Quick story…

I’m in Saskatoon visiting some friends today and I was away at lunch to see a couple of my buddies brand new restaurant. I’m very proud of these guys because they told me for years, this was their dream to be their own boss and I knew, because of all the BBQ’s they used to throw, that these guys have something that this city needs….REAL good food, a great environment and fun atmosphere.

What’s the point of this story Olson?

I got into some numbers with them…

Over 250k to start the business, that means they are in debt for a quarter of a million dollars…

Plus they know they may not see a profit for at least 3 years.

But they had a dream…And I’m so damn proud of them.

Back to the point of this…Online we seem to cringe at a 20 dollar a month investment on a autoresponder? A 50-75 dollar a month budget for the basics we need for our businesses…But we all want to make money online.

Funny huh? I thought so…

The headline of this may come as a shock, but sometimes we need a stir up and shake up and a little bit of jaw dropping to get some action going. Stop with the ‘I can do this all for free’ mentality. Offline people invest hundreds of thousands into their dreams, I don’t think we should be shocked to learn it MAY take a hundred bucks a month to build a solid online business.

We have a huge upper hand though, we don’t need to invest hundreds of thousands…But they have something I wish we saw more of online…Realistic goals and plans to reach them.

Wanna shoot for the stars, invest in yourself!

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I spend a lot of time in the traffic exchanges. I really enjoy the communities that are being formed, I love seeing how people promote themselves and their businesses and most of all, I love hearing that folks are getting huge results from the TimTech businesses, especially ClickTrackProfit.

What makes me worried though is the lack of focus I see while surfing. Yes folks, ‘focus’ it’s a dirty dirty dirty word that gets thrown around online a lot and rarely, if ever gets followed.

Shiny objects, slot machine marketing, whatever you want to call it. People seem to lose it at the drop of a dime. I guess it’s the promises of instant 30 day riches in ClickBank. Or the latest cycler-randomizer, 15 level MLM they are being sold….

I’m not sure what it is, but I know that people will ALWAYS do the best in this business if they focus their energy on 1 or 2 businesses.

I know, I know….It’s not sexy. Especially when you see a program that is in ‘pre-launch’ and ready to ‘revolutionize the industry’…Big promises, little sustainability.

Example, some folks got in ‘early’ at CTP…They made some great money. They got in on a community that was being formed and to be honest, some of these folks were looked at as leaders. So what do I see while surfing the other day? The same few members, instead of promoting themselves and the leadership role they got are in, they promoted the fact they got 5 bucks by using a paid to click system….

Hundreds of dollars, leadership role in a community based program VS. 5 dollars in a paid to click…

Shiny objects I guess…

Focus! There is a reason why someone like Bill Carr has been ‘the man’ when it comes to building downlines…He focuses his energy on Traffic Hoopla. There is a reason why Jerry Iannucci is the man when it comes to safelists and viral list builders….Focus. There is a reason why I’m referred to as ‘the Traffic Exchange Guy’…Focus.

Master one thing, become the best at that one thing…And then you develop new ‘streams’ but you cannot get to that until you focus your efforts on one thing first.

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