I’ve been writing about how to make money on the internet now for several years and one thing I’ve noticed from people who are successful at the make money online game (as opposed to those who are not) is the level of persistence they apply to their online endeavors. It’s simply not possible to ‘set and forget’ in the highly competitive realm of online business. Sure, you might make a few bucks for a few months or even years, but the big success and bolded dollar signs are the result of consistency and effort over the long term.
Let me illustrate this with a story I read recently on an online forum.
The author of the story was someone who was well known on the forum and moderately successful for several years. His contributions to discussion (the forum is about making money online) were excellent… and then one day he just seemed to dissapear. I know a lot of forum regulars missed him and this became even more apparent when he ‘reappeared’ several months later without anyone having heard even so much as a peep out of him in the meantime.
As it turns out, as he explained when he made his first ‘come back’ post, was that he had realised that his online work was going along at a snails pace compared to where he knew it ought to be and that he found he was spending a lot of time on distractions (including the forum where he had been very active). In an effort to increase his online productivity and his success he decided he would devote himself entirely to building his online income for three months without doing anything else. No forums, no surfing, no anything except his core business.
When he returned after those three months at the grindstone he reported he had gone from a moderate online income to earning $40,000 in the three months he was at it full-time – equal to the amount he had made in the year before. He had put in 18 hour days and gone back to the essence of his business plan and it had paid off big time. Now that he has his business growth under his belt from this effort he has been able to afford a bit more time to contribute to the forum and has motivated and inspired a lot of other members to do similar things and achieve similar success with their online money making.
So persistence pays. Distractions are called distractions for a reason. They take away from the power of channeled energy and focus and can cost huge dollar in unclaimed potential. So the next time you are tempted to read a blog, forum, newsletter or just browse aimlessly when you should be building new sites, growing old ones, chasing leads or backlinks ask yourself what an extra $40,000 would do for you in the next three months and get back to business.
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