By
Jeff Czyzewski on December 28th, 2010
2010 has flown by and now it’s time to look at what 2010 had to offer us in the Internet Marketing industry and what I plan on setting for my own theme for 2011.
It’s no surprise that there were hundreds of ‘Big Launches” that took place in 2010. Most offering nothing but the same rehashed garbage designed to take your money.
Yes, I said it. There were tons of low value, low quality products boasting how they could teach you to make $45, 129 in 30 days.
Most of my readers know that I don’t and won’t suggest or promote any product unless I use it myself or have looked through it personally. Sometimes I received advanced free copies of the products, but most of the time I buy them myself.
Regardless of how I get access to the product, if it’s trash you won’t hear about it from me. Thus, if you’re on my email newsletter list you probably haven’t received many emails from me in 2010 for that reason.
(If you’re not on my email newsletter list you should signup, I give away lots of cool stuff there)
So, in 2011 I’ve decided that I wanted a theme I could run my business and life by.
Something that we all take for granted here in the US and worldwide.
The theme for 2011 is Freedom. Not just the Freedom that most of us experience in our every lives, like the ability to say what you’d like, live where you want and do as you wish (in most cases). That’s the Freedom that previous generations fought for and continue to fight for.
What I’m talking about is Freedom that you create.
You can create the Freedom from negativity.
You can create the Freedom to enjoy the life you want.
You can create the Freedom of being able to afford to pay your bills, live in the house you’d like, take care of your family and enjoy great vacations.
You can do all of this, but like those before us, you need to work, and sometimes fight for it.
Think about this…
This last year, how many different products to you buy that were supposed to make a difference in just days or hours for you?
And this last year, how long did you work with those products before you just stopped and gave up because you didn’t see instant results?
Think back to what you did last January and how you wanted to start 2010. Did you do it? Did you accomplish it? My guess is, you didn’t.
Now, imagine where you could be right now had you stuck with a plan and accomplished something each day. 1 Year later you’d likely be making some, and maybe a lot of money. However, odds are, you’re not.
I’m NOT going to tell you it’s NOT YOUR FAULT. Honestly, it is your fault. You didn’t follow through.
Now maybe it was the plan or product you purchased that just didn’t give you the step by step instructions you needed. Or maybe you just couldn’t afford the tools you needed to make everything happen. Sure, that’s likely.
But what did you do to fix that problem?
I can say all of this, because I’ve been there.
I’ve experienced this in business, in life, in my own goals of losing weight.
Each day I’d “give it a shot” and if I didn’t see results in a few days I’d want to give up. That was clearly the wrong approach. I was too busy looking at the big picture and my end goal instead of the my milestones along the way.
Let’s take my weight loss goal as an example. I want to lose 35lbs-40lbs. Back in July of ’10 I set out on that goal. After a week of eating right and working out I hadn’t seen any results. I didn’t look thinner, the scale didn’t say I weighed less and I felt miserable about it. However, I kept pushing on.
In hindsight I should have taken a better approach to keep myself motivated. However, after 2 weeks I started to see results. Today, almost 6 months later, I’m down 29lbs, almost at my goal. Here’s how I changed my thinking.
Instead of looking at the end goal of 40lbs, I’m looking at the smaller, achievable and measurable accomplishments.
Each week I want to get to the gym at least 4 times and I want to run at least 10 miles per week. If I do that, I know I’m accomplishing something. The act of getting to the gym will help me lose the weight I want and it’s done in small chunks. Day by Day.
How SMR Can Help You…
Small Measurable Results can be applied to everything you do.
So, you want the Freedom of debt, Freedom from your job, Freedom of travel. The question is, what is your first step to get there?
Well, if you want to make money online you aren’t doing to do it all in one day unless you have your own product and the top 100 affiliates in the internet marketing world behind you.
Instead, you are going to make little moves each day to get you toward your goal.
Day 1: Do some research of what people want and what’s selling. It could be as simple as spending a few hours surfing the web for ideas.
Day 2: Take your idea and plan how to get people to see your offer. Maybe it’s a website, a facebook fan page, your own blog, your twitter account, a Youtube video. Right now, it’s just a plan.
Day 3: Begin putting your plan in place. If you’re building a website or blog, find a domain name and hosting company. Get the basics done and walk away. Feel like you’ve accomplished something.
Day 4: Spiff up your website with some graphics and a few posts about what you’re promoting. Simple stuff. Just get it done.
Day 5: Write some articles or content for your website or to put out there in article directories. Spend an hour, nothing more.
Day 6: Bookmark your website on sites like StumbleUpon, Digg and tell your friends about it.
Day 7: Create a Youtube video, submit some more articles to article directories, do some more bookmarking.
It’s now a week later and look at what you’ve accomplished by spending just a few hours a day. At most, we’ve spent 1-2 hours putting everything together and now have a core site about the product we want to promote and make money by selling.
We can now revise it, make it better and continue to build traffic.
Now, the alternative was that we could have done nothing, spend each of those 7 days looking for some other magic bullet, spending money on some other product and thinking about how badly we want to make money.
Instead, we now have a method of doing it. We are closer to the Freedom we want to achieve using Small Measure Results.
What’s your goal for 2011 and how are you going to accomplish it?
Leave me a comment below and tell me what your 2011 goal is how you’re going to accomplish it. And…if you need help with it, what kind of help do you need.
A few things to note about this particular niche. My keyphrase had 5.9 Million competing broad match sites and 247,000 phrase match sites. Most people wouldn’t have touched that thinking there was too much competition.
The site above I started tracking the very next day I created it. I literally built the site (via a wordpress blog), added some plugins and let it go.
