As a young lad we used to keep chickens in our back yard. We’d get regular eggs and every now and my dad would kill a chicken and roast it. My old dad made the point that chickens never go to bed hungry, they keep scratching around, all day long if necessary until they have had their fill.

 In tough economic climates this is what you have to do. It really is a case of the survival of the fittest and you need to have your wits about you and keep scratching around. Go where the money is; get into something different, don’t keep do the same old thing over and over again especially if it isn’t working.

 Maybe you’re one of thousands who have been hooked on easy Internet riches. Let me tell you, don’t be fooled. The people who make the money during the ‘gold rush’ are those selling the spades, shovels and picks and selling beer and other dubious services to the prospectors. Have wake up call and realize the Internet has millions and millions of businesses for you to compete against. It is the most competitive market place in the world – and very difficult and costly one to crack!

 My best advice? Get a life! Start making money in retailing or selling or manufacturing and make yourself a pile doing something you can do – and then come back to Internet Marketing from a position of strength. It’ll still be there, believe me, and hopefully you’ll not only be richer, but wiser as well!

I know that I have addressed this before but I still see far too many people using up their precious days on unproductive trivia and not getting down to the business of making money and creating wealth.

 A good exercise is to indulge in just a little self-analysis to see where the hours in a day go and only you can do this if you are brutally honest with yourself. I think it is highly likely that you may be using up a lot of precious time answering emails (many of them petty) and Facebook and other Internet activities that are like a hypnotic drug and you wake up to find valuable ‘wealth creating hours’ have just vanished. Try to find a way to answer email maybe just once or twice a day and then spend the rest of your time selling, in confrontation time with qualified clients, pitching them on an absolute specific sales proposition. Spend time developing your product or marketing plans and increasing sales – relentlessly. If you still have time over, don’t default back into Internet mode, but look at ways of slashing your overheads and keep doing this every business day for the rest of your life. If you’ve still got time to spare go deep go into your mind and start picturing exactly where you want to go, big picture stuff. Stop kidding yourself and start dreaming!