Issue # 72, 2-Mar-2004
ISSN 1447-4956
Copyright 2004 Jason Anderson. All rights
reserved worldwide
http://www.achievenetprofits.com/
Welcome to another issue of the Achieve Net
Profits Letter. I hope this weeks issue finds
you well.
Unlike last week, were I managed to delete 12
hours of email and discover some interesting
information through testing on my web site, this
week has been rather sedate. No stupid mistakes
from me (so far!) or any great discoveries this
week. :-)
I do however have a tip that I thought I
would share. I've found it to be a great time
saver (I've been using it for a few months now),
and it occurred to me that you may not have
heard of it before.
If you're like me, you've probably got a
number of sites that you access regularly. They
might be banking sites, news sites, great
information sites, a page to check your current
affiliate earnings, etc.
I'm sure you've got all the sites bookmarked
(and hopefully those bookmarks are neatly
arranged :-) ). But there is an even faster way
to access those sites.
It's really simple. All it involves is
changing your "home page" in your web
browser.
What you do is create a very plain web page
(that you keep on your computer - you don't
upload it anywhere) which has all your commonly
used links in it.
You can lay out the page however you want. I
personally have the page in two columns, with
several groups in each column (for example the
group "Membership Site" has all the links I need
to run the membership site, "Forums" has all the
links to forums I regularly visit, etc).
You don't need to be a whiz at creating web
pages to make this page - after all, you're the
only person who's going to see it! So it doesn't
matter what it looks like. The page I use is
just white with text.
If you don't know how to create a web page,
you can just type your links up in Word (making
sure you make them hyperlinks), and then save it
as a HTML document. Never, ever, *ever* do this
for a regular web site (just trust me on this),
but for this exercise it is fine.
I can't go in to how you change the home page
of your browser - every browser is different.
But it should be reasonably easy to figure out.
The option will be somewhere in the
"Preferences" or "Internet Options" (Internet
Explorer) window.
It seems like a really simple idea, but I've
found that it is very convenient when I need to
access a particular site quickly, and a great
time saver. Try it, and let me know how you
go!
I may be beginning to sound like a broken
record with this, but if you haven't checked out
the "Great Creative Fountain.Net eBiz Contest"
yet, you really are missing out. There is a huge
selection of prizes up for grabs (many more have
been added in the last week), and the lucky
winner is going to be *extremely* happy
indeed!
Heck, I know I would be! But I can't enter
:-(
Luckily, you can! So what are you waiting
for?
http://www.creativefountain.net/ct/index.html
This week I've been interviewing Anne Ahira
for the membership site. Anne's story is rather
inspiring - living in Indonesia meant that the
cost of running an Internet business was VERY
high (she pays over $400 a month just for
Internet access!) Plus her family and friends
not only didn't understand - many of them were
totally against her making it online, and some
even tried to stop her!
But despite all these problems and setbacks
she has managed to succeed very well online. One
of the things she found that helped was having a
mentor, to help her with advice and
guidance.
I asked her why having a mentor was so
important, and how someone can go about finding
their own mentor:
As I said earlier, I was once a
private teacher. And I really do love to
teach, so "mentoring" just comes naturally to
me... after all, a mentor is by definition
someone that you turn to for guidance and
knowledge.
So when I'm asked, I tell people, that if
you want to be successful online, find
someone who will guide you... a REAL person
who can answer your questions, that you can
CONSULT with when you run into difficulties
along the way! A Mentor should be someone who
has experience in your field of interest,
who's "been there done that", so they can
tell you how to avoid the costly mistakes
that most people tend to make!
How does one go about finding a mentor?
Well, used to be, by searching. I found my
Mentor by joining a membership site. It's
getting tougher though and in the "real
world" these days nothing is for free. To
find a real expert willing to be your
PERSONAL Mentor would cost you a fortune!
Which is why I offer "Free Mentoring" for
those who join Elite Team International. You
can check it out here: http://www.RealTactics.com
. Sorry, I couldn't resist telling you about
this ;-)
-- Anne Ahira, http://www.RealTactics.com
(To read the full interview you need to
be a member of the Achieve Net Profits
membership site. You can join now by visiting
http://www.achievenetprofits.com
).
Anne's interview was very interesting reading
- in particular she had some great advice for
getting visitors to your web site, and new
subscribers to your newsletter.
Before I go this week, I'd like to pass on
another tip I've found useful. It's the power of
the list.
No, not a subscriber list! :-) (although that
is powerful too). I mean the humble to-do
list.
You may not believe it, but writing down what
you have to do is a great way to clear your mind
of clutter. At least, I've certainly found it to
be so.
If you don't write things down, at least on
some level your mind is always trying to think
"what do I have to do next?", or "gee, I've got
all this to do".
I've found that by writing down the list, and
then putting it in order of priority, your mind
no longer has to worry about it so much. Which
allows you to concentrate more on what you are
currently doing.
The second advantage is that you don't have
to stop after finishing one job, and try to
remember what else you have to do. You can just
look at your list and go "ah, the next job is
...", and off you go.
One warning - don't try and make the items
you write on the list too big. It's pointless
writing down "write an ebook" on the list.
Instead, break it up into lots of little pieces
(eg: "come up with 10 possible ideas for my
book", "research how much people are searching
for each idea", "research how many competitors
there are for each idea", and so on).
Even the examples could be broken down into
smaller tasks, if required. The key is to make
the jobs a size that you are comfortable
with.
I hope this has been some help to you. Till
next week, I wish you all the best with your
online business.
Cheers,
Jason
"Not many people are willing to give
failure a second opportunity. They fail once and
it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is
often more than most people can handle. If you
are willing to accept failure and learn from it,
if you are willing to consider failure as a
blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have
got the essential of harnessing one of the most
powerful success forces." -- Joseph
Sugarman
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