gotta say I do most but the MOST vital going to seminars…. and leveraging other like minded marketers lists is the FASTEST way to profit. But business doesn’t matter if you don’t have the mindset or health to take part in it!
Talk soon
Ray
hey Ray. Yes, I just went to a seminar yesterday in hopes to meet people in other areas in this business, and there’s always something good that comes out of it. It was good catching up with friends too.
Great post Aurelius!
Actually, if someone just starting out today and follows all these points, he/she will definitely succeeds.
Btw, I like point #17, losing on the front-end, as this is something
I’m following in my online venture.
All the best.
Thanks, Ghazal. Yes, these tips will surely shortcut anyone’s learning curve.
I really like reading you =) .. I’m a new blogger and I’m confused u_u, all webpages talk about making money for hosting videos, but not all of them are good and I have a lot of ideas. My cousin recommended me to visit (vismomedia.com) , he said I’ts a good webpage for bloggers. What’s your opinion ¿?
Hey Aurelius!
Great post, i haven’t been here for a while, but always valuable content.
Hope your business is cranking… be good to catch up again soon.
Cheers
Nathan Hulls
http://www.webmoneyblog.com
Hey Nathan. Yes, all good here.
Hey great post Aurelius. The Focus part is a BIG one i just made a post on my blog about that you can check it out here:
http://www.innovapixel.com/blog/157/focus-internet-marketing-best-kept-secret/
Just to add to the conversation. Talk to you soon
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