Probably the most common cycle that someone who wants to learn how to make money online goes through would be to buy a product, get really excited about it, buy a domain name or two, and then try it for a few weeks. Then, they don’t really see results from it and they buy another product. That obviously is the opposite of making money online… that’s called spending money online.

What most people are doing whether they realize it or not, is looking for something magic… a quick fix that will instantly make them a lot of money. Unless you get extremely lucky some type of CPA offer, that does not exist. I’ll say that again… There is no secret to making money online, there is nothing magic that the guys at the top have figured out… They have simply taken models that you already know, and they have made them work, and scaled them to the level that they’re at. That’s all.

There are definitely some products and services that can help you do things faster and more effectively, but for the most part, making money online is simply a matter of content, traffic, and conversion.

What I mean is, I would make a “plan” by making a to-do list of things I wanted to get done that day or week. I would be very ambitious when making my list… I would write down way too much stuff to possibly get done. Then, my first project would take longer than I had planned, and I would get stressed out and end up not doing anything else on my list.

You can probably relate… according to some of the psychology books I’ve read, this is a common loop humans do to themselves.

Here’s what will help you make a simple, effective, and efficient plan of attack: identify the one activity that will bring you the most results, make a clear plan of exactly how much of this activity you will do and when, and then don’t plan anything else.

Awesome, huh? For example: One of my big to-do lists would look something like this:
-Redesign the whole sales page
-Find 30 keyphrases for articles
-Write 3 articles per site
-Redesign squeeze page image
-Edit ebook for website A
-Edit ebook for website B
-Improve copy on adwords campaign

This would be a day’s worth of stuff, which I obviously never got done in one day. The other thing is, all of those things are important. But, if you look at that list to identify the ONE thing that is the most important, writing the articles is by far the most important. Producing content is number one, because that drives traffic and without traffic nothing else matters.

So, what I did was make a plan where my only objective was to write 3 articles per site everyday. Anything else I managed to get done was just a bonus. The funny thing is, when you sit down with laser focus and achieve your goal for the day first thing in the morning, you feel good about yourself and turn into a worker bee the rest of the day.

Once you’ve identified your key priority, make a specific plan for how much of it you’ll do everyday, and then simply don’t do anything else each day until you’ve done that.

One last tip, base your plan on a measure of the activity itself, not time. This means if your top priority was writing blog posts, make your daily goal a number of blog posts instead of blogging for two hours each day.

You’ll be shocked at the results you get if you do this for even just a month straight.

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