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Rethink and Get Organized

June 3rd, 2009 | Author: Matt

About two weeks ago I quit my day job. I just didn’t see eye to eye with my employer. I wasn’t making enough yet through my online businesses to cover what I made at my day job either. I still don’t make what I made there. I am getting closer and closer every day though. I would say that within the next two weeks or so I will get to the point where I am happy with my online income. I have learned a few tips and tricks over the past couple of weeks that have really boosted my progress with my online business goals. You may think that my tips are some sort of big affiliate marketing secret that involves sneeky tricks to get people to purchase products that I push but they really aren’t. The tricks that I have learned that have boosted my progress the most involve rethinking how I look at my business and just flat out getting more organized.

What do I mean by rethinking how I look at business? I no longer look at affiliate marketing as a way to make money. I have to look at it as a way of providing a service to people. Basically, the trick is to look for something that people need and try to fill that need. For example, instead of trying to plaster banner ads all over all of my blogs, I am focusing my time on writing articles to teach people how to do things. Why focus on plastering banners everywhere if you are not providing something that people want in order to get them to your site. Provide the content that helps people and generates traffic and the people will trust you and value you recommendations more.

What I meant by getting organized is that I have better structured my days. Since I am focusing on this full time now, it is hard to keep focused. The biggest tip that I can offer to stay focused is to create a list. Write down all of the tasks that you intend to complete during the day and just start working down the list. My biggest struggle has been too much research. I spend time in the forums and downloading ebooks and not enough time taking the actions that move my business forward. I get overwhelmed with information when I really know what I need to be doing. I neeed to be writing, and I need to be promoting. Those are the tasks that I see a return from. I do, however, set aside some time do some research. I love learning about different marketing techniques. I add about 1 hour of my day to focus on research and I put it on my list. Once I’ve used that hour, I check it off my list and I move on.

If you want to create a business out of online marketing, the two biggest tricks that I can possibly teach are to rethink and to get organized.