MarkGossage

Tag: business planning

  • How to Set Online Business Goals You Can Actually Follow Through On

    How to Set Online Business Goals You Can Actually Follow Through On

    You start with a good intention.

    This month, you’re going to get your online business moving. Finish the website. Grow your email list. Publish regularly. Perhaps make those first sales.

    Then life happens.

    A task takes longer than expected. Something technical stops working. You discover another strategy and wonder whether you chose the wrong one.

    Before long, the plan has become a pile of unfinished jobs.

    And the hardest part is the feeling that you’ve let yourself down again.

    How do you set a goal that still makes sense when the excitement wears off and an ordinary difficult week arrives?

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  • Starting an Online Business? Stop Comparing and Find Your Own Way

    Starting an Online Business? Stop Comparing and Find Your Own Way

    You open your laptop intending to work on your business.

    Twenty minutes later, you’re watching someone else explain how brilliantly theirs is going.

    The polished website. The confident video. The announcement that makes your own progress feel painfully small.

    You look back at your unfinished page, the tool you still don’t understand and the idea you keep putting off.

    And a quiet thought creeps in: “Perhaps I’m just not cut out for this.”
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  • How to Make Progress in Your Online Business When You Feel Stuck

    How to Make Progress in Your Online Business When You Feel Stuck

    You sit down to work on your online business, open your laptop and start looking for an answer.

    An hour later, you’ve watched two videos, compared three tools and found another strategy you might try.

    You’ve learned something. But the page you meant to finish is still unfinished, and you’re no clearer about what to do tomorrow. (more…)

  • How to Build an Affiliate Marketing Plan You Can Stick To

    How to Build an Affiliate Marketing Plan You Can Stick To

    You start with a sensible idea: recommend something useful and earn a commission when someone buys.

    Then come the decisions. Which products? Which website software? Should you write articles, make videos or pay for advertising? Do you need an email list straight away?

    Before long, a business you hoped would be manageable has turned into a collection of unfinished tasks.

    If that sounds familiar, let’s give you a clearer place to begin. Whether you’re new to affiliate marketing or trying again after an earlier attempt, you can build a plan around your actual time, budget and abilities.

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  • How to Start an Online Business: For Beginners and People Trying Again

    How to Start an Online Business: For Beginners and People Trying Again

    For Beginners and People Trying Again

    If you’re wondering how to start an online business with no experience, or how to try again after an earlier attempt didn’t work, this guide will help you decide what to do first. We’ll cover choosing an idea, finding customers, understanding the tools you need and taking a small, practical step towards launching.

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