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Regina Baker Asks How Do You Stay The Course

Regina Baker of “Christians in Business Internet Buzz” recently asked me if I’d like to do a cross-blog conversation. Simply put, that means she asks a question on her blog that I’ll answer here. While she didn’t think I knew who she was, I knew her from some of my research projects I had going on. It’s pretty hard to miss her if you do any research at all into any type of Christian niche.

I’m always willing to test something new (if you haven’t noticed), so here we go. And she came up with a wonderful question to start with!

“Hi Terry,

I’ve read and listened to your inspiring story of how you came from delivering pizzas at $8 an hour to now having paid off your debts and living a lifestyle of happiness with your wife.

As you know, Internet Marketing can be some what of a challenge (focus) to stick to. What would you say was the hardest part of “staying the course?”

For me the hardest part of staying the course was having faith that the plan I was following would work. There weren’t any “Internet trainers” I could follow back when I started so I had to pave a path myself. This meant I took direct marketing information that worked off the Internet, and had to figure out a plan to get it to work for me online. The biggest issue is having the confidence to stick to the plan and keep letting it work for you.

My confidence level was definitely low at the time I started online, because I failed at some many ventures before this (including direct selling, door-to-door selling, network marketing, etc.).

Now that I’ve mentored a large number of successful Internet entrepreneurs over the years, it’s pretty easy to spot why people don’t succeed online. It often comes back to that confidence issue. They simply don’t believe they can do it. They don’t find a plan and stick to working on it daily. They jump from here to there on different plans…never working day-after-day until it produces for them.

While I had a lot of disadvantages in starting online, I had two big advantages. The first one was that I had a wife who kept telling me I could do it. Even though I failed so many times in the past, she still told me I could do it. No matter what, she stood beside me…and I’m extremely thankful to her for this.

My second advantage was the pain of the situation I was in. Having creditors calling every day demanding payment is NOT a fun experience. Not making enough money to pay the minimum payments on your bills is not a fun experience. Calling a credit card consolidation service and having them tell you they can’t help you because you don’t make enough is not a fun experience.

My situation was very painful. And anyone with even the least bit of psychology knows there are two motivators: pleasure and pain. Of those two, pain is a much more powerful motivator. I had loads of it where I was…so I didn’t see any other option but success. Quitting was simply too painful.

For those who are not in that type of circumstance, you need to manufacture your own pain. For example, tell everyone you will launch a specific product 4 to 6 weeks from now. Tell people on your blog and on your lists. Tell you neighbor. Tell the people at church. Tell your mailman. Tell everyone. If you don’t do it, you’ll look like a total idiot. Now you have some upcoming “pain” motivating you to stay the course and get it done.

And for anyone who has been reading the past two weeks of the blog, you know my other recommendation. Quit buying so many Internet marketing products and apply daily action to the ones you already have!

Now it’s your turn Regina…

I see a lot of people marketing online who don’t seem to accomplish much. How do advise people when they need to accomplish more work related projects in less time?

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