How To Make Lemonade
Posted by Organic SEO Expert | Posted on 05-25-2010
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It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most
intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. ~ Charles Darwin
This blog post is for anyone that is not doing well at marketing someone else’s dreams! You have tried following the marketing gurus and sales funnels, though felt more screwed over than accomplished in your mission. You have tried starting a business by joining opportunity after opportunity, and are not even close to where you thought that you would be. You have tried “blogging for dollars” – Clickbank, Videos, Adsense – and could not get it to produce fast enough none-the-less make it look like a blog that people should bookmark to favorites. You have taken the time to do what your mentors have suggested and are still not making the money that you need to make … you are still not making money online … you are still not working from home full time. :(
As the old saying goes, “when life gives you lemons, make lemonade” …
So, you have been plugging away at – what feels like – the crash course in exhausting your savings account. Your schedule is filled with offline and online marketing training, networking events and opportunity calls. You have been going through the work at home / make money online motions for quite some time … when all you need is for someone to break down “How To Make Lemonade” … this is also called getting the “golden nuggets”.
Lets use my friend as an example …
I just had a chat with a friend that I haven’t heard from in months. She has been in real estate for quite a while and does pretty good at it, but every time we talk about work, she mentions the same two things: 1) she is waiting for a big deal to close and 2) she is sick of working in real estate. My friend has been trying to learn how to make money online, though has not been able to replace her current job. It is not lack of motivation or willingness to “invest in herself” because she does take the time to develop skills and she does put in the time to market her affiliate programs. She is not “wishy washy” about really making a change. She is seriously trying to gain the “financial freedom” and flexibility that she needs. She is just tired of the ups and downs of the real estate industry, as well as running from appointment to appointment around others schedules. She still has to go into an office and does not care for most of the people she works with daily. She wants more control of her time. She feels as though now is the best time to make a change that will provide her desirable lifestyle and future.
There are 2 problems that most experience …
1) She needs to find a “good” business, product(s) or service(s).
2) She needs to replace her current income and has not come close to this goal.
This is a not an uncommon scenario. These are the two basic reasons why people are not successful at working from home. They cannot find a business that is “right” for them (as is always suggested). When they settle for something that makes sense, they cannot make enough money to replace their job so that they can work from home full time. Some get “sour” enough to quit trying to accomplish their dreams.
Lets put this juicy concept on steroid and give it the 100% it deserves …
“When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold” (Atmosphere 2008).
Lemonade Stand and Oregon Trail are 2 of my favorite computer games. As a child, I couldn’t wait to finish my 3rd grade math and use the school computer to play either one of these games. I would happily go play either right now, too. I was good at these games, though, obviously, the competition began prior to my sitting at the computer each time because only the first person done with math could play Lemonade Stand or Oregon Trail, and we had to get a good grade on the previous math paper to expect to qualify to play the next time around. Ironically, math was right before “break” (what they call study hall now), so the 1st person to get to this computer could play through break time if they did not have something else to do.
How To Build The Lemonade Stand …
My friend is determined to quit her job in real estate, but she does not feel as though she is skilled enough in anything else to, flat out, quit the real estate industry. She turned to the internet for “something to do” and bounced from company to company – while trying to accomplish her goal of making enough money – to replace her existing job. She did not take time to plan how she could accomplish short term and long term goals, and then move into action. She is focused on whatever she jumps into and not “the big picture” and her results are poor in comparison to what they could be. Although my friend is a smart woman and good at selling real estate, she feels like a failure in the online business / work at home industry.
As in my example about the Lemonade Stand game, YOU CAN HAVE WHAT YOU WANT BY DOING WELL AT JUST ONE THING as well as applying the following principles:
1) Determination
2) Skills
3) Goals
4) Planning (*)
5) Action
6) Focus
7) Results
8) Automation
9) Replication
10) Duplication
As promised, THIS IS HOW TO MAKE LEMONADE … the golden kind … not yellow!
Although my friend does not want to sell real estate, she is EXTREMELY intelligent about the real estate industry, sales process, homes, financing, etc. She is down right passionate sounding about it, too. In fact, she is to real estate as I am to seo marketing – she comes across like a straight up real estate nerd!
Tonight, I finally had to tell her to stop trying to dive into someone else’s business, products and services … that it was time that she started capitalizing on the vast experience and real estate knowledge that she has. I gave her the first 2 steps in getting started …
YOU CAN DO THE EXACT SAME THING, BUT YOU NEED TO HAVE A PLAN – MAYBE – SOME HELP.
This blog post is for anyone that is not doing well at marketing someone else’s dreams!
You have tried following the marketing gurus and sales funnels, though felt more screwed over than accomplished in your mission. You have tried starting a business by joining opportunity after opportunity, and are not even close to where you thought that you would be. You have tried “blogging for dollars” – Clickbank, Videos, Adsense – and could not get it to produce fast enough none-the-less make it look like a blog that people should bookmark to favorites. You have taken the time to do what your mentors have suggested and are still not making the money that you need to make … you are still not making money online … you are still not working from home full time. :(
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