Tarang Bhargava

You woke up of the bed, full of enthusiastic and excitement to begin your internet marketing adventure. Excited at the financial freedom that internet marketing brings, you quickly took your sumptuous breakfast and start working on your computer. Half a day passes by and you realize that you haven't really done much...

So what happen?

Due to a heavy breakfast, you started to feel sleepy. When you woke up, an hour has passed. You took some time to check your email and found out that your friend has uploaded her latest photo into MySpace. You check out that as well.

When you start working for a while, one of your friends send you an msn text message and you have a short conversation. Later on, you stumble into an innocent looking link which lead to a salespage that promises you $50 per day when you joined. You pay the membership fee and after looking around, decide that it isn't worth joining and proceed to ask for a refund. When you look back at your clock, half the day is over.

Without a doubt, one of the enemies that hinder our success in internet marketing lies in the 'Devilish' Distraction that we face everyday. In order to combat the enemy, we need to know how they work so that we can start working our way to success.

As Sun Tzu put it, ""Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without peril."

Let's look at the various types of attacks that the enemy possesses

Devilish Distraction #1: Lack of Vision
As Proverbs 29:18 put it, "Where there is no vision, the people perish."

Without a vision in place on the direction that your business is heading to, you will be constantly be distracted by the new fad and trend that emerge from internet marketing. Marketer will get sidetracked and jump to the latest hot bandwagon because they are not able to differentiate the type of opportunity that are align with their business vision. As a result of that, more time and money would be wasted in evaluating and 'testing out' other opportunity instead of focusing on their business vision.

Devil Buster #1:
Develop a vision and a game plan for your business. Think clearly on what you want to achieve in your business and take a pen to write it down. Break down your game plan into daily workable activities that build your MOMENTUM in your business building.

Devilish Distraction #2: Chat Program
Chat program such as yahoo messenger, msn, skype are one of the most distracting stuff that ever residues on your desktop. You might face a bombardment of chat request from your friends on a daily basis. You thought that you could just talk to them for 5 min...but one discussion lead to another and before you know it, 30 min has passed you by and you realized that nothing constructive has been done for your business.

Devil Buster #2:
Make it a point not to go online in chat program unless you really have to discuss some stuff with the person. Even if you have to go online to meet somebody, try appearing in offline mode and message the person when he goes online. That way, you can focus your time in building your business and not exposed yourself to unnecessary temptation.

Devilish distraction is in no doubts virtual road blocks that delays your time in getting to your success destination. Thus, it is absolutely necessary to identify them and eliminate them along the way when we encounter them.

In part 2 of beware the 'Devilish' Internet Marketing Distraction, we'll be looking at 5 more devilish distractions and how you can 'bust' them out of your life and be on your way to highly effective marketing.

Justin Koh is a leading web marketing expert and software innovator. He teaches you practical ways of making money on the internet in his 'Internet Business Breakthrough' newsletter which can be found at http://www.justin-koh.com

// posted by 3apriloshn @ 1:11 PM 0 comments