What a day... And it is just getting started!

I have spent the day learning... Youtube and Google Search have helped me out so much today. Just put in what you are looking for and out pops the answer. Nothing better than that when you are looking for answers to send you in the right direction and actually make you feel like you have accomplished something.

This morning I was sent a video by Mike Dillard, network marketing guru, that was a follow-up from a couple of days ago regarding "information overload" or feeling overwhelmed with the vast streams of knowledge that one can fill their head with while researching and trying to get started, or trying to succeed, in the Internet marketing field. In the video he broke down the three basic steps that we are trying to achieve by working with the Internet: 1. Build a List, 2. Build a relationship with those that join or are on that list, and 3. Educate/Teach/Assist those on that list with anything that they are struggling with or need help with. Stick to those three things every day and there will be nothing but growth in all of your endevors. What powerful words! What POWERFUL values those three simple things are!!!

I would also like to endorse the simple training that he offered us that is invaluable with any business that is run. That is setting and attaining daily goals/tasks before you spend your time trying to figure out the latest and greatest new concept. Speaking from my experience, writing down the tasks that need to be accomplished and accomplishing those things first opens up your time for whatever might come about during the day. If we have the necessities out of the way, when the problems arise, which they invariably do, we can tackle what is front of us and not feel the stress that those things bring along.

This same goal setting is invaluable in all that we do. We need to have a purpose everyday, we need to focus on accomplishing something positive everyday and we need to make sure that we are being productive in our activities to assure the best use of our valuable time. So many complaints are made about not having enough time, never being able to accomplish all that we want to accomplish. We just need to change our focus a little. Life and business are a marathon not a sprint. Yes, what happens today will alter the outcome of tomorrow, but if we have success a little bit every day then over time we will be greatly successful.

I am new to marketing of any kind, but have been fortunate to have a position of management in a company that has been in business for over 50 years. We, speaking of the company that I work for, is fortunate that we have our niche and have been able to whether the down turn in the economy the last few years, but we have done that by using everything that has been put before us as a learning experience, we take pride in utilizing our experience to offer a good product to our customer. Without the everyday focus of maintaining our good product we become just like the rest, which are many(just like in marketing). I am going to use the experience that I gleen from these things to help teach and expand the knowledge of those that I am in business with and allow us together to leverage our time, which is the greatest freedom that we are searching for, that twenty-fifth hour.