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When you’re working for yourself, you might find that it is VERY easy to get distracted. I’m not talking about the TV distracting you…I’m actually talking about work distracting you!  You might be working on one product…but then you read about something else that could help you make a lot of money, so you put the product aside, and start to work on this new website.  Then, before that website is done, you hear from a friend about a certain type of blog that will make you money, so you put the website aside, and start that blog.  Now it’s been 6 months, and you don’t have anything finished…you just have a partial product, website, and blog.

Where does that leave you?  Right back at the beginning.  You haven’t made any money, and don’t really have anything to show for your time.  If you kept to a plan though, you would see that you should follow through with one thing before you start the next.

If you write out exactly what your goals and plans are, you will be able to make sure you finish one thing before starting the next.  This will really help you in the long run!  If the idea you heard about is so great, you can do it when you have free time - once what you are working on is finished!

It will really help you save a lot of time!

When you have your own business, you get to choose what you do all day. While that is a great thing - it also means it is very easy to get off track.  Every time you are about to work on something, first ask yourself this.  What are my goals?  Will doing this help me get closer to these goals?  If not, don’t do it!  Otherwise you’re just wasting time.

I can’t tell you the number of times I have been working on something an then realized that it wouldn’t help me with my main goal at all!  If you keep reminding yourself of your main goals, you’ll be able to make sure that everything you do leads you towards those goals.

Robert G. Allen has written multiple books. Some include: Multiple Streams of Income, Creating Wealth, Nothing Down for the 2000’s and more.

I have read quite a few books of his, and recommend them all: Multiple Streams of Income, Multiple Streams of Internet Income, The One Minute Millionaire, and Cracking the Millionaire Code.

He is the reason that I became so interested in “Multiple Streams of Income”, and really think that it’s the best way to go! Do I agree with all of his ideas? No. He has written books on Real Estate, but except for house I live in, I have no interest in owning other real estate.

I do think that most of his ideas are great. I have seen step-by-step how he went about making over $94k in 24-hours, and think that we can all learn a lot from him. I just wanted to share what he’s offering now so that you can take a look!

No matter what you are doing online, you need to be good at Keyword Research.  It will help you target your customers, get traffic, and can help you a lot.  Wordtracker is giving away a free 9 part mini-course on how to use Keyword Research to maximize online profitability.

They are also offering 15% off  of a 1-year subscription to Wordtracker.

I was reminded this weekend of something important: Always have your business cards on you.

My husband and I were going to a holiday party at the house of one of our friends. The last thing I thought would come up was business, so it never even occurred to make sure I had business cards on me. Plus, between the two of us, one of us usually had a card or so on hand.

So boy were we caught off guard when the host was telling some friends about our business, and they were asking about the website and the URL, and we realized we didn’t have a business card to give them! We hope that they remembered the name, but let’s face it, it was 11pm on a Saturday night, so who knows if they will remember!

If we had the business cards on us, we might have gotten a whole bunch of new people to stop by and join the site! The fact that we had many business cards just sitting in our house (less than 10 minutes away) only made it worse.

So I just want to remind everyone, especially during this holiday season where you will probably see more people then usual, always make sure you have your business cards on you! Don’t have any you say? There are 2 quick ways to get them.

The first is to use Vistaprint. They offer 250 free business cards, you just have to pay shipping.

The great part about them is you can easily make a very professional looking business card in under 5 minutes. You can choose from many different designs, and write whatever you would like in the text.

The only negative (if it bothers you) is that on the back of the card, it does say Vistaprint.com on it. Truthfully though, who cares? For free business cards, I don’t mind if it has their website in small print on the back on my business cards. Plus, not many people look at the back - and if they do, they’ll just know where I got the cards.

I have business cards from them, and really like them.  They look like they were professionally designed, and I am proud to give them out to advertise my business.  Plus, 250 cards is a lot, so you will always have them when you need them!

If you want more control over your card though, and want to design every little part, you can always go to Staples/Office Depot/Etc and buy blank business cards.  You can then go home, find some software to design your own, and print them out.  This is great if you want to do something that is a little different, and if you want to have your business cards that day!

No matter how you get them though, just make sure you always have a few with you.  You never know when it will come up and you could get new business, just because you had your card on you!

If you’re trying to make some more income on your website, you might want to take a look at BountyCPA. I just joined them recently, but they have a lot of CPA (Cost per Action) offers you can use.

If you don’t know what a CPA is, it means when someone takes a specific action - such as signing up for a free trial, subscribing to a newsletter, or buying something fro a site - you will get paid. You will be told beforehand what the action has to be. But it’s a great way to earn a little extra money on your website.

You might have heard about Joel Comm’s “The Next Internet Millionaire”. It was an online tv show where you got to watch 12 people get trained by some of the top internet marketers, and compete against each other to win.

Well, now it’s over, and Joel Comm has launched “The Secret Classroom”. Here you can get all of the great training that the 12 people on the show got, and more! Some of the people you will learn from are Mark Joyner, Armand Morin, Jeff Walker, Brad Fallon, Perry Marshall, Rich Schefren, and more.

If you have been having a hard time making money online, and are trying to learn more so that you can, this looks like a great package. You will learn a lot about many different parts of the business so you can put it all together and hopefully start making money soon!

Rich Schefren has just released part 2 of the Attention Age Doctrine. It’s 94 pages, and while I haven’t finished reading it yet, so far it’s great. Everything I have ever read that was written by Rich Schefren has been great, so I recommend reading it when you get the chance. It’s completely free, but will only be available for a short time. So download it now, and read it when you get the chance.

Looking to increase the revenue from your blog or website? Consider adding a Buxr Widget to your site. It is a widget that will promote products for you.

It just launched today, and while I do think it looks new, it definitely does have potential.

You can either choose the products that show up on the site yourself, or you can let them choose the hottest deals.

I just signed up and took a look around, and it’s easy to configure how you want the colors to look on your site, and what size advertising you’d like to put. It’s a simple way to get a little more revenue from your site, without a lot of extra work.