I'd like to tell you about some of the horrible mistakes I made when I first started marketing my business on the internet.
1. SPENDING TOO MUCH OR TOO LITTLE MONEY: When you're new, you want to make sure you set a marketing and training budget that is within your financial resources. Do everything within your power to stay inside your budget. Allow yourself room in your budget to invest in your education.
2. TRYING TO DO IT ALL by yourself: Get a mentor or a coach... Or find a group or community online that you can connect with, mastermind with, and learn from. This will save you an immense amount of time and energy from having to figure everything out on your own. Partner up with people whom you can learn from. Surround yourself with motivated, positive, and successful people.
3. SPAMMING THE SOCIAL NETWORKS: Do not spam... It is literally 'business suicide' if you do. Spamming means posting your biz opp link or website all over other people's Facebook, MySpace, or Twitter profiles... And doing so without providing any content or value will throw you into a hole so deep, it will literally take a miracle to get you out.
4. NOT BEING GENUINE: People can inherently sense your inner motivations. If you are only concerned with your pocketbook and see others online as only 'commodities'... You will seriously repel people rather than attract them. Make sure you are authentic and genuine when you network or meet others online. In network marketing, it is better to give than to receive.
5. TOO MUCH TOO SOON: Beginners often learn so much about Internet Marketing they become overloaded. Their answer to this is to start a lot of different projects in different areas. This spreads the marketer's efforts so thin that none of the areas are given adequate time and thought to be successful. It is vital to focus your efforts on only a few areas at a time!
6. STAYING TRAPPED IN THE WORKER-BEE STATE OF MIND: In order to become a successful entrepreneur, you have to let go of the conditioned employee mindset that society has forced upon us. As an entrepreneur, you no longer have anyone telling you what to do, when to do it, or how... So you have to take accountability for your achievement, set goals, build self-discipline, and grasp that success does not happen overnight.
7. NOT TAKING ENOUGH ACTION: Unless you work hard and apply an enormous amount of get-up-and-go, you'll never achieve the momentum to truly get to the peak. But the good news is... Once you make it to the top, it's all downhill from there.
9. NOT GIVING ANY SUFFICIENT VALUE: The person who offer's a large amount genuine VALUE will be the one of top, period. Value means sharing content, knowledge, training, inspiration, or anything else that will actually help better someone else's life.
10. NOT EXPANDING YOUR KNOWLEDGE BASE: Triumphant entrepreneur's make self growth a priority. They actually seek out situations and experiences that will CHALLENGE them and help them grow. They do not avoid hardship or new terrain, they do not put their focus solely on their bank accounts, and they do not see themselves as failures when things don't go as expected. They do not quit after a setback or challenge, but persevere and stay committed to themselves. A highly evolved person will not see success as making a ton of money, but only in how much they actually GROW in the process.
To Your Success, Clint White
http://www.workwithclint.com
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