11 Ways You’re Shooting Yourself and Your Business in the Foot
August 19, 2009 by C.F. Jackson
Filed under Keys to Success
I’ve been online since 1993 when it was still in the DOS stage of life, but as it grew, I of course allowed my knowledge to grow. Going from pleasure to business was a complete mind shift for me back in 2001.
However, if I’d allowed the below 15 ways to shooting yourself and your business in the foot to kill or even stagnate my growth you wouldn’t be reading this today.
Over the years I’ve heard the battle cries and struggles of many people: online or face-to-face. And what I’ve collected are common denominators to the lack of success: business or personal.
I have struggled with many of these self-afflicting symptoms. I recognize a lot of them daily within my day-to-day travels.
Today, I’m sharing with you symptoms that are harming to many entrepreneurs, authors and small business.
1. Free Mindset – Are individuals who look and expect for everything to be free. I’ve seen it where people refuse to invest $10 for a domain name. Even that is too much to ask.
Often he/she will constantly seek out the only the cheapest and free methods as they drive up the ladder toward success.
2. Constant Complainers – Are individuals who spend their time finding fault and disliking everything under the sun. Ask them to do it better, they wouldn’t know how.
3. The Non-Reader – The reason these individuals fail achieve the results or answers they’re looking for is due to their inability to slow down and read.
Reading is fundamental!
4. Do It My Way – Are individuals who want everything delivered in the exact way they would do it. More often than none, they’ll miss out on one time opportunities.
It’s an unwillingness to open one’s self to new a way to receive information.
5. Overly Skeptical – No matter how much they’re struggling with, let’s say web traffic, this individual will talk themselves out of investing 50 dollars to achieve results.
I myself understand the fear of being burnt because I have invested thousands into a program that didn’t deliver what it promised.
6. Not The Right Answer – Are individuals who will suck up the time and knowledge of another person to get an answer to their dilemma, but the answer entails for “too” much work, then for them it wasn’t the right answer.
7. Quick, Fast, & Hurry – Are individuals who always want results yesterday without the leg work or the building of the foundation.
How do I get web traffic? I need to sell XYZ amount of books in three months.
8. Cornered – Are individuals who will remain in the corner, rather than branching out in order to increase their skills and their network.
9. I Can’t – Are individuals who allow the phrase ‘I can’t” dictate their abilities online or offline. They have the capillarity to do a lot more once they take away the belief of “I can’t”.
The word can’t shuts down one’s ability to move.
10. Network – No matter how many contacts, Twitter followers or Facebook friends one may have, it doesn’t compare to having a network of colleagues one can connect with locally.
It took a minute for me to step outside of myself. I have a mastermind group that has helped me immensely. You can find one in your area on MeetUp.com
11. Look At Me – Are individuals with social networking ratio of 90% look at me and 10% of by the way here’s something I found.
People are turned off to constant self-pointing. The way people will notice people when they offer solutions. When it comes to commanding attention is when individuals bring value into each place they enter into… online or offline.
There are others that weren’t mentioned above and some you already know about yourself. If there’s ever a time to put the gun away and place a bandage on your wounds to start the healing process, then that time is now.
Make a commitment to yourself, then to your business to change one thing a month that you’ve been shooting youself in your foot with. Now, if it’s a bunion keep on shooting. I’m joking!
Seriously, take time to reflect on what’s been debilitating your growth and your ability to reach higher levels in life: personal or business. Once you’ve identify them: Face it, Trace it, then Erase it.
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3 Killers To Your Online Book Sales & Web Traffic
August 3, 2009 by C.F. Jackson
Filed under Website Design 101
When it comes to gaining more web traffic, generating
more online sales, and capturing more subscribers
there are three things that can kill these results.
There was a time when my lacking of knowing and really
understanding jeopardized my online results. Continuing
to do the same things every day when implementing a few
things that could increase my books sales and end the
question, “How to get traffic to my website?”
Tune in and you’ll definitely learn three pivotal elements
to help increase with your website traffic and sales.
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Continue to make it happen!
Won’t Be Denied,
C.F. Jackson
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More Twitter Followers vs. More Web Traffic
July 29, 2009 by C.F. Jackson
Filed under Keys to Success
Is it possible to capture targeted web traffic or targeted Twitter followers with the continuous growth of internet users and social network sites? Do you know there are over 1.6 billion internet users in the world today? And it is growing by the second.
With the explosion of social media, the focus for many online users is to tap into these heavy traffic communities to build a following. The question is this: How much viable time should one put into growing followers?
Per Twitterholic Top 25 Twitter users, here are the top five:
Top 5
1. CNN Breaking News – 614,003 (followers)
2. President Barack Obama – 542,313 (followers)
3. Britney Spears – 518,638 (followers)
4. Twitter – 502,210 (followers)
5. Ashton Kutcher – 452,872 (followers)
These are some extraordinary numbers. When it comes to book marketing and internet marketing it still remains the same, traffic generation. The percentage of web traffic generated from the social media giant Twitter varies from one user to the next. People fall prey to many of the daily new ploys that promises more Twitter followers by the truckloads.
- 400 Free Followers a day
- New Tool to Get More Twitter Followers
- 250 New Followers in a day
- Become a Member and Get Tons of Traffic
- 1,000 Followers in 2 Days
What many fail to take account of is the lack of targeted Twitter followers. Let’s say you are a romance author and you want more followers: How do you engage each of your followers to really determine if they are fans of romance literature? Maybe they follow you with hopes you will follow them in return.
It is as though many have lost or never gained the true premise of being online, traffic — targeted traffic. The internet is the fastest growing vehicle today. It has afforded to many the ability to be able to achieve some extraordinary successes. It is those who recognize that targeted traffic, which means capturing the attention of those who want, need, and desire your product or service, is the pivotal element to being online.
Today, many entrepreneurs, authors, and small businesses must take time to find where their true target audience can be found across the World Wide Web.
Sometimes Twitter can be a place where you have just finished networking and you are wondering what to do with all of those business cards.
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