Ignore The Modern Day Gold Rush

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In December of 2004 I joined The Warrior Forum the second time. I remember because it was a couple days after my birthday and I remember trying to find my original login information. I just wound up signing up again.

As of right now, at the time of this posting, I have a total of 2 posts on that forum.

I’m not going to lie.

I ignored that place for this long because I couldn’t stand the arrogance and just needed to stay away from the negativity. The word noob and newbie and nub and noobie really get to me.

I mean really… when do you graduate from noob to doer and so-on and who determines when you move up the ranks?! Who gives the diploma? Is there job placement?!

Sheesh! Enough already…

Another huge reason I had to get my butt outta there was because I am the type of person that is information hungry and I love ‘tools’.

You’re probably saying “Well if that’s true Guy, then why would you NOT want to be there? Duh!”

Because!

Why in the world would I want to hang out with a bunch of marketers all marketing their own stuff that I am very tempted to buy that will only point me away from what I’m doing and have me bouncing off the walls as if I was in a pinball machine!?

They are all trying to sell me something and I am prone to buy and I don’t need it!

You know where this would leave me? With analysis paralysis. Wondering if I needed to reevaluate my direction and doubting myself! There’s too much information to make any sense of it all. I was also afraid of going broke before making any money.

Keeping It Basic

One huge lesson for me is gaining the ability to keep things simple. The gold rush effect that seems to loom over the Internet Marketing community is indeed a very distracting effect. It’s a real enemy and in my opinion fuels procrastination.

It really takes hard core discipline to keep your blinders on and tread forward.

Here are some tips I use…

Set Goals

1. I pull out my journal and I set goals. This is a hard habit to get into but the payoff is tremendous. The simple idea of writing it down has this magic effect that turns ideas into something you can touch. When you see what you need to do, it impels you to take action. Goals can look something like this.

Monday: Research 4 keywords that have decent traffic and buyer words that I can write articles on to test a market. Go to Squidoo and snatch up the lens links for each of them.

Tuesday: Write an article for each keyword and create the lenses.

And so on…

None of those goals will say anything about researching the latest SEO Tools and buy the best one, or get on Warrior Forum and respond to 40 posts (unless you are marketing internet marketing products and Warrior Forum is a selling ground for you).

This doesn’t mean that you can’t go out and add value when you have time and all your tasks are done. If you’ve reached your goals and you feel satisfied… go ahead! Reward yourself.

Eat That Frog

2. Eat That Frog. Have you ever heard that saying? Brian Tracy has a book entitled that. What ever the hardest most daunting task you have to do that day… Do it first thing in the morning. Get it over with.

Build Rome

3. Rome wasn’t’ built in a day and either will your business. Take bite sizes! Keep your tasks manageable. Don’t overwhelm yourself. It’s sucks bad to come up short because you have too much to do. I see it in myself, I see it in my wife, I see it everywhere! When you have too much to do in a day and you can’t get it done, it has a way of getting to you. Don’t let it get to that point.

Don’t Blink

4. Keep your target in your sites. Not only do you have to know what your target is… you also have to keep looking at it! What would a marksman be if he closed his eyes right before he pulled the trigger? What about a hunter? The deer would laugh at him! Don’t look away. Choose ahead of time what you are going for with careful consideration and then stick to it. Don’t deviate from what you set out to do.

Cross it Out

5. Track your progress. Cross out what you’ve done or put a check mark next to it. How can you know what needs to be done if you don’t remember what has been done? This holds so true with internet marketing especially because there are SO many SMALL things to do and it’s VERY easy to forget what you’ve done. Especially when it comes to building backlinks.