Do you have a plan?
I haven’t been very active on this particular blog lately. I haven’t because I’ve been busy, busy building sites, projects and making money. And that’s because I realized some things in the last months, things i already knew somehow but i chose to ignore:
- You won’t make any money of you spend your time reading blogs, forums, articles, books, etc.
- You won’t make any money by simply blogging, without a purpose
- You won’t make any money by being active on twitter, facebook, stumbleupon and other similar websites
- You won’t make any money if you don’t have a plan
hard work is the most important ingredient
And I for one have one, thus I’m currently focusing most of my spare time (because i also have a 9 to 5 job, but hopefully not for long) on different sites and projects. The plan is simple: find a niche, write the proper content, get the visitors from search engines (luckily for me, that’s what i do best 
), offer them products they would need and love to buy. And then copy this tactic again and again and again. Does it work? Definitely!
I’m not saying you don’t have to read stuff, especially if you’re a beginner. However, as a friend of mine told me a couple of years ago, everyone can learn the theory, but only practice can make the difference.
So, my advice is pretty simple. Get to work. If you want to know how, what Ben, Court or Griz have to say would really help (these are blogs I recommend, because they offer real useful ideas and practices, and not the ordinary crap you’ll get on 90%+of the blogs available online). Just remember to put the things you’ll learn there in practice !
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I agree, you must have a plan and follow up on all the details of the plan, without it you are not going to able to focus the power of targeted promotions.
excellent advice, many people try to make things too complicated.
So the idea is to replicate it. If it’s working, make as many as you can out of it! I know this works as this is what my previous employer does. If one went down, he’d make 3 more sites. The problem with this is you need people to replicate things. The sheer number of sites to maintain is overwhelming to do it on your own.
Cool post. I think that taking the time to put a plan together is important because it documents your business intentions.
I know Mark. I soooo know this, it’s currently my exact problem. However, finding good collaborators or employees for this work is hard. Especially because you have to give away lots of knowledge, and once they learn it, they realize it’s better to do that by themselves instead of working for someone else
I like the start of this post and I truly believe that having a plan is the first and most important thing to success. Anyway, it is hard to make the plan work because it needs a lot of practice and work to get to the level you want. And luck!!! I am at the begging of my plan as a web design company that would like to offer ultra modern and unique design to my clients. Hope we can try and share some experience with you.
Thanks!!!
I understand your dilemma Mark, but then again, we can’t stop our employees from growing in the same way that we learn from our previous employers and then started to curve our own path to financial freedom.Nice post by the way!
You need to outsource some of the seo work, initial site work to operate multiple sites. They also don’t have to be content rich to make money. For affiliate sites you can optimize 25 pages and leave it at that and make $500 a month.
Thanks for sharing this great article. I have been a business man for 5 years now I’m making money $300-$700 a month.
We love the idea of becoming wealthy just as much as the next family.
However, there are two simple things that a person needs to do in order to get there, and they are things that most people do not want to do.
1) Have a great idea
2) Sell it
Usually, what one reads is that one is going to do exactly what everyone else does, hide behind a computer somewhere, and expect to make money….lots of it.
In order to make money, someone has to buy. In order for that person to buy, someone has to sell. It’s that simple.
For example, Linda Christas College has a wonderful Advisory program in which a person represents them to their community. For every student enrolled, the Advisor makes $500. (The franchise fee is zero, and the training cost to the Advisor is zero.)
Now let’s take two people, one who has graduated from college and one who has graduated from high school.
The high school graduate was willing to sell, to get out there and develop the skills necessary to sell. That person, we know from personal experience, is making well over $100,000 per year. Why? Because she has learned to sell a great idea, Linda Christas College’s Green bachelors degree programs.
The college graduate on the other hand says she “hates” the idea of selling, not realizing that everything in a free market depends on sales and marketing….everything.
One can try to get a job hiding at a desk or hiding behind a computer, but ultimately, it is the person who knows how to sell face to face who is going to get the venture capital, get the development money whatever it takes to actually become wealthy.
We are amazed that so many folks go through school and never understand that ultimately he or she is going to have to sell the skills he or she has or be poor.
Even when one’s job doesn’t (we think) have anything to do with sales, if we stop selling ourselves to our boss, we end up losing the job (being fired).
So, bottom line: If we want to be wealthy, we need to learn to sell a good idea.
Linda Christas College again has positions available in every state. However, they are hard to fill. Why, because a person has to sell a service. One doesn’t need a degree from Harvard to make over $100,000 per year. One merely has to contact Linda Christas College, go through their FREE training program for the Advisor category, and go out and represent them to their community. It’s that simple. But, all the while folks are going to say, UGH, selling.
They don’t realize that EVERYTHING in our society depends ultimately on our selling something, even if its our day to day skills to our bosses at places we don’t THINK we are selling anything. Think again!
The further we are away from the sales desk, the less we will normally make.
CEO’s generally come from the sales and marketing departments of companies UNLESS Daddy owns the place.
Williams – busines plan for 500 dollars? ))
Are you just joking?
“You won’t make any money if you don’t have a plan”
Fully agree with you. I noticed by example, that the lack of organization and a big waste of time reviewing the information on blogs and Web sites does not allow me to focus and implement their plans. Because of the small experience of course information helps, but often spend time uselessly. Thank you.