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Digg it UP - To Make Money Online - You Need The Right Mindset
If you search on Google for “virtual assistant”, you’ll find a ton of listings. You can search through those, check out their services and do some interviews. I’d take a shorter route.Find some other people you trust and ask them who they use and recommend. Then go from there. You’ll do a lot better seeking out recommendations. If you don’t know anyone personally…ask people in your networking groups whom they recommend.Before you contact anyone, make a list of the types of tasks you’d like people to complete. You’ll want to make sure that your VA has the skills and software to complete those tasks…in most cases.I said in most cases, because I think there is something to be said about training your assistants. A couple of the assistants I work with didn’t actually know how to use a WYSIWG editor, let alone modify HTML code when we first started working with them. However, these were intelligent people I’d come to know and trust online…which was very important. I think it’s nice to be able to train people to complete tasks in the way you’d like them done and they might
The same is true in your business. Do you believe you can make one hundred dollars? Do you believe you can make one thousand dollars? Do you believe you can make six figures? How about seven figures?
Chances are, you already hold some sort of limitation in your mind, an amount that you believe you can make. If you currently work an outside job, your current salary is a pretty good indication of how much you’ll make in your business …unless you consciously decide to do more, and believe you can do it.
What do I mean?
If you make $25,000 at your current jo
Radio ads. Billboards. Wall Posters. Yellow pages. Pamphlets. Leaflets. Brochures. TV commercials. Newspapers ads. Magazine ads. Pop ups. Fax Outs. Hiring a fat guy to stand out on the street corner during traffic with a big sandwich board three blocks down the street from your restaurant. Pitching the media to do stories about you. Standing at a big flashy booth at a trade show giving away free pens. Blinking web ads. Direct Email. Cold calls. Direct Mail. Driving down the street, slowing down in front of pedestrians, rolling down your window and asking them, “Hey, you wanna buy a home stereo?”That last example actually happened to me last week while walking down the street in downtown Chicago. It was ridiculous!And it got me thinking: what do all of those marketing techniques have in common?A few things, really:• They suck • They annoy people • They cost money • They waste money • They waste trees • They are antiquated, boring and ineffective marketing channels created around interruptionInterruption, I say
If you really strip the formula down, it’s easy: find a hungry market, give them what they want and put your offer right in front of them.
But if it’s so dang easy, how come we’re not all multi-millionaires? Why is it that two people in the exact same niche who have the exact same knowledge obtain such vastly different results?
The answer is simple: because business is not all about mechanics and plugging in formulas.
The biggest element that separates the successful from the unsuccessful and the rich from the poor isn’t their knowledge or skill levels, but rather their mindset.
Successful people simply have a different mindset than unsuccessful people. If you’re inflexible and set in your ways, then you have little hope of changing your mindset and attitudes to get on the track to success. However, the very fact that you’re reading this report shows that you’re open and willing to change.
So let’s talk about mindset. There are plenty of mindset components that come into play when we’re talking about analyzing a successful mindset – overcoming fear, a burning desire to succeed, a good reason why we want to succeed, and so many more.
Although there are many characteristics of successful people could talk about, for the purposes of this report we’re going to focus on two: believing in one’s self, and taking responsibility.
Belief in Self
The limitations we experience in life are often the result of our own mental limitations.
Consider for a moment the hoopla surrounding Roger Bannister when he broke the four-minute mile. Previous to him setting this record, most people considered it impossible to run a mile in less than four minutes.
Indeed, I bet there were people in Bannister’s time who were physically capable of running a four-minute mile, but was held back by their mental limitation that said it was impossible to do so.
Once Bannister did it, however, many people followed suit. Indeed, the record has been broken since by almost 17 seconds. All it took was for people to change their mindset and believe they could do it. Once they believed it, they did it (provided of course they had the physical skills to match).
The same is true in your business. Do you believe you can make one hundred dollars? Do you believe you can make one thousand dollars? Do you believe you can make six figures? How about seven figures?
Chances are, you already hold some sort of limitation in your mind, an amount that you believe you can make. If you currently work an outside job, your current salary is a pretty good indication of how much you’ll make in your business …unless you consciously decide to do more, and believe you can do it.
What do I mean?
If you make $25,000 at your current job
About This Article The following question comes from a real estate postcard questionnaire I sent to more than 3,000 real estate agents and brokers. I compiled hundreds of responses to create a list of the most commonly asked questions. This is one of those questions.Question: How do I differentiate my real estate postcards from what all of the other agents are mailing in my area?Answer: You're wise not to imitate other agents in your area. The only time you should duplicate a marketing strategy that's already used in your market is when you can do it better -- like ten times better. But as a new agent, it would be difficult to compete by stacking up recent sales.So why not go where they're not going? Why not come up with a great idea that nobody else is doing in your market, and then build a postcard campaign around it.Let's brainstorm...What's going on in your area? Is it a buyer's market or seller's market? What's happening in the news? What are people in your town talking about? How can you capitalize on that? Are y
The answer is simple: because business is not all about mechanics and plugging in formulas.
The biggest element that separates the successful from the unsuccessful and the rich from the poor isn’t their knowledge or skill levels, but rather their mindset.
Successful people simply have a different mindset than unsuccessful people. If you’re inflexible and set in your ways, then you have little hope of changing your mindset and attitudes to get on the track to success. However, the very fact that you’re reading this report shows that you’re open and willing to change.
So let’s talk about mindset. There are plenty of mindset components that come into play when we’re talking about analyzing a successful mindset – overcoming fear, a burning desire to succeed, a good reason why we want to succeed, and so many more.
Although there are many characteristics of successful people could talk about, for the purposes of this report we’re going to focus on two: believing in one’s self, and taking responsibility.
Belief in Self
The limitations we experience in life are often the result of our own mental limitations.
Consider for a moment the hoopla surrounding Roger Bannister when he broke the four-minute mile. Previous to him setting this record, most people considered it impossible to run a mile in less than four minutes.
Indeed, I bet there were people in Bannister’s time who were physically capable of running a four-minute mile, but was held back by their mental limitation that said it was impossible to do so.
Once Bannister did it, however, many people followed suit. Indeed, the record has been broken since by almost 17 seconds. All it took was for people to change their mindset and believe they could do it. Once they believed it, they did it (provided of course they had the physical skills to match).
The same is true in your business. Do you believe you can make one hundred dollars? Do you believe you can make one thousand dollars? Do you believe you can make six figures? How about seven figures?
Chances are, you already hold some sort of limitation in your mind, an amount that you believe you can make. If you currently work an outside job, your current salary is a pretty good indication of how much you’ll make in your business …unless you consciously decide to do more, and believe you can do it.
What do I mean?
If you make $25,000 at your current jo
Want a big boost in response and quick sales from your next direct marketing effort? Then take your direct mail program to the extreme. What do I mean by extreme? I mean unconventional, break the mold, out-of-the-box, reaches-out-and-grabs-people-by-the-lapels marketing.When you take your marketing to the extreme many people will love it and a few will hate it. But you won’t be ignored. With a well thought out, well executed extreme marketing program it’s a good bet you’ll pull a response rate in the double digits –- and, close business relatively fast.Extreme marketing: A case studyPositive Response helped a leading call center operation put together an extreme marketing program targeting collision repair shops nationwide. What I’m going to do now is share with you the pertinent details of this campaign. Then I’ll give you a few specific ideas about how you can use a similar approach to generate leads and sales for your business, plus a few other direct marketing nuggets.CSi Complete, (www.csicomplete.com) is the leading provider of phone-based customer sa
So let’s talk about mindset. There are plenty of mindset components that come into play when we’re talking about analyzing a successful mindset – overcoming fear, a burning desire to succeed, a good reason why we want to succeed, and so many more.
Although there are many characteristics of successful people could talk about, for the purposes of this report we’re going to focus on two: believing in one’s self, and taking responsibility.
Belief in Self
The limitations we experience in life are often the result of our own mental limitations.
Consider for a moment the hoopla surrounding Roger Bannister when he broke the four-minute mile. Previous to him setting this record, most people considered it impossible to run a mile in less than four minutes.
Indeed, I bet there were people in Bannister’s time who were physically capable of running a four-minute mile, but was held back by their mental limitation that said it was impossible to do so.
Once Bannister did it, however, many people followed suit. Indeed, the record has been broken since by almost 17 seconds. All it took was for people to change their mindset and believe they could do it. Once they believed it, they did it (provided of course they had the physical skills to match).
The same is true in your business. Do you believe you can make one hundred dollars? Do you believe you can make one thousand dollars? Do you believe you can make six figures? How about seven figures?
Chances are, you already hold some sort of limitation in your mind, an amount that you believe you can make. If you currently work an outside job, your current salary is a pretty good indication of how much you’ll make in your business …unless you consciously decide to do more, and believe you can do it.
What do I mean?
If you make $25,000 at your current jo
The power of the internet is in its connectivity. Many people think that the internet is great because of its property as a great information resource. However, the true power of the internet lies in the fact that it does connect every people in the whole world to each other. One of the examples of this connectivity is the web based employee time clock.There are many benefits that can be obtained from a web based employee time clock. Here are some of them:1) Multiple locations – if your office has branches in different parts of the world, it can be quite hard to see the right time that employees have punched in. A web based employee time clock allows a company to monitor its employees from anywhere in the world. This means that no one will miscalculate anything because of the time difference.We all know that companies today need to go international in order to actually gain some progress. The development of the web based employee time clock just shows you the dire need for international communication today.Having web based employee time clocks also mean that br
Indeed, I bet there were people in Bannister’s time who were physically capable of running a four-minute mile, but was held back by their mental limitation that said it was impossible to do so.
Once Bannister did it, however, many people followed suit. Indeed, the record has been broken since by almost 17 seconds. All it took was for people to change their mindset and believe they could do it. Once they believed it, they did it (provided of course they had the physical skills to match).
The same is true in your business. Do you believe you can make one hundred dollars? Do you believe you can make one thousand dollars? Do you believe you can make six figures? How about seven figures?
Chances are, you already hold some sort of limitation in your mind, an amount that you believe you can make. If you currently work an outside job, your current salary is a pretty good indication of how much you’ll make in your business …unless you consciously decide to do more, and believe you can do it.
What do I mean?
If you make $25,000 at your current jo
As an eBay trader, I've built a small but enjoyable business on eBay. I pay my listing fees, I pay my final fees, I pay my PayPal fees. Not a problem. Now it seems eBay wants more. Let's take it into context: if (as eBay claims) 3 million sites are paying for the privilege of displaying this 'Square Trade' logo - what is eBay creaming from this? The sums are easy - 3 million x $9.50 per month = $342,000,000 a year. That's right. Read it again. $342,000,000! It's a staggering amount of money, probably more than the GDP of some countries! And for what?You get to display a little green logo on your site. Wow. eBay says this will lead to -A 43% decrease in future negative feedback. What's that? eBay are presumably here presupposing that you will deal with buyers who are bursting at the seams to give you negative feedback. Piffle. In any business you will encounter buyers who are, for whatever reason, determined to trash your service. It's just life. It is up to you, as a trader, to ensure that your customers are satisfied with their purchase. It's no good expecting eBay - or an
The same is true in your business. Do you believe you can make one hundred dollars? Do you believe you can make one thousand dollars? Do you believe you can make six figures? How about seven figures?
Chances are, you already hold some sort of limitation in your mind, an amount that you believe you can make. If you currently work an outside job, your current salary is a pretty good indication of how much you’ll make in your business …unless you consciously decide to do more, and believe you can do it.
What do I mean?
If you make $25,000 at your current job, then you’ll probably make right around that amount unless you decide to make more. If you make $50,000 at your current job, than you can expect to make that amount in your business. In short – whatever amount you make at your job is roughly what you can expect to make at your business.
But you don’t have to bow down to your mind’s limits. Instead, be open and be free. Choose to make more. Believe that you can. Make it so. All you need to do is free your mind.
A few years ago I experienced first-hand the limitations I allowed my mind to put on my activities. Let me explain…
I had just recently started weightlifting. One day I loaded up 70 pounds on the barbell to do a back exercise. The previous week when I did this particular exercise I had used the same weight – 70 pounds – and found it extremely difficult. I was only able to pull a few repetitions per set – so instead of getting in about eight reps, I was doing half that.
Nonetheless, I decided to stick with the same weight and see if I could do better. I expected it to be difficult but a little easier this week – perhaps doing five or more reps per set.
As expected, it was difficult but doable. I improved over my previous week just as I had hoped by knocking out about six reps per set. I was pleased.
After a rest I decided to do another exercise and so had to remove the weight from the bar. That’s when I noticed it – instead of putting 70 pounds on the bar, I had put 80 pounds on the bar!
I was able to do more reps with more weight simply because my mind didn’t KNOW that I was lifting an extra ten pounds! Had I knowingly loaded up 80 pounds on the bar that day, I wouldn’t have eeked out more than a rep or two, because that’s what my mind believed I could do at that point in time.
My mind believed I could do five or six reps with 70 pounds, so that’s exactly what I did – around six reps. But naturally since my mind didn’t know I was dealing with more weight, I was able to complete the task.
All of this made me wonder what other limitations I had put on myself, and what sorts of limitations others put on themselves every day. If you aren’t making what you want to make with your business, there’s a good chance that you’ve set up a limitation in your mind.
Let’s suppose you are making $100 a month, but you want to get to the $10,000 a month level. The truth is if you can make $100, then you can make $10,000 …after all, the first dollar is really the hardest, and after that it’s a matter of replicating what works, leveraging
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