10 Things Every Home Based Business Owner Needs

February 7th, 2010 No Comments

When you make the decision to earn income from the internet you will need to go through a set up process to be ready for business.

Following are the basic steps in setting up for home business success.

1. Attitude

The key to your business success is your attitude.

Treat your business like a business.

This is critical whether you are working part-time or full-time. One of my colleagues is a mother who works from home around her family. She has always put her family first whilst at the same time developing her business. She says, “I work part-time, but I have a full-time attitude.”

Put another way, “If you have a hobby attitude you will have a hobby income, if you have a business attitude you will have a business income.”

You can be successful working part-time and you can be successful working full-time but it is highly unlikely that you will be successful working in your “spare time”.

2. Working Environment

A space that you can call your own, free from distractions for your scheduled time.

A comfortable chair and organized desk.
Stationery supplies as required. For example:

- pens
- highlighters
- stapler
- hole punch
- sticky tape
- note book(s)
- a simple filing system
- ring binders
- manilla folders

Consider the value of a broadband connection. Your time is valuable and a broadband connection can allow you to get more done in a given time frame.

3. Schedule

Develop a schedule that works for you, your family (or “significant others”) and your business. When you allot a block of time for work then use that time for work. Equally important is to schedule time for your other commitments – family time, self education ( reading, listening and viewing), “health time” (exercise, cooking and eating), and leisure time. During these other times don’t work. After all if one of the reasons to work from home is to spend more time with your family then you don’t want your working at home time to consume your family time.

You are working for yourself and your schedule (by your choice) is your “boss”. When you have people calling you or dropping around unexpectedly or maybe out-of-town visitors may want to catch up with you then you need to make a choice. Are you committed to your own business success? What will be your choice in these situations? Only you can decide what is important to you.

In a family environment you may need to negotiate with your partner and children to have your business time agreed upon, during which you will not be interrupted. Put this schedule prominently somewhere so all family members are aware of your work schedule.

4. Describe Your Business

Be able to describe your business concisely; a powerful one or two sentence description that someone can repeat in describing your business to others. A unique and memorable tag line can also be invaluable for promoting your business.

5. Know Your Product or Service

Once you have selected your product or service to sell, it may or may not be something that you use yourself but you need to know your product intimately. If you are selling ebooks then know the content and its value. If you are selling software then use it know it “inside out”. You will develop a reputation of providing quality information and because of your product knowledge you can become the preferred supplier.

It is not practical to use certain products (for example a woman may choose to sell man’s shoes or vice versa) in which case the seller won’t be a product user, however the seller can still know the benefits and features of the product intimately.

6. Administration

Use good record keeping practices.

This may involve a consultation with a tax advisor who can let you know about the optimal way to set up your financial records and what records need to be kept. Your advisor will also recommend record keeping systems and you can find out what software may simplify this aspect of your business. Additionally your obtain advice on the best arrangement for your bank accounts. You will most likely be advised to have a separate bank account.

You will also need to keep track of your various logins, usernames and passwords. A very handy little software tool for this is Treepad available as either the free Lite version (without password protection) or the commercial Plus or Biz versions. http://www.treepad.com

There are other useful tools for this also from a simple paper notebook to free and commercial password keepers. One popular solution is Roboform that will remember your login details and can automatically fill out your login and other registration forms. http://www.roboform.com

7. Computer Protection

Your computer is the lifeline to your business dealings and must be protected including the data that is stored.

You need a virus scanner, personal firewall, anti-spyware and anti-adware and preferably an email scanner with the ability to delete suspect of spam email from the server before it is downloaded to your computer.

Some suggestions are:

AVG Anti-Virus: http://www.grisoft.com
Spybot S&D: http://www.safer-networking.org
Microsoft Anti-Spyware:  www.microsoft.com/athome/security/spyware/software/default.mspx
Adaware: http://www.lavasoft.com/
Mailwasher Email Scanner: http://www.mailwasher.net

8. A Domain Name

You will most likely need a domain name for your business and one cost effective registrar is GoDaddy, http://www.godaddy.com.

9. Payment Processing

You will need a way to process credit cards; that may be using services such as:
- PayPal https://www.paypal.com
- Storm Pay http://www.stormpay.com
- 2 Checkout http://www.2checkout.com
- Clickbank http://www.clickbank.com or others.

This is the most economical way to get started. Once your business picks up you may need to look into your own merchant account for credit card transactions.

Consideration may also be given to other forms of online currency such as eGold http://www.egold.com

10. Email accounts

Once you have your own domain you can use an associated email account. This can further assist in the promotion of your business and promotes a more professional business image.

As a final comment on continuing in your internet business, conduct your business ethically, provide extraordinary service and be proud to put your name to the products or services that you are selling and you will be on track to developing a sustainable long term internet business.

In Great Online Business Success,

Obe Pro

http://obepro.com

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Automate Your Internet Business for Passive Revenue In 5 Easy Steps

February 4th, 2010 No Comments

The amazing growth of the Internet has created new found opportunities for millions of businesses who previously would have never been able to compete in the global marketplace. Yet while the low entry and marketing costs have truly leveled the playing field for many entrepreneurs it has also created a staggering amount of competition.

In fact, the average person, at least, those who live in metropolitan areas, is exposed to more than 3,500 marketing messages a day. That’s 24,500 messages a week and 1.2 million each year.

And to make online sales even more difficult, marketing studies have shown that it takes nine or more impressions for your business to be remembered by a potential customer. This means follow-up is essential. But in today’s world this type of relentless follow up for the average business owner is not often practical. Fortunately there is a solution that many online businesses are using every day – online marketing automation.

Imagine being able to capture new leads on your website, build customer confidence through automated sequential responses, deliver products digitally while you sleep and track all of your prospects and clients without lifting a finger. For thousands of online businesses this happens every day.

In today’s competitive environment, automation is not a luxury; it’s a requirement for keeping the competitive edge you need. In fact, the benefits of automation are so numerous you can’t afford to ignore them.

Five Keys to Online Success:

1. Capture Email Addresses.  Your list is your goldmine.  It is critical to all your marketing and is literally your most valuable asset. To build your mailing list it is essential that you make a compelling offer. “Sign up for my mailing list” is no longer enough. Try something like this: “Free Special Report: The 5 Keys to Dramatically Boosting Your Website Traffic in 30 Days. A $127 Value!”

Through online automation you can offer digitally downloaded special reports, e-newsletters, mini-educational courses, or free trials to entice visitors to share their name and email. When their data is entered, it is automatically placed in your database and can be programmed to trigger autoresponders which are one or multiple automated messages. Share your privacy policy below your opt-in box as well as assurance that they can unsubscribe at any time. And of course, never spam anyone.

2. Set Up Sequential Autoresponders.  A very effective way to build trust with your prospects is to offer a mini-course which delivers content-rich, relevant information to your opt-in subscribers. These automatically-distributed email messages not only provide content, but also motivate prospects to revisit your site for the latest offers. And of course once they click through to your website you can offer more content delivered via audio, video and other multi-media options as well as offers for your products and services.

Since studies shows that 48% of sales people give up after the first contact and 25% after the second, this is a perfect way to make sure your follow-up stays consistent. Best of all, after you program the series it will perform flawlessly for you for years to come.

3. Take Payments Online.  It has never been easier or more affordable to set up online payment systems through PayPal or your own merchant account.  And once you set up your payment account it very easy to sell products or services online by purchasing an online shopping cart.  A shopping cart will allow you to capture email addresses, automate responses, track leads and then sell you product to customers around the world 24/7.  These systems are surprisingly easy to setup, operate and maintain.

4. Track and Measure Your Marketing.  Over the years I have trained and coached hundreds of business owners in marketing through my Guerrilla Marketing Coaching Program. Through a series of assessments it has become very clear that most businesses fall short in the area of measurement.

Here are some questions to consider:

1) How many unique visitors come to your website?

2) How many visitors opt-in to your mailing list or order your products?

3) When you send emails, how many are opened and how many people actually click through to your website?

The reason these metrics are so important is because if you don’t know these stats, you won’t know what to improve. It could be variables like the pulling power of your headlines, the copy or navigation on your website. You won’t know until you start measuring. Many of today’s automated systems include ad trackers which automatically calculate your click-throughs and conversion statistics.

5. Free Up Your Time to Work on the Most Important Parts of Your Business

When you automate daily tasks you gain more time to focus on priorities for the strategic growth of your company. This newfound discretionary time comes without your money-making activities coming to a halt, or hiring and training staff.

Also when your business becomes automated, your presence becomes optional leaving you time to actually take a vacation while making money at the same time. With most systems you can quickly and easily check your sales and orders from any web browser.

The Internet is a competitive, ever-changing marketplace. The right strategy combined with powerful and practical systems gives you an edge over your competitors. You’ll attract more customers and spend less time, money and energy winning them over. Automation services and software leverage the best technology available to make you money day and night, whether you’re there or not.

In Great Online Business Success,

Obe Pro

http://obepro.com

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YOUR FORTUNE IS IN YOUR FOLLOW-UP

February 1st, 2010 No Comments

No matter what you sell — products, services, or causes — one of the key ingredients to your success will be the attention you give your sales lead follow-up system.

Notice that I used the word *system* to describe your follow-up program. It’s an important conceptual word. If you do not have a well planned, step-by-step system for lead follow-up you are leaving a lot of profits sitting on the table.

It is widely accepted that it takes a minimum of five attempts to close a sale (any sale) before the customer has enough information and confidence to buy from you. If your idea of follow-up is to bounce one autoresponder message back to your on-line inquiry and expect the cash register to ring, you are in for a shocking surprise.

You have heard often, and will continue to hear, that internet marketing is based on the building of *relationships* with your potential customers.

It’s true! Indeed, this is one of the true Power Principles of internet marketing. One of the great benefits of the internet is the ease and cost-effectiveness of relationship building.

We must understand that our potential customer is inundated with competing advertising messages from various media–television, radio, newspapers, magazines, billboards, point- of-purchase, direct mail–and now the internet.

All of these marketing methods attempt to build a relationship with its audience in order to make the advertising message credible and believable. Credibility and believability lead naturally to sales.

The one media that stands head and shoulders above the competition is the internet. No other vehicle provides the opportunity to connect with your audience in such a timely and intimate way. Using the combination of web sites and email you have the graphical power of television and the intimate targeting of direct mail–without the associated high costs. It’s a powerful combination.

If you really want to ‘Reach Out And Touch Someone’, the way to do it is with the real Killer Application of the internet… e-mail.

The two most powerful e-mail tools for effective client follow-up are:

==> Your own e-mail newsletter, ezine, discussion list, etc.

==> A programmed system of timed e-mail follow-up messages.

Let’s look at each one briefly:

YOUR OWN E-MAIL NEWSLETTER, EZINE…

I can’t say enough about what a regular newsletter or ezine will do for your bottom line. By communicating useful information to your clients and prospects on a regular basis you are building a strong bonding relationship with them. Over time, they will begin to see you as a partner in their success. The trust and friendship you have built through your newsletter will translate to added business and increased profits for you.

Managing a newsletter or ezine does not have to be expensive or very time consuming. There are several free services that will host your publication and provide an automated subscription process. I just switched one newsletter over to Facebook groups for new subscriptions and it seems to work fine. It has eliminated all the hand subscription process and automated it for me, all at no cost.

As a leader, you simply must communicate regularly with your downlines… and your product customers. You should give serious consideration to producing your own periodic e-mail newsletter. In doing so, you will be building relationships which will fatten your profits quickly.

AUTOMATED E-MAIL FOLLOW-UP:

The use of autoresponders to supply immediate and comprehensive information to your prospects is a very powerful use of e-mail technology and, I believe, a good one.

But, what do you do after the initial lead response? How do you continue to follow-up at regular intervals? If you deal with very few leads of high quality, it’s not a problem to follow-up with custom one-on-one messages and it is imperative that you do so if you expect to convert these leads to sales.

If your lead flow runs to big numbers, however, you have a problem. You simply must automate the follow-up process to insure that every prospect inquiry gets properly timed, on-going, information and reasons to buy–a minimum of 5 times. To do less is to waste your lead generation investment. You must maximize this return-on-investment if you are to succeed and the only practical way to do this is with automation.

A number of e-mail services provide an autoresponder system that will send a series of pre-written, timed, follow-up messages to your leads. This is a powerful use of technology. The real power comes, however, when the messages you send are professionally crafted works of benefit laden sales copy. These timed responses can be profit-enhancing selling tools, or downright intrusions. The difference will be the skill with which you use the tool.

Fortunately for you, these systems are readily available. Jusk ask.

The reward for building an automated follow-up system is always worth the effort. The time you spend nurturing your follow-up program will result in:

==> Increased sales and profits

==> Improved image

==> More sales leads

==> Lower sales costs

==> Shortened selling cycles

==> Improved cash flow

==> Faster Team Building

==> Higher Residual Income

==> Faster Return-On-Investment (ROI)

Remember… the profits are in the FOLLOW-UP!

In Great Online Business Success,

Obe Pro

http://obepro.com

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Community Call with Earl Bogan and Alyse Williams

December 30th, 2009 No Comments

On Monday evening (12/28/2009), Obe Pro hosted a Community Empowered Hour that featured Life Coach Earl Williams and Entrepreneur and Mindset Coach Alyse Williams.

The call was attended by dozens of people, who for the first time, discovered what Obe Pro could do for their personal lives — with real examples from real associates.

Obe Pro will be featuring these calls every Monday evening in the future and we invite everyone to come!

Just us at 9:30 pm EST/6:30 pm PST every Monday night as we feature many other associates and real stories about how Obe Pro can produce a great amount of change, in a short amount of time.

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Fail You Way To Online Business Success

December 28th, 2009 No Comments

The below post was taken from Obe Pro associate Ian Hannaford.  You can visit Ian’s personal website for Obe Pro here: http://obepro.info

Hi there,

Below are 7 “light bulb moments” that allowed me to create a six-figure income this year in online business.

#1)  It dawned on me that if I didn’t set my own schedule, someone else would set it for me.

The idea of a boss over my life never felt right.  It felt claustrophobic.  Thus I determined no matter what, I was going to succeed in a home-based business if it killed me.

#2)  It dawned on me quickly that I would rather chew my face off than call generic leads.  So I decided to create my own leads.

My first effort was a 4 line Newspaper Ad : “Millionaire Minds: What’s the Secret to earning $1K in less than an hour?” People called and listened to a 3 minute voice message.  And guess what?  People started buying my products.

#3)  It also dawned on me after that to create leads on the internet.  Small problem:  I only knew how to do em@il.  So I painfully, slowly, fearfully, I figured out how to upload a website and upload a youtube video.  This was tortuous for a technophobe like me.  But remember I was going to succeed even if it killed me, so a little torture was okay.  As soon as the website went up I started to make more money.

#4)  I used Google AdWords.  I blew through $600 in 1 week because I had no clue what I was doing.  But I had a couple of ideas and they proved to put me on track for my 6-figure goal very fast.  Nothing lost.

#5)   I then heard about Obe Pro and found out the product was better than what I was promoting AND it was free for 30 full days!   Ah ha!  So I joined them.  I knew being ripped off or scammed  was a hot button issue for myself and others too.  When I discovered that you could make so much money — and practically spend no money at all doing it, I knew others would see the same big picture that I did.  This one detail of Obe Pro is simply genius.

#6)  I then figured out that ObePro’s Payplan paid $50 a month residuals per referral on just the 1st level…and it kept growing like a snowball rolling down a hill!  It was so simple and easy to duplicate! Then my biggest lightbulb moment came.  “What if I showed individuals EVERYTHING I knew about marketing?  What if I could leverage my knowledge out amongst a few key people and teach them how to make money, and by doing so I too would make money?”  This little thought of massive leverage created a burning desire for me to share whatever I knew and had learned about marketing online with a select group of team mates.  Shortly after that I had a bunch of people who had never made money online, start to make money.  They were very happy.   I was equally happy in being a part of their newfound online business success.

I share these stories because I know for a fact that there are people reading this right now that can and will be future internet marketing stars.  Sometimes it takes just a little bit of assistance and spark from an experienced mentor.  Here’s what a mentoring relationship with me looks like:  every week we spend a minimum of 15 minutes and a maximum of 30 minutes in a 1-on-1 online meeting.  I scrutinize your belief systems, question your thoughts about marketing, prod you to give a smarter effort, challenge you to be un-meltable in the face of fire.  It’s not always pleasant.  And I really won’t buy any of your BS or excuses [I mean that in a nice way].

Each week as you take new actions, we drill deeper down the rabbit hole.  You will find success is significantly easier and more fun than working a dead-end-job and stressing about money.

You will need to enter your name and em@il address to acess the site, http://obepro.info  Trust me you’ll love it. It’s just because of their marketing appeal to reach out to people.  Give me a ring after you view this site and video and let’s talk more about it.

(…and by the way they also have a feature where you can call them too. It’s free and very cool).

http://obepro.info

In great online business successs,

Ian L. Hannaford
+34 691 821 265

P.S. When you visit the site make sure you read through it all and give them a call if you have any questions.  I know they’re really onto something here and I just wanted you all to know about it.

http://obepro.info

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Eat, Breathe, and Sleep Mindfulness

December 22nd, 2009 No Comments

When you wake up each morning, instead of rising mindlessly, sit for a few moments and contemplate your good fortune: “How wonderful—I’ve lived through the night!” Many people go to bed healthy and never wake up. Death is very simple. We breathe out and don’t breathe in again.

Think to yourself, “I don’t know if I have one more day or many. But I will use the time I have well. I’ll work for the happiness of others in any way I can, and if I’m not able to help, at least I’ll strive not to harm any being—physically, verbally, or mentally.” With this resolution, focus on the direction you want the day to take. Your ability to benefit others will increase in proportion to the scope of your intention. Then invoke the blessings of your object of faith, praying that whatever you do will benefit all beings and lead you to realize your true nature.

Never overlook an opportunity to create virtue. The merit of helping others, dedicated to all beings, is boundless and becomes a powerful force for positive change.

Don’t burden others with your expectations. Understanding their limitations can inspire compassion instead of disappointment, ensuring beneficial and workable relationships. Remember that you have only a short time together. Be grateful for each day you share.

Try to resist responding negatively to difficult situations. Every moment of miserliness, hatred, jealously, or pride drives you more deeply in to suffering. These poisons only further obscure the crystal, your inherent perfection. Instead, cultivate acceptance and contentment.

When you feel upset or depressed, focusing on the suffering of others is genuinely helpful. Regardless of how overwhelming your circumstances may seem, those of countless others are much worse. Putting yourself in their shoes brings perspective to your own situation.

Continually contemplate impermanence. Whatever you desire, dislike, think, or feel is impermanent. Words of praise or blame are impermanent. They all come and go. With this understanding, you won’t be so upset by the dramas of daily life.

Outwardly you can continue to make plans, but inwardly cultivate nonattachment. When death comes, it won’t do any good to cling to plans, no matter how well-intentioned they many be. When death takes your last breath, you need to really know that everything you are leaving is impermanent—a dream—and let go.

Continue to practice contemplation and relaxation. You don’t have to sit on a special cushion, in a special room, with special incense. Do it wherever you are: in line at the convenience store, driving to work, taking a shower, doing dishes. The more you practice, the more quickly your faults will diminish and your positive qualities will increase. Revealing mind’s perfection is simply a matter of repetition—bringing your awareness back to one or another of these meditations again and again.

When you go to bed at night, review the day. Reflect on the virtue and negativity you created. Really check. Be honest. If you caused harm, don’t become discouraged, but make a commitment to change. Using the powers of purification, imagine that you are cleansed of all sickness, negativity, obscurations, and karmic debts, until not even the residue of your harmful actions remains. Then allow your mind to settle into the openness and compassion that are the blessings of your object of faith.

Dedicate all the virtue you’ve ever accumulated to the temporary and ultimate happiness of all beings without exception. Then go to sleep.

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OBE Pro’s “Call Me” Feature

December 17th, 2009 No Comments

Online Business Entrepreneurs will be utilizing an exclusive feature “never been done before in home business” when the company launches in the coming days.

From every page of the website, all prospective associates visiting the site will be able to call the home office directly anytime of the day using Google’s Grand Central and be connected to a professional OBE representative. They will be able to answer any questions, set up accounts, and guide you through the OBE product suite, membership details, commission structure, and more.

This feature will be offered to every associate, FREE of charge. It is one more offering that makes OBE much different and raises the bar of home business excellence forever. It is our intention to eliminate the need for our associates to “sell, tell, or explain.”

Further, we believe that our value increases proportionally with our service and ability to communicate. Real people like to talk with real people.

We invite you to visit OBE Pro and experience our Call Me feature yourself. We think you’ll agree that

OBE Pro is Results Based. Community Empowered. Home Business Success.

Call Me feature with OBE Pro

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OBE Net: Community Empowered.

December 15th, 2009 No Comments

Social media has become a fundamental part of every good company’s digital strategy. It has proven to be one of the most effective ways to build deeper customer and partner relationships, engage customers and partners online and create new revenue opportunities.

OBE Net is community empowered and proudly featured as part of the OBE Pro platform.

Hosted by KickApps Social Media Solutions,OBE Netenables you to create and managesocial,interactive,dynamic,distributedanddata-informedcontentto:

  • Excite and engage your customers about your business or product withfan and engagement communities
  • Create asupport communityfor customers and partners
  • Provide a destination where your prospects and partners can give youfeedbackon your campaign initiatives

Reinventing Customer Relationships Through Engagement and Social Media

Combined with programming, marketing and promotion, OBE Net becomes a destination where you can engage directly with customers and partners, regardless of geography and time of day.

  • Create, nurture and support your own online community of customers, brand ambassadors, fans and partners
  • Contests and other perpetual campaigns keep a customer base engaged and increases loyalty with your brand and products
  • Listen to your online community for feedback, suggestions and insight into your business, products, the market and customer needs

We would also like to mention that our OBE Net community features a 24/7 chat room with streaming audio, video, instant messaging, and even it’s own dedicated tele-conferencing bridge!

Think about it: Whenever you have a question, you can get an answer. If you seek to mastermind with the best and most successful, you can find them in OBE Net. Need a referral? No problem! In OBE Net, you will be surrounded by literally hundreds of top-notch professionals from all walks of life, including coaches, investors, designers, realtors, product managers, internet marketers, content publishers, construction builders, and teachers from across the globe day and night.

We invite you to create your FREE profile in OBE Net today and take advantage of all the resources offered to all OBE associates inside.

We think you’ll agree. OBE Pro is different.

OBE Net is Community Empowered for YOUR Home Business Success.

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MoJo Interview: Biz Stone

December 15th, 2009 No Comments

The Twitter co-founder talks about Obama’s social media savvy, what makes someone popular on Twitter, and why people are like birds.

Below is an excerpt of the interview.

“MJ: What makes somebody popular on Twitter? I mean, how can I make my Twitter feed popular?’

‘BS: I think there are a few ingredients. First of all, being an active user. Having something compelling to say, and that doesn’t mean it has to be this genius content because it really depends on who is following you. Like I said, the other day I heard music outside of my house and so I typed ‘music, playing, concert, Berkeley’ into Twitter Search and I got an update that was a minute old from someone who said they were at a Radio Head concert at the Greek Theater which is near my house. So I said, oh ok, question answered. But all they wrote was ‘listening to Radio Head at the Greek in Berkeley’ which in and of itself isn’t that compelling of an update, but at the same time it was very meaningful to me. So you want to be a fairly active user. And you want to engage a little bit with other people. So if you see that you’re getting ‘@replies,’ which are just a public way of addressing another Twitter user so that others can see you’ve addressed them, if you see you’re getting these in your replies tab, occasionally to respond to them in kind. That usually shows signs of life activity. Once you create that engagement you start creating feedback loops which make the whole experience more compelling and attracts more people to follow you.”

For the full 13 minute audio, click here:

MoJo Interview: Biz Stone | Mother Jones.

Nice interview from the co-founder of Twitter, pointing out the service’s direction, platform, andhow you explain Twitter to your grandmother.

Note: Twitter’s growth climbed at 600% last year to over 4 million active users. Already they have incorporated real-time search functions that host instant goings-on around the world. Important for journalism and breaking news. Twitter is expected grow to over 9 million users by the end of 2009.

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Postpone Procrastination Forever: 5 ways to conquer the demon

December 13th, 2009 No Comments

We’ve all done it at some time or other. We put off our exercise routine until tomorrow; we continually delay finishing that project or starting that business.

Procrastination is the mother of all demons and can literally stop you in your tracks from achieving all that you desire and deserve.

Here are 5 effective processes you can use to slay this giant forever, and immediately.

1. Do it now


Hold your breath and jump right in! Putting things off until the last minute is a bad habit and like all habits is ingrained in our subconscious mind and hard to break. It feels like the normal thing to do and we simply continue along our path. To complete a task immediately may even feel strange or like a forced action.

When your boss gives you a task or when your clients or customers request your expertise, do it right away!

You not only look well-organized to others, the feeling that the job is done, is complete before the deadline, will be one of relief and gratitude. The biggest benefit for giving excellent value right away is the feeling of confidence you will have for the next time.

How would this efficiency look to your customers when you request a referral or to your boss when salary reviews are approaching? I would think, “Great”.

2. Take baby steps

Sometimes we procrastinate because the task may be intimidating to us. Perhaps we have no possible inkling on where to start.

In these cases, it is quite fine to take it one step at a time, especially if the idea of making a lot of money from home and building your own perfect business is a foreign idea to you.

Say you are preparing a business plan and for the 5th time this week, you’ve turn on the PC and looked at the blank screen. Or you’ve just remembered you need to do some more research before you begin…you’re still not ready.

My friend you ARE ready.

You simply need to break down the project into smaller pieces and tackle each bit separately. Make each task an individual project and after completion of each one, celebrate and acknowledge your achievement.

Soon you’ll be finished and have no idea why you were putting it off in the first place. Promise. Just try it. Right now.

3. Vision the perfect

Ah! I love this one. I use the Law of Attraction with OBE Pro associates to have them easily and effortlessly achieve their dreams and desires and in effect, their vision. When getting started, it’s the most important part. In fact, it’s Chapter 1 of the OBE B.Y.O.B. ”Begin With The End In Mind.”

Once you are aware that you are in fact procrastinating, creating a vision of you achieving the perfect plan is extremely helpful. When you create a vision you write in the present tense…as if you have already achieved your goal or if you are in the process of completing it.

For example, we go back to the business plan. Your vision may look something like this.

“I am so grateful that I have completed all the research I need for my business plan. I am finding the information easily using the internet. People that have written business plans are offering me advice that allows me to create an exciting plan that I resonate with. As I write, the words come to me effortlessly….”

In creating a vision and focusing on it daily, the universal laws state that things, people, processes will begin to occur in your life that will allow you to attract that vision. Like Mike Dooley teaches, “Thoughts become things.”

4. Forget it


Why force the issue? If you have been ‘dragging your feet’ on something for a very long time, it may all be for the best.

Something, somewhere is trying to tell you something. That something is your intuition and it is usually right!

Think about something that you have been putting off again and again and again. What are the reasons that you need to complete this task in the first place? Does someone want you to do this? What is THEIR agenda? What are YOUR reasons for this lengthy delay?

I find it amazing that 99% of the time I put off doing something, I am thankful that I did! Disregarding a project after a long period of procrastination is however usually a last resort. Trust me, you don’t want to get stuck in this period. Bob Proctor says that the Universe expands for the focus of time put in it. In other words, forgetting about for a moment should be for gaining clarity and mental calmness. Not because you’re putting something off because you are afraid.

Big difference.

5. Support team

Do you put off tasks because you feel that there are too big and complex for you to handle alone? Or because you need assistance? Be honest with yourself. “No man is an island”.

Ask for help! There are many resources out there that can provide you with all you need to carry out your job. And that is what OBE Pro is built for, including OBE Net.

If you’re a solo-professional and you put off answering emails, then don’t answer them yourself. Hire an assistant, find some college students that want experience, get a family member or your spouse involved.

Procrastinating on life changing activities could be as a result of fear of the unknown. Get a mastermind group together, find a mentor, join a support group. Join OBE Net. Get the advice and input of others who already have exactly what you desire. Successful people love telling their story and exactly how they did. Seek to surround yourself only with the best. That’s part of the “Be, Do, Have” mindset.

You don’t have to do it all by yourself. Just ensure that to kick this habit; and establish an effective schedule and Daily Method of Operation. You’ll surely postpone procrastination for a very long time.

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