Time Management & 2.0 Social Networking

If you want to become an expert in any field, you need only do three things well.

1. Study the lessons of other experts.

2. Implement what you learn so you gain real experience and have real results to talk about. In other words – DO IT!

3. Translate your learnings and results into lessons, videos, viral marketing products, articles, websites, podcasts, newsletters, etc for your customers.

Every expert in the world constantly references and learns from other experts. They quote from books, presentations, journals and magazines, videos or blog articles, but all they are really doing is taking what is already a good idea – an idea that works and has been tested – and translating that idea using their own style and expertise for their customers. The secret is to learn how to leverage the expertise and knowledge of other experts .

The top internet marketers constantly educate themselves: read books, listen to audios, study courses, passing on what they learn to their students. They act as filters of knowledge and information for their customers, providing value and experise by saving them time and educating them about important tactics, strategies and solutions to their problems and challenges.

I listen to certain people because what they teach is exactly what I want and need to learn. They can be trusted, I like their personality and style, and I have benefited from using their techniques in my own business. Now I can feel confident passing on their knowledge and expertise to my own customers because they have worked for me.

Because time and energy are finite, there is a limit to how much you can study, to how much information you can process. To succeed, you must find the right people to follow, eliminate your immediate constraints, and then begin implementing what they teach – NOW . While doing this, you must ignore everything else until you have achieved success. You must stalk your goal with the heart of a warrior – the hunger of a lion.

Eliminating Constraints – Getting Results

I am learning to ignore irrelevant information more than ever before. I no longer have to read every email that comes into my inbox. I no longer believe most internet marketers or experts can teach me what I need to learn to find my own version of success. I can sift through massive amounts of information quickly, and find the golden nuggets that will help my business grow with viral precision.

I write fewer blog posts, read fewer books, ignore product launches, read the news only when I feel like it, stopped reading many blogs, don’t update every plugin, script or tool released and read very few newsletters. But I make sure the information I do read is vital to the growth of my viral Internet marketing business, and targets a specific result. I get the information I am looking for without wasting time. How much time are you wasting each day reading emails and internet marketing websites?

I need to keep my marketing and social networking systems active. I keep blogging, but focus more on solid, focused, quality content and less on update frequency. I produce less content, but the content I produce is of higher value to my readers. Go to any article directory and you will see the explosion of junk articles written for the sole purpose of getting a backlink to someone’s website. These people may have some success doing this, but in the end their success will be limited because there are no shortcuts in life. If you want to achieve real success, then you have to do real work and produce products and information of real quality. Money is not life’s only – or highest – end.

Product and content creation, whether producing original blog content or writing ebooks, is for me the best way to achieve lasting success with a passive income stream that will last for years to come. The best way to succeed in the Internet marketing information business is to love writing and editing.

What You Need To Do

You must ask yourself if your current Internet marketing and activities are really helping your business. If not, you need to make changes.

Stop trying to study everything that comes across your desk. Stop trying to post to every social media website. Just because an expert you trust says something is great, don’t just follow them blindly. Even this advice I’m giving you now should be carefully evaluated and applied to your specific needs and circumstances. Focus. Focus. Focus.

Blogging To Success

For bloggers, you need to commit yourself to creating excellent, top quality, valuable content. Stop looking for tricks and shortcuts to success. Stop creating junk articles just to have another post or backlink. Study hard – keep learning and educating yourself – and take action. That’s the only way you can truly benefit, by taking action on what you have learned, and teaching it to others . Focus only on what can help your Internet marketing business grow viral, and what can be translated into learning (blog content) for your readers.

The ingredients for a successful blog change little. You need great core content – articles that are unique, informative and valuable to your target audience. You must MARKET your business: build relationships, create joint ventures, comment on other people’s blogs, write newsletters, and implement fundamental traffic generating strategies such as search engine optimization. The rules of the game are always changing, and you must keep up with new technology and new trends such as social networking and videos.

Change how you spend your time. Don’t just study other people’s ideas – generate your own ideas for others to benefit from. Cut time-wasting activities like endless reading and searching for the “next big thing”. Focus on quality content.

Tricks and Shortcuts – NOT!

Many internet marketers try and trick Google into giving them high rankings for little work or low quality content. They use backlinks, tags, keywords, junk content, poorly rewritten articles or duplicate PLR’s, content generation software, software that inserts “snippets”, automatically inserting content from other places, rotating content, etc. The problem with these “tricks” is that they may be short-lived. Remember, Google employs a team of search engine experts who are constantly studying all the ways that people trick them into getting high rankings with poor content.

The people at Google are good at what they do, and they are always developing new ways to keep their search engine full of high-quality content by getting rid of the junk designed to fool them. Don’t find yourself one day, after years of work, being the junk that Google gets rid of. Be the quality content that endures because it is excellent and genuinely useful. Quality content will always win in the end.