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Keep your eye on the ball!

By Dwain Jeworski

“Lord Ronald … flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.” — Stephen Leacock

As an entrepreneur you want to make money as quickly as you can.

… Sometimes this translates into chasing after EVERY opportunity that comes your way — and never following through to completion.

Does this sound familiar?

How many websites have you partly completed before moving on to the next potential opportunity? How many business opportunities have you bought into but never seen through to completion?

It’s a curse that plagues many of us… but fortunately, it’s easily solved, as long as you’re conscious of it.

And to help you get there, here are 3 very simple things you can do to cut down on the distractions — so you can focus on ONE solid opportunity at a time and see it through to completion before moving on to the next:

#1. Hit that “unsubscribe” button.

If you’re suffering from “so many opportunities, so little time” syndrome, here’s the first thing you need to do:

Choose your top 2-3 sources – the ones who actually offer you good advice and whose emails you actually READ — and then unsubscribe from everyone else’s list.

For the most part, all you’ll be missing out on is a bunch of emails trying to persuade you to buy something that you don’t really need!

And once you’ve silenced all those unnecessary voices that try to entice you to dash off in a million different directions all at once, you’ll find it much easier to think clearly and figure out what you need to do next.

2. Focus on ONE strategy at a time — in a logical order!

Once you’ve freed your inbox from a whole lot of distracting emails, make sure you focus on one, and ONLY one, strategy at a time — then follow each strategy through to completion before moving on to the next.

And make sure each strategy follows logically upon the next!

For example, it doesn’t make sense to focus on SEO or traffic generation strategies before your site is fully set up. Being listed on 1,000s of sites isn’t going to get you anywhere if your site can’t take online orders.

You want to stay on target and make sure you don’t get out of sequence.

Finally, don’t just “cherry-pick” the strategies you like and assume you’re going to succeed. Instead, you need to address each of the 4 steps to building a successful website - market research, product/service selection, sales process and traffic.

3. Once you’ve decided to start it… finish it!

Once you’ve built your site “from scratch” and taken it online — no matter what that site is — you are well on your way to online success.

It doesn’t matter what the site is about… so long as you’ve found a niche where there are people looking for answers or products. THEN…

*Take that idea and RUN with it!*
Put it up, see what’s working, tweak the elements. Traffic, opt-ins, sales… that’s all that matters. When you have these elements working — build it again in a new market or niche.

Every site you build will be better than the last.

If you get rich off your very first site, you’ve won the equivalent of a lottery.

Everyone I know who’s making serious money on the Internet is doing so after their second or third site. Their secret advantage is the knowledge gained from creating their first site.

You learn from mistakes.

So quit chasing opportunities. Instead, chase methods that align with your goal. This might seem obvious, but it’s amazing how many people hold off until they find a “magic” solution.

And which would you rather base your future on — real results or pixie dust?