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A majority of Internet marketers are lazy…

But what if I told you this was a good thing?

Why? Because you can use that to your advantage.

If I told you that thirty seconds of your time could potentially bring you a new customer for your business, would you be interested?

Let me take that a step further: Would you be willing to trade those thirty seconds to gain a new customer? Hopefully your answer is an emphatic “Yes!.”

You don’t have to be in business long to discover that customers are your most important asset. If you ask any successful online marketer where he or she have found a majority of their customers, the answer more times than not will be “my list.”

However, there is a roadblock between all newsletter publishers and their subscribers…SPAM. The increase in spam has brought yet another hurdle to Internet marketers, spam filters. This is the new dirty word among all marketers using email marketing.

Newsletter publishers are in a constant battle to get their email through the spam filters to their subscribers.

Now let me reveal my little secret…

There is an easy system that allows you to bypass these filters, and get your email into your subscriber’s inbox.

So why aren’t more publishers using this system? One simple word: Laziness.

Many seasoned newsletter publishers are throwing away their sales and profits because they are l-a-z-y.

If you publish any form of newsletter, you have most likely been sent verification emails from places such as Spamcop and SpamArrest.

These services require you to verify your email address before your message is passed into your subscriber’s inbox.

Many publishers simply disregard these emails and with a simple click, delete away a potential customer. They deem the task as a waste of time. I am still in awe of this decision, but you won’t hear me complain. The less emails in my prospect’s inbox, the better.

Are you making this same profit draining mistake with your newsletter subscribers?

Saying that you don’t have enough time to verify your address is a poor excuse. It will take you no more than thirty seconds to do. I receive hundreds of new subscribers a day to all of my newsletters and always find time for this task. If you are getting more subscribers to your lists than me, then you probably don’t need my advice anyway.

Investing some time to verify your address for your subscribers can be a huge payoff, now and in the future.

When your address has been verified, that means your newsletter and promotional emails are all being sent right past the spam filters directly to your subscriber’s inbox.

The beautiful thing is, this is an inbox that isn’t filled with spam. So your email is much more likely to be read than if it had been sent to a spam filled inbox.

Don’t let the simplicity of this technique fool you. It is very powerful.

By verifying your address for your subscribers who use these spam prevention services, it puts you one step ahead of your competitors who are too lazy to do the same.

Getting the edge on your competition is the key to success, no matter what business you are in.

Are you afraid of success?

Nick Carter, the former vice-president of Nightingale-Conant’ once said about people who procrastinate:

“Some people are great at coming up with ideas, but they don’t have the guts to try. You know it’s like, they’re walking on eggs, carefully, hoping to make it safely into death”.

That is a very powerful image. Read over it a few times until it is etched into your memory permanently.

When you feel yourself starting to procrastinate, or worrying about failure, let Nick Carter’s words flow through your mind… then ask yourself, are you walking on eggshells and hoping to make it safely to death?

Is that how you want to look back on your life? That you where afraid to take chances, and it cost you your dream?

I have always said it is better to regret something you have done, than regret something you haven’t done.

Who cares if you make a mistake in your business? We all make mistakes, even marketers who make millions of dollars each year. No one is immune from making bad decisions.

Start focusing on what you DO want out of your life and your business.

Stop trying to find the perfect idea and pick the one you think is right for you. Trust yourself, believe that you are capable of making decisions on your own. Then pursue this idea until you have achieved success, or if you are certain it is doomed to failure, then and only then should you move on to your next idea.

You don’t need a complicated ’system’ to start ‘focusing’ and getting results in your new business.

Here’s EXACTLY what I do (and it’s ALL that I do) every day to fight procrastination:

#1. USE A “TO-DO” LIST EVERY DAY and update it every day. List your ‘to-do’s by priority (A, B, C, etc). Check off the one’s you accomplish today and transfer the one’s you didn’t complete to tomorrow’s to-do list. Keep doing that for 30 days and you’ll see how much more focused you become.

#2. Before doing your to-do list ask yourself this question, “What EXACTLY do I have to do today to make $XXX (fill in the EXACT amount you want to make TODAY- $50, $100, $500, $1,000, etc), today. Try to shoot for 20%-50% over what you made on YOUR BEST DAY EVER - You may not make it- BUT consciously ASKING yourself that question brings a powerful agent to your assistance-your creativity- and a surprising number of times the ‘answer’ becomes apparent. It also has a tremendous power to FOCUS your energies.

That’s all you need to do. Choose to do something today, no matter how small it might be. Whatever it is, it’s one step closer to your goal. Then do something tomorrow that will take you one step closer - and the day after that- and the day after that. All the little things you do will add up and you will have battled procrastination and won.

The key to becoming a successful marketer is what I coined as the “Focus Factor”.

Most people become their own worst enemies when starting a business.

They don’t know what kind of business they want, or even have a real plan. They just want to earn some extra money.

That’s why you see so many ‘bizop junkies’ buying all of these money making programs and never doing a single thing with them.

Then instead of looking inside themselves and learning how to focus on one opportunity at a time, they shift the blame onto the so called gurus. Calling them thieves and liars.

Let’s face it, they don’t know what they WANT…so how can they follow a plan, especially one written by someone else?

They are confused about where to start, what they want, what to do next, etc…

My suggestion to people who want to start their own business is NOT to follow someone else’s plan… but to use those plans as a launch pad, a blueprint that you mold into your own plan.

Most money-making plans have a lot of value in them, but only if you inject your own personality and creativity into them!

You must learn to think critically and grab little nuggets of gold from each ebook or video you watch. Then improve the ideas that you have just learned.

Force yourself to think in such a manner, and it will soon come naturally. This is how you will find your success.

The important thing is to start MAKING MONEY right away…no matter what kind of business you’re starting….it’s an incredible confidence builder.

Take small steps, DOABLE steps to make $40-$100 a week extra and do that for a few weeks…then ratchet it up to $70 to $200 a week, etc, etc…

The problem is, most people never get started. If they just got started and took action, even if they failed, there are valuable lessons to be learned when you get off of the sidelines!