The 10 Success Basics For Your Online Business

Written by Sopan Greene, M.A., www.NetMarketingMastery.com


It's always a good time to review what's been working or not working for you in your marketing efforts. Takerepparttar time to be honest with yourself about whether or not you're moving forward.

There is no such thing as failure. You have to take action to do what people call "failing." If you take action you'll learn something. If you apply what you learn then you didn't fail and you learned a way to not get where you want to go. You learned something you know to not do again.

What have your actions taught you? What's moving you forward and what's holding you back?

There are different ways to build a profitable online business, but a few rules apply to everyone. No matter how you're working on your business always rememberrepparttar 104847 basics:

1. The bigger your own personal opt-in e-mail list is,repparttar 104848 more money you'll make. The guru's sayrepparttar 104849 magic number is 10,000 subscribers. I began seeing results after I passed 3,000. Nothing is more important than building your list. All of your efforts should be directed towards building your list.

2. If you sell your own product you'll make a lot more money a lot faster.

3. The more you believe in what you're selling and how it will help others,repparttar 104850 more money you'll make.

4. If you're in it just forrepparttar 104851 money, you'll have a hard time. It's no different than someone who works a commission sales job trying to sell a product they don't care about.

5. A business is not a get rich overnight proposition. The longer you stay inrepparttar 104852 gamerepparttar 104853 more successful you'll become. Business online or offline is business. It's a marathon race, not a sprint.

6. Don't re-inventrepparttar 104854 wheel. Findrepparttar 104855 biggest online successes and copy what they're doing. Change what you need to in order to make it fit what you're selling, but market exactly likerepparttar 104856 pros if you want to get their results.

Greasing the Path to Success: Finding the Confidence to Step Up to Key Moments

Written by Nina Ham


Whether it’s making a prospecting call to a promising business contact, giving an informal “elevator speech” to a networking group, or attempting to close a transaction, there are certain key moments when putting your best-dressed foot forward really matters. Some of life’s fortunate people seem to be naturally at their best finding confidence under pressure. The rest of us have to learn. Confidence matters. Few would argue that developing confidence is a good investment. You’ll be more comfortable and therefore more motivated in your marketing efforts. It’s difficult to sustain an effort overrepparttar long haul – a requirement, for successful networking and marketing – if we’re miserable doing it. Furthermore, marketing and branding experts tell us that confidence isrepparttar 104846 #1 reason people buy what they buy. Where do they get confidence to tryrepparttar 104847 product or service forrepparttar 104848 first time? From you, from your confidence in what you offer. Confidence on command. Let’s say you have to make an outreach call to someone who can potentially refer you business. Stomach butterflies are on a rampage. You’ve scriptedrepparttar 104849 call, but your voice is still flat with anxiety. How do you suddenly summon confidence? Confidence is like one ofrepparttar 104850 body’s involuntary muscles. You can’t make it fire on command. It either fires or it doesn’t. Butrepparttar 104851 smaller muscles around it, contributing to its tone and strength, are voluntary. You can help yourself build confidence by doingrepparttar 104852 small things. You probably already have a repertoire of quick-fix confidence-builders that work for you. From my years of helping people grow, here are some of my favorites. Practice Talk about your product or service, with strangers as well as acquaintances. Do it again. Do it frequently, whether “successful” or not. Keeprepparttar 104853 interval between short.

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