What's YOUR Biggest Challenge?

catherinel · Joined: 13 May 2007 Posts: 62

Hi Mary, I know where you're coming from, I think. What I've always found with businesses is that it is best to get one profitable first, before you start the next. If you try to do everything at once, you might struggle to make that first profit.

To ensure that you're doing everything you're supposed to and not putting everything on the backburner at the expense of one project - break each large project that you're working on down into small manageable chunks - say an hour a day each, and make sure you do them.

If you make a list each evening for the next day it will help. Good luck.

Katherine Huether · Joined: 24 Apr 2007 Posts: 21

I tend to get in my own way by wasting time and lack of focus. The problem is, my head swims with ideas and the day often ends without having really accomplished anything. I am challenging myself to focus on one project at a time so I can actually start to see some success.

NichesWork · Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 8:17 pm Post subject: **Biggest Challenge**

Putting out a WOW newsletter 2 times a month (that's not just a long sales letter with bonuses for buying through me like the 'guru-guys' have fallen into lately, 2 or 3 times a week - UGH) to customers and once a month to Affiliates. I wish someone would come up with the 24 most needed (on-line) customer & affiliate 'reminders' (short but sweet) that I could use as the core for my both of my newsletters.

Martha

Katherine Huether · Joined: 24 Apr 2007 Posts: 21

Hi Martha,

Could you outsource it?

That is another thing that gets in my way - not outsourcing something I should really outsource.

Katherine

5starAffiliatePrograms · Joined: 30 Mar 2006 Posts: 42 Location: The OC

Ros said:

"Do you get in your own way like I do? (Fail to outsource your challenging tasks and concentrate on those things at which you excel?)"

That's me too Ros. I SOOOOOOO need to scale and to do that I need to start outsourcing the tech and detail things that eat my time. Especially the things that just eat my time, that I'm not very good at to begin with.

But it's just so hard for me to show someone or explain what I need done. Always seems easier to do it myself, UNTIL I get into it and realize it's taken wayyyyyyy to many hours I could have better spent on marketing.

Some day with luck maybe we'll both get better at delegating and outsourcing. Wink

grumpyoldman · Joined: 09 Apr 2007 Posts: 42 Location: Far From Home

Hi everybody,

Sorry to have dropped into a different thread to the one that I call "home", but this one was so juicy I just couldn't let it pass.

My biggest challenge? Well, I'd have to say that would be convincing ANY member of the public to make a purchase of any affiliate product.

I realise that doing so is a next to impossible task, but I do keep trying.

I call it trying, others are more realistic, they call it "flogging a dead horse".

I'm very proud to announce that my affiliate products on USfreeads have now had OVER 20,000 visits! Quite an achievement, I feel.

However, the two sales I've made still only total $22 so that does take the gloss off it a little.

My links in the eBook that I've given away over the last six months are over the 10,000 mark, too. No sales there though.

Blog - no, no point, never make a sale there. No-one reads them.

Squidoo, well I did swallow my pride and lower myself to publish five pages there. Total visits in a month - about four. Sales = yeah, right, as if anyone's ever sold anything from a blog site.

My website has been up three months but I've still not reached 10 visitors yet. In fact, I think it's only one visitor as all the others are people that I've told about it and, like 99% of the population, would never dream of buying anything on the internet, but they were curious about my "play business".

A few of them contacted me and expressed their astonishment and also merriment that I was so stupid as to think that anyone could make any money online. I'm afraid I have to agree with them.

Fifteen months and not yet a total of $1,000 in sales.

In fact, during the "good times" I was making $150 a month in sales, unfortunately for the last few months it's been steadily dropping. This month, so far (25th, my time) I've not reached $20. In June my monthly total was $45. I won't reach anywhere near that this month. Oh well, that's affiliate marketing for you.

I'll get out of your hair now,

Sorry Ros, still no sig. Too embarrassed about a website with no visitors and I don't want anyone visiting out of sympathy. Laughing

See you later, winners,
grumpy