No one believes you can make money online.

You’ve been telling everyone how you’re going to do it, but over the weeks, months or even years, they’ve grown skeptical. Why? Because, even though you know the mechanics of online marketing and can probably match wits with the average successful marketer, you’ve yet to produce anything to prove your ideas are legitimate.

But, why haven’t you?

I believe I know the reason and that’s what we’re going to correct here today.

See, you have a great interest in making it as an online marketer, but what you don’t have is a commitment. What I want to do is get you to jump off the “interest” track and on to the “commitment” track.

Knowing how to do online marketing isn’t enough.

Trying to do your best isn’t enough.

And, even taking action isn’t enough.

You hear that last one all the time: “Take action, take action, take action…”

I’m sick of it! There’s more to it than that. If you polled the people spouting that two-word phrase all the time you’d probably find out 95% of them are just as broke as you are.

In fact, it’s a really great illustration for what I’m about to explain because the people giving that advice and never making money are precisely the people who don’t understand the difference between “interest” and “commitment.”

These people have a great interest in online marketing and, in a lot of cases, they’re very knowledgeable; they know that “taking action” is a key element to success. However, 99.9% of the time, they don’t understand commitment.

Here is the difference put perfectly by Kenneth Blanchard (author of The One-Minute Manager):

There’s a difference between interest and commitment. When you’re interested in doing something, you do it only when it’s convenient. When you’re committed to something, you accept no excuses; only results.

And, for all the “take action” gurus out there, I’d just like to say, it’s one thing to know something and quite another to make a commitment to it.

There are actually three levels here:

Level one — You let everyone know that taking action is important to success.

Level two — You say to yourself, “I’m going to take action,” and really mean it.

Level three — You don’t even think about the concept of “taking action”; instead, you make a commitment by actually performing the action and then looking at the results.

The act of writing an eBook may be “taking action,” but it’s not commitment, it’s interest. In order to bridge the gap to commitment, you have to finish the eBook and start making sales because that’s what a legitimate online marketer does.

Go legit. Make a commitment.

OK, so I guess I better define what this site is all about.

First of all, this site is more about YOU than it is about ME. What I mean by that is everything within its digital walls is here for your benefit. Sure, I’m selling my products and services, but my philosophy is this: I don’t get paid to create products or provide services, I get paid to help you get better results.

I’m also, free of charge, posting helpful articles, audios and videos to clarify and explain the essentials of online marketing for anyone who cares to learn about it.

While I’m defining things, how about I list some of the categories I intend to cover here:

Marketing Philosophy — This category will cover the basic science and psychology of effective marketing.

Productivity and Motivation — This category is all about “making things happen.”

Product Creation — Advice and techniques related to creating better products.

Online Marketing Tools — Anything that helps save time, money or sanity will be covered.

Getting Better Results — Cutting edge tips and techniques to take your business to the next level.

I think these will do. I considered taking out “Getting Better Results” and anything I intended to put in there would go into “Marketing Philosophy,” but I think there’s enough of a distinction between the two categories. For example, anything basic and proven over a period of time would go into the “Marketing Philosophy” section whereas anything ground-breaking or cutting edge would go into the “Getting Better Results” section.

Now, after defining these differences, I know a lot of you would tend to race to the “Getting Better Results” section, but in reality the more effective and financially rewarding advice would be found in the “Marketing Philosophy” section. Just sayin’.

Anyway, now that I have some category ideas to work with for my new website, I guess I’d better get busy.

Talk to ya’ later…

 

 

Hello, and welcome to Digital Progress Report!

This is my first post on this brand-new site so there’s really nothing here yet. But, don’t worry, I have great plans for this spot on the web.

The main reason I created this website is so I can have a central hub for all my products and services. I also wanted a place to upload articles and other helpful content related to online marketing.

I could go on and on, but I’ve got a website to build and this is my first post (it’s supposed to be a throw-away post so why am I fiddling around here?)

Stay tuned!

William