Critical Elements of a Successful Home-Based Internet Business Part 3: A Proven System
The three most critical elements of a successful home-based Internet business are cultivating the right attitude, exercising discipline, and keeping to a proven system.
Seasoned marketers could tell you many success and horror stories about marketers who did or did not get these three elements right. In this series of three articles, I review why they are critical and how you can improve them when they’re not up to snuff. Here I discuss third step: keeping to a proven marketing system.
Keeping to a System. This item deserves an article all its own. Better yet, a book. Systems are at the heart of every successful, sustained endeavor undertaken in the world. Always has been; always will be. Of course there are exceptions, but the relatively few exceptions reinforce the general rule.
In Internet marketing, a replicable system will be the key to your success. Get this wrong and you will struggle mightily for success . . . and then you’ll quit and go back to your old job where your boss kicks your butt because you won’t do it yourself. But get this element right and you will work your way to financial security and grow to be a real leader in the process. The kind of systems I’m talking about are personal systems and business systems.
Personal Systems: your daily methods of work. Ask yourself what methods you use to work through a task. For example, writing, editing, and distributing an article; scripting, recording, converting, and distributing a video; methodically doing keyword research; and many other repetitive tasks in your business. When you create personal systems, the quality of your work and your productivity will increase. Again, start with some best-known methods (called “BKMs”) from your mentor or a colleague. Then adapt them to your needs.
Business Systems: how you run your business operations. If you dig into the evolution of many of the available marketing systems you will see that most of them were created to automate and systematize a proven process. Two examples: Mike Koenig’s Traffic Geyser and Mike Dillard’s Magnetic Sponsoring. This article isn’t the place to review commercial systems; the key point is that a systematized process is repeatable (if it works, keep doing it), transferable (propagate it to your team members), and perhaps most importantly, scalable (ramp it up to new levels of revenue).
That’s it. My vote on the three critical elements of a successful home-based Internet Marketing Business: a great attitude, a high level of discipline, and systematized processes. Go see the other two articles on Cultivating a Great Attitude and Exercising Discipline.
About the Author
Brian A Moore is a successful home based business coach and mentor who assists serious entrepreneurs in building a Profitable Online Business with multiple incomes streams. Brian brings to the industry 25 years of experience gained in the high-tech corporate world where he developed a reputation for building and maintaining successful teams. He currently offers a huge array of internet marketing Best Known Methods in a series of free videos…
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