I have just hot footed it here from Sally’s Neills blog.  What an inspiration for moving this business forward.  I have been stuck in a rut for a couple of weeks now, as I mentioned in my last post.  It is really frustrating moving at such a slow speed, but the fault is my own.  The best way to describe it is this business is like driving a car.  Press the accelerator and whoosh off you go, breaking the sound barrier.

Take your foot off said accelerator and you start to coast and eventually come to a halt.  And this is what has happened to me these past weeks.  I have taken my foot of the accelerator.  I have stopped visiting blogs, stopped posting in forums not written any articles.  I have come to a complete and grinding halt, caught up in my own fear.

My fear is that I do not know enough about internet marketing to be able to produce a product of my own.  I lost sight of the bigger picture, I have been focusing on making a product rather than on providing content which people can make use of.  I have been guilty of chasing the money again.  So I need to get back out there and really find out what people are looking for.  I need to go out and help people, instead of waiting for people to come to me.

Why or how will they come to me? They don’t know me!  So I need to make a name for myself, which is exactly what my mentor Alex Jeffreys has told me to do.  So it’s back to basics, or rather “Forward to Basics” which is the title of Alex’s first coaching module.

I have spent today going over tutorial videos from Alex.  It is so easy to forget what has been covered.  I need to put together a daily “revision plan” to keep fresh in my mind all the material that Alex has covered.

But my motivation this evening has come from Sally’s blog, Sally Neill 2010.  I have drawn up a daily plan, but I have not been executing it, and I have been expecting the results to continue, how daft is that?
I posted my article yesterday and expected some comments today, but guess what, nothing, nada, zilch, zero.  Well if I am not out there promoting myself who will visit my blog? No one

So it’s back to the plan, following the plan produces measurable results.  And it’s back to visiting blogs and forums and posting valued comments.
And as I said to Sally I really need to find my direction.  I have all the tools I need to succeed; Alex has done a great job on that end of things.  So as usual the rest is up to me.

So this is me building my business, warts and all.  As Alex Jeffreys says “Internet marketing is simple, but not easy”, and  I have certainly learnt that these past weeks, but as I have said before , there is a living to be had in this business,  I just have to persevere and not give up, and this blog will remain a testimony to my struggles and eventual triumph.

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