I have another article by Internet Marketing expert Willie Crawford and I am beginning to realise that simplicity is the key to my online success. Here is the article that proves just that.

Don’t Overcomplicate Things
Copyright 2006 by Willie Crawford

I stood on the stage in front of nearly 1000 people
at the Internet Marketing Millionaires’Bootcamp in
London, England. As I stared out across the crowd,
somewhat awed that I was who they’d come to listen
to, I also reflected upon WHY they had gotten up
so early on a Sunday morning to come listen to me.

Every person in the audience had a dream of greater
freedom from worry, freedom from financial strain,
and great serenity. They wanted to be able to choose
how they would live, and to know that their lives were
secure. I made this HUGE assumption because that was
my driving force and that of most of the other
speakers sharing the stage with me that weekend.

In the few seconds before launching into my 64 slides
that I would explain in the next 80 minutes, I asked
myself exactly what those audience members really
needed to walk away with. I identifed five simple things
that, if they really internalized them, would set them
on the road to success. Those five thing, not very
complicated at all, are:

1) Control your time. As you seek to build your online
business you will eventually find that time is your most
limited asset. Each of us has the same number of seconds
in each day, yet some of us accomplish 1000 times more
during that day than other do. A big reason for that
difference is that the ultra-successful know the value
of their time, and closely guard it.

A good time management course will help you to gain control
of your time. I also recommend reading Dan Kennedy’s book,
“No B.S. Time Management.” The subtitle is substantially
longer than that, but if you look up this title at online
bookstores, you’ll find Dan’s book. This book was the
single greatest influence on my gaining greater control
over my time.

2) Fix nagging problems. As you go through your day,
you will notice certain problems seem to “crop up” every
day. Maybe it’s something that slows your computer down.
Maybe it’s simply receiving more emails every day than you
can sift through.

Identify those nagging problems and solve them. Don’t
tolerate them, because they rob you of time, energy,and
focus. It’s much better to simply determine exactly what
the problem is and then resolve it. Set aside a little time
and deal with the problem once!

3) Sell something people want. In my 10 years online, the
most common mistake that I’ve noticed is marketers spending
inordinate time, energy, and other resources trying to
convince people to buy something that they simply don’t want.
That is futile and totally counter-productive.

There are products and services that the people in your
market WANT. If you listen to them, you’ll know what those
things are. Then it’s as simply as selling them the things
that they tell you that they want. It’s no more complicated
than that… Really!

When you market something that they don’t want, or don’t
know that they want, you are “swimming against the current,”
and in danger of eventually tiring and drowning. Instead,
find out what they want, determine how to profitably provide
it to them, and then do that.

4) Work with others. Growing your business is about growing
relationships. You grow relationships with customers,
suppliers, partners, and mentors. Without cooperating with
all of the above, your climb up the latter is many times more
difficult than it needs to be.

You can accomplish so much more when you partner with
someone else on a project, allowing your strong points to
compliment each other.

You can accomplish so much more when you think of your
customers and suppliers as team members rather than opponents.
Seek win-win-win situations rather than simply seeking to win
at the expense of others.

You can accomplish so much more when you allow someone, who
has accomplished what you hope to accomplish, to teach you
how they did it. When you simply observe someone doing
something you often miss many important, often critical points.
You need to “get inside the other person’s head.” You need to
understand the though process behind their methodology and
success habits.

Given that the people you need to apprentice under have
limited time, and have an amazing number of things competing
for their attention, you also need to be willing to somehow
compensate them for teaching you. That’s a fact that many who
will never achieve major success refuse to acknowledge.

5) Actually do it. The majority of people who read a book,
go through a course, or attend a seminar, do learn something
new. However, over 95% of them NEVER apply what they learn.

One of the reason that we often don’t apply what we learn, even
when we know that it will produce major, postive results, is
that it IS new, and seems somewhat intimidating. The solution to
that is also very simple. “Just do it.” After you’ve done a
complicated thing once, or twice, or perhaps a dozen times, it
magically becomes easy.

Those who have mastered the things that seem very challenging to
you also once saw them as challenging. However, they tackled
the challenges, and in the process, overcame them. They used
the challenges to add new tools to their success toolkits.

As my focus gradually returned to the faces, barely discernable
under the bright stage lights, I saw that I really was no
different than the “roughly 1000″ people sitting in the audience.
If there was any difference, it was that I had learned to view
life in a less complicated fashion, and therefore didn’t make
things any harder than they have to be.

Read back through the points made above, and ask yourself if
you are making things more complicate than they have to be. If
so, acknowledge that your thinking is one of your greatest
obstacles to success. Commit to fixing the five flaws above, and
life will magically transform.

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Willie Crawford has been teaching people how to build successful
online businesses since 1996. He often teaches by stepping you
through the process, ingraining in you the necessary habits.
Become a part of Willie’s latest, attitude-shifting, life-changing
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