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It’s Time To Quit Being Lazy, Get Off Our Butts And Get Some Real Work Done!
August 28th, 2009 by Anthony KibeOnly ACTION creates clarity in today’s online world.
One of the things I find common in this industry…heck I do it myself more often than I care to admit, is the feeling that there’s just one thing, just one more course or plugin or widget that I need before I can really launch myself and my business and start PRODUCING…whether that means generating leads, prospecting or developing content.
We get stuck in the mire of trying to “perfect” the system, or the article or whatever it is we’re using as an excuse to NOT be productive.
I’ve also noticed that people…me included, have the tendency to compare their work with that of others and feeling inadequate or short handed. You look at John Chow’s blog or Katie Freiling’s blog and you start thinking that you need a better blog, a better theme, a better layout or whatever else makes you feel insecure about your own blog at the time. Or you may look at someone who’s written articles and notice that they are eloquent and written in a style you feel you could never match..so you embark on a distracting journey to improve your vocabulary and writing skills.
While it’s not a crime to want to improve yourself in all these manners, honestly, I’ve come to admit to myself that this is just a sign of both insecurity and laziness. It’s Retarded
It’s so much easier….and funner to read ebooks, blog posts and fiddle around with widgets and plugins than it is to actually WORK to PRODUCE content or videos or call up people on the phone (the flesh and blood kind of people.) We the Network and online marketers will distract ourselves with mundane and minutia CRAP we believe we have to take care of ..first… before we do the things that produce income.
Today, I unsubscribed from every email list I’m on..except the Online MLM Mastermind (since it’s the only one I’m using). No more Belcher, Marshall, Kern, Rocket, Dillard, Marion, Schefren, Keonigs, Ryan and Kyle and a host of other gurus who all scream at me on a daily basis …buy this, you need that, gotta have this.
It is not the reflection, the reviewing, and the studying that will make things clearer. In
actuality, it will make things increasingly unclear because there is so much information out
there. There is so much confusing and conflicting information about different approaches.
This guru says never use a squeeze page. The next guru says always use a squeeze page.
This guru says always use Tahoma font for your headline and the next guru says, never use
Tahoma; use Helvetica.
How do you know who’s right, who’s wrong and most importantly, what will work best for
you?
The only way that you can know is through taking action; TESTING the new idea, learning
your lesson and then moving on. (Rich Schefren)
I can say for sure that I have enough information and I have enough tools to build a multi million dollar empire if I focus and WORK. After all, I’ve put in the hours…long endless hours and invested thousands of dollars to further my education in network/online marketing. At some point, one has to tell the world to Sht the Fck Up and get to work.
So, the thought for today is this. If all you had is what you know now, and there was no other tool, gadget, course, manual, widget, plugin or “secret” available..ever again, how would you go creating the kind of success you desire?
Once I answered that question, the mind cleared up, the fog lifted and the lights came on. I have real WORK to do. How about you?
Share your thought in the comment section if it’s not too much to ask…….but only after you’ve actually done some real income producing work today.
Peace y’all.
I ran across that long tailed Keyword on Google and believe it or not, that long-assed keyword gets an average of 19 searches every month; which makes you ask….WHAT?
If you wanted to lose weight, would you respond to this ad? “lose 50 lbs Instantly without dieting or exercise absolutely painless”
See, we all want to look good, lean, sexy and athletic. At least most people want that. It’s not a right that’s reserved for a special group of people. However, just because we want it doesn’t mean we can have it… unless of course we’re willing to earn it.
Someone looking to “make instant money online absolutely free” is imprisoned by a mindset of lack and poverty . “Get rich quick” ain’t even good enough, Instant and free is what they want. Such a person will NEVER make money— online, offline, sideline or any other line anywhere.
Money is a byproduct of VALUE. When you pay $5,000,000 for a 2 bedroom apartment on Park Avenue in New York, what are you really buying? You’re not buying an apartment, you could buy 10 larger apartments with that kind of money in just about any city but when you’re buying on Park Ave NY, you’re paying for value, not size.
Therefore, the person who sells you that apartment is selling you value and and for that he or she makes a couple million dollars in profit…or more. Just by selling value.
If you’re still stuck in the make money mentality, let it go and adopt a new one….The Value mentality. Create it, build it, polish it, improve it and then SELL IT. Money will automatically be taken care of.
Wanna know exactly what VALUE is and how to BUILD IT? Read this blog and then get to work.
In this article, I want to do something for you that I wish someone had done for me when I first got started with my online network marketing business. I wanna give you permission to go out and market yourself fearlessly and and it has nothing to do with how much money you’re making…or not making.
Network marketing is not unlike any other business. Your right to make money from what you do should not be determined by how much money you have made but by how much VALUE you bring with you that you can pass on to others.
Let’s imagine that you were a school teacher. You’ve applied yourself, gone through the education process and earned your teaching license. If you’ve done the work, meaning you’ve taken time to study and acquired knowledge that you can share with the students who need it, you don’t need to “get paid first” to start teaching.
The same applies to a graduate doctor. Straight from Med school, a young doctor does not need to prove that she has already made money in her profession in order for her to deserve a paycheck. The paycheck is earned from the knowledge she has and her ability to treat diseases after investing money, hours and effort into studying the science and the art of healing.
This mentality of “I have to make money first” before I can have the authority to market myself and my business emanates from two sources.
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Lack of tangible REAL and useful value to offer.
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Insecurity about your ability to deliver the value that you may already have.
If you have nothing of value in you, of course you’re going to feel that you don’t deserve to make money and rightly so because you don’t get paid for just being something.
But when you have applied yourself to hone a craft or skill, you deserve to be paid based on the value of your knowledge that you can pass on to someone else.
Both an artist and a Carpenter deserve to make money from the first piece of art or furniture they produce because there is value contained in the product itself for the person who is paying for it. Unfortunately, most online marketers are pretend artists and carpenters, they want to get paid for just being artists and carpenters, not for creating art or crafting a valuable piece of furniture. It doesn’t matter how good an artist you are, you only get paid for producing art. Same goes for any other vocation
Therefore, the best way to build your confidence and earn the right to get paid is to acquire a skill that you can trade for money. Once you have that, your confidence soars and you have no problem asking people to pay for what you can offer them.
Now the question is this. What do you have to offer besides advertising and asking people to buy something from you or join your Network Marketing team?
If you can’t come up with a good solid answer, then you haven’t earned the right to make money from your business. If you want to earn that right, it’s imperative that you study, learn, apply yourself and master a skill that the people you’re targeting need, and then trade that knowledge or skill for money. It’s that simple.
On this Blog Post, I have provided a list of skills and information that the online marketing and network marketing communities NEED. Take a look at those skills and decide which one you want to master and build or improve your personal value to the community of marketers at large. Without this kind of knowledge or these kind of skills, you’re just another empty noise making pseudo-marketer and you’re going to find it IMPOSSIBLE to create any kind of success in this industry.
When I decided that I wanted to be an online marketer, the first thing I did was spend thousands of dollars on educating myself and building my personal value, amassing a vast wealth of knowledge and skills that I can now trade for what I really want, which is freedom through financial success.
Summary:
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You don’t have to make money with your business first before you can successfully market yourself
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You have to earn the right to make money with your online or network marketing businesses.
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You earn that right by acquiring knowledge and skills that your target market NEEDS and is willing to pay you for.
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You acquire that kind of knowledge and skills by first understanding what it is that they need, then figuring out what you would be good at and then investing time, money and effort into becoming a master in your chosen craft.
Once you’ve done that, you not only will have the confidence to market yourself, you will find that people will be hunting you down and offering you money in exchange for the knowledge and skills that you have. The more you know and the better you are at your skills, the more money you can trade them for.
Assignment:
Go and read this blog entry and complete the assignment at the end of the blog.
