A profitable online marketing strategy incorporates elements of a system supporting the ultimate goal. The ultimate goal gets broken down into small manageable parts and when every small target is hit, we celebrate the small wins. Without celebrating the small wins in your business, you risk going absolutely insane in the membrane.

Before we even get to celebrating the small wins in support of the big goal, we need one thing first…

… it is the ONE thing that will make or break you in both the short term and the long term.

MOMENTUM ==> Foundation ==> Consistent Action

(sure that is three parts, the first one being the biggest key)

now, before you run away screaming “I Know This!” and fall right back into habits screwing you right back into comfortable mediocrity, stay tuned for a bit.

people frequently fail to change because we require a ton of momentum, and A REASON to change. usually, it takes until the point where we become so uncomfortable with the way things are, we are all but forced to change.

now, no this is not about changing nor a self-help rah rah.

in the beginning of anything, you must build a solid foundation built on fundamentals of what works in the area you are pursuing.

once you have the foundation built, it takes DAILY CONSISTENT ACTION to continue building the momentum enough to continue traveling towards your goal.

where am I going with this?

too often, people think the “woo-woo” stuff doesn’t work when they do not:

1. get results fast enough to their liking (unmanaged expecations)
2. take it out of context

Try This:

1. why are you doing what you do? (SPECIFICALLY)
2. who does what you’re doing the best? (Who’s the best in the biz)
3. how can you use the system from the higher performing person in the context of your own situation?
4. who is responsible for YOUR results?
5. what small things can you do and then celebrate every day to take you towards your big goal?
6. if not now, when will you follow this system?

I have used those six honest men to get from where I am to where I want to be on more then one occasion.

STOP THINKING, AND JUST FRICKIN DO IT

and that, my friend, is how you work towards a consistently profitable online marketing strategy.

1. Set up a blogger blog at Quit Smoking Hypnosis
2. Set up a twitter account at http://www.Twitter.com/thequitsmoking
3. Added the Twitter RSS Feed to the blogger blog
4. Set up a Gmail account especially for this project at quitsmokinghypnosistips at gmail dot com
5. Created this post to document my journey to help other smart marketers just like you follow my path to success.
6. Posted the first post to the blogger blog
7. Pinged the blogger blog in Google blogsearch
8. Pinged the blogger blog in Pingoat.com
9. Added the “RSS Feed Subscription” gadget to the blogger blog
10. Linked to http://www.IMRemarkable.com on blogger blog
11. Copied and pasted the list of social bookmarking sites from socialmarker.com so I can sign up for each site to have even more distribution channels for my content

Here’s the link to the post for Day #1 with insights:
Online Marketing Strategy Day #1 (also posted pictures of other tasks accomplished)

Here’s the link to the post for Day #2 and Day #3:

Online Marketing Strategy Day #2 and Day #3 (posted videos this day so it’s easier to see the videos)

Here’s the link to the post for Next Day:

Online Marketing Strategy The Next Day (posts consists of mainly pictures)

Here’s the Link To The Day After That:

Howie Schwartz IMRemarkable The Day After That (a lot of the post is an insight and pictures of what I did)

Here’s the list of about 18 things on the next day:

1. Created Friend Feed Account
2. Posted to Twitter about it
3. joined quit smoking group in Friend Feed
4. Got social and shared
5. Shared squidoo lens with group
6. Twittered about new group
7. Started to get into market persona of someone who’s stopped smoking
8. Wrote press release and submitted to free-pre

ss-release.com
9. Bookmarked press release
10. pinged bookmarks
11. Submitted Squidoo Lens to FeedAgg
12. FeedAgg link indexed in google, squidoo lens not yet
13. Submitted press release story to stop smoking group in Friend Feed
14. Twittered about progress
15. Uploaded video to HMJ blog about progress
16. Posted new post to blogger blog
17. Pinged blogger blog
18. Twittered about progress

Today, the last day of the competition:

1. POsted new post to blogger blog
2. bookmarked blogger blog
3. pinged blogger blog
4. pinged blogger blog rss feed
5. pinged bookmarking accounts
6. pinged bookmarking account rss feed
7. twittered about progress
8. helped other IMRemarkable challengers out on twitter
9. created testimonial video
10. screen capture picture of google results (pictured below)
11. recorded ustream of my story
12. studied copywriting/conversion to build my business going forward
13. created this post
14. posted link on the IMRemarkable blog
15. feeling grateful for the journey.

Blogger Blog FINALLY indexed in Google

How I feel about the IMRemarkable journey:

At first I was overwhelmed and didn’t really know where to start so I looked at what other people were doing in the challenge. A gigantic cartoon like question mark floating overhead was what was up then. I thought

“well I could not do anything and keep hitting a brick wall with my progress, or…

“I can figure out what it’s going to take to move forward no matter what and take massive action”

… I chose the latter of the two:

Taking massive action.

I finally saw a coherent process to everything involved after learning that the IMRemarkable team set up a sample blog we could all follow along with.

While I didn’t make a bagillion dollars overnight or even in the week or so of the competition, I’m happy with my progress because I did SOMETHING, rather than sitting around doing nothing because I wasn’t 100% sure what to do.

Did I fail?

You betcha

Did it feel good to fail?

Yes it did because now I can continue to test, track, measure, and tweak my way to even better results going forward as a direct result of having gone through the IMRemarkable competition.

I FINALLY left behind the opportunity seeker mindset

after going through this challenge, experiencing firsthand, and relearning something I learned back in high school when I was on the track and field team…

It takes strategy, a desired outcome, a coach, a team of supportive action takers, a burning desire to succeed, and massive action to win.

Thank you Howie and team for kicking my butt into gear onto building a business, leaving the hobbyist opportunity mindset behind.

Let us start with what else was accomplished between the last post and this post:

1. Created Friend Feed Account
2. Posted to Twitter about it
3. joined quit smoking group in Friend Feed
4. Got social and shared
5. Shared squidoo lens with group
6. Twittered about new group
7. Started to get into market persona of someone who’s stopped smoking
8. Wrote press release and submitted to free-press-release.com
9. Bookmarked press release
10. pinged bookmarks
11. Submitted Squidoo Lens to FeedAgg
12. FeedAgg link indexed in google, squidoo lens not yet
13. Submitted press release story to stop smoking group in Friend Feed
14. Twittered about progress
15. Uploaded video to HMJ blog about progress
16. Posted new post to blogger blog
17. Pinged blogger blog
18. Twittered about progress

Still no results with indexing of Squidoo Lens or the Blogger Blog. What’s weird is the FeedAgg and Press Release submission containing links to the lens and blog respectively were indexed though.

Here’s the picture of the indexed press release:

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Learning a lot finally putting this knowledge into action, proving keeping the knowledge locked away in your head does you absolutely no good. Putting what you know into action and getting results, which give you feedback to let you know whether or not what you’re doing is working is the only way you’re going to get anywhere.

I will tell you more about the personal marketing journey I have been on in a video coming later this evening.

Until then, take inspired action on a massive scale!

… case and point, if the product being launched does not solve an immediate problem in your business, let it go for now. Begin looking at product launches as solutions to problems instead of the next big sexy shiny thing to save your day.

I invite you to get out of overwhelm and into massive action by clicking on the underlined blue link in this sentence. I’ll see you on the other side.