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What Laundry and Marketing Have in Common?

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I suppose that when we all first took a peek at internet marketing, we had a visions of racey cars, endless nights at the pub with your buddies, sleeping in (!) with no more alarms clocks and someone yanking your chain.

NO more mundane hours from 9 - 5.  FREE TIME, here I come!

It wasn’t long into the business of internet marketing that I realized that it isn’t all parties and easy money.

Nope.  Not only does this business often not get you rich quick, Internet Marketing has it’s “laundry” type tasks.  You know, the ones that you have to drag yourself through day after day.

For me it is coming up with articles for ezine directories, installing scripts, creating catchy squeeze pages, stuff like that.

Those who know me know I do like to write and teach but in order to really promote my internet marketing products, I knew from experience that the more articles I can get out there, the more exposure my sites get AND the more money I make!

In the beginning I did all my article writing, for example.

I was too cheap to pay anyone at the time and frankly hadn’t made enough from my niches to justify it.  I would be up all hours creating content for my business niches often times wondering if it was all worth it.

Especially when I knew I faced a long day in school the next day!

But the time came last summer when things really took off for me.  It’s like I’d done my due diligence and put in my time and the money started seriously flowing in.

All that writing of articles and visiting forums and “stumbling” and “digging” began to pay off big time!

Do I still do the “laundry” tasks?  Only when I want to now.

It’s kind of like hiring a housekeeper to do your laundry.  Now I can outsource or staff it out.  I still love to write articles but now I don’t have to.

I’m no one special of course and you could do the same.

I just put in the time to build my business and worked hours late into the night when my buddies were messing around or sleeping.  Of course I wanted to be out with them or sleeping too.

But I wanted my freedom even more!

So here I am, messing around, doing what I want on my own time, sleeping, paying someone else to do the “laundry” while my buddies do their 9 - 5 and still have their laundry to do when they get home.

Be willing to give up all those fun nights out for a while….well, most of them….cripes, you got to have some fun, right?.

Pay your dues when everyone else is watching football and it will pay off.  Roll up your sleeves and “do your laundry” today…and then soon I’ll see you on the beaches!

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