And what about those things that you already had planned for time slot you call tomorrow? Now you'll have to yet push them further into future.. Before you know it this behavior has been pushing things on top of each other for years and there isn't enough lifetime to do all things that this monster has tricked and lied to get you to put off.

Tomorrow’s time slot is already full of tomorrow’s things. A decision to procrastinate is in fact a decision to NOT do what you know is important! And you thought you didn't have any enemies!

Some Other Important Gameplay Hints And Tactics

Where monsters hang out:

You' ll find that there are certain places where you are likely to be attacked. Your inbox is notorious for creature attacks. Any hyperlink is as likely as not to lead to a monsters lair.

Look for monster attacks whenever you read ads, listen to seminars or any time you are "pitched" a monster may try to get you to change your plans. Realize that if you change your plan, you have been successfully attacked!

In computer games we get immediate rewards throughout. When we defeat an enemy, solve a puzzle, complete a task we get immediate positive feedback. We may get rewarded with money, gold, gems, treasure, armor, weapons and so on. We also get immediately stronger, smarter, faster etc through a system of levels and points.

With marketing rewards are often in distance and many times we don't even last long enough to ever receive them so we are always frustrated. We need to build some rewards into our marketing so that we get immediate positive feedback.

For those of you that have never played video or computer games, ( you should probably seek help :-) ) there are particularly difficult enemies at strategic locations know as "bosses". These confrontations can take a looooong time and many tries to win.

Beating these guys is usually accompanied by positive feelings like power, relief, triumph, victory, success, and generally "I finally got you, you *&^%)#@$!% ". It helps to remember to pat yourself on back when you beat marketing monsters.

You can design a point system for tasks that you do so that you can see just how much progress you' re making even before you start going to bank. For instance a good Game Point System is as follows:

These can be done in any order:

Create your own website...100pts. Create an original content ezine...100pts. Write 50+ articles...5pts per article. Write 1 or more ebooks...400pts each. Submit your ezine to 100+ ezine directories...2pt each. Create 200+ links back to your site...2pts each. Submit your articles to 25+ directories...4pts each. Frequent 3-5 discussion boards 3-5 times a week...5pts each. Learn and practice ad tracking...10pts per ad. Determine a budget for ezine and ppc ads...10pts per ad.

This is just to get you thinking, there are many more activities that I haven 't listed and values that I have given are surely not written in stone.

Like with a good computer Role Playing Game, you ALWAYS WIN UNLESS YOU QUIT! Aim for a couple hundred points and feel success. When you get to 1000-1200 or more you'll begin to feel great because you' ll have experience, knowledge, a growing optin list and income.

You won't always be able to stop a monster attack just because you recognize it. It may last for a few minutes, hours, days, or months. But when you look back on it and see that you have been under it's evil spell you will gain power and mastery. While under it's influence you 'll swear that changing your plans is right thing to do and it makes perfect sense, but when you recover you'll think, WOW I'm finally getting it!

Monster Hunting

Step one: Write down your plans for marketing both immediate for today and tommorrow and for next weeks and months.

Step Two: Notice whenever you change your plans. Why did you change when you knew so strongly when you wrote your plans that it was right thing to do. It's likely that you have been successfully attacked.

Learning and Automation

Finally, some major differences in computer marketing and computer gaming exist in areas of learning and automation.

There are few video games that take longer than an hour or so to be able to play well enough to have fun and win. Yet it can take many hours over weeks and months to reach this level of expertise in marketing game.

Of course video games have repetitive actions that involve mostly pointing and clicking with mouse where as marketing tends to involve more keyboarding. There are probably equal amounts of problem solving and marketing can be somewhat easier in this respect because rarely is one required to do it without a complete roadmap. This roadmap is typically known in gaming world as a "walkthrough".

Using a "walkthrough" is considered cheating by some die hard gamers but it is expected and reasonable with internet marketing. Fortunately there are some very good "walkthroughs" available for new marketers designed by experienced "adventurers" who have been there and done that.

The absolute best internet marketing "walkthrough" is by a guy you've probably heard of named Marlon Sanders. He's very well known on net.

What it is, is a Marketing Dashboard. The concept is you point, click and follow steps. So it's literally "point and click marketing".

The Marketing Dashboard is divided into 6 steps, with 6 steps each, which makes it a 6 week program with actions you take -- 6 days per week. The best thing is to see a screen capture of marketing dashboard, and you'll instantly understand how it will help you.

(c) 2004 by David McCammon

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It’s now time to let media start working for you.

The next step for you is to start budgeting all of your resources. Up until now you’ve been using time, one resource which cannot be created or renewed. Once it’s been used, it’s gone forever.

How about starting to use another resource…..money!

Do you have an advertising budget? Have you ever even thought about it? Invariably an advertising budget is one thing which new business owners don’t allocate for, don’t consider, and just can’t bring themselves to spend. And I ask, Why Not??!!??!!

One of reasons is that you’ve been indoctrinated to believe that successful marketing is a function of mindset, positive, pro-active, enthusiastic, etc. All true. And all marketing. Your results to date have been less than explosive. Coming in dribbles rather than a downpour, and, as previously mentioned, your conclusion is to work harder.

What happened to paid for advertising?

How about working wiser for a change? Start to allocate a percent of each sale that you make to your advertising budget. Just like you have a household budget, you need to have a business budget.

And what will an advertising budget do for you? It will enable you to reach thousands of people with your business message, instead of just dozens. Can you imagine??? Thousands of people being aware of your company, thousands of people considering your products or services, thousands of people that you can market your message to. Wow. What a concept.