“Just tell me what I have to do so I can just start making tomorrow,” they demand. What?!

Now, it would be different if they already had an established list and background in the industry but they wouldn’t be asking me this question in the first place if they did.  

It takes study, work and sacrifice to learn anything in this business. I work almost every night and day on our lunch breaks in between running my dayhome.  Unless I am out and about with my children because they are of course, number one!  

I work or study on the weekends, skip television, events, etc. to learn what others know and I don’t. I love it and I have a passion for it, so the sacrifices are no skin off my back. But everyone is after the get rich quick scheme. But even with as much knowledge as Brad and I have acquired, we still probably know about a quarter of what people like Jack Humphrey and Rick Butts know which is why we study them.

Yet, I still get calls from people who believe they are going to start immediately earning and I suppose they expect to absorb whatever knowledge we know by osmosis.

We say, “Okay let’s get started, make appointments for what times you want to get going, but start before you even plan to begin your home business. Despite what you hear, the people who actually make money over night have already studied their field for months or even years before you did. Make no mistake, you are not going to just add water and it will grow.” Even plants need nuturing and loving and coaching from others who have already made a great deal of the same mistakes you have made. And take it one day at a time.

Cheers to Your Success!  Kelly

Photo by by Umut Kemal

Another great free tool for marketing . . . if you don’t have your Google Alerts coming into your email you should. Google Alerts are a fantastic way of monitoring your competition.

Let me give you an example. Say, you have a blog that sells coffee for A&B company. Well, you can go to Google Alerts – http://www.google.com/alerts and create a Google Alert for the Search term: A&B company, of people who are using blogs or even videos for marketing it and have it come into your email once a day. What will happen, is once another marketer advertises for A&B Company through blogging and comes up in Google, it will then come into your email. Now, you can see what your competition is doing to market the same product or company as you.  

You can also use it to keep up on current events you’re interested in such as a sporting event or developing news story.   We have several Google Alerts coming into your email daily and it gives us ideas of different ways people are marketing and how we can compete. This is such a useful tool and it’s free. If you’re not using it, I suggest you go in there right now.  

**Here’s another tip, you can also market yourself by going to these people’s blogs and making comments on the relevant material linking back to your site. This can in turn create traffic for you! 

Cheers! Kelly

Photo by Pierre Amerlynck

It really makes you think before complaining about the price of gas. We should be grateful for what we do have like having the eyes to read this.

Sound familiar?

Chances are if you saw the movie, The Secret or read any books such as The Master Key System by Charles Haanel or Think and Grow Rich by Napolean Hill you have probably heard this before. But are you doing it?

Are you waking up every morning and thinking about the good things you have in your life such as your children or a roof over your head? Have you started a gratitude journal? Journaling has been a powerful part of my journey and so have the positive affirmations Brad and I say every day in the morning and night. I find my affirmations especially helpful when the kids are running around and my home is in total chaos. 

These are a couple of things I do for my grateful exercises on a daily basis and it weaves happiness and peace into my life.

Check out this post on ‘My 4 Exercises for sustainable Happiness’.

Cheers! Kelly
Photo by Gabriella Fabbri