subject: Serious Entrepreneurs Avoid New Years Resolutions Like The Plague [print this page] There are no serious entrepreneurs who have not made New Year's resolutions.
New Year's resolutions are made in the heat of the moment, in the enthusiasm of ushering in something fresh. By the end of the week, New Year itself, and New Year's resolutions with it, become history.
Why then do serious entrepreneurs make these New Year's resolutions? Only because they are die-hard optimists?
However, I tried and tossed out some New Year's resolutions in 2009, just for the heck of it. Why don't I try to become a star baseball player? Better said than done! Why don't I start writing a book? But who will read it? Why don't I quit smoking? And redefine life itself? Definitely not! Maybe improve my business a bit? That may not be a bad idea!
After taking a 90-Day Challenge online marketing course for serious entrepreneurs early this year and saw the impact it made on my focus and mindset, I've decided to challenge myself. No one-week resolutions that by next year will be long forgotten. But 90 days to meet a list of goals I made for myself:
1. The first was to take the best advantage out of the available time and money. The current year was good for business, and so I have enough resources to get some extra help. And this is the best time to get fresh recruits because economic prospects are at an all time low. If investment is to be made in men, this is the most ideal time when there is a mad scramble for getting work.
2. Mastery over the social media. Absolute control over the social media is imperative for succeeding in internet marketing. Network marketing is a discipline that requires a lot of grit, drive, and determination. To succeed there, an ever widening social circle, and bonding with potential customers are of absolute importance. Paid Per Click ads do help, but you cannot rely on that alone completely.
Web 2.0 technology should be perfectly leveraged to benefit from the opportunities for social networking that it offers. And Twitter is also equally powerful. Ultimately it is the social media which hold the key to success in network marketing.
3. What's Working - What's Missing - What's Next?? Constant evaluation of what is producing results and then processing that feedback is vital. If something isn't working, I need to make note of it and move on. There is something to be said for letting yourself "fail quickly" - this concept is really the key to success. As a serious entrepreneur, I need to continually remind myself and my team of what is working, fix what's not, and to forget about the rest!
Asking "what's next" will help you come up with new ideas, new niches, and new opportunities to make more money online!
2009 is a fresh, new, and grand year. Notwithstanding the looming threat of recession, fresh goals have to be set.
Don't just blindly keep on running to escape from minor obstacles. Serious entrepreneurs can't afford to run blindly, for saving the situation pro tem. To chart steady progress, they have to proceed according to planned strategies, come hell or high water.
Recession or not, internet marketing is poised for big growth. The overall turnover is believed to reach a whooping $145.1 Billion in the next year.
The current evolutionary trend is gradually making a man a computer animal for he prefers to buy and sell and choose and learn things through the medium of internet. So, internet marketing profits is also continuously on the rising curve.
Recession is not a battering ram that is going to break down the castle walls of internet marketing in 2009. Serious entrepreneurs should know it and move forward.
