When you start in the business of internet marketing, most people are excited about the future and the possibilities. They start building sites and wait for the traffic to pour in. You want to make money and work hard on the sites for a short period of time, which can range from a week to several months. In order to check your progress, you start checking your traffic and other stats. However, somewhere along the way, you get impatient. The longer you work on your sites and see no results, the more discouraged you become. Because of the little results, you become depressed and less motivated to keep working on internet marketing. In the meanwhile, you work less and less and keep checking stats, finding nothing, if any results. Eventually, your motivation sinks and you stop working completely. If you behave like this, succeeding at internet marketing won’t happen.
If you want to be successful, you have to take a look at your behavior. As a society, we are trained to receive a reward when we work. In internet marketing however, we work and only see results far into the future; delayed gratification per say. If you are starting to feel depressed and not motivated to keep working, take a step back and look at your patterns. If you are working, you obviously want feedback on what you are doing, and stats are the only way to check that for now. However, since the result takes near forever to see, we only end up disappointed. If you keep working, you’ll eventually see results but that will only happen after a year of solid work.
Keep doing what you’re doing and you’ll quit from motivational problems. You need a new way to judge your work if you want to see progress. Instead of checking your stats to see how much money you made, judge yourself by how much work you do instead. Instead of focusing on the money, focus on the number of articles per day or words per day. Create a set schedule if you don’t have one and follow it every day. Use a calendar to track your progress and you’ll be able to see when you miss a day. Set a daily target and no matter what, do that target first thing in the morning. Start small, with a target easily reached and work towards it every day. Do not do anything else in the morning until you reach that target first, or you probably won’t reach it.
The most common time wasters are checking email, talking on the phone, reading the news, checking stats or surfing the web. If you need to, disconnect your internet, phone, and television and just get started. It really is that simple. However, most people don’t do it. If you want to succeed, you have to. Distractions will easily steal all of your time before you know it and then you’ll be regretful because you feel as if you didn’t accomplish anything. So create a goal and get it done asap.