After being a part of this great industry for quite a while now, I have learned more than most people will ever learn about real marketing and building a business in their lifetime. It is really amazing what you can do when you really make a clear decision to sit down and learn your trade.

Inside this post I am going to share with you seven (7) Deadly Mistakes that most newbie marketers don’t even realize that they are making. The fact is, that if you start correcting these mistakes as early as possible, it will allow you to change the way you do your business down the road.

1. Expecting things to happen- This is an industry where success is sololy dependant on the work that you do for yourself (with exception to duplication, but you also have to teach this). You have to be the CEO of You.Inc and run your business like a real business.

2. Procrastinating- This is truly the death of your business, you have an opportunity to make everything that you ever wished for come true. You have to dedicate your time and focus to building your business. Running around doing tasks while you are trying to market is taking you farther away from your goals.

3. Wasting Time- A lot of people get this confused with procrastination. Some marketers consider being busy being productive and really all they are doing is wasting time. Checking email, checking youtube views, too much twitter, too much Facebook chatting. These are all wasting time, your social media tasks should be done very timely with a direct plan.

4. Not Creating a Plan- If you want to treat this business like a real business, then you MUST have a plan. How do you ever expect to work a million dollar company if you are not doing what million dollar companies do. It is simple. Evaluate your goals, create a plan to accomplish those goals and create a daily method of operation to accomplish the plan.

5. Staying up with Trends- Business is business. You have to know what is going on in this industry to stay ahead. The most successful people become that way because they are the first to know. Look at Myspace marketing, face book marketing and Twitter marketing. The ones who capitalized of them where the ones who were doing it before everyone else.
**side note** the best way to stay up with trends is: 1. Google Trends 2. Google Alerts 3. Forums just like this.

6. Not Targeting The Right People- If you are not out there targeting the exact people that you should be, you are wasting time once again. Building a random list of Twitter followers or Facebook followers that you found on Ashton Kutchers fan page is NEVER going to make you any money no matter how hard you try. (in the case of social media it is about quality, not quantity.)

7. Lack Of Follow-up- I know you have heard this 1,000 times and I am going to say it again. “The fortune is in the follow-up”. Whether it be passive (mailing list) or active (phone call) you have to have a system or procedure for following up with your prospects.

8. Not tracking your results- This is one of the most important things to be doing regardless of long or where you are at in this industry. Understanding what your marketing is doing is so important that I can not stress it enough. If you don’t understand what is working and what is not working in your marketing, there is no way to improve it.

There are literally thousands of ways to advertise yourself on the internet so tracking helps you analyze what is wasting your time. **side note** I highly recommend using Google Analytics and Yahoo Web Analytics

9. Neglecting Your Education- If you are not out there learning the skills that are required to be successful in your business, you don’t stand a chance to be success. Success is no accident, it requires learning and actually following through with what you learn. I can hand you three of the most successful pieces of marketing education like Magnetic Sponsoring, Building On A Budget, MLM Traffic Formula and if you don’t adopt those marketing strategies into your own business, once again it is a waste of time.

10. Not Taking Action – The last nine bullets all lead down to this one. You want to know what really seperates the 97% from the 3%? It is simply action. You have to take decisive action in every single part of your business. No mattter what strategy you choose, no matter how free, how expensive, how easy, how hard, how tedious or anything else you have to take DECISIVE-CONSITANT action.

These ten things are in no specific order, they don’t have to be. The simple outline of the biggest mistakes are not simply mistakes that are only made by newbie marketers. All of us tend to let some of these go sometimes, but what happens is we all learn from the mistakes that we make on a day to day basis.

You can’t be perfect all the time. You can’t win every game, you strike out every player and you race all year without having a couple blown tires or busted up fenders.
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Jeff Mitchell
Www.OnlineMLMMentors.Com

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