HOW TO STAY MOTIVATED WHEN BUSINESS IS SLOW

Written by Vicente Alfonso


HOW TO STAY MOTIVATED WHEN BUSINESS IS SLOW BY: Vicente Alfonso Contributing Writer April 14,2003

Let's say you get sick ofrepparttar rat race, and decide to start your own business. You do your research and set uprepparttar 105485 business. nowrepparttar 105486 only problem is that orders are not coming as quick as you would like, and you begin to wonder if you maderepparttar 105487 right choice. You begin to have doubts. here's what I have found that can help you throughrepparttar 105488 tough times when you have what social scientist refer to as "critical days." STAY FOCUSED..... Several years ago I was affiliated with a network marketing company. The company name isn't important, however, what they taught, is. I would go torepparttar 105489 meetings, and listen torepparttar 105490 them "preachrepparttar 105491 gospel." One thing that I learned was that if a person's fear of failure is greater than their desire to succeed, then they will fail.Think about why you decided to start your own business inrepparttar 105492 first place. Maybe you felt overworked and underpaid. Maybe you felt unappreciated and just had enough. Maybe you just want to be rich. Whateverrepparttar 105493 reason, it was strong enough for you to make a decision. Stay focused and keep your eyes onrepparttar 105494 prize. WATCH THE COMPANY YOU KEEP..... I also learned that there are several people known as "dream destroyers" that can kill your enthusiasm and take your dreams away from you. When I was younger, my parents gave me 1000 reasons why I shouldn't get involved in a business. They told me everything that could go wrong.What they should have done was tell me what could go right as well. People are scared ofrepparttar 105495 unknown and when they see you doing things that they themselves can't, or are not doing, they try to dissuade you.Look atrepparttar 105496 people around you. If they are not livingrepparttar 105497 lifestyle that you would like to live,then they are no authority. PERIOD! If your uncle comes to you and tells you that he knew someone once who tried something like that 20 years ago, don't let it get to you, remember that YOU are in charge of your destiny!!!

The Secret From The King Of Pay Per Clicks

Written by Willie Crawford


At Joel Christopher's recent Master List Builders' Workshop in San Antonio, Texas, Marlon Sanders toldrepparttar audience that I was "The King Of Pay Per Clicks." He explained that there was no investment he could think of that gave a faster or better return on your investment than pay-per-click search engines. After all, I had done campaigns where I earned $7 for every $1 invested.

Marlon, was just teachingrepparttar 105484 crowd that on-line success doesn't have to be cosmic. Often,repparttar 105485 things you need to do are staring you right inrepparttar 105486 face. The reaction fromrepparttar 105487 crowd, and conversations with people afterward, showed me that many people do need to develop a strategy for using this powerful tool in their marketing mix. So in this article let's look at how to effectively use pay per click search engines to drive massive amounts of highly targeted traffic to your website.

The real secret to using pay-per-click search engines effectively is drivingrepparttar 105488 *right* traffic to your site. Since you are paying for these visitors, you want visitors who really want whatever it is that you are selling. You don't want to attract browsers. You want people who will arrive at your site and takerepparttar 105489 action your site is structured to generate. You also want to do this as inexpensively as practical.

The most important thing that you do in usingrepparttar 105490 pay-per-click search engines is write your listing correctly. This is what determines whether you get back many times your investment, or whether you just end up with disappointments and even trouble-makers.

I teach that you should write a pay-per-click listing as if it were a singles ad. A singles ad tells whatrepparttar 105491 desirable traits are inrepparttar 105492 person you are looking for. They tell what this ideal person should like to do, and equally as important, what this person should not be like. For example, shouldrepparttar 105493 person love kids, or be a non-smoker, or enjoyrepparttar 105494 outdoors?

Your pay-per-click listing should conveyrepparttar 105495 same information. Your title should grabrepparttar 105496 attention of who you are looking for. Thenrepparttar 105497 body ofrepparttar 105498 listing should continue describing your ideal prospect, by spelling out benefits, while atrepparttar 105499 same time, disqualifying prospects you don't want.

Yes, there are prospect that you don't want. Remember, you are paying for people to click through to your site. You only want to pay for people that will give you a good return on investment. You only want to pay for people who will allow you to accomplish your ultimate objective. That objective could be to build a list. That objective could be to get someone to get involved in a cause. That objective for many of us is to get people to purchase our products. To only attract people likely to take that action, your listing needs to be worded properly.

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