Your Business, Your Plan - Oil and Water?

I've been thinking long and hard lately about why I'm into this business of internet marketing.
You might wonder why I’m second guessing something that I’ve put my heart and soul into.
Well, it's this business plan. I've started writing mine and I'm realizing that the direction of my website isn’t exactly the way I want it to go. In turn, that means my ezine is being misdirected, my split-test that’s half written on my computer is misguided, etc.
So I let fright almost turn into flight! I almost let it get to me that bad. I started thinking I had done it all wrong and “ruined” my reputation and there was no repairing my mistakes.
Then I started thinking, really thinking about what I wanted to accomplish with my business. Why am I IN business? What is it that makes AlphaDynamic Marketing so different? Why do I have my heart SET on making ADM work?
Ah, the beauty of the business plan! You see, a business plan's primary goal may be to focus your business and it's finances but it has a hidden, secondary gem. If you are really filling out a business plan and not just filling in the blanks, you'll come to find that you are asking yourself these same questions.
You will find yourself looking at your websites with different eyes, more cynical eyes. You'll try and imagine what your business will be in 2 years, 5 years, 10 years. Will it be? Do you have a goal? Do you have a business plan?
All of those eBooks that you have on your computer that tell you to write down your goals, have you done that? I'd bet some of you have, but a vast majority have not. Why? Because we already "know" our goals, in our head, in our heart. Just as I knew exactly what I wanted for my website.
Until I took the plunge and decided to "get serious" about my business. To be serious, you MUST have a business plan. I haven't personally asked Terry Dean or Willie Crawford but I would lay money they have one and that they have HAD one for quite some time.
Success may come to you but without a clear path to follow, you will not be able to hold onto it.
Writing down your goals and making a business plan are the first REAL signs of success for they are the magnets of progress and prosperity.
Now, with my business plan to lead me, it puts blinders on things that may stand in my way. To "opportunities" that I don't need. I have a clear path and all I have to do is follow it.

Why Creating Profits are better than Earning Wages

Let me ask you a question.

Of all the friends and family in your life, have you ever known any of them to become rich while earning a wage? Now there's a chance you might be thinking of someone in sales who's making six figures a year. But when it comes to sales, that's a slightly different animal and I'll tell you why in a moment.

Wages, while they can pay for most of your expenses, have one drawback. They are always a fixed amount. Worse yet, the deductions that come off your check keep increasing while your wage stays the same. And if you do happen to ever get a raise, you could fall into a new tax bracket and actually take home less than before. It's happened to a lot of people and isn't very funny.

Profits on the otherhand, offer more than a wage could ever hope to give you. The reason is simple. There's no limit to how much profit you can make. That's why wages can only earn you a living but profits will make you a fortune. It's the reason why people in commissioned sales positions are different - they're not restricted to a fixed wage. There's no limit to how much they can make.

The ways you can create profits for yourself are limitless. You can start part time doing anything you like. It can be training, consulting or tutoring. You could have a landscape business in the summer or shovel snow in the winter. A hobby such as painting, writing, computers or cooking can also earn you profits. It really doesn't matter what it is as long as you enjoy doing it.

How hard is it to make profits? It's easier than you might think. For example, wouldn't you like to learn:

* How a 13 year old is making over $60,000 a year with her own company?

* How a 15 & 18 year old get 10,000 hits a day selling chocolate from their website?

* How an 8 year old launched a furniture business and made enough on profits to buy a substantial stock portfolio and a small cattle herd?

It seems incredible but these are real kids, with real business, making real money that you can verify.

Now think about it. You're an adult. You're a lot smarter than these kids. Yet they're probably all making more money than you even while going to school everyday.

The only difference is that you're earning wages and they're creating Profit.

So if 13 years old kids can make over $60,000 a year in their own business, don't you think you could too?