Staying the course is hard in online business.
We are bombarded with offers, claims of instant riches and countless schemes on a daily basis. Not only does it get confusing but sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference between a great opportunity and someone just trying to get your hard earned money.
One of the biggest benefits of focusing on email marketing and building your own mailing lists is that YOU become your greatest opportunity.
Think about that for a moment…
In today’s day and age if you have access to the internet and a few marketing tools, you are in business for yourself. Read that again….You are in business for YOURSELF!
And you’ll hear time and time again, the biggest asset you will ever own in business is your customer list…AKA your email list.
So this is why ‘staying the course’ is so critical and the most successful marketers online focus on building their email lists each and every day.
It’s as simple as that, and I’m not trying to over simplify building an online business but you need to get into the habit of doing these 3 things as much as you can, as often as you can:
1. Build your email list with targeted leads
2. Send REGULAR emails to that list
3. Build your personal brand by being active in social media / blogs
Doing these 3 things consistently has helped thousands of new online marketers and experienced ones at that. You just can’t beat this formula.
Sure there is more work to be done and the ones that hustle the most win, but this is investing in YOU!
Remember, you are in business for yourself and your greatest opportunity truly is, your own business!
Great post and love the simplicity of the 3 steps.
Thanks Joe, yup…Not trying to be ‘too simple’ but it works!
Nice post Jon. The greatest asset and the greatest liability in your own business online is that it really is easy to do it. Its also easy to NOT do it.. you get caught up, etc. so your point about staying the course and actually doing the work is very important.
Carla – agreed. And we kind of need to kick our own butts to motivate ourselves daily. When you are your own boss, that’s who you answer to 🙂
I’m a new user of Rocket Responder, hope this autoresponder will be a good change of my Aweber account, that has become too expensive… Thanks for your support guys.
Awesome to have you on board Alessandro! Yeah email marketing can become pricey, that’s why we wanted to remain affordable for everyone. We really believe everyone should be ‘building’ their lists. And that’s hard to do when you have to spend a mortgage payment on your email marketing. 🙁
Good post, Jon. Such a great reminder of how important our list is to market effectively.
Thanks Laura, absolutely. And to email consistently.
This really made me think of how building a email list is ever so important. For now, and for the future!
Fantastic Post Jon, really simple and effective 3 step formula. Most Essential staying the course, nothing gets build in a day.