Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Your Comfort Zone Hinders Your Success

By Alan Edmunds

Everyone has a comfort zone where we feel the most comfortable, doing things confidently and usually quite well.

Maybe you are very comfortable doing say affiliate marketing. You are good at it and you are making a fairly good income. Good for you! But are you sure that this is the very best that you are capable of?

Maybe you could really be making boat loads of money if you did some serious promoting. Of course, serious promoting doesn't lie inside your comfort zone so you are going to have to stretch your wings a little.

Never used Google Adwords? Does the very idea intimidate you? Do you immediately think that you could lose loads of cash in failed campaigns? The reality is that if you allow your fear to hinder you you will never really achieve huge success.

The secret is to reduce your risk by educating yourself about the new method you intend to try. The more you know, the better quality decisions you are able to make and therefore the less risk you ultimately expose yourself to.

Perhaps you have never thought about writing eBooks relating to the products or services that your website promotes and submitted them to various article directory websites. Or maybe offering the eBook as a free gift on your website?

Do you feel that this is outside your comfort zone? Yes? There are ways to ease the growth process. If you aren't a very good writer, or if English isn't your first language then you can hire a ghost writer to write your products for you.

Adding a blog to your website might increase your traffic significantly but because you're unfamiliar with the technology you might not feel comfortable doing it.

Stop procrastinating and get on with it. You can increase your income exponentially as you increase your comfort zone by learning new techniques, marking you out as one of those people most likely to succeed.

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