Copyright 2005 Timothy Spaulding

You excitedly signed up for that pre-made money generating
website you saw in a popbehind window. You signed up for the
affiliate IDs. You set up your autoresponder and signed up for
several “traffic generators”. You read the writings of all the
internet gurus. Then you sat back and waited to pull in those
MASSIVE PROFITS!

Its now a year later and what do you have to show – 150
subscriptions to your ezine and a couple of downline affiliates.
You are disgruntled, dejected and more broke than you were when
you started this venture. You feel that it is time to give up.

Don’t.

A major breakthrough leading to increasing success in your home
business may be just around the corner. Here are a few steps to
take before throwing in the towel.

Why did you start?

When you first signed up there were circumstances in your life
that led you to look for a home business opportunity. These may
have been due to a job loss, desire for more time with your
family or need to supplement retirement income. Whatever the
reason, most likely they still exist. Write them down. Put it in
big letters on a single page and post it where you will be likely
to see it several times a day – on the bathroom mirror, on the
refrigerator, on a kitchen cabinet, the bedroom door – somewhere
that you will see it and remind yourself of the ultimate goal.

Focus

When you started you become excited about a product or service.
But along the way you have been bombarded with the “next best
thing”. It’s easy to get started but then but when it comes down
to DOING what you start, it gets hard and doesn't happen as fast
as you would like it to.

Jack Humphrey, in his article “Focus and Fear of Success - The
Biggest Monkey on Your Back?” says “The problem lies with
your focus and your fear of success. You must CHOOSE the
opportunity you are passionate about, or create a product you
stand behind and love, and then hunker down for the long-haul!
Make yourself do everything you are taught to do to build your
business and build it - all the way or not at all.”

Create/retool your marketing plan

You may or may not have created a plan for marketing your
opportunity. The two must haves to be successful are a large and
growing opt in list and massive traffic to your website. In all
those forums you probably learned several methods to boost your
online presence, including:

1. Listing your ezine in ezine directories 2. Signing up for
pay-per-click advertising 3. Exchanging links 4. Buying leads
from a lead generator 5. Signing up with traffic generators, such
as searchestate 6. Buying ezine advertising

You may have tried these and several more. But did you have a
plan? Stone Evans, the Home Biz Guy, in his free ebook, “30 Days
To Success”, says ”Some of the key marketing activities
that you should perform on a regular basis are starting to show
up once every week: write and article, submit your article,
create links back to your site, network in forums... I strongly
recommend that you keep these vital practices up for the life of
your business.”

“ You see, it is very unlikely that one BIG event is suddenly
going to make you an Internet marketing success story and cause
you to become rich overnight. In truth, it's all the small things
you do that add up over time and ultimately allow you to become
successful in this or any business undertaking.”

Execute the plan

Now that you have refocused on your goals, narrowed in on your
product and built a marketing plan all that’s left is to execute
that plan. Set aside time every day that you will spend on your
plan. Write an article on Monday, submit it on Tuesday, exchange
links on Wednesday and so on.

Ultimate Success

You had your reasons for deciding to start your own home based
business. You must always keep your reasons in the forefront of
your mind. You must always be able to rely upon your own self and
your dedication to the success of your business.

Success is within your reach, if only you can stay focused on
your goals. You must decide to reach for your goals, and then,
you must have the discipline necessary to reach them.


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nice article ...

This part I agree with 100% ...
That's great advice for those who are struggling after the initial buzz of starting their own business from home - remember, at the end of the day it's still a business: find a market need/want and fill it!

Cheers,
Martin

Sometimes marketing strategy change the result of your business. You can see that a small home business can be great with a perfect strategy if you can have it. Either always the problem raise.

Nice articles mate

Very inspirational article. Too many people today over-emphasize on running a home business. It can get hary at times, but it is very much as simple as focus, plan, and execute. Just needs dedication.

Very nice article. I agree with Shawn. Just gotta focus and have the discipline to reach your goals. Otherwise, you're just gonna end up giving up.

Focus and execution is very important not just in your home business but in every plans you have in your life, may it be on sports, music or academics. Executing is the difficult part but this is the most vital thing as well.