Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Internet Marketing Secrets - The 1 Mindset That Dooms 95% Of Internet Entrepreneurs

By Fabian Tan

Don't get me wrong, being opportunistic should be a positive trait. But at times it can be a negative one.

Whoa Fabian, how can being opportunistic be negative? Let me explain.

Let's say you find a strategy that you think will make you money online. You really act on this strategy for one week, drink lots of coffee and spend sleepless nights following through on this strategy. You know it's making money for others and it will for you too.

You work the strategy for one week. Still no sales. You think it's bad luck. You continue for another week, still no sales. You give up. Suddenly you see another tempting opportunity that you know is making others cash, and you switch to that opportunity. And so the cycle starts again.

Internet marketing is perhaps the only business in the world where profits can be made after a few days, or even after a few hours. An offline business can take years to reach the profit zone. But this mindset is dangerous.

Because not every online business is going to go into profit within days! You'll have to keep working at it for months, then the 'snowball' will build up.

In other words, you need to look at an Internet business as a business instead of an opportunity. An opportunity can be fleeting, for example the opportunity to bet on a football match tonight. But a business takes months and years to build.

So develop the mindset of building a business. Without the right mindset, you WON'T succeed!

But if you arm yourself with the right mindset, the possibilities are infinite.

With the right mindset, strategies are retained in the mind and actually acted upon.

With the right mindset, you will not give up on a strategy after one month (or less).

With the right mindset, you will believe that opportunities and money are abundant and instead of scarce and you'll take the right actions on a daily basis to reach your goals.