Internet Marketing - Plan, Action, Accountability

Hello fellow marketers and bloggers and visitors to the TEMPLE!

STARTING YOUR OWN BUSINESS:

Many people who are starting their Internet Marketing businesses (or ANY business for that matter) are taking on this venture as first time business proprietors. Many of them have never experienced being “in charge” before. And it can be a daunting experience.

If this describes you and you haven’t been your own “boss” before then you will undoubtedly experience a range of emotions ranging from elation and the thrill of expectation of success to confusion to apathy and even depression when things don’t go well for you.

PLANNING:

As a business owner, the one thing that you simply must do is PLAN. Not only that but you must monitor your plan every week and review your progress weekly and monthly.

It is just SO easy, when YOU are the boss, to slacken off and do very little or even NOTHING for a day, a week or even a month. DO NOT DO THIS! Make it your mission to do SOMETHING positive EVERY single day! Writing these entries into an exercise book will create a journal of your experiences and, if you do this for 30 days, it will become a habit - a GOOD habit!

ACTION:

After the PLAN it is ACTION that will push you forward. Remember… “Nothing ventured, nothing gained!”

The key to progress is planning, monitoring and adapting. Sure, you can be stubborn and either NOT have a plan at all or not have a plan written down (ie in your head which you WILL forget) or a plan that IS written down but is so rigid that you simply refuse to change it even when you know that it is not working. The good thing about having a written plan is that you can monitor it.

FREE ACTION PLANNER:

Incidentally, I know I bash this but if you haven’t yet got my FREE Action Planner then you can get one here:

ACCOUNTABILITY:

Often it is useful to be able to “bounce” ideas of somebody else who has a common interest OR to allow that person to monitor your progress on a weekly basis. To that end, I have been thinking that it would be a great idea to have an “accountability partner.” Theresa Mayhew actually touched on this a couple of days ago when I was drafting this post on a pad.

A good example is that of a gym or aerobics or yoga partner. You know, somebody who you can meet down at your local gym or sports stadium to train together. It is SO easy for us to cheat ourselves and NOT go but when you know that somebody else is relying on your attendance then we are MUCH likelier to go, aren’t we? Strange huh? We will let ourselves down but it’s much harder to wimp out if somebody else is relying on us.

Something I have found out over the years is that the hardest part is in just getting started, or MAKING THE DECISION to do something.

YOUR THOUGHTS?

So, what are your thoughts on these things? Planning, action and an accountability partner to push you FORWARD in your Internet Marketing efforts? Is an “accountability partner” a good idea? Do you want or need one?

These are my thoughts but tell me what YOU think!

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