Happy New Year A Quick Look Back And What’s Coming
Happy New Year and I hope you all have the success you are striving for!
Over the holiday period I appear to have partially erased my memory. This morning I tried to login to a site but couldn’t remember the password.
Checking my login folder proved fruitless as I hadn’t saved it either. A small inconvenience but still 10 minutes wasted time.
A quick look back.
2011 was an interesting year in my online endeavours. I joined John Thornhill’s One On One Coaching program, and whilst it is his most expensive course there are many benefits if you are prepared to use them.
You have access to all John’s products and some others he has procured from his Internet Marketing friends.
Basically, you have access to every type of course and money-making idea you would ever need. You just need to find the time to use them.
John preaches that to be a success online you must get into product creation. He has a number of coaching programs and some of the content is used in more than one of his courses as it is relevant to them all.
Producing your own product can seem like a daunting task and unless you are prepared to work you will not get anywhere. He doesn’t offer a total done for you service but he is always around to help.
Lets face it, if you are trying to make a living online you have to be prepared to work hard at it. Forget all those systems that promise you can retire within a week. They don’t work and the people behind them are making a fortune based on the fact that we are prepared to try it out ‘just incase it does works’.
OK, back to product creation, procrastination, fear and failure.
One of the courses that John runs is his Marketing Masterclass and it is a slightly cut down version of his Partnership To Success course that I am on but it is still a very good course if you are prepared to put in the work.
Unfortunately, not everyone is, and there are some members who just give up and some times they will be well into the course and ‘something will come up’ which stops them in their tracks. No doubt some have genuine problems but in my opinion some give up before they really try.
Mindset is a well versed subject which is very relevant if you want to succeed.
You simply have to bite the bullet. Procrastination and fear of failure are only a frame of mind and taking the first steps is often the hardest thing to do.
Creating your own product doesn’t have to be as difficult as you convince yourself it is. You don’t need to create something that nobody has done before and it doesn’t matter how many similar products are out there. Just getting your first product finished is the start of things to come.
You will undoubtably go through the full range of emotions and self-doubt will be your close companion for a lot of your journey. Even when you have created your first product you will wonder if it will sell at all, but you must carry on, put all your fears behind you and look to the future and not the past.
So, what does 2012 have in store for me?
Well, I finished my first product, http://www.30daytrafficflow.com which basically does what it says in its name. It is a system to help people get a flow of targeted traffic to their sites in 30 Days or less.
I spent hours putting the content together and at no stage in the proceedings was I happy that it would ever be finished. Indeed it probably won’t be as I intend to add to it whenever I think I can improve it.
It has been available on Clickbank since just before Christmas but we don’t intend to launch until mid January. It would be nice to get a few sales under its belt though as it would be good to keep the thoughts of self-doubt at bay.
I am in the process of creating my second product which is more of a membership site for traffic generation. It is fully functional at the moment but I need to work more on the sales page and the content. It is called Traffics Cool and I have done a simple page with a few affiliate links at http://www.traffics-cool.com, a free offer to join my membership at http://www.traffics-cool.com/free/ and a blog at http://www.traffics-cool.com/blog/.
I am trying to build a list and hopefully my two products will go a long way to doing that.
So, onwards and upwards and quitting is not an option.
What will 2012 bring for you? A full range of emotions, your own product, a few sales or many sales? If you do nothing, nothing will happen. Don’t sit around waiting for your lottery ticket to come up or the new fangled product that really works bringing you a fortune overnight.
Grasp the nettle and enjoy the journey. Make this year your year!
To Your Success
Dave Whitworth