The Key to Your Future Success: Stop Thinking and Start Doing

If you ask enough people advice on how to make money online then it’s inevitable that sooner or later someone will tell you that the key to achieving massive online success is to ‘take action’.

I remember hearing this a lot when I was a struggling beginner, and to say that this phrase frustrated me would be an understatement. It’s all very well telling me to take action, I used to think, but what actions in particular should I be concentrating on?

Telling a struggling marketer to take action almost feels the equivalent of a headmaster telling a teacher to ‘do something’ when confronted with a particularly challenging class.

When I was a teacher many of my collegues endured difficult classes that they simply couldn’t control, but when in the grips of despair to be told to just go out there and do something, at best wouldn’t have been particularly helpful, and at worst could have been confidence shattering.

Telling someone who doesn’t know what to do to ‘do something’ is often frustrating, unhelpful, and potentially damaging, yet why do so many marketers insist on using the ‘take action’ line as a one size fits all response to marketers in distress?

I’m not criticising other marketers here, and I also often resort to this stock answer when confronted with a marketer who is desperately trying to piece together the pieces of the online puzzle.

Let me explain why…

When I was a newbie who was unable to make any money online, the advice to take action was sharp and irritating, but it was also the most useful piece of advice that I ever received.

The reason that most marketers don’t know what action to take to get their internet business off the ground is because they’re faced with too many different paths to choose. Most beginners don’t struggle because they don’t know how to get started, they struggle because they don’t know where to start because they are faced with too many different choices.

I was exactly the same, and before I started making serious money online I spent my time thinking, whereas now I spend my time doing. I still think, plan, and analyse of course, but the balance of activity is now firmly weighted toward the process of building my business through the completion of tasks.

You can plan to build a tower for enternity, but unless you eventually grab hold of a shovel nothing will ever get built!

Education is important, and it’s essential that you learn about the various techniques that can help you build your business, but implementing the learning is equally important, and is often the element that’s missing and holding back a beginner from achieving the success they crave.

When I tell people to take action, I’m encouraging them to put into practice the marketing priciples that they’ve learned. First you educate yourself, and then you apply that education, and then you analyse what worked and what didn’t.

The day I finally stopped just trying to learn all the time, and actually started applying the concepts that I had in my head was the day that I finally turned a profit.

Most people reading this will already have a few ebooks on their hard drive packed full of useful ideas on how to make money online, and the best advice that I can give you is to go away now and put one of those ideas into practice. Stop trying to search for the internet magic bullet and instead start building a business based upon the online marketing principles that you’ve learned.

I personally spend a fortune on my marketing education, but I always make sure that I follow up by putting some of the ideas into practice almost immediately.

If you haven’t yet got to the stage where you feel that you have learned enough to put something into practice. then visit the Best Warrior Threads section, or watch the Standing Start Profits membership videos, but promise yourself that you’ll take immediate action the second you finish learning.

The first thing that I did online wasn’t a roaring success, and yours probably won’t be either, but the combination of learning and then doing will accelerate your education, and you’ll achieve your goals that much faster.

Now go out there and start applying what you know and you just might find that success finds you a lot quicker than you were expecting…

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	Lee McIntyre is the founder of Aim Higher Marketing where he shows others how to use honest marketing to build profitable Internet businesses in record time. Subscribe to his newsletter now and receive $239.80 in valuable freebies just for giving it a try!…Visit LeeMcIntyreNewsletter.com now!

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