Are you looking to start and/or grow your online business this year? If so, this post is for you!
Back when I started my internet marketing business, one of the primary reasons that I was having such a problem getting it off of the ground was that I basically didn’t have a strategy in place.
In today’s video, I’m going to give you a six-step action plan that will help you get your online business off of the ground this year.
Now, before we get into the meat of the actual action plan. There’s a point that we must cover in order for this action plan, to help you. That point is that a plan is only as valuable as the follow-through behind it.
Most people don’t make anything happen in this industry for one reason.
They simply never take action!
They never follow through and do anything with the endless amounts of life-changing information that they are given on a daily basis and for the first year or so after coming online, I was exactly the same way.
I’d buy a product of the product and learn strategy after strategy. Always seeking more information without ever really getting off my ass to make things happen. It’s one of the worst feelings you can possibly experience in your entrepreneurial journey. The feeling of being bogged down and paralyzed by too many options without ever acting upon any of them.
It’s a situation that a vast majority of online, entrepreneurs, give themselves in to, and many never get out.
According to an article that I read about six months ago. 85% of everyone trying to start an online business at some point or another experiences either information overload or analysis paralysis, and many never break free from their devastating questions.
Don’t let that happen to you.
Take action based on everything in today’s post and begin to build confidence in your own abilities, to execute.
And here’s a mini-lesson: Confidence isn’t something that you just wake up one day with. It’s like anything else. It’s built through consistently taking action through expanding your comfort zones and through becoming an individual who feels confident in their abilities based upon past experiences.
All right. Now, for the action plan…
Step 1 – Start budgeting every month for paid advertising.
Paid advertising is what’s going to allow you to build your business at the fastest rate humanly possible.
Traffic is the lifeblood for your online business. And with paid advertising, you can have floods of it sent to any capture page you want within minutes.
Start small, cut out, the Starbucks and dinners out and start building up a paid advertising budget. Even if it first is only $100 a month, begin the process and get in the game.
Step 2 – Use your advertising budget to build your list.
Your email list is the single most valuable asset in your online business. Imagine being able to get your sales message in front of 1,000, 10,000 or even 100,000 people by simply hitting, “send” in your autoresponder back office.
That’s completely possible when you consistently focus on building your email list, every dime you spend on paid advertising should be going towards building your number one asset – Your email list.
When it comes to traffic generation, you must choose one form of traffic generation that appeals to you and dedicate yourself to mastering it.
Expect to waste some money. There will be a learning curve, but when it’s all said and done, you know will know how to drive floods of traffic anywhere you want on complete demand and the investment will have been well worth it.
Setting up your own paper lead program is, in my opinion, the most risk-free way for you to start generating leads and making sales on autopilot while you learn to effectively drive traffic through other mediums.
Step 3 – Leverage a Done-For-You offer to begin promoting.
Most people get this one wrong. But let’s talk about it for a second anyway.
If you are new to marketing, don’t try and do everything yourself from the very beginning. There are offers that you can promote for comissions that have been created by eight-figure earners.
Now, ask yourself, Do you think that their sales copies sales videos and sales webinars convert better than yours?
Probably?
Right?
So don’t try and reinvent the wheel. Creating your own products will come later. But until you’re building your list, consistently making sales, and implementing number four of today’s action plan. It’s probably a good idea to leverage a Done-for-you offer.
Step 4 – Learn Do and Teach simultaneously.
It’s widely understood that being the leader and authority in your marketplace makes everything easier. As the leader and authority, your levels of influence rise, significantly and sales become incredibly simple. People will buy anything you offer because they look at you as the solution for their problems. As an authority, you will be seen as an individual of value.
No one will doubt your products or service quality and low sales volume will become a thing of the past.
But here’s the deal. The only way to become a person of value or leader and authority is to constantly add value to the marketplace.
This is where the LEARN-DO-TEACH methodology comes into play.
As you begin to learn new skills, implement them and take more and more action, you need to simultaneously teach people what you’re learning and doing.
Set up a blog, or a Youtube channel, and for every action that you take, teach people what you did and what the end result was with a blog post. Even if it was a failure, showing people what not to do can be just as powerful and valuable and showing people what to do. Then go ahead and send the blog posts out to your email list that you’re building.
The process of creating problem-solving, value-driven content and then consistently sharing it with your list. will allow you to build a relationship with your list.
This month, my personal business. I had three high-ticket sales of over 2K.
And guess what? I’ve talked to each of those individuals on the phone and they each said, pretty much the same thing. Something along the lines of I’ve been following you for a while through emails and blog posts, and I’m finally ready to get started and you just seemed like the right person to join now.
Ask yourself. Why on Earth would I just seemed like the right person to join?
It’s because I’ve been the person consistently solving their problems through blog posts, YouTube videos, podcasts shows, Etc, and putting in the work to build a relationship. If you consistently do this, sooner or later your prospect will be ready to join.
The question is whether or not you’re the person that they’ll seek out, and when they’re ready.
Step 5 – Get comfortable with investing heavily in yourself.
The most successful people in our or any industry realize one thing – That their intellectual capital is their number one most valuable asset.
So, I guess that your email list is actually number two…
And by intellectual capital. I mean, what you know, your skill sets.
Getting comfortable with spending money on products, attending events, and getting the necessary coaching that adds to your intellectual capital will be one of the things that makes or breaks your business success. I’m sure you’ve heard the term – “You don’t know what you don’t know.”
Well by investing in yourself and taking your education seriously throughout this year, you will drastically increase what you do know, thus, empowering yourself with the knowledge necessary to accomplish your goals.
The important thing to realize is that investing in yourself is a skill to be learned like anything else you can start small with $10 ebooks and slowly scale and you’ll soon, find yourself, spending thousands of dollars a month on your marketing education without hesitation.
Nowadays. I’m expanding my comfort zone and will without hesitation buy pretty much everything that I see that could possibly help me up to about the five thousand dollar mark.
That’s about where my current comfort zone maxes out and one of my New Year’s resolutions. It’s to smash that comfort zone and invest more in myself than ever before.
Step 6 – Stay consistent.
I’m going to keep this step brief because I feel it should be obvious.
Look, if you take the action plan that I’ve given you today and run with it. You will see results. But only if you stay consistent in implementation,
Realize that you’re running a business and running a business takes having operating hours where you consistently sit down and get shit done.
Commit to six months of action. You’ll be shocked at what will happen for you and your business.
And that my friend, is it?
So starting today,
- Start budgeting every month for paid advertising to build your advertising budget.
- Always build your list
- Leverage a done-for-you offer to begin promoting.
- Learn, Do and Teach Simultaneously.
- Get comfortable with investing heavily in yourself and…
- Stay consistent.
Follow this simple 6 step action plan and this year will surely be the best year of your business life.
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Peace and Blessings,
Russ.
To Our Unlimited Success!
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