Well, they say it’s hard to climb a smooth mountain!

Yesterday I sent an email through the Perfect Traffic Storm email system to 2000 subscribers, inviting them over to my blog. I was sure it would increase my traffic.

After I sent it, I realised that I had forgotten to add a link to my site or even tell them the address. D’oh!

I did get one reply asking for the link though. That made my evening

Anyone else had a ‘moment’ on their journey?

All the best,

Dave

OK, so you’ve set up your website, posted a few posts on your blog and visited others’ blogs. You’ve made the commitment to yourself that this time you’re going to be a success and you’re raring to go.

With all this enthusiasm and time on the keyboard, you can’t fail. You will succeed. Follow the plan and you will achieve your dreams.

But now you fall into the trap. If you haven’t already, keep reading. It may happen to you and it’s important that you recognise it when it happens. How you handle the ‘trap’ will mean the difference between success and possible failure. This is the ‘trap’ that has stopped me in all my previous attempts to succeed.

Hi friends,

I didn’t actually hit a wall. I was checking my stats and, although I have been doing everything I have been told to do, the numbers weren’t as high as I had hoped, so I got a bit disheartened. Then I stopped myself and gave myself a good shake, which is a lot harder to do than it sounds

What is the difference between success in your new online venture and failure?

There are many answers to this of course, but for the purposes of this article I am referring to the mindset of the individual entrepreneur. A decision needs to be made up front, before the practical steps of getting an internet presence are established. But what do I really mean by a decision?

Hi folks, hope everyone’s well today.

Well, what a great few days it’s been. I’ve been exploring blogs, writing posts and comments and ultimately writing what turned out to be an essay for my previous post called Suitcases and Web Spaces. It made the comparison between planning a business and planning a vacation. I had a lot of fun writing it and the words seemed to flow.

From a traffic generation perspective, I decided to publish it to Ezine Articles so others can use it for content should they wish. My link is in the resource box and anyone who uses it must include the resource box, so will provide valuable backlinks and traffic.

For almost two years now I have had an imaginary internet business.

It’s been great planning my success and imagining how fantastic life is going to be.

How am I going to accomplish this great success?  By following several online courses, reading several ebooks, collecting several PLR articles and ebooks in a folder on my hard drive and leaving them there.

Ok folks, the first stage in my traffic plan is complete.

I used Twitterfeed (http://twitterfeed.com) to link my blog to my Twitter account. As of today I have built 18,703 followers, most with an interest in internet marketing.

I have now set it up so that each new blog post creates a tweet automatically.

I created a video showing the process. Please comment if you would like to see it.

All the best,

Dave

Update: Thanks for the comments. This shows how I get the blog to post on Twitter. I will explain how I got 18,703 followers in another post.

Hi everyone! Welcome to my blog which will be my online diary during my new journey.

I’m expecting it to be quite an adventure.

My name is David Taylor and I have been learning about running an internet business for nearly 2 years now. This has given me almost NO results financially.

Why? Because you make absolutely NOTHING out of learning until you get off your behind and put things into action. Would you believe that I only just realised that?