Give me a dimwit who only retains 1 single thought or idea each week over a genius who’s head is filled with enough intelligence that could lead to a cure for every disease known to mankind any day of the month…
NO, I’m not especially fond of those who operate down half a quart, but the reality is many of them have combined one bit of knowledge (that most everyone else knew as well by the way) and took action on turning that knowledge into action creating momentum – and business success feeds on momentum.
Let’s say you have high performance, finely tuned, engine in your new sports car and you are sitting at the top of a big downslope hill ready to start the race with 1 competitor who happens to have a much less powerful car – in fact, it has no engine at all, the driver needs to get out an give it a push to get it rolling.
What do you think will happen at the end if the driver of the high performance sports car doesn’t step on the gas when the green flag comes down?
What happens to the car without an engine when the driver gets out and gets the car rolling on the downslope, jumps back into the car and steers the car toward the finish line?
Who gets further, the guy with all of the power, but inabilility to step on the gas or the guy who gets out and gets the car rolling – letting momentum take over?
YOUR OWN ACTION REGISTER
I hear allot of people complaining about lack of time, poor information, that someone is out to get them, not help them, that they don’t have the perfect solution yet so how can they get started….COME ON!!
If this is you, you are the guy that’s sitting at the top of the hill with a massive engine, but you will never win the race because you can’t get things rolling.
Be honest with yourself. Sometimes we all lapse into periods where we replace action with excuses – it’s not a character flaw, but is something that anyone can fall into – so ask yourself, are you taking action or just planning for it?
To build momentum in your own online marketing business, try creating your own action register.
First, define the actions that are important to your online business…some examples are:
– developing a product
– writing a chapter of an ebook
– writing a sales page
– generating an article AND doing something with it (posting to your blog, submitting to directories, convince partners to post it on their site, etc…)
– create your first, or next site to start feeling out your market
– setup an opt-in list and opt-in autoresponse sequence
– run an ad
– submit a press release
– form a joint venture partnership
– start your own affiliate program
– start or post to your blog
Once you have a list of approx 20 of your most important actions to get your business rolling, then take a page and create 7 columns – one for each day of the week.
Strive to take at least 1 action each day for the next seven days.
You will be exercising your “action” muscle.
One of two things will happen, you will find yourself with an empty page at the end of the week – in which case you are likely to blame me for coming up with such a crazy process, it can’t work and you will have proved that…OR
You will have just created a new habit of taking action, set the wheels in motion toward building momentum for your online business and will have taken the first step toward winning the race.
To help keep it rolling, keep up to date on the latest tips, stay motivated and understand the best systems to follow to build your online business, we can help over at InformationMarketer’sZone – but the action part is up to you YOU.
Let me know which category you fit into in 7-days!
Jeff
