5 Tips For Becoming Successful in 2009

[Paul_MN]

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Here are 5 things you should be doing if you want to be successful both now and in the future:

1) Set Clear Goals

Divide them in to short, medium and long term. It could be as simple as adding that killer sales page you have been meaning to do for the last month or it could be as much as earning $10k profit in the next 6 months. Whatever it is make sure you know how and when you will get there and then work towards your goals.

2) Do Not Listen to 'Bad News'

The media are banging on about the recession. Friends and family might be telling you to get a 'real job' or to stop wasting your spare time working. Don't listen to ANY of them. Your success is in your hands not theirs, if you want to achieve your goals you need to get tunnel vision and keep your positivity. Only you can achieve your goals and only you can fail if you listen to others.

3) Test, Test & Test Again

Particularly in the current climate its incredibly important that your pages and sites convert the best they possibly can. The only way to achieve this is to test different ideas and approaches.

4) If at First You Dont Succeed.....Try and Try Again

Or....if you want to be a failure....quit at the first sign things arent working out. Do you really think that the successful affiliates came in here and made big money from day one? Nope. No one who is making big money from affiliate marketing did that.

Everyone starts somewhere and everyone has disappointments, failures and mistakes along the way. But the people who go on to succeed are the ones who do not give up and more importantly, who learn from those mistakes and disappointments and use them to become a better marketeer.

5) Make Lists

Sounds a bit vague but here is what I want you to write down:

3 Things you would like to own - could be a big house, a sports car, a helicopter or anything you would love to own. It doesnt matter whether you think you will ever get it just write it down.

Your 3 strongest traits - could be your knowledge of SEO, could be your organisation, again whatever it is write down your 3 best traits.

Your 3 weakest area - perhaps your copyrwiting needs improving, write down your three biggest weaknesses.

Finally, write down 3 things you want to achieve in the next 6 months - could be a new TV or computer, could be an extra $2k, or it could be launching 2 new sites each with 50 pages of content.

Now you have these lists pin them up.

Whenever you need motivation look at the list of things you would like to own.

Whenever you need confidence look at the list of your strongest traits.

Whenever you need to bring yourself back down to earth after a bumper sales day look at your list of weaknesses.

Whenever you need focus and organisation look at the list of the things you want to achieve in the next 6 months.

:tup

Source: 5 Tips to Being Successul in 2009 - MoreNiche Affiliate Forum - Making You More Money

[notabene]

Tip 6

When employing spamming campaigns, be sure to employ good attention to detail and change values to your audiences relevant currency...

[venture]

Nice to read common sense every now and then. Brings you back to earth.


Cool!

[Paul_MN]

Tip 6

When employing spamming campaigns, be sure to employ good attention to detail and change values to your audiences relevant currency...

Didn't change it as I pulled it straight from the source. I assumed everyone on here was intelligent enough to understand how many £ was in a $.....obviously not

Venture - thanks for the comment, at least some people appreciate the tips

Basic but we all need to go back to basics now and again.

[BmBell]

This is really great advice - practical and to the point but the simple ideas always work best and are always the ones we end up ignoring or neglecting to turn our attention to.!

[notabene]

Banter is totally lost on this website I see....

[nick_idbrokers]

isn't Banter a kind of Chicken.....or maybe I am thinking Turkey

[Wonkey-Donkey]

all of the things I should be doing but am not - I'm making a list now

[Stellar]

Nice tips.

On point 4: If at First You Dont Succeed.....Try and Try Again

I'd like to add a quote from Einstein (Obama has repeated the quote):
“insanity is doing the same thing over and over - and expecting different results!”

so when trying again, try in a different way

[dangregory]

Nice list. One point I'd like to add which has really helped me is when you're setting money making goals, instead of saying, "I want to buy a McMansion" or whatever, make the goals

1) Finite and specific
2) Attainable in a relatively short amount of time

So for instance when I set up a new site I might set the intention that I want that site to pay for my health insurance each month. (Here in the US that's a huge bill for freelancers and self-employed.) So I focus on creating an income stream that will cover that bill each month.

Then I break down my other monthly expenses in a similar way. Keep building sites or campaigns to pay the electric bills, the car insurance, etc.

When you do that and you work on a spread of sites or campaigns it all becomes more workable for me somehow. Maybe this will help others frame their goals, too. Steal my idea!

Dan

[Paul_MN]

Good post Dan.

I agree - you need to have a good mixture of short and very achievable goals and longer term more optimistic goals I think.

The idea is that all your short achievable goals should eventually lead you to your big optimistic goal.

[Hetton]

Those are some pretty generic tips, but you elaborated on them well.