How I Increased My Productivity – A Simple Tip

I know that whoever enters the internet marketing realm, they are flooded with information overload. They keep searching for a better method, for an easier way. They find really valuable information that will work for them if they just followed it; however, they keep looking for and barely take action.

I was once like that. I was reading all the forums related to internet marketing, downloading all the ebooks with catchy titles, in short I was trying to make money without doing what was necessary to make money. That is to take consistent action until it works.

Now, I continue to search and learn about new methods and strategies, though the time I devote to taking action is much more than the time I spend learning. So, how was I able to change my mindset like this?

At one time, while I was reading an ebook, I realized that I knew what it was talking about. The only thing I lacked was the required action the book mentioned. Then, I decided to leave the ebook open and do what it suggested rather than just reading it. I followed every step the report talked about and finally I was at a point where I was taking more action than reading.

From that time, whenever I find something that grabs my attention, such as an ebook or a forum thread, I leave it open and do not read it until I finish taking action in my plan for that day. Because I know that no matter how incredible the ebook or thread is, it will tell me one thing only: Take action, whatever it is.

I got my lesson, and I am on my way to taking more and more action.

Small but Promising Progress in My Efforts

I see that it has been more than two weeks that I last updated my blog. I was busy with lots of things and I started to see some really promising progress in some of my projects. I will talk about each item in detail in the following days, but for now I just want to talk about the titles I am working on at the moment.

Firstly, I made my first Adsense money in the previous week. That was a $0.56 click and it came from a website I started after reading about XFactor Adsense method in Warrior Forum. The thread is closed now, though you can read and find a great deal of valuable information on how to make money with Adsense niche sites. After the first click, I started to put more content and create more backlinks to the site and the number of clicks are increasing slowly but now I know that I am on the right track.

Secondly, I continued to work on promoting CPA offers after seeing some success as I talked about on the post My First CPA Money Ever. And I was able to increase my earnings to just above $100 in January. In the post that I mentioned, I had said that what I was doing was scalable and although I am at the $5/day range now, I will work more on this and try to increase the earnings.

Another thing I had success is selling PLR and MRR products. Selling Master Resale Rights product is something I knew for a long time but hadn’t done anything about. About two months ago, I decided to give it a try and collected some MRR ebooks from the net. I uploaded about 5 products to Tradebit and waited a few days, after seeing no sales I simply gave up. Then one day in December, I got a message telling that I had a sale. That made me really happy and decided to work more on this. After the first sale, I searched the internet and found lots of PLR membership sites and downloaded lots of ebooks. I am now uploading them from time to time. I already got 3 sales in January, and I know I can increase this if I work more on this.

Lastly, I did some more freelance jobs that I like to do about wordpress and excel, and I earned enough money to pay my next three years of hosting. Doing freelance jobs is not my main interest and also not the subject of this blog however, when you need some urgent money, it can be really helpful.

As I said, I will talk about each subject in detail in the following days so stay tuned.

The Biggest Lesson I Learned in 2009

2009-to-2010As the new year starts, it is better for anyone to look back and evaluate the previous year in terms of what they learned and what they did good or bad in total.

For me 2009 passed a bit fast, because I was in the military service in the first half and didn’t have much time to bother with online things. After that, in summer, some offline stuff took a lot of my time and again I couldn’t devote the necessary time to my affiliate marketing efforts. Yet, I never lose the spirit inside me and I always waited for the right time to come when I will be free to work hard on this. Thanks to that, now I started to see some promising results from my various internet marketing efforts.

Luckily, in the last three months of 2009, I had the time to spend some real effort on internet marketing and what I want to talk about now is the most important lesson I got after reading hundreds of ebooks, forums posts, blogs; and trying and failing lots of things. It is:

“Find something that works and scale it.”

I know this is obvious and you all know that, but this was something that I really ignored in the past and I bet most of the beginners do so too.

In the last 18 months of my internet marketing journey, I did lots of things from selling digital photos online to promoting Clickbank products, from Google Adsense to CPA offers and freelance jobs. Nearly all the methods worked less or more and I made between $0.10 to $100 from all these different methods that I implemented. However, I was always looking for a better method and a perfect way to make money online with less work in a shorter time.

Certainly, I would have been in a different position, if only I hadn’t done what I did and instead stick to one method at one time and push it forward to as much as I can, i.e. scale it as much as possible.

Now, I see myself lucky because although it took me a bit long to find things that work, I finally found them and now I am working on to scale them as much as possible. Lately, I have unsubscribed from lots of useless newsletters and stopped signing up for new ones. I am not sure but the number of ebooks I have downloaded in the last three months are not more than 10.

I am starting to the new year with a much more dedicated mindset that knows the importance of managing the time wisely and taking action no matter if it works or not.

I hope you also got your lessons from 2009 and you will enter 2010 accordingly. I wish you all the best in 2010.

How Did I Achieve PageRank 1

Great news here! My blog is now PR1. The last time I checked, it was PR0 and I guess it increased with the latest update. Well, this made me happy. :)

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I know this is not so big and doesn’t mean much but it is one of the steps that motivates me.

So, what did I do to reach a pagerank of 1? Let me tell you that I didn’t do any special things, no tricks or bulk backlink submissions. Mainly I have backlinks from two forums related to internet marketing as signatures. One is Warrior Forum and the other one is Digital Point Forum. Next, I have a few articles on ezinearticles.com and other article directories and I have some blog comments here or there. All done in a natural way, without a “how to increase PR” mindset. Adding all these contributed to PR1.

Now, I will try to get to PR2 but again in a natural way, doesn’t matter how much it takes.

See you.