Is a Thief Inside Your Head Stealing Your Money?

I have another niche market I participate in and hope to sell products in. This niche market involves a sizable learning curve. I see people come and go in it all the time.

And from my own experiences and those I observe, there is ONE THING that keeps people from making progress. And that thing is self doubt.

1. You may doubt you have the ability to succeed in this business

You know, we all have self doubts. In learning the new skills I’m tell you about, I know I personally have had self doubt.“Is this something I can do? Is this a skill I can master? Am I TOO OLD?”

Yet,the conclusion I come back to over and over is that success in ANY endeavor is the result of behaviors. Change the behaviors and get the result.

Wherever you are, I’ve been there. I know what it is to doubt yourself or your ability. To not be sure if you have what it takes. To try and have your successes far outweighed by things that didn’t work.

It’s easy to get discouraged. To stop. To quit. To think thatthis is the end of the road for you. In this new arena and skill set area I’m working in, I’ve experienced all those feelings and emotions and more.

2. You may doubt your progress

It’s so easy to look at a few successes against more failures and think,“I’m not making progress.” I think this is the hardest thing. You have to tie a knot on your mental rope and hang on. Because the truth is, things almost always don’t work before they DO work.

You have to really tune up your focus on any successes you DO have. And notice the small successes. So maybe you don’t have a ton of sales yet. But you DO have people subscribing. Or you DO have some sales coming in regularly. Or you DO have your blog up and you ARE getting visitors now from Google.

You have to exaggerate mentally the successes you DO have because those are what show you that you ARE making progress and ARE on the right track.

3. Others will rain on your parade

So you finally get to the point where things ARE starting to work. All of a sudden in a forum or someplace, someone RAINS on your parade.They criticize your model, your idea or your efforts.

Maybe they tell you you are pipe dreaming. Or chasing rainbows. And you let it get to you mentally, spiritually or psychically.

I don’t know why this happens. Some people just aren’t very tuned in. You have to believe in yourself and what you’re doing more than anyone else. I don’t know why it’s that way. But it is.

4. You may have a set back

Man, this one is a challenge. You’re going along. You’re making progress. You’ve got some traffic. You’re getting subscribers. Sales are coming in.

Then you have a set back. Something happens in your life, your family, or some area that holds you back or slows you down.

For me last year it was a quadruple hernia. Not exactly what I had in mind for my year. But you move forward. That’s all you can do.

5. You may think or feel that finally you’ve reached a point where “it isn’t working.”

Anytime you’re acquiring a complex set of skills, that can happen. It’s a signal to do some things different. To up your Game. To tweak what you’re doing and how.

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Solutions for You

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Alright, let’s talk about solutions:

1. Operate from a basic checklist

Do you have your autoresponders set up? Do new customers go onto your email list? Are you sending out emails? Do you have a plan or system for getting traffic that has a realistic chance of working? Are you creating and promoting new products? Do you know HOW to do screen capture video and post it? Do you have a blog that looks good?

These are all basics. I’m covering most of them in the Quick Start call and PDF I’m doing for my Writer’s Secret folks.

But you don’t have to buy from me to do these things. I make things easier so you have to figure less out. But the important thing is you have a basic checklist.

2. Give yourself credit for SMALL improvements

Rome wasn’t built overnight. At first, your victories will be much smaller than your defeats. That’s how it is in a learning curve.

3. Tweak but don’t junk

Tweak your game plan but don’t throw the baby out with the bath water. You’ve got to believe in your basic game plan.

4. Know who to IGNORE

Just because someone sounds like they know what they’re talking about and they criticize you does NOT mean you should listen to them. Everyone has a point of view and belief system. Maybe THEIRS is the one jacked up. Not everyone wants to build the same type of business or has the same vision.

5. Do the fundamentals first

If you can’t write a headline, can’t put up a squeeze page, can’t write a guarantee, can’t write and send an email, can’t set up an affiliate program, can’t compile a PDF, can’t make a Camtasia video that’s decent — if you can’t do those things, go back to the fundamentals.

It’s so easy to get distracted by bright and shiny objects. But what I’ve found is that success is the cumulative result of layering basic upon basic and skill upon skill. You know, it’s a cumulative result. That does NOT mean it has to take forever or a long time.

My great pal, friend and inspiration, Jason Fladlien, mastered huge chunks of this business very quickly. It CAN be done. Still, he started with the fundamentals like copywriting and mastered the basics.

You gotta be able to write headlines, bullet points, offers and guarantees. You gotta have your affiliate program. And so forth.

6. Realize that EVERYONE has self doubt

I think one of the biggest obstacles to succeeding is doubting your smart enough, good enough and so forth. At the same time, smart or good alone doesn’t do it. You have to put into effect the right chunks of the business. You gotta get the pieces in place. The foundations.

7. Value doing things

The single most important thing you can DO is something. Just DO things and watch the results. Then tweak and try again. You’ll never succeed without DOING. So get curious what would happen if you DO this? Or DO that? Find some way, some how that you can enjoy the DOING. The BEST way I know of to do that is to get curious. And think about it….if you found yourself getting really curious about the results of DOING things, how would that change the quality and quantity of activity you take now and in the future?

And if you found yourself getting really curious about THAT, what might that look like? How would things change? Enjoy the process.

Fear of making mistakes holds people back. Curiosity about what would happen if you take action makes things happen. It’s easier to tweak a process in motion than it is to get in motion. Get in motion. It’s half of success. Just getting in motion.

1. You gotta see opportunity-Where are your underserved people or topics?

2. You gotta get in motion-Take some action to exploit the opportunity

3. You gotta produce and promote-It may not be pretty at first. It may not make a fortune. But if you find yourself getting really curious about what would happen once you became a producer and a promoter, then you’re almost there.

A week or two ago I showed you a new blog I put up. I’m still working on getting my ducks in a row. But it has ALREADY opened doors and I’ve met people who can help parts of it happen.

And all I did was put up a blog. There isn’t even a video on it. There’s just a basic graphic and a blog template. Success favors those who take action and do things just out of the curiosity to know what MIGHT or COULD happen.

Article By Marlon Sanders-The King of Step-By-Step Internet Marketing and “The Ambassador of Old School Marketing”

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D. Resources you can use

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1. The Marketing Dashboard: Amazing Formula and Gimme boiled down to icons and step-by-step. Doesn’t replace AF and Gimme but useful. Basically, it spoon feeds all the things in AF and Gimme. http://www.getitgoing.com

2. The Marketing Diary: Me teaching Matt daily all the details of the Amazing Formula and Gimme system. This contains additional insights into The Amazing Formula and Gimme that you won’t find in those products. It’s literally what I taught to Matt in his first 90 days with me. http://www.themarketingdiary.com This is an EVERGREEN product and if you’re new to this business you’ll learn tons.

3. After 8 years, thousands of customer emails, thousands of buyers in virtually every major city in the world (and many you haven’t heard of), 13 web site designs, 4 product designs, after ebook and CD versions, after endorsements from major marketers the world over, after hundreds of marketers and products have come and gone, after attacks by the world’s most notorious criminals, after attempts to put it under, there is ONE product that remains and stands tall. There is one product that is stable. http://www.amazingformula.com

4. Are You Paying Over $10.00 For Hosting?

If you are, you may be getting ripped off. Design Dashboard shows you not only the basics of doing your own design but really walks you step by step through setting up your hosting, autoresponders and shopping cart. http://www.designdashboard.com

5. Promote your own products made easy Grab the brilliant video by Adeel Chowdhry on how to mash together stock video, stock sounds and stock music to create an attention-grabbing, compelling video you can put on your sales page, Facebook, Squidoo lenses, Hub Pages, or even Twitter out to your list. http://www.PromoDashboard.com

6. Your Own Products?

It’s the only step-by-step, A to Z system not JUST for creating info products …. but that shows you HOW to select product ideas using my “flanking move” I’ve built my business on, HOW to do 12-product surveys with an actual example, that gives you a tested, proven email & source with a 30% success rate in getting interviews with experts — PLUS, templates that would cost your more than the Dashboard to have custom created! http://www.productsdashboard.com

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E. Get the Evergreen Traffic System

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