Randy’s Ramblings 15th January 2012
In this Post
* Catch Up
* Amazon Bits
* New Cloaker News
* Next Meet Up – Sat 4th Feb!
* Sign Off
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* Catch Up
Hi Everyone 
Well here we are half way through the month already.
And yep – I’m up to my usual sillyness already. I don’t think I’ll ever learn from my own advice!
I’ve lost count of how many times I tell others to stick to one thing and see it through, and yet I keep ‘Flitting’ from one thing to another myself!
Quite honestly I shouldn’t complain… after all we’re only a couple of weeks into the new year, and yet I sit and wonder why ‘stuff’ just isn’t finished yet?
Granted some projects take time, and we do need to wait until they’re complete before we can move on…. But boy oh boy it FEELS like I’ve been working on some for an age…lol
Does that affect you too?
Does it feel like you’re ‘flitting’ from one thing to another and making very slow progress?
Do you have 3 or more projects on the go, and as you ‘flit’ between them – does it feel like you haven’t moved forward?
If it does – here’s some food for thought:
I’d bet that if you have been chipping away, progress will have been made ! (It’s just that sometimes it doesn’t feel that way)
If you check on where you started and then where you’re up to – you will have been moving forward!
Sometimes it’s like we’re on a journey, but we forget to look at the map!
All we can see is how far we still have to go – and it’s so far away that it feels like we’ll never get there!
This is then compounded by the fact that all day and EVERY day we get email after email telling us of yet another new product we should check out and buy!
Now we all know that we should be avoiding anything that doesn’t fit with our business plan and marketing objectives. so that’s a given….
BUT – what these constant launches do – is make us feel like every man and his dog is making more progress than we are – doesn’t it?
So here’s what I’ve realised.
We ALL need to STOP from time to time and check our MAP!
NOT to see how far we have to go – but sometimes to see how far we’ve come!
Only by cutting out all the noise from the constant launches and feelings of everyone is moving forward except me…… Can we take some time to see how much progress we’ve actually made!
This then helps us to stay motivated and keep plodding forward!
I say plodding forward – because sometimes we don’t make leaps and bounds towards our goals….
Sometimes we take one baby step after another …. literally belly crawling forwards to our final destination!
But Hey – I can tell you from both online experience of keeping plodding until I get a project finished, and from an analogy of a time when I was in uniform doing my bit many years ago…
Online – I just need to remind myself of the stuff I have gotten finished and the regular money those items make (check my links if you need to)
My Analogy from past offline experience is taken from a time I was on a military exercise.
This one night, myself a small group of ‘specialists’, were given the task of keeping our enemy awake all night by launching probing attacks on them every couple of hours. (the idea being to ensure they were sleep deprived prior to our forces launching a ful scale attack the following dawn)
Unfortunately, due to their having patrols and sentry posts forward of their front lines – this meant we had to be very very quiet and take our time moving forwards for each probe.
Yes I’m getting to the point…lol
What we had to do was use techniques such as ‘ghost walking’ ‘belly crawl’ and ‘doubling back’ throughout the night…..
We would move forward literally inch by inch until we were in postition to shoot.
Then a hasty retreat after we had woken them, only to repeat the procress again an hour later!
Each time we moved forward we had to go so slowly it honestly felt like we’d never get into position – and yet each time we eventually did.
We’d be laid hidden in the undergrowth while their patrols marched past us, watching as they took just a few minutes to move over trerritory that we would take an hour or more to move over.
But because of our patience and checking exactly where we were on opur maps – we knew we’d get there and we did.
On every occassion we would surprise them and make our escape. (we even captured two of their sentries and a front line gun team…lol)
Come the morning the full scale attack was a resounding success and we got to sleep for a large part of the morning, as well as getting a great meal as a reward for our small part of the exersice.
The lesson being that sometimes those extremely long times of feeling like progess was so slow, We did need a look at the map and the overall plan to remind us that what we were doing was the right corse of action, and even then if we can only ‘Belly Crawl’, we’re still mo9ving forwards!
So if you’re feeling like everyone is rushing ahead of you …
Check you map!
See how far you’ve come,
Take note of any detours you’ve had to make,
And make sure you give yourself a pat on the back for any progress.
Then just stick at it until!
Remember – if you never give up – you can’t possibly lose.
Just keep it moving forwards
OK – that’s enough story telling for today, now back to what’s been feeling slow for me…lol
And maybe you’ll see some progress and I might realise I have actually got some stuff done…haha 
Chat soon
Randy
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* Amazon Bits
Strange title I know, but let me explain…..
I’ve called it Amazon Bits because there literally are a few bits to mention. – Not just one aspect or element or product
This also in part covers some of what I was just talking about in terms of the time it takes to get stuff done!
With the first part of ‘time’ being no ones fault – but still a heck of a wait (or at least that’s how it felt)
Before I go on, I guess now would be a good time to add the fact that Amazon is one of the key areas of growth I want for my own business this year, I still have other online stuff to get done too – hence the multiple projects that I advise against…lol
And here’s one reason for having multiple projects on the go too…….
The Waiting!
First bit:
I’ve been meaning for ages (and I mean more than a year) to get a physical book created with Amazon Create Space.
This allows anyone to publish their own book and have it for sale world wide via Amazons Print On Demand Service. (Also worthwhile because unlike old fashioned self publishing – you don’t have to order a minimum print run of hundreds of books in order to see your name on a book cover)
So long story short – I finally got around to adding something.
It started out as some PLR I bought the rights to, and I edited it to make it my own.
(As it turns out it’s proving popular with my family and friends – because they can finally understand what it is that I do….lol)
But from a TIME point of view – I hadn’t realised just how long it would take for people in the UK to actually have a book shipped!
I submitted my work, created cover graphics etc. – and then had to wait around a month for the proof to be shipped to me! – ALL BEFORE I could approve it and have it listed!
Hence I had no choice but to move onto other projects while I awaited the postman, after all – just sitting around waiting wasn’t going to kep my business moving forwards….lol
So I got on with other things like the new link cloaker mentioned below.
Anyways – finally my proof copies arrived!
(Here’s a vanity part…. no matter how many ebooks I have out there that are making me regular monthly incomes – there really is NO DESCRIBING how it feels to see a physical book with your name and picture on it as the Author!)
My intention isn’t to make a fortune from selling this book, it was more to use the book as a ‘business card’ in effect. to give a free copy to local business people who might be interested in using my services from my offline site. After all – how much easier is it to consider using someone who is a published Author of a book about online marketing, when making a descion on whom to give a contract to?
But just in case you’d like to buy a copy – here’s the link:
Help…. I’m Addicted To Internet Marketing….. Will You Be Too?
And if you do buy a copy – let me know by sending a me a support ticket, and I’ll happily throw in any of my paid ebooks/products as a bonus, as I could do with some buyer reviews…lol
(that only applies to products/sites that are my own, and not ones where I have a partner or co-author… naturally)
So that’s create space, a great tool to get your name on a book and give you a larger than usual head when you chat to family & friends ;
Moving on…. – Do you own a Kindle Reader?
Kindle
Next bit
As well as Create Space, I’ve also been revisiting Amazon Kindle Publishing.
I already had some titles published on kindle - Randy Smith On Kindle
Long story short – I’ve seen so many people promoting ‘Kindle’ products over the last year, and I actually promoted one myself ages ago. On a personal level – I stopped looking at most as I saw the shear mess people were making, as well as the useless products that were just videos saying “get your ebooks on kindle”, and then making an offer of a heap of PLR to upload!
Where they failed was in actually showing people how to do the job properly!
For a start - Amazon didn’t take long before they started the ‘Kindle Slap’ - removing all the duplicate content poor quality PLR junk from the site!
And secondly – I didn’t see the hundreds of daily sales all those selling the plr claimed was so easy to make!
Well – as with all things – the Kindle guides have evolved!
Plus Kindle has continued to grow and grow! – It even got a mention in my MENSA magazine that I get sent out every month!, and that reminded me to take a look at my own products!
I can say that I was pleasantly surprised to see I have made a handful of sales (not the hundreds people talk about), but nevertheless – sales coming in from nothing other than listing 4 items in the kindle store!
Hence I’ve been on a mission to grab as much info and training on Kindle as I could find!…. and trust me when I tell you – there is LOADS of it! .. lol
One reason I’m mentioning it today is that I finally found some great training that has opened my eyes to why I haven’t made more sales…. And also teaches me exactly what and how to start doing in order to get more from my Kindle products!
What I love about kindle is that it’s actually easier than creating IM products with all the pages that a typical ebook site needs in order to make money from it!
(So the work load is a heck of a lot less, and less techy too!)
Anyways – If you’re still reading this far in, then I assume you might also be interested in taking a serious look at getting some products into the Kindle Store.
So here’s my strogest recommendation and a couple of others that I’ve bought recently and been pleased with.
I’ve learnt something from each of these product, so feel free to check them all out.
But if you ask me for just one – then I’d have to plump for Geoff Shaws Kindling membership right now
Here are the links:
Geoff Shaws Kindling Membership
Geoff alrwady has some fantastic info in this membership that is a one time fee – BUT – He is also adding more and that will increase it’s price as time goes by… So the best time to grab this is now!
ALSO – If you do buy it – Please contact me… as I’d like to set up a small groups of us to help each other as per geoff’s training on the section about Instant Social proof … yopu’ll know what I mean once you’re inside
This is my Strongest recommendation – because I learnt more about what I personally did wrong or missed out from this, and I haven’t even been able to get through the extra content he’s added since I last logged in!! Now, this is slightly higher priced than the WSOs I normally recommend, but having compared the value, there really is a complete and modern Kindle course in here. Just check my testimonial on Geoff’s page
Very Impressed!
Others I’ve bought:
Kindle Content Miracle
Happy enough with the content, but I would add that Cory seems to be a marketer who promotes stuff daily!
Kindle Pack
A Great basic guide to ensure you get set up correctly on Kindle itself, and some further study in the cheap oto Also the product that got me looking for more and more Kindle info
Vals Kindle Guide
This is the product I used when I started adding products to Kindle, and Val also did me a special offer page for my readers
Perfect Publishing System - (I’m awaiting affiliate approval – so in the mean time search the warrior forum if you don’t want to wait – Seems daft that after over 48 hours he hasn’t logged in to approve affiliates!!)
This one from Jonny Andrews was recommended by Geoff Shaw so I bought it… It’s more about how to make money rather than how to set up your ebooks etc. Also packed with info and videos to guide you through the process! – Highly recommended.
Kindle Publishing Kit
Another very useful offer – In this guide you get links to free software to help get the formatting right with kindle (Which also happened to be one of my biggest hurdles!!)
So there you have some of the kindle products I’ve bought and am happy to recommend. I wont try and tell you which to consider other than repeating that Geoff Shaws membership is what I’d consider to be the most complete and valuable, but some of the others have useful parts in their own right like the Kindle Publishing Kit, so do check them out if you’re getting into Kindle, and grab what you feel will help you
And don’t forget to contact me if you buy Geoff’s one, As I seriously do want to have a chat to benefit us all
Moving On
Randy
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* New Cloaker News
OK – This has been a lengthy post with a lot of info about Amazon.
So I wont get into too much detail from here.
Re the new cloaker – all I will say is that after going through the comments and ideas given in reply to my last post.…..
Simon and I have been tweaking, testing and adding all sorts of extra features and facilities to the ‘extras’ that were already built in.
This has made the cloaker much more than just a link cloaker and tracker!!
We’ve wrapped it up now and encoded it ready for adding it as a product for sale – and just have the remainder of the sales copy and what it can do to write, along with some affiliate tools etc.
In the mean time – Here’s a link to a ‘HotPage’ I created in around a minute or so complete with header graphic title, links in boxes and footer etc. for those Amazon links I’ve recommended above.
Basically just showing off ONE of the amazing features the software has built in…….
Not forgeting to mention that this is the easiest software I’ve ever installed – with just ONE simple install file to upload and NO databases or database users to add and remember etc.!
So here’s the ‘hot page’ – Randys Recommended Amazon Kindle Links
Do take a look at the whole of the page, and remember – All I did was fill in some blanks and push a button!
More Soon…
Randy
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* Next Meet Up – Sat 4th Feb
Finally – Here are the details for our next meet up
1pm til around 5pm, Saturday 4th February 2012:
http://www.randysmith.co.uk/NorthallertonMeets/booking.html
Venue:
The Oddfellows Arms
251 High Street,
Northallerton,
DL7 8DJ
Tel: (01609) 773018
Chips and Sandwiches for our consumption.
There will be a charge of around £25 per person to cover the costs.
Any issue – give me a shout:
http://www.RandolfSmith.com/support
Or Skype – randolf.smith
Get your ticket booked here
http://www.randysmith.co.uk/NorthallertonMeets/booking.html
You can find the dates etc. on the Facebook page at
http://www.facebook.com/NorthallertonMarketingMeetup
Cheers
Randy
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****As ever – only spend your ca$h on things that WILL help you
(Not the stuff that Might One Day!)****
Til next time
To You and Yours,
Here’s hoping you’re
Loving Life, Living it with Passion, And Passing it on!
Warm Regards
Randy
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Still no sign of the affiliate link for Jonny Andrews Perfect Publishing System, So after 48 hours I’ve posted and people will have to search for it if they want it…lol
Randy
RandySmith@InternetMarketingRambles recently posted..Are You Guilty Of ‘Flitting’? – Do The Belly Crawl!
Hi Randy,
A very timely blog post as far as I am concerned. As you know, we just finished the launch of 30 Day Traffic Flow and with one thing and another I am guilty of ‘flitting’.
Between adding content to 30 Day Traffic Flow, contacting JV partners and creating a new product whilst handling the odd support issue my belly crawl felt like it hit the wall.
I don’t think the Christmas period helped much either as I seem to have erased my memory of a lot of things I was doing. Maybe too much Christmas spirit caused that.
I am going to take your advice. Get my map out and get the ‘belly crawl’ going again.
Dave
Hey Randy,
Ah, the belly crawl. Thanks for that – I have been feeling a little disheartened lately as I’ve kind of lost sight of what I’m meant to be doing online (as per my own plan!) and feeling like I’m not getting anywhere – but of course, as you so rightly pointed out above, it’s all little-by-little piecing together. So thank you for the reminder that as long as I’m doing something for my plan, then I’m moving forwards, even if it is exceptionally slow at times.
And then you also mentioned something else that is part of my online plan – some self-publishing on Kindle. Again, I’m not there yet, but it’s definitely an area that I’m going to move into (both fact / my own experience and also potentially a work of fiction – all feature in my plan). So thank you also for poking me with a stick about that as well.
Hope all is well with you & yours!
Speak soon,
Nikki
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Hi Randy
WOW! it could have been me writing this post.
I haven’t so much been flitting as changing direction slightly! I have Val’s Kindle book (bought through your link a while ago) and have recently acquired a few others including how John Locke. sold a million ebooks.
However, as you say, I do feel I have made a lot of progress (can do ecovers) although my main ebook project still needs a lot of work, other ebooks are coming along nicely. I was going to use Amazon Create Space for me main ebook (That has a professionally created ebook cover).
I am intending to use Amazon a lot this year.
Dee
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Cheers for the comments guys
This seems to have been a timely post … lol
I do hope you all benefited from it and are feeling better about crawling along
And yes – I’m glad to share those Amazon resources… Don’t forget to let me know if you grab Kindling – so we can have a private little group helping each other
Randy
RandySmith@InternetMarketingRambles recently posted..Are You Guilty Of ‘Flitting’? – Do The Belly Crawl!
Hey Randy
First of all congrats on getting your first book on Createspace…
Thats a fantastic achievement and also will look very good
on your cv (lol)
Have you been reading my mind ha ha
I’m so guilty of looking at everyone else and thinking what
there doing that I often feel that I aint moving forward fast
enough!
Got to stop doing that I think and just concentrate
on what I’m doing and I know I’ll get there in the
end.
The Kindle is definitely in my plan for this year so I will
be picking your brains about that…
I already have Val Waldecks Kindle Publishing Made Easy
and thought it was a fab guide so can definitely recommend
that.
Anyway better go do some work so congratulations
again and I’ll see you in Feb!
Take care
Dawn
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Hi Dawn……. good to hear you are into Kindle too.
As for the Map that Randy mentions, I think that will be my first WSO – I’ll just copy George Bush’s Road Map and write some erudite gobbledegook about it – but not mention that the trail it shows is only that of the slug that made off with his piece of lettuce!! Happy New Year!
John
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I think one of the biggest problems online is we’re led to believe that success will come in a timely manner, so when it doesn’t we think ‘oh, I’m clearly not doing the right thing, I’ll try something else because they say that works’. It can be very disheartening when you plod on day after day doing the same thing and still get nowhere. Everyone is looking for that ‘break’ that brings them success and it isn’t in the same direction for each person so often ‘flitting’ is the only way to discover your pathway.
See you in February.
Enjoy the journey.
Mandy
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What was especially for me was the thought of stopping to see how far we have come. We often think we are still nowhere and are never satisfied and happy, that´s why we are always in hurry but can run already in a wrong direction.
Looking back gives a reason to give ourselves a prize for even little success and helps correct and avoid mistakes too.
For the first time ever I am able to say that I am doing just that. For the month of January I have blinders on. If I get my primary goal done for that month, I work on my secondary goal.So far I have been absolutely steadfast in this “order to myself”. 17 days WOW
The other thing I have “accomplished” so far is the “buy nothing if not directly related” mantra of yours. Ignored everything that was not immediately relevant to me this month. I have 3 specific goals and nothing else. Well, I slipped once but I am reading it late at night and it is about improving my writing so I guess it does fit.
As usual you are right on with your advice.
Carol
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Hi Randy. Your post on flitting describes me to a tee! I find I have to discipline myself to work on one thing at a time. On that I have made much progress over the last couple of days with my first product. I have taken copious amounts of notes from loads of videos, blogs and articles. Your post has given me renewed energy. Thanks!
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WOW
Thanks everyone. It really does seem like I hit the mark with this post!
Good to hear people are moving forwards to… even if it is a crawl – it’s still progress
Randy
RandySmith@InternetMarketingRambles recently posted..Are You Guilty Of ‘Flitting’? – Do The Belly Crawl!
If someone has several projects at the same time, I usually say that it’s better to stay focused on one of them and achieve everything you want and be successful in it, than to spend time on everything and as a result – get nothing////
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Hi Randy,
Oh. boy, I am terrible at going from one half finished job to another, and then moving on again, and again, one good thing is I often get a few jobs finished at once.
I shall have to get more organised…soon,
Barry
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Me too!!!
I manage to rein myself in for a day or so and the …poof… I’m off again! But I’m getting better!
As you say – I think it is because I have so many projects inside me!
Love the hot link page – looking very attractive now!
Keep rambling!
Jennifer
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What a great timely post Randy, I enjoy reading this blog and I learn so much. I appreciate your attitude for being passionate in life and by the way I am not feel any guilty when it comes to flitting because sometimes we have to flit things that really need to move forward then because it is over.
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Looks like we all get a breather today with so many sites being offline due to the SOPA protest
Here’s hoping when they shelved it it stays that way and doesn’t sneak in when we stop looking!!
Randy
RandySmith@InternetMarketingRambles recently posted..Are You Guilty Of ‘Flitting’? – Do The Belly Crawl!
Great post Randy, i’m one of John Thornhill’s students, he introduced me to you, so you may be hearing from me soon.lol, your ABC stuff is way cool, cant wait to use it.
Keep up the great work..
Kevin
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Hi Randy,
I’d like to say that “I’m a happy little flitter”……….
But I can’t – I’m not little, I hate the fact that I flit, and with the threat of Bailiffs at the door I haven’t been too happy for a couple of days either!
Nevertheless, underneath it all I’m not really a miserable old cuss….. after all, I don’t often have to Leopard Crawl any more, except to impress my grandchildren when we go hunting Dinosaurs in a nearby wood!!
I remember “belly crawling through 500 metres (they were only yards in those days!) through a mass of gorse bushes when we “invaded” Jersey for 4 days in the 60′s…… I’ve hated the stufff ever since – OUCH cubed!!
I recognise the IM Addict, though of course mine is still sitting here only partly done! Well done with that!
You know my flitting well, so it won’t surprise you to know that I really have got interested in Kindle….. now my daughter has a simple one and I’ve got half way through all of Jonny’s Videos I’m really revved up about it because I know that I want to write – even if the concentration to accomplish it may be thin on the ground.
My current situation is leading me to re-evaluate a lot of what I’ve been doing over the past 10 years and the last 5 in particular – but there’s a lot of potential writing material buried in that period if I can just inspire myself to let it flow.
Well done with your snail-like progress, it’s better than one step forward and 3 steps back!
Regards to all,
John
PS: Sorry my Blog has ground to a halt, I WILL revive it soon.
I forgot to thank you for referring me to a WSO on the SOPA Blackout day………. I’d only have been tempted by Geoff Shaw!!! hehe
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Hi Randy, congratulations on getting your book published, I can imagine the buzz it gave you mate and am looking forward to following in your footsteps. Like you say it’ll be great for handing out to show people what I’m doing
I started reading the post here and thought it was just what I needed, have you been peeping over my shoulder? I’m trying to finish the latest product package and have been pushing myself along with my head down when I suddenly thought…. Hang on you haven’t wrote a post yet
so off i went to write a post and then came back to it. Then I realized that I had a post outstanding for Mandy’s blog carnival, so started that, then I had to repeat an interview because the person interviewing me hadn’t tested the recording equipment and so it goes on mate.
I’ve been digging myself out for not completing it but am finally on the last lap I think
One thing came to mind when you said about not looking at the map and that’s the kids in the back saying “are we nearly there yet?”
The page you put up for the link cloaker looks really good Randy, very impressive mate.
Catch up again soon Randy, off to go and get my head down now and get the product finished. Well the products done I’m now completing the Affiliate tools and then go on an affiliate recruitment drive……. sheesh are we nearly there yet
Barry
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Hi Mr Randy,
Planning, Mapping & More!!!! lol
A blog post to my own heart!
I have flittered for years online!! Working on one project, then another, then another, back to the other, getting some stuff done and then going backwards again!
However that all changed late last year. I had quite a bit of time off due to family and therefore I used the time to create a very strong and sound online business plan.
In the plan I have done an outline, plus the tasks I need to do to get to each point and then beyond.
So far so good, the plan is working. I no longer get side tracked when I get online, I no longer don’t know what I am meant to do when I get online.
I only have very limited time online now so I make the most of it! (except for a little blog visit or too!
)
My plan is about @12 months worth, and then I have roughly planned the following 12 months after that.
I will say planning is key to working effectively online.
And re kindle, lol it is in the plan, but in the 2nd 12 months!
I hope all is going well.
Better get back to the plan
lol
See you back here soon!
Cheers
Jacinta
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Cheers for stopping by and commenting Guys (&Gals)
And thank you for all the shout outs on social networks.
Most of those links should be back to normal today – I do think it was worth missing a day of sales in order to highlight SOPA the way so many sites did!
Great to hear a few people have grabbed Geoffs Product and are interested in helping each other too
Randy
RandySmith@InternetMarketingRambles recently posted..Are You Guilty Of ‘Flitting’? – Do The Belly Crawl!
wow! well done, congratulations on getting your book published
love your quote…………Sometimes it’s like we’re on a journey, but we forget to look at the map! ive got 3 projects on the go like you but feel im getting nowhere fast, thanks for the inspiration from this post
Good to hear Randy how you manage your business routine… hope this works on me too.
My resolution this year is to stick on my daily plans.
Hopefully, I could also come up with a good business routine for myself. Indeed, that’s what I really need now because I’m a bit out of focus at times.
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First of all congrats on getting your first book on Createspace, i`ll have to take a leaf out of your book and become more passionate in life and not feel guilty when it comes to flitting
Hi randy! Do the belly crawl? That is indeed funny! I got your concept, very insightful, thanks for it. How do you market in amazon? By the way congrats on the new book! Continue to inspire as all.
Hi Randy
I found you through Lisa Hernandez hope you don’t mind me “visiting” you!
I can relate to your “flitting” quote as I find myself doing the same, every week on a Monday morning I say to myself I must stop flitting from one project to another and just concentrate on one thing and finish it and stick with it!!! But do I? no so my resolution for this year is to stick with it!
Congratulations on the book and I will continue to follow you now I have found you!
Regards
Pauline
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I have bought kindle for business purposes. I love this kind of gadget! I am thinking on converting my e-book to eReader and also kindle format. Kindle is very useful because it has a dictionary on it. Great Info!
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I also think that dealing with more projects can only harm, because you totally lose your focus and at the end you do nothing!
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Hi Anna, I agree with your meaning I’m sure – it’s just that I believe I DO a lot, but I don’t ACHIEVE a lot by not being focused. So that’s even worse really – I’ve tired myself out DOING, but it was the wrong ACTION.
Too many times I see the magic words “Take Action” (which sounds great) but it has to be focused action or it’s really a total waste of time and effort!
I’m just printing out 3 signs saying FOCUS to put in the vital spots where I work……… I don’t know why I find it so hard to do!!!
John
Congrats on your book! You must be really proud)))
I am out of breath but loved your post Randy.
Trusting Divine Providence I am not surprised I landed here to read your inspiring section about remembering to look at what we’ve accomplished rather than focusing on what we think we should have accomplished.
The biggest lesson I had to learn in this area was that each of us must remember that we are individually on a certain level of training at any given time…and there are many ahead and behind us.
For example I constantly compare myself to people like Sally Neill (can’t help it…love her and she is so successful!) and must remember that Sally has been online for longer than I have…making money in different ways.
She is at her level…and I am at mine…which sometimes does seem to crawl because I do have my hands in a few different projects…each interconnecting someway with the other and in the end should produce a huge river!
I remember John Thornhill saying in class in 2009 to us students:
“it’s going to take you 3-5 years to make it big online”…
not what I wanted to hear at the time with only one year of serious service online at that point!. I had visions of wealth in a year!
But he was right and now I bless and honor every achievement.
Already this year we’ve sold a TV through Amazon off our 3dtv blog that someone spent $3,000 on. Biggest kickback we’ve had on one item so far! Nice way to start 2012 and a great sign for the upcoming year.
Each baby step…a bit closer to the destination…
Loved your Kindle section too and I might be interested in that group you mentioned.
I must find time to get there and study it a bit.
Kindle is on fire for sure!
I must get back to the forum at IMA. I’ve missed joining in and the warm hugs I got there!
Kathy
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I am absolutely guilty of “flitting” from one project to another! I loved your advice on the subject. Have you ever seen the movie “Meet the Robinsons?” The whole theme of that movie is to keep moving forward. I love it and thought of that when I read your rambles today. Thanks for the reminder to keep on truckin’!
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I love the way you exemplified your military experience to always check your map as you progress on a project. I agree that it’s better to think of how far you’ve already come than how far you still have to go. Looking at this way ca be a good source of inspiration and motivation to move forward and get to the destination. And it’s also good to concentrate on one project, finish it completely before heading on to the next.
Hey Randy,
I have been just been looking back at how far things have come from since I first put my plan down on paper and it’s always great to see how far things have come along. I think it is a must that once in a while you do this, it gives you the motivation to keep going forward and finish what you start.
If you only look at how far you still have to go every task is going to be twice as tough, especially when working on more than one project at a time.
I have been thinking of checking out kindle as a lot of people are doing it at the moment but until I decide the products are ones that “might” be used one day so will have to leave that for now.
Will look forward to hearing how you get on with it.
Cheers,
James Howard
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Hi Randy,
I enjoyed reading your very own post. You know what, I realized, you had given me some advice. ^.^
Great blog.
I’m do flit around from time to time as certain projects loose their appeal. However, it is important to always keep the end goal in site and to just keep your head to the grindstone. Success doesn’t happen overnight and anything worth having is going to require hard work! Great post though, makes me feel that I’m not alone!
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I’m guilty of throwing too many projects on my platter at once. What I have found in the past is that I just need to tone it down a little bit. To help with this, what I have done is simply write down a checklist and stick to it. I can’t go onto another project until I meet particular goals for the project that I’m working on right now.
LOL, wow, ‘Flitting’? For some reason the word really cracks me up. But all the same, great article. I’m a first time visitor to your site but will be sure to come back, Randolf.
interesting post, although i dont see it as flitting, more as as changing direction slightly. your remark about remembering to look at what we’ve accomplished rather than focusing on what we think we should have accomplished has hit home though, its soooo true…thanks
I am actually really good at seeing projects through to the end. It’s much easier for me to focus on one thing then to bounce around doing multiple projects at once.
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I guess Flitting is the same as a.d.d, Guilty as charged. I read that social media is partially the blame. It seems we are so over stimulated from all the glitter on the social network that its hard to focus on one thing. Information comes as light speed now. Imagine the days without cell phones. …there were beepers and a delay in communication. Now everything is instant press. It seems were doing so much more thanks to innovation. Creating a successful enterprise on the internet is a big ambitious endeavor that is doable with skill, and persistence. To get a perspective on internet marketing take a look at this high ranking University’s
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Pretty interesting. I’m on this one too. It’s like nothing changes on my work and what makes it more ironic is that I’ve already tried my best to work on something I’m very fond of. Then frustration comes in. It’s just you can’t figure how to work it out well because I know certainly well my limitation.
Hey Randy,
Thanks for the pick me up story I was feeling like there was no movement.
I check my map and to my surprise I have made more movement that I thought .After seeing that your story and life lesson it made my day.
zora
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“Does it feel like you’re ‘flitting’ from one thing to another and making very slow progress?
Do you have 3 or more projects on the go, and as you ‘flit’ between them – does it feel like you haven’t moved forward?”
Hi Randy that quote above just stood out to me… because it so resonates with how I feel about my ‘on-line journey’ to date,
I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve ‘flitted’ from one thing to another, from ebook to training video to latest sure fire money making system. Getting so far, becoming stuck on something then moving on to something else hoping I can find the answer to my problem and so go back again to complete what I had started before, finding new problems then moving on again and again and again, and by the time I discover how to solve those previouse problems I’ve moved so far away from what I was trying to do that I just don’t go back and so I’ve wasted a whole load of time and not managed to complete anything.
Well actually it’s not all wasted time because inevitably I have learned quite a lot, it’s just with all this ‘flitting’ about I’ve spent way too much time learning and not nealy enough time taking action… and don’t even get me started about the tons of emails I recieve each day, I do try to leave checking my emails until I’ve put in some work but that is surprisingly difficult to stick to, and when I do drift to checking my mail first, before I know it that’s 40 minutes or more gone and not much time left to work on my project, maintain my blog etc!.
The way to make proper progress is to work on one project and not move onto anything else until you have completed it, and that’s what i try to do, it’s just that life isn’t black and white and I’m not perfect, but at least I’m moving forward, slowly but surely in ever decreasing circles… and when I get to the middle my project will be complete and I can then move onto the next one.
I have come a long way in this, and I know I have learned stuff that is now ingrained in me which I hadn’t a clue about two years ago, I have a mental map but think I should actually draw one and put it on the wall next to my monitor and look at it each day.
Great post Randy, it helps some of us face what we already secretly know…and that helps us to help ourselves!
Nice one
Cheers
Pete Chapman
Hey Randy,
Great post…I call this ‘Bright Shiny Objects’ syndrome. I’m a gadgets guy and it appears that I am also somewhat gullible too. The transition into IM was a lot of fun for a while. Then it dawned on me that I hadn’t made any money yet. Long story short, I had to learn to focus on one thing at a time…not easy for me.
Good choice of topic here. Thanks for the post!
All the best,
Steve
http://www.StevenArchard.com
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If I have not bumped into your blog I would not have known what “flitting’ is about. And now after reading the whole post I seem to feel guilty about doing it. I will surely remember your tips and hopefully achieve the same success you get online. More power Randy!
As a web entrepreneur, I know only too well how easy it is to fall into a routine of “flitting”. I’ll be sure to pass this post onto my subscribers who often struggle with “flitting” in their own businesses. Great insights and tips!
Hey Randy,
Congratsulation on your book being published.
Looks like you found time from you flitting and made a 92 page book.
Good job
To your success
Zora
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