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I Make Money Online When… I keep things simple

19th February, 2010 - Posted by admin - No Comments

“Complicated is interesting, but I make money online when I keep things simple.”

Surprising words from one of my mentors. He’s got this incredibly sharp mind and is known for being able to take a single idea and sketch out a multi-million dollar business map for it… on a single sheet of paper. Knowing he couldn’t possibly DO all of these ideas, he kept them in a file cabinet – and recently sold just a few of them for tens of thousands each.

OK, first of all, I’d like to have a mind for business like that! Wouldn’t you?

And second, if ANYONE could successfully run a super-complicated business, it’d be him.

But I’ve heard him say it again and again. People will get into these long, complicated questions about doing this or that online to make money. Time and again, he reigns them in and reminds them: Keep it simple!

Same thing for your writing business.

There are a ton of ways you could get off-track into something complicated. But if you keep it simple, you’ll make a ton of money – and keep your sanity.

Confession – as I was writing this post the first time around, I was going to show you about a dozen ways you could make money writing, and a product teaching you how to do each. The blogging process got really complicated because I had a gazillion tabs open… and crashed my browser. : )

So, where are you complicating things in your business?

You’ll know you’ve complicated it when:

• You can’t seem to take action
• You’re starting to stress out about your projects
• You’re not getting results
• You’re obsessing over some element of your business that’s not directly tied to making money
• You’re studying stuff and NOT implementing
• You’re becoming argumentative rather than productive
• You can’t explain what you do in 10 seconds or less
• You’re exploring obscure ways of making money online instead of following a proven system (because it seems too easy to actually work)

Hey, been there!

Want to meet my mentor? Join us on the third weekend in March in Orlando. You’ll learn a LOT, but you’ll also amaze yourself seeing how simple it is to make money online.