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Are Your Opportunities Blooming With Success? or Do You Have Too Much of a Good Thing?
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By Portia Neff
Do you join too many opportunities that come along? Do you
look at every one as being the next best thing? How long do
you give it before you “jump ship”?
I know that I am TOTALLY guilty of doing this. Each surf
program, traffic exchange, or opportunity that comes along
has such a good pitch. And they all make it sound like if I
don’t join I will be kicking myself forever… Kind of like
when I turned down a job with Bill Gates when he was just
getting started.. Yep, I really did!
There is a point when you are overly saturated with “great
programs”, your life is out of control, and you need to be
at your computer 25 hours a day just to keep on top of
things. So, what do you do to fix this?
Well for myself, I have decided that joining up is a very
addictive thing. Actually in a way it is a form of
gambling, because you just KNOW that the next email, the
next day, or the next lead is going to be THE one. And the
temptation to double down with your credit cards is great.
So here are my resolutions:
1. If I can’t afford it, either within my regular monthly
budget, or from cash coming in from other opportunities,
surf sites, etc., I’m not getting involved and I’m not
putting it on a credit card. This includes having the money
to properly advertise a program.
2. I am taking a hard, calculated look at the programs in
which I am currently involved. If I was in a brick and
mortar business I would not expect success to come the
minute I put up the Grand Opening Sign. I think I must also
be realistic about the Internet businesses. Likewise, there
is a point of cutting your losses.
How long have I been in this business? How many
referrals/downline do I have? How much is this costing me
every month? How much money am I spending on advertising
this? Is my advertising working, or do I need to take a
different approach? Am I still excited about this
opportunity? If I have needed support, how helpful is!
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dministration? Does this program offer “fringe benefits”
that are worth the cost even if I have no downline or
referral base? Where do I see myself being with this
business a year from now?
I cannot tell you the answers to these questions, as I do
not feel there is a hard and fast rule. But the point is,
you should be able to answer these questions for yourself
with each of your opportunities. My suggestion is that you
keep a journal for each business with the list of questions.
Ask yourself these questions for each business every month.
Answer honestly — after all this journal is only for your
eyes.
This exercise should help you see a trend in each of your
businesses and help you to make intelligent decisions. It
sometimes is hard to admit that you have invested money in a
dog. No matter how hard you work the program, you are
having no success in bringing in new people and by now you
are tired of it too. It is hard to stay excited about an
opportunity if you are not having any success. Maybe you
need a different approach. Sometimes talking to your
sponsor or joining the business’s forum (if they have one)
can help to give you direction. And sometimes, you just
have to let a program go and chalk it up to a lesson
learned.
My own personal rule of thumb is that I am not going to go
into any new businesses if I cannot afford to give it a
concerted effort for a minimum of 6 months. That means
advertising, word of mouth, learning from my sponsor what is
working, etc. If I do not feel that I can afford to do what
it takes to “get it off the ground” for at least 6 months,
I’m not joining.
I fully believe in diversification. I think it is smart to
be involved in more than one thing. But it is very easy to
get overloaded. So where do you find your own comfort
level? Does your “Bush of Opportunities” need pruning?
Getting rid of the dead wood will allow the sunlight in make
the real winners blossom!
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Portia is the Editor/Publisher of http://www.bizopzine.com/ and the owner of an AutoSurf
for Credits Traffic Exchange site, http://www.bizopsurf.com/
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